The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-11 00:00:00

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77-.--:--tAW AND POLICE.

tin! OFFERTORY OF A CRAM OF EASE—In the case
of the Rev. R. Liddell v. the Rev. Mr. Raillsford, a suit
against the minister of the, chapel of ease in the district of
Kennington for not paying over the offertory to the church-

wardens of the parish, Sir Travers Twiss, judge of the
Cons; ,>ry Court, has ordered the matter to proceed in the
form of a civil suit against Mr. Rainsford calling on him
to show cause why he sliould not pay over the offertory
alms.

THE DINING-ROOM DODGE.- Charles Underwood, a
lawyer out of practice, who, it will be remembered, was
charged before the Lora Irayor a week ago with obtaining
a most expensive dinner at a (lining hall, and then being
unable to pay for it, has again been brought before the
bench. At the last examination the priGoner pleaded that
the Lord Mayor had no jurisdiction, as the action ought to
have been brought in the county court. The prii3oner, it
now appeared, .had been duping iLif.eep,:rs at the pro-
vincial towns also, and had been three times convkted of
vagrancy. After some considerat:oa the Lord 11.1ap,r
said he must discharge the prisoner simply on the ground
that he did not steal the things ; they voluntarily gave
him the food, and he took advantage of them.
PENNY TOY PISTOLS.—Sir R. W. Carden, at the Guild-
hall, had before him a young man charged with firing off
and selling toy pistols. The detective sergeant who made
the charge said that the prisoner exploded the pistol close
to his ear. The effect was like the prick of a needle, and
he felt it for five minutes. Sir R. Carden said the toy
was very dangerous, and the report might frighten horses.
He sent the defendant to prison for five days.

EAST-END PAWNBROKERS.—A member of one of the
committees for relieving the distress in the East-end of
London brought a case before Mr. Paget, at the Thames
Police-court, shewing what sacrifices the poor had to make
in order to support themselves. He said that a poor woman
had been compelled to pawn all she was possessed of to
purchase bread, and the last thing on which she could
raise money were two decanters. She took them to a pawn.
broker, named Louis Lauenburg, and he offered to
lend her Bd. only. She consenting, two dupli.
cates were made out instead of one, and she
was charged a halfpenny for each. By making
two duplicates, the pawnbroker would be able to charge
double interest, the interest for 4d. being the same as for
Bd. Mr. Paget, while doubting that he could assist the
applicant, said he would look into the law on the subject.

A NEW DANGER.—Two rough young fellows were sen-
tenced at the Clerkenwell Police-court to a month's impri-
sonment for riding from Peterborough to London under
the seats of a first-class railway-carriage. The men were
without tickets, and appear to have been only tramps,
tired of walking. The magistrate, in sentencing them,
observed that if a lady had got into the carriage, and dis-
covered the presence of the Auen while the train was on its
way, she might have been frightened to death.

DOG-STEALERS AND THEIR PRACTICES.—In the same
court, two men, named Atherton and Barrett, were
charged at the instance of Marquis Graham with stealing
a dog. Having suddenly missed his dog in the street, the
marquis sent a detective to make inquiries of a well-known
dog-stealer, named Atherton. The detective, getting

thief into conversation, noon made known to him that the
marquis had lost his dog, and wanted him (the thief) to
find it. If he succeeded in doing so, he would receive
£5. Another day was fixed for the restoration,

when Atherton, after getting the £5, brought in Barrett,
who handed over the dog. The two men were shortly
after arrested. The magistrate committed them both for
trial.

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A TRAVELLER.-At Birmingham
tteorge Maidstone Pearson, commercial traveller, has been
charged with embezzling upwards of £2OO, the moneys of
his employers, the St. Helen's Glass Company. It was
stated that the manager of the firm having occasion to put
an assistant traveller on prisoner's round, had discovered
that he had received £l5O from a Mr. Travis, of Stour-
bridge, which he had not accounted for. On making this
known to prisoner he at once admitted his guilt, and
further investigation had revealed embezzlements to the
amount mentioned. Prisoner was committed for trial, bail
being allowed in two sureties of £l5O each.

ACTION ON A CHEQUE ON BARNED'S BANK.—In an
action brought in the Liverpool Court of Passage, to re-
cover £l5 11s. 2d., the amount of a cheque for -goods sold
and delivered ; it appeared that the plaintiff, Mr. Flynn,
who resides in Ireland, had from, time to time previous to
the 18th April, 1866, sent poultry to the defendant, Mr.
Iluthven, a dealer residing in Liverpool. On the 18th of
April, 1866, the plaintiff received a cheque for the above
amount from the defendant, and the lank stopped pay-
ment on the following day. It was contended that the
plaintiff had been guilty of negligence in not having pro-
sented the cheque before the stoppage. A verdict for the
full amount was returned for the plaintiff.

CONFESSION OF A RAILWAY OUTRAGE.—About six years
since a fatal accident happened on the North-Eastern IZail_
way, at Pannal, to Wm.l4lrton, an engine-driver, owin.r to
something having been placed on the line, which threw off
the engine. A man named Steel has been charged at Knares-
borough, virtually on his own confession, with having
caused the accident. It appeared that at a public-house
near Leeds, a few days back, the accident was referred to.
The prisoner, who was present, said that if he told all he
knew about that he would have to be answerable for it,
though he was twenty miles off at the time ; that it was
not done for him (Burton) more than anyone else ; it
was done in a drunken spree. lie further stated that
there was a coachman in it. The statements made by the
prisoner were sworn to by several persons. After +heir
examinations were taken, he was remanded.

THE OWNER OF THE GLYCERINE AT NEWCASTLE.-- Mr.
Spark, who was, we believe, stated to be the owner of the
nitro-glycerine which exploded at Newcastle, has been sent
to prison for refusing to obey an order made by the Bank-
ruptcy Court. The order called upon him to pay over £BO
which he had received in the matter of a bill of sale. An
application has been made to release him, but as he sti!l
refused to obey the order, the Commissioner declined to
grant it.

A POLYCIAMIST.—At the meeting of the Bridg
water board of guardians, a man named James Wright,
who is a rigger of vessels, applied for relief, stating that
he was suffering from disease which incapacitated him
from work. The mayor informed the board that the appli-
cant had actually married four wives, three of whom, to
his certain knowledge, were still living, and they were
all " young, hale, hearty women," able to maintain the
applicant. The board at once decided to refuse the relief
to Wright.

STATISTICS OF INDEPENDENCY.—The new volume
of the " Congregational Year Book," a compendium of
information relating to the Independents, and a statistical
record of their progress, has just been published. It ap-
pears that there are 1,989 Independent churches in Eng-
land, and 2,217 in the empire, besides 1,613 preaching
stations ; 174 churches in England are without pastors,
and 417 ministers are without congregations, but this
number includes the aged and disabled. The Pastors'
Retiring Fund, to facilitate the retirement of ministers
from their work when incapacitated for efficient service,
already amounts to 250,000, and steps are being taken
to raise it to £lOO,OOO. Eighty-six ministers have
received annuities from the fund since its institution
in 1860.
FIVE LIVES LOST BY DROWNING.—A very
lamentable accident has occurred at Wendover. A num-
ber of boys were sliding upon a frozen piece of water called
Hampden Pond, but the ice, being thin, gave way, and
seven of the boys were immersed in the water. Assistance
was speedily summoned, and two of,
the number were
rescued, but the bodies of the remaining five were not re-
covered until they had been nearly half an hour in the
water. The most strenuous efforts to restore life were made
by the medical gentlemen who had been summoned to the
spot, but without success. The sufferers were nearly all of
the same age—about 12.
THE FENIAN COMMISSARIAT. —The suburbs of
Cork are now infested at night by bands of robbers, who
plunder the provision shops and faimers' houses. The
press speaks with honest indignation of the " ruffians," as
they are called, who perpetrate these offences. Why,
however, should the brave fellows who attend to the com-
missariat department be censured, whilst those who steal
revolvers are applauded? A lad named Michail Corcoran
was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of being con.
cerned in the recent rubbery of powder. He was remanded
for eight days.

GOLDFIELDS OF NOVA SCOTIA.—It is about six
years since gold was first discovered in any appreciable
quantity in Nova Scotia, and for a good while after the
discovery was made very little comparatively was done in
developing this source of national wealth. Gradually,
however, the matter has been making progress. Those
who engaged in mining found that it paid, and their
success always attracted more; to make trial in the
same field. It may seem something like exaggeration, and
yet we believe it is quite correct, to say that, consider;ng
the extent of the gold-producing. area, the quantity of
quartz mined, and the number of men employed, Nova
Scotian goldfields, wrought imperfectly as they have been,
are the most productive in the world. Since 1862 about
120,0000 z. of gold, or nearly 3i tons, have been secured,
amounting in value to nearly $2,500,000. The yield in
1867 has not been less than 30,0000 z., or about $600,000,
almost half the value of the yearly yield of coal in Nova
Scotia. In the Sherbrooke district the average yield per
miner engaged has risen from $562 in 1862 to $1,669 in
1867. There has been as much as 117 oz. of gold got from
a ton of quartz, and the average yield over all has been
1 ounce and 3.grains,—Toronto Globe. •