The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-21 00:00:00

TEM SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING-, NOVEMBER 21, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.
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COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
DREDGE V. DREDGE AND GREY.

This was a petition presented by the husband praying
for the dissolution of the marriage on the ground of the
adultery of his wife.

The petitioner was at the time of his marriage about 19
•
years of age, the female being some years his stnior.
After marriage they went to reside at Pimlico, and
for a time things went on very comfortable, During
his absence at business the wife, it appeared, became ac
quainted with the co-respondent Grey, a private in the
Coldstream Guards, then quartered in the Wellington
barracks, Bird-cage-walk. On one occasion an invi-
tation was sent for Mr. and Mrs, Dredge to dine
with a relative of the husband's, when Mrs. Dredge
declined, on the ground that she had promised
to visit her father that day, but she persuaded her husband
to accept the invitation. This was done, and they it was
alleged that having given her husband to understand that
she should be from home all day, she received a visit from
the soldier, who remained to dinner and supper. When
he was leaving the house he was observed to have Mr.
Dredge's greatcoat over his regimentals, and instead of
wearing his regimental cap he had one of the husband's
hats on. On another occasion she met the co-respondent
while out walking in the park, and as he had a companion
with him she directed her female servant to go and
walk with Grey's companion, while she had a conversation
with him. There were, also, some other very discreditable
proceedings detailed, such as the wife passing herself oh as
a nursemaid.

The Judge-Ordinary was quite satisfied that the allega-
tions in the petition had hem proved, and he granted a
decree nisi.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
THE ALEXANDRA.
The Solicitor-General commenced his argument this
morning, and was proceeding when we went to press.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A CONSTABLE'S CURE FOR SHAM FITS—AN IMPOSTOR.
William Booth, a dirty. looking fellow, was charged with
being found in the area of the house of the Earl of Lucan,
36, South-street, St. George's, for an unlawful purpose.
Reeves, 41 C, said that on the previous afternoon he was
called to the residence of the Earl of Lucan, and on going
down into the area he found the prisoner lying down as if
in a fit. lie called to the servant to bring him a pail of
water, and as soon as the prisoner heard the word water
mentioned he looked up as fresh as he then appeared in

court.

Mr. Yardley supposed there was a little hydrophobia, and
asked the prisoner wliat he had been ?
Prisoner said be had been a soldier, and the sun had
affected him. He was down the area for the purpose of
begging, having come from Macclesfield to get his discharge
renewed at the Horse Guards, having lost it.
Mr. Yardley asked the prisoner when he was discharged,
and where it was that the sun affected him ?
Prisoner said he was discharged three years ago, and had
been with his regiment, the 23d, to India.
Mr. Yardley inquired what part ? and the prisoner an-
swered Calcutta ; and, in answer to further questions, the
prisoner went afterwards to Umballah, but ho had no idea
how far it was from Calcutta, whether 100 or 500 miles,
and said it might be 1,000.
The Earl of Lucan's servant said the prisoner came to
the house yesterday afternoon and begged, and, as he would
not leave, he was obliged to get the assistance of a constable.
Mr. Yardley committed the prisoner for 14 days.
Prisoner asked the magistrate to let him off.
Mr. Yardley said the prisoner had got hold of the name
of two places in India, but knew nothing about them ; and
a man who lived by lying he could not let off, and if the
prisoner came again the punishment would be more severe.

THAMES.
A DANGEROUS YOUNG TslEF•__Henry Pickett, a very
cunning young thief, well dressed, and got up in most ap-
proved style, and who put on an appearance of innocence
which would have deceived any but the most experienced
officers, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with
committing a very impudent .robbery in a public street•
The prisoner is not quite 12 years of age, and ho has been
in custody 20 times. Yesterday (Friday) afternoon a man
named George Smith, of No. 6, York-street, Commercial-
road, East, was driving a horse and cart along Oxford-
street, Whitechapel, at the bank of the London Hospital,
when his attention wcs called to the prisoner who was at
the back of the cart in the act of drawing some linen out of
a trunk. A white holland jacket was in his hand. The
prisoner, on finding himself discovered, immediately
called out to the driver of the horse and cart,
" There they go, sir, down that street, they have
been stealing your things." Very fortunately
the driver did not proceed in the direction indicated by the
prisoner. If he had done so the horse, cart, and £5O worth
of linen belonging to the proprietors of the London Tavern,
would have been taken away in his absence. The prisoner
was detained until Police Sergeant Wood, 16 K, arrived,
who took him into custody.
'I he prisoner made a very plausible address in defence.
He said that that he observed some thieves pulling linen
out of a trunk in the cart, and interrupted them, and began
to replace the linen in the trunk. Observing the driver
turn round, he called to him and ,pointed out the direction
the thieves hod taken. He considered it very harsh indeed,
because he had prevented a robbery he should be arrested
as a thief. He was respectably connected, and begged of
the magistrate to send for his father and friends, who would
feel most acutely his undeserved and degrading position.
Thomas Venables, an cld detective officer, No. 141 K,
here stepped forward and said, " This boy is the most dan-
gerous thief in London..' His appearance and manner is
so deceptive. He has been several times convicted for
petty robberies and picking pockets. He was convicted in
May last, and sentenced to three months imprisonment
and hard labour, and three yeats schooling in a reforma-
tory school for picking pockets at the South-Eastern rail-
way station. His father got him off and he was sent to
a reformatory. He is the cleverest young pickpocket and
thief we have.

Mr. Partridge asked the prisoner if he would be tried by
him (the magistrate) or at the sessions ?
The prisoner—Well, sir, I will be tried here if I am to
be tried at all. I was blamed for robbing a till in Devon-
shire-street. I can tell you the man who did it. If you
will.let me go I will tell you of many robberies, and where
the people who did things:are to be found.
Wood—Yes, sir, he told me outside the court he could
put me on to several chaps if I could square my evidence
and get him out of this.
Mr. Partridge said so dangerous and incorrigible a thief
as the prisoner must be removed from society for a long
time, and sentenced him to be detained for three years in the
Feltham Industrial School.
The prisoner uttered a dreadful oath on hearing his sen-
tence, and as he was being removed by the gaoler, stamped
his feet, gnashed his teeth, and exclaimed, " I should like
to cut your -- eyes out."

Mr. Partridge sail. the prisoner's father would have to
contribute towards the maintenance of his son at Feltham
school.,

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Nov. 21.—Wind this day at noon—South ;
light breeze, and fine weather.
CLYDE, Nov. 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Caledonia,
from Montreal.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Car-
mine, from Callao.
CARDIFF, Nov. 20.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Countess of
Scarborough, fcr Shanghai.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived--Eden
Hammond, from Middlesborough for Bordeaux, to stop a
leak.

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 19.--Wind W.—Arrived—Volun-
teer, from Mexico.
KINGROAD, Nov. 20.—Wind
from New York.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Fa-
vourite, from Monte Video.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 20—Capriceis, from Buenos Ayres; Fran-
cisco Gilbert, from Trieste; George Croshaw, from Cal-
cutta ; Norje, from Quebec ; King Phillip, from Callao ;
Kelore, from Gopaulpore ; Treaty, from Le Vivier.
Arrived, Nov. 21—Sarah, from Smyrna ; Empress from
Madras ; Ocean Queen, from Ostend ; Louisa, from Aa e-
laide ; Governor, from St. George; Pegasus, from Shang-
hai; Dolphin, from Riga; Carra Linn, from Antwerp;
Tartar, from Calcutta.
Sailed, Nov. 21.—Peerless, for St. John's.
DEAL, aturda Morning.
Passed—Wellington, from Bombay,S for Lony don.
Anchorod—Kilkenny Lass, from London, for Glasgow.

Appointment of General Berg as Viceroy of

Poland.

The official Dziennik of Warsaw, of the 14th November,
publishes the following—

UKASE TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE SENATE.
1. We hereby most graciously tree his Imperial Highness,
our dearest brother, the Grand Duke Constantine Mikolaje-
wicz, at his own request, from the duties of our namiestnik
and commander-in-chief of the troops in the kingdom of
Poland, leaving him all his other dignities.
2. We hereby most graciously order Count Berg, assistant
to his imperial highness the commander-in-chief of the
troops in the kingdom of Poland, councillor of state, adju-
tant-general, and general of infantry, to be our namiestnik
and commander-in-chief of the troops in the kingdom of
Poland, with all the rights attached to those appointments,
and leaving him the membership of the council of state and
all other dignities.—Signed in original with his Imperial
Majesty's own hand, ALEXANDER LIVADIA, 19th (31st)
October, 1863.
ORDER TO THE TROOPS IN THE KINGDOM OF POLAND,
DATED 1 (13) NOVEMBER.
1. In announcing to the troops the rescript addressed to
his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine Miko-
lajewicz, in consequence of the most gracious liberation of
his imperial highness from the duties of commander-in-chief
and namiestnik of the kingdom of Poland, I hereby order
it to be read in all companies, squadrons, and batteries.
2. By his order of the 19th October, the Emperor having
deigned most graciously to liberate his Imperial Highness
the Grand Duke Constantine Mikolajewicz, at his imperial
highness's own request, from the duties of namiestnik of
his Imperial Majesty, and commander-in-chief of the troops
in the kingdom of Poland, has deigned to appoint me to
those duties.

On the day the roscript to his imperial highness was
signed, together with the ukaso to the Administrative Se-
nate naming the namiestnik of the kingdom, and comman-
der-in-chief of troops, his Imperial Majesty made me happy
with the following gracious words :—" May God assist you
to justify my confidence in you; I am quite convinced that
the troops of the guard and the army under your command
will continue to fulfil their duties with as much zeal and
distinction as they did under my brother."
Soldiers I lam happy that on the day of my entering
upon the duties of commander-in-chief I am enabled to turn
to you with the words of our great monarch, to express to
you his thanks for your past services, and the conviction
of his Imperial Majesty that 3ou will continue to be the
heroes you have shown yourselves hitherto, penetrated with
an unalterable affection for the Emperor and your country.
Let us unite our efforts to justify the hopes of the monarch,
and may God help us in the task.

(Signed)

Adjutant- Ganoral Count BERG.

SHAKSPERE'S COMMENTATORS !

A list of proposed emendations to a passage in " Much
Ado About Nothing, which stands thus in the old copies :--
If such a one will smile and stroke his beard,
And sorrow, wagge, erie hem, when he should grone, &0.,
where the first five words of the second line are here given
as follows by the various editors and critics; not one pro-
posing a reading which carries conviction with it :
And hallow, wag, cry hem.-7 hint Folio.
And hollow, wag, cry hem.—Fourth
And sorrow wage; cry, hem.—Theobald.
And sorrow waive, cry herd,—Hanmer.
And, sorrow wag! cry; hem.---Johnson.
Bid sorrow wag, cry "hem I"—Capell.
And sorrow gagge; cry hem.— Tyrwhitt.
And sorrowing, cry hem.—Reath.
Cry, sorrow, wag 1 and hem.---Stevens.
In sorrow wag; cry hem.—Malone.
And sorry wag, cry hem.—Stevens.
And, sorrow waggery, hem.—Ritson.
And sorro tv-wagg'd cry hem,—Becket.
And—sorrow wag I—cry hem.—.Dyee.
Call sorrow joy, cry hem.—Collier MS.
Say, sorrow, wag; cry hem.—Walker.
And sorrow's wag, cry hem.—G. White.
And sorrow away ! cry hem.—Hallizvell.
At sorrow wink, cry hem.--Anonymous.

ARREST OF PRINCE PASKIE'WITCH.—VIENNA,
Nov. 17.--Today Prince Paskiewitch, a son of the
famous General, who conquered and held in subjection
Poland for twenty years, arrived at this capital, attended
by an Austrian detective and two policemen. The Prince
had been staying at Venice for several weeks for the benefit
of his health, as he asserts to keep up a connection with the
revolutionary committee, as the Government suspect. His
dealings seem to have been of an important character, the
Government having resolved not only to remove him from
the scene of his activity, but also to send him into the in-
terior for awhile, although a prince, a general, and a Rus-
sian subject. Until further notice, he will be obliged to
take up his residence in Brunn, in Moravia, and submit to
official surveillance. It is not a little amusing to perceive
that the papers have been ordered to attribute his arrest to
some underhand work with the great Polish conspiracy.
Paskiewitch and Poland—Polish conspiracy and Venice ;
there are about as many impossibilities as words in the
charge. _ _

COLONEL CRAWLEY and "Historicus," sketched
by a graphic reporter.—He (Colonel Crawley) is a
man above the average height, of a manly build, wearing a
Crimean medal with one bar. His hair is thin, approach-
ing to grey—he wears a broad, closely-cropped, and very
thin whisker, with a thin dark moustache. The nose is
prominent, his brow of an average height, and the whole
face might be fairly styled handsome were it not (here comes
the mischief) for a blemish in the eyes,or rather in the position
of them, for the eyes themselves are clear, keen, restless
organs, very apt to detect, we should imagine, a speck of dirt
on a soldier's accoutrements, but they are placed too closely
together, and the eyebrow comes heavily over, in a way to
give a stern, almost sinister, look to the whole face, and
detracts from its otherwise open expression. The cheek
bones are high, and in the progress of the trial became
flushed." With a nose and eyebrows like that, Colonel
Crawley can hardly be otherwise than guilty. Dlr. Vernon
Harcourt, the legal adviser of the colonel (of whom the re-
porter informs us that he "is understood to be the Histo-
ricus' of the limes") does not escape the ken of this pho-
tographic describer, " He has a good legal face, with a keen
eye and a lipless mouth, expressive of no mean determina-
tion if he should ever require to exercise it, Apparently,
as if to balance his expression, he parts somewhat effemi-
nately at the middle." What hope can there be of Colonel
Crawley, when his adviser parts his hair down the middle Fs
Perhaps the reporter curls his.—The Lady's Newspaper.
EASY DOES IT!—The description of an old man
at work tinkering up a boat, vide Wilkie Collins's
" Miscellanies :"—" He is sitting on the left side of the
vessel when I first look at him. In one hand he holds a
crooked nail; in the other, a hammer. He coughs slowly,
and looks out to sea; he sighs slowly, and looks back to-
wards the land; he rises slowly, and surveys the deck of
the vessel; he stoops slowly, and picks up a flat bit of iron,
and puts it on the bulwark, and places the crooked nail
upon it, and then sits down and looks at the effect of the
arrangement so far. When he has had enough of .he arrange-
ment, he gives the sea a turn again, then the land, After
that, he steps back a little and looks at the hammer, weighs
it gently in his hand, moistens his hand, advances to the
crooked nail on the bit of iron, groans softly to himself and
shakes his head as he looks at it, administers three delibe-
rate taps with the hammer, to straighten it, finds that he
does not succeed to his mind ; again groans softly, again
shakes his head, again sits down and rests himself on the
left side of the vessel. Since I first looked at him I have
timed him by my watch; he has killed a quarter of an hour
over that one crooked nail, and he has not straightened it
yet I Wonderful man, can I ever hope to rival him ? Will
he condescend to talk to me ? Stay! lam not free to try
him; the doctor has told me not to excite myself with
society ; all communion of mind between me and this
finished and perfect idler is, I fear, prohibited. Better to
walk on, and come back, and look at him again.

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ANOTHER DEATH FROM STARVATIOYer-
day afternoon Mr. John Humphreys, N
Middlesex
coroner, held an inquiry at the Sir George Osborne's Head
Tavern, Princes-street, Mile-end, respecting the death of
Henry Lerry, who was found dying from starvation in the
public street. James White, 90 H, said that on Tuesday
night about 10 o'clock, he saw deceased lying insensible in
Old Montague-street. Witness thought he was drunk, and
got a stretcher and removed him to the station, where he
was locked up in the cell. He got no food, but the next
morning he was taken to the workhouse. The only words
he could speak were "Henry Lorry," which was believed to
be his name. James Thrift said deceased was brought to
the union by the police on Wednesday morning. He was
in a dreadful state. There was no flesh on him. When his
shoes were taken off the skin peeled off with them. He
asked for a drink of water, and those were the only words
he spoke. He became unconscious and died the same night.
Dr. Champneys said that deceased was brought into the
Whitechapel workhouse insensible and very cold. He was
miserably clad and was exceedingly emaciated. Stimulants
were administered, but death ensued in a few hours- The
post mortem examination showed that there was no fat in
the body. The stomach was empty. The cause of death
was an effusion of serum on the brain, caused by want of
food and exposure to the cold. His apparent age was 60
years. The police might easily have mistaken his state of
insensibility for the result of intoxication. The jury re-
turned a verdict of—Death from effusion on the brain, acce-
lerated by want and exposure.
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SHAKsPERE NOT OVER-RATED !—Lorarougham
(in reference to the late paragraph in the Atheneum) has
stated that he " may have said that some able men seem to
devote too much of their time to collecting anecdotes of
Shakspere, but never that he was over-rated, or that his
opinion differed from the rest of the world." So much for
Lord Brougham's depreciation of Shakspere.