The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-08 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE NEW MASTER AND SERVANT ACT.—At Highgate
Police-court, a labourer named Read has been summoned
for refusing to do the work requested by his employers,
Messrs. Denison, coal merchants, Finchley. He had been
twelve months in their employ as a carman and general
weekly servant. He was requested to assist in making a
tank, which he refused to do, went into a public-house,
and on his return into the yard behaved in a most impu-
dent manner, and was ordered out of the place. The
defendant said he had no right to do the work he was
ordered. The magistrate fined him ls. and Gs. costs out
of the wages due, and annulled the contract of service.
A SOLICITOR CHARGED WITH FORGERY. —At the
Mansion House, Mr. F. A. Farrar, a solicitor, was
charged with forgery. The offence with which he was
charged, whilst being a serious, was a very extraordinary
one, as the accusation was that the accused had uttered a
bill for £BOO, purporting to be accepted by Lord Dudley.
He obtained money for the bill by representing that an
agreement had been entered into between his lordship and
one John Hullett, by which the latter was to receive £BOO
on the completion of an opera to he called " Kong Tolo."
The prisoner was remanded, and bail refused.

The Medical College for Women, established by
the Female Medical Society for teaching the theory and
practice of midwifery and the accessory branches of mecli-
eine, will commence its fifth annual session on October 1,
1868, at 4, Fitzroy-square, London.

A DAY'S "AMUSEMENT."—A visitor at Hastings
gives the following list of " public entertainers " infesting
a fashionable part of the town during one day :—At 8.34,
organ ; 9.25, organ ; 9.40, performing pony ; 10.55, boy
with monkey ; 12.43, organ ; 1.20, German band ; 3.12,
boy and girl singing ; 4.25, German band ; 6, organ ; 7.52,
organ and dogs ; 9, man and woman singing ; 9.26,
German baud ; 9.40, German band.—Pecord.
FEARFUL DEATH OF AN ENGINEMAN.--A fatal
accident has befallen Joseph Clark, an engineman in the
employment of Messrs. Pow and Fawcus, at their factory,
Hudson-street, North Shields. Clark had set the engine
on, when by some accident he got entangled in the
machinery. His cries attracted the attention of the other
workmen, and the engine was stopped ; but he was so fast
jammed in amongst the machinery that it was fully half
an hour before he could be got out. The unfortunate man
was dreadfully crushed over the chest, and only lived a
short time after he was rescued.

BEE STUNG BY A WASP.— A few clays ago,
whilst a-choir of some note was performing at the opening
out of a Wesleyan chapel in Weardale, a somewhat
singular incident occurred. One of the performers, a Mr.
Bee, was just on the point of executing a difficult passage
on the cornet, when a hornet stung him on the neck. The
wasp thus stinging the Bee made Bee sharp, a harsh discord to
the tune, which was of a natural key. In the confusion the
performer lost a number of notes without losing his note-
book ; and though he never stirred from his post, he
jumped over a number of bars, and was only brought up
to a full stop at a double bar At the end of "Liver-
pool," uor did he lose any time,---,Aroracra Dam keßralk