The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-29 00:00:00

SECOND COURT.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Justice Byles
and a Special Jury.
CHERRY V. MAYNE.

This was an action to recover compensation in
damages for an alleged libel.
Mr. E. James, Q.C., and Mr. Littler appeared
for the plaintiff, and the Solicitor-General and Mr.
F. M. White for the defendant.

The plaintiff in the action was Mr. Cherry, the
veterinary surgeon to the police force, and the
defendant, Sir R. Mayne, is the well-known Com-
nlisioner of Police.

The ground for the action was that the defendant,
Sir R. Mayne, had written to the Home-office
relative to the veterinary accounts, and that that
letter contained reflections upon the plaintiff. It
was urged by the defendant that the letter was a
privileged one, and the learned judge said that in
his' opinion it was so.
'After some evidence, Mr. James thought that as
Sir R. Mayne had satisfied the plaintiff, he did
not intend any aspersion upon the character of the
plaintiff. He would submit to a nonsuit.
A juror was then withdrawn.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Right lion. Sir J. P. Wilde.)
LOFTUS V. LOFTUS.

This was a petition on the part of Lord Henry
Loftus for a restitution of conjugal rights, his wife
having obtained from the court a judicial separa-
tion.

It was part heard yesterday, when the case of the
respondent was gone into, and cruelty and violence
alleged as the grounds for a separation. This morn-
ing, it appears, that a compromise had been en-
tered into, and the case stands over till next term,
in order that the conditions of this compromise m.sy
be complied with, and if not a decision of the
court will be given in the suit.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCII.
THE REGENT'S-PARK FERJURY

The case in which Hayes, the policeman, was the
defendant, and who, it will be recollected, was
found guilty on the indictment on which he was
tried at the Old Bailey, was this morning called on,
and struck out, there being no prosecutor in at-
tendance.

POLICE INTELLIGEPTCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUG 11-STREET.

DRUNKENNESS AND LOYALTY. —Caroline Villiers
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk
and disordeEy.

Police-constable Tom Dixon, 226 C, said—l wa
fetched to the Army and Navy Club, St. James-
square, about two o'clock this morning to remove
the defendant, and on going there I found the
defendant sitting on the steps and singing at the
top of her voice, " God save the Queen." I re-
quested her to desist and to go away, but instead of
doing so she commenced singing, " Rule, Britannia."
Finding that she would not desist I removed her,
and she went a little way quietly, but then began
singing, shouting, and malting use of rather bad
language. I was obliged to take her to the station.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Had she been drinking ?
Constable—She had.

Defendant—lt was " Coronation Day," your
worship, and I am sure I did not think I was doing
anything wrong. I get my living by ironing, and
am very sorry for what I have done; but I can
assure you that I did not think there was any harm
in singing a song.

Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered the prisoner to be put back
for a time and then to be discharged.

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.--William A mos, a cow-
keeper in extensive business at Millwall, Poplar,
who was once in custody on a charge of man-
slaughter, in running over and killing a child in
Bow, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with
assaulting and wounding Ellen Leary, who ap-
peared in court with her head bandaged.
It appeared from the evidence of the complainant,
and four other women, all employed at the metal
works of Pentifex and Co., in the Isle of Dogs,
that they were all returning home last evening at
7 o'clock, and stopped to speak to a man near the
Nelson public-house, when the prisoner interfered
with them, and made use of indecent language and
gesticulations. The woman called him a nasty
beast, and the complainant took up a handfull of
gravel, which she threw at him. He then took up
a brick, and, using a most repulsive expression,
threw it at her head. It took effect, and she was
stunned. A serious wound was inflicted, and the
woman was removed to the house of a surgeon,
who dressed the wound. She lost a good deal of
blood, and was in a very weakly condition.
The defence was that the woman abused the pri-
soner and used very coarse language towards him,
and that the complainant took up a brick and
threatened a young man. She then took up a lot
of stones, one after another, and threw them at the
prisoner. The stones were thrown by all the women,
and one of them struck the complainant.. It was
admitted that the prisoner also threw stones, but he
and his witnesses denied that he threw a brick.

After a two hours' investigation Mr. Paget ad-
journed the case, and directed that a surgeon should
be sent for to examine the complainant's head.

WESTMINSTER.

THE POOR BOYS OF LONDON.—A. Rutter, 13'
Edward Sullivan, 12, G. Hope, 10, Jas. Pender
11, and T. Joyce, 9, were charged with wandering
abroad without any house or visible means of sub-
sistence. They were all very miserably clad, and
evidently half starved.
Police-constable Stevens said he was in Palace.
street last night at.half-past 11, and near Arabella-
row met Rutter ; and, as he had seen him.the night
before, asked him where he was going. He said,
" Home." Wituess told hitn that was not the way
home, and asked him where he had been all day.
He said he had been getting about how he could,
selling fusees, and he had some in his .pocket.
Witness told him to turn his pockets out, and

found half a box of fusees, a lot of cigar ends, two
pipes, and threepence. Witness asked him where
the others were that were him the night before, and
he said over a boarding. Witness borrowed a con-
stable's lamp and found the other four in a waste
piece of ground near Castle-lane, Westminster.
They had foamed a temporary house of granite
stones and old slates for a roof, with a hole a foot
square to admit the air.
Rutter treated the matter lightly, and was sent
to the workhouse till Friday, as also Sullivan, whose
father is a well-known beggar, and who seemed
afraid to go home. His mother said he was a
very bad boy. Hope's faller, a very creditable-
looking mechanic, said he wai a very bad
boy, and never stayed at hoar 3; he woul I not go to
school.

Mr. SJfe said he would send him to Feltham till
he was 16, and the father must contribute something
towards his support.
Pinder's father and mother live in Westminster,
and he said he had run away from how. lie was
sent to the workhouse till Friday.
Joyce said he lived at Henley-road, Mussel-hill,
and had been away from home two days and nights.
He did not know the others. Ile was afraid to go
home as his mother beat him.
Mr. Selfe sent him to the workhouse till
Tuesday.
Although 17 prisoners were in custody there was
no business begun till 11 o'clock, and, conseqUently,
very little facility for reporting anything till a very
late hour.