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

TitE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EENING, JULY 2, 1864$

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

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

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 18ti1.
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 dismiss 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
office of the Charge d'Affaires at Benares in 1847. 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. Tfie 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 co-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 Mesurior
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 at
Lancaster-terrace, Regent's-park.
Mr. clarifies 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 husband when he went to China, in con-
sequence of the bad state of her health. •
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. Le 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 M Mesurier's honour, and he had always looked
upon him as a brother. A more dastardly act than he had
afterwards perpetrated could not be mentioned.
The Judge Ordinary said the petitioner was entitled to a
decree nisi.
Granted accordingly.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This ray,

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

ROBBERY AT A JEWELLEit's.—Two boys gamedAltenry
Barford and Alfred John Gibbs, were charged before Mr
Knox with stealing, at 311, Oxford-street, some brooche
and pins, the property of Mr Nathan Woolf Jacobson°
jeweller. ,

Mr Jacobson said his attention had been called to the
boys by a lady ; he ran after them and caughtßarford, 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. Ho then 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 font days and receive 12 strokes of a birch rod.

THAMES.

FOOLS AND THEIR MoNEv,—Mary Ann Jones, aged
20, of No, 19, Albert-Squire, Shadwell, of the class called
unfortunate, was brought before Mr Partridge charged with
stealing a /5 Bank of Rngland note,
Timothy Cos, 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 15 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 or a ship,
in a coffee-shop, He was paid off esterday, 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
b the parish. _

Mr Partridge—The prisoner must be discharged.
The woman ran towetrds the witness•box and demanded
the money. _ _ _

Cox—Shall I give the money to her, your worship P
Mr Partridge—l shall make no order. Speak to your

inspector.
A DISHONEST OFFICER OF THE CnowN,—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-house officer employed in the luggage office. 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 hint. He fined him 10s. for the unlawfnl possession of
the wine.

The penalty was paid.

WESTMINSTER,

CHARGE 01,' ASSAULT AND FORCIBLY ENTERING A
DWBLLING-ROUSE —Henry Gosling, proprietor of the
Princess of Denmark beershop, 67, New-road, Chelsea
and a man named Miles, were charged with unlawfully
entering the dwelling-house of Henry Banal, 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 lot the house in question to a person of the
name elf M‘Donald, who underlet it to tho defendant
(30sling. On the 3d of June plaintiff was informed that
his house:wag untenanted, when he tcok possession of it.
On the.lsth inst. the defendant went to the house with a
large body of men, when one of them put a ladder in
front of the hous4 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 the house with a ladder, which was placed in front
of it. The defendant Gosling was the first to go up, and he
was 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 he would
have his head broken.

After the examina.ien of several witnesses,
The defendants were committed for trial, bail being ao.
copied for their appearance at the sessions,

ALARMING FIRES.—This morning about half.
past 3 o'clock, a fire broke out in Simpson's ships
building yard, known as the Grosvenor Works, Cubitt
Town. 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 ?00 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 belong.ng to Mr
J. Markie, boot and shoemaker, carrying on business in
Little Britain, Aldersgate•street.. The Royal Society's
cscapets and several engines of the London Brigade, induct-
ing two of Shand and Mason's, were present. The inmates
happily effected a safe retreat. About half•past 10 o'clock,
a.m., 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.
CIRCASSIANB IN ALGERIA.— Ttle French Go-
vernment has, it is said, made arrangements to receive
25,000 Circassian 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 Tuesd'Xyl
and some of the buyers have acceded to this ad-
vance, and have contracted for fair quantities at
about id. 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 come of our merchants shipping to India
have been induced to make offers for liberal
quantities of India 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. Theie hes
been a decidedly better feeling in the cloth-market,
with a considerable inquiry for nearly all sorts
of goods. The business has not been large, but
brill some purchases have been made at the full cur-
rent quotations of the day, and bat 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 6d. per piece higher'
than could have been obtained a week to 10 days
ago. The Bombay telegram, to June 9, qbates
71b. 39-inch shirtings at 10 rupees; 81lb ditto, at
12 rupees; 44-inch ditto of 81b., 12r. Ba.; 311).
4MOa,
sd
ma puollel 30's water twist, 25ba. and
nl22la4.rp.e3ral.b. The advance there since
Kay 23 is given by some advicss at 2s. per piece on
lib. shirtings and is. 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, Jane 30.—The critical state of political
matters effects the staple trades of the district, and
buyers show an indisposition 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 ironmastsrs
are fairly supplied with specifications, and the
works are in active employ. The steam coal trade
maintains its vitatity, and there is a brisk business
doing. About lls 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 ehip.
meat,

MARKETS—This Day,

COVENT GARDEN.

Increased supplies of fruit are on sale here to.day, and
the show of vegetAlles is seasonably good. The demand
is steady, as follows

rEvia. •

0. d. s. d.
Pine appleS 2 Oto 3 -
Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0
Grapes,per lb 2 6 to 0 0
Foreign do ' 0 0 to 0 0
Melons ... 0 0 to 0 0
Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0
Apples, per hl-sv. 3 0 to 6 0
Pears, per do
Oranges, per 100..6 0 to 12 0
Lemons, per 100 3 6 to 8 0
Gooseberries ht sve t 6 to 3 e
Strawberries pr pt 0 4 to 0 b

s s
gulberrles,prpt..o. od.
to 0 0
Cherries, per lb. 0 4to 1 0
Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0
Filberts, per lb 0 oto 0 o
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... 0 oto 0 0
Currants, per h.sv 3 6to 4 6
Plums, per 1o 0 oto 0 0
Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0

- -
Greens, dz bunch 2 0 tvZo 2a758h1:1150.t5,-per-lb .. 0 oto 0 0
Cabbages, pr doz 0 9to 1 S Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 1 6
Bad ditto 0 oto 0 0 Parsley, per ditto 0 oto o 0
Savoy do., pr dz 0 oto 0 0 Celery, per ditto 0 oto 0 0
Cauliflowers, pdz 1 t, to 3 0 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0
Brocoli sprouts
Potatoes, per ton 50 oto 60 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0
New ditto, pr cwt 6 oto 10 0 Mushrooms. p pt. 0 oto 0 0
Turnips, dz bunch 3 oto 4 0 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0
Carrots, pr do 6 6to 6 6 Cos lett, score .. 0 Bto 1 3
Cucumbers 0 4to 1 6 Mint and savory..o oto 0 0
Garlic, per lb
Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0
-Green peas,n.-sv. 1 oto 1 6 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0
N'rench 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 0
New Do., dz bun 1 to 1 6 Rhubarb, per bun 0 2to 0 4
Spinach 0 0 too U I Asparagus, pr do. 2 6to 4 0
Brussels sprouts 0 oto 0 0 Seakale, per bun. 0 oto 0 0

The French Press on the Conference,

The able London correspondent of the Independ-
ance Beige has done good service in correcting the
misapprehensions created here as to the state of
public opinion in England, wilfully distorted by
cartal:2 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 on
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,
refuses to endorse the p..cific acclamations of the
Times, and shows that the writer in the Independ-
ance has aceuratPly ganged the sentiment of the
public in the question which involves the honour
as well as the interests of England. I specially
direct 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 moat 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, he 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
it§ 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 encouragid 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. He then, proceeds to say :
Opinions are divided as to, the issue of the forthcoming
Parliamentary struggle, and even the friends of the Minis-
try do not expect a majority sufficient to ratify its policy.
My opinion is that the Government will be defeated, or
thavits 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 overwhelming 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 the 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 be 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's 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 France 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-
ceed 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
whale of Schleswig, about the possession of which the
English Plenipotentiaries wrangled so 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 perohance 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 I 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 atter 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 Belli,
which have not the remotest prospect of being realised 1 Is
such a course, we demand,evorthy of the rank which a great
country like England has the right to occupy in Europe?
Such, if we aro 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 British Government is
being crushed beneath the weight of public con-
tempt, and Points 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
eiould 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 de 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 opfnione Noti9nale 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 shut 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
Austria, Prussia, and Russia, and to leave to those
three Powers the duty of avenging the refusal of
England v,ithout interfering herself.
To these amenities of the Opinions Nationale I
may add those of the Pattie :
"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 clang to a rotten plank. It is averred
that England, long overcharged, as Veniee• and Helland
were in their' time, is in reality only a Power of the second
order. Whhout the military support of one of the conti-
nental Monarchies she is not able to exercise the slightest
influence in the affairs of Europa. When face to face with
one of the great Powers she is exactly what Naples, Brasil,
or Greece was with regard to het. be way complain of it,
may cry out about injustice and abuse of force, but she
must submit to it."
Had an order been sent round to these papery to
abuse 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 2enips, 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 ormakin g
war. The _Patric 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 solo
resource of those who, like the Patric, blame England for
not having done enough for Denmark, while approving
France for having done still less, The Constitutionnet, 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 Rumen to France and her Government:'

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSUING WEEK.—Monday.—Asiatio, at 3, ' Syo.
tish Observition of the Phase of the Colures, &c ,' Pro-
fessor Whitney—' Brief Notes on Age and Authenticity
of several Indian Works,' Dr. Bb.au 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
Ilualoy—'liirghis and other Tribes of Central Asia,' Mr.
Vambny. Wednesby—Hortieultural, Great Show,--
Atltenancn,