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-
sego of the Duke 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
dissppointedaur dzke 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 give 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 ontendeor. 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-office, 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, ono of the keys of
which he filed down to fit the lock of the safe,
' secured his booty, and made oft. On his return,
the duke veva 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 pert 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 sti'l in
Lis possession. The missing cash the prisoner had
spent at a house of ill-fame, and had given 1,400 fr.
to one young woman. When interrogated by the
Court, the prisoner refused to defend himself, and
was exceedingly free and ersy in 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 lest said that he would do so if the
president would ple3ga 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. Wielowglowski, 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, es 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 disappointment, and his malady still
maintained its character or being incurable.—The Law
limes of 'Saturday.

THE ASSYRIAN 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 be 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 body and brightness of mind. A
Somersetahire 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.—Once a Week.
THE FALL OF KENT.—It is true that some of the
glory of Kent as a cricketing county hes 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 day. Kent only wanted 91
runs to win, and they had made 191 in their first
innings. If they could by cautions 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 in defeats of
Kent. In the first match, played at Tunbridge Wells,
Surrey gained an easy victory in one 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 Surrey wickets before this long
score was made. But the men of Surrey, who had played
well throughout, played overpoweringly well now. Mort-
lock lost his wicket for 20 runs, and then Stephenson and
Jupp finished the match between them.
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