The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-03 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.--Tuesday was the first day of
kfter Term Nisi Prius Sittings in the Queen's Bench, and
the list contains 268 causes, about 60 of which are marked
for special juries. An action for negligence was brought
by the Great Western Railway Company against the
tlames Ironworks C om pan y, arisin g from an accident during
the construction of the new Dead Meat Market. An iron
girder fell on a passing train, killing two or three passen-
gers, and seriously injuring others, besides smashing the
Carriages. The defendants denied the responsibility on the
ground that they had sublet the work. A verdict was
taken for the-plaintiffs, subject to a special case.
A COMPENSATION • GASE.—In the Court of Common
...?leas, on Tuesday, a surgeon sued the Great Northern
Railway Company,for compensation for injuries sustained
by his son, a boy between six and seven years of age. The
lad was croesingltbe.Gray's-inn-road, when he was knocked
down by a railway van driven by. one of the servants of the
company. .He was severely hurt, and amongst other in-
juries, one of his hands was so crushed that amputation of
two fingers was necessary. The jury gave the father
£l,OOO.

EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.—At the Central Criminal
Court, John Henry Payne pleaded guilty to a charge of
embezzling more-than £2OO, the property of his employers,
White and Co., wholesale tobacconists. He was sentenced
to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
As Erricimii` CONSTABLE.—Two burglars were
tenced at the Central Criminal Court to ten and
seven years' penal servitude. They had committed a bur-
glary near Uxbridge, and 'a mounted policeman upon the
discovery rode to the railway station to make inquiries.
He met the prisoners with two others in a light trap, and
his suspicions being excited he" detained them, and suc-
ceeded in capturing two of the. four, though he was
himself unarmed. Their. guilt was clearly proved, and
the Recorder ordered the officer to receive a reward
of R 5.

EIGHTEEN YEARS Aco.—The charge against a respect-
able silk weaver of Spitalfields, of appropriating bank-
notes lost in his house eighteen years ago, was on Tues-
day again before Mr. Newton, at Worship-street Police-
court. Some further evidence was given as to the identity
91 the lost notes ; but the difficulties arising from the lapse
.of time appear almost insurmountab:e. The magistrate,
however, further adjourned the hearing for fourteen days.

A trades union dispute has broken (ut at the
Denaby Main Colliery, near Ileshorough. About a hun-
dred of the miners—one-third of the number employed—
recently joined the South York.Adre Association ; and
e.s this is a branch of the condiCons on which they
were engaged, the whole of the union men, got uotic3
to quit. On Friday, howev, r, the managing proprietor stet that he would withdraw the notices previously issued, but
Expressed his intention of posting another, giving a mouth's hotide- toall the woranaen, both unionists and non-unionists,
and at the eod of that time only those tot belonging to
the Miners' Association, and who will sign a declaration
that they will not join it, are to be continued in the firm's
employ. Those who continue to occupy their cottages after
the expiration of the week's notice are to be charged double
went. For a number of years the rule at the colliery ha;
been that none of the men shall belong to a trade union, suit
up to a short time ago this condition was without
tattoo complied with,