The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-17 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A SEWAGE DIFFICIILTY.—The Lord Chancellor had
before him an application, in the matter of Goldsmid v.
Tunbridge Wells Improvement Commissioners, to sus-
pend an order for sequestration which had been issued
because the defendants had not complied with the decree
of the court, requiring them to abate a sewage nuisance,
whereby the water of an ornamental lake on the Somer.
hill estate, near Tunbridge Wells, was polluted to the in-
jury of the plaintiff. It was now stated that the defend-
ants were doing everything in their power to comply with
the decree, and that the sequestration stood in the way of
the requirements of the order of the court. Ultimately it
was agreed that the case should stand over.
THE BLAKELY ORDNANCII COMPANY.— Lord Justice Cairns
has decided in the matter of this company (Stocken's case)
that the Master of the Rolls was right in his order, that
where shares had been forfeited for non-payment of calls,
though an action could be maintained in respect of those
calls, no interest was payable for the time since they had
been forfeited.

MR. DION BOUCICAULT'S " FLYING SCUD."—Vice-
:,hancellor Wood had before him the case of Boucicault v.
Warde. The defendant was manager of a theatre at
Halifax, and Mr. Dion Boucicault, finding that he was
representing a play which was pirated from his (plaintiff's)
drama called " Flying Scud," filed this bill against the
defendant ; and in April last the court made an interim
order against the defendant to restrain the representation
of the pirated play. Mr. Boucicault, being determined to
repress piracies of his dramas, thought it expedient that
the court should be asked to grant an injunction against
the defendant, extending throughout the remaining period
of Mr. Boucicault's copyright. The defendant did not
appear, and the Viem-Chancellor granted an injunction
accordingly.
THE ARREST OF MUSTAPHA FAZIL PASHA.—The case of
Campbell v. Mustapha Pasha, which was adjourned from
last term, has again been before the Queen's Bench. It
will be remembered that the defendant was arrested by
the plaintiff for a large amount of money, which was
alleged to be owing as conmission for negotiating an
advance of £BOO,OOO on his highness's estates in Egypt.
At the time he was arrested he was in the suite of
the Sultan, and a rule was obtained in Michaelmas
term, calling upon the plaintiff to shew cause why
the order for the. arrest should not be set aside, on
the ground that at the time of the arrest Mustapha
Fazil Pasha was engaged in the suite of the Sultan.
Cause was shown against the rule last term, but the case
was adjourned to ascertain from M. Musurus whether
Fazil Pasha was really a member of the Sultan's suite.
The Ambassador had stated that he was, and the court
discharged the rule. At the same time their lordships
were of opinion that no action should be brought against
the plaintiff for false imprisonment, as Mr. Campbell
appeared to have taken every step in his power to ascer-
tain whether the Pasha was a member of the suite. No
costs would, therefore, be given.
THE ME3IEER FOR BARNSTAPLE.—An application was
made in the Court of Exchequer for a new trial in the
case of Hayes v. Cave. It will be remembered that the
plaintiff brought an action for 100 guineas, which he said
Mr. Cave, M.P., had promised him in consideration of his
obtaining for him the office of Sheriff of London and Mid.
ilesex. At the trial, before the Lord Chief Baron, a
verdict was found for the defendant. The Lord Chief
Baron now expressed himself satisfied with the verdict,
and their lordships refused the application.

SHOEBOTTOIE V. EGERTON.—A motion was made to the
same court in the case of Shoebottom v. Egerton. This
was an action by the widow of a bargeman against the
trustees of the Bridgewater Canal for the damage she had
sustained by the death of her husband in consequ,mce of
his falling into the canal through a defect in a bridge ; and
at the trial at Manchester, before Mr. Baron Martin, the
jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages, £4OO.
A motion was now made to enter a nonsuit, or for a new
trial, on the ground of misdirection. The deceased met with
the accident as he was going, about two in the morning, from
a public-house, where he had been drinking, to his barge ;
and the question was whether he had any right to go over the
bridge in question, which it was said formed part of the pri-
vate property of the trustees, and had never been dedicated
to the public. The Lord Chief Baron said, as the defendants
allowed, for hire and reward, barges to be moored along the
banks of the canal, they were legally bound to keep in good
repair all the approaches from the public highway to those
barges. In this case they permitted the barge to be
moorrd near to an enclosed space, which included a basin,
sheds, and vacant ground, as well as the bridge in ques-
tion, and people had been in the habit of passing through
that space in going to and coming from barges on the
canal. There was, therefore, a legal obligation upon the
defendants to keep the bridge in proper repair, and it mat-
tered not that there were other and better ways which the
deceased might have taken in returning to his barge. The
other judges being of the same opinion, the application was
ref ased.

COMMITTAL OF QUIGLEY, THE LIVERPOOL MURDERER.—
Thomas Quigley, who recently murdered his wife at Liver-
pool in the most cold-blooded and atrocious manner, has
been committed by the Liverpool magistrates for wilful
murder. The facts of this case have recently been ~übl-
ished.

"In consequence of the deficient corn harvest,"
says the Moscow Gazette, " the position of Polish Galicia
is frightful. The population is threatened with a famine.
The representatives of that province have solicited a
Vienna a loan of a million of florins (2,000,000 f.) ; but
the Austrian finances are in such a critical state that
the urgent request has not been taken into considera-
tion."

THE CORONERSHIP FOR WESTERN MIDDLESEX.
—Dr. Whitmore, the medical officer of health for St.
Marylebone, who was one of the candidates for the vacant
coronership of Western Middlesex, has signified his inten-
tion of withdrawing from the contest. At a conference
of his friends and supporters it was found, it [is said, that
after deducting necessary expenses the net emoluments
of the office would not exceed £350 per anuum, whilst
the election could not be contested for less than £1,500 or
£2,000.
GUNNERY EXPERlMENTS.—Considerable interests
will be felt in the experiments which took place at Shoe-
buryness on Wednesday and Thursday, especially in the
first trial then made by the proposed new muzzle-loading
field-pieces, which will probably supplant the present
Armstrong breech-loaders. A further attack with nine-
inch Palliser shot and shell was also made on the Gibraltar
shield with no better results for it than formerly, except in
the hold the Palliser main three-inch bolts obtained through
the additional washers and wood tubing applied to the
shield after its failure in its original state of construction.
FENIAN BONDS.—" P. H. 5.," in the Morning
Herald, tells a good story apropos of Fenianism. A
gentleman of his acquaintance employed a widow, whose
son wishing to emigrate, the gentleman assisted him to do
so. The son regularly remitted money to his mother, till
last year a letter came, containing a printed document.
The letter was taken, as usual, to the master to read, who

found that the money had not been remitted because the
eon had invested in Fenian bonds, chargeable on the
master's estate. As the master had been kind to the
family, however, when the writer took possession he was
going to allow him to reside at the gate lodge. It is stated
that the Duke of Leinster's estate has been pareAled out
and sold at least twice over.

TIIE REAPING MACHINE.—TiIe testimonial sub-
scribed among Scotch agriculturists and others to the
Rev. Patrick Bell, minister of Carmylie, Forfarshire, for
his invention of the "first efficient reaping machine" was
presented at Edinburgh by the Marquis of Tweeddale. The
gift consisted of a salver, bearing a suitable inscription,
and an engraving of Bell's reaping machine, and of
a sum of money, which Mr. Scott Skirving, on the part of
th,committee, stated only fell short of £l,OOO by about
£2O or £3O. The noble chairman said that, so highly did
he appreciate Mr. Bell's invention, he would be happy to
make up the sum to £l,OOO. Mr. Bell, in acknowledging
the gift, said it was just forty years since he came to
Edinburgh to exhibit the model he had constructed of a
machine to save the labour of the reapers. The original
model, the property of the Highland Society, was exhibited
on the table.