The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-11 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

TOWN SEWAGE.—The town of Romford is unhappy in
the possession of a board of health which discharges its
sewage into the river Rom. One Masters objects to this
arrangement. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir John Stuart,
sees with him the inconvenience and annoyance caused by
the proceedings of the local board, and granted him
an order some months back for sequestration. He,
however, stayed proceedings; or, in other words, he shewed
the local board which way equity was disposed to regard
its action, but gave it time to rearrange its sewage. The
board, however, still uses the Rom, and on Thursday Mr.
Masters again applied to the Vice-Chancellor to have the
order carried out. His Honour was still unwilling to
allow this, but gave leave for the application to
be made in another form, viz., for an injunction
to restrain the local board from emptying it sewage into

the river.
MANSLAUGHTER.-Mr. Justice Brett tried at the
Durham Assizes the case of Patrick Convery, charged
with the murder of John Dougherty. The
jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. In
passing a sentence of twenty years' penal servitude,
his lordship spoke of it as a sentence " almost as terrible
as that of death." Mr. Baron Bramwell, at the
Glauaorganshire Assizep, also sentenced a labourer named
Webster to twenty years' penal servitude. As in the
other case, the accused was charged with murder, but the
jury brought in manslaughter.
POACIIING.—Two young men, the sons of a market
gardener in Sussex, have been charged before the magis-
trates of East Sussex, sitting at Cuckfield, with night
poaching on the lands of the Earl of Sheffield. The
prisoners and another man, who escaped, were detected by
the keepers, and a hand-to-hand fight ensued. The
poachers escaped, but the prisoners were identified, and,
with the aid of the police, were shortly after taken into
custody. They were committed for trial.
FORGERY.-A case in which the mode of doing business
at certain savings banks was called in question
came before Alderman Causton on Thursday at Guild-
hall. A youth named Hodges was charged with having
stolen a cheque for nineteen odd pounds from
his employers, and uttered it after ho had
forged their endorsement. He had paid the cheque
into the Lambeth Savings Bank and opened an account
with it. 3-T;s .mployers wished to know what security the
public r er •ssed cheques, if estal,lisl like the
Lambet i Savings Bank would take one from a boy like
the prisoner. The prisoner was committed for trial.

The Duke of Rutland has joined the Victoria In-
stitute, the society which professes to pursue scientific in-
vestigations with allegiance to the letter of Scripture.

It waz, stated yesterday morning that a petition
charging bribery and corruption has been lodged against
the return of Mr. W. H. Smith for Westminster.

Mr. Gladstone has begged to be excused from ad-
dressing the electors of Greenwich until the election. It
has been resolved to return him free of expense.
The mail train from Liverpool to London =Wednes-
day came into collision with a goods train on the London
and North Western Railway at Ruyton Quarry. Both trains
were greatly damaged, but no lives were lost.

Queen Elizabeth's oak in Beddington Park has
lately been felled. It was supposed to be more than a thou-
sand years old ; and Queen Bess, in her frequent visits to
Dedelington _Park, used often to sit under its wide-spreading
branches, attended by her courtiers and favourites.
On Wednesday, at the Liverpool Police-court, Ellis
Wharton, who for some twelve years, it was alleged, had
set the Excise authorities at defiance, and had on many oc
casions been fined and imprisoned, was charged with selling
ale, wise, and spirits, without having a license. He was
fined £l2O and costs, in default to be imprisoned during her
Majesty's pleasure.

At Durham Assizes, on Wednesday, Patrick Con-
very, aged 36, labourer, was indicted for the wilful murder
of John Docherty, at Jarrow, on the 28th ult. The prisoner
shot tho deceased after having some words with him, and
the motive for the act was jeakuv. The jury found the
prisoner guilty of manslaughter, and Le was sentenced to
twenty year.' penal servitude.

On the day of the Liverpool election a number of
cabowners lout their vehicles gratuitously for the convey-
anco of voters and canvasses in the Conservative interest.
This good service has just been acknowledged by the Con-
servative M.P.'s for the borough, Mr. S. It. Graves and Lord
B:Auden. They have presented to each, catowner an ele-
gantly framed cabinet picture comainiug Lido by scle vig-
nette photographs of themselves, with their autographs be-
low, and an inscription stating the cause of presentation.
THE LATE MR. COI3DEN.—The speeches of the
late Mr. Cobden are now being prepared for publication
by the night Honourable John Bright, M.P., and Mr.
Thorold llogers ; and they will :liortly he given to the
world under the ansp:ces of the club which bears the
name of the instriou3 free-trader.

FORGERIES By TELEGRAPIT.—BUSiIIC22 on the
Manchester Stock Exchange on Thursday was, we learn,
at a aandstill in consequence of the panic occasioned by
the reception of a number of forged messages from London
for the purchase of American bonds. As the time for the
delivery of such messages and the execution of the order
embraces only a few minutes, it is probable that a great
amount of stock changed hands, thcl gh, of course, the
validity of the transactions will be a matter for investiga.
tion by the committee of the Stock Exchange. We learn
that a number of forged orders were also sent by telegraph
to Liverpoql during thp same day.