The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1863.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE WILFUL DAMAGE ACT.—COMMITTALS WITHOUT
FINES.—Tvio oases of wilful window-breaking came before
Mr. Tyrwhitt this morning. In the first case, two women,
named Maria Thomas and Harriett Frost, were charged
with breaking a pane of glass of the value of £8 in the win-
dow of Mr. William Carter, licensed victualler, of the Hay-
market; and in the second, a woman named Arabella
Bridges, was charged with breaking a pane of glass of the
value of 2s. 6d., not being able to carry out htr intention
of breaking one of the value of £2O, in the window of Mr.
Wm. Raymond Sams, Sams' Library, 1, St. James's-street.
In Mr. Carter's case George Forster, the cellarman, saw
the prisoners throw the stones, as also did Edward Bovey,
85 C, who said that while taking the prisoners to the sta-
tion Thomas said that she would be revenged if sho had

seven years for it.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, Mr. Carter said the pane of
glass was of the value of £B, and that they had been absent
from his house for a quarter of an hour, and then returned
and broke the window.

The prisoners admitted breaking the glass, but said they
had given a shilling to the barmaid in payment for some
rum between some halfpence, and the barmaid refused to

return it.

Anne Maria Middleton, the barmaid, denied that the
prisoners had given her a shilling, and said they used very
filthy language.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should commit Thomas, who had
not only committed a serious outrage, but had attempted to
injure the barmaid's character for honesty, for two months
with hard labour without the option of paying a fine, and
be should order Frost to pay £5 damage and 20s. fine, or
six weeks imprisonment in default.
In Mr. Sams' case, Mr. George Lock, from Mr. Sams',
deposed to seeing the prisoner Bridges, after attempting to
break a pane of glass of the value of £2O, and failing to do
so, deliberately drive her fist through a small pane.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked Mr. Lock whether anything had
been said to the prisoner ?
Mr. Lock—Not a word, neither did the prisoner say any-
thing.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was committed for
a month with hard labour, without the option of pay-
ing a fine,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

TATTERSALL'S MONDAY.

The attendance this afternoon was very numerous, and
the Tomato case was again discussed among the principal
members of the room. It has already been stated that a
petition was drawn up at the Hampton Meeting, asking
that the question might be re-opened, and in reference to
this the following notification was issued in the course of
the afternoon :

" Tattersall's, Monday, June 15.
" The members of the committee are hereby summoned
to attend on Monday, June 22, at four o'cleck, to take into
consideration a petition signed by numerous members of the
Subscription-room.
(Signed) " H. J. Rous.
" G. PAYNE.
" C. GREVILLE.
" H. LOWTHER."

Settling on the Hampton and Newton events chiefly en-
grossed attention until a late period of the afternoon, and
the betting that took place was by no means of an exten-
sive character. Subjoined were the prices at the close :

NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
100 to 12 agst Caller Ou (offered)
10 to 1 agat Brighton (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Marigold (offered)
100 to 8 agst Carbineer (taken and offered)
100 to 8 agst Doefoot (taken and offered)
15 to 1 agst Monk (taken)
15 to 1 agat Btilliant (taken)
100 to 6 aget Polynesia (offered)
25 to 1 agst Prologue (taken)
GOODWOOD STASES.
100 to 7 agst linutsford (offered)
ST. LEGER.
4to 1 agst Ranger (taken)
7to 1 agst Lord Clifden (taken)
7to 1 agst Lord Stamford's lot (taken)
9to 1 agst Queen Bertha (taken)
THE DERBY, 1864.
9to 1 agst Scottish Chief (offered)
100 to 6 agst Blair Athol (offered)
18 to 1 agst Ackworth (offered)
30 to 1 agst The Doctor (offered)
50 to 1 agst Birch Broom (taken)
50 to 1 agsf Prince Arthur (offered)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER, MONDAY.]

Fsr the Northumberland Plate a few commissions made
Caller Ou the favourite, she being supportefl at 8 to 1.
The price was offered against Brighton, but nothing
higher, as there were several offers to take 9 to 1, which
met with no response. The little done on any of the others
calls for no particular notice. Closing prices :

NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
Bto 1 agst Caller On (taken and offered)
Bto 1 agst Brighton (offered)
14 to 1 agst (Stanton (taken)
14 to 1 agst Doefoot (taken and offered)
14 to 1 agst Pilot (taken)
14 to 1 agst Clarior (offered)
16 to 1 agst Daniel O'Connell (offered)
20 to 1 agst Polynesia (taken)
20 to 1 agst Brilliant (taken)l
33 to 1 agst Oldminster (taken)
THE DERBY.
4o 1 agst Doctor (taken and wanted)

The Emperor of Austria and the Museum o f
Art and Industry.

It may not be uninteresting to note, at the pre-
sent time, when so much feeling respecting the De-
partment of Science and Art is being exploded, and
those inimical to its administration, and denying its
merits or services es a state institution, are loud in
their fears about the future occupancy of the ground
occupied by the late International Exhibition, the
estimation by foreign critics of this establishment,
which was directly created under the influence
and suggestion of the Prince Consort. We
have had handed to us an autograph letter
from the Emperor of Austria to the Archduke
Rainer, which was registered as a state document
but a month or two back, and which we will present
without comment or further introduction :
"Dear Cousin Archduke Rainer,—

"Inasmuch as it is an urgent want for the eleNa-
tion of Austrian industry to accord as much assist-
ance as possible to the native manufacturers, who
so much and in such large numbers desire to further
commercial activity through the medium of art and
science, and in particular by the improvement of
taste, I have given orders that an institution, to be
named the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry,
shall be founded as soon as possible.
" Within this museum will be gathered objects
out of the collections of my Palace, the Belvedere
Arsenal, the University of Vienna, the Polytechnic
Institutions, and from other public buildings of the
same kind. These objects will be lent under reser-
vation of the rights of property, and after having
served their purpose will be returned in exchange
for others. I have also every confidence in the
proved patriotism of our various towns, and espe-
cially of my chief and royal city of Vienna, as well
as that of the nobles and the public in general, that
they will, after the example of my palaces, render
the museum useful by their scientific or artistic
collections.

" But inasmuch as the establishment of this
museum, on account of the liberal scale upon which
it is to be founded, will at all events require some
time for preparation, and as the want of such an
institution is urgently demanded by the art-indus-
try of the day, I have granted the use of the banquet-
ting-house of my palace for the provisional carrying
out of the museum and awaiting the future enlarge-
ment of the same.

" The works of art destined to be exhibited there
are from my Palace Library, from the Belvedere
Picture Gallery, the furniture and tapestry of my
town palace and country palaces, Schonbrun,
Laxenberg, and others, the Cabinet of Antiquities,
the Ambraser Collection, my Treasury, and from
the arsenal before the Belvedere line. In this
manner it is to be hoped that the corporation of
Vienna, the nobility, and public, will also contri-
bute articles to the museum from time to time out
of their Vienna City Arsenal and private collections.
" The works of art are to be put in good order,
and labelled with the necessary explanations to
assist examination and study before being sent in.
Thus an opportunity is afforded to the Austrian
manufacturers themselves to send rare and beautiful
objects to be exhibited. In connection with the
museum will be photographic and casting depart-
ments.

" But, first of all, a charter must be granted, and
for the working of this as well as for all the prepa-
rations necessary for the opening of the museum, I
have considered it necessary to name a provisional
committee, which, under the presidency of the
Ministerial Chief of Department Carl Edlen a Sevi-
nisky, will consist of Johan Gabriel Seial, Master
of my Treasury and Keeper of my Cabinets of
Coins and Antiquities ; Dr. Gustav Heider, the
Ministerial Art Referee and Secretary ; and of the
Professor Extraordinary of the History of the Fine
Arts at the University of Vienna, Rudolph Von
Eitelberger, to whom I have given power, in case
of unforeseen necessity, to add another to their
number, and if required to consult connoisseurs.
This committee has its propositions, and the charter,
as decided on by them, ready to lay before you, for
your opinion immediately, and I hope this oppor-
tunity will be made the best use of, and that the
charter, as well as any further propositions, may be
laid before me at the very earliest for my final de-
cision. " FRANCIS JOSEPH."

MARKETS—This Day.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover
do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs ; tuid straw, £1 lOs to £1 165 per load.
Trade slow.

CUMBERLAND.—MewIow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s; clover
do., £3 108 to £5 108 ; and straw, £1 lOs to £ll6s per load.
A heavy demand.

WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs; clover
do., £3 lOs to 15 lOs; and straw, Ll 10a to £1 16s per load.
Trade dull.

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The dealings have been of a very limited descrip-
tion, operations having been deferred until the public sales
which take place to-day.

SITGA.B,—The demand has been less active, and previous
prices have been barely supported. In the refined market
there is little change to report.

RlCE.—Only a limited business has been done, and there
is no change to report in prices.

TALLOW.—The market has been very dull, and transac-
tions for forward delivery have hen effected at a decline
of about W. to 9d, per owt.—the quotations being, P.Y,C.
on the spot, 425. 9d. ; and last 3 months, 455. 6d. per cwt.

A YANKEE JOKE.—Thousands of dollars are
squandered every day upon the most useless articles
of fancy, and the jokes cracked are innumerable. One
says —" Do you know how we hold our title to Vicksburg ?"
—" No ; how is it ?"—" By Grant," is the reply. Another
says, "To be taken for Grant—ed. The capture of Vicks-
burg."

THE COMMEMORATION AT OXFORD,

OXFORD, June 15.

The solemn, quiet days of Oxford's academic year,
the regular routine of chapel and of college, end
with this week in all the joviality which marks
" Commemoration." In this great University re-
joicing dreary recollections of "gated" days, ruined
honours, and plucked fame are all alike forgotten.
It is Commemoration week—when unpopular proc-
tors have to screw up their courage to meet the un-
dergraduates in the Theatre; when gay crowds and
pleasant parties throe& the fine old College Quads;
when the dim religious-looking windows are filled
with:blooming faces, and the sanctuaries of the grass
plots are trodden unheeded. Oxford at all times is
a cheerful place, and in Commemoration time is
merrier than ever ; but the Commemoration of this
year will be one, the like of which the University
has never seen since when, just 49 years ago, the
Sheldon:an Theatre was honoured with the presence
of the Allied Sovereigns; when George IV. was Re-
gent. But, even the rejoicings of that great occasion
are likely to be surpassed on this, for now the under-
graduates have to welcome their late fellow-gowns-
man and his fair young bride, and the University au.
thorities have to do honour to one who hereafter it is
to be believed will do such honour to them, and, over
and above all, to suit the convenience of their Royal
visitors, the fetes and rejoicings of Commemoration
this year have all to be said or sung,alanced or eaten,
in two long summer days, instead of six. The pro-
gramme offered for the acceptance, and, if possible,
for the enjoyment also of the youthful pair is of
the same diversified kind as marked every day
of the Prince's long route through Canada into
the far west beyond the Mississippi. It is such a
programme as only a very young and very happy
pair could venture to undertake, and we much
doubt if a young Princess was ever called upon, as
an enjoyment, to go through so much before. Leav-
ing aside the railway journey down to this city to-
morrow, there are also private receptions and public
routes to be gone through—a public welcome, with
addresses, at Magdalen-bridge, a procession through
Oxford, a grand distribution of prizes to volunteers,
a special congregation in the Sheldenian Theatre, a
Fancy Fair and Bazaar which their Royal High-
nesses are to open, a Horticultural and Flower Show
to which they are to accord a similar honour, a mag-
nificent banquet to which 400 guests will sit down
in the hall of Christchurch in the evening, and a ball
in the beautiful new Corn Exchange, where the
visitors are somewhat rashly expected not only to
find room for themselves, but room for the dancing
also. This is a fair amount of festivity for one day,
and that which follows it is just as good or as bad
—certainly beginning earlier and probably ending
later, and including another grand banquet and ball,
a rowing match, the procession of boats, a Free-
masons' fete, a great collation at All Souls, and,
above and beyond all, the Enceenia or Commemora-
tion—where the undergraduates can express their
opinion, and when they will avail themselves of their
privilege to the utmost, as Dr. Pusey and others
already know. With such great things on hand, it
is almost needless to say in what a fever of prepara-
tion Oxford is just now. Great Deans, Wardens,
and Principals are immersed in arrangements for
banquets and dances, and have to bend their minds to
the minute contemplation of such frivolities as never
entered the heads of Dons before. In every College
committees of some sort or kind are sitting, gigantic
piles of plates and table furniture, more or less
attractive, may be found in odd nooks and out-
of-the-way corners, and in every " Quad" the
residence of some fortunate dispenser of patronage,
in the way of tickets, may be known at once
by the hurried arrivals and slow disappointed de-
partures of the applicants, who come to prove, but
always in vain, that there is room at banquet and
at hall for them. The claim for tickets of every
kind has been enormous, and the coartesy and
kindly wish of the university authorities to favour
the applications of those who had even the re-
motest pretensions to be present on any occasion
have been tasked to the utmost. No reduction in
the number of these applications is likely to be
found as time draws on. Every train brings in
fresh crowds of visitors, and every minute the car-
riages of the country gentry come rolling in. Ac-
commodation in the literal sense of the term is
scarcely to be had for money, and certainly not for
love, and the local journals, who appear to have for
the thousandth time consulted the " oldest inhabi-
tant" declare on his unimpeachable authority that
Oxford never was so full. It is quite easy to believe
this when we find that the notices of beds to let
have all disappeared from the heart of the city, and
been driven to the remotest purlieus, such as
would only be discovered in the wanderings of
some innless travellers. On the Sunday before
Commemoration Day all, without exception, high or
low, gentle or simple, come to promenade in the
evening under the grand
.old avenue of elms in
Christchurch meadow. On this occasion, too, all
the belles in Oxford do their best to appear in
toilettes worthy the occasion, and hence its name
of " Show Sunday." Last Sunday it was a mere
contradiction in terms to call it a walk, or a pro-
menade, or a show, or anything but a dense crowd
which feebly tried to circulate along the avenue or
kept standing still till dusk, when the bell rang and
the solemn booming from " Tom Tower" rang out
the last exhibitors from the " Show," to be early
afoot again this morning, beseeching, intriguing,
striving in every way known to f'amale inge-
nuity for tickets for one of the many ce-
lebrations to-morrow. Fortunately for the
Princess, and fortunately, perhaps, for the im-
pressions which she will take away from this famous
seat of learning, Thursday is to be a quiet day—a
day devoted to a long and strictly private visit to
the famous monuments and buildings of the Univer-
sity. This, however, is to be the only quiet day,
for on Tuesday and Wednesday there will be not a
moment's rest for either of the Royal visitors.
Amid the general bustle and excitement going on
on all sides, even the quaint, gray old Colleges are
putting on a gayer aspect. The turf of the quad-
rangles, always beautifully soft and green, has been
mowed and rolled until it looks like the finest
velvet. The Men's rooms have been swept and
garnished for the visits of critical sisters and cousin',
and Chapels and Halls have been trimmed up so as
to look their oldest yet their best. The noble re-
fectory of Christ Church, in which the Prince and
Princess are to be entertained at the grand banquet,
has been tastefully re-decorated, and the portraits
of many of the many eminent men who once sat as
students within its walls, having been cleverly
cleaned and restored, now present a brilliant and
imposing array. The Dean's apartments at the
other side of the quadrangle have been handsomely
fitted up for the reception of the Royal party.
Exeter and All Souls' are also preparing to do
honour to the Prince. In the picturesque gardens
of St. John's rows of dainty booths, gay with many-
coloured canvass, and decked with flags and arti-
ficial flowers, are being reared for the aristocratic
saleswomen who are to hold a Fancy Fair there to-
morrow for the benefit of the new buildings of the
Radcliffe Infirmary. The grounds of Trinity and
Worcester are also being made ready for a Hor-
ticultural Show and Masonic Fete. The Corn-
Exchange, a large new building, in the interior of
which coloured brickwork is introduced with
novel and striking effect, is, under the busy hands
of painters and upholsterers, assuming a festive
appearance worthy of the two balls which are to
take place there on auccessive evenings, and which,
it is certain, from the number of tickets issued,
will, as we have intimated, be densely crowded. In
front of the Town-hall the inscription "Let the
earth rejoice and the nations be glad" will blaze at
night in letters of fire. Along the High-stree,t, from
m
Magdalen-bridge to St. Aldates, wooden galleries
have been raised at many convenient and some in-
convenient positions for the accommodation of spec-
tators to view the entrance of the Prince and Prin-
cess. Stout barriers have also been erected to guard
all the entrances to the Sheldonian Theatre, and to
check a premature irruption of violent under-
graduates or excited strangers. A more substantial
and order has been
guarantee, however,. for p
furnished by the arrival oleSsucpeerin'endent Walker,
of the A Division of the Metropolitani_ P. olice., with'
to whom. the U. niver.sity has
200 of his picked men,,
transferred for the time all its ancient. privileges.
There will soon be scarcely any town in England
which has not at some. time. or other. been given over
moral guardianship
.of this celebrated to the
an:: there
Divi-
sion of Police and its experienced. leader,
is little doubt that. Superintendent Walker will not
fail in his first yisitc.to a University town to graduate
with honours.