The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-30 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

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A CLERGYMAN LIBELLED.—Damages to the amount of
£5O have been awarded to the Rev. Mr. Sankey, in the
case Sankey v. Wright just tried in the Court of Queen's
Bench. The libel was of the foulest nature, and the jury
considered that the justification had not been made out.
FANCY BREAD.—Tbe "fancy bread" question came
before the Court of Queen's Bench sitting in Banco. The
Queen v. W. Wood, was an appeal against the conviction
of the defendant for selling bread which was not of proper
and due weight. The answer urged on behalf of the
defendant was that the bread was fancy bread. The
defendant had been convicted. The judges, having con-
ferred for some time, stated that they would reserve their
iudgment until a similar case was argued.
FORGERY.—EIIen Brazil, housemaid, was charged at
I3ow-street with stealing a post-office savings bank book,
and with forging two receipts. She had lived as fellow-
servant at Dover, with Elizabeth Christiana Bush, who
had deposited £8 10s. in the post-office savings bank,
and bad the pass-book in her possession. When the
prisoner left her situation at Dover the prosecutrix missed
her hook, and found soon afterwards that all the money
had been drawn out. The prisoner acknowledged she had
drawn out the money, but said it was paid in for her by
her fellow-servant. It was proved that the prisoner had
signed in the name of Elizabeth Christiana Bush when she
received the money.—Committed for trial.
A CURIOUS Poncr.—A case came before the Irish Court
of Chancery on Friday, in which the question involved
was, whether the fact of a young lady, aged 21, who had
taken the white veil and avowed her intention of becom.
ing a full member of a religious order, had already in law
become a nun in a sense that would entitle her to receive
only that portion of the property bequeathed to her
by her father, to which, by his will, she was to be entitled
in the event of her becoming a nun before she attained
that age. It was admitted that she was entitled to
the whole of the bequest—£l,so0—provided she had
not become a nun, but it was contended that the steps she
had taken were such as to constitute a nun in the sense
intended by the will, and that therefore she was entitled
to only £6OO, the amount to he given to her in case she
became a nun before she attained full age, the residue, h.,
accordance with the provisions of the will, to go to tilt
testator's sister's children. The Master in Chancery hail
found testator's daughter, Mary Ann Boylan, entitled to
the full sum, but an objection had been subsequently raised
that the parties interested had not received proper notice.
The matter was now, therefore, referred back to tb
Master for re-hearing.

CREDIT TO WHOM CREDIT IS DUE.-A great deg•
has been said about the mismanagement of guardians. It
is but right, therefore, that where they do well it
should be recorded. It has been announced that
the guardians of St. Pancras, out of an expenditure
of nearly £50,000 for the half-year ending Michaelmas
last, exeeded their estimate by only £2O B,s. Gd., not-
withstanding that the cost of lunatics, and small-
pox, and fever patients, over which expenditure the
guardians have no control, has increased during the half-
year by £2,031.

VETERANS.—Very few of th© veterans wbo sat in
the House of Commons through the aG years of the first
Reformed Parliament will (the Daily News remarks) he
found in their old places on the 10th of Deoember. They
are Mr. Briscoe, Lord Ernest Bruce, Mr. Corry, Mr.
Denison, General Forester, Co!onel Freud), Mr,
Gladstone, Sir G. Grey, Sir J. Hanmer, air W.
Hutt, Sir J. Johnstone, Mr. Lefroy,
:Colonel
Wilson Patten, Mr. C. 11. Talbot, Mr. Trail, and
Sir Harry Verney. Those who have retired from par-
liamentary life or been defeated in the elections are Mr.
H. B. Baring, Sir H. W. Barron, Colonel Biddulph, Mr.
Brocklehurst, Major Cumming Bruce, Sir R. Bulkeley,
Mr. W:Ewart, Mr. Gaskell, Lord Hotha m, Mr. Ingham,
General Peel, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. J. Abep. Smith, Sir W.
7erner, and Colonel Peers Will;ams.