The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-18 00:00:00

THAMES.

STEALING SHIP'S STORES.—John Thomas, described as
a ship's steward, about 33 years of age, was brought before
Mr. Partr'dge charged with stealing 10 lbs. of salt pork.
Thomas Holligan, a watchman in the service of the East
and West India Dock Company, stated that at half-past 5
yesterday afternoon the prisoner came to the river entrance
of the East India Dock with a bundle under his arm, and,
as ho was about to pass out, he asked him what it contained,
to which the prisoner replied, " Old lumber." He opened
the bundle, and found it to contain salt pork. He searched
the prisoner's pockets, in which he discovered six ship's
biscuits. The prisoner said the pork was old and con-
demned stores lying about the deck of the ship Washington
Irving, on which he had been employed. The pork was
good and new, and had only been on board the Washington
Irving three or four days.
Mr. Partridge sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for one calendar mcnth.

Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, afterwards made an earnest
appeal to the magistrate to substitute a pecuniary fine for
the imprisonment, and said the prisoner came from Ports-
mouth, and had only been in the Port of London a few
days. The prisoner had been in various situations in the
royal navy and the merchant service, and had given much
satisfaction to his superiors. The prisoner had al-
ways maintained a good character for honesty and so-
briety. This was the prisoner's first offence, and if he
was sent to prison he would be prevented going to sea, and
his family would suffer. Mr. Young then handed to the
magistrate a large number of testimonials of good character
and certificates of service and discharge, describing the
prisoner's character for ability and good conduct to be very
good.

Mr. Partridge said ;hat under the circumstances he
lought he should be justified in rescinding his first
sen-
tence, and should order the pi isoner to pay a fine of £3.

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The penalty was instantly paid, and the prisoner was
iberated.

ITALY.

(From the Correspondent of the Morning Post.j
ROME, DEC. 9.

The threatening aspect of the political horizon,
especially in Germany, having reminded King
Maximilian 11. of his duties at home, his Majesty
took leave of the Sovereign Pontiff on Saturday
morning at the Vatican, and started yesterday for
Munich, abandoning his quiet artistical retirement
at the Vila di Malta much sooner than he originally
contemplated,

The pamphlet, " Napoleon 111. et le Coo gres" has
produced a strong sensation here, as in other parts
of Europe, with its cry of " Guerre pour guerre!"
but the Pontifical Government will hardly be re
luctant to witness any appeal to the fortune of
war, from which there might possibly result a
restoration of its lost provinnes. Monsignore de
MV rode, his Holiness's indefatigable Minister of
NArar, is at work night and day increasing and
improving the contents of the Papal arsenals, no
doubt with a view to contributing a contingent to
the Catholic army of a new holy alliance at the
moment of need. Nine complete batteries of artillery
and 24,000 rifles are stored up already, and military
equipments of all kinds are perpetually being fur-
nished, to the consternation of the Finance Minister,
Monsignore Ferrari, whose remonstrances, how-
ever, on the expense of such proceedings aro soon
stopped by Monsignore de Merode's reply that the
money he lays out is not derived from the Papal
treasury, but from the Catholic contributions of
ali Europe. From the same source men will be
forthcoming to use all these weapons at the fitting
mcment, it is to be interred, for otherwise the
armament is out of proportion to the military ne
cessities of a State barely numbering 600,000 souls,
and garrisoned by foreign troops.
The festival of St. Barbara,
rcvered as the
patroness of artillerymen, was celebrated on Friday
last at the Pretorian camp, where the corps of artil-
lery offered a banquet to the generals and superior
officers of the Pontifical army at the new barracks
erected within tnat ancient area.

The following remarks on the event are made by
the Correspondance de Rome;-- no thing must
be well observed, which is that the Pontifical
army, representing at the present day the Catholic
element in all the height and energy of devotion,
bears in itself the germs of a complete restoration
of the Pontifical power. At Rome, as well as at
Castelfidardo and Ancona, it affirms in the sight of
the world the existence of the royalty of the Vicar
of Jesus Christ, and it has a right to the love of the
universal Church, and to the respect of its enemies."
From these expressions it is evident that Pius IX.,
as a King, is attached to the ultimo ratio regunz,
and that he still trusts to the valour of his own bat-
talions far the ultimate recovery of the lost pro-
vinces.

I had the honour of seeing his Holiness to-day
looking well and happy. He was going to pay a
visit to the occupants of the Nazarine College, an
establishment situated at an awkward turn in a
narrow street, with a door which I should not have
supposed capable of admitting the ponderous Pon-
tifical equipage; but his Holiness's coachman, an
imposing personage of the Daniel Lambert stamp,
achieved the awkward turn, entered the narrow
door with his six horses and vast vehicle, without
the eighth of an inch to spare on either side, set
down the Pope at the grand staircase, and went on
to turn in the courtyard beyond with a dexterity
uite worthy of the exalted
which showed him to be q
position be occupies.
On Tnursday last two members of the Cochin-
Chinese Embassy to Paris, Mnsrs. Tri-Cong-Ding-
Ky and Pe-Ho-Ang, returning home on board a
Spanish steamer, touched at Civita Vecchia, came
up to Rome, and were received by the Pope, to
whom they announced that the free exercise of the
Catholic religion bad been granted in the Annamite
,;empire, and that Pontifical subjects would hence-
forward enjoY there the same rights and privileges
as French and Spanish subjects. The Pope received
ihme Envoys, themselves Catholics, very affec-
tionately. They were accompanied by Commandant
Montejer and five other Spanish officers.
On Saturday, the sth instant, Count de Sartiges
had the honour of presenting to the Pope, in a pri-
vate audience, the letters accrediting him as French
Ambaesador to the Holy See, His Excellency after-
wards paid a visit to Cardinal Antomelli.
Mr. Odo Russell has telegraped from Turin for
his lascia passare to be sent to Civita Vecchia, and
is hourly expected in Rome.

PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN.
—Names of Candidates who passed the Msjor Examination
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as Pharmaceutical Chemists—William Gowland, Sunder-
land ; William Heathorn, Maidstone; Richard Hopgood,
Chipping Norton; jaequest Olivier, Mauritius; Montague
J• it. Hoskin, Southan3Ptoll ; ani Frederick C. M.
Beminster,