The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-06 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE CASE OF MISS SHEDDEN.—On Monday; in the
House of Lords, the case of Miss Shedden came on, when
the Lord Chancellor declared the arguments for the
appellants to be finished, and the further hearing was
adjourned sine die.

SELLING BAD MEAL—At Marlborough-street, (Marie.;
Walters, butcher and sausage-maker, of Seven Dials, was
charged by Mr. Dixon, inspector of nuisances, with
having meat on his premises for sale unfit for human food.
He found in a cellar where sausage-making was carried
on a quantity of meat all unfit for human
food. It was stated for the defence that meat
would be found in a state of decomposition in every
butcher's shop at this season. Mr. D'Eyncourt said there
was a previous conviction against defendant, and he would
given him the full penalty of £2O ; but he hoped that if
brought again to that court the magistrate would lit
inflict any fine.

A DISPUTED LIVING. —ln the Court of Common Pleas,
the court delivered judgment in the case of " Morris v.
Ogden." The plaintiff was suspended by the Bishop of
Manchester, and the suspension bad never been revoked,
but he claimed the temporalities of the living. The court
gave judgment for the defendant.

The marriage of -VicAst Petersham, :on of tli
Earl of Harr:l'l;ton, w:th Lady Eva Carlip,;tr.n, daugi•kr if
lota Cr:ring,ton, was s len.ni:ed at hr. Martin's-in-iht-
Fields Church on Monday morning.
THE HULL ELECTION PETITION.—Mr. Baron
Martin, on Monday, at the Judges' Chamber;, made an
order in the Hull election petition that the £l,OOO deposit
for costs be withdrawn, without prejudice to any claim h
the sitting members for costs.

A telegram from Ire'and Lays that Mr. TOVAIECDO,
agent of Mr. Dyas, of Athtoy, Las been attacked on the
real and warned to leave the country.— An open air meet-
ing on the land question was held on Sunday at Efig,ena's•
town, county Carlow. Its objcct was to denounce the evic-
tion of families from the lands of Cloneen and to ptt:tion
Parlirment for refcirn in the lard laws. Eevcral Roman
Catholic clergymen spoke.

Superintendent Jones Las discovered the re-
mainder of the jewellery stolen from the Bangor Railway
Station, concealed in the ground tetweeu Gored-y-Git and
the George Hotel, on the tanks of the 3lenai Straits. It
consisted of fifty-seven watches, and the is hole of the gold
chains. The missing geld watch hom the eight that were
taken from the Dublin tox was fctud in BugLes's (one of
the Prisoners) house on Monday last by a -workman. The
whole of the stolen property has now been diicovircd.
IRELAND AND THE C [LOPS.—The weather (luring the
entire of this week has been most favourable to the crops,
and our correspondents, without an exception, report that
the cereals and potatoes have wonderfully improved
within the past eight or ten days. The bay-cutting has
made rapid progress throughout the country, and, shou!d
the present fine weather continue, it is hoped that the
harvest will not be more than a week later than last year.
—Dublin Post.

STEALING GRAND STAND TICKETS AT ASCOT.—
At the Berks Midsummer Sessions, held at Reading, the
chairman (Mr. Benyon, M.P.).and a bench of magistrates
were occupied some time with the trial of Alexander
Cummings, an officer of the S Divishin of Metropolitan
Police (32 years) ; George Gettings, aged 35 ; and William
Gurney, 50 years, who were indicted for unlawfully
ccmbining and agreeing to steal check tickets to the Grand
Stands at Ascot, value ss. each, the property of Captain
Thomas Bulkley and others, trustees of the said stand, on
the 9tl Jme last. The case was clearly proved, and the
prisoners were sentenced to be imprisoned to hard labour
for a term of four months each.

The case of the Joint-Stock Discount Company I'
Drown and others was heard in the Court of Chancery
before Vice Chancellor James on Monday. The suit was
,instituted by the official liquidator of the company,
to compel its directors and two of its officers to
refund to the bharebolders A 30,000 which Lad been paid
out of the company's funds in respect of 3,500 shares
which, without the authority of the shareholders, had
been purchased in Barned's Banking Company.—The
Vice-Chancellor held that the purchase of the shares of
a breach of trust on the part of the directors, and, with the

exception of Mr. John Gillespie, A% ho had become a director
after the negotiations for tho purchase of the sbareP, his
Honour ordered the directors to 1 ay to the plaintiff £30,000
ith interest at £5 per cent.

The sadly depressed state of the cotton trade
has led -to the holding of meetings in different parts of
Lancashire, for the purpose of calling upon Govern-
ment to take active measures for the umoval of
duties 'imposed 'on cotton yarns and manufactured
goods imported into India ; the encouragement of
the growth of cotton in India, and the appoint-
ment of commercial men ae members of the ILdian
Council. Meetings to promote these objects have just
teen held at Burnley and Rochdale. At the It_clidale
rueetirg it was represented that since the emmencement of
the American war India had produced an average of a mil-
lion bales of eel ton per ycl:r ; that before the war the amount
of cotton p ri duct d by America was four millions of bale
3, ally, and since r he %vir tn:y I%S o and a half millions.
E EXTREME DOCTRINE OF THE ROYAL
SUPREMACY.— any one %, ants a proof of the lengths to
which the doctrine of the Royal Supremacy may he c.trried
we are prepared, if necessary, to supply legal evidence of
the following remarkrible fact :—" A parish clerk on the
Sunday before last found himself embarked upon the
enterprise of reading the responses in the cento,
substituted on that day in honour of the Queen's acces-
sion for the " Venite, exultemus." The Prayer-book was
an old one, the clerk knew that changes had been made
in the sex of the sovereign since it was printed, and being
thoroughly penetrated with the spirit of th,, institution to
which Ire belonged, he read the last verse but one as
follows :—" And blessed be the -name of leer Majesty for
ever; and all the earth shall be filled with leer Majesty.
Amen and amen." If anyone has a mind for a nice little
ecclesiastical prosecution, we can furnish him with s
particulars, •