The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-16 00:00:00

LAJV AND POLICE,.

THE BLAKELY ORDNANCE COMPANY.—In the Rolls
Court, on Thursday, several shareholders of the Blakely
Ordnance Company disputed their liability to be placed
on List B as members during twelve months prior to the
winding up. Mr. Creyke, who had forfeited forty shares fo
non-payment of a call, was retained on the list, his lordship
holding that forfeiture did not put an end to the liability
for debts contracted prior to the forfeiture. Mr. Bailey,
who had been induced to sign his name to two transfers
of partly-paid shares, believing them to be fully paid,
was removed from the list on the ground of the fraud
practised on him ; and Colonel Rolland was also omitted
from List 8., as no debts now existed which were incurred
prior to the time when he ceased to be a member.
TRADE MARKS.— On Thursday Vice-Chancellor James
granted an injunction to Messrs. Upmann, cigar manu-
facturers, at Havannah, Cuba, to restrain Messrs.
Ellean, of Great Tower-street, from removing from St.
Katherine's Docks cases of cigars bearing a fraudulent
imitation of their trade mark.

MANSLAUGHTER IN SOUTHWARK.—James Doulton, who
had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Henry John•
son, was brought up for judgment at the Central Crimi-
nal Court. He was sentenced to eighteen months' hard
labour.

THE UXBRIDGE MURDER. -At the Central Criminal
Court, on Thursday, William Murray, aged 23, was in-
dicted for the murder of Frederick Redrup, at Uxbridge
Evidence was given to spew that the prisoner had beer
drinking for some six weeks, and this was
pleaded in his defence, as the murder, it was
urged, was unpremeditated. Chief Justice Bovill said
that there was no such thing known to the law as that
drunkenness should Le a defence against a crime. There
was no evidence of insanity in this case, or of anything more
than a temporary frenzy produced by dritk. The jury,
after ten minutes' consultation, found a verdict of Guilty.
and the prisoner, uho was quite unmoved, was sentenced
to death. During the course of this trial some disturb.
ance was created by Mr. Brierly, an elderly member of
the Bar, who insisted on scene of the junior counsel
making way for him, and attempted to drag one of them
from his seat. After couch disturbance, he was removed
by order of the Chief Justice, who said he was afraid Mr.
Brierly was not responsible for his actions, or he would
have committed him.

A PRIVILEGED CABMAN.—A privileged cabman on
Thursday summoned a gentleman at Clerkenwell for 17s.
fare. The cabman had taken up the defendant at the
Shoreditch station of the Great Eastern Railway ; but as
the Court of Exchequer lately decided that a cab-stand at
a railway station was private property, the complainant
had now no remedy in the police-court. The srmmoils
was dismissed, with an intimation that the defendant
could be sued only in the County Court.

The Record states, on the authority of peers who
attended the meeting at CIA sterf,,hl House, that it related
exclusively to the election of a new Irish peer in the rocns
of Lord Cast], ntaine, az.d that the Irish Church Bill had n,
part in the deliLeration,,.
The Midland Comrany have been mulcted
at the Leicester Assizes in £250 damages for injuries to alittl9
girl sustained by being run over by one of their engines at
a crossing, alleged to Le negligently guarded, near to tilt
Coalville station, on the 17th of August last.

The post of Secretary of the "English Church
Union," the society which defenecd Mr. 3lackonochie nn:l
the other Ritualists who Lave been attacked, is about to
become vacant by the resignation of Mr. Hope Johnstone.
There have been some dissensions in the society of late, and
some of the Conservative members have retired. The secre-
taryship is worth £3OO a year.