The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-13 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE TRENT AND HUMBER, SHIPBUILDING COMPANY.—
:Ills case was an appeal from the Vice-Chancellors' orders
Yn respect of a claim for damages sustained by the Cam-
briam Company in-consequence of the non-delivery of the
steamship Plynlymon at the time specified in the con-
tract. Vice-Chancellor Wood's order gave leave to
the Cambrian Company to go in and prove under
the winding-up of the Trent and Humber Company in
respect of any damage that might have accrued to them
from the delay in the completion of the contract. The Cam-
brian Company had subsequently to this order brought in
the two additional items of claim—(l) for £2,500 for loss
consequent on the depreciation in value of the ship by
reason her non-delivery ; (2), for £3,184 Os. 6d. in conse-
quence - the damage sustained by the ship while lying on
the slip at Gainsborough. The case then came on before
Vice-Chancellor Giffard, who held that the Cambrian
Company were entitled, as regarded the first part of .their
claim, by way of damages, to the net profit which they
might have gained by chartering the vessel had it been
delivered twenty weeks after the Ist of April, 1865.
As to the third part of their claim, also, he was of opinion
that they were entitled to the amount which it would
have cost to rectify the damage sustained by the ship at
the time when it was delivered. But the second part of
their claim he thought inadmissible, it being inconsistent
with the first part. The official liquidator of the Trent
and Humber Company appealed. The Lord Chancellor
dismissed the appeal against the order of Vice-Chan-
cellor Wood, with costs. The second appeal was
from an order of Vice-Chancellor Giffard, which,
besides the claims allowed by Vice-Chancellor Wood,
allowed a claim for damages on account of injury alleged
to have been done to the ship while in the hands of
the shipbuilding company. Whether this was so or not,
toe vessel had been received by the Cambrian Company,
and sent a voyage, and their surveyor had not discovered
Ile defect, nor had this claim been brought forward
before Vice-Chancellor Wood, though the Cambrian Com-
pany had then made what they called a complete state-
ment. The second order would, therefore, be varied by
disallowing that claim, and the appeal dismissed without
costs. As to the claim for damages for supposed loss of
profits, of course the depreciation in the value of the ship
and everything else would be taken into account, and his
lordship hoped that the parties would be able to agree on
the amount.

LORD AuTnun CLINTON.—In the Bankruptcy Court,
before Mr. Commissioner Kerr, an adjudication of bank-
ruptcy was made, on the application of Mr. W. H.
Roberts, against Arthur Pelham Clinton (commonly called
Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton), of 31, Southampton-street,
Strand, and 15, Great College-street, Westminster, and
until recently M.P. for Newark. It is believed that the
bankrupt's debts and liabilities represent an aggregate of
about 270,000.

THREATENING TO MURDER LORD HOWE AND FAMILY,
—At the county police-office for the Leicester division.
John Hill, an elderly man, has been brought up for final
examination, before Dr. Sbaw, on a charge of having
caused to be received by Lord Howe, Gopsall Hall,
Atherstone, 'Warwickshire, a threatening letter. The
threats appeared to be made with a view of preventing
Lord Howe or any of his family appearing on the hustings
at the ensuing election. Evidence was given to show that
the letter was written by the accused, and he was com-
mitted for trial.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—Reuben Arundel, clerk to a draper
in St. Paul's, Covent Garden, has been brought up on
remand at Bow-street, charged with several acts of
embezzlement. It was prisoner's duty to collect weekly
instalments from customers who could not afford to pay
cash down for their purchases, and it had been his practice
to keep back portions of the sums thus received, and after-
wards, taking advantage of his position as clerk, to enter
the payments in the ledgers without their appearing in the
cash-book. In this way he avoided detection for many
months. He was now committed for trial.

MR. WATERS.—Robert Short Waters, formerly steward
to the Earl of Shaftesbury, whose differences with the
noble loid have been so often before the public, has
received his discharge from the Court of Bankruptcy.
Mr. G. Lewis, on the bankrupt's behalf, stated that all
matters in dispute had been settled, and the noble lord
had abandoned the criminal proceedings against Mr.
Waters.

There is some talk of the Pall Mall reducing its
price to a penny; and we have reason to believe the
proprietors of the Times are seriously debating the question
of reducing the price of the " Thunderer."— Printers'
Register.

Is AMERICAN HAY DAN GEROI73 ?- -This question
was discussed at the monthly meeting of the council of
the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. The chamber
desire the removal of the restrictions upon the importation
of American bay into this country, and have prepared a
memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the sub-
ject. Mr. Stoltefohrt, one of the members of the council,
objected to the adoption of the memorial, saying that he
bad been told by an American farmer that the hay might
re-introduce the cattle plague into this country. The
majority of the chamber, however, thought there wasvery
little evidence as to any such danger, and agreed to the
memorial.

BLESSINGS. OF CHLOROFORM.—One of the first
.:ases was a patient operated on at Guy's Hospital; it
was an old case of resection of the elbow-joint, in
which eighteen years previously Mr. Aston Key had per-
formed, or had striven to perform, this then very novel
experiment, leaving the poor man (who is a letter-sorter in
the General cost Office) a very imperfect use of the elbow
and forearm. The man had a most perfect or correct recol-
lection of the agony, torture, and horrors of the first opera-
tion, and wished now for amputation of the limb, which
had recently begun to pain him very considerably ; this,
however, was denied him, and it was explained to him that
the parts could now be explored and cut into without any
pain ; he said lie could sooner (lie than go through Mr.
Key's operation again— yet go through it he did, like a
child asleep, and on my speaking to him when conscious-
ness was restortd, and he opened his eyes, he wished only
to know when the horrid operation would commPnee, for
he had been in a beautiful dream—not knowing,
poor man, or associating in his dreams all the ancient
ug saws, mallets, knives, &c., that had been
again delving
elving and cutting through his elbow, and half
forgetting, or puzzled to find, that the "ivory gates of
sleep," with all the sawing of bones and blood, through
which he had now again passed a prisoner, were, no longer
guarded by the dogs of the Inferno painted so deeply in
his memory, but by the gentle spirit of chloroform I—pr,
111•1(44 Work on Chloroform,