The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-25 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE GREAT EASTER'.—The Great Eastern steamship
case has come again before the Court of Admiralty. Mr.
Vernon Lushington applied to rescind the order made last
week as to one of the suits. Mr. C. P. Butt, on the part
of the Great Eastern, complained of the harassing applica.
tions in the case of this unfortunate ship. The parties
had ample bail, and the ship was at hand, and would be
so for months longer, and bail had been given to about
£40,000. His lordship dismissed the application with
costs.

A. BoY CRIMINAL—At the Middlesex Sessions, a
remarkable, although the students of criminal pecu-

liarities will probably find it not a very unusual, case has
come before the court. A youth of sixteen was tried
and found guilty of attempting to rob the till of a dis-
trict post office, in which was kept about £2OO in gold
and notes. It was stated by the prison warder that he
had been frequently convicted of robbing tills, and had
only been discharged three hours from his last sentence
when he was taken in the act of committing the offence
for which he has just been tried. His sentence was two
years' hard labour.
FORGERY. -An extraordinary career of crime nas
received a.check at the Central Criminal Court. A young
man named Piani pleaded guilty to several indictments
charging him with forging post-office orders for the pay-
ment of money. He had in a great number of cases
obtained orders for small sums, and then, having altered
the figures to others of larger value, obtained advances
upon them after post hours from unsuspicious tradesmen.,
His previous crimes, it was stated in court, were of a more
dashing description. He appears to have played the part
of a gay Lothario in Fermoy, in Dublin, and elsewhere,
in carrying off the frail fair ones, to
considerable amounts of property. He was
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JOHN DAY V. ADMIRAL Rous.—From what we
have been able to learn, we can state that the announce.
ment in a weekly paper last Saturday, that "the action
`Day v. Rous ' will not be brought into court, as the
plaintiff, out of respect to the late Marquis of Hastings, is
not willing to take up certain past events in connection
with the unfortunate case," is a pure fabrication. The
solicitors on both sides are, in point of fact, busy getting
up their briefs, and several witnesses have already been
subpoenaed. The case, being rather low down on the list,
will probably not come on till February, although it may
be heard in December. We understand that the leading
counsel retained for the plaintiff are Mr. Coleridge and
Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, while the Attorney-General
(Sir John Karslake) and Mr. Henry Matthews will
"sport silk" for the Admiral. .Although we do not pre
tend to know what line of action John Day will ultimately
take, our information respecting the progress of the suit is
sufficiently reliable to warrant our putting it forth confi•
dently to the public.—Sporting Life.
BACHELORS.— " A Spinster " writes to the
ifanchester Guardian suggesting that a first measure of
the new Parliament should be to make some compensation
to the large class of females considered by the lords of
creation mere nonentities in society. Every bachelor of 30
and upwards whose income is over £lOO per annum shall
contribute not less than 25 per cent, to form a sus-
tentation fund to be devoted to spinsters above 30
years of age whose annual income shall not exceed £5O.
This lady points out that large numbers of gentlemen are
content to live alone in the exclusive enjoyment of
respectable incomes, while a vast proportion of ladies,
educated and amiable, of social disposition and
agreeable manners, fitted for companionship and
essential to domestic happiness and well-being, are
doomed to pine away in ungenial solitude, " and waste
their sweetness on the desert air." Their celibacy is
a great wrong to women, and the subject is becoming, the
spinster thinks, too serious for patient endurance. We
should like to know whether the age of the writer has
anything to do with the aggravated importance of the
subject. A voluntary fund for the purpose of supporting
certain spinsters, on condition that they would take them.
selves out of the matrimonial market, would meet with a
ready response from some rich bachelors.
LORD E. P. CLINTON'S RETIREMENT FROM
NORTH NOTTs.—In an address just issued, Lord E. P.
Clinton explains the reason for his retirement from the
contest, and also the reason why the Speaker refused to
propose a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff. Lord
Clinton says : " It has been stated to me repeatedly that
an understanding has been arrived at by the leading
gentlemen in Notts, that if the Conservative candidates
were allowed to remain undisturbed in the Southern
division, the Liberal candidates of the Northern division
were to be treated in like manner. Whether it is righ
or wrong to enter into these arguments is a question with
which I have nothing to do ; but when a compact is
agreed to between gentlemen, my opinion is that gentle-
men should keep that compact strictly and honourably.
The fixing of the nomination of the Conservative candi-
dates for the South at 9 am., on the first day the election
could possibly take place, makes me believe that the Cot
servative party were afraid that the Liberals migf
upset one of their candidates ; and the fixing of the
nomination of the Liberal candidates for the North on
the last day but one that an election could take place,
makes me believe that the Conservatives have been work.
ing underground, and I don't hesitate to say that, in my
opla9a. 403,klAire t Au =fair advantage."_..