The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-14 00:00:00

LAW AND raucE.

AN ACTION AGAINST AN OAINICrS COMPANY.—An action
has been brought in the Court of Exchequer by an omnibus
proprietor and his wife, named Huggins, against the
London General Omnibus Company, for compensation
for injuries received by the female plaintiff. She stated that
she was in the act of getting into one of the defendants'
omnibuses at Holloway, when she was thrown off the step
and her leg injured. Evidence was given that after the
accident she had ridden outside her husband's omnibus to
Barnet Fair, mounting and dismounting without difficulty.
Verdict for the defendants.
RAILWAY COMPENSATION.—Mrs. Trowbridge, the widow
of a cheesemonger at St. John's Wood, has obtained
£1,250 damages in the SherifPs Court for injuries received
in a collision at th 3 Portland-road Station of the Metro-
politan Railway. The plaintif had received concussion of
the brain and spine, and suffered from cataract in both
eyes. The company did not defend the action, which was
originally brought in the Court of Exchequer, the damages
being laid at £3,000.
A MAN OF FIGHTY.—Poter Ltra,, a Iran of 80 year; et
age, has been sentenced to five years, penal servitude Ur
stealing a quantity of black satin from a warehouse in the
City. Two previous convictions were proved against him.
CIIILD STEALING.—An old woman named Mary Jones,
who had several aliases, was charged at the Thames Police
Court with stealing a child four months old. The maid-
servant who had charge of the child met the prisoner,
whom she know slightly, and walked with her,
the prisoner carrying the child. Jones went into a public-
house and told the girl to wait outside, as she
had some business to do. The girl waited out, isle fir
nearly an hour, and then went into the ptblic-: ease,
where she learned that the woman had gone out by a back
door. A search was made, and the child was found lying
on the pavement in Aldgate, the shawl in which it was
wrapped having been taken from it. Its shoulder was
dislocated, and it was very ill. The woman was committed
for trial.

A memorial, signed by 29 clergymen and 300 lay-
men of Bristol, has been sent to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury. The memorialists implore his grace to consider the
responsibility of consecrating Dr. Temple, and expresses
sorrow and indignation at the admission to the ministry of
the Church of persons who either hold Romish doctrines or
question the authority of holy Scripture.

Corydon, the informer, is reported to have been
residing in Cork since the late mysterious murder of a
Fenian, and to have now returned to Dublin, after baffling
the vengeance of the brotherhood, who had resolved, if an
opportunity presented itself, to take his life. They kept
a holy of detectives constantly watching him, and two
of them, hearing that he had gone into one of the largest
hotels in the city, searched the place with great diligence
without disclosing their object.

THE ORKNEY ISLA NT) s.—Accoun ts from the
Orkneys arc particularly lugubrious. T..e crops have
failed, in one parish alone causing a lose of food to the
value of 52,600. In the North Isles there is not two
months' food sawed for immediate use or seed. The herring
fishery has been a complete failure. One hundred and
fifty boats from Unst, Yell, end Fetla only caught three
barrelfuls. Six hundred men are thus thrown out of em-
ployment. The distress consefreet upon these lamentable
circumstances is likely to be very great indeed, and will
probably, unless some schemes of relief can be devised at
once, constitute an urgent and heavy claim upon_the bene-
vaancesd