The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-19 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

TEE ST. ALBAN'S CASE.—The Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council have been engaged again on the St.
Alban's (Holborn) case, Martin v. Mackonochie, which
will form a precedent on the points in dispute. Dr.
Stephens continued his opening speech in support of the
appellant, Mr. Martin. He contended that lighted
candles, when introduced into the holy communion ser
vice, became a ceremony, and lawful. The appellant
alleged that kneeling or prostrating before the conse-
crated elements and the use of lighted candled
were additions to or alterations of the form prescribed by
the Book of Common Prayer. On the part of Mr
Mackonochie,the respondent, several reasons were alleged
in answer. The discussion on this important case muss
necessarily occupy several days. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., is
expected to follow Dr. Stephens, and Mr. W. M. James,
Q.C., and Dr. Deane, Q.C., will address their lordships on
the other side.

PERSONATING A VOTER.—A porter, bearing the flaw.
of Lawrence Kenny, has been brought up before M.
Castellain, at the Liverpool Police-court, on a charge
having attempted to personate a voter named Mullin,
the Scotland-road polling•booth, where he tendered a vote
in that name for Massey and Rathbone, the Liberal can•
lidates, and was at once given into custody. In answer
to the magistrate, the prisoner, who seems to be a very
4 soft" sort of fellow, said that he was going to his work
in the morning, when his wife told him that Mullin was
Mlt of town, and that he had better go and vote for him,
xnd he did so. The prisoner, at the request of the prose-
cution, was remanded, and ordered to find bail in two
sureties of £l.O.

THE WORKING MAN'S CANDIDATE.—A singular elec.
tiOneering transanction has come to light at the Guildhall
Police court. Mr. Robeit Hartwell, the self•atyled
working man's candidate, first for Larubet'a and then
for Stoke-upon-Trent, applied for a warrant against
two Staffordshire " sons of toil" for robbing him of
£2BO. Mr. Hartwell stated that he received an offer o.
that sum to pay his expenses if he would retire from th,..
contest, that being " the estimated amount of the expenses
he had incurred in London and at Stoke." The money
was to be handed to him by " a highly respectable gentle-
man," whose name did not transpire; but Mr. Hartwell's
two Staffordshire friends bad somehow or other got hold
of the money, and were believed to be meditating a trip to
New York. Alderman Begley declined to grant a warrant
an the information before him.

The Church Nezvs gives currency to a report that
the Bishop of CatMe has refused to erduin an Oxford gra-
duate because ho belongcd to the English Church Union.

The Arc' bishop of York Las written a letter in
reply to a memorial in favour of promoting communion with
the Church Of Swede.; and expressed his concurrence with
the memorial. His Grace says, " I concur with the opinion
.)f the memorialists, and should • hereafter wish to act
upon it in any opportunity that may occur—that our Church
ought to bo in fu'l communion with the Swedish Church.".
Echoes of the Clubs says it will be remembered that
Mr. Seely, in one of his attacks on the Adminity for its ex-
!ravagarce, mentioned the fact that a bargo for tho use of
Princo Alfred hal cost more in repairing than, it might have
been originally built for. A similar thing is about to occur
with the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, which wo under-
stand is about to be repaired at a cost of not. has than
CBO,OGO, a small increase in which would Ito sufficient to
build and fit out a new vessel.

In consequence of a circumstance which has
recently happened in Worcester? Poor-law Union, and
which has called forth remarks fro the Lancet and other
medical papers, the board of guardians of the Worcester
Poor-law Union have just debated the . propriety
of continuing the employment of midwives instead
of qualified surgeons, and have come to the
resolution that 'henceforth surgeons shall be em-
ployed in all midwifery cases at a stipulated sum, and
that the services of the union midwives shall be dispensed
with. It was urged by Mr. Longmore, one of the guar-
dians who brought the motion before the board, that not
only were the claims of humanity strong—as shewn in the
cane referred to—but that an actual saving in_ expense
would be effected,