The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-30 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

FORGERY UPON THE EARL OF DUDLEY.—The two pri•
Boners, Farrer and Hullett, who were arrested several
weeks ago on a charge of having forged Lord Dudley's
acceptance to a bill of exchange for £BOO, have been
placed upon their trial at the Central Criminal Court.
The imitation of his lordship's signature had been so
complete as to deceive a London financial agent
and a firm of bankers in Dublin. The result
was that the bill was discounted, and the money handed to
the prisoners. Early in the day a telegram was received
from Lord Dudley, stating that he could not be in London
until the evening ; and the judge, after hearing the other
witnesses, adjourned the case, intimating that unless the
noble earl-gave a satisfactory reason for his non-attendance
the amount of his recognisances would be forfeited.
MANSLAUGHTER.--At the Westminster Police-court, on
Thursday, Charles Templeman, a gentleman's coachman,
was charged with the manslaughter of Stephen Brake, his
father-in-law. It will be remembered that in a family
quarrel the prisoner, who was much excited by drink,
attacked the deceased, shook him violently, and eventually
threw him upon the edge of a sink so as to break three of
his ribs. The injuries inflicted upon the old man proved
fatal in two or three days. The accused was committed
for trial.

THE NOTTING-HILL OUTRAGE.—The man Seiler, who 13
charged with burglary and with violence on the person of
a lady at Notting-hill, has been brought up for examina-
tion at the Hammersmith Police-court. Mrs. Russell,
the prosecutrix, was sufficiently recovered to give evi-
dence, and the prisoner, who denied that he committed
the outrage, was remanded for a few days.
APPRENTICES.—A. young man who had been an
apprentice at Messrs. Doulton's pottery works has been
brought up at the Lambeth Police-court, charged with
having left several months before his term had expired.
As similar cases had previously been allowed to pass with
impunity, the young man's employers determined to
make an example, and having obtained a warrant, he was
captured at Glasgow. The magistrate inflicted a penalty
of £G for the loss of service, and £lO costs, or in default of
payment a month's imprisonment.
CHEQUE ROBBERY.—The brothers Bennett, charger]
with an extensive robbery of cheques, to the amount of
£lOO, from Messrs. Barber and Co., wharfingers, Brewer's-
quay, has been convicted at the Central Criminal Courts
Judgment was deferred.

A man named John Thompson has been committed
for trial at the Southampton Assizes for publishing " a eor.
tarn scandalous, impious, blasphemous, and profane libel of
or concerning the holy Scriptures and the Christian re-
ligion."

TUE PRINCESS OF llEssn.--The accouchement of
her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse is expected in
about ten days. On Monday next Dr. Brodie, one of the
physicians of Queen Charlotte's Hospital, will start for
Darmstadt, in order to be in attendance.—British, Afcclica4
Journal.

MUDDLED UP.—lt is raro that editors indulge in
a drop, but when they do their readers are apt to find it
out. Witness the following :—" Melancholy Event.—
Yesterday morning, at four p.m., a man with a heel in
the hole of his stocking committed arsenic by swallowing
a large quantity of suicide. The inquest of the
returned a jury that the deceased came 4-..0 the facts in
accordance with his death. T:io leaves a child and
six small wives to I:talent the end of his untimely
death. In 11-_:;4iii We are in the midst of life."—American

A NARROW ESCAPE. —Mdlle. Albino. di Rhona,
the " dancing-soubrette " who first raised the Soho play.
house to the rank of a recognised theatre, and endowed it
with its present title, the " New Royalty," has lately been
exposed to serious peril. Her present calling, it seems, is
that of a performer of legerdemain, and at the S ille de
l'Orient, Brussels, she has been giving a series
of performances, comprising the well-known trick
of receiving uninjured the supposed contents of an
apparently loaded pistol. One evening, when the
weapon, after it had been handed round for
the inspection of the public, was returned into her
hands, she inserted her magic wand into the barrel, and
felt it come in contact with an unexpected obstacle.
She retired, and afterwards reappeared in a state of violent
agitation. It subsequently transpired that some scoundrel
among the spectators had slipped into the barrel a screw
of about an inch in length, which, if it had not been dis-
covered, would have killed or seriously wounded the fab
enchantress.

A WEI:SH CHURCH WITHOUT A PARSON.—A
Oswestry Adrertiser writes : " We often hear of a Welsh
church without a congregatim, but now we arc informed
that at the parish church of Dlandanwg, in the county of
Aferioneth, there has been no service held for the last
seven weeks. It appears that no rector has been appointed to
Llandanwg and Llanbedr since the removal of the Bev. J. Je
Brown to Mallwyd. A clergyman who happens to be visit.
in:;? in the neighbourhood has been occasionally oliciating
during these weeks at the latter parish ; but at the former,
no service of any description has been held during the
time mentioned. The rectory is in the gift of the Bishop
of Llan'laff, and is worth about MO. The omission
certainly is not of much importance to the resident
parishioners, as hardly any of them ever enter the church
when services are held there. The cure of souls in this
district is pretty well cared for by other denominations,
and if a project of disendowmcnt had been carried on here
no one in the neighbourhood, except some officials, would
be foun4 read/ to complain,"

MISCELLANEOUS NETT'S.