The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-14 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

STREET ACCIDENT.—A case has been nem in the Court
of Queen's Bench in which the plaintiff sued the defendant
for damages for personal injuries. These were caused by
the fall of a bale of paper which was being lifted to an
upper floor of a warehouse. The fall caused the death of
one man and injured the plaintiff so much that he had not
been able to attend to his business since the accident, and ho
had incurred expenses out of pocket to the extent of £2OO.
His medical men were of opinion that his spine was
injured, and that it would take twelve months longer
before he would recover. The defence was that the
plaintiff had contributed to the injury, and that he had
exaggerated his sufferings. There was no spinal injury.
Ultimately the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff ;
damages, £560.
POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES.—Two cases of letter-stealing
have been tried at Taunton, and have resulted in convic-
tions.

BAD MEAT.—Notwithstanding the known vigilance of
the City officers, the offence of sending diseased meat to
the London markets appears to be on the increase, and
that, too, in the face of very severe punishments, both by
fine and imprisonment, inflicted upon offenders when
convicted. A remarkable case of this kind has come
before Mr. Alderman Causton. A wealthy Wiltshire
farmer, the owner of 3,000 acres, was charged with send-
ing the carcases of ten sheep to Newgate market, which
were proved to be in a putrid state, and totally unfit for
human food. He pleaded guilty, and the magistrate said
that, considering the great age of defendant, he would not
send him to prison, but inflicted the full penalty of £2ofor
each carcase, and £lO 10s, for expenses. The amount,
4...210, was at once paid.

A FORTUNATE ACCIDENT. Mr. and
Howard Paul had a very narrow escape of losing the valu-
able jewels they use in their entertainment a night or two
back. They had played at the Music Hall, Worcester, in
the evening, and early the next morning it was found the
ball had been broken into ; but the thieves took little by
their pains, as the jewels, fortunately, had all been sent to
Mr. Howard Paul's hotel, through the accident of the
lock on a trunk being broken. Costumes and wigs
were not to the taste of burglars, for they remained
unharmed.

THE COVENTRY ELECTION PETITION.-011
Saturday night an enthusiastic meeting of the friends and
supporters of Messrs Eaton and Hill, who were returned
at the last election as members for the city, but against
whose return a petition has been lodged by the Liberal
party, took place at the Corn Exchange. Between
0,000 and 6,000 persons were present. The greatest
excitement prevailed, and the reporters connected with the
local Liberal press were forcibly expelled from the room
before the commencement of the proceedings. The two
members, Messrs. Eaton and Hill, addressed the meeting
at considerable length, and the following resolution
was carried unanimously That in the opinion of
a public meeting of the inhabitants of the city of
Coventry the charges which have been preferred in
the petition which is being presented against the
return of Messrs. Eaton and Hill are false and gross
calumnies upon our respected members, and that this
meeting believes that the last election was the purest and
most peaceable election that has ever taken place in
Coventry, and that the petitioners, by the unjustifiable
course that they have taken, have prolonged political
strife in a manner injurious to the best interests of this
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