The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-06 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

CHARGE OF I'o/MERL—The investigation of the charge
against William Whelpley, the young man charged with
forgery and fraud by wood merchants of Cornhill, was
resumed, but the prisoner was unable to appear as he was
suffering from deliriumtreir ens. Mr. Lewis fertile prosecu-
tion, applied for the £491 found on the prisoner, and also for
the jewellery, which was quite new, and worth between
£2OO and £3OO, having been bought the week before his
arrest. Sir J. Gabriel agreed to the money being given
up to the prosecutors, but deferred to make the order for
the jewellery until the prisoner was committed. He was
remanded for a week.

THE HIGHGATE CEMETERY. -At the Marlborough.
street Police•court a curious application was made a day
or two since. The owner of a grave in Highgate Ceme-
tery wished to erect a tombstone over his infant son,
stating thathe died " from the mortal effects of vaccination."
The company refused.to alloNi its erection, and the father
applied to the magistrate for advice. The words, he said,
were used by a coroner's jury. The magistrate suggested
a verbal alteration, and said that if the dispute could not
be settled in that way the applicant might give the com-
pany notice that he would legally test his right to insist
upon the inscription.

CHARGE AGAINST A BARONET.—A days or two since Sir
Robert Menzies, Bart., of Castle Menzies, was charged
at the Perth Sheriff Criminal
.Court with malicious mis•
chief. The substance of the charge was that on
the 31st of last July he kicked a wooden sub-
scription-box, belonging to the Dunkeld Bridge Pon-
tage Committee, from its stand at the Dunkeld
railway station. None of the witnesses would swear that
the kick had damaged the box, and the sheriff accordingly
dismissed the case. After the judgment, there was some
hissing in Court, whereupon the sheriff said be was con-
vinced he was right. If he bad been applauded, he might
have doubted, but none could hiss but geese and serpents,
and he was therefore sure he was right.

THE MURDER IN THE INTERIOR OF

AFEICA.

The murder of Mdlle. Tinn6, the African traveller, has
already been announced. The Tiincs publishes an
account of the murder. The melancholy event took
place in the Ouadi Berd:;oudj, one day's journey from
Scharaba, and 6ve days to the west of Mourzouk.
The last letter from Mdlle. Tinn6, who left
Tripoli for the interior on the .?,Oth of January,
1869, was dated from Scharaba, and received at
the same time with the account of her murder, which
was written soon after the occurrence by one of the
Arab servants of the deceased, Mohamed Ben Hassen el
Bennani. The party, escorted by an Arab, El ILA
Ahmed Bu Selab, sent by El Hadj Ilcbenoulien, the chief
of the Tuaregs, who was waiting at Taharat to escort her
himself thence to Ghat, fell in with a party of six Aral,s
and eight Touaregs, headed by El Hatij Esscheikh Bun !
Beker, another Tonareg chief, who disputed the right of
escort, alleging that he bad been ordered by El ITadj Ikhe•
nouken to conduct her to Taharat. On Sunday, August 1,
the six Arabs and eight Touaregs pretended to dispute
among themselves as to who should carry the palanquin
of Mdlle. Tinn6. The Touaregs were armed with lances
and sabres. The Arabs, on the pretence of defending
themselves, seized the arms of Mdlle. Tinn6's servants,
which were lying on the ground while the camels were
being loaded. Mdlle. Tinnd and the two Dutch sailors
advanced to separate the combatants. One of the sailors,
named Ootsmans, was immediately run through by a
Touareg with a lance, which also wounded a negro who
was behind him. Mdlle. Tinn6 was stretching out her
right arm in a commanding attitude when a Touareg
struck off her hand with a sabre, and an Arab shot her in
the breast, causing instant death. The other sailor,
Jacobsi, who had rushed to her help, was then shot dead
by an Arab. Thus the responsibility of the crime was
ingeniously divided between the members of the two
tribes. All the other servants, consisting of Arabs and
negroes, were allowed to escape, except a young negress
named Jasmina, who was carried off by the Touaregs. It
appears that Mdlle. Tinn6 purposed making a tour in
the Toureg territory, while awaiting supplies and fresh
camels from Tripoli, and intendel to return to Mourzouk,
to start thence for Bournou. She had met at Mourzouk
Dr. Nachtingall, a Prussian traveller, who was charged
with presents from the King of Prussia to the King of
Bournou, and who had left on a short journey eastwards
to the country of the Tibous, also intending to return to
Mourzouk for supplies before proceed:mg to Bournou by the
annual caravan some time in November. Baron de Testa
has sent orders for the survivors of Mdlle. Tinne's party
to return immediately to Tripoil. The Onadi Berjoudj is,
according to Barth, in the territory of Fezzan, and conse•
quently within Turkish jurisdiction ; but the Pasha holds
to the contrary, although it is well known that he raises
tribute there when he can do so. lie promises to do his
utmost to bring the offenders to justice, but as he had
previously confessed his inability to protect travellers
beyond Mourzouk, he is scarcely responsible for the
catastrophe.

The Dublin Provincial Synod of the Episcopal
Church has been formally summoned fcr the 14th of Sep
tember. A proposition has been made that 200,000 enrolled
Orangemen should, as a society, raise a contribution among
'themselves of £lO,OOO to the Church Fund. Among further
subscriptions offered, Mr. Horace Rochfort, of Carlow, gives
£23 a-year for five years after January, 1871.
OUTBAGE BY IN ANTIC-RITUALISTIC MOB AT MAN-
CHESTER.—The Red. Mr. Gallagher. minister of the Pro-
testant Reformed Church at Manchester, followed by
his congregation, went on Sunday morning to the
church of St. John the Baptist, where the ritual is
said to be extremely high. they were refused admission,
and eventually Mr. Gallagher took his departure,
leaving a crowd gehind. Soon afterwards, on the Rev.
T. M. Broomhead, the curate, and some of the officials,
quitting the church, he was roughly handled by the mob,
and was forced to take refuge in a cab, the windows of
which were broken, and a chorister severely injured. One
of the rioters was apprehended by the police in the act of
throwing stones.

MATRIMONY IN FRANCE —A judgment of in-
terest to foreign families of which members have con-
tracted matrimonial alliances in Prance was given two
days back in the Civil Court of Paris. The facts of the
case were these :-2J. de Brimont married about two
years ago a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Penniman, American
oubjects. No contract was drawn up, but the parents
of the lady promised verbally, according toll. de Brimont,
to make the young couple an annual allowance of
50,000 f. as a marriage portion. The younz wife died a few
months back, leaving an infant daughter, and Mr. Penni-
man, who until then had regularly paid tha money, re-
fused to continue it to the son-in-law. The last named
now brought a suit to enforce the continuance of the pay-
ment, as alimony for himself and daughter. The parents
of the deceased lady, while offering to bring up the child,
resisted the demand, on the grounds that the plaintiff
was a spendthrift, that he had concealed numerous debts
when he married, and had since contracted new ones,
Ind, moreover, that he was young, and might by his
'abour procure for himself sufficient resources. The Tri-
mnal, however, decided that as De Brimont was without
neans of existence, and that as his own mother was not
n a position of fortune to assist her son and grand-
laughter, the plaintiff had a right to an alimentary pen.
lion from his wife's parents ; and consequently condemned
tem to pay an annual sum of 18,000 f,, of which o,ooof.
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