The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-20 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ACTION AGAINST THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY COIF.
PANY.—In the Court of Exchequer, the cause of Faulkner
v. the Metropolitan Railway has been decided. •The
plaintiff, a dealer in fancy jewellery, went to the Bishop's-
road station of the defendants' railway on the 20th of
March last, and, as he was about to get into a carriage, a
porter, according to his account, shut the door in so negli-
gilt a manner that his thumb was crushed by it. The
defence was, that the train had been started and the gate
closed when the plaintiff appeared upon the platform and
tried to enter the carriage ; that the porter, seeing the
danger in which he was placed, pulled him back, but thet
he made another attempt to get in, and that in this way
his finger was caught in the door. The jury gave
£65 damages to the
SINGULAR CHARGE OF BIGAMY.—At the Derby Police-
court, Cecil Anthony Fernando, a medical student, was
charged with having intermarried with Mary Snaith, of
Boston, Lincolnshire, his first wife, Eliza Fernando, being
still alive. About eight years ago the prisoner became
acquainted with his first wife, whose maiden name was
Eliza Sliaw, at Aberdeen. She was at that time 16
years of age, and got her living as an actress and
ballet-dancer. They cohabited together for some time,
and in 1863 were married. In 1867 her husband became
acquainted with Miss Snaith, a Lincolnshire lady, about
24 years of age, and they were married at the Derby
Register Office in February last. The " happy " couple
were captured in Glasgow. Miss Snaith was charged with
abetting the male prisoner in a felony. After some
evidence had been given, the case was adjourned.
THE HOLBORN VIADUCT.--In Vice-Chancellor Malins's
court, the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com-
pany asked for an injunction to restrain the Lord
Mayor and the Corporation of the City of London
from taking for the purpose of the Holborn Viaduct
certain land, adjoining Skinner-street, the property of the
railway company. The question was whether the powers
the Corporation to take land under the Holborn Valley
Improvement Act were limited to the provision of a
carriage-way and footway, or whether they were empowered
to take sufficient for the erection of buildings on each side
of the high level street. The Vice-Chancellor was clearly
Jf opinion that, under the Act of 1864, the Corporation
had power to take had for the erection of houses on each
side of the new street, and therefore the application must
be dismissed. If the effect of taking this property for the
purpose was seriously to deteriorate the value of other
surplus land of the railway company, it would be for a
;ury to assess the damages.
FELONY BY A TASKMASTER.—At Lambeth Police-court,
Tames Davis, taskmaster at the Lambeth workhouse, was
charged with stealing a number of iron bedsteads, the pro-
perty of the guardians of the poor; and two tradesmen,
named Goodfellow, were charged with receiving the same.
From information received the master had the bedsteads
counted, and whilst this was going on the prisoner Davis
confessed that he gave seven of them to the other pri-
soners. The prisoners were remanded, the_ Goodfellow'
being admitted to bail.
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IMPORTANT TO COLLIERY PROPRIETORS.—In the month
of April last a man and a boy were shut up in a coalpit at
Afon-eitha Colliery, in North Wales, for a period of eight
days and seven nights and a half, by the sides of the shaft
falling in ; and, although during that time they had
nothing except breakfast to commence with, and some
straw to eat and water to drink, yet they were
ultimately both recovered alive. Proceedings under two
counts have been taken at the Ruabon Petty Sessions
against Mr. Robert Williams, as managing owner of
the colliery—first, for permitting persons to be at work in
the seam (except foi• the purpose of proving the ground,
or for securing a communication for the second outlet),
without providing two distinct outlets, separated by not
less than ten feet of natural strata, by which means
ingress and egress should be available ; and, secondly, for
not having the side.; of the pit shaft securely cased or lined,
is required by the Coal Mines Regulation and Inspection
Act.—The magistrate decided that the full penalty of £lO
should be imposed, and the amount is likely to be divided
between the man and boy who were so long shut up. The
second case was not pressed, the owners consenting to pay
the costs.

A private meeting of the largest colliery proprie-
tors on the western side of Dudley has beef held in that
town, to consider the present prices of coal and a reduc-
tion in the wages of thick-coal colliers. Firms in the im-
mediate nvighbourbooel,Cradley, Bensnett, ICingswinford,
and Malley were represented. It was determined that
he present prices of coal should be maintained, and the
.:olliers' wages should be reduced Gd. per day. As every
reckons to make a day and a half whenever he enters a
this reduction is in reality 9d. per clay " drop." The
lotice will extend to a fortnight, and is to be given at once.
A man named 11`Guinness, who was found
;nifty of manslaughter and sentenced to eighteen months'
imprisonment with hard labour, in Dublin, on Thursday,
was proprietor of a house let in tenements, in which
Bridget Doherty lived. He had serv4l her with a
" notice to quit." She was put out, but she forced her
way back into the house, her husband being away from
home, M'Guinness, angry at this, entered the apartment,
and, the woman being in bed, took her child, aged 7, by
the hair, and threw her downstairs, IL, dragged the
mother out of bed to the hearthstone, She had her infant
in her arras, and he struck it with a pair of iron pincers op
she head, " the brains immediately protruding," He
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a fortnight's rent.

ROMAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Roman Correspondent of the Westminster clazette)
The Pope took his usual part on Thursday
in the great procession of Corpus 'Domini (as
we call the feast here), carrying the Blessed
Sacrament all round the great Piazza, which
the vast awnings scarcely protect from over-
whelming heat. He gave no sign of fatigue
or exhaustion, however. Before the proces-
sion had finished passing—it takes about an
hour—we had a heavy shower, which did not,
however, disperse the assistant.. crowd. Its
course was a little changed this year owing,
to one side of the colonnade being now con-
verted into Zouave barracks. A temporary
arcade of tastefully arranged white and red
drapery supplied its place. In other respects
it was much as usual, only that after the
Orfanelli in their white cassocks, who take
so prominent a part in the processions of
Rome, came a score of small boys in black cas-
socks, the orphans made by the cholera last
year. After them walked the representative
members of the various religious orders, and
of the secular clergy belonging to congrega-
tions and parochial and collegiate foundations.
Then the Padiglioni of the Basilicas, the first
(i.e., the lowest reckoninc, in processional
order) being that of the Regina Cceli, the
Carmelite Church of the Trastevere ; 2, Sta.
Maria in Cosmedin, more popularly known
as the " Bocca della verity ;" 3 and 4, Sta.
Maria in Trastevere, and S. Lorenzo in Damaso,
which take order of precedence of each other,
by a curious custom, in alternate years ; 5,
Sta. Maria Maggiore ; 6, St. Peter's ; and 7,
St. John Lateran, which has two, followed by
two magnificent processional crosses, one of
which dates from the time of Constantine.
After these came all the prelates of the Pope's
household, and others bearing the mitres,
tiaras, and processional crosses of the Pope,
the Senator and municipality, the vice-Cham-
berlain of the Church and representative
members of the Roman nobility, the Grand
Penitentiaries, mitred abbots, bishops, arch-
bishops, patriarchs and cardinals, among whom
I observed Cardinal Bonaparte, looking much
better than at the last great function, and
Cardinal Antonelli, close in front of the Holy
Father. Two prelates waving censers fob
lowed, and two masters of ceremonies. Then
the Pope, borne aloft, kneeling on the talanto,
and bearing the Blessed Sacrament under a
white and gold baldachino, them sybolical
feathers waving behind him ; around, close in,
the superior officers of the Guardia Nobile
and of the Palatine and Swiss Guards, the
Auditors and Treasurer-general of the
,Apos-
tolic Chamber, the Pope's major-domo, the
generals of the mendicant orders, the oble
Guard, with the standard of the Holy See in
their midst, the Pontifical generals and their
staff, and a body of soldiers, each corps having
its own band. During the procession a salute
of eighty guns is fired from S. Angelo.
In the afternoon the English Zouaves had an
audience of the Pope ; they were presented by
Mgr. Stonor. Sergeant Shee had the honour
of presenting to him the banner mentioned in
my last. He admired it briefly, and talked
very ,pleasantly with the men. He spoke about
England, and said he always prayed for its
conversion ; also about their profession as sol-
diers in a holy cause, and added, smiling, " I
am half inclined to come and be your captain
myself. I think I should like to put you
through your drill."
The marriage of the Count of Caserte with
Contessa Trapani came off on Monday in the
Sala Regia, arranged for the occasion as a
chapel, at half-past seven in the morning.
Weddings always take place early here. Be-
fore the commencement of the Mass the be-
trothed were led up to the altar steps by the
masters of the ceremonies, the princess being
accompanied by a maid of honour ; the Pope,
who had previously been kneeling at a faldstool
before the altar, then advanced towards them,
and preferred the formula, accepting their
mutual consent, to which they answered a dis-
tinct Amen. The four cardinals, Pancoebian
(Grand Penitentiary), De Luca, Monaco la
Valetta and Grttssellini, created while the king-
dom of the Two Sicilies was yet in its integ-
rity, were witnesses to this act. The Pope
then blessed the nuptial ring, and handed it
to the bridegroom to confer on the bride, and
the illustrious pair were then led back to a
seat outside the precincts of the altar, while
his Holiness began the Mass pro Sponsis. At
the end of the Lord's Prayer he again met them
at the altar steps, and said over them the
prayers of the nuptial benediction. After this
he continued the Mass, and in the course of it
sent them the Pax to kiss, and gave them
Communion. At the end of the office, the
newly-married again kneeling before the altar,
he poured out on them the sublime Benediction
which the Church connects with the sacrament
of marriage; and then, sitting down, addressed
them on the sanctity and the duties of their
new relation. He spoke in warm and feeling
terms of the Royal House of Naples, and eulo-
gized the Spanish and Italian peoples, express-
ing a hope that God may be pleased ere long
to deliver the latter from their present miseries,
and that the wine-press of wrath in which
they are now suffering so terribly may be
shattered in pieces. He then read the last
Gospel, and laying aside his vestments, knelt
at a faldstool, while a Mass of thanksgiving
was said by his chaplain, at the conclusion of
which the princely pair, kneeling at his feet,
returned thanks for the favour he had conferred
in officiating at the ceremony. His Holiness
accepted these expressions with his accustomed
goodness, and renewed his congratulations and
good wishes. The bridal party was subse-
quently entertained in the apartments of the
Vatican, and then descended to pay the usual
visit to the shrine of the Apostles.
The Queen of Naples is not yet returned
from her visit to Hungary, but the King was
present, as also the Palatine Cardinals, the
Count and Countess Girgenti, the Count de
Bari, the Count and Countess Trapani, and
several prelates and members of the Roman
and Neapolitan nobility, as well as Duke
Robert of Parma, who is travelling incognito
under the title of Marchese Castiglione. He
is to be married shortly to Princess Maria Pia,
eldest sister of the King of Naples who was
baptised by the Pope at Gaeta. It is said
he has invited the Count de Chapubore to his
wedding.
It is said that this triple alliance between
the branches of the house of Bourbon, and,
still more, the importance popularly attached
to the various new links of connection, as well
as the cordial attitude assumed by other mem-
bers of the diplomatic body, gives some pre-
occupation to the French Embassy. There are
not wanting politicians who think they scent
a general alliance of the French together with
the Spanish and Neapolitan Bourbons, and, by
implication, a tacit understanding with the
Courts of Northern Europe, such as was ex-
changed before the events of 1814. I cannot
say I participate these sanguine expectations,
but they are sufficiently spread to demand, at
least, this passing notice.
Count Giraud, a retired colonel, brother of
Mgr. Giraud, whose death I mentioned last
week, and who only survived him three days,
leaves all his property, after payment of cer-
tain legacies, "to his soul." This formula
implies that he wishes his fortune devoted to
saying Masses for the repose of his soul. It
will pass to the Fabbrica of S. Peter's,—i.e.,
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standing in their names. The Fabbrica takes
it with the proviso that if any part of it is
proved to be the deposit of other persons it
will be refunded. Mgr. Sagretti will succeed as
Uditore della Camera. He was President of
the Council which tried Fausti's case in 1863.
The direction of the mad-asylum is given to