The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-08 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A TICKET-OP-LEAVE :114N. On Wednesday, at thf,
Central Criminal Court, John Donovan, aged 24, was
charged with a robbery with violence. In his defence be
handed in a written statement, in eillich he said that he
had been sentenced to seven rar3' poral servitude
for robbery in 1860, and after ilea years obtained
a ticket-of-leave. The governor and chaplain at
Millbank told him that a sum of £lO, earned by his work
in the prison, would be placed in the hands of the police
of his district. He had applied for it, bat could not get
it ; had been discharged from the Docks through having
to report himself, and could get no honest employment
from the interference of the police. The jury found him
guilty, but the judge deferred sentence until inquiries had
been made.

A CRUEL PARENT.—At the Middlesex Session; Robert
M'Coll was indicted for cruelly beating his own children,
6 and 8 years of age, when intoxicated. It was
proved that he had beaten them severely with a thick cane,
and even with the poker, and both the children bore marks
of his cruelty. Ile was sentenced to two years' hard
labour.

PIRATING ENGRAVINGS.—At the Mansion House, on
Wednesday, Mr. Graves, the well-known printseller of
Pall-Mall, prosecuted a picture•dealer, named Ritchey,
for having infringed his copyrights of thirty-one engrav-
ings. The niagistrate inflicted a fine of nin each case. In
default of payment, the defendant would be imprisoned
for two months in the first case, and in each of the others
for seven days. The alternative is thus between paying
a money penalty of £155, or spending nine months in
prison. The prisoner did not pay the fines, and was
taken to Holloway Gaol. The pirated photographs were
ordered to be destroyed.

TIIE CLERKENWELL EXPLOSION.-At the Clerkenwell
Police- court, on Wednesday, the lessee of two of the
houses in Corporation-row, Clerkenwell, which were
damaged by the Fenian outrage of December 1867, was
again summoned for payment of £27 2s. 2d., the cost of
shoring up the houses. The defendant pleaded that he
had been ruined by the explosion, and was unable to
work. He and his wife had been severely injured, and
one of their children killed. The ground landlord had
received compensation from the Explosion Fund, and
ought to pay the money. The magistrate allowed the
defendant three weeks for payment.

RAILWAY INJURIES.-At the Leeds Assizes, on Tuesday,
a maid-of-all-work, named Crookes, brought an action for
damages against the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln•
shire Railway Company, in consequence of injuries sus-
tained by her in a collision on the line last October. The
jury gave her £2OO damages.—At the same assizes, on
Wednesday, Mr. Trundle, paper-stainer of Leeds, was
awarded £3,000 for compensation for the injuries he
received in the accident on the Midland Railway, at the
Leeds Station, in the month of April last year.

The Lord Chancellor will receive the judges,
queen's counsel, &c., at his lordship's residence, in Great
George-street, on Thursday, the 15th instant (the first day
of Easter term), at 12 o'clock.

THE CASE OF THE REV. MR BENNETT.—The let-
ters of request from the Bishop of Bath and Wells, on
doctrines taught by Mr. Bennett, of Frome, will forthwith
be filed in the Arches' Court. Another application to the
Court of Queen's Bench for a mandamus in respect
to the Bishop of London, in reference to Mr. Bennett,
is expected to be made on the first day of the ensuing
Term.

A COPYING INK THAT NEEDS NO PRESS.—Dr.
Rud Boettyer, of Frankfort, according to the Scientific
Review, prepares thus a black copying ink, which flows
easily from the pen, and will enable anyone to obtain very
sharp copies without the aid of a •press :—One ounce
of coarsely broken extract of Inwood and two
drachms of crystallis?d carbonate of soda are
placed in a porcelain capsule with eight ounces
of distilled water, and heated until the solution
is of a deep red colour, and all the extract is dissolved. I
then take the capsule from the fire, and stir well into the
mixture one ounce of glycerine of a specific gravity of
r 25, fifteen grains of neutral chromate of potash
dissolved in a little water, and two drachms of finely
pulverised gum arable, which may be previously
dissolved in a little hot water so as to produce a
mucilaginous solution. The ink is now complete
and rea.ly for use. In well-closed bottles it may be kept
for a long time without getting mouldy, and, however old
it may be, will allow copies of writing to be taken without
the aid of a press. It does not attack steel pens. This ink
cannot be used with a copying press. Its impression is
taken on thin moistened copying paper, at the back of
which is placed a sheet of writing-paper.—Builder.

ELECTION PETITIONS.—Mr. Justice Blackburn
has appointed Tuesday, the 27th instant, for the trial of
the Bewdley petition, "The Hon. A. Anson against
Cunliffe." This is the second petition since the general
election, and will be tried before the same judge who
unseated the late member. The Norfolk county election
petition is to be tried at the Castle, Norwich, on
Tuesday, the 11th of May, before Mr. Justice Black-
burn. The scrutiny lista have been filed at the Rule
Office of the Common Pleas in the Yorkshire elec-
tion petitions. "Stanhope v. Beaumont and the Hon.
Stuart Wortley and Viscount Milton and If. F.
Beaumont." The lists contain more thAn three thousand
names, and the trial is expected to occupy about three
weeks. As much inconvenience and additional expense of
conveyance of witnesses would arise from the hearing of
tile South ITants petition at Winchester, a city altogether
out of the electoral division, a joint application will pro-
bably be made to Mr. Justice Willes, at Chambers, asking
him to take the case at Southampton. The petition against
Lord IL Scott having been withdrawn, there is a general
impression prevalent in the county that permission will be
asked to follow a similar course in regard to the petition
against the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, which at present is
set down for trial on the 26th inst. Notice has been offi-
cially given of th 6 withdrawal of the Boston election
petition, " Jones, petitioner, and Malcolm and Collins,
respondents." Ant application must he made after a
week's notice tots Judge at Chambers for an order to
withdraw.