The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-17 00:00:00

050LICITOR ;111111,11 CAIV FETE DAYS ILV LONDO.Y.

-'IIE CONVENT CASE.

Witness : Not that I know of.
The Lord Chief Justice • So far as your knowledge-goes
this was the only difficulty?
Witness : Yes.
Mrs. King was the next witness. Sho also noticed the
obstinacy of the plaintiff, her capacity for eating between
meals other people's food, and her deception. Moreover,
she charged Miss Saurin with habitual cruelty to the
school children. The case was adjourned before her
evidence was concluded.

THE CAPITATION GnANT,—The volunteers of
Scotland have appointed a deputation to wait upon the
Secretary of State for War, to ask for an increase in the
capitation grant by at least 10s.
It is announced that Captain Ducane, of the Royal
Engineers, who held a responsible position in connection
with the International Exhibition of 1851, has been appointed
to the Chairmanship of Directors of Convict Prisons, vacant
by Colonel Henderson having been made Chief Commis-
sioner of the Metropolitan Police.
The Manchester Courier notices that the short time
movement is spreading, and the prospects of operatives aro
far from being cheering. In Preston, as already announced,
many operatives have had their hours of labour reduced;
is
anind ta
most dephe short timresesed condition. system is Leing adopted. Trade, indeed,
An entrance was effected into the premises of Mr.
hfarkenclale, wholesale butcher, St. John-street, Manchester,
on Susday, and a sum of £6OO in bank notes, gold, and silver,
remelted from one of Milner 's safes. Upon an examination
being made of the premises, it was found that there was not
a single scratch upon the safe, or any marks of a violent en-
trance having been effected.
The Presbyterian Church Missions in England are
in great financial difficulties. At the annual local meeting,
at the Liverpool Institute, on Monday, it was stated that owing
to the expenses of church extension in England, the Home
Mission fund has a yearly expenditure of £2,600, and to
meet this outgoing there is an ordinary income of only
£1,400 a year. The committee are at present under liabili-
ties of £l,OOO to £1,200 beyond its past incomes.
The Lord-Lieutenant received an address of con-
gratulation from the town-council of Waterford on Monday.
In the course of his reply his Excellency said—" You make
special allusion to a subject of very grave importance—
the settlement of the land question. I thank you for
bringing under my notice in a definite shape the prin-
ciples of legislation embodied in.a former bill, which, ac-
cording to your view, would lead to a satisfactory settle.
ment of the question. Such practical suggestions are valu-
able to the Government. I shall give my anxious attention
to a subject so intimately connected with the well being of
the country."
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times states that the feeling in Congress is one of decided
opposition to the Alabama treaty. The expression of opinion
recently attributed to General Grant, to the effect that
England was liable for more than the value of the ships
burnt by the Alabama, really proceeded from him, and
met with hearty approval everywhere. " The Senate will
never agree to the settlement of the Alabama business on
the basis proposed." There is no desire for war, " but there
is a general determination that the question shall remain an
open one rather than it shall be closed on terms which aro
considered unfair, if not humiliating."
A rather singular charge of interfering with the
comfort of railway passengers came beforeethe Cullompton
magistrates, Devonshire, on Monday. The Bristol and Exe-
ter Railway Company prosecuted. The defendant was
Mr. Woodbridge, a miller, of Exeter. This gentleman,
it was stated, got into an earnest political con-
versation will,. a Mr. Piper, maeaging agent of T'iverton Times, and used rough language, which nn the
oyed
two gentlemen and some ladies in the same compartment
The defence set up was that Mr. Woodbridge received pro-
vocation, a paragraph concerning himself having appeared
in a paper, as he believed, through Mr. Piper. The bench
considered the case a gross one, and inflicted a penally of
£3, including costs.

I ACCIDENT TO VISCOUNT JOCELYN.—Viscount
Jocelyn met with an accident on Monday evening which
it is hoped will not prove so serious as was contemplated
at the time. It appears that while in a hansom cab, in
descending Hay-hill, Berkeley-square, the horse fell, and his
lordship was thrown out of the cab and fell on his back,
and it is feared has sustained considerable injury to his
spine. His lordship was taken to Lady Palmerston's re-
sidence in Park-lane, and his brother-in-law, Viscount
Sudley, was immediately sent for, as well as medical advice.
Although suffering considerable Pail; for. a time, hisAird-
ship ig Aow IZOIXtg on favourably..;

At the Judges' Chambers, yesterday morning, before
Master Smith, tho adjourned application in the malftet
of "Madame Rachel v. Haynes, an Attorney," came
up for hearing. Mr. Norman said Mr. Haynes, the de-
fendant, was appointed in 1862, and up to the time of the
trial of Madame Rachel, and during that trial he received
largo sums of money from her. There was a sum of £3,40C
received about August, 1862, from Madame Rachel per-
sonally, for tho purpose of paying up a mortgage due
where she carried on business. Ho received other
sums amounting to about £6,000 subsequently to that period,
and which it was represented to her by Mr. Haynes had
been invested in securities for certain trust deeds.
There was a further sum of £4,500 received from
Madame Rachel. He was, in fact, her hanker,
and ho represented to her that ho had invested this
money for her benefit in certain shares in a
mining company. Then there is another sum of
£4,000 which he represented to her that ho had
invested in shares in one of the London gas and coke
light companies. Other moneys in his hands he represented
ho had invested in her behalf. The Master said—This is of
the nature of a criminal charge, and Mr. Haynes ought to be
here. Mr. Lewis—ln fact it amounts to a charge of embezz-
ling Madame Rachel's money. Mr. Norman continued his
statement. There is a further sum of £4,000, which he
(Mr. Haynes) received from Madame Rachel. The Master—
If you prove this charge against Mr. Haynes, the defendant.
he will undoubtedly bo struck off the rolls and ruined for life,
Therefore you must prove the misappropriations specifically,
it is very easy to make charges against an attorney, and it is
difficult to prove theni:‘ At this period the reporters were
ordered to retire, and the remainder of the business was
transacted with closed doors.

The convent case still drags its weary length in the
Queen's Bench. The large crowd in Westminster Hall might be explained yesterday perhaps by the opening of
Parliament, but there was an evident crushing towards
the court where "Sauna v. Starr" was being tried.
There was a slight relief occasioned inside by a
little episode for which the jury and all who are
"compelled " to attend must have been very thankful.
Amidst the mass of evidence about " indiscretions," " dis-
edifying 'discourses," and " breaches of our rules," the
Solicitor• General interrupted the evidence of Mrs.
M`Owne, and handed up to the Lord Chief Justice
a letter, which he said bad been enclosed to him for
that purpose. The Lord Chief Justice having
read it, told the court that this was one of a
series of offensive letters which he had been receiving
during the progress of the case. Somebody who neither
knows Sir Alexander Cockburn nor has a large amount of
common sense has been sending to his lordship epistles
intended for his edification, in which they charge him with
all sorts of misconduct. He openly told the writer yester-
Pay that he would be much wiser to save himself so
Muck trouble. The communications had not the slightest
effect upon him. The Solicitor-General rather complained
that ae had been made the bearer of such a missive.
The evidence given was " all of a piece " with that
which has been given day after day since the
defence was commenced. Mrs. M`Owne was the witness,
and she corroborated in many respects the evidence
of the two defendants. Here is one example of the kind
of thing that occupied the attention of the court for hours.
Mr. Charles Russell elicited from the witness that
"Once Miss Saurin told me it was my business to see that
she had got hot tea, although I had given direction to the
refe3torian to take particular care of Miss Saurin, because
she vas so difficult to please in her food. I don't think
Miss Saurin knew it. Her duties up to August 1864
%vele of the ordinary and usual character," &c., &c. Summed
up, her charge against Miss Saurin amounted to this :
that she was obstinate, that she would not obey her
superiors, that she was unpunctual, and loved to idle
and talk with seculars ; that she did not love her duties,was
irreverent, and behaved otherwise unseemly; that she did
not do as the rules told her to do, " obey the convent bells
as the voice of God ;" that she wrote letters and made
visits without permission, and that, altogether, those who
had to look after her had a hard time of it. Indeed,
Mrs. M'Owne said : "I would rather beg my
bread from door to door than be any longer
superior to Miss Sarnia. The community," the witness
added, "have been very happy since Miss Saurin left."
Mrs. M'Owne also declared that Miss Saurin was well
treated in the convent, denied that she was put to menial
work, said that if she did it she did it of her own accord,
and spoke of the indulgence which was shewn to her on
account of her brother's death.
The Lord Chief Justice : What was the conduct generally
of the mother superior towards the sisters in the two
establishments, so far as your experience goes ?
Witness : Exceedingly kind.
The Lord Chief Justice : Was there any difficulty with
other members of the community and the mother su-
perior?

The meeting, twice called at the Lan,v,ham 11ote1,
to arrange for the celebration of the Anniversarlo
Washington's Birthday (Feb. 2,')), has failed
attract a number of Americans sufficient to gulch
the necessary eclat. Some Americans are °3OO
disappointed, and assert that there is less
,P11„a
spirit in their countrymen residing in London ti'n,h-ero
any other city wherein they congregate. tw
certainly is less of American gregarianism inob,
British metropolis than in continental cities for 0,
vious reasons. No American resides in li°of
don for mere pleasure, and here as a OP of
business, he is lost in the business surrounding:s
the mighty population. His associations, 1.1 1-n
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og,
measure his thoughts and feelings, take an ' ,le
lish form, and a stranger dining at the 'l3O
of an American commercial magnate would
as
wholly unaware that his host was a foreign eLtiii;ei
Thus taking their places in English soelet,l,;,se.
cannot fail to be influenced by its tone. 'rte
quently the grades into which it is divided se r9ll
one business class from another, and their 00
numbers in the great hive wherein they li'retiott
further severed. Belgravia has little
tor connecno
with Paddington, but it does not follow that a
is less patriotic because his house is ill 30
square, and he does not know his countrYoloo
in St. John's-wood. To bring them together is
light task, and it can only be done, as evelltuin
in England is done, by getting some aekri
nobr
5
ledged leaders to make the call. Nor is it ..tio
that each American residing in London is Flee
his English circle ; they are divided by party
ocl
hag. Some of the strongest Secessionists, 000,
some equally decided Unionists are among tbAe,
who, unless pressed together, will not
When Americans contrast this with the 0109„, or
Paris, or the chance gathering at Nice, ROIL 0,
Dresden, and condemn their countrymen i° 'tho
don, they do not make due allowance for r
different circumstances. The Paris colony is an P!og
lish speaking community among a French spes'l,o
community. Those who wish to stray are thr°lo
back into the fold by their helplessness to get nu,
a country whose language to them is unknosclin,
we speak, of course, of the mass, not of the exne
tions who speak French well. The habits n o
ra
customs being foreign are unfamiliar, and what
enjoyable cannot be enjoyed alone. When a131.c0
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men so gregarious as Americans find a ellarnl.
reaching a spot to which their fellow-citizens tbroe
of
This colony, as a rule, is composed of familifssof
fortune, lounging out afewyears in the metropail o
fashion, reinformed and renewed by additions,
by the constant passage through of travellers. bei
wonder an American on a European tour establish
his head-quarters there, and hurries from 1,013(1oa,
,es
where it is as bard to find a fellow-citi-be
as a needle in a haystack, to a Ten dez vo us where
d.
has the advantage of combining foreign sorrnitli fot
ings with home faces. The pity is that the Ca'''
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the celebration of WASHINGTON'S Birthday was
made to the lovers of freedom, and not to Moro,
cans only. WASHINGTON is a citizen of the OA
and stands first on that small list of Freedom's lat
to which no country furnishes more than 00%0
two names. There are thousands anEnglish/ of
who would rejoice to do honour to the men:in.:3o
the great patriot, and it is even hard to pers'
England that the most renowned of Anglo-s°'no
is not English.—Anglo American Times.