The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-01 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING: FEBRUARY 1, 1855.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

NEW PRUSSIAN CIRCULAR.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justices Wightman awl Williams)

The Government of Berlin has addressed to its
agents in London and Paris the following de-
spatch, which must be considered as a sequel to
its former note of the 19th December, and in
some sort as a reply to the despatch of M. Drouyn
de l'Huys. _

' MANSLAUGHTEZ.—Maurice Hearn, 22, labourer, was
indicted upon the Coroner's warrant for the manslaughter
of Mary Kelly.
Mr. Platt prosecuted, and Mr. O'Brien defended.

" Berlin, Jan. 21.

The deceased wag, it appe, .re 1, a woman of the town
of the lowest class, and had cohabited with prisoner, a
most repulsive, ruffianly-looking Irishman. The parties
lived at the Holborn end of Gray's-inn-lane, and upon
the night of the 17th of last month the deceased was
aeon lying in the street, having been struck by the pri-
soaer. About half an hour after, she still being found
lying in the same place, a stretcher was obtaiced and
deceased removed to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-
inn-lane, when it was found that she was dead. Upon
an examination of the body being made, it was found
that death had been caused from a rupture of the spleen.
Evidence was given that shortly before the poor creature
was found that prisoner was seen to strike and kick her
is the abdomen.

"Monsieura with
,peculiar
interest of
thatle C
youroint Comte ,--We
l Ve
Excellencyhv
your conversation with M. Drouyn de l'Huys (Lord
Clarendon) on the subject of establishing a good —a
hag readce m
under-
standing between the two Goverements in the sense of the
despatch I had the honour to address you on the 19th oflast
month. To our real satisfaction the adhesion of Prussia
to the treaty of the 2d of December, in the way first
proposed to us, has been recognised as impracticable as
well by the Cabinet of Paris as that of Loudon ; and the
idea of an arrangement growing out of the situation
and special interests of Prussia has been the subject of
confidential discussions, governed on both sides, we do
not for an instant doubt, by a sincere desire to surmount
difficulties, and an endeavour to reconcile the common
purpose of the Powers with the exigencies dictated by
the individual interests of each of them.
"If this exchange of ideas has not yet bad a result in
conformity with our reciprocal wishes, we are of opinion
—and we shall explain ourselves on this point to the
Cabinet of Paris [London] with perfect frankness—
we must look for the main cause in the important
changes in fact that have taken place both since the
signing of the treaty of the 2d of December and since my
despatch of the 19th of the same month. In this regard
it is particularly necessary to obseve that the term fixed
by the fifth article of Vie treaty having elapsed, that,
which from the eonclusion of the treaty had only an
eventual character, has since acquired the greatest
actuality, and the tendency offensive of the treaty,
eclipsed in some sort before the expiration of the term,
now affixes their true meaning to the stipulation of the
2d December, and must undoubtedly react on the nature
of the engagements that Prussia, on her side, could de-
clare herself eventually ready to contract.
"It is evident that his Majesty's Government, pene-
trated by the high responsibility attaching to engage-
ments of this nature, would be wanting to their most
sacred duties if they did not take care that they were a
consequence of tho most complete acquaintance with
and most conscientious examination of the political ends
it is wished to attain. It was this conviction that led
me to express already in my despatch of the 19th of
December a desire to know the interpretation which the
Cabinets that signed the treaty of the 2d of December
gave to the Four Points they had drawn up as a basis
for the negotiation of peace, and which had been ac-
cepted by Russia. It appeezed, indeed, when I asked
for this indispensable information, that the three Cabi-
nets were not agreed between them on the signification,
or, at least, on tho more precise phraseology, which it
would be proper to give to the four preliminary points.
However, since that time an essential change has oc-
curred in the situation. Not only do the Western
Powers seem to have come to an agreement with Aus-
tria on the mode of stating the Four Points with pre-
cision, but their three representatives also must have
confidentially settled with the plenipotentiary of Rus-
sia the bases preliminary to a negotiation for peace.
"The Cabinet of Paris [London] is toe Clear in its
judgment, and too impartial in its appreciation, not to
be struck, as we are ourselves, with the evidence of the
most intimate connection that exists between the diplo-
matic understanding that has taken place at Vienna, and
the ulterior questions for the solution of which Prussia
would eventually be ready to assure her concurrence by
express obligations. But his Majesty's Cabinet knows
nothing of time details of the confidential discussions
that have taken place. It knows nothing of their
precise result. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg
has officially communicated to us a memorandum
that was confidentially presented by Prince Gm tschakoff
to the representatives of the three other Powers. We
discovered in it a conciliatory and pacific disposition.
We bayonet been able to appreciate the bearing of this
manifestation, because it seemed to be but the corollary
to some draft of the three representatives, of which we
know nothing.

The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Mr. Justice Wight:man, in a very impressive address,
sentenced the prisoner to seven years' penal servitude.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
FRAUDS UPON EMIGRANTS.

Fredericd; Charles Maturin, 32, agent, was indicted
for having obtained from divers persons several sums of
money, with intent to cheat and defraud them thereof.

Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Robinson prosecuted upon
the behalf of the Government Emigration Commission.
It appeared from the statement of the learned coun-
sel that the prisoner stood charged with baying acted
without authority, and in seven or eight cases taken
money from persons for the purposes of obtaining them
free passages, under the auspices of the Government
Commissioners, ho not having the power to do so,
and there was no doubt, but that many of the persons
whorl the prisoner bad been the means of sending out
bad been in collusion with him to impose upon the Emi-
gration Commissioners and evade the rules which they
hal laid down for sending people out. The prisoner
had been an ►gent appointed by the Emigration Commis-
sioners for Carnarvonshire, and also part of Merioneth-
shire, but not elsewhere. He bad, however, opened an
of in King-street, Woolwich, and undertaken to send
out people who, from the number and age of their
families, were net eligible to be assisted by the Go-
vernment. From one man named Hales, a carpenter
and joiner, living at Camden-town, he obtained the
sumof 51., and told him that he had made arrangements
fur the Government to send them out, which, however,
he had not done.

There were several cases against the prisoner, and the
first indictment tried was being proceeded with when we
went to press.

BOTV-STREET.7:(IIIIS DAY.)

THE► CASC Or KING, THZ "DETECTIVE,"

This morning, in accorlaoce with thr remand of Mr.
Hall, 'Charles King waA stain placed at the bar.
The counsel for the proefeution intimated to the
magistrate that, as the irqulries hal not yet been com-
pleted, he felt Compelled to ask for a further remand.
Mr. Hall accordingly rernervied the prisoner till this
day week.

"It is in fact incontestable that to enable us to form
a precise opinion en our eventual engagements, it will
no longer suffice far us, seeing the turn that events have
taken, to have cognisance of some document on which
the other representatives assembled at Vienna have
entirely or in part perhaps agreed, but as to which, for
that end, we ought to know the whole of the motives
that influenced their deliberations, and, as it were, pre•
sided at the birth of the document.

" The considerations attaching to the preceding, and
to which I will not give greater development, bare only
confirmed the King our august master in the deep con-
viction that all negotiation on the part of his Govern-
ment, for concluding an arrangement in reference to his
concurrence in eventual complications, will be fruitless,
unless it be preceded by the presence of a representative
of his Majesty at the deliberations that have been opened
at Vienna between the belligerent powers, and to which
our august master appeals with all his heart for a result
likely to insure to Europe as speedily as possible the '
benefits of a solid and durable peace.
"In making this conviction a groundwork for his
future attitude, the King our august master has not, how-
ever, permitted himself to be exclusively guided by the
practical exigencies I have just indicated. His Majesty
has equally founded the motives of this resolution on
considerations of a more elevated order. Ido not refer
here to the consequences which the Bing attributes
to the quality of Prussia as a great European Power. I
de not, because I have no motive for supposing that
there is in any quarter a wish to throw doubt on this
quality, or aim a blow at its prerogatives. But more
positive and more special titles exist, assuring to the
King's Government not only the right but assigning it
the duty of assisting at deliberations destined to pnt an
end to the Eastern crisis, and the oemplications that
have arisen out of it. The Vienna protocols have
stamped on the solution of this question the character
of a common task. The King's representative signed
them, and Prussia is conscious that she has faithfully
discharged the engagements they contain.
"I do not now raise the question whether the present
conferences at Vienna are a continuation of those of the
past year, and I abstain from renewing the controversy
as to the cause of the cessation of the latter. On that
point I wait with confidence the enlightening effects of
time and truth. But however that may be, the protocols
continually quoted against us, when it is wished to
destroy their obligations, insure us also certain rights,
and we could not recognise the one without entering on
the full exercise of the other.

" Here, Monsieur le Comte, are principles so simple
and natural that they seem not to require an advocate.
Have the kindness to lay them before M. the Minister
for Foreign Affairs (the Principal Secretary of State),
who, we have the utmost confidence, will not withhold
his approval of them, and will, with us, consider the
frankness with which we have stated them as likely to
facilitate rather than hinder an eventual good under-
standing between the two Cabinets.
" Receive, &e.,

AIANTEUFFEL."

COURT CIRCULAR.

Tho Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Mar-
chioness of Eiy, the Duchess of Wellington, Colonel the
lion. C. B. Phipps, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey,
Colonel Seymour, and the Master of the Household,
left Windsor Castle at ten minutes past ten o'clock yes-
ter,4ay morning, travelled by a special train on the Great
Weitern Railway to Paddington, and arr:ved at Buck-
ingham Palace at te❑ minutes past eleven o'clock.
The Earl of Derby had an audience of the Queen.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the ladies and
gentlemen in waiting left Buckingham Palace, in two
of the Queen's carriages, at eight minutes before three
o'clock in the afternoon, for the Paddington terminus of
the Great Western Railway, and returned by a special
train to Windsor Castle. The royal suite consisted of
the Marchioness of Ely, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps,
Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Colonel Sey-
mour, and the Master of the Household. The Queen
and Prince Albert wore conducted to their carriage by
Earl Spencer, Lord Steward.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary
and the Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of
Gloucester yesterday, at her residence, Gloucester House,
Piccadilly.

A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most
Honourable Privy Council had a meeting yesterday at
the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, to settle the roll of
sheriffs for the counties of England and Wales for the
present year. The lords present were Lord Cranworth,
Lord Chancellor ; Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of
State for the Home Department ; the Earl of Claren-
don, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Sir Chas.
Wood, President of the Board of Control ; Earl Gran-
ville, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; and Earl
Spencer, Lord Steward of the Queen's Household.
The Earl of Derby had an interview with Viscount
Paltnerston yesterday, at his residence in Piccadilly,
after the noble earl had had an audience of the Queen.
The Cathedral Commission met at No. 1, New-street,
Spring-gardens, on Wednesday. The commisioners
present were the Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of
London, the Bishop of Oxford, the Hon. and Rev. H.
M. Villiers, the Rev. Canon Selwyn, and Mr. Henry
Kingscote (secretary.)
A deputation from Stage Carriage Proprietora of
Marylebone had an interview yesterday with Sir Ben-
jamin Hall, at the office of the General Board of Health,
Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Messrs. Henry
Edmonds, John Trevett, Thomas Bird, James Willing,
Augustus Lines, Samuel llenten, and J. E. Bradfield.
Despatches from the Governors of the North Ameri-
can Provinces were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office.

The young Marquis of Bute has been suffering from
an attack of scarlatina.
The Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley have
arrived in St. James's-square, from Knowsley.
The marriage of the Rev. Hihbert Binney, D.D., Lord
Bishop of Nova Scotia, with the daughter of the lion.
Mr. Jastice Bliss, was solemnised on the 4th ult. in St.
Paul's Cathedral, lialifa.x, Nova Scotia.
EDWARDS' PRIVATE HOTEL, GEORGE-STRNET.—Ar-
rivals : Azimullah Khan, from Erighton ; Major Faw-
cett and Mrs. Fawcett, from Brighton ; Mrs. Frederick
Vincent, from Stenfold Rectory.
Lieut.-Colonel Lord Bective has the Cavan Militia
supplied with all requisites that can be had iu that town
and county.
THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—Mr, Charles Kean, who
Oils cameci Vu the management ut this theatre Ltr the
last three years, has just entered into an arran,ement
with the lessee for the renewal of his lease for a term of
years.