The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-10 00:00:00

NEWMARK.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

-(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL.
"NON WITII A. VENGE.NCE.—Jaraes
Gray, a thickset man, dressed like a drover, was charged
before Alderman Mechi with breakinig a glass in the George
public-house, 'kept by Mr. Deardney...
The prosecutor said that the prisoner did not appear to
have Seen drinking; but the prisoner declared that he
did not remember being in the house at all. (Laughter.)
The Alderman discharged him witli a (Tuition to be more
careful 'of hiniself for the future, and the prisoner left the
dock tendering the value of the glass to Mr. Deardney.
MORE E3IBEZZLEMENT.—SAD CASE.—Charles John Le
Marchant, a very respectable-looking young man, aged 26,
was charged with embezzling various sums of money, the
property of his employers, who are tallymen.
Mr. .Perry; from Mr. Buchanan's, appeared for the
defendant. • •
It appeared that the sums alleged to have been taken by
the priBAner were very small, only a few shillings.
The prosecutor, Mr. Park, said the prisoner had been in
his employment for 12 months. He produced a statement
showing'that prisoner had received 6s. from a Mrs. Toro-
good.

• Mrs. Hill proved paying a small sum to the prisoner.
Mr.- Perry cross-examined the witnes , at considerable
length, -and elicited that the prisoner had frequently re-
ceived monies fiom witness, for which he had given regular
receipts. .
Mr. Smith proved paying a small sum to the prisoner.
Neither -of these sums had been accounted for by the pri-
soner. One witness from whom prisoner had received 2s.
6d. said that the prisoner brought him the-money and;
asked him to pay it to Mr. Bark, who refused it.
The case will be concluded to day.
" THE' COLD SHOULDER."—.A. CASE.OF OBSTRUCTION.
, Tames Hudson, a silk agent and warehouseman, of
Milk-street, appeared in support of a summons taken ot.t
against Messrs. •Brown and. Davis, for obstructing a certain
cburtway, in Cletnent'a-court.'
Mr: /Tagon appeared for the defendant.
The plaintiff said that the entrance to and egress from
the court was blocked up almost ccnstantly by a sledge,
used by defendants in their business. This sledge was a
great obstruction; and plaintiff came forward upon public
grounds. 1: • .

In his cross-examination, plaintiff said that Mr. Davis
was a gentleman; but Mr. Brown had Oven him the cold
shoulder. • -(Laughter.) He never had any quarrel with
Mr. Brown; all he had was the " cold shoulder." (Laughter.)
He (plaintiff) used the court himself, and meant to have a
door leading to -it. He used the court in his- ordinary
course of business: He had been 'very uncivilly treated by
defendant's' portdr, who was the terror of the neighbour-
hood. Asllb the 'size of the sledge he would not and could
not say anything about that—indeed, there was no occasion
as 'Mr. Mason had taken care to inform himself of the'
dimensions —this morning. Defendant's porter was the
terror of the neighbourhood, but he (plaintiff) never called
him a viper.. (Laughter.)
_ _ _

Defendant's foreman was called, and said that the sledge
was removed as soon as the work in whiCli it was necessary
was completed. It was placed against the. wall of the court
on its edge.: :Plainfiff had insulted this witness very grossly.
He (plaintiff) used .the 'court for his purposes. The sledge
complained .of had.been in the court for nine yeitis, and no
one hadever said anything about it.
Mr. Mason said he could call witnesses who resided in
the locality, who would depose that the sledge• was not a
nuisance. ..

Mr. Alderman Mechi said that was nothing; as the act of
parliament Was veil, stringent, and. the article obstructed
one person iy)lo complained, and he had the right to redress,
There was . nothing to prevent the defendant using the
sledge, but it•must•be removed into defendant's • premises.
If this was done hd (the Alderman) would not convict.
Mr. Masoii—Th4 being so we will remove it.
Alderman=Oh I must convict. I shall be very sorry.
You had better be good friends.
The parties than left the court.

(From the Times.)
Hitherto we have read the riddles propounded to
us by the daily telegrams with a moderate success.
There is, an interval of five days between the enig-
matical. Ventence which comes by wire and the inter-
pretation which halts after it. We accordingly now
find our correspondents from the seat of war de•
scribing the Austrians as gathering in force upon
the northern bank of the Po, making pontoon
bridges, pushing slender parties across the great
river, and marching in force upon Tortona and
Voghera. They describe, in fact, those demonstra-
tions which we have already picked out from
the telegrams, and picture the Austrians as ready
to cross the river and attack the French and
Sardinians posted among the hills and fortresses
on the southern side, and to attack them both in
front and flank. Oar correspondents now describe,
with as much certainty as can be, perhaps,
expected under the circumstances of great discou-
ragement in which they are placed, those movements
which seemed to place the Austrians in such a posi-
tion with regard to the French army and its com- ,
munications that a conflict near Marengo appeared
at one moment inevitable. We know, however, that
during the five days that have elapsed since these
letters were written an entire change has taken place
in the Austrian position. The invaders have with-
drawn all those troops which rendered a battle im-
minent; they have left to the French the valley of
the Scrivia, which forms the eastern boundary of
the battlefield of Marengo, and which washes the
walls of Tortona ; they are no longer occupying in
vast numbers some 20 miles of the northern bank of
the Po, and' they nn longer appear inclined to decide
the fortune of the campaign by a decisive battle.
They seem to the distant observer to have changed
their tactics altogether. They have quitted the
dangerous neighbourhood of the French and the
fortresses, and they have spread themselves along
the line of the river Sesia. The telegrams have
marked them step by step, first retiring from the
south bank of the Po, then evacuating Tortona and
Voghera, then spreading themselves northwards to
Vercelli, thence north again towards Gattinaro, but
always on the line of the Sesia. The places men-
tioned in yesterday's telegram are on the road to
Gattinaro, and between that place and Vercelli. It
seems that upon both banks of this river they are
throwing up defences, as though they contemplated
a protracted occupation of the position they have
now chosen. The river Sesia, which now marks the
position of the invading army, comes down from the
frontier mountains, and has its rise not far from the
Simplon Pass. It crosses the plain of Piedmont
at its widest breadth, and falls into the Po near
the fortress of Casale. The Austrians therefore
are now in line right across the flat country, and
have their right wing resting upon the foot
of the Alps, and their left on the Po, close
to the fortified city which they were thought to be
about to attack. They were face to face also with
.the Dora line, which General Della Marmora
publicly declares to be the strategic line .of the
Sardinians. The evolutions which have thus
changed the Austrian front must have giving op-
portunities to a dashing enemy, and reports are
already rife that Garibaldi, with his flying bands,
has seized occasion to strike a blow. The Con-
tinental papers have reported or invented a story
of an attack at Vercelli, wherein Garibaldi and
Cialdini surprised and routed the early Austrian
occupants of that town and brought away 300
prisoners. This story is only not impossible, for if
such. a feat had been accomplished the Sardinians
would have wrung it. merrily through Europe
with peals of telegraphic bells, and we should not
be left to hear of it until, after a five days' interval,
it filters through the medium of a Turin letter and
a Belgian newspaper. It had been generally be-
lieved, but as far as we know upon no certain au-
thority, that Garibaldi was in the mountains,
watching the operations of that division of Austrians
which advanced into the Alps, and which.was ex-
pected to debouch upon the Dora line, but is now
with some probability supposed to have had no
other object than to watch the Alpine passes, and
to prevent the game of 1800 being played over
again. These fastnesses have no railways and no
electric wires, and it is not impossible that Gari-
baldi may have attempted some unreported, but
just rumoured, enterprise in that quarter.
What this change in the Austrian front may
mean we no longer pretend to guess, except that it
manifests a: sudden disinclination for the immediate
neighbourhood of the French, and an intention of
making themselves as safe as possible at a distance
from Alessandria. It may be a choice of battle-
field and a challenge to a pitched battle ; it may
be a precaution until the rains have ceased
and the spongy soil has drained itself dry
enough for military operations and hard
enough for the transport of guns ; it may
be a gathering like that of starlings at sundown
preparatory to sonic wheelings and whirlings about
and then a rapid disappearance. The Sardinians
who are charitable enough to hope all things, hope
for this, and expect to see their enemy evacuate
their country, and retire by way of Piacenza to
Mantua and Peschiera, leaving the revolted Duchies
to enjoy their freedom, and even the turbulent little
town of Como to delight in its relief from its Croat
garrison.

All is very vague guesswork as to what the future
may be ; it is quite sufficiently difficult to extract
out of such materials as we have any tolerable hit a
of the present. We see the Austrian army
stretched in line across the plain of Piedmont, but
we can see no more. Impenetrable ulystery shrouds
the doings that are going on in the hills that look
over Genoa and in the valley of Asti, and no pains
are spared to prevent the escape of any fact which
can throw light upon the intentions of the Franco-
Sardinian -army. We may, if we please, assuage
our curiosity by thd perusal of official bulletins,
sometimes generally explicit as to the presumed
woes and difficulties of the Austrians ; but no one
can tell more than that day by day, and hour by
hour, the migrations of troops from France to Italy
still goes on, and that the swelling multitude must
soon burst out somewhere from beyond the narrow
confines that now constrain and conceal them. It
seems impossible that the Austrians can retire with-
out fighting a battle, and it is equally impossible
that the French can remain much longer without
striking a blow at them. The plain of the Sesia
offers a fair field for a fight, but the Austrians have
probably made their position there, on the banks of
an unfordable river, too strong to mike it quite
eligible to the Erench. It would appear, however,
from all this, that the Austrians have already as-
sumed a defensive position, without, so far as we
know, any one aggressive operation having been
made against them by the French. Everything
continues to con Arm what was at the time the in•
stinctive judgment of all Europe—that this inva-
sion was a false movement on the part of Austria,
and an error from which she cannot extricate her.
self either with honour or profit.

(From a Correspondent of the Daily News;) • •
Theirsite
series
The positions occupied by the belligerent armies
are now pretty - clearly defined. The Austrians
occupy a line drawn obliquely across the north f
the peninsula from Ancona to their posts in advance
of Pavia, not keeping the current of the Po between
them and. their enemies, but, on the contriatr.
ya, with,
that broad river in their rear, and occupying
of towns and fortified places in front of
chief force is evidently thrown out from Pavia and
Piacenza, manoeuvring on both banks of the Po,
e
and threatening.thus to break th linetowthhiechTtahlleeiyr
allied antagonists occupy from Genoa
of Susa. From
Piacenza. eastward the Austrian
•
troops at Reggie, Modena, Bologna, and. Ancona
and .n
extend along a country a space offering few
facilities for defence, an
between the garrisons. offerl eN7elrliyehadtvhae interval
temptation to an • enemy's attack. It may be that
the Austrians occupy this region solely for the sake
of
f so,
that
upon,t'iley it as long as they are allowed to
do oand
do not intend eventually to
contest these fertile plains. Their object, however,
for the present seems to be to deter the'Freneh
from detaching any large portion of their army in
this direction, in which case the Austrians, massed
between Pavia and Piacenza, might fling them-
selves on Piedmont, and severely punish both it
and its King.
It is probable, .however, that the French will
avoid any serious conflict, if possible, in Piedmont.
Their aim is, no doubt, to attack the weaker and
more eastern parts of the Austrian line, in which
attempt they can reckon upon the aid of the popu-
lation of the Legations. 'One French division landed
at Ancona, and another:advancing from Florence,
would, it is expected, easily drive the Austrians be-
hind the Po, mid, by crossing or menacing to cross
that river eastward of Cremona and of the line of the
Adda, completely turn the Austrian position at
Piacenza, and at once transfer the war to the Adige,
leaving Milan to be occupied by Victor Emmanuel.
That a battle would bo . fought to defeat, • or to
carry out, such a purpose is highly probable; and
on the result of such an engagement, of course, an
immensity would depend.. •
That such are the intentions of the French we
augur from the circumstance of the large propor-
tion both of troops and artillery which have been
sent to Genoa. All the -Guard went thitherl\---velr!
batteries of artillery, numbering 84 gunsr
landed there in the first week. Moreover, the re•
volution in Tuscany. must. have taken 'take in
con-
cert with the military operations. Two divisions
of Chaloupes Cannemniern are under sailrig
both no doubt for the Adriatic, and one of these
under one of the smartest officers in the French
With them goes a Mili-
tarynavy, Bonet Willaumez.
division, under the nominal command of Prince
Napoleon Jerome. We are not aware of the state
of the fortifications or the strength of the garrison .

A desperate scullers' ra;e;a.Trowed yesterday evening,
at half-past six, among the members of the London Rowing
Club, from Putney to Hammersmith, the prizes being, for
the first boat a silver cup, and for the second a handsome
statuette of the Prince of Wales both presented to tho
club by the well-known Mr. Charles Clifford. The fol-
lowing were the starters, viz. :
Mr. Cosser,
Mr. Henty,
Mr. Foster, Mr. Isles,
and Mr. Catty.
The latter had the best station. Accompanied by several
club eights the start was effected. Isles took the lead, fol-
lowed by Foster, and a desperate race followed between
these two, with alternate leads to the Point, Catty and
Cosser makingl a pretty race. The race between Isles and
Foster became so determined that they fouled three times,
and the third collision having been caused by Isles, the
race was decided against him. He came in first, Foster
second, Cosser third. The second prize is in abeyance, the
first going to Foster.

_LOCAL SHARE AfA.RKETS.

LIVERPOOL-MAY 6.

The market declined during the day, but prices closed
at about the currencies of Saturday. Berwicks, 82 83—
Birkenheads, 60 I—Leeds Northern, 41 42—Blackburns,
11 i—North British, 50 501—Great Western of Canada,
14—Grand Trunk of Canada, 7 71—Great Western, 50—
Eastern Counties, 10 B—Chester and Ilolyheads, 481 9
—Shettields, 33R—Caledonians, 721—Lancashire and York-
shire, 85 I—London and North-Westerns, 86 864—Dutch
Rhenish, 71 dis.—East Lancashire, £9 shares,
Midlands, /—llovers, 18 5-16.