The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-04 00:00:00

cruisers fitted out against her by some belligerent
Power in the neutral ports of the United States
may complete the Rule of Three sum—as the Portu-
guese claims were to the United States claims, so
may be the English claims to the sum to be worked
out. It is clearly for the interest of England,
merely taking the chances of the future into account,
to urge a settlement of the United States claims,
and at the same time, in conjunction with that
and other Powers, to revise and lay down dis-
tinctly the Maritime Law on captures at sea.
Thomas Rawlings, Esq., puts the expediency
of this settlement from another and scarcely
less important point. He says that the kindred
peoples which form these two leading nations of
the world: have now only this one heart-burning
subject of dispute between them. That re-
moved, nothing then remains to check the
cordial amity which, will probably grow and
strengthen with time, and he asks, what are a
`few millions in comparison with such, a result ?
The sum required fully to compensate for the
ravages committed by these lawless vessels is
so vast that the most wealthy nation must approach
it with caution. The object to be attained is, how-
ever, worth the sacrifice, and we have little fear that
those who know how and when to spend their money
will agree in this with Mr. Rawlings and ourselves.
The subject is one which can only be disposed of
by arbitration, and there is no use in trying to
shirk the issue. It will rise again and again ; it
will crop up in every international difficulty ; it
will embitter every international dispute, and if it
remains in its present state it may years hence fur-
nish the groundwork for action on the other side of
the Atlantic which may make the hair of the Liver-
pool and London merchants stand on end with
horror. Questions of this sort are always better
met speedily and settled amicably. The charm of
concession is lost if it be granted only after a long
and acrimonious controversy, and we agree with
our correspondent that the present is a peculiarly
graceful moment for England to waive any sup-
posed right, and to concede the arbitration desired.
Although we agree with a " Britisher" that such a
gang as the Fenians are powerful only for incen-
diarism and murder, and for embittering the rela-
tions between the countries, yet we hold that it
would be worth a great deal to England to render
this conspiracy wholly innocuous, which would be
done at once by the concession here advised. Months
of argument will leave the question virtually as it
now stands—a question of money on, the one side
against political, social, and legal gains on the
other, which the more the subject is consideredlhe will
n
be found the more to outweigh the cost. When
the question was lately put in the iloueste
it
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fairly,
Com-
mons by Mr. White, Lord Stanley, m
and showed no disinclination to submit the matter
to arbitration ; and we judge from the whole tenor
of what he said that the present Government, having
been in no way mixed up in the previous contro-
versy, will meet the claims if now put forward fairly
on their real merits. The great advantage of bring-
ing forward these claims at the present moment is,
that her Majesty's present advisers would not have
to condemn themselves, and if the Inquiry proved
the greatest negligence in allowing the Alabama to
proceed to sea, these Ministers, at least, would be
innocent of all blame.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CAUTION TO CAB PROPRIETORS AND DRIVERS.—Chas.
Case, foreman to a cab proprietor, of Doughty-mews, ap-
peared before Mr. Knox to answer the complaint of Mr.
Wm, Love, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, of causing a horse to be cruelly ill-
treated, by being worked while in an unfit state.

A man named Davy was charged before Mr. Knox, by
Sell, officer of the society, with working the horse a few
days, and fined 10s.
Sell stated that the horse was unfit for work, being
badly managed.
Mr. Cherry, the Government Veterinary Surgeon, said
he had examined the horse in Mr. Love's presence, and he
found it extremely diseased, and defendant must have
known it was so.
Mr. Knox remarked that he saw the horse on the last
occasion, and it was totally unfit for work.
Mr. Cherry said the horse was in a worse state than if it
had the glanders.
The defendant, on the advice of the veterinary surgeon,
Who said the horse was curable, promised to keep the
horse away from others, and not to work it till it was
in a fit state.

Mr. Knox inflicted a nominal fine of ss. and costs.

THAMES.

SAATGE ASSAULT.—James Hickey, an Irish cabman, was
brought before Mr. Paget, chargedwith violently assaulting
Henry Ed wards, the landlord of the Dublin Castle beer-
house, in Burr-street, Lower Aldgate, and Philip Bradley
a police-constable, No. 152 H.
A few evenings since the prisoner entered the Dublin
Castle intoxicated, and made a disturbance there. He also
smashed up a quart pot, and otherwise misconducted him-
self. The landlord put him out, and he came in again, and
made a fierce attack on the landlord, who was savagely
kicked and ill-used. The prisoner attempted to bite the
landlord's thumb. Mr. Edwards entered into a long and
violent struggle with the fellow, which was ended by the
arrival of Bradley, on whom the prisoner turned. He kicked
the policeman about the legs and body and on a vital part
of his person, accompanying his atrocious conduct with
fearful language. Bradley was thrown heavily a dozen
times, a brick was thrown at him by a loose woman, and
he was completely disabled. He has been under the care
of Mr.ilt iP surgeon, of Spitle-square, since he was
ssa ed.P
3r.PhillipsliPs'said the constable was affected with auin-
juries on the arms, hip, and scrotum, and had received a
severe kick on the groin.
The prisoner said he was drunk when the affray oc-
curred.
Mr. Paget—lf you think proper to render yourself per-
fectly uncontrollable you must answer for it when sober.
My only doubt is whether I ought not to commit you for
trial. I sentence you to be imprisoned for two months
and kept to hard labour for the assault on Mr. Edwards,
and an additional two months with hard labour for the
Assaut on the policeman.

MARKETS.---This Day.

COVENT GARDEN.

The market is well supplied with both fruit and vege-
tables. The trade is steady at our quotations.
FRUIT—Fine apples, 58 to 6s; grapes, 2s Gd to 5s ;
cherries, Os 3d to Os 9d per lb ; apples, is 6d to 2s 6d ;
gooseberries, 2s Od to 3s Od ; currents, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ;
plums, 3s Od to 3s 6d per half sieve ; strawberries, 4d to
9d ; raspberries, 5d to 9d per punnet; oranges, 8s to 14s ;
lemons, 3s 6d to 8s per 100 ; foreign pines, Gd to 2s 6d eaoh.
VEGETABLES—Red cabbages, 2s Od to 2s 6d; white do.,
10d to is 6d ; cauliflowers, is to 2s 6d ; horseradish, is to
2s Od per doz heads ; greens, 2s Gd to 3s Od ; turnips, 2s
to 2s Od ; carrots, as 6d to 4s Od ; onions, 9d to is 6d per
dozen bunches ; cucumbrs, 3d to ls 6d each ; peas, Os 9d
to is 3d ; French beans, is 9d to 2s 6d per half sieve ; new
potatoes, 8s to 14s per cwt; cos lettuce; 6d to 10d per
score,