The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-05 00:00:00

rmE .SitJN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, if 465,,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,--This Day.

Rome and the Portuguese Court.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
THE CASE or MR. HENRY TaNrs.l,Er.—The sitting
magistrate (Mr: Arnold) has received the following letter:
" Worshipful Sir,—
.1 have read a leading article in the
Morning Advertiser of the 23rd ult., respecting the case of
Henry Townley, an old soldier. The article strongly re-
commends the public to assist him, but the journal, as a
rule, declines to receive subscriptions. Being of the
opinion of a subscriber of the Ist of September, that pub-
licity may cause others like myself to subscribe. I trust
your worship will pardon the liberty I have taken, and
receive any subscriptions on behalf of the old soldier.—l
remain, your most obedient servant, J. GOUGH Maldon-
road, Haverstock-hill.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
• LISBON, Aug. 30.
In.the Chamber of Deputies, on the 28th inst.,
Senor Tomas Ribiero addressed the following ques-
tion to the Government relative to the alleged re-
fusal of the Papal Nuncio to admit Prince Amadeus
as proxy for King Victor Emmanuel at the baptism
of the infant prince. Senor Ribiero said :—" The
Minister for Foreign Affairs having declared him-
self ready to reply to a question of which I have
already given notice, I shall now enter upon the
subject. The facts are serious, and I shall endea-
vour to be as parliamentary as possible. Every-
body knows that the periodical press of the capital
and the public generally arc discussing an insult
supposed to have been offered to the first citizen of
the country, and that all desire to be edified re-
specting what has passed. It is said that an august
prince arrived here to fulfil important functions at
the baptism of the Infante, and it was seen with as-
tonishment that this prince left Lisbon before even
the ceremony took place. I should greatly regret
that these circumstances should constitute an offence
to the royal person, and that the dignity of the
country should have suffered. Consequently, I
should wish to know if the Government is aware
of these facts; whether, also, it has been consulted
or not upon the expediency of the choice of the
godfather destined to hold the Infante at the bap-
tismal font ; and, finally, whether notes have been
exchanged respecting certain doubts that may have
arisen."

The writer has forwarded 255. as his own subscription
and ss. from "R. B." Air. Townley can have the money
provided for his use by applying at the court.
DETERMINED SUICIDE OP A RIFLE VOLUNTEER.—About
two o'clock this morning it was discovered that a man
about 30 years of age, named Frederick Lawton, a stage
carpenter, and also a member of the 29th Middlesex Rifles,
had committed suicide at No. 38, Great Windmill-street,
Haymarket. It appears that at the time above-stated the
wife of the deceased went home and found the deceased
lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Sergeant Lees, 9C,
and a constable, as also Mr. Harris, surgeon, of Windmill-
street, were called in, when the head of the deceased was
found to be most frightfully shattered, he having dis-
charged the contents of a rifle in his mouth. Attached
to the trigger of the rifle was a loop, into which the de-
ceased had placed his foot, so as to enable him to dis-
charge the rifle. It is said that the deceased was an ex-
cellent shot, and had received several prizes from rifle
corps. Some unpleasantnesS between the deceased and
his wife is alleged to be the cause of the deceased com-
mitting the desperate act.

Count d'Airla, Minister for Foreign Affairs, re-
plied as follows :—I thank the hon. member for
giving me the opportunity of correcting the inna-
curate statements current on this subject. There
has been neither correspondence nor diplomatic
conference on this question with the representative
of the Holy See at our Court. The prince alluded
to did not come as proxy for any person, his only
object being to pay a visit to the Queen, as his other
brothers have done. I might confine myself to
these few words, but I will add that the dignity of
the country has been in no way injuredpseeing that
any attempt of such a character would not have
been tolerated by any person whatever."

Senor Ribiero—" The explanation just afforded
by the Minister fully satisfies me, and I am de-
lighted that the country will thus learn that its dig-
nity has suffered no injury."

The Navigation Treaty between Prussia
and Great Britain.

(REUTERS EXPRESS.)
• FRANKFORT, Sept. 2.
Various rumours have been current as to the
object of the recent journey of Lord Napier, the
English Ambassador at Berlin, to Gostein. It has
now transpired that the real motive was the con-
clusion and signature of a treaty of navigation
between Great Britain and Prussia. The treaty
consists of seven articles. Its aim is stated in
the preamble to be a further development of the
treaties of April 2, 1824, and March 2, 1841,
respecting the mutual treatment of the ships of
both countries, in accordance with changes in the
navigation laws since those periods. In both States
(including the British colonies and foreign posses-
sions, but with regard to coast navigation only
where such have been or shall in future be opened
by Act of Parliament), the ships and cargoes of the
one Power, no matter whence they hail or whither
they are bound, or whence the cargoes are obtained,
or whither they are destined, are to be treated in
every respect in the same manner as the ships and
cargoes of the other Power. This clause, however,
has no bearing upon exclusive rights of fishery
within the waters of either country, and upon the
local privileges of certain classes in Great Britain
in individual harbours. Privileges and rights granted
in this respect by one of the contracting parties to a
third Power shall be simultaneously and uncondi-
tionally extended to the other. Another article re-
fers to the protection and assistance upon the strand-
ing or wreck of a war vessel or merchantman be-
longing to one of the contracting parties upon the
coasts of the other (treatment, expenses, &c., as
-with native ships) ; and a further clause settles the
legal assistance to be given in delivering up deser-
ters by the local authorities of each party to the
consuls-general, &c., in the territories of the other.
The right of every present or future State of the
Zollverein to join this treaty is reserved. Its dura-
tion is to be the same as that of the treaty con-
cluded between the Zollverein and Great Britain
upon the 30th May last year. The ratifications are
to be exchanged in Berlin within six months, or, if
possible, earlier, and the treaty is to come in force
four weeks afterwards.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

Lorcnox, Sept. s.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ardbeston,
from London.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Duke of
Cornwall, scraw steamer, from London.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 3.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—A.. W.
Singleton, from New York.
CLYDE, Sept. 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lorganhall,
from Quebec.
SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 4.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Ripon,
steamer, for Alexandria.

SWANSEA, Sept. 4.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Governor,
for Coquimbo.
LLANELLY, Sept. 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Brilliant,
from St. John's, N.B.
CARNARTON, Sept. 2.—Wind W.—Arrived—St. Peter's,
from St. John's, N.B.
Duna, Sept. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Hannah, front
Quebec.
OFF DARTMOUTH, Sept. 3.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
Georgina, from Rio Janeiro.

[Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 4—Leopard, steamer, from Hamburg.
Arrived, Sept. s—Carl Fifteen, steamer, from Gothen

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed—Tyne Queen, screw steamer, from Shields for
Malaga. •

A CURIOUS DEER-STAKING ADVENTURE.—The
Inverness Courier publishes the following extract
from a letter written a few days ago by Mr. Horatio Ross :
—" Last Monday my eldest son and I had a famous day's
sport sport in this little forest (Glendibidalo). We took different
beats. I killed two stags,and came home. Just before
dinner the servant announced to me that a wounded stag
was to be seen descending a hill near the lodge. I took my
Westley Richard's carbine and ran out to try and shoot
him, but about a mile from the cottage I fell in with a herd
of very fine stags, which had been sent over the hill by my
son, and I got two out of the herd, weighing 161- and 15st.
When I returned I found that he (my son) had killed
three, including the wounded deer that passed the lodge,
making seven stags in one day, and all fine clean deer. He
lost an eighth in a very provoking manner. At his second
stalk he with his two shots knocked over three stags—one
was killed on the spot, the other two wounded. Both got
up one passed the cottage as I have described, and was
afterwards killed ; the other walked quietly for a couple of
hundred yards and lay down. When my son proceeded to
load he, to his great disgust, found that all his bullets had
dropped out of his pockets in crawling up to the herd
of deer, and there was he with an empty rifle, and a
wounded stag close to him. Nothing could be done but sit
down and watch the stag, 'and send the forester for more
bullets. This he did, and sat for an hour and a half close to
the stag, each eyeing the other. When at last the forester
reappeared, and was seen approaching, the stag got on his

legs, went over the ridge of the hill, and was never seen
again. It was a curious deer-stalking adventure—almost
equal to what once occurred to me many years ago in Mar
Forest. I had killed a stag and was walking home, the
ponies following with the dead deer walking a mile be-
hind. A herd of deer crossed the river and passed me. I
easily got up to them and rolled a stag over. I went to the
stag and saw the shot had passed through his lungs, so to
finish him, I put the rifle close to his side and fired the
other ball through his chest. I then took him by the
horns to drag him down to the path, intending to leave
him on it, so that the men with the ponies might bring him
to Mar Lodge. When I raised him I found he could stand,
and he ran about 20 yards down the hill and fell. I
thought it would be easier for me to send him down the
hill in this way than to drag the great heavy brute. Six
times I lifted him on his legs, intending to kill him when
he reached the path; but when he reached it, the ground
was level And he did not fall, but went off. My rifle was
empty—he crossed the river, the sun had set, and I never
saw him again !"

The Russian Police Gazette states that a hermit,
who had inhabited for 50 years a desert spot in the district
of Tikhvine (Novogorod), has just died, aged 120.