The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-16 00:00:00

Mr. Elliott observed that he did not believe it
to be the prActice of marking notes at such plitces ;
and it being his impression that the identity of the
prisoner was not so satisfactory as to lead to a con-
viction, he ordered his discharge.
An application was made to have 5/. odd found
on the prisoner restored to him, but Mr. Elliott
refused to make any order on the subject.

WANDSWORTH.—Sarah Dickinsori a stout
middle-aged woman, the wife of a master baker,
carrying on business at Barnes, and who is also the
keeper of *a post-office, appeared before Mr. Ing-
ham, at the instance of the South-Western Railway
Company,, to answer a summons charging her with
travelling upon' the line from Waterloo station to
Wanthworth, without paying the fare, with intent
to avoid thepayment thereof.
The circumstances of the case were of a very pe-
culiar description, and exhibited a method by which
railway companies might bs defrauded to a very
great extent.
The defendant pleaded not guilty.
It appeared flora the evidence of Mr. William

Tewsby, the station-master at Wandsworth, and
other servants of the company, that on Thursday,
the 2d inst., he (Tewsby) was watching the arrival
of the 9.53 train from Barnes, at the Wandsworth
staton, when he saw tite defendant alight fro►n a
second-class carriage. Hts requested the porter to
take ps.rticular notice of the ticket which the de-
fondant would hand to him up .n leaving the sta-
tion. The porter, after be had gathered the tickets -
and the passengers had left the station, brought him
the half of a return ticket from Barnes to Wands-
Worth and back, which he said the defendant had
given him upon quitting the platform, Just before •
the quarter to 12 o'clock train left Wandsworth sta-
tion for Waterloo, the defendant came up and asked
for a single second-class ticket for Waterloo. She
received one, and paid the usual fare, 6d., for it.
The station-master, who had been watching her,
suspected her design, and followed in the same
train with the defendant to London. He remained
at Waterloo station until she returned and took her
seat in the quarter-past 2 o'clo train. He and
an officer followed in the train with her to Barnes,
and upon her alighting she gave the remaining half
of the double ticket from Barnes to Wandsworth.
The officer followed ger and asked her if she had not
made a slight mistake in the ticket she bad given ;
she at first denied that she had made a mi-take,
but afterwards said she had made a mistake and
ought to have paid from Waterloo and that she
would return and pay the fare. He told her that
she need net do so, as she would hear further from
the company.
Mr. Tewsby said the company had been defrauded
of the fare from Waterloo to War.dsworth, which.
was 6.1. If she had taken a return ticket from Wal ds-
worth to Waterloo and ,back, the fare would only
have been 10d., and she would only have had to
• pay 4d. more.

The defendant said—At the time she was not
aware that there was any other demand. She saw
now that she ought to have taken a return ticket
from Wandsworth. It wa3 quite an error on her
part.

- Mr. Ingham asked Mr. Tewsby if he was certain
be heard the defendant ask for a single second-class
ticket ?

Mr. Tewsby said he was quite certain, as he was
watching her carefully.
The defendant positively denied that she asked
for a single ticket. She never used the word single.
Mr. Ingham' wished to know the reason of his
having watched her.
Mr. Tewsby said he had suspected her for some
time, and was upon the watch for her. He could
prove a similar case.
The defendant denied having done so before.
This was the first time she had committed such an
error.

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Mr. Ingfiam thought he should have some evi.
deuce to show that the act was intentional.

Mr. Tewsby then said—On the 26th Dec. last tho
defendant rode up in a train from Barnes to Wands-
worth to Waterloo. He communicated with the
men at Barnes station by letter, but from an acci-
dent she was allowed to pass without notice being
taken of the ticket. He had also seen her several

times purchase single tickets from Wandsworth to
Watarloo, after having given up the half of a return
ticket from Barnes to Wandsworth, but he had not
seen her return.
Mr. Ingham said, from the evidence he wag per-
fectly satisfied that it was intentional on the part
of the defendant, and he fined her 20s. and cos s.
The defendant, in paying the money, thought It
very hard she should be fined. .

Mr. Ingham said it was still more hard upon the
company to be defrauded of their fares in that sp.
tematic manner.

THE. EUPHRATES RAILWAY OR MR
SUEZ CANAL-WHICH SHALL IT BE?

Political ascendancy wants to rest its font upon
private enterprise. What should be reserved for
the protection of the commercial relations of coun-
tries is misused to thwart their development.
Rapid communication with our Eastern empirb is
within our reach as a "natio❑ of shopkeepers," but
beyond our control as a "nation among nations."
M. Les4eps and Mr. Andrew advocate practical
messures in a cosmopolitan spirit ; and unpractical
diplomatists, greedy of present fame and of imagi-
nary future power, add their bitter drop in the
shape of national jealousy.

The Viceroy of-E2ypt has granted to M. Lesseps
a charter to construct a calial across the Isthmus of
Suez. The Porte is not allowed to ratify it.
The Porte has ceded to Mr. Andrew the right to
make a railway from the Mediterranean to the Eu-
phrates—a short link, useful only as a local line.
Foreign influence prevents its becoming a transit
route.

Th 9 projectors have each published their book
showing the advantages of more rapid communica-
tion with India, moneyed men have rallied round
them, but—there is a dead lack—influences, whose
object is unknown, whose action is only hinted at,
have scotched the wheels and sown discord on the
road. - Diplomacy has at last found the " engineer
ing difficulty," which committees of both houses
are accustomed to hear ignored—at least in evi-
dence.

The English people can find a moral in this state
of things ; they pride themselvts upon their repre-
sentative institutions, and the powerof the voice of
the country ; were this matter a parochial griev-
ance public opinion would soon have sif,ed the
truth and corrected the " influence." How it it
that because it affects the intere-ts of an " empire"
the battle is left to two energetic men, each riding
his hobby, arid more inclined to tilt at each other
than to face that " influence" which works in the
dark ?
The truth is, we forget that the immense exten-'
sion of our commerce necessitates an extension of
our foreign relations, and until a gross breach of
covenants, such as caused the Russian war and the
Chinese brawl, becomes a party cry, we resign .the
care of the sources of our most important commer-
cial wealth' o the hands of the most unpractical and
least understood department—the Foreign-office.
Treaties are made, not enforced, or annulled with-
out Parliament being • form ed. Commerce is
checked, or facilities denied it, through what
can only be aptly termed "ta force d'inertie."
Public discussion can alone check this tendency to
irresponsible state craft ; we must have the best and
quickest means of access to India and Australia ;
the countries we pass through are disposed to grant
us these facilities, and we have aright to insist that
no diplomatic jealousy shall prevent the true merits
of, what may appear to some to be, rival rorites,
being fairly brought before public opinion for
judgment.
The Euphrates Valley is said to be peopled by
wild tribes of Arabs, the Suez Canal requires large
artificial harbours on difficult coasts ; the practi-
oabilLy of subduing the one and overcoming the
other offers a fair fled for discussion, but we
strongly recommend the promoters not to add to
their difficulties by trying to forestall a railway by
a telegraph, as Mr. Andrew propos la to do, and
leave his real project subject to the objections which
a telegraph per se through such a country is open.
to. If a telegraph Call be made to India, the pre-
sent overland route is evidently the one to foll3w.
—Morning Paper.

How To MAKE AN ANGEL.—The Avenir, of Nice, re-
lates an extraordinary instance of superstition, which,
h,wever, in the face of witchcraft in England, will not
so much surprise as shock the reader. A servant in a
family, of a yourg man, his wife, and an in-
f:wnti,t consistingasfoun found squeezing the head of the infant to a
jelly, by way, as be eaid, of making an angel of it.
Either, he said, the child will die and go to Paradise, •t
it wil survive and be innocent ever after.