The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-29 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF FORGERY.--At the Mansion
House, Arthur Edward Bolton was charged with forging
and uttering a cheque for £563 Gs., purporting to have
been signed by Mr. Willing, the well-known advertisement
contractor. It seemed that the accused gave the cheque
in question to an errand-boy, and that person went to the
Union Bank to get it changed. When the prisoner wa:.
apprehended, two cheques purporting to have been signed
by his father were found on him. The prosecutor, in cross-
examination, stated that he knew the prisoner's father
well, and had given orders to the cashier to pay the cheque
if presented, as witness intended charging the prisoner's
father with the amount. The prisoner, whose mind was
said to be affected, was committed for trial.
NEW GAMING ACT.—The Court of Queen's bench
having decided that cards and coins were not instruments
of gaming within the meaning of the Act, the following
clause has been since passed, and will come into force on the
Ist October : "Every person playing or betting by way
of wagering or gaming in any street, road, highway, or
other open and public place to which the public have or
are permitted to have access, at or with any table or
instrument of gaming, or any coin, card, token, or other
article used as an instrument of gaming or means
of such wagering or gaming, at any game or pretended
game of chance, shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond
within the true intent and meaning of the recited Act,
and as such may be punished under the provisions of that
Act."

THE SURPLUS PLANTS OF THE PUBLIC PARKS.
—The First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works, &c..
intends to have distributed this, autumn among the work-
ing classes and the poor inhabitants of London, the
surplus bedding-out plants in Battersea, Hyde, the
Regent's, and Victoria Parks, and the Royal Gardens,
Kew.

THE QUEEN OF SPAIN AND HER CHILDREN.—Tho
correspondent of the Star says there is no sympathy ex-
pressed for the Queen. Unfortunately for her, she has
neither an attractive person nor a graceful manner. Her
mind is utterly uncultivated. She is known to have en-
deavoured of late years to expiate the gross faults of her
early life by abject submission to the priestly party, and
of latter years to have thrown herself and her Court into
the practice of a superstitious bigotry worthy of a Torque-
mada, but unredeemed by the undoubted genius of that
arch fiend.

• THE PATENT COFFIN. The inventor of the
patent safety coffin has given his complicated apparatus
another trial, this time in New York. About 500 persons
were present to see Mr. Vester buried. A grave six
feet deep had been got in readiness for him, an d Mr.
Vester stepped into the coffin " with_ more alacrity,"
says the New York reporter, " than could be expected
of a man about to submit to so grave an experiment.
Having arranged himself comfortably, a young lady put
a wreath of flowers on his head, the coffin lid was
screwed down, the pipe communicating with the outer
air was fixed into its place, and the whole machinery
was lowered into the grave. Mr. Vester remained
buried for upwards of an hour, and then climbed up
through the tube and stepped forth. "He did not appear
to be at all decomposed," adds the reporter, who seems to
have a proper appreciation of the invention. Seeing that
each of the spectators paid about is. 6d. for admission to
the ground, it is evident that Mr. Vester may live very
handsomely by his coffin.

A LONDON CABMdN'S LIFE.—At the time of the
late cab strike, a cabman with his wife and children had to
take refuge in the Holborn Union workhouse, but lately
left the house and obtained permission to leave his wife and
family behind for a few days until he could obtain employ-
ment, and has since addressed a letter to the guardiant,
asking to be allowed to leave his family a little longer, on
account of the state of the cab trade. He says : " Since
I left the house I have had three nights' employment
with a horse and cab. To give you some idea of the state
of the trade, I must inform you that on these three nights
my earnings were 103., the master's money being ss. 7d.,
and the horsekeeper's 3d. per night. I managed to pay
the first two nights' demand, 11s. Bd., leaving my existing
and paying lodging out of the scanty pittance of 4s. 4d.
for three nights and days, and having only earned on the
last night ls. 6d. all night. So the third night I was not
in a position to pay the master ; hence my discharge.
Surely 18s. or 20s. per week at any kind of employ would
be to me a princely income in comparison to the anxiety
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