The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-09 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

TilE lIEBDLE BROOK.—Vice-Cliancellor Malins on
Thursday gave judgment in the case of " The Attorney-
General v. the Mayor and Corporation of Halifax."
The information was filed at the relation of
Messrs. Holdsworth, wonted manufacturers, to re-
strain the corporation from pouring the sewage of the
borough into the Hobble brook, to the injury of the
public health. The „main sewer discharges itself into the
Hobble about 160 yards above Messrs. Holdswort'i's mills,
and it was stated that the brook bad become a public
nuisance besides injuring the property of the plaintiffs. For
the defence it was argued that the poisonous state of the
river was mainly due to manufacturing refuse. The
Vice-Chancellor held that the plaintiffs were entitled to
an injunction against any new communications with
the existing outfalls, and an injunction from and
after June 1870 against pouring out sewage by
the present outfalls in an unpurified state. The plaintiffs
must have the costs of the suit and the information. His
Honour said that he believed the corporation would in
time be able to remedy the ils complained of, so as to
prevent the Hebble from being a nuisance, though it
might never be a potable stream.

A GOVERNMENT CONTRACT.—In the Court of Co!nmol
Pleas, on Thursday, Messrs. Tait, the eminent army
contractors, of Lorhin, sued Messrs Laing and Twine,
cloth manufacturers, of llawick and Peebles, for breach
of a contract to supply the plaintiffs with a large quantity
of black tartan cloth, to ena'ile them to complete a con-
tract with the War Office. It nas agreed that the verdict,
if found for the plaintiffs, should be entered fur 2300
damages. Verdict for the plaintiffs.
BREACH OF PROMISE. —A t Guildhall, on Wednesday, an
inquiry was lald before Mr. Secondary Potter and a special
jury to assess the damages in an action brought in one of
the superior courts for a breach of promise of marriage. The
plaintiff is MissWoodley, daughter of an English merchant,
Consul at Patras, in Greece ; the defendant, Mr. Pickburn,
a surgeon, a sou of the proprietor of the Cierkentrcll Ncirs.
The engagement was made in Greece during the defen-
dant's travels ; but some time after his return home he
broke off the engagement, on the ground that his income
was insufficient. Defendant had left England for Australia.
His counsel addressed the jury, pleading his youth, and
the Secondary, hawing summed rip, the jury assessed the
damages at £359:

Co!onel Forester's n.o ion relative to the optic•na.
selling races has been po:lpont d to tl.O Second October
Uoeting of tLe Jockey Club.

DRIVING.—A witness who had been cautioned
to give a precise answer to every question, and not talk
about what he might think the question meant, was
interrogated as follows :—" You drive a waggon V' " No,
sir, I do not." —" Why, sir, did you not tell my learned
friend so this moment ?" "No, sir, I did not."—" Now,
sir, I put it to you on your oath, do you not drive a
waggon?" " No, sir."--" What is your occupation,
then ?" " I drive a horse, sir." •

The English Independent says:—" It is no longer
the special duty of Noncomformists or of the Liberation
Society to oppose the Peers' amendments. The result of
those amendment is simply to display the greed of the
Church, and to perpetuate the favouritism which it was
the very object of the till to remove, and if pos:4l le to efface
its very remembrance. It now rests pith the Liberal patty
generally to raise afresh the cry of justice and equality for
Ireland, and we shall be d:: appointed if that cry is not raised
loudly during the next week. We already hear of prepara-
tions for meetings in the metropolis."

A. curious case of threatened ejectment of a
Presbyterian minister has occurred at liamsbottom, in
LancaShire. Forty years ago Mr. William Grant—one cf the
" Brothers Cbeeryble," of " Nicholas Nickleby"— built
and permanently endowed a church, of which Dr. Maclean
has been for many years minister. The nephew and heir
of Mr. Grant sow int:mates to Dr. Maclean that it is his
intention; as owner of the church, to ter:nit ate the doctor's
"emi met.t as raster," and to withdraw the stip:nd of
which he Las been in rec.,pt "in rcrpect if raid employ-
ment." This treatment of Dr. Maclean as "a tame Levite,"
who can be dismissed at three months' notice, is warmly
resented by the Lancashire Presbytery, and steps are about
to be taker, to resist the threat off joctment.

THE GREENLAND LADIES.—Women are here in
the trailer's shop in abundance, most of them trying to ob-
tain goods on credit. Greenland women, 33 a rule, are
excessively
ee. Before marriage they arc
clean in their
baplerstn.sseanfilvattire, and everything that an
Arctic lover of right constituted mind could desire. But
once married, they sink into slatterns- careless of person,
house, and family, and negligent of the duties ex-
pected from every Greenlander's wife. There was a
great seal hunter at Claushavn, called Timotheus David,
known, in one day, to have killed twenty-three seals and
one white whale. I saw him once bring some skins to
trade which were refused on account of their being half
rotten. "What can I do?" the poor man man replied.
" Ske" (looking cautiously around)—" She won't look
after thEro." This man's wife, before marriage, was
the best tailoress in the settlement. Now she is e
dirty slattern, and will do nothing, not even make her
husband's and children's clothes, nor even dress the skins,
ns every Greenland wife e expected to do. Ile is camped
on an island jie:t off shore, and has come for a woman to
,lress the skin=, for which service he must of course pay
!,er, while his lazy wi:'e looks on. Yet the lin•
fortunate tight cannot, as in the old times of Tournonr-
soak and the heathen send his worthless wife
about her business, because the Lutheran Church, which
he has adopted, does not allow of such a proceeding ; and
if he gives her a good caning (as she richly deserves),
or even speaks crossly to her, then she will inform the
" proester" when he conies round, and the poor man will
he read a long lecture upon the iniquity of his ways, and
for ever there will settle upon him the priestly scowl, as
he is pointed out as a vicious creature, an example unto
all refractory seal-catchers.—From "Friends 40110
Latitudes." iatlie_.Cgrrikai Magaiirte July},