The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-22 00:00:00

POLICE LYTELLIGENCE.-April 21.

CLERKENWELL.—Benjamin, Allen Howard, who
described himself as a merchant of Wisconsin, United
States, was charged with having, on the night of the
18th of March, stolen from a bedroom at the Great
Northern Hotel, King's cross, about 5601., the property
of Mr. Stanisland, a solicitor, of Boston, Lincolnshire.
The prisoner is a smart-looking Yankee, with a mous-
tache and beard, and wore elegantly-cut clothes and
coloured boots, and had with him a quantity of most
valuable jewellery, and a fancy stick with a gold horse's
leg for the handle.
Mr. Stanikiland said he resided at Boston, in Lincoln-
shire, and on Wednesday, the 18th of March, he came
up to town, having in his possession about 565/., con-
sisting of three Bank of Eng and notes for 1001, the
remainder being in B note'. He went to bed at
the Great Northern Hotel at about half-past 10 the same
night, takii,g the precaution of first locking the door.
In the inortung, who n he left his bedroom, be felt in his
trow-ers pocket, and then discovered that his purse and
money were not there. He then cave information to the
police, and having a certained the number of the notes,
found that one of the prisoner's companion', of the name
of Howard Ki- gston, had paid one of the 1001. notes to
the Messrs Emery and Co., tailors, of Regent•street.
There could be no doubt, that he had locked his door
when he went to bed, but a man waS now not much
more safe even if he locked his door. He (Mr. &anis-
land) should prove the passing of the notes for 1001.
each and would then ask for a remand, as he had little
doubt but that a great portion of the property found on
the prisoner wowd be identified.
Mr. J. It. Owen proved that one of the 1001. notes
had been passed at Mr. Speeltran's, but the chief clerk,
who could identify the man who passed the note, was
unable to be present that day. The party who changed
the note had the greater portion of the change in Awe-
rican dollars.

The hall porter at Morley's Hotel produced a book,
in which was an entry of " Hoskin, • Kingston, New
York, 19th Feb., 1856 '" He FDAV, him write his name
in the book. It is the practice of Americans using that
hotel to write their tames in the book in case any of their
friends should call. Sonietimes the prisoner called ; that
was about a week after. There could be no doubt that
Kin2ston and the prisoner knew one another, for they
conversed and went out together.
The prisoner, upon being asked in the usual way if he
bad anything to say, replied "Nothing."
Mr. Corrie remanded the prisoner for a week.
When the prisoner was searched there were found upon
him two valuable gold diamond rings, one of them a rose-
coloured one; worth about 201.
The prisoner was apprehended on board the Persia,
American steamer, just as it was on the point of leaving
Liverpool for New York. He bad on him a belt, con-
taining 115 sovereigns, 78 twenty-dollar piecer, 34 five-
dollar pieces, and other property of the value of 6001.
There is a large quantity of property in the hands of the
police ; and if hotel keepers and others who have been
robbed will communicate their loss to Scotland-yard,
they will be allowed to see the several articles.

ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF Atine.—Tbe Tribunal of
Correctional Police of Lyons three days ago tried a man
named Dumas for belonging to a secret society, and
having illegal possession of arms and ammunition. Al-
though he was known to have keen one of the employes
of the Association Fraternelle, which in June, 1849, got
up the insurrection at the Croix Rousse, and though he
had been one of the principal members of a revolution-
ary society which planned a general insurrection for
August, 1855, and who had been sent to,the neighbour-
ing departments to represent the Voraces, the Carbonari,
Invincibles, and other secret sccieties, he for some rea-
son enjoyed the special protection of one of the mayors
of the city, and through him got two of his children
admitted to an hospital, and was allowed to keep a stall
for the sale of liqueurs near the Pont Morand. It, bow.
ever, in February last, became known that he was an
active member of a secret political society called the
Comite Europeen, and on searching his lodgings pro-
clamations of that society exciting to insurrection were
fund, as
well a, a pi,tol, ten hall cartridges, 44 caps,
&c. The Tribunal sentenced him to two years' irnpri•
sonmene and 16fr. fine.
PREVENTION OF STEAM POILFE EXPLOSION.—The
association withl shed in Mani heater r the prevention
of steam-boiler explo-ions, has ju-t issued the following
instructions to firemen. As they is-ue from a body of
practical men, they are deserving the attention of all
n'rties working (-team-engines throughout the kingdom.
"Instruction-. —Where there are two furnace to a
boiler, fire alternately, and at regular intervals of time.
In throwing on fresh c gals, si real them evenly over tl
bare, commencing at the bridge end. Large orals should
he broken into pieces not bigger than a man's fist.
Never allow any part of the grate surface to be un
covered, nor allow the fire to burn too low. There should
et be lees than four inches thickness of bright fuel on
the bars when a fresh charge is trown on, Keep the
liars free from clinkers. In case o' the water falling be-
-1 iw the bottom of the guage-glass draw the fires at once;
out if the plates,of the furnace should have become red-
"rot-before this has beep noticed, and the fires cannotsbe
!raven with safetY, at all events close the dampers; lint
n no account attempt to let water into the boiler.. In
uch cases, if the engine be not at work, it must not be
started, nor must the safety-Valve, or any other valve, be
opened. In short, the boiler must be left undisturbed
till it has gradually cooled down."

We yesterday pointed out to ,
conclusion of an article upon Lord Palmerston's
systematic betrayals of the Liberal cause through.
out Europe, a very remarkable fact connected with
the campaign of 1854, namely, that the lamentable
SebastoPol expedition was undertaken without the
knowledge of Austria, and that it was undertaken
at the very moment when that power was on the
point of committing herself to direct hostility with
Russia by taking the left of an advance which,
from the magnitude of ti.• forces employed, would
have in ,vitably included the Russo-Polish territo-
ries wit lin its scope.
nese facts have only lately come to our know-
ledge in a shape upon which we could place implicit
reliance, and are now put forward, not in defence
of Austrian tergiversation, but in inculpation of our
own Glvernment 'for treachery to the common
cause,

We have good reason for believing that the Anti-
tria'n Government, upon 11, arieg from the Times
that it was the determination of the allied powers
to carry the war into the Crimea, at once fell back
upon their former dilatory policy, in the double
conviction that they were themselves left totally
isolated, and that not a single soldier of the expe-
ditionary armies would ever return.
The letter conviction we fear hr s been but too
nearly fulfilled, at least as far as the body of troops
originally sent was concerned. Of course the enor-
mous power of England and France in a degree
repaired the fearful losses ; but, alas, we fear that
few of the gallant army, either French or English,
which landed at Old Fort are ever destined to re-
visit the shores of their native lands.
We recur to this subject because we are aware
that many or -Our readers may Le anxious to know
why so monstrous a departure from the great ob-
jects of European independence should have been
sanctioned by our Government, and so great an
opportunity lost.
We answer in a few words—by a reference to
what we- said above—the movement iu advance,
including the armies of four great powers, would
have made 'Russian Poland the field of battle, and
involved the English Government at once in a con-
flict, upon Polish ground, with a Sovereign "whose
rights are," as Lord,Paltnerst,,ii asserts, " incon-
testibl e." ; •

Every one knows that—call it selfish or other-
wise—the. Austrian policy has been, for i 0 years,
that of giving up Gallicia as her contribution to
the establishment of an independent kingdom of
Poland.

She knew well that the advance thus contem-
plated would have raised the whole Polish question.
The same inevitable consequence was also patent
to the Western Governments ; and we now see
the fact that sooner than raise the question of
Polish independence, they run the risk—too fatally
fulfille&--of sacrificing their armies in the fearful
conflict with famine and disease on- the fatal pla-
teau in front of Sebastopol.
The foregoing considerations may be taken as a
preface to the following painful extracts from the
address of the officers of Cossacks of the Sultan to
their friend and general, Zacnoyski, a melancholy
record of disappointed hopes.

"TO GENERAL COUNT zaniotsu, COMMANDING THIS

POLISH DIVISION OF COSSACKS OF THE SULTAN.

"General,-_ united under your command, although
under a very humble appellation, we considered our-
selves as forming the nucleus of a future Polish national
army, and were prepared to undergo fresh sacrifices for
the sake of our country. We know well what cares and
labours you have undergone, unceasingly and untiringly,
in forming the Polish division. Your hopes and ours
are now, we will not say destroyed, but suspended for a
while, by the news of peace, which, while bestowing a
temporary quiet upon Europe, fills the heart of the
Poles with sadness, for it renders doubtful the cause of
our nation—a cause which we alone serve."