The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

PRUSSIAN NEUTRALITY.

should have fallen, to arrest the allied advance on
Padua and Venice ; or even, thirdly, to entice the
allied army into Tyrol, in order to bring the Con-
federation into the field. We have little fear that
the astute commanders of the allied army would
suffer a surprise ; but some such development of
Austrian tactics is evidently not improbable.
It is one eccentric result of this struggle to tighten
the gripe of German despotism in proportion as it
relaxes foreign domination in Italy. German Go-
vernments thus seem to get the consolation of secu-
rity at home, which they have very little deserved,
in order to countervail what they lose abroad. War
with France is ostensibly popular in Germany,just
because the mass of the Germans, or the more noisy,
who illusively represent the mass, cannot distinguish
between the aims of the first and of the second
French Empire. The Germans are apparently for-
getting the hatred they still legitimately owe to
their own sovereigns, to revive the hatred they once
owed to a former generation of Frenchmen. Tbis
effect, however, is obviously a temporary one. It
will soon be perceived by the German people that
their Governments are simply abusing their
credulity, in palming off an alleged hostility of
France towards Germany in order to turn away
their sympathies from the French liberation of
Italy. But there are two conflicting perils in the
prolongation of the war to which no journalist can
close his eyes. If there is one movement inciting
Germany against France, there is assuredly another
inciting Hungary against Austria, and Russia
against Germany. In a word, there is an ascer-
tained and incontestable preponderance of European
power, prepared and resolved to effectuate the inde-
pendence of Italy. Against that preponderance it is
vain for Austrians or Germans to contend. If Ger-
man Governments are only politic—be they as
tyrannous as they may—they will not commit
themselves to a course which will serve incalculably
• to widen the social calamities of war—to render
fiercer, longer, and more desperate the struggle
which is now maintained, without the possibility of
I precluding the eventual triumph of Italian na-
tionality and Italian freedom.

(From the Daily News.)
The intelligence which we receive from Germany
discloses three pi esumptive violations of German
neutrality, and two distant breaches of the funda-
mental laws of the Confederation. It was lately
announced on reliable authority that special Com-
missioners of the Prussian Government had con-
cluded at Dresden a treaty of military transport
with the Court of Saxony, and that they had pro-
ceeded to Munich to effect the same arrangement
with Bavaria. We now learn that what the Prus-
sians are reported to have done by treaty the Aus-
trian army of Bohemia, to the number of 70,000
or 80,000 men (which had been placed as a cover-
ing force for the north of the empire against the
contingent hostility of Prussia, before the policy of
that State, disclosed in its Circular of last April,
had undergone a ehange) has already been trans-
ported by the railways of Saxony and Bavaria into
the Western Tyrol. The circuitousness of this
route is counterbalanced by the continuous line of
railway it affords from Prague to Inspruck, which
lies within 150 miles of the Lake of Garda.
Thirdly, as we yesterday announced, Austrian
troops are alleged to have been relieved by Prussians
from those Federal fortresses which the former, by
the stipulation of the Diet, are bound to garrison.
Of these three facts, it is obvious that the two
former at any rate would violate the obligations com-
monly imposed upon neutral Powers by in-
ternational law. But a question may be raised
by official defenders of the Austrian Go-
vernment whether. such arrangements are not
permissible to the Germanic States inter se,
under the terms of the Federal Act, which,
having been confirmed by the General Congress
Treaty of Vienna, becomes part of the public law of
Europe. It happeus, however, that these proceed-
ings are as distinct violations of the Federal Act as
of the ordinary obligations of neutrals. Now, the
war at this moment existing is, qzcoad the Ger-
manic Confederation, simply a war between France
and Sardinia on the one side, and the King of Lom-
bardy and Venice on the other; both because the
Federal Act expressly disintegrates the extra-
German territories of German Sovereigns from the
Confederation, and because the progress of title war
has as clearly discriminated between the two classes
of Austrian territory. " Les Membres de la Con-
federation," runs the 11th article of this Act, " en
se reservant le droit de former des alliances, s'obli-
gent cependant a ne contracter aucun engagement
qui serait dirige contre la slirete de la Confedera-
tion." It may be lawful, for instance, to Bavaria
to conclude a commercial treaty within or without
the limits of the Confederacy ; such a treaty could
not affect the safety or liability of the Germanic
body. But here we have, in the one case, two
neutral States transporting the armies of one bellige-
rent with the direct object of attacking the armies
of the other belligerent ; and in the other case, a
great neutral Power negotiating with other neutral
Powers of the Confederation for the right of carry-
ing
its troops to the verge of the theatre of war.
As there is nothing to bind France to a recogni-
tion of the right of Saxony and Bavaria to
transport the troops of its enemy while the
Confederation is at peace, so these minor States,
by violating their own neutrality, compromise the
Confederation, which is bound to maintain the in•
tegrity of their dominions—those dominions being
exclusively. German. So much for the instance of
Austria. In regard to that of Prussia, the Federal
Act expressly reserves to the Diet the exclusive
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we
have at once a breach of the Confede-
racycause the Diet has •
inter se, be given no sanction
to arrangements thus tending to hostilities and a
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violation of the neutrality, of German otates
towards France and Sardinia in the aiding and
abetting the King of Lombardy
and Venice.
It may be assumed that, while the object of Aus-
tria in this measure is military', object
the of Prussia
is chiefly, or at any rate in the first instance, dipio_
matic. Prussia has just taken three concurrent
steps, irrespectively of her arrangements at Dresden
and 'Munich. She has mobilised some 300,000
000000
troops ; she has contracted a loan of 30 , ,
thalers ; and her Ambassador to Vienna is now pro-
bably at the Austrian headquarters. Though in-
trigue is rifo enough at Berlin to render Prussian
policy wayward, and the Regent hardly master
of
his own actions, it is certainly to be contemplated
that Prussia may develop, dragged on by the minor
States and the cabals of her own Court, the position
of an armed mediator. That such a result would be
an unqualified disaster to European countries still at
peace we need hardly observe. Austria, on the other
hand, by throwing her Bohemian army into Tyrol,
has probably been guided by two distinct manoeuvres
She has thus either been able to strengthen the
garrisons of the quadrangle with the least delay,
for she has reserved to herself the alternative of
debouching from the Tyrolese mountains upon the
left flank of the Allies while perhaps engaged in the
siege of Verona, with the bold design ofcompromis-
ing their communications with the Ticino, which is
now their natural base. These fastnesses lie within
fifty miles of Verona and Peschiera ; and there is
no doubt that an Austrian army in Tyrol, if led by
an able general, might descend on either side of the
Lake of Garda, and fall vertically on the allied
flank. It may thus be the design of Austria either
to relieve the quadrangle, if besieged; or if it

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY. EVEIS ING, JUNE 21, 1859.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—June 20.

The June adjourned Sessions commen, ced. this
morning, at the Guildhall, Westminster, be fore Mr.
Bodkin, Assistant-Judge, Mr. Creasy, a' rid. Mr.
Payne, deputies, and the following bench c magis-
trates :—Mr. Pownall (chairman), Mr. N. Gould,
Mr. H. H. Harwood, Mr. T. Cotterell, Mr. Wool-
sey, Col. Wood, Baron de Bliss, Sir James Tyler,
Mr. H. White, Mr. Bashford, Mr. Hogarth, Mr.
Arthur Ballantine, and Mr. Lewis.
The calendar contains the names of 70 p risoners
for trial.
The Assistant-Judge delivered a short ch; arge to
the grand jury.
William Stewers, 22, was indicted for stealing a
gold watch and other articles, value £lOO, the pro-
perty of Frances Susannah Parks, widow, his mis•
tress, in her dwelling-house.

He pleaded guilty.
Mr. T. Bell appeared for the prosecution..
The Assistant-Judge, having read the dej )ositions
said it was a very bad case, one which, for the sake
of example, could not be lightly passed ow T. The
prisoner, it appeared, had been about 12 in onths in
the employment of a widow lady as a coact man, at
good wages ; and one day, having driven I his mis-
tress to a party, he cunningly disarmed the watch-
fulness of a fellow-servant, and plunde red the
house of this large amount of valuable property
and absconded. The prosecutrix stated. that the
prisoner entered her service as a single man, and
got married clandestinely a short to ne before he
robbed the house. The watch was pay ned in Dub-
lin, and the pawnbroker, who had act ed very well
in the matter, would be reimbursed by her volun-
tarily for the amount he had advanced, upon it.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced the prisoner to
three years' penal servitude.
Charles Brown, 22, was convicted of _feloniously
breaking and entering the dwelling-hous e of David
Brackenridge, and stealing therein a waistcoat, his
property.
The prisoner was, a well-known offe:nder, and
was sentenced to three years' Renal serviti ide.
James White, 22, was convicted of stew ling, with
violence, a watch, value £3, from the person of
George Nathaniel Shaylor.
Sentenced to four years penal servituae.
Charles Jackson, 21, was indicted lor having
stolen half a hundred weight of rags, the property
of Joseph Gashion, rag merchant, of Brick•lane,
St. Luke's. _ _

The jury found him guilty.
The Assistant-Judge deferred the sentence.
Mr. F. H. Lewis was for the prosecution, Mr.
Ribton for the prisoner.
George Read and John Smith, two athletic young
fellows, belonging to the 2d battalion of Grenadier
Guards, were indicted for assaulting several police.
constables in the execution of their duty.
No counsel was instructed in the case, but the
Assistant-Judge said it was one which ought to be
prosecuted by the Crown, and directed that it
should be conducted by Mr. Lawrence.
It appeared that on the 15th inst. the prisoners
were, with two comrades, at the Laurel Tree
Public-house, in Bayham-street, Camden Town,
when in consequence of being refused a further
supply of drink, as they were then the worse for
what they had had, Smith deliberately smashed a
square of glass, for which he was given in charge.
As he was being taken to the station the other pri-
soner ran up and attempted a rescue, and a series
of assaults of a brutal—almost murderous descrip-
tion—were committed by them upon the constable
who had Smith in custody, and upon others who
went to his assistance. They took off their belts,
of which they no doubt would have made fearful
use, had not one of the constables fortunately got
hold of them and held them until sufficient aid
came to wrest them from the prisoners' possession.
The prisoners then fought like madmen, struck out
right and left at all that came near; and they
boasted, that as they could only have 14 days for
it, they would have it out.. When at the station
Read struck the acting-sergeant a blow which
nearly broke his jaw, and the police stated that the
prisoners were the most desperate peace-breakers
they had ever had to deal with.
The sergeant of the battalion they belonged to
said they had been in the regiment about five
years, and they bore very good characters.
The prisoners, in their defence, merely said they
were not guilty of the extreme violence imputed to
them.
The jury found them guilty, and
The Assistant-Judge, after remarking upon such
disgraceful conduct, particularly by men wearing
the Queen's uniform, sentenced Read to six and
Smith to nine months' hard labour.
Charles Cole, 28, was convicted of having stolen'
a scarf, the property of Henry Sampson. The officer
proved a list of eight convictions against the pri-
soner. He had been transported for seven years,
and had served several long terms of imprisonment.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to four years'
penal servitude.
. (Before Mr. Payne.)

Henry Baldwin, 31, a plumber, employed at the
County Lunatic Asylum, Colney-hatch, was indicted
for having stolen 181bs. of lead, the property of his
employers, the committee of visitors of that institu-
tion.
He was found Guilty, and sentenced to three
months' hard labour.
Mr. Way was for the prosecution ; Mr. J. P.
Doyle defended the prisoner.

to me, called at my office and said he came from the
Royal Agricultural Society, who were going to pre-
sent Mr. Alderman Mechi with a testimonial in the
shape of a piece of plate, and he asked me for my
subscription. Believing his representation, I di-
rected my clerk to pay the prisoner one guinea. He
had a parchment with him containing many hundred
names, but Ido not remember any of them. I was
in a great hurry, and did not notice the names. He
asked me to sign the parchment, and I did so, and
he said it would be in print in a few days. I have
never seen it in print. He had a cab at the door,
and I supposed he was going elsewhere to get some
one else's guinea. I never saw my subscription ad-
vertised in the newspapers.
Cross-examined by the priscner, who interrogated
the witnesses with great adroitness—You did not
ask me if I was a member of the Royal Agricul-
tural Society. lam not a member of that society,
nor any other, I believe, although I do subscribe
to others. You did not ask me if I had
received any communication or circular respecting
the presentation of a complimentary portrait to
Mr. Alderman Mechi. You did not tell me there
had been a testimonial to Mr. Alderman Mechi. I
did not read the heading of the subscription list, as
I had not time, but I caught sight of the word
" Testimonial," and ;the name of Mr. Alderman
Alechi. I never heard the word " portrait" used
throughout the interview. You said that the names
would be in print, but you did not say that I should
have a print in a few days.
John Higgate, clerk to Mr. Thorley, said the
prisoner called on the 3d of January last, between
10 and 11 o'clock in the morning. He asked for
Mr. Thorley, and I said he had not then
arrived, and told him to call in the afternoon.
I inquired of him t<< nature of his business.
and he said he came from the Agricultural Society,
who were about to present Mr. Alderman Mechi
with a testimonial for his very valuable services to
the agricultural community at large. I informed
Mr. Thorley of the object of the prisoner's visit,
and when he came again in the afternoon I gave
him a guinea, and Mr. Thorley signed the sub-
scription list.

Cross-examined by the prisoner—I do net recol-
lect your asking if Mr. Thorley was a member of
the Royal or any other agricultural society. Ido
not remember your saying there had been a piece
of plate prepared or presented to Mr. Alderman
Mechi. Not ono word was said about a portrait,
directly or indirectly.
John Mark Bull, a very intelligent officer attached
to the City detective force, said—l apprehended the
prisoner on Saturday last, upon a warrant signed
by Sir J. Musgrove on the 4th February of the
present year. I met the prisoner with his son in
St. James's-square, having previously seen him
come out of one of the houses in the square, and I
accosted him, saying, " Good morning, Mr. Marks,
sen." He replied, " How do you know that lam
Mr. Marks, sen. ?" Upon which I told him I held
a warrant for his apprehension, for obtaining money
of Mr. Thorley, of Newgate-street, on the 3d Jan.
last, representing that he came from the Royal
Agricultural Society of England to, collect sub•
scriptions for the purpose of presenting Mr. Alder-
man Mechi with a testimonial consisting of a ser-
vice of plate for the services rendered to that society.
The prisoner said, " They have made a grand mis-
take. I made use of no false pretence." I then
took him to Mr. Alderman Mechi's premises, in
Regent-street, where Mr. Bazin, the alderman's
partner, identified the prisoner as the same person
named in the warrant. I took him, to Moor-lane
station and searched him, and took from him a roll
of paper, which he wished to hand to his son, con-
taining the names of many noblemen.
(This document was handed in, and proved to be a
subscription list for presenting a testimonial to Lord
Berners, the president of tie Royal Agricultural
Society of England, and in the list of donors
the names of the following distinguished personages
appeared :—The Duke of Marlborough, Marquis of
Bath, Earl of Roden, Lord Suffield, Earl of
Shrewsbury and Talbot, Earl of Sefton, Duke of
Manchester, Lord Combermere, Duke of Cleveland,
Lord Delamere, Bishop of Ripon, Earl of Warwick,
Marquis of Lothian, Earl of Coventry, Earl Spencer,
Earl Cowper, Lord Southampton, Earl of Stamford
and Warrington, Lord Bolton, Duke of Rutland,
Lord J. Manners, Earl Craven, Lord Feversham,
Earl Carnarvon, Lord Worsley, Earl of Devon,
Lord Sondes, Lord Bagot, Earl of Euston, Viscount
Curzon, Earl of Wilton, Lord Tredegar, Sir S. M.
Peto, Sir G. Palmer, Sir A. Hasebrigg, Sir H. Hal-
ford, Sir H. Stracey, Sir W. Watkins Wynn, Sir
Brook Bridges, Sir E. Antrobus, Sir W. Farquhar,
besides many members of Parliament.)
Prisoner—l have no objection to you looking at
that paper, sir, but it is totally irrelevant to this
charge.
Bull—He gave his address, 33, Sussex-gardens,
Brighton, and I told him I knew he had not been
there for many months, although his wife and
family lived there. I asked him if he had any ob-
jection to tell me where he slept last, and he said
he should not answer that question. He said if he
had knoi-n there had been a warrant out against
him he should have gone to Mr. Bazin, and ex-
plained the matter and set it all right. I have been
to the office of the Royal Agricultural Society, and
from information I received there, I believe the pri-
soner had no authority from the society to collect
subscriptions for them.
Inspector Foulger—There is a gentleman pre-
sent, of the name of Cort, who wishes to speak to
you, sir, in reference to this case, respecting nume-
rous frauds eommitted under similar circumstances,
upon numerous ironmasters in London, and in all
parts of the kingdom.
Mr. Richard Cort, of Barnsbury'
.Park; Islington,
the son of Henry Cort, the great inventor of pud-
dling and rolling of bar iron, was then sworn and
examined. He said—l am not in any business
now. I know the prisoner. I employed him to
collect subscriptions to a testimonial fund which
was being raised in acknowledgiAelat of the services
of my father to the British naoon.** That was in
August, 1856, and I agreed to give him 50 per cent.
on all he collected, and that was to cover all the
expenses, and to repay him for devoting the
whole of his time to the object ; but, within a
few weeks after, I had some suspicion of him
and discharged him. The discharge was in writing
and I sent it through the post. I he received
it. During the time he was collecting under my
authority I only received two subscriptions from
him, and to my knowledge he has collected hun-
dreds of pounds which I have not received. I dis-
charged him on the 22d of October, 1856.
Mr. John Boyne, a merchant, of
.2, East India-
2hambers, Leadenhall-street, said—ln December,
1856, I wrote a letter to the prisoner, asking to
whom I should pay a sum of £3O 45., which I had
received on behalf of the " Cort Testimonial Fund,"
in consequence of which he called on me on the 15th
of December, 1856, and I handed him a cheque for
£3O 45., which has since been paid at the bank. I
may hero state, conversationally, that Mr. Richard
Cort is the son of the man who first introduced the
principle of rolling bar iron in this country, and
these subscriptions were being collected for the
family, who were almost in a state of actual starva-
tion. I took no receipt, because his appearance
was so highlyrespectable that it quite deceived me,
and it is not customary to ask for a receipt for cha-
ritable contributions. _ _ _

Mr. Richard Cort recalled—l have not received
one farthing of this sum of £3O 45., or any other
sum since the prisoner's dismissal.
Prisoner—This is merely a question of account
between Mr. Cort and me, and I shall be ab'• to
show that it is a clear case of disputed account.
At this stage of the inquiry the prisoner was re-
manded till Friday next, when it is expected that
very important disclosures will be mado with regard
to the system pursued by the prisoner as a promoter
of testimonial presentations.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—CHARGE OF A
MOTHER ATTEMPTING TO STAB HER SON.—Alber-
tina Ballinger, was charged with attempting to stab
her son, Thomas Ballinger, a boy about 10 years of
age.
The son stated that his father came home while
his mother was cooking the supper on Saturday, at
10 o'clock, upon which she threw the fryingpan at
his head, and then, seizing a knife, said, " If you
don't go I'll knife you." His little brother managed
to get out, his father telling him to do so. He tried
to get out, and as he did so his mother attempted to
stab him with a knife, and cut the loops of his
tunic. (Witness here imitated the menacing atti-
tude of his mother in the act.) She had been drink-
ing, and had often struck and beaten his father.
By Mr. Leadley—Could not sav who spoke first
on his father coming in.
Mr. Beadon—The fearful effects of drink !
The -husband said they lived in Griffin-court,
Margaret-street, Cavendish-square. His wife went
out charing, and was continually in liquor, especi-
ally after coming from the cleaning of the Curzon-
street School-rooms. Her threats were dreadful, and
she had said she would murder him and the chil-
dren. lie had allowed her to beat and break the
plates and dishes on his head. He was frequently in
the greatest fear in his bed from her violence. She
frequently threatened that if he laid a finger on her
himself she would get him three months.
The Son—She frequently beats my father, Sir.
(The boy burst into tears.)
Mr. Bea,don—Has she beaton you ?
The Son—She knocks my head against the wall.
Mr. Beadon—Her violence must be stopped. She
must find two sureties to be of good behaviour and
keep the peace for six months. She was locked
up in default.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—Charles
Peter Duval, aged 17, residing at 8, Carnaby-street,
Golden-square, and employed at 8, Henrietta-street,

in the saddlery trade, was charged before Mr.
Beadon with discharging a loaded pistol at Mrs.
Susannah Hinton, coffee carrier to workmen of No. '
26A, Bury-street, St. James's, while passing along
Jermyn-street, at one p.m. that day, with intent to
kill and murder her, and whereby she was wounded.
The prosecutrix,a woman of about 40 years of
age, and who appeared in a very weak state, was
accommodated with a seat while giving her evi-
dence. She deposed as follows :—I carry out
coffee to the tailor's men. I know prisoner and his
family. I lodged in the same house between two
and three years ago. His father is dead. On
Saturday he came and asked if I knew where Mr.
Gibbons lived, an old man who also lived in the
house formerly. I told him "No," and he went
away quietly. I never had any misunderstanding
with him, and I do not know where the family
live. I was in Jermyn-street about one o'clock to-
day, near Mr. M'Millan's, and heard the report of
what appeared to be a pistol, which stunned me,
and I turned round and saw the prisoner throw a
pistol in the road. I staggered. He said some
words which I understood to be he meant to do it,
but I am not positive. I was going towards Wind-
mill-street. A gentleman caught me, and I was
carried to the station, where I was attended by a
surgeon. I think I heard him say to the policeman
he meant to kill me, and I do not entertain a doubt
but he did.

Prisoner declined to put any question to the pro-
seeu trix.

Mr. John Arnold, 13, Great Union-street, New-
ington-causeway, waiter—l was in Jermyn-street
about half-past one (the time alluded to), and heard
the report of a pistol. Turning round I saw the
prisoner throw the pistol in the road. He was on
the opposite side of the way. I picked it up and
found it warm, as though recently fired. Smoke
was coming from it. He said, " I did it, and will
give myself up."
By Mr. Leadley, chief clerk—He was two or
three yards from the prosecutrix. An officer came
up, and I gave him in charge.
Henry Hornblow, 82 C—l received the prisoner
into my custody on this charge. On the way to the
station he said, " I am sorry I did not kill the woman
quite," and then, afterwards pulling out the two
sharp-pointed instruments produced, he said, " I
mean to do it, and I have made these to do the
deed with, and stab her." At the station, on search-
ing him, I found one bullet-shot, box of powder,
and percussion caps ; also the sharp-pointed instru-
ments produced. (These appear to be triangular-
sided files, smoothed and sharpened recently to
a very sharp point.) He said she had been endea-
vouring to injure his mother, or parents, and he
was determined she should do no more, as he meant
to have her life. I saw the prosecutrix bleeding
from the back of her neck. _

Cross-examined by prisoner—You did say you
meant do it. (At this moment the witness was
seized with a fit and fainted, and was obliged to be
conveyed from the box. This was evidently from
the heat of the weather, increased by the crowded
state of the court.)
The wound on prosecutrix's neck, which ap-
peared to be about one-third of an inch in diameter,
showed at least considerable abrasion of the skin,
and was much blackened, perhaps from the powder.
After her evidence had been taken she was con-
veyed to the hospital by order of the Court, and at
the finish of the case, the prisoner, who maintained
the utmost indifference throughout, to all appear-
ance, was remanded for a week to procure the evi-
dence of Mr. Tottill, the police surgeon, who had
been immediately called to attend the prosecutrix.
Shortly after his removal from the bar, a respect-
able-looking woman, in " widow's weeds," pre-
sented herself before Mr. Beadon, and said the pri-
soner was her son. She had missed him from seven
o'clock in the morning, and had been to the station•
houses to inquire for him, thinking some accident
had happened, as he was rather " flighty in mind."
Being informed of the charge and the remand,
she left.

THAMES.--ALLEGED IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN
LUNATICS.—A woman, who gave the name of Ann
Killar, aged 22, whose features were partially con-
cealed by a black fall, and who spoke every word
of the English language she uttered with a strong
French accent, was brought before Mr. Yardley
charged with attempting to commit suicide at sea,
off the Brill, on the coast of Holland.
It appeared, from the evidence of Captain John
Ryan, the master of the General Steam Navigation
Company's ship Cologne, from Rotterdam, that the
prisoner was sent on board his vessel early on
Saturday morning last, by the police of that town,
and he was directed to look after her. A police-
constable of Rotterdam accompanied her in the
vessel as far as the Brill, where she made two at-
tempts to commit suicide.
In answer to questions by Mr. Yardley,
Capt. Ryan said the prisoner was a passenger on
board his vessel from London to Rotterdam a week
ago, and she was then accompanied by a French-
man, who he believed paid her fare. He was cau-
tioned by the police as to the state of her mind at
Rotterdam.' _ _ _

Mr. Rivas Everett, a passenger by the Cologne,
said he watched the prisoner off Brill Town. She
rushed upon the platform aft, where the steersman
steers the ship, put one foot on the bulwark, and
was about to jump into the sea, when he pulled her
back. She attempted this a second time, and he
remonstrated with her and sent her below, and she
was carefully watched the remainder of the voyage.
She said she did not attempt to drown herself,
but only to stand on the bulwarks of the ship and
have a good look out.
Mr. Yardley was of opinion the authorities at
Rotterdam had sent her on board the Cologne
in a most irregular manner, and that the captain
ought not to have received her under the circum-
stances. England was not to be a place of refuge
for all foreign lunatics.
Capt. Ryan said the passage money was paid at
the office of the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany in Rotterdam, and a pass-ticket was produced.
He called the magistrate's attention to a piece of
paper with some poetry written upon it, and which
contained besides two sovereigns.

Mr. Yardley asked the prisoner if the poetry was
in her handwriting, and she replied in the affirma-
tive, on which the magistrate said it was an at-
tempt at poetry, but intimating an intention to
commit suicide. He then questioned the prisoner,
who evaded some of his questions, answered others
in a very artful manner, and occasionally contra-
dicted herself. She said she was a native of Aus-
tria, but had no right. in the country of Austria.
She went to Rotterdam a fortnight ago. She did
nothing there. She had no time to do anything.
She was in many places in Rotterdam. She did
not go to Rotterdam with any particular object.
She had received a good education.

Mr. Yardley—YOU have been speaking with a
strong French accent, and are a native of Belgium
or France. You are not an Austrian. I suspect
you were never in Austria at all.
The Prisoner—l do not know, Sare, what I am.
Mr. Yardley—You went to Rotterdam a fortnight
ago ?
The Prisoner—No, Sare ; six or seven days ago.
Mr. Yardley—How long had you been in this
country before you went to Rotterdam ?
The Prisoner—About one month.
Mr. Yardley—How did you pass your time, and
in what part of England were you ?
The prisoner said she was travelling the whole of
the time. She went to Scotland, and from there to
Havre, and was sent back in the same ship. She was
not very long in Havre. She went from Havre to
Brest, Brest to Ramsgate, and Ramsgate to London.
Mr. Yardley asked the prisoner if she followed
any business or profession, and what caused her to
travel from place to place.
Her answers were given with an air of great
simplicity, evidently intended to deceive, and
amounted to nothing.
Mr. Yardley—l cannot make head or tail of this
woman.
Captain Ryan said it was very much against his
will the woman was brought to the police-court,
but he was advited by the police of the H division
to attend, and it was thought best to receive the di-
rections of the magistrate on the subject. The
passage-money was paid in the office at Rotterdam,
and the police there demanded him to receive her
and take her to London. He did it much against
his will.
The Prisoner—lt is against my will lam sent to
London again.

Mr. Yardley said the prisoner had been sent to this
country in a very singular manner, and if foreigners
in an unsound state of mind were to be sent to Lon-
don in this manner, in British ships, without re-
monstrance, he did not see why we should not
have lunatics from every country in Europe. The
captain of the Cologne had a little trouble with the
woman, and then brought her to that court to throw
the difficulty upon him. It was a most improper
proceeding.
Captain Ryan here offered some explanation in
a low tone.
Mr. Yardley--I have nothing to do with that.
She had no business to be received on board a Bri-
tish ship in that way ; and from what I know of
the respectable company, your employers, they will
not tolerate such conduct. Your agent at Rotterdam
does not appear altogether free from blame.
Captain Ryan understood the woman was sent
back to England by the Dutch authorities because
she had no passports when she landed there. .
that
attempt Yardley—All I have to say is, that f that
attempt to commit suicide was made a t all, wav
made in Holland, where I have nojsurissdihcetiisonn.ot alt
was certainly made in Dutch waters.
British subject, and I am averse to discharging her,
unless there are soma pencils to take care o her.

I see no reason why a Dutch lunatic should not be
supported by the Dutch authorities, and not sent
to this country. The difficulty is what to do with.
her. My plain duty is to di: icharge her.
Capt. Ryan suggested tha t the woman's trunks
should be searched, and tha t would throw some
light on her history and pur suits. He had taken
every possible care of her on Vie voyage.
Mr. Yardley—l daresay you have ; but you ought
not to have received her at all. As to opening her
trunks, I have no power to order an examination of
them. You have involved yot trself and you have
involved me in a great difficulty -. You receive her
and then throw all the trouble u pon me.
The prisoner here said—l did 1 tot mean to drown
myself. It was only to frightens the Dutch police
that I made the pretence. I was not going to throw
myself off the ship into the water, sere. It was just
to frighten them.
Mr. Yardley—There is no offence proved against
her, and she is discharged. Capt. Ryan has involved
himself in a difficulty about this woman in receiving
her in such an irregular manner, and he must get out
of it in the best way he possibly e an.
The prisoner expressed a wish to see the Dutch
Consul to complain of the treatmei it she met with at
Rotterdam, and Inspector Durdy, of the H division,
promised to accompany her to the .consul's office.

COUNTRY MAR..ECETS.

CAMBRIDGE-Jumg 18.

There was a small supply of wheat to-day, and a slow
business at the annexed prices :—Wh ite wheat, from 61•
Od to 53s Od per qr ; red, 47s Od to 49s Od ; beans, 44s Od
to 46s Od per 38 st. ; barley, 30s to 32s C►d per qr. ; oats, 30.
per 24 stone.