The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-06 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE CASE OF MISS SHEDDEN.—On Monday, in the
House of Lords, the case of Miss Shedden came on, when
the Lord Chancellor declared the arguments for the
appellants to be finished, and the further hearing was
adjourned sine die.
SELLING BAD MEAT.—At Marlborough-street, Charles
Walters, butcher and sausage-maker, of Seven Dials, was
charged by Mr. Dixon, inspector of nuisances, with
having meat on his premises for sale unfit for human food.
He found in a cellar where sausage-making was carried.
on a quantity of meat all unfit for human
food. It was stated for the defence that meat
would be found in a state of decomposition in every
butcher's shop at this season. Mr. D'Eyncourt said there
was a previous conviction against defendant, and he would
given him the full penalty of £2O ; but he hoped that if
brought again to that court the magistrate would lie
inflict any fine.

A DISPUTED LIVING.—In the Court of Common Pleas,
the court delivered judgment in the case of " Morris v.
Ogden." The plaintiff was suspended by the Bishop of
Manchester, and the suspension had never been revoked,
but he claimed the temporalities of the living. The court
gave judgment for the defendant.

The marriage of Viiiconnt Petersham, Eon of the
Farl of Harrington, with Lady Eva Caringtort, daughter of
Lord Carington, was Ey lerrnifed at St. .lartio's-in-the-
Fields Church on Monday morning.

THE HULL ELECTION PETITION.—Mr. Baron
Martin, on Monday, at tEe Jutlges' Chambers, made an
order in the Hull election petition that the £l,OOO deposit
for costs be withdrawn, without prejudice to any claim b
the sitting members for costs.

A telegram from Ire'and :ays that 111 r. Tov nEend,
age nt of Mr. Dyas, of AtLI ey, Las been attacked on the
road and warned to lease the conntiy.— Au op( n air meet-
ing on the land question was held on Sunday at Bagena's-
town, county Carlow. Its object was to denounce the evic-
tion of families from the lands of Oloneen and to pc ition
Parliemcnt for refeim in the land laws. Several Roman
Catholie'clergymen spoke.
Superintendent Jones has discovered the re-
mainder of the jewellery stolen from the Bangor Railway
Station, concealed in the ground Letwceu Gored-y-Git and
the Gtorge Hotel, on tLo tanks of the Menai Straits. It
consisted of fifty-seven watches, and the whole of the gold
chains. The missing geld watch horn the eight that were
taken from the Dublin lox was found in Hughes's (one of
the prisoners) house on Monday last by a workman. The
whole of the stolen property has now been discovered.
IRELAND AND THE CROPS. —Tlieweather Burin; the
entire of this week has been most favourable to the crops,
and our correspondents, without an exception, report that
the cereals and potatoes have wonderfully improved
within the past eight or ten days. The hay-cutting has
made rapid progress throughout the country, and, should
the present fine weather continue, it is hoped that the
harvest will not be more than a week later than last year.
—Dublin Post.

STEALING GRAND STAND TICKETS AT ASCOT.—
At the P,eiks Midsummer Sessions, held at Reading, the
chairmen (Mr. Benyon, M.l'.) and a bench of magistrates
were occupied some time with the trial of Alexander
Cummings, an officer of the S Division of Metropolitan
Police (32 years) ; George Gettings, aged 35 ; and William
Gurney, 59 years, who were indicted for unlawfully
combining and agreeing to steal check tickets to the Grand
Stands at Ascot, value ss. each, the property of Captain
Thomas Bulkley and others, trustees of the said stand, on
the 9tl Jwe last. The case was clearly proved, and the
prisoners were sentenced to be imprisoned to hard labour
for a term of four months each.

I be case of the Joint-Stock Disccunt Company v
Brown and others was Lea rd in the Court of Chancery
before Vice Chancellor James on Monday. The suit was
instituted by the official liquidator of the company,
to ecrapel its directors and two of its officers to
refund to the shareholders £30,00 -which had been paid
out of the, company's funds in respect of 3,5C0 shares
which, without the authority of the shareholders, had
teen purchased in Earned's ranking Company.—The
Vice-Chancellor held that the purchase of the shares of
a breach of trust on the part of the directors, and, with the
exc, vim of Mr. John Gillespie, who Lad become a director
after the negotiations for the purcLase of the shares, his
Honour ordered the directors to ray to the plaintiff £30,000
with interest at £5 per cent.

The sadly depressed state of the cotton trade

Los led to the holdirg of meetings in different parts of
I anenshire, for the purpose of calling upon Govern-
ment to take active measures for the removal of
duties in-Toad on cotton yarns and manufactured
goals imported into India ; the encouragement of
the growth cf cotton in India, and the appoint-
ment of commercial men as members of the Indian
Council. Meetings to plot:note these objects have just
leen Lcld at Burnley and Rochdale. At the It. chdale
ineetir g it was represented that since the cornmeocement of
the American wra. India Lad product d an average of a mil-
kon bales of cotton per year; that before the war the amount
of cotton pr«luced by America was four millions of bales
St ally, and since tho war only two and a half million,.
THE EXTREME DOCTRINE OF TIIF, ROYAL
SUITEITLCI".— If any one v. ants a proof of the lengths to
v Lich the doctrine of the Royal Supremacy may be carried
we are prepared, if necessary, to supply legal evidence of
the following remarkable fact :—" A parish clerk on the
Sunday before last found himself embarked upon the
enterprise of reading the responses in the cento,
substituted on that day in honour of the Queen's acces-
sion for the Venite,exultenius." The Prayer-book was

an old one, the clerk knew that changes had been made
in the sex of the sovereign since it was printed, and being
thoroughly penetrated with the spirit of the institution to
which he belonged, he read the last verse but one as
follows :—" And blessed be the name of her Majesty for
ever ; and all the earth shall be filled with her Majesty.
Amen and amen." If anyone has a mind for a nice little
ecclesiastical prosecution, we cazi furnish him
Partictillo.