The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
COMPLAINT AGAINST AN OMNIBUS CONDUCTOR.—
Robert Wood, conductor of one of the Atlas and Waterloo
Omnibus Association's Omnibuses, appeared before Mr
Knox, to answer the complaint of Mr Henry O'Hara
Moore, gentleman, of the Finchley New-road, of using
abusive language towards him.
Mr Herring, jun., appeared for the defendant, and Mr
Richard, one of the directors of the Omnibus Association,
attended to watch the case.
The evidence of Mr Moore went to show that on the
25th of May he got into the omnibus of which the defen-
dant was the conductor, at Clearing-cross. The omnibus
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proceeded on its journey, and from Charing-cross to theegent-circus, Oxford-street, the omnibus stopped three
times, ani there was great delay. He complained each
time, and the defendant in the Regent circus addressed
the driver to the effect that he (Hr Moore) was mad.
In answer to Mr Herring, jun., the complainant said
the omnibus might have stopped a minute twice—that a
boy got up, and that he did not like the boy being along-
side of him, On asking the defendant why he stopped,
he said, "To take up passengers."
Mr Herring, jun., was about to address the magistrate
on the defendant's behalf, bur Mr Knox said there was no
occasion for him to do so. He usually, in cases where
men were summoned for usinz r.busive language, found
there was something like foul language uttered, but in the
present case there was nothing of the sort. He had no
doubt the truth was that the defendant felt irritated at the
complainant's frequent c,mplaints, and that he said to the
driver, " Oh, he (meaning the
complainanf) must be
mad." He should dismiss the summons.
Mr Richards was about to speak on behalf of the defen-
dant, but Mr Knox said there was no necessity for him to
do so.

PLATE ROBBERY BY A FOOTMAN. —Arthur Wilson,
footman, in the service of Mr. Charles Henry Moore, a
gentleman residing at No,
45, Wimpole-street, Cavendish-
square, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing sixteen
silver forks, the property -h;
- .3 master.
Solomon Bierman, assistant to Mr. Levy, pawnbroker, of
54, Dudley-street, said—On
Se urday night at half-past
eleven the prisoner came into the shop and asked if I would
buy some silver forks, I said g, y„,,, at the same time
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observing some marks on some the prisoner produced. The
prisoner left, and last night at a quarter to twelve I was
called down and saw the prisoner. On asking him what he
wanted, he said he had brought some silver forks. I asked
him how he became possessed of them, and he said a man
who was dead had given them to him. I then sent for a
constable, and gave the prisoner into custody.
Mr Charles Henry Moore, of 45, said—
TheNv prisoner lived with me as a servant and let me in last
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niolt at 11 o'clock, and shut up the place as usual. The
forks produced are my property. pole-street
Mr Knox—Had you missed them ?
Mr Moore—Not till the officer came to me. I had given
out to the prisoner in May a quantity of plate, and when
the prisoner returned it he must have kept back the forks,
all of them bearing my crest.

Mr Knox—How long has he been in your service ?
Mr Moore—Since the 19th March. I had a good cha-
racter with him and always considered him a good servant,
and never had the least reason to
was suppose he was dishonest.
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Prisoner said he was guilty.

Mr Knox—ln allowing the prisoner to plead lam stretch-
ing my power to its utmost limit. It is a serious case, the
prisoner having betrayed the trust reposed in him by robbing
his master, and but for the prisoner's previous character,
which he has now lost, I should have sent him to the
sessions. The prisoner will be committed for six months,
with hard labour.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—We eannot wonder that a House of
Commons so notoriously favourable to the Danish
cause should view with apprehension the long de-
lays of the Conference, and be agitated by the
criais which is apparently at hand. The refusal of
Lord Palmerston last night to enlighten his
audience as to what has actually passed at therecent
meetings gave occasion to a little demonstration, in
which baffled curiosity, mingling with a suspicion
that the Conference was about to prove a solemn
and pompous failure, caused some cutting things to
be said of her Majesty's Government. But though
the traditions of British official life do not allow
Ministers to communicate the results of each sitting
of the Conference to Parliament, there is no reason
why the country should bs..kept in ignorance of that
which it can do no harm to know. It has been
truly said that what is made a secret by Ministers
in their answers to the House of Commons is no
secret to foreign Embassies or to tho conductors of
the foreign press. Everything that passes at the
Conference, even to the opinions of the several re,
presentatives and their mode of advocating their
respective causes, is soon known with something
like accuracy by communities which are certainly
not more worthy to be well-informed than our own.
We may, then, fairly put our readers in possession
of what we believe to be the present state of the
negotiations, convinced that by so doing we confer
a benefit on both parties to the dispute, and aid in
the most efficient maener the efforts of those who
are labouring in the cause of peace. The meeting
of the Conference which took place yesterday,
though it has no striking success to record, has not
been entirely barren. Of course the greatest at-
tention was given to the matter of most immediate
importance. The permanent settlement of the dis-
pute may be delayed, but the question of the sus-
pension of hostilities is urgent. On Sunday next,
the 12th inst., hostilities will be renewed, unless
in the meantime a prolongation of the present
truce can be agreed upon. This matter formed
the chief subject of discussion yesterday. The
Danes showed through their representatives their
usual spirit of defiance and recklessness of conse-
quences, Apparently thinking that the chapter of
accidents may possibly bring a better solution for
them if the war continue aua they stand before the
world as a brave people struggling against two mili-
tary tyrannies, the Danes play a bold game. When
a renewed suspension of hostilities was proposed
they declared that they would only consent to an
additional term of a fortnight. Austria and Prus-
sia, on the other hand, desired a suspension of arms
for two months. It is easy to understand the rea-
sons which induce the allies to propose this ex-
tended truce.. They are in possession of the
Duchies; they hold the administration of them, and
are able not only to represent the opinions of the
people as they please, but even to create a certain
amount of feeling by skilful management. There
are districts where the Schleswigers are pretty
evenly balanced between partisans of the Prince of
Augustenburg and honest liegemen to the Dane.
To be able for two months to work upon the in•
habitants of such districts is no small advantage to
Powers which are intent on showing that nearly
the whole country is German by race and instincts.
Then the advance of the season would bring nearer
the time when the Danes must forego one of the
most efficient weapons of warfare—the blockade of
the German ports. It need hardly be added that
the lengthening out of the war will be unfavour-
able to the weaker State, which is less able to bear
a protracted drain of its resources, and that there is
more likelihood that the allies will be able to have
their own way when the neutrals become tired 'of
the Danish question through lapse of time, and
when the British Parliament is prorogued, than
now that the interest is general and the sympathy
with the Danes manifest on every side. This pro-
posal for a two months' suspension of hostilities,
however, met with so positive a refusal from Den-
mark that it was not pressed, and at last it was
agreed that the representatives of the belli-
gerents should refer to their respective Govern-
ments the proposition for a suspension of hosti-
lities. Tne matter was no doubt referred to
Copenhagen, Berlin, and Vienna by telegraph, and
the answer will come soon enough to allow the ques-
tion to be finally settled at a meeting of the Confer-
ence which will be probably summoned for Thursday.
It can hardly be supposed that a prolongation of
the truce can be rejected by either of the parties.
Although the Danes are described as eager for war,
and even the Jutlanders, having been plundered of
everything, are urging the King to fight it out, yet
the dishonour that the Copenhagen Ministers will
do themselves by rejecting such a reasonable pro-
posal makes it probable that there will be no diffi-
culty interposed by either party, and that till the
middle of July, at all events, the land will be free
from bloodshed. There is all the more reason to
hope that this new suspension of hostilities will
meet no obstacle, as there is some chance at least of
a c ,mpromise being accepted. All accounts from
Copenhagen represent the Danes as indignant at
the notion of any concession, as being full of con-
sternation and shame that England should think of
taking away Holstein and a part of Schleswig from
them. To give up the line of the Eider, to give np the
Dannewarke and the town of Schleswig itself would
be intolerable. On the other hand, the German
papers are demanding every inch of both duchies for
the Prince of Augustenburg. They cannot conceive
how any foreign conclave of statesmen should think
of demanding that he should forego his birthright.
Is not Schleswig irrevocably united to Holstein, I
and does it not extend to the very frontier of
Jutland ? It is clear that the parties are irrecon-
cilable in their demands, and to make either abate
is one of the most difficult tasks which could be
attempted by a neutral. Yet the persevering
efforts of our own Government, supported by
France and Russia, have not been wholly unsuc-
cessfal. The neutral Powers have, we believe,
proposed the line of the Schlei as the frontier
between an independent German State to be formed
to the south of it, and a purely Danish kingdom
to the north. This, in our opinion, is an arrange-
ment far more advantageous to Denmark than a
renews; of the political relations which have
heretofore I,'ltained between the Kingdom and the
Duchies. Bette! cart of Schleswig permanently
and completely in,,lrporated with the moriarchy
and forming a compact
_mass with it than two semi-
independent, but wholly ,discontented, provinces.
Whatever may be the present hesitation of Denmark,
there is so much of reason in the new scheme that
we cannot think it, or one even lesa: favourable,
would be long rejected. But for the present the
allies refuse to give up so much. They concede the
principle of drawing a line across Schleswig; and
this, indeed, is the chief success which the Confer.
ence has as yet obtained—that whereas a fortnight
.ago they demanded the whole of the two Duchies,
they are now willing that the Danish population in
the northern part of Schleswig should remain united
to the monarchy. They ask that the line should
be drawn north of Flensburg, which they claim to
be a German town, and to have a German popula-
tion on the south and west of it. On this question
of detail, then, the neutrals and the two German
Powers are at variance. Eat it is certainly a step
to have obtained such a basis fo; negotiation as the
admission that the line must be drawn so as to
divide the two rival races. To have ae;anced thus
far gives a chance of peace, because it makCa more
conspicuous the folly and inutility of the war, A
war for a province may seem respectable, but when
it is for a belt formed by two parallel lines less than
twenty miles distant from each other it can hardly
excite either enthusiasm or admiration even in
Germany.
HERALD.—In the debates in the Upper House,
and in the columns of the leading journal, the
friends of the working man have been ventilating
their last new patent plan for his moral and social
elevation. They would make him independent
by rendering him an object of universal suspicion,
and would foster habits of integrity by practically
forbidding any one to trust him. They agree
that the Lord Chancellor's Debtor and Creditor
Bill " involves a question of the highest
importance to the welfare of the working
classes," and they propose to solve the problem
by depriving a large class of creditors of their legal
remedy. Because 9,000 persona annually are com-
mitted to prison for refusing to pay debts which
they have the ability but not the inclination to dis-
charge, the Lord Chancellor would stop the credit
of some millions to whom such credit is an accom.
modation, and not unfrequently a condition of
existence. The noble and learned lords on the
Ministerial side of the house have propounded views
of our social system which to us at least have all the
charm of novelty. Tradesmen in poor neighbour.
hoods who read the parliamentary debates will learn
a great deal more about themselves and their power
than they ever knew. The tradesman, we are
gravely assured, is not dependent upon his cue-
tonic s, but hits customers upon him. He stands
behind his counter, not as an industrious struggling
citizen, but as a small autocrat dispensing favours
to a crowd of bondsmen, who must either take his
goods at any price he likes to charge, or go to gaol
if they attempt to free themselves from his influ-
ence. The remedy for all this is, in the Chancellor's
opinion, exceedingly simple. Because some men
betray the confidence of their creditors, he would
punish the creditor for placing confidence in his
customers at all; because some tradesmen abuse
their legal remedy, he would take that remedy
away from all tradesmen whatever ; and because
certain Chancery barristers have blundered in
their application of the common law when sitting
as county court judges, he proposes not to re-
quire that the judge shall know the law but that
the law shall be altered to remedy evils which
have Alison solely from the errors of the judge.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

ASCOT RACES—Tars DAY.
(Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,)
TRIAL STAKES.

Auditor
Cat ch'em Alive
Menace

Twelve ran.
GOLD VASE.

Young Rapid 1
Fairwater

Wingrave

Twelve ran.
Little Stag made strong running for a mile and a hal.
Beaten at distance.

LATEST BETTING.
ASCOT STAKES.
00 to 30 agst Canary (taken)
9to 2 apt Hippolyta (taken)
sto 1 agst Sheridan (taken)

ASCOT RACES.
HORSES STRUCK OUT THIS DAT.

Hunt Cup--Despair, Nebuchadnezzar, Moulsey, Belle
of the Vale, Grosvenor colt, Atherstone's dam, Danaus,
and Blue Bell,
Prince of Wales Stakes—Copenhagen and Syren,

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