The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-15 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ACTION AGAINST THE SHERIFF OF KENT.—In the Court
of Queen's Bench the case of Dignam v. Bailey was
heard. It was an action by a judgment creditor against
the Sheriff of Kent for allowing his debtor whom he had
in custody to escape. It appeared that in June 1866 the
debtor, one Brassington, made a composition with his
creditors by deed under the Bankruptcy Act, engaging to
Pay them ss. in the pound. One of the creditors, a person
named Clayton, held a bill of exchange of Brassington's
for about £2O, and as he refused to assent to the compo-
sition he passed it away to the plaintiff, who sued and
recovered upon it, and took Brassington in execution on
the judgment. The sheriff's officer, however, being
shewn the certificate of the Registrar in Bankruptcy
that the deed had been registered (which by the Act is to
operate as a protection), the sheriff at once discharged him,
and hence this action. It has since been held that the
deed was no protection as against the non assenting credi-
tors. Upon these facts the learned judge told the jury
the question for them was what damage the plaintiff had
sustained through the discharge of his debtor under such
circumstances. The jury gave a verdict for £23 18s. 9d.,
the amount of the bill and the costs of suing upon it.
DAMAGES FOR WRONGFUL DISCHARGE.— In the Court
of Common Pleas the case of Brown v. Whitbread and
another was heard. The plaintiff brought his action for
damages for a wrongful discharge: He had been hired for
three years by the defendants, who are paper manu-
facturers, had served them for nearly two years, at a
salary of £lBO, but had got into difficulties. The de-
fendants objecting to the plaintiff's pecuniary position, as
entailing inconvenient conseq 'ences on themselves and
their business, discharged him before the end of the second
year, and they now paid into court the balance due up to
the end of the second year, and a quarter's salary, and a
small additional sum in lieu of notice. The real question
was whether the defendants had paid enough. It is always
a difficult matter to ascertain what sum should be paid
into court, and in the present instance the jury gave the
plaintiff £47 10s., making, together with the money paid
into court, £lOO. The full salary for the last year had
been fixed at £l9O.

BREACH OF CONTRACT.—In the Court of Queen's Bench,
the case of Crowther v. Walkley was heard. This was
an action by a tradesman residing at Huddersfield, against
a money-lender, or money-lender's agent, for breach of
contract to lend him some money. It seems that in
August last an advertisement appeared in the Hudders-
field Chronicle stating that loans from £5 to £l,OOO
were made to respectable persons. The plaintiff, at
the period being in want of money, wrote to the
address named in the advertisement, and said
that he wished to borrow £450 upon mortgage
of leasehold property. In answer to this the defendant
wrote : "We can obtain £450 for you upon personal or
other security, if all is satisfactory. As to interest, if you
effect a life policy in an office of our clients' selection for
Vioo, as collateral security for the loan, the money can be
lent at 5 per cent., for five years, repayable by instal-
ments or otherwise." After much negotiation, the plain-
tiff spent £2O in having the deeds prepared, &c., and seeing
no chance of obtaining the loan, he brought the present
action. The defendant's counsel at once agreed to the
return of the money given by the plaintiff, and a verdict
was returned for that amount.

CURIOUS CASE OF FRAUD.-At the Clerkenwell Police-
court, Mr. Charles Case, an omnibus and cab proprietor,
appeared in answer to a summons which charged him with
having, on the 27th February last, unlawfully obtained of
and from the Hop and Malt Exchange and Warehouse
Company (Limited), by means of certain false and fraudu-
lent pretences, the sum of £3s,with intent to defraud. From
the evidence of Mr. Herbert Renny Duke, the secretary to
the company above mentioned, it appeared that on the 4th
of December last, at about half-past five in the afternoon,
he saw a hansom cab overturned in front of the company's

premises in Sontbwark•street, the cause of the accident

being a heap of earth over which it went. The horse was
a dark brown one, and from the examination he then made

he was enabled t,p say that neither the driver nor the
horse were injured ; and he told the driver, who said he
was not hurt; and only a little shaken, to call on him the
following day if any damage was done. Instead of doing
this the defendant sent a letter, through his solicitor,
demanding compensation for injuries sustained by himself
and horse. Thinking the demand exorbitant, witness and
a director of the c)mpany went to the defendant's yard and
there saw a horse that hopped on three legs and had
a large wound. After that a letter was read, stating that

the horse was dead, and £4B 4s. 10d. was remitted to the
prisoner's solicitor. The money was paid on the repeated
statement of the prisoner that the mare seen at his stable
was the same one which fell down. It was proved that
this was not the case, and the driver of the horse in ques-
tion was called, and •he said that the animal was brown,
and not a black one, as was the one seen in the prisoner's
stable by Mr. Duke. This witness having been corrobo-
rated in some material degree, the case was sent to the
Central Criminal Court for trial.

The freedom of the City of London, in a gold
box of the value of 100 guineas, is to be presented to Field-
Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, Constable of the Tower.
BRIDGING THE CHANNEL.-The Caurrier du .Pas
de Calais gives the following piquant account of an inter-
view between the Emperor and M. Boutet, the engineer,
who proposes to build a rail Way bridge across the Channel
between Calais and Dover : " The Emperor was ex-
tremely gracious to M. Dontct, and put several ques-
tions to him which spewed his Majesty's perfect com-
petence to judge of the difficult subject. He was so much
ideased with the answers that he said to Mr. Boutet
Let inc have a full report of your scheme, with plans,
estimates of cost, the time required for the execution,
and the calculated profits to the shareholders. I
kill go- into the matter myself, and we will support you.
Vour project seems to me far more practicable than any
!.hat I have ever seen, whether for tunnels or bridges.'
While the Emperor was speaking, M. Boutet's plan of
the proposed bridge was spread out upon the floor. The
Prince Imperial took a run and jumped over it, where-
upon General Favis, who had presented M. Boutet to his
Majesty, said, Monseigneur, you are the first person who
!las passed over the Channel bridge.' The Emperor
gulled approbation, and repeated to M. Boutet, We
..it support yen,'"

SPORTIN G IN TELLIGENCE.

DONCASTER SPRING MEETING.
THURSDAY.

The few who remained in York over Wednesday even-
ing came into Doncaster by the morning trains to parti-
cipate in the sport on the Doncaster Town Moor, but it
was hardly beyond plating form. The weather in the
morning was as fine and as agreeable as in York, yet there
was a great falling off in the attendance, and bookmakers
bad all the betting among themselves. The dullness of
everything was very marked, and all seemed inclined to
get thro.ugh the programme as quickly as possible in order
to finish the day's work. Details are appended.
The Trial Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 40 added. T.Y.O.
(7 fur. 214 yds.)

Duke of Newcastle's Bombastes,by Orlando, 4 vrs, Bst 71h
(J. Daley) w. o.
The Hopeful Stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 100 added,
for two-yr-olds. Hopeful Course (about 6 fur.).
Lord Annesley's f by Stockwell—Vergiss-tuein-Nicht,
Bst 71b . (Kenyon) 1
Mr. Watt's Snider, Bst 101 b

Count Lagrange's Banco, Bst 101 b (drimshaw) 3
Lord Stanford's Broutia, Bst 41b
Betting-5 to 4on Banco, 100 to 30 agst Vergiss-mein-
Nicht filly, 4 to 1 agst Snider.
The Vergiss-mein-Nicht filly got off with the lend,
having Banco close up till the distance, where the latter
dropped away, and Snider took second position. The lead-
ing pair then raced home together, but the filly stalled off
her opponent and won easily by a length, the other two
coming twenty lengths at least in the rear, and together.
The Doncaster Spring Handicap of 15 soy's, 10 ft, with
100 added. Leger Course (1 mile 6 fur. 132 yds.)
Mr J. Wood's Beauty, by Knowsley—Bargain, 3 yrs,
Bst 31b.. (Kenyon) 1
Mr Lincoln's Kidderminster, 4 yrs, Bst 41b...(5. Taylor) 2
Mr J. Osborne's Sister to Little Agnes, 3 yrs, Est 101 b

(car. 6st 111 b) .. V (G..Walker) 3
Mr Ambery's Greenhorn, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b (Mordan) 0
Mr R. Ea-stwood's Sawyer, 3 yrs, Bst 81b (in 10Ib ex.)
(Snowden) 0
Mr Walker's Wee-Wee Flower, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (Cameron) 0
Betting-6 to 4 agst Beauty, sto 2 agst Greenhorn, Bt3
1 agst Sawyer, 10 to 1 each agst Sister to Little Agnes and
Kidderminster.

Kidderminster jumped away with a lead of Sister to
Little Agnes, Beauty, Greenhorn, Sawyer, and Wee-Wee
Flower, but after going two hundred yards Wee-Wee
Flower ran into second place. Very little change occurred
till Kidderminster ran to the fore, having as his imme-
diate attendants Sister to Little Agnes, Sawyer, Beauty,
Greenhorn, and Wee-Wee Flower. Kidderminster held a
long lead on the far side and seemed all over a winner, but
Beauty, hard held, came on easily in the rear of Sister to
Little Agnes and attended by Sawyer. At the Rifle-butts
Kidderminster had a very long lead, but on coming to the
bend Beauty improved her position on the outside, and
drawing away won easily by five lengths ; the same dis-
tance separating second and third, Sawyer being fourth,
Wee-Wee Flower next, while Greenhorn cantered to the
post, and his jockey dismounted on the course.
The Municipal Stakes of 5 soya each, with 40 added.
Half a mile.

Mr. Darling's Mother Neasbam, by Buccaneer—Little
Hannah, 3 yrs (V 0), 7st 71b Challoner) 1
Captain Machell's Curiosity, 2 yrs (cm, sst 111 b (car.
6st 11b) (Jeffery) 2
Mr. Page's Thermometer, 4 yrs (zu), 9st (Coslett) 3
Mr. W. Nicholl's Oceana, 2 yrs (ao), sst 111 b (Wilson) 4
Mr. Craven's Paleface, 3 yrs (V 0), 7st 71b ...(Camerpn):s
Mr. Williams's Hailstorm, by Neville—Lucy, 2 yrs (£3O).
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Betting-6 to 4 agst Mother Neasham, 2to 1 agat:The•-•
mometer, 100 to 15 each agst Ciiriosity and Paleface,
Mother Neasbam got cff next the rails with the lead, and,
making all the running, won easily by three-quarters of a
length ; Curiosity. defeating , Thermometer by a length ;
Oceana wa's fourth; Paleface next, and Hailstorm last..`
The winner wds sold to Mr. R. Porter for 165 guineas.
The Londesborough Plate of 100 sous. Red House in

(5 fur. 152 yds.)

Mr C. Percy'p Ainsley, by Wild Dayrell—Emily, 4 yrs,
6st 71b (Kenyon) 1
Capt. Machell's Out-and-Outer, 6 yrs, Bst 81b (Cus'ance) 2
Duke of Newcastle's ,carßismarck 4 , Bst 131 b (J. Daley) 3
Mr. Smith's Cornet, 3 yrs, 6st (6st 11b)...(Hammond) 4
Betting-6 to son Out-and-Outer, sto 2 agst Bismarck,
sto 1 agst Ainsley, 7 to 1 agst Cornet. The favourite
made play, with Bismarck on the rails next, and Ainsley
in the rear, till coming into the straight, where Ainsley
rushed through his horses to the fore, in company with
Capt. Machell's colt. These two then left the other pair,
and a slashing race home ensiled, but Kenyon managed to
land by a short head ; Bismarck and Cornet were together
several lengths in the rear.
The Hunters' Stakes of 3 sous each, with 50 added. Two