The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1865.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

a law tending to give greater powers to the muni-
cipal councils and councils-general.
The communes and the departments will thus be
called upon to decide their own affairs, which, de-
cided upon the spot, will be more promptly settled.
This reform will complete the arrangements made
to simplify or support minute regulations which
unnecessarily complicated the wheels of the Admi-
nistration.

The commercial liberty inaugurated by the treaty
with England is extended to our relations with
Germany, Switzerland, and the united kingdom of
Norway and Sweden. The same principles should
naturally apply to commercial navigation, and a law
is being prepared for establishing upon the sea that
competition which alone stimulates progress. The
rapid completion of our railways, canals, and roads
is the necessary complement of the improvement
which have been commenced. We shall this year
accomplish a portion of our task by stimulating
private enterprise or by appropriating to this ob-
ject the resources of the State without compromis-
ing the good economy of our finances, and without
having recourse to credit. The facility of com-
munication in the interior as with the exterior pro-
motes commerce, stimulates industry, and prevents
the too great rarity or abundance of products, the
effects of which are alternately hurtful either to the
consumer or the producer. The more our mercan-
tile marine is extended, the greater will be the faci-
lity of transport, the less cause will there be to
complain of those abrupt changes in the price of
articles of the first necessity. Thus, we shall be
able to meet the partial inconvenience suffered by.
agriculture. Some attribute the momentary suffer-
ing to the suppression of the sliding scale ; they
forget that in 1851; when it was in existence, the
depreciation in the price of cereals was far more
considerable, and that this very year the export of
wheat far exceeds the import.

It is, on the contrary, due to a liberal legislation,
to the impulse given to all the elements of national
wealth, that our foreign commerce, which amounted
in 1851 to two milliards 614 million francs, has now
risen to the prodigious sum of upwards of seven
milliards.

New Bills will be laid before you in another direc-
tion, with the object of increasing the guarantees
of individual liberty. The first authorizes the pro-
visional release, with or without bail, even in crimi-
nal cases ; the second suppresses personal arrest in
civil and commercial matters—an innovation, how-
ever, nothing but the re-enactment of a very
ancient principle. From the earliest ages of Rome
it had been determined that the property, and not
the person, of the debtor, was responsible for the
debt.

Let us therefore continue to follow the course
marked out. Let us live abroad in peace with the
different Powers, and let us not cause the voice of
France to be heard save for law and justice. At
home let us protect religious ideas, without ceding
aught of the civil power ; let us spread education
throughout all classes of society ; let us simplify,
without destroying, our admirable administrative
system ; let us give the commune and the depart-
ment a more independent existence ; let us arouse
individual initiative, and the spirit of association.

Lastly, let us elevate the soul and strengthen the
body of the nation. But while making ourselves
the ardent promoters of useful reforms, let us firmly
maintain the basis of the constitution ; let us op-
pose the exaggerated tendencies of those who pro-
voke changes, with the sole object of sapping that
which we have founded. Utopia is to welfare that
which illusion is to truth; and progress is not the
realisation of a more or less ingenious theory, but
the application of the results of experience, conse-
crated by time, and aecepted by public opinion.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day..

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)

IN RE BAILNETT-APPOINTMENTS OF TRADE ASSIGNEES.

This bankrupt was described as a ship and insurance
broker, of Gracechurch-street, and to-day he came up for
his order of discharge.

Mr. Reed, for the bankrupt, said he believed there was
no opposition to the bankrupt.
Mr. Doria said that he appeared for the assignees, and
he was instructed to say that they were perfectly satisfied
with the accounts as filed. In order that the court might
be under no misapprehension as to the character of the trade
assignees in this case, he (Mr. Doria) might state that he
had been chosen by creditors representing £2,000 in value.
His Honour—You have anticipated that which I was
about to ask Mr. Doria, because in most cases one knows
that the trade assignee is a sham.
Mr. Doria—He is no sham in this case.

Mr. Reed—l can explain the cause of the losses suffered
by the bankrupt. He speculated in the corn trade, and the
g eat influx of corn from the Baltic to this country has
caused the present bankruptcy. _ _

His Honour—Very well; there is no opposition, and the
assignee is satisfied. The bankrupt will pass, and take his
order.

Order accordingly.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,--This Day.

MARL BOROUGH-S TREE T.

TEE " GENTLEMAN PICKPOCKET" AT TOM THUMB'S.—
John Brown, alias Abraham Brown, a well-dressed young
man, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with being a sus-
pected person, and at St. James's Hall, supposed for the
purposed of committing a felony, and also with having in
his possession a purse, supposed to be stolen.
Sergeant Edwin Coathupe, of the Detective force, said
that:yesterday evening,while in the entrance of St. James's
Hall he saw the prisoner coming out of the concert room.
Knowing him, he stopped him, and he said he had merely
come to the place to see Tom Thumb. He asked the pri-
soner what he had about him, and he replied " only my
own purse." He then told the prisoner he must search him,
and did so, and found upon him a dark green morocco
purse. On asking him how much the purse contained, he
said about 165., but on opening it in the prisoner's presence
he found it to contain 20s. in silver and 2d. in copper.
He then told the prisoner he should take him into custody,
and did so.

In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the sergeant said the priso-
ner had only been recently discharged from Wandsworth
prison, and had several times been convicted. He wished
for a remand, as two purses were missed last night,
Sergeant Cole, of the C division, said the prisoner had
been convicted of picking pockets at this court, and com-
mitted for three months with hard labour. The prisoner
formerly used to keep a pony and frequent Rotten-row,
always dressing well, and wearing several rings. He took
him in custody at Slough for picking pockets on the occa-
sion of the Prince of Wales opening the British Orphan
Asylum, and he then had in his pocket a guinea ticket,
which he had taken for the banquet. The prisoner had
once told him that he used to regularly visit the Inter-
national Exhibition, and well sweated it, having cleared
£2,000 by it. He knew the prisoner to always have plenty
of money.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.

ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—William Joseph, a clerk, who
gave the address 205, Fleet-street, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with assaulting Elizabeth Davis, an unfortunate,
in the Haymarket.
The managing-clerk to Mr. Boodle, solicitor, Chancery-
lane, appeared for the prisoner.
. _ _

The young woman said that on the previous night she
was going up the Haymarket when she saw the prisoner
and other gentlemen in his company. The prisoner made
use of language she did not like to repeat, told her to get
out of the way, and then struck her with a stick across the
face, she not having spoken a word to him. She fell, and
her nose bled very much. Some gentlemen came up and
told her to give the prisoner in charge, and she did so.

The solicitor's clerk, after cross-examining the prose-
cutrix, said he was instructed that the prosecutrix knocked
off the prisoner's hat, and that he put up his stick to de-
fend himself, and thus injured her face. He had two
gentlemen in court who was with the prisoner, but as they
did not like their names to get mixed up in the affair in the
papers they would rather not appear.
A constable said that he saw the prosecutrix bleeding,
and she gave the prisoner in charge. The prisoner's hat
was off at the time, but he did not say the prosecutrix had
knocked it off.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said all he could do for the prisoner was
to let him speak to the prosecutrix.
Subsequently it was stated that the prosecutrix had
received some compensation, and the prisoner was dis-
charged.