The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDS ESDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1868.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Roche.)
IN RE E. TOWERS-A BANKRUPT FOR £59.
This bankrupt was described as an actor, of 4,
Union-square, and to-day was appointed for the
first meeting. The only peculiarity in the case was
that the total indebtedness of the bankrupt was
only £59. A day was named for the next meeting.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-TillS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-S'I'RE E T.

TIIE PHOTOGRAPHER AND THE
Moutague, a respectable-looking young man, de-
scribed as a photographer, was charged More Mr.
Tyrwhitt with being found in the house No: 15,
Cork-sircet, Burlington-gardeus, supposed for au
unlawful purpose.

Mr. Richards, architect, of Albemarle-street,
said that he was fetched to No. 15, Cork-street,
about 12 o'clock last night, the house being kept by
his sister-in-law, and in consequence of what he
heard he proceeded to the top of the house, where
he found the prisoner in a bed room. On asking
the prisoner what business he had there, he said he
was taken up to the room by the cook. The cook
on being asked if that was true made no reply, but
merely cried, and the prisoner was then given into
custody.

The prisoner said that he used to work at a pho-
tographer's in the neighbourhood, and, having
taken her cartes and portrait, became acquainted
with her, and being in the neighbourhood last
night called to sae her, when she invited him to
stay with her all night, and that was why he was
where he was found. He was not in the house for
the purpose 'of committing a felony, and was
to make an apology if that would satisfy the com-
plainant.

Mr. 'ryrWhitt did not think the prisoner was in
the house for the purpose of committing a felony,
and should 'therefore discharge him.

WESTMINSTER.

NOCTURNAL PERAMBULATIONS IN WESTMINSTER.
—Mary Jones and Elizabeth Williams, prostitutes,
were charged with stealing a watch and chain and
10s., the goods and monies of Robert Dixon, in the
dwelling-house.

Prosecutor said on Monday night, at one o'clock,
he was in the Sun publichouse, Knightsbridge, drink-
ing with a soldier, and outside the house picked up
Williams, whom he accompanied to Westminster,
paid her 55., and retired to rest with her. Presently
the prisoner Jones came in and sat on the bed, and
he heard his pockets rattle. He got out to look
after his watch and money, and the prisoner Jones
went oat; afterwards he found his watch and money
were gone. He tried to persuade Williams to get
the property, and as she did not he went last night
to Knightsbridge, where he saw the prisoners to-
gether, and gave them in charge.

B, proved apprehending the pri-
soners,
Mwho 'dienn iedthe charge in toto.
Jones
msaanie said that she and the soldier came home
together, and the soldier laid on the floor while she
sat on the bed. When the things Were missed the
soldier went away.

Mr. Arnold said there was evidently no case
against Williams, who must be discharged.
Prosecutor denied seeing the soldier, and ad-
mitted that although he saw Jones soon after he did
not give her into custody, hoping to get his money
back. There was moonlight in the room, no
candle.

Williams was admitted a witness for her friend,
and baying fully corroborated her, said she met the
soldier
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ibnbKernylghtsbridge. lie said he knew
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flatly
contradicted,
and discharged Jones also.

THANIES.

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A BARGE MASTER.—Mark
Coppin, a lighterman, and late master of the barge
Herbert Tomkins, was brought before Mr. Benson,
charged with feloniously embezzling various sums
of money he had received for and on account of his
master, Mr. Mark John Tonakins, contractor and
barge owner, of Green-bank, Wapping.
Mr. Farnfield, solicitor; conducted the prosecu-
tion ; Mr. Macdonald, a barrister, iustructel
Muninan and Backlaud, solicitors to the Thames
Working-Lighternaen's Protection Society, defended
the prisoner. •

The case, as opened by Mr. Farnfield, was this.
Some time since Mr. Tomkius caused a barge to be
constructed, at an expense of £6OO, and entrusted
the command of her to the prisoner. Her gurthen
was 90 tons.
The mode of payment to the prisoner
for his services was the half of each freight, the
prosecutor paying the minor expenses of the barge
out of his moiety. The charge against the prisoner
was that he had not accounted to Mr. Tomkins for
all the freights, and his defalcations in this respect
alleged to amount to £5B, of which he
would be entitled to £29 if he had accounted for
every freight. The prisoner, on the contrary, on
the first examination, when he was not defended by
counsel, said there was no agreement whatever,
and that he had the barge to do what he liked with
her, an assertion flatly contradicted by Mr. Tom-
kins, and by all the facts of the case. Mr. Richard
Nicholls, cashier of the Gray's Chalk Quarry Com-
pany, Essex, proved the payment to the prisoner of
sums varying from £3 to £8 for freights of chalk
conveyed from Gray's to London, and the receipts
of the prisoner, which
were all kept in a book, and
properly dated.

Mr. \V. 0. Grady,
clerk to Mr. Tomkins, said
the prisoner had never given any account of the re-
ceipt of many of those sums, and had appropriated
them to his own use. Sometimes when the prisoner
(lid account, he paid over the whole of the freight,
and received his half from the clerk, but at other
times he retained his share, and paid the other por-
tion only to the clerk. •

Mr. Macdonald made several legal objections,
which the magistrate promised should be taken into
consideration if necessary. The accounts were very
complicated, and it was elicited by Mr. Macdonald that
there was no agreement for the prisoner to account
at any particular time ; but that whenever he came
to London he was expected to make a faithful re-
turn to his employer of what he had done, aid what
money he had received.

Mr. Benson said the prisoner was charged with
stealing the' half of his own. Not a single
Mr. Brady in Wapping.
payment was entered on the right. day. A
shorter or.longer interval elapsed between the re-
ceipt of the money from Mr. Nicholls at Gray's
aacncdouthnetsp\a?r The
ere most loosely kept, and it was right
to suppose that an illiterate man like the prisoner
had a very imperfect memory. On one occasion
the prisoner had paid to his employer's clerk a sum
of money which he had never received on the ac-
count of Mr. Tornkins. lie did not think this was
a case on which any jury would convict. Mr.
Tomkins had very properly accused the prisoner, and
caused this investigation, but it was not every man
who was dishonest that the law could reach.
Mr. Farnfield—There are omissions and defi-
ciedcies.

Mr. Benson said there was no doubt the prisoner
was a defaulter to the amount of £29, extending
over a year and a. half. In discharging him he
did not acquit him morally, only criminally.

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.—The African Royal
Mail steamship Lagos, from the West Coast of Africa.
April. 1 ; Cameroons 1 ; Brass
arrived in the Afers,T on Monday. She brings 1,208 ounces
of gold dust. fler latest dates are as follows:—Oldealabar,
River, 4;
43;1
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oline,r
4n a; nßdoonnPye:
4;
Bouiu, 5 ;
Lagal, 7; Accra,
9 ; Cape Coast Castle, 10 ; Cape Palmas, 12 ; Sierra Leone,
17 ; Bathurst, 20; Teneriffe, 25, and Madeira, 27. Her
news was unimportant.

PRIMARY EDUCATION (IRELAND).—The Royal
Commission on Primary Education (Ireland) met on Mon-
day at the offices of the Commission, 46, Upper Sackville-
street, Dublin. There were present : The Earl of Pow is'
the Bishop of Meath, Sir It. Kane, Muster Brooke, &v.
Dr. Wilson, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Stokes, Professor Sullivan,
and Mr. Waldron ; the secretaries, Messrs. May and Dunne,
were in attendance; •

cE .rx USES OF RUSSELL AND VILLIE.RS.

On Tuesday the marriage of Mr. Odo William 'Leopold
Russell, yaungelp son of the late Major-General Lord
George William Russell, G.C.8., with Lady Emily
Therbse Villiers, third and youngest daughter of the
Earl and Countess of Clarendon, was solemnised at
St. Andrew's Church, Watford, near to which the
Earl of Clarendon's family seat, The Grove, is situate.
The marriage was fixed to take place at half-past
eleven, long before which hour the interior of
the church was filled with spectators desirous to witness
the solemnity. The Earl and Countess Russell, the
Countess (Dowager) Craven, the Earl of Verulam, the
Countess of Caledon and Lady Jane Alexander, Mr.
Russell, ?LP., and Lady Elizabeth Russell, the Earl and
Countess of Essex, and many other relatives and friends
assembled at the church, together with the bridegroom
and bridesmaids, just before the arrival of the bride, who
was accompanied by her noble parents. The bride, resting
on the aria of her father, at once proceeded to the space in
front of the commrnion table, where the bridal party
had collect,..!. 'There were six bridesmaids, namely,
Lady Harr: t G boston, daughter of the Earl and Coun-
tess of Vert la n; Lady Emily Craven, daughter of the
Dowager Countess Craven; Miss 'Villiers, daughter of the
Bishop of Carlisle, and Miss Lister, her cousins; and the Hon.
Maude and Hon. Florence Wilbraham, children of Lord and
Lady Skelmersdale. The bride was attired in a dress of white
satin, covered with Brussels lace, a flowing veil of the same
costly material, and a wreath of orange blossoms. She wore
a brilliant locket, the gift of her mother, and diamond
and emerald earrings, a present from the bridegroom.
The bridesmaids wore dresies of white tarlatan, trimmed
with pink satin, and bonnets to correspond. The sacred
rite was then commenced by the lion. and Rev. Edward
Harliottle Grirnston, M.A., rector of Pebmarsh, and of
Great Henny, Essex (uncle of the bride), assisted by the
Rev. Frederic Cox, M.A., incumbent of St. Andrew's.
The bride was' given away by her father. After the
ceremony, the customary signatures and attestations of
the marriage having been duly registered, the happy pair
left the church to return to The Grove, which they
did amidst the cordial cheers of the spectators. The Earl
and Countess of Clarendon and their friends also pro-
ceeded to The Grove, where a sumptuous breakfast
awaited them. At half-past two o'clock the newly-
.wedded couple, after taking an affectionate leave of their
,friends, left The Grove for Woburn Abbey, the Duke of
Bedford's seat in Bedfordshire, where they will spend the
honeymoon, before going to Rome at the end of next
Month. The bridal presents were very numerous, and
some of a costly character. Her Majesty sent,a valuable
Indian shawl. The Earl of Clarendon's present was
a magnificent ebony dressing-case; with gold fittings,
manfactured by West, of St. James's-street. Among
other costly presents were a massive gold bracelet from
Lady Wm. Russell ; a bracelet, set with pearls and
diamonds, from Lord and Lady Skelmersdale ; a superb
bracelet, set with diamonds, fronithe Hon. Frederick and
Lady Constance Stanley ; a bracelet, set with pearls and
sapphires, from the Earl and Countess of Sefton ; pearl
and diamond earrings from the Earl and Countess Craven ;
a gold teapot, basin, and ewer, from the Earl Brownlow
'and Lady Marian Alford ; a handsome diamond gem ring
from the Dowager Countess Craven ; diamond and ruby,
and superb turquoise rings, from Lady William Russell ; a
cold bracelet from the Countess Bernstorff : a silver tea-
?ot, basin, and ewer from the Earl and Countess Cowley ;
en elegantly-mounted travelling-bag from the Earl and
countess of Verulam ; a valuable gold bracelet from the
Baroness de Rothschild ; a brilliant ring from Lady Mary
Cadogan ; a handsome coral necklace from Air. A. Ru:s-
'ell, M.P., and Mrs. Russell ; a gold necklace, set with
atrquoise, from Mr. Hastings F. Russell, M.P., and Lady
glizabeth Russell ; an amethyst brooch and earrings from
lie Hon. Mrs. E. Villiers ; a costly pearl ring from the
tight Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P. ; a crystal locket,
set with diamonds and sapphires, from Lord Hyde and
lion. George Villiers ; a handsome travelling clock from
Mr. Frederick Villiers ; a diamond and ruby gem ring
f/om Mrs. Gould ; earrings set with rubies and diamonds
from Mr. and Mrs. Loch, besides many others.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post, who
recently stated that Bismarck had given the French
Government an assurance that nothing should be done by
the Zollverein Parliament contrary to the Treaty of
Prague, incidentally confirms that statement, but is,
nevertheless, by no means satisfied with the present
position of affairs. He says " Nothing can be more
satisfactory than what appears on the surface ; but the
moment you break through the thin smiling mask
of Prusso-French friendship you come upon a
)olitical physiognomy of a very different complexion.
You find Prussia cautiously seeking to keep friends
with France whilst imperceptibly carrying out the
complete union of North and South Germany. The
hint of France about respecting the line of the Mein
Lai long been effaced by thelxistingicustoms and military
union. Bismarck is in Bavaria, in Saxony; in fact, every-
where, politically. If we are to believe letters from Ger-
many, there are not a dozen men 'out of the 297 members
of the Cu.-toms Parliament who do not feel that this as-
scmtly is a. prelude to that political unity of Germany
which only requires to be proclaimed from the throne of
King William. It is precisely this false position, this sham
on both sides—the accepted shams of Prussia towards
France and France towards Prussia —which in some
men's minds constitute a danger." At the same time, it
is satisfactory to know that " there is a strong tide of
peace rising throughout the Continent ; there is a growing
protestation against military expenditure making itself
heard in every capital of Europe. This feeling is backed
by budget deficits and a general commercial stagnation.
rhe German Customs Parliament may alarm the weedier
t few weeks, the French Government newspapers may
:ndulge in a little susceptible talk, but events, if not
sovereigns, are adding to the chances of peace daily."
The amended resolutions of Mr. Gladstone are printed
in the parliamentary papers of the day. The first, it will
be remembered, declared that the Irish Church should
cease to exist, due regard being bad to vested interests.
That was carried by a majority of G 5. The second and
third are as follows :-2. " That, subject to the foregoing
considerations, it is expedient to prevent the creation of
new persona interests by the exercise of any public
patronage, and to confine the operations of the Ecclesias-
tical Commissioners of Ireland to objects of immediate
*necessity, or such as involve individual rights, pending the
final decision of Parliament." 3.. " That a humble address
be presented to her Majesty, humbly to pray that, with a
view to preventing, by legislation during the present
session, the creation of new personal interests through the
exercise of any public patronage, her Majesty would be
graciously pleased to place at the disposal of Parliament
her interest in the temporalities of the archbishoprics,
bishoprics, and other ecclesiastical dignities and benefices
in Ireland, and in the custody thereof."
The fifth report of the Trades Union Commissioners has
been published. It is signed by Sir W. Erle, Lord Lich-
field, Lord Elcho, Sir Daniel Gooch, M.P., Mr. Herman
Merivale, Mr. James 'Booth, Mr. Roebuck, M.P., Mr.
Thomas Hughes, M.P., Mr. F. Harrison, and Mr. W.
. Matthews. The document simply gives the evidence
taken before the commission between November 20 and
March 10. The witnesses examined included Mr. John
Kane, president of the National Association of Iron-
workers, whose headquarters until recently have been at
Gateshead, and are now at Walsall ; Mr. Daniel Guile, the
corresponding secretary of the Ironfounders' Society in
London ; Mr. William Hobson, the secretary of the As-
sociated Ironworks of Great Britain, having its head-
quarters at Brierley Hill ; Mr. William Garner, the secre-
tary of the Milhnen's Association` at West Bromwich;
Mr. Abram S. Hewitt, from the works in Creusot, in
France ; Mr. Walter Williams, honorary secretary to the
South Staffordshire Ironmasters' Association; Mr. G. T.
Clark, the trustee of the Dowlais Ironworks ; Mr. F.
Smith, general manager of Lord Dudley's mining estates in
Stafford and Worcester ; Mr.' W. S. Red* managing
partner of Lord Granville's works in North Staffordshire;
Mr. Robert Heath, a North Staffordshire ironmaster ;
Mr. Francis Heath, an iron-moulder's foreman in Pimlico ;
and Mr. William Clay, the managing director of the
Mersey Steel and Ironworks Company. The commis-
sioners have been sitting fur nearly fifteen months, and as
yet there is no sign that their labours, are about to
terminate.

The Times publishes a letter, dated April 30, from Feld-
Marshal Sir John Burgoyne. It is a defence of the iron
shields so emphatically condemned by the committee
appointed to report upon them. Seeing that the report of
the committee was issued on the 4th of May, and this
letter was written on the 30th of April, the delay in the
publication of the latter —caused by the heavy parliamen-
tary debates— is fatal to it. The shields having been for-
mally and officially declared to be unfavourable con-
struction, any defence of them is post-mortem. Sir
John's argmncnt, however, is somewhat as follows :—The
want of efficiency in the shields is due rather to
the increased power in the artillery, since they
were projected, than to any fault in their construction.
Further than this, he declares the trial to be so far satis-
factory. The ,shield was pierced after five shots had been
fired. That is true. But such cannonading represents,
according to a calculation made by Colonel Jervois, a bom-
bardment from three to four times as severe as that sus-
tained by Fort Sumter. Sir John adds : "On the whole
it has always appeared to me that,. while it may be
necessary to erect shields of stronger construction upon a
few influential points, those already furnished are made
upon a right principle, and are sufficiently strong for all
ordinary purpose; besides possessing the important quality
of a construction which admits of being readily strengths
onecl ut any future period."- .--- •• .._•.

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