The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-15 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

Tim SINGITLAR ATTEMPT AT SWINDLING BY A RETURNED
Coxvicr.—A returned convict, named Albert Pinkston,
has been charged at Guildhall with stealing five pieces of
silk, value £BO. The prisoner had stolen three blank
cheques on the City Bank, and filled one of them up in the
name of Knight, giving it in payment for goods purchased
from the Fore-street Warehouse Company. The managers
would not let the goods go until the cheque was cashed,
and sent a messenger to the bank with it. Before the
return of the clerk the prisoner obtained from the
packing warehouse five pieces of silk, which he took
away with him. Directly he left the fraud was discovered,
and he was pursued and taken. In his possession was a
pocket-book containing a blank cheque and a genuine
cheque for £205. The warder at Coldbath-fields Prison
produced a list of previous convictions against the prisoners
who was committed for trial.
VoLuicrgeits ON AN EX.CITESION.—At Wandsworth
Police-court, Major Ammanney, one of the Surrey
magistrates, appeared to answer three summonses for
assaulting the servants of the South-Western Railway
Company, at Clapham Junction station. A party
of volunteers arrived from Portsmouth by a spe-
cial *train on the night of the 30th of August. The
- defendant refused to shew his ticket, and resisted the in-
terference of the collector. He also encouraged the other
passengers to refuse to produce their tickets. An apology
had been sent, which the magistrate thought might
have been considered sufficient. He dismissed the
summonses, as he thought the porter might have been mis-
taken about the assault in the confusion which prevailed.
The defendant's excuse was that he was afraid of missing
the Richmond train. A number of volunteers were
assembled to hear the decision, which gave them great
satisfaction.

THE POACHING AFFRAY NEAR BOLTON.—Four mon have
been brought before the city justices at Bolton, charged
with wounding the gamekeepers in the employ of Mr.
Hick, M.P., and Mr. Ashworth, at Belmont. They were
remanded in order that the injured gamekeepers might
identify them.
CUTTING A CHILD'S THROAT.—Margaret Hardy, aged 3
years, the child of Mrs. ArKinlay, a soldier's wife, residing
in Kilmarnock, was found in the street with her throat
cut. A woman named Jane Millar has been apprehended
on the charge of attempting to murder the child. The
prisoner was intoxicated at the time and had been
drinking with the child's mother. No motive is attributed
for the attempt to take the life of the child, who is ex-
pected to recover.
STABBING BY A Boy.—At Halifax William Pickles 'MIS
brought up on remand on the charge of stabbing two other
boys. The case was clearly proved, and the prisoner was
committed to the sessions for trial.

The Emancipation of Toulouse relates another case
illustrative of the dangers of premature interment. Just as
some gravediggers were lowering into the earth a coffin
containing the body of a young girl who was supposed to
have died on the previous evening, a green was heard, the
coffin was opened, and the inmate was taken out alive.
LAFAYETTE's TlonsEs.—The Gaulois tells a little
-Republican anecdote about Lafayette. At Lamarque's
funeral the crowd took cut the General's herses as he was
returning home and drew him to his hotel. " You must
have been very pleased " remarked a friend some time after-
wards. " Very much pleased indeed," replied Lafayette
" but I never saw anything more cf my horses."
NOT SO BAD AS HE THOUGHT.— An 01.(1 man,
whose sight was defective, was reatling a newspper cn the
train between Wheeling, Va., and Wasiiingtn.

IV hen

ho reached the first tunnel the disappearance of the light

caused him to look up. Taking cif Lis sine-Lacks and wiping
• . them, he replaced them, and again tried to lead. Perceiving
• that all was dark, he dropped the l.aper, exclaiming in a
• loud voice, "My God, Fm blind, I'm blind !" It was a
long time before he could be convinced what was the
matter. On coming again to the light he thanked God fer-
vently for his sight.—Chicago Tribune.
A THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR NOTTINGHAM.—
All the sufferers in the Derby Infirmary are reported
favourably of. There was a rumour that the poor woman
Parrott (whose leg had been amputated) was dead, but
- upon inquiries on the spot it turned out incorrect. The
dissatisfaction is general in this town and district at the
• abrupt termination of the proceedings at the inquiry, and
a further inquiry is loudly called for. The conduct of
• both coroner and jury are called in question. The guard
of the special could not be called on account of being
injured by the collision. The inquiry, however, went on
. without this man's evidence, which no doubt would have
been very important. So strong is the feeling that nothing
short of a Government inquiry will satisfy the public in
this district.
• THE FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.—At the Lynd-
hurst Petty Sessions, on Wednesday, Mr. John Light, a
Farmer, living at Bartley, near Southampton, was charged
- with having in his possession on the 15th of September
last eighty sheep affected with the foot and mouth
disease, and not giving notice thereof to a police-constable
with all practicable speed, in compliance with the pro-
visions of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869.
Defendant pleaded guilty, but urged that he did
not know that the sheep were suffering from the disease.
The chairman of the bench said that there were no less
than twenty-five places in the county where the sheep
, were suffering from the contagion. It was necessary that
the provisions of the Act should be strictly observed ; but,
as defendant had not wilfully disobeyed the law, the
bench was willing- to dismiss the summons. He wished
it to be understood, however, that if a second case were
brought before the bench, a heavy penalty would be
inflicted.

OFFENBACH.—Jacques Offenbach first saw the
light of day at Cologne on the 20th of July, 1822. Some of
his biographers make him three years older, but the date we

he composed songs. Then, all unknown to his father, who
was a bandmaster, he taught himself the violoncello. There
is a pretty story how, at the ago of ten, he was taken by his
father to hear a quartet of Haydn's executed by himself
and some friends, but the violoncellist not being to the fore
the youthful Jacques volunteered to play the bass part. The
idea was laughed at, but he soon shewed his capability. to
do so, and was allowed to join in the quartet, which he did
with perfect success. Three years afterwards his father sent
him to Paris, with letters of introduction to Chernbini,
then director of the Conservatoire. The rules of that institu-
tion then prevented any but French students from enjoy-
ing its banefits, but on hearing him play Cherubini
succeeded in procuring a special exception in his favour.
We next hear of him playing the violoncello in the
orchestra of the Opera Comique. There he shared the
desk of a well-known player, Seligmann. These two
artistes had a habit of amusing themselves by playing only
alternate notes, instead of each playing the entire part,
which almost drove the conductor into a lunatic asylum.—
Theatrical and Musical Review.
The Leeds Branch of the English Church Union
neld itsannnal commemoration on Wednesday, sermonsheing
preached at St. Saviour's and St. Barnabas' by Archdeacon
Denison and the Rev. R. Rhodes Bristow, of Lewisham.
Between the morning and afternoon service there was
luncheon at the Great Northern Station 11041. About fifty
ladiesand gentlemen were present, tut the meet ingderived its
chief interest from the remarkable speech of tine Archdeacon,
who commented upon what he maintained was the great
danger which threatened the Church front the nomination
of Dr. Temple to the Bishopric of Exeter. He had, he said,
received letters from the Archdeacon of Exeter intimating
that the Dean and Chapter and the whole of the clergy of
that diocese were rising as one man against the appointment;
and he also read a communication from Dr. Pusey, which
stated that, if Dr. Temple's appointment took place under
the sanction of the civil power, there would he no course
left to them but " openly to contend directly
,and immedi-
ately for a dissolution of Church and State." Archdeacon
Denison added, that so strongly did Dr. Pusey feel upon the
matter, that, after a long, intimate, and affectionate friend-
ahip with Mr. Gladstone, he had broken altogether with him
in conseqUeUce of his selection of Dr. Temple.