The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-27 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

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AN UNFORTUNATE CASE.—At the Central Criminal
Court, before Baron Pigott, Charles William Templeman,
22, has been charged with the manslaughter of Stephen
Blake, his father-in-law. The prisoner had married the
daughter of the deceased, she being at the time only six-
teen years of age. The parents were aware of the
marriage, but they were not consenting parties to it, and
the marriage did not turn out very happily. The
deceased was a valet to a gentleman in Eaton-
place, and on the 11th of October the wife
of the prisoner had gone to visit her mother and
'ather there, and they were in the kitchen when the pri-
soner came to the house and entered the room where they
were. He was at the time the worse for liquor, and by
the direction of Mr. Charley, the master of the deceased,
he was requested to leave the place. Some altercation
took place, when the prisoner struck the deceased a violent
blow in the eye, and he bled profusely. The prisoner then
seized him by the neckcloth; swung him round,
threw him down, and fell violently upon him.
Immediately after the occurrence the prisoner seemed to
have exhibited the utmost sorrow and remorse for what
had happened, and he wrote several letters to his wife and
his mother-in-law entreating their forgiveness for what he
had done. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recom-
mended him
,to mercy on the grounds that the act had
been done in the heat of passion and without premedita-
tion. He was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for six months.

BREACH OF PROMISE.---A breach of promise trial in
;he Court of Queen's Bench has excited much interest.
The plaintiff was a young lady of great personal attrac-
tions, and the defendant a gentleman in the Indian ser-
vice. The courtship had gone on during the furlough
of the defendant, and the marriage was to have taken
place after his return. No quarrel had interposed ;
but defendant declined to carry out his engagement on
account of his health. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., admitted the
engagement, but contended that, as it would have been
suicidal for the defendant to have married, he was released
de facto from his promise. The case occupied most of the
day, and eventually the jury, who could not agree, were
discharged without giving a verdict.

THE LAST CHURCH-RATE MARTYRS.—At the 'Wands-
worth Police-conk Mr. Hanbury, a Quaker, and Mr.
Ridley have been summoned for non-payment of their
proportions of a church-rate of lid. in the pound, made in the
parish of St. Mary, Balham, in May last. Mr. Dayman,
the presiding magistrate, made an order in each case. In
the course of the hearing it transpired that this would be
the last of the church-rate cases.
CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—At the Clerkenwell Police.
*court, on Thursday, William Matthews was charged with
assaulting Francis William Knill, compositor, by striking
him with his fist and with his walking-stick. Complainant
said he was willing to accept an apology, I n 1 had offered
to withdraw the charge on those conditions. The magis-
trate admonished the defendant, ordered him to publicly
apologise, and pay the costs.

Talking of the education question, a traveller
observed that as he was walking on one occasion under
the arcade of the Horticultural Garden, looking at the
works of art displayed there, he came upon two well-
dressed ladies examining a statuette of Andromeda,
labelled, " Executed in Terra Cotta." " Executed in
Terra Cotta," says one ; " where is that ?" " I am sure I
don't know," returned the other ; " but I pity the poor
girl, wherever it was."

A young medical student, Mr. Edmund Miles, has
met with his death rather mysteriously in Dublin. lie was
brought to one of the city hospitals at two o'clock in the
morning, by two policemen, who found him in the street
quite unccnscious, having a wound on the left eye, with ex-
tensive effusion of blood, and also a wound on the back of
the head. Ile died in a few hours. It is stated that three
men wantonly attacked him near Moore's monument, in the
neirlabourhoad of Trinity College. His body awaits an in-
quest.

A QUOTATION WANTED.—The stanza quoted by
Reverdy Johnson in his recent speech at Brighton,
expressive of the identity of race and institutions of the
United States and Great Britain, was taken from a short
poem, written thirty years ago by Mr. W. F. Rock, the
well-known stationer of Walbrook, whi:e on a visit to
America, but printed for the first time last year in a little
volume entitled " Winter Gatherings : Poems written
chiefly in Youth," which Mr. Rock privately circulated
among his friends in an edition de luxe.

NEW SPIRITUAL PEER.--The Right Rev. Dr. W. C.
Magee, recently consecrated to the bishopric of Peter-
borough, will become entitled to a scat in the House of
Lords shortly after the meeting of Parliament, and will
act as chaplain. Dr. C. Wordsworth, on his consecration
to the bishopric of Lincoln, will remain without a seat
until a vacancy occurs in a diocese other than Canterbury,
York, London, Durham, and Winchester. Until Bishop
Magee's accession to a seat on the Episcopal bench of
the House of Lords, Dr. Atlay, of Hereford, will act as
chaplain.