The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-26 00:00:00

ME SUN, LONDON, SATURDA‘, NOVEMBER 26, 1870.

LAW AND POLICE.

RESCUED FROM THE STREETS.—EIIen Prendergast and
Sarah Prendergast, mother and daughter, the latter about
9 years of age, and Ellen Dunford, were charged before
Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with
begging. The Marquis Townsend having proved seeing
the prisoners begging, the child being used for the purpose
by the other prisoners, said his principal object in charging
them was that the child Sarah Prendergast might be
rescued from a life of wretchedness and demoralization in
the streets. Mr. Knox, seeing the child's father in Court,
he having hobbled in on crutches, and appearing to hare
lost the use of some of his limbs, told him that he had an
opportunity of saving his daughter by sending her to an
institution where she would be properly brought up if he
thought proper. The father said he should be very thank-
ful if that was done. Mr. Knox said he was so glad at
being able to save the girl from inevitable destruction,
that he should discharge the other prisoners. The girl
was then sent to the institution in Franklin's-row,
Chelsea.

ASSAULT BY A GENTLEIAN.—Mr. Charles Sala, of No.
39, Spring-gardens, gentlman, was charged at the above
court, before Mr. Knox, with being drunk and assaulting
Samuel Thompson, manager of the American stores,
Oxford-street. Mr. Wright appeared for the prosecution.
The complainant said that about a quarter to twelve the
previous night, the prisoner, after making use of disgust-
ing language towards the barmaids and the customers at
his employers, the American Stores, Oxford-street, went
out. Shortly after he came in again going into a different
compartment, and called for drink, but Mrs. Gooch
refused to serve him as he had insulted the cus-
tomers, on which he said that he could not in-
sult her, at the same time calling her a most
disgraceful name. He followed the prisoner to see him
out of the house, but never put his hand on him, and he
went up to a cab, then returned, and I struck him twice,
knocking him down, hurting his back and spoiling his
clothes. Witness having proved that the prisoner made
use of disgraceful language, and his calling Mrs. Gooch
au offensive name, the defendant said that being pushed
roughly he struck the complainant. All the witnesses,
in reply to Mr. Knox, said the prisoner had been drink-
ing. Mr. Knox said he had no doubt the fact was that
the prisoner had taken a little brandy here and there, and
did not know what he was doing. The prisoner having
expressed himself sorry for what had occurred, Mr. Knox
said that, taking the prisoner's expression of regret into
consideration, he would not inflict imprisonment on him,
but should order him to pay a fine of -22 108., and £2los.
' by way of compensation to the complainant.
SCANDALOUS CONDUCT OF FOREIGN SEAMEN.—Mr.
Moss Phillips, an American shipping agent, of High-
street, Shadwell, was charged before Mr. Paget at the
Thames Police-court with unlawfully detaining the chest,
bed, and sea kit of a foreign seaman with an unpro-
nounceable name, and for whose service an interpreter
named Igetstran was sworn. Mr. Phillips said the
complainant could speak and understand English
well. Mr. Paget said it was most extraordi-
nary how the atmosphere of the Thames Police-
court made foreigners forget all the English
they had previously learned. The complainant said
he went to Mr. Phillips and asked him for a berth
on board a ship, and he asked him to sign a ship's articles
of agreement. He did so, and was charged 2s. 6d., and
ordered to bring his bed, baggage, and clothes. He
had since left all his things with Mr. Phillips and could
not get them back. Mr. Phillips, in reply, said he had
not got the man's things, and they were not in his posses-
sion five months. The man shipped to proceed in an
American ship on a foreign going voyage, and an
advance of a month's wages was paid to him.
The clothes, chest, and hammock of the com-
plainant had been sent on board the American
ship, which sailed last Tuesday. Mr. Paget asked the
foreigner why he did not sail in the American ship, and
he replied he did not like the vessel. Mr. Paget : You
liked the advance. You have been guilty of a most dis-
honest act, and, after receiving a month's advance and
spending it, refuse to sail with your vessel. The sum-
mons is dismissed.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—Two actions in
the Court of Queen's Bench, in which judgment was
allowed by default, were heard before Mr. Under-
Sheriff Burchell and a jury at the Sheriffs' Court,
Red Lion-square. The first case, in which •the
damages were laid at £l,OOO, was " Aitchison v.
Burdon." Mr. Kydd appeared for the plaintiff, and the
defendant was not represented. The plaintiff had been
long acquainted with the defendant, who was a teacher of
the telegraph. Preparations were made for the wedding,
and the disappointment had such an effect on the young
woman that she was ill for several weeks. The jury
awarded £75 damages. In the second case, " Auschal v.
Nordwald,"the plaintiff was a eook and the defendant a
machinist to a military tailor. Mr. Warner Sleigh, in-
structed by Mr. Joel Emanuel, was for the lady, and Mr.
G. F. Blake for tLe defendant. It was stated that the
defendant expected that the plaintiff had £lOO, and with
his income did not like to contract marriage. Mr. Blake
asked the jury to give merely nominal damages. The jury
awarded £2O as damages, and a certificate for costs was
asked. The jury wished her to recover her costs. The
jury gave the required certificate in order to get her costs
as well as the damages. In the declaration the damages
were laid at £5OO.

SHAMEFUL CRUELTY AND PROPER PUNISHMENT.-At
Marylebone Police-court John Flynn, 23, and a well-
dressed young man, who gave the name of Alfred Swoffer,
were brought before Mr. Mansfield charged with cruelty
to a cat. Thomas Dove, 69 X, said that at a
quarter to two in the morning he saw the two
prisoners and another man with three dogs going
from area to area, encouraging their dogs to
worry a cat. The dogs bit it severely, and Swoffer picked
it up bleedingand with its back apparently broken. Isaac
Cattermole, 297 X, was in Richmond-road, and saw the
prisoners and another man, who escaped at the corner of
Talbot-road. The cat was thrown down by one of the
group. It was bleeding and unable to move. The pri-
soners said they took the dogs out for a run and called
them off the cat as soon as possible. Dove, recalled, said
the prisoners set the dogs on by clapping their hands and
shouting at them. Mr. Mansfield ordered the prisoners
to pay a fine of £5 each, and, in default of payment, to be
imprisoned for two months with hard labour.

The cholera still rages in Russia, though without
great mortality. It is beginning to appear in many in-
terior towns, and has now got into the manufacturing
districts near Moscow and Vladimir.

At the monthly meeting of the Royal Agricultural
Society of Ireland it was authoritatively said that the
Prince of Wales would accept the Presidentship for
the year, and attend the Show, if an application were
made. The Council resolved to make an application,
and fixed the Show for the week commencing the 7th
of August, provided that date would suit his Royal
Highness.

RUSSIA AND TILE UNITED STATES—Ono of the
daily New York journals states that the new Greek Arch-
bishop of North America, appointed by the Czar of Rus-
gia, is now in that city making preparations for !minding a
cathedral in Lexington avenue, near Fifty-third-street,
the site for which was purchased some time since. The
funds have been contributed principally by the Czar him-
self.— The Bock.

The Toronto Globe says that the surveyors who
have been employed all the summer in the country north
of Lake Superior have returned. The position of the
water-shed which forms the boundary between Ontario
and Rupert's Land can now be defined. Professor Bell
has succeeded in defining the southern boundary of the
great silurian basin of Hudson's Bay. The Canadians
may now discuss intelligibly the whole question of railway
communication with the north-west territory.
The Civilian says :—" Excitement w caused on
Wednesday in the Customs by a rumour that quantities
of rifles destined for the use of the Russian army bad been
seized at Liverpool. It seems that 499 cases described in
the ship's manifest as containing ' hardware were a
few days since landed at Liverpool from New York. On
the packages being examined they were found to contain
rifles, and they have been moved to London under a
special bond. Each case holds twenty stand of arms, and
the whole were forwarded from New York by ' Colt's
Gun Manufacturing Company' to its London agent.
The rifles are at present deposited in the Queen's ware=
house, and it is supposed that they will be liberated as
soon as the informality in the ship's manifest has been
satisfactorily explained. The probable destination of this
`hardware' was France, and not Russia."
THE IRISH POOR LAW SYSTEM.—The Poor-law
Commissioners have issued an order under their seal
directing that all the unions in Ireland shall be united,
for the purpose of appointing one poor-law unions'
apothecary for the service of all the unions. He •is to
provide himself with a house in Dublin for a general depot
for all medicines and medical and surgical appliances
required for use in workhouse hospitals and dispensaries,
and to engage assistants and servants. He must be
licentiate of the Apothecaries' Hall, Dublin, and be
thirty years of age at least. All candidates for the
office shall send their applications and testimonials to the
Poor-law Commissioners by the lst of January, to be laid
before the guardians of each union in Ireland, who shall
select the candidate of their choice, and the candidate
selected by a majority of the unions shall be deemed to
be appointed to the os)fiee of apothecary. The salary is to
be £5OO a year, with suitable apartments in the building
to be provided as a gene'fal depot for medicines, &c. He
is to give security to an amount not exceeding £5,000.
He will supply all the medicine required by the. Irish
unions at cost price. Some of the papers denounce this
as a gross job.

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THE WAR.

A FRENCH MINISTER ON THE ARMISTICE.
M. Chaudordy, delegate of the French Ministry of Foreign
Affairs at Tours, has issued a dispatch to the diplomatic
agents abroad in which he says that he will not again
enter upon the points that have been discussed, but he
desires to call attention to the reasons which prevented
them from accepting Count Bismarck's propositions of an
armistice without revictualling or elections without an
armistice. The proposal of England was made in the
belief that the armistice would allow of the elections being
held with free entrance to Paris of the Deputies, and so it
was understood by the French authorities. The
terms accepted by Count Bismarck implied
necessarily the re-victualling of Paris, and by all
nations the condition of re-victualling is con-
tained in the principle of an armistice, for each
belligerent should be in the same condition when hos-
tilities are resumed, that he was when the armistice com-
menced. M. Chaudordy says " Now, bow would France
have been in the same position when Paris during twenty
five days would have been sensibly diminishing the
resources which enabled her to endure the siege?
It is in vain that M. Bismarck in his last
circular, dated the Bth of the present month, enu-
merates the advantages which. we should have derived
from the armistice thus concluded, for is it not obvi-
ous to every one that We should have been, on the con-
trary, weakened in an important degree ? Was that
really the military status quo' of which the Chancellor
of North Germany speaks ? How ? While the Prussians
would have maintained their positions, we should have
good-naturedly used up the means of preserving our own.
For this reason the longer the armistice the more injurious
it would have been to us, and if Prussia had indefinitely pro-
longed it, the capture of Pariswithout the striking of a blow
would have been the inevitable result of her concession. Is
it necessary to insist upon this point, and have our
enemies ever entertained a belief that we would accept a
condition which would have been for us tantamount to
defeat ?" He adds that they were inclined to ask them-
selves if Count Bismarck considered Prussia to be in pos-
session of a law of nations peculiar to herself because be
refused to admit these principles which had clearly before
been recognised in analogous circumstances. In declining the
conditions which were imposed by Prussia the Government
of the National Defence only followed the ordinary rule
in such cases; It was at "the desire of the neutral
Powers" that France declared her willingness to conclude
an armistice, and her Goverhment trusts that those same
powers will not fail to impress upon Count Bismarck the
contradictory course he has pursued in substituting his
personal interpretation for that of the Law of Nations,
by which means he had cut short negotiations which they
had initiated. With respect to the second proposition of
the Prussian Government that elections might be held
without the conclusion of an armistice, the Government
of the national defence did not think it its duty to agree
to it because " France is at this moment in arms on all
the points of its territory, of which a part is occupied by
'foreign armies. Absorbed in the noble care of its defence,
animated by an ardour justified by 'the extent of the
perils which menace it, it ought not, in order to accom-
plish the work to which its resolution devotes a supreme
effort, to let itself be distracted by any other thought.
After recalling the fact that the electors are, for the most
part, engaged in the contest away from their own depart-
ment, M. Chaudordy asks, " Hew, in this position, could
a vote be taken in a country of universal suffrage? Count
Bismarck knows as well as we do that a little time and
security are necessary to enable men's minds to
recover a temporary calmness, and in some de-
gree for the elements of universal suffrage to recognise
each other and collect together. The French
Government strongly desires the elections, which,
putting the nation in the ' full possession of its
rights, would tend to remove many difficulties, and to lead
to a pacification, which has ' never ceased to be the
object of its dearest wishes. On this point Count
Bismarck's denials in his last circular cannot
misitad anybody. But, at the same time, the
Government desires that the 'elections should be carried
out under regular conditions. In conclusion, he says,
"Such, sir, are the grave reasons which, maturely
weighed by the Government, dictated its resolution.
However great its desire to pave the way for a better
future, it cannot compromise the defence of Paris by a
lamentable concession, nor decree elections which would
not have been the exact expression of universal suffrage.
To exhaust our provisions or to lose our time would equally
have been to lay down our arms, The Government of the
Defence sitting at Paris was unanimous in refusing such
an arrangement."