The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-06 00:00:00

TURKEY AND SERVIA.

The Liberte gives no sufficient account of the difficulty
which, according to its information, has sprung up between
Turkey and Servia. Some Servian subjects have made
"grievous complaints," but the injury they have sus-
tained has yet to be learned. The note which the Servian
Regency has addressed to the Porte is " very summary
and very menacing." The Servian Government must be
allowed the credit of considerable courage in making such
a demand, notwithstanding Turkey's recent triumph.

which enforce payment in each case. The Supreme
Court, therefore, ruled that the State had the
right to collect taxes in coin. The way this deci-
sion affects Five-Twenties is that the United States
have undertaken the obligation to pay the principal
at their option, after five years from the date of
issue, but in any case after 4 further term of 20
years. The Bouds, therefore, are not a debt until
after the twenty years have expired, and as the
Supreme Court asserts that greenbacks are a legal-
tender only for debts, it follows that they cannot
be legally offered in payment of the principal until
the period expires after which it becomes a debt,
while the payment in gold of the interest, which
a debt after it becomes due, is provided for.
An interesting case was lately decided by the
Maryland Court of Appeals. A Mr. Hillan dep.:
sited on account, with the Commercial and Farmers'
Bank of Baltimore, a cheque for $4,600, drawn by
Horace 'Abbott on the first National Bank, pal-
able to HiPan's order. The first National Bank
credited the Commercial and Farmers' bank
with the amount, the cheque having reached
them through the clearing-house, and its cus-
tomer, Mr. Abbott, was debited with the amount.
Two days after Hillan called at the Commercial and
Farmers' Bank with his cheque for $4,500, which
the Bank paid, taking as granted that that sent
through the clearing house was good, for otherwise,
according to usage, it would have been returned.
A week after, on balancing Abbott's account, the
First National Bank discovered that the cheque
was a forgery on which it paid Abbott, and suc7
cessfully sued the Commercial and Farmers' Bank'
From this the latter appealed, and the Court re-
seived the decision on the ground that the law
fastens the obligation on the receivers of deposits
of knowing the signatures of their own customers,
maintaining " There is no reason why the loss, 8,13
between parties equally innocent and equally de7
ceived (but where one is bound to know and ad
upon his knowledge and the other has no means of
knowledge), should be thrown upon the latter i 4
exoneration of the former."
The New York Yacht Club accepted Mr. Ash,
bury's challenge to race for the Queen's Cup, pro:,
vided that an organized yacht club of any foreign
country accredits him as its representative, as the
challenge cannot be accepted from him in his indivi-
dual capacity. Theditlicultyabout the ocean race was
the difference in the mode of measuring the yachts.
By the Thames system the Dauntless is nearly double
the size of the Cambria, but by New York measure-
ment the Dauntless would be 246 and the Cambria
222 tons. The English system is derived from the
old style, which ignored depth; and as the English
yachts are narrow in the beam, but very deep, they
are measured at less than their real tonnage. The
American, on the contrary, are shallow and broad
in the beam. It certainly does appear more equit-
able to measure the actual space ; indeed the main
interest in the contest is between the style of build-
ing adopted in America, and that in England, the
two now differing widely.
Most of the American newspapers have been be'
labouring Butler for his Wednesday's proceeding
in the Hall of the Representatives on the countins
of the electoral vote. It Is said that " bluff Bail
Wade" has scarcely recovered the scare. Ever since
Butler has been very piano, as instanced by his all,
sion to Grant's speedy installation, when he con!:
give Congress direct advice, which, he said, " 1/1u
be heeded by me with that respect, that honour,
and that loyalty which is due to General Grant es,
the head of the nation; and with that cordial an'
earnest support which I propose to give him as the
head of the Republican party of the nation."
Among the items of State news the West 'Of'
giuia House of Representatives on the 17th Febi
passed a bill making Parkersburg the capital
passed
a State. The Louisiana Legislature has pasee?
a Civil Equality Bill, similar to that vetoed by
the Governor last year. The Lower House Wlg
also passed a School Bill providing for Schn°l
Commissioners to be appointed by the Goverpnr•
In the United States Court, at Richmond, Vir-
ginia, Judge Underwood presiding, a negro, named
Stevens, was awarded $1,600 damages against the
Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad Compaq
for the forcible placing of his wife in a second'
class car, after she bad purchased a first-class
ticket. The Judge's charge to the jury, which
was of mixed colours, was strongly in favour of
the plaintiff.

The news from the British possessions by Sall
Francisco, under date Feb. 18, was that the Legis-
lature of British Columbia, after a long debate, de-
cided against confederation, The vote stood 11
against it to sin favour of it. The appropriation Of
the encouragement of female immigration to Brit!
Columbia was unanimously passed by the Council.
There is nothing by the last mail to indicate al
change in feeling regarding the Alabama " wrong'
as the New York Tribune calls it in an able article
published in its edition of Feb. 20. The Senate
Committee were unanimous in condemning the
Convention, and although strenuous efforts bale
been made to secure the two-thirds majority int
Chamber, even Mr. Seward despairs of accomplish-
ing this, and is said to have telegraphed to Mr:
Reverdy Johnson the unanimous decision of the
Foreign Affairs Committee to report adversely*
What Mr. Johnson said at Manchester tallies s°
little with our information, that we would hesitate
,
to accept the latter. The Minister there asserted
that he had telegraphed on Monday, the 22d Feb.;
to his Government for information as to the alleg,e.,'
report of the Senate Committee on the A/abatizaci
question, and the answer was that no report had
been made, though the majority it was rumonre,b
were opposed to the Convention. At Washington 'l'
was known on the 18th Feb. that the Chairain
Senator Sumner, was dead against the " letter aao
spirit" of the document, and that Senators Morto ;
Harlan, Patterson, and Cameron held the same
.
view, and had instructed the Chairman to report
adversely, and believed that this decision was conl,
municated to Mr. Seward, who immediately sent
a telegram to the Minister in London, authorising
:
him to communicate the fact to the British Gore
men t.

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Rife
CHESHIRE—On the sth lusrtt' ,h& at Forest-hill, the wifef
0
Sauel 11. Cheshire, of a son.
ROBERTSON—On the 2d inst , the wife of T. NV. Roberts:h
Esq., of a daughter. •

Marriages.
POWELL—DICKSON —OR the 4th inst., at St. Georgeil
CaP
Hauover-square, Henry B. Powell, Esq., late
Grenadier Guards, of Wilverly-park, Hanapshiref nil
Laurette Emeline, Lady Dickson. I Bit—
RFORD—j OHNSON —On the Sd ~ at Bords,ey,
BU
mingham, Thomas Burford, of old Brentford, Virdbo..
sex, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late John °
son, of Lincoln.

Deaths. 13Yde-
11ADow —On the sth inst., at 41, Sussex-gardens,
park, G. J. fladow, Esq., aged 80. gen'
N.w., the
PRESTON-011 the 3d inst., at Abergele,
Robert Preston. anry
WWall'
ALLBRIDGE —Oll the 2d inst., at Lee, Kent, IL- -
bridge, Esq.
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