The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-10 00:00:00

EXCLUDING A PROFESSOR FROM A FELLOWSHIP.—A case of
considerable importance to the medical profession has been
tried in Dublin, before the Irish Lord Chancellor and the
Chief Justices. Dr. M'Swiney, Professor of Medical jurispru-
dence in the Catholic university, brought an action against
the College of Physicians for excluding him from the fellow-
ship of the college. The question was as to the validity of
the bye law which regulatedithe election of fellows. By this
law one dissentient vote in five excludes a candidate, the
president having a casting vote. Dr. M'Swiney
had eighteen votes for him and nine against him. There
was a great deal of discussion on the point, Dr. Ball, Q.C..
appearing for the college, and the Solicitor General and
Mr. Butt, Q.C., for Dr. M'Swiney. The judges required
further evidence, and said they must have the books and
dccuments cf the college examined before they conclude'
the case.

The Home Secretary has awarded a gratuity of
£5O to the widow of the policeman Teehan, who having
been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police on grounds
which proved to be wrong, fell into a state of great desti-
tution, and shortly afterwards died.

MEDICAL VISITOR OF LtiNATICS.-By the death
of Sir Charles Hood, M.D., at the early age of 45, the office
of Medical Victor of Lunatics is at the disposal of the
Lord Chancellor. Tho salary is £1,500a year. There arc.
one legal and two medical visitors.

THE NATIONAL EDUCATION LEAGUE.-A meeting,
to form a branch of the National Education League, was
held on Friday night at Oldbury. Mr. Dixon, 31. P,, was
present. The chairman read the following letter
from the Hon. Charles G. Lyttelton, M.P. for East
Worcestershire :—" As I am not a member of the
Education League I think it better not to attend
your meeting on Friday. As I plainly expressed
during my election canvass, I am heartily in favour of the
leading principles advocated by Mr. Dixon and his friends.
but differing as I do from some of the details of their pro-
gramme, I have hesitated to join the League. I should
readily do so, and sink minor differences where there any
danger of a scheme being carried which did not recognise
the main principle of undenominational education without
a complete sacrifice of religious teaching."

ADMIRALTY ORDERS.—The Civilian says that an
Admiralty order has been lately promulgated, forbidding
the clerks of the department to receive remuneration for
work done on account of any other Government depart
ment, without the concurrence of the Lords of the Trea
sury. The same journal states that the Lords of the
Admiralty have informed the department that it is not
their intention to offer any more advantageous terms of
retirement than those at present in force, viz., ten years'
additional service for men who have served over twenty
years and five years for those with less service ; and their
lordships remind their officers that these terms will be
withdrawn on the 31st of March next.

FIRST CASE ricDER THE NEW DEBTORS' ACT.—
On Saturday the first commitment under the new Debtors
Act was made to Whitecross-street Pilsen, on an order of
Mr. Justice Montague Smith, made at chambers. An ap-
plication was made that a debtor was about to leave the
country, and an order was made that unless he paid the
amount or found security he should be imprisoned for one
month. There were only thirty inmates on Saturday at
Whitecross-street Prison, and of that number twenty-one
were commitments by county courts. As many as 400 have
been confined, and when the new Act took effect the
number was 134. The old man Barnacles, who had been
a prisoner twenty-seven years, paid a visit to his old quar-
ters on Saturday. The Rev. Mr. Pugh, the chaplain of
the prison, and Mr. Constable, the governor, are trying to
obtain some employment for him.

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FATAL FOOLITARDINESS.-1-1 frightful accident
arising out of a foolish wager occurred a few days ago on
the Vincennes railway. Two young soldiers attached t,
the Gymnastic School at the Fort de la Fasanderie, bad
made a bet that they would repeat a feat performed re-
cently by one of their comrades, and which consisted in
jumping from the top of one of the carriages on a bridge
as the train passed beneath, and then descending on
another carriage on the other side. They were returning
from Paris to their quarters by rail, when, rendered more
venturesome by drink, they endeavoured to put this insane
projeot into execution near the Fontenay station. They,
however, either did not make the spring in time, or else
missed their aim and fell back ; in any case they were
caught between the top of the carriage and the crown of
the arch, and one of the young men was crushed to death
instantaneously, while the other received such injuries
that his life is despaired of.
INCE.—An incident is BABY FATIMIN(• IN
re-
corded in the French papers which seems to have escaped
the attention of English
.jurnaliitA, and which is (tip.
Pally
~Vews thinks) too suggcst Ivo to be suffered to pass
into obrvion. The widow Lafosse, it appears, has been
rzettie2- her living as a nurse, at Eanccurt, in the cemmunu
of cramlcharep, in the canton of Houdan ; but in the.
space of four years sixteen of the eighteen children en
trusted to her care have pc,risl,ed. This excessive mor-
tality drew the attention of the authorities, who ordered
an inquiry; but the doctors consulted were unable
to establish in a legal manner either the guilt or even the
negligence of wblow Lefosso. The only wrong they could
bring home to her wat that of neglecting to pay to the
vicar of the place the funeral dues which had been trans-
mitted to her by the families of the decea.::ed children ;
and on this score she was condemned to three months'
imprisonment for breach of tn.-Lt. These facts are suffi-
suggestive, and we suppose that they have not
much notice, simply because it could not be
widow Lafosse was to blame for the death of