The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-12 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day.

The market opens quietly. Sales probably 8,000
bales.

LAW INTELLIGENCE,---This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCII.

'Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn
Justices Mellor, Shee, and Lush.)

SCOTT V. BARNES,

Mr. Pollock, Q.C., on behalf of the Crown Life Assurance
Association, said he had to move the Court to alter an order
which had been made in chambers. It appeared the plaintiff,
Mr. John Scott, was a judgment creditor of a party de-
ceased, named Barnes, and that the defendant was his
wife and administratrix. She claimed a policy of
assurance from the office in question in right of the de-
ceased, but the plaintiff preferred his claim also on the
strength of the judgment he had obtained. The association
was one of those old-fashioned offices which traded
under a body of shareholders, and, in fact, had
no more corporated existence than a banking com-
pany or any other private firm. The policy in ques-
tion had been signed by three of the directors, who were
personally liable by the effect of tko order to pay twice
over, which would be a great hardship. They bad no in-
terests as between the claimants, and all they wanted was
to be protected against a double demand.
The Lord Chief Justice said that this matter should have
been brought on at Chambers, and it must be referred there.
THE QUEEN V. BENNETT.

This was a motion to discharge a rule calling on Thomas
Bennett to show cause why there should not b 3 a criminal
information against him for a libel in the local board of
health at Wiotherden. The defendant objected to the mem-
bers of the board, and in a correspondence with the central
board of health charged them with forgery in respect to the
votingpapers. This correspondence and the charge in ques-
tion constituted the libel. He wished, through his counsel,
to explain that lee made the charge in consequence of being
misinformed, and he was ready to make an ample apology
and pay the costs on being guaranteed that the proceedings
would be stayed.
The apology was accepted by counsel on the part of
the Board of Health, and the rule was acordingly dis-
charged.

LEGAL CHANGES.—We believe there is but little
doubt that the Solicitor-Generalship will be at the disposal
of Mr. Russell Gurney, and that if it is not filled by that
gentleman it is because the present and pleasant certainty
of tho recordership is more prized by Mr. Gurney than the
ambitious risks of political preferment. It is also to bo
borne in mind that Southampton is scarcely an agreeable
place for a Conservative to meet a Liberal in single com-
bat. The success of the Conservatives hitherto have been
brought about by divisions among the Liberals, or by an
undue proportion of Liberal candidates. The run of luck
of Conservative lawyers dons not seem to approach its end.
We have some reason to anticipate that another profes-
sional prize will soon be at the disposal of the Government
in the shape of a vice-chancellorship, Sir John Stuart being
likely to retire. —Sunk/ ly Gazette.
SUNDAY BANDS IN THE PARK.—On Saturday a
deputation, headed by the Rev. Newman Hall, the Rev.
Dr. Hugh Allen, Dr. Spence, and gentlemen connected
with several metropolitan religious societies, waited upon
Lord Joha Manners, the First Commissioner of her Ma-
jesty's Office of Works, with members of the Lord's Day
Rest Society, to urge their views with respect to the Sun-
day bands in the public parks. A memorial, setting forth
the points to be urged upon his lordship, stated that the
memorialists believed that " the only way of preserving
the Sunday as a day of rest and worship," was to uphold
the Divino command, "ItAnernber the Sabbath-day to
keep it holy." " The sanctity of the Sabbath," the memo-
rial went on to say, "is its only safeguard ; and although
we are opposed to any effort to compel persons to observe
the Sunday, we are as decidedly opposed to any and every
effort which unnecessarily tends to prevent any persons
from enjoying Sunday as a day of rest. All attempts to
secularise and make a holiday of the day of rest, such as
the establishing of Sunday bands in the parks, have this
tendency." The document then went on to state that men
were employed to play all kinds of secular music in the
parks, and others were "permitted openly to break the
laws which prohibit the selling and hawking of goods on
Sundays by crying out for sale programmes of the music
played ;" that the bands injured the Sabbath and ragged
schools, and draw away many young people from their re-
ligious duties ; that from the bands hundreds of parsons of
both sexes flocked to the public-houses and tea-gardens ;
that the bands encouraged Sunday labour, and that the
bands were an annoyance "to many of the residents, who
have to pass through the parks, because they collect large
crowds of persons in one spot." The' concluding para-
graphs of the memorial said that the Government opposed
" the assembling of persons in the park to hold a meet-
ing or to preach the Gospel," yet allowed large crowds
to collect to listen to secular music on the day of
holy rest, which was unfair and partial, and if Sunday
bands were allowed preaching should also be allowed ; "if
a stand were erected for the one a stand ought to boerected
for the other ;" and the memorialists hoped that, if his
Lordship could not suppress the bands already established,
that the sale of programmes (by which the bands are sup-
ported) might be suppressed, and that a stand for preach-
ing might "be erected and placed nndor the control of a
committee of cleigymen and Dissenting ministers." Va-
rious members of the deputation proceeded to urge these
and other points upon his lordship, and argued that the
public money ought not to be spent iu erecting stands for
the bands. His Lordship said there were many difficulties
in the propositions of the deputation so far as regarded their
desire that the system of Sundaybands, which had been in
existence for several years, should ba abolished. Ile ro
minded them, too, that if preaching were allowed all classes
of speakers must be allowed, and the infidel as well as the
religious teacher would desire to publish his principles in
the Park. After reminding the deputation that it was open
to any ono to take proceedings against illegal acts, he as-
sured them that the subject should be fully considered.
Tho deputation then withdrew, after thanking his Lord
ship for the attention he had given them.
THE STATE OF PARTIES.—The number of new
members returned to the House of Commons this
year has now been increased to 34. The now members are
—Lord J. Hay, Ripon; Mr. Candlish, Sunderland; Mr.
R. Arkwrigbt, Leominster; the Hon. G. Denman, Tiver-
ton ; Mr. M. Wyvill, Richmond ; Mr. 11. A. Herbert; Kerry ;
Mr. M. Stanilaud, Boston (who obtained his seat on peti-
tion) ; Mr. IL Whitmore, Bridgnorth (who obtained his
seat on petition); Sir E. Lechmere, Tewkesbury ; Mr.
Eckorsley, Wigan ; Mr. J. Goldsmid, Honiton ; Mr. E.
Gorst, Cambridge ; Mr. C. Capper, Sandwich ; Sir J. Hay,
Stamford; the Hon. Mr. Lascelles, Northallerton; Mr. B.
Eykyn and Mr. Edwards, Windsor ; Mr. B. Osborne and
Lord Amberley, Nottingham; Mr. D. Fordyce, Aberdeen-
shire ; Lord Eliot and Mr. M. Chambers, Davenport ; Mr.
T. B. Hildyard, South Nottinghamshire; Mr. R. Dims-
dale, Hertford; Mr. R. B. Brett, Trielston (who obtained
his seat on petition) ; Mr. J. A. Smith, Hertfordshire ; Mr.
R. Nicholson, Petersfield ; the lion. J. Henniker-Major,
East Suffolk ; Mr. P. Vanderbyl, Bridgewater ; the Hon.
G. W. Barrington, Eye; Capt. D. Pennant, Carnarvon-
shire ; the lion. Mr. Cust, North Shropshire; Mr. Howell
Gwynn, Brecknock; Captain White, Tipperary; and Mr.
Jervoise Smith, Falmouth. These changes have been at-
tended by a gain of one vote to the Liberal party, count-
ing two on a division, but four seats aro at present lost to
the Liberals at Reigate, Lancaster, and Totnes, so that
the Conservatives have virtually gained ten votes this
year. Among the elections now pending aro Belfast,
where there is a seat vacant in consequence of Sir Hugh
Cairns having accepted office as a Lord Justice of Appeal
in Chancery; Dublin University, through Mr. Walsh
having received a legal appointment ; Galway, through
Mr. Morris having received a legal appointment ; Water-
ford, through the Earl of Tyrone becoming a peer; NV-ox-
ford, through Mr. George becoming an Irish Judge ; West
Glocestershire, through Mr. Bolt being appointed Attor-
ney General; and Pembrokeshire, through the death
of Mr. Lort Phillips. Thus between 40 and 50 new mem-
bers will probably enter Parliament this year, the average
number of changes attendant on a dissolution being
eighty.
THE WESTERN FlSHERlES.—Duringthhehdtp:sotf
I week about 20,000 hhds. of pilchards and 12,000au
mackerel were caught on the coasts of Devon and Cornwall.
- in one ni by
One Cornish family earned more than
a catch of pilchards. The mackerel sold °at from 18s.ght to 20s
per 100.
Dr. Mary E. Walker, now on a visit here from
the United States of America, has been persuaded by her
friends to deliver a lecture, which will be given at the St.
James's-hall, on Tuesday, the 20th best.