The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-13 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ENGRAVING THE NAME OF A FIRM WITHOUT AUTIIO-
- Mathis has had before him a
motion on behalf of the Fore-street Warehouse Company
(late Morrison, Dillon, and Co.), for an injunction
to restrain Messrs. Johnson and Co., engravers and
printers, from printing copies of a plate for invoices of
goods in which the plaintiffs' name was used. The plate
was engraved pursuant to an order given by Mr.
Alexander, manufacturer of gilt and plated jewellery,
Birmingham, in the ordinary course of business,
but no copies were printed from it, because it
struck one of the partners that it was strange • that
an order for invoices of the plaintiffs' goods should
have been given by a person not belonging to their firm.
Messrs. Johnson communicated with the plaintiffs, and
this suit was the result. The Vice-Chancellor made a per-
petual injunction against the defendant Alexander, and
ordered the plate to be delivered up for the purpose of
destruction, and that Mr. Alexander should pay all the
costs of the suit. The bill was dismissed against Messrs.
Johnson.
THE DROYLSDEN MURDER.—At the Manchester
Assizes on Thursday, Timothy Faherty, a labourer, was
charged with the wilful murder of Mary Hanmer, at
Droyisden, on Christmas Day. The prisoner was courting
the deceased, both lodging in the same house. A disagree-
ment took place before Christmas, and then Hanmer
persisted in breaking off the match. This gave the pri-
soner great umbrage. On the evening of Christmas Day
he saw the deceased in the kitchen of the house. What
took place is not known, but the landlady's daughter was
roused by hearing a noise, and the deceased ran into her
bedroom with her face bleeding. She was followed by the
prisoner, who struck her on the head with a poker until
she fell down, dying. The moment after the prisoner gate
utterance to the most extravagant protestations of love,
and fondled the corpse of the dead woman. He was found
guilty, and sentenced to death.
AN IMPOSTOR RESTORED TO LIFE.—A poor man on
crutches went to the Mansion House, on Wednesday, and
asked forrelief. He said he had fallen from a scaffold and
broken three of his ribs, and had been discharged only that
morning from the infirmary of the East London Union.
He received an order for re-admission to the anion, sixpence
for his omnibus fare, and a shilling to get a dinner. He
limped out of the room, and had no sooner left it than he
complained of a pain in his inside ; an officer got him a
little brandy, and he left the Mansion House ; a minute
after he was found writhing on the ground in front of the
European Tavern. He was at once put into a cab and
driven to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in charge of an
officer. On the way he stretched himself out as if for the
last time, and the officer thought him to be dead. On
arriving at the hospital the doctors ordered him to be
strapped to a stretcher, and applied to him a galvanic
battery. On receiving the shock he said he could talk
now, and begged them to desist. He pretended that he
could not put on his clothes, whereupon the doctor gave
him another shock of the battery, which had the effect of
making him put on his clothes in two minutes and run
off. The policeman caught him and took him to the
station, and finally brought him before the Lord Mayor,
who'sentenced him to hard labour for twenty-one days.

A POLICEMAN SENT TO PRISON.-At the Bow-street
Police-court, on Thursday, a police-constable called Wool-
lacot, was charged with assaulting the wife of the landlord
of the Sir Paul Pindar public-house. The complainant
some time back was crossing the Strand, when she was
impertinently accosted by the defendant. She resented
his conduct, and was thereupon shamefully assaulted. He
turned the lady round by the arms, pushed her repeatedly
against the shutters of a shop, threatened to kick her into
the road, and used "fearful and beastly expressions."
The clothes of the prosecutrix were much torn, and her
arms very much bruised. Mr. Vaughan considered that
the case was fully proved, and refused to allow any
arrangement to be made. He sentenced him to one month's
imprisonment with hard labour.
THE BEER SOLD TO PUBLICANS.-Sir Thomas Henry
had before him a brewer, named Williams, of Kingsland,
who was charged with having infringed the law
by selling to a publican a quantity of saccha-
rine matter to be used as a substitute for malt.
It appeared that the defendant was a dealer in vinegar and
rpruce. He held a license as a brewer, and under colour
of brewing beer he was in the habit of manufacturing
an article which he called " maltheine," but which
really contained but little malt, and sometimes none
at all, for the purpose of supplying it to publicans who
used it in the adulteration of porter. He also manu-
factured and sold under the name of " hydromel,"
an article of similar character, but thinner in consis-
tency and lighter in colour, for the adulteration of ale.
A supervisor of excise visiting a public-house at Newington
found bydromel and maltheine in the cellar. Mr.
Williams bad told the keeper of the house that the
was quite at liberty to sell the beer, there being no
legal difficulty. No concealment, therefore, was made
of the liquor. Mr. Williams had previously been cautioned.
Mr. Banister, the official analyser, proved that these
mixtures consisted entirely of sugar and water, and did
not contain any malt whatever. It was contended, not-
withstanding, that the composition contained malt. The
usual plan, it was stated, was to brew the malt by itself
and the sugar by itself, and afterwards to mix them. The
prosecution, however, laid down that the article was
manufactured entirely for adulteration, and Sir Thomas
Henry, concurring in this view, inflicted the full penalty
of 2500.

DRUNKENNESS AND HOSPITAL STOPPAGES IN THE
ARHY.—We understand that the military authorities are
about to introduce a different method of repression for the
crime of drunkenness in the army, and one which appears
to us both more in accordance with the suggestion of
medical knowledge and the dictates of common sense.
Instead of trying the drunkard by court-martial, and send-
ing him regularly to prison, with risk to his health, it is
thought expedient to withhold from him his pay for all
the time that the country is deprived of his services. As
it is at present, a good-for-nothing soldier, when suffering
from repeated attacks of disease of a self-induced character,
may both escape his military duty and save money by
going to hospital, and get a good-conduct badge and pay
besides. If the drunkard has to forfeit something of his
pay, by a parity of reasoning so ought the other. The
steady, well-conducted soldier, who has been discharging
a share of the duties which belonged to both these classes,
in addition to his own, and contracted, it may be, disease
in doing so, has to forfeit exactly the same ■um whilst in
hospital as his comrade undergoing treatment for a self-
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