The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-28 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE CASE OF LAFITTE AND Co.—The proposed com-
promise in the case of Lafitte and Co. was discussed in
the Rolls Court on Tuesday. By the decision of Vice
Chancellor Malins, from which an appeal to the House of
Lords is pending, the National Bank were ordered to pay
Charles Lafitte and Co. £230,000 with interest. The
compromise provides for the immediate payment by the
bank of all undisputed claims on Lafitte and Co. for an
indemnity against all disputed claims, and for the pay-
ment of the costs of the official liquidator and of the other
suits in the case. Seventy-six shareholders approved of
the proposal, and twelve objected. The French directors
and Mr. Charles Lafitte alsoobjecteti. The Master of the
Rolls thought it for the interest of all concerned that the
agreement should be confirmed, but he would give the
opponents leave to stop it, provided they gave certain
security to the company by the 9th of August.
CHARGE OF CoNsnnAcY.—At the Mansion House, on
Tuesday, the singular charge of conspiring to defraud on
three bills of exchange for £6,000 was withdrawn by the
prosecution. The defendants, Mr. Brown anti Mr.
Stanbridge, explained that there had been no fraudulent
intention on their pacts, but Sir R. Carden said they were
not entirely ft'ee from blame.
JEWISH ABDUCTION CASE. —On Monday, at Cardiff,
the Jewess abduction case came on for hearing, before
Mr. Baron Channel!. It excited great interest, and
crowds waited in the neighbourhood of the Town Hall.
Esther Lyons, a Jewish girl, left her father's house
and was said to have become a Christian, and to be under
the protection of a Baptist minister, Nathaniel Thomas,
and his wife. They are charged with abduction. The
defendants declared on their affidavits that the girl was
not detained by their authority. The case was adjourned.
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.-7The sitting magistrates at
Portsmouth Police-court have been engaged in investi-
gating a charge against two watertnen of stealing an iron
safe, containing £7OO, from the ship Octavia. After
hearing the evidence, the bench committed the prisoners
for trial.

Miss Gladstone bas recently been suffering from
scarlet fever, but is now ccnvaleccent. It is hoped she will
be able to leave town in the course of ill,' week.

ANOTHER ROYAL WORK.—The Queen has com-
manded Mr. W oodward, the Royal Librarian, to edit a
series of exterior and interior views of Windsor Castle,
together with descriptive text. These views, which will
include several of the private apartments, arc from pho-
tographs printed in permanent colours by a new process.
The volume promises to be the most splendid of the series
issued under her Majesty's auspices, and will be published
by Messrs. Moxon, Son, and Co.

GETTING OUT OF TRAINS.—The prevalence of
the practice of getting out of trains, while still in motion,
has induced a civil engineer at New York to state, for the
guidance of the public, that "the true method" is not to
jump, but to step lightly from the carriage, keeping your
face in the direction of motion, let go the rail at once,
keep the head and body well thrown back, and, if the
train is going at speed, step out quickly the moment your
feet touch the ground.

LONGEVITY IN DERBYSHIRF. The ancient
family of Radford, of Smalley, near Derby, is at the
present moment more remarkable for the longevity of its
living members than, perhaps, any family in England.
Six children of Mr. John Radford, who died in 1834, aged
88, are now living—four sons and two daughters ; their
respective ages being 93, 87, 85, 84, 81, 78, and the sum
total of their ages is 508, giving above 84 years to each. In
addition it may he mentioned that two years ago John
Radford, of Smalley, the late head of the family, died at
the age of 87.

THE EARL OF DEVONSHIRE'S EPITAPH.—The
following extract from Risdon's "Survey of Devon"—

written 1605 to 1630 —gives some information about the
monument referred to in Mr. Motley's speech at the un-
veiling of the Peabody Memorial. "In the churchyard
(of Tiverton) is a chapel built by the earls of this county,
and appropriated for their burials, now demolished, where
there is a tomb, under which Edward Courtney, Eail
of Devonshire, and his countess were interred, having
their effigies of alabaster, sometime sumptuously gilded
and was about forty years ago to be seen, and which
lamenteth me to write. Time bad not so much defaced
as men have mangled that magnificent monument, which
had this writing thereon, as some have seen :
Hoe, hoe, who lyes here?
'Tis I, the goode Erle of Devonshire,
With Kate my wvfe, to inee full dere. •
Wee lyved togeatler fyfty-fyve yore.
That wee spent, wee had ;
That wee lefte, wee loste ;
That wee gave, wee have.'"

FRP:AK OF AN ENG —Tile famous
debtors' prison at Cliehy has just been abolished, and
the French papers are ciico"ating nutner,:us stories
relating to it. I lere is one of them. eee.-ntric son
of Albion, desiring to become practicaly acquainted with
the interior of a French ,lebtor.' prison, refu,el to pay
his tailor, who fortlm id: had him despatc!iv,l to Clieby.
'the imglimlonali„tft, r tl:rue months' in'!areera-
tion, found his iosAy satiated, and about eight
o'clock in the evening sent for the gaoler. "I
have had enongh of this; give me my cane, let
me pay, and be off." But the gaoler, not understand-
ing his prisoner, sent for the governor. The English-
man repeated the same words, but the head official re-
minded him that he was not authorised to give him any.
thing which belonged to him until the debt was paid.
Give me my cane," repeated the Englishman. After a
little discussion in broken French and the
governor, thinking his prisoner mad, and wishing to l.acify
him, told the gaoler to give him the cane. "I".ae object was
no sooner placed in his hands than, unscrewing the knob,
he drew out from the hollow a thousand pounl.,note, paid;
his debt, wished the governor Goodnight, aAdeparted,
a wiser if not a better man.