The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-16 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE SMOKE NUISANCES ACT.—Manufacturers are
every now and again summoned and fined for not con-
suming their own smoke in the metropolis. At the
Thames Police-court, on Thursday, the proprietor of some
white lead and chemical works at Millwall was fined £5
for having used a furnace which did not consume its own
smoke. There had been three former convictions, but
neither applied to the circumstances under which the pre-
sent prosecution was instituted.
THE BERKSHIRE HIGHWATMAN.—WiIIiam Purdue,
whose exploit "on the road" made so much stir a day or
two back, has been committed for trial by the magistrates
of Newbury (Berks).
THE
TRUCK" ACT.—Notwithstanding its obvious
illegality, employers in certain districts still persist in
paying wages in kind. A case decided at Wrexham
recently will, it is to be hoped, put an end to
some of these breaches of the law. A man named
Thomas Griffiths, an ironworker, brought an action
to recover £6 145., the amount of wages alleged
to be due to him by the New British Iron Works
Company, Ruabon, by whom he was employed.
It appeared that the plaintiff had received the amount sued
for in goods, but it was contended that this was no pay-
ment, although the plaintiff might not have demurred at
the time to receive the goods as payment. After the case
had been fully gone into, the jury returned a verdict for
the full amount.

POACHING NEAR BARNSLEY.—Some comment has been
excited at Barnsley by the decisions of the magistrates in
certain poaching cases. In one case, two men named
Henry Kaye and Joseph Poulter;were charged with night
poaching at Ardsley. A keeper named Beighton said that
about nine o'clock on the 10th of September he was out
watching, when he saw a man named Wilkinson in a lane.
Wilkinson was accompanied by the two defendants.
They went into a field occupied by Mr. Sellers. He
saw them, whilst in the field, dragging a net from one end
to the other. With his two assistants he went towards
the men, who left the net and ran away on seeing them.
He came up to Poulter, and struck him on the arm with
a stick. He struck Poulter for no particular reason,
except to prevent him from striking first. Mr. Whitfield
commented in indignant, terms on the brutality:of the keeper
in striking an elderly nian with a stick without the
slightest provocation, and ridiculed the idea of a man like
Poulter, who was nearly blind, going out poaching. He
called Joseph Wilkinson, who said that on the night of the
10th of September he was walking out with Mr. Poulter,
who left him to go into a field for a minute. Poulter had
not been away from him more than three minutes when
he saw him led out of the field by the keepers, his head
bleeding at the time. Kaye was not with them, but
witness saw him just after, putting up some bedsteads in
his own house. The chairman said the magistrates con-
sidered the case proved, and sentenced the prisoners to one
month's imprisonment, and to find sureties for their good
conduct.

From the Ist of January to the middle of Sep.
tember 70,000,000 gallons of petroleum were exported from
the United States.

A humorous comment on artificial memery was
made by a waiter at an hotel where Feinagle dined, after
giving his lecture on artificial memory. A few minutes
after the professor left the table the waiter entered, with
uplifted hands and eyes, exclaiming, " Well! I frotlitl
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