The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-08 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

LIBEL —Th e action for libel brought by an ex-inspector
rf public carriages against Sir Richard Mayne, alter
occupying two days in the Court of Common Pleas, has
been brought to a conclusion. The alleged libel was con-
tained in an order of the day issued by the Chief Com-
missioner, in which it was set forth that the plaintiff had
been dismissed from his post, and assigning reasons why
this step had been taken. The jury, after having been
locked up between three and four hours, were discharged
without coming to a verdict.

NECESSARIES. —The question as to what are " necessa-
ries " for a young gentleman not of age seems to be a long
way from a perfectly satisfactory answer. A case has
been heard in the Court of Queen's Bench, in which
Messrs. Jenner, jewellers, of St. James's street, brought
an action to recover £383 from a gentleman now of age, who
had incurred the debt during his minority, The sum of £4O
had been paid into court, and found by the jury to be
sufficient, many of the articles supplied not being deemed
necessaries. The Chief Justice was very severe upon a
recent decision of the Court of Error on the point at issue,
remarking that he once had a clear idea of what the law
was, but the judgment in question had rendered confusion
worse confounded.

SELLING BAD MEAT.—Two country butchers have been
comicted at Guildhall of having sent putrid meat for sale
in the London market. One was fined £2O, with £5 ss.
costs, and the other was sent to prison for a month, with-
out having had the option of paying a money penalty.
THE SLIGO TRAGEDY.— The Sligo jury, in its verdict on
the body of Captain King, so mysteriously shot during the
recent election disturbances, negatives the charge of wilful
murder against the townspeople, and finds that Captain
King was accidentally shot by Mr. Webber, whose pistol
exploded while he was engaged in a struggle with some
man unknown. The violent death of Captain King under
any circumstances was a melancholy event, but it is a
matter for public congratulation that the annals of the
lection are not to be stained with another murder.

VISIT OF THE QUEEN OF HOLLAND TO THE
nAMES EMBANKMENT.—The Queen of Holland, during
tier sojourn in the metropolis, inspected, with her suite,
the great Northern Thames Embankment. Her Majesty
was accompanied by Sir John Thwaites, the chairman of
the Metropolitan Board of Works, and by Mr. Thomas
Lovick, the resident engineer. Starting from Westmin-
ster-bridge, from which point the most imposing view of
the extent and magnitude of these important works is to
be obtained, her Majesty examinel with much interest the
details of the Westminster Steamboat Pier, and passed
along the whole extent of the works to the concluding
section of the embankment operations by the Temple
Gardens, forming contract No. 3, which is now in course
of active prosecution by the contractor, Mr. Webster.
Her Majesty appeared to be much surprised by the
appearance and solidity of the works, and with the extent
of land reclaimed from the river, and entered minutely
into the details of the structure, comprising as part of the
embankment-wall one of the large main sewers for the
drainage of the lowest lying districts of the west of
London, and an arched passage or subway above it for the
reception of gas and water mains and lines of telegraph
wires.