The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-21 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

AN ELECTION PETITION.—At Judges' Chamoers, on
Friday, before Mr. Baron Cleasby, an application was
made on behalf of the petitioner in the North Norfolk
election case, that the £I,COO depu,sit fer costs should be
paid to the respondents, the sitting members, Sir H.
Lacon and Mr. Walpole. Baron Cleasby thought it
unusual that the petitioner should ask for the money to be
paid to the respondents. Evidence was produced that the
petitioner's witnesses had been paid, and it appeared that
the costs bad been taxed at £I,GOO and upwards, and the
order was accordingly made for the payment of the money
deposited to the respondents.
A. similar case was afterwards heard respecting the
Thirsk election. In this case £5OO out of the deposit had
been paid to the petitioner, and the remainder was kept
until the costs of Sir W. Galiwey were taxed. receipt
for £27, the costs of Sir W. Gailwey, being produced, an
order was made for the payment of the balance to the
petitioner.

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OUTRAGE IN SOUTH LONDON.-At the Lambeth Police-
court, on Friday, the prisoner Paull was brought up on
remand, charged with violently assaulting Mrs. Peake.
A certificate was handed in to spew that Mrs. Peake was
too ill to attend. The prisoner was again remanded. The
second clerk of the court informed the magistrate that the
Governor of Horsemonger-lane Gaol had stated that the
prisoner was convicted of a similar offence in and
had been sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.
STRANGE CASE.-At the Mansion House, on Friday.
Joseph Ray was charged on remand, before the Lord
Mayor, on his own confession, with having murdered two
of his children. Inquiries had been made at the prisoner's
house, and it was found that the children were alive. The
surgeon of Newgate reported that the man was quite sane.
The prisoner, in his defence, stated thathe was under an hal-
lucination at the time he made the confession. The Lord
Mayor discharged him with a suitable admonition.

FRAUDS AT WOOLWICR ARSENAL.—At the Woolwich
Police•court, on Friday, before Mr. Patteson, William
M'Cubry, storeholder at the Royal Arsenal, and Thomas
Wright, foreman at the same establishment, were charged
with stealing 19 cwt. of paper, the property of the Crown.
A warehouseman, named Jones, of Upper Thames-street,
was charged with receiving the same. The case has
created great excitement in the neighbourhood, and for
some time before the court was opened the approaches to
it were thronged. The prosecution was conducted by
Mr. Poland on behalf of the Government, and it was
stated that an extensive system of fraud had been carried
on for some time, the prisoners, it was thought, being the
originators. The paper sold consisted of the cuttings, the
refuse from making the cartridges, usually sold by the
Government as unserviceable stores. On behalf of Wright,
the foremin, it was urged that he was only /obeying
M'Cubry, and had seen the bags weighed without know-
ing.anything more about them. For M`Cubry, the store-
holder, it was argued that he had merely to sign the
papers passing the bags for sale, and there was nothing to
skew that he had anything to do with them. He had
been twenty-five years in the service. Bail was refused,
and the prisoners remanded.
THE SMOKE NUISANCE.—At the Gateshead Borongn
Police-court, on Friday, several persons were summoned
before the Mayor for causing smoke nuisance. The
offence was proved against a number of manufacturers,
tradesmen, and others, who were each fined 40s. and costs.
The proprietors of Shipcote Colliery were summoned for
the non•consumption of smoke, and Mr. Palmer, one of the
proprietors, asked for a time to fix another apparatus, as
they were anxious to prevent the nuisance. The River
Tyne Commissioners were also charged in respect to the
smoke arising from a chimney used in the construction of
the new bridge. Fines were inflicted in both cases.
rOACIIING AFFRAY.—At Kineton Police-Court, Soutn
Warwickshire, two labourers were charged with night
poaching on Lord Willoughby de Broke's estate, and
assaulting his lordship's keepers. They were committed
fur trial at the Warwick Assizes.

CHEATING BY TELEGRAPH.— About noon on
Monday the agent of the Commercial Branch Bank in
Stirling received a telegram, purporting to be from tLe
head office of the bank in Glasgow, instructing the agent
to pay over to a Mr. John M`Kinlay, jun., the sum of
£2SO. Mr. Morrison, the agent, thinking this procedure
unusual, telegraphed back to the Glasgow branch, and a
reply was received informing him that no such instruc-
tions had been given from the office. This fact aroused
snspic:on. About half-pa4t two o'clock the same day a
man presented himself at the bank and produced a tele-
gram, which he said he had received from the head office
of the bark in Glasgow, and setting forth that the agent
in Stirling had been communicated with regarding the
payment of £2BO. The bank agent declined to pay
over the cash, notwithstanding the appeal of .the indivi-
dual that he must get either thew Lyle or part, as it would
put him to great inconvenience. - In the evening infor-
mation was lodged with the county constabulary, and,
after inquiries, it was learned that a man answering the
decription given had taken up his quarters in the Queen's
Hotel, Stirling, for the night. About midnight, Chief
Constable Campbell and Superintendent M`Nab, accom-
panied by Mr. Morrison, proceeded to the hotel in ques-
tion, and there found the object of their search. He de-
clined to furnish any information regarding himself. He
was at once apprehenled and brought before Sheriff
'Sconce on Tuesday, examined, and committed. He gave
his name as J. D. Russell. He called at the Golden Lion
Hotel about half-past two o'clock on Monday afternoon,
and asked if there was a telegram there for a Mr. M`Kinlay,
jun. There was, and this wag the telegram he presented
tt the baa.