The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-08 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE DEATH OF LIEUTENANT BULLOCK.—The adjourned
inquest on the body of Lieutenant Bullock, RN., has
been held. The deceased, who was son of Admiral
Bullock, had been drinking in a public-house, and when
in a state of inebriation was knocked down in a quarrel by
a man named Brooks, and received injuries of which he
died. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against
Brooks, who was committed for trial.

THE COPYRIGHT OF " COLONEL " BURKE'S PORTRAIT.—
This matter came before Mr. Justice Willes, judge in cham.
bers. Mr. Merriman, who appeared for "Colonel" Burke,
said that as there could, he presumed, be no answer to the
case stated in his affidavits, he should content himself by
referring to them and to the statutes 24 and 25 Victoria,
cap. 73, secs. 1 and 7, and 5 and 6 Victoria, cap. 45, sec.
14, and await the answer of his friend Mr. Shaw, who
appeared for Mr. Turner. That gentleman said that he
must admit that his client was entirely in the wrong, but
he had been misled by Captain Codd, governor of the
gaol. Mr. Turner was willing to deliver up the negative
and all the copies in his possession, and to give over to
Mr. Merriman all copies in his possession, and under these
circumstances he hoped that further proceedings would be
stayed. Mr. Justice Wiles made an order expunging the
photographer's entry at Stationers' Ilan, and that all
further proceedings should be stayed upon the delivery of
the negative and the printed copies, and payment of the
amount received for the sale of the pictures, to the satis-
faction of the applicant, and two guineas costs.

DISPUTE BETWEEN FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. —A case came
before the Recorder, at the Manchester Sessions, in which
a question was raised as to the relation between the
trustees of a friendly society and the treasurers. The
trustees of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows
charged the treasurers of a lottery committee, established
in connection with the society, as their (the trustees')
servant, with embezzlement. The case arose out of a dis-
pute between two friendly societies, and the offence could
hardly be said to amount to an embezzlement. The
Recorder said that he was not satisfir.d that the relation of
master and servant existed in the case, and consequently a
verdict of not guilty was returned.

FELONY BY A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.-At the
Clerkenwell Police-court Charles Sharrott, a commercial
traveller, was charged with stealing from the first-class
waiting room of the Great Northern Railway a silk
umbrella, the property of the company. The accused
was seen by William Thorogood, one of the company's
detectives, to go into the room and return with the
umbrella under bis arm. When stopped the prisoner
said it was a mistake. He pleaded guilty, and said that
he had committed the offence through hunger and distress
owing to his inability to obtain employment. Mr. Cooke
said that as it was a first offence he should only send the
prisoner to prison for two months.

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY BY BOYS.-At the Stafford
Quarter Sessions John Hughes, a miner, was indicted fur
feloniously receiving £2 knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. Edwards, the prosecutor, is a timber merchant at
Bilston, and has a son named George who is but a school.
boy ; one day a lad came up to the prosecutor's son and asked
for assistance as he was in great distress and wanted to
go to the North of England. Young Edwards said that
he had no money of his own, but had some of his father's,
and on hearing this the other boy induced him to lend
125., promising to repay it when he reached his destina-
tion. This circumstance got to the ears of other boys,
who so frighttded Edwards by threatening to tell his father,
that they induced him to steal at different times nearly
£4OO. The prisoner's house was made the rendezvous,
where Edwards and his companions spent their illgotten
wealth. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was
sentenced to five years' penal servitude.

The Carlisle Journal states that Mr. Steel, M.P.
for Cockermouth, who was one of the Liberal members
absent from the division on Friday night, has been very ill
during the past week at his residence, at Derwent Bank,
Cumberland.

If the Fenian prisoners now awaiting their trial
in Newgate escape the law, it will be by a miracle. In
the application for as much delay of the trial as could be
granted, lately made by their counsel before the Recorder,
it was stated that the indictment against them was sixty
feet long.

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.—A public meeting
has been convened at Gravesend to take into consideration
the working of the Contagious Diseases Act at those mili•
tary stations to which it has been applied, and to adopt
petitions to Parliament praying that the provisions of the
Act may be extended to the civil as well as to the whole
of the military population of the United Kingdom.

Mr. Harris, one of the registrars of the Man-
chester Bankruptcy District, has resigned his office on the
ground of continued ill-health. It is not likely that any
permanent appointment will be made, as under the pro-
visions of the Bankruptcy Bill now before Parliament the
county districts, on the resignation or death of the com-
missioners, are to be abolished and the jurisdiction trans-
ferred to the county courts.

WORN COIN. —A vote of £15,000 will be again
proposed this session to cover the deficiency in the weight
by wear of silver coin withdrawn from circulation in the
course of the year, the coin being received at the Mint at
its nominal value. There will also be a vote of £5OO to
pay premium at 2 per cent. on old copper coin sent in to
the Mint, and the carriage of bronze coin remitted in
exchange.

GOOD FRIDAY IN THE IRON DISTRICT.—It is the
custom in the Staffordshire iron district (says the Birming-
ham Post) to work on Good Friday, on account of the holi-
days in the Easter week. Some doubt having arisen as to
how far this would be legal under the Factory Act, the
opinion of Mr. Baker, the inspector, has been taken on
this point, the result being, that although Mr. Baker con-
siders the clause in the Act " ambiguous," no attempt
will be made to enforce it, at all events this year.
The works will therefore be open on Good Friday a;
usual.

THE CvST OF FENIANISM.—At the Warwickshire
Quarter Sessions a statement was submitted to the court,
chewing under the bead of " extraordinary expenses" the
costs entailed upon the county by the incarceration of the
Fenian prisoners, Burke, Casey, and Shaw, in the gaol,
when committed from Bow-street for trial at Warwick
Assizes. The prisoners were received on the 9th January,D.gn
and remained for a period of about ten
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police.
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including a sum of £173 10s. for extra pay
VISIT OF ITER, MAJESTY TO CLEIVER. CHURCH.
Y IRD
paid a visit to the pretty church-
yird .Her Majesty has
at Clewer, near Windsor, where the remains of Mr.
lull, the Queen's messenger, have been interred, and where
several of her Majesty's servants also lie. The visit was
totally unexpected, and there was no one but an aged
woman who sweeps the paths of the burial-ground to re-
ceivc the sovereign. On reaching the spot where Mr.
Hill lies buried the Queen placed a rose upon his grave.
Leaving the newly-made grave, her Majesty next pro.
ceeded to visit that of Mrs. Glover, who was formerly
employed in the library at Windsor Castle, and whose
daughter, Miss Mary Ann Glover, hail been an attendant
upon, and left England with, the Princess Royal upon hex
marriage with the Crown Prince of Prussia. Her Majesty
appeared much astonished to find that Mrs. Glover had
recently died ; in fact, the Queen was not aware of the
circumstance till she saw the name on the tombstone.

IIIG.II WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

rlllB DAT.—Morning, 2h. 40m.—Afternoon, 3h. Om.
To-31olatow.-Morning, 3h. 20m.—Afternoon, 36. 30m.

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