The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-24 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

SIR ROBERT PEEL ANT) THE TAMWORTII SCHOOL.—In
the Court of Chancery before the Lord Justices an appeal
was made against the order made by Vice-Chancellor
Malins, on the 13th of March last, whereby his Honour rc.
fused an application made by the Charity Commissioners
that Sir Robert Peel might be committed to Whitecross-
street Prison for having refused to comply with an order
made by the Commissioners that he should deliver to them
two years' accounts of a school at Tamworth, which was
endowed with a sum of £6,000 by the first Sir Robert Peel.
The same questions were raised before their lordships as
when the case was before Vice-Chancellor Malins. The
learned counsel said that they only wanted to compel Sir
Robert to produce the books and accounts. The ease was
only partly gone into, and was adjourned to Thursday
next.

SACRILEGE AT LA3IBETH.—At the Lambeth Police-
court, George Harris was finally examined on the charge
of entering the church of St. Giles's, Lambeth, and
stealing a quantity of things therefrom. The magis-
trate said he had made up his mind to commit
the prisoner for, trial. The accused said he
wished to make a statement. Ile left Newington
Workhouse with two men, and they asked him to meet
them in the evening, as they could put a shilling or two in
his way. He met them at ten o'clock, and they gave him
a bundle and asked him to put some articles round his
neck, and he consented, being, he said, intoxicated, And
soon afterwards the police stopped. him. The constable
said the prisoner was sober. The prisoner said he did
not know what articles were in the bundles ; the men told
him they were theatrical dresses. The prisoner was com-
mitted for trial.
MERCHANTS CHARGED WITH FELONT.—At the Mansion
House Police-court Hermann Mayer and Edward -Mande,
a "gentleman," were charged on remand with stealing
five dock warrants each for the delivery of a pipe of wine,
from Mr. T. F. Alford, of Anerley. The facts of the case
were reported when the case was previously before the
court, and the prisoners were now committed for trial.
Mayer was then charged with obtaining a large
quantity of goods by fraud. The prisoner carried on
business in the name of Liddell and Co., first as a
diamond and subsequently as a commission merchant.
He had previously been in a City house, and whilst there
made the acquaintance of a young man named Hart. In
December last he induced Hart to give up his situation in
a large Wood-street house, and told him to commence
business as a pawnbroker at Acton. Hart asked
him where the money was"to come from, and the prisoner
replied that he could obtain goods on credit from various
City firms if he gave as a reference the name of Liddell
and Co. He instructed the young man to take a house
at Acton, and assisted him in obtaining goods of the
value of £76 from Messrs. Parnall and Co., £63 from
Messrs. Bousfield, I from Messrs. T. E. Smith and
Co., and £66 from -Messrs. Dawe and Son. The plan
was for Hart to go to these houses, represent himself to
be a pawnbroker, and to give the prisoner's name as a
reference, the firm receiving afterwards a letter from
Liddell and Co., of Hatton-garden, giving a most
satisfactory account of Hart and his business. The
goods were then usually supplied, but the money
had never been received for them. Hart went down to
Manchester, Birmingham, and Coventry to see if he could
get goods upon credit (at the request of the prisoner), and
at Birmingham, where he succeeded to a large extent, he
was arrested, and kept in custody for some time. While
so locked lip the prisoner had induced Hart's wife to let
him sell all the, goods in the shop and all the furniture,
which realised 2400, .which lie himself kept. The prisoner
was fully committed for trial. .

THE ALBERT MEMORIAL STATUE AT BIRMINO-
HAM.—The memorial statue of the Prince Consort, for
which a commission was given to Mr. Foley, R.A., has
been unveiled at 13irmingham by the mayor (Mr. T.
Avery). It is considered an excellent likeness, and a
very noble work of art. The Prince is dressed in the
costume of a Knight of the Garter. The statue was
paid for by private subscription, and presented to the
town. £I,OOJ remains of the fund, and with this
sum in hand some gentlemen think of having a statuo of
her Majesty as a companion to that of the Prince Consort.

THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCE HUMBER7.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
TURIN, April 19.

It is pleasant to see this ancient and dejected
capital resuming the holiday garb she so frequently
and willingly wore in her bygone days of pros-
perity. Turin has always been a self-dependent
city; the consciousness of her worth upheld her even
in her darkest hours, and now, under the double
stimulus of pride and old affection, she prepares a
hospitable and splendid welcome to the numerous
guests who gather to celebrate the nuptials of her
Sovereign's heir. And she does so the more wil-
lingly because the bride is one of her own children,
the development of whose graces and virtues she
has watched from the cradle upwards. The ami-
able and sterling qualities of the Princess Margaret
powerfully contribute to the goodwill manifested
upon this occasion. Cast down, without fault
of her own, from the proud position she had
valiantly won and honourably maintained. as capi-
tal of the new kingdom of Italy, Turin has not yet
had time to recover from the shock or forget the
humiliation. Oblivion is the harder when she

notes the fruitlessness of the sacrifice. It was made
to promote unity, to propitiate those provinces
(especially the Southern ones) which cried out
against Piedmontese preponderance, and to get rid
of the French from Italian soil. Those were the
objects of which the attainment was announced as
certain to proceed from the Convention of Septem-
ber, 1864, and, behold, in April, 1868, the
French are at Rome, and Neapolitans and Pied-
montese combine in the Chamber to oppose the
policy of the party which made that convention.
The sole satisfaction the old capital has since en-
joyed has been to hear many deplore the change
who at the time applauded it, and to see how little
Florence has done towards effacing the memory of
Turin. In spite of past and recent discontent,
of heavy taxation, depreciation of property, and
workmen's strikes, the famous old Piedmontese
city thinks that now, if ever, is the moment
to cast aside cares and heartburnings, and
to pluck up spirits and make a supreme
effort to celebrate splendidly a great event
in the family of hei King ; and so the deposed
capital comes out, in all her former bravery, re-
solved it shall not be said that the marriage table
of her princes was coldly furnished forth by the
baked meats of her own obsequies. The municipa-
lity has shown itself no niggard in providing the
ways and means of a great celebration. The ex-
penses of the festival have been estimated at
700,000 f., but I hear it is said they will probably
amount to a million—no small sum for this impo-
verished city. On all sides are evidences of outlay.
On a larger and more magnificent scale than I re-
member ever before to have witnessed, preparations
are making for those beautiful illuminations for
which Turin has long been unrivalled. In Florence,
on such occasions, the river and the ancient build-
ings of the city are employed with the happiest
effect. Thousands of lights are reflected in the
smooth waters of the Arno, across which the bridges
form arches of flame, while the towers of the Pa.
lazzo Vecchio and the Bargello are rendered seem-
ingly transparent by skilfully disposed lamps.
Turin boasts no such buildings, and the
Po skirts the city instead of flowing through
its heart, but of her long lines of straight streets a
vast deal is made by one of the most skilful and
tasteful illuminators and decorators in Europe, the
Piedmontese Ottino, to whom other cities are often
glad to have recourse on such occasions. To-
morrow night will doubtless prove that he has not
spared his pains on this occasion. On no former
one do I remember to have seen such a display of
illtuninatory apparatus. It is to be hoped the gas-
works have been warned of the full extent of the
demand to be made upon their resources, or we
shall risk seeing an untimely extinction of all that
part of the spectacle which depends upon their
supply. Apparently the long line of the Via
di Po will, as on most previous occasions, con-
sume no gas, and rely upon other means of en-
lightenment ; but the nearly equally long Dora
Grossa is spanned from one end to the other, at in-
tervals of about 30 yards, with double arches of
gaspipes. At tha end of the Via Nuova, where it
debouches into the great central square, known as
the Piazza di Castello, a triumphal arch of enormous
height has been erected immediately opposite to
the King's Palace, and overtops the loftiest of the
surrounding houses. It is solely for nocturnal pur-
poses, and by daylight appears a mere skeleton of
wood and wire ; but there can be no doubt of ics
brilliant effect when lit up, for the gasburners that
cover its surface are but just wide enough apart to
allow the coloured glass globes to be placed over
them. Although the poorest in antiquities of all the
1 great Italian cities, Turin is certainly a very hand-
some town, with much of the air and style becom-
ing the capital of a kingdom. Florence has fine
I palaces, picturesque buildings, a grand cathedral,
numerous striking monuments, and possesses, more-
over, a charm and a fascination which all must re-
cognise, but she has scarsely a street of dimensions
superior to those which may be found in any pro-
vincial town. Here, in Turin, are three magnifi-
cent lines, all terminating in the Piazza di Castello.
The Dora Grossa, 1,000 metres in length, is closed
at one end by a distant view of the magnificentline
of the Alps, now much more thickly snow-covered
than is usual at this season, while at its other ex-
tremity stands Vela's spirited statue of a Piedmon-
tese standard-bearer defending withdrawn sword the
! national banner he grasps in his left hand—a gift
from Milan in 1857, a time when all the hopes of
'ltaly centred in the courage and stanchness of the
little sub-Alpine kingdom, and when those hopes
had recently found fresh aliment in the share taken
by a Sardinian corps in the Crimean war. The
background to the statue is formed by a facade of
the Palazzo Madama, one of the oldest buildings
now left in Turin, and parts of which date from the
beginning of the 15th century. Another side of
that palace faces the extremity of the Via di Po.
This street, including the spacious Piazza Vittorio
Emmanuele, which terminates it at the other end
and is bounded by the Po, is somewhat longer than
the Dora Grossa, and altogether a lighter and hand-
, sourer avenue. The third line, also about 1,100
yards long, is that of the Via Nuova, which has at
one end the King's Palace, at the other the gar-
den and fountain of the Carlo Felice-square, above
which towers the handsome glass front of the rail-
way station, while midway in the long vista stands
one of Marochetti's most spirited works, the Duke
Emmanuel Philibert curbing his charger and
sheathing his sword after his famous victory over
the French, under the Constable de Montmorency.
The Carnival, of which the amusments have been
kept up with much spirit by the 'furinese even since
the change of capital, annually draws many stran-
gers to this city, but certainly since the spring of
1365, just before the flitting to Florence took place,
Turin has never been so full as at the present mo-
' ment. It will be fuller still to-morrow, and proba-
bly on Tuesday the last of those who mean to come
have arrived. One is reminded of Turin's most busy
and brilliant days by the crowded state of the Por-
tici di Po, which are to the Piedmontese capital
what the Italian Boulevard is to Paris, the Unter
den Linden to Berlin, or the Puerta del Sol to
Madrid—a great central place of passage and a fa-
vourite rendezvous and strolling-ground. There,
and under the arcade of the Piazza Castello, the
throng was asgreat as ever yesterday afternoon and
evening, and the shabby old Cafe Fiorio, for some
reason or other long the chief resort of Turinese
fashionables, was as full as in days of yore.
Whichever way one turned, his eyes encountered
portraits of the sposi reali, the Royal bride and
bridegroom—photographs, lithographs, woodcuts,
plain and coloured—side by side on one sheet,
like two turtle doves on the same perch, stand-
ing in cars drawn by butterflies, with Cupid for a
driver, grouped with the King and the Duchess of
Genoa " and the rest of the Royal family," as in a
toast at a public dinner, receiving the benediction of
Italy, personified as a beautiful woman with a head-
dress of turrets—in short, in every imaginable atti-
tude, combination, and costume. On all sides one
saw Humbert's heavy moustache and somewhat
defiant air, contrasting with the gentle beauty and
sweet expression of his charming cousin. It is un-
necessary to say that only in a small minority of