The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, July 26.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A young man, who gave
the name of Edward Sowerby, and said he lived
at Cumberland-cottage, Plurnstead-common, was
charged with annoying and using violent and abu-
sive language to a congregation of Friends, in their
meeting-house, in White Hart-court, Gracechurch-
street, where they were assembled for divine wor-
ship.

Edward Dykes Hayward, of 87, Great Dover-
street, deposed that he was a member of the Society
of Friends, and attended the meetings of the society
in White Hart-court, though he was not officially
connected with the meeting-house. A meeting was
being held there on Wednesday evening, between
6 and 7 o'clock, and was held as usual in silence,
when that man (the prisoner) arose and created a
disturbance. Calling one of the Friends by name,
he said in a loud voice, he was wolf in sheep's cloth•
in g, and another friend he eh arac terised as a deceiver,
mentioning 'his name also. That of course caused
a disturbance, and he used other offensive and abu-
sive language. It was not the first or even the sixth
time that he bad disturbed meetings of Friends in
other parts of London, and was at one time fined £2O
under a conviction by the Surrey magistrates for a
similar offence at Croydon, which fine he had not
paid.
By Sir R. Carden—The prisoner was not a
Friend, nor in any way connected with the society.
The prisoner asked the witness what constituted
a Quaker ?

Mr. Hayward declined to answer that que4ion.
The prisoner insisted that he was a Quaker.
He also said that he had only exercised one of the
privileges of true Quakerism by speaking in their
congregation ; that he had hut spoken the convic-
tions of his own mind, and for doing that the wit-
ness had interrupted and molested him, and given
him into the custody of the police.
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A legal difficuliy -arose at this point of the in-
quiry, no one being present connected with the
meeting-house in question who could prove that it
was a place properly registered for divine worship.
Sir R. Carden said that being so he must remand
the prisoner until that evidence was forthcoming;
and the alderman asked if he had any one who
would give bail for his appearance in £2O
Prisoner—l will give thee my word that I will
appear. (A laugh.)
Sir Robert explained to him that it was not cus-
tomary to take a man's word under such circum-
stances.

The prisoner was then removed, and Sir Robert
Carden directed the officers to call in a surgeon to
,
examine him as to the state of his mind.

GUILDHALL.—Pietro and Tomaso Marsini,
described as wandering musicians and monkey
showmen, were brought up on remand charged
with wilfully and maliciously cutting and wound-
ing a couple of Irish labourers, named Mullins and
Geary, with intent to do them grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Malinari, the interpreter, attended and com-
municated the evidence to the prisoners, who
appeared utterly ignorant of the English language.
The depositions taken on the first examination
having been read over, the officer informed the
court that both the wounded men were in the hos-
pital, and in such a precarious state that it was
quite uncertain when they would be able to attend.
The prisoners were therefore remanded for a week.

WORSHIP-STREET.—George Davis and
Thomas Fitzgerald, the former having a soldierlike
appearance, fair complexion, without whiskers, but
wearing a thick beard, were charged before Mr.
Mansfield with stealing a cash-box, containing
nearly £2O in gold and silver, from the White
Horse, Bethnal-green-road.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, a widow, and landlady of
the house in question, said—Early this morning
the prisoner Davis came to the bar for a glass of
ale, and tendered a half-sovereign in payment. I
took a cash-box from my bar parlour cupboard, got
the change, and having replaced the box, locked
the cupboard, and put the key on the mantel-shelf.
Davis, after stopping a few minutes reading the
newspaper, left, but shortly after returned, in com-
pany with Fitzgerald, and asked for a pint of
bitter ale. To procure this I was obliged to lose
sight of the counter, though not to go into the
cellar, and was followed by the new comer, who,
on my turning with the liquor, stood before me and
inquired whether I knew a builder named " Jones!,
I replied that I did not, but he persisted that I
did ; and looking up at his face I Was struck with
the paleness of his countenance and general appear-

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street, stating aloud what had occurred, and fol-
lowed the prisoners, who turned once and then ran
off. I have not seen the box since.
The evidence of the capture having been given,
in the course of which it appeared that one of the
prisoners knocked down a butcher who endeavoured
to intercept his flight, and that the stolen property
had not been recovered, the assumption being that i
it must, have been cleverly passed into the hands of .
another onnfedetate, .

Sergeant Copping, of the K division, mentioned
that• Davis-had given an address at Islington, but,
that Fitzgerald refused to say anything. 1u the
early part of this month a robbery had been com
mitted at Hornsey, and. these were believed to be
the men in connexion with it. On that occasion a
valuable horizontal. watch, besides gold money, was
stolen, as also a marriage certificate, which shortly
afterwards was returned by 'post with a polite es:-
cuse for its unintentional abstraction.
The prisoners, who neither questioned the
deuce nor replied by one word to the charge, wera
remanded.

-3:. R7IX G OF THE PRINCE OF 'PRO'S-
SIA AND THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA.

Those who this time last year, moved by their
sympathies with Austria, loudly accused the neu-.
trality of Prissia, and found comfort in predicting
as its consequence the degradation of that govern-
ment from its European rank, may now confess them-
selves disappointed. The prudent and firm policy of
the Prince Regent in resisting the attempts of Aus-
tria and South Germany to drive his country into
a war in support of Sclavonic usurpation in th.
land of Italy, while he made military prepa-ta-
lions that demonstrated with how much effect he
was ready on a suitable occasion to appear on,.
the theatre of war, is bearing fruit in• a harvest of
universal respect, Scheming Potentates, who
hoped to find convenient instruments in the natural
expectations and tendencies of Prussia, and have
been disappointed, cannot be expected to acknow-
ledge this ;. but the world sees it and is glad.
Within these few weeks the Prince Regent has
been the subject of the most pressing attentions on
the part of all his great neighbours. Louis
Napoleon left France to meet him, and found him.
the firm and dignified defender of German integrity
and independence. The Emperor of Austria, who
took advantage of the reaction from the revolution.
to put most wanton indignities on Prussia, presses
him to grant an interview in
.Bohemia; and the.
Emperor of Russia, it is understood, is anxious to
secure the friendship of the Regent.
The meeting of the Prince of Prussia and the
Emperor of Austria, accompanied by their most
eminent confidential servants, at Toplitz must be
regarded with great interest throughout Germany.
Few, if any, of these voluntary meetings of
sovereigns have brought good to their people. This
interview, however, takes place under peculiar cir-
cumstances. Both Princes have had ample oppor-
tunity of learning that in times of difficulty the
sympathy of the governed is invaluable. The
Prince Regent of Prussia has proved this truth in
a truly royal way by dealing frankly with the na-
tion, which has responded warmly to his summons
and the Emperor has acknowledged it. in the con-
cessions he has so tardily granted. Halting, hesi-
tating, and often retrograde as has been the do-
mestic policy of the House of Hohenzollern since
1847, it has permitted, and of late encouraged, the
growth of a true and free national life. There is
nothing like it, nothing even calculated to lead to
constitutional freedom in the changes lately intro-
duced by the Austrian Government. The enlarged
Council of the Empire, of which we are continually
hearing so much, and of which so much more is
predicted, is to all appearance one of those transi-
tory- expedients which the Austrian court has al-
ways been apt to devise in critical times.. It wants
the essential attributes of a body capable of taking a
serious part in the work of government. It has
ordinarily no effective voice in the taxation of the
Empire, a point on which the English public has
been greatly misled. While some of our journals
are proclaiming that Austria has become con-
stitutional, and that the Emperor has transferred
all financial questions to the Council of the Em-
pire, the Vienna journals, which should unde,r-
stand the matter, and which certainly cannot be
charged with a desire to under-estimate the Im-
perial condescension, take a much more sober
view of the recent concessions. They all agree
that the Emperor, by his letter of the 19th instant,
has only made the consent of the Council necessary
when new taxes are required. The Vienna Press
correctly observes :—" The Council of the Empire
must not be confounded with an assembly which
has the right of consenting to taxes. Neither the
continuance of existing ones nor perhaps their
reduction, but solely their increase, is made subor-
dinate to its assent, and for the general budget its.
co-operation remains purely consuliative, as en-
acted by the Imperial patent of the sth March..
What will be the greatest importance for the future
is the part which is given to the Council in the
conclusion of loans, and this concession alone pro-
mises that this body is destined to develop itself
and to assume greater importance. Bat in propor-
tion as its attributions may extend the bases of i ts
composition must equally enlarge themselves." 'll'he
Assembly thus described is clearly not a part of the
Government, but a machine for raising taxes and
recommending loans. The Vienna Wanderer,
which speaks very cautiously of its value as a do-
mestic institution, observes that " abroad it must
exercise a very beneficial influence, for it must re-
store our finances and our credit." But it is idle to
discuss the powers of an Assembly which has only
been suddenly called into being to meet a pressing
exigency, and which has no assured. permanent
existence. The Council of the Empire consists of
nominees of the Emperor: Its power has no basis
apart from the imperial will. It has no represen-
tative character, except in some mystical transcen-
dental sense, akin, perhaps, to that in which Lord
Robert Montagu might be said to rep?esent the
Working Classes, or the Duke of Rutlaud British
Industry. If its powers had the least foundation.
either in history or in the acknowledgment of
popular right, they might in time be developed
into political guarantees; but at present their con-
tinuance is only a testimony of the embarrassments
of the Sovereign. Everyone must desire that the
men who have come forward in a patriotic spirit to
try what can be done to secure the advantages of
good government for Austria may succeed in their
patriotic task, and we shall be very glad if at an
early day we can report some solid reforms effected
with their aid.

It is natural to suppose that the conferences at
Toplitz have turned on the question of an alliance
between the two great German Powers. The cir-
cumstances of each State and of all Germany
point in the direction of that union. Austria,
unfortunately, has a way of asking on occasions
like the present guarantees of every little patch
of outlying territory which has at any time
been tacked on to the map of the Empire. The
Emperor, it is well known; is particularly anxious
to get the guarantee of Prussia for Venetia. But
we think it may be taken for granted that the
Prince Regent's advisers know too well the interests
they have to consult to think of entangling their
country in the Italian concerns of another power.
The Prussian people saw with undisguised vexa-
tion the progress of French arms along the southern
frontier of Germany last year, and in a renewal of
similar circumstances would probably take mea-
sures for making the power of the Confederation
respected. But the Italian calm separated from
French designs, has powerful friends in South
Germany, as the debates in the Prussian Chambers
have shown. And even the Prince of Prussia must
feel that the consolidation of all Italy into a homo-
geneous state, strong enough to defend its freedom,
and to be indifferent to aggrandisement, is no mean
guarantee of the peace of Europe. The policy which
the Prince Regent has hitherto followed, and by
which his government has become strong, has been
to consult before all things the interests of Prussia
and Germany, and we doubt not that when the
character of the discussions at Toplits become known
it will be found that he has been faithful to his re-
peated professions. In proportion as the great
monarchies of Europe renounce the detestable prin-
ciples which made the members of the Holy Alli-
ance a nuisance to their progressive neighbours,
Englishmen will take pleasure in their strength
and greatness.—Daily News.

THE Ro Ar, Cann MURDER.--The unfounded
rumour, which has been so industriously circulated, to the
effect that the deceased child entertained a strong anti-
pathy to Miss Constance, is as false as it is wicked. So
tar from that having been the case, prior to the child's un-
timely death, he was on most affectionate terms with her,
so "such so, that on the evening before the murder was
committed, whilst in the course of a childish romp with
Constance, he gave her a little bead ring he himself had
made her. A great deal of gossip, too, has been circulated,
to the effqct that a girl named Mary Moody, a schoolfellow
of Miss Constance, had heard her give, utterance, while at
school, to some revengeful expressions respecting the de-
ceased. With the express object of ascertaining the cha-
racter and demeanour of Miss Constance in the prosecution
of her scholastic studies, Captain M eredith and Vit. Super-
intendent Woolf yesterday visited the school at Beckg-
ton' and interrogated Miss Williams, the principal, with
regard to this point. Both Miss Williams and her assis-
ant, Miss Scott, spoke in the highest terms of Constance,
saying that she was a welt conducted pupil in.every respect,
while in that establishment ; and that so assiduous was she
to her studies, that sha became a successful competitor at
,ao seund prize.
the half-yearly examilottion, and carried
if 4
—Bath Chronicle.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.I
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews,
Bnckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, the new comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY,
iii which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear.
to conclude with A HUSBAND AT SIGHT.