The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JOLY 2, 1864,

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
HARRIS V. HARRIS AND WARDS.

This was a suit instituted by the husband, a labourer in
the dockyard at Chatham, for dissolution Of marriage.

The parties were married in 1848. They first resided at
Great Waking, in Essex, and ultimately they went to live
at Chatham, where the cohabitation continued until 1861.
In that year the respondent formed an improper intimacy
with the co-respondent Warde, who was a lodger in the
same house. She was at present residing at the same place
with the co-respondent.
In the course of the evidence it was proved that the peti-
tioner knew that his wife was living on improper terms
with Warde.

The learned judge said, under the circumstances, he
should dismi=s the petition.

ROUTH.. V. ROUTH AND LE MESURIER.

This was a suit instituted by the husband for a dissolu•
tion of marriage.

The petitioner had been an officer in the English cavalry,
but he had sold out and had married the respondent at the
ofEee of the Charge d'Affaires at Benares in 1817. In 1851
the parties went to Australia, but the health of the respon-
dent being bad she went to Calcutta, which was her native
place. There she formed an acquaintance with M. Le
Mesurier, who held an important situation on the Indian
Railway. The respondent returned to England, and M.
Le Mesurier, who had obtained leave of absence, renewed
his intimacy with her at her mother's house. The respon-
dent and the c--respondent went on a tour to Nice, and
other parts of the continent, as man and wife, and the re-
spondent gave birth to a child, of which M. Le Mesurier
was the father.

Rhoda Wood, who had been a servant to Mrs. Routh, ac•
companied her to the continent. She was in the habit of
receiving visits from M. Le Mesurier, while she lived al
Lancaster-terrace, Regent's-park.

Mr. Charles Routh, a cousin of the petitioner, proved
that, prior to their departure for Australia, they lived very
happily. Sometimes they had quarrels and sometimes they
were very loving. On the whole they agreed as well as
most married people usually do. The respondent did not
accompany her hu,b ,nd when he went to China, in con-
sequence of the bad state of her 11, filth
Mr Routh, the petitioner, was examined by the learned
Judge,—He said he had lately returned from India. He
lett England in 1849 for China, and from thence he went to
India. He went out under the auspices of Sir J. Bowring
to obtain an appointment in the Customs there, but in con-
sequence of the war breaking out, he failed, and afterwards
he went to India, where he obtained an appoint-
ment on the railway through M. La Mesurier,
who was the chief engineer on the Jubbulpore Rail-
way. His family and that of Le Mesurier's had been
on intimate terms for nearly a century. He obtained the
appointment through M. Le Mesurier, and after that he
continued to write to his wife. In six months after he felt
annoyed, in consequence of his son being sent to a school
which he disapproved. He wrote the last letter to the re-
spondent in 1863, in answer to one he received from her,
dated Nice; but he had no notion that anything improper
had taken place between her and Mesurier. He was surprised
when he received the letters from Nice, as he thought his
wife was residiag in London. He never had the slightest sus-
picion of 111 Mesurier's honour, and he had always looked
upon him as a brother. A more dastardly act than he had
afterwards perpetrated could not Lie mentioned.
The Judge Ordinary said the petitioner was entitled to a
decree nisi.
Granted accordingly.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

ROBBERY AT A JEWELLEK's.—Two boys named Henry
Barford and Alfred• John Gibbs, were charged before Mr
Knox with stea'ing, at 311, Oxford-street, some brooche
and pins, the property of Mr Nathan Woolf jacobsons
jeweller. ,

Mr Jacobson sail his attention had been called to the
boys by a lady ; he ran after them and caught Barford, and
found his pocket full of his pins, He took Barford back
towards his shop, when a gentleman stopped Gibbs, who
dropped two brooches. There had been five boys altogether„
but the other three escaped. He than gave the prisoners
into custody.

Aldridge, 205 C, proved taking Gibbs to the station, the
other prisoner being taken to the station by a gentleman.
The parents of the boys were decent people.
The mother of Gibbs said he had got acquainted with
some bad companions.

Mr Jacobson said his daughter knew the other boys by
sight.

Mr Knox said to send the boys to prison for any length
of time would make them worse. Let them go to prison
for four days and receive 12 strokes of a birch rod,

THAMES.

FOOLS AND THEIR MONEY,-INlfiry Ann Jowl, aged
20, of No, 19, Albert-square, Shadwell, of the class called
unfortunate, was brought before Mr Partridge charged with
stealing a £5 Bank of England tote,

£irnothy Cox, a police sergeant, No 45 K, stated that
between the hours of 2 and 3 o clock this morning he saw
the prisoner in High-street, Shadwell, with a £5 note in
her hand. She said a sailor gave it to her, He also found
upon her a sovereign and thirteen shillings in silver, She
stated that the sailor gave her that also, and that he was in
a coffee-shop close by, He found a sailor, a mate tat a ship,
in a coffee-shop, He was paid off yesterday, and said he
had been in the girl's company and gave her the money, and
that he had a right to do what he liked with his own,
The sailor, who was quite sober, came to that Court to
give evidence, and he was arrested on a warrant by a con-
stable from Wales, who took him away in custody for de-
serting his wife and children, and leaving them chargeable
to the parish.
Mr Partridge—The prisoner must bo discharged.
The woman ran towards the witness-box and demanded
the money.
Cox—Shall I give the money to her, your worship ?

Mr Partridge—l shall make no order. Speak to your
inspector.
A DISHONEST OFFICER OF THE CROWN,—Edward Mur-
phy, an elderly Irishman, was brought before Mr Part-
ridge charged with stealing a bottle of port wine.
Thomas Cook, a constable in the service of the East and
West India Dock Company, stopped the prisoner, who was
leaving the Export East India Dock with a bottle of wine
in his trousers' pocket. The prisoner would not say how he
came by it. He ascertained that the prisoner was a Cus-
toms•hou©o officer employed in the luggage office. A case
of port wine had been opened and plundered in the office.
Two bottles were missing. The prisoner would be dismissed
the service.

The prisoner admitted he had helped himself to one
bottle of port—no more. He was very sorry. He meant to
drink the wine, not to sell it.

Mr Partridge said the prisoner was a dishonest fellow,
and would lose his situation, which was a just punishment
to him. He fined him 10s, for the unlawful possession of
the wine.

The pehalty was paid.

IVES MINSTER.

CHARGE OF ASSAULT AND FORCIBLY ENTERING A
DWELLING•HOUSE.—Henry Gosling, proprietor of the
Princess of Denmark beerehop, 67, New-road, Chelsea
and a man named Miles, were charged with unlawfully
entering the dwelling-house of Henry Bonal, by putting
him out of possession thereof, and by holding now posses-
sion of the said house. They were also charged with
assaulting the plaintiff.

Mr Smyth, who was engaged for the plaintiff, said that
his client had let the house in question to a person of the
name of M'Donald, who underlet it to the defendant
Gosling. On the 3d of June plaintiff was informed that
his house:was untenanted, when he took possession of it.
On the 15th inst. the defendant went to the house with a
large body of men, when one of them put a ladder in
front of the house, by means of which the defendant got
to the top of the house and into it, by the roof. They
then committed a most violent assault upon the plaintiff.
Evidence was given which showed that on the day in
question about 50 men, among whom were the defendants,
went to ihe house with a ladder, which was placed in front
of it. The defendant Gosling was the first to go up, and he
wail followed by four other men, among whom was the
other prisoners. 'When they reached the roof some of the
men got on it and removed several bricks. Having done
this they flung a quantity of bricks at the plaintiff, and he
was ejected with great violence from the house. He was
also told that if he was seen again in the house ho woula
have his head broken.

After the examine, ion of several witnesses,
The defendants were committed fur trial, bail being ac-
cepted for their appearance at the sessions.

ALARMING FIRES.—This morning about half-
past 3 o'clock, a fire broke out in Simpson's ship.
building yard, known as the Grosvenor Works, Cubitt
Tuwn. The flames commenced from some unknown cause
in the yard amongst a quantity of weather boarding, but
owing to the exertions of the workmen the fire was extin-
guished, but not until about 200 feet of weather boarding
was destroyed and the other goods in the yard slightly
damaged. A fire, which at one time threatened most dis-
astrous results, broke out in the premises belonging to Mr
J. Markie, boot and shoemaker, carrying on business in
Little Britain, Aldersgate•street. The Royal Society's
escapes and several engines of the London Brigade, includ•
ing two of Shand and Mason's, were present. The inmates
happily effected a safe retreat. About half-past 10 o'clock,
3.111.7 a telegraphic message was received at Watling-street
fire-station that a fire had broken out in a large sailing
barge lying in the river, facing the entrance of St. Kathe-
rine's Dock. The steam-floating and Shand and Mason's
land steamers were at once despatched to the spot and the
fire was soon subdued. The origin of the fire is unknown.
CIIICASSIANS IN ALGERIA.—The French Go-
vermacnt has, it is said, made arrangements to receive
25,000 Circaccian emigrants in Algeria.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, July I.—There has been more
demand for shipping yarns. Spinners, in conse-
quence of the advance in the price of cotton, have
asked considerably higher rates than on Tuesday,
and some of the buyers have acceded to this ad-
vance, and have contracted for fair quantities at
about Qd. per lb. advance on Tuesday's rates. Cal-
cutta telegrams to hand to-day are regarded as of a
more cheering character than any recently received,
and some of our merchants shipping to India
have been induced to make offers for liberal
quantities of I❑dia mule yarn. In home-trade
yarns prices have been strong, and spinners have
been asking higher rates, but it checks business.
There has been but a small amount of business
ransacted in this description of yarn. These has
been a decidedly better feeling in the cloth-market,
with a considerable inquiry for nearly all sorts
of gocds. The business has not been large, but
still some purchases have been made at the lull cur-
rent quotations of the day, and but for the firm
attitude assumed by manufacturers in consequence
of a dearer cotton-market it is probable that a more
considerable business would have been effected.
The advices from Bombay are reported to have been
followed by sales at 3d. to 61. per piece higher
than could have been obtained a week to 10 days
ago. The Bombay telegram, to June 9, quotes
710. 39-inch shirtings at 10 rupees; ditto, at
12 rupees ; 44-inch ditto of Sib., 12r. Sa.; 3,1).
Madapollams, 4r. 3a.; 30's water twist, 251 a. and
40's mule, 221 a. per lb. The advance there since
May 23 is given by some advices at 2s. per piece on
itb. shirtings and ls. on 81b. Calcutta telegrams
of June 6 say shirtings are 6d. to ls. higher in a
fortnight. Other telegrams say the advance was
lost on June 10.

CARDIFF, June 30.—The critical state of political
matters affects the staple trades of the district, and
buyers show an indisposidon to purchase more than
just sufficient for actual necessities. The slight
improvement that had taken place in the iron trade
last week is hardly maintained. The iron masters
are fairly supplied with specifications, and the
works are in active employ. The steam coal trade
maintains its vitality, and there is a brisk business
doing. About 11s per ton is the average quotation
for Aberdare double screened qualities, free on
board. Coke has not improved, and the sale is rather
slow. The house coal collieries are on full time, and
a large quantity is being brought down for ship.
mont,

MARKETS--This Day,

COVENT GARDEN.

Increased supplies of fruit are on sale here to-day, and
the show of vegetiblles is seasonably good. The demand
is steady, as fellows ;

FRUIT.

s. d. 8. d.,
Pine apples 2 0 to 3 0
Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0
Grapes,per lb 2 6 to 6 0
Foreign do 0 0 to 0 01
Melons .
Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0;
Apples, per hf -se. 3 0 to 6 0
Pears, per do
Oranges, per 100..6 0 to 12 0
Lemons, per 100 3 6 to 8 01
Gooseberries ht sve t 6 to 3 6
Strawberries pr pt 0 4 to 0 8

s. d. a d
Mulberries,prpt..o oto 0 0
Cherries, per lb. 0 4to 1 0
Foreign ditto, pun° oto 0 0
Filberts, per lb . 0 oto 0 (,
Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0
Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0
Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
Figs, per doz. 0 oto 0 0
Peaches..
Currants, per ke.sv 3 6to 4 6
Plums, per do.
Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0

YEGETABLES.

Greens, dz bunch 2 oto 2 6 ; Shallots, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0
Cabbag-es, pr doz 0 9to 1 3, Horseradish, pdn 1 oto 1 8
Bad ditto 0 oso 0 01 Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 0
Savoy do., pr dz 0 oto 0 01 Celery, per ditto 0 oto 0 0
Cauliflowers, pdz 1 rto 3 01 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0
Brocoli sprouts
Potatoes, per ton 50 oto 60 01 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0
New ditto, pr cwt 6 oto 10 0 i Mushrooms. p pt. 0 oto 0 0
Turnips, dz bunch 3 oto 4 0 I Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0
Carrots, pr do 5 6to 6 6 I Cos lett, score .. 0 Bto 1 3
Cucumbers 0 4to 1 61 Mint and s4vory..o oto 0 0
Garlic, per lb
Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0
Green peas, h.-sv. 1 oto 1 6, Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0
French beans,h.s. 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0
Onions, doz. bn 1 oto 2 0, Capsicums, per do 0 oto
New Do., dz bun 1 uto 1 61 Rhubarb, per bun 0 2to 0 .4
Spinach 0 to 1 Asparagus, pr do. 2 6to 4 0
Brussels sprouts 0 oto 0 01 Seakale, per bun. 0 oto 0 0
POULTRY.

Turkeys, Os Od to Os Od ; geese, 48 Od to 7s Od each ;
goslings, 4s Gd to 6s ; ducks, 2s Od to 3s ad ; ducklings;
2s Gd to 3s 6d ; rabbits, is Od to is 6d each ; wild do., —d
to Os ; pigeons, Os 6d to Os Oct each; Surrey fowls,
lOs Od to 16s Od ; chickens, 7s Od to 12s Od ; barn door fowls,
3s Od to 7s 6d; capons, Os Od; hares, Os Od to Os Od ;
ptarmigan, Os Od to Os Od each ; pheasants, Os to Os Od ;
partridges, Os to Os Od ; woodcocks, Os to Os Od; snipes, Oa
to Os Od; teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od ;
widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os 03 to Od each ;
guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od
each ; Ostend fresh butter, 103 to Os lld ; English, Os lid
to is Id per lb ; English eggs, 7s Od to Os Od ; French do.,
os 64 to 6s 3d per 100 ; leverets, 2s Od to 4s Od ; grouse, Os
Od to Os Od.

The French Press on the Conference,

The able London correspondent of the Independ-
anGe Beige has done good service in correcting the
misapprehensions created here as to the state of
public opinion in England, wilfully distorted by
certain Liberal contemporaries. This writer is so
dispassionate and impartial that his views have
acquired great weight among the Parisian public;
he faithfully reports the impression prevalent o❑
your side of the Channel, and that he has felt the
public pulse to some purpose is proved by your
articles as well as by the drooping of the Funds.
That unfailing thermometer, the Stock Exchange,
refutes to endorse the pacific acclamations of the
Times, and shows that the writer in the Independ-
ance has accurately gauged the sentiment of the
public in the question which involves the honour
as well as the interests of England. I specially
'iircct your attention to the following passage in
his last letter :
It must be admitted that the destiny of some of the most
illustrious of statesmen is to have a most inglorious end.
Metternich did not survive his successes ; Nesselrode was
engulphed in the Crimean disaster; Palmerston has, with
his own hands, dug the grave of his popularity. On the 3d
of February, 1808, then 24 years of age, h 3 energetically

vindicated in the House of Commons the bombardment of

Copenhagen, and the destruction of the Danish by the Eng-
lish fleet. On that occasion the noble lord argued that
"the law of self-preservation, which was the fundamental
principle of the law of nations, justified England in having
forced upon Denmark a neutrality which, had it been left to
its discretion, France would speedily have converted into
active hostility." Fifty-six years later the same Minister,
before the same House of Commons, declares that England
is not bound to prevent the dismemberment of Denmark,
and sacrifices it a second time, after having encouraged it
with delusive hopes of assistance."

the coincidence is curious, but it is not easy to
see what inference the writer wishes to draw from
it. Hs then proceeds to say :

Opinions are divided as to the issue of the forthcoming
Parliamentary struggle, and even the friends of the Mini-
stry do not expect a majority sufficient to ratify its policy.
My opinion is that the Government will be defeated, or
that its majority will be so utterly insignificant that in any
case it will have to go to the country. That measure will
be disastrous for Denmark, which in the interval will have
had time to be crushed by the overwhelmiflg forces it has
to contend with. The path of Lord Palmerston is one on
which it is not easy to stop, but rely upon it he will not
be supported by the country, and the fate of tha Minis-
try is certain. People are already talking of Lord
Clarendon as Lord Russell's successor. That sort of patch
work won't strengthen the Government. Truth compels
me to add that Lord Palmerston has greatly fallen off both
as a Minister and as a speaker. The fact is he can no
longer impart a direction to the affairs of the country, but
allows a policy to bo forced upon him. It is sad to say it,
but it is the literal truth.

The Debats has an article on the policy of her
Majesty'r3 Ministers, and the feeling which it has
excited here, which will convince the friends of
the Cabinet that the contempt with which it is
regarded in Francs is not confined to any mere
party :

The great question, it says, is at last decided. The Eng-
lish Cabinet has fallen on the side towards which it was
obviously leaning. The Ministers cf England have aban-
doned Denmark to its fate, and means to look on with
folded arms, so long as the unequal struggle which has
just recommenced is confined to limits beyond which it is
not likely the German Powers are willing to carry it.
The English fleet, which was awaiting orders to pro•
teed to the Baltic, will remain quietly at Spithead.
The armies of Austria and Prussia are quite at liberty
to march forward and to complete the conquest of the
whole of Schleswig, about the possession of which the
English Plenipotentiaries wrangled eo much at the Con-
ference. There is nothing to prevent their conquering
Jutland, if they be so inclined. But let Austria and
Prussia beware I If perchance they are not satisfied
with the prey which is thus left at their mercy ; if
they touch the Danish Islands, bombard Copen-
hagen, or capture the person of King Christian I then
indeed we shall see! England may, perhaps, get angry
and lose her patience. Such, in a few words, is the atti-
tude which Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell have
asaumed in the name of the great country they govern,
The general impression which this very meek policy has
produced in France has been one of surprise, to use a mild
phrase. Not assuredly because France and Europe have
any reason to regret the resolution taken by the British
Government, not that enlightened and moderate minds
would reproach England with preferring peace to war,
or with having been unwilling to involve England in the
perils of a conflict with Germany. But after disturbing
Europe for a whole year with noisy claims on behalf of
Denmark—after addressing so many threats and protests
to Austria, Prussia, and the Germanic Confederation—now
about Schlesw g, now about Jutland—after summoning a
Conference, to wind up by laying down eventual casus
which have not the remotest prospect of being realised I Is
such a course, we demand, worthy of the rank which a great
country like England has the right to occupy in Europe?
Such, if we are not very greatly mistaken, is the question
public opinion is raising in France and elsewhere.
In the Press° Emile de Girardin devotes three
columns to show that the Britian Government is
being crushed beneath the weight of public con•
tempt, and poiws out that the primary cause of
its being lowered in public estimation is that it
talks in one way and acts in another. He sees only
one remedy—the appointment of a Gladstone and
Cobden Ministry whose speeches and despatches
would be in perfect consonance with the policy of
Lords Palmerston and Russell. He " adjures" the
" British press and the British people" to open their
eyes, and prevent their country from subsiding from
contempt into ridicule. M. Emile do Girardin's
eccentricity occasionally blossoms into perfect insa-
nity, but there is no denying that there is a certain
degree of method in his madness.
The Opinione Nationale suggests that France may
take her revenge on England for her mockery of
France preferring peace at any price. It antici-
pates that the three coalesced Powers, encouraged
by their present success, will desire to solve the
Eastern question in their common interest; divide
among them the:inheritance of the " sick man,"
and abut up the passage to India against England.

It will be a fine occasion for France to repair the
check she will have to meet with in Italy from
Aastria, Prussia, and Russia, and to leave to those
three Powers the duty of avenging the refusal of
England without interfering herself.
To these bmenities of the Opinione Nationale I
may add those of the Patrie :
"It is now averred that a threat from England is no
threat at all ; it is a figure of speech, which nobody need
set any store by. It is averred that a promise made by
England is not of more value than her threats; and that
whoever is fool enough to trust her will find in the moment
of danger that he has clung to a rotten plank. It is averred
that England, long overcharged, as Venice and Holland
were in their time, is in reality only a Power of the second
order. Without the military support of one of the conti-
nental Monarchies she is not able to exercise the slightest
influence in the affairs of Europe. When face to face with
one of the great rowers she is exactly what Naples, Brazil,
or Greece was with regard to her. She may complain of it,
may cry out about injustice end abuse of force, but she
must submit to it."

Had an order been sent round to these papers to
abase Lord Palmerston and his Government they
could not have been more violent and more alike. 1
need hardly say that the intense haters of England
look forward with delight to the success of the vote
of censure on Monday.

The following is from the 7 emps, one of the very
few papers which does justice to the English Go•
vernment

" We thought it our duty to devote a very large space to
the debates in the English Parliament, and we particularly
recommend to our readers the speech of Lord Russell, who
has extricated himself from a difficult position, to his great
honour, by his frankness and fair speaking. It is impos-
sible not to admit, after having read that speech, that
England, while feeling real interest for Denmark, could
not but recede in presence of the responsibility of making
war. The Patrie supposes a secret understanding between
the three Courts of Berlin, Vienna, and London. This
hypothesis was never probable, and after reading the de-
bates in the English Parliament it appears to be simply
absurd. We willingly admit, however, that it is the sole
resource of those who, like the Tail*, blame England for
not having done enough for Denmark, while approving
France for having done still less. The Constitutions d, so
amiable towards England a few days back, contains some
bitter-sweet lines with respect to her, which will appear
singularly out of place after the ample homage rendered
by Lord Rusi,oll to France and her Government,"

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSUING WEEK.—Monday.—Asiatic, at 3, ' Jyci.
tish Observation of the Phase of the Colures, &c Pro-
fessor Whitney—' Brief Notes on Age and Authenticity
of several Indian Works,' Dr. Bhau Daji, of Bombay;
Entomological, at 7 Royal Institution, at 2, General
Monthly Meeting. Tuesday—Ethnological, at 8, Cer-
tain Japanese and African Cannibal Skulls,' Professor
Kirghia and other Tribes of Central Asia,' Mr,
Vitzub9ry. Wednes lay—Horticultural, Great Show,—
Atitencriim,