The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-16 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ABDUCTION.—J. P. Read, 27, described as a clerk, has
been committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court,
for taking a girl under 16 years of age out of the possession,
and against the permission and will, of her father and
mother.

MANSLAUGHTER BY A POLICEMAN. —A coroner's jury
has returned a verdict of manslaughter against Police-
constable Kerridge, of the Metropolitan Police, who caused
the death of Heniy Frogmore, by throwing him on the
pavement. The verdict was accompanied with an e:ipres
sion of opinion that he was greatly irritated by thelanguage
of the deceased. He was committed for trial at the Old
Bailey.

THE DUDLEY FORGERY. —The charges against the
prisoners Farrar and Hullett for forging the acceptance
of Lord Dudley to a bill of exchange for £BOO have
been again heard at great length before the Lord
Mayor. It will he remembered that the bill was alleged
to have been given to Hullett for composing the
music to a new opera. The bill was discounted by
Dublin bankers, who had taken the precaution to write to
Lord Dudley, and having no reply thought the transaction
genuine. Mr. Lewis, the solicitor for the prosecution,
said he had two other charges of forgery to prefer against
the prisoners; but, owing to the gentleman whose name
had been forged being abroad, he must ask for a remand.
After further evidence on the original charge this was
done, and bail refused.
FORGING AT G RIMSBY. —A case of wholesale forgery has
occurred at Grimsby. Mr. Waterland, an accountant,
moving in respectable society, is the accused, and it is
alleged that he has forged a composition deed, and the
names of nearly all the signatures, two or three only out
of thirty being genuine. He was taken before the magis-
trates on Monday and committed for trial. The bench
declined to admit the prisoner to bail.

THE BISHOP of CAPETOWN.—The departure of
Bishop Gray with the Rev. W. K. Macrorie, the proposed
new bishop for Natal, is again postponed, and the farewell
service at St. Lawrence Jewry will not take place before
the 7th or Bth of October. It is not said whether arrange•
ments have been made for the consecration of Dr. Macrorie
in England.

THE IRISH OYSTER CULTURE.—Her Majesty's
Government, on the representation and urgent request of
Mr. Blake, intend issuing an unpaid royal commission,
with a view to the encouraging and promoting of the Irish
oyster interest, and of extending their growth and improv-
ing their culture. Evidence will be taken in various
places in Ireland, England, and France by the commis-
sioners. Mr. Blake will be the chairman, and amongst
the other commissioners will be Mr. Francis Francis,
and Mr. Hart, manager of the Hayling Island Oyster
Fishery.—lrish Times.

SINGULAR DEATH OF A TRADESMAN.—On
Monday an inquest was held at Greenwich, respecting the
death of Mr. Kreekeler, a saddler and harness-maker in
that town, who was found dead under the following cir-
cumstances. The deceased, who was 53 years of age, was
a remarkably tall man. It was his custom of an afternoon
to lie down in his bedroom, in which is a tent bedstead,
the posts of which at the foot were only 4ft. 10in. high.
It was shown that the deceased was accustomed to wear a
neckerchief particularly loose, and the supposition put
forth by the friends of the deceased was, that in leaning
against this post to divest himself of his clothing, the
deceased, who was known to be affected in his head, had
slipped, and the neckerchief catching a piece of iron of the
bedstead, he had thus become strangled. The jury return( d
a verdict of death from strangulation.

A CHILD KILLED BY AN EAGLE.—A Tippah
County (Miss.) school teacher writes to the Winoan
Democrat :—" A sad casualty occurred at my school a
few days ago. The eagles have been very toublesome
in the neighbourhood for some time past, carrying off
pigs, lambs, itc. No one thought that they would
attempt to prey upon children ; but on Thursday, at
recess, the little boys were out some di3tance from the
house playing marbles, when their sport was disturbed
by a large eagle swooping down and picking up little
Jemmie Kenny, a boy of 8 years, and flying away with
h:m. The children cried out, and when I got out of the
house the en's!, was E 0 high that I could just hear the child
s3reaming. The alarm was given, and from screaming and
slaouthig, in the air, &c., the eagle was induced to drop his
viedin ; but his talons had been buried in him so deeply,
And the fall was so great, that he was killed i or
wclllll4vo bog; fatalli,