The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-01 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

EMBEZZLEMENT,—TIIr.7..e. ZERIOUS CASES.—Tnree very
painful' eases of theft or embezzlement have come before
the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House. In one, a con.
fidcntial clerk to a firm of insurance brokers for eleven
years, was charged with embezzlement to a large amount ;
in the second, a copying clerk, nearly 50 years of ago, was
sent to a bank to cash a cheque, and absconded with the
money; and in the third, a youth of 20, a clerk in the
London and County Bank, abstracted from a sum paid
in by a depositor. The two latter were committed for
trial, and the first remanded.
THE HON. MRS. WINDHAM SUMMONED FOR A CAE
FARE.—At the Marylebone Police-court the lion. Mrs.
Windham was summoned before Mr. D'Eyncourt fot
the sum of 2s. cab fare. She did not, however, answer to
her name. The cabdriver said that after driving the lady
about for a long time, be charged her 12s. She refused to
pay more than Bs. Complainant offered to take 103., but
afterwards took Ss., saying he would summon her for the
remaining 2s. Mr. D'Eyncourt ordered the 2s. to be
paid, and awarded the complainant 7s. costs.

WOUNDED WITH A PlSTOL.—Edmund Prest, a youth,
was charged at Manchester with shooting at and wounding
a boy named George Agnew. It appeared that on Satur-
day morning the boy was passing along Slade-lane, Prest-
wich, upon a pony. The prisoner, who was shooting at
birds with a pistol, fired, the small shot with which the
pistol was loaded lodging in the boy's leg and in the side
of the pony. Mr. Mellor, to whom the pony belonged,
stated that a number of pellets had been taken out of the
boy's leg and the pony's side, but neither appeared to be
much the worse, and he hoped the bench would deal leni-
ently with the prisoner. The magistrates cautioned Prest,
and gave effect to Mr. Mellor's wish by fining him ICs.
and costs only, with the alternative of a month's imprison•
ment.

ASSAULT BY A SURGEON.--At Walsall, on Monday,
Alfred Freeman, surgeon, was charged with having as-
saulted a boy, aged 10 years, named John Bowring. It
appeared that some lads had rung the defendant's door-
bell, and that he came out, and finding the complainant—
who, with anotherboy, had been for some milk—and, sus-
pecting he was the party who had committed the offence,
knocked him down, kicked him, and knocked one of his
teeth out. The bench ordered the defendant to pay a fine
of 40s. and costs.
Tim ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A POLICPMAN AT FILL.
—Edward Hicks and Thomas Bryant have been agair
examined before Colonel Burrowes, on a charge of being
concerned in shooting a policeman named Ogborne at Pill
on the 14th ult. It will be remembered that on the
morning in question the injured constable, who is scared)
able to walk, was on his beat on St. George's-cornmon,
near Pill, when he saw two men in front of him with their
pockets very much stuffed out. He hastened after
them, and had nearly overtaken them, when one of
them dropped something. He found on examination t'iat
1, was a number of fowls, dead, but still warm. He
tried to seize the man nearest him, but fell in the attempt,
•the man being too far off. On recovering himself the mar
turned round and fired a pistol at him, and the contents
lodged in the groin. The constable swore positively to the
identity of Hicks as the person who shot him, but could
not speak so surely as to the prisoner Bryant as the com•
panion of Hicks, he (witness) having been unable to get
close enough to him. Evidence was adduced shewing that
the men had been in the neighbourhood about the time of
the occurrence, and that some shot which had been ex-
tracted from Ogborne's wound corresponded with some that
were found in a box belonging to Hicks. Both men
denied the charge, and declared that they were unknown
to each other, but they were both committed for trial. It
is stated that it will be several weeks before Ogbsrne will
be able to resume his duties.

THE LONDON WATER SUPPLY. —Professor Frank-
land reports :—" The results of the analysis of the Kent Com-
pany's water collected this month at Bromley spew that it
is of an entirely different *character from that delivered.by
the same company at Deptford. Not only is the previous
sewage contamination of the Bromley water very high, but
the presence of a large amount of ammonia shews the con-
tamination to have occurred very shortly Lefore the water-
was delivered to consumers. The use of this water for
domestic purposes is very undesirable."

A Goon IDEA. —A contemporary says it is
intended to instruct the large population of Stratford in
the most prominent questions of the day by means of a
course of four political lectures. The first, on January 20,
is by Mr. Anthony Trollope, the well-known writer, on
" Politics as a Study for Common People." Sir Fowell
Buxton, M.P., will occupy the chair. The other three
lectures on the Mondays following are by Mr. Mason
Jones on " Work for the New Parliament ;" by .Mr.
Joseph Bormond on " The Ballot ;" and by Mr. Carvell
Williams on ".The Irish Church." -