The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-29 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

INJUNCTION TO RESTRAIN.—In Vice-Chancellor Giffard's
court, an injunction was granted to restrain the further
printing, &c., of " Edward Cassey and Co.'s History,
Gazetter, and Directory of Berkshire and Oxfordshire,"
and of a book called at one time " Post-office Directory
of Kent and Sussex," and at other times, " Postal and
Commercial Directory of Kent and Sussex," on the
ground that both of these books were pirated from Mr.
Robert Kelly's books.

IMPORTANT POINT.—In Vice-Chancellor Stuart's Court
the case of Drummond v. Drummond has been heard.,
The female plaintiff and the defendant were married, and
during the coverture they executed a deed, by which the
wife charged the estate of Gairdrum, of which she-was
heiress in tail, with certain sums, which an insurance com-
pany advanced to the husband (the defendant). The
parties were subsequently divorced, on the petition of the
husband ; and this bill was now filed by the wife (and
the prcFent husband) against her former husband, and
claiming to have her estate orGairdrum exonerated from
the charge. This was resisted by the defendant, first, on
the ground that the court had no jurisdiction in the mat-
ter ; seccntlly, that the deed did not bind the estate ; and,
thirdly, that even if the wife had such right, she bad IoA
it by adultery. His Honour made a decree in favour of
the plaintiff.
THE RE.3fARIKA.BLE DIVORCE CASE.—In the Divorce
Court the Judge Ordinary gave judgment in the case of
of Wormald v. Neale and Wormald, which was a suit to
annul a marriage on the ground that the wife's name had
been wrongfully published in the banns of marriage. The
case was tried a few days since, when it was elicited that the
wife, when united to the respondent was only 15 years old.
—The Judge-Ordinary said the authorities were clear
that, if both the parties to a marriage were aware before the
marriage was celebrated that there had been no publication
of banns, such marriage was void. In this case the banns
ha 1 not been published in the true surname of the lady,
bit in a surname which was widely different, and
which could have conveyed no warning whatever, to any
one who heard it and who knew the lady's real name, that
she was the person intended. On the finding of the jury
the case came within the rule laid down by the authorities,
and the court accordingly pronounced the marriage null
and void.

IMPORTANT INSURANCE CASE.—At the Belfast Assizes
an action has been brought against the Scottish Commer-
cial Insurance Company to recover £3,000 on a policy.
The defences are— that the premises burned were not
insured, but that other premises adjoining and not burned
were ; and that if the premises burned• were insured by
the company, the policy did not cover the risk occasioned
by the storage of matches, sulphur, and other inflammable
materials, or the existence of fire-heat upon tho premises.
The case is not yet concluded. •
DAMAGES FOR INJURIES. —At the Exeter .Assizes the
case of Dean v. Tucker has been heard. The plaintiff, an
engine-driver, was driving a train on the London and
South Western line, when he was suddenly shot in the
eye, and he nearly lost the sight of his eye. It seemed
that the defendant and other farmers were indulging that
day in pigeon shooting in a field about forty or fifty yards
from the line of railway, and the defendant fired at a
pigeon just as the train was passing, and by this reckless
conduct a shot bad struck the eye of the plaintiff. The
defence was that the shot was not fired by Mr. Tucker.
The jury, however, held a contrary opinion, and awarded
the plaintiff £BO damages.

THE IRISH RIOT AT NEWCASTLE.-At the Newcastle
Police-court, the Irish rioters, Thomas Kelly, 23, Ann
McKeown, 50, Henry McKeown, 20, John McKeown
65, Joseph noggin, 21, and Richard Cain, 23, were charged
with assaulting and resisting the police, and further with
violently assaulting the same. Michael Ford, 27, was
charged with violently assaulting the police, and Patrick
Burns, 22, was charged with assaulting. After some
evidence had been given, the accused were remanded.

A clergyman, in the coufse of a sermon, recently
remarked : " You need not clasp your hands so fervently
iu prayer that you can't get them open when the contri-
bution-box comes round."

The Revue des Deux blondes says that the wine
drunk by the lower classes is not wine, but a mixture,
the bases of which is sugar ; that even in France
French brandy is scarcely known, and that while more
than 200,000 casks of Madeira are sold, only 1,000 are
made.

M. Adony, on his return from Fontainebleau,
whither he had been summoned by the Emperor to bore
some instantaneous wells, was sent for by the Princess
Matbilde to execute similar operations at her seat of St.
Cratien. He selected a place, and in fifteen minutes a
jet of water came up which yields 2,000 litres per hour.
CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST A MAGISTRATE.—
At the Axbridgc Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, Joseph
Wolien, one of the senior magistrates of the Axbridge
division, was charged with assaulting John Green, an ex-
guardian of the poor fur the parish of Wedmore, on July
8. There were cross-summonses in this case by which
Mr. Green was charged with assaulting Mr. Wollen, on
July 7 and 20. The court was Crowded to hear the case,
which lasted for more than three hours, at the end of
which the bench dismissed thdp summons against Mr.
Wollen and fined Mr. Green in the sum of £5 and costs,
considering his assault to have been of a most violent and
unprovoked nature, inasmuch as he went up behind Mr.
Wollen in the street, and dealt him a heavy blow on
the head 1114 a heavy cudgel, without the least alterca-
tion.