The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-30 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

IMPORTANT TO INsuilEtts. —ln the same court the case
of Hinch and another v. the Norwich Provident Assur-
ance Company was heard. This case was an action by
the executors of a schoolmistress, who had effected an
assurance for £3OO with the defendants, and which they
contender they were not bound to pay, as the assured
had induced the defendants to enter into the pAicy by
concealing certain facts which she was bound to have
disclosed. One of the questions proposed was, " Who is
your regular medical attendant?" and the assured an-
swered itby stating, "Never had any." It turned out that
the assured had had an attack of small-pox and also a
bilious attack accompanied by relaxed sore throat, and for
both attacks she hail called iu medical assistance. The
jury found for the de.ientlauts, and Mr. Gray, Q.C.,
moved for end obtained a rule to set aside the verdict and
for a new trial, on the ground that there ha.,l been no con-
cealment, as the answer given by the assured was in
accordance with truth. A medical man calved in to attend
a person labouring under a sudden fit of illness could not
be said to be the " regular medical attendant " of the
person so calling him in.—The court took time to consider
judgment, but suggested to the parties the propriety of
effecting an arrangement of the case, if
possible, without
judg,,ent being given.

•
REFUSING TO PERFORM DIVINE SERVICE.—Ip. Cie
Dean of Arches Court, the case of the Bishop of :Win-
chester v. es- Rev. Tucker Lewis Rugg came on for
hearing. It was a suit instituted by the Bishop of Win-
chester, under the Church Discipline Act, against the
Rev. Mr. Rugg, incumbent of Ecclins..v.ill-with-Sydnion-
ton, for not performing divine service at the latter church.
His Lordship, at the conclusion of a protracted hearing,
said there was really only cue question in the case, and
that- was whether a clergyman with two churches in his
benefice could select the one in which be would perform
the services, or whether it was not in the discretion of the
Ordinary to distribute the services. There was no prece-
dent on the point, and he would take a little time to con•
sidor his judgment.

The judgeship of County Courts Circuit No. 32,
vacant by the death of Mr. T. J. Birch, has been conferred
on, Mr. William Henry Cooke, Q.C. Mr. Cooke, who is
Recorder of Oxford, was called to the bar by the Hon.
Society of the Inner Temple in 1837.

Rewards amounting in all to nearly 522,000 are
offered for the apprehension of the murderer of Mr.
Fetherstonehaugh, of \Vestineath. The landed proprie-
tors of the county have contributed a large portion of the
sum. Three men arrested on suspicion are now in Mul-
linga.r Gaol, two of them being tenants on the estate, and
one a servant-boy of a farmer.

CO-OPERATION IN THE BUILDING TRADES.—A
public meeting of operatives in the various branches of the
building trades and others has been held at the Drill hall,
Chelsea, in furtherance of the company now being esta-
blished for building purposes on the co-operative principle.
Sir Henry Hoare occupied the chair. The chairman, in
opening the business of the evening, said the present was
one of five meetings to be held during the present week in
support of the Co-operative Building Company, which he
was happy to say was already making considerable pro-
gress. Ire was informed that there were at fast `2,C00
shareholder-=, and that the list was daily increasing.

THE. CASE OP SIR CHARLES DARLING. —Sir
Charles H. Darling, 1C.C.8., late governor of the colony
of Victoria, has presented to Parliament a petition ex-
pressing his desire that his whole conduct hi the administra-
tion of the government of Victoria, and all his proceedings
in respect to the proposed grant of c. 21,00 to Lady Darling,
should be subjected to the fullest investigation. He submits
that the whole question of the grant, the very principles
upon which it proceeds, and the motives in wl.ich it ori-
ginated, are so intimately connected with his con-
duct in the administration of the government cf
Victoria, and with the circumstances which led to and are
consequent upon his recall therefrom, that it would be at
tariance with that spirit of justice in which the House of
Commons is accustomed to act, to arrive at a decision
upon the motion of which notice has been given, without
much more full and accurate information upon his con-
duct. Sir Charles Darling submits : (1) That in all his
conduct in the administration of the government of the
colony of Victoria, he, in conformity with the princi-
ples of the political constitution of the colony, acted with
the advice of responsible Ministers possessing the confi-
dence of a majority of the Legislative Assembly, and of
the constituencies of that body. (2) That the acts so
taken with the advice of his responsible Ministers, and
the legality of which was questioned, were declared by tilt,
law officers of the Crown in Victoria to be consistent with
statute law or constitutional practice, and to be within the
legal competency of your petitioner tea lopt. (3) That ie.
the case complained of, in which public revenue was issued
in order that the just claims of the public creditors might
be satisfied, end in reliance upon the subsequent complete
legislation of such iame by an Act of the Legislature, that
Act was passed before the petitioner's recall was made
known in the colony.
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7TIL " PALL MALL GAZETTE" ON

AMERIC A

(From time Anglo-American Timts)
The Pall Mall Gazette is taking a more than
ordinary interest in American affairs. It is seldom
that some of its " Occasional Notes" are not on
American matters. The " organ for gentlemen,"

and the Standard, the high Tory newspaper, give
more space to intelligence from the United States
than any of their London contemporaries; judging
from this, we presume that the higher classes in
England are taking a more lively interest in Trans-
atlantic questions. But it does not follow that this
interest is a kindly one. Indeed, thin-skinned
Americans have often, as one of their papers said,

grown hot and cold with annoyance at what they

have seen about themselves in the Standard. What
would be said of an Australian who danced in

anger on hearing a laughing jackass ? The poor
bird but utters its natural cry, and although it
might scream at the Australian he must be very
sensitive and with an overwhelming idea of

the ridiculous in himself if he thinks these notes

have any effect beyond that given to them by his
own imagination. The Pall Mall Gazette, however,

is no laughing jackass, but a paper that writes with
more than ordinary point, and it is worth while to give
instances of its mannerof treating American subjects.
In last Monday's issue the first allusion was a letter
from Mr. Moncure D. Conway, who wrote to cor-
rect an " Occasional Note" in a former number on
Mr. Wendell Phillips. The Pall Mall had taken
the first and the last sentences of a letter from
Mr. Phillips to the Anti-Slavery Standard, con-
necting them so as to pervert the writer's mean-
ing. " Between the two sentences," says Mr.
Conway, " thus quoted together there are four
others," and it is amusing to see how totally the
meaning- of what Mr. Phillips said had' been
charged. The way in which the man's words are
first distorted and then pounced upon to give point
to a hostile argument is seen in the Standard of
Tuesday, wherein this perversion is used to prove how
shamefully Mr. Johnson is being treated :—" Mr.
Wendell Phillips, for instance, avows that the Pre-
sident must be deposed, guilty or not guilty, in
order that the Radical party may have the use of
the Presidential patronage and Executive power
during the coming elections." Now Mr. Phillips,
instead of saying this, was censuring with extreme
bitterness the motives of many Republican Sena-
tors. However, Americans are accustomed to this,
and are therefore better able to bear it. The next
item of American intelligence is in the " Occasional
Notes :"—" The impression among people of a cer-
tain class that the law permits a man to sell his wife
prevails also in certain parts of America. A man
in Buffalo, New York, Thomas Doyle, has publicly
advertised his wife as a prize to be raffled for.
Tickets have been printed, on which it is said :
"This woman is a good housekeeper, and is willing
to stay with any one who may draw her. Tickets,
25 cents.' What action the authorities have taken
has not yet been reported." But this would not be
complete without giving some idea of what style of
woman the American husband has to sell. Therefore
the Poll Mall follows with an extract from the Tablet
complaining "bitterly of the behaviour of some of the
Protestant ladies present at the ceremonies of the Holy
Week in Rome. A rough and tumble struggle for
seats occurred in the Sistine Chapel between two
American females, whom the Tablet ungallantly
denounces as disgraceful scum, and the mother of
a Zouave who was amongst the noblest dead at
Mentana, the descendant of one of the most ancient
crusading families of Belgium. The American scum
got the best of the affray, the chamberlain on guard
looking 'coolly on the while, which leads the Tablet
to conclude that he was a friend of the culprits.
The English ladies present are said to have behaved
much more decorously than the Americans." The
stand made by American women for their rights is
further illustrated by the following " Note," which
shows at least that if they break heads at Rome, they
know how to heal them athome :—"Female physicians
and surgeons are becoming the fashion in the United
States. The Revolution, a New York journal, states
that in Philadelphia six women-doctors return to
the income tax revenues ranging from 2,000 to
10,000 dollars a year ; that iu Orange, New Jersey,

a woman-surgeon returns her ineom,) at 15;000
dollars ; and that there is in New York another

who returns hers at 20,000 dollars." having dis-
posed of "the sex," the Pall Mall turns its atten-
tion to the diplomatic .service, with which it thus
deals : —" One of the incidental results of the pre-
sent deadlock in the American Government is that
the Court of St. James's is likely to be without an
accredited representative of the United States. Mr.
Adams has remained at his post for a long time past
only to accommodate Mr. Seward, as no one whom
the President might nominate as his successor would
be likely to receive the approval of the Senate. Mr.
Adams, it is understood, will not postpone his re-
turn to America beyond the time he has already
fixed, and unless Mr. Wade supersedes Mr. John-
son almost immediately, and nominates a Minister
satisfactory to the majority, the post may lie
vacant for months. The American diplomatic ser-
vice has been in a state of great confusion ever since
Mr. Johnson has sat iu the White House. The
Minister at Portugal, happening to write a letter to
Mr. Seward, in which he condemned the proceed-
ings of Congress, at once had his salary stopped by
the offended Legislature, and has been kept with-
out any allowance whatever for more than two
years. -The Minister at Vienna was said, most un-
justly, to have abused Mr. Seward, and as Mr.
Seward reproached him somewhat bitterly, Mr.
Motley resigned. In this case the Senate remained
true to the Minister, and still refuses to acknow-
ledge any vacancy at Vienna. For Berlin a gen-
tleman was happily found who had contrived to
distribute his compliments between the White House
and the Capitol with so equal a hand that neither
power could refuse to reward his dexterity. After
Mr. Bigelow's retirement the choice of his successor
at Paris commended itself to universal approval,
but a public man so popular with all parties as
General Dix is not easily found in any country. It
is absurd to suppose that a Republican Congress
would send General M'Clellan to Great Britain ;
there is more probability that General Butler would
be their chosen man, especially in the event of the
President being deposed. The appointment has
been discussed in anticipation by one or two of the
American papers, and should it ever be made, our
Foreign Secretary for the time being will find abun-
dant employment prepared for him by the hero of
New Orleans." The Gazette then proceeds to give
the sequel to Mr. Glenn's accusation of bribery
against the members of the New York Legislature,
which it had introduced on the preceding Friday :
"As we anticipated, the Mr. Glenn who made the
disclosures of bribery in the New York Legislature
has not promoted his own comfort or profit by
turning against his colleagues. It appears that Mr.
Glenn is an old man, and after his statements were
made public he was (a New York paper tells us)
so set upon, badgered, taunted, scolded, upbraided,
sneered at, and argued with, that he was completely
broken down, begged to be allowed to depart in
let go in sheer pity by the
hornetspeaceand w
he hadas unwittingly aroused." So ends the
" investigation." The " Occasional Notes" are closed
by the inquiry who i 3 Sir Henry de Houghton? Sir
Henry has been held up ever since Mr. Seward
published the list of the Confederate Loan sub-
scribers palmed off upon and transmit!,ed by Mr.
Bigelow from Paris to Washington. 'The other
public men enumerated denied having had any in-
terest in the Loan except Sir Henry, whose silence
was taken in America as a proof of guilt, and the
American papers have consequently been busy with
him ever since, exhibiting him at intervals to the
people as their greatest enemy now living :—" It is
not without a due regard to fins fitness of things
that they have singled out from x, fictitious list a
person who has no existence, and so rendered the
imposition practised upon them ev en more ridicu-
lous than it was before." Is the re no American
editor, asks the Pail-Mall, who 1 ,9s a Ballo or a
Dod in his office ? and concludes by asserting that
" Mr. Seward has not often made. na,th a bad bargain
as this, and it is understood thatllC has refrained from
buying Confederate ' paper' for a considerable
time past." Then comes this item of religious in-
telligence :—" Dr. Natha,ns, an eloquesst German
Jewish Rabbi, is exciting Nsiside cable attention in