The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-09-30 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY JEWEL ROBBERY.

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A woman named Tkesa Politi has met been tried
Rome for et ealing diamonds belonging to Madame
Drnolle, wife of a French journalist, during a stay of
that lady in the Pontifical city. The previous career
of the accused, it transpired on the trial, was quite a
romance. She was born in Rome of obscure parents,
and when quite young succeeded in captivating a son
or the i>ke morze insarnn, who married her. In
ISIS she quitted her husband and went to Egypt,
where she became euccetoively the favourite of
several Pachaet. In ISCAL she returned to Italy, and
found herself then a widow, and, being in pecuniary
difficulties, gained her living for a time as a midwife.
She next came to Paris, where 4 %mut La Bruy4e, agent
of the Queen of Spain, fell in love with her. The
Queen maileher a sort of private secretary, but as the
woman was net able to marry La BruyZ•re, who had
been arrested fir political motives, she claimed 25,000 f.
front the Queen, and not obtaining it attacked Isabel 11.
before the Civil Court of the Seine, but failed to get
the money. After the siege of Paris, during which she
lost her daughter, Politi returned to Italy with Prime
little means, and lodged in a private hotel known as
the :liaison Mffine. was another of
the inmates at the time and there hot her diamonds ;
Peliti was suspected, anddi her bring searched they
em were h it in -her p,,Fseasion. She, however, protested
that the jewels hail been given to her by the mother of
Abbas Paella. The jury now returned a verdict of
icuiltv, and the Court condemned her to three years'
imprisonment, and the surveillance of the police at the
expiration of that sentence.

MR. DISRAELI ON THE DUTIES OF
THE QUEEN.
Mr. Disraeli presided on Tuesday at the annual
slimier of the Ilughenden Horticultural Society. In
proposing the health f the Queen, the right hon. gen.
tleman spoke of the state of her Majesty's health,
, which, he said, had for several years been the subject
of anxiety to those about her; but it was only this
year that the country generally had become acquainted
with the gravity of her condition. lie believed there
Was some impisivement in her Majesty's health, but
he feaml that a long time must elapse before her
Majesty would be able to resume the perfoimance of
those public and active duties which it was once her
pride and pleasure to fulfil, because they brought her
in con,tant and immediate contact with her people.
Mr. Disraeli athled :
The fact is, we cannot conceal from ourselves that her
3injesty is physically incapacitated from performing those
duties : but it i! BOllle consolation to her subjects to know
that in the performance of those much higher duties at
her Majesty it coact upon to fulfil she acts still with a punc-
tuality and with a precision which have certainly never been
surpassed, and rarely equalled, by any monarch of these
realms. A very erroneous Impression Is prevalent respect-
ing the duties eta Sovereign of this country. Those duties
are multifariour, they are weighty, and they are increas-
ing. I will venture to say that no heat of any depart.
ment of the State perform. more laborious duties than
fall to the Sovereign of this country. There is pot a

detspatch received frem abroad nor sent from thia country
abroad which Is not eubmitted to the Queen. The whole
of the internal administration of this country greatly
depends upon the sign manual, and of our present
Sovereign it may be said thas her signature has never
been placed to any public docuntent of which she did
not know the purpose and of which she did•not approve.
Those Cabinet Councils of which you all hear, and which are
necessarily the scene of anxious and important deliberations,
are reported and connuunicated on their termination by tho
Minister to the Sovereign, anti they often call from her cri-
tical renterks. requiring considerable attention, and I would
venture to say this, that no person likely to administer the
affairs of this country would treat the suggestions of her
Majesty with indifference, for at this moment there is pro-
hanly no person living in this country who has such a com-
plete control over the political condition of knglittid ae the
Sovereign herself. The last generation of stemmen have
all, or almost all, disappeared. The Sir Robert Peels, the
Lord Derhys, and the Lord Palmerstona have gone, and there
Is no perm, who can advise her Majesty, or who is likely to
advise her Majesty in the times in which we live, who can
have such complete mastery of what has occurred in this
country, and of the great and Important subjects of the
State, foreign and domestic, for the last thirty-four years,
as the Queen herself. Ile, therefore, would not be a wise
man who would not profit by her judgment and her ex-
perience. I have felt It my duty to make these remarks at
the present time, in consentience of some err 'Semis opinionn
upon the subject of theduticed the Sovereign which arc sow
too common. I would venture, in condasiots, to advise those
wlt.tnt I address that although her Majesty may be, and often
is, of great setvice and eminence to Per servants. there never
was a more constitutional Sovereign than our present Queen.
MI who have served her will admitlhat when her Ministers
have been selected by her in deference to what she believes
to be the higher Interests of State and the opinion of the
country, she gives to them a complete confidence and an un-
divlating support but although there never was • Sovereign
who wotdd arrogate to herself any power or prerogative which
the Constitution does not authorize, so I will say there never
was one more wisely jealous of the prerogatives and
privilege, which the Constitution has allotted to her, be-
cause she believes that they are for the welfare of her people.

THE CHARGE OF THE CAMPAIGN.
A noble and a needful art a the Art of flelf.Defetire,
An art which studied I moat have regardless of expense.
rot that expense, however great, may how much greeter

save
!
won't begrudge the 1111., and keep. and clothing of the
Beare.

I gue on you manures I inapset the martial scene:
I own pletureeque, and I'm retailed I won't be mean.
To London it a real foreign loewere on the way,
. . . .

I calculate, with Fancy i's ad what I !Melt have to pay.
Yet would I could rely upon my feet to keep the ego
Which rolls between my neighbours, I am glad to say and

r;tUr, were I quite secure of danger from the mein.
Welds husbandman than soldiers at their work on yonder
plain—Punch.