The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

THE PRIVILEGES OF MAGICIANS.—In'the City of Lon•
don Court, Mr. Commissioner Kerr had before him the
case of Morris v. Delight, in which suit the plaintiff sought
to recover, under very singular circumstances, a guinea
and a half, for his own and his wife's services as magicians
at a grand entertainment given by the City of London
Temperance Association, at the Albion Hall, on Boxing
Night, defendant being a member of the committee.—
Mr. Morris proved the engagement of himself and
his wife to perform at the fête in question.
He stated that when he got to the hall he found
people behind him on the platform, and re.
fused to perform unless they were removed, as they
would see through his tricks. The defendant
would not remove them, and he did not perform.—The
defendant said that they objected to paying the plaintiff,
as be did not carry out his engagement. The last conjurer
they had performed with people behind him.—HisHonOur:
-He might have been a cleverer magician than the plaintiff,
who is not to be bound by what other people have done.
I he plaintiff is entitled to object to perform when he is
mrerlooked. The peop'o go to see him and Mrs. Morris
for the purpose of being deluded, and if they are allowed
to be on the platfoi•zn or behind the magician while the
tricks are being performed, there is an end of delusion.—
Verdict for the plaintiff.

SYSTEMATIC CONSIGNMENT OF STOLEN GOODS FROM
LIVERPOOL—Three men, named Charles Byatt, Richard
Irwin, and Alfred Johns, and a woman named Sophia
Byatt, believed to be the wife of the first prisoner, were
brought yip on remand at Bow-street charged with having
in their possession a box containing twenty-one watches
and two gold chains, which had been stolen from various per-
sons in Liverpool. Inspector Harnet, Sergeants Chapple and
Dowdell, all of the F division, went on Saturday (last
week) to Martha-street, Hackney, where the Byatts live,
and saw the box in question delivered by a parcels delivery
cart to the three prisoners. The prisoner Byatt gave the
conductor of the parcel cart a receipt for the box. They
were taken into custody and the box was seized.
It was found to contain the articles above men-
tioned. It appeared to have been sent from
Liverpool to London by rail, and Lom the London ter-
minus to Hackney by Parcels' Delivery Company.
Byatt, on being told that he must be searched, at once
produced a letter dated from Liverpool describing the
contents of the box, and fixing the price of them at
£29 18s. (much below their value), 4 the same time
expressing a hope that " there shOuld be nb squab-
bling this time, as there was the last." This letter
was in the same handwriting as the direction on
the box, and also that upon another similar (but
empty) box, which was found in the house. During
the search the officers found a number of pawn-
brokers' duplicates. The watches and chains all answered
to the description of articles stolen in Liverpool within the
last few months, and during the interval of remand the
two chains and nine of the watches had been identified by
the owners. When apprehended Byatt said, " You have
got me to rights, but •so help me God the others had
nothing to do with it." When asked from whom the
letter came, he said, " I don't mean to lug anybody else
into it."—The prisoners were again remanded.
STREET OUTRAGE.—At Marylebone, three men, named
John Larkin, George M'Sheen, and William Horne, were
charged with the following outrageous conduct. Sergeant
Hoskisson, 16 X, said he was in Princes-street, Edgware•
road, when he was informed that three men were knocking
people about. lie followed up, and saw a respectable.
looking man struck and knocked down by one of
the prisoners, and whilst down kicked by them. Wit-
ness ran across, and took hold of M`Sheen, and
the man said he was the one who kicked him. A stranger
came to assist, when a most violent struggle ensued. For
his own protection he knocked M'Sheen down in the road.
He then threw Larkin down, and threw himself on him
to keep him down till assistance came. A sergeant came
up and sprang his rattle. Altera most desperate resistance
they were got to the station-house. The man who was
knoelcad clown was taken o tlie hospitaL—PThq prianppi
AiraMiad Mk,

THE " SPORTING LIFE."—In the suit of Kelly v. Hutton,
Vice-Chancellor Stuart decided that the plaintiff was en-
titled to a half share in the copyright of the Sporting
Life, and that the sale to the defendant must be set aside
as regarded that half share. Defendant to pay costs.
RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS BEFORE PARLIA-
MENT.—Yesterday Messrs. Frore and Palgrave, the exa-
miners of standing order proofs upon railway and other
private bills now pending in Parliament, resumed their
duties, and transacted the following business. In the
court presided over by Mr. Frere, in Committee-room
16, the standing orders were declared to have boon
passed in the cases of the unopposed petitions
of the Savins Estate, the Londonderry Bridge, the
Dublin and Drogheda Railway, the Salford Hundred and
Manchester (City) Courts of Record, the Barry Railway,
the Chichester Cattle Market, the Loughborough Local
Board, and the (postponed) Dartford Water Bills. In Mr.
Palgrave's court, which was held in Committee-room No.
17, the following unopposed petitions were declared to have
passed standing orders : —Great Northern and Western of
Ireland Railway, Farnworth and Kearsley Gas, Vey and
Arun Junction Canal, the Warrington Water, the Humber
Conservancy, the Somerset and Dorset Railway, and the
Reading Water. The same examiner declared, the stand-
ing orders complied with, after the further consideration
of the adjourned unopposed petitions, in the following
cases:—The London and North-Western and Knighton,
Central Wales, and Central Wales Extension Railway
Companies. After further consideration of the opposed
adjourned pAition of the Isle of Wight (Newport Junc-
tion) Railway,
the examiner declared that the standing
orders had not been complied with.
MUSICAL ITEMS.—Mr. G. A. Alaefarren will de-
liver on Monday next, itt the London Institution, the first
of a series of four lectures on the " Secular Music of Eng-
land, from the Earliest Times to the Prosent."--Musicai
Standard.