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

LAW AND POLICE.

IgroBTANT To INSURERS. —ln the same court the case
of Hinch and anoti,r 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 £lOO with the defendants, and which they
contended they were not bound to pay, as the assured
had induced the defendants to enter into the policy 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 it by stating, " Never bad 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 bad called in medical assistance. The
jury found for the defendants, and Mr. Gray, Q.C.,
moved for and obtained a rule te set aside the verdict and
for a new trial, on the ground that there hal been no con-
cealment, as the answer ;jven by the assured was in
accordance with truth. A medical man called in to attend
a person labourin:; under a sudden fit of illness could not
be said to be the " regular medical attendant " of the
persnn so calling him in.—The court took time to consider
judgment, but suggested t) the parties the propriety of
effecting an arrangement of the case, if possible, without
judg.aent being given.
REFI:giNG TO PERFORM DIVINE SERVICE.—In the
Dean of Arches Court, the case of the Bishop of Win-
chester v. the Rev. Tucker Lewis Rug:,, 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 Eeclinswell-with-Sydmon-
ton, for not performing divine service at the latter church.
His Lordship, at the conclusion of a protracted hearing,
said there was really only one 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-
sider 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 Co)ke, Q.C. Mr. Cooke, who is
Recorder of Oxford, was called to the bar by the lion.
Society of the Inner Temple in 1837.
Rewards amounting in all to nearly £2,000 are
()tiered for the apprehension of the murderer of Mr.
Fetherstonehaugh, of Westmeath. The landed proprie-
tors of the county have contributed a large portion of the
gam. Three men arrested on suspicion are now in Mul-
Ungar Gaol, two of them being tenants on the estate, and
one a servant•boy of a farmer.

CO-OPERATION IN TUE BUILDING TRADER.--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. He was informed that there were at least 2,000
shareholders, and that the list was daily increasing.
THE CASE uF SIR CRARIES DARLING.—Sir
Charles H. Darling, K.C.8., late governor of the colony
of Victoria, has presented to Parliament a petition ex-
pressing his desire that his whole conduct in the administra-
tion of the government of Victoria, and all his proceedings
in respect to the proposed grant of £20,003 to Lady Darling,
should be subjected to the fu` lest investigation. lie submits
that the whole question of the grant, the very principles
npon which it proceeds, and the motives in which it ori-
ginated, are so intimately connected with his con-
duct in the administration of the government cf
-Victoria, and with the circnmstances which led to and arc
consequent upon his recall therefrom, that it would be at
'ariance 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 : fl) 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 MiniAe,rs 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 the
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 to a !opt. (3) That it
the case complained of, in which public revenue was issued
in order that the just claims of the public creditors might
be satisfied, and in reliance upon the subsequent complete
legislation of such issue by an Act of the Legislature, that
Act was passed before the petitioner's recall was made
known in the colony.

rAnvEturisEmErrd—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—
A frequent cause of gout and rheumatism is the inflam-
matory state of the blood, attended with bad digestion and
general debility. A few doses of these pills taken in time
are an effectual preventive against gout and rheumatism,
but any one who has an attack of either should use Hol-
loway's ointment also, the powerful properties of which,
combined with the effects of the pills, must infallibly effect
a cure. These pills act directly on the blood, which they
purify and improve ; they also regulate the secretions and
give tone to the stomach, and thus the whole system is in-
vigorated and put into a condition which enable it to throw
off disease or check its approach.