The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-28 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Allgemein, Zeitung contains a remarkable pa-
ragraph, stating that the Chevalier BUNSEN has been
authorised by the Prussian Government to publish,
if he thinks tit,
the notes
. which have lately been
exchanged by the C
Cabinets of Berlin and 011mutz,
from which, it is said, it will appear that the Aus-
trian Government has entered into a close alliance
with Russia for the regeneration of the Confederacy
of German States, which alliance Prussia was invited
to join.
The Prussian Ministry is now complete, and is
composed as follows :
President of Council .. Count de Brandenburg.
Foreign Affairs ......... Count de Arnim.
Interior ... M. de Manteufel.
Commerce and P.Works M. van der Heydt.
Finance
Justice
War .. General de Strotha.
Ecclesiastical Affairs
and Public Education M. de Ladenberg.

ITA LY .
THE AUSTRIANS IN FERRARA.
The intelligence of the entry of the Austrians into
Ferrara is confirmed. It is announced in the follow-
ing letter, which bears the signature of the Governor
of Ferrara :
" Ferrara, Feb. 18, 1849.
" My fears were but too well founded—this morning,
about seven o'clock, the Austrians passed the Po at
several points. So soon as I was informed of this move-
ment, I formed a governmental and municipal deputa-
tion to the General in command to demand an explana-
tion as to the entrance of these troops. General
Haynau's answer to the deputation was that he would
receive it on the esplanade of the fortress. The troops
entered at mid-day, and shortly afterwards the deputa-
tion was received by the General, who gave in writing
a declaratiOn as to the intent of the movement of the
Austrian forces. This declaration says that reparation
is demanded for the cutting off of the communications
with the citadel, for the murder of three Austrian soldiers
on the 7th instant, for the affair of the Austrian Consul,
and, finally, for the proclamation of the Republic.
" The conditions imposed by the Austrian General are
as follows:--.

gi" 1. The surrender of the gates of the town
"2. The delivery of the authors of the above murders
in twenty-four hours.
"3. The destruction of the barriers.
"4. The maintenance of the troops, said to amount to
10,000 men, during the time of their remaining.
" 5. The giving
" 6. The up of the military hospital.
Payment of 200,000 crowns, and 6,000
crowns indemnity to the Austrian consul.
" 7. Restoration of the Papal arms.
" 8. Six citizens to be delivered up as hostages for the
fulfilment of the conditions.
" Whilst ara endeavouring to obtain a clearer in3iglo

into the facts that have given ri,o to these enormous pre-
tensions, to reply thereto with fitting dignit), a, &puts-
headed by the Cardinal Archbishop, is about to
wait again upon the General, to demand a modification
of the evils imposed upon us.
" Thq town, as yet, remains tranquil.
(Signed) " The Governor, MAYER CA RLO."
The news of the occupation of Ferrara by the
Austrian troops caused the liveliest sensation at
Bologna. The Governor of that town immediately
convoked a Military Council, consisting of four stair
officers, and established a commission of public safety.
Considerable uncertainty exists as to the state of
affairs in Piedmont. According to one account,
CEIARLRS ALRRRT has accepted the resignation of
GIORERTI, and refuses to interfere in the affairs of
Tuscany ; according to another and a more probable
account, he has commissioned GIORERTI to form a
new Ministry, and hag ordered his troops to invade
Tuscany, in order to restore the Grand Duke.

SECONDARIES".-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Second try JAMES.)
NORTON AND ANOTHER V. GROTE.
This was an scion to recover the sum of 2311 6s. 33.,
the amount of an attorney's bill. The defendant had
taken out a Judge's summons for the delivery of the
bills and a cash account, and the above sum was found
to be due, not paying, however, the present action was
brought. Defendant not having pleaded, a verdict was
given f,ir the ,mount.
THE STATE OP THE COl:MT.—Numerous complaints
have been made of the inconvenience and discomfort of
this court,:which is dark, dreary, and cold, and in conse-
quence of the skylight and windows, in order to get
light, the draught frequently rushes in, north, east,
south, arid west. Since the last court-day, two gentle.
men have been laid up in bed from cold and fever caught
at a window opened for ventilation.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY

OLD COURT.

The Lord Mayor, Mr. Justice Cresswell, and several
Aldermen took their seats on the bench shortly after ten
o'clock.

CHILD MIIRDER.--Mr. BODKIN said he was instructed
to apply to his Lordship for the postponement, until
next session, of the trial of John Copeland and Eliza
Copeland, his wife, who had been committed on the
charge of murdering their child by setting fire to its
clothes. In consequence of certain representations
which had bees made to the Government, the Solicitor
to the Treasury had been directed to prosecute, and
having only yesterday been able to obtain copies of the
depositions, ho found from the nature of the case that it
would be impossible to be prepared with the necessary
evidence during the present sessions.
Mr. Justice CRESSIVFLL—In fact you want the re-
cognizances of the persons who were bound over to pro-
secute released until next sessions?
Mr. BODKIN—Yes, my Lord; and the reason of the
application is that a new state of facts arose on the
examination before the magistrate to these that came out
at the coroner's inquest.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL intimated that he could not
entertain the application until the court was furnished
with the usual affidavits with respect to the grounds upon
hich it was made.

POST-OFFICE -ROBBEaY.—Edward Broome, a post-
man, aged 40, was indicted with stealing a letter, con-
taining a half-sovereign and sixpence, the property and
moneys of the Postmaster-General.
From the statement of Mr. BoDitur, who attended for
the prosecution, and the evidence of the witnesses, it
appeared that the prisoner had been in the service of the
Post-office, as a letter-carrier, for fourteen years, and
that his duties were chiefly confined to the office at New-
cross, Deptford. Several complaints having arisen in
that district with respect to the loss of letters and their
contents, means, which had already received the approval
of the Court, were had recourse to for thedetection of the
guilty parties. On the 10th of February a letter was
put into the office at New-cross, containing a half-so-
vereign and a sixpence, which had been previously
marked, addressed to a gentleman at Ripon in York-
shire. It was posted at five o'clock in the afternoon, and
should have reached the London office about six o'clock
the same evening, but on the bag being examined, that
and another letter were found missing. Two officers
were immediately sent to the prisoner's lodging at Dept-
ford, and on searching him the half sovereign and six-
pence were found in his trousers pocket, and the envelope
in a coat pocket. Up )11 being questioned he said, when be
called at New-cross for the le.ters, he put the one in
question separately into his letter-pouch, and, as a man
had given him a ride in a cart which had no springs, lie
supposed that the jolting must have shaken the money
out of the letter. lie also said that he would have given
up the money, but did not discover it in the pouch until
he had left the effice.

Mr. DUNCAN addressed the jury for the defence, laying
weight upon the fact that the prisoner had never been
known to be guilty of any crime or of any profligate
habits. His conduct during the fourteen years that he
bad been connected with the Post-office had been
marked by industry and integrity, and in his humble
sphere he had secured the adherence and confidence of
all who knew him. He submitted that the prisoner's at:-
count of the way he became possessed of the money was
extremely probable. The practice of sending what was
called " test letters," with marked money in them, was
well-known to the prisoner, and it was not likely
that he would risk himself and his family for half-a-
sovereign.

Several witnesses, some of whom had known the pri-
soner from his childhood, gave him an excellent cha-
racter for honesty, sobriety, and industry.
The Learned JUDGE having utnmed up,
The Jury found a verdict of Guilty, with a recommrn
dation to mercy, on account of his long connexion with
the Post office, and his previous good character.
Sentence deferred.

IVEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT and Mr. Alderman

LAWRENCE.)
Nicholas-Holliday, a young man, 22 years of age, de-
scribed as a policeman, W 24 indicted for stealing a 5L
bank note, the property of Elizabeth Coleman.
The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Hurry prosecuted, and Mr. Ballantine defended
the prisoner.

It was proved, on the part of the prosecution, that
on the night of the 9th of January the 5/. note in ques-
tion was enclosed in a letter by the prosecutrix, and put
into the post office at West hate, in Essex. A witness
on the part of the prosecutrix swore most dis..
tinctly that he put the letter containing the
note into the post-office ; the letter never
reached its destination, and shortly afterwards
the note was found in the possession of the prisoner.
On the night in question the prisoner was a policeman
on duty at Stratford Broadway; and the suggestion on
the part of the prosecution was, though there was no
proof of it, that the prisoner must have extracted the
letter containing the note from the box of the post-office
by inserting a cane into the box having its end split.
The story of the prisoner, when taken into custody and
asked to account for his possession of the note, was that
he found it wrapped up and lying in a lane on his beat.
The prisoner lodged in the house of a brother policeman
and his wife, both of whom deposed to his previous good
character and to his good reputation in the police force.
It appeared that the prisoner on his return home on the
morning of the 10th of January, told the policeman's
wife, with whom he lodged, that he had found the note,
and he afterwards got her to accompany him when he
went to get the note changed ; but it was alike re-
markable that the prisoner when procuring change for
the note did not endorse it himself, but got the police.
man's wife to do it.

Mr. BALLANTINE, in addressing the jury for the
prisoner, said he had certainly been guilty of groat in
discretion, on his own confession, in not seeking an
owner for the note on his having found it, but contended
that there was no proof of the prisoner having taken
the letter containing the note from the letter-box. The
circumstances were peculiar, and the evidence, such us
it was, was almost entirely supplied by the prisoner
himself. The prisoner was a policeman, and a
man of great respectability ; and he was wander-
ing about the neighbourhood in question in
the course of his duty, and therefore he
was exactly the person if anything was lyinc, upon the
ground to find it. He (Mr. Ballantine) did' not think
if a man found a 5/. note, that it was a robbery if he put
it into his pocket.

The CommoN SERGEANT, in summing up the case,
said there could not be a shadow of a doubt that if any
man picked up a 51. note in the street, and did not seek
for as owner for it, it was a larceny. Did the prisoner
do anything to find the owner? Instead of that, he
went with the policeman's wife to get change for it.
Why not go himself? And when the prisoner changed
the note, he did not endorse it himself, but got the po-
liceman's wife to do it.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty of finding the
note and appropriating it to his own use.
The COMMON SERGEANT told the prisoner it was
fortunate for him that he had been found guilty only of
finding and appropriating the note, for had he been
convicted of extracting the letter and note from the
letter-box, he (the Common Sergeant) would most as•
suredly have transported him. Under the circumstances,
the sentence would be comparatively light, and was, that
he be imprisoned for three months, and kept to hard
labour.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LoNsort, FEB. 28.—Wind this day at noon, S.S.W.,
fresh gale and squally.
DEAL, FEB. 27.—Wind N. to S. and S.E.—Arrd.
Jacob Ceats, Beaman, Batavia, and sailed for Amster-
dam; Lady M'Donald. Elder, Calcutta, and sailed for
London; Austerlitz, Allrick, Havannab.
DOYOR, FEB. 27.—The Sainte Marie, which sunk off
Dungeness,, 3d instant, after being in contact with the
Diana of Liverpool, has been taken into Folkestone
harbour.

SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 27.—S1d. Sultan (steamer), Con-
stantinople; Jupiter (steamer), Gibraltar.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 27.—Wind S.E.—Sld. Joseph
Bushby, China; Prince Albert, Meyer, New York.
BRISTOL, JAN. 27.—Wind S.S.E.—SId. Nora Creina,
Antigua; Emerald, Barbadoi s; African Queen, Africa.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 27.—Wind S.— 26, Arrd. Liver-
pool, Raisbeck, Savannah. Sld. Douglas, St. Thomai;
Stranger, Leghorn; Agnes, Nassau; 27, Inglboro, Cal-
cutta; Meg of Weldon, ditto; Christiana, Singapore;
Maypo, Africa; Coquette, ditto; Eliza Johnston, Bahia;
Laura, Demerara; Leonora, ditto; Elvira, ditto; Man-
dane, St. Vincent; Ino, Antigua., Daniel, Port-au-Prince;
Josephine, Tampico; Genoa, New Orleans; Tarquin,
Mobile; Geo. Thatcher, Philadelphia; W. Jarvis, New
York; Atlantic, 11-lize. Off port—England's Queen.
WARREN POINT, FEB. 27.—Wind W.N.W.—SId.
Ayrshire, New York.

PETERHEAD, FEB. 26.--Wind S.W.—Sid, Union,
Robertson, Greenland.

SUNDERLAND, FEB. 27.—Wind S.W.-26,
Emau Thompson, New Yurk.

MARKET IN EWS.-(THIS DAY )

CORN EXCHANGE- WEDNESDA Y.
The present week's arrival of English Wheat for our
market, coastwise, has not exceeded 1,020 quarters; by
lend carriage it has been small in the extreme. To-day
the show of samples was small. Selected qualities ruled
firm, at prices quite equal to those paid on Monday.
The middling and inferior kinds moved off slowly, at late
rates. Upwards of 15,000 quarters of Foreign Wheat
have come to hand since Saturday. That article was a
very slow inquiry, but we have no further decline to
notice in value. Malting Barley was held at extreme
rates. Grinding and distilling sorts were a dull sale, at
barely stationary prices. So little was doing in
Malt that the quotations were almost nominal.
Although the supply of Oats was small, that grain
ruled 11..avy, at Nlonday's prie, s. Beans, Peas, Indian
Corn, and Meal, were quite neglected. No change took
place in the value of the best town made Flour. Ship
qualities were easier to purchase.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour
1,040 qrs. I 1.610 qrs. 4,600 qrs. 2,1110
3,430

English
Foreign

Malt, 4,870 qrs.

BOROUGH HOP WZARIEET.
Our market to dty was firm for the best Hop, at a
:rifle more money. All other kinds were steady, at
full prices. New Hops—Sussex pockets, 2/ 4s to 2/ 16s;
Weald of Kent ditto, 2/ 12s to 3l 8a ; Mid and East
Kent ditto, 3/ 5s to 61103 per cwt.

ViTEITECHILPML.
The general demand was heavy at our quotations.
Beef, from 23 2d to 3s 2d; Mutton, 2s 6:1 to 33 Si;
Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 2s 8d to 4s 2d per Sibs
by the carcase.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FIVE O'CLOCK
The following horses have arrived for the Steeple-
chase, in addition to those enumerated in our last
parcel :—Sir John, Peter Simple, The Victim, Jerry,
Tipperary Boy, Sparta.
Prince George, Proceed, and Chandler are in the
neighbourhood. Subduer, La Sylphide, St. Leger, Red
Lancer, Vulture, Thurgarton, and Mignionette are not
likely to come. It is reported that nearly twenty-five
will come to the post. Odver, it is said, met with a bad
accident at Cheltenham yesterday, and is in great danger.
All are here for the Spring Cup except Prince Charlie,
who is expected, and Rodney, who met with an accident
on the road, arid is gone back.
The Welter Cup is not unlikely to be a walk over for
Postilion. Sir Richard, Penthesilia, and probably Trea-
sure will show for the Knawsley, and all that were flaw( d
last night for the Trial and Selling Stakes, except Rod-
ney, will start.

The weather is delightful, and the ground in excel-
lent order both for flat and steeple racing.
ENTRIES ON MONDAY NIGHT.
The Trial Stakes—Sir Richard, 3 yra—b c by Sir
Isaac, out of Rebecca, 3 yrs—Psahnsinger, aged—Ada
Mary, 3 yrs—Rodney, 3 yrs—Lillis, 3 yrs—Ferule, 3
yrs—Voyager, 4 yrs.
The Selling Stakes—Mogador, 6 yrs—Jack Cade,
aged—Wiseacre, 5 yrs—Listnoyne, 4 yrs—Susannah,
4 yrs.

LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY NIGHT.
STEEPLE•CHASE BETTING.
5 to 1 agst Prince George.
13 to 2 agst The Curate.
10 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynne—taken.
10 to 1 agst Wolverhampton—taken.
100 to 6 agst British Yeoman—taken.
20 to 1 agat Alfred.
20 to 1 agst Victim.
25 to 1 agat Chatham—taken.
25 to 1 agst Jerry—taken.
25 to 1 agst Mulligan—taken.
50 to 1 agst Sparta.
50 to 1 agst Napoleon.
Oliver arrived this evening, and, it is said, will be well
enough to ride the favourite.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.-6 to 1 agst Prince
George (t)-7 to 1 apt The Curate (t)-10 to 1 agst
Wolverhampton (t)---16 to 1 agst Napoleon (t). All
tour baeked freely. but nothing done upon any other.
LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP.— 7 to 2 agst Mogador (t)-4
to 1 agst Prince Charlie (t)-9 to 2 agst Reality (t)-11
to 2 agst Farewell (t).