The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-12 00:00:00

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HEAVY COMPENSATION CASE.-At the Westminster
Court the case of the Emmanuel Hospital v. the Metro-
politan District Railway was heard. The plaintiffs
claimed £24,000 for a pieco of land in the rear of
Emmanuel College, Victoria-street. About 37,000 feet of
land was required, and the surveyors for the hospital said

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that it was worth £22,C00, whilst the railway company
contended that its value was only £8,303. The jury as-
sessed the compensation at £10,473-

SERVANTGALISSI.—An action has been brought at the
Bloomsbury County Court by a domestic servant for com-
pensation for being discharged without notice. Her
master stated that after the family bad been served for some
time with weak tea the woman was watched, and it
was found that she poured out the first brew into a jug
for herself, then watered the remainder, and took it up
stairs. When taxed with the offence she was abusive,
and was at once dismissed. His Honour gave judgment
for the master.

CURIOUS ACTION FOR DAMAGE.-At the Manchester
Assizes an action has been Lea d in which Mr. 13eesly, a
priest at Ashton-under-Lyne, claimed cempensation from
the inhabitants of Salford Hundred for damage clone to
the Roman Catholic CLapel during the riots. The learned
judge (Mr. Justice liannen) held that to make the defen-
dants liable it must be shewn that the chapel was
feloniously demolished ; but if the chapel were damaged
by the mob in the same manner as they most likely at that
time would have attacked any house, then the defendants
were not liable. The jury found for the defendants.
THE PROMOTION OF BUBBLE CO3IFANIES. —At the
Guildhall Edward Yelland has been brought up for his
final examination. The magistrate decided to send the
case for trial.

ASSAULT UPON A RECORDER. A pitman, named
William Thompson, living at Brasside, was charged before
the Leeds magistrates with an assault upon Mr. John
Bramwell, recurder of Durham, and stealing from him
his walking-stick. On Saturday Mr. Bramwell was

enjoying an evening walk by the Wear side, when the
prisoner came up to him in a narrow lane and offered to
lay a wager. The learned recorder indignantly refused
this offer, and the prisoner attempted to seize his (Mr.
Bramwell's) dog, without success. He then made an
unprovoked assault upon the recorder, seized his walking-
stick, and then ran away. The defendant was fined £3
and costs for the assault, and the charge of stealing was
withdrawn.

THE WIFE MURDER IN LIVERPOOL—Thomas Howard,
a coalheaver, was charged at the police-court, Liverpool,
with having murdered his wife. It was proved that a few
days previously he and the unfortunate woman had a
quarrel, when he seized a table-knife and thrust it into her
mouth, severing the carotid artery, and causing almost
instantaneous death. He admitted his guilt, and was
sent for trial for wilful murder.

ROBBERY AT THE LEEDS EXHIBITION.—At the Leeds
Town Hall, Joshua Hobson was charged with stealing, a
shilling. The prisoner was employed at the turnstile at
the Exhibition, but should not allow anybody. to pass with-
out a ticket. Suspicions of the prisoner's honesty were
entertained, and a person was instructed to tender a
marked shilling, which the prisoner took and said nothing
about it. He was committed for seven days' hard labour.
THE MURDER AT WELLS.—Before the Wells magis-
trates, William Bisgrove, Robert Sweet, and Elizabeth
Drew were charged with the wilful murder of George
Cornish. When going to work a reaper named Stevens
saw a man lying on the ground, and -another, who was
proved to be Bisgrove, leaning over him. Witness, on
going up, saw the man was nearly dead, and he
then asked Eisgrove for his name, which he gave,
and said that another navvy came over a
stile into the field, and threw a great stone at the
deceased's head. On being a4ied why he did not raise an
alarm, Bisgrove said that he could not speak, he was so
much friBlitened. Evidence was adduced sliewin,g that
the three prisoners had been together during the night,
and that shortly before the occurrence the female prisoner
had quarrelled with the woman with whom the deceased
cohabited. Medical evidence as to the cause of death
having been given, the accused were remanded.

THE Tuitic ISLE EMBASSY. —His Excellency Musurus
Pasha and family have left the Turkish Embassy in Bryan.
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