The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-19 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

On Tuesday last, while the night charges were being dis-
posed of, a person of respectable appearance got into the
witness-box, and, addressing Mr. Henry, said, that on the
preceding night a gentleman had been charged at the Tower-
street station-house with being intoxicated, and being ad-
mitted to bail was so ill on that morning as to be quite
unable to attend before his Wofship, and as it was not his
intention to appear, he (the app!icant) had come prepared to
pay the amount of the recognizances which had been en-
tered into.

Mr. HENRY replied, that as the party had declined coming
forward, he certainly should estreat his recognizances. He
(?Ir. Henry) then asked %hat was the amount of the recog-
=at ce entered into for the appearance of the party, and was
told by the police-sergeant who had taken the charge, that
the amount was 40s.

Mr. HENRY, as well as those present, seemed somewhat
startled at-the lowness of the bail ; but, on inquiry, it ap-
peared that this is the amount fixed by the Commissioners of
Police for bail on charges of mere drunkenness, and ordered
that the recognizances be estreated, upon which the applicant
at once paid the 2/.
The case was thus disposed of without exciting any obser-
vation beyond a slight surprise that 40s. should have been
paid as the penalty for an offence lir which the-utmost fine,
if the yarty appeared, that could be inflicted was ss.

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It has since been rumoured that the party charged, in-
stead of being Mr. George Spencer Frevill, as he described
himself at the station-house, was no less a personage than
George Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough.
It appears that about eleven o'clock on Monday night the
attention of police-constable 112, A was called to a gen-
tleman who was lying on the floor outside one of the
boxes in Astley's Theatre, and who appeared to be labour-
ing under the effects of excessive intoxication. The con-
stable, with assistance, conveyed his drunken charge to the
station-house in Tower-street, Lambeth ; and on reaching tha:
place he appeared so far gone, that the sergeant on duty felt
it necessary to send for Mr. Wagstaff, the divisional surgeon,
who promptly attended, and by his assistance the patient
became sufficiently recovered to be conscious of his situation,
and gave a fictitious name and address. He, however, sent
for the Marquis of Blandford, but the Noble Marquis was
from home at the time. The intelligence of the awkward
situation of his master had, however, it is said, reached the
ears, of Morris, the Duke of Marlborough's valet, and that
person instantly hastened to the station-house, gave bail for
the prisoner's appearance the next day, and was the person
who attended and paid the money.
Mr. HENRY, as has been before stated, was] ignorant of
the rank of the party charged when he disposed of the case,
but had'he been made acquainted with it, he had no power
whatever of compelling the attendance of the Noble Duke,
and in estreating his recognizances he imposed the highest
penalty the law permitted.

BRITISH and FOREIGN INSTITUTE
A subject of considerable interest was discussed on Friday
by the members of the institute—that of the comparative
methods of the overland routes to India; and the meeting
was rendered the more remarkable end interesting by the
presence of Lieutenant Waghorn, who, with the greatest
readiness, answered a vast number of questions relative to
the two modes of communication at present occupying the
public mind. Although it was termed a " discussion," the
proceedings seldom extended beyond desultory conversation,
for the greater part of the auditors were solicitous only to
hear Lieutenant Waghorn's experiences, and to accept what-
ever opinions he laid down without dissent. It may be
easily inferred that he advocated the Trieste lir e with the
greatest zeal;; and the inquiries which were made bore chiefly
upon the features of this new and hardly- tried route, rather
than upon any other.
Mr. Buckingham opened the business by alluding to the
importance of the subject; to the interest he took in it as
far back as 1815; and to the efforts he at that time made
to direct the attention of the Indian Government towards it.
Lieut..Waghorn then gave a narrative of the circumstances
which led him, at the instance of Lord Ellenborough, to ar-
range a plan, and • to ultimately adopt the Marseilles route,
pointing out in the course of his statement the intervals of
time consumed in travelling from point to point, and con-
trasting them with the long and wearisome pilgrimages of
former times. Certain alleged acts of the French Govern-
ment as to the 'detention and opening of letters, induced him
to propose a second scheme—by way of Trieste, so that
the kingdom of France should altogether be avoided; and
he stated that this new route was nearer by 320 miles, and
that it posseses already more than 300 miles of completed
railway—an advantage at present wanting in the journey
by Marseilles. Prince Metternich, he said, was a friend to
the Trieste route, and had undertaken to adjust all the diffi-
culties that might arise among the smaller states interested
in the transit. Of the liberal and enlightened feeling of the
Pacha of Egypt he spoke in emphatic terms, intimating that
he had always countenanced the passage through his terri-
tories, even when, by Lord Palmerston's operations, "we
were murdering his subjects." _ With other remarks con-
nected with the benefits likely to flow from increased com-
munication with the East, Lieutenant Waghorn intimated
that he was prepared to reply to any questions which might
be put •to him by the company, having previously given
some statistical facts as to the divisions of the route, and ex-
pressed his conviction that before long railways would extend
across the entire breadth of Germany, and that we should
1)on perform the distance between London and Trieste in 55
hours.
The inquiries which were then made were of various kinds.
The subject of the detention of letters by the French Go-
vernment occupied some time; and Lieutenant Waghorn
spoke of dispatches from Australia belonging to him which
had lain 21 days at Paris, and might not then have been de-
livered if peremptory measures had not been taken. The
subsequent questions related to the railroad between Ulm and
Trieste; fo the convenience and inconveniences of the
journey over the Desert; to the possibility of a route through
Persia; to the recent Post-office delay, when seven days
elapsed between the arrival of the Herald's extraordinary
express and the public delivery of letters; to the facilities
the Desert afforded for a line of railways; to the comfort and
'economy of the'Austrian route when compared with that of
the French ; to the probability of the Pope's acquiescence to
a route through the Italian States; to the desirability or not
of a totally independent, one by • Falmouth and Alexandria ;
'and to the special considerations growing out of these various
things. Lieutenant Waghorn, as we have hinted, submitted
'to the persevering queries of the company with the greatest
complacency, and answered them to the best of his know-
ledge; and it may be added, he was seldom at a loss,
unable to give the information sought for. There was but
little disposition manifested to protect the route through
France in opposition to the line through Germany, though a
member very properly called attention to the recent achieve-
ment by the former, and drew some pregnant-inferences as
to the advantages which would probably arise from compe-
tition, and the likelihood that France, by the establishment
of certain contemplated railways, and the influence of well-
directed exertion, 'would finally triumph—sentiments which
were echoed by a French gentleman, who, in his native
tongue, gave several reasons for continued preference to the
route by Marseilles.
At the close of the " discussion," Mr. Buckingham volun-
teered an eloquent address, on the social, political, and moral
advantages growing out of our rapid correspondence with
India, pointing out how it brought the great families of the
earth together, promoted civilisation, and engendered a bond
of peace and concord which nothing was likely to sever. He
alluded to the scanty accounts which the newspapers afforded
of Oriental news a few years ago, when a paragraph or two
was all that could be hoped for, after long intervals; and he
compared the.present state of thing, when two journals—the•
Herald and the Times—spend, yearly, thousands in anticipa-
tion of the mail, and spread huge masses of public and pri-
vate intelligence over the leggth and breadth of the land.
This address, delivered with pleasant fluency, was listened
to with great attention. The thanks of the meeting were
then bestowed upon Lieutenant Waghorn for his courtesy;
and the seconder of the proposition, Mr. George Thompson,
took occasion to advert, in felicitous terms, to the obligations
under which the country lay fur the services he had ren-
dered, and for the determined courage he had evinced in
combatting and subduing obstacles. Many compliments, in-
deed, were showered upon the Lieutenant lathe course of the
evening, and they were, one and all, honestly his due.

ASSAULT ON LORD KINNOULL.—The Perthshire
Courier reports at length a trial in the Sheriff Criminal
Court, in which three farmers named John Dougall, Peter
Mitchell, and James Glass were convicted of an assault on
Lord Kinnoull, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county. The in-
dictment set forth, that one or other of the panels did, on the
afternoon or evening of the 19th of December last, seize
Thomas Hay, Earl of Kinnoull, by the collar of his coat, on
a part of the road leading from Perth to the Bridge of Forte-
viot, and did violently drag him over a paling or fence from
a field on the road side, and did strike him a severe blow
upon the neck behind the ear, when at or near the south en-
trance gate leading to Dupplin Castle, by ail which the said
Thomas Hay, EarLof Kinnoull, was severely bruised and in-
jured, in his person ; and that all the panels were guilty
actors, or art and part, in said crime. It appeared from
his Lordship's evidence, that on the afternoon of the 19th
-of December last he was riding towards the south lodge
of Dupplin Castle when one of the three defendants rode
against him as they passed his Lordship on horseback. He
called them "drunken blackguards," when they turned
round, and, after some hostile parleying, they dragged him
from his horse and assaulted him in the manner stated in
the indictment. It did not appear, that they knew who his
Lordship was, and when he mentioned his name they said
they did not believe him, and that they would take him and
see who he was. The defendant Dougall was fined 101., and
the two others 61. each.

BIRMINGHAM, GREAT MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—BIR-
31LYGIIAISL FRIDAY EVENING.—This morning the Committee
of the Birmingham Musical Festival, in support of the General
Hospital in this town, met in the Committee-room at the
-.Town-hall,, for the purpose of deciding upon the time the
festival was to take place. At one o'clock Lord Wrottesley
took the chair, there being present, amongst others of the
Committee—J. F. Ledsam, Esq., •J. Walker, Esq., J. W.
Whatley, Esq., G. M. Barker, Esq„ H. Hunt, Esq., and W.
Richards, Esq. A resolution was unanimously agreed to,
that the grand festival should take place on August 25th,
26th, 27th, and 2Stb, in the present year. It is intended to
maks it the most magnificent affair which has ever taken
place in this country.
TER ALLEGED CASE Or MURDER AT BROMLEY.—
The unfortunat6 death of Harriet Monkton, so frequently
noticed as I egards the mysterious delay in bringing the co-
roner's inquest to a conclusion, seems to be as far off as ever.
It was stated in nearly all the Sunday papers a fortnight ago
that a memorial•had been forwarded by the jury to the Se-
cretary of State, Sir James Graham, and that he had written
to Mr. C. J. Carttar, the coroner, with a view of bringing
the inquiry to an immediate termination. This turns out not
to be the fact, as the coroner has received uo such intimation.