The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-17 00:00:00

BOW STREET.

ROBBERY AT THE WAR-OFPICE.—Edwin Davenport
was placed before Mr. Corrie, on remand, charged with
stealing a salt-cellar and various other trifling articles from
the War-Office. _ -

The prisoner, it appeared, was employed from the Office
of the Board of Works relaying the carpets in the War-
Office, after the different offices had been cleared, and from
time to time various small articles were missed from the
place ; at last the prisoner was suspected, and, on being
watched, he was seen to secrete a salt-cellar. On the pri-
soner's apartments being searched the missing salt-cellar
was found, together with an official copy of the report on the
Army Estimates and Army List. A number of other small
articles were discovered, which it was suspected had been
stolen, amongst them three small paintings which had the
name and address of a Miss Julien, who was a student at
the Kensington Museum. On proceeding to that lady's
address, the police were informed that the pictures had
teen left by that lady in the school of the Museum, pre-
vious to its closing for the vacation.

Sergeant Selley, of the B division of police, said he had
charge of ithe Museum for a portion of the time it was
closed to the public. The prisoner had been at work
there during the time the school was closed for the vacation,
and during that time prisoner must availed himself of the
opportunity of stealing the pictures.
On being asked what he had to say to the charge, the
prisoner merely asked one of the witnesses from the War
Department whether he could swear to the books being the
property of the office, which question was answered in the
affirmative. .

Mr. Corrie committed the prisoner to the sessions for
trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ATTEMPTING TO PICK POCKETS AT THE ENTRANCE
OP HER MAJESTY'S AND THE HAYMARKET THEATRES.—
Henry Godfrey, and Alexander Rice, two well-dressed
young men, were charged, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with air-
tempting to pick the pockets of several persons while
leaving her Majesty's and the Haymarket Theatres the
previous night.
From the evidence of Sergeant Cole, 23 C, it appeared
that seeing the prisoners in the Opera public-house, Hay-
market, overnight, in company of persons he knew to be
thieves, he watched them, and, just as the company were
leaving her Majesty's Theatre, he saw the two prisoners
mix themselves with the crowd at the grand entrance.
After watching them for a short time, he saw Rice
walk by the side of a female with an elderly gentle-
man, and put his hand into her pocket, and
afterwards feel the outside of several other per-
sons' pockets. They went into Anglesey-yard for a
minute and crossed over to the Haymarket Theatre, the
company at the time coming out. He then saw Rice try the
pockets of several persons there, and when near James•.
street he saw Rice put his hand into a lady's pocket who
had just left the theatre. He then secured Rice, but lost
the other for a time, but afterwards found him while he
was looking for his companion. Godfrey gave his address
at Bow, and Rico at Wapping. Notwithstanding ho had
seen them drinking together, at the station they denied all
knowledge of each other. In consequence of the number
of pickpockets frequenting the Haymarket of late ho had
been placed there especially to watch.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the case was very clearly proved
against them—one was operating while the other was watch-
ing and covering him.
Committed for three months, with hard labour.

O wing to the boisterous state of the weather thk
Channel Islands mail packet, which left Southampton at
midnight on Monday, was unable to proceed to sea, and
anchored in Yarmouth Roads all day yesterday. She left
"'WA A double trail last night.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.
ATTEMPTED MURDER IN THE COUNTY OF LONGFORD

The Evening Mail publishes the following ac-
count of an attempted assassination in the County
of Longford on Saturday night last :
" Longford, Sunday.—l regret to state that a
daring outrage was committed near Edgeworth-
stown last night, when Mr. George W. Slator, of
Cartron-lodge, was fired at, and had a narrow
escape of his life.
" Mr. Slator had been to Dublin, and returned
by the evening train to Edgeworthstown, where
his car met him to take him home at half-past
eight o'clock. Mr. Slater was accompanied by his
driver only, and on reaching his own gate a man
came from behind the wall, went up to Mr. Slator,
and fired a pistol at him. He jumped off the car,
when he was assailed by another man who came
also from behind the wall and fired at Mr. Slator.
The ball with which the pistol was leaded passed
through, a heavy frieze coat which Mr. Slator wore,
and carried away some of the cloth. Mr. Slator
was providentially uninjured. The police, came
up speedily, and are busily engaged in search of the
offenders. I will send you any further particulars
I may learn of this diabolical outrage.
" Mr. Slator was served with a threatening no-
tice in May last, warning him that a gun was ready
for him in case he persisted in removing certain
tenants then under ejectment."
The account published in a morning journal is
somewhat more minute in its details. It says :
" Having reached Edgeworthstown station Mr.
Slator got on his car, with his butler driving, and
on reaching his own gate, at about 8 o'clock, two
men rushed from behind the wall inside, one taking
either side of the car, and immediately asked, Is
Mr: Slator here ?? The servant replied, Yes ;' and
Mr. Slator, never apprehending any danger, also
said, ' Yes, I am.' Whereupon one of the assassins
exclaimed with emphasis, Mr. Slator,' and at the
same moment discharged a pistol so close to his in-
tended victim's head that the flash burned Mr.
Slator's cheek, and the slugs with which it was
loaded carried away part of tie collar of his frieze
coat, tearing in on the shoulder also. Mr. Slator
was hampered at the time, his coat being strapped
round him, and a rug round his knees, while he held
his umbrella open in his hands. He jumped off the
car, however, as quickly as he could, made a thrust
of the umbrella at the assassin, and turned round to
follow him, when a second assassin met him imme-
diately behind the car, and fired another pistol,
loaded with a ball, which passed through the breast
of his outside frieze coat, carrying the piece clean
through into the folds of the inside coat, but glanc-
ing off harmless. The miscreants then ran off."
THE POPE AND THE EMPEROR. -

The Morning News has had communicated to it I
an " important and interesting letter from a gentle-
man resident in Rome," a " translation of the most
striking passages" of which it publishes. Here is
part of the first of them:—
"At the same time that the ultimatum of Cavour
arrived, we had the news of the entry of Cialdini
and Fanti into the territory of the Pope. That was
the 11th of September; Lamoriciere was then at
Foligno. On the 13th I went to Cardinal Antonelli;
I found him in great joy, that at last things were
coming to a crisis, because he had the conviction
that the Powers could no longer remain inactive.
On this last point I frankly made the objection
that I had too little confidence in the energy and
intelligence of Cabinets to share the opinion of his
eminence. Then he told me, with much satisfac-
tion, that he had just received a despatch from Paris
informing him that the Emperor had ordered M.
Talleyrand to leave Turin, unless the Piedmontese
troops should immediately quit the Roman territory;
and that he (the Cardinal) had at once communi-
cated this news to Lamoriciere for his guidance. As
the entry of the Piedmontese had been arranged at
Chambery between Fanti, Cialdini, and the Spirit of
Lies, I replied again that I would never rely on a
devil incarnate such as N. ; that it was all a.miserable
scene of hypocrisy and treason ; but the Cardinal
gave me reasons why he thought he could have con-
fidence this time at least. Twelve hours afterwards
he discovered his mistake, and that the monster had
again deceived him, but it was too late."
The writer of this letter, if it be genuine—and of
this, I think, there can be no reasonable doubt—
must be on a footing of peculiar intimacy with the
" Holy Father" or his chief advisers, for he states in
another passage—
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" The Holy Father wrote last week to Bonaparte,
asking him to state distinctly, and without the
usual ambiguous phrases, if he wished to protect or
not the temporal power of the Ho'y See, and not
merely the person of the Pope, which, he said, had
no need of the protection of the Emperor, since it
would be quite as much respected by Garibaldi or
Victor Emmanuel as by Bonaparte. The reply was
worthy of the crowned canaille. He says that he
regrets exceedingly the conduct of Piedmont ; but,
having recognised the principle of non-intervention,
he could do nothing in favour of the Holy See.
However, he would triple the garrison of Rome if
the Pope required it. This was but adding a new
insult to so many others heaped upon the sacred
head of the Sovereign Pontiff by this infernal
spirit."

The requiem performances for the defunct mem-
bers of the defunct Irish brigade are being continued
still with laudable energy in every district which
possesses a Roman chapel, and a public meeting of
the regular and secular clergy in Dublin is called
for to-morrow at the Roman Catholic Church, Marl-
borough-street, the object being to express sym-
pathy with " His Holiness." One would think that
His Holiness ought to be pretty well tired of mere
expressions of sympathy by this time.