The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-13 00:00:00

THE SUN,

out books, having even his Bible taken away. Petitioner
was seriously ill of a bowel complaint at the time; the
cholera was then raging at its height, the infirmary being
then so full that patients were lying in the common cells,
and ono died near the refractory cell in which petitioner
was locked. Two political fellow prisoners, Sharp and
Williams, received the same sentence from the board
for the same cause, at the same time as petitioner;
they were in good health when thus sentenced, but
both died immediately after the completion of that sen-
tence, and the inquest commented on the severity of the
treatment.
"At the expiration of the six days petitioner was
sentenced to be sent back to the refractory cell under
the same treatment, but the payment of money and the
dangerous state of his health prevented the sentence
from being carried into effect. From that period, as
the infirmary books will testify, petitioner never re-
covered his health, and he feels convinced that, had his
imprisonment lasted a short time longer than the period
of his sentence, he would never have quitted the prison
with life.
" Your petitioner therefore prays your Hon. House
to grant some investigation of the treatment to which
be was subjected, by which the authority of the judge
was superseded, by which tho rules of the prison were
violated, the laws of the country broken, and by which
the health of the prisoner was ruined, and his life im-
perilled—an investigation that may prevent similar in-
juries from being inflicted on other prisoners in future.
" And your petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever
pray, &c. " ERNEST CHARLEB JONES."

GERMANY.

Hamburgh letters of the 9th give the following
account of the ferocious, unprovoked, and murderous
attack made by the Austrian soldiers on the peaceable
citizens of Hamburgb :
A conflict has taken place between the Austrian
garrison of Altona and the inhabitants of St. Pauli and
others who had resorted to that place for the purpose of
amusement during the Whitsun holidays. It appears.
that one of the Austrian soldiers behaved with great
rudeness to a civilian of Altona, and when the latter ex-
postulated he drew his bayonet and attacked him on the
spot. The altercation and the menaces of the Austrian
caused a mob to assemble round the disputants. Words
were followed by blows, the Austrian soldier was sup-
ported by his comrades, and the affray rose to such a
height that it attracted the attention of the Austrian com-
mander of the mainguard of Altona. A detachment of
soldiers, under the command of a subaltern, was ordered
to disperse the populace, who, it ought to bo stated,
was having their ' row' on the Hamburgh territory.
On the advance of the troops the mob received them
with a volley of stones, and compelled them to retreat.
Another detachment of troops was immediately pushed
forward, and the soldiers after fired in such a manner

as to alarm and not to hurt the frantic mob. This in-
effectual fire served, however, still further to exaspsrate
the people, and the military were at length compelled
to fire in real earnest. On the word of command being
given, a volley was poured into the dense masses of the
people, which spread death and destruction among them,
and the troops advancing in double quick time pro-
ceeded to clear the dancing booths ana other places of
amusement at the point of the bayonet; driving men,
women, and children before them, and compelling them
to leap out of the windows, and, at the peril of their
lives, to jump down from the balconies. During this
affray, chairs, benches, fire-irons, and other articles of
furniture were hurled at the troops, and by the means
of these missiles they wounded several officers of the
Austrian Commander's staff. The populace were,
however, compelled to disperse, leaving eight of their
number killed and 18 wounded behind them.
A brigade of Austrian troops has been quartered in
the suburb of St. Pauli, and field guns ready charged
and primed are in the public square to prevent another
outbreak in that locality. The exasperation of the in-
habitants of Hamburgh and Altona exceeds all bounds.
The King of Hanover bas addressed the following
letter to the Stadt-Director of the capital :
"Oa the occurrence of my 80th birthday so many un-
doubted proofs of warm sympathy and attachment have
been presented to me from the city, that I feel compelled
to express to you how agreeable this manifestation of
loyalty has been to my heart. Return to the faithful
citizens of my residence my sincere thanks.—Yours, &c.,
" Hanover, June 7. " ERNEST AUGUSTUS."
In the last sitting of the Deputies of Saxe Coburg
the Ministerial proposition relative to sending a re-
presentative to the Diet at Frankfort was discussed.
Two motions were laid before the Assembly, both
agreeing to the measure, though from different mo-
tives. The motion of the Democratic majority was
agreed to ; it stated that " The Assembly declares
that, as a portion of the representation of the German
people, it could not authorize the Government to send
an Envoy to the German Diet; yet considering that
the Government had been brought by concessions to
the actual necessity of doing so, as appeared by the
Ducal decree, it believed it was doing its duty by ab-
staining from making the Government responsible for
the step it had taken."

TRIAL of COUNT and COUNTESS
DE BOCARME.

The Court of Assizes of Mons re-assembled on Mon-
day, and proceeded to hear the evidence of M. Stas,
professor of chemistry at the Ecole Militaire, living at
Icelles. It was to the effect that after a number of ex-
periments he had ascertained beyond all doubt that
deceased had been poisoned by nicotine, and that he
has succeeded in extracting a not inconsiderable
quantity of that deadly poison from his tongue, stomach,
liver, and lungs. On the clothes of deceased, and on
the floor of the dining-room of the chateau of liitre-
moat witness had also discovered traces of the eame
poison. He had likewise found nicotine in the partially
putrified remains of the grey cat and other animals which
the Count was accused of having poisoned. He had tasted
the poison extracted from the deceased, and it burned the
tongue like a red-hot iron; he had also killed birds by an
excessively small quantity of it. It was the conviction
of witness that the poison bad been given to deceased
when he was lying on the floor; he did not think it could
have been poured into the glasses by mistake without its
strong smell causing it to be observed. He was further
of opinion that after taking nicotine it would be impos-
sible for any one to walk, but he could not say that they
might not cry.
A witness then deposed to having taken a consider-
able quantity of tobacco to the chateau, and a labourer,
named Debliquy, stated that he had assisted the Count
in making nicotine and other chemical operations.
The Court then adjourned.
The Countess de Bocarme, was so affected at the de-
tails of the chemical operations on the person of de-
ceased made by M. Stas, that she became indisposed,
and the trial had to be suspended for some time. De
Bocarmi paid great attention to the evidence. It will be
observed that it tended to destroy his means of defence
—viz., that the nicotine had been poured out and taken
by mistake.

In the sitting, on Tuesday Dr. Zoude, a physician of
Tournay, deposed that he had examined the body of de-
ceased in 'the chateau of Bitremont on the 22d Novem•
bor, and had been struck by the bruises and scratches
on the face, and by the burnings, by what appeared to
be sulphuric acid, about the mouth. He had afterwards
made an examination of the tongue, stomach, and
other parts of d:ceased's person, aad the result
at which ho had arrived was that deceased had been
poisoned, and that the poison had been forcibly
administered when ho was in a horizontal position. He
had also examined Count de Bocarm4, and had noticed
scratches on his hand, and that marks of a bite were on
one of his fingers.
In answer to the advocate of the female prisoner, wit-
ness stated that it was possible, as deceased was a weak
man, with only one leg, that the poison;had been forcibly
administered by only one person; the person administer-
ing it had evidently placed one knee on him and the
other on the ground, and that was why a bruise had
been noticed on one of the Count's knees.
_ _

Dr. Mum:* of Tourney, medical attendant to de-
ceased, stated that he had also examined the body, and
that his opinion was that death had been caused by poi-
son forcibly administered when deceased was lying on
the ground. Witness had never observed that the
Counte6s had shown much affection for her brother; on
the contrary, she seemed very indifferent to him. De-
ceased's father had declared on his death-bed that ho
had been poisoned, but that was because ho had taken
an overdose of a very violent remedy prescribed by a
French physician.
Four witnesses were then called on behalf of the
Countess; their evidence was to the effect that she had
always shown affection to her brother, and that imme-
diately after being arrested, she, whilst weeping bit-
terly, had said that it was her husband who had knocked
down deceased and forced the poison into his mouth.
The Procureur du Roi then proceeded to present his
requisitory. He began by remarking on the enormity of
the crime, on the vile motive which caused it, on the base
cowardice with which it was planned and executed. He
maintained that it had long been premeditated by both
the accused. He denounced the Count as a vile swindler
and cheat, as an infamous debcruche, as a brutal coward,
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the zetzzirei,ntwoitahnoutreal
monstrous hypocrite; and his wife as a vain
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cool and d l'b e, and argued that they fully proved the
e orate perpetrationof a carefully planned
murder by both the accused.
The Procureur de Roi hadnot Court rose. concluded when the

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGII-STREET.
PILFERING AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—.Joseph
Albert, a boy about ten years of age, was brought before
Mr. Bingham, charged with having stolen a small pistol
from the collection in the Great Exhibition.
Mr. Short, of the firm of Grant and Co,, Albert-gate,
Knightsbridge, said the prisoner came to his warehouse
the previous evening and offered a small pistol of pe-
culiar workmanship for sale. Suspecting that the article
had not been obtained honestly be questioned the pri-
soner, and his answers confirming the previous suspicion
a constable was sent for and the prisoner was given into
custody.
The constable deposed to taking the prisoner into cus-
tody and to setting on foot such inquiries as led to the
discovery that the pistol had been stolen from the Great
Exhibition.
John Gerin said he had the care of the armoury at
the Exhibition. The pistol was the property of M. Le
Page, one of thp exhibitors, and had been stolen from
the place in which it was put.
The mother of the boy, a charwoman, said she gave
the prisoner and his sister a shilling each to visit the
Great Exhibition yesterday.
Mr. BINGHAM intended at first to commit the prisoner
for trial, but eventually remanded him to give time to
the police to inquire into his previous character.
WESTMINSTER.
Sir James Sutherland M'Kenzie, who has recently
figured on three or four occasions at police-courts, was
charged with being drunk and creating a disturbance.
Mr. William Jackson, of 7, Lower-grove, Brompton,
watchmaker, stated that at about eight o'clock on the
previous evening the defendant came to his house, and
knocked very violently at the private door. Complainant
opened it, and inquired what he wanted, when he said
he came for a glass belonging to him. Complainant
asked what glass he alluded to, when he replied one of
his that he had left there, and he must have it, or Is. 6d.
for it. Complainant left him for a moment at the door,
while he went to make an inquiry of his wife, and in the
next moment defendant shouted at the top of his voice:
—" You and Mrs. Jackson are both liars, rogues, and
thieves."
Defendant—That is perfectly true.
Complainant resumed his account, and stated that de-
fendant continued between five and ten minutes shouting
the same offensive epithets, which he must have repeated
a hundred times. Complainant then left the door in
search of a police.constable, when defendant jumped into
his gig and followed him with one wheel occasionally
upon the pavement, to the great danger of the public, along
the road shouting, " There goes Jackson the thief—the
rogue;" and pointing him out to persons passing, with
his whip.
Defendant—lt is not true; I had not a whip.
Mr. BURRELL—You must not interrupt the pro-
ceedings.
The defendant, who exhibited a great deal of restless-
ness, was again about to offer some interruptions, when
Mr.BURRELL intimated that if such conduct were per-
severed in he must order him to leave the court until
the complainant had finished his testimony.
Complainant said that the defendant followed him
until he met a police-constable, when he (complainant)
gave him into custody. Hs (complainant) had worked
for Mr. Justice Cresswell and many gentlemen of dis-
tinction for years, and had never had any imputation
upon his character, and it was most hurtful to his feel-
ings to be followed through the streets and called a
rogue and thief.
Defendant—l call him now, with your permission, liar,
rougue, and thief.
Henry Notley, police-constable 165 B, said that he
met the complainant and defendant surrounded by a
great crowd of persons. One wheel of defendant's gig
was upon the footway; he was quite drunk, and had a
spirited horse.
Defendant—lntoxicated with excitement; not drunk,
in the vulgar acceptation of the word.
The constable said that when he took hold of the de-
fendant's horse he jumped out of the gig and struck at
the complainynt with a stick, and called him all manner
of names.
Mr. BURRELL asked Sir James what he had to say?
Defendant—l candidly confess I called him the names;
of a verity I would not retract a syllable.
Mr. BURRELL—Such conduct is not allowed in the
public streets, as it is calculated to provoke a breach of
the peace.
Defendant—l had been out all day to the races, and
on my return wanted my bathing-glass to wash my eyes,
and that took me to this person's house.
Mr. BURRELL—What is the dispute about the glass?
Complainant—Sir James lodged with me, during which
time the glass was accidentally broken. He now owes
me 61. 12s. for board and lodging, and was told to deduct
the value of the glass,
.which is very trifling, from his
account.
Defendant—lt is false. My solicitors could show that
he had ingots of gold for everything I had.
Complainant—l assure you, Sir, what I have stated
is strictly true. Sir James was committed for twenty-
one days, and I fetched him home from Coldbath-fields
Prison, and nursed and comforted him with every
kindness.
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dtill defendant in a loud tone.
He never nursed
Mr. BURRELL—I will not allow this ; such language
cannot be permitted in a court of justice. Have you
anything more to say ? Defendant—Not unless you
wish it.
Mr. BURRELL—I do not wish it; but, if you have any-
thing more to say in answer to the charge, I am ready
to hear it.
Defendant—Would you like it long or short?
Mr. BURRELL— Short, if you please.
Defendant—l could address you in Scotch, English,
Latin, Greek, or a variety of languages, which I should
be sorry to do to occupy your time in acquainting you
of how I have been robbed by Jackson's wile and
family.
Sir James then pulled out a pocket• book, and occu-
pied two or three minutes in arranging papers and then
road—" I was out six hours, and I told my driver at
four in the afternoon he might go to the devil, as he
was of no use. Driver has the whip." After a abort
pause—" Dan Tucker did not start ; Bartholomew told
me so."
Mr. BURRELL—You admit having used this abusive
language in the street, and that is quite sufficient for
me to call upon you to find bail, yourself in 1001., and
two sureties in Sol. each, to keep the peace for twelve
months.
Sir James being unprovlded with the necessary sure-
ties was, at the rising of the Court, sent to prison in the
usual way.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N signifies that the mails are sent front the General Poet-ofiler
by the night—and M by the norning--dispateh.]

When made up in From what When
PLACES. GeneralPort-oBlce port ells-
due.
London. patched.
------
America (by Brit. pkt.)N June 13 .. .. Liverpool.. Juno 15
America (by U.S. pkt.) Ni .. • . Liverpool ..
America (by U.S. pkt.) M Juno 18 Southampt. Arrived
Africa (West coast) N lath of the month Plymouth July 3
Alexandria* N:1911 & 30th of mo. Dover .. June 1$
Belgium • . Daily .. Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. • . X;9th of the month Southampt. July 12
Buenos Ayree M:9th of the month Southampt. July 12
California(via Chagres)M: 2d & 17th of month !Southampt. June 20
Cape of Good Hope N;l4th of month (Plymouth.. July
Constantinople' .... 1,77 th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. June 20
Central America .. Ml2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. June 20
Channel Isles *Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Ta. Th.S A
Chili . 3147th of the month Southampt. June 20
France .. M& N; Twice daily .. .. Dover • • Twicedaily
Greece* Nl7th 17th27th of mo Dover •• June 20
llanaburgh
.. M N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat.
Wednes. & Satur.lLonden .• Mem.Tkur
Holland
Honduras N 17th of the meath liouthampt. June 20
Ireland M.& N Twice daily IHolyhead ..ITwicedaily
India (via Southamp.) Ml2Oth of the naonth'Southarapt. !Jane 23
India (via Marseilles) N7th& 24th ofmonth!Dover . • June 18
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) .. M 20th of the month Southampt. June 23
Mediterranean (via I
Marseilles) .. 1817th&24tk ofmonth'Dover June is
Mexico .. •• lif:2d of the month.. ISonthampt. July
Madeira .. • • .. M 9th of the mouth 'Southampt. July 12
N f 7th,l7th 19tk 27th
Malta' .. } Dover !Juno 18
& 30th Of month
Naples* .. • • .. N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover .. June 12
Papal States* .. Nistlllsth 25th of mo Dover .. !June 13
Peninsular.. Ml7th 17th 27th of me,' Southampt. 'June 16
Peru .. 17th of the month 'Southampt. !June 20
Tuscany* N•sth 15th 25th ofmolDover •• June 12
West Indies Mil7th of the month South:Li:apt. 'June 20
West Indies (except
Ilavanna & Nassau) M; 2d of the month .. !Soathampt. ;June 5
* The malls to th2se c ountries thus marked (*) are conveyed 14,
French packet via Marseilles.

CALIFORNIA.—MaiIS to
are now despatched and di

and from Califor
Me by every Ami

via the United iiitata
u packet.