The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-06 00:00:00

LATEST INTELL WINCE. i COIiItESPO

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 6.

The North German Lloyd steamer Union, from
New York, has arrived here, with 33 passengers
for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 31. sacks of mails
for London, $1,019;398 in specie for London, and
$45,000 for Bremen.

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.

A telegram received from Washington yesterday
declares the rumours relative to the reduction of
the regular army unfounded. General Grant has
not recommended any such immure, and does not
consider the reduction advisable.

The same authority says that despatches received
from the Chilian Government order the represen-
tative of that Republic to repair to England upon

an important mission.
The steamer Raleigh, from this port for New
Orleans, was burnt yesterday off Charleston. Thir-
teen lives were lost; 24 persons are still missing,
who were last seen clinging to the wreck.

ARRIVAL OF THE TEUTONIA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 6.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Teutonia, from New Orleans on the 18th Dec., has
arrived here with 24 passengers for Havre and
Hamburg, $18,608 for England, $468,430 for Eng-
land and France, and 2,341 bales of cotton for
Hamburg.

The Teu ton ia experienced heavy weather through-
out her passage. On the 31st ult., in latitude 48
deg. 2 min. N. long. 370 deg. W., she encountered
a hurricane from the southward, shifting to W
N. W., and subsequently met with S.E. gales and
strong easterly winds up channel.
. Upon the 21st ult. she spoke the English steamer
Fire Queen, from New Orleans, bound to Liver-
pool ; on the 24th the Bremen bark Armin,-
from the Gulf of Mexico, bound for
Falmouth ; on the 30th, the English
steamer City of Cork, bound west; on the 24th
inst., the English ship Liberator, from Sydney for
London, 96 days out ; the Isle of the South, from
Shanghai for London, 34 days out; and the In-
vincible, bound east.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Jan. 6.

The Moniteur .of this morning contains an ac-
count of the ceremony at the Tuileries yesterday of
the awarding of prizes to the successful competitors
at the Agricultual, Exhibition, and publishes the
speech of the Emperor, which has already appeared.
The following prizes were awarded to English-

men :
For Agricultural Machinery.—Grand Prize to
Ransomes and Sims, engineers and manufacturers
of agricultural machinery, Ipswich.
Gold medals to Messrs. Howard, manufacturers
of agricultural machinery, Bedford ; Markham,
London ; Garrett, Leicester; Smith, Pearson, Hull ;
Marshall and Sons, Picksley and Sons, James
Jamieson and James Cooper.
The grand prize for horticulture has been awarded
to Messrs. Veitch, of London.
BounsE, JAN. 4, Three o'clock. —The market
closed as follows :-
4i per Cent.
End of month... ItaPan Loan 44 10
3 per Cent
End of month 42 50 Mexican Loan ... 16
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 162 50 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier ...1345 Home Debt B4 25
End of m0uth...1338 75 Deferred — -
RAILWAYS. Account

Orleans
862}
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 550
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa,
Roman 47

508/
345

POLICE lIvTELLIGENOE•—This Day.

NARLBOROUGII-STREET.

Alphonse Deplarque, a French clerk, residing at
No. 19, Whitcomb-street, was charged, before Mr.
Tyrwbitt, with assaulting Mary and Elizabeth
Hopkins, mother and daughter, residing in Phoenix-
street, Soho.
Elizabeth Hopkins, a respectable-looking young
woman, a servant out of place, and residing with
her parents, said—On Saturday evening, about 7
o'clock, I was walking along Compton-street,
when the prisoner came up and caught hold of me
and used very insulting language to me. My
mother, who came up at the moment, told him to
go away or she would have him locked up, and
after making use of a bad remark to my mother he
struck her in the face, and on my trying to pre-
vent him striking my mother again he struck me
in the face. A gentleman passing by went for a
constable, and the prisoner was given into custody.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Had you ever seen the prisoner
before?

Witness—No, sir ; he struck other persons also.

Mary Hopkins, mother of the last witness, said—
I went to meet my daughter on Saturday evening,
having a female friend with me, and on my joining
her the prisoner came towards us and pushed him-
self between us. I made room for him to pass, when
he came up again and rudely caught hold of my
daughter, at the same time making use of a
very bad expression. I told him not to do so, as she
was a respectable young women, and that he had
made a mistake in the person he took her for. The
prisoner then made use of a similar expression to-
war.ls me and struck me in the face, and while a
gentleman was gone for a constable, the prisoner
struck her again and also my daughter, and twisted
the hand of my friend, who tried to protect me.
Matilda, Beesley said—l was with the last witness
on Saturday evening, and on preventing the priso-
ner frign striking Mrs. llopkins in the face, he
seized my hand and twisted it right round, and I
still feel the effects of it.

Police-constablo John Moore, 193 C, said—l took
the prisoner into custody. Several gentlemen saw
the prisoner's conduct was most disgraceful, and
that he had assaulted the complainant. The pri-
soner had been drinking, but knew what he was
about.

The Prisoner—The young woman spoke to me
first.

Elizabeth Hopkins—That is not true, sir.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—There is a class of persons who
imagine women to be at their mercy, but they will
be taught different. Police-constables would be
entirely useless unless decent and respectable
women were protected, and the first duty of
a country ought to be to protect them. If
the prisoner fancied he was coming here to
rule over them he was much mistaken. I shall
commit the prisoner for six weeks for the
assault on the girl, a month for the assault on
her mother, and line him £3, or a month, for the
msault on the other female. I believe, from
what I have seen of their manners, that they are
not disreputable persons; and even if they were,
they are not to be treated in the way the prisoner
has done to these women.

WINTER PLOUGHING MATCHES.—The last All
England Ploughing Match of 1867, and the first match of
1868, took place on Tuesday, December 31, and Thursday,
January 2, the former in connection with the Croxdale
and Burnhall, and the latter with the Brancepeth and
Brandon societies. At both places, after a most spirited
competition, the All England Prize was awarded to
Messrs. Ransome's ploughman, James Barker.

We have been informed (says the Army and Navy
Gazette) that the French authorities have lately been buy-
ing up in th© English market largequantities of teak. Now,
as this wood is used largely for armour backing, it would
follow that iron shipbuilding for war purposes is not to be
neglected during the present year iu France.

INDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROL OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, SUNDAY, Jan. 5.

Our papers to-day speak of the severity of the weather
which prevails in all parts of the country. At Lyons the
Sane is frozen over. Huge blocks of ice are floating down
the Rhone and the Loire. The weather here is certainly
milder to-day, but skating goes on with vigour on all the
sheets of water around the city. Large crowds have
crossed and recrossed the Seine on the ice—a feat which
I believe I am right in saying has not been performed since
184 d.

Some of your contemporaries have questioned the truth
of the statement that I made some days since in reference
to the marriage of Mademoiselle Patti to the Emperor's
equerry, the Marquis de Caux. There is, however, 1
believe, no doubt about the fact, and I am told that the
Empress has already taken the opportunity of conveying
her congratulation to the favourite singer.
At two o'clock to-day the Emperor distributed the agri-
cultural and horticultural prizes gained at_the late Exhibi-
tion. The ceremony took place at the Tuileries. You
will have received the Emperor's reply to M. de Forcade
la Roquette, Minister of Agriculture, by telegraph.
Marshal Niel has lost by death his brother and his sister-
in-law. Six days only intervened between the decease of
the husband and wife.

I am sorry to be able to report no improvement in com-
mercial affairs. Complaints of the languid condition of
trade prevail in all quarters, and there appears to be no
prospect of any immediate re-establishment of public con-
fidence.

I have seen a letter from Cherbourg which states that
there is redoubled activity exhibited in the arsenal. Men
are employed in the manufacturing workshops on Sundays
and on week days until eight o'clock in the evening. Such
protracted labour has not been witnessed since the Cri-
mean war. Many additions have been made to the work-
ing staff in the artillery department, and an overseer and
several workmen engaged on naval artillery have arrived
here from Brest and Rochefort. In a few days the
armour-plated division of the channel, under the orders of
Rear - Admiral Dompierre d'Hornoy, increased by two
ships of the line, will be completed.
The letter of M. Lavigerie, the Bishop of Algeria,
craving help for those who have suffered from the terrible
famine which has visited the colony, has been answered by
a Government subscription of £lO,OOO.
To those of your readers who have followed the course
of the Mobile National Guard Bill in the Corps L6gislatif,
-it may be interesting to know that on Tuesday next
the members of the Legislative Body will be asked to
record their votes on the whole measure.
It is understood here that the illness of Cardinal Auto-
nelli is of a serious character. lam informed that in ad-
dition to the fit with which ho was seized, he constantly
suffers from a painful internal disease.
The ladies are complaining greatly of a very stupia
trick which is frequently played upon them when gazing
at the shops on the Boulevards. The joke lies in cutting
with a pair of scissors, or some other sharp instrument,
such portions of the dress or cloak as can be operated upon
most conveniently. The nuisance has become so great that
the special aid of the police has been invoked. It was
only on Friday that a lady wearing a silk dress of great
value had .it entirely ruined in the manner I have
described.