The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-13 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ZIIING DAMAGES.—In the Court-
Pleas, an action was brought by a man named Anglia",
against another person for slande The defendant had,
it was alleged, called the plaintiff a thief, and said he had
picked his pocket and robbed him of £2 while he was
asleep. The defendant denied that he had uttered some
of the words attributed to him, and justified the re-
mainder. He called a witness, who said that he had seen
the plaintiff take a mackintosh which did not belong to him,
and the defendant himself said that with reference to a
pony race he had stated that Angliss had " picked him up
two or three sovereigns," and not that he. Angliss,
had
picked his pocket. The jury found a verdict for the plain-
tiff ; damages, one farthing.
DAMAGES FOR A DOG'S BITE. --In the Court of Exche-
quer the case of Godwin v. Dewick was heard. It was an
action to recover damages for injuries sustained from the
bite of a dog. The plaintiff and his wife went to a
public-house to meet a person, and when going into one of
the rooms of the house they saw the defendant's dog with
the defendant's servant. The plaintiff knew the servant
King, and shook hands with and afterwards patted the
dog. " Don't touch the dog," said King, and as the plain-
tiff was in the act of withdrawing his hand the dog
seized him by the forearm and lacerated it severely.
King struck the dog, and it ran out of the house,
and in its progress bit the landlord's son. The plaintiff
succeeded in discovering the owner of the dog, and went
and complained to him of the injury he had received. The
defendant said the dog would do no more harm, for it was
already dead. A doctor had administered half an ounce
of prussic acid, which the dog, it appeared, seemed to
relish, and subsequently strychnine was administered, and
the dog died. The defence was that King was not the de-
fendant's servant, but the servant of the defendant's
mother, and that although the dog had been the property
of the defendant, King had taken him out without his
authority or knowledge. The jury found for the plaintiff
with £23 damages.

CHARGE AGAINST A COFFEE-HOUSE KEEPER. —At Wor-
ship-street Police-court, Henry Palmer, a coffee-house
keeper, was charged with having a quantity of skeleton
keys and housebreaking implements in his possession. A
plain-clothes constable of the G division said that there
had been found concealed on the prisoner's premises 200
skeleton and other keys, together with a pick-lock, a
jemmy, three small crowbars, a file, two life-preservers, a
hook used by burglars to unfasten door chains, a bottle of
aquafortis, a bag of bed linen, and a box containing a pair
of light scales for the weighing of jewellery. When the
skeleton keys were discovered the prisoner made a dash at
the door, threw it open, and made off. He was followed,
overtaken, and brought back. On being searched at the
station a watch and chain, a knife, and an eye-glass were
found upon him. When apprehended the prisoner said
that he would sooner have given £5O than have had it
happen. The magistrate sent the case for trial.
BREACH OF PROMISE TO 1%1 Ann Y. —ln the Court of Queen's
Bench the case of Fane v. Higgins came on for trial. The
plaintiff, a young woman about 20 years of age, was met by
the defendant, who is a builder, in the Haymarket, and he
accompanied her home. After this the defendant became
enamoured of her, and they lived together as man and
wife. Defendant then proposed to send her to school,
with the view of eventually marrying her, and he wrote to
a lady at Bath, but she had no vacancy, and could not
receive her. She then obtained a situation at a draper's
shop at Woodford, in Essex, where he visited her, and
when she came to London he met her at the omnibus or
station, and they spent the day together. At that time
she had given up her former course of life, and had
become a respectable young woman. Subsequently a
coolness took place between the parties, and the defendant
was written to by the plaintiff, but did not answer her
communication. The jury, after hearing witnesses on
both sides, were discharged without coming to a verdict.

The Prince of Wales has signified his intention
of being present at the annual dinner of the 10th Royal
Hussars, which is to take place on Saturday, the 30th
inst., at Willis's Rooms.

The report is contradicted that the passage money
to America of " Colonel" Nagle has been furnished by Mr.
George Francis Train. Nagle is to be sent from Queens-
town to New York at the expense of the American Govern-
ment ; but he cannot boast of the generous treatment he
is receiving from its representative here, who has taken
only a third-class berth for his gallant countryman. The
story goes that Nagle speaks freely of the deception that
was practised upon him by the American heads of the or-
ganisation, who hail led him to believe that the people in
Ireland were ripe for revolt, and that the power of the
British Government would easily be oygtlgo,N%