The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-02 00:00:00

THAMES.

STEALING LOAVES FROM A. BAKER'S SHOP.--James
Ashmore, a half starved looking youth, was brought before
Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing six half quartern loaves.
Mr. Seymour Tallent, baker, of Smith-street, Stepney,
stated that a good deal of bread had been taken from
his window. Last night he met the prisoner in Queen-
street, near his own house, with six half-quartern loaves
in his arms. lie at once suspected the prisoner,
stopped him, took him back to his shop, and then missed
the six loaves. The prisoner said that a boy gave him the
loaves to carry for him.

The prisoner's mother said that her son had been in want
of employ several weeks, and no doubt distress caused him
to steal the bread.

Mr. Selfe said he could not admit the defence as an ex-
cuse. He committed the prisoner to the House of Correc-
tion for seven days.

IBIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, March 2. Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; fresh breeze, and fine weather.
DEAL, March I.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Zulla, from
Macao ; Rhine, from New . York ; Roberts, from Shields
for Naples; Washington, from Valparaiso; Oved, from
Boston for Antwerp.
PORTSMOUTH, March I.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—
Gerrerosa, from Bremen for Porto Rico ; Alexander, from
Shields for Gibraltar.

KINGSTON, Feb. 28.—Wind S,—Arrived—Home, from
New York. Sailed—Euphemia, for Bilboa.
FALMOUTII, March I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Bor-
land, from Cardenas; William, and Harmonic, from Mar•
sailles.

SHIELDS, March I.—Wind SAV,—Arrived—Siren, from
Huelva.

CLYDE, March I.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived—Achilles,
and Centurion, from New Orleans ; Morning Star, from
Alexandria.

HOLYHEAD, March i.—Wind W., strong—Arrived—
William Fairbairn, from Liverpool for Calcutta ; Belle,
from Liverpool for Gibraltar; Gresna, from Liverpool for
Bahia.

NEWPORT, March I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—E. H.
Taylor, from St. John's, N.B.

CARDIFF, March I.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Charles
Sprague, for Havanna.

NY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, March I—Magyar, from Youghall ; H pewell,
from Portland; Eleanor, from Sunderland; Wonder,
steamer, from Jersey ; Georges, from Cherbourg ; Monarch,
steamer, from Guernsey; Anna, from Sunderland ; Trium-
virate, from Newport.
Sailed—Celia, for Llanelly ; Havre, steamer, for Havre ;
Courier, steamer, for Jersey ; Dora, for Cardiff.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, March I—Maria Augusta, from Bombay;
Monteagle, from Bombay.
Arrived, March 2—Elvia, from Gergenti ; British Ban-
ner, from Colombo.
Sailed—Triton, steamer, for Calais ; Berlin, steamer, for
Hamburg.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Anchored—Providence, from London, for St, Michael's;
Arabella, from London, for Plymouth.
Passed (in tow)—Admiral P. Adelbert, from Calcutta,
for London.
Sailed—Excelsior, for London.

Although the payment of the Turkish dividend
was duly effected yesterday, it is plain that the regular pro-
vision of the funds was greatly jeopardised by mismanage-
ment. The bondholders are entitled to the produce of cer-
tain Customs' duties which the Government are bound to
remit every month, and if this engagement had been pro-
perly fulfilled it would have been impossible for the:pre-
sent payment to have been made dependent in any way on
the bills of M. Mires. It is to be hoped that steps will be
taken without delay to insure that the matter shall be on a
proper footing for the future.

A STRANGE TRIAL IN FRANCE.--The Marquis
Dubois de la Motte, who died in 1843, left by his will to a
female named Heree, who had been 30 years in. his service
as cook, a chateau and grounds, about 10,000 f. a-year, his
library, and his late wife's diamonds, but subject to the
express condition that she should never marry, because, said
' the will, 'at the age at which she has now arrived, marriage
cannot add to her happiness.' The son of the marquis at-
tempted to have the will set aside, on the ground that the tes-
tator was not right in his mind ; but the Courts declared it
valid, and the woman, accepting the condition imposed, en-
tered into possession of the bequest. She never thought of
objecting to that condition until a few months back when
she notified to the De la Motte family her intention of
marrying a man who is clerk to the juge-de-paix of the
village of Janze, department of the Ile-et-Vilaine, at
the same time intimating that, if they made any
objection, she should institute legal proceedings to have
the interdiction to her marriage declared null and void;
on the ground that, under Art. 300 of the Code Napoleon,
it is contrary to public morality. The De la Motte family
did object, more, however, for the sake of the woman her-
self than :for any other reason, she being 72 years of age,
and it being therefore impossible that thq man who
wanted to marry her could have any other abject than to
get possession of her property. She accordingly yesterday
brought an action before the Civil Tribunal to be relieved
of the interdiction to marry for the reason she had men-
tioned. The matter was argued at some lmagth, but the
Tribunal decided that, as at the time she entered into pos-
session of the bequest, she was of an age at which, if mar-
ried, there was little chance of her having a family, and as
the testator had reason to fear that the bequest, by raising
her to a position in society to which she was not accustomed
might make her the object of speculation, there was nothing
immoral in the stipulation against her marrying ; it said,
too, that she was free to marry if she liked, cm renouncing
the legacy. It therefore dismissed the action with cogs."