The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-24 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

RECENT LEGISLATION AND ITS EFFECT UPON THE SALE
OF DOGS' MEAT.—A dealer in dogs' meat, who during
the hearing of a summons at Bow-street Police-court
was asked why he did not make a more liberal provision
than six shillings weekly for the support of his
wife, pleaded the great falling off in his business
returns " in consequence of recent legislation." If matters
went on at the present rate, his solicitor said, there would
soon be no available market for horse flesh, unless the
sausage makers, or the gentlemen who dined at the Lang-
ham Hotel, could create a sufficient demand.

A GENTLEMEN'S QUARREL —Two gentlemen of the legal
profession—the City Solicitor being the complainant, and
Mr. De Castro, of Mortlake, the defendant—on Friday
appeared at Wandsworth Police•court, in a case arising
out of a dispute in a railway carriage. It bore upon
the right to have one of the windows open or shut,
alid in the course of the contention angry words were used,
and Mr. Nelson, who had risen for the purpose of closing
the window, was forced into his seat. The hearing
was terminated by an explanation, and, at the sugges-
tion of the magistrate, an apology on the part of the
defendant.

SMUGGLING.—A heavy case of smuggling has been heard
at the Southwark Police-court. A waterman's apprentice
was convicted of having been unlawfully in possession
of 2951 b. of foreign manufactured tobacco, the value of
which, with the single duty, amounted to £76. A fine of
£lOO, with the alternative of six months' imprisonment,
was inflicted.

The death is announced of General Sir Thomas
Monteath Douglas. The gallant officer entered the Indian
Service in 1805, and has since served in the Bengal Presi-
dency. He was elevated to the rank of General in 1865
and in the same year was created a Knight Commander of
the Bath. He died on the 18th instant, at Stonebyres
Lanarkshire.

Salvator Taglioni, uncle of the celebrated danseuse,
has just died at Naples, aged 78. He composed more than
200 ballads, the most remarkable of which aro his " Esme-
ralda" and "Faust." During the disorders in Italy, in
1848, Taglioni, who was a great friend of the King, was
taken by the insurgents and shot. He, however, survived in
spite of fourteen wounds which he bad received.

From inquiries which were made yesterday morn-
ing, it has been ascertained that the health of the Arch-
b shop of Canterbury has gradually though slowly improved,
and that it is hoped he will be able to resume the active
duties of his episcopate in the course of a few days. Ilia
lordship was to have held a visitation of the clergy of the
diocese in the course of the autumn, but that intention his
grace will not be able to carry out.

The death was announced yesterday of the Lady
Adino Fane, second daughter of the sixth Earl Cowper and
granddaughter of Viscountess Palmerston. Her ladyship
was born in 1843, and was married in 1866 to the Hon.
Julian Henry Charles Fane, second Earl of Westmoreland,
who has been Attache at Berlin and Vienna, Secretary of
Legation at Vienna and St. Petersburg, and Secretary to the
Embassy at Pais since 1866.

THE " GAZETTE."—SeveraI appointments already
announced appear in the Gazette. Mr. J. S. Lumley is
gazetted Envoy Extraordinary to the King of the Belgians ;
Mr. A. G. Bonar succeeds Mr. Lumley as Minister to the
Swiss Confederation ; and the Hon. E. H. Lytton is
appointed Secretary to the Embassy at Vienna, in succes-
sion to Mr. Bonar. The appointment of Dr. Manse' to
the deanery of St. Paul's is gazetted at the same time.
THE DIOCESE OF NATAL. —The Rev. W. H. G.
Lloyd, the senior clergyman of the Church of England in
Natal, having read in the Church Times that the seaport
of Durban is without a resident clergyman, writes that he
is still alive and still resides at Durban, adding : " Though
I begin to feel the weight of advancing years, yet I hope
to be prepared to resist to the uttermost the attempt of
the Bishop of Capetown to violate the order of our Church
in which he still holds office under her Majesty, by intro-
ducing a schismatical bishop and a body of schismatical
clergy into his diocese."
A POACHER OFFERING TO "WORK OUT " HIS
FINE.—At the County Hall, Lewes, before G. Molineux
and B. Godlee, Esqrs., Thomas alias " Totsey " Newn-
ham, a notorious poacher, has been charged with snaring
a pheasant. Defendant said he had not been right for the
last two months, and could not help going after a pheasant.
He was fined £l, and £1 10s. 3d. costs ; in default, six
weeks' hard labour. " Totsey," upon hearing his sentence,
very coolly remarked that if lie was allowed " one night"
he would be able to pay. The magistrates, however, could
not see this, and sent him to prison.

UI7II.DER MADE EASY.—A ghastly scientific ate-
covery is reported from Turin, where Professor Casturani,
the celebrated oculist, has, it would appear, found a way
of killing animals by forcing air into their eyes, within the
space of a few seconds, and, it is thought, almost without
causing them any pain. Experiments were made at the
Royal Veterinary School, and it is said that they have fully
proved the truth of the professor's invention. Within the
apace of a few minutes, four rabbits, three dogs, and:a goat
were killed in this manner. The most remarkable thing
about this " killing made easy" is the fact that it leaves
absolutely no outward trace, and it can be as easily applied
to men as to animals ; if so, it is to be hoped the method
b_ .49t easy of application,