The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-21 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE AFFAIRS OF THE JOINT-STOCK DISCOUNT CO3l-
rANy.—Before the Lords Justice; the appeal case of
Shepherd v. Gillespie was heard. The defendant was at
one time a director of the Joint-Stock Discount Company,
and Vice-Chancellor Stuart decreed that he should pay
calls made since 27th December, 1865, and any future calls
that might be made, on 250 shares in that company which
stood in the plaintiff's name. The decree of the Vice-
Chancellor was affirmed, and the appeal dismissed, with
costs.

A GAOL BIRD.—At Dublin, Christopher Cassidy, a
man 30 years of age, was charged with a violent assault
on a woman, and was sentenced to four months' imprison-
ment. Although not yet 30 years old, he has spent
eleven years in penal servitude, besides which he has
been seven times convicted before the Recorder, and
fourteen times before the police magistrates, for various
offences. In fact, he has: spent more than half his life in
Prison.

WHAT ARE CHARITIES ?—A suit instituted in the Court
of Chancery, which raised the above question, under the
title of Beaumont v. Oliveira, has just been decided by
Vice-Chancellor Stuart. The object sought was to ad-
minister the estate of the late Benjamin Oliveira, who for
some years had been M.P. for Pontefract. By his will
Mr. Oliveira gave £4,000 to each of the following institu-
tions :—The Royal Humane Society, the Royal Institution,
the Royal Geographical Society, the Marylebone Girls'
School, and the Albert Orphan Home—making altogether
£20,000. The pure personalty had realised only £6,700,
the leaseholds about £B,OOO, and some real estate in
Madeira £BOO. The Vice-Chancellor held that all these
institutions were charities, and all of them should partake
rateably of the pure personalty in priority to costs and
debts, and that the land in Madeira must be considered
pure personalty, and the proceeds of the sale thereof be
paid to the charities.
SENDING DISEASED MEAT TO MARKET. —At the Guildhall,
flenry Murrage, a farmer, of Chelmsford, was charged
with sending four quarters of a cow to the London market
which were unfit fur human food. The defendant had a
cow suffering from lung disease, and as soon as he became
aware of the fact, an order was at once issued that the
cow should be killed. The carcase was sent to a London
salesman, but the latter had evidently not intended to sell
it. The defendant was fined £2O, and ordered to pay
£5 ss. costs.

ANNOYING A CONGREGATION.—At Worship-street three
Pound men were charged with annoying the con-
gregation of St. Matthias, in Hackney-road, by
offering pigeons, rabbits, &c., for sale close to the
boors of the church, on Sunday last. A policeman who
was doing special duty in the neighbourhood saw one of
the prisoners with a small hamper vending rabbits, and
another had pigeons for sale, and the disturbance they
made at the very doors of the church must have been
heard by the congregation. The accused were fined 40s.
and costs, or a month's imprisonment.
ALLEGED MURDER.—The coroner for West Middlesex
cold au inquest at Erith to inquire into the circumstances
surrounding the death of a man named James Bishop,
who, it was alleged, expired on Sunday morning last from
the effect of injuries received on the previous Saturday
night at the hands of two young men named William Pink
and 'John Fletcher, without any provocation on the part
of the deceased. From the evidence it appeared that the
deceased was knocked down, beaten, and severely kicked
in the streets of Erith by the prisoner Pink, whilst the
prisoner Fletcher was standing near, but the latter
did not appear to have taken any active part in the assault.
Later in the day the prisoners were placed at the bar of
the Woolwich Police-court, before Mr. Maude, the sitting
magistrate, on the charge of murdering the deceased man
Bishop, when sufficient evidence was taken to justify the
prisoners being remanded on the capital charge.

MURDER THROUGH JEALOUSY.—At Bonhill, Scot-
sand, a few mornings since, a young man named M`Vean
was stabbed by a man named Gilchrist, and died in a few
hours. He was found lying in the street, but was able to
Identify the person who stabbed him. Gilchrist was
Apprehended. It is thought that the deceased was stabbed
by mistake for another person, of whom it is said the pri-
soner was jealous of maintaining an improper intimacy
with his wife.

We read in a pamphlet just published at Paris,
-written by M. L. A. Bourguin, and entitled "La
Viande de Cheval :"—" Some people are surprised
to find the ass and the mule figuring along with
other animals in the butchers' shops of Paris. They
will be more surprised still when they learn that,
►ccording to the unanimous testimony of the members of a
committee who have tasted them, the flesh of the mule is
better than that of the horse, and the flesh of the ass is
better than that of the mule. It is probable that so valu-
able an article of diet will be no longer neglected by our
armies in a campaign, since even in Paris the bouchcries de
..Ireval are doing an excellent trade."

THE NEW REGISTRATION ACT.—The new Act
.or the next registration has been issued. It contains
thirty-seven clauses, some of which are declaratory of the
next registration and the next election. The revision is to
take place between the 14th September and the Bth
October. One hundred and thirty-two revising barristers
.nay be appointed. In the event of the power to appoint
additional barristers, under the Act 6 and 7 Vic., c. 18,
)ccurring after the sth September, the power is to be exer-
cised by the judge sitting at chambers. There is a pro-
vision that notwithstanding the clause in the new Reform
Act, the "lodgers" are to appear on the lists and registers
)f voters in separate liEts.

STRANGE ACCIDENT.—Roger Onions, first whip
to the Quorn, was accidentally killed the other day. The
circumstances, as spoken to at the inquest by the hunts-
man, were these. He (the huntsman) and deceased, with
the other whipper-in, were in Garendon Park with the
young hounds, shewing them the deer, in order to break
them from running them. On their way through the park
deceased saw a lame deer, and seem anxious to show it
the hounds, so he trotted towards it. he deer ran away,
and deceased started his horse in order to turn it in front
of the hounds. He called to deceased to stop, but he ap-
peared not to hear him, and went on, and the deer and his
horse came in collision. The deer fell and the horse rolled
over it sideways. The deer got up and ran away, and
deceased was left with his loft leg under the horse for a
few seconds, when the horse jumped up, and, deceased's
foot being in the stirrup, he was dragged, but only about
two yards, when his foot was liberated, They raised him
up, but he was insensible; He Aqci
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