The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 186 g.

given notice of his motion he had received hundreds
of letters on the subject ; while Mr. HORSFALL'S
account was very similar. He had received nume-
rous communications lately from India fully con-
firming the accounts given in this country. From
Madras one party sent during six months 250
messages, of which 153 only were received.
Two telegrams were sent off on the same day, one
of which took 7 days and the other 27 in transmis-
sion. As a sample of the confusion arising from
the mismanagement, Mr. HonSFALL mentioned that
a firm he knew received a telegram from Bombay,
stating that the managing partner was leaving from
ill-health, and asking for a gentleman to be sent
out to take his place. A gentleman was engaged
at a salary of £l,OOO a-year, and despatched to
Bombay, when lo ! it turned out that the telegram
was not from Bombay at all, but from Madras, and
that it was only a clerk who was ill ! The Chamber
of Commerce at Liverpool, when trying to collect
information on the subject, were told that it was
difficult to single out instances where all the
system was so bad. The messages have to pass
through seven different administrations, and the
mistakes occur in Turkey, where the employes are
ignorant of the English language, and apathetic and
indifferent to business. The line in India was worked
well enough, as was every part under the direction
of Englishmen ; and what is wanted is clearly to
have British operators all along the line, as between
Bussora and Kurrachee, where the messages are
sent 1,500 miles in half an hour. National jealousies
on the part of Russia and France are said to interfere
with this proposal, but it is quite impossible that
a system so mischievous and so unbusinesslike
should be tolerated any longer. It is most injurious
to those commercial interests with which the ma-
terial welfare of our vast Indian possessions is
identified, and wo can only hope that the committee
obtained by Mr. CRAWFORD will be able to effect a
radical reform in the system of telegraphic com-
munication between this country and India.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, FEB. 28.
It is officially announced that the International
Exhibition at Vienna will take place in 1870.

Intelligence received hero from Constantinople
states that the diplomatic representatives of the
Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris have
communicated to their respective Governments
the wish of the Sublime Porte that a commission
should be sent to Bucharest on behalf of each of
the above Powers in order to inquire into the recent
events in Roumania.

POLAND.
WARSAW, FEB. 28.

An imperial ukase has been issued, permitting
Jews who have received a diploma at a Prussian or
Polish university to enter the public service in Po-
land, with the enjoyments of the rights and
privileges connected with the office of public func-
tionaries.

HOLSTEIN.

KIEL, FEB. 28.

General Gablenz, the Austrian commander in
Holstein, has addressed an order to the Provincial
Government of that Duchy, sanctioning the extra-
ordinary convocation of the committee on the
Budget.
General Gablenz in this document alludes as
follows to the recognition of the Constitution of
1854 :

" I do not hesitate to express myself in favour of
the Constitution of 1834 as the proper basis for the
future political organisation of Holstein, and I re-
cognise in their full extent the obligations thereby
imposed upon the Government of the Emperor of
Austria."

Central Criminal Court.—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
FORGERY.

Henry Harris pleaded guilty to a charge of forging a
power of attorney to defraud a person named Gibson of
certain dividends he was in the habit of receiving from the
Bank of England ; he also forged a document with intent
to defraud another person named Dickson.

Prisoner provided himself with a form to represent the
official document, and Gibson, being an illiterate man, was
deceived thereby, but in the case of Dickson he was de-
tected.

He was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude.
MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.

John Daley, 22, John Cahill, 22, and Daniel 18, were in-
dicted for feloniously killing and slaying William Fitz-
gerald, a policeman in the F division.

Tho deceased was on duty in Drury-lane, when there
being a row he interfered and was attacked by the pri-
soners. He received such severe injuries that he died in
a very short time after the ill-treatment.

The jury had not returned their verdict when we went
to press.

NEW COURT.
ALLEGED FORGERY OF MINING SHARES.

Mr. John Pennewan, a surgeon, until lately practising
at Redruth, in Cornwall, was charged with forging certain
transfers of shares in the Ilallenbeagle and other mining
companies.

There were 15 indictments against the prisoner.
The proceedings were of a very technical nature, and
involved the production of a vast collection of documents.
Tho case will not conclude to-day.

POLICE; INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ASSAULT ON AN ACTRESS.—Mary Ann Pillar, a young
woman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting
Miss Mary Granvilo, actress, of No. 4, Grafton-street, Fitz-
roy-square, and also with destroying a bonnet of the-value
of 30s.

The complainant said that shortly after 12 o'clock last
night she was passing through King-street, St. James's,
on her return from the theatre, when the defendant and
three other finiales came behind her, and while the other
females were hulling her, the defendant struck her under
the eye and on the back of her neck, pulled one of her ear-
rings out, and tore her bonnet, of the Value of 80s., to
pieces.

In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt the complainant said the
defendant was an entire stranger to her, and that she had
not given her or the other female the slightest provocation.
A constable said that hearing cries of " Police " he went
to the spot and found the defendant holding the com-
plainant by her bonnet and shawl. He took the defendant
into custody, when defendant said the complainant struck
her first.

_The complainant said she never struck the defendant. All
she did was to defend herself.
The defendant said she was struck first.
Tho constable, in answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, said the
defendant and her companions were not sober.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a cruel assault, the defendant
and three companions having attacked an unoffending
female. He should fine her 20s. or 14 days, and order
her to pay 20s. for the damage and a fine of ls., or another
14 days.

VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A WlFE.—Thomas Egan, of No
5, Market-street, Newport-market, was committed for two
months with hard labour for assaulting his wife by throw-
ing a cup and saucer at her cutting her head and arms.
Mr. Tyrwhitt further ordered him to find bail to keep the
peace towards his wife, he having threatened to do for
her.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MONMOUTHSHIRE.

The directors of this company have determined
on recommending to the shareholders at the half-
yearly meeting a dividend at the rate of 6k per cent.
per annum.