The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-06 00:00:00

THAMES.

INGENIOUS SMUGGLING.—Hen-.-y Branstead, Henry Ward,
and Thomas King, seamen, belonging to the ship Arno,
lying in the London Dock, were brought before Mr. Part-
ridge on a charge of smuggling brandy.
The Arno has lately discharged a cargo of brandy from
Charente. The prisoners were leaving the London Dock
yesterday, and were stopped by two constables, named
Matthews and James, who asked them if they had any-
thing about them liable to duty. They replied in the
negative. They were searched, and a fiat tin bottle was
found concealed upon each prisoner. There were two
quarts of brandy in Branstead's bottle, 3 pints of brandy in
Ward's bottle, and 5 half pistts of brandy in King's bottle.
The prisoners admitted to the officers they were to share
equally in the profits of the adventure if successful.
Mr. Partridge said the bottles were manufactured for
smuggling purposes. He should fine each prisoner in
treble the value and duty on the brandy. Brumstead would
have to pay 275., Ward, 20s. 3d., and King 175., or be im-
prisoned one month.
BAILING ROBBERY IN A BEER-ROITSE.—GeOrge Williams,
aged 30, and James Carroll, 21, labourers, were brought
before Mr. Partridge charged with stealing a watch valued
at £7, from the person of James Ross, a seaman, now stay-
ing at the Sailors' Home in Well-street.
The prosecutor was in a beer shop called the Little
Tower on Tower-hill. The prisoners were there drinking
with him. He missed his watch while in their company.
It was taken from his left-hand waistcoat pocket, and was
detached loom the guard which remained in his pocket. He
lost the guard after the prisoners we\ke given into custody.
Mr. Partridge asked the prosecutoc if he were drunk
again last night. He laughed, and said in reply, "Oh yes
of course I was."

Mr. Patridge—Thero is really nothing.
William Hilton, a baker out of employ, saw Williams
steal the watch. The other witness was seated on a wall
apparently asleep, and half drunk,
Other witnesses were called, including 's police-constable
Strndwick, No. 485 A., who saw Williams hand the watch
to Carroll, who proceededto the fireplace and put the watch

there. The landlord of the "Little Tower" behaved well
Ho would not allow the prisoners to leave the house til

the police were sent for. Mr. Partridge committed the
prisoners for trial.

Capt. E. Derrien, of the French ship Nankin, of
Havre, has been presented by the English Govern-
ment with a gold chronometer, bearing a suitable
inscription, for having saved, under very difficult
circumstances, the crew of 17 men of the English
ship Poictier, of Liverpool, 704 tons, laden with
coal from Cardiff to Callao, and which was sinking
at the time, her hold filling more and more with
water. The French Government has also decreed
to Capt. Derrien a gold medal of the second class.

" Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Smart," says the
Malta Times, " with the Victoria, 102 (flagship),
Gibraltar, 81, Royal Oak, 35, Resistance, 16, En-
terprise, 4, Orlando, 46, and one or two smaller
vessels, will put to sea immediately for a summer
cruise, in the course of which some of the French
and Spanish ports will bo visited."
Prince Napoleon has arrived at Havre. H.I.H.
travels under the name of the Count de Meudon.

The consul of the Bey of Tunis has received in-
formation from the Prime Minister that vessels ar-
riving at Malta will be admitted into Tunis, pro-
vided they be furnished with a certificate from the
consul that they have performed a regular quaran-
tine ; but that vessels arriving direct from Alex-
andria or Massar will not be allowed to enter into
Sfax, Susa, and Biserta, or into any other port on
the coast, but they must proceed to Gamur, where
boats, tents, and sanitary guards have been placed
at their disposal.
The Belgian journals record a rather serious rail-
way accident which occurred two days since near
Ostend. An express train from Bruges ran into an
ordinary one from Ostend, breaking the locomotive
and several carriages of the latter. About 40 pas-
sengers but no life was
lost. were more or less injured,

The debts of Prince Esterhazy, a part of whose
fortune has been placed under the control of admi- '
nistrators, aro estimated at 61,250,000 fr. Tho pro-
perty sequestered is that situated in Hungary only ;
the annual revenue of that portion is valued at
4,500,000 fr.
CHARLES WATERTON.—It is almost needless to
add that the man who thus " loved all things, both
great and small," was an ardent lover of his fellowman.
As a landlord, as a squire, as a neighbour, as a friend, as a
host, in spite of his tall, gaunt
g ur e h,e a
n wasd simplycharming,so brusque
and eccentric, that more
figure,
manners
than once, ho tells us, he was mistaken for a " damned
Yankee." But his hospitality and his openheartodness,
especially towards those who shared his tastes for natural
history, knew no bounds ; nor had he, we fancy, an enemy
on earth, except the spirit of the Protestant religion,
against which he was perhaps the more indignant, because
he conceived it to be the cause of his ancestors' sufferings.
But to his Protestant fellow-countrymen, and even to Eng-
lish clergymen, he was always frank, open, honest, and
generous, and he could always distinguish between the man
whom he loved and the opinions which he detested.—
' Once a IVeek.

MARRIAGE AT FULHAM.—This morning the Rev.
R. G. Baker, M.A., Vicar of Fulham, and Preben-
dary of St. Paul's Cathedral, was married in the presence
of. Lord Palmerston, and a host of friends, at All Saints'
Church, to Miss Sulivan, daughter of the Right Hon.
Laurence Sulivan, P.C. Miss Sulivan, who is a niece of
Lord Palmerston, is 40 years of ago, while the bridegroom
has attained to the mature age of 77. The ceremony was
performed by the Bishop of London,