The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-13 00:00:00

UTE LAST AMEUICAN DIFFICULTY,

Tlll-' Scotsman learns that the American schooner
Grenada, seized by e. British cutter, at Port lludson, was
detained not for a breach of the. Fishery Tiows, but Al)
suspicion of being concerned in some smuggling enter-
prise. No details as to the seizure of the Friend have

N,ENV OOTTA GE HOSPITA L. —Mr. Sotheron-Eatoourt
has just presented to the Devizes Corporation the site for
the establishment of a cottage hospital at that place. The
gift hasbeen Accepted, and nds are bein,, raised, todefray
the post of the bugding.
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ANNIVERSARY QE 7111 i PRINCE CONSORT'S DRAT".
—Wednesday being the ninth anniversary of the death of
his late Royal Ifighness the Prince Consort, the 43, will
ho celebrated with a service within the Royal Mausoleum
at Frogmore, where the remains of the late lamented
Prince are interred. Prinbe Albert died at Windsor
Castle on the 14th of December, 1861.

Mr. Dudley Baxter has analysed some more of the
polling. returns in the recent London School Board elec-
tions. 4s to ''insbury, he says that under the old system
it is evident that Mr. rabrom 'would have been likely to
be at the head of the poll, but Mr. Clarke and Mr.
Lucraft would have been likely, from the small number_
of their supporters, to have been beaten by Messrs.
Owen, Lovell, or Rivington. This is a result of practical
importance, since it shews how the minority can put in
a working man under the new system. In Chelsea Mrs.
Grey would have had a better chance of getting iu.

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UR, GLADSTONE'S LITTER,--The .London corre-
spondent of the Scotonayi says :,--"I hoar pertqin
authority that the letter of Mr. Gladstone to Mr. Dpase,
U.P., in which he lays down the principle of an obliga-
tion in the English Government to interfere for the per-
sonal protection of the Pone, has gone like a fiery cross
through the ranks of the Evangelical religious party. It
s said that Lord Shaftesbury is already up and about to
be.doing, and that there are to be protests, and indignation
meetings, and one knows not whit." The later is also
commented upon unfavourably .by some of the Doman
Catholic journals in Ireland.

pir.• 011111mm-11ilo Right Hon. Judge
Lawson sat i 4 Publiu on Saturday to hear appeals from
decisions of the court ir4 tip® ea es of stlergymeu who made
claims under.the IriSh Clnircli Oct, , In one of the cases
the clergyman, who had already obtained an annuity as
curate of Chapelipd, claimed also the curacy of St. dude's
Dublin. His lordship disallowed the claim, seeing that it
would 1.;!., impossible for the claimant to discharge tlio
duties of the two parishes. In tho next case a right of
pekinauertt curacy in .a pmish where there were but 14
Protestants was disallowed, the .learned judge remarking
that the rector, who was entitled to an annuity from the
p4ish, yet *ent away mid took duty in London. lie.was
obliged by the archbishop to pay some person who in his
absence would atterg to tke spiritual wants of six people,
and it Was.PrciposteroUq. to 43k the
.conutlissioners to pay
the rector his ;11;11144g aoii JO a year to tip claimant ,for
doing nothing, Two or three other eases were also de:.
eided, in the last of which alone was the decision in favour
of the claimant.

DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY.-011 Friday,
at the • Salford Assizes,. an -action was brought by Mr.
Thomas Facile], sixty years of e.g; against the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire Railway Company, to recover damages
for personal injuries sustained through, the negligence of
the personal injuries sustained through the negligence of
the defenduL, On the 13th of July the plaintiff was .a
second-class pasjsengpi? in one of the defendants' trains
going to Rochdale' when a violon4 collision occurred near
to the Rochdale Station, owing to dome coal . trucks being,
across the main line. "The ,carriage in which *the plaintiff
was in was overturned ; he was thrown violently against
the ComPestrnent and rendered insensible. On recovering
his conspiousess he found himself lying at the bottom of,
the carriage, with his mopth full of blood. He had been
unable to attend to his lu;suess since the date of the acci-
dent. The medical evidence went to phew that the plain-
tiff in all probability would be well in twelve pr eighteen
months. The jury retired, and after a.shert consultation
found a verdict for the plaintiff. t)amagee; £4OO,