The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-11 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE CHARGE AGAINST A SOLDIER OF BEING IN
POSSESSION OF COUNT WALDSTEIN'S WATCH AND
CHAlN.—Joseph Hood, a private of the Grenadier Guards,
charged with being in possession of a watch and chain of
the value of £lOO, which was afterwards ascertained to be-
long to Count Waldskint of Mount-street, Grosvenor-
square, was again brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt.
It may be remembered that the prisoner stated that a
gentleman outside the barracks invited him to take some-
thing to drink, and ho took him to his lodgings and made
him a present of the watch and chain. The count's state-
ment to the police was that he was robbed of his watch and
chain in a quarrel amongst some soldiers.
Mr Weymouth, of Clifford's-inn, appeared to-day on
behalf of the count, who was not in attendance.
Mr Tyrwhitt ordered the evidence taken on the last occa-
sion to be read over, which was done.

Mr Tyrwhitt asked whether the Count was present, and
Inspector Tanner, from Scotland-yard, said he was not,
Although the prisoner had been twice remanded.
Mr Weymouth said he attended on behalf of the Count,
And it was a matter of the greatest importance that the
Count should be present to give an explanation of the state-
ment made by the prisoner. It happened that the day the
Count was to appear at this court he was taken ill, and
being also in great pecuniary difficulties he had to go to
Berlin for money. He Cllr Weymouth) had a certificate
showing that the Count had been in ill health and unable
to attend to business. The Count being a foreigner was
ignorant of the inference drawn by the report of the case in
the papers, His object was to ask for an adjournment, that
the Count might be enabled to attend.
Inspector Tanner said that after the prisoner was re-
manded last week ha called him and told him that he did
not like to tell the commanding dicer at the tire that the
gentleman had taken him home and told him to strip himself,
which he did, and that he gave him the watch and chain
for doing so.

Mr Weymouth said he had the landlady of the house in
which the Count lodged present, to state that no soldier
came to the house on the Sunday, the day of the robbery.
Mr Poll, the secretary to the Count, said the Count was
an Austrian, and had been in this country some years. He
had latterly been very ill and unable to attend to business.
The Count was obliged to go to Berlin owing to the bad state
of his affairs. The Count told him on the Monday
morning that he had been robbed the previous day, and he
believed by a soldier in a street near the National Gallery—
that there was a fight going on, and he went by and was
I robbed of his watch and chain.

The lady cf the house said that no soldier came to it on
Sunday, and that the Count was too ill to attend to busi-
ness.

Mr Tyrwhitt—But he was not too ill to go abroad.
Mr Weymouth said he felt certain the Count would
attend. _ _

It is said that the Banting system is to be intro•
duced into the army. No more stout officers will be
allowed.

Mr Pohl said he would be back in a week.
Mr Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner, offering to take two
bail in £lO for his attendance in a week.

THAMES.

RECKLESS DRIVING IN THE MILE-END-ROAD.—George
ilistham, a farrier, was brought before Mr Paget, charged
with being drunk, disorderly, and furious driving in the
Mile •end-road.

In consequence of the furious and reckless driving of the
Cockneys along the Bow-road and the Mile-end-road every
evening, and the numerous accidents which have happened
by this moss scandalous practice, mounted policemen have
been stationeed along the road, and orders given to take all
offenders into custody. On Sunday night the driving is
very reckless, and every person with a vehicle endeavours
to pass the one in front of him. The confusion and alarm
last night were very great, and many persons were stopped
and their names and addresses taken, with a view to further
proceedings. The prisoner, who was driving furiously, and
had charge of a horse and cart, was intoxicated, and was
pursued by John Clark, 199 K, who was on horseback. He
galloped a mile after the prisoner and overtook him near
Mile End-gate. The prisoner wss intoxicated. A woman
and child in the same cart were nearly thrown out. The
pollee-constable was of opinion the prisoner was driving
his horse at the rate of 14 miles an hour.
Mr Bowdler, the second clerk of the court, said that
furious driving was on the increase. It was attended with
great danger, and many accidents had occurred,
The prisoner said the pony he was driving could not
travel at the rate of more than eight miles an hour. There
were two vehicles in advance of him, and they went on at
a tremendous pace.
Mr Paget—And the policeman took you for going slow,
and allowed the people who drove fast to escape ?
The prisoner—Yes, sir, that's it; I was driving very
slowly. (A. laugh.)
Mr Paget, the police-constable, had to set spurs to his
horse and gallop after you. It is a very bad case. You
were drunk, and driving along a crowded road, I shall
inflict upon you the full penalty of 40s,
The penalty was paid.

DANO-GERMAN WAR.—STETTIN, July 5.
According to a despatch received here to-day from Elsinore,
the Glen Grant (English vest&), from Stornoway for this
port, or Colberg, with herrings, has been seized and taken
to Copenhagen for attempting to break the blockade.
MR BERNAL OSBORNE'S BRILLIANTLY HUMOUR •
OUS SPEECH OF FRIDAY, as described in the Daily
Telegraph :—lt was fortunate for Mr. Osborne that his
purpose of speaking earlier in the debate had been frustrated;
for his jocularity had become mellow, and there was a
richness of flavour in it which was the result of keeping.
Unquestionably he never was so roundly humorous as now,
and, with a boldness equal to that of the genius who con-
ceived the idea of extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, he
fell upon the proctocol of the Co nference, the dullest and
most sententious of reading, and struck flashes of fun
out of it which tested hardly Lord Paimerston's power
of maintaining his gravity, though Mr Gladstone's
face grew sterner and sterner, and that rigidity of
muscle which becomes a Minister who is being " roasted"
was developed with admirable consistency. In fact, Mr
Osborne was more truly impromptu than usual, one or two
interruptions which he had to undergo being turned to
account with dashing rapidity. His asking I`,lr Layard
to stake his office on the accuracy of a statement which
he had made was a tremendous hit, and caused the
Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs to fold his arms tight-
and thrust his head deep into the collar of his coat.
When he quoted a portrait of Lord Palmerston, drawn
by Mr Gladstone in days when the right hon. gentleman
hung so damagingly on the flank of the noble lord's then
Ministry, he fairly overcame the Premier's gravity. The
personal sketches of members of the Cabinet, which
Mr Osborne then dreiv, were duly accepted and enjoyed by
those who escaped the infliction of the hard lines made by
his penc‘l. How perfectly successful from its peculiar point
of view was this latest ebullition of Mr Osborne's comic
vein, which may be called the scathing comic, may be
gathered from the fact that the whole house went out in a
body when he had concluded, to talk over his speech in
pleasanter gossipping places than their inner chamber—
and this, notwithstanding Mr Whiteside presented himself;
for, as every one knows, this right hon. gentleman generally
commands an audience, since he has the 12,,ppy knack of
interesting his friends and irritating his enemies in no com
mon degree, and is therefore a master of Parliamentary