The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-01 00:00:00

THE BRUNSWICK DIAMONDS.

The Court of Assizes of the Seine (says Galignani
of Saturday) tried Henry Shaw, aged 26, a native
of Newcastle (England), lately a valet in the ser
vice of the Dake of Brunswick, for having, on the
Bth December last, stolen from his master's resi-
dence diamonds and other precious stones to the
value of 2,900,000 f., besides a considerable sum in
gold. The court was crowded with persons anxious
to see the diamonds and their owner, but they were
disappointed, for the duke was unable to attend on
account of indisposition, and the diamonds have

long since been restored to his keeping. It appeared
from the evidence that the duke, who had been
choosing diamonds to them to his jeweller for
mounting, happened on the Bth Dec., to leave the

inner door of his iron safe unlocked, and merely
closed the outer door. This fact, by some means or
other, became known to the prisoner, who was
temporarily acting in the confidential situation of
valet, though originally engaged as a footman
from a registry-cffice, having just before been
in service at an hotel, with 3f. per day
wages. The duke went out about eight in
the evening. after ordering the prisoner to sit up
for him. Instead of doing so, the prisoner went out
and purchased a number of locks, one of the keys of
which he filed down to fit the look of the safe,
secured his booty, and made off. On his return,
the duke was surprised to find that Shaw had left
the house, after requesting another servant to wait
for his master. Suspecting something wrong, the
duke went to the safe and found that the outer door
had been opened, and part of his jewels and cash
stolen. He at once gave notice to the police, and
the prisoner was arrested at Boulogne when on the
point of embarking for England, with most of the
diamonds and the greater part of the money still in
his possession. The missing cash the prisoner had
spent at a house of ill-fame, and had given 1,400 fr.
to one young woman. W hen interrogated by the
Court, the prisoner refused to defend himself, and
was exceedingly free and easy i❑ his replies. The
president having said—•' Shaw, give us some ex-
planations; the jury do not know why you are
here." The prisoner replied, " Then let them ac-
quit me." There is good reason to believe that
the prisoner committed a serious robbery at
Warsaw some time ago, but it was impossible
to extract any information from him respecting
his antecedents. He positively refused to state the
name of the woman to whom he had given the
1,400 f., but at last said that he would do so if the
president would pledge his word of honour that she
should not be molested. In answer to a remark on
his extreme generosity towards her, he said, "Oh !
a man does not get hold of millions every day ?"

M. Wie:owglowski, the Duke of Brunswick's aide-
de-camp, deposed that, though diamonds to the
value of 2,900,009 fr. had been recovered, others to
the value of more than 130,000 fr. were still mis-
sing. The prisoner, on being asked what he had
done with them, said that he supposed he had lost
them in the house where he passed the night after
the robbery, as he had them loose in his pocket,
and had dropped a quantity in the bed-room there,
and left them, thinking he had enough and to spare.
M. Lachaud was the prisoner's counsel, but his
client would not allow him to plead. The jury at
once found the prisoner guilty, and the Court sen-
tenced him. to 20 years' hard labour.

SIR WILLIAM ATHERTON has not long survived
retirement from the office which ill-health com-
pelled him to resign. In his tedious and wasting malady
we now see the cause of that inability to perform the labo-
rious duties of an Attorney-General, which was erroneously

imputed to mental incapacity. We are bound to make this
acknowledgment to his memory, because we shared and ex-
pressed the doubts that were current at the moment as to
the true cause of his retirement. The melancholy issue has
proved painfully that the assigned cause was the actual one.
A few months ago we were enabled to report an improve-
ment in his health that induced considerable hope of his
restoration to the profession. But those hopes were
speedily doomed to disapi:mintmeA, and his malady still
maintained its character of being incurable.—The Law
limes of ,Saturday.
THE ASSYRIIN SCULPTURES UNDER GLASS !
A portion of the sculptured representations of lion-hunts,
taken from the palace of Konyunjik, in the Assyrian base-
ment room of the British Museum, has been covered with
plate glass. It would bo well to extend this necessary
protection against injury by the fingers of thoughtless per-
sons to the whole of the bas-reliefs.

A SKETCH FROM DENMARK.—The lower order of
Danes will bear comparison with that of any other
country for strength of bodx and brightness of mind. A
Somersetshire peasant would not generally have much
chance of success in a village, such as we have all over Den-
mark, where every one can read and write, and owns a
house and plot of land. It is Mr. Cobden's Paradise rea-
lised. Some of the peasant girls are very pretty, with pale
yellow hair, and rather long noses. We noticed several
faces not at all unlike the Princess of Wales. The country
girls set themselves off with silk hoods and bright gowns,
without much regard to colour. I have seen a yellow dress
worn with a magenta Garibaldi. This last is the most
favourite colour of all. But the costume of the fish-women
is far more interesting than these modern mixtures, being
the genuine old Friesland costume.— Cnce a Week.
THE FALL OF KENT.—It is true that some of the
glory of Rent as a cricketing county has of late
departed. Time was when Kent could meet any county of
England, or all England combined, upon equal terms. The
Principal match of last season at Canterbury was between
eleven of England and thirteen of Kent. It was one of the
most interesting and best contested matches of the season.
The second innings of England finished at five o'clock in
the afternoon of the second chy. Kent only wanted 91
runs to win, and they had made 191 in their first
innings. It they could by cautious play have saved
their wickets until next day, and got to work freshly
in the morning, it would have been no difficult task to
put together 91 guns. But the tide of fortune turned, and
ran against them strongly. When time was called that
evening, they had lost 7 wickets for 20 runs, and next day
the remaining wickets were disposed of by half-past 12
o'clock, leaving England winners by 25 runs. A match at
Lord's earlier in the season, upon the same terms, had
ended even more disastrously for Kent,
as England won on
that occasion in a single innings, Two matches. between
the counties of Kent and Surrey also resulted defeats of
Kent. In the first match, played at Tunbridge NVells,
Surrey gained an easy victory in ono innings, with 41
runs over. At Kennington-oval, a month later, it looked
on the third day as if Kent would win. They put Surrey
in for 192 to win, and with good luck they might hope to
get all, or nearly all, the &lire), wickets before this long
score was made. But the men of Surrey, who had played
well throughout, played overpowelingly well now. Mort-
lock lost his wicket for 20 runs, and then Stephenson and
Jupp finished the match between them.
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College.


The Laudian Professor of Arabic (IW.r. Gandell)
intends to commence his lectures on. Wednesday
next, Feb. 3. Gentlemen wF o 'wish to ;learn Arabic}
or Syriac are requested to co.& on him. on. Tue'iday
next, Feb. 2, between 12 and. 1 o'clock.

The Teylarian Profc>ssctr of Modern Euri-vmu
Lsriguages (Mr. M-.1.x :er) ier4-,blige,d ro
poi, cr37le
his 11,ctures until Tuesday, the 911 of re.s,aary,
one fiCIOCk.
There will be an examination .at C2:lOeL'S (;ollega
an Tuesday, the 15th of March, a)ld ;ollowin,.; days,
tor three open Scholars Lips, tenat)le for fir,.! Sears
from matriculation, value £75 per annum. Oae of
these will be awarded for pieficieney in mAtnetna.
tics. Also two Egie:A.eld Exhibitions, open for
this .urn to general competition, of the value of
175 per annum, and tenable for four years. These
Exhibitioners are in all respcets on the sumo foot..
ing as the Scholars of the College. Candidates,
who must not have exceeded 20 years of age, must
present their testimonials of age and character to
the Provost on Monday, the 14th, between seven,
and nine in the evening. Two of the Scholars
elected will not be required to reside until October,

TEE VOLUNTEERS.

THE CENTRAL LONDON RIFLE RANGERS,
The annual general meeting of tlee members of
this corps was held on Saturday evening at ;the New
Drill Sheds Gray's-inn—Major the Hon. Hatiburton
Campbell in the chair. Thero was a large atten-
dance of the members and the offec'ees of the corps,
among whom were Captains Woods, Isaacs,
Welters, Lowe, Copes, &a.
The report, which was adopted, states that in
consequence of the Government grant the com=
mince have recommended that the LD,iwenant.
Colonel should, after the Ist inst., ab7,l,ish any
further snbscriptious from members to the general
fund, officers excepted. After alluding to the
fact of the erection of a chill shed at a cost of
£I,IOO, the report observed that one of the first
results of the increased accommodation has bees
the formation cf a gymnasium,in which instruction
will be given on the system in process of adoption
in the army. The cost of the apparatus; will be
defrayed by the officers of the regiment. The la.
port alluded to the satisfactory state of the regi-
ment. The report then alludes to the satisfactory
musters of the corps on public occasions during the
past year, the- annual ball, the annual dramatic
performance, and the bazaar and volunteer exhi-
bition held at Willie's Room, which has in-
creased the funds. Much interest continues to
be manifested in the corps by the ichabi-
tants of the neighbourhood, as hes been
fully evinced during the past year, when
they subscribed for and presented to the corps a
series of battalion prizes. The committee, it ap.
pears, have expresced a hope that they will be able
to give a similar series of prizes annually, and one
gentleman has already promised £25 a year towards
the project. The financial statement of tl_ie corps
shows that the balance-sheet of the general fund is
£1,124, and the estimated assets and liabilities
£446 Os. ld., the balance-sheet of the band fund
£284 4s. 7d., and the assets and liabilities £lOB
18s. ld.

At the conclusion of the eleotio9 of the committee
and auditors, &c.,

Major CAMPBELL made a few observations with
respect to the corps, which, he said, with the excep.
tion of numbers, wa© in a very satisfactory state,
not only in position but in efficiency.

Votes of thanks were then proposed and passed to
the retiring. auditors and committee, the honorary
treasurers of the general and band fund, and the
hon. secretary, and the proceedings were brought
to a close.

THE 4TH MIDDLESEX RIFLES.—Lord Truro,
Lieutenant-Colonel commanding this corps, will
distribute the prizes won durie,g the past year to
the successful competitors on Tuesday evening next
in Westminster Hall, at nine p.m.

MR. Caas. AlAcKlNTosir, the well-known scien-
tific gardener, and author of a number of works on garden-
rng, is dead,

Mr. THACKERAY.—Mr. Ernest Edwards will
shortly publish a very large photograph of the latt,
Mr. Thackeray, one of the latest, if tot the latest, ever
taken. Copies of this on a smaller scale will be issued with
Mr. Theodore Taylor's new book, " Thackeray, the Hu..
morist, and the Man of Letters : the Story of his Life," to
be published on Wednesday next. This memoir will give,
for the first time, some account of the curious little maga-
zine conducted by Mr. Thackeray when an undergraduate
at Cambridge.—The Reader of Saturday.

NATIONAL HOSPITALITIES.—" In France," says
Mr. Sala, in his last letter to the Daily lelegraph,

" you get little but sugar and water out of your friends, in
Germany nothing but smoke, and in Italy there are some
grand houses where you can only obtain supper by paying
for it. In Spain you can procure nothing to eat, because,
beyond eggs and chocolate, and garlic, there is nothing to
eat. But in the United States you may ruin your digestive
organs for nothing in a fortnight. If the oyster and the
canvas-b tck ducks don't give you dyspepsia, the eternal ice-
creams and candied sweetmeats will ; and, when you fail
sick, you will find plenty of kind friends to press Hoch.
stottor's and Drake's Plantation Bitters as curatives on
your acceptance."

HONOURS AT CAMBIIIDGE.--It appears that 104
gentlemen took honours at Cambridge this year, of
whom 43 were wranglers. In 1863 the number was 100,
and there were 33 wranglers; in 1862 the number was 85,
and there were 32 wranglers; in 1861 the number was 93,
and there wero 34 wranglers ; and in 1860 the number was
121, and there were 33 wranglers. On the restrictions as
to the Classical Tripos being removed in 1861, the mathe-
metical honour list perceptibly diminished in numbers.
Trinity College this year, in addition to the senior, second,
and fourth wranglers, claims 13 other wranglers.; seven
tepresentatives of this great college are among the first 12
wranglers. The senior wrangler is Mr. J. IL Purkiss, of
Trinity College, and formerly of the City of London School
ard the University of London. Mr. Purkiss obtained a
foundation s zarship at Trinity a few months after coming
into residence, and his university career has been through-
out a brilliant success.

THE APPROACHING COMET, which was first dis-
covered by Professor Respighi at Bologna, o. n the.
28th of December, the same day on which it passed. its peri-
helion, will, it has now been calculated, have its nearest
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from their calculations (published in the Asti ononzisclie
Nachrieltten) that it is probably identical with a comet
which was discovered and observed by Pons at Marseilles.
in the year 1810, and that its period is little more than 53
years. Pons then described it as being " extremely faint,
resembling a small round nebula." Professor Littrow, the
Director of the Observatory at Vienna, thinks that it may
also be identical with a comet observed in China in the
year 1490. To its approaching great proximity to the earth
we owe the fact that it will probably soon become visible to
the naked eye.

EXPLOSION AT CAMBERWELL.—On Saturday
evening a fatal explosion took place at the shop of
an oilman and tallow-chandler named Tripp, carrying on
business in Havill-street, Southampton-street, Camberwell,
One of his daughters, named Anne, 30 years of age, was
mixing with a knife a chemical composition, supposed to be
Phosphorus and detonating powder, although her sister had
spoken to her several times and painted out the danger of
using steel in mixing the composition. Suddenly a tremen-
dous explosion took place. Two men named Truman and
Lambert rushed into the place, followed by Mr. Hayden,
dairyman, of Havill-street. Miss Tripp was found with a
knife in her hand, which had been partially blown away.
She was much injured, and blood was streaming from her
head and face. Her dress was in times. The injured
woman expired before she could be removed to St. Thomas's
Hospital.

GREAT SUFFERINGS OF A SIIIP'S CILLIV.-13y
the Shetland mail we have received information of
a very sad character iegarding tie, sufferings of a ship's crew,
a large portioh of whom are reported as having died in
consequence. The vessel is said to be a large; iron ship e 1
LIMB
the Vtotoria, on her voyage front Calcutta to Liverpool,
with tk• cargo of coals. Seventeen of the craw landed on
the west coast of Shetland on Saturday from a boat
in
which they had been tossed about at sea for four days
without, food. Two had died and three hW. b-e nom insane.
Of another ly)a, manned by the captain and 13 othc,rs of
'he crew, and who 1.:1t the Vessel at the same time,
4ifo
gene'', nut fully authenticated when the stentna left, Led
been I%.ecived to the offset that she lead reaeaed the wesr,
side of Shetland on Monday with only two bur:Jivers. The
sufferings of hdli crews, cxposca without food in open beats
ter :our and six
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HIGH WATER AT LONDON 'BRIDGE.
THIS Dev.—Morning, 7h. sm.—Afternoon, 7h. 30m.
.P.)-mor.Row.-Morning, 7h. 561n.—Afternoon, Bh. 26m.