The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-13 00:00:00

LAW AND _POLICE.

OPEN-AIR PREACITING.—John Davidge, a member of the
Open-air Preaching Mission, has been summoned at the
Lambeth Police-court for obstructing the highway. A
constable stated that he found him preaching
in Kennington-road to a crowd of upwards of
120 persons. He told him to go mfay, and as
he refused he took him into custody. Two surgeons
residing near the spot complained of the nuisance caused
by the crowds, as the preaching often wont on from five p.m.
till eleven It was urged for the defence that the place
had been used as a preaching station for more than twenty
years. The magistrate dismissed tho summons, recom-
mending that the services should not be ecntinued so late.
CITAIZOTI AGAINST AN HOTEL-KM:TF.I( .—At the Thorpe
Petty Sessions, Thomas Skeat, carter, and Henry Page,
landlord of the Railway Hotel, Weeley, were charged
with stealing coal. The carter brought Page coals which
belonged to another person, and he received them. Both
were committed for trial. The case excited great interest
from the position of the accused receiver.
Tux ATTE3IFTED MURDER AT PLAISTOIV.—The prisoner
Davis, who is in custody for attempting to murder a young
woman, at Plaistow, has been again remanded, the injured
girl not being out of danger.
Arrnxrr TO &roar A POLICEMAN.—Owen Handlan,
was brought before the Darlington magistrates on a charge
of attempted murder. Four police-officers were standing
together at Albert Hill, when the prisoner passed and
drew a revolver, One of the constables seized his arm, and
another took the revolver from him. There is no doubt
in the minds of the police that the affair has a Fenian
origin, and that Handlan has an animus against Police-
constable Dunn because he formerly apprehended him in
connection with the murder of M'Conville. The prisoner
remanded.

TIII4 AFFRAY AT BLACKBURN.--Three men have been
charged at Blackburn with the attempted murder of a
farmer, named Eastham. The men were poachers and had
thrown the farmer over a bridge. Eastham could not
identify them and they were remanded for a week for
further infOrmation.

ROBBING RAILWAY PASSES.—Two young men have been
charged before the Liverpool magistrates with stealing a
number of railway passes on the London and North-
Western line. One of them was said to have been a clerk
at the Euston-station. A number of filled up passes were
found on one of them who was committed for trial but the
evidence with regard to the co-called clerk, not being con-
clusive, he was discharged.

SDI ROBERT PEEL AND THE GAS • COMPANY.—The Tam-
worth Gas Company having been sued at the Summer
Assizes by Sir Robert Peel for an encroachment on his land,
have summoned one of his witnesses for perjury. The
witness has been committed for trial.
ALLEGED EITIM7ZLEMENT OF £4oo.—Edward Willis a
commercial traveller, was charged, at Leeds, with em-
bezzling a sum of £4OO belonging to his employer. He was
remanded for a week, and bail was accepted.
CRUELTY TO A CAT.—At Wakefield two gamekeepers
wore fined 405., including costs, for cruelty to a cat. They
stoned the cat of a yeoman in the neighbourhood, and
threw it to tho dogs. The Bench said they had no business
to kill domestic cats within a short distance of their
owner's house, and they must have known to whom the
belonged.

THE REV. S. E. GLADSTONE IN THE CITY.-_ .
thanksgiving service was held on Tuesday evening in the
church of Bing Edward the Martyr, in Lombard-street,
rendered famous by the services held there by Father
Ignatius. Great interest was attaches to the present scr-

vice by the fact that the Rev. Stephen E. Gladstone, the
• second son of the First Lord of the Treasury, was announced
to preach. Long before the hour announced for the com-
mencement of the service, 7.30, the church was crowded
to excess. The majority of the congregation consisted of
men of the better class. The service was choral, and there
were at least forty boys and men in the choir. There was
nothing in the service to indicate a tendency towards
ritualism, and the most Evangelical of Churchmen could
have found nothing at which to take offence. Mr. Glad-
stone's text was taken from the Ist Epistle to the Corin-
thians, 15th chapter, and the 36th verse. After the ser-
mon Mr. Gladstone pronounced the benediction, and the
congregation dispersed.
REVOLTING LIMICfRALITY.—Mr. Richards has
held an inquiry at the Windsor Castle, Victoria-park.
touching the death of Mary Ann Ross, a dressmaker, aged
18. Deceased was found by David Mitchell, floating in
Duckett's Canal. At the dead-house it was discovered that
:he was far advanced in pregnancy. The body having been
identified by the father of the deceased, her sister deposed
that she suspected that her husband had been criminally
intimate with the deceased. Had heard deceased
"neaten to take her life several times. The Coroner:
Has not this man got three or four wives ? Witness :
Not that I know of, except one that he married before
rae. We have been married seven months. I took
his word he was not lawfully married. A Juryman : He
had a wife and two children upstairs ? Witness : I was
not aware of that. I did believe he had also lived with a
ourth woman. Dr. Edward Howard Moore deposed that
deceased's death arose from suffocation by drowning. A
juryman asked if the man could not be punished. He
knew the.parties well, and not only had the man two wives
living in one house, but he had seduced this wretched
young woman and another girl in the house working
at the machine. The Coroner: I am not going to attempt
to defend this horrible man's conduct, but he cannot be
amenable to this court. Ho has to answer to his God, and
possibly to the law. A juryman said it could be proved
that this poor girl was with the man Cockburn on the very
day she is supposed to have committed suicide. He con-
sidered that an open verdict should be returned. The jury
ultimately returned a verdict that "Deceased was found
drowned in Duckett's Canal, but how the came into the
eater there was no evidence to shew."
BADGERING AN lILISII VOTER._" You're a Roman
Catholic ?"—" Am I?" said the fellow. " Are you not?"
demanded the agent.—" You say I am," was the answer.
" Come,. sir, answer—what's your religion ?"—" The true
religion." " What religion is that ?"—" My religion."
"And what's your religion ?"—" My mother's religion.'
" And what was your mother's religion ?"—" She tuk
whiskey in her tay." "Come, now, I'll find you out,
cunning as you are," said the agent, piqued into an
encounter of wit with this fellow, whose baffling
of every question pleased the crowd. " You bless
yourself, don't you ?"—When I'm done with you, I think I
ought." :What place of worship do you go to ?"—" The
most convainyant." "But of what persuasion are you ?"
—" My persuasion is that you won't find it out." What is
your belief
r-" My belief is that you are puzzled." "Do
you." "Come, now I have you.
you confess ?"—"Not to
Who would you send for if you were likely to die?"—
"Doctor Growlin." "Not for the priest ?"—" I must first
get a messenger." "Confound your quibbling ! Tell me,
then, what your opinions are—your conscientious opinions, I
moan."—" They are the same as my landlord's." " And
what are your landlord's opinions? "—"F.Lix ! his opinion
is that I won't pay him the last half-year's rint, and I am
of the same opinon. myself?' A roar of laughter followed
this answer, and dumbfounded the agent for a time; but,
angered at the successful quibbling of the sturdy and
wily fellow before him, he at last declared, with much
severity of manner, that he must have a direct reply. "I insist,
cir, on your answering at once ; are you a Roman Catholic ?
I am," said the fellow. "And could you not have said
so at once ?" demanded the officer.—" You. never axed me,"
returned the other. " I did," said the officer.—" Indade
you didn't. You said I was a great many things, but you
never axed me—you wor drivin' eras words and crukod
questions at me, and I gov answers to match them; for sure
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