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

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1864.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

ROUSE OF LORDS.
YELVERTON V. YELvERTON (OR LONGWORTH.)
(Present the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord
Wensleydale, Lord Chelmsford, and Lord Kingsdown,)
This case was continued this morning, and, judging
from appearances, there was no lack of interest on the part
of the public, who thronged the avenues of the house. Many
ladies were present, and they seemed to be greatly disap-
pointed that Mrs Yelverton was not present at the com-
mencement of the proceedings.
Mr Rslt, Q.C., for the appellant, proceeded with his
argument, reading lengthened extracts from the evidence
adduced, He dwelt upon the circumstance connected with
the interview at Galata, and said that the letters which
afterwards passed between them showed that at that time
Miss Longworth (Mrs Yelverton) had no idea that a mar-
riage was to take place between them.
The Lord Chancellor said that, while they were in the
Crimea, Major Yelverton dined with the respondent and
her friends.
Mr. R-ilt said, on one occasion. It was clear that she fol-
lowed the appellant there, and there was no evidence of a
promise of marriage then, although it was evident there
were many familiarities between them. This brought
down the correspondence from that time to the time when
she arrived in Edinburgh. From that place she wrote that
she slept under a flag, which she had brought from the
Crimea, and that it gave her the greatest possible satisfac-
tion. She went on to suggest how money might be made
available for their travelling purposes, adding that as she
now knew the height, length, and breadth of his wicked-
ness, he need not be under any apprehension of his losing
her good opinions. This would tend to show the nature of
the familiarities that existed between them. She said also
that her great strength was in her tenacity of purpose,
and that when once she made up her mind to a
certain course she could never be turned from it.
Now all that was said for an obvious purpose,
and was quite inconsistent with the fact she had alleged,
that Major Yelverton had offered her marriage at Bala-
clava. In one of her subsequent letters she said she had
received a letter from " Sylvan Blue," a former lover of
hers, full of the most amatory diction she ever saw; but
she said that, after the treatment she had received from

Major Yelverton, she did not feel herself worthy of any-
body. After this she appeared to surrender. He thought
that was as clear as possible; but then again it was equally
clear that she made up her mind to struggle in a last effort
to induce him to marry her. As he (the learned counsel)
had before stated, the appellant resisted those advances in
every possible way, and even declined to go on without the
correspondence.

The Lord Chancellor consulted for sometime with Lord
Kingadown and other noble lords on this part of the case,
but did not make any remarks upon it.
Mr Rolt proceeded to quote extensively from the respon-
dent's letters, with a view to show that the respondent had
given up all idea of a marriage taking place between them,
and that she had virtually bidden him farewell.
Lord Kingsdown enquired what was the date of that
letter.

Mr Rc,lt said it was April G. She made another strug-
gle, for in one of her letters she said that Major D---
had called upon her and had sought to ascertaiu whether or
not she was really engaged to Major Yelverton, a fact he
was not likely to find out.

The Lord Chancellor said the next letter was one of the
most beautiful he ever read.

Mr. Rolt fully admitted the beauty of its composition,
but contended that it proved the virtual abandonment of
negotiations between them. About the letter he submitted
there could not be the slightest doubt or ambiguity.
Lord Brougham inquired whether that letter did not
mean that Major Yelverton ought not to have proposed to
her a private marriage, and that unless he offered her a
public marriage she would not be married to him at all.
Mr. Rolt said he could not so read the letter. She said
that Major Yelverton had torn from her the one wish of her
heart.

Lord Brougham supposed that meant a regular public
marriage. That was the most obvious interpretation of the

words.

Mr Rolt said he did not believe that the words had any
reference to marriage. She spoke of something she had

never thought of before, and that could hardly be marriage.
Other letters, however, which he had read, would probably
throw some light upon that point. To him it was clear

,hat in these letters she was not referring to marriage, but
,o a proposal from a gentleman to a lady to live with him

without marriage; and he asked their lordships to take
judicial cognizance of the matter.
At a quarter to 12 Mrs Yelverton, accompanied by the

:wo ladies who were with her yesterday, came into the

•eporters' gallery and took theirseats there.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)

Henry Simpson, a lad about 16 years of age, pleaded
guilty to an indictment charging him \Nita robbery, and
also with having feloniously broken out of his master's
house in the night time.

The prisoner, it appeared, was in the employ of a licensed
victualler, who carried on business at the Marquis of
Granby, Chandos-street. On the morning following the
offence, the house, which was securely fastened up at night,
was discovered to have been broken open from the inside,
and a quantity of money stolen. Search was made
over the premises, when the prisoner was discovered
to be absent, and suspicion naturally attached to her.
Notice of the robbery was given to the police, and in a short
time after the prisoner was taken into custody and charged
with the offence. He attempted to explain his conduct,
and strongly denied that ho had committed the robbery,
but said he merely opened the door and let in some man,
who had broken open the place and stolen the money.
The Common Sergeant commented very severely upon
the prisoner's conduct, and sentenced him to five years'
penal servitude.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr Commissioner Kerr.)

Robert Thompson, 16, a genteel-looking lad, pleaded
guilty to an indictment, charging him with unlawfully
attempting to administer to Mary Ann Lambert certain
noxious ingredients with which to injure and annoy her.
The prisoner was also charged with administering the same
ingredient with intent to murder her, but the grand jury
ignored the bill.

Mr Sleigh urged, on behalf of the prisoner, that he
was very young, and that down to the period of this
transaction he had borne a very good character.
It appeared that he was annoyed at the prosecutrix
in whose establishment he was employed as page, having
refused to give him a holiday in order that he might go to
the Derby, and he very foolishly put some poisonous stuff
into the cocoa that had been prepared for breakfast, but he
had no intention to cause her any serious mischief, although
of course the proceeding was a very wicked and improper
one.

The learned Commissioner respited judgment till next
session.

MARKETS--This Day.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 lOs to £4los Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od; and straw, LI 4s to £1 108 per load.
Trade dull.

CUMBERLAND..—Mea4ow kay, £2 lOs to £4 10s; clover,
£4 Os to £5 108 Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 lOs per load.
A slow demand.

WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £2 lOs to £4 103 ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 lOs per load.
Trade inactive,

COLONIAL.

TEA—The operations have been very restricted conse-
quent upon the large quantity to be offered to-day at public
sale.

SUGAR —A moderate business has been done in West
India, and steady rates have been obtained for superior
grocery descriptions, In the refined market there is no
material change as regards values,

COFFEE,—Colonial descriptions have been in fair request,
Plantation Ceylon having been in demand at fully late
rates.

RICE.—The operations have been on a rather limited
scale, at about former rates.

TALLOW.—The market has continued dull, and prices
have shown a. downward tendency for both present and
future delivery. P. Y.C. on the spot is quoted 40s 6d, July
to Eeptember 41s, and last three months 43s 6d.

COAL hi,
Prima of Coal per Ton at

AItKET.

the dole of the market.

8. d.
Cowpen Hartley 16 0
Hastings Hartley l6 0
Eden Main ..16 3
Wylam 16 6

s. d.
Walls End.
Braddyll's Hett0n.....16 9
Llaswell ...17 6
Hetton l7 6
South Hetton 17 6
Russel's Hetton l6 9
Framwellgate ...16 6
Hartlepool l7 3
Caradoc l7 3
;t, 39; sold. 37.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Days

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 Charing-cross. The omnibus
proceeded on its journey, and from Charing-cross to the
Regent-circus, Oxford-street, the omnibus stopped three
times, and there was great delay. He complained each
time, and the defendant in the Regent-circus addressed
the driver to the effect that he (Mr 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 hici, On asking the defendant why he stopped,
he said, "To take up passengers."
Mr Herring, jun., was about to address the magistrate
occasion for him to do so. He usually, in cases where
on the defendant's behalf; but Mr Knox said there was no
men were summoned for usin; abusive 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 ecmplaints, and that he said to the
driver, " Oh, ho (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 Mocre, a
gentleman residing at No, 45, Wimpole-street, Cavendish-
square, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing sixteen
silver forks, the property of his
master.
Solomon Bierman, assistant to Mr. Levy, pawnbroker, of
54, Dudley-street, said—On Saturday night at half-past
eleven the prisoner came into the shop and asked if I would
buy some silver forks. I said
" Yes," at the same time
observing some marks on soma 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 fur a
constable, and gave the prisoner into custody.
Mr Charles Henry Moore, of 45, Win,pole-street, said—
The prisoner lived with me as a servant, and let me in last
night at II o'clock, and shut up the place as usual. The
forks produced are my property.
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-
raster with him and always considered him a good servant,
and never had the least reason to suppose he was dishonest.
Wm. Fitzgerald, 50 F—On asking the prisoner where he
got the forks from he said from a man who had been dead
some time. The prisoner refused his address, but after-
wards said he was a gentleman's servant, and that he had
let himself out of the house last night with a key.
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 cannot 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
crisis 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. lint 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 be kept in ignorance of that
which it can do no harm to know. Is 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 the 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 oar 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-
putemay 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 cense-
quenees. Apparently thinking that the chapter of
accidents may possibly bring a better solution for
them if the war continue ana 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 ins
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 th. parties.
Although the Danes are described as eager foe war,
and even the Jutlanders, having been plundered I'f
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 up 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,
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-
cessful. 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
renewal of the political relations which have
heretofore obtained between the Kingdom and the
Duchies. Better Fart of Schleswig permanently
and completely incorporated with the movarchy
and forming a compact mass with it than two semi-
independent, but wholly discontented, provinces.
Whatever may be the present irritation of Denmark,
there is so much of reason in the new scheme that
we cannot think it, or one even less favourable,
would be long rejected. But for the present the
allies refuse to give ep 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 ciannto
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. But it is certainly a step
to have obtained such a basis for negotiation as the
admission that the line must be drawn so as to
divide the two rival races, To have advanced thus
far gives a chance of peace, because it makes 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 persons 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 anaccome
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 aro
gravely assured, is not dependent upon his cue-
tonnes, but his 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, bat
.that
the law shall be altered to remedy evils
.which
have arisen solely from the errors of th• judge.