The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

THAMES.

A DESPERATE RUPTlAls7.—William Hannan an Irish
labourer, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with
assaulting William Crook, 135 K, and William Heath, 405
K, in a very brutal manner.

Crook said the prisoner was very drunk, disorderly, and
quarrelling with his brother in Black-boy-alley, Wapping.
He remonstrated with the prisoner, who immediately
seized him and tried to throw him. The dangerous and
disgusting manner in which he was seized hurt him very
much. Ho got the prisoner away, and he was again seized
in a similar disgraceful manner. He called assistance, and
conveyed the prisoner to the station house. On the way
there he was exceedingly violent.
William Heath, 405 K, was called to assist the last wit-
ness, and the prisoner threw himself down and caught the
leg of his trousers, at the same time time seizing him as he
had seized the other police constable. Ho shook the pri-
soner off with the loss of a portion of his trousers, which
were torn from the middle downwards. They got the pri-
soner a little further, and he threw them both. After
much trouble the prisoner was lodged in the station-house.
The prisoner was very sorry for what ho had done. It
was all owing to the drop taken yesterday afternoon.
Roche, the gaoler of the court, said he had known the pri-
soner many years as a waterside labourer,• and that he
knew him always to be a steady, industrious, and sober
man. He was surprised to see the prisoner in the dock,
and he was still more surprised to hear that he had acted
as ho had done.

Mr. Partridge said the prisoner had acted in a singularly
disgusting manner towards the police-constables. He
fined him 405., or one month in default, for the assault on
Crook; to pay Bs. for the damage done to Heath's
trousers; and to pay a fine of 325. for wilful damage, or bo
further imprisoned for another month.

NEW THEATRE AND OPERA HOUSE FOR LIVERPOOL.
On Satut day morning Mdllo. Titiens performed the cere-
mony of laying the foundation-stone of the Alexandra
Theatre and Opera-house, Lime-street, Liverpool. The
now theatre is being built by a company, with a capital of
£50,000, from designs by Mr. Salomons, of Manchester,
and will afford accommodation for 1,800 persons. It is to
be finished by the Ist October next.

FATAL SHIPWRECK.—The brig St. George, Lales
master, from Shields; bound for Guernsey, with a cargo of
coals, was driven ashore during the gale of last week, and
totally wrecked off Wimereux, with, unhappily, the loss of
all on board.

BISMARCK ON PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S MESSAGE.—
The Nee Deutche Allgemeine Gazette, official organ of
Von Bismarck, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Prussia
(says the Anglo-American Times), contains a vulgar
attack upon President Johnson's Message, which is be-
lieved to have been inspired by the Autocrat himself. The
article referred to having previously alluded to the Message
in contemptuous terms, says, " The same is bald, worthy
of the puffery of Barnum, and is better suited to the lan-
guage of an emigration agent than the chief of a great
state." This senseless and unjust article has been read
throughout Germany with surprise and indignation. We
trust that .the worthy American Minister at Berlin,
Governor Wright, may before long have an opportunity
of teaching Von Bismarck a little of much-needed *r-
tesy and consideration for the Chief Magistrate of the great
Republic, and that he may learn from him that, in dealing
with the United States, he has a nation stronger than
any Power .he would like to quarrel with. In a
very different spirit the non-official portion of the
Staats Anzeiger of Wednesday contained an article upon
the United States, in which it characterised President
JOHNSON'S Message as eminently conservative, and laid
stress upon the continued friendly relations between
Prussia and the United States. It then continues :
"Institutions often called into question, and which would
not be suitable for Europe, have proved their stability in
America. Notwithstanding an unprecedented expenditure
and the interruption of labour and trade, the American
Government, which in four years placed two millions and
a half of men in the field, has in about as many months
been able to reduce its army to one-fifth of its former
strength. Some of the journals friendly to the Govern-
ment, but improperly regarded as Government organs,
have not failed to express precipitate And unjust opinions
upon President Johnson's Message,"