The Sun. — London, England, 1870-04-16 00:00:00

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"Oun- OCEAN HIGHWAYS" AND lIS MONTHLY SUPPLEMENT, THE LEGAL-TENDEII. ACT. LOCAL CAR OF JUGGERNAUT. Incorporated with "THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES." The decision of the U. S. Supreme Court on the Legal-Tender Act of 1862 has two bearings--the one politico-economic, and the other its tendency towards limiting the power of the Washington Go vernment in an emergency. On the Ist of April (an unfortunate day, by the way) Attorney-General HOAR moved, and the Court decided, to re-open the late Legal-Tender decision and hear another argument on the question. A full bench of nine Judges sat, of whom five voted to re-open the case and four dissented. The two new judges, STRONG and BRADLEY, voted with the majority, Chief Justice CHASE with the minority. 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Bills promptly discounted. .4. free on receipt y, of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. ourchases Evance of Peruvian nd 1869), Just Published, Prico Gs., -Twenty ids have Mil W. S. WOODIN'S TWENTIETH WEEK T HE DUBLIN REVIEW. No. XXVIII. NEW SERIES, CONTENTS: I. James and False Brethren. 11. Indian Theism. 111. Fra Paolo Sarpi. IV. Mr. Renouf's Reply on Pope Honorius. V. Dr. Molloy on Geology and Revelation. VI. Mr. Tennyson's Arthurian Poems. VII. The Ministerial Education Bill. VIII. Is Ireland Irreconcilable? IX. Controversies on the Council. X. Roman Documents. XL Notices of Books:—F. Knox on Infallibility; F. Gratry's Letters; F. Newman'S Grammar of Assent, &c., &c. London: Burns, Oates. and Co., 17, Portman street, W., and Monday the London Times censured the decision of the ma jority,viewing the question solely from the eco- land has have re- AT 1[031E," N I VITH his Fa mous and Original CARPET-BAG i too and SKETCH-KOOK ENTERTAINMENT in the Large satZL,,,_GYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly. Every Evening (except sp a ;,;a3') at 8 ; Saturday Mornings at 3. " Mr. Woodin has f ar „..,. 11 0 expense in magnificently decorating and luxuriously b e -Ik ung his salon for the comfort of hls patrons." Seats may a , .: 4 _eure ( l in advance, at the Box-office, open from 10 till 5; also , :•- I . ltc hell's Royal Library, Old Bond-street ; and all the principal rune-sellers. Stalls, 35.; Area, 25.; Balcony, ls. Family Private °I, One, Two, and Three Guineas. Carriages at 10. Manager, Mr. DUDLEY. ,t 8 to i ities has ias been 3 move- HALL, HOLBORN. -„, Late WESTON'S, Proprietor—Mr. J. S. Sweascy. 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'aver en ,° 4'6 of the Marchioness de Brehan of seven years' I 'dth - `"i"adt, Wasting away, debility, nervousness, irritaty, leesii-e.ll.ervous palpitation all over, bad digestiop, constant sleep cere'%and tho dyspepsiara nervous agitation. de pee No. ofys, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart deri„, e 're, -Lord Lieutenant of the County of Waterford; "I have 0 918, b r lll o 11eh benefit from your excellent foV.—STUART Ds DE ., Cur e Cappoquin, County Waterford.. ( .13rR, 0 . 49 832 --Of fifty years' indescribable agony from , ePsia,s ti ' • flatulency, el vousness, asthma, cough, constipation , ickness, and vomiting: —Maria Jolly of Lynn, Norfolk. 1:14;:r. 47,121. —Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervous , indigestio , Cur e N LI, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. diar r h ce ° 56 ,8 4. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' The i*_ free on ed 12 bond is sold in Canisters, at Is. lid.; 11b., 2s. 9d., 21b., 4s. 2 ?5.; 241 b., 40s. 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CONTRIBUTIONS for tho support of the Homes in 1888 are ear nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon quet, Salt, and Co., 78, Lombard street, N.C.• Francis Nicholls Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, KO, THOMAS, Sec., 200, Easton-mac; Pf,W. A Bristol paper says itis authoritatively informed that the members of the Conservative Working Men's Association have determined to present a petition against the return of Mr. Robinson for Bristol, on the ground of improper and illegal practices. The opinion is daily gaining rrround in all quarters (says the English Churchm en ) that Ministers will abandon their Education Bill, a s a pecu li ar l y hopelvss endeavour to dqA, ho elesS thing, n elyp4tch up ?Om,. the V4ure t Diaenter. nomic standpoint. It considers the decision calcu lated to damp the 'upholders of American credit in Europe; to "dishearten those who had hopes of the revival of commercial good faith and - sound financial principles in the United States." It hopes that at least one of the two Judges lately added to the bench " may sustain the sound reasons of public policy and constitutional law advanced by Chief Justice CHASE, and may place upon a secure basis the determination of the highest tribunal in the United States that Congress has not thepower to de spoil creditors at home or abroad of their just rights, or to onpeptheer payments illusion of o le withh t argument e is based economic principle, and when viewed as a matter inc;k Its them w h of credit oiily, the Times.ivight but we venture ..t e art, wrthout kirbwinesiiy thing of what the.. Attorney-General advanced to reconsider the deci sion, that he viewed the matter from a totally differ ent aspect. The Government has an interest in the decision altogether independent of its com mercial bearing, having a right to uphold, which it may be the duty of the Executive notto forego with out a struggle. The Chief Justice was the author of the Legal-Tender Act, which he pronounces to be unconstitutional. As a lawyer, bound honestly to in terpret theConstitution,he decides adversely against the very Bill he was instrumental in enacting as a Cabinet Minister. When Secretary of the Treasury h e felt the full force of the necessity, and, Constitu tional or not Constitutional, he took the course he considered best calculated to save the Union. By a singular freak of fortune, as Chief Justice, he is compelled to pronounce that course to have been illegal. Let us suppose another turn of Fortune's wheel, that the country is again involved in ex treme danger, its main requirements being financial, and Mr. CHASE a second time in the Cabinet, as Sec retary of the Treasury. How would he like to have that course barred against him by his decision of 1870, which he so sensibly took to further the Union cause in 1862 ? If the Legal-Tender Act be unconstitutional, a statesman ought not to resort to paper money ; and an impediment, the magni tude of which can hardly be over-rated, might be thrown in the path of the National Government' in any dangerous crisis. The Executive must of course see this, and might regard it as a duty to have the decision tested by its own legal adviser, and re- considered, if in his mind the soundness of the law laid down be questionable. It is evidently not the great corporations or the State Governments con- cerned which have originated this movement against a judgment injurious to their financial in terests, but the Executive, on wholly different grounds. We do not assert that the Corporations and other bodies have n brought a pressure to bearin the same direction; but we do with some con fidence assert that the Attorney.. General is mainly influenced by the desire to clear the path of fu- ture Governments for prompt action in perilous extremities; and in upholding the nation's right to an unshackled hand against the enemy who strikes at its heart, he allows all commercial considerations " to slide." From such a stand point the action of the PRESIDENT and his At torney-General are not only praiseworthy, but sound in principle ; while viewed from the reverse side, that action is injurious to the credit of the United States, unsettling in a commercial sense, and damaging to the high reputation of the Su preme Court. We cannot, however, pass the tone of the remarks in the Times without comment. It is insinuated that the Executive has been spurred into action by the supporters of the paper cur rency, and that the two vacancies in the Court had been filled by lawyers known to concur with the dissenting minority. Those acquainted with the character of the PRESIDENT and of the Attor ney-General are aware that no two men could be found less likely to act under the influence of un worthy motives ; and Mr. HOAR is about the last person a lobbyist would approach or to whom the agent of any " ring" would dare to suggest a line of conduct. In nominating the Judges it is a sin gular fact, and one worthy of our great contempo rary's attention, that the Attorney-General's name was submitted to the Senate for a place on the Bench at the same time as Judge STRONG'S against whom the Radical Senators, as the Times says, pro tested, on the ground that during the war he was a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and consented to a decision which pronounced the very Act now questioned, unconstitutional and in valid, while Judge HOAR'S opinions were known to be the other way. Now what was the action of the Radical Senate ? They confirmed the man who had already recorded his decision against th e un constitutionality of the Act, and rejected him who held the opposite opinion ; and we bring this for ward as conclusive proof that the Court has not been pac ked as insinuated. The motion calli ng f or an additional issue of fifty million of dollars green backs carried in the House of Representatives is said in Printing-house-square to have been in troduced to show the PRESIDENT the temper of his supporters, and to urge prompt and thorough going action, as was the Senate Bill providing for a " stay" of execution, varying from one to four years, on all judgments relating to debts contracted before July 11, 1862, and abrogating the tt stay '? if the plaintiff would accept payment in green backs. We feel pretty confident that the intention neither the one nor the other was as the Times asserts, but both were the progeny of the Wes tern members, who consider that inflation is cal culated to benefit their section. We would be sorry if we had led our contemporary into a blun der, for into a blunder it has certainly fallen, in asserting that the bill to " stay" execution had been brought into the Senate, as it was Mr. M'CRARY, Republican Representative from lowa, who moved it in the House on the 19th of February, though we, in a note of the Week in our issue of the 12th March, alluded to it as a motion in the Senate. The action is to be regretted, as injurious to the na tional credit, and not calculated to strengthen the estimation abroad in which the Supreme Court is held, though we deny that it has been brought by other than pure motives. Doubtless should the late ruling be reversed, the world will ascribe the result to corruption ; for the world is ignorant, and does not generally comprehend the difference between the Supreme Court of New York State and the Su preme Court of the United States, while the for mer is a dog with a very bad name. The view for merly expressed in this paper is that to which we ad here. Regarded as an economic question, and as expounding sound law, the decision of the ma jority of the Justices of the Supreme Court is gene rally held to have been right, and it is a thousand pities that the Executive should have felt compelled to challenge it, for the injury that will be wrought should the Attorney-General be successful in overthrowing the judgment will be great and im mediate, while the consideration for which he con tends is problematical and remote, and may never occur. But should it occur, we repeat that it is the duty of the statesman then at the helm of the national craft to act on his own responsibility with firmness and decision, almost regardleSs of any considerations but those of the national welfare. In a great peril, even the Constitution, plain as may be its meaning, cannot be permitted to bar a measure of absolute necessity, and the nation must trust to the man it has placed in power, and the strength of its own voice, to impel action when the moment comes. At the same time it is highly improbable that the Attorney-General will be suc cessful in upsetting the recent decision. The his tory of the U. S. Supreme Court records no successful effort in over-ruling a solemn decision of that 'Court ; and its Judges pay the highest respect to its own precedents. Were it otherwise, they would quickly bring the Bench into contempt, which is the last thing those seated on it are likely to do. To be regarded as infallible is the essence of its strength, and it is careful to lay down the soundest prece dents, and then rigidly to adhere to them. For, if a judgment one month be given, and in the next re ealed by the same Court, the effect must be da- Maging to its legal reputation at home.; while even its honesty will be called in question abroad.— Anglo-American 7imes. ABOLITION OF THE FRANKISG SYSTEM (From the Anglo-American Times.) Before this article is published we may learn the fate the Bill repealing the Franking Privilege, has met in the Senate. It was to have come up for consi deration on the 22d of March, with as strong an opinion pronounced by the public for the abolition as any Bill, involving interests so small, could com mand. We have seldom seen the press so unani mous or more caustic in its attack on this cherished abuse of the privileged three hundred ; for that is about the number of those happy beings who may send their shirts home to be washed through the Post office. That they must in some such way use it, is clear from the sum postage costs the country. The Treasury is burdened with fully $2,500,000 annually - , which, divided by 300, makes the respectable ex penditure of $B,OOO for each of the privileged. Imagine a man's postage costing the country £1,500 a year sterling ; while his whole salary is but little more than half that amount. The way in whichthe franking signatures are given, would have made the hair of the English Postmaster-General stand on end with horror, even in those palmy days when the same privilege was accorded to members of Parliament. One man distributes throughout the countrycirculars recommending his quack medicines, covered by his Representative's signature; another Representative does a little business in the same way for the benefit of his own firm ; a third carries on an active interchange between Washington and his home in Illinois or Louisiana, having reference to his wardrobe and his personal comforts; while nearly all the members indulge in a miscellaneous assort ment of transactions which would take away the breath of some if they knew the sort of business they were enabling persons to carry on at the ex pense of the nation. No sooner did Mr. R. R. B UT LER of Tenn( ssee escape from his very questionable cadetship tram action with a mere vote of censure than he figured in the columns of the Tribune after the following fashion "Wo have received under the frank of the ion. B. IL BUTLER, still member of Congress from Tennessee, not withstanding his little cadetArip escapade, the following Congressional Document, which we hasten to lay before our readers:— " Washington, March, 18, 1870. "'Editor New York Tribune. " ' Dear Sir,— I wish you would please insert in your paper for one week the following : CORRESPONDENCE.—A young lady of talent and ability desires the love and correspondence of a nice young gentleman. Address NELLIE MoNTROSE, P. 0., Washington, D. C.' " Considerable as would be the saving resulting from the abolition of the privilege it would not represent the whole gain. There is nothing more wasteful than in thus endowing a few, and giving them the power of getting matter printed, as an inducement to avail themselves of the privilege, for the two act and re-act on each other. The individual feels the ne cessity of extracting as much as possible from the concession. If what he sent through the post was confined to what he wrote, in a country of cheap postage he would have very little advantage over his fellow-citizens ; but if the member can write an essay, calling it a speech, and obtain the sanction of the House to printing it at public cost, though unspoken, in the Congressional Globe, and then can scatter the paper containing his " speech " broadcast over the land for nothing, he may effec tually gratify his craving for notoriety at the ex pense of the people. The Franking Privilege would in this way be comparatively useless without the Printing-office, and the Printing-office would be useless without the Franking Privilege, while it is well known in Washington that should the latter be abolished the cost of the former would very mate rially decrease. The usual " document number" is 1,550 copies, but this is always exceeded unless the subject matter be altogether without interest. The case of the Reports of the Commissioner of Patents, which, though well illustrated, are far from being entertaining,furnishes one instance out of hun dreds. In addition to the usual " document num ber" of 1,550 copies, the House ordered 10,000 copies for members and 5,000 for the Commis sioners, while the Senate treated itself to 4,000, making a total of 19,000 extra numbers, 76,000 extra volumes, or about sixty unnecessary sets-- 240 volumes—for each member of Congress. The postage chargeable on the set was $1.64. This, then, was the total cost of the extra 19,000 vo lumes, which would not have been ordered if the members had to pay the postage on them : House's order, 10,000 copies $137,806 36 Commissioners' order-5,000 copies 68,903 19 Senate's order-4,000 copies 11,026 56 Postage-19,000 copies Total 5249,59611 The Warrington Guardian states that Colonel Patten has withdrawn his gift of a park to that town in consequence of the parsimonious conduct of the town council at their last meeting. It is rumoured that an effort will be made to settle the vexed question of inquiry into the religious houses of Great Britain, and that a compromise will be suggested by which a royal commission may be substituted for a select committee of the House of Commons, and the terms of the reference to be modified so as to embrace merely the question of the trusts under which the property of convents and m onas ti c i nst i tutions is administered. On arrival at Constantinople, the seamen of the barque Py rus , o f S h i elds, brought charges against their master of habitual drunkenness, of leaving port without a mate, and of a no n - comp li ance w i t h t h e regulations of the Merdian Shipping Act relating to oilicianog-books. The accused, Captain Robert Tenmbland, was tried in a naval court, and the result was that a severe censure was nassed upon his conduct. The court further decided that ite barque Pyrus should not leave the port of Constanti no pie till a proper person had been appointed as mate. The costs of the inquiry had to be rittp4 Zoncs. paid by the captait-7 Li ~e rpool, it seems, has treated itself with a machine which the Daily Courier of that town terms a " Demon crusher " and a " local car of Juggernaut," "Does any Liverpool merchant (asks our contemporary) want his lawn roiled, or his avenues levelled, or the gravel of his walks smoothed? If so, apply to the borough engineer for the use of the Bowring, alias the demon-crusher, alias the forty-ton steam roller. Its s , irvices may be retained, stoker and all, at a charge of £2 lOs per day (paid in advance), and for this moderate sum the Corporation will undertake to break all the sewers, flatten all the gaspipes, and otherwise crush everything the Bowring passes over. The demon with the innocent name is the local car of Juggernaut, which demolishes all before it, from macadam to drain-pipes. It costs the Corporation £5OO a year to feed its voracious furnace, and as a means of re plenishing the exhausted treasury, the Health Committee have agreed to let it out for hire. Who wants it ? If the aristocracy of Aigburth desire its service, will they guarantee to return it ? For if it was taken across the river Jordan, or into Aigburth. vale, it might get into a rut from which extrication would be impossible, or the boiler might blow up, or the wheels come off, or some other unforeseen emergency arise. The demon has a taste for breaking down in critical places —that was a sad plight when it fell into the sewers of of Newsham-park—and unless the corporation are pre pared to find their white elephant dead lame in some outlandish situation, they will keep it quietly at home— languishing in all its beauty in a shed, as Mr. Harrison d - oetically apostrophises, or wasting its sweetness on the esert air as Mr. Campbell prefers ; though, for our part, we have never observed either beauty or sweetness in the " Bowring." _ THE TEMPORAL PODS ER OF THE POPE. —The Memorial Diplonurtique says that the recent statement of the Agence Havas concerning the text of the paragraph in, the Schema relating to the Temporal Power, was calcu lated to give rise to apprehensions, and even to justify the belief that a conflict might ensue between the Holy See and Italy. At the same time it expresses great doubts as to the authenticity of the paragraph in question, and points out that the Schemata published by the Augsburg Gazette contains no allusion to the intervention of the Papal authority, and leave a wide latitude to the decisions of the Council. The Pope was to remain in ignorance of these decisions until they were sent to him for approval. Cnisis IN AUSTRIA.—The Berlin Post says that the Germans of Cis-Leithania are more satisfied now that the Slays have completed their exodus from the Reichstag. The Poles and Slavenians have been threatening to take this step since 1869, and they can now pat their professions to the proof, and see if they are sufficiently strong to shake "German Centralisation." The Czechs have declared against the Coalition Ministry of Count Potocki because he holds to the German Constitu tion, and contributed in 1868 to placing Prague in a state of Beige, as well as to the general oppression of the Czechs. The Germans of Bohemia and Moravia are preparing to exert themselves in defence of the Constitution. THE DARIEN SURVEYING EXPEDITION.—We are indebted to a gentleman in Aspinwall for the following very gratifying news from the United States exploring expedition at Caledonian Bay, from which it would appear that all fears anticipated about the hostility of the Indians have been found just the contrary :—" The news from Caledonia Bay to the 13th of March. I take pleasure in communicating the following items, which I glean from a private letter. The United States steamer Nipsic left Caledonia Bay on the 7th instant for Carthagena, to, procure more labourers, and for the purpose of trans mitting the ma'ls to Aspinwall. The telegraph corps have established a c a mp on Nip s i c p o i n t, o p ene d a main office, put up instruments, batteries, &c„ and have cut out a road about theee-quarters of a mile long, in order to meet the surveyors' road. On the 14th they would . commence moving and extending their lines up to the surveyors' camp, and thence onward to the Pacific as fast as the surveyors move. The surveyors are hard at work, and have succeeded in securing a fine map of the topography of the country, almost the entire length of the Bay running back to the base of the . mountains. All branches of the expedition are busily engaged doing their best to find the object for which the expedition was sent there. The Indians are peaceable, and visit the various camps daily, without fear of being molested. Large quantities of valuable woods have been found. Mahogany and India rubber trees abound, and there are many plantations of plaintains and sugar-cane of a superior quality. The health of the entire party is excellent, and all are in good spirits."—Panama Star, March 21. FIRE-PROOF FURNITURE.—Every now and then loud noisings are heard about the importance of rendering the ballet-girls incombustible, but no one seems to think that there are other things to which it would be equally important to apply a fire averter. Why should we not make our houses uninflammable and our furniture fire-proof ? It can easily be done—or rather it could be, if there were some sort of com pulsion put upon builders and upholsterers. Timber is the material that needs the preservative, and it may be prevented from firing by simply impregnating it with a concentrated solution of rock salt. The fact has just been announced by a German chemist, who was commissioned to solve the question by a fire insurance company. Water glass will act as well, but it is expensive ; rock salt is dirt cheap. The salt, too, renders the wood proof against dry rot and the ravages of insects. Its antagonism to fire might be turned to account in extinguishing flames, for a solution of it pumped ou t o f a fire engine upon burning matter would be vastly more effective than plain water. Our system of fire extinction needs revision. We now; often do as much damage by indiscriminate watering as i the fire would if it were left to burn itself out, only whq will initiate improvements I ) —Cassell's Magazine. MUSICAL MATTERS.—The Scandinavian resident of Paris are about t o fête Ald Nilsson.—The Paris, theatres are doing exee,edingly well. M. B?.,gier has received £2,010 for the first three nights,' of Mada me P a tt i , an d t h e Var i dt6s pocketed £6OOl for the first five nights 'of "Le Ver Rongeur."--- A Barcelona paper states that Tamberlik has contractelt, engagements in St.. Petersburg and Moscow till January, 1871, so that he will not appear in the Teatro Real, Mad rid, next season, unless it be in the last quarter. It is stated, in a Madrid letter, that a well-known writer is about to produce a drama in three acts, with the ; singular title of "Un Rey con Honra Queremos,9: which may be translated "we wish to have a king with honour," or "we wish to have a king 1 honourably." It i s a dd e d th a t th e o bj ect o f the play? is a political one—that of representing in a favourable light the public and private virtues of the Duke of Montpensier.—A. new universal Musical Lexicon is being published in Berlin : edited by Hermann MendeL It is to extend to about sixty numbers, and to include 4 explanations of all the terms used in music, of th e prin-1 ciples of acoustics, harmony, orchestration, &0., as well as biographies of musicians, notices of compositions, and an historical review of the devolopment and progress of music j in all its branches. Its title is the " Musikalischgo Vicon%l yersations L exicon."— Orchestra. Through some mistake the Poor-law Board ap pointed Good Friday as the day for the election of guar dians in St. George's, Hanover-square. The fixture could. not be altered, and the result is that the ratepayers were virtually disfranchised. A private meeting of the Waterford city magis trates was held on Wednesday for the purpose of consi dering the best means of preserving the peace of the city during the hearing of the coming election petition. The proceedings were very animated. After a long discussion it was agreed to apply to the Government for extra troop, and police.—. Dublin Express. _ Advices from New York state that the United' States Government was to buy on Wednesday one million dollars of Five-Twenty Bonds on the sinking fund account. Another million dollars of the same bonds will be purchased by Mr. Boutell on Thursday next on the special fund account. A further million dollars of gold : will, it is reported, be sold on Wednesday. isnh Ar theo p s s hdhrosetc Mr. : lal r ebvs a ne eflaensonodyne, whose surgeon g o edi c ol s e rnfhe u r sooroetfrmneetidxnttcheoahennti extensive ihy l teoe V ialo pn e nr m oa clrfe:atotivni i a cheees. unfortunateTNv obullet s h g a e N little hope of his recovery. Mr. Wilson's son has been p m ic b i te o he n ne o ß f r h eex a cr ving fired the shots. arrested s.aAzarleett ht o e, n r . ei N v e e d w . ma T n he Ha re ll v ,. da g t e e n d tle f m ro a ra n. h f s u s a r o s speaks hopefully of his health, and practically refutes the prevalent rumour of his intended retirement from the Surrey Chapel, and settlement in the United States, saying that he hopes, on his return to London, to " preach the Gospel with greater power and more energy than ever." STEALING FROM LLOYDS.—A clerk, named Hart, has been sentenced, at the Mansion House, to six months' im prisonment for stealing several coats f.om the committee room at Lloyd's. CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES.—A case of some importance to small investors in co-operative societies has been heard ; at p c o soi-ted oper a tive 40 w Society,t h t h Manchester Manchester and . T Salfordhe p e and sued the company for it , as he wished to withdraw. He was an illiterate man , a nd claimed to be in the plaintiff Industrial position of a lender. The society contended that he was a member, and could not withdraw without permission. The judge held that to constitute the plaintiff a share holder it was necessary that he should have agreed to be one, and have been registered as such. According to his pass-book he was merely a depositor, and had power tv• withdrawn at any time. Judgment for the plaintiff. THE GAME LAWS.—A young man named Church has been sentenced at Kidderminster to a fine of 14s. 6d. for trespassing in search of game. The land trespassed on belonged to the Earl of Dudley. The defendant said that he was in his father's garden with his dog, when the dog started a hare, and he followed to stop it. ACTION FOR COTTON.—At Manchester Mr. Hebden, manufacturer, sued the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail way for damages for non-delivery of three bales of cotton sent on by them to Rochdale instead of Skipton. The plaintiff wanted the cotton at a particular time, and was put to a great inconvenience. The judge kkid the company were not liable unless they had pr . ior notice of the time at which it was wanted. Telegraphmg after the cotton had been delivered to the company woulq mhisic thcaz 1141 e, Vic 04.4tifl IDI4 14911141cd. ROYAL MUSIC it Stock and for 3 nume- per has Las been g April 000 for ie Suez le those ning in ion has lily to a ie past nerease , £225. , Shef- Great 38,839; d. ; in -21,299. trket Id sale/ ; yellow It priced altered. lea hall A. short ule has eeds, at rly sup aid the a fair b about terms. 55. ed. , , 4s. 6d, -Beasts, -Beasts, is been quiet. former ron Its tin. branch, s bc:i Cllr supply ';about 4d. to pork, RSDAY. det, at 84s. ; 31over, ad-cut v, 263. s, but` 1, 20; 63, Paternoster-rOw, E.C. Just published, price is 6d., by post ls. Bd., the Second Edition, with Addenda, containing additional Facia and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks. REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: H. %Mere, 219, Regent-street. 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This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish the principle of fr. e admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance'of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several hundred more bed had the Committee the requisite funds Co maintain them. Contribution.; are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. 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