The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-31 00:00:00

POLICE IN

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—CRUELLY USING A
HoasE.—John Carpenter, of Chippers.field, King's Lang-
ley, Herts, carman to William Ellis, a hay carter, was
charged at the instance of Mr. Wm. Love, chief constable
of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, with working a horse in an unfit condition.
Simeon Sell, one of the Royal Society's officers, said be
was in the New-road when he saw the defendant driving
the horse, and his attention was called to it from seeing it
tremble as if in great pain. He went up and examined the
horse, and on removing the saddle discovered two large old
wounds; there was also a large raw wound on the shoulder,
and the collar was pressing on it, and both wounds were very
raw, and the horse was altogether in a very low condition.
The magistrate having examined the horse (which was
standing in front of tke court, and was in a very pitiable
condition—a mere skeleton), asked the defendant what he
had to say to it.
The defendant said it was not so bad when he brought it

out.
The magistrate said he could not allow a horse to be
worked in such a condition. It was too bad. The officer
of the society hail very properly brought him to the court.
He would take a lenient view c,f the case and let him
but he would advise him ❑ot to do so again. Tile officers
of the society would have their eyes on him, and he mialit
depend upon it that if he was brought there again he would
be severely dealt with.

THAMES.—DRUNKENNESS, DELIRIUM TREMENS,
AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE'.--NiCho/aS LartViek, aged
28, a stout, able-bodied Norwegian seaman, was brought
before Mr. Selfe, charged with attempting to commit suicide
by cutting his throat.
The complainant, Richard Sanderson, of No. 142, High-
street, Shadwell, said he was a lodging-house keeper, and
the prisoner had boarded with him since he* was paid off
eight days ago, and had been thinking to excess ever since,
until he became afflicted with delirium tremens' and
scarcely knew what he was about. This morning he heard
a great noise in the prisoner's bed-room, and the breaking of
glass and furniture. The noise continued for some time, and
be went up stairs to see what was the matter, and found the
door of the prisoner's bedroom barricaded. He broke it
open, and found the apartment in the greatest confusion,
and the prisoner in the middle of it, staring wildly, and
trembling very much. The prisoner had a knife in his hand,
the blade of which was stained with blood, and he thrust it
forward and said, " Kill me, kill me, for I can't do it my-
self;" and pulled his shirt on one side and exhibited a wound
in his throat, from which the blood was flowing copiously.
The knife was taken from the prisoner, and a surgeon was
called upon to attend him, who sewed up the wound.
In answer to Mr. Selfe, the witness said that the prisoner
came from Bombay in a British ship, the Ladyo ttavia, and had
been almost continually drunk.
Mr. Selfe— And spent all his wages, I suppose ?
The prisoner—Yes, sir, and I wish to get to sea again as
soon as I can.
Mr. Selfe asked how much the prisoner received on Tues-
day last.
The prisoner—l had £2O, mine worship. I have had the
horrors, mine worship, for the last five days.
Mr. Selfe—What a shocking thing it is that you should
be so foolish as to spend all your hard-earned wages in one
week, and get into this dreadful condition, and attempt to
take away your own life.
The prisoner— Oh, the horrors, mine worship, the horrors.
Mr. Selfe—The horrors. Yes; it is the horrors, indeed.
You are in a state of delirium tremens. Did you encourage
him to drink, Mr. Sanderson ?
Mr. Sanderson—No, I did not indeed, sir. I never en-
courage seamen who lodge in my house to drink. He drunk
nothing in my house.
Richard Harris, a seaman, was a shipmate of the prisoner's,
and confirmed the statement of Mr. Sanderson as to the
prisoner having been continually " on the drink" since he
came home.
Mr. Selfe--Have you spent ali your money ?

Harris—No, I have not.
The prisoner—l have got the horrors, let me go, mine
worship, and I will go to sea.
Mr. Selfe could not liberate the prisoner in his present
condition, and would remand him until Thursday to the
House of Detention, where he would be taken care of and
properly treated.

POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH AUS-

TRALIA.

THE PANAMA ROUTE.

Yesterday afternoon a deputation representing a large num-
ber of bankers, merchants, and other persons interested in
the colonies of New South Wales, Moreton Bay, and New
Zealand, waited by appointment upon Sir E. Bulwer at the
Colonial-aice, to present a memorial in favour of the esta-
blishment of anew postal communication via Panama. Tue
deputation consisted of the Hon. Sir Henry Watson Parker,
late Colonial Secretary of New South Wales; the Hon.
Robert Johnson, and the Hon. R. J. Want, Members of
the Legislative Council of New South Wales ; Mr. G. A.
Lloyd, Agent for the Government of New South Wales' •
Messrs. John Algo, Donald Larnach, and William Walker
of New South Wales; Mr. J. C. Fitzgerald, late Member of
the Executive Council of New Zealand; Messrs. W. J.
Graham and Edward Blacket, of Auckland ; Mr. Day, Emi-
gration Agent, late of Melbourne; and Mr. R. Moore, Of Paris,
The deputation having been introduced,
The Hon. Mr. PARKER said that he had the honour to
present a memorial from the Australian colonies and New
Zealand, urging upon her Majesty's Government the im-
portance of establishing a steam mail communication by
way of Panama between England and the Australian
colonies and New Zealand. The memorial was signed by
about 400 of the most influential gentlemen in the colonies
and this country connected with the colonial trade, and was
in the following terms :

" TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR E. BULWER LYTTON
BART., SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLCY
:LIES, &C., &C.
"The memorial of the undersigned bankers, merchants
and others, inhabitants of, or otherwise interestei in the
welfare of, the colonies of New South Wales, Moreton Bay,
and New Zealand,
" Sliewelb,-1. That your memorialists have suffered
great inconvenience, and, in some instances, considerable
loss, in consequence of the delays and irregularities which
have hitherto attended the performance of the postal service
between this country and the Australian colonies.
" 2. That, even with the present insufficient communica-
tion, the mails are rapidly increasing in bulk and import-
ance, whilst an amount of traffic is springing up which de-
monstrates the profitable results that would arise from a
postal service conducted with regularity and despatch.
"3. That the increasing wealth and importance of the
Australian colonies, and the rapid development of their
resources, demand a more frequent postal communication
than has hitherto been maintained with this country ; and
that for such purpose a fortnightly mail ought to be esta-
blished.
" 4. That whilst in deference to the wishes of the southern
aria western colonies of the Australian group the route
by way of Suez should be maintained, the interests of the
northern and eastern colonies demand that a new route by
way of Panama should -oe established, the mails being con-
veyed alternately by either route, so that each portion •f
the whole group may share equally the great advantage
derived from being made the point of first arrival and of
last departure of the mails.
"5. That the insufficiency of the postal service yid
Suez to the wants of the northern and eastern colonies
is such that twice only in the time during which it has
been in use have replies been received from Sydney by
return of post; it is comparatively of little use to the dis-
trict of Moreton Bay (about shortly to be erected into a
separate colony), which would receive its mails via Pa-
nama as soon as Melbourne ; and New Zealand, although
willing to share the expense, can derive but little advan-
tage from the service.
"6. That the feeling of the colonists of New South Wales '
and New Zealand has already been clearly manifested, the
Governments of both those colonies having unanimously
voted a large sum to establish a mail service by the Panama
route—the former £35,000 a-year, the latter £45,000. And
this feeling has again been strongly expressed by the Legis-
lature of New South Wales, as appears in recent accounts
received from that colony.
"7. That whilst your memorialists believe that the Suez
route ought to be maintained as having the incidental ad-
vantage of keeping open the intercourse between Australia
and the British dependencies in the East, the Panama route
presents still more important incidental advantages as
opening the communication with the British colonies in
North America, the West India Islands, and the newly
discovered gold fields on the North-West Coast, as well as
with the United States and with the coasts of South America,
between which and the Australian colonies commercial re-
lations of great importance already exist.
"8. That the importance of the Panama route is im-
mensely enhanced by the completion of telegraphic com-
munication with America, by which intelligence may be
conveyed between the Australian colonies and England in
about 30 days.
" 9. That upon every consideration, whether of commer-
cial or political convenience, the maintenance of a double
line of postal service is of the highest importance as a pro-
vision against those contingencies to which a single line
will always be more or less exposed.
"And your memorialists earnestly hope that their
petition may be taken into the favourable con-
sideration of her Majesty's Government."
Sir E. L. BULWER—You are aware that the establish-
ment of any route of postal communication must rest with
the Treasury. It is not a matter for the Colonial-office,
although, undoubtedly, recommendation of the Colonial
Minister will have its due weight and influence. A great
number of applications have been received on this subject,
andconsideration from the Govern-
men
t. they I
willthin think it
every
it.probable that we may ultimately be able
to establish a fortnightly communication with the Austra-
lianof Panama, the mere so in consequence
ofthe"flo°rlm'icas ytibonwoafythe colony of British Columbia. But,
the question is, after all, to a great extent one of expense.
The Hon. Mr. PARKER referred to the great inconveni-
ence that had arisen from the irregularity of the mails as
was pointed out in the memorial. The colonies of New
South Wales and New Zealand had offered to contribute
liberally towards the establishment of the proposed route.
New Zealand bad offered a subsidy of £15,000 and New
South Wales a subsidy of £35,000 a year.
Sir E. L. BULWER—I
shouldsh like to have some idea of
the proportionate expense the Panama route.
The Hon. Mr. PARKER—Twelvemonths ago the company
which now has communication with New South Wales
would have been content with the colonial subsidy, inde-
pendent of the Imperial Government altogether ; but the
line broke down somewhere on this side of Panama.
Sir E. L. 131.1LWER—Was that an Australian or an Eng-
lish company ?
The Hon. Mr. PARKER—It was the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company, and they would have taken the mail the
whole way, but their consideration was that they had an
establishment between Panama and England.
Sir E. L. BITLWER—And would they have taken the rest
for £50,000 a-Yearl
The Hon. Mr. PARKER—Yes. The contract now in ex-
istenceway of Suez was not °ray most insufficient, but
most expensive. by way
He had been informed by a gentleman of
great mercantile eminence, that if the old contracts were
annulled, the two might be taken and effectually carried
out for the additional £50,000. Both as regarded the
Imperial Government and the colony, it was most desir-
able that there should be a second route.
Sir E. L. By LwEu, so far as the principle is concerned,
I very much agree with the memorialists, and so far as the
expression of my opinion goes I AM in favour of the esta-
blishment very much so indeed. A great
routehave l ;
lately
number
rnt of reasons
a double
arisen to render the second
route necessary, and I shall be exceedingly glad to do what
I can to promote it. That is all I can say ; perhaps you
may think it desirable to see the Treasury on the subject.
The deputation then withdrew.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONN &JILTING DAL—Yes-
terday the admissions on payment were 11,684 ; do. by
season tickets, 848; total, 12,532.