The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-24 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN PRESS.

The American press has dropped into the " silly
season" with dissertations on the nose-pulling case,
an account of which we gave some time ago. The
Springfield Republican asks, in a leader, "Are our
noses our own ?" This was the case which Judge
Scudder, in the question before him, whether Mr.
Churchill's nose remained his, or belonged to Mr.
Daniel S. Curtis when he seized it, thus decided :
That a man's nose is his own, and cannot be grasped
by another without peril. Mr. Curtis maintained his
right to pull Mr. Churchill's nose when the latter
stated he was no gentleman, but the law regarded
the act as no proof ; on the contrary, it seemed
rather to accept the act in support of the truth of
the allegation, so Mr. Curtis was sent to gaol for
assault. The Republican goes on thus :
" Let us admit, for the sake of argument, that up to the
nose-pulling Curtis was polite, and Churchill was grossly
insulting. We may then inquire by what rule of good
breeding Curtis was authorized to disturb the peace and
comfort of fifty other people for the sake of personally
chastising a man who had insulted him."

The Nation asks whether, when a nose has to be
pulled, the Republican thinks it should bo done
privately or in some secluded place. The Common-
wealth concludes that the offence was a deliberate
attempt to establish caste in America. But "it
will not do ; we may all become gentlemen, in that
we may all succeed in making the best and kindest
use of the faculties which God has given us." But
Mr. Churchill was making that use of his nose, for
on it he had placed his spectacles, which he, perhaps,
considered its best and kindest use ; and it was Mr.
Curtis who ill-used the "faculty." The Common-
wealth ought to have recommended the tenderest
regard for the faculties God has given to others.
The London correspondent of the Boston Daily
.Advertiser remarks :

Talking of the manners and customs of the great, a
very distinguished man told me yesterday that he had been
struck ever since he had boon a member of the Athenaeum
Club with the prelates he had met there. The episcopate
is, as everybody knows, groat at the Athenaeum, and my
friend's observation was directed to its want of prayerful
preludes at meals. I've seen many a bishop commence
dinner, and I never saw one of them say grace yet ! How
do I know they do not say it mentally ? Because they
don't give themselves time. From reading the Sun or
Pall 3lall to beginning their soup I've noted there's been
no pause whatever, and it always seems funny to me that
if the rite of grace before meat be good at all, as it doubt-
less is, it should be eschewed by these fathers of the Church
simply because they're at a club.' "

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