The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-18 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

LUNATICS.—Another action for illegal detention in a
lunatic asylum has been commenced in the Court of
Common Pleas. The plaintiff is a gentleman resident at
Padbury, in Bucks, and he sued his brother-in-law, one
Mr. Glennie, and a policeman named Rae, for damages,
for having seized him and carried him off to a private
lunatic asylum at Peckham, where he remained from the
3rd July to the Ist October.
MEEICAL TREATMENT.—Mr. Popplewell, a surgeon,
practising at Mile-end, has surrendered at the Old Bailey
to take his trial for the manslaughter of Hannah Clifford.
The deceased was a married woman, about thirty years of
age, the wife of an eating-house keeper in Bethnal-green-
road. She was confined on the 13th of November, and the
allegation on the part of the prosecution was that the de-
fendant, who was called in to attend her, had, by grossly
unskilful and improper treatment, caused her death. The
defence was that there was no such negligence as was
imputed to the defendant in the transaction, and that the
fatal result was solely owing to accident. He Ws
acquitted.
FRAIID.—An important case has been for some days in
course of hearing at the Lambeth Police-court. The
accused is a man named Synnett, and the charge is that he
has received several sums on a policy of an assurance com-
pany which, it was stated, was now being wound up in
Chancery. The magistrate committed the prisoner for
trial, saying that he considered the case one of the utmost
importance.

THE FORTHCOMING ELECTION INQvims.—With
reference to these inquiries it may be mentioned that the
petitioners having lodged the £l,OOO required by Act of
Parliament, or security for that amount, are bound to pro-
secute the inquiry unless a special application is made to
a judge at chambers, who has then power to determine
whether the inquiry should proceed or not, and upon that
decision the reimbursement of any part of the £l,OOO

depends.
STRANGULATION EXTRAORDINARY. —A man of the
name of M'Cunningliam has been found dead within
about thirty perches of his own house, near Castlepollard.
The deceased, in company with another man, left Castle-
pollard about ten o'clock on Saturday night for the purpose
of stealing potatoes, and returning home the deceased
left his companions and went towards his place of residence,
and in coming to a gate which was open and had a paling
on one side, he rested his sack on the paling, which slipped
of! and the cord by which he carried the sack got about his
neck and choked him. Verdict " Accidental strangulation."
PENNY POSTAGE TO AMERICA.— We are glad to
learn that the advocates of a cheaper postal service between
this country and the United States are endeavouring to
carry out a much-needed reform. A petition in favour of
the reduction of the rate of postage to one penny on letters
sent across the Atlantic may at first seem rather an Uto-
pian document. It is, however, anything but that. Mr.
Hadfield, the member for Sheffield, is taking a great inte-
rest in the proposed measure; the petition is being nume-
rously signed; and amongst the signatures, we are assured,
those of a large number of members of the House of Com-
mons are already to be seen.—Dundee Advertiser.

Within the last few days, while her Majesty the
Queen and the Royal Family were at Windsor Castle,
the magnificent bell captured at the siege of Sebastopol
by the Allies, and presented to the Queen, has been hung
in the round tower or " keep " of the Castle. The hell
bears the inscription "Sevastopol, Nicolas Sanctus.
Weight 54.5 ponds" (17 cwt. 1 qr. 211b5.) Upon its
arrival at Windsor it was placed upon the north terrace,
where it remained for some time. It has now been hung
in the shaft of the staircase leading to the top of the
Round Tower. Its precise position is just over the steps
which lead from the landing near the cannon to the
apartments in the centre of the tower. The bell has a
rich and very musical tone, and from its elevated position
(just above the lower battlements of the tower) will,
when sounded, be heard for some distance round Windsor
Castle,