The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-13 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE CASE or OVEREND AND GURNEY,—At the Mansion
House, on Saturday, an application was made for sum-
monses against Mr. Barrow, the chairman of the Share-
holders' Association of Overend, Gurney, and Co., for a
libel against Dr. Adam Thotu and Mr. Howell, the
prosecutors in the original case. It was said that the
libel charged the applicants with misappropriating the
funds of the shareholders in order to defeat the criminal
prosecution which Dr. Thom had instituted against the
directors. The Lord Mayor granted the summonses.
A LIBERAL REWARD.—At the Marlborough-street
Police-court, a respectably. dressed man applied to the
magistrate for advice. A boy, a relative of his, last week
picked up an envelope containing a cheque for £lOO and
a railway scrip for £OOO. At considerable trouble and
expense he restored them to the owner, who gave him
three shillings. The magistrate regretted he could do
nothing in the matter.
THREE HUNDRED TIMES IN CUSTODY.— On Saturday,
at the Thames Police-court, Mr. Benson referred to the
case of the woman Souter, who had been 00 times in
lustody. It will be remembered that she was committed
.or trial, but discharged by Serjeant Cox. Mr. Benson
:cad a letter from Mr. Cox, explaining that he had dis-
charged the woman on the representation of the gaol
chaplain, being ignorant of her antecedents. Mr. Benson
remarked on the negligence of the police in neglecting to
inform the judge of the history and antecedents of one of
the most remarkable criminals that ever appeared in a
court of justice.
FIRST CONVICTION UNDER THE ANIMALS ACT.—The
first conviction under the Contagious Diseases (Animals)
Act took place at Guildford, Surrey, on Saturday. A
farmer had allowed a heifer suffering from foot and mouth
disease to be at large cn the com-non. The chairman of
the County Bench said it was well known that the disease
was highly infectious, and he could not imagine a greater
wrong than farmers turning out infected animals on the
Commons. Fortunately the new Act gave them power to
deal with the offence. As this was the first case they
would mitigate the penalty to £5 and costs, bat they had
power to inflict a fine of £2O. The Privy Council rules
had been circulated, so there was no excuse for offenders.

T.ERMINATIOY OF TILE CiREAT DEXAB Y

LOCK-OUT.

On Saturday the great and prolonged dispute at the
Denaby Colliery, Mexhorough, South Yorkshire, was
brought to a close. The dispute has existed for twenty-seven
weeks, and has cost between £1,400 and £1,500 in relief
alone. The happy termination was come to at a conference
which was held at the Victoria Station Hotel, Sheffield,
between Mr. E. Baines, M.P., Mr. Huntress (partners
in the firm), and Mr. J. Normansell, the secretary of the
South Yorkshire Miners' Union. The Mayor of 6hetneld
and Mr. Mundella, M.P., were also present as mutual
friends. The intelligence on being conveyed to Mex.
borough created unbounded joy. The tradespeople put
out their flags, and in a short time the place assumed its
gayest aspect. At five o'clock a large meeting was held
in the Hewitt's Rooms, which were crowded. Mr.
Holmes having been called to the chair, Mr. Normansell
briefly addressed those assembled, who called for 2.1 r,
Mundella. That gentleman, on rising, was received with
applause. In the course of an able address he paid a high
tulogium to Mr. Baines, M.P., and Mr. Huntress for the
warner in which they had met the question. He thou read
the following agreement, which hail been signed by the
gentlemen present at the confercr:ce :—lt was arrangf.d
that the Denaby Main Colliery workmen should be employed
indifferently, whether union or non-union men, withuut
inquiry and that as soon as possible old workmen should
be employed. That Mr. Normansell assures the gentle.
men present that the South Yorkshire Union do not
attempt either to coerce workmen into joining the union,
or to dictate to the employers as to the mode of conduct.
ing their works ; and that he will discountenance any
such proceedings, and the company on their part will
not refuse to listen to any representation made to
them IT the workmen, and to give it their best considera-
tion with a view to the welfare of all parties. It is agreed
that a check-weighman shall he employed at Denaby
Main, and every facility offered him for discharging his
duties efficiently. That Mr. Baines and Mr. Huntress
have much pleasure in promising on behalf of the com-
pany that the present system of weekly wages shall be
continued. The parties to this agreement, desirous of
preventing all future disputes, are favourable to the for-
mation of a board of arbitration and conciliation in South
Yorkshire as soon as practicable." Yurther addresses
were also delivered by Mr. Normansell, Mi. P. Casey,
and Mr. Hewitt, of Mexborougb. Votes of thanks were
given to Mr. Mundella and to the Mayor of Sheffield
for their services, which brought the proceedings to a
close.

The Viceroy of Egypt has commissioned a young
composer to write " The Suez Galop," which will in
future be the nationaal " hymn" of Egypt !

A French journal has the following paragraph :
"For several days past the celebrated English novelist,
Miss Braddon, has appeared in Hyde Park in a mag•
nificent equipage, with coachman and footmen in green
livery, all acquired at the point of the pen !"

A very distressing calamity occurred' on Friday
rear Rochdale. Some men were employed sinking a well,
and one of them was lowered in a windlass, but before he
reached the bottom he fell as if in a fit. Another man sent
down was similarly affected, and a third man was drawn up
again in an unconscious state. He recovered, but the other
two when drawn to the surface were dead. death having
been caused by inhaling carbonic gas, which is supposed to
have accumulated during the night from an old coal pit in
the neighbourhood.

The funeral of General the Hon. Sir Charles Gore,
G.C.8., B.IL, Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hospital,
took place on Friday in Brompton Cemetery. At eleven
o'clock the whole of the pensioners paraded, and
shortly ht fore twelve the lieutenant-Governor's remains
were borne from his le,idence between the ranks of the
pensioners., thruugh the great square, direct to the
chapel, followed by his relatives. Among the mourners were
Lady Gore and Major Gore as chief mourners, the Countess
of Erroll and Captain Goro, Mrs. Rich and Hon. Captain
Gore, the Earl of Erroll and Mr:,. Gore, Colonel Rich, the
Earl of Arran, Viscount Sudeley, Hon. Charles Gore, and
Major Rich.
MR. VV. E. GLADSTONE AT BALMORAL.—The
Prime Minister—who, up till Thursday, was the guest of
the Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle, near Darlington,
in the county of Durham—arrived at Perth, ca. route for
Balmoral, on Friday night, at half-past eleven oclock, by
the London mail. Mr. Gladstone, up to the time of his
arrival at Perth, was accont parried by Mrs. G. ladstone and the
Misses Gladstone, and proceeded by the northern mail
train to Aberdeen, on arrivin:; at tvhich place it was his
intention, it is said, to proceed ;nintediately to Balmoral
on a Visit to the Queen. No one except the guard of the
mail train knew that Me. Gladstone was a traveller by
the mail.

WHAT BYRON MIGHT HAVE iIEEN.—In the. life of
Dr. Lyman Beecher, written by his children, that patri-
, arch is reported to have said : " If Byron could only
have talked with Taylor and me, it might have got him
out of all his troubles." People may smile at Ulla as the
simplicity of an ardent minister of religion, yet we are by
no mans sure that Dr. Beecher was wrong, for Byron
lik3 all great poets, was naturally religious, so much so,
indeed, that but for his early death he might have lived
to be an ascetic, and even bigoted devotee. His infidel
opinions, as they are called, were not worthy to be caked
opinions at all. They were partly reaction front Scotch
Calvinism, and partly mercii brag Alla InAtc2 t,•7IVCIO
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