The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-18 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDOII, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1864.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This day.

MARLBOROUGH• STREET.

A GENTLEMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING THE
POLICE ...Albert Martin Cater, gentleman, of 36, Frederick-
street, Gray's Inn-road, was charged before Mr Knox with
being drunk and disorderly in Tichborne.street, and as-
saulting Police constable John Fisher, 334 A.
Fisher said, on the previous night, about eleven o'clock,
he saw the defendant behaving in a disorderly manner
in Tichborne-street, catching hold of females who were
passing. The defendant tried to enter the London Pavilion,
but seeing he was drunk, he told him he had better go away
and come some other night. Defendant refused to go away,
and again caught hold of two or three females who were
coming out of the place, and made another attempt to
enter. He prevented him doing so, when he struck him
twice on the head. He then, with the assistance of three
other constables, took defendant to the station.

Dennison, 116 C, proved assisting Fisher in taking de
fendant to the station.

The defendant said he had been out with a few friends,
and got the worse for liquor,

Mr Knox said it; could not be permitted that the police
should be knocked about while properly performing their
duty.

The defendant was then fined 20s or seven days.

WESTMINSTER.

AN INCORRIGIBLE JUVENILE DELINQUENT.—John
Lloyd, a boy between 13 and 14 years of age, was placed at
the bar charged with stealing a penny.
Mrs Susan Griffiths, of 40, Ebury-street, Pimlico, who
keeps a dairy, said that last evening she was sitting in her
parlour when she heard the till in her shop open, and on
going there found the prisoner taking his hand from the
till with a penny in it. He had crawled round the counter
on his hands and knees to get to the till, and when disco-
vered endeavoured to get out of the shop, but was prevented.
The police were sent for, but as they were a long time corn-
ing, the prisoner showed fight, and while prosecutrix was
overcoming her confusion at the circumstance, he bolted
out, but was followed and secured.
Mr Arnold—ls he known ?

Police—He has been twice before convicted of felony,
there was a similar robbery to this committed the night
before in this street, of which he is suspected.
Prisoner—He's accusing me falsely. It was my own
penny I had in my hand, and she said it was hers, and it is
a shame.

Prisoner's father, a respectable-looking, hard-working
man, said, he had tried all he could, but his son was incor-
rigible. He thought the only chance for him was to get
him to sea.

Prisoner—My sight is short, and they won't take me.
I have tried.
Mr Arnold (to the father)—Can you get a ship for him ?
The father -I am sure I don't know; I will try.
Prisoner—They won't have me because of my sight.
Mr Arnold—ls there anything the matter with his sight?
The father—Not in the least, he can see as well as any
one here.

111 r Arnold—l will remand him for a few days, to give
you an opportunity of seeing whether you can get him a
ship. It would be much better that he should go to sea
than to prison.

The Capture of the United States Mail

Steamer Roanoke.

A passenger gives the following account of the capture :
On the 29th September the United States mail steamship,
Roanoke, Francis A. Drew, Master, left the port of Havan-
na]; bound for New York, passing the Moro Castle at five
p.m., with 24 passengers, and 16 in the steerage, the officers
and crew numbering 50, making 90 persons on board. The
steamer proceeded on her voyage at a speed of some 12
knots per hour, running within sight of and a short distance
from the coast during some two or three hours, the time
passing agreeably and without anything unusual having
occurred until about 9 20 p.m., when, about 25 miles off
the Coast of Cuba, the passengers wore not a little sur-
prised at hearing proclaimed, by a man dressed in the Con.
federate naval uniform, who proved to be no less a per-
sonage than the capita. er of the Chesapeake—viz., Lieut.
John C. Brain, and who in a loud voice said, "In the name
of the Confederate States of America I demand the surren-
der of this vessel as a lawful priz.," and calling upon Capt.
Drew to surrender as a prisoner of war. This announcement
was immediately followed by the discharge of several pistols,
with which the attacking party were armed. From that
moment the work of the capture commenced. Lieut. Brain,
taking the upper aeck of the vessel, accompanied by officer
Little, the purser, and a seaman, secured the captain and
officers on that deck, placing them in irons, while officer
Parr, the first and second engineers, and three seamen pro-
ceeded with the officers and crew on the main deck, until
Lieut. Brain and officer Little, leaving the upper deck in
charge of the purser and a seaman, went below to the assist-
ance of officer Parr, when at 15 minutes past 10 o'clock, in
the space of 65 minutes, the capture had been consummated,
and the vessel was proceeding on her voyage as the Confe-
derate States Prize Steamship Roanoke.
There was but little violent resistance made, except by
the carpenter of the vessel, who, after surrendering, seized
an axe and aimed a blow at the head of officer Parry,but the
axe falling short of its mark four balls pierced the body of
the man, from the effect of which he fell and expired in a
few minutes.

In a short time after the capture Captain Drew was re
[eased upon his parole,

_ .
Having been favoured with a perusal of the register of the
Roanoke, 1 learn from it that she was built in New York
by the New York and Virginia Navigation Company,iwho
were her sole owners; her dimensions being in length 218 ft ;
breadth, 32ft ; depth, 10ft 6in, and measuring 1,071
tons. Also, from a certificate attached to her register, it ap •
pears that the vessel was seized at the port of New York
under the Confiscation Act of the United States, and re-
leased on bond.

Lieutenant Brain exhibited to me his orders and commis-
sion from the Secretary of the Navy of the Confederate States
to make the capture of the Roanoke. Whether the fact of
her having been owned by the Navigation Company afore-
said, some of the members being citizens of the Confederate
States, and on whose account she was seized. as above stated,
thus dispossessing said citizens of their property, caused the
Government to order her capture, I am not advised. It
would not, however, require any extraordinary stretch of
imagination to enable one to arrive at that conclusion.
The following are the names and residences of the officers
and crew who made the capture of the Roanoke :—John C.
Brain, acting master, Holly Springs. Parr,
master's mate, Nashville, Tennessee—Thomas R. Little,
master's mate, Mobile, Alabama—Alex. Lathrop, purser,
Kentucky—Robert Truth, first engineer, New Orleans—
James Conlen, second engineer, Galveston, Texas—Robert
Gage, seaman, Mobile, Alabama--Arthur Morehead, sea-
man, Louisiana—H, Braddock, seaman, Union Town, Ken-
tucky—J. D. Van Amburg, seamen, Staunton, Virgieia.
Lieutenant Brain informed me that on his arrival off St.
George's it was his intention to provision and coal the vessel,
parole and land the passengers, officers and crew, and take
the vessel to Wilmington. But it having been found im-
possible to take the vessel into said port, the only thing he
could do was to burn the Roanoke, and with his officers and
crew go ashore at St. George's, which he accordingly did
(after transferring the passengers, officers, and crew to a
brig five miles off the coast) at 4 o'clock on the morning of
Sunday the 9th of October.

Zadkiel's Almanack for 1865.

Yes—there is no getting over the fact—however
• much we may pooh-pooh the pseudo•science, as
Astrology has long since come to be dubbed
by the great mass of our Natural Philosophers
' —Zsdkiel Tao Sze still flourishes. Here he
comes forth in his Thirty-afth -j-early edi-
tion—and that edition in its Fifty-fifth thou-
sand. His circulation, therefore, it would appear,
has not diminished—even after the lifting but a few
months ago of the mysterious curtain, that until
then had concealed his identity from the chance of
public recognition. So that, in spite of his appear-
ance in propria persona in the witness box of a
Court of Law down at Guildhall during the
well known case of Morrison v. Belcher,
the famous trial relating to the Exhibition of
the Magic Crystal by the Plaintiff—in spite of
Z idkiel public appearance, there and then, in his
twofold capacity of Witness and Plaintiff, he can
actually issue his almanac for the coming year to the
number of 55,000 I The continuance of this immense
sale could hardly have followed, no doubt, the dis-
closure of Zadkiel in the flesh—had he, upon the
0CC26011 referred to, proved to be some vulgar
trickster, with forehead " villanous low," bearing
about him all those evidences popularly believed to
appertain to some more cunning impostor in mysti-
cism, Proving to be—as Zadkiel did—however,
when the eyes of the whole crowded court were
turned upon him, as he stood there in the witness•
box—the very reverse of all this—Zadkiel's popu-
larity has somehow survived the perilous revelation.
There seemed to be no such disenchantment when
the well-known Reader of the Stars turned out to
be a manly-looking veteran Sea-Captain, bearing
upon his breast more than one honourable decora-
tion. And so—again—this time as
.his thirty-fifth
annual apparition—Almanac in hand comes
forth Zadkiel Tao Sze, with—Predictions of
the weather for the approaching Twelve
month! With Voices of the Stars ! With
numerous useful Tables ! With a Hierogi.yphic !
And an ominous hieroglyphic it looks in spite of
the two cupids hand.in-hand, with a dove bearing
an olivo.lbranch•above them. For, as the upper
group in this hieroglyphic, have we not the Fates
intent upon a Royal thread of life—Atropos about
to sever it with her shears.

*** We observe his prophecy:of this year for the last three
days has turned out exceedingly correct—viz. quoting from
his own words, " 14th, 15th, and 16th Nov., fog and small
rain."

Death of Lord Manners,

We havn to announce the death of Lord Manners
which occurred at Hastings on Monday. His lord-
ship had long been in a precarious state of health,
his disease being consumption. John Henry Man.
ners-Sutton, eecend Baron of Foston, Lincolnshire,
was eldest son of a distinguished father, the Right
Hon. Thomas Manners-Sutton, who became Solici-
tor-General in 3805, and shortly afterwards one of
the Barons of the Exchequer, and in 1807 was ap-
pointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, when he was
raised to the peerage as Baron Manners. His mother
was a daughter of Mr James Butler, of Fethard, a
near relative of the Earl of Glengall. He was born
in Stephen's green, Dublin, on the 17th of August,
1818, succeeded his father on the 31st of May, 1842,
and married on the 28th of September, 1848,
Lydia Sophia, third daughter of Captain William
13.tteman Dishwood,R.N., by whcm he leaves issue
a youthful family—three sons and two daughters.
His successor in the title is the Hon. John Thomas
Manners-Sutton, born on the, 15th of May, 1852,
Lord Manners was a Deputy-Lieutenant of Suffolk,
and captain in the West Suffolk Male. The first
peer was fifth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton,
ecn of the third Duke of Rutland (who inherited in

1762 the estates and assumed the name of his mater.
nal grandfather, Robert Sutton, B iron Lexington) ;
his elder brother was Charles, Archbishop of Can-
terbury, and his nephew was the Primate's son,
Charles Manners Sutton, G.C.8., Speaker of the
House of Commons 1817— 34, who was raised to the
peerage as Viscount Canterbury.

SEAMEN MISSTNG, Information has reached
Hartlepool of the loss of the Constellation, of that

port, on the sth inst. The master reports that she struck

upon a rock off the Niddegen Lights, in the Cattegat, and
sunk an hour afterwards. The crew, ten in number,
divided, five men getting into each boat. The poor fellows
had no oars, and they had to use their jackets for sails.
The jolly boat, in charge of the master, after drifting
about two days, cast up on Jutland, but an hour after they
landed one of her crew, Alfred English, died. There has
been no word of the other boat's crew, and there is every
reason to believe they have perished.
ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A STATION-MASTER.—
Mr Steele, station-master, Pickle Bridge, near Halifax,
was stabbed in a dreadful manner by Noah Wood, a shoe-
maker, of Norwood Green, near Halifax, on Monday after-
noon. Steele was at one time a porter at the Victoria
Station, Manchester, and between him and Wood there
would have appeared to have been an old grievance. Wood
wcs brought up before the Halifax West Riding bench, but
in consequence of the serious illness of Steele the prisoner
was remanded till Saturday.—Sheffield Telegraph.

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—Thie morning about 6
o'clock, Sergeant Glass, 3 C, was called to No. 24,
Peter-street, St. James's, when he found that a woman,
named Margaret Huckersfield had cut her throat in a most
frightful manner with a large table-knife. No time was
lost in conveying the poor woman in a cab to the Middlesex
Hospital, but on being attended by one of the surgeons,
life was found to he extinct. The deceased, who had only
lodged at the house a few days, is said to have been of re-
spectable appearance, and she had informed some of the
persons residing in the house that she had only lately left
service, and that she had a son residing near London. No
cause can he assigned for the act, hut it is believed to have
been committed through distress.
A KING CHARGED WITH SWINDLING.—The
French attorney, Tounens, who " by the grace of
God and the will of the people" has become King of Arau-
cania and Patagonia, appeared on Saturday in the Correc-
tional Police-court at Paris, on a charge of swindling, which
was set forth in the following terms by the presiding judge:
—" In December last you alighted at one of the best hotels
in Paris. You engaged an apartment at 15ef a month. You
intimated your intention of boarding at the hotel, which is
easily understood, for you could not well board elsewhere.
You were without resources, but you had, we are told, an
excellent appetite. Your tastes were of a very refined na-
ture. You required the most sumptuous fare, and when
the dishes were not sufficiently delicate you rejected them.
When persons are in such great penury as you were they
should be much more modest, even though they may
have been Kings of Araucania and Patagonia. You
lived in this way curing four months. Now, for a man
who perhaps had worn a crown, but who had not a
farthing• in his pocket, this was not over-delicate conduct.
One day you disappeared from your hotel--you went, I
don't know where, to your family, to solicit aid. You re-
turned to your hotel, and then you spoke of resources which
would enable you to pay your debt—resources to be de-
rived from an enterprise you were about to engage in—fac-
tories in Araucania and Patagonia. You opened offices in
Paris in a little corner of the Rue Vivienne. You printed
statutes of a company, with Ico millions of francs capital.
Your attempt did not succeed—you did not get a sous.
You were asked how you meant to pay your hotel expenses,
and you said you should do so when you formed your com-
pany. How, without having a eingle subscriber, oould you
pay ? Did you mean to pay your personal expenses with
the money of your shareholders ? In fact, you have not
been able to pay. What answer can you make ?" A long
examination followed, in which the accused tried to defend
himself as hest he could. He had hopes of forming his com-
pany—he had hopes of getting back his crown—he had no
intention of swindling anybody—he had given the landlady
of the hotel an acknowledgment of his debt, which he meant
and which he tried to pay—but all his exertions to raise
money failed. Witnesses were called, who deposed that he
had been for some time King of Araucania, and that he had
been taken prisoner by the Chilians and sentenced to be
shot, and that he was saved. by the French authorities,
Moreover, it was proved by a letter from the Procureur
at Perigueux, that during the time he practised there as a
lawyer he had borne an excellent character for probity. The
Procureur moreover added that ho di -I not believe him
capable of swindling anybody, but that his pretended royalty
of Araucania had completely upset his ideas and made him
indulge the most proposterous projects, and that he was
affected with a monomania which had completely absorbed
his intellect. The judgment of the court was to this effect :
—" Whereas, by assuming the title of Prince and King of
Araucania, the accused may have anted under the influence
of chimerical thoughts and facts, but which, perhaps, to
him seemed true, that, consequently, the character of
swindling not appearing in the case, it decided-that there
was good reason to pronounce his acquittal."--Ho was ac•
cordingly set at liberty.
The Courricr efrsPas (1,1 Galan state3:thst as soon
as it became known at Calais that M. llerryer was to arrive
on Friday by the steamer from England, the barristers of
that town and many of the principal inhabitants determined
to pay their respects to him. A great number accordingly
assembled on the quay, and greeted him with loud cheers on
landing. M. l3erryer expressed himself highly gratified
with this manifestation, and before leaving the station he
received all the members of the Calais bar, and thanked
them for the honour they had done him,