The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-18 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Constitutional Journal of Bohemia, under date
of Vienna 10th, says, " M. Delacour, Ambassador from
the French Republic to our Court, has received dis-
patches from his Government which perfectly accord
with the letters which had been received by the Cabinet
from M. de Hubner. The French Minister has resolved
to act in accord with Austria for the regulation of the af-
fairs of Germany. It is regarded as certain that France
will recognise the Dietof Frankfort as soon as England
shall have done so, and that until that takes place she
will support it with her influence. The French diplo-
matic agents in Germany have received orders from
the Minister of Foreign Affairs to act in this sense
(particularly in the affair of Hesse), in maintaining
itself on the ground of legal and constitutional prin-
ciples. It is positively stated that France wishes
that Germany should be organized according to the
treaties of 1815, and opposes any territorial changes."

A COURAGEOUS WOMAN.
On Wednesday last, the inhabitants of the village
of Liddiard Millicent, near Swindon, were alarmed
by the report that the dwelling-house of a woman
who keeps a small shop had been broken into, and
that some violence had been offered to the woman.
The police were immediately on the alert, and Mr.
Superintendent Haynes, of the Wilts constabulary
force, apprehended Charles Clark, alias Embury,
who resided about a mile from the woman's
residence, on suspicion of being concerned in
the outrage. On Monday last the prisoner was taken
before the magistrates at Swindon, and the case was
heard before the Earl of Radnor, the Rev. G. A. God-
dard, Mr. J. Crowdy, and Captain Prower. The na-
ture of the outrage, and the extraordinary courage
displayed by the woman, will be best shown from her
evidence. Keziah Prior stated—" I am a single woman.
I keep a shop, and live in the house by myself. I
sleep upstairs. Last Tuesday night►, about eight o'clock,
no one was in the house but myself. I fastened the doors
and windows. During the night I was awoke by
hearing a noise like glass crashing. I thought at
first it was the cat. The next.thing I heard was the
catch of a bolt. In about a minute I saw a flare of
light come from the room opposite my bedroom. That
room looked out into the road. I j umped out of bed,
and went towards my bedroom door. As I was going
towards the door a man rushed upon me. He took
hold of me, and we fell to the floor together. I was

undermost. As we were falling he said with an oath,
Deliver your money.' I screamed Murder !' We
had a struggle on the floor. I got from him, and went
into the room opposite my bedroom. The window of
that room was open. It was shut when I went to bed.
I screamed ' Murder !' The man at that time was
in my bedroom; not knowing the way, he could
not get between the rooms so fast as I could,
and there were two steps between the rooms.
The man followed me into the room; he was calling
out, ' Jack, Jack, come here.' I then turned from
the window and met him. We closed together and
struggled. I cannot say whether he struck me
there. He struck me En the bedroom. I bear the
marks on my face. Illy toes were trod to pieces
with his nailed shoes or boots. He got to the window
and he put his right leg up to get out. I put
my hands round his body and helped him up.
He drew his other leg up, and I put my hand
on his back and struck him as hard as I could,
and said, ' That's where thee's come in, and that's
where thee shall go out,' and out he went. He fell
about thirteen feet, and dropped on the road. I
said, ' You rogue, I hope you will break your neck.'
It was a clear night. I watched him get up and
scramble away. lam certain it was the prisoner.
I have known him for some time, and he has
been to my shop. I did not see a second man.
I dressed, struck a light, and went down stairs
and opened the door, and went to a neighbour's and
gave an alarm." In the room was found a red cap
and a heavy bluigeon ; traces of blood were on the
floor, and the room presented the appearance of a
most severe struggle having taken place. In the road
was found a hat. The prisoner is a tall powerful man,
with long black hair, repulsive features, and of tha
most ruffianly appearance. It is supposed that, having
entered by the window, a comrade removed the ladder
by which access was gained, the prisoner's intention
being to descend the stairs and open the
front door, when he was attacked in such a deter-
mined manner by the woman, and, finding that he
could not master her, and alarmed by her cries, he
called for his comrade, at the same time making for
the window, from which, however, the ladder had
been removed. The magistrates were engaged some
hours in investigating the body of evidence produced
by the police, and the prisoner was fully committed
for trial at the next assiz,s.

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO ROB
AND MURDER BY MEANS OF CHLOROFORM.
KENDAL, MONDAY.—The town has been thrown
into a state of the greatest excitement and alarm by
the report that a diabolical attempt had been made
last night by a man who had secreted himself under
a bed in Shaw's Temperance Hotel, and attempted to
rob and murder a gentleman lodging in the house
by the agency of chloroform. From the evidence
given before the magistrates this day, it appears that
the Rev. Lachlan Mllntosh, a gentleman who had been
preaching at the Presbyterian Chapel in behalf of the
Baptist Home Missionery Society for Scotland, had
taken up his quarters on Sunday night at Shaw's
Temperance Hotel in this town. Mr. Mlntosh, who
had retired to bed about nine o'clock, was awoke about
twelve by a fellow attempting to suffocate him by
means of a rag steeped in chloroform. Mr. M`lntosle,
who is an elderly man, struggled desperately with his
assailant, but, whether from the fumes of the chloro-
form or the terrible disadvantage at which he was
taken by his midnight assailant, he felt himself fast fail-
ing, when the cries of " Help, murder !" roused the
house. When Mr. Shaw, of the Temperance Hotel,
made his way into the room, the intended victim was al-
mcst powerless, and the assassin, or robber, was lying
upon the bedding, which had fallen upon the floor
in the scuffle, apparently sound asleep. On being
roughly shaken, the latter professed that he had long
been a sleep-walker, and appeared to be astonished to
find himself where he was. A policeman was, how-
ever, sent for, and the supposed somnambulist was
taken into custody. What gives a very dark appear-
ance to the case is, that a strong smell of chloroform
was perceived by the parties who entered the
room, upon the alarm being given, and that the
next morning a bottle containing chloroform I
was found under Mr. M'lntosh's bed, and a similar
bottle in the carpet-bag of the prisoner, who
had been at the Temperance Hotel since Satur-
day evening. The Reverend Gentleman's face bore
strong marks of the desperate pertinacity of his noc-
turnal assailant. To the policeman who took the
prisoner into custody he said he was a traveller, but
refused to say for whom he travelled, or in what
business. It appears that he had attended the Me-
thodist chapel twice on the day the attempt was
made, and had also been once at church. On being
asked what he was doing in the room of Mr. M'ln-
tosh, he declared that he had been a member of a
Christian church for five years, that he was a sleep-
walker, and knew nothing of any evil intention. He
was fully committed for trial. The prisoner is a
young man of pallid features and a forbidding ex-
pression of countenance.