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FRE SUN, LONDON, TrIU.RSDAY EVENING, SANITARY 20, 1870

would be obviated. There would be some comforts
and profusion also, instead of the rude
plenty which the colonist now obtains. It would
be requisite, of course, that the community should be
of one mind as to their destination ; but this could
be no difficulty in a country where one place is as good
as another. No co-operator could safely be ad-
mitted without some testimony to his qualifications
and conduct ; but this would be a great advantage
which the detached system lacks. Provided the bond
of union was not made too stringent, and the co-
operation restricted to society, and the interchange of
commodities, it is not easy to Pee how roach an at-
tempt could fail. A Communistic society proper is
quite another experiment.
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LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This DciO.

VICE-CHANCERY.
CHAPMAN V. CHAPMAN.

Vice-Chancellor Stuart delivered judgment in
this case, in which the plaintiff filed a bill against
the defendant for the repayment of a large sum of
money, which he stated he bad lost by the neglect
of the defendant, as his legal adviser. His Honour
said the Court was very strict in reference to the
conduct of its officers in their relations to their
clients, but in the present case it did not appear
that the defendant was open to the charge of
neglect of professional duty. Although the de-
fendant might not have given the best advice to
his client, still be acted according to what he be-
lieved was to his interest. The bill must b 3 dis-
missed with costs.

Is deciding, by the very large majority of 226 to
34, to continue the prosecution of M. HENRI ROCHE-
FORT, the French Legislative Chamber has given a
ust and reasonable support to the newlyformedGovern-
ment. No other course consistent with the dignity and
honour of the nation lay open to the choice of either
the Parliament or the Administration. If exhorta-
tion to revolt be a punishable offence, the proceed-
ings of M. ROCHEFORT must be met with punish-
ment. To have overlooked such conduct would
have been tantamount to a declaration that
the crime of seditious writing was blotted from the
penal list, that treason-mongers had full impunity in
their sayings and doings, provided they stopped short
of actual war. For a long time M. Ro CUEFORT supplied
a profitable amusement to the Parisian public by
lampooning and libelling the Imperial Family. This
occupation was continued, to the material advantage
of the writer and the gratification of the French
people, until several sentences of imprisonment drove
the journalist out of France. When the late amnesty
was declared, M. RocsEronT was not excepted in
respect of his political misdeeds; and though he
was still liable to a penalty for a civil offence, which
the amnesty did not cover,, the EMPEROR granted
him a safe conduct. He returned and resumed his
career of hostility to the Man of December. His
determination to overthrow the Empire at the first
favourable opportunity was not concealed. He sought
and obtained re-election to the French Parliament for
the express purpose of carrying his designs into
effect. He has not ceased to preach and write
treason. And when the unhappy catastrophe
took place at Auteuil, M. ROCHEFORT made
a direct appeal to the people to rise in
arms, and but for his own faintheartedness on the
day of Nofn's funeral, it cannot be doubted that some
attempt of the kind would have been made.
On what principle are such proceedings to be tole-
rated ad infinitum in France any more than in another
country ? We in England were seriously considering
the expediency of prosecuting the seditious writers of
Ireland. But nothing that has ever appeared in the
People of Ireland or the Nation is more rank
treason than the articles in the Marseillaise,
the Rappe; and the _Revell. Even in England
the freedom of the press is supposed to have a limit;
why should it be boundless in France ? It is true
that if ROCHEFORT be turned out of the French
Parliament, the First Circumscription of Paris, which
he represents, will elect another deputy of the same
congenial type. But the happy demagogue on whom
the mantle of the great man falls will have the
fate of his predecessor as a salutary warning. It will
be his own fault if ho fail to profit by it. It may be
true, also, that the prosecution will raise ROCHEFORT
"to the dignity of a hero and a martyr," as the Times
puts it. It must not be forgotten, however, that the
Paris deputy is already a hero and a martyr in the eyes
of the mob. A prosecution will only render him a
little more dear and sacred to the canaille. He will
stand no higher than. he does now in the estimation of
those classes whose good opinion is worth having.
Surely the hero and martyr plea is carried too far,
when it is urged against the punishment of any
rascal that the just retribution of the law will only
ennoble him. The same thing was said of the
Fenians ; but Milbank and Portland proved none the
less substantial and disagreeable correctives. It is said,
moreover, that the prosecution is inopportune, that
ROCHEFORT should not be punished until BONAPARTE,
the homicide, has been disposed of. But those who
urge such a plea entirely overlook the great fact that
the Government is in no way responsible for the
murder of VICTOR NOIR, which wa.s, in fact, a great
and unmerited misfortune. The mad deed of Prince
PIERRE was no excuse for ROCHEFORT'S appeal to
insurrection, and the punishment of the latter
offender ought not to be delayed because the proceed-
ings against the former are immature. Indeed, it
would be a palpable error if the Government recog-
nised any connection whatever between the two
orknes.

POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH- STREET.

DAMAGING LORD ERNEST BRUCE'S CARRIAGE.—
Edward Sloper was charged before Mr. Knox as
follows :—Police-constable Rough, 186 C, said that
on the previous afternoon the prisoner, who was
drunk, was given into his custody i❑ Green-street,
Grosvenor-square, by Lord Ernest Bruce, be having
damaged his lordship's carriage by running into it
with a break he had been driving. The prisoner
denied being drunk.
Samuel Chadley, coachman to Lord Ernest
Bruce, said that on the previous afternoon he was
standing at the door of No. 24, Green-street, with
his lordship's brougham, when the prisoner came
along with a break and pair of horses and drove
into the brougham. He tried to avoid the break
but could not, and the brougham got tacked in
with the break. He stopped the prisoner's
horses, and through doing so the prisoner fell off
the box.

In answer to Mr. Knox,
The witness aid the prisoner had plenty of
room.

The prisoner said a " showful" (Hansom) cab
was the cause of the accident, as it was in trying to
avoid the cab which was going along that he ran
into the brougham, and there was also a waggon
standing on the opposite side.
Lord Ernest Bruce produced an estimate of the
damage to the amount of £4. He did not wish to
be hard with the man, but would leave it with the
magistrate.
The prisoner called a witness who was on the
break at the time. There was a waggon on one
side of the street and his lordship's brougham on
the other, and in trying to clear a cab which was
going along the brougham was run into.
Mr. Knox said he ought to fine the prisoner 40s.
for driving to the common danger, but as he
would have to pay £4 for the damage, he should
only fine him ss. for driving to the common danger,
and order him to pay the damage or a month.

COMIC PAPERS.

(From Punch.)

SOMETHING FOR 1870.—A man in advance of his time.—
Bob Lowe's Tax-gatherer.
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FROM SCOTLAND YARD.—Our police force, it has been
observed, is deficient in height. The reason is plain. Tall
policemen are discouraged, because they might look over
things.
FLASHES OF BRIGHT LIGHT.—The report of the Bir-
mingham meeting with Bright's speech, containing nine
thousand and six words was 6` wired r to London by 12.30
p.m. the same night. " Wonderful Telegraph feat," say
the jourrAlia. " Wonderful Telegraph hands !" says
Punch.
FORCE or HABIT.—A tax-gatherer was observed the
other evening all alone in a corner, moody, meditative,
and frowning. His work was over for the day, but from
force of habit (coming from being always at the receipt of
custom), he was collecting himself.

(From Fun.)

As LIKE. AS Two PEAS. -Mr. Dickens's " people, with a
little p,'" and his " people with a big 'P. "
THE NEW BANKRUPTCY ACT.—If the day breaks in
the morning does the sun, as-sets in the evening, become
assignee ? _ _ _

A REFORM.—The St. Pancras Guardians have made
themselves famous for intemperate speeches ; but it is
clear from the inquiry now going on that they do not
dearly loie their Bere.
A NOUGHT-v JOKE.—The collection-box of the St.
George's Hospital at Tattersall's was found on being
opened to contain exactly no pounds, no shillings, and
no pence, no farthings. The sporting fraternity have
evidently been acting up to the rule, "No fees to box-
keepers."
THE STowE-RY TELLER.—Mrs. Stowe's " Vindication of
Lady Byron" is out, and most unfavourably received in
New York. This libeller of the dead seems to labour
under the delusion that assertion is evidence and itera-
tion confirmatory proof. She will doubtless contrive to
turn a pretty penny out of her ghoulish pursuits. As
the authoress of Topsy she was once famous for her
coloured female, now she will be notorious for her black
mail.

PRINCE PIRIIIII PONAPARTETPRMON, TA—CLERCIIMAN—SUMMONED IVO
The turret looking on the Quai d'Horloge, where Prince AS.SAMIre
Pierre is now confined, was known in the Middle Ages as A singular ease was heard on Tuesday by the Birming-
tbe Tower of Caesar. At a later period it took its name from ham magistrates, in which the defendant was the rector of
that Montgomery who slew Henry 11. of France in a tour- a fashionable church in Birmingham, and the complainant
narnent, and who was imprisoned within its walls. There a surgeon practising in the same town. Mr. Thomas
were no windows then looking on the river, and the Gutteridge, of Calthorpe-street, Edgbaston, summoned
basement of the building was washed by the waters of the the Hon. and Rev. Grantham Yorke, rector of St.
Seine. The populace regarded it with terror, and many Philip's, for an assault alleged to have been committed
Inends were current of victims immured for life in its in the vestry of St. Philip's Church, on Sunday,
bloomy oubliettes. Some time since it was converted into January 9, after morning service. Mr. Gutteridge gained
a residence for the governor of the Conciergerie. Windows a certain notoriety some time ago by a "Nunnery Story'
were let into the walls, and some attempts were made which found its way into some of the London and pro-
to give it an air of comfort. Occasionally, by special vincial papers, and which was investigated by a committee
favour, prisoners were allowed to reside in it. The ground of Birmingham gentlemen and proved to be without
floor consists of two small rooms and a salon. The latter foundation. On Sunday, the 9th instant, the Bishop of
has been furnished with a tent bedstead, and assigned to Rochester preached in the forenoon at St. Philip's and
the prisoner for his apartment. It was originally a vt., - ted after service Mr. Gutteridge made his way to the vestry, and
chamber, so lofty in proportion to its area that it might somewhat abrubtly entered. He begged to present a pamphlet
be said to resemble a well. At present the floor has ito the Dishop,with whom he appears to have been acquainted.
been raised so that the capitals of the pillars, According to Mr. Gutteridge's account, Mr. Yorke snatched
from which the arch of the roof springs, are almost the book from his hand, and Mr. Churchwarden Bellis
level with the ground. Two windows barred with ejected him from the vestry. The pamphlet contained a
iron look out upon the quay, but their height from the libellous statement of charges made by Mr. Gutteridge
floor and the thickness of the walls prevent the inmate against Dr. Prince Lee, the late Bishop of Manchester
from seeing what passes without. The apartment is fur- : Several witnesses who was present stated that Mr. Yorke
nished in the simplest manner, and the prisoner has to did not touch the pamphlet, but simply observed "that it
conform in all respects to the regulations of the Concier- . was a horrid libel, and it was shocking to circulate it when
the bishop was just dead." Major Richards and Mr.Bellis
churchwardens, then quietly led Mr. Gutteridge out of th,
vestry. Mr. ICynnersley dismissed the summons, and
made some severe strictures on the conduct of the corn

goHe. The reports of his being served with costly dinners
from the first Parisian restaurants, and waited on by ser-
vants in livery, are pure pieces of fiction.

THE DUKE OF GENOA AND THE SPANISH

plainant.

CROWN.

By telling the "true story "of the Duke of Genoa's can-
didature for the Spanish Crown, the Italian correspon-
dent endeavours to clear General Prim from the conse-
quences of that terrible fiasco. According to this writer, it
it is not General Prim or any other Spaniard that should
be blamed for desiring to set up a schoolboy as king, but
the King of Italy and his Ministers, who heartily-co-operated
with him in an intrigue of which the secret history
is now professedly related to place the crown of
Spain on the head of a Savoy prince, In fact, Prim
was telling the most literal truth when he asserted
in the Cortes that he had the assurance of King
Victor Emmanuel that, in case the crown was
offered to the Duke of Genoa, the young prince
would accept it. The candidates put forward by the
Italian Government, and supported by a special mission to
Madrid, were, it seems, Prince Amadeo, Duke of Aosta;
the King of Italy's cousin, Prince Calignano ; and,
lastly, the Duke of Genoa. Difficulties first manifested
themselves with reference to the Duke of Aosta, and they
notoriously came partly from the De Merode con-
nection of the Duchess, partly from the Turin
municipal and aristocratic clique, which from the first
resented the elevation of the Princess Cisterna to a place
in the Royal Family of Italy, and afterwards became per-
fectly furious at the thought of her actually sitting on the
Spanish throne. The candidature of the Duke of Genoa
might, it was hoped, disarm these municipal and aristo-
cratic jealousies. It did nothing of the kind, just as little
as that of Prince Carignano, which was chiefly wrecked
on the reluctance of the Prince to give up his Turin
residence and habits. The municipal jealousies seemed
as sensitive at the prospect of the Duke of
Genoa's establishment at Turin being broken up
as they had been at the removal of the capital to
Florence. The aristocratic jealousies continued the war
against the candidature of the Duke of Genoa, precisely
to make the world believe that personal rancours
had never inspired the hostility to the candi-
dature of the Duke of Aosta. But at this
stage of the matter not a word of opposition had
been breathed by the Duchess of Genoa. The opposition
from that quarter broke forth like a thunder clap during
the illness of the King at San Rossore. It is commonly
reported to have dated from the receipt by her Royal
Highness of a letter from her father, the old King of
Saxony, a sovereign of very decided Ultramontane ten-
dencies. An active correspondence ensued between the
Ultramontane leaders in Dresden, Rome, Paris, and other
places. They succeeded in preventing the reali-
sation of the candidature. King Victor Emma-
nuel, who had himself read to the Spanish
Minister a long letter from the Duchess of Genoa,
expressing her entire concurrence in the candidature of
her son, must have opened his eyes very wide on receiving
from her another, written in a sense exactly the reverse.
So the matter ended. The Echo, however, denies this
♦ersion of the story, and still holds Prim answerable for
this most deplorable fiasco. The notion of three Italian
candidates being preferred at once it treats as ridiculnu.

ANOTHER WATER WATCHER KILLED.

A correspondent informs the Pall Mall Gazette
that the Rev. C. T. Procter, the Vicar of Richmond, who
would not allow a fire-escape to be placed in the church-
yard in consequence of its being consecrated ground, has
since refused to allow the choir-boys of the parish church
to sing at a concert in aid of the Richmond Infirmary, on
the ground that they might be required to sing secular

There is some prospect that a revival of pugilism
will be attempted in the United States very shortly. Jem
Mace and Tom Allen, both Englishmen, are endeavouring
to get up a match for some 2,500 dollars aside and the
" champion belt of America." Up to January 3rd, how-
ever, the two parties had not been able to come to an
agreement, and so this great encounter yet remains in
abeyance.
A. STRANGE STATEMENT BY A DIRECTOR.—At
the resumed inquiry, at the Mansion House, as to the
alleged embezzlement by the manager of the Oriental
Commercial Bank, Admiral James Burney, chairman of
the company, said the business was transacted in the
Greek language, and he found it utterly impossible to
know what was going on. He wished to have some Greek
letters translated for his information, as chairman, but it
was found it would cost too much.

Cockermouth seems a very sad place for water watchers.
Only in July last a man named Starkins was murderer:
while carrying on his occupation. Now his companion
has been killed. Early on Tuesday morning (say the local
papers) a fatal affr ty took place in Cockermouth, in which
a water watcher was killed. The victim in t'iis case is a
man named Henry Kendall employed by Mr. Anthony
Dalzell, of Stainburn Hall, the lessee of the Derweni,
fishery. Kendall was a tall, strongly-built man, and resi-
ded at a place called Jenkin Hill. About two o'clock in
the morning, Kendall was in the main street at Cocker-
mouth, nearly opposite the Three Tuns Inn, when he fell
in with two men named Wilson Towers, a stonemason,
belonging to Tallentire, and Joseph Roney. A quarrel
took place between the parties, and they commenced to
fight. Both of the men attacked Kendall, and, after two
rounds had been fought, he was knocked down, and his
head struck heavily against the pavement He never
stirred afterwards, and died almost instantly. Towers
and Roney were taken into custody. The deceased was a
married man, and has left a widow and five children.

AN ECCENTRIC OLD LADY.—The Devizes Gazette
gives some extraordinary particulars of a funeral which
took place in that town on Saturday. The deceased was a
single lady, 70 years of age. Five years ago she had
a coffin made, of which she was so careful that she would
never allow it to be removed from her room, except
when she paid an occasional visit to Weymouth,
and then she took it with her. She always kept
eight half-crowns in it, being five shilling apiece for the
bearers when their office became necessary. The old lady
died of dropsy, and the cherished coffin being too small, it
was found necessary to have another made. Her rela-
tions, however, would not separate her from the constant
companion of her old age, and so they had the smaller
coffin chopped up and buried with the corpse in the same
grave.

AN A3IERICAN REVIVALIST PREACHER.—The
religious reporter of the Philadelphia Sunday Mercury has
much concerned himself lately with the doings of one
Elder Knapp, alias "the Evangelist," whose profession "is
that of consulting physician for sick souls when the ori-
ginal family doctor finds that his pharmacy has lost its effi-
cacy." The Elder, while stirring up a " refreshing revival"
in the Berean Baptist Church, preached against swearing,
and said :—I will give you, my dear friends, a picture
from a scone in hell. The Devil is sitting. in his private
office, receiving the souls as they are brought to him from
the upper world. In comes an infernal gaoler, conducting
a goal to everlasting flames. " Who were you ?" asks the
Devil, as the culprit was brought to where he was sitting.
" Secretary Benjamin, of the Confederate Cabinet." was
the reply. " Oh, yer, I knew you were coming," said the
Devil, as he turned the leaves of his ledger, and made an
entry of the secretary's name. " I always sliew con-
sideration to those who have showed it to me. I've yot
to take you in, but I'll try and make you as comfortable as
possible." To the attendant : " Shew Mr. Benjamin to
a place as near as you can get him to a current of air."
The next arrival was a man who had killed his mother-
in-law. He was hung in Cincinnati. "Take him away,"
said the Deyil, "but treat him kindly. The chances are
two to one that he isn't much to blame. I remember his
case. His mother-in-law came here three weeks ago. She
looked as though she wanted killing. She's over in No.
63. Put him there, andset the old woman in front of the
furnace. No. 63 is too cool for her." Pretty soon another
victim arrives. "What has brought you here?" asks the
Devil. "My case is a hard one," was tho reply. "I am
here just because I swore." " Because you swore ?" asked
the Devil, rising angrily from his chair. "Yes, that's all
the sin I ever did." "All the sin?" exclaimed the Devil;
"all the sin? Why, you mean, despicable, contemptible,
low-lived vagabond," said the Devil, as he brought his fist
down on the table, " there isn't a corner here that's hot
enough for you. Of all the sixty thousand preachers that
spend their Sundays in blackguarding me, not one of them
ever yet accused me of swearing. Blasphemed your Maker,
did you ? Profaned the holy name of your Saviour that
forgave his enemies upon the cross, and died to have saved
you from here ? You did this, did you ?' The trembling
culprit made nc rcply. " Why," continued the Devil,
whose voice arose as his wrath intensified, "why, there's
no excuse for you. A man by an unlucky blow may kill
another one. In pressing temptation a man may steal; ho
may 1:e to save his neck or to cheat his neighbour,
There's some excuse for him. The profane swearer has
no excuse! Attendant, take this accursed scoundrel out
of my sight. rut him up to his neck where tho
coals are the hottest, and then put somebody to sit
on his accursed head." " This " says the reporter, is
a fair sample of the Elder's style and if so, there
oan be no doubt as to its "awakening" oharacter.7—Pail mall
&Wee.'