The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-23 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE PHCENIX Mill.s.—ln the Court of Chancery, on
Tuesday, the Lords Justices heard an appeal from Vice-
Chancellor James, relative to the Pheenix Mills, near
Wakefield. The company of Joseph Horner and
Sons (Limited), purchased the business of Messrs.
Joseph Horner and Sons in March IEGU, by a contract
with Mr. Richard Horner; the vendor, the property being
valued at £25,000. Mr. Richard Horner was to receive
part of the purchase money in 500 shares. The company
was wound up, and after some litigation between the par-
ties, the Vice-Chancellor ordered the purchase to be set
aside, and declared the 500 shares subscribed for by
Mr. Horner to be contributory shares, on which he was
liable for £5,000. Mr. Horner appealed. The Lords
Justices, .after deciding that the contract of purchase
could not • stand, the valuation having been only super-
ficially made, held that as the contract was void, so it
must be reckoned that nothing had Leen paid on the
shares for which Mr. Horner had subscribed the memo-
randum of association, and he must, therefore, be held
liable as contributory. The appeal was refused, with
costs.

THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. —ln the Court of
Common Pleas,en Tuesday, an action was brought by a
master plasterer to recover compensation for injuries
received on the Metropolitan Railway. The injuries
were not denied, and the counsel agreed to submit the
question of damages to the decision of his lord.shiy.—
Damages £l5O.
SHARP PRACTICF.—At Marlbori.ugh:str.eet Police-court,
on Tuesday, a broker was. summoned for neglecting to
account for the proceeds of a distress. The complainant
owed Hs. 3d., and the defendant seized goods to the value
of £l5. lie sent a claim for expenses also, which came to
three times the.sum for which the distraint Lad been put
in. lie was ordered to repay the amount that the sale had
realised, minus the rent, with costs.
THE STI:L.E AT Vi EA COLLIERY.—At the Sun-
derland Police-court, on Tuesday, the case of the workmen
at Wearmouth Colliery came on for bearing. The court
was crowded to excess. 'lle charge against one of the
defendants was gene into, and it having been sliewn
that he Lad signed a conti act, and Lii4:en it by absenting
himself from work, the magistrates ordered him to com-
ply with the bond, or, in default, one months imprison-
ment. An application for appeal having been made tLe
magistrates took a fortnight to consider it

Summonses have been issued for a Cabinet Council,
to be held at the official residence of the First Loid of tho
Treasury, rowning-street, on Saturday.

The Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., has
subscribed £lO to the memorial church which is about to
be erected at Cowley, near Oxford, to the memory of
ArCIMISLup tAnigiry I,IIC ...14Up US low lisapn gives
£250, and the present Archbishop gives £lO to the same
object. The incumbent of the parish is treasurer to the
fund, and donations may be paid into the Old Bank at
Oxford.

AGRARIAN OUTRAGE NEAR MULLINGAR.—Two
men have been -arrested in Mullingar on suspicion
of being of the party who on Sunday afternoon, the 13th
inst., armed with heavy bludgeons, crossed Lough Owel
in a small boat, and, landing near the village of Ballinafid,
proceeded to a public-house kept by a'Mrs. M'Cormack,
where they entered and called for drir.k. After a little
time, and having ascertained that a servant man of Mrs.
M'Cormack's, named Wm. Russell, was at the neigh-
bouring village of Bunbruena, a couple of miles distant,
two of the party, strangers, left the house, and watched
their unfortunate victim until he got some few hundred
yards from the village, when they suddenly pounced upon
him and beat Lim in a savage manner, inflicting severe
wounds on his head and other parts of his body. The
origin of the murderous outrage is that Russell assisted,
as far as in his power, to describe the party who fired at
a man, named Cassidy, in October last, and whose life
was attempted for holding possession of a small portion of
land at Waishestown.

EXTRAORDINARY CONTRACTING FOR WORK.—
The system of contracting for work has just been pushed
to an extraordinary length in Leeds. A small society
required some letterpress printing fur an entertainment
about so be got up. Tenders for the work were asked for,
and several printers, sent in their estimates. One, who
appeared determined to have the job, no matter at what
price, saved himself the trouble of calculating the cost by
offering to execute the required work at "10 per cent. below
the lowest estimate!" The committee, to their honour be
it said, declined to accept this generous offer. They wrote
to the person who made the offer, and told him Unit he
must send in a given amount for the work. He did so.
His estimate was found ten per cent. higher than the
lowest of the other estimates! The inference is obvious.
The committee, by their very proper conduct, prevented
the printer from undertaking work by which he would
have lost, according to his own shewing, twenty per cent. !
Leeds Evening Express.

SERIOUS VELOCIPEDE ACCIDENT.— A Eer.ous
recident has happened at Armatbwaite, abtut twelve
mile. 3 south of Carlisle, to Mr. Whitehead, of Beecbill,
Saddlesvorth, near Oldham. In the afternoon Mr. 'White-
head arrived at Arrnathwaite Castle. After tea he went
out td practise a bicycle, in the use .of which he was quite
a novice. lie was in the act of propelling the machine
when his foot slipped off the crank and became entangled
with the lever by which the wheels are worked. The con-
sequences were very serious. Mr. Whitehead's leg was
violently doubled up, his ancle was dislocated, and some
broken bones protruded through the flesh. Mr. White
head was removed to the Castle, and surgical assistance
was fetched from Carlisle. According to the latest ac-
counts the unfortunate gentleman is progressing favour-
ably.

THE PUBLIC ITEALTH.---The rate of mortality in
London was 20 per LOCO last week, as compared with a
rate of 2; in 13 other large towns of the United Kingdom.
ln the metropolis 1,7E4 births and I,L'A deaths were
r,„.;is'e;e.i, the latt,:r 1 avb,g been less by than the
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200, the corrected average number Lein4
3i3. Thi pers.on4 died from smallpox, !2
from rileasirs, CO from scarlet fever, 6 from
from whooping - cough, 10 from
typhus fever, hi from enteric fever, 9 from simple con-
tinued fever, and 17 from diarrlaea. One bundi.,:d and
seventy-one deaths cccurri d from phthisis, 19 from br•on•
ellitis; and 59 from pneumonia. The correct average
number of deaths from phthisis is ICB, from bronchitis 77,
and from pneumonia 61. The mean temperature during
the week was 51'3, or more than seven degrees below
the average. Between_ the highest day and the lowest
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