The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-30 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

FORGERY UPON THE EARL OF DUDLEY.—The two pri.
soners, Emu and Hullett, who were arrested several
weeks ago on a charge of having forged Lord Dudley's
acceptance to a bill of exchange for £BOO, have been
placed upon their trial at the Central Criminal Court.
The imitation of his lordship's signature had been so
complete as to deceive a London financial agent
and a firm of bankers in Dublin. The result
was that the bill was discounted, and the money handed to
the prisoners. Early in the day a telegram was received
from Lord Dudley, stating that he could not be in London
until the evening ; and the judge, after hearing the other
witnesses, adjourned the ease, intimating that unless the
noble earl gave a satisfactory reason for his non-attendance
the amount of his recognisances would be forfeited.
MANSLAUGUTEIL—At the Westminster Police-court, on
Thursday, Charles Templeman, a gentleman's coachman,
was charged with the manslaughter of Stephen Drake, his
father-in-law. It will be remembered that in a family
quarrel the prisoner, who was much excited by drink,
attacked the deceased, shook him violently, and eventually
threw him upon the edge of a sink so as to break three of
his ribs. The injuries inflicted upon the old matt proved
fatal in two or three days. The accused was committed
for trial.

THE NOTTING-HILL OUTEAGE.—The man Seiler, who is
charged with burglary and with violence on the person of
a lady at Notting-hill, has been brought up for examina-
tion at the Hammersmith Police-court. Mrs. Russell,
the prosecutrix, was sufficiently recovered to give evi-
dence, and the prisoner, who denied that he committed
the outrage, was remanded for a few clays.
ArPrimrcEs.—A. young man who had been an
apprentice at Messrs. Doulton's pottery works has been
brought up at the Lambeth Police-court, charged with
having left several months before his term had expired.
As similar cases had previously been allowed to pass with
impunity, the young man's employers determined to
make an example, and having obtained a warrant, he was
captured at Glasgow. The magistrate inflicted a penalty
of £0 for the loss of service, and £lO costs, or in default of
payment a month's imprisonment.
CHEQUE ROBBERY.—The brothers Bennett, chargect
with an extensive robbery of cheques, to the amount of
£lOO, from Messrs. Barber and Co., wharfingers, Brewer's-
quay, has been convicted at the Central Criminal Court.
Judgment was deferred.

A man named John Thompson has been committed
for trial at the Southampton Assizes for publishing " a cer-
tain scandalous, impious, blasphemous, and profane libel of
or concerning the Holy Scriptures and the Christian re-
ligion."
THE PRINCESS OF HESSE. —The accouchement of
her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse is expected in
about ten days. On Monday next Dr. Brodie, one of the
physicians of Queen Charlotte's Hospital, will start for
Darmstadt, in order to be in attendance,—British Medical
Journal.

MUDDLED U.P.—lt is raro that editors indulge in
a drop, but when they do their readers are apt to find it
out. Witness the following :—" Melancholy Event.—
Yesterday morning, at four p.m., a man with a heel in
the hole of his stocking committed arsenic by swallowing
a large quantity of suicide. The inquest of the verdict
returned a jury that the deceased came to the facts in
accordance with his death. lie leaves a child and
six small wives to lament the end of his untimely
death. In death we are in the midst of life."—American
Paper.

A NARROW ESCAPE.—MciIIe. Albina di .Rhona,
the " dancing-soubrette " who first raised the Soho play-
house to the rank of a recognised theatre, and endowed it
with its present title, the " New Royalty," has lately been
exposed to serious peril. Her present calling, it seems, is
that of a performer of legerdemain, and at the Silk de
l'Orient, Brussels, she has been giving a series
of performances, comprising the well-known trick
of receiving uninjured the supposed contents of an
apparently loaded pistol. One evening, when the
weapon, after it had been handed round for
the inspection of the public, was returned into her
hands, she inserted her magic wand into the barrel, and
felt it come in contact with an unexpected obstacle.
She retired, and afterwards reappeared in a state of violent
agitation. It subsequently transpired that some scoundrel
among the spectators had slipped into the barrel a screw
of about an inch in length, which, if it had not been dis-
covered, would have killed or seriously wounded the fail
enchantress.

A W ELSII CHURCH WITHOUT A PA ItS ON. —A
Oswestry Advertiser writes : " We often hen of a Welsh
church without a congregation, but now we are informed
that at the parish church of Dlandanwg, in the county of
Merioneth, there has been no service held for the last
seven weeks. It appears that no rector hasbeen appointed to
Llandanwg and Llanbedr since the removal of the Rev. J. J •
Brown to Mallwyd. A clergyman who happens to be visit.
ing in the neighbourhood has been occasionally officiating
during these weeks at the latter parish ; but at the former,
no service of any description has been held during the
time mentioned. The rectory is in the gift of the Bishop
of Llandaff, and is worth about £lBO. The omission
certainly is not of much importance to the resident
parishioners, as hardly any of them ever enter the church
when services are held there. The cure of souls in this
district is pretty well cared for by other denomination;
and if a project of disendowment bad been carried on hers
no one in the neighbourhood, except some officiAls? wcuid
be found ready to coln,Oailki",