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to submit her Juogment to the opinion of a superior as
far as she can without sin. I have not a distinct remem-
brance that she followed my opinion. I told her it was
pity a religieux had so expressed himself, and she expressed
disapprobation of her brother's conduct. I then consi-
dered the letters would not do her harm.
Mr. Mellish complained of the mode of cross-examina•
tion. The Solicitor-General ought to put questions of
fact, and not hypothetical cases.

The Lord Chief Justice : I thought so.
Defendant : I don't know if the letter containing the
announcement of the brother's death was withheld. She
was informed of the death, or she had the letter. After-
wards she sent me a letter to be forwarded to
her uncle, which referred to her brother's death. BY
1862 I had a very clear opinion Miss Suarin's vocation
was not for this line of life. Ifirst communicated unfavour-
ably of her to Bagot-street in 1862. It was volunteered in
so far that it required to be told in explanation. When
I asked them to receive Miss Saurin back, I thought it
very unlikely, almost impossible, that they would, in con-
sequence, receive her back. I had not communicated with
Bagot-street before I wrote her uncle that she would not
he received back. I can explain it. The superior in 1856
was averse to Miss Saurin's coming to England, because
she would not be an advantage to our community,
She had a bad opinion of her ; she was so double
and underhand. That is what I meant by the passage'
" Superior there knows her too well to receive her." 13. Y,
to April 3, 1862, the date of my letter, I cannot tell if
anything had occurred that required my communicating it
to Bagot-street. So far as I can remember I had not
mentioned anything in April. In 1861 Mrs. Saurin wrote
to me about her daughter visiting her, and I heard from
the superior in Bagot-street in 1861 or 1862 that Father
Matthews, or some other member of the family, had
called there and made some remarks about my not allow'
ing Miss Saurin to visit her friends. The superior wrote
to me on the subject, and I answered. I may have
explained to her my reasons for not sending her.
The Solicitor-General : Have you any earthly doubt
about it?
Defendant : I don't remember.

The Solicitor-General : What else could you have written
vo her about?

Defendant: Her letter might have referred to other
matters.

The Solicitor-General : Yes. It might have referred t 0
the moon.

The cross-examination was not concluded when tine
court rose.

The Council of University College, London, have
resolved to institute a Professorship of Hygiene and Publio
Health.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Viscounteso
Beaconsfield have arrived at Grosvenor-gate for the
season. The right hon. gentleman has issued cards for
Parliamentary dinner on the 15th inst.
The sporting correspondent of the Leicester Journal,
writing from Melton in that paper of to-day, says :—"•Ail
interested in the case of Frewen v. Tailby will be glad te
learn that matters have been satisfactorily arranged, and
Mrs. Frewen has kindly consented to allow hunting to De
carried on in the Cold Overton district as usual.

A CITY OF DARKNESS.—The Kingston Morning
Journal complains that the, chief town in Jamaica is not
yet lighted with gas, though it is to be found even 113
villages in other countries. There is a prejudice, it says'
in the community against gas, from fear of the danget-
when the pipes explode.

CABINET COUNCIL.—At the Cabinet Council held
on Friday at Downing-street, the Ministers present
were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord
Chancellor, Earl De Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Nimbet•
ley, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon'
Earl Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke
Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right g°11;
Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Itigb
"-on G. J. Goschen, and the Right Hon. C. Fortescue.
THE DEATH OF A POLICEMAN AT OXFORD.—
adjourned inquest on the body of police-constable Gelk, e'
member of the new police force at Oxford, who Wag
drowned in the Isis on Thursday week, has taken place at
the Council Chamber of that city. After a patient inves.
Ligation, occupying nearly three hours, the jury returnedd
the following verdict :—" That the deceased was drowned
while endeavouring to escape from Cox, his wife, at,
James Blay, who had violently assaulted him." The in"
at the same time requested the coroner to call the attentil
of the local board to the unprotected state of the bank °
the river.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER A SISTER OF MERCY.`
determined attempt at murder was made a few days back
in the civil hospital of Wissembourg. A Sister of OA"
ty
was occupied in the kitchen, when one of the attendants:
a young man aged 21, approached with a pair of double;
barrelled pistols, and discharged two shots at her head'
,
then, finding that he had only wounded her slightly, Pr
fired a third time, point blank in her face, wounding ilee
severely. The sister is lying in a critical state, and tb
assassin has been arrested. He declares that he had 10'.,
meditated this crime.

THE ROMAN HIERARCHY IN SCOTLAND.-Sile
Roman correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette repeats the
Navreoeryasbiolluyt sttoorybethaaptpotiwutoedartcohbsisehootrasudanbdy ten bish°lllB
Now, as there are in Scotland but 202 hils•ietlitlll
told," it follows that if this absurd taleP is tett,:
each. prelate would have something less than the;
priests to superintend. The fact is, that no bierare--
whatever is to be appointed to Scotland for e°113,,,,e
time. Monsignor Eyre, the new vicar-apostolic of the
Western District, has merely been created an arclibish°ll
instead of a bishop. All the other ecclesiastical titles
remain exactly as before, and neither the archbisill
nor the two other bishops in Scotland will for the preset)
take the title of any Scottish see.— Weekly Register.
THE BISHOP OF NATAL.—The Athena/ 01' ant;
nounces that the Bishop of Natal has met with two se/eoo
accidents. The first was a fall from his horse ; de
stunned for the moment, but was afterwards able to r' a
home, a distance of some five miles. The second haPPel,
in November, as he was coming home from his visitatle,„
Being delayed in consequence of the slippery state of tof
roads, he' bad to ford the river after dark. His horse
into a hole some feet deep, and the bishop was washeuto,
is back. Mr. Kirkman, who was fortunately with °v
being a good swimmer, got the bishop out, but on 'to
wrong side of the ford. He managed with assistance
cross the river again after a short rest, and had on his W
home to be supported by natives on each side.
DISTINCTIONS OF CREED. The daily iThbo
inform us that the Baron de Rothschild has presentee' to
Rev. C. S. Grubbe, M.A., of Jesus College, Oxford, It're,
archdeacon of Maritzburg, to the vicarage of Mentlll°t to
Bucks. From this it appears that a Jew can prime The
Anglican livings, although a Catholic cannot. so,
Duke of Norfolk is patron of thirteen of
the Marquis of Bute of ten, Lord Dunrave°
seven, Lord Orford of seven, Lord Gainsborotsoo
of seven, Lord Beaumont of one, Lord Stoat of
of one, Lord Petre of five, Lord Arundell of Ward°l4,
two, and Lord Clifford of three—in all, fifty-six li."-01
besides many others of which Catholic commoners
patrons ; but not one of them can present to these
although a Jew who is a patron can do so. How 11 is
the Anglican clergy ought to be of this distinctionl
to be feared that the objects of A. P. U. C. are st.
long way from being attained.—Weekly Register.
The will of James Disraeli, Esq., one 0-
f the
Commissioners of the Board of Inland Revenue, fornler,
of Eaton-terrace, Pimlicd, but late of Cromwell Ple
Middlesex, was proved in the principal registry on o
2nd inst., by his brother, the Right Hon. Bentt ia
Disraeli, P.C., M.P., one of the executors, power L'
co,
reserved to John Luc ena Ross Kettle, Esq., a I'llo
square, Lincoln's Inn, the other executor. The person eo
was sworn under £14,000. The testator was
igg
to the Board of Inland Revenue in 1858, ha 01
previously been the treasurer for some YePl'ilio
the county courts of Lincolnshire and Derbyshire: via
death was very sudden on December 23 last, .u 3.
re
transacted business at Somerset House on the day ftel
ceding. The will is brief, dated March 3, 1866- bet
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leaving to his housekeeper a legacy of £4,000, and of
sister, then in his service, a legacy of £4OO, both It'oetel
duty, he bequeaths the residue of his personal es
fight
together with his real estate, to his brother, the vial
Hon. B. Disraeli, with a request that Mr. Kettle
.ated
select for himself two of the testator's pictures.—lllusli
London News.
A CRYPT THAT HAD TO BE PAID FOIL op
New York Times gives the following as a very good I,reo
tration of the extreme vigilance which prevails in Co.iloal
over public expenditure :—" Among the apprePri,jog
asked for, the committee found one providing for 70'4
the `Superintendent of the Crypt.' As nobody wag
that there was such a thing as a ' crypt' connected found
the Government, still less that it had or needed a °food
intendent, inquiry was made, and it was
fa the
that the appropriation had been regularly made thst,
last fifty years. Further investigation shore(' video
soon after General Washington died Congress PT to be
for the construction of a vault under the CaPit° to he,
called the crypt, in which his remains were .00°
deposited. A light was to be kept burning near peel
a superintendent was appointed to watch it, as •“' hashing
doing doing daily for the last fifty years ! Meantime,
ton's body was not deposited there, and every s e:4"
Congress included, forgot that any such thing wa n the
istence. The only memorial that exists to I°e'roprl*
memory of the affair alive has been the annual aPPfiticlo
ation for the superintendent." The New York rife vs(l,o
that the Circumlocution Office and Tite Barnaeliglie
are not confined to Dickens's novel or to tie
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