The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-09 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

I.IANSLATTCHTER BY A WOMAN. -At the Central
Criminal Court, before Mr. Baron Pigott, Mary Manning,
a woman aged 34 years, was indicted for the wilful
murder of a child named flonora Sweeney. It seemed
from the evidence that, on the afternoon of the 27th ult.,
Margaret Sweeney, the mother of the deceased, left the
child in the cradle with another infant, but had not
been absent more than a few minutes when she
heard a scream. The prisoner had the child in
her lap, and was apparently nursing it before a coke fire.
Another scream was heard, and the mother of the child
went back to the room and met the prisoner coming out.
The child's thighs were very much burnt, and blood was
running down one of its legs, and on the following- day the
infant died. When the prisoner was given into custody
she became very violent, and savagely kicked the police-
man who apprehended her. The child's clothes were not
burnt, and the theory for the prosecution was that the
prisoner had deliberately lifted them pp and placed the
baby on the fire. The defence was that the prisoner,
when in a state of inebriation, accidentally let the child
fall on the fire, The jury found the accused guilty, and
she was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.
FRAUD BY A VOLUNTEER OFFICER.-At the same court
Edward Vaughan Arkbuckle, who was formerly adjutant
of the Woolwich Volunteer Artillery Corps, was charged
with defrauding persons of several sums of money. It
seems that the prisoner was charged in this court a short
time ago for a like offence, but acquitted. In the present
instance he had forged his father's signature to two
cheques for £5 each. It was proved that he had no autho-
rity to draw the cheques. The jury found him guilty, and
he was ordered to he kept in penal servitude for five
years.

ROBBING A RAILWAY COMPANY.-At the same court
William Treville and Solomon Solomons pleaded guilty to
an indictment charging them with stealing a large quan-
tity of tea belonging to his masters, the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway Company, and the latter to the charge
of receiving the same, knowing it to have been stolen. The
case was a very Lad one, the railway company having
been systematically robbed of tea for a long time past.
It had been the practice for people to get the van boys
to drive the carts, while they, with the carmen, were
engaged in breaking open chests of tea in the inside. The
prisoner Solomons bad carried on the business of a sponge
merchant, but the police had watched his premises for a
long period, owing to his having been implicated in a large
opium robbery about six years ago. On that occasion he
was called as a witness for the prosecution after his com,
mittal for trial. In the present case it was stated that
upwards of 401 b. of tea had been found at his house. The
Recorder sentenced each of the prisoners to eighteen,
months' hard labour.

THE FENIAN MoNAN.—At Bow-street, the Fenian
Mohan, Morgan, or Magan, was finally examined on the
charge of inducing soldiers to desert from the British
iarmy and join the so-called Fenians. Sir Thomas Henry
committed the accused for trial on the charge of treason•
felony.

THE CHARGE AGAINST A COFFEE-HOUSE KEEPER.—At
Clerkenwell Police-court, Hobert Heath, keeper of the
Express Coffee-house, King's Cross, was charged on re-
mand with stealing a cash-box containing £llO in gold,
silver, and notes. After hearing the whole of the evidence
Mr. Cooke committed the accused for trial.

THE MARQUIS TOWNSIIEXD AGAIN.-At the Clerkenwell
Police-court a servant girl, accompanied by the Marquis
Townshend, applied to Mr. Cooke for a summons against
a physician in large practice for ill-using one of his sons,
aged 14. The young woman stated that the physician
in question had about three weeks since beaten the boy
with a baluster. lie had also beaten him with a cane.
—Mr. Cooke : I suppose all that h' did was to chastise
the boy.-- The young woman said that was so.—The
Marquis Townshend said that when the young woman
first complained to him she said that the physician
had locked the boy in a room and had ill-used
him. Perhaps the magistrate would allow him to put a
few questions. This was allowed, and the girl stated that
the physician had confined his son in his room. In reply
to Mr. Cooke, the girl stated that she had been in the
employ of the physician, but had now left. She had not
complained to her master of his conduct towards the boy.
She considered that it was more than proper chastisement
that he received. The room in which the boy was confined
was upstairs ; it was his bedroom. He was kept in the
room, but the door was not locked ; he was kept in the
room by way of punishment. She had not seen any
bruises on the boy. Mr. Cooke said this was not a case
in which be could grant a summons upon the mere state.
ment of a discharged servant. The boy was 14 years of
age, and could, if he was ill-used, apply for the summons
himself. The Marquis and the young woman then left the
court.

The Right Hon. the Speaker has arrived at
Buxton for a course of baths during the Easter recess.

A Bremen letter states that emigration thence
has never been witnessed on so large a scale as at present.
Between 7,000 and 8,000 persons have passed through the
city during the last few days, coming chiefly from Saxony
and Prussia. Many also arrived from Bohemia.
THE REPRESENTATION OF COLERAINE.—The pro-
bability of a change in the representation of Coleraine, in
the event of a dissolution or the recurrence of a general
election, is again talked of here. The speech of Sir Hervey
Bruce delivered on the Irish Church question has dis-
pleased a good many. His successor in the representation
of the borough is mentioned as Mr. Daniel laylor,,J.P.,
the most rising merchant of the place. Mr. Taylor
is a staunch Presbyterian, of most advancedi Liberal
opinio
enrs,,, v
anti is exceedingly popular in Coleraine.—
Ilrorlh
l.
REFORM OF THE TRISH PEERAGE.—sir COlMall
O'Loghlen's Irish Peerage Bill has just been printed. II
seeks to enact that after the passing of the Act no nev‘
peer of Ireland shall be created, though promotions may
Representative peers elected after the
still be made.
passin o
f the Act shall not sit for life, but only for the
c,
Parliament. A representative peer becoming a Britist
peer shall cease to he a representative peer. If a repro
sentative peer becomes incapable through infirmity of
mind of performing his office, another shall be chosen. A
representative peer may resign his seat, and, if he do so,
a new election shall be held to fill the vacancy. As to the
elections, cumulative votes shall be allowed, each peel
having as many votes as there are vacancies to fill up. Nc
peer of the United Kingdom or member of the House of
comialopaar 42,Juture be entitled y9tt,,

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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1868.

We are very glad to find that the threatened
'allure of the grand Volunteer display on Easter
Monday is likely to be avoided, and, we may hope,
turned into a complete success. The selection of
Portsmouth as the scene for the annual review was
regarded on all sides as most fortunate, from the
opportunity which it afforded of executing new and
important movements, and of rehearsing in peace
some of those parts which the Volunteers might
really be called upon to play in time of war. It is
not likely that their services would be needed in
the field, but they might be of valuable assistance
in defending dockyards or fortifications, and
Portsmouth is just one of those positions
which an invading forca would be most anxious to
secure, and which it would be most essential to us
to prevent from falling into their hands. Those
who intended to go to the review as spectators
looked forward with unusual interest to the prospect
of witnessing the manoeuvres arranged for Monday,
while the Volunteers themselves were so pleased at
the opportunity of trying their prowess on a new
field, and so anxious to display their readiness to
adapt themselves to circumstances, that the number
of those who determined to be present gave rise to
a serious difficulty. Great was the general
disappointment and consternation when it
was found that th e programme had been
altered, owing to the presumed impossibility of
going through the whole of it in the given time,
that the grand field-day on Portsdown Hill was to
be altogether abandoned, and that the whole affair
was to resolve itself into a march past on Southsea-
common, where therein neither room nor opportunity
for display. Much correspondence has been going
on about this change, and for some time there
seemed reason to fear that the number of divided
authorities would prevent anything like a settle-
went. The Volunteers were themselves disgusted,
and it soon became evident that if Southsea-
common was the only object of the day there
would be no reason to apprehend too full an at-
tendance. The good folks of Portsmouth were of
course greatly disappointed, since they had expressed
so much anxiety about the Review, and had exulted
over the selection of their town for the occasion.
The Mayor and other leading men have exerted
themselves strenuously to put matters on a right
and satisfactory footing. The Mayor has been up
to London to confer with the authorities, and the
Town Council have undertaken to keep the roads
clear, in order to facilitate matters. Happily all is
now arranged satisfactorily. The War Office has
decided that the field day on Portsdown Hill shall
take place, and the march past on Southsea Com-
mon shall also be carried out, if possible, so that
the old arrangements stand as before. This
is good news, since the whole credit of
the affair would have been spoilt, and the
Easter Monday Review, instead of giving, as here-
tofore, a valuable stimulus to the Volunteer move-
ment, woull have only damaged it and brought it
into ridicule. It is very important that both the
prestige of the occasion and the public interest in
it should be kept up, if we wish to preserve the
vitality of the movement and the spirit of the force.
Hitherto, in spite of sundry faults in management
and minor drawbacks, both these results have been
attained ; but the Review of 1868, which at first
promised to add lu-tre to the event, has lately
threatened to bring the whole into disrepute. The
Volunteers, we are sure, will not shrink from a little
additional trouble and exertion. If they do they
prove themselves but carpet knights, and certainly
unfit for the vicissitudes of a campaign. if some
have to remain in Portsmouth all night, it will be
no great grievance or hardship for men who call
themselves soldiers, and no doubt they are all wil-
ling to run the risk of some inconvenience, in order
that the affair should go off with more than custo-
mary éclat. A good deal may be done by the cen-
tral authorities if they will inquire a little more
closely ato detail, was to lino tilieluie-4i vim-caw/

fatigue and loss of time in starting. Thus, the Secre-
tary of the North Middlesex Rifles writes to-day to a
contemporary complaining that his men have to march
from Cumberland market, their place of rendezvous,
to the railway station at Kensington, a waste of
time and strength, when Waterloo station would be
equally available. A change in a few such points,
if closely looked into, would considerably lighten
the burden of the day. Still we hope, in any case,
if the weather be propitious, that the day on Ports-
down-hill will be one of the most successful of our
Volunteer displays.

The public will learn with the most lively satis-
faction that the safety of Dr. LIVINGSTONE is now
placed beyond doubt. Human hopes so often prove
fallacious, and the dangers of African exploration
are proverbially so great, that there were compara-
tively few who'dared to rely with any confidence on
Sir R. MuncinsoN's sanguine belief in his friend's
safety. Among those who doubted, or more than
doubted, if the adventurous traveller were yet
alive, was no less competent a judge than Sir
SAMUEL BAKER, than whom no :man knows better

the dangers of the African wilds. Happily all
fears are now at rest. Sir RODERICK MURCHI-
SON has just received a letter from Dr. KIRKE at
Zanzibar, dated February 4, in which he announces
the arrival of the long-looked-for Arab messenger
with despatches and letters from Dr. LIVINGSTONE
himself. The despatches are now on their way to
England, and will before long be in the hands of
the public. However interesting the information
they may contain may be, it will be second to the fact
which they announce of the safety of our distin-
guished countryman. It appears that he pro-
ceeded northwards at a long distance to the west of
Lake Nyassa, and in course of time arrived at
Lobisa, formerly a thickly-inhabited town, now
almost deserted. In these parts the tra-
vellers suffered much from hunger, but on
coming to the vicinity of Lake Tanganyika they
found plenty of cattle and food. Here LIVING-
STONE met with the trading caravans from Zanzi-
bar, and delivered the letters to BUNDUKI, who
has had them 12 months in his possession. Re-
liable information has also been received at Zanzibar
of the arrival of Dr. LIVINGSTONE at Ujiji, half way
along the Lake Tanganyika, where, it is satisfactory
to know, provisions and stores are waiting for him.
We may therefore hope yet to see the long-absent
traveller among us, and his return will be doubly
welcome after the protracted suspense •which Eng-
land has felt on his account.

The last news from Prussia is, if pessible, worse
than might have been expected, and will disappoint
those who have been thinking that affairs were taking
1 a more prosperous turn, and that a milder spirit was
animating the councils of the empire. The former
IHanoverian officers who were charged with high
' treason were sentenced by the Supreme Court to
ten years' imprisonment each in contumacion. It is
almost incomprehensible that this style of thing
should be permitted to go on at this time when pro-
gress has been made to so great an extent, and when
freedom has advanced so much in countries hitherto
weighed down and oppressed by the spirit of exclu-
siveness. Surely in all conszience the Berlin
Government has gained enough, and more than
enough, without endeavouring to carry things to an
extremity like this, and to set the opinion of the world
at defiance. It is all very fine to talk of high
treason, and for the Supreme Court to give their
judgment accordingly ; but every one must feel
when they come to think on the matter that this is
a mere subterfuge, and that after all there is no
" treason" in the case. How can these officers be
guilty of this offence to a monarch to whom they
never avowed allegiance ? and how can the King of
PRUSSIA and his Alinisters reconcile themselves to
the notion that they are acting in accordance with
truth, justice, or reason ? This persecution is most
cruel, and it cannot even be accounted for, by say-
ing that it is called for in a politic sense, because
it is evident, by this time, that the sway of Prussia
in those places that have been annexed is quite
secure ; and, at any rate, for the preent no one
will call it in question. Is this extreme rigour
intended, then, to terrify others, or as a warning
to those places or provinces not yet annexed to
Prussia, but which are intended hereafter to be so,
and concerning which Bisst 4.RCK may even now be
plotting their doom, and settling their future fate.
If so, we must protest, in the name of humanity,
against such a course of intolerance and oppression,
and declare that those who follow it out only show
the inherent weakness of their own course by per-
sisting in it. This is not the first time, however,
and we fear it will not be the last, that there has
' been occasion to animadvert upon the policy of
Prussia. that policy has some very mean points
about it; and perhaps if we were called upon to
define the great want of the Prussian character, we
should say that it was its want of magnani-
mity. Generosity towards a fallen foe was
in the old heroic days of chivalry the
leading principle of action, and there is no
reason whatever why these more prosaic times
should witness a difference in any marked degree
or striking manner. Prussia has conquered Hanover;
that is a fact which no one contradict; but that
she was justified in so doing is quite another affair.
But since she holds supremacy now, why descend
to the meanness of these petty persecutions, and
take pleasure in acts of oppression that can bring
no strength to her rule, and, ou the contrary, are
only signs of weakness ? Wo pity the unfortunate
men who are thus doomed to so sad a fate ; but we
pity still more those tyrants who force such a doom
upon them, and even now it is to be hoped that
solve of the Powers of Europe may tike up their
cause and seek to obtain a remission, or at least a
mitigation of their sentence.

THE ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS.—On Tuesday, the
turn-out of her Majescy's staghounds was at Fulmer-
common, when tho field was more select than numerous.
Ou being uncarted the deer went right away to Hedgerley,
thence along the road to Stoke, passing in full cry through
the vill ige, and by the noted publichouse known by the
sign of the Dog and Pot, bearing to the right and over
the country between Mr. Henry Cantrell's Baylis farm and
the village of Fulham, then over ('halvey-fields, under the
railway arch, and was shortly afterwards run down in
Pocock's-lane by the Eton College playing fields by one
of the sportsmen, who jumped from his horse and pressed
it against the playing fields fence until one of the whips
rode up and assisted in securing it. The hedges are get-
ting very blind, which renders the fencing rather danger-
ous. There will be only two more meets this season in
that part of the country, viz., on Tuesday, at Knapp-hill,
near Woking-station ; and on Easter Monday at the
old favourite place, Maidenhead Thicket. Afterwards
the pack will finish the season as usual at New Forest.
A CLERGYMAN'S SON CONVICTED OF THEFT.—
A respectably dressed youth, about 18 years of age, the
son of the Vicar of Duncermick, county Wexford, was
yesterday brought up at the Liverpool Police Court
charged with stealing some watches from the shop of Mr.
Goldstone, a jeweller in Whitechapd. The prisoner, who
appeared very dejected and expressed his regret at the
misery he should bring upon his father, aid 1 he left home
in consequence of his fiery temper, intending to go to sea.
When he got to Liverpool he could not get a berth, and
as he had no money, he determined to steal something.
He did not care how long he was imprisoned, as the dis-
grace he had brought on.his family was all he could think
of now. He was sent to prison for two months.
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