The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-23 00:00:00

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S' TELEGRAMS.)

PRUSSIA AND THE FEDERAL CON-

STITTJTION.

LEIPZIG,:APRIL 23.

The Leipziger Zeitung contains a semi-official
article, pointing out that the Prussian propo-
sition for Federal reform can have no practical
result until the Duke of Holstein is reinstated and
enabled to send a representative to the Federal
Diet.

Organic changes, such as those proposed by
Prussia, must, according to the Federal Pact, be
carried unanimously, and so long as the Holstein
vote continues in abeyance, as has been the case
since the death of the late King of Denmark, no
proposal of this kind can be legally carried out.

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.
VIENNA, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 8 A.M.
In consequence of news which has been received
from Italy orders have been issued to place the
Austrian army in Venetia on a war footing.
Field-Marshal Archduke Albrecht leaves for Ve-

rona to-morrow.
The finance world has been greatly disquieted by

this intelligence.

JAPAN.
(By Overland Telegraph from Galle.)

SHANGHAE, MARCH 26.

Advises from Japan mention a report that a rup-
ture had taken place between Sabmua (? Satsuma)
and the Tycoon.

FRANCE.

The bill concerning the French Mercantile Marine
has been adopted in the Corps Legislatif by 203
against 28 votes. _

BOURSE, April 21, Three o'clock.—The market
was weaker towards the end, and closed on the fol-
lowing quotations
per Cents 97
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 70
Do. end month 67 65
Credit Ilobilier
Do. end month 607 50

Bank Shares 3520
Italian Loan 54 40
Do. end month 54 30
Mexican Loan 4l
Do. Bonds 282 50
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
'AY&
Cash.

Unis —
Do. end month —

Acct.
... 832 50
... 1118 75
~. 862 50

Orleans

Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

- ... 555 -
- - ... 540 --
- - ... 537 50
- - ... 100 -

375 -

- -- •. • 395 -

- - ... 150 --
- - ... 192 50
- ... 82 50
80 -

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

UNPROVOKED ASSAULT.—A FORGIVING COMPLAINANT.—
John Kane, an Irish tailor, was charged before Mr. Tyr-
whitt with assaulting Mr. John Webley, coffee-house
keeper, Carnaby-street, Regent-street.
The complainant said that on Saturday night he was
passing from the bar of the Crown public-house in Car-
naby-street, to the private bar, when the prisoner struck
him a blow in the eye.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the complainant whether he had
said anything to the prisoner.
The complainant said he had not. The prisoner had been
drinking at the time, and as he was no doubt sorry for
what he had done, he (complainant) had no wish to press
the charge.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was very goodnatured of the corn-
plainant, but it would be wrong for a magistrate to pass
over such an unprovoked assault. He then fined the pri-
wmer 10s. or 7 days, and but for the complainant's inter-
ference the fine would have been 40s. or a month.
A DEAF AND DUMB MAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING
A CONSTABLE.—Henry Spencer, a deaf and dumb man,
was charged with assaulting Week's, 339 A.
The constable said his attention was called to the pri-
soner by a person residing in the Haymarket, who sail
the prisoner had assaulted him by spitting in his face and
striking him. He motioned to the prisoner to' go away,
and he went a short distance and then returned and struck
him on the face, kicked him, and tried to throw him, but
he closed with the prisoner and both fell together ; and
that (moment a gentleman called out, ," Police ! now
mind he has got a knife," but instead of a knife
it was a trowel, he being a bricklayer, which he had taken
from his pocket.
Theßev.Sarauel Smith, chaplain to the Deaf and Dumb
Association, having by means of signs explained the evi-
dence to the prisoner,

The prisoner, through the Rev. S. Smith, said he was
drunk at the time, and was quite unconscious, and when
he woke up he found himself in the station.

Mr. Tyrwhitt fined him 10s., or seven days.

THAMES.

ROBBERY IN THE LONDON DOCK.—DavidGoulston Gomer
a foreman in the bottling department of the London
Dock, was brought before Mr. Paget, on a charge of steal-
ing a brass screw, value 45., and a bottle of brandy, the
property of the London and St. Katherine Company, from
their premises.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was
leaving the dock, when his peculiar appearance attracted
the notice of a gatekeeper, named Andus, who asked him
if he had any property about him belonging to the dock
company. He replied that he had not, and was walking
quickly away, when the officer stopped him, and
found on his person a bottle of brandy. It was
fastened by a string to his waistband under
his clothes, and hanging in front of his belly.
Andus no sooner took the bottle from him than the pri-
soner made a snatch at It, regained possession of the bottle,
and threw it on the ground. The liquor was wasted. Mr,
Swingland, one of the principal dock constables, then took
the prisoner into custody, and upon searching him found a
brass screw-nut in his pocket. It was made and had been
used for screwing down temporary gas burners on gas
pipes and cost th 4 Dock Company 4s. The rod to which
it had been applied was produced.
Mr. Charles Young very ingeniously argued that the
stuff in the bottle which the prisoner destroyed was a
mixture of spirits and turpentine, which the prisoner had
used as an outward application for rheumatism, and that
the brass screw-nut was found in a dust-bin. There
were many different things found in the dust-bin .
and, although the prisoner had no right to bring it out of
the dock, he might have reasonably supposed it was of no
value, as it was mixed with the rubbish in the dust-bin.
The prisoner had been employed in the dock nine years,
and had hitherto maintained a good character.
Mr. Paget asked if there was brandy in the place where
the prisoner was employed, to which Swingland replied
plenty of it.
Mr. Paget said if the prisoner had honestly obtained the
stuff in the •bottle he would have carried it out openly in
his hand, and told the officer what it was. The excuse
that it was a mixture for rheumatism was not
made till the bottle was broken and the liquor
wasted. He had no doubt the bottle contained brandy,
to which the prisoner had access as a bottler. Then there
was a brass screw nut of some value. It was a case of
robbery, nothing else. No cases which came before him in
that court distressed him more than cases of petty pilfer-
ing in the docks. Foremen, warehouse-keepers, labourers,
and others, brought things out, and when detection took
place the offenders were sent to prison, and they and
their families ruined. He was bound to protect the pro-
perty in the docks from plunder. It was unusually exposed
and hence so many of these cases. He sentenced the pri-
soner to two months' imprisonment and hard labour for the
unlawful possession of the brandy and brass screw-nut.
Mr. C. Young appealed to the magistrate to inflict a fine.
Mr. Paget— No, I certainly will not.

NEW LIFEBOATS.—The National Lifeboat Insti-
tution sent on Saturday two fine new lifeboats to
the coast. One is to be stationed at Hayle, in Cornwall,
and the other at Braunton, North Devon. Each boat is
31ft. long, and rows ten oars double banked. The Hayle
lifeboat, which is named the Isis, is the benevolent gift to
the institution of Oxford University. It is to be publicly
launched into the River Isis to-morrow. It is expected
the lifeboat will be manned on the occasion by the eight
undergraduates who so recently distinguished themselves
on the Thames. The Braunton lifeboat, which has been
presented by Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy, of Lea Coombe House,
Axminster, is also to bo publicly launched at Barnstaple on
Thursday next, the 26th inst. Free conveyance was readily
given to the boats to their destinations by the Great
Western, London and South-Western, and other continu-
ous lines of railways. The National Lifeboat Institution
has now 167 lifeboats in connection with it. Of these 16
are stationed on the coast of Devon and Cornwall at the
following places—viz., Appledore, Braunton, Exmouth,
Teignmouth, Brixham, Plymouth, Fowey, Lizard, Forth-
levee, Penzance, Sennen Cove, St. Ives, Hayle, Newquay
Padetow, and Bude Raven.