The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-14 00:00:00

occupied with a charge of assault upon a young girl
of 23, named Isabella Briant, the bouquetiere to the
Jockey Club, on the morning of the 18th December
last. This young girl being exceedingly well known
and respected the case excited much interest at the
time. It appeared from the statement of the com-
plainant that as she was proceeding home from the
club, about 2 o'clock in the morning, the defendant
called after her when she reached the angle of the
Rue d'Antin. As she made no answer, the defen-
dant (who is a young man of 25, named Jean
Baptiste Dumas) ran after her, and seized her vio-
lently by the neck. On her refusal to accompany
him he used the most insulting expressions
to her. A policeman was called, and the
defendant was taken into custody. The
complainant admitted that she struck her as-
sailant violently with her door-key, which she had
in her hand. She was able to go to her club next
day, but was afterwards attacked with fever, and
was ill in bed for eleven days. Marks of violence
were still apparent on her neck. The defendant,
whose excuse was intoxication, was sentenced to be
imprisoned for six days and to pay a fine of 16f.
The bouquetiere is said to make a profit of no less
than 15,000 f. a year by selling her flowers. One of
the papers called Dumas a malefactor, and he has
written a letter, in which he energetically protests
against the expression.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 13.
The Cholera Conference was opened to-day, pro
forma, with an address from Aali Pacha.
The regular sittings will begin on the Monday
after the Bairam.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALLETTA, Feb. 8.

Her Majesty's iron screw storeship Supply, 2,
Staff-Commander Charles Bawden, arrived on the
sth inst., 26 days from Woolwich, and 5 from
Gibraltar, with naval and victualling stores and a
few supernumeraries. Lieut. Allen, Royal Engi-
neers, and Mr. J. Rastrick, arrived by her. The
Cossack, 20, screw corvette, Capt. R. D. White,
sailed for Corfu on the same day to relieve the
Arethusa, 35, screw frigate, Capt. Macdonald, and
send her to Malta. The Resistance, 16, iron screw
ship, Capt. Chamberlain, was inspected ou the 6th
inst. by the Commander-in-Chief. The Firefly, 5,
paddlewheel surveying vessel, Commander G. R.
Wilkinson, was paid off on the 7th inst. The Cocka-
trice, 2, screw gunboat, Lieut.-Commander R. M.
Gillson, was paid off to-day. The crews of both
vessels will leave for Gibraltar in the Terrible to-
morrow, and will there be transferred to the Liver-
pool for passage to England, the latter ship bringing
out supernumeraries for the Mediterranean. The
Firefly has been dismantled, and is to be broken up.
The Cockatrice is to be recommissioned. We learn
from Gibraltar of the arrival of H.M.S. Chanticleer,
17, screw corvette, Commander W. H. Fenwick, on
the 29th ult. from Malta. She left on the same day
for England. The Meeanee, 60, screw line-of-battle
ship, Capt. G. Woodhouse, arrived at Gibraltar on
the 30th ult., also from Malta, and continued her
voyage for England on the 2d inst. Her Majesty's
ships in port are the Victoria (bearing the flag of
Vice-Admiral Smart, K.C.8., K.H.), Hibernia
(bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Kellett, C.B), Cale-
donia (in dock, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral 11.
R. Yelverton, C. 8.), Gibraltar, Royal Oak, Resis-
tance, Terrible, Hydra, Surprise, Enterprise, Firefly,
Cockatrice, Tyrian, and Psyche. The Malta and
Alexandria Telegraph is once more in working order,
the fault between Benghazi and Alexandria having
been most successfully repaired. The Italian screw
frigates Italia and Gaeta, of 52 guns each, the
former carrying the flag of Rear-Admiral Vacca,
arrived on the 6th inst. from Corfu under sail, hav-
ing been preceded here by the paddlewheel sloop
Piloro, 2 guns, and the screw corvette Etna, 10
guns. After a short stay at Malta, Rear-Admiral
Vacca, with the ships under his command, will pro-
ceed to Naples.
The hired transport The Tweed, 1,744 tons, be-
longing to Messrs. J. Willis and Sons, of London,
W. Stuart commander, arrived at Spithead on the
evening of the 10th inst. from Bombay, with the
72d Highlanders on board. The Tweed sailed from
Bombay on the 18th of November, arrived at Yin-
gorla on the 20th, embarked the detachment of the
44th Regiment, and sailed on the 21st. She reached
St. Helena on the 2d of January, and landed four
sick men. During the voyage one man and four
children died, and six children were born. The
Tweed encountered heavy gales between the Bay of
Biscay and the Channel, and also the hurricane at
Spithead on Sunday. Orders were sent off to the
ship yesterday afternoon to proceed round to the
Thames and disembark troops at Gravesend--the
72d being ordered to proceed to Edinburgh. The
Tweed was formerly the Hon. East India Company's
paddle frigate Punjab, and was sold to Mr. Willis
on the absorption of the Indian in the Royal navy.
The Salamis, 2, paddle despatch-vessel, Comman-
der F. G. Suttie, went out of Portsmouth on Mon-
day morning to Spithead, where she was swung to
ascertain the deviation of her compass. About two
p.m. she sailed from Spithead for China, via Madeira
and the West Coast of Africa.

The screw line-of-battle ship Meeanee, 60, 2,591
tons, 600-horse power, Capt. George Woodhouse,
arrived at Spithead at sunset on Monday, from the
Mediterranean. She sailed last evening at sunset
for Sheerness, where she is ordered to be dismantled
and paid out of commission. The naval and mili-
tary supernumeraries brought to England in the
Meeanee were disembarked from the ship yesterday
at Spithead, prior to sailing to the eastward. The
Meeanee sailed from Gibraltar at 7.50 a.m. on the
sth inst. under steam, experiencing light winds to the
Bay of Biscay, where she had a strong but fair wind
as far as Cape Ushant. Off the Cape the breeze
freshened to a gale, and at 9 a.m. on Sunday the
ship was hove-to for a short time in the chops of the
Channel, the wind blowing a complete hurricane,
and the mainyard having been carried away in the
slings. The Star Light was seen at 11 p.m. the same
day. The arrival of the Meeanee at the Nore will
mark the completion of her last cruise as a seagoing
ship.
The screw steam-sloop Chanticleer, Capt. W. H.
Fenwick, from the Mediterranean, was on Monday
hauled into basin in Woolwich dockyard to be
stripped and paid out of commission. Before leav-
ing the powder buoy Commodore Dunlop inspected
the ship and complimented the captain and officers
on the appearance of the ship's company and the
cleanliness observed throughout. The Commodore
was received with manned yards, and the crew were
mustered to quarters and went through a series of
sword exercises.

By a letter received from her Majesty's ship
Orontes at Hongkong, it appears that ship arrived
there on the 27th December, 88
days from England,
with the naval reliefs for the ships in China ; all
well. The Orontes had fine weather on the passage
out. She was rather overcrowded, no less than 1,150
souls having left England on board. As soon as the
Admiral arrived at Hongkong the Orontes was to
commence distributing the ship's crews, receiving in
return the time-expired men and invalids. She was
to leave for England about the end of January,
calling at all the ports on the way. She may be
expected here towards the end of April. A rumour
that several men had been
flogged on board the
Orontes turns out to be utterly unfounded.
The 62d Regiment is under orders to leave Pem-
broke dock, but the date has not yet been fixed.
It is expected, however, that it will leave before the
end of the month.

Detachments from various regiments of the Line
and the Royal Artillery, who have volunteered for
service in the newly-organised Military Store Staff
Corps, arrived at headquarters, Woolwich, on Mon-
day, and were enrolled for temporary service. Each
detachment was in charge of a non-commissioned
officer of the regiment to which they belong, and
having been paraded and inspected by Staff Officer
W. H, arkyn, appointed to command the corps,