The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-01 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A BILL AGAINST MR. BRIGHT..—In the Court of Appeal
on Saturday, before the Lord Chancellor, the case of
Moxon v. Bright was heard. A bill was filed against
Messrs. John Bright (now the Right Hon. John Bright,
M.P.) and Jacob Bright, and against a Mr. Hall, for an
account of the profits made by them respectively by the us•
of a patent for looms claimed by the plaintiff. Vice-Chaneel-
lor Giffard dismissed the bill, and hence the appeal. The
Lord Chancellor said that the plaintiff's remedy, if any,
was clearly at law, and the appeal must therefore be dis-
missed with costs.

A POINT OF CRIMINAL LAW.—In the Court of Criminal
Appeal the case of William Summers was considered
by the justices. He was sentenced at the Middle.
sex Sessions to five years' penal servitude for
injuring a policeman, and it was suggested that the sen-
tence should have been for seven years, under the statute
27 and 28 Vict., which enacted that the least sentence of
penal servitude awarded after a previous conviction should
be for seven years. The indictment did not contain any
allegation of a previous conviction of felony, and the
court held that the sentence was right.
THE LONDON IRISH VOLUNTEERS.—A rule has been
granted in the Bail Court against the printer and
publisher of the West Enri News for a libel reflecting
on the London Irish Volunteers and their colonel, the
Marquis of Donegal!. The article objected to professed give
an account of the recent funeral of a member of the corps,
and denounced the company in the most unmeasured terms.
The matter having been brought to the notice of the
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arquis, he instructed his solicitor to demand a retracta.
tion and an apology. A retractation on the part of the
writer was inserted, but no apology on the part of the pro-
prietors, and, this being deemed insufficient, the rule War
applied for.

PENSION TO MRS. LINCOLN. the Senate, at
'Washington, a resolution has been offered and referred to
the Committee on Pensions, providing that a life pension
be granted to Mrs. Lincoln, as widow of the commander-
in-chief of the armies of the United States,

A Cuntous CEREMONY.—In the year 1794, on
Zhe 3rd of August, Mary Wragg, relict of a City merchant
resident in Beckenham, departed this life, leaving behind
her a bequest to the poor of the parish, who were annually
to receive bread, flour, and coals on the 28th of January,
on which day also a dinner was to be provided for the
vicar, wardens, and tradesmen out of money devised for
that purpose. These benefits were dependent on her
coffin, which is,deposited in a vault under the church,
being yearly dusted on the day in question. Should this
interesting operation be omitted on any occasion the
bequest passes to the adjoining parish of Bromley. Thurs-
day being the 26th January, the sexton, in the presence
of the vim, the Rev. F. Chalmers, the wardens, Messrs.,
Purvis and Goodheart, and a large number of spectators,
descended into the vault and dusted th 9 coffin, which is c)f
peculiar constmc lid the not heinir 41Ati,,
ridgelike a church roof. :Irk In made of cultrt,ol-11tra
bolted together. PA r* tin 91W? • '
poor, and in the evening the WOW* OSA am,ou,
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