The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-04 00:00:00

THE MONEY-LENDERS AGAIN,

Vice-Chancellor Stuart has had before him the case
of Burnett v. Boss and Beyfus, in which Mr. T. A. Roberts,
on behalf of Captain Burnett, moved ex parte for an
injunction against Messrs. Boss and Beyfus, discounters,
Maddox-street, under these circumstances :—On the 26th of
May last Captain Burnett went to the office of the de-
fendants and obtained from them an advance of
£9O, and subsequently of £lOO, for which he gave
them two bills of exchange for £3OO each, an assign-
ment of his cornmision money, and a warrant of
attorney ; but they gave him a letter by which they under-
took to accept £3OO in full discharge of their claims, if paid
on or before the 3d of October. On the 3d of August, how-
ever, they signed judgment for £1,200 on the warrant of
attorney. On the 3d of October Captain Burnett went
with a friend to Maddox-street to pay £3OO, but he
found the offices of the defendants closed and nobody to re-
ceive the money. They now insisted that he must pay £6OO,
the full amount of the two bills of exchange, although he
had received only £l9O, and had paid £5 as expenses. The
Vice-Chancellor granted an injunction restraining the de-
fen !ants from availing themselves of their securities on the
plaintiff bringing £l9O into court, to which he at once as.
sented.

The Anglo-American Submarine Telegraph Cora-
pany have established an office in Paris to enable people to
send messages to the United States direct from Paris.
The Cork. Examiner states that the late Irish Chief
Justice Lefroy is to be at length rewarded with a peerage
(Irish). Ile is over 90 years of ago.

At the sitting of the Court of Queen's Bench,
Mr. Justice Haynes and Mr. Justice Brett were sworn in—
the former as one of the puisne judges of this court, and the
latter as one of the puisne judges of the Court of Ccmmon
Pleas. Mr. Baron Ckasby was also sworn as a baron of the

Exchequer.
Notice was given in the Court of Common Pleas
that the Hon. Mr. Justice Willes bad, by the other judges
of that court, been selected to be placed upon the rota for the
trial of election petitions during tho ensuing year.
No fewer than fifteen bakers in Sberborno and
the ne;ghbenrirg villages in Dorset were fined last week
for selling bread undcr weight. In order to meet the fines
levied they raised the price of bread a penny a gallon im-
mediately.

The Rev. E. W. Whately, an Irish incumbent, has
undertaken to say that if his father, the famous Archbishop
of Dublin, had lived to take part in the present struggle on
the Irish Church he would have been found on the side of
Mr. Disraeli. "He would have been either foi the disestab-
rnent of both the Irish and English Churches, or for
neither."

EDUCATION IN THE COLONY OF VICTORIA.—
The report of the Board of Education for 1867-68 states
that it has been estimated that 17'93 per cent., or one in
5'58 of the total population, and 61'32, or nearly two out
of three, children between five and fifteen years of age,
are attending schools with a degree of regularity which is
not equalled either iu England or America.

Steps are being taken to secure a local memorial of
the Rev. Dr. 11'Neile, the new Dean of Ripon. A large num-
ber of the Dean's friends Lave met together and formed a
committee to secure the erection, in Livcipool, of a marble
statue to commemorate his scrvices to i eligion and educa-
tion; and to assist the movement subscriptions are invited.
The Futscriptions are limited to .£5 from each person, so
that the memorial may really iedfcate the feelings of a
large number of the inhabitants of the town and the neigh-
bourhood.

The opponents of Mr. Roebuck, at Sheffield, are
determined to " leave no stone ut Wined" which
shall c nsure his jection. TL ey have discovered
that he was the chairman of the Estates Bank, whose
"smash" caused so much suffering amongst its shareholders.
That they do net give any credit to Mr. Roebuck for ex-
treme purity may be imagined. Loud are they in their de-
nunciations. So far have they gone that the journal support-
ing Mr. Roebuck has reason to believe that the attack upon
that gentleman will be made the ground of legal proceedings
at an early day.

GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—The students of Glasgow
University are bestirring themselves in view of the election
of Lord Rector, the term of office of the Lord Justice-Gene-
ral (Mr. John Inglis) expiring this year. On Monday,
immediately after the opening of the winter session, the
students belonging to the Conservative Club met, and
unanimously nominated Lord Stanley for election. The
Liberal Club met at the same time, when the names of
Gladstone, Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Bright were proposed.
On a show of hands being taken, the nomination of Mr.
Bright was carried by a large majority.
OUTBREAK OF FEVER.—Fever is raging to a very
serious extent in Falmouth. There is great complaint of
the sanitary condition of the town, and a large number of
the principal inhabitants, finding that neither the borough
nor the parish local board would attempt to carry out an
efficient system of drainage, have memorialised the Home
Secretary on the subject. Both boards have the powers of
the Local Government Act, and although the parish board
has been in existence five years, and the borough board
about two years, the sanitary condition of the town is, it
is contended, if anything, worse than ever.
TIIE EARL OF DERBY BECOMING A TAILOR.—
At a meeting of the North Staffordshire Licensed
Victuallers' Society, at Stoke, on Thursday, Mr. C. B.
Adderley, M.P., who presided, told the following amusing
story of the Earl of Derby. His lordship had been ad-
mitted a member of the ancient guild of tailors, and seeing
him shortly afterwards, he (Mr. Adderley) said, "Do
you know what you have been swearing, Lord Derby ?"
His lordship replied that he did not. " Well, then," said
Mr. Adderley, " I have read the oath, and you have sworn
that you will take to:tailoring., and do nothing else all your
life."

The thirteenth rep3rt of her Majesty's Civil Ser-
vice Commission, together with appendices, was pub-
lished on Tuesday. The report itself contains a sum-
mary review of all the proceedings of the commissioners
from May, 1855, up to the last of June in the present year.
During that period the total number of candidates whose
names have appeared upon the lists, has been 59,658. The
actual number, however, which came before the board for
their decision was 46,523, and of these certificates of
qualification were granted in 28,596 cases. Of the
remainder, however, only 9,461 were rejected as absolutely
disqualified.

THE PUBLIC HEALT/I.—The mortality in London
continues to be exceptionally heavy. The deaths regis-
tered last week were 1,521, exceeding by 151 the average
number, and by 100 those of the previous week. The
annual rates of mortality in fourteen of the principal
towns, per 1,000 of the population, were—Bristol and
Birmingham, 20 ; Sheffield, 21 ; Dublin, 24 ; London,
Edinburgh, and Bradford, 25 ; Hull and Newcastle-on-
Tyne, 26 ; Salford and Leeds, 27 ; Liverpool, 29 ; Man-
chester, 30 ; and Glasgow, 34. In the present return is
mentioned the death of a woman in St. Margaret's Work-
house, Westminster, at the age of 100, leaving five sons
and daughters, and a host of grandchildren and great.
grandchildren. Her eldest son is 73, and her eldest
daughter 75.

DivoncE APPEALS. —An Act of Parliament,
passed in the late session, will practically come into force
during the present sittings of the court. The object of
the Act is to prevent unnecessary delay in the final deter.
mination of suits for dissolution or nullity of marriage.
Liberty is now given, when there is no right to appeal, to
the parties to marry again at any time after the pro-
nouncing of the decree absolute. Appeals to the House
of Lords are to be within one month. No appeal is to bt
allowed in undefended suits for dissolution of marriage
unless by leave of the court. It is enacted that " this Act
shall extend to all suits pending at the time when the
same shall come into operation, notwithstanding that a
decree may have been pronounced therein ; provided,
nevertheless, that this Act shall not affect any pending
appeal, nor shall the same prejudice any subsisting righ
of appeal aaainst a decree already pronounced, provide,
such appeal be lodged within one calendar month afte
this Act shall come into operation." The Act was paged
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