The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-24 00:00:00

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gang and a policemon captured the other. In answer
to a einestion by Mr. Yaril.y, the witti,-.as said he viay
quite certain that the prisoners are two cf the men
who gatberec' rour,d hi,, brother.
Jams Wellster said be could only recollect that his
w:.. ch was stolen and the ring broken. Se.or.tl men got
about him, and his watch was gone in an inwant•
S veral wrier wittesses were examined who sa...v the
kris: nere rir.ning, ar.(l one of them, Sophia II al,s, ob
sersed the prisoner Dacey hand the watch to another
man. The prisoners made a desperate resistance brfor•
they were secured.
Francis Kelly, 130 H, said the prisoners were netori-
one thieves, and had been repeatedly in custody.
Mr. Yardley—What is the value of the watch ?
The prosecutor replied teac be gave seven guineas fee
it three years ago, in Dundee.
The ptiForicrs pleaded guilty.
Mr. Yardley—There is no d'eibt of ynsr guilt, and I
will not inquire into your foro,er career. I convict you
both of larceny, and sentence you to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for six calendar months.

THE TRIAL OF THE MARQUIS CAMPANA

ROME, May 18.—The trial of tin Marquis C
pans, one of the most, extraordinary cases which
has been subjected to judicial cognisance of hie
years in Rome, f ir eintiezzlement of monies apper-
taining to the Sacro Monte di Pieta, or govern-
ment loan office, of which he was &lector,
to the tune of nearly a million of scuds
(200,0000, has been definitively ieferrei to the
criminal tribunal presided over by Monsignor
Sagretti. The marquis had appealed against the
competency of this tribunal, upr:n the ground that
the Sacro Monte di Pieta was an establishment ex-
clusively dependent upon the ecclesiastical branch
of the Government, or, in Roman phraseolgy, the
roost reverend Apostolic Chamber, which possesses
a tribunal expressly set apart to.take cognisance of
all cases connected with its own peculiar branches
of the administration. On Friday last the marquis's
objection to the competency of the criminal tribilnal
was presented, strangely enough, to the criminal
tribunal itself to decide upon. The result. was, as
might have been expected, t hat tie criminal tribunal
declared itself perfectly competent, and as the case
has been pushed on wii h urgency, and the intentions
of the government are pretty well known, great
astonishmi-nt has been felt that the Marquis Cam-
palm, of European reputation as a profound archm
logist and liberal Meccenas of the arts, should have
brought himself into so disgraceful a position. The
only point to be objected to in this mode of proceed-
ing of the Govetnment, admitting the full gravity
of the offence, is the hindrance thrown in the Mar-
quis's way with respect to a public trial and an un-
shackled defence. Our British ideas of justice are
very much shocked at the prisoner's advocate b-ing
required to submit his speech for tie defence
to the previous censorship of the president of the
very criminal tribunal which is to give sew enee.
The Marquis Carnpana feels persuaded that if he
could at the present moment negotiate the sale
his museum, and so liquidate his liabilities towards
the Monte di Pieta, all would be forgiven, and he
would go forth scot free; but a transaction of that
importance c innot bet. included so rapidly. Never-
theless a friend of his has under, aken to write to
the British Government u.ain the subject, in the
hope of her Majesty's Ministers making an offer in

THE MURDER IN LA.YSVAU,STR3ET.

On Saturday forenoon, at 11 o'clock, an investi-
gation took place at the Royal Free Hospital,
Gray's-inn-road, before Mr. Wakley, coroner, on
view of the body of Tho,. Chas. flanw,ll, 26, a
plasterer, who was killed in a fracas, on Wednes-
day last, in Laystall-street, Liquorpond-street.
Since the shocking affa-r, two men, of the name
of Cronin and Spray, have be -n apprehend: d,
and
examined at Cl,-rkenwell Police-court, and re-
manded to await the result of the present preceed-

togs.
After the jury were sworn they viewed the body,
which exhibited no marks of external violence.
The following evidence was brought forward :
Mary Jane Hanwell, the deceased's sister, merely
spoke to his having been married last Christmas,
and his being a steady, hard-working man. •
Thome.. Jesson, greengr cer, of Laystall-street,
said he saw the fracas. The deceased and Cronin
struggled together, asd, with three others, fell.
The deceased was the last that got up. When he
did, he staggered and fell against a wall, after which
he did not s'ir, and appeared quite dead.
By the Coroner—l did not see Cronin strike the
deceased. I saw them scuffle together, and the dt.-
ceased fell, as I have described.
John Smith, in the eiriploy of Reid's Brewery,
Liquorparid-street, said about 8 o'clock on Wed-
nesday evening I observed several men struggling
together. The deceased was left upon the ground
when the whole of the others got upon their feet.
He (deceased) got up afterwards, but fell against a
wall to the ground, after ,which he never moved.
He was br( ught to this hospital.
By the jury—l did not s-_!e the deceased struck
by either of the men now in custody.
The Coroner said that the Coroners' Courts were
a farce. Two men were in custody charged with
manslaughter, when there was not one atom of
evidence even to prove a common a-sault. Both
these men ought to have been present. He (the
coroner) had no dount, were he to make an appli-
lication, that Mr. Walpole, the Home Secretary,
would order the men to be produced.
Mr. Davis, the house-surgeon, said the deceased
died from extravasation of blood upon the brain,
the result of a fall or blow.
Verdict in accordance with such evidence, but
how the violence occurred there was no evidence
o the jury. .

Falstaff. Pert X. By George Cruiksbank.
Longman and Company.
The glorious Fat Knight's biography is now com-
pleted, the veracious and redoute a.tile Life at d Ad-
ventures of Sir John Falstaff—illustrated resplen-
dently by the elcitirg nstelle if Get rge Cruikshank.
The work makes a goo Fry tome of nearly 200
octavo pages, embellished with " twenty" admirable
and beeut ful engraviugA. Altogether the book is
the result of one of the Lappiesethoughts yc t hit
uPon by our immortal George—and what happy
thoughts he has had Lefore now don't we all re-
member ? From his sketch of the drummer whose
hair was tied 'so tight that he could'et shut his
eyes—to that of the little dog whose tail was curled ,
upwards so stiffly that it lifted him off his hind -
legs ! From those excruciating glimpies he has
given us of the agonies of the Toothache, to the
ever memorable drolleries illustrative of two de- ,
lightful ballads—the ballad of Jahn Gilpin and the
ballad of Lord Bateman. It was riot very long .
ago that in the course of a charming paper
in the Quarterly, Mr. Thackeray reminded us
of how vividly Cruikshank's pencil takes us back
in a twinkling to the diets of the short-waisted,
ladies and of the high-collared and swallow-railed-
ggini
--when
those
onaHs
himself
es
idfcaawyr assae_e,ryaet t
ttnaie pictorial trcbni roiyoa
boyhood.
otohd. During
this humorist
teri ren ah e
centuryg
this bing artistic career of his, how largeey w
.11 of us indebted to hint for innocent and joyous
laughter. Throughout this long lapse of half-a-
century, how fruitful his mind Las been of the
ludicrous. His political caricatures alone form e
grand connecting link between the days of Gillray
and those of H. B. His wonderfully facile pencil,
while embellishing current literature abundantly,
has adorned the reprints of many of our classic .
masterpieces. While, for example, he has beau •
illustrating the magazine fun of comic essayists like
M. A. Titmarsh and Leman Blanchard,- of minor
novelists like Angus Reach and Frank Fairlegh, of
groteseue miscellanies like his own Omnibus,
and later still, his own short-lived but promising
magazine—he has been giving visible form to the
vivid imaginings of Boz is Oliver Twist, and to the
wierd and fantastic dreaming; of Ainsworth in his-
torical romances like Windsor Castle and the
Tower of London—at the same time that he has
t ruched into life, with that magic etching needle
of his the ever delectable masterpieces of our great
elder humcurists, Henry Fielding, and Tobias
Smellett. Wonderful to tell among all the mani-
fold reprints of late years no publisher has dreamt
of advert uring upon a reprint of the great and im-.
mortal novels of Richardson—novels in their time
the rage of the reading public—and novels we are
very certain that would be bought eagerly nowa-
days, if only froin"Yery curiosity and for the pure
pose of placing them upon private boakt.helves—
supposing them to be republished in a cheap
and popular form, and supposing them to
be il:us rated by the pencil of an- artist-hus
reourist like George Cr uiesbank. How dearly we
should like to see his Sir CearlesGrandison 1 With
what a zest would he give us the perfeot present-
ment of Miss Clarissa Her lowe ! Fancy his limn-
ing of the old beau, Soames—of the handsome
rattle Lovelace ! Imagine his etching of the scenes
in the silk-mercers, or of the grim family conclaves
—of the bawd's deathbed—or, last scene of all in
that eventful tragedy, the scene where Lovelace
rages against himself like one distracted Is it
idle, we wonder, ever to hspe for such a cheap,
modern, popular illustrated edition of the works of
,ardson? We put it to the most speculative of
our publishers. Perhaps, if the great houses of
old might net entertain the notion—Longman and
Murray, for example—it might ba taken in hand
by such ire ortant firms as Messrs. Chapman and
Hall, or Messrs. Smith and Elder, or by. daring
alt lesale exporters like the Messrs. Rouiledge.
It would be abenefaction to the reading public, and
if judiciously arranged, we warrant it, the project
would amply repay the adventurous speculation.
All this of course arising out of one's recollection
of what in a like way has already teen accomplished
by the ingenious fancy and tke skilful hand of
G orge Cluikshank.
Falstaff, we repeat, is among the happiest of his
producti ns. The letterpress, we grieve to note,
has teen penned almost ueintertuptedly through
severe bodily suffering by Robat Brougb, a comic
writer who has elsewhere often delighted us by his
whimsical fur,, prose and poetical, dramatic and
didactic. Cordially let us hope at least that the
close of the present work may have been contempo-
raneous with the termination of the autluat'a bodily
ailm, nts. As for the artist's share in the work, it
is past praise—it is admirable. Falstaff everywhere
in tt ese trully beautiful engravings is the true Fal-
staff of Shakspere. Not the least strikingly in tLe
two last etchings here bringing the score to its
conclusion—one the discovery by Sir John of his
having been tricked at Herne 's Oak ; the other his
famous deathbed scene, where he is fumbling with
the sheets and smiling upon his fingers' ends, lying
there with a noe as sharp as a pen, a-babbling o'
green fields.

Tll.B POLICE OF PARIS.

We glean a few extracts from an able article on
this important subject by M. Max Berthaud, which
has just app -ared in the Revue Coriteinporaine.
We may pi emise that the author admits the princi- .
ple followed in the departments, viz., that the
muni.ipal police should exclusively belong to the
Prefect of the Seine and the 12 mayors of Paris,
the political police alone remaining in the hands of
the Prefect of Police. This is, in fact, the great
point of contention between the two authorities ;
the Prefect of the Seine not only claiming the pre-
cedence, refused by his rival, but also the petite
voire, or lighting, sweeping, and watering of the
streets, and the clearing of the sewers, all of which
the Prefect of Police claims as absolutely necessary
to his authority. Hiifunctions,-as detaded by M.
Berthaud are, indeed immense. "He can republish
all the laws and regulations ; he has authority over
all that concerns the petite mire, though his deci-
sions may be appealed from to the Minister of the
Interior ; he has under his orders a commissary
whose duty it is to watch, peruni, or follid the
ce cuing of shops, the establishment of permanent
awnii gs projecting over the footpaths, and to
superintend the conduct of itinerant venders. He
can order the demolition of houses threateuing
ruin ; superintends all the regulations concerning
the rain-wa. er conduits and pipes, the circulation
of hackney coache., and the health of the city,
particularly during the prevalence of epidemics;
he can forbid. the establishment of insalu-
brious manufactories in the city, also of hospi-
tals and maisons de sante ; he can seize all diseased
meat or other provisions ; he takes all the mea-
sures requisite for extinguishing fires or preventing
them from spreading, and can in such cages press
all carpenters, slaters, and other workmen into his
service. Lastly, it is he who causes assistance to
who
bewh
og
haveiven ht
eoent
,bref
sewurcr
fromcled, a
awnadtertyodetahtobs.e"
Berthaud here mentions what has been considered
a just complaint against the manlier in which the
police, since 1850, rids the city of its night-soil, by
turning it off iu'o the Sine, instead of having it
carried away in night-carts. To this the author
replies that a method having been discovered in
1850 for disinfecting night-soil, M. Cruller, the
then Prefect of Police, calved the methol to be
investigated by the Council of Public Heath, which
found it to answer perfectly. It was then, and
then only, that M. Carlier, caused it to be put into
practice, thus diminishing by two-thirds the number
of the offensive night-carts which infeA the streets
at a late hour. Whether it be politic to trans-
form the Seine into a large sewer by turning even
the disinfected matter into it, is another question
which, M. Berthaud says, has been taken into
consideration by the administration. The
Icon-
struct ion of a large tunnel, running parallel with
the Seine, has alre.rdy been -commenced on both
sid.-s of the river ; this sewer, when finished, will
carry the night-soil to a point below Paris, and thus
hus
le ave the river within the city pure. The au
then p'oceeds to detail the various duties of theh
s stratagems
police-agent, and they al
swindlers of every
description of thievesan
limits will
ploys in the intermin eri°wduar hew ages with the
not admit
description ; but, as our .
following statistical details :—The
of our entering into that subject,.. we will con-
clude with the
Prefect of Police has dally to provide for the pav-
ing, macadamising, sweeping, watering, and light-
ing of 1,474 streets, avenues, quays, and boule-
vards,forming a total length of 384,664 metres,
andp;esenting a surface of 5,500,000 square metres.
There are in the streets 13,000 gas-burners, which
are lighted in the course of about. 20 minutes. The
length of the gas pipes is 485,000 metres ; that of
the water conduits 330,000 meters ; and that of
the sewers 163,000. The city contains between
32,000 and 33,000 lieus.,s, ef which 6,863 are lodg-
ing-houses—that is, inhabited by a population re-
quiring a sp, cial surveillance. About 137,000 per-
sins circulat i daily in carriag s; the omnibuses alone
transport 25,000,000 per. ous per annum ; and yet
thereonly24 ilr
oo cveeudr r
feadt
al
la.ti t yEeira,
er
r3y6i.
eaacrc itdheen trs
Oopfulwahtiiocitn
of Paris consumes 80,000,000 kilogrammes of meat,
970,000 hest: litres of wine, 240,000 hectolitres of
b,er, and 78,000 hectolitres of brandy and liqueurs.
The police has to verify the grod quality of all
these pr, visecinst. and therefore keeps its eye upon
10,000 dealers in these articles."

Among the boating and yachting features for next
week Is tue opening trip of the Boston Yacht Club on
hursday ; at d the Oxford University Miat Club oh 1-
lenge Rule ;.re to be rowed f')r on the following day.