The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-31 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

DISTURBING A CONGREGATION. —At the Brighton
Police-court, Edward Martin, a middle-aged man, has
been charged with having disturbed the congregation at
St. James's Chapel, on Sunday last, by shouting " Pro-
testants to the rescue !" while the procession was passing
along the aisles. The defendant, who expressed his regret,
pleaded guilty, and was fined 20s. and costs. In future
the admission to St. James's Chapel is to be by ticket.
EMBEZZLEMENT. —At the Clerkenwell Police-court,
Samuel Moyes, a town traveller, in the employ of Messrs.
Betts, brandy distillers, was finally examined on a series
of charges of embezzlement. The operations of the accused
appear to have been remarkably extensive, and the gross
amount of which his employers have been defrauded is
more than £309. He was committed for trial. Another
collector in the same service is accused of defalcations to
the extent of £l,OOO.
Tnr, BROTHERS BENNETT.—At the Central Criminal
Court, Thomas Henry Bennett, 21, and John Bennett,
his brother, 25, who were convicted of robbery and felo-
niously receiving cheques to a large amount from the
proprietors of Brewer's Quay, were brought up for judg-
ment, and the former was sentenced to eighteen months'
hard labour, and the latter to be kept in penal servitude
for five years.
DEATH BY ALLEGED DRUGGING.—At the Woolwich
Police-court John Newing, of Sandwich, was placed at
the bar, charged with causing the death of Henry Dear,
of St. John's-wood, by administering to him a quantity
of snuff in beer. The case had been several times
before the court, and it was now stated that Mr. Doar
expired on Taesday last, and a coroner's inquest had
been held, when it was proved that the deceased had
been suffering from congestion of the brain for some time
prior to his being drugged. Another witness now appeared,
a young man named Robert Owen, who said he had a con-
versation with the prisoner outside the " Waterman's
Arms," whilst the deceased was inside, and the prisoner
said that he did not want to rob the man, but he might as
well do it as anybody, and that a little snuff in his ale
would settle the job. The prisoner was again remanded.

The authorities of Dewsbury, in anticipation of
disturbances at tho election, are already beginning to swear
in special constables.

Canon Girdlestone has written to Mr. Morley, the
Liberal candidate for Bristol, to promiso him his vote as a
supporter of Mr. Gladstone's Church policy.

It appears from a Parliamentary paper just issued that
the number of paupers in England and Wales on the Ist of
January last was 1,040,103. Of these 43,158, or 4.3 percent.,
were insane. They consisted of 19,033 males and 24,125
females.

The rumour that the body of Dr. Powell had been
found at Willesden Railway Station is false. The body
found there has been identified as that of Mr. Hardesley, of
Duke-street, Smithfield. It was frightfully mutilated by
the train which passed over it. An inquest will of course be
hold.

The Brighton Gazette of yesterday publishes the fol•
lowing notice, which has been issued by Mr. Purchas:—
"S. James's Chapel, Brighton.—As certain evil disposed per-
sons have disturbed Divine service, it has been determined
to admit by tickets. Tickets may be had at the principal
libraries. Cards of admission will be sent to all seat-holders.
—John Purchas, M.A., Perpetual Curate of St. James's
Chapel."

The Liverpool Coroner has held an inquest on
the body of Christopher Kelly, the lad whose death was
caused by an explosion at the shop of Mr. Bradbury, fire-
work manufacturer, Lime-street, on Tuesday evening.
Several witnesses were examined, but none could account
for the explosion. The jury returned a formal verdict.
They expressed an opinion that the police should exercise a
strict supervision over shops where fireworks are sold.

At Penistone Lord Milton said be would advocate
appropriating the property of the Irish Church to pur-
poses of education. Being asked whether he would de-
vote the property of his forefathers to the same purposes,
ho said, in reply, that he would keep it, because it was given
for services rendered to the State, and "not originally got
by a priest going to a dying man, and saying, 'lf you don't
leave this property to the Church I will send you, body and
soul, to hell.'"

A harvest thanksgiving was celebrated at St.
Alban's, Holborn, on Thursday. The communion table,
chancel railings, pulpit, and lectern, were decorated with
various kinds of grain, fruit, and flowers. The Rev. A. H.
Alaclionochie was the principal officiating clergy-
man at the mid-day communion service, and the
sermon was preached by the Rev. A. Blomfield, son of the
late Bishop of London. The preacher paid a tribute to the
Inetrory of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, whose con-
duct he especially commendAl for the part he took in the
Pan-Anglican Synod. Though the church was half full of
poopLi there were only four communicants.

How A RAT STOLE EGGS.—The rats having
made free with my eggs, I determined to watch the pro.
cess of lowering them from the shelf on which they were
kept. Having concealed myself, I soon saw a rat mount
the shelf, nearly three feet from the ground, take an egg
between his claws, and break at one end a hole large
enough to insert the end of his jaw; clasping the egg
against his stomach with his two paws, and steadying it
with his jaw in the hole he had made, he walked back•
wards to the edge of the shelf, and then deliberately
threw himself down, so that he fell with his back on the
ground, and the egg nestling at his stomach. He turned
over, and was decamping with the egg, but I stopped
him and recovered it, unbroken, save the little hole atone
end in which he bad inserted his jaw.--." C," in Ss(eno
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