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

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
(Sittings at Nisi I'rius before the Lord Chief
Justice and a Special Jury.)

TILBURY V. WILTON.

The plaintiff in this case is the widow of the late
Mr. Tilbury, and is best known to the public
as Miss Lydia Thompson, the popular actress, and
the defendant is Miss Marie Wilton, lessee of the
Prince of Wales Theatre. The action was brought
to recover compensation in damages for a breach of
contract, to which the defendant pleaded not in-
debted, an.l that the plaintiff had cancelled the
contract by not consenting to fulfil the terms of her
eugagemen t.
Mr. Iluddlestone, Q.C., Mr. M. Williams,
and Mr. Joyce were council for the plaintiff; and
Mr. SJrgeant Ballantine and Mr. Cooke, Q.C., for
the defendants.
From the opening statement of counsel it ap-
peared that the plaintiff had accepted an engage-
ment to perform at the Prince of Wales's Theatre
last September, until Christmas, and was to
resume her engagement at Easter, her salary
being £l5 a week, It was also stipulated that she
was to have a free benefit in London at the termi-
nation of the season, to accompany the defendants,
and to have a free benefit in places where the de-
fendant's company performed for a month. She
fulfilled her engagement up to Christmas, but
some time before the period fixed for its re-
sumption she found that she was announced to
appear in Oxenford's burlesque, " Magic Toys."
She had played some years ago with great success,
and introduced a ballet performance, called " The
Shadow Dance," which she discontinued some years
ago as requiring too much exertion. The defendant
insisted in her playing the piece as she had origi-
nally done, and on her declining a correspondence
took place between her and the female defendant.
The engagement, the salary for which was to be
£l5 a week, was cancelled by the latter. The engage-
ments at the other theatres were filled, and the con-
sequence was that she sustained a severe pecuniary
loss by the sudden dismissal.
The case is not likely to be concluded to-day.

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 Corn-
misioner 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 bad 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 Hon. 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 no.y
be complied with, and if not a decision of the
court will be given in the suit.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH_
THE REGENT'S-PARK PERJURY CASE.

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 INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

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ItARLBOROUGEI-STREET.

DRUNKENNESS AND LOYALTY.—Caroline Villiers
was charged before Mr. Tyrw'hitt with being drunk
and disorder:y.

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 making 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. Tirwhitt ordered the prisoner to be put back
for a time and then to be discharged.

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—WiIIiam Amos, 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. Peatifex 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.