The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-08 00:00:00

CLEWER.

The Commemoration Festival has just bten
at Clewer, a name that of late years has become pro-
minent in works of mercy. The sermon was preached
by the Iliihop of Wellin,.-zton, several catechumens
were confirmed by the Bishop of Gibraltar, who MIS
GIW of the ortga ttors of the Chewer esta!ilisjncnt,
and the offertory exceeded £4OO.

AiIERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo -American 2 imes.)

NEW YORK, June 19.

The case of the Depuys has been settled by
Judge Blatchford in the United States District
Court, adversely to the Whisky swindlers, who
will in consequence remain in prison. The Judge
rules that a pardon is not complete until it has
been executed, and the delivery effected ; that until
then it remains in the power of the Chief Magis-
trate to withdraw it, be he a new incumbent or the
outgoing President. The law does not recognize
the individual, but the office, which, like the British
Crown, is never vacant, and until a man is released
the person acting as President can withdraw a par-
don a person acting as President may have signed,
just as the individual who issued it could have re-
called it, so long as it was not carried into effect.
Resolutions have been adopted at a conference of
Republicans, denouncing a newspaper recently pub-
lished here called the Imperialist. You might
imagine from this fact that the advocate of
changing our Republic into an Empire was not
without a growing importance in this country, but
it arises from the novelty, even the absurdity, of
the idea, which tickles and rather amuses. New York
is much concerned at several atrocious and myste-
rious murders lately perpetrated. Not long ago,
Mr. Steadman, an English gentleman, arrived and
put up at the Brevoort House ; he went out one
evening and has never since been seen. On Tues-
day evening of last week Mr. J. P. Woodhull left
a boarding-house at Astoria, with the object of
going to French's Hotel, after which there was
DO trace of him, and a few days after his body
was taken out of the East River clog.: to Governor's
Island, with unmistakeable marks of foul play. On
examination the surgeons concluded that the wounds
were inflicted by a bar of iron. Another corpse, so
decomposed that it cannot be told whether he had
been murdered before being thrown into the river
or not, was taken out of the East River on Satur-
day. A weight was tied round the neck, and little
• doubt is felt that this body represents another mur-
der. Public notice having been attracted to these
cases, Mayor Hall has been urged to offer a reward
for information that may lead to detection. Gen. Dix
arrived iu the Cimbria on Tuesday afternoon in excel-
len t health. He was anxious to learn whathad occurred
in Paris, as he considered there were signs of some
political trouble in the elections, but he treats with
contempt any demonstration against the Emperor,
which he considers would be altogether futile.
Another case has been decided against the Railway
Companies in " Walker versus the Long Island Rail-
road." A year ago the father was killed by being
knocked off a platform whereon he was standing,
and the son sued the company for damages, alleg-
ing their negligence as the cause of his father's
death. The company pleaded a violation of their
printed rules hung up in the cars, as he was stand-
ing where he had no right to be, and therefore the
plaintiff had no claim. The plaintiff answered that
his father had gone through all the cars, and looked
n vain for a seat, and the Supreme Court upheld
the decision of the Lower Court, asserting the lia-
bilitity of the company under the circumstances.
An attack in the Courts has been made upon the
Corporation of Trinity Church. This is a periodi-
cal occurrence, and a regular lawyers' harvest. The
Corporation is immensely wealthy, and the argument
is that a small body, not exceeding ten individuals,
elected themsAves as the vestry, manipulating for
their own benefit funds amounting to $10,000,000
The present applicant is Mr. David Groesbeck, who
professes to act on behalf of the parishioners, and
who applies for the appointment of a receiver, alleg-
ing the neglect of the poor, nothing being done to
check the spread of immorality, while a magnificent
trust estate is misdirected in pampering priests and