The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-24 00:00:00

THE ALBERT ASSURANCE AND THE FAMILY
ENDOWMENT SOCIETY.

Vice-Chancellor James delivered judgment to-
day in the case which came before the Court
in the form of a petition by General Pott, who
was entitled to an annuity of £5O a year from
the Family Endowment Society, which had
been amalgamated with the Albert Life Assurance
Company. The question at issue was whether the
prayer of the petitioner for the winding up of the
Family Endowment Society should be granted
or not, or whether by the transfer of their busi-
ness to the Albert, the Family Endowment were
not freed from any liability to those who were their
creditors previously.

The Vice-Chancellor said that there were three
grounds urged by the Family Endowment So-
ciety against the petition. In the first place
they said they had ceased to exist as a com-
pany, and therefore could not be wound
up; secondly, that the petitioner had accepted
the Albert as his debtors ; and thirdly, that
the petitioner had his remedy at common law.
In regard to the first ground, the opposition to the
petition had failed. In his opinion the Family
Endowment had not legally ceased to exist, and
they were liable for their debts to creditors such
as the petitioner, and that they must be consi-
dered as carrying on their business at the office of
the Albert. As regarded the last point urged
against the petitioner, namely, that he should be
allowed to seek hi 3 remedy at law, he did not think
he was justified in compelling the petitioner to
make inquiries as to whom he was to proceed
against as his debtor. On all the grounds therefore
the petition must go dcbito justitiae, and the costs
must come out of the estate of the Friendly Endow-
ment Society.

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

TUESDAY.

The elections have passed over quietly, notwithstanding
the previous excitement, and the result has occasioned
little surprise. M. Rochefort has nttained the object of
his ambition, and the Temps satirically felicitates him on
gaining admission to a world of which he knows neither
the facts, the ideas, nor the language. The brilliant
success of M. Cr6mieux, and the defeat of M. Pouyer-
Quertior were, according to this journal, only to be ex-
pected in a circumscription which is the real heart of
Paris, and has no affection for an equivocal policy. The
Petrie rejoices over the defeat of the non-jurors; but as a
matter of fact this affords no test of the,
real strength of the popular feeling against the
Government. The electors perceived that by voting
for the inassermentes they would obtain a very fleeting
theoretical triumph, at the expense of a serious practical
disadvantage. The Government were not deceived by the
failure of the Quixotic crusade against the oath, as was
abundantly proved by their totally refraining from any
attempt to put forward a candidate. In some quarters
of tho First Circumscriptions, I hear, Terme and
Carnet did not have a quarter of the votes. It is certain
that great enthusiasm was manifested in several directions,
more especially on the Boulevard Clichy. Rochefort was
present in the salle at the beginning of the day, but after
wards withdrew to a neighbouring restaurant, from whence
he could still hoar the shouts of " Vivo Rochefort!"—no
doubt confirm ng him in the conviction that he is the most
remarkable man in France. When he loft the restaurant
ho was surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd, who pressed
round him, shaking him by the hand. As soon as
the election was known the excitement redoubled,
end the news was spread with wonderful rapidity.
The amount of his majority is very variously stated. At
first it was confidentially reported to be 22,000, but the
Journal des Debats of to-day brings it down to " une faible
majority de moins de 3,000 voix." The Liberti puts it at
about 5,000, the Patrie at 4,500, and the Temps at about
the same. No two accounts give precisely the same

figures.
The Journal des Dikes considers the most most notice-
able feature of tho elections to be the defeat of the extreme
party, and rejoices over the failure of M. Ledru Rollin,
Barbes, and Brisson in the Fourth Circumscription. The
resolution of M. Allou to withdraw in favour
of M. Glais - Bizoin is highly applauded by
the Ddbats, which confidently anticipates the trium-
phant success of the latter within fifteen days.
Notwithstanding the success of the candidate of the
Lanterne, the Ddbats felicitates the electors on the result
of the two days' struggle. Tho Siecle is also well satisfied.
It declares that the general belief that the Corps Legislatif
as at present constituted will not survive the approaching
session rendered the election less animated than it would
otherwise have been by diminishing the importance
Attached to the elections.
The France says that prior to his departure for Rome
the Bishop of Orleans put the finishing touches to his
great work on the Life of Our Saviour. The book will be
published in a few days, and forms a most eloquent study
of its subject. There is a series of chapters in which are
collected the most beautiful le sons of the Gospel.
M. Michelet has just brought out a work with the title

" Our S:.,ns."
The Siecle mentions the report that the Pope had
written a letter to Victor Emmanuel congratulating him
on his recovery, and wonders if his Holiness forgot that ho
had excommunicated the royal invalid.
In consequence of the tad weather, the telegraphic com-
munication between Paris and Italy has been interrupted,
andthe two lines between Alarseilles and Genoa have had
to bear all the weight of the correspondence.
The Rhenish Gazette states that the iron bridge which
the railway company at Berg were constructing across the
Rhine has fallen, through the shock received from a laden
vessel being driven against the scaffoldings. Forty work-
men were killed in the accident, and twenty more wounded.
This misfortune will delay the completion of the bridge
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