The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

THE ARREST OF MR. CURTIS.

BERLIN, June 24.—The Pr'eussische Correspon.
denz publishes the following official account of the
affair in Cologne connect ;d with the arrest of the
Secretary of our Consi:;i there :
" Kray had failerl to appear on the 29th of May
in obedience to t'lo summons issued on the 25th. At
the instance the Ober-Prokurator a warrant was
taken out against him. Consul Curtis received
no fortr.o,l previous notice of these two proceed-
ings ; but he was in a position to be perfectly well
informed of them, as at the time Kray was served
with the summons by the officer of the Court,
he was in conversation with him. In the sum-
mons it was expressly stated, that in case of
the party's not appearing he would be proceeded
against according to law ; it could not, therefore,
have been unknown to him what his secretary had
to expect in that case. It has been stated that a
despatch addressed to Brussels had been taken from
Kray by the police at the time of his arrest, and
kept back from him 24 hours. This statement is
entirely false. No such detention of a despatch has
has taken place either on the part of the police or
of the judicial authorities. The despatch in question,
which was probably not delivered to Kray till after
his principal had appeared in his stead, remained
lying at the dwelling of the former. It was not till a
day after he was arrested, the 7th inst., that Kray's
wife,instead of returning it to the Consul, brought it
to the magistrate, with the request that he would
deliver it to Curtis, which was accordingly done.
An application made by Consul Curtis that Kray
might be liberated on bail was rejected, after being
deliberated on by the Senate of the Provincial
Court, on the grounds of the nature of the enlist-
ments effected by Kray now under investigation. An
additional circiiimstanceofaggravation is to be found
in the fact that within the last few days an inquiry has
been entered into against Consul Curtis h imself, on the
charge of having gained over Prussian subjects for
English military service; of having, by presents and
promises, influenced persons to emigrate who have
gly participated in the enlistment ef-
not yet performed their. military duties ; and of
parties Cologne.. It would. have been
foreigner while staying in Prussia
fbeacvteindgbyknuoiewsein
contravention of the law on
re-
called to the remembrance of. the public. It is the
tttohhieasbdpsuottaiyninto,ffwraohnmiychanhyas of late been so frequently
Curtis and Kray are) have not refrained. from
prohibited enlistments,
less excusable when Prussian subjects (as MM.
aiding
under the very nose of the authorities. .Justice
was therefore not only competent but also bound
such a course."
by duty to intervene and stop
and abetting ni

A number of Russian prisoners are employed on the
public works in the department of Dordogne (France).
THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S HEALTH.—BERLIN, June 21.
—Yesterday and the day before the King ‘N as compelled
to keep his room by rheumatism. It would seer^ "
ht, Majesty took fresh cold last Sundp--
,nt
military ceremonial that, was ham'
at a domestiac
the New Palace at Pot- 1 In tho open air near
health has been—
_..am. The state of the King's
SUudaY• btal snore unsatisfactory sinoe last

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