The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-30 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

THE WAR IN DENMARK.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

COPENHAGEN, MARcH 29.
The enemy has left Horsens, marching south-
wards.

Yesterday the King arrived at Aarhus, and at
once proceeded to Randers,

The Danish loss yesterday was on!y 100 men,
whereas that of the Prussians was inconsiderable.
Twenty-seven Prussians were taken prisoners.

THE S.EIAKSPERE TERCENTENART CELEBRATION.
—The following further arrangements have been
reported in connexion with the National Shaksperean Com-
mittee .—The English residents in Paris, who have formed
themselves into a committee in aid of the London Monu-
mental Fund, with Mr. Blanchard Jerrold as honorary
secretary, have arranged !or a banquet on the 23rd, at which
Lord Grey, Lord Cowley, and other distinguished persons
will be present. The working men of London propose on
the same day to plant a sapling oak from Windsor Forest,
to be henceforth known as the Shakepere's oak, and after-
wards to have a monster gathering and musical festival at
the Agricultural Hall, fur which a specially interesting pro-
gramme is being prepared. It is also announced that Car-
dinal Wiseman has undertaken to deliver a lecture on Shah-
spare, in aid of the national object at St. James's Hall, or
some other large hall, in the months of June or July next.
The Lord Mayor has convened a meeting of influential
gentlemen in connection with the city, to be held at the
Mansion House, on Monday, April 11, at 2 o'clock.

A curious case has just come before the Correc-
tional Tribunal of Chinon (Indre-et-Loire). MM.
T— and C, wine dealers, of Bordeaux, were tried on a
charge of having fraudulently endeavoured to compel M.
Foucqueteau to receive a quantity of wine under pretext
that it had been ordered by his father. It appeared from
the statement of counsel, that C.-. arrived at Chinon on
Nov. 2 last, a few hours after the sudden death of M. Fouc-
queteau, president of the Tribunal of that town, and that
he determined to take advantage of that circum-
stance to effect the sale of a quantity of wine, by pretending
that M. Foucqueteau had ordered it just before his decease.
He accordingly addressed the following letter to his partner
at Bordeaux :—" I send you my orders No. 72, 73, and 74 ;
I have not yet finished at Chinon. Remember that, as to
No. 72, it is a second edition of the order at Angiers," On
the following day T— sent off a quantity of wine amount-
ing to 1,339 fr. and at the same time he wrote to Mr.
Feucqueteau a letter containing the bill, and expressing his
hope that the wine would give satisfaction. As the letter
arrived when M. Foucqueteau, jun., was in great distress
on account of his father's death, no attention was paid to it,
but when the wine arrived a week later, he refused to receive
it, and after examining his father, and making inquiries
among his friends, he became convinced that the order
had never been given. Several letters passed between him
and the defendants, but as they contained state-
ments which he knew to be fake, he persisted in his refusal,
and commenced proceedings against them. In court, C—
admitted that no order had been given, and expressed his
regret that he had yielded to a momentary impulse, though
he could riot see that he had done anything very wrong.
The president, after expressing his astonishment at hearing
such an opinion uttered by a person who wished to be
thought a respectable man of business, asked the defendant
what be meant by saying in his letter of the 2d November
that the order No. 72 was a second edition of the order at
Angers." The defendant C---replied :—" Two years ago
I met a commercial traveller who told me that when at
Angers he happened to see a grand funeral pass along the
street, and finding that the deceased was a man of great
property whose fortune would all go to distant relations, .
he determined to send a good lot of wine to him under pre-
tence that he had been ordered. The wine was received
by the heirs of the deceased, who paid for it and
became excellent customers from that time. The
recollection of this fact induced him to try the same trick on
M. Foucqueteau." He declined giving the traveller's name
The President remarked that it would be to the defendant's
interest to give the name, as from the manner in whch he
alluded to the order in the letter of Nov. 2, it would seem
that the defendant himself had played the trick at Angers.
The defendant denied this, but persisted in his
refusal to name the traveller. The other defen-
dant declared that he at first considered the order
genuine, but soon afterwards learned that it was not so
The Public Prosecutor pressed for a conviction against both
defendants, but admitted that T— was less to blame than
the other. The Tribunal having declared the charge proved
against both defendants, condemned C--- to a fortnight's
imprisonment with 200 fr. fine, T—, to a week's imprison-
ment with 100 fr. fine, and both conjointly to the costs.
A petition signed by 13 Arabs residing at El.
Arrouoh and neighbourhood (province of Constantine) has
been addressed to
the Senate, praying for the application
of French justice in their country. The petition-
ers state that the Emperor Napoleon the Third,
in his Speech o n opening the Chambers, recognised
them as hie subjects, and that what they most desire
from French civilisation is the inviolable and sacred
guarantee which protects the respective rights of all French
subjects. The French laws, they say, form a precise and
regular Code, and every man knows his rights, and what
reparation he can obtain for a violation of them. The peti-
tioners then point out that the Arab laws are founded on
customs which at present differ in almost every tribe, so
that the people live in continual uncertainty.
MAL 74, Maroh 24.—The following naval movements
have taken place :—On Friday her Majesty's ship Magi-
ciennne, 16, Capt. IN Armytage, and the Royal Oak, 35,
iron-caked ship, Capt. F. A. Campbell, arrived from the
lonian Islands with large quantities of ordnance stores;
and on Sunday the Gibraltar, 81, Capt. Prevost, carce from
Corfu in two days, similarly loaded. The Magicienne left
Corfu on the 9th inst., calling at St. Maura and Ithaca for
stores, and bringing Lady Hotham as passenger. The
Royal Oak left Corfu on the 16th, and came here direct--
passenger, Lieut. C. D. Inglis, R.N. On the 18th the Cos-
sack, 20, Capt. W. R. Rolland, left on return to Corfu, and
on the following day the Surprise, 4, Commander W. H
Whyte, arrived fram Benghazi and 11Iarsa-Souzah—passen-
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lieved, for Corfu.
SOMETHING LINE AN ADYERTISEMENT.—The
Surrey management has adopted a novel way of
advertising the popular melo-drama "Ashore mad Afloat."
They have chartered a good.sized and full rigged man-o'-
, war, mounted on wheels, and bearing a crew of some half-
dozen bill dietributore,