The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-20 00:00:00

POLICE .INTELLIGENCE.—(ThisDay's

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
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EMBEZZLEMENT BY A. WA.RETIOUSEMAN.--d0
Sands, of 21, Percy-street, Tottenham-court-road/
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charged before Mr. Elliott with embezzling several 01113344
money received on account of his employer, Mr. Corile,;a.
Jabez Hughes, photographic salesman, of 379, o%f°
street.
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Mr. Hughes said the prisoner had been in his e„a ,03
about 18 months as warehouseman, &c., but in causl'"
of something discrrAitable taking place, he discharged ay
As soon as he had done so, he wrote to several of Ili° ar•
tomers stating that the prisoner was no longer in 1j5164
ploy, and then found that the prisoner had emifl
several sums of money. He had ono of his custonier'
court who had paid the prisoner money.
In answer to Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Maribor°A to
street, who appeared for the prisoner, Mr. Hughes ono,
prisoner was to have £1 a week and 21 per cent. et--01
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sion. The prisoner said he was going to Abbey u`1409
but it was found that he had taken his passage for -
York in the name of " Joe Smith,"
Frederick Dobell, clerk to Mr. Hughes, denied reel
the sum of £7 from the prisoner in the name of Pullet' ter,
Mr. Wm. Pullen, photographic artist, of 5, Franci°-
race, proved paying the prisoner £7 on Tuesday last.
Mr. Lewis said he could not resist a remand.

Mr. Elliot remanded the prisoner.

The Havre journals announce that Mr.
James, the barrister, and his wife are staying at the

Frascati.
ST. MATTHEW'S, SPRING-GARDENS,--The ,:`"
William Henry Jones, M.A., Vicar of Bradford-on-All
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who has just been appointed Chaplain to the Lord elv:g:
cellor, will preach at St. Matthew's Chapel, Spring.garcle';',
to-morrow. morning. As there is nothing special t°

pleaded for there will not be a collection. -
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SELKIRKSIIIRE ELECTION —We (Edina—a
Evening Courant) understand that a requisition to -61 e
H. Scott, second son of the Duke of Buccleuch, to ccif
forward as a candidate to represent this county is
templation. Lord H. Scott is in his 30th year,
done much to fit himself for public life by foreign triVreeg..
DEATH IN THE JUNGLE—A Cannanore Oruro;
pendent of the Bombay Telegraph writes :—"
officer, Lieut. Hughes, of the 66th Regiment, w°%-it
killed in the Wynaad jungle in a rencontre with fldi
phant. He was a steady shot, with plenty of nervecot
having rolled the animal over with the first shot, 11° "orl
up to him, thinking him dead, when the beast rose tiP Doti
charged. Lieuten ,nt Hughes put up his rifle to We:, to
the cap missed, and the animal absolutely crushed It; d'
death with his weight. He was found in the mire
fully mangled. Lieutenant Hughes was a very sitilf:-lod
structor in musketry. General Hay, Command to;
Inspector-General of the School of Musketry, in anneltior
this calamity to the Rev. T. C. Hughes, late of Brigs' *1: itift
of the deceased, writes:—" He is a great loss to rel tete
as he was the best instructor in India, and had sent ill.-

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Live to Customs' duties, in order to plariceertihael geencerreal, tt.B
of the Empire in harmony with the stipulations :ace
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Beiygdeconcluded on the let of May last between..
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from countries out of Europe, and 32f. rorlintber
trepots ; by foreign vessels from India, 33f. ; frer%lis
places, 321. Coffee of the French colonies and est'4;;
ments of the Western Coast of Africa, under the 1111',-sell't
flag, 36f.; from other places, 50f. 40c. ; by foreign ve7,
55f. 40c. Raw Swedish iron in bars or pigs, by roll
t„ed?
vessels, 7f. ; by foreign, 7f. 70c. Foreign sugar not
coming from countries out of Europe and under a O''t6
flag, is to be allowed the drawback. The premiums
on the export of soap are suppressed. P
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stoihfoentshaacittUSTßlAN COMMERCE.—A report be
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under its restrictive system, and can leave little doubt rI
should she again find herself involved in any costli,rV
either foreign or civil, she must fall into a national '-:18.00
ruptcy of the most hopeless kind. Mr. Fane meroly gloirs
certain statistics, but the conclusions from them ar,e,4 1)
011
to all. In 1859 the total value of the import trade "cr"-paing
about £26,806,252, against £32,209,989 in the pre via
year, every article, with the exception of metals, Iceliar Or
materials, and bone, wood, glass, stone, and clay vh vfr :De
showing a falling off. On the other hand, althengll.ol.
exports presented a slight increase, it was merely n°r1"„170/
The aggregate is stated at £28,745,845, against X27,4lu'oreO
showing an augmentation of £1,329,119. But these fig to,
include an adverse export balance of £1,574,849 in th 019,0%
cious metals, the gold and silver coins of the Empire he`,„o
drained away in consequence of the unsouhd state of
the
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currency. Yet, notwithtanding those poor results, l'",0
country possesses naturally such astonishing resources;
to excite wonder that it 1 in the powereven ot the U°vee
ment to obstruct so completely the development of her ‘fr,
ternal trade. I have had occasion," observes ho
Fane, " to dwell so frequently in my _
former reports on
AtistriP.,/
vicious effects of the commercial legislation of
that
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ae eed,n,not
hs returnitcohh
e aht
soo
hoped,"
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recently
tj subject t
adds,
entereds, which,intoh ,t Ia haventtht
he 101.11:0slf
aat
political reform, may not shrink from entering boldly1:13;
that which leads to the freedom and development
for the two paths lie parallel and can most convenielitif,;
pursued together." It mightalso be said 'that in the ",,g
sence of that freedom
of communication with other n
which is a ' • of
principal element in o ularpolitical educe
there can be no guarantee whatever of Pthe
any ameliorations in a constitutional sense that may Pe
troduced by the Government simply for its own presen
tion under the dread of momentary dangers. neer'
The following anecdote illustrates the fickle and n
hattle
tain character of the French Emperor. Before the --
of Magenta, the critical position of his army had con,„(1
him the deepest anxiety. He had almost made up his
aUp
that a defeat was imminent. It was even feared by Ilis of,
that he would throw up the game, and enter into a
tPretv
of tra
pitate peace. Through incredible mismanagerneTtiga
Austrians were completely defeated. The Emperm.'° jot
the night after the battle in the house of the parish Proed,
of the town around which the bloody contest had r 7 for
When he left in the morning, his humble host song. t of
some memorial of the great man. At length a sijeleoe,
paper, crumpled up, was taken from the empty arePlol,
It was the rough draft of the famous proclamation of Ni'd'ea,
The depression of the previous days had been sueeee
after the wonderful victory, by unbounded elation. aDo
everything appeared within the Emperor's reach, an
tuol
called upon the Italians to be soldiers to-day, that
might be citizen 474 the raorrows—qoarterly 800