The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-11 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

rssivc COSTS.—A motion has been heard in the Rolls
Court respecting a bill of costs. Messrs. Gregg, solicitors
of Kirkby Lousdale, had been for many years the solicitors
of Mr. Proctor, an elderly invalid, whose affairs were
managed by his nephew, Mr. Gilbert Proctor, under a
power of attorney. Owing to some family dispute last
June, Mr. Gilbert's power to act for his uncle
was revoked, and a Mr. Prance was substituted for
the Messrs. Gregg, as solicitor. Mr. Prance applied to the
Messrs. Gregg for his new client's papers and for their bill.
They sent their bill and a cheque for the balance due to
Mr. Proctor, after deducting the amount of their bill, to
Mr. Gilbert Proctor, and a week after wrote to Mr. Prance,
saying they had no money due to Mr. Proctor in their pox
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cession, and that nothing was due to them. Mr Prance
thereupon took out the usual order to tax the bill of costs,
to which Messrs. Gregg paid no attention, and an attach-
ment consequently issued. The present motion was to set
it aside. The Master of the Rolls refused the motion,
with costs, remarking that he could not allow a
solicitor to say in resistance to the order to tax
his bill, that he had, since the bill and the papers were
applied for, delivered both to another person. On the
applicants undertaking to deliver their bill of coats within
ten days, the proceedings under the attachment would bo
stayed.

THE NEW CROSS ACCIDENT.—A verdict for damages for
£4OO has been awarded by tho Sheriffs' Court, to another
ufferer by the New Cross accident in June.

FIRING BARNS.—The cases of arson in the county assizes
are very numerous. Four cases were tried at York, and
broke down for want of evidence. At Warwick, a man
named Raffe was sentenced to six years' penal servitude
for firing two barns and a corn shed. The prisoner had
been drinking, but some doubts were expressed by tho
jury as to the state of his mind, which the judge said
ought to be communicated to the Secretary of State.

ILL-TREATING A LIINATIC.—At the York .Assizes, Wil-
liam Tracey, warder in the Clifton Lunatic Asylum, near
York, was found guilty of ill-treating a lunatic. Ho was
told to give him a hot bath, and left him in the bath-room
with two other patients, who put him in too hot water.
He died from the effects of the scalding. As the warder
had not acted from malevolence, and had already been three
months in prison, the judge thought a nominal sentence of
imprisonment was sufficient. He was therefore discharged.
He had previously been dismissed from the asylum, but
r.s recommended to mercy by the Visiting Committee.

We have reason to believe (says the new illustrated
;raper, the Graphic) that the Government are by no means
ro fully prep red to sanction a large reduction in the
postage on newspapers in the course of the next session
As has been assumed by many of our contemporaries.

intelligence has been received in Liverpool to
the effect that a large quantity of wreckago, consisting of
timber, spars, lathwood, &c., had been washed ashore
near the Blackwater Bank, together with portions
.t a ship's deck-house, but there were no marks
on the salvage to give any clue or indication
s to what vessel it belonged. Ships reaching the
Alersey report having met with very heavy weather outside
'ho Channel and entering it. Some wreckage was also
passed outside the port, but is supposed to be that of the
t W.) SChooller6 which were lost 09,3%9 tide ee, the Durbo

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