The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-02 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

RAILWAY COMPEXSATION.-A photographer named Swat•
man has obtained a verdict for £4OO, as compensation fez
injuries received on the London and North-Western Rail.
way line at Rugby Station. He fell, when getting out
of the carriage on hearing the station called, and owing
to the insuffiCiency of the light he did not perceive that
he was getting out where the
.platform dipped, and he fell
injuring himself severely. The accident occurred in
October, 1863, and he was still on crutches.
EASILY SATIsriED.—Mr. Justice Lush has opened the
Winter Assizes at Leeds, where the calendar is fortunately
not a very heavy one. The case of chief interest is that of
the attempted murder of Sarah Sykes by Thomas Davis,
which was postponed from the last assizes. This case, it
will be remembered, arose from the disturbances
between unionists and non-unionists at Sheffield. On the
first day of the Assizes, three men were charged with
setting fire to a stack of hay; the property of Samuel
Foster, at Sheffield. They pleaded guilty, and one of them
asked the judge to " give him ten years." Mr. Justice
Lush said that happened to be the sentence he intended
to pass. The man had clone the act deliberately in order
to be taken, but he hoped some other punishment would
be found for such a state of things.

SENDING FIREWORKS BY RAIL. -At Wandsworth.
Baker and Son, artists in fireworks in Bethnal-green
were summoned fcr sending a case of fireworks
.Jn the South-Western Railway without notice. The de-
fendant said he did not know it was necessary to mark
the case. The full penalty of £2O was imposed.
FORGERIES BY A POST-OFFICE CLERK.—Thomas Bell
has been committed for trial at Liverpool for having issued
a number of fictitious money orders. He had been em-
ployed in an Irish post-office, and had obtained a number
of forms which he filled up with false names and addresses,
obtaining about £lBO.

TUE ALLEGED MURDER AT IVALSTANTON. —The grand
ury at the Stafford Assizes have thrown out the bill
gainst Chatfield for the murder of David Edwards, at
Wolstanton, on the 3rd of October. The foreman said
Lhat in the opinion of the jury the police were much to
:lame, and he had written to the chief constable on the
matter.

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO FIRE A COTTON MILL.—
A painter, named Holmes, has been charged, at
Bradford, with attempting to fire a cotton mill belonging
to Alderman Rawson. On going to the mill on Monday
morning, a window on tha ground floor was found to have
been forced in, and a quantity of half-burnt materials were
found on a spinning frame. A canvassing book belonging
to the prisoner waa found among the half-burnt material:.
Tho mill and its contents are worth DO,OOO. The prisoner
was remanded.

The past of Commandant at the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst, has become vacant by the death of Co-
lonel Edmund Gulling Hallowell, formerly of tho 60th, or
King's Royal Rifle Corps.
Letters from Rome describe an interesting spec-
taclo. At the celebration of High Mass at the Church of
San Cresagono Martyr, in Trastevere, on the 24th, Cardinr,l
?cell officiated, and Was assisted by twelve Oriental
i3hops and patriarchs in the full Pontificals of the
f;c:.geous Eastern style of the Coptic, Marcni:x,sntlArmenian
Churches, Who came from the furthest valleys of Kurdi-
stan and Lebanon.

AN INSO LVENT PAIZISIL—TIio parish church at
Bishopswcarmouth has been overtaken by a Hort of eccle-
siastical insolvency; the bell-ringers, pew-openers, acid
organist have received a three months' notice of • the
termination of their engagements, in consequence
its being found impossible any longer to find the
money wherewith to pay their salaries. The congre-
gation decline to furnish voluntary contributions, and they
are equally determined in their refusal to submit to a
trifling levy for scat rent, and the churchwardens find, in
consequence, that they cannot any longer " carry on the
concern." This description of the deplorable condition to
which the parish church of Dishopswearmouth is reduced
would be incomplete without the additional_ statement
that the clergyman has a salary of £2,000 a nar, and
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Handsome rectory to live