The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-30 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

SELLING GOODS BEFORE ARRIWAL.—III the Court of
Exchequer the came of Mooljee and another v. Schuster
and others was heard. It was an action by a Bombay
house against their agents in England for selling cotton
"to arrive " consigned to them by guarantee, instead of
waiting for the arrival of the vessel. The defendants had
had a sample sent to them by the plaintiffs, and sold by
description obtained from the judgment they formed of the
cotton by the sample. Previously to the sample being sent
the plaintiffs had sent invoices describing the cotton as of
different quality from what the defendants alleged the
sample to have been. The defendants sold the cotton
guaranteeing it to be " fair new Oomra.wattee," and the
invoices described it as " Comptab. " The case
was referred to arbitration, when an allowance was
made in favour of the buyers for £7Bl, and to
recover that sum the present action was brought.
For the plaintiffs it was argued that the defendants had no
right to sell by sample without description, but should have
waited till the vessel arrived, and then have seen what the
bulk was like. The defendants called evidence to shew
that the course pursued by them was the customary
course of business in such case, and consequently justi•
fiable. After a long trial, the jury found a verdict for the
plaintiffs for £550.

Tux FORGERY OF RUSSIAN NOTES.—At the Thames
Police-court the three Jews, Frankel, Harris, and Human,
charged. with conspiracy and being in possession of large
quantities of forged Russian rouble notes, representing up-
wards of £3,000 in English money, were brought before Mr.
l3ensun, on remand for the fifth time and for final examina-
tion. The principal witness was a Russian spy,n am ed Zback,,
who had been dealing in false Russian notes, and who
bought £5O worth of Frankel, a Liverpool pawnbroker,
and had been in communication with Harris and Ruman4
The evidence of Zback was confirmed in all the material
particulars by Inspector Thomson, of the detective police,
Scotland-yard, by Sergeant Parry, of the Y division, and
other officers. Mr. Benson said the evidence of the
approver was confirmed in all the material particulars by
Inspector Thomson, and the prisoners were committed
for trial.

HEAVY SENTENCE FOR SENDING BAD MEAT TO MARKET.
At the Guildhall, Thomas White, a butcher, carrying of
business at Willoughby, in Warwickshire, was charged
with being the owner of eight pieces of meat which were
unfit for human food, and which were in Newgate-market
exposed for sale. The prisoner had previously been fined
by some country justices for a similar offence, and the
magistrate in the present case ordered him to be im.
rrisoned for three months, with hard labour.
THE MARQUIS TOWNSIIEND AND THE SERVANT. —At the.
Wandsworth Police-court, Emma Banks, aged 14 years,
was charged with wilfully setting fire to some clothes, and
thereby causing damage to the amount of £1 7s. Gd. The
prisoner was in the service of Mr. D. Chastelain, of 19, St.
George's-street, Battersea. On Saturday morning week
Mrs. De Chastelain placed some clothes before the hitcher
fire, and afterwards went up stairs, accompanied by the
prisoner. She was sent down stairs, and was absent
about ten minutes. When she returned she was
sent in the next room to sweep it. She afterwards
ran out, and said, "Oh ! Fire—Smoke !" She then
told her mistress that she found smoke coming
up from, below, who, upon going into the kitchen,
found a blaze. The clothes and clotheshorse were burnt.
She called the prisoner and accused her with having
wilfully set fire to the clothes, but she made no reply.
Subsequently she explained that it was the result of an
accident ; that she put the clothes-horse nearer to the fire,
when one of the petticoats caught fire and she could not
put it out ; and also that she did not like to tell her mis-
tress. The magistrate, who thought there were grounds
for giving her into custody, remanded her for inquiry. In
the course of last week the case came to the knowledge of
the Marquis Townshend, who attended the court and
became bail for her appearance. The Marquis Towns-
bend again attended, but after some explanation with the
girl's friends she was discharged from custody.

A course of experiments on gunpowder and other
explosive mixtures is about to commence at Woolwich uncles
the direction of the Ordnance Select Committee.

As a Mr. Maddox, a butcher, of Derby, was driv-
ing throughlte Trent with his horse and cart ho disappeared
into tho stream. Several gentlemen who were fishing in the
neig ihourhood, who witnessed the accident, at once jutnpad
into the river to render assistance, but the part where Mr.
Mad lox and the horse were drowning being 20 and 30 feet
deep, their efforts were of no avail, except to mover the
Wel° s body. • -