The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-01 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

CHANGES AGAINST CITY BROKENS.—Before the Court
of Aldermen, the Lord Mayor, and the City Recorder,
Mr. William Caudery, of 151, renchurch-street, a sworn
broker, was charged by Mr. Alfred D. Castle, merchant,
of 45, Mincing-lane, with delivering to him "bought
notes " of various parcels of soda ash and soda crystals,
and charging him with a greater sum than he had really
paid for them. It seemed that the defendant had been
frequently employed by Mr. Castle as broker in various
transactions, and it was alleged that this was not the first
occasion on which the complainant had been charged
more than he ought to have been. Under these circum-
stances, it was asked that the bonds which he entered into
(41,000), and his two sureties in £250 each, might be
estreated. For the defence it was stated that though
there had been some irregularities on the part of the
broker, still there had been no fraud or collusion. After
hearing the whole of the evidence, the Recorder, on behalf
of the court, stated that it had been decided that the
bonds entered into by Mr. Caudery and his sureties should
be put hi force by the City solicitor, and that the defen•
dant should appear at the next court, to be held on the
21st inst., and show cause why he should not be discharged
from the office of broker. During the sitting of the courtit was
stated that Lieutenant-Colonel Baddeley had complained
that Mr. Alfred Whitmore, late of Change-alley, but now.
deceased, had sold or otherwise disposed of valuable bonds
and securities without his sanction, and applied the pro-
ceeds to his own use, and he (Mr. Baddeley) therefore
asked that the names of Mr. Whitmore's securities might
be furnished him. The Recorder could not see what good
could accrue from the colonel's desire being complied with!!
because Mr. Whitmore had not committed any offence
within the terms of his bond.

TRADE OUTItAGE AT ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE.—At the
Liverpool Assizes, Robert Ryan was indicted for taking,
part in a trade outrage, committed in 1862, upon the pre=
mises of Mr. Clifford, brickmaker, Ashton-under-Lyne.
A number of men having their faces concealed by masks
were met by two policemen as they were returning from
destroying some bricks. The police-constables attempted
to take the men into custody, when a violent struggle
ensued, and one of the officers, named Jump, was shot.
The prisoner had absconded to America, and only recently
returned. He pleaded guilty to doing wilful damage, and
was committed to gaol for nine months, with hard labour.
THE OUTRAGE AT SWANSEA.—LOW, the man convicted
at the last Cambridge Assizes of a murderous assault and
on Mr. Williams, of Swansea, when the latter
was driving home, has confessed his guilt, and states that he
committed the assault with a hedger's hook, and after-
wards concealed it. Low, who is in his 67th yeaar, was
sentenced to penal servitude for life.

ACTIONS AGAINST RAILWAY COMPANIES.—Two claims
for danlages against railway companies have been tried at
the Liverpool Assizes. In one Mr. Habane, a civil engi-
neer, residing at New York, claimed compensation for
injuries sustained by him in December last when travelling
on the London and North Western Railway. The com-
pany had paid £2OO into court, and the jury awarded
£5OO in addition to that sum. In the other case, Mr.
Parkinson, a veterinary surgeon residing at Preston,
sought to recover damages for injuries received
on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway when jour-
neying from Preston to Liverpool. A verdict was given
for the plaintiff, with £l,BOO damages.
LORD BROUGHAM'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.—An application
was made at Vice-Chancellor Malins's Chambers in the
case of Lord Brougham v. Cauvin, on the part of the de-
fendant for time to answer the evidence of his lordship for
a decree. The Cjiief Clerk (Mr. Edwards) gave a fort-
night's further time from the 2nd of April.
A. FATHER CHARGED WITH MURDER.—At Bristol
Assizes William Blackmore, a mason, was indicted for the
wilful murder of his son Thomas, six, years old. The
prisoner, who was a widower, resided with his son, and it
had often been observed that he treated the boy very
unkindly, and had refused to maintain him until com-
pelled by the magistrates to do so. On the 27th of
January the prisoner had notice to leave his lodgings, and
on the afternoon of the same day was seen walking, in
company with his son, by the side of the River Froome.
He returned in a few hours without the boy, and stated
that he had left him with a sister, with whom it was sub-
sequently ascertained he had not been friendly for a year.
Subsequently the body of the boy was found in the river,
about two miles from the place where he was last seen
with his father. No marks of violence were discernible on
the corpse. About three o'clock in the afternoon of the
29th, before starting, the boy ate some bread and bacon.
This was found in his stomach partially digested ; and the
surg,ton thought it looked as if the boy bad lived two or
three hours after he partook of this food. This was the
essence of the evidence offered in the case, except the fact
that when spoken to at. various times on the subject the
prisoner gave several versions of what had become of the
deceased. The defence was that the chain of circumstan-
tial evidence was not sufficiently complete. The jury re-
turned a verdict of not guilty.

A STRANGE DECISION.—A woman and a respectable
man, named Long, have been charged before Mr. Newton,
at the Worship-street Police-court, the former with being
"drunk and incapable," and thelatter with interfering with
the police. The evidence was conflicting in the extreme.
The policemen said that the male prisoner pushed one
of them and called him an unmitigated scoundrel. Mr.
Long denied this statement, and said that he only remon-
strated with the officer because the police were pulling
the woman by her arms, her face touching the pavement
all the time. He asked one of the policemen to obtain
a stretcher ; but the officer only made an abusive reply, and
on the defendant threatening to report the constable he
was seized, roughly treated, and conveyed to the police
station. A number of witnesses corroborated Mr. Long's
statement, and not one gave the same testimony as that
of the constables. Notwithstanding, Mr. Newton fined
the prisoner Long £2O, and told him that if he had done
his duty he would have taken the numbers of the con-
stables and then reported them, and whatever had oc-
curred he had brought on himself.

EXECUTION OF THE LUTON MURDERER.

On Tuesday, at eight a.m., William Worsley was
uanged in front of Bedford gaol, in presence of about
a thousand people, for the murder of William Brad-
bury, at Luton. At the trial an accomplice, named
Levi Welch, was allowed to give Queen's evidence,
and was sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude on
his own confession of having robbed the murdered man
after Worsley had struck him down with a bed winch.
The popular idea was that Welch was equally culpable
with Worsley, and this opinion formed the pretext of
some very strenuous efforts which were made on behalf
of the condemned man.

On Saturday last, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, having exa-
mined the case and consulted the judge (Baron Bramwell)
who tried it, declared that the law must take its
course ; and the same answer was returned to two depu-
tations who had personal interviews with the Home Secre-
tary on Monday. Up to Monday night the prisoner
appeared to entertain confident hopes that a reprieve,
would arrive at the last moment ; but about midnight he
dictated a confession to Mr. Roberts (governor of the
gaol), and also a letter to his relatives, in which ho
acknowledged the fairness of the trial, the justice of the
sentence, and the ability with which he had been de-
fended. lie also expressed a hope that his fate would act
as a warning to others.
Worsley displayed wonderful coolness, submitted to
be pinioned with perfect docility,' and walked to the
scaffold without assistance. He knelt at the foot of the
scaffold to offer a brief prayer, shook hands with all
around him, and bowed to the crowd on mounting the
steps. The dreadful business was soon over, but the hun-
dreds of men, women, and children who had tramped
twenty miles to see the execution were partially disap-
pointed, for the culprit's head was scarcely seen above the
drapery which surrounded the scaffold, and when the bolt
was withdrawn nothing but a vibrating rope remained
in sight to indicate the "great moral lesson."
The struggles of the victim lasted barely half a minute.
His body was cut down at nine o'clock, and buried inside
the gaol.

ST. ALBAN'S, HOLBORN. —The following letter
has been addresssed by Mr. Mackonochie, the perpetual
curate of St. Alban's, to the Bishop of London :—" My
dear Lord Bishop,—lt is due to your lordship that I
should communicate to you as soon as possible my inten-
tions with regard to the judgment of the Arches Court in
the case sent to it by your lordship by letters of request.
According to the account of that judgment in the
public papers, which I assume to be correct, I am
`admonished to abstain for- the future from the use of
incense and from mixing water with the wine, as pleaded
in these articles ; and, further, not to recur to the practice,
which I have abandoned under protest, with regard to the
elevaticn of the blessed Sacrament and the censing per-
sons and things.' I have taken a few days to consider what
course it is my linty to take under this judgment, and
have decided to abide by it, without appeal to the higher
court, unless compelled to do so by any act on the part of
the promoter. It will, I know, be more satisfactory to
many of my friends'that I should thus accept the decision
of the highest court which claims spiritual authority
rather than appeal to a civil tribunal. At the same time,
I cannot but feel the deepest thankfulness that a judg-
ment conceived in such a spirit of deep and true
Catholicity should have been pronounced at this time.
[t will do more than anything to calm the minds of those
who have been much troubled by many past events.—
Believe me, my dear Lord Bishop, yours very trulylt and
respectfully, ALEX. HERIOT 1114cK9g9P1