The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-16 00:00:00

THAMES.

A TICKET-OF-LEAVE CONVlCT.—Elizabeth Drum-
mond, a woman about 25 years of age, who has a
ticket of leave which does not expire until October,
1869, was brought before Mr. Benson charged with
robbing a seaman, named Henry Hicks, of 10s.
The prisoner, who was convicted of a railway
robbery with violence five years and a half ago, and
was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, was
released six months since with a ticket of leave.
She was subsequently brought before Mr. Benson
twice on very serious charges of robbery, and on
the second occasion she would have been committed
for trial if the prosecutor had not, in the course of
her week's remand, gone to sea.. A month since
she was brought before Mr. Paget, charged by In-
spector Gee, of the It division, with violating the
conditions of her license in getting intoxicated,
keeping bad company, and dwelling in a house of
bad repute. Inspector Gee also mentioned that the
prisoner had been twice charged with robbery since
she had received her ticket of leave.

Mr. Paget, who was mercifully inclined, thought
the charge ought not to be pressed, and did not
like to send the woman back to a convict prison for
14 months. His humane sentiments were conveyed
to the Commissioners of Police, and had the effect
desired. On the second investigation the prisoner
was discharged, and Mr. Paget admonished
her to lead a good and industrious life, and leave
the haunts of vice. She made the most solemn
promises of amendment, and Mr. Paget said she
was indebted to the Commissioners of Police for
their lenity, and he hoped never to see her again.
The prisoner has been leading a vicious life since
her discharge by Mr. Paget. Yesterday she was in
a beershop called the Star hotel, in Dock-street,
and the sailor Hicks, who was drinking there,
knocked a pint pot on the table to command atten-
tion, and called for a pot of beer. The prisoner
made her appearance, and the sailor, believing her
to be a waiteress, repeated the order for a pot of
beer, and gave her a half sovereign, with which she
immediately absconded. The sailor gave informa-
tion to the police, and the prisoner was taken into
custody an hour afterwards half a mile from the
Star, and with 7s. in her possession. She at first
denied all knowledge of the sailor, but afterwards
admitted she received a half-sovereign from him.
She also said she intended to bring back the
change.

Mr. Benson said the prisoner had committed a
very distionpat act, but it did not amount in law to
a felony. lie should remand the case till Satur-
day, when his colleague, Mr. Paget, would preside
and give his opinion on the matter.

EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY.—The Constitutionnel
publishes a letter from Dr. Guyon, the Academi-
cian, of which the following is the substance. At
the battle of the )Matta, one of the disastrous en-
counters the French troops had with the Arabs
during the early part of the conquest of Algeria, a
corporal, named Gaudry, was hit by a bullet which
passed clean through the nape of the neck, frac-
turing a spinous apophsis. Ihe French being in
full retreat, Gaudry remained lying on the ground,
and an Arab stabbed him twice with his yataghan.
Strange to say, the first time the weapon went
straight through the wound inflicted by the bullet,
it could not have done so more accurately had it
been intended ; the second stroke cut the ex-
tensor muscles of the right side of the head in two,
almost laying bare the carotid artery. Gaudry,
notwithstanding these fearful wounds, came to
himself again after the Arabs were gone. A mule,
belonging to the French army, just then happened
to pass close by. Notwithstanding his loss of
blood, the corporal, who was of a herculean
stature, hoisted himself on the animal's back, and
was then taken back to the French lines, holding
up his head all the way with one hand, or both
when he could I His comrades were so astonished
at his condition that they called hiin St. Denis ;
indeed he himself said that he felt as if his head
were rolling off his body. Gaudry was laid on a
bed, and his head kept extended as much as possible
the borders of the gash being repeatedly brought
together as much as possible. With much care
and nursing the corporal at length recovered ; but
there remained a groove on his neck sufficient to
admit a finger laid on it horizontally ; the vertebra
had nothing but the skin over them. The scar of
the second gash was deep likewise, and adhered to
the carotid. His head leaned forward, and it was
with difficulty he could raise it a little ; otherwise
his general health was good. He would have been
well satisfied with the Cross of the Legion of
Honour, but unfortunately he belonged to an
African battalion, and those corps seldom obtain
such favours.
The Berlin letter in the North Eastern Corres-
pondence says that there are both a peace party
and a war party now in Prussia. To the former
belong the King and the Conservatives ; it is from
them that have proceeded the late overtures for a
rapprochement with Austria, with the object of
isolating France, in the hope that she will not make
war if she finds herself without allies. The war
party, says the letter, consists of the " national
Liberals," and Count Bismarck. The Count be-
lieves war to be inevitable, and even necessary to
Prussian interests. He holds that it is by means
of a war only that the rule of Prussia can be ex-
tended to South Germany ; that Austria is rapidly
recovering her strength, and that Prussia cannot
afford to wait until her old adversary is strong
enough to attack her as the ally of France.
Austria, he says, is no doubt interested in preserv-
ing peace for the present, so as to be able to in-
terfere with the more effect at a decisive moment ;
but when that moment arrives she will certainly
not take the side of Prussia. He is therefore of
opinion that there would be no advantage in at-
tempting to avoid a war if France endeavoured to
provoke it.

LIFEBOAT SERVICE.—CAHORE,IRELAND, Sept. 13.
—The coal la-len schooner Vivid, of Wexford, at anchor
off this place, exhibited a signal of distress this morning
(says Captain D'Olier George). The lifeboat of the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution on this station was promptly
launched through a heavy sea and rescued the crew of 5
men. The vessel subsequently parted her chain and
came ashore.

THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE IN CAVENDISH-SQUARE.
—The statue in the centre of Cavendish-square, repre-
senting William, Duke of Cumberland, the hero of Cullo-
den, being in a rapid state of decay, was yesterday taken
down to be modelled and cast. The inscription is re-
markable:—" William. Duke of Cumberland. Born April
15, 1721, died October 31, 1765. This equestrian statue
was erected by Lieutenant-General William Strode, in
gratitude for his privatefriendship, in honour to his public
irtue. &ivabor 19: 8;1110 Don~iai 1770.