The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-14 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

IMPORTANT EIWIEItY CASE.-A case of great importance
to fishermen in tidal- parts -of navigable rivers has been
before the county magistrates at Carlisle. David Linton,
Eshelman, of Longburgh, was prosecuted for fishing with
a " haafnet," or "half-net," in a tidal part of the River
Eden. The action was brought by the lessees of Lord Lots-
dale's Eden fisheries, and the point at issue was whether
the half-net was a fixed engine or not within the meaning
of the Salmon Fisheries Acts. Conflicting evidence having
been adduced at previous courts, the net itself was on
Saturday brought into court, jn order to assist the magis-
trates in making their decision, but the justices were
unable to agree, and they recommended the Fishery Com-
missioners to hold a special court for the purpose of

deciding the matter.
HEAVY FINES ON BETTING MEN.-At the Canterbury
magistrates' sitting several persons were summoned for
erecting betting stands on Barham Downs during the
late Canterbury Races. The solicitor for the defendants
pleaded guilty to the charge, to which he said he could
make no answer in point of law. However, he wished to
bring under the notice of the bench the fact of his clients'
having hired the ground they occupied of the Race Com-
mittee ; and, under the circumstances, he observed that he
thought they were entitled to a mitigation of the penalty.
The magistrates held that the fact mentioned by defendants'
solicitor was no defence, and said that they should be sorry
to find " that the Race Committee encouraged so flagrant
a breach of the law." They imposed a fine of X2s—one-
fourth of the full penAlty— which was immediately paid by
those of the defendants present.
THE ARBROATH MURDER.—At the Sheriff's Court,
Dundee, Cargill, the seaman who is charged with the
murder of a child at Arbroath, was again brought u 1).
With regard to the motive leading to the perpetration of
this horrible deed, there does not appear to be any what-
ever. To all appearances the act was simply a mad out-
burst of ungovernable passion, which wreaked itself upon
the first object that came near. Whether or not
Cargill is insane is a different matter. His conduct
during the last fortnight has been peculiar. He was
skipper and part owner of a herring-beat, but the
other owners being afraid to go to sea with him, they
agreed with the_prisoner to sell the boat, and it was sold
accordingly. He is said not to have been right since
then. It is stated that he had been drinking. Last Mon-
day evening Cargill got up and rang the church bell at
Auchmitbie with the view of assembling the parishioners
to church, and this act is supposed to indicate that the
man was net in his senses. He has been at sea since then,
and it is said that he cut away the drift of nets, and told
his comrades to jump into the sea after them. The accused
was again remanded.
THE ALLEGED MULDER AT FOREST GATE.—At the
Ilford Police-court, Daniel Stobie, a painter, was charged
with causing the death of Henry Hurley, a young man
twenty-four years of age. From the evidence there was
no doubt that the deceased had come by his death through
the brutal ill-treatment of some half-dozen men, who, on
the night of the 24th August, set upon him on the high
road near Forest-gate, and knocked Lim down without
provocation, and kicked him unmercifully. Several wit-
nesses deposed that the prisoner was his principal assailant,
but two witnesses gave evidence which went to prove that
the case was one of mistaken identity. Before the con-
elusion of the evidence the proceedings were adjourned.

The name of Mr. Henry Fawcett, M.P., is given
as the President in tho department of Economy and Trade at

the forthcoming Social Science Congress.

The notorious Sir John Dean Paul, who was sen

tenced to transportation for 14 years, with his two partners,

Strahan and Bates, is dead.

The University of Virginia at Charlottesville has
been partially consumed by fire. It was established by

Thomas Jefferson.

PROBABLE VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO

AFRICA.—It is stated that the Prince of Wales contem-
plates a visit to the African continent, and that, should
his Royal Highness carry out his intention, he will most
likely visit Egypt and the cataracts of the Nile.
Messrs. Cockson and Chetwynd, earthenware
manufacturers, have been fined .0 at the Penton Police-
court for copying the design of a jug, which has been intro-
duced with great success in America by a 31r. Edwards.
A public testimonial has been presented to• Mr.
Vial, at Sydney, for his courageous conduct in arresting the
hand of O'Farrell when attempting the life of the Duke of
Edinburgh, at Clontarf.
The individual who so successfully practised on
the credulity of the public at Lowestoft and Yarmouth has
got clear with his booty for the present. We understand,
however, that Inspector Berry has obtained a clue to his
whereabouts that may speedily lead to his apprehension.—
Cambridge Independent.
Two persons living near Selby have been poisoned
by eating an apple dumpling, the crust of which had been
made of old suet. A servant who also ate some of the pud-
ding was made violently ill, but she has recovered. The
verdict at the inquest was, " that death was caused by ex-
haustion following the poisoning of the blood by the eating
of some decayed animal matter acting on an enfeebled con-
stitution." '
A BOY'S HEAD BLOWN OFF. —A terrible
casualty occurred at Instow, North Devon, on Friday
evening. A little boy, son of a fisherman called Fisher-
leigh, was in the habit of taking the mail bags a?.ros9 the
river, from Appledore, to meet the mail train at Instow.
He came across in a boat with two gentlemen. One of
them had a gun at the bottom of the boat. On getting
out at Instow the gentleman took up the gun, which
exploded. The boy was close by, and his head came
cleanly off the body.

CAPTURE OF AN ALBACORE AT DAWLISII.-011
Friday morning, while engaged in catching pilchards on

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the Dawlish beach, the fishermen discovered an immense
fish, which they with some difficulty succeeded in killing
with sticks. The fish was estimated to weigh 5001 b., and
to measure about ten feet in length, the distance between
the extremities of the forked tail being three feet. Two
experienced nautical men present stated it to be the
Albacore. The capture of this tropical fish on the west
coast is quite unprecedented. The fishermen have notified
the capture to Mr. Frank Buckland.
EDUCATION OF POLISH YOUTIIS.—The Warsaw
Journal of the sth inst. publishes an order issued by the
rector of the High School of that city, enumerating the
conditions to be fulfilled by the Polish youth -desirous to
attend the lectures in that institution during the scholastic
year 1868-69. .Among these stipulations one is specially
remarkable. Every student wishing to be admitted must
be furnished with a certificate from the competent police
authorities, testifying that he had taken no part in the
t insurrection of 1863 ; and the young men belonging to
file former Polish provinces of the empire will have to
p soduce a document from the governor of his district,
stAting that no obstacles oppose his admission to the
High ,School.
Sums For. Doss.—We call attention to the
anvisabil:ty of protecting the feet of sporting dogs against
the injuries caused by short stiff stubble. We have had
some experience in using dog sleighs in North America,
and have frequently found it an absolute necessity to place
leather mocassins upon the sleigh dogs' feet when the
"crust " upon the snow has been rough and sharp. If,
through negligence, this precaution were omitted, the d Its
would not travel two hours without becoming severely, ii
not hopelesslrlarn ed. We ree no good reason why a similar
system might not be adopted with reference to spurting
cicr, now that}the corn is cut so close as to make the
' stubi :u .- -,,. -• ly &structive to the d..gs' feet. Perhars s,m e
of cur corresponilents w'll g cc us their opinion; upon
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