The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONLON, MONDAY EV ENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1,867.

SHARE MARKETS—This day.

ORDINARY SHARES AND BTOCS S.

Railways.

Paid.

Closing I Business
Price. done.

16-137
115 118
40 46

4 6
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70 72

1 6 118
321 321
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1.8 129

91 IS
511 611

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100 101
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101 163
106 107

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53 54
52 64

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POLICE INTELLIGEffCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THROWING PEPPER IN A COFFEE-SHOP KEEPER'S EYES.
—Charlotte Dexeneux, a dirty-looking French woman,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with assaulting Mr.
Wm. Larkin, coffee-house keeper, 26, Great Windmill-
street.

Mr. Larkin said—About seven o'clock this morning, the
prisoner came into my shop and asked me to give her a
cup of coffee. I did not like to refuse to do so, and gave
it to her. After she had sat down for nearly an hour, and
as it was about the time my regular customers came in I
asked the prisoner to leave. She, however, took no notice
of what I said, and shortly afterwards I went and again
asked her to go, and between the two occasions of my
asking her to leave she had emptied a pepper box into a
piece of paper, and she slapped the paper and its con-
tents into my face, the pepper going into my• eyes and
causing me great pain.
The Prisoner—lt was snuff.
Mr. Larkin—lt was not.
Mr. T 3 rwhitt—You gave her the coffee ?
Mr. Larkin—Yes, seeing her poor condition.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—to the prisoner—You are a most ungrate-
ful, cruel person. The complainant gave you some coffee,
and then in return for his kindness, when he asks you to
leave, you throw pepper in_his eyes. I shall commit you
for 1.1 days.

CLOSE OF THE PRUSSIAN AT4 EMU.-

TITRE,

SPEECH FEOM THE THRONE_
BERLIN, F( :b..9.

The King of Prussia closed the Diet to -day in
person. The Queen, the Crown Princess, all the
Royal Princes, the Count of Flaradres, and the
English, French, Russian, and Dan .'Bll Ministers
were present.

111; Majesty, who was enthusiastically c:lleered by
the members of the Diet read the following- Speech :
" Illustrious, Noble, and Honourable G.?ntlemen
of both Houses of the Diet,—

" At the close of a memorable and eventful
period, I express to you my thanks for having
assisted my Government to bring those ho2es to
fulfilment which 1 coupled with this session.
" By granting the indemnity for the financial ad-
ministration of recent years carried on without a
Budget law, you have held out the hand to a settle:-
I/lent of the dispute upon a matter of a principle which
had for years obstructed the co-operation of my
Government with the respresentatives of the country.
" I entertain the conviction that the experience
gained and a general correct understanding of the
essential conditions of our constitutional life will
conduce to avert the recurrence of similar events in
future.

" By granting the extraordinary supplies for the
requirements of the army and the fleet you have
displayed your determination to guard what has
been gained, in recognition of the results hitherto
achieved by the policy of my Government, based
upon the tried readiness and valour of my army.
" A further guarantee for the permanent observ-
ance of constitutional relations has been gained by
the settlement of the Budget before the commence-
ment of the present financial year. By provisionally
relinquishing various items of expenditure which it
is difficult to dispense with in carrying on the ad
ministration, my Government has afforded a new
proof of the value it attaches to agreement with the
representatives of the country. It is therefore all
the better justified in hoping that the requirements
in question will be admitted and satisfied at a future
date.

"I recognise with especially warm thanks the
readiness with which the representatives have
granted my Government the means of alleviating
the position of soldiers incapacitated for labour in
battle for the Fatherland, as well as the condition
of the widows and orphans of the fallen.

"Now that Parliament has afforded efficient co-
operation in carrying out the changes rendered
necessary by the material enlargement of Prussian
territory, and has trustfully placed in my hands the
transfer of the relations hitherto subsisting in the
newly-acquired districts into free community with
the older provinces, I may confidently expect that
the inhabitants of all the countries now united with
Prussia will feel themselves more and more at home
in the great commonwealth of their fellow-country-
men and recent neighbours, and will participate in
the tasks falling to the share of the latter with in-
creasing devotion. The preparations already made
for their representatives joining both Houses of the
Diet will contribute to strengthen and animate the
consciousness of community with the older portions
of the monarchy.
"But in especial the careful and conscientious
guardianship over all the germs of the public welfare
which the Prussian nation is accustomed to expe-
rience from its Government, and which has been
materially promoted by the co-operation of the Diet
with my Government in the Session just brought to
a close, will enable the population of the new pro-
vinces to receive the benefits of the new community
in an ever-increasing degree.

" Assisted by agreement with the representatives
of the
.country, my Government has been able to
call into existence important facilities and improve-
ments in all departments of public life. The pre-
paratory steps towards abolishing the salt monopoly
and the increase of judicial cost, the settlement of
the relations of trading and innkeepiug companies,
the removal of the limitation of the rate of interest,
the postal and commercial treaties, the conversion
of the Pomeranian fiefs, the abolition of the Rhine
navigation dues, the increase of the salaries o f
lower-class officials and of schoolmasters, together
with the grant of the supplies for the construction
and completion of important railways, will be hailed
by large circles as grateful fruits of the Session just
completed.

" While the special development of the Prussian
political system experiences a gratifying advance by
the united co-operation of the representatives of the
country with my Government, the fact that the
draught of the Constitution for the North German
Confederation has been accepted by all the Govern-
ments allied with Prussia justifies me in the convic-
tion that the German people will obtain, upon the
basis of an united organization such as Germany
has hitherto vainly striven for during centuries of
conflict, those blessings to which it is called by Pro-
vidence, throigh the fulness of its inherent power
and civilization, as soon as it understands how to
maintain peace both at home and abroad.
" I shall look upon it as the highest glory of my
Crown if God has appointed me to devote the power
of my people, strong by fidelity, valour, and educa-
tion, to the re-establishment of the lasting unity- of
the German races and their Sovereigns. I trust in
God, who has so graciously guided us, that ho will
permit us to attain this object !