The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-03 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE EMISSION OP SMOKE FROM LOCOMOTIVES.-Tht
West Riding magistrates at Tadcaster have had before
them a case of some importance to the general public.
Birkbeck Forest, a police-constable, had laid an information
under the Bth and 9th Vic., cap. 20, sec. 114, against the
North-Eastern Railway Company, for having, contrary to
the section, emitted smoke from one of their locomotives
on the 12th ult. The section referred to enacts that
" every locomotive steam engine to be used on the railway
shall, if it use coal or similar fuel emitting smoke, be
constructed on the principle of consuming, and so as to
consume its own smoke ; and if any engine be not so con-
structed, the company, or party using such engine shall
forfeit 25 for every day during which such engine shall be
used on the railway." The charge was not pressed, and,
on an undertaking being given that the offence should
not be repeated, the case was dismissed on payment of
costs.

THE FORGERY ON TIIE RUSSIAN BANK.-At the
Thames Police-court the spy Zbaski, who, at the late
sittings of the Central Criminal Court, was the principal
witness : g dust the prisoners indicted for the forgeries on
the Russian Bank, was now brought up on a charge of
perjury, alleged to have been committed at the trial
before mentioned. It was stated that Mr. Rewman, who
was formerly charged with the forgery, had been seriously
injured in reputation and business, and this was in conso.
quence of the false representations of Zbaski,,who had
deceived both the Russian Government and the Metro-
politan Police, for the purpose of obtaining money. After
hearing the evidence of Rewman and others, the case was
sent to the sessions for trial.

THE IMPORTANT CASE OF PERJURY.—At the Magis-
trates' Office, Maidstone, Thomas Lawford Hawgood
was charged on remand with having committed perjury
during the hearing of an action in which he was the
plaintiff, and the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway
Company the defendants. Several witnesses who were in
the employ of the company stated on oath that which, if
true, indicated that the prisoner could not have been
assaulted, as alleged, in a first-class carriage. The bench
decided the case for trial at the next aSS:Z33.
THE WATERLOO HIGHWAYMEN.—At the Southwark
Police-court the magistrate was engaged in hearing several
serious cases of highway robbery, alleged to have beer
f.omnaitted by a number of thieves, known as the " Water-
loo Highwaymen." In the first case the prosecutor, a
clerk in the Privy Council Office, stated that on the
17th ult., about six o'clock in the evening, he was passing
along Blackfriars-road, and when near Warwick-
street, he felt a tug at his watch-guard from some
person behind. Prosecutor at once closed his hand over
his waistcoat pocket, and saved his watch, but a portion
of the chain was broken away. The prisoner Green was
the man, and immediately ran off towards a court in
Warwick-street, and on prosecutor following, he was met
by three other men, and knocked down by a tremendous
blow on the right side of the head, cutting his ear. All the
men got away, and he could not positively swear to any
of them but Green.—ln another case the prisoners were
charged with assaulting and robbing a barrister. Sufficient
evidence having been given to justify a remand, the
prisoners, some of whom are well known as thieves, were
remanded.

CHARGE OF LIBEL AGAINST THE' " TIMES" AND THr
" TELICGRAIII."—At the Guildhall, an application was
made to the sitting magistrate for summonses against the
Times and the Telegraph for a libel published against Mr.
Bewicke, of Threepwood Hall, Northumberland. The
alleged libel was contained in the repolt of a trial at the
Central Criminal Court, in which Mr. Bewicke was the
prosecutor. After reading the affidavits, it was agreed
that the reports in the papers should be compared with
the shorthand writer's notes, before further proceedings
were taken.

STEALING LORD SHAFTESBURY'S WOOD.-At the Cran.
borne Petty Sessions Samuel Rabbit, of Gussage,
All Saints, was charged with stealing wood, the
property of Lord Shaftesbury, and valued at twopence.
Mr. Chitty defended the prisoner, and stated that he did
not believe that the Earl of Shaftesbury, whose fame for
humanity and charity was spread throughout the world,
could know of this prosecution, the value of the wood
being so trifling. The prisoner was asked if he elected
for the magistrates to dispose of the case under the
Criminal Justice Act. He declined doing so, and conse-
quently was committed, the bench accepting his own re-
crgnisance to appear at the ensuing quarter sessions.

The Dublin Evening Mail understands that the
Lord-Lieutenant and the Duchess of Abercorn are likely
to honour Mr. and Mrs. John Georg.) Adair by a visit at
Glenveagh Castle, in the county of Donegal. To the
natural beauties of mountain and lake which distinguish
Glenveagh, the care of Mr. Adair during many years has
added features of industrial civilisation which have greatly
changed the social asp,.:ct of the district. The mountains have
been drained for sheep pasture to their tops, and, with the
help of Manchester people who are working the mines, the
entire population have constant employment.

HALF-YEAR'S CONSUMPTION OF ,SPIRITS.—Im the
first half of the year 1868 the quantity of home-made
spirits returned for consumption in the United Kingdom
as beverage amounted to 9,571,842 gallons, a decrease of
605,315 gallons compared with the quantity in the first
half of 1867. In England the quantity was 5,317,574
gallons, a decrease of 42,425 gallons ; in Scotland, 2,048,640
gallons, a decrease of 217,135 gallons ; in Ireland, 2,205,628
gallons, a decrease of 345,755 gallons. In the same half-
year, in addition to these 9,571,842 gallons of home-made
spirits, 1,454,198 proof gallons of foreign brandy were
entered for home consumption, an increase of 4,111 gallons
over the corresponding period of 1867; and 1,896,168 proof
gallons of foreign rum. a. decrease of 216.614 gallon■.