The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-01 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ROBBERY FROM A RAILWAY COMPANY.—At the Mid-
dlesex Sessions, George Leach, a porter, was indicted for
stealing thirty pairs of gloves, the property of the Great
Western Railway Company. The articles in question
were consigned to London tradesmen, hut were stolen in
transit, and the prisoner was seen going into a pawn-
broker's with some of the goods in his possession, and on his
lodgings being searched more of the stolen property was
discovered. The accused was sentenced to nine months'
Imprisonment, with hard labour.

THE ALLEGED FORGERIES ON EARL DIIDLEY.—The
magisterial investigation into the alleged forgeries of
the acceptances of Lord Dudley and Mr. Eversfield
have been brought to a close. The Earl of Dudley was
called as a witness, and most positively denied not only
the signature across the fictitious acceptance for £BOO
purporting to be his, but any knowledge of the proposed
new opera " Kong Toh)," or any of the circumstances con-
nected with its production, put forward in defence of the
prisoners. Mr. Mapleson, being in Ireland, could not be
called. The Lord Mayor ultimately committed the accused
for trial.

THE SALES OF HAY AND STRAW.-At the Worship-
street Police-court a salesman named Thomas Webb
attended to ai'sw•er summonses which charged him with
having, on the 22nd of September, caused to be sold
in Whitechapel hay market, 64 trusses of straw, the
said 64 trusses' not containing the full weight of 361 b.
each ; and for having, on the same day, at the same
place, unlawfully sold eight trussess of straw, the insides
of the same being of inferior goodness, and consisting of
rotten and dirty stuff, &c. When weighed the trusses
were found to be 3391 b. short weight, and eight of them
were filled with wet and dirty straw. Defendant was
fined ls. for every truss, making £3 48., and 2s. costs on
the first summons, and Bs. with 2s. costs on the second
summons.

The great clock at the Houses of Parliament,
which has been performing with the greatest accuracy
since it vas first fixed in the clock tower eight yeirs ago,
is about to be stopped for a short time for the purpose of
being cleaned by the makers, Messrs. E. Dent and Co., of
the Strand, in whose charge it remains.
THE• FREEMASONS AND THE PRINCE •OF WALES.
—ln prospect of the approaching ceremony of laying the
foundation-stone of the New University Buildings at
Glasgow, efforts have been made by the Masonic Brother-
hood to secure the initiation of the Prince of Wales. His
Royal Highness "doesn't seem to see it," and has for
the present declined, through Sir William Knollys,
the Comptroller of his Household, all enclosure in
" the mystic tie" which binds so many illustrious
personages.

THE LEGALITY OF PROVINCIAL SYNODS.—Sir
R. Palmer and Mr. Stephens have given their opinion that
if an archbishop in Ireland, without a writ from the
Crown, cited the suffragans and invited the clergy of his
province to a synod, no law would be violated. The disuse
of synods since the Reformation seems to Sir R. Palmer
and Mr. Stephens, however, to make it difficult to predict
what the ultimate decision of the temporal courts might
be if application were made to them to restrain ecclesias-
tical authority. Provincial synods, they add, can only be
convened for objects ecclesiastical, in which category
deliberations as to the means of maintaining the "
temporal, or political establishment in Ireland" cannot be
placed.

THE FASHIONS IN PARIS. —According to the
Modes Plustrees, short dresses are to be worn in France
this winter, however rude and inquisitive may prove the
winter's winds, ladies wearing a waterproof. " The
ladies in the streets of Paris," observes the writer, with a
sigh, "will look like a number of people who have
attended a funeral ceremony. Paris will be put in a sort
of half-mourning. Still," says the promulgation of
this waterproof decree, " the ladies will only wear
this capote du soldat in the streets ; they will throw it off
on entering the room, as a theatrical fairy gets rid of tlu
gloomy, rusty, witch-like covering which hides the pretty
winged costume of another and a better world." Th.
fantastic costumes, the boots, even the false hair that
flows from the back of the head, will be shrouded, hid by
this cloak and capote of waterproof envelope. The writer
in the Modes says that it is well to be resigned and
make the best of it. He exclaims, " Nous violli
oondamndes au waterproof. Heureusement que ce n'est
pas b, perpiStuit6 et gull y aura biers encor quelques dial-
dentev."