The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-30 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE OXFORD AND CANTERBURY MUSIC HALLS.—In
Vice-Chancellor Giffard's Chambers an application was
nade for leave to sanction certain payments in connection
with the abovenamed comr.ny. The payments were
Mowed, and the chief clerk asked what was going to be
lone with the property. The liquidator replied that it
was intended to sell the property. The new Oxford Hall
lad been rebuilt since the fire, and it would be better to
.ell it by tender than auction. In a short time a call
will be made on the shareholders.

HEAVY COMPENSATION CASE.—A case which is likely

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:0 last over two or three days is being heard at the West-
ninster Compensation Court. The Metropolitan District
Railway ask for land for the purpose of making the
' inner circle," and the Corporation of London claim as
:ompensation £24,000. The charity was founded by
Lady Ducie in the rein of Queen Elizabeth, and one of
the features was the education of children.

IMPORTANT DECISION.—In the Lord Chancellor's Court
;he case of Wyatt v. Cook has been heard. The plaintiff,
;wo months after he attained his majority, applied to the
lefendant Cook for a loan. The defendant advanced £50.,
taking by way of security a charge on some leaseholds to
vhich the plaintiff was entitled on the death of his father,
`or £lOO, with interest thereon at 5 per cent. per month.
Vice• Chancellor Stuart having made a decree setting
'side the transaction, the defendant Cook appealed.
rhe Lord Chancellor held that the decision of the court
selow was right.

ACTION FOR LIBEL AGAINST A NEWSPAPER.—At the
Shropshire Assizes, before Baron Pigott, an action was
)rought by Mr. C. H. Corbett, manager of the Shrews-
)ury branch of the Midland Banking Company, against the
?roprietors of the Liverpool Mercury, for libel. It seemed
:hat the plaintiff, prior to accepting his present situation,
held a similar position in the Leeds Bank, at which place
le resided on the premises. For his protection Mr.
7orbett always kept a loaded pistol by his bedside, and on
he 3rd of March last, when he arose in the morning, the
pistol went off accidentally, and some of the shot entered
ais leg. The next day there appeared in the Liverpool
itercury the following paragraph :—" Attempted Suicide
sf a Banker's Clerk.—A clerk in the Midland Banking
company's establishment at Leeds shot himself with
s pistol yesterday afternoon. His injuries are serious. The
muse of the act is not known." The paragraph appeared
ender a heading printed in sensational large type, and
)ccupied a position just over a paragraph with another
arge heading, " The Arrest of Mr. G. F. Train ;" whilst
n the next column, and close to it, was a very large heading
.ndeed, about " The Awful Murder at Todmorden Par-
sonage." The paragraph was copied in several London
slid provincial papers, and there were numerous inquiries
c)r the plaintiff, so that it was evident the report attracted
attention. For the defence it was urged that the plaintiff's
::haracter had sustained no injury as he had lately been
promoted. The jury thought otherwise, and awardedt
£l5O damages.

SHOOTING AT AND WOUNDING THREE PERSONS.—At
the Liverpool Police-court, John Cloclier, a bookseller,
living in Barnes-court, was charged with unlawfully
wounding Daniel Forbes and his wife and an old woman
named Cavanagh. About ten o'clock on Tuesday night
the prisoner and his neighbours quarrelled, and he delibe-
rately loaded a gun with shot and fired at Cavanagh. He
charged the gun again, and fired at Forbes and his wife.
lie was taken into custody immediately afterwards, and it
was then found that he had loaded the gun a third time.
He was remanded, the magistrate expressing his intention
of committing him for trial at the assizes.

IMPORTANT CONVICTION UNDER THE BRITISH MUSEUM
AcT.—At Guildhall, Mr. Elliott Stock, publisher, of 62,
Paternoster-row, was summoned before Alderman Finnis,
by Thomas Watts, Esq., the keeper of the printed books
In the library of the British Museum, for not delivering a
printed copy of a work called " Conder's Words of Wisdom
for the Sons of Toil," within one month after the publica-
tion, at the British Museum, according to the sth and 6th
of Vict. The provisions of the Act, from the explanation
given by the complainant, seem to be that every publisher
'a bound to deliver to the British Museum a copy of every
edition of every boot within one month of its publication.
The defendant admitted this to he the case, but
the book in question was published three years
ago, and he had only reissued the same with a
zew title-page, hearing his own name as publisher. It
was pointed out that a case had been decided in which a
person was fined for not delivering a map when the only
additional words to the second issue were " new edition."
The magistrate decided that Mr. Stock had infringed the
Act, and ordered him to pay ls. 6d., the value of the book,
10s. fine, and 20s. costs.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.— At the
Thames Police-court, Millicent Walls, a woman about 33
years of age, who was in a very bad state of health, was
charged with killing Richard Blakie, a lighterman. It
seemed from a statement made by the accused that
the deceased was sitting by the bedside calling her
foul names, when she told him to desist, and on his
neglecting to comply with her request, she jumped out of
bed and kicked him in the abdomen. The surgeon said :
" The cause of death was peritonitis, the result of violence.
I did not at the time think it probable that such injury
could be produced by a forward kick by a woman's naked
foot. It might have been produced by a plunging kick
with the fiat of the heel. The deceased appeared to be a
strong.bealthy man." The accused was committed for
trial on a charge of manslaughter.

The title by which the present Lord-Lieutenant
of Ireland is to be raised to the highest rank of the peerage
is now finally determined. He is to be " Duke of Aber

corn."

CHAMELEONS.—A pair of chameleons, in the pos-
session of the Hon. Lady Cust, of 14easowe Castle,
Cheshire, have produced nine active young ones, like little
alligators, less than an inch long. Such a birth has been,
it is believed, very rare in this country.
THE HARVEST.—The weather was somewhat
cooler on Wednesday in the eastern district, a few showers
having fallen here and there. A Newmarket letter says :
" Up to the present no check to the progress of the
harvest has been experienced. Wheat cutting may now
be said to be finished, and a considerable portion of the
crop has been gathered in. Where threshing has been
done the return is certainly beyond an ordinary average,
and the quality is unusually fine and heavy."
MORE CASES OF SUNSTROKE.—It appears that
several serious cases of sunstroke, arising from the uncom-
mon heat of the weather, have occurred at Sudbury. One
has terminated fatally, that of a commercial traveller, who
was taken ill at the Four Swans Hotel about a week since,
and, notwithstanding constant medical attention and the
most careful nursing, he died there last Saturday. There
have also been several other cases, including that of a car-
man, who was prostrated by the unusual heat.—Bury and
.Norwich Post.

BUST OF PRINCE ALFRED.—Accorcling to the
Sydney tliorniny Herald, Mr. B. Braie, a sculptor residing
in Sydney—obviously possessed of a great natural talent
which deserves to be appreciated and patronised—has
modelled a bust of " Our Sailor Prince," the Duke of Edin-
burgh, which is not only a faithful likeness, but valuable
as a work of art. The bust is what is called three-quarter
face, and cabiLet size, and the expression of the features
extremely plea.,ing. His Royal Hie:linen% fondness for
flowers is recalled to the memory of the spectator by the
well-known rose in the button-hole of the surtout.
THE FORTHCO3IING ROY AL VISIT TO MIDDLES-
BOR)UGH.—The authorities of the iron metropolis of the
north are all activity in anticipation of the visit, on the
10th August, of Prince Arthur. Attempts had been made
to get her Majesty to pay a visit to the borough, which,
Inwever, failed. His Royal Highness will open a new
public park. His Royal Highness will proceed to Scot-
land for the grouse shooting on the 12th. The large ball
in the Exchange, which is a magnificent room, is said to le
tLe third largest in the kingdom, and 11cr9 rrirce Arthur
Will ntqt44cd At A kA.M,110,1