The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-29 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ACTION AGAINST THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY. -At the Liverpool Assizes Mr.
Guiders, a haberdasher at Birkenhead, brought an action
;or injuries sustained on the London and North-Western
Railway. The plaintiff was travelling on the defendants'
ine on the 2nd of September, and when near Crewe a
:ollision took place. lie sustained a severe blow on the back
)f thehead at the time, and'when brought home and visited
)37 his doctor the same evening he was found vomiting and
with every symptom of a severe shock to the nervous system
ma concussion of the brain. This was succeeded by
tcute inflammation of the brain, according to the
evidence of several medical men who were called on hit
)ehalf,.the results to be feared from which were chronic
lisease and softening, and he remained very ill for a con.
iiderable time, but in December gradually improved, and
it the end of that month was well enough to be moved tc
gew Brighton, where he remained till March. According
:o the statement of the accounts rendered on the part of
le plaintiff, the loss incurred in his business since the
tccident had been nearly £l,OOO, and after this evidence
m his behalf an agreement was come to to give him a
verdict for £2,500, to cover everything.
THE CONVICTION OF AN INNOCENT MAN.-At the Mid•
liesex Sessions, Frederick Winder, a butcher, was indicted
'or stealing thirty-nine sheep, the property of Henry Cook.
Ills case was most unusual, from the fact that two con--
/lets and accomplices of the prisoner were evidence
tgainst him ; and it was further remarkable as connected

with a lad named Bell, who was wrongfully convicted at
these sessions on the 28th of March last, and sentenced to
ive years' penal servitude, the jury in that case disbeliev
.ng Bell's witnesses to an alibi. The offence alleged
against Bell was that he stole twelve sheep ; but it was
?roved during this trial that the real offenders were two
?aen new undergoing penal servitude, and that Bell had
nothing whatever to do with it. Winder was sentenced to
fourteen years' penal servitude.

The post of Deputy Master and Controller of the
Royal Mint has become vacant by the death of Mr. W. 11.
Barton, a son of the late Sir John Barton, treasurer to her
Late Majesty Queen Adelaido. Tho appointment is in the
gift of the Lords of the Treasury.

From a return issued yesterday by an orlr of
the House of Commons of March 2G, wo find that the de-
falcations of collectors, receivers, or other officers of Inland
Revenue, appointed during tho last twenty years, amount
to upwards of £41,200. The most part of this amount has
been recovered by realization of the defaulters' effects and
payments by sureties. Proceedings are pending for the re-
covery of a few hundreds, and a loss of about £7,000 alto-
gether is shown.

A committee, consisting of the Earl of Ilarrowby,
Sir Joseph Napier, Bart., Major-Gen. Sir W. Hill, the Bishop
of Meath, the Deans of Canterbury. Chester, and Cork (with
the Bishop of Gibraltar as president), has been formed
for the purpose of establishing an Italian Church Refor-
mation Fund. The object is to bo the assistance of those
Italians who have evinced a tendency towards reforming
their own Church after the example of the Church of Eng-
land.

In the year 1865, for which the returns have re-
cently been issued, there were 133 suicides in Scotland
one in every 23,579 of the estimated population.
Fifty-eight cf these deaths were by hanging, 40 by
cut-throat, 17 by poison, 12 by drowning, two by
gunshot, two by precipitation from a height, two in ways
not stated. The number of suicides in England in the same
year was 1,892, or one in every 15,080 of the estimated
population; so that to two suicides in Scotland here were
three in England in a like number of population.

According to notice served on Messrs. Lewis and
Lewis by Mr W. 11. Roberts, the solicitor for aide. Rachel,
two persons, named Davis and Slack, were to appear at the
Judges' Chambers yesterday, to justify in £5OO each for her ap-
pearance at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court.
the hour appcinted was twelve o'clock, and by one no ap-
pearance was made, and it was then ascertained that notice
of withdrawal bad been served. It was said the bail was to
be put in at Guildhall Police court, but there also the appli-
cation bad been withdrawn by notice. Madame Rachel
still remains in Newgate.

LORD AMBERLEY ON OVER POPULATION. —A
correspondent informs us that Lord Amberley denies the
accuracy of our report of the proceedings of the Dialecti-
cal Society, published in our impression of July 22, at
the same time calling upon us to verify our report. To
this request we are happy to comply, as the gentleman
who represented us at the meeting, upon reference to his
notes, informs us that the report is strictly correct. The
wording may be somewhat different, but the meaning con-
veyed by the several speakers was unquestionably that
recorded in our columns.—Medical Press and Circular.

TIIE CONDEMNED CONVICT MACKAY.—The con-
aemtted convict Mackay, for the Norton Folgate murder,
has signed a petition to her Majesty for the exercise of the
Royal clemency, and Mr. Cleorge Lewis, who defended the
prisoner, has forwarded it to the Home Secretary. Mr.
Justice Lush tried the prisoner, who was strongly recom-
mended to mercy by the jury, and lie will no doubt be
consulted by the Home Office. It is not true, as stated,
that the Home Secretary had already intimated that it
was a case in which the law muit take its course. The
execution is appointed for the Bth of September.

DAMPEIL—Two or three days since a party of
Secularists went from Nottingham to Mansfield to support
a lecturer on Secularism. lie touk up a. position in the
market place. Soon after he had commenced his address,
one of the fire-engines was brought into the market place,
and those in charge of it stationed themselves on the oppo.
site side of the-Monument, in the rear of the speaker, and
commenced playing upon him, his friends, and the
audience. The people rushed at the engine, and cut the
pipe in several places. The lecture came suddenly to an
end, and Lreat excitement and noise continued for more
than an hour Aft.clnnist