The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-27 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

AN UNFORTUNATE CASE.-At the Central Criminal
Court, before Baron Pigott, Charles-William Templeman,
22, has been charged with the manslaughter of Stephen
Blake, his father-in-law. The prisoner had married the
daughter of the deceased, she being at the time only six-
teen years of age. The parents were aware of the
marriage, but they were not consenting parties to it, and
the marriage did not turn out very happily. The
deceased was a valet to a gentleman in Eaton-
place, and "on the 11th of October the wife
of the prisoner had gone to visit her mother and
'atlier there, and they were in the kitchen when the pri-
soner came to the house and entered the room where they
were. He was at the time the worse for liquor, and by
the direction of Mr. Charley, the master of the deceased,
he was requested to leave the place. Some altercation
took place, when the prisoner struck the deceased a violent
blow in the eye, and he bled profusely. The prisoner then
seized him by the neckcloth; swung him round,
threw him down, and fell violently upon him.
Immediately aftei the occurrence the prisoner seemed to
have exhibited the utmost sorrow and remorse for what
had happened, and he wrote several letters to his wife and
his mother-in-law entreating their forgiveness for what he
had done. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recom-
mended him to mercy on the grounds that the act had
been clone in the heat of passion and without premedita-
tion. He was sentenced to be imprisoned• and kept to hard
labour for six months.

BREACH OF PROMISE.—A breach of promise trial in
:,he Court of Queen's Bench has excited much interest.
The plaintiff was a young lady of great personal attrac-
tions, and the defendant a gentleman in the Indian ser-
vice. The courtship had gone on during the furlough
of the defendant, and the marriage was to have taken
place after his return. No quarrel had interposed ;
but defendant declined to carry out his engagement on
account of his health. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., admitted the
engagement, but contended that, as it would have been
suicidal for the defendant to have married, he was released
de facto from his promise. The case occupied most of the
day, and eventually the jury, who could not agree, were
discharged without giving a verdict.
THE LAST CHURCH•RATE MARTYRS.—At the Wands-
worth Police•court, Mr. Hanbury, a Quaker, and Mr.
Ridley have been summoned for non-payment of their
proportions of a church-rate of 2;3.d. in the pound, made in the
parish of St. Mary, Balham, in May last. Mr. Dayman,
the presiding magistrate, made an order in each case. In
the course of the hearing it transpired that this would be
the last of the church•rate cases.

CHARGE OF ASSAULT.-At the Clerkenwell Police-
court, on Thursday, William Matthews was charged with
assaulting Francis William Kniil, compositor, by striking
him with his fist and with his walking-stick. Complainant
said he was willing to accept an apology, t n 1 had offered
to withdraw the charge on those conditions. The magis-
trate admonished the defendant, ordered him to publicly
apologise, and pay the costs.

Talking of the education question, a traveller
observed that as he was walking on one occasion under
the arcade of the Horticultural Garden, looking at the
works of art displayed there, he came upon two well•
dressed ladies examining a statuette of Andromeda,
labelled; " Executed in Terra Cotta." " Executed in
Terra Cotta," says one ; " where is that ?" " I am sure I
don't know," returned the other ; " but I pity the poor
girl, wherever it was."

A young medical student, Mr. Edmund Miles, has
met with his death rather mysteriously in Dublin. Ho was
brought to one of the city hospitals at two o'clock in the
morning, by two pol:ccmen, who found him in the street
quite unccnscious, having a wound on the left eye, with ex-
tensive effusion of blood, and also a wound on the back of
the head. He died in a few hours. It is stated that three
men wantonly attacked him near Moore's monument, in the
neiehbourhoad of Tr:nity College. His body awaits an in-
quest.

A QUOTATION WANTED.—The stanza quoted by
Mr. Reverdy Johnson in his recent speech at Brighton,
expressive of the identity of race and institutions of the
United States and Great Britain, was taken from a short
poem, written thirty years ago by Mr. W. F. Rock, the
well-known stationer of Walbrook, white on a visit to
America, but printed for the first time last year in a little
volume entitled " Winter Gatherings : Poems written
chiefly in Youth," which Mr. Rock privately circulated
among his friends in an edition de luxe.

NEW SPIRITUAL PEER. —The Right Rev. Dr. W. C.
Magee, recently consecrated to the bishopric of Peter-
borough, will become entitled to a seat in the House of
Lords shortly after the meeting of Parliament, and will
act as chaplain. Dr. C. Wordsworth, on his consecration
to the bishopric of Lincoln, will remain without a seat
until a vacancy occurs in a diocese other than Canterbury,
York, London, Durham, and Winchester. Until Bishop
Magee's accession to a seat on the Episcopal bench of
the House of Lords, Dr. Atlay, of Hereford, will act as
chaplain.

GRESHAM LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

The following appeared in our Latest Edition of yester4ay
evening:—

The annual general meeting of the Gresham Life
Assurance Society was held this afternoon at the
head offices of the society, 37, Old Jewry, City ;
William Tabor, Esq., chairman of the board of
directors, presided.
The routine business having been transacted,
The CHAIRUAN said he would now call upon the
actuary and secretary to read the report of the
directors for the eleve❑ months just closed.
Mr. F. ALLEN Cuaris then read the report as
follows :

" The directors have again the pleasure to report
the satisfactory progress of the society.
"In the annual report for the year ending on
the 31st July, 18G7, it was stated that the current
and future financial years would terminate on the
30th June ; consequently, the Board have on the
present occasion to make their report for 11 months
only.

‘-‘ During the period commencing on the Ist of
August, 1867, and ending on the 30th of June,
1868, 4,162 proposals were submitted for the assur-
ance of £1,660,652 ; of these the directors accepted
3,693, and issued policies for the amount of
£1,438,148.

"The new premiums received during the eleven
months amounted to £41,422 15s. 3d.

" The sums received from new premiums and
renewal premiums during the eleven months now
reported on, were £253,228 13s. 61, and from inte-
rest on investments, £34,440 17s. The income of
the society from these two sources alone, with the
addition of the receipts for the month of July, thus
completing the receipts for twelve months, was
at the rate of more than £320,000 per annum.
"During the same period the sum of £99,763
Bs. Bd. was paid for endowment and assurance
claims, and £12,455 3s. 10d. for bonus ; after satis-
faction of which, and of all other charges, a sur-
plus of upwards of £95,000 was added to the
invested funds.

"The directors retiring on this occasion are
William Tabor, (george Lowe, F.R.S., and Joseph
Williams, Esquire 3, who being eligible, are recom-
mended by the Board for re-election.
" The auditors, G. H. Ladbury, Wm. Webb
Venn, and William IVhitelock, Esqrs., retire, and
again offer themselves for election.

" The directors trust that the arrange:nents they
have made for the continued development of the
resources of the society, will justify their expecta-
tions of increasing prosperity."
The CHAIRMAN, in rising to move the report
just read be received and adopted, said it was with
the greatest pleasure that he had to announce to
the meeting that the period embraced by the repert
had been the most successful and prosperous the
society had ever experienced. (Hear, hear.) The
amount received from new premiums during the
eleven months just passed had been £41,422, and
had the period been for 12 months he had no doubt
the sum he should have had to announce would
have been £45,000. There was another source of
congratulation, and that was, that after all the
claims and other expenses had been provided for,
the directors were enabled to add a sum of no less
than £95,000 to their invested funds. (Cheers.)
Such a state of affairs was no doubt highly satisfac-
tory to the meeting, but he should have had to
announce a still greater addition had it not been
that last year was one of a pleasurable nature
to the assurers—namely, a bonus y, ar. (Hear,
hear.) Had it not been for that circumstance, he
felt certain he should have had to announce
to them that the addition made would have
amounted t0£120,000 instead of £95,000. (Cheers.)
The claims for the period embraced by the report,
it was satisfactory to find, ha•l not been greater
than was to be expected, and taking all matters
into consideration, it was particularly gratifying to
him to have to make such a favourable announce-
ment to the meeting. The sums now received from
new and renewed premiums for eleven mouths
added to the interest on investments, made the in-
come of the society from these two sources alone
amount to £320,000 per annum. (Cheers.) With-
, out detaining them further, he would formally move
the resolution for the adoption of the report.
Mr. SMEE said it was with much pleasure that he
seconded the proposition of their chairman. Life
assurance was a subject of the highest importance
to all classes, and lie knew not of a better
instance to show its importance than that which
hal lately taken place. A gentleman named Lund,
one of the sufferers by the lamentable accident at
Abergele was an assurer in this office, he had in
consequence of his good health suffered his policy
to lapse, but fortunately for his survivors just
prior to taking the journey which ended in his
death, he had renewed his policy, and thus those
nearest and dearest to him ha I the satisfaction of
receiving a sum of no less than £4,000. He could
not too urgently impress upon those present,- and
through them the public at large, the great im-
portance of life assurance. None knew how soon
a contingency might occur, because it was not al-
ways the most robust and healthy that lived longest.
Accidents like thatcalamity to which he had alluded
came with terrible suddenness, and then it was that
the prudence and forethought of the life assurer
was most comforting and beneficial to those left
behind. Their office was one that fully met all

requirements; their position was one of per-
fect safety and solidity and in every case
their great desire was to meet their

claims in the most speedy and liberal manner.
(Cheers.) The report they had just heard read,
was, he felt sure, highly satisfactory to all present,
and therefore he deemed it a privilege to second the
resolution for its adoption. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution to the
meeting, and declared it carried unanimously.
Mr. TREGOE then moved the re-election of the

retiring directors. They had during their term of
office efficiently done their duty, an he felt they
could not be better served by auy set of gentle-
men than those who now composed the board of
directors.

Mr. TYLER, in a few complimentary remarks,
seconded the motion, which, on being put to the
meeting by the chaiiman was carried unanimously.
Mr. WILLIAMS moved, and Mr. FooKs seconded,
the re-election of the retiring auditors. This reso-
lution was also carried unanimously.
Votes of thanks having been awarded to the
directors, the medical officers, the agents, the
secretary and staff, and the chairman, the proceed-
ings terminated.

AMERICAN LITERATURE.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
Five Years Within the Golden Gate.

Although confined to one volume, we are bound
to say that it conveys to our mind the idea of what
is called book-making. With insufficient material
the writer has eked out the volume, cribbing and
patching. But having said this, we have said all
we have to say against the work. The authoress
fully describes San Francisco, both the city itself
and the citizens. Street by street, building by
building, its wharves and shipping, its hills and
drainage, and its general appearance are truthfully
and graphically told. The writer is a genuine
Union woman, and she does not attempt to conceal
how strong were her feelings in favour of the
North. Her five years' residence and intercourse
with Americans have given her an American tone,
although she professes to be, and really is,
thoroughly English. Having a kindly heart, she
was the better able to understand and sympathize
with the kindliness of the people, and, in conse-
quence, to describe the society. She gives accounts
of two excursions, the one to the Mammoth Pine
Grove, the other into Nevada to the Geysers. We
regret that when at the Grove she did not proceed
to the wonderful Valley of the Yo Scinito, which is
not far distant. The Chinamen, as servants, she
considers clean and honest, although the description
of the quarter they occupy in the city is far from
inviting. Immigration she describes as dangerous
to the labourer from want of employment, and to
the capitalist from want of experience. The in-
dustrious, economical Chinese, living on rats an I
garbage, are formidable rivals in the labour market.
She speaks well of the public institutions, and of
the charitable, generous spirit of the inhabitants ;
and although an ardent admirer of the American
school system in the general diffusion of education,
she condemns most heartily the mixture of boys and
girls in the same seminary. She lived opposite to one
during a portion of her residence in San Francisco,

when she saw enough to make her declare that
she would sooner condemn a daughter of her's to
ignorance than permit the contamination which
resulted from the mixed intercourse. There are
some touching pictures of sweet creatures, with
large fawn-like eyes, and luxuriant hair falling in
clustering curls, who became the victims of the
brute—man, who married and deserting, left them
to gain a living by performing as musicians in layer
bier saloons. 'ln all these cases, " husband in fault
as usual," but Isabel Saxon pays a high tribute to
the gentlemanly-bca.ing of American men. The
difference between them and the English in this
respect is, according to her, most marked ; and, we
can very safely add, that she would find that
difference at least as marked in Germany, France,
or in most other continental nations. At the same
time she administers a well-deserved rebuke to her
American sisters for the manner in which much of
the civility tendered by the other sex is received,
and which is nowhere more visible than in public
conveyances. In San Francisco a group of men
on the side path, where they are frequently to be
found, instantly give way, clearing the road for nor
woman, and this is so in all American cities. But
not only was she jostled in London, or turned
into the gutter when a hulking lot of men had
blocked the pavement, but while procuring bet
ticket at a station two persons fashionably dressed
rudely elbowed their way in before her in de-
fiance of all good breeding, although they could
gain nothing from such hurry. We have a right
to receive a lady's evidence on such points in Pre'
ference to a man's. She is keener, more sensi-
tive, and more open to such influences, and Isabel
Saxon gives her opinion in no minced way, but,
as strongly as she can utter it, declaring that beyond
comparison that Americans are more gentlemanlike
than her own countrymen. A man the other dap
wrote to the Daily News that in Texas he dare not
have hinted that he was Englishman, or his life
would not have been worth an hour's purchase, and
thousands would believe that, who would not read,
such works as "Five Years Within the Golden Gate,''
which dispel these gro,s misrepeseutations. A coun-
the
try which welcomes all Europeans working on

theory that its wealth is increased in direct propor-
tion to its immigration could not tolerate such an
outrage to its system as that described by the ma°
who wrote to the Daily News, and Texas as much as
California has been formed by immigrants, contai niLlg
only, people from everywhere. Englishmen cannot
read such books as this without feeling that they
can enter into American politics, and the domestic
concerns of the States where they happen to be
located, with almost as much zest as Americans'
and this English lady is as good an Union woman
as could anywhere be found. She deplores the
ignorance that prevailel in England of Norther°
objects at the commencement of the contest,
when the North was in a peculiar mood to be at-
tached to their cousins over the water by a boarti
expression of sympathy, even though it came 10
from one section of the people. They can never
know how eagerly it was yearned for, and how bit-
terly it was felt that, instead of the sympathy, they
received only taunts and sneers. Sympathy came;
but, alas! for England first, and America
after the IVar_ T vice England has conspienonsici
failed to grasp an opportunity—once when Irelao
might have been Protestantized as well as Scotland'
and settled on a broad, liberal basis of gaveruincrtt,,
but instead of this it was " to hell or Connaught'
Again, in the great American Civil 'War, when
opportunity offered of binding the Northern people
' in the warmest ties of fraternity, and they seofre„
and jeered at the chance, because like fools led by
that bell-wether the Times they could not see if
and only knew it after the opportunity was golie;
and whatever good the Times has otherwise clone
has been cancelled by that one course. Isabel SaO
does not say, though she fully implies this, Ow ci
through her book runs that tone which shows 11°_
genuine American is the spirit she has imbibed lit
California. At one time during the war the seces-
sion sion element was sufficiently strong to raise the
question of separation, and the foundation 7f
Pacific empire, but it was scouted by the mass
of
the people. She bears testimony to the safety °`
the streets of San Francisco as well as througholl
the State of California, contrasting favourably le
this respect, not only with the Southern, but als:
with some Northern towns, and notably with thee
Empire City itself. This is attributable to rb
excellent working of the vigilance committee, wble a
l
c
more than anything else has shown the wonderi
power of self-rule in the American. California Rag
peopled by a rush of the most daring, reckless °°t-
casts to a barren shore without any of the maehlacr i
of
of Government, and with little of the necessaries a
life. It was a wonderful achievement to grasp 3.140
subdue that herd—so to sub lue it by a stern and
administration of a criminal code, that murder, °etc
t
rage, and theft were almost expelle I from a t3(10
so peopled and placed. The means, to many allef
were as unlawful as the crimes. The idea °ci
self-constituted secret society decreeing death the
hanging without mercy, is wholly opposed to re
Anglo-Saxon notion of order and justice ; but then°
was a hard necessity there, which admitted of .00
hair-splitting or fine-drawn theories. The questiess
was simply, Were the blackguards or the Wde,
men to rule ? Was the State to becomes
raieiro
monium, or the wealthiest in the Unio? to
vice, in its most open and glaring deformity, 0
shock mankind, or was one of the fairest purtifito
of earth's surface to be redeemed for the use of ''tif
human race ? We desire the more to give,ilis
author's testimony to the result, because we h 0 that
high esteem the bold and daring communiti.
knew when and how to act—readily perforraloger,
task of personal inconvenience as well as of daog
and all must now allow, with the most We
result.

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torchlight procession on Wednesday night, but 10132iott
the authorities interefered, and the projected proceo
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SWINBURNE -On the 24th inst., at Westbrook,

mind, Lady Swinburne, of a son.
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King, of Wiomere, Great Marlow, Bucks, leicl,i
Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. Hewett., of Sic3ll°lll3l:ofrf
WRIGHT—BURY—On the 25th inst., at Pimperrer,' Ivilaiej39
ford, Philip, son of Francis Wright, of Osinaslt,,r of "
Derbyshire, to Alice Elizabeth, youngest daugliw
Rev. W. Bury, rector of Pimperno.
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of Wartnaby Hall, Leicestershire, aged 58. flOttio
CHAWNER—On the 24th inst., at Newton Maul, of
Hants, Captain Edward Here Chawner, former
4th Dragoon Guards. oAfaioo
HARDING—On the 231 inst., Sir John Dorrie 9 ko
Q-C., D.C.L., aged 59. ~ J°'''
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HOOFER—On 016 25th inst., at Woodford, -.6 cr
Hooper, Esq., aged 4G. 00, f31%4
SHORTREDE— On the 2Gth inst., at The Bozo 1300
heath, Major-General Robert Shortrede, 1"
Ar.ny, aged 68.
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