The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-26 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Kolar Zeitung has a telegraphic dispatch,
dated Berlin, July 23, which states that as all the
States of the Lund have not ratified the treaty of
peace with Denmark, the exchange of ratifications
will not take place. Prussia proposes that the power
of ratification should be invested in the Central Com-
mission.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

Further accounts from Schleswig, of the 21st inst.,
state that no change had taken place in the position
of the hostile forces. General Willisden had ad-
dressed an order of the day to his troops, in which he
declares that the decisive day had arrived, and that
the only resource left was an appeal to arms.
Cmsiderable sensation had been created in Ham-
burg on the 22d by the intelligence that Lieutenant
Lane, commanding the Schleswig-Holstein steam
gun-boat Von der Tann, had blown up his ship rather
than suffer her to fall into the hands of the Danes. It
appears that he was trying to make his way from
Trasemiinde to Neustadt, when the vessel ran on
shore. Fearing lest she might be made a prize by
the enemy's cruiz-rs, the crew took to the boats and
set fire to the Von der Tann, which soon afterwards
blew up.

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Dixon Dawson, alias John Johnson, an aged Green-
wich pensioner, was brought before Alderman Gibbs, in
the custody of John Forester, the officer, charged with
having committed a forgery upon Lubbock's bank, in
the intim. of Miss Hawes, the sister of Mr. Benjamin
Hawes, M.P. The case was a remarkable oue.
Mr. Mullens, of the firm of Bush and Mullens, attended
for the prosecution.
Mr. D. Higham, clerk at Sir W. Lubbock and Co.'s
bank, in Mansion-house-street, said—On the 18th inst.
a letter, addressed to the firm, was received at the bank,
and opened by me. It was as follows:
" Greenwich, July 17, 1850.
" Sir,—Please to direct this sum to Mr. J. Johnson, to
be left at the Victory Tavern, Trafalgar-road, Green-
wich. " I remain,
" JOHN BONCEY, for J. Johnson."
and it contained a draft in the following words:—
" Lubbock, banker, Mansion-house-street,
"At sight pay the bearer 1001., and put it to my ac-
count. '6 S. HAWES.
" No. 9, Queen-ignore, Westminster, July 9, 1850."
The signature is an imitation of the writing of Miss
Hawes, who keeps an account at the bank, and I have
been since informed that it is a forgery.
J hn Boncey—l am barman to Mr. Watts, of the
Victory Tavern, Trafalgar-road, Greenwich. On the
17th of July the prisoner showed me the draft produced
He came in and asked me to write him a note. I said I
could not, I was so busy. He said it would not take me a
minute to write what he wanted. I told him I could not
writs it then. He said the evening would do, so as to
save the morning post. He then gave me a sheet of
note paper and the 1001. draft with it, and he told me to
write the note and address it, giving me the exact words
which have just been read. He desired me to sign my
name " for J. Johnson," which I did, and I got as
envelope and directed it accordingly. He said if
Rivers was at home he would cash the cheque for him,
Mr. Rivers is the lieutenant of
Greenwichitnhetewaadrdofinhis writng
i Hospital, to which the prisoner
belongs. I folded the draft in the letter, and put them
both in the envelope, which I sent off by post, according
to the direction of the prisoner. I was in the Victory
Tavern when a letter came by post for Mr. Johnson,
in the evening, and I went to the hospital to fetch
him. Upon inquiring for J. Johnson, I as informed
at the ward that there was no such person
prisonerllliere.
then went into the ward and I saw the
sit-
ting there. I told him a letter had come for
said he did not expect it so soon, and he came With He
rue
to the tavern, where the postman gave him a letter,e
for the receipt of which he signed in the name of J.
Johnson.
The prisoner once or twice interrupted the witness.
He said he had not said a word about Mr. Rivers, and
that he did not know of anything wrong that he had
done at all.
John Forrester—On the evening of the 18th I went to
the Victory Tavern, and was there when the prisoner en-
tered with Boncey, and received the letter directed to J.
Johnson from the postman. I then took the prisoner
into custody, and searched him. I found uryn him a
draught upon Messrs. Lubbock's bank for 81., of which
the following is a copy :
" June 3, 1850. Bristol, 8 pounds.
" At 7 days after sight please to pay the sum of 8
pounds sterling to Mr. Wm. Flockton on order, and place
the same to my account.
" J. JAMES, New-cut, Bristol.
" Lubbock and Co., bankers, No. 3,
Mansion-house-street.
" Bristol.—For wages due for the Maria."
The receipt-stamp pinned to the draft was with it then.
I also found upon him a draft upon Lubbock's for 1501.,
signed " S. Hawes;" a draft for 601., a part of a letter
signed " Dixon and Dawson," and a receipt for Christ-
church poor-rates. Al these papers were in a tobacco-
b)x, which he had in his pocket. I told him what he