The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-15 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

CURIOUS CASE.—Before the Master of the Rolls th.
cause of Peel v. the South-Western Railway Company
was heard. It appeared that during a great portion of the
year 1864 stock was standing in the books to the name of
the plaintiff and another person named Powell. In
December of that year Powell forged Peel's name to £2OO
of the stock, and in January again forged £l5O of the
same stock, and in October another transfer for £3OO.
Powell was the acting trustee, and continued to pay
dividends on the above sums as though the invest-
ment had not been disturbed. When the forgery was
discovered, in August 1867, the plaintiff filed this bill.
praying that the company might be ordered to pay the
dividends on the several sums, and to reinvest the £650 in
the names of the plaintiff and another. His lordship made
a decree for the payment of the August 1867 and subse-
quent dividends to the plaintiff, and for the transfer of
£650 stock by the company as prayed. The costs to be
paid by the company.
MADAME RACHEL'S BAIL—An application was made to
Mr. Justice Blackburn asking him to accept bail for the
appearance of Madame Rachel at the next sitting of the
Central Criminal Cour::. Two new securities offered
themselves, and a writ of habeas corpus had been issued on
the part of the prisoner. The prisoner was in an adjoin.
ing room, ready to enter into her recognisance for £2,000
as directed. Some discussion took place, but his lord-
ship declined to interfere, as the application was one_
which should be made to the magistrate who had hear -
the case.

THE GREAT SPIRITUALIST CASE. —ln the Court of
Chancery the case of Lyon v. Home came before the chief
clerk. An application was made on the part of the
plaintiff to take an account of the amount due. Three
sums amounting to £ICO were discwsed but not
pressed. Next came the consideration of a bill
of costs for preparation of a will, which amounted
to £5O, which it was sought to make him liable for.
His solicitor protested against such a course being pur-
sued, but the chief clerk decided against him. The next
point was the most important—whether the sums paid for
brokerage in the transfer of the large sums, and the divi-
dend received on the same by the defendant, could be
charged against him. The solicitor for the plaintiff con-
tended that it was a proper claim, and the solicitor for the
defendant denied its validity. The chief clerk, on
reference to the words of the decree, expressed an
opinion in favour of the charge. It was so much loss
by the transfer, the gift of which was declared to be void
by the court. The defendant's advocate asked for leave
to refer this question to a judge. The leave was granted,
and the case put down for an early day. It is expected
that there will be an appeal from the decision of the Vice
Chancellor.

THE BANKRUPTCY OF HELLER, THE MAGICIAN.—In
commissioner Holroyd's Court, Robert Heller, otherwise
Palmer, applied for his order of discharge, and there
being no opposition, it was granted. Heller described
himself as formerly of Washington (U.S.), teacher of
music ; then travelling in various parts of America,
Mexico, China, and Japan ; since of the Langham Hotel,
Portland-place, and of the Polygraphic Hall, King
William street, Strand, prestidigitator. His debts are
£3,105, of which about £750 is due in London, and the
remainder to creditors in New York, Washington, and
elsewhere. He attributes his failure to having been sued
by Messrs. Riggs and Co., of Washington.

ASSAULT IN HYDE PARR.-A somewhat curious charge
,;f assault has been made at Marlborough-street Police-
court, by a mounted police-constable, against George
Thomas, coachman to the Earl of Perth. The com-
plainant was keeping all the carriages in a line in Hyde
Park. The defendant refused to stay where he was
placed, and in trying to get past the officer the pole of the
carriage struck the official on the thigh and injured him so
severely that he could not do duty for a week. A gen-
tleman corroborated this statement, and said that if it
were not for the regulations of the police the park would
be a perfect " bear garden." Mr. Tyrwhitt inflicted a fine
of £5 and costs.

STABBING EY A SHIPOWNER.—Mr. Richard
Alderson, shipowner, Nicholson-street, Hendon, near
Sunderland, stabbed a man named John Hardacre a few
nights since. Hardacre is a trimmer by occupation, and
there has been considerable ill-feeling between the two
men for some time past. Alderson is in custody. His
victim was in such a serious condition after the outrage
that his depositions were taken by a magistrate.

Mr. Auberon Herbert, the popular candidate
for Berkshire, received the Danish order of the Danebrog,
corresponding to our Victoria Cross, for having, in the
Danish war, carried off some wounded Danes, under fire,
at the risk of his own life. He has also received the medal
of
.the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for gallantly
going off during a storm in its lifeboat at Cromer with the
view of saving a shipwrecked crew.•

In distributing the prizes at the College of Pre-
ceptors, on Tuesday, the Dean of Westminster remarked
that in the various panics which had alarmed the clerical
profession one branch of it had always remained unshaken
and unmoved—the head masters of our public schools.
They invariably took an independent, manly, and wise
view of matters, and for this reason might be regarded as
a sort of reserved force of the Church, for their firmness
and prudence tpnAly4 more th...king else.to_ dis el
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