The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-21 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
(Before Mr. Justice Willes.)
RUBINI V. MACABE.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a
professor of natural magic, against the defendant,
the well known Frederick Macabe, 'the vocalist and
ventriloquist, for damage caused by his ejectment
of the plaintiff. _ .

The facts of the case appeared to be that the
defendant, Mr. Macabe, was the lessee of a portion
of the Egyptian Hall, at which place he is now ex-
hibiting, and the plaintiff wishing to give his enter-
tainment at the same place in one of the adjoining
rooms, saw the defendant and his agent and entered
into an arrangement for the possession of the place,
and actually commenced his performances. The ven-
ture did not turn out a success, and the result was
the plaintiff became liable to Mr.:Macabe for some
arrears. The defendant, finding he could not get
the money that had been agreed he should receive,
gave the plaintiff notice either to pay his arrears,
or he should refuse him possession of the room
any longer. The plaintiff contended. that
the defendant had no right to • eject him
for a certain time, which had not arrived, but
Mr. Macabe took possession of the apartment, and
of course the plaintiff was prevented from continu-
ing his performances. Ile coutendel that the
ejectment was illegal, and accordingly brought his

action.
The jury, after hearing evidence on both sides,
gave a verdict for the defendant.

HOLY WEEK IN HUNGARY.

The special correspondent of the Times, writing
from Pesth on April 15, says :—The visiting of
churches during Holy Week is a custom which is
generally kept up by the Roman Catholic popula-
tion of Hungary. . Above all, in the afternoon few
people will pass a church without looking in and
saying their short prayers. The churches are open

till late in the evening, inviting every one who feels
prompted to step in. But Good Friday is the day
above all when regular rounds are made of all the
churches. In every church one of the side chapels
is fitted up so as to resemble the Holy Sepulchre:
a rocky grotto, with the effigy of the dead
Saviour in wood or wax underneath ; above, '
a couple of angels adoring the Host, which
is exposed ; all round, flowers and candel-
abras, with lighted tapers, and in front two
soldiers as sentinels. Besides, in all places which
boast of a hill in their neighbourhood a Calvary is
set up, at which you arrive by passing the twelve
stations which, according to tradition, were made
on the road. At each of the stations a pictorial
representation of the event is encased in a shrine,
at which the pilgrims to Calvary kneel down and
say their prayers. On the top there is either a chapel
or simply three high crosses, which you can see from
a distance. Pesth has no hill near, and therefore no
Calvary ; besides, the pouring rain on Good Friday
would have probably deterred most pilgrims. The
bells, which scarcely cease ringing during the week,
are silent on that day. Their joyous sound is ill
suited to the mourning; it is replaced by the dead
sound of wooden rattles.
Saturday afternoon is the celebration of the feast
of the Resurrection, which goes on till late in the
evening. Every church chooses a different hour, so
as not to interfere with each other, and if the day
is fine, as it was this year, the effigy of the risen
Saviour and the Host are carried about in proces-
sion through the streets. The whole town is out,
and collected in the places where the processions
pass. Before every church the waxchandlers pitch
their tents, while right and left of them you see
rows of women selling coloured Paschal eggs.
These Paschal eggs form a most important
feature in the Easter festivals. For days before
they are the only objects of the thoughts and
dreams of the rising generation. To have many
bright-coloured eggs is the ambition of every
schoolboy, and to test their strength against
those of his companions. He is quite a hero who
has hit upon one or two with very hard
shells, for he may become the proprietor of many
eggs, though broken ones. There is no end
of childish cunning displayed in the game. The
eggs are sounded against the teeth, and thus an
opinion is formed of their relative strength. Some.
times the trial is small end against small end, some-

times small eud against the large.one. Then there
is goose egg against hen egg, or turkey against
guinea fowl, and he whose egg remains intact be-
comes the happy possessor of the broken one.
But it is not only for children that the Paschal
eggs are meant ; they serve as presents among
grown-up young people, and are for this purpose
made of sugar, and ornamented with devices and
sugar bas-reliefs anything but holy. A couple of
white doves, a bright nosegay, or a brightly-dressed
young couple tell their own tale. Besides, hard
boiled eggs are an indispensable item in the Eastern
repast.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES
AND THE CARDINAL ARCHBISHOP OF
DUBLIN.

The Freeman's Journal of Monday says :-44 The
Attorney-General favoured the world, in his own
fashion, with a recondite piece of wisdom—' Tern-
pora mutautur nos et mutamur in illis.' We shall
give:lllm an example of its truth. Only a few years
have gone by since a Lord Lieutenant refuse 1 to
meet a cardinal at Dublin Mansion House festivi-
ties; so runs the story, that " the chivalrous Eglin-
ton," whoseim ige is the delectation of the Univer-
sity Club windows, would not meet such an embo-
diment of ' Papal aggression ' as his late Eminence
Cardinal Wiseman ! ' Under which king, Bczo-
nian,' did that piece of knightly liberality occur?
Under a Tory Prime Minister, whose English At-
torney-General was an active lawyer,who, with true
Tory tact, slipped into the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill
a clause which gave to that insulting but innocuous
enactment its bitterest sting. Times have changed
since then ; year after year have shown the hide-
ousness of bigotry more plainly ; effete notions of
intolerance grow mustier and mustier ; exclusion is
no longer a recognised policy, and ascendancy
has seen its day. A wise toleration now
guides the statesman, and a generous libe-
rality regulates the policy of the governing
classes. So a line of action towards the Catholic
priesthood, far different from that revelled in with
impunity in other days, becomes imperatively neces-
sary, and we recognise the working of the wise
change in the minds of men. Now, again, under
Tory rule, a Lord Lieutenant sits in Dublin Castle
dispensing with befitting dignity, with ' hand open
as the day,' princely hospitalities to princely guests.
All honour to the fedi:lg which seems to move the
noble heart of an Irish proprietor, who lives amongst
his Irish tenantry, and who has learned to compre-
hend what is due to Irish feeling. The Roman Ca-
tholic Prelate of this diocese is invited, with every
circumstance of honour and respect, to share the
Viceregal hospitalities, by his proper designation.
' The Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin,' is invited to
meet the eldest son of the Sovereign, the future king
of these realms, and his illustrious consort. Among
the distinguished personages present, to his Emi-
nence is given his proper place, next immediately
after royalty, and all that is due to his rank is freely
accorded to it. Nay more, that Princess whose
winning beauty and gracious mien are making Irish
hearts her subjects indeed, shows especial favour to
the head in this country of the Church which is the
Church of the affections of the Irish people ; to his
Eminence invitations are repeated, and the respect
and favour in which the Prince and Princess of
Wales have learned to hold this Prince of the holy
Roman Church are openly and nobly evidenced.
No act of the royal visit will be more gratefully re-
ceived than this. It shows that our royal visitors
know that the way to the hearts of our Catholic
people is by showing to their beloved pastors that
respect and considergtion which are due to them.
Long withheld, the recognition of the rank and
position of a Roman Catholic prelate in this
country has now been freely and boldly made, on
an occasion so monstrous that henceforth intolerance,
bigotry, or weakness cannot, must not, draw back
from a like acknowledgment. All honour to the
Marquis of Abercorn for acting on the dictates of a
noble feeling! All honour to the Piince and
IPrincess of Wales, who boldly despise foul faction,
and show openly how they desire to win a grateful
and a pipes people's Joe."