The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-19 00:00:00

like the regime ancien, is untaught and unteach-
able.

If the foolish harangue of the self-crowned King
to the representatives of his people be the result of
Ministerial counsel, it can only be viewed as a sig-
nal-gun fired ostentatiously to announce to Europe
that the Court of Prussia has made up its mind
to eschew all identification with Constitu-
tional Europe, and to resume anew its compact
with St. Petersburg and Vienna. The fact
that Victor Emmanuel's Viceroy was not re-
ceived at Konigsberg as the representative of
Italy, but only as the plenipotentiary of the
ci-devant dynasty of Savoy, is nowclearly explained.
The visit to Compiegne evidently goes for nothing.
Forgetful that his throne, compared with that of
Kaiser and of Czar, is but a piece of military
upholstery not yet seventy •years old, his Prussian
Majesty prefers to imitate Muscovite and Austrian
pretensions, in the hope of being mistaken in their
dark shadow for a really legitimate King. It is the
fashion just now in certain quarters to rail at the
institutions, the statesmen, and the public acts of
another country, whose political era is about con-
temporaneous with that of Prussia. The bubble of
Democratic Government is about to burst, we are
told, in Anwica, because certain provinces have
revolted from the Union, and because a few months
have elapsed without their being reduced to
allegiance by force of arms. But it must at least
be owned that no act or utterance of the elective
head of the American State is comparable in fatuity
or folly to that of King William of Prussia. Presi-
dent Lincoln may not have succeeded in winning
back the disaffected to their duty as citizens by his
remonstrances and reasonings, but no disinterested
critic will say that in his inaugural address he was
betrayed into assumptions of lawless authority, or
expressions which implied a denial of all other
authority in the State. Democracy may not be
the best form of Government; but its severest
censors must confess that it is less repugnant to
all sense of moral, social, and political right, than
that of PrusSian absolutism.

7HE OUTRAGE UPON THE YOUNG
LADY Al DUBLIN.

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DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING.
John Curran, the cab-driver charged with at-
tempting a criminal assault on Miss Louisa Jolly,
at Milltown, on the night of the 27th September,
was brought up on remand before Mr. M‘Dermott,
at the head police-court to-day.
Mr. Barry, Q.C., instructed by Mr. Anderson,
prosecuted, and Mr. • Sidney, instructed by Mr.
Fitzgerald, appeared for the prisoner.
In stating the case for the Crown, Mr. Barry,
after minutely describing the violent character of
the outrage committed upon the young lady, re-
ferred in strong terms to the general feeling of in-
dignation to which this cowardly and atrocious act
had given rise, and said in these feelings the law
officers of the Crown and those charged with the
administration of justice sincerely participated,
anxious as they were to bring the perpetrator to
justice. But he thought it needless to observe that
he (Mr. Barry) merely appeared there to see that
justice should be done, and assist the court in ar-
riving at a just conclusion, and to elicit the truth,
whatever the result might be, whether to deter-
mine the guilt or prove the innocence of the pri-
soner. In referring to the account which the accused
had given of his whereabouts on the 27th Septem-
ber, when questioned by the police authorities, and
also to his statement as to the hour he returned
home on the night in question, Mr. Barry remarked
there was a very material contradiction between it
and that of his employer. According to the pri-
soner's account, he was in bed at ten o'clock, but the
employer had deposed he did not come home till
between eleven and twelve at night.
Miss Louisa Jolly, having been called, deposed to
the fact of entering the cab in Sackville-street and
proceeding in the direction of home without any-
thing remarkable occurring until the driver stopped
at a lonely place in the suburbs, " Cassons
Bridge," where he alighted, and, after attempting
to kiss her in the cab, dragged her out, threw her
on the ground, pressed his hand on her neck and
ende avoured to strangle her. Witness, after a severe
struggle, escaped by leaping
.into a pool of water,
but was still pursued and again knocked down ; she
however, effected her escape to the railway station
adjoining, and her assailant thus baffled fled away.
Miss klly being asked if she saw the person in
court fully- identified the prisoner as the man who
committed tic assault. Although cross-examined at
great length, witness adhered to her direct testi-
mony, and exhibited a remarkable degree of calm-
ness throughout.
The Station-master detailed the circumstances
under which Miss Jolly .came to his place, and also
her appearance that night.
Mr. Sidney intimated he would reserve his de-
fence, and the prisoner was then fully committed for
trial at the next commission.

Large crowds collected in the vicinity of the
police-court, and every mark of sympathy was
shown towards the lady who had been subjected to
such inhuman treatment.