The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-03 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Tuesday was the first day of
kfter Term Nisi Prius Sittings in the Queen's Bench, and
the list contains 268 causes, about 60 of which are marked
for special juries. An action for negligence was brought
by the Great Western Railway Company against the
Thames Ironworks Company, arising from an accident during
the construction of the new Dead Meat Market. An iron
girder fell on a passing train, killing two or three passen-
gers, and seriously injuring others, besides smashing the
carriages. The defendants denied the responsibility on the
ground that they had sublet the work. A verdict was
taken for the plaintiffs, subject to a special case.
A COMPENSATION CASE.—In the Court of Common
?leas, on Tuesday, a surgeon sued the Great Northern
Railway Company for compensation for injuries sustained
by his son, a boy between six and seven years of age. The
lad was crossing:thePray's-inn-road, when he was knocked
down by a railway van driven by one of the servants of the
company. He was severely hurt, and amongst other in.
juries, one of his hands was so crushed that amputation of
two fingers was necessary. The jury gave the father
£l,OOO.

EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.—At the Central Criminal
Court, John Henry Payne pleaded guilty to a charge of
embezzling more than i'2oo, the property of his employers,
'White and Co., wholesale tobacconists. He was sentenced
to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
AN EFFICIENT CONSTABLE.—Two burglars were ~.,tt•
tenced at the Central Criminal Court to ten and
seven years' penal servitude. They had committed a bur-
glary near 'Uxbridge, and a mounted policeman upon the
discovery rode tf, the railway station to make inquiries.
He met the prisoners with two others in a light trap, and
his suspicions being excited he detained them, and suc-
ceeded in capturing two of the four, though he was
himself unarmed. Their guilt was clearly proved, and
the Recorder ordered the officer to receive a reward
of Z.

EIGHTEEN YEARS AGo.---The charge against a respect-
able Bilk weaver of Spitalfields, of appropriating bank-
notes lost in his house eighteen years ago, was on Tues-
day again before Mr. Newton, at Worship-street Police-
court. Some further evidence was given as to the identity
of the log notes ; but the difficulties arising from the lapse
of time appear almost insurmountab.e. The magistrate,
however, further adjourned the hearing for fourteen days.

A trades union dispute has broken cut tit the
Denaby Main Colliery, near Mexboreugh. /bout a hun-
dred of the miners—ote-third of the number etuploy.-d—
-recently joined the South Y..kßiiire Ass ; am!
ai this is, a butoch of the cundit:ons on wh7ch they
were engaged, the whole of the Won mien got notice
tg.quit. On Friday, Ito wev. r, th man Aging proprietor statA that ho would withdraw the notices previously Lut
expressed his intuition of posting another, giving a month's
notice to all the woritmen, both unioniers and non-uuienist,,
and at the end of flat thus Only those not belonging to
the Miners' Association, and who -will sign a declaration
that•they will not join it, are to beicontinued in the firm'.
employ. Those who continue to occupy their cottages after
the expiration of the week's notice rya to be charged doubl,,
rent. For a number of years the 2-tile at the colliery ha
been that none of the men shall belug to a trade union,, aria
up to a short time ago this condition as without any hesi-
tation Complied with.