The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-20 00:00:00

COMPULSORY VACCINATION,

The subject of vaccination was raised in two metropoli-
tan courts on Monday. At the Thames Police-court a
woman was summoned for refusing to have her child
vaccinated. The child was young and healthy. The
mother, who lived in the house of a quack, and seems
to have been educated by him to do as she had done,
said that no consideration on earth would induce her
to consent to the vaccination. She believed it
was of no use whatever, and had destroyed more
children than it had saved. Her child was in
good health, and she wished it to continue so. The
magistrate might, if he pleased, make the order, but she
would not obey it. She had lived in a house in which
there were ten children attacked with the smallpox.
Nine recovered, and among them one who had not been
vaccinated. One of those vaccinated died, and the state in
which it was after vaccination was most frightful. Mr.
Benson said that medical and scientific authorities in
all countries approved of vaccination, and its use had
saved millions of lives. The most enlightened Govern-
ments had made the obligation of vaccinating children
compulsory. What the defendant had said about ten
children being attacked in one house with smallpox proved
the necessity of resorting to vaccination as an antidote
against the disease. He must make an order for the child
to be vaccinated within fourteen days, and if his order was
not carried out, there would be a penalty inflicted, and
another order would be made. The defendant said she
would never allow her child to be vaccinated.

Dr. Lankester, the Middlesex coroner, had also a vaccina
tion case before him on the same day. A child who had
been vaccinated died from erysipelas produced by impure
vaccine having been introduced into its arm. The jury
returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.
In the course of the inquiry several doctors said that
they had never met with a fatal case before. It was
also stated of 1,600 patients admitted into the Small-
pox Hospital, 1,300 had been previously vaccinated ;
but those who had been vaccinated received the disease
(which only came once in a lifetime) in a very mild form
--it was modified, and less severe in those successfully
vaccinated ; 30 out of every 100 were susceptible and
liable to smallpox if exposed to it, but it would not be
fatal.

The Rev. Stopford Brooke has denounced pi,t,eon-
Ehooting froth tie pulpit.

The 1 says :—We believe we are correct in
announcing flint Viscount Conrtenay, M.P. for -East Devon,
lins placed his resignation in the hands of his election corn-
to be putlished at their discretion. It will probably
be issued in a few days.
Mr. Mldstone's letter on concurrent endowment
was written to the Independebt Orange Asscciation of
Ulster. The Gide publishes with much prominence letters
from Belfast which state that the said association is a myth,
and the Premier has teen hoaxed.

A singular case of suicide is reported from Notting-
ham. An old lady of property, of 75 years of age, who re-
cently erected a large church in the town, got a cabman to
drive her into the country, made her way to the canal and
drowned herself. No cause is given.

A sad accident at a 11;g1iland prize meeting in con-
nection with athletic sports has happened at Coupar-Angus.
The grand stand gave way and sent all its occupants to the
ground amidst great confusion. Several persons were most
seriously injured, one so ladly that he died soon after.

A Dublin corre: poi-Aleut telegraphs that the Board
of Trinity College, Dublin, are at present considering the
course which should bo taken with regard to Mr. Fawcett's
motion on University education, and it is said that they in-
tend prolosing of their cwn accord a liberal scheme to meet
Mr. Fawcett's views.

Dr. Jenner, the Bishop of Dunedin, who has been
sent home from the diocese to which he was consecrated by
the A:chbnop of Canterbury, by the want of sympathy
with Lis ritualiseic views bhewn by the members of his
diocese, will Fro' ably return to Ws vlcarvge of Presto;
Kent. which ho formerly held.

A street preacher, a " converted navvy," was
preaching to a largo crowd at Chatham a day or two back,
and had just concluded his sermon with the word "Amen,"
when ho staggered, fell, and was picked up dead. An in-
quest has teen held, and the doctor stated that be died from
heart disease. The jury returned a verdict accordingly.
The Leeds Mercury states that the Prince of Wales
intends to make a rather long stay in Yorkshire early in
De cemter. One object of his Ro3 al Highness is to partici-
po.to in the sport of the York and Ainsty, and other well-
known Yorkshire packs. The Prince will bring with him
his own hunting stud, and his stay is expected to extend
over a fortnight or three weeks.
Three carters were charged at Manchester on
Saturday with intimidating a fellow• workmen. It seemed
that the complainant was working after two o'clock on Sa-
turday, and the defendants came up and told him that if he
did not leave off he must take what would follow. The
magistrate Lefore whom the case was heard did not think
that the words came within the meaning of the Act.
DEPEN DENCE UPON CIRCUMSTANCES. The
preacher at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, recently alluded to
the dissensions of the present day, and told a story on the
authority of John Henry Newman. A naval chaplain,
he said, who had long been out of the reach of English
theological discussion, was eagerly asked on his return
home by a partisan whether his floating chapel was High
Church or Low Church. "'That," said the chaplain,
" entirely depends on the tide."

THE INTERNATIONAL ROWING MATCH.—It has
been arranged that this interesting match shall be rowed
over the well-known Oxford and Cambridge course on
Saturday, the 31st inst. After a week's preliminary trials,
five Oxonians and a coxswain from whom the competitors
against the Americans will be finally chosen have got into
regular training. The gentlemen in training are the
following :—Mr. F. Willan, 1 ; Mr. A. C. Yarborough,
; Mr. J. C, Tina, (President of the Oxford University
Boat Club), 3 ; Mr. S. D. Darbishire, 4 ; Mr. W. S.
Woodhouse, 5 ; Mr. J. H. Hall, coxswain.
FACES MEN Low.. —What face is that which
appeals to the sense of beauty of the majority of men?
Not the plump inanity of the coloured lithograph. Not
the buxom country lass, of which poets sing, but whom
poets do not marry. Not the pinky doll of the book of
fashions. Men love long eyelashes, because they seem to
hide a secret. Men love those eyes which are transparent
and yet deep, because there lies in them something of the
unknown and the discoverable ;. and so men love faces that
tell stories, and are coy, confiding, tantalising, with vague
and grand emotional possibilities hidden somewhere.
THE NOTTING II A ELECTION PETITION.--AN
IsTELEsTrxo POINT. -An interesting question in re
election petitions was decided by Mr. Baron
1:m111w-ell on Monday. The hearing of the Notting-
ham election petition "Torr and others v. Seely.
jun.," came before bins at Chambers in reference to an appli-
cation on the part of the sitting men:ber for particulars of the
a:legstions. The case was appointed to be beard on the
2D.h instant 1.,c0r0 Mr. Baron Martin at Nottingham.
Mr. Hoskins said there was some difficulty in the matter, as
all the election judges were absent. Mr. Baron Bramwell
considered that he Lad power to hear such an application in
the absence of the election judges, and that one of the now
rules applied to the case.