The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-27 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICR.

THE Itointr. BANK or LIVETtPOOL.-At the Liverpool
Assizes, on Thursday, Messrs. Prelin and Co., merchants,
Alexandria and Liverpool, trading under the name of
Quentill and Co., sued the Royal Bank of Liverpool h.:
damages for the non-retirement by the bank of certain
acceptances of the plaintiffs' draughts. It appeared th
the hank under a special agreement with the plaintiffs
used to accept the bills of the Alexandria firm agains•
grain shipments, and as the bills of lading came in the
.sroceeds were paid in by the plaintiffs to a special
account When the bank stopped payment there were
outstanding drafts of the plaintiffs accepted by the
defendants amounting to £21,000, and funds to the credit
of the special account to the amount of £22,000. The
bank could not under the circumstances retire. The bills
and the money were not paid over to the plaintiffs till the
end of the year. The plaintiffs had to pay a commission
amounting to £548, to provide for the bills, and for this
and the cost of telegrams to Alexandria the action was
brought. A verdict was taken by consent for the plain-
tiffs, with leave for the defendants to move.
ROYALTIES ON PATENTs.—At the Liverpool Assizes, on
Thursday, Mr. Justice Ilannen tried the case of " Moxon
v. Bright," in which the plaintiffs are machinists of Roch-
dale, and the defendants Messrs. John, Thomas, and
Jacob Bright. The President of the Board of
Trade, who is the senior partner in the firm,
AVM in court during the greater part of the proceedings.
The action was brought to recover an amount alleged to
'be due to the plaintiffs for license to use machines
patented by them for carpet-weaving. The defendants
pleaded that they were not liable except in the sum of
£lO5, which had been paid into court. The plaintiffs
bad previoly been in the defendants' employ, and, after
leaving, patented the invention referred to. After a good
deal of evidence had been given respecting the terms of
the arrangement for the use of the patented looms,
the jury found for the plaintiffs for £540.

VIE FEIIAN CONSUL FOR GLASGOW.

The case of Major John Haggerty, titular American
Consul at Glasgow, Scotland, is at once melancholy and
iwnusing. He is of Irish parentage, though born in
Glasgow. He is an honest and able man, served with
distinction in the war, and has since the war been
making herculean, but vain, efforts to induce Ids
countrymen here to vote the Republican ticket and to
Idlake off the British yoke. Although not a very promi-
nent Fenian, his connection with the Brotherhood, and
his feelings towards the British Crown, were sufficiently
notorious to satisfy anybody but a Fenian, or par-
tially demented person, that he might as well expect
to be appointed Gold Stick in Waiting as be be allowed
to act as Consul in a British port. No Government
was ever known to grant an exequalur to a man
connected with an organisation formed to bring about its
overthrow. Of course, the 'cute Republican politicians
who gave him the place knew this perfectly well, but, by
giving it him, they made him believe that they were
doing something very fine for him, and threw on the
British Government the odium of keeping him out
of it, and are probably now laughing over it at
the seaside or in the mountains, while Haggerty
is spending his hard earnings in some Scotch tavern. The
same "little game" was on the po:nt of being tried on a
certain Mr. Savage, who was atone time a Fenian " head-
centre "or some such dignitary. It was seriously pro-
posed to give him also some very handsome
and opulent consulship, also on British soil ;
but either Savage himself or seine of his friends
saw the joke before. he started to take possession,
and consequently he wisely stayed at home, and we hope
has made them give him something in which be can get at
his pickings without having to .incur obligations to the
hated Saxon. There was only one thing- wanting to mal:e

poor Ifag,gerty's case a perfect and symmetrical "seli,"
and that was that some Republican organ should pretend
to think the British Government had played him a mean
trick, and this, sure enough, the Kew York TriLlive

did on Tuesday last. "A great Government," it said
"cannot afford to do small things, and yet it does them
sometimes," etc., and winds up by hinting that it is
Glasgow which will suffer from Haggerty's absence. One
of the worst results of "the six hundred years of wrong" is
seen in the Fenian capacity for being humbugged.—Nero
YorA; Nation.

TIIE PORTADOWN INQUEST.—At the Portadown
inquest, on Thursday, Head-constable Bailey was cross-
examined by the attorney for the next of kin. He way
afterwards examined by the attorney for the police
Several passages-at•arms took place between the attorneys
and the foreman of the jury. The inquiry may not terms•
nate this week.

The a'obe has the :—" The rumour !;.,
ittfll prevalent that Vice-Admiral Sir James lope, G.C.13.,
Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, will take the place of
Fir Sydney Dacres, senior sea lord. We hear that Roar-
Admiral Francis Scott, C. 8., is a candidate for the Pacifiv.
( mu:nand when vacant; but, we believe, that Admiral
Chads has been offered the post, and accepted it. Mr. Jas.
W. M. Ashby, C. 8., secretary to Admiral Sir Geo. Rodney,
Into Commander-in-Chief of the North American
and West India squadron, and who was to have filled a si-
milar post in the Admiral's Office at Portsmotth, Las deter-
mined to remain at Halifax for a short time."

. SUDDEN DEATH DURING A FIT OF PASSION.—
On Thursday Dr. Hardwicke, deputy-coroner for Central
Middlesex, held an inquest at the Middlesex Hospital on
'he body of William Topping, 58 years of age, a coach-
Man, residing in High-street, Marylebone. From the
evidence it appeared that on Monday evening, the 23rd,
:eceased went home with his carriage and placed it near
Cie coachhouse door. While leading his horses to the
stable someone pushed the door against the carriage,
which deceased observed, said it was done on purpose, and
got into a violent passion. He full down insensible while
using bad language, and was carried into the stable.
Deceased was brought to the hospital dead. Dr. King
proved that death took place from syncope from disease of
the heart. Verdict, " Death from natural causes, accele-
rated by violent passion."

SERIOUS EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS.—On Thurs-
day afternoon an explosion took place upon the premises'
of Mr. Darby, firework maker, 99, Regent-street, Lam-
► eth-walk. In a large shed in the yard he keeps a quantity
of rockets, squibs, and other fireworks for immediate
sale. About the time mentioned the contents of this shed
exploded with a terrific noise, alarming the whole neigh-
bourhood. The shed was blown to atoms, the windows in
front of the house were blown in, and the curtains and
•ashes set in a blaze. The doors and windows of the ad-
'lining house were also destroyed, and the front wall of
e house completely blackened. By promptly pulling
wn the curtains the fire was prevented making its way
Itto the interior of the house. Many of the windows of
the houses in the neighbourhood were broken from the
force of the explosion. Some children who were playing
in the street in front of the premises were knocked down
and scorched by the burning squibs falling upon them,

THE WAIST OF THE PERIOD.—Our old friend,
light-lacing, has again made his appearance. Beaten back
for a time, probably more by fashion than 1 y the spread
)1 knowledge, he has not been killed, but has only recoiled
ipparently for a better spring, for his victims are as
numerous and pitiable as ever. The folly is one which
;as formerly to be found mainly in the drawing-rcom, but
•ow it also fills our streets. It is lamentable to observe
t every turn a woman, young or old, who moves forward
n'a stooping position, unable even to bold herself szpri..;lst
to consequence of the constraint upon the muscles of
:he back. If the evils of tight-lacing were confined to Ow
listorted appearance which it never fails to produce we.
night regret indeed to see the female form divine so
lefaced, but it would scarcely be in our province to zom-
4sent upon it. But, as medical practitioners, we see its
tffects every day in the train of nervous and dyspeptic
symptoms by which it is constantly indicated, and in the
till more grave internal mischief of permanent character
vhich is often caused by it. Until some little physiolo-
,ical knowledge is made a yart of female education and is
:onsidered an "accomplishment," we suppose it is of
ittle use to protest against the cruel injury to health
which women thus inflict upon themselves. The matter is
me that is "worse than crime—it is folly," for beauty is
I.:,!stp-Ted by the Drama which is intruded to increase it.
—Zaneek