The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-17 00:00:00

LLW AND POLICE.

DAMAGES FOR SHOOTING A MAN.—At the Gloucester
Assizes a labourer, named Yelland, brought an action
against Mr. Stringer, a solicitor at Orsett, for the loss of
his eye. On the 2nd September last the plaintiff met the
defendant, and the latter, who had a gun with him, asked
Yelland about some birds. The plaintiff agreed to
accompany the .defeneant, and after three or four
hours' shooting they came to a field where
there was a gap. Mr. Stringer told plaintiff and
another man not to go through the gap, but he went
himself into the field. In a short time a partridge rose,
and Mr. Stringer fired in the direction where Yelland was
standing. He inissed the bird, but hit the plaintiff in the
left eye, and that eye had been removed since at the Leeds
Infirmary by Mr. Wheelhouse and Mr. T. P. Teule. After
the accident Mr. Stringer gave plaintiff a sovereign, but as
a man who carries a dangerous weapon like a gun is respon•
Bible, carelessness in the use of it is no excuse. The p'aintiff
claimed damages for the loss of his eye. The jury awarded
£l5O damages.
DA3IAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY.—In the
Nisi Prins Court an action was brought against the
Midland Railway Company by Mr. Hawkes, a cattle
dealer residing at Wakefield, for injuries sustained by
him. The plaintiff had some cattle at Uttometer which
he wished to have conveyed to York, and took
them to Derby by the North Staffordshire line. When
there he found that one of his cattle had got down
in the truck, and he regtested that they might be
taken to the cattle docks, so that he might take them
out and raise the prostrate animal. When that was done
he was going towards the booking-office to get a ticket for
his cattle to York, when some trucks were put in motion
without a signal, and the door of one of them, which was
open, struck him on the shoulder, and for two months he
was unable to attend to his business. The jury gave £lOO
damages.
ALLEGED FRAUDULENT PREFERENCE BY A BANKRUPT
—At the Liverpool Assizes a case in which the assignees
of Couvelas, a bankrupt, brought an action against
Messrs. Papayanni Brothers for alleged fraudulent prefe-
rence by the said bankrupt. It seemed that Couvelas,
during the cotton famine, made a post-nuptial settlement,
and just prior to becoming insolvent paid the defendants a
large sum of money that he was indebted to them.
The case for the assignees was, that at the time
of the payment Couvelas must have been
aware that he would become a bankrupt. It was
proved that the insolvent had often been applied to for the
money by Messrs. Papayanni. The judge stated-that the
mere fact of the money having been applied for did not
necessarily prevent the conclusion that it was a fraudulent
preference, if the application had no influence on the
plaintiffs' mind. The jury found for the plaintiffs.

THE CONVICTION OF A SHEFFIELD SOLICITOR.—At the
Leeds Assizes, William Unwin, a solicitor, at Sheffield,
who had previously been convicted of offences under the
Bankruptcy Act, was called up for judgment. Mr.
Justice Lush, after lamenting that a person in the
prisoner's profession should occupy such a position, sen-
tenced him to nine months' imprisonment.
SUNDAY TRAFFIC IN LIQUORS.— At the Marylebone
Police-court, William Elliott, a coffee-house keeper, was
summoned for selling excisable liquors on Sunday morn-
ing. He had not a license. An inspector of
police visited the house in question, and saw
persons pay 7d. for articles that were really not worth
more than a third of that sum. After a man had partaken
of a cup of coffee, the policeman examined the cup and
found some gin at the. bottom. He also saw stout drawn,
and money put on the table, as he supposed in payment
fur it. For the defence it was alleged that the persons
drinking were the defendant's employes, and the latter
was treating them. The magistrate did not believe this
to be the case, and inflicted a fine of £l5 and costs.

FIREPROOF FLOOE.ING.—We read in the Bulletin
de la Socitia Industrielle, of Mulhouse, of a very simple
way of making a fireproof flooring applicable to ware-
houses and granaries. It consists in first sprea-ling upon
the planks a layer of clay about an inch in thickness, and
running upon this a.layer of asphalte about half an inch
thick. Numerous experiments, we are told, have proved
the efficacy of this as a protection against the
spread of fire, and it has been adopted in all the
corn stores of the General Omnibus Company of Paris.
Mechanics' Magazine.
THE NEW VOTING POWER OF GREENWICH.—
The overseers of the several parishes in the borough of
Greenwich have published the new lists of electors by
placing them on the church doors, as is usual, and an
approximate calculation of the probable increase in the
constituency may now be made. The total number
placed on the lista by the overseers is 14,054 ; the number
at the last revision of the lists was 9,789, thus shewing
an increase of 4,265 in the number of electors as com-
pared with 1865. The largest portion of the increase
has been made by adding Plumstead to the old con-
stituency, only a very small portion of that parish being
previously within the borough bounds. The lodgers,
it is calculated, will bring up the number of electors to
about 16,000.
CARICATURING THE EUROPEAN POWERS IN
TURIN.—The French (or at least the Emperor) do not
appear to be so popular at present, writes a Turin corre-
spondent. As a proof, I may mention three caricatures
that enrich the windows. In one Louis Napoleon appears
as Van Ambnrgh in a den, with the Powers of Europe as
the beasts. Prussia is a grinning tiger, Italy a crowned
iamb, and England a giraffe. In another France is repre-
sented as a sick beauty, who is impressed by Dr. Time that
she will never feel well till a severe Prussophobia and in-
cipient clerical reaction are eradicated. In a third Prussia
appears as a lady shaded by a parasol, on which is
writt2n " Sadowa," whilst she reminds a French poodle
that is barking as she passes, th the dog that barks does
not bite.

THE STIECHLEY MunDEß.—lt will be remem-
bered that during the trial of Harris at Shrewsbury Assizes
upon the charge of murdering the jeweller's salesmen,
Zusman, a profound sensation was created in the court by
the relation of a conversation the prisoner had with his old
schoolmaster while awaiting his trial in the cells beneath
the court. In that conversation Harris admitted that,
while he was not the actual murderer, he was acquainted
with him, and he circumstantially described how the
murderer "dodged him about," threatening to "split his
skull" and " tear out his heart" if he betrayed him. It
has now transpired that this was not the first time since
his committal upon the capital charge that Ilan is Lad
avowed his knowledge of the real murderer, and to
Captain Fenwick, the governor of the gaol, he confided
the name of the man. It was generally expected that
immediately upon the acquittal of Harris the person
whom he had thus pointed out would be arrested, and that
Harris, assured of the protection of the law, would come
forward and give evidence. Such, however, will not be
the case, for the police have reason to know that the man
thus strangely accused (and who is at the present time in
Shrewsbury Gaol upon a charge of poaching) had nothing
to do with the murder. Harris has by his own state-
ments laid himself open to an indictment for misprision of
felony, but it is not probable that the police authorities
will take any steps towards prosecuting him, as they do
not believe such a course would throw any fresh light
up9p, the cppmaigion of this extraozcligarY crime.

11.0J1AN AFFAIRS.

(From the Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.)

ROME, August 8.

On the Feast of S. Mary of the Angels, it
is the Holy Father's custom to visit some
church of the Franciscan order, where the
" Pardon of Assissi " is to be gained. This
year he selected the humble convent of the
Capuchin nuns on the Quirinal. After hear-
ing Mass in the chapel, ho admitted the nuns
to kiss his feet. On the Superioress asking his
benediction for two sick nuns, he answered,
" I will myself be the bearer of it." The con-
solation such a visit was calculated to afford
may well be imagined. One of them was
very near her last, and had already been
ertr•ernaia ; her suffering countenance was
lighted up with joy at the sound of his ap-
proach, which she said seemed to her a sort
of foretaste of the more solemn and august
Presence into which she was so soon to enter,
and she besought his assistance in preparing
her for it.

He will visit the camp and say Mass for the
brigade now quartered there on Monday. Mgr.
Borromeo goes there on Sunday to take pos-
session as patron of the Church of Rocca di
Papa, which is dedicated to the illustrious
ornament of his family, S. Charles, and he will
remain there to receive his Holiness.

The Consistory which was to have been held
yesterday is adjourned till September, one
reason being that Mgr. Ferrieri is not re-
turned fro:Lisbon, and he was one of the
new cardinals to confer the hat on whom the
Consistory was to have been held. It is ex-
pected that the Pope will deliver an allocution
on indifferentism in education, being moved
thereto by the Lycee opened at Constantinople
under the auspices of the French Government
in general, and M. Duruy in particular, in
which it would seem that M. Duruy's favourite
views on secularizing education prevail. It is
probable that at the same time five cardinals
will be created. Those spoken of are Mgr.
Chigi, Nuncio at Paris ; Mgr. Falcinelli, Nuncio
at ienna ; Mgr. Ferrari, Minister of Finance ;
Mgr. de Merode, formerly Minister of War, and
who did so much in organizing the Pontifical
army. He is at present chaplain to the Pope,
in which office he may probably be succeeded
by Mgr. Talbot.
I have heard it again asserted that the
Schismatic bishops will be invited to come to
Rome at the time of the Council, when they
will be admitted to propose their doubts and
listen to arguments in refutation of them.
Assisting at this solemn assembly, they would
have the opportunity afforded them of learn-
ing something of the true spirit of the Catholic
Church, which could not but edify them and
incline them for unity.
I see some English papers have been amusing
their readers with stories of exciting events
here, which have had no existence, except in
the imagination of their writers. They have
told of discoveries of mines under the fortifi-
cations of the Aventine ; of depots of red
shirts and arms, and clandestine meetings of
revolutionists ; but the Aventine earthworks
are not to be blown up quite as easily as a wall
or a building ; and the police are pretty well
informed of the whereabouts of the various
Garibaldian plotters, and know how to bide
their time for routing them, but there has
been no seizures of late. It is, I believe, true,
however, that it has been sought to set up, like
last year, revolutionary centres in some of the
little border towns of the State, and it is a
significant fact that this time they are almost
exclusively Mazzinian.
The Pope, in his desire for the promotion of
science and art, has lately addressed a letter
of congratulation to P. Vercellone (Barna-
bite), and P. Cozza (Basilian), on their repro-
duction of the Codex Sinaiticus, of the Vatican
library. This codex is one of the most com-
plete as well as most ancient manuscripts
of the Bible in existence. It is written
on antelope-skin, and all in capital letters of
-very clear and beautiful character. The
Tipographia of the Propaganda, of which Cava-
liere Marietti is the able director, has succeeded
in reproducing the whole of the New Testament
from this MS., within the space of a year, and
that as perfectly as if he had been assisted
by photography. A page of this reproduction
was sent to the Paris Exhibition, where it ex-
cited a great deal of attention. It is far more
correct, more complete, and better brought out
than the celebrated Mount Athos Codex, pub-
lished by Tischendorf. I also hear that Cardi-
nal Bonaparte has lately written to Pere Lion,
of the Dominican Mission at Messoul, request-
ing him to undertake the supervision of a
popular edition of the Bible, in Arabic, for
the use of certain Oriental Christians, to be
brought out entirely at his expense.
I am glad to learn, from an authentic source,
that the greater part of the five thousand rifles
promised by the Belgian Committee, made
at Liege, on the Remington model, are already 'I
on their way hither, and that a consignment
of rifled cannon will shortly follow them. The
whole are to be delivered by the end of Sep-
tember. We hope Birmingham will not show
less alacrity. An attempt has been made in
certain journals to show that the committees
in various countries, for raising funds for the
Pontifical army, have been acting in a manner
calculated to derogate from the dignity of the
Roman Government ; it is not easy, however,
to see anything of the kind. Of course, it may
be possible that there mayhave been individual
instances in -which zeal may have outstripped
perfect subordination. But no act, done in a
spirit of calculated or intentional indepen-
dence of the Government, can be pointed out.
Some desire was certainly shown to inquire
into the disposition of the funds subscribed,
and the labours of the commission appointed
by the Pope for this purpose have resulted
in establishing that the whole army department
has been most satisfactorily managed. Besides,
all who have subscribed in a truly Catholic
spirit must feel that they have made their
offering to the Holy See, and for the Holy
See, and that the Government of the Holy
See must be able to judge better of the mode of
applying them than any national committee.

Discussions on this matter have led to
another discussion akin to it in nature, though
far higher in import—the question of whether
the Holy See might not gain advantage from
the genius, zeal, and devotion of its non-
Roman members in the various departments
of its administrative as well as in its military
service. The narrowing the territory under
its temporal jurisdiction certainly seems to
weaken the force of the principle that the ad-
ministration ought to be kept in the hands of
Romans. And there are people—generally
Frenchmen perhaps—who like to fancy they
foresee a time when the tiara itself may again
be given to one from" beyond the Alps.
You have seen in the Moniteur that M. de
Malaret has signed, with Signor Cambray-
Digny, the final protocol of the division of the
Pontifical debt. It is not very easy to see
what is meant. Is the Pope's Government
expected to believe that it may look for the
regular payment by Italy of the amount due ?
Italy must earn a different character for her
appreciation of the value of promises from that
she now bears, before the Pope can afford to
dismiss one man from his army on faith of her
undertakings.
The Zouaves are now settled down in their
trial of the camp. They seem to enjoy the life
very much, and find the air very healthy,
almost too fresh even at night. I went down
the day after the troops ; they had got through
the march very well. One or two stragglers
were still on the way. One poor Dutchman
was lying is the shade of a dry ditch by the
road side, and implored assistance in broken
French. I had only a light carriage, already
somewhat heavily laden, but I took his knap-
sack and all he had to carry for him, and he
walked on cheerily behind. I saw him again in
the evening in Rocca di Papa, much relieved.
Colonel Allet has the command of the bri-
gade, in the absence of General de Courten.
There are four battalions, composed some of
six and some of seven, companies, with 140

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