The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-19 00:00:00

MURDER AT BLACKBURN.

The excitement consequent upon the result of
borough election at Blackburn being in favour of the ()
Conservative members, Messrs. Hornby and Feilden, has
had a tragical culmination. On Tuesday night, betwee
eight and nine o'clock, a weaver named Thomas Whittakei,
about 45 years of age, residing in Brookhouse-fields, was
going by Francis-Ann-street, a portion of the town chiefly
occupied by the Irish inhabitants, when he was attacked b 3
a number of men, and received a blow which killed him on
the spot. A woman named Livesey, who witnessed th
fatal affray, stated at the police-station that the deceased
was shouting " Hornby for ever ! " when about twenty
infuriated Irishmen rushed at him shouting. " Let's
kill the Tory ; "and then they commenced to strike
him, brutally kicking him while on the ground. A litti
After eleven o'clock an Irishman, named Thomas Fall
apparently about 22 years of age, was apprehended
brought to the police-station on suspicion of having bee
the principal in the murder, and he is now in custody
an that charge. On Wednesday afternoon he wr
brought before the presiding magistrates, when he Nw-
remanded until the case could be fully gone into. Abu:
six o'clock the same night a police-constable name.
Kenyon was passing up Penny-street, another part
the town inhabited by the Irish, when he was struck
the ground by what is supposed to have been half a brick.
thrown by some person who as yet has not been discs
vered. The missile came with such force as to complete",
smash the constable's helmet and inflict a blow on thr-•
side of the head which rendered him senseless. He wan
at once taken home in a cab by his brother officers, where
he now lies in a most precarious condition. It is feared
that compression of the brain has set in, and he is not ex-
p ted to recover.

LAW AND POLICE.

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THE ST. ALBAN'S CASE.—The Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council have been engaged again on the St.
Alban's (Holborn) case, Martin v. Mackonochie, which
will form a precedent on the points in dispute. Dr.
Stephens continued his opening speech in support of the
appellant, Mr. Martin. He contended that lighted
candles, when introduced into the holy communion ser-
vice, became a ceremony, and lawful. The appellant
alleged that kneeling or prostrating before the conse-
crated elements and the use of lighted candles
were additions to or alterations of the form prescribed by
the Book of Common Prayer. On the part of Mr
Mackonochie,the respondent, several reasons were alleged
in answer. The discussion on this important case must
necessarily occupy several days. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., is
expected to follow Dr. Stephens, and Mr. W. M. James,
Q.C., and Dr. Deane, Q.C., will address their lordships on
the other side.

PERSONATING A VOTER.—A porter, bearing the nali,.-
of Lawrence Kenny, has been brought up before Mg-
CasteHain, at the Liverpool Police-cDurt, on a charge
having attempted to personate a voter named Mullin,
the Scotland-road polling-booth, where he tendered a vote
in that name for Massey and Rathbone, the Liberal can-
lidates, and was at once given into custody. In answer
to the magistrate, the prisoner, who seems to be a very
soft" sort of fellow, said that he was going to his work
in the morning, when his wife told him that Mullin was
)ut of town, and that he had better go and vote for him,
end he did so. The prisoner, at the request of the prose-
cution, was remanded, and ordered to find bail in two
Sureties of £lO.

THE WORKING MAN'S CANDIDATE.—A singular elec.
tioneering transanction has come to light at the Guildhall
Police-court. Mr. Robert Hartwell, the self-styled
working man's candidate, first for Lambeth and then
for Stoke-upon-Trent, applied for a warrant against
two Staffordshire "sons of toil" for robbing him of
2280. Mr. Hartwell stated that he received an offer o.
that sum to pay his expenses if he would retire from th..
::,,ntest, that being " the estimated amount of the expenses
he bad incurred in London and at Stoke." The money
was to be handed to him by " a highly respectable gentle-
man," whose name did not transpire; but Mr. Hartwell's
',,wo Staffordshire friends bad somehow or other got hold
of the money, and were believed to be meditating a trip to
New York. Alderman Besley declined to grant a warrant
)n the information before him.

The Church News gives currency to a repent tnat
the Bishop of Catlisle has refused to ordain an Oxford gra-
duate because he belonged to the English Church Union.
The Arc' bishop of York has written a letter in
reply to a memorial in favour of promoting communion with
the Church of S melt n, and expressed his concurrence with
the memorial. lie Grace rays, " I concur with the opinion
rf the memorialists, • and should hereafter wish to act
upon it in env opportunity that may occur—that our Church
ought to be in fu'l communion with the Swedish Church."
Echoes of the Girths says it will be remembered that
Mr. Seely, in one of his attacks on the Admiralty for its ex-
travagarce, mentien,Al the • fact that a barge for the usa of
Prince• Alfred lta.l cost more in repairing than it miglat have
been originally built for. A similar thing is about to occur
with the Ito 3 al yacht Victoria and Albert, which we under-
stand is about to be repaired at a cost of not less than
C.:?0,000, a small iucreaso in which would be sufficient to
build and fit out a new vessel.

In consequence of a circumstance which has
recently happened in Worcester Poor-law Union, and
which has called forth remarks from the Lancet and other
medical papers, the board of guardians of the Worcester
Poor-law Union have just
,debated the propriety
of continuing the employment of midwives instead
of qualified surgeons, and have come to the
resolution that henceforth surgeons shall be em-
ployed in all midwifery cases at a- stipulated sum, and
that the services of the union midwives shall be dispensed
with. It was urged •by Mr. Longmore, one of the guar-
dians who brought the motion before the board, that not
only were the claims of humanity strong—as,shewn in the
referred to—but that an actual4saving in expense
wotdd be effected.