The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-19 00:00:00

500 0 0
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No. 22,407.

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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1864.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS-April 18,

The April adjourned sessions for criminal business com-
menced at Clerkonwell this day, before Mr W. H. Bodkin
(Assistant Judge) and a bench of justices.
.... . _

The calendar contains the names of 109 prisoners, of which
number five only can read and write well, and 41 can neither
read nor write at all.
IMPROPER CONDUCT OF THE POLICE.
_ _

Mr. HARRY PALMER said he was requested by Mr,
Bassett, a solicitor of Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, to
state that he wasnow present and ready to offer any explana•
tion to the Court which might be required in reference to
the cases of George Farmer, Thomas Featherstone, and
William Taylor, in which he was instructed to prosecute.
The Assistant-Judge said the costs of Mr. Bassett were
refused because the Court had been informed that it was
the practice of certain persons to attend the police courts
of the metropolis to make arrangements with police con-
stables who were concerned in cases, and to induce pro-
secutors to allow them to undertake to engage counsel for
the trial, upon the understanding that no expense beyond
the county allowance would be incurred. Mr. Bassett
wrote to the Court indulging in all kinds of threats
which were to be carried out if the refusal to allow costs
was persisted in. luquiries wore then directed, and it was
found that in each of the three cases mentioned Mr. Bas-
sett, or the man representing him, had solicited the pro-
secutors in the way described. The police had interfered
to obtain the prosecution for Mr. Bassett, and their conduct
would be reported to the proper authorities. The Court
would do all they could to discourage these practices, and
Mr. Bassett would certainly not be allowed any costs.

The same system prevails to a greater extent in the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, and urgently demands similar repres-
sion.

Germain Soyer, aged 42, pleaded guilty to stealing seve-
ral sums of money belonging to the trustees of the French
Dispensary, by whom he was employed as collector.
Mr. Metcalfe, who was instructed to prosecute, stated
that the prisoner absconded in June last, and had since col-
lected about £4O or £5O. his dishonesty being facilitated by
the possession of a book of printed forms of receipts for
donations to the dispensary, which he carried away with
him.

The prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned nine calendar
months with hard labour.
John Wilson Davis, aged 31, pleaded guilty to a charge
of embezzling three several sums, amounting to £8 Os sd.
Mr. Ribton prosecuted ; Mr. John Best appeared for the
prisoner.
Mr. Ribton stated that the prisoner was in the service of
Mr. James Forsdyke, a tobacconist, in High-street, Shore-
ditch, as traveller and collector, at a salary of 25s per week.
Ho had been promised, in addition, a commission at the rate
of £lbe per cent. on his sales, when they exceeded £5O in a
week, but they had never reached that sum and no commis-
sion had been earned. The total of his misappropriations
was between £6O and £7O.
Mr. Best addressed the jury in mitigation of punishment,
and stated that the prisoner had trusted to the produce of
the commission to replace the moneys of his master.
The Assistant-Judge said that no explanation was given
of the disposal of £6O or £7O which the prisoner had taken
while receiving 25s a week.
Sentence-12 months' imprisonment with hard labour.
George Knight, aged 41, pleaded guilty to stealing half
a bushel of corn ; and Wm. Alfred Paul, aged 21, pleaded
guilty to receiving the same, well knowing it to be stolen.

This was an ordinary case of robbery by a servant, where-
by his master's horses were deprived of half the food allowed
for their day's consumption. Suspicion had been excited
against another person, and the police watched, but found
Paul taking the oats from Knight. It appeared that Paul
had born hitherto an unexceptionable character, and that
the prosecutor thought him less guilty than others who had
not been detected.
The Assistant-judge sentenced Knight to be imprisoned
12 and Paul to be imprisoned six calendar months, and kept
at hard labour.

Charles Williams, aged 22, and Edward Collins, aged 19,
were charged with stealing a diamond ring, a locket, and
other articles, of the value of SlOO, belonging to Mrs. Patter-
son, from the dwelling-house of her husband.
It appeared that the prisoners took advantage of being
employed to carry luggage from a cab into the house, to
enter Mrs. Patterson's dressing-room and to steal the
jewellery. They tried to induce William Parrott, one of
the Shoe-black Brigade, to pawn some of the articles, but
he refused to do so, and was an important witness, as none
of the property had been found.
The prisoners wero found guilty, and were proved to have
been companions and known to the police.
The Assistant• Judge directed 10s. to be given to William
Parrott, as an acknowledgment of the boy's honesty in
refusing to assist in the disposal of stolen property, and
sentenced Williams to two years' and Collins to one years'
imprisonment, with bard labour.
George Watson, og, d 30, pleaded guilty to a charge of
pot stealing, and, having been formerly convicted, was sen-
tenced to be kept in penal servitude for three years,
Thomas Grant, aged 26, pleaded guilty to stealing a bale
of paper value £6, the property of Messrs. Winn Brothers
and Co. The bale was removed from the warehouse and
placed on a barrow. The prisoner, being known, was
stopped. It was said that he had only recently returned
from penal servitude. He was now sentenced to penal
servitude for four years,

Robert Smith, aged 48, pleaded guilty to a charge of
pot stealing, after a former conviction, and was sentenced
to 12 months' imprisonment and hard labour.
John Boyes, 25, was convicted on several indictments
which charged him with stealing the greatcoats of as many
little boys, who live at Notting-hill, and who were induced
either to leave their still younger brothers in charge of the
coats while taking messages for the prisoner, or were vio-
lently dispossessed of them without any subterfuge on his
part.

_
His former master said ha had borne a good character up
to Midsummer last, but ho had since lost sight of him.
Sentence, two years' imprisonment with hard labour.
JamesManeon, 22, George Roberts, 23, and Robt. Smith,
20, were indicted for stealing a plate basket, containing £3O
worth of silver articles, from the house of Mr. T. Hughes,
Park-street, Grosvenor-square, on the 21st December last.

It appeared that two of the prisoners had been undergoing
imprisonment in Coldbath-fields prison since the robbery,
and were taken into custody upon being discharged. The
evidence showed that the prisoners were in company on the
day named, that they were seen near Mr. Hughes's house,
that Manson was seen to go down the area steps at the foot
of which was the pantry, in which the butler had placed the
plate-basket, and that Manson was seen about the time of
its loss, still in the company of the other two men, and car-
rying a basket covered with straw. When Roberts and Man-
son were put in a cab at the door of Coldbath fields prison,
Smith came up with another man in Volunteer uniform,
and attempted to rescue them. On being apprehended sub-
sequently he was identified as the third who, three months
before, had been concerned in this robbery.
Manson repeatedly declared that he was innocent; that
he was all round Clapham and Brixton on Dec. 21st, that
he returned home at half-past four, that he pawned his coat
the same evening, and that the two other prisoners then
told him they had committed this robbery with the assist-
ance of a man named M'Carthy, who unfortunately resem-
bled him in appearance.
The jury found all the prisoners guilty.
Sergeants Cole and White proved former convictions
against Manson and Roberts. They said that M'Carthy did
not resemble Manson, and that Manson had long been known
as an area thief. On one occasion they searched a basket he
was carrying, and underneath the straw they found a hook
with a string attached, and an instrument which would
easily open the catches of windows. His plan was to mark
the house where the platebasket was left in the lowest room,
to watch for the absence of the servants upstairs, to open
the window and draw out the platebasket by the hook, and
to conceal it under the straw in the other basket, which was
just large enough to receive it.
blanson, when sentenced to bo kept in penal servitqo for
seven years, protested his innocence, called on the other two
men to clear him, and clung so tenaciously to the dock rail
that three officers were necessary to remove him. He was
with great difficulty overpowered and conveyed to the cells
of the Sessions-house.
The Assistant Judge then sentenced Roberts to four years
_ _

and Smith to three years' penal servitudo,and he directed a
reward of 20s to be given to a cabman named John Winter,
whose evidence was important on the question of identity.

SECOND COURT.

]fir Payne presided in the Second Court to-day,
Bridgett Fat rell surrendered on bail to answer a charge of
stealing several packets:of groceries belonging to her master.
The prisoner was servant to Mr Michael Lee, 243, Ful-
ham-road. The family consisted of Mr Lee, his wife, and
daughter. Mr Lee ordered these groceries of Mr Barnes,
of Fulham, on Friday evening, March 11. Geo. Hall, the
errand boy, proved the delivery of the several packages to
the prisoner on the same evening at Mr Lee's h')use. The
half a pound of currents, were found scat•
whole, excepting
tercd about inside the railings of Fulham-crescent by the
fire-anapeman Dowlands, as ho was going off duty on
Saturday morning at 7 o'clock. The prisoner denied that
the boy had delivered them, but Mrs Lee, on account of
previous dishonesty, did not believe her, and dismissed her
from the service. Mr. Lee was out of town until the fol-
lowing Wednesday evening, and on Thursday morning he
gave her into custody.
The jury found the prisoner not guilty.

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educated at the expense of their own Government, under the
care of his Excellency Mahmoud Khan, the Persian Minis-
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TlMES.—After a gallant defence of two months
Dybbol was taken yesterday morning by assault,
and the Danish army has lost its last hold on the
mainland of Schleswig, For some days the event
had hem expected. Towards the close of last month
it heeeme evident that the Prussians had thrown
off the languor which marked the early conduct of
the siege, and were resolved to press it with vigour
and to force, if possible, a surianier. It need
hardly be said that the prospect of the coming Con-
ference had much to do with this sudden display of
energy. It is no injustice to the Prussians to sup-
pose that they were unwilling to retire from the
scene of war without having gained come, conspi-
cuous advantage in a campaign of which they were
the chief authors. Although the actual posses-
sion of some Danish earthworks and a certain num-
ber of Danish prisoners might not tend to settle the
question in dispute between Denmark and Germany,
yet, the war being once begun, it was unpleasant
to retire from it without the flowers, if not the
fruits, of victory. Hence for the last fortnight the
Prussians have worked with a spirit of which their
former operations gave no promise. Their great
resources, their excellent arms and materials of
war, their discipline, and the good military quali-
ties of their soldiers, have been used with effect in
the reduction of the Danish stronghold. As the
day for the Conference approached their desire for
a speedy success became stronger, and in their im-
patience th(ay did not even think it necessary to
abide by th e ordinary customs of war. But the
burning of Sonderborg was only an episode of other
and more legitimate operations. Day by day they
brought their fire nearer the Danish batteries. At
the beginning of last week it became evident that
the Danes, unless largely reinforced, could not long
hold the place. Unless such an army could have
been placed in Schleswig as would have com-
pelled the enemy to raise the siege, the fate of
Dybbol was sealed, for the Prussians were in their
third parallel, the Danish batteries were suffering
from the heavy fire, and the soldiers themselves
were worn out with the continual work made
necessary by a struggle with an enemy vastly su-
perior in numbers and better appointed in every
respect. The extremities to which they were re-
duced and their growing despondency are well de-
scribed in our correspondent's letter. At last the
assault was made yesterday morning. We do not
yet know the details, but we trust that the conflict
was less bloody than others which our time has
witnessed. It seems certain that the Danes them-
selves expected the result, for they are described as
dismantling the forts of the best part of their artil-
lery, and taking most of their guns over to Alsen.
However that may be, we must presume that they
defended the place with sufficient obstinacy. But
the Prussians were successful. Redoubts Ito 7 are
on the left and centre of the Danish line and extend
from the shores of Wenning-bay to a point on the
straight line which joins Sonderborg and the vil-
lage of Dybbol. These appear to have been first
mastered by the Prussians, who then passed to the
Danish rear and took possession of their communi-
cations. Then Redoubts 8,9, and 10 on the Danish
right were taken, together with the tete-de Pont.
The bridge was destroyed, and 2,000 men, with 51
officers, are spoken of as having fallen into the
hands of the enemy. Thus ends the siege of
Dybbol. Like the Russians on the morrow of the
great tumult on the Malakoff, the Dance have aban-
doned their positions and retreated across a narrow
piece of water, with the intention, no doubt, to
dispute the further progress of the enemy. They
probably do not consider themselves as wholly
beaten or their cause as lost. On the other hand,
the Prussians have won a decisive victory. It may
not be a great one ; it may furnish no fitting subject
for boasting, nor of complacent remembrance here-
after, but still it is a victory, and Prussia may con-
gratulate herself and her German friends that the
Danish force is now driven from continentalSchleswig
The allied Powers have accomplished that for which
they profess to have taken up arms. They have their
"material guarantee." They have entered Schleswig;
they have defeated the King's army, driven it from
two fortified positions, killed, wounded, or captured
several thousands of Danes, superseded the Royal
atehority, displaced the King's coinage. rjected his
officials, forbidden the use of his n AMC even in the
prayers of the C:larch, and Mile, they may hope,
satisfied the most patriotic aspirations of the Ger-
man nation. Will not these things content them
Both sides have done enough to show their courege.
and their military talents. The Danes have hela
their ground well, and every one on the spot
acknowledges that the Prnssiars have lately Fished
the siege with skit' and energy. The operations
have ended without dishonour attaching to either
party. Fair success has rewarded the victor, and
complete subjection has not fallen to the lot of the
vanquished. At present the Danes are concentrated
in Alsee, where they will endeavour to make a
stand at the works which they are said to have been
long preparing. Should the war continue, there
can certainly be no doubt as to the fate of their
army. The allied forces will be sooner or later able
to cross the Sound, and compel a retreat to the
Danish ships, or a capitulation. But time is neces-
sary for such a design. At present Denmark still
has en army in the field the Conference will begin
to-morrow, and the questions which are now being
decided by the sword will be brought under its
deliberations. It is an opportunity which ought not
to be lost by the representatives of the neutral
Powers. There will be a better chance of happy,
relations between the Dane and the German, be-
tween the Sovereign and his subjects, if the war
comes to an end without the Danish army being
reduced to the last extremity. We are happy to
believe that in these deliberations the two Western
' Powers will be found in accord. Although there
may have been some minor differences in the
views of the Emperor and her Majesty's Govern-
ment with respect to the grievances and rights of
the Duchies, there is a full agreement that the
integrity of the Danish Monarchy shall be pre-
served, and that the unhappy campaign in
Schleswig and the occupation which is exhausting
and demoralising both Duchies shall be brought to
an end. Lord Clarendon is said to have found the
Emperor ready to co-operate fully withGreatßritain
in the restoration of peace, and the settlement of
the chief questions in a manner consistent both with
popular rights and the honour of the Danish
Clown. It is clearly within the province of such a
body of representatives as will meet to-morrow to
urge in the strongest manner the cessation of blood-
shed. Now that the bases of the settlement have
been formally or tacitly agreed upon there can be
no necessity for a further appeal to arms. Every
member of the Conference, with the ex-
ception, perhaps, of Baron Beast, will begin the
discussion without any wish but for that reasonable
compromise which is inevitable. Thequestions which
will be really disputed may be difficult, but they re-
late more to administration and political rights than
to nationality and dynasty. The further prosecu-
tion of the campaign can only retard a satisfactory
arrangement.

POST.—Last evening, pursuant to notice, Mr,
Disraeli directed the attention of the House of
Commons to the singular fact that during the past
twelvemonths an Under Secretary of State had
been taking part in the debates and divisions of the
House, though absolutely disqualified from so doing
by Act of Parliament. Wtien the late Secretary
for War, Sir G. C. Lewis, died, the then Under
Secretary in that department, the Earl De Grey
and Ripon, was appointed to the vacant post, and
the. Under Secretaryship was given to the Marquis
of Hartington, a member of the Lower House of
Parliament. To the latter appointment no objec-
tion was ever raised until last Friday evening, when
Mr. Disraeli called attention to the circumstance
that there were then five Under Secretaries occu-
pying seats in the House of Commons, although it
was specially provided by the Legislature that four
only should enjoy that privilege. The discussion
of the question was postponed until last evening,
but even in that brief interval circumstances had
arisen which would seem to have stripped the ques-
tion trootcd by Mr. Disraeli of muss of its prac-
tical importance. The Vice-President of the Board
of Education had meantime resigned, his eta.- had
been given to the Under Secretary for the Home
Department, and, consequently, when the House
met last evening, there were but four Under Secre-
taries members of the House of Commons. The
Government were thereby relieved from a disagree-
able dilemma, but it was, of course, still open to the
House to mark its sense of what bad taken plane
by recording a formal resolution to the effect that
the law had been violated. Mr. Disraeli, however,
submitted a resolution to the house which, in effect,
not only declared that the statute had been in-
fringed, but that the seat held by the Marquis of
Harlington, who until yesterday was the fifth
Under Secretary of State, was vacated. As the
points raised in the course of the discussion are not
a little curious, and their bearings, both in a consti-
tutional and legal aspect of considerable importance,
we will briefly refer to the changes which have at
various times been made in the law so far as it af-
-1 fects the tenure of office under the Crown by mem.
hers of the House of Commons; In the reign of
Queea AIALe the Howe of Commons awoke to a con.

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