The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-25 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER BY A POLICEIIAN.—WiIIiam
Kerridge, a police-constable, has been indicted for felo-
niously killing and slaying Henry Frogmore, a pensioner.
The constable had questioned the deceased as to
his mode of living, and receiving abuse in reply,
he took him by the collar and threw him on
his back. Death resulted from concussion of the brain.
The jury, after deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty,
accompanied by a strong recommendation to mercy. Mr.
Justice Keating, in passing sentence, remarked that the
prisoner, in a moment of irritation, undoubtedly com-
mitted an act which was followed by the loss of life, but
the circumstances were of so mitigating a character as to
entirely warrant the strong recommendation of the jury,
and the sentence of the court was that the prisoner be im-
prisoned for one week.
LEAVING A TRAIN IN MOTION.--At the Hammersmith
Police-court two passengers have been summoned. at the
instance of the Great Western Railway Company, for
having left a train in motion on the platform of the Ken-
sington station. The defence was that the guard had
jumped from the train before it had stopped, and com-
menced unlocking the doors, and that the train moved on
aftea it had once pulled up. The magistrate did not believe
that there had been an intentional breach of the com-
pany's bye-laws, and dismissed both summonses.
CAB Law.—During the late cab strike a hackney car-
riage proprietor arrived at the King's-cross station of the
Great Northern Railway, and told a privileged cabman
to drive him to the Camden-road. He had scarcely
entered the vehicle when he was recognised by several
cabmen, who called out to the driver not to take him.
The driver at once ordered his " fare " to get out, and on
his refusing to do so, the cab was driven into a remote
corner of the station, where it was suddenly over-
turned, and its occupant was injured. For this he
took out two summonses, one for refusing to take him to
his destination, and the other for misbehaviour. The case
has been heard at the Clerkenwell Police-court, and the
magistrate held that, as the railway station was private
pr p:rt y, the complainant could obtain no redress for the
refusal to convey Lim to his destination. The second sum-
mons was also dismissed, Mr. Cooke holding that the
charge could not be sustained under the provisions of the
Hackney Carriage Act. A summons was, however,
granted on a charge of common assault.
DISPUTED PROPERTY,—Mr. Edward George Barnard,
of Cox's Hotel, Jermyn-street, was summoned before Mr.
Tyrwhitt, at Marlborough-street Police-court, by Mr.
Samuel Courtauld, of Gosfield Hall, Essex, for detaining
' a chair wrongfully taken from Mr. Courtauld's chapel or
pew in Gosfield Church. The real purport of these
proceedings was to try the right of Mr. Courtauld, as
owner of Gosfield Hall, to a certain aisle or chapel, called
Wentworth Chapel, in the parish church of Gosfield, as
appurtenant to the mansion of Gosfield Hall. The tech-
nical point was the detention of a chair which used to be
a portion of the furniture of the pew. The real question
was whether the de facto ownership of an estate carried
the right to the possession of a pew. Mr. Tyrwhitt
gave judgment for the plaintiff—but the matter in no
way touches on the general question of pews and pew
rents.

The Oswestry Advertiser states that at a dinner
which Sir Watkin W. Wynn gave ' tenants at Llange-
dwyn on Thursday, h 3 announce the rabbits on his
estate were to be destroy d.
The members of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce,
at a meeting held yesterday, accepted a proposal to sub-
scribe for a testimonial to Mr. Baecroft, 11. P., in recognition
of his services as a representative of the borough. The
amount of the subscripticn is limitad to one guinea.

In England there are 103 constituencies, returning
174 members, which at present are without opposition can-
didates. Supposing that this state of things continue, these
7,enstituencies will send to the Commons' House of Parlia-
ment 93 Liberals and 81 Conservatives.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has returned from
the Continent much relieved from rheumatism, and was
able to hold his ordination on Sunday in Addington Church,
though suffering somewhat from a bronchial attack. The
sermon was preached by the Rev. A. P. Cust, of St.
Mary's, Reading.

In view of the approaching general election,
Thursday, October 1, is to be set apart by " Christians re-
siding in London and its neighbourhood" as a day of united
prayer, Lord Ebury is announced as president, and several
eminent leaders of the Evangelical party will take part in the
proceedings.

A gentleman at Glastonbury, in Sumei
has an apple-tree growing in his garden which has blos-
somed twice this year, and is now producing the second
crop of apples. The first crop was a very good one. Also
in a garden at Lewes, in Sussex, there are apple and pear
trees now in full bloom for the second time this year.

A woman named Volans, who has Lcen receiving
parish relief at Wakefield, liar, the g dian; have learnt,
the nice little sum of £4OO deposited in the b. Ifs. The
board, therefore, have resolved to demand th 1-turn of the
money she has received from them, and to take proceedings
to compel her to refund it should she refuse to do so.
The absurdities of the " pew system" have seldom
if ever been so aptly illustrated as by an advertisement in the
Staffordshire Sentinel. In this paper an announcement is
made that there is " to be let or sold," at Old Church, lien-
ley, " a front pow under the organ gallery," which, it is
specially declared, " will seat seven persons, and commands
a view of nearly the whole congregation."

On Wednesday, the marriage of Walter S. North-
cote, Esq., eldest son of the Right lion. Sir Stafford North-
cote, Bart., her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, with
Elizabeth Lucy, eldest daughter of 11. S. Thompson, Esq.,
of Kirby Uhl], Yorkshire, was celebrated, amid unusual
demonstrations of popular interest, at Cusenam Church,
Kirby.

Twenty women have been put on the register of
county Neuters at Todraorden. The conservative objections
to the £1.2 occupiers were invalid, tald among the claimants
having this qualification wens twenty women. Mr. Cole,
the revising barrister, con3id( ring that ho had no cbjottion
before Lim, rill, d that ho bad no discretion in tilt) matter,
and allowed the lttdit s to remain on the list.

A certain number of the inhabitants of Hanover
have presented to the Prince Royal Ernest, on the occasion
of Lis birthday, a sword of great value. The hilt is of gold,
ornamented with a large diamond surrounded by small bril-
liants, and the scabbard of silver. On one side of the blade
is the inscription :—" Dieu et mon droit, nunquam retror-
sum," and towards the point :—" Lagonsalza," with a quo-
tation from the sth verse of the 125th Psalm.

The Revising Barrister at Bury has "made an ex-
ample" of the assistaut-overseer for Elton. That official had
placed on the register a large number of persons who had
received parish relief, and were, therefore, disqualified, and
had, besides, inserted his owu name, although he had only
occupied the house for six months. The Revising Barrister
regarded this conduCt as dereliction of dots, and 4ae4 the
offending official COs.