The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-16 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

TFIE Drone. OF LANCASTER.—In the Court of Chancery
an appeal has been heard from the decision of Mr. Wickens,
Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster. The
suit referred to a certain deed which was held to be not
binding on the plaintiff, and was only noticeable from its
being the first instance in which a Chancellor of the
Duchy has been called upon to exercise judicial functions
since the present Court of Appeal was created in 1854.
Lord Dufferin, as Chancellor, sat with Lord Justice
Giffard, his presence being necessary to constitute a Court
of Appeal, as there is now only one Lord Justice.
AN INTERNATIONAL LAW CASE. —A suit has been
instituted in Vice-Chancellor James's Court by the
London and Mediterranean Bank for the recovery of
certain bills of exchange for £16,000, which had been
disposed of in America. There had been some
litigation in New York respecting them, and a
commission was appointed by the American court to take
evidence in England. The bills formed part of the assets
of the Continental Bank, with which the London and
Mediterranean had amalgamated, and being protested for
non-payment were intrusted to Mr. Strutton, a solicitor in
New York, who undertook to act as the agent of the
Continental Bank, and recover the amounts due. It was
now alleged that with the exception of receiving £:00 on
account, the Bank bad been unable to obtain any informa-
tion respecting them. They afterwards learned that they
were in the hands of a Mr. Morton, who, it was contended,
obtained them from Strutton when they were
overdue, and instituted proceedings in the American
CoUrts upon them. The billy were now held
by the third defendant, Mr. Muilens, who refused to
acknowledge the company's claims. The bill in the Vice-
Chancellor's Court prayed that the defendants should be
ordered to bring the bills into court, and that they should
be restrained by injunction from parting with them.—
'rho Vice-Chancellor, after hearing the arguments,
said that if Mr. Strutton as agent of the bank in America
failed in his duties, any suit in reference to the matter
ought to have been instituted in that country. The
plaintiff, however, had taken the extraordinary course of
endeavouring to defeat the action of the courts of
the United States in matters that were properly
before them. To his mind it was a violation of
the principle on which the county courts was founded.
The court never interfered with the administration of
justice in another court, except on a case properly made,
but in this case the real parties to the suit were out of the
jurisdiction. Any rights of the plaintiff must be asserted
in America, and the present application must be refused
with costs.

STABBING A RAILWAY PORTER.—Alexander Reading was

charged, at Bradford, with stabbing a porter on the Great
Northern Railway. The latter went to him to take his
tie et, when he produced one out of date. A dispute took
place between them, and Reading took out a knife and
stabbed the porter in the head. The prisoner was remanded
for a week, bail being refused.
INFECTED ANIMALS.-At the Uxbridge Petty Sessions,
Mr. Bath, farmer, was summoned for having in his posses-
sion a number of animals infected with the foot and mouth
disease, without giving the required notice. Mr. Bath
pleaded ignorance of the law, and the chairman inflicted a
fine of 30s. en Mr. Bath, and 10s. on his drover.—Mr.
Spearman, J.P., was also summoned for having two cows
in his possession infected with the disease. He was also
fined 30s.

THE MURDER OF A FENIAN IN CORK.

Circumstances have, it is said, come to the knowledge
f the police authorities at Scotland-yard whhich serve to
throw score light upon the tragedy enacted in Cork on
:unday week, when a young man named Callaghan was shot
dead. It has been ascertained that Callaghan was in London
some six weeks ago, when he purchased, at a guninaker's

in Gnmechurch-stre. t and elsewhere, a number cf
ii.-chambered revolvers, which, he said, having been

dressed like an officer of a ship, were for " his skipper,"
whose ship was at the time lying in Victoria Dock. During
the time the deceased was in London he visited, on several
eccassions—as he had been in the habit of doing when in
London—a public-house which has been recently brought
prominently before the public as the rendezvous of
either Fenians or Fenian sympathisers. While in
this house one evening two revolvers were presented at
his head by brother Fenians while in the midst of an
argument respecting the disposal of the arms which the un-
fortunate man had come that week to London to purchase.
Some Fenian spirits cooler than the rest interfered, and
saved Callaghan's life, which, at a later period, and in his
own native city (Cork), was brutally sacrificed. The de-
ceased, having been continually threatened dui ing his stay
in London by a faction of Fenians, rivals of that to which he
belonged, left England, taking with him the arms, consisting
of rifles, revolvers, sword bayonets, and stilettoes, which he
had come to this country to purchase. When he arrived
at home the news of his intention to appropriate the arms
in a certain way and in a certain quarter was in Corkbefore
him; and as he had expressed a determination to carry it
out, he fell a victim to the jealousy of disappointed traitors.
The deceased man Callaghan was well known among the
Irish population of London, among whom he was esteemed an
enthusiastic, earnest, sincere young Irishman. It is highly
probable that, through certain facts which have trans-
pired in London, a link wanting in the chain of circum-
stances to bring home the murder to its author will be
almost immediately supplied ; and it is said that division
in the London Fenian camp will be instrumental in fur-
nishing it.

The use of the Bible and the singing of hymns in
the public schools of Cincinnati has been prohibited by the
Board of Education, but an injunction against the board
was granted lately forbidding such prohibition.

It is stated in the London correspondence of a
Sheffield paper that Lord Stanley of Alderley is about to
issue a pamphlet upon the position taken by the Catholic
peers when the proposition for concurrent endowment was
before the House of Lords last session.

Some interesting additional discoveries have been
recently made at San Clemente, Rome. A prior has found
a vast subterranean chamber beneath the pavement of the
ancient Basilica. Part of the walls are formed of wood-
work, and part of bricks of peculiarly fine manufacture. A
beautiful series of chrome-lithograph plates have been pub-
lished, and are on sale in Rome.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. —His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, as President of this hos-
pital, has intimated his intention to preside at the special
meeting of the governors convened for Monday next, to
hear a statement by the treasurer (Mr. Foster White) in
reply to certain charges which have been made against
the management of the institution in some respects in
several of the public journals.
TUE ADVANTAGES OF A KNOWLEDGE OF
GEOGRAPHY.—Ono of the commissioners on agricultural
employment (Mr. Tuffnell) enforces the advantages
accruing from the teaching of geography in schools, than
which, in his opinion, few subjects have a more powerful
influence in enlarging a pupil's views. Ho relates the
following anecdote that occurred within his own know-
ledge:—" A gentleman, about to emigrate to New
Zealand, asked me if I could send him an orphan
boy from some workhouse school as a servant, and
he especially desired that the boy should have been
taught baking. I happened to know only one school
where baking was taught, and I accordingly went to it,
explained what I wanted to the first class, and the advan-
tages which would probably be derived by a transference
from the low condition, which was their only prospect if
they remained in Envland, to the high-waged country
at our antipodes. Not a boy would accept the oll'or.
I then explained to the gentleman that I could not
ge•t him a baking boy, but that I could send him a boy
of developed intelligence from a good school, who, though
he would not know baking, would be found able by his

superior education to turn his hand to anything, and thus

be much more generally useful. • llc accepted my offer,
and I then went to a good school in the Isle of Thanet,
.hero I knew the children were well instructed in
geography (none was taught in the other school), and made
a similar offer as before to the first class, desiring any i)oy
who wished to accept it to hold up his hand. Every hanid
was instantly raised. They were well acquainted with
the British colonies. I selected a boy who answered per-
fectly well, and is now married, and a prosperous colonist
in New Zealand. I believe the above to- be a typioal
instance"