The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-27 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE:

THE PUBLICATION OF "Goon WORDS."—It Will be
remembered that a case bearing on the publication of cer'
thin articles called " Eastward," which were published
in Good Words, and then separately, were the ground for
an action, "Strahan v. Graham," in Vice-Chancellor
Sir R. Malins's court. His Honour then decided that or,
the construction of the contract the plaintiff had no right
to publish the tale separately, and that decision was con-
firmed on appeal. An inquiry had been directed asi to
the amount of damages to which the defendant hvas
entitled by reason of the sale of certain copies wiich
had been sold, and the Chief Clerk had finmd
that the defendant was entitled to £2 12s. 6d. per copy.
Mr. Bristowe now applied claiming £3 3s. per copy. His
Honour was of opinion that there was no fraudulent in-
tention originally on the part of Mr. Strahan. The de-
fendant had now taken an extreme view of his rights,
although it was probable that if the plaintiff bad applied,
in the first instance, to Mr. Graham, some arrangement
might have been come to; but as matters stood, he had, as
it turned out, done wrong. His Honour could not now
interfere, and both summonses must be dismissed.

THE DUKE OF BUCCLEIICII'S PROFERTY.—The argu-
ment in the case of the Duke of Buccleuch v. the Metro-
politan Board of Works, for damage done to his grace's
mansion, is at last finished. After three days' argument
in the Court of Exchequer, before the full court, the Lord
Chief Baron, in a very long and lucid judgment, ruled
that the finding of the learned umpire was correct, and
the plaintiff entitled to maintain his verdict, and in this
view the rest of the learned barons concurred.

DARING BURGLARY. -At the Middlesex Sessions,
Charles Ewens was charged with stealing eight forks,
eleven spoons, and one mustard-pot, value £l5, the
property of Mr. T. It Grassie, of 18, Dorset-square.
In the afternoon of the 16th of April, Amelia Reed,
a servant to the prosecutor, heard a slight noise, and on
going to the pantry found the prisoner taking the silver,
She screamed, and he gave her a violent blow on the
chest and escaped, but four days afterwards she met
him, recognised him, and gas e him into custody.
The prisoner, who defended himself, asked a question of
the police officer, whether, knowing he had been pre-
viously convicted, he bad not threatened to give him ten
years' penal servitude on the first opportunity. The officer
denied it. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Several
convictions were then proved, and the accused was sent
to penal servitude for a term of seven years.

AN UNDERGRADUATE'S BANKRUPTCY. —Before Mr.
Commissioner Holroyd, Martin Luther Cumming,
described as formerly of Oriel College, Oxford, after-
wards of Montague-place, Russell-square, and lastly of
Whitecross-street Prison, asked to pass his examination
and for an order of discharge. He attributed his failure
to "the insufficiency of his income •(which was derived
from friends) to meet engagements principally contracted
while at college at Oxford." The debts were £661, and
it did not appear that there were any assets.
Mr. Neal, jeweller, of Edgware-road, a creditor for
£45, opposed in person, and complained of the mode in
which his debt had been incurred. He said that the bank-
rupt had been introduced to him by Mr. Prescott, an under-
graduate of the university (who some time since passed
through this court), as a gentleman, not only of good
family, but of property. He believed the bankrupt to be
the son of Dr. Cumming, the celebrated preacher. Tho
dealings commenced in 1866, and he considered that the
bankrupt had no means of paying the debt. He asked that
the bankrupt should render further accounts over a period
of two years. Mr. Reed said the case afforded another
illustration of the facilities given to students to incur
debts. Mr. Commissioner Holroyd intimated that there
might be faults on both sides, and that traders who were
aware of the law ought not to give credit too easily. His
Honour ordered an adjournment ; the bankrupt to file a
cash account for twelve months, and a statement of his
transactions with Mr. Neal, with liberty to amend the
accounts already filed.
EXTENSIVE POSSESSION OF FORGED NOTES.--At the
Thames Police-court, Jaiveel Frankle, of Liverpool, bullion
dealer and pawnbroker; Barnard Harris, Whitechapel,
cloth merchant ; Moses Cohen, Woolwich, rag merchant ;
Oscar Rewmans, City, commission agent ; and Solowey
Zeik, Soho, all Jews, were brought before Mr. Benson,
charged with having in their possession, offering, and ut-
tering 1,512 forged five-rouble notes, four 25-rouble notes,
and one 100-rouble note, representing the current notes
of the Empire of Russia, for the payment of money, and
also conspiring to offer and utter the same and other notes.
After hearing some formal evidence the case was re-
manded. It is expected that some important facts
with regard to the n'anufacture of forged notes will be
brought to light.

THE LAW OF FINDING IN CABS.—At Lambeth Police-
conrt, Henry Tonne, cabdriver, badge 12,043, was chatged
with not delivering to the nearest police-station a valu-
able meerschaum pipe, the property of Mr. R. A.
Gillespie, a student of St. John's College, Cambridge.
The case was before the magistrate previously, when
further evidence was required. It appeared that on the
night of the university boatrace the defendant offered the
pipe to a person named Smith, and he bought it for 103.

He afterwards raffled the pipe, and the winner subse-
quently pledged it for 55., and it had been traced by the
police. The defendant was pent to prison for a month,
and the magistrate revoked his license.

CAPTURE OF AN ENGLISHMAN BY
BRIGANDS IN TURKEY.

A telegram has been received from Malta, announcing
the capture by brigands of Mr. J. W. Stevens, an English
engineer, and Mr. Charles Van Lennep, a Netherlands
subject, in the Smyrna district. Mr. Charles David Van
Lennep is the Swedish Consul at Smyrna, and has married
an English lady allied to one of our first mercantile
!amilies in the City. Mr. Van Lennep, in conjunction
pith his brothers-in-law, Captain Ogilvie and Captain
3rant (son of the Governor of Malta), has been carrying
put an extensive course of agricultural operations with
English machinery. For the management of the ma-
,hinery he had engaged Mr. Stevens, . a mechanical
engineer, long settled in the country, and much esteemed.
He was formerly engineer of the Smyrna Steam Flour
Mill Company, and was for many years in the service
of the Ottoman Railway Company. The circumstances
under which they were captured are not yet fully
known, and the mail hourly expected may not bring full
particulars, as they were captured on the 16th, and the
.etters will be only to the 18th. It was stated in the
telegram that the band consisted of thirty men, and that
;hey had demanded a ransom of £3,000, or £1,500 each, on
the threat of sending in their heads if the sum were not
sent. Mr. Van Lennep's family, it is stated, were prepared
;o send in the £1,500, but nothing is said as to Mr. Stevens,
and, indeed, as he had to bring up a large family, his cir-
cumstances do not admit of his paying any such sum, which
can only be furnished by advances from her Britannic)
Majesty's Consul, or by public subscription. The band
must be newly formed, as this is its first exploit, and its
existence was only surmised. That district has been un-
disturbed for many years, and, so little was the existence
of a band of brigands known, that a Smyrna picnic had
been arranged in the neighbourhood of the Seidekene station.
The band is very unlikely to be Turkish, as the Yuruks
in the mountains, even if on bad terms for the moment
with Mr. Van Lennep, could not safely execute such a plan
as this. It is most probably a hand of Greek marauders,
Cretan volunteers, and others, landing from the islands,
and making their way up from the little peopled lonian
coast ; such would receive sympathy from the inhabitants of
the Greek villages on the plains. As the brigands are now
armed with breech-loaders they will prove a great source
of trouble to the local authorities, as they have the range
Df thirty miles of mountain, and have the sea-coast
to escape by. It is to be hoped that by this
time the ransoms have been paid, and that Mr.
Stevens and Mr. Van Lennep have been thus rescued, for
otherwise the consequences may be serious. Each is about
55 years of age, and although athletic they have been
suffering from intermittent fever, and would be ill able to
bear the privations of accompanying the brigands in their
mountain wanderings, and the bloodthirsty villains into
whose hands they have fallen are quite capable of carry-
ing out their threat of murder. The Governor-General is
too sagacious to attempt any plan of rescue by force; he
can only trust to the chance of acting against them after
the return of the captives, but if the brigands succeed in
getting a large sum they will make their escape to Syra or
some of the neighbouring Greek islands.

PROPOSED CONSERVATIVE BANQUET IN EAST
KENT.—The Conservatives of the Ashford district intend
to celebrate their great victory at the recent election for
East Kent by a grand banquet at the Corn Exchange on
the 16th of June next. The chair is to be taken by Sig
Edward KnatchbuU, who represents a family which for
many generations has taken the lead in maintaining Con-
servative principles in East Kent.

THE NORTON FOLGATE MURDER.—The inquiry
respecting the 'death of Mrs. Emma Grossmith, the
wife of an eating-house keeper, and who is alleged to
have died from the effects of injuries inflicted upon her by
a shopman named Mackay, was resunjed on Tuesday. The
facts of the brutal outrage have already been reported, and
nothing of importance was brought forward. The pro-
ceedings were again adjourned in order that several
weapons, and a waistcoat upon which blood was found,
might he examined by Dr. Letheby. Mackay is still at
large, he baying been last seen near Tstroplwicb.