The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-19 00:00:00

THAMES.

A VERY DISORDERLY PAtrEß,—Margaret O'Connor,
who has been a very industrious, thrifty,
and steady woman,
but who has recently got into very irregular and drunken
habits, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with
being intoxicated and disorderly.
Mr. Thomas Moffatt, porter of the Mile-end Old-town
workhouse, said the prisoner came to him on Saturday
night, at sight o'clock, and demanded a night's lodging.
She was very much;intoxicated, and he asked her what she
shapehad c done e
out-door with
money
therelief.
She she received on Friday in the
said she had applied a por-
tion of it in payment of a night's lodging, and spent the
remainder. He asked her what she had done with her
shawl, and she answered him that she had pawned it.
He told her to obtain her shawl, and that ho would not ad-
mit her without. She then gave utterance to a volley of
foul abuse, and said she had shown up Mr. Slight, the
relieving officer, in the newspapers, and would show him
up as we •ll He tried to get her away, but she would not
leave, and her cries, oaths, noise, and gesticulations caused
a mob to assemble in front of the workhouse. He put up
with her abuse for two hours, and then gave her into cus-
tody. She was before the Court a few weeks since for
attempting to commit suicide, and on another occasion for
being drunk and disorderly.
The Prisoner—Ho is a false swearing man, yer honour's
worship, and a rogue into the bargain—the murthering
villain, wid his black whiskers.
Mr. Partridge—Don't call him names.

The prisoner—Ho knows he is a murthering rogue, and
it's me yer honour that's paid riot and taxes and every-
thing.

Mr. Moffatt said the guardians of Mile-end Old-town
had acted with great kindness to the prisoner, and, instead
of passing her to Ireland, gave her out-door relief.
The Prisoner—Och, yer honner, he is a rogue and a half ;
what can Ido wid the great big thief. (Laughter.)
Mr. Partridge said it was quite evident the prisoner was
a very disorderly badly-conducted woman. He sentenced
her to pay a fine of 55., or be imprisoned for 7 days.
The Prisoner—Och, the murthering rogue ; look at him,
yer honner. (Loud laughter.)

MR. TIIACKERAY is about to evnelteirn
hill
the Cor upon wholly
9t
new ground in his forthcomhingh
another distinguished author s,it ,
Magazine, in the pages of w ics,
novel in
bt3,
i O,
appear.
THE COURT-MARTIAL ON COLONEL CRAWLEY
will probably begin in the second week of Novena-
' ber ; when it will end is beyond our powers of guessing. A
number of the officers have received leave from this week
till November the 6th and October the 30th. The men have
been, by the judicious arrangements of Brigadier Hodge,
attached to the 13th for service, and have something to do,
instead of wasting their time in canteens, tap-rooms, or
idlenus. The cause of the delay in proceeding to trial is
merely the non-arrival of the last batch of witnesses from
India, It is to be hoped the Judge-Advocate will confine
the evidence closely to the points raised in the two charges
on which Colonel Crawley is to be tried, and that he will
not permit extraneous issues to be raised. With such a
host of witnesses the trial might be made as long as that of
'Warren Hastings, it every hare that may be started is to be
run to decith,-4rllzy and 4ary Gazette.

_ .
The departure of the Empress for the A- ledger_
ranean, at the moment the Emperor and his son set
out on their return to Paris, has
given rise to a
ie p
nicubald,
variety of rumours, not exectly among the
but iu some of the Paris sa/ons. Important
) pressing business, it was said, could only explain
why the Empress chose such a time to make a tour
5 along the coast of Spain ; and it was given out that
her Majesty had a mission of such moment that it
could not be entrusted to anybody but herself.
There were a thousand conjectures as so what that
mission could be. Was it about the Mexican Em-
pire in posse, the Archduchess and the 40,000 sol-
diers that lurked in her " incomparable eyes" (see
M. Debranz's despatch), the Pope, Cardinal Anto-
nelli, Garibaldi, Victor Emmanuel, or President
Davis ? A few whispered that the mission intrusted
to her was to use her influence at the Spanish Court
to prevent a rumoured matrimonial alliance between
some princely house and the family of the Duchess
Montpensier, the Queen's sister. They who repeated
this version forgot that, whereas the Empress's sup- ,
plications failed to save the life of the unfortunate
Ortega, shot for rebellion, it was not likely that
Queen Isabella would be more pliant in a question
relating to her sister.
It is, however, true that there was a mission—
not political, but strictly personal. The Emperor
and Empress usually pay a short visit to a frontier
town of Spain when they happen to be at Biarritz.
They drive to Irun or toFontarabia ; the excursion
by sea is to San Sebastian. On these occasions, of
course, every honour is shown to a foreign Sove-
reign on amicable terms with the Spanish Crown.
The Alcaldes, first and second, the Captain-
General or General Commandant, as the case may be,
all starred to the utmost, the Civil Governor, the
corregidors, the alguazils, and pipe and tabor play-
ers, dressed in their best, are present to welcome the
strangers. The church bells are set a-ringing, and
the military bands strike up "Partant pour la Syrie"
and the " Royal March." The Emperor is so oblig-
ing as to inspect the troops of the garrison, who go
through the " Concha manes uvres," which the Em-
peror, smiling, pronounces to be incapable of im-

provement ; he lavishes high praise on the generals

before him, as well as on the formidable number
contained in the columns of the Guia. He visits the
town-hall, amid much acclamation ; refreshments
are presented, which the Emperor and the Empress
most graciously accept. They admire the large pic-
tures in the grand hall by a native artist, represent-

ng an act of heroism of a renowned sea captain, and

they promise a Sevres vase of much value as a sou-
venir to the Ayuntamiento. Their Majesties do not
fail to visit the church, where they perform their
devotion?. At length, enchanted and enchanting,
they retrace their steps slowly to the quay, embark,
and return to Biarritz. This has been done by the
Emperor and Empress together, or by the Empress
alone, several times. Strange, however, that such
persistent civility has not been responded to by
Queen Isabella. True, whenever the Emperor is in
the neighbourhood the military authorities hasten
to compliment him in the name of their Sovereign,
and the duty is not the less readily gone through,
as it sometimes ends in decorations. But all this
is official, commonplace, and cold. What was de-

sired is that Queen Isabella should profit by their
Majesties' sojourn so near her territory to visit
them. Hitherto the Queen has been obstinate
on this head; all argument, all entreaty was useless,
when she was in the province of Santander not
long ago, in inducing her to visit the Emperor, who

was then expected at Biarritz. The fact is, Queen
Isabella, with or without reason, never had much
liking for the Montijo family; and such as it was,
with time, it has, I fear, diminished. Her Majesty
is as intensely Spanish as her father was. She

perhaps remembers too keenly that at the time of
the Emperor's marriage it was ostentatiously pa-
raded in Paris how certain members of that family
had been, during the war between the two countries,
on the side of France. This was impolitic and un-
necessary. A man who sides with those who are
the enemies of his native country is not likely,
however valuable his services, to be greatly admired
even by those he serves; and how ho would be
viewed by his own countrymen it is unnecessary to
say. The epithet of Afrancesado has not lost, even
in modernised Spain, any of its bitterness. It is to
be feared, also, that the great qualities of the Em-
peror have not quite removed the exaggerated pre-
judices which. a Spanish Bourbon may cherish
against the name of Bonaparte.

A flying visit to the frontier towns has not pro-
duced the desired result ; but the presence of the
Empress in any place within a few hours of the
capital could hardly pass unnoticed without the
appearance of premeditated slight. Once the
Empress was at Alicante, or Valencia, where the
last accounts left her, after her visit to Cadiz,
Seville, and Malaga, there was no alternative. We
hear from Madrid that the Counts of Altamira and
Villafranca have been despatched to Alicante to re-
ceive her former subject, now Empress of the French.
She was expected in Madrid the end of the week,
and was to remain there five days, lodging in the
house of her brother-in-law, the Duke of Alba, and
there was to be offered an apartment in the Royal
Palace. The papers tell us that the Empress was
to maintain the " strictest incognito" during her stay
in the capital.
It is easy to imagine the feeling of her Majesty in
revisiting, after 12 years' absence, a place she once
knew so well. She will doubtless miss the dear old
Puerto del Sol as it was when she knew it; but she
will probably see with pleasure the fami.ar Plaza
del Angel, the Prado, with its alleys and its foun-
tains, the Recolitos, the Plaza de Toros, the Retiro,
and the Fuente Castellano. Her incognito will
enable her to see the suburb of Caramanchal, where
her mother, Madame Mantua, had a villa, which
very probably has not fallen into decay, and on her
leaving those scenes which she knew so well in
times gone by
she may flnd that the wonderful
change in her fortunes, withits state, its ceremonial,
and its etiquette and its attendant cares, has not
brought forgetfulness of the independence and free-
dom of earlier, if not happier days. One satisfac-
will
remain—she. will have been, for
tion, indeed,
however short a time, the guest of her former Sove-
reign.
It remains seen whether Queen to be
Isa-
bella will return the visit next summer at Biarritz.
—Times.

THE WAY TO SUCCESS AT THE BAR is, according
to a Saturday Reviewer, as plain as the road from
the Temple to Westminster Hall. With a strong head,
a strong stomach, high animal spirits strong lungs,
deter-
mination to get on, and good luck, a man will make his
way, and take a higher or lower place, according to his
talents. The absence of any one of these requisites may
trip him up, whatever his talents may be. He will find out
for himself what be wants to know better than any one can
tell him. It is a race for which a man must train on moral
and intellectual beef and beer. If he has not digestion
enough for that diet, he had better let the bar alone.
HERALDIC DIE SINKING ENGRAVING AND WITH
EMBOSSING.—Time was when these beautiful mani-
festations of the fine arts were almost exclusively confined
to the purposes of the Herald's-office for ye Royal signs
manual to documents, charters, &c.. In very early times,
as now, every corporate body of any importance had its en-
graved seal or die, and from the days of the old trade
guilds to those modern corporations under a limited liability
act. Times are now changed. "The ago has grown so
picked the toe of the peasant comes very near the heel of
the courtier." Every body must now have not only a seal,
but a crest is indispensable to Mr. Howard Bugg, should
he have the happiness of a correspondence with
any member of those noble scions of yo British
Aristocracy yclept the Smythes and Browns. _o
common, indeed, has the arts we refer to become, e
few
withal so useful and so economical, that there
r all r: a Irespectable tradesmen who do not resort to each
has
his die
com-
bined for advertising purposes. The merchant
embossed
upon his note paper
sunk,giving out his business and his address,
and the envelope which and
istoj'contain
his missive to its destination. The shrewd
in a neat en-
velope, draper gives you
any copper change you may revile a
name
and address ;
velope, in which is stamped
this reminder of his politeness Mr. Calico's iden-
anindelhoerryeabouts has thus so
forcibly impressed upon your
,im again. Why should not
tity, that you are sure to visit
complete to do the work entire can be
every tradesman take advantage of this means of advertising
himself. A machine comtivn
inspected the old-established
had for a few shillingvs:
Jones, 246, High Holborn, W.O
manufactory of Mr. .
get ,we believe, the best and cheapest machine.
where you can g
either for stamping your own crest or advertising yourself,
as may best suit your humour.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.--This Day.
-
CITY BETTING—THIS DAY.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
4to 2 agst Limosina (taken)
100 to 15 agst Catch-'em Alive (taken)
12 to 1 agst Carnival (taken freely)
15 to 1 agst Summerside (taken)
16 to 1 agst Bathilda (taken)
16 to 1 agst Exchequer (taken)
22 to 1 agst Grand Dame (raken)
2S to 1 agst Despair (taken)
28 to 1 agst Jack of Hearts (taken)
28 to 1 agst Borealis (taken)
30 to 1 agst Cairncastle (taken)
443000
tttooo
cataissattt
Rißloiurnidt)
eahrni (offertllß(teaek
e(
nt eldk)e n
6
66
ttoo agst t
CometA.ntie (ldt(atakken)en)
66 to 2 agst Turcos (taken and offered)

THIItEDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK

THE BOMBAY MAILS.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company, this afternoon The Masailia, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 9.45 a.m. this day:
The mails were to leave for London at 11.30 a.m,

POLAND.

BRESLAU, OCt. 18.

Advices received here from Warsaw state that
all functionaries of Polish nationality are to be
dismissed immediately if stationed on the frontiers,
from the Ist of January if employed at Warsaw.
It is asserted that the Russian language is to
be employed in the Acts of Administration in
Poland.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,This Day.

TATTERSALL'S—MONDAY.
CAMBRIDGDESHIRE.
7to 2 agst Limosina (taken)
Bto 1 agst Catch-'em Alive (taken)
10 to 1 agst Exchequer (taken)
100 to 8 agst Carnival taken)
25 to 1 agst Summerside (taken)
25 to 1 agst Grande Dame (offered)
25 to 1 agst Port Royal (offered)
28 to 1 ag.4 Borealis (taken)
33 to 1 agst Jack of Hearts (taken)
33 to 1 agst Despair (taken)
33 to 1 agst Hubert (taken)
50 to I agst Roman Bee (taken)
50 to 1 agst Birdhill (offered)
2000 to 15 agst 3lyrtle (taken)

LINCOLN RACES—Tuts DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAIII.
CARHOLME STAKES.

Lyra
Fauconburg
OW 2
Five ran.
SELLING H URDLE.

Princess
Cronstadt
Four ran.
LINCOLNSIIIRE HANDICAP.

Monk - --- .
Earl of Surrey .......... 2
Seven ran.
BLANKNEY SELLING SrAKES.

Contractor
Weatherden
od

Five ran.
VOLUNTEER HURDLE RACE.

lietman
Margery ..
Eight ran, lletivan objected to.

The Assault On the Duke of Buckinghaiur

At the borough police-court, Bath, on Saturday,
before the Mayor, Col. Olivier, Major Baker, Capt.
Ford, Dr. Falconer, and Messrs. T. Fuller, C. J.
Vigne, W. Hunt, and T. Gill, George Norton and
William Norton, commercial travellers, of Reading,
were summoned for assaulting the Duke of Buck-
ingham and Chandos on the Bth inst. The court wail
densely crowded, and his grace was accommodated
with a seat on the bench. Mr. Robertson appeared
in support of the complainant, and Mr. Byrne for
the defendants. The Messrs. Norton were also sum-
moned by the Great Western Railway Company for
wilfully interfering with the comforTthoefcphaasrgsenegperres:
Mr. Slack supported this charge.
ferred by the railway company was first brought on
for hearing.
Mr. Slack said since the summonses had been
issued his friend, Mr. Byrne, on behalf of the de-
fendants, had made use of expressions of sincere
regret for their conduct on the occasion, and had
offered to tender in open court a most complete and
ample apology. The railway company having only
at heart the interests of the public, thought they
had sffiuciently performed their duty by taking the
steps they had done, and he therefore applied for
permission to withdraw the summonses. The de-
fendants, besides a declaration of contrition, had un-
dertaken to present a donation of £5 to the Bath
United Hospital, and to pay all the expenses which
had been incurred. He trusted that would satisfy
the magistrate and meet the justice of the case.
Mr. Robertson said that he appeared for the
Duke of Buckingham, and had to say that his grace
had not been actuated in this matter by any vin-
dictive feeling. He (Mr. Robertson) on the part of
the duke had to ask that
,the summonses taken out
might be withdrawn on the defendants apologising
and doing what Mr. Slack had intimated their
readiness to do.
Mr, Byrne, for the defendants, observed that ho
had now to express on behalf of the defendants their
sincere and deep regret for having acted in the
way mentioned by Mr. Slack. He thanked the duke
for his condescension in accepting the apology of the
defendants, and thus terminating a case which was
to them of a most painful character. He hoped the
bench would comply with the request that had been
made to them.

The Mayor remarked that the bench were es'
ceedingly pleased that the cases were to end in the
manner proposed. The magistrates, under the cif:
cumstancesl would willingly allow the Buzzoons"
to be withdrawn.