The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-10 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE ROBBERY OF A DANSEUSE'S JEWELLERY.—Mark
Thomas Marshall, a lad, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt
with being concerned with another lad now in custody in
steeling jewellery to the value of nearly 12100, the property
of Madlle. Marianina de Francesco, an Italian danseuse at
the Alhambra, Leicester-square.
Mr. Edward Lewis, Great Marlborough-street, appeared
for the prosecution, and Mr, Albert interpreted the evidence.
Mr. Lewis said that on Saturday a boy named Jones was
charged with being concerned in the robbery, and in conse•-
quence of what he said, namely, that Marshall had been
admitted into the house, 16, Leicester-strut, by him
under threats, and that he had committed the robbery,
Marshall was apprehended.

Madlle. de Francesco having deposed to leaving her
lodgings about half-past 7 in the evening and returning at
midnight, when she found the bottom panel of the room
door—which she had locked—broken in, and all the
drawers open and her jewellery and that of her sister gone,
Sergeant Joy, 96, proved apprehending Marshall at two
this morning, when ho admitted that he was at 16, Lei-
cester-street on the night of the robbery, bat said that it
was ccmmitted by Jones, who, however, gave him some of
the jewellery.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, Joy said Marshall was an
" old friend" of his.

Mr. Lewis said that was all the evidence he should pro
'uce that day.

Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the primer till the day to
which Jones is remanded.

MR. NOBLE'S BUST OF THE LATE DUKE OF
SIITHERLAND.—The directors of the South Stafford-
shire Potteries Waterworks Company have had placed in
their engine-house, at Wallgrange, near• Leek, a fine bust
of the late Duke of Sutherland, by Noble. The bust is
about five feet in length, and stands on a pedestal cf the
same height. The latter bears the inscription :—" To re-
cord the name of James Granville, Duke and Earl of
Sutherland, p K.G., a truly Christian nobleman, whose
great and unobtrusive benevolence led him uniformly to
promote every judicious design for the health, comfort, and
well-being of his fellow-men, the proprietors of these works
—commenced in the year 1848, and carried out under his
patronage—have erected this memorial. Dec., 1862."
[Having, some little time since, had the gratification our-
selves of inspecting this bust in the artist's studio, we can
speak of its merits as a work of art with the utmost confi-
dence.—ED. Srx.]

LISTZ AND THE POPE.—In regard to the recent
rumour as to a visit paid to the great pianist and com-
poser Listz by his Holiness, the Reader remarks—Great
excitement prevails in Rome on account of an extempore
visit paid by the Pope to Dr. List; the composer. The

latter, it seems, left town in the middle of last month, and
went to reside at the now deserted Dominican Convent near

church of the Madonna del Rosario on the Monte Mario,

from which there is a magnificent view of Rome below.
He there lived hermit-like, entirely devoted to his art.
Some prelates informed the Pope of his residence [lad mode
of life; and on Sunday, the ISth of July, he went, only
accompanied by Mgr. de Merode, a Cameraria segreto, and
some Guardi nobili, to the Madonna del Rosario, where he
first said his prayers, and then suddenly appeared before
the modern anachorite. Franz Listz played h'm two
sacred compositions, one on the harmonium, the other on
the piano. When he had finished, his Holiness expressed
his thanks in the most amiable manner, and concluded
with the words, "It is a noble gift which has been be-
stowed upon you, to reproduce the songs of higher spheres
—the finest harmonies, it is true, we shall only hear on
high.

VICTIMS OF JUVENILE GENTILITY.—." Uncon-

scions of their doom, the Little Victims Play"—be-
fore being dressed I—A Saturday Reviewer remarks—Per-

harps all the world does not know exactly what happens

when children whose mammas are particular are taken out
in town for a regulation promenade. One of the 7ictims is

seized, and curled, and dressed out for the sacrifice, and
then put on a chair to wait, without the movement of a
limb and in solemn silence, until the whole party is ready.
Then a second is dressed, and stuck up in the same way,
till the process is ended by the exhaustion of the nursery.
At last, under the pressure of continual assurances that
they are all wicked children, they are got in a decorous and

helpless way out of the house, and put into the desired file
in the street, and then marched on with proper dignity,
until at last the nurse meets another nurse and another set
of victims, when tho two servants abandon the care of in-
fancy for gossip about their lovers, and a fitful ease per-
vades the little party.

GROWTH OF OUR POSTAL SYSTEM.—The dis-
ance over which mails are conveyed within the

United Kingdom, was last year nearly 160,000 miles a day,
being upwards of 7,000 miles more than at the end of 1851.
Besides this there is the foreign and colonial packet service,
which employs 96 steamships exclusive of tenders, and dis-
tributes our letters all over the world, from the neighbour-
ing port of Calais, to Auckland in New Zealand, about
15,000 statute miles from Southampton. The voyages per-
formed by these vessels during the year were equal, in the
aggregate, to more than three millions of miles I During
the last year there were delievered is. the United Kingdom
605 millions of letters, 73 millions of newspapers, and 14
millions of book packets. Valentines show no sign of fall-
ing off, last year 430,000 of these amatory effusions passing
through the London office; an increase of more than
20,000 upon the previous year;
while the present year
shows a yet further and still larger increase. There is be-
sides this a great increase of travelling post-cffices now
running on most of the railways, by which mails are con-
veyed to and from London ; as well as an adoption of the
ingenious mail-bag-exchanging apparatus at more than 100
stations. The number of public receptacles.for letters is
now 14,776, as compared with 14,354 last year. The sum
paid in exchange for postage stamps amounted last year, in
London alone, to nearly £60,000. Daring the last year the
number of money-order offices in Great Britain and Ireland
was increased to 2,879. They issued during the twelve-
month 7 687,045 orders for sums amounting in the whole
to £15,761,259. Finally, we may add that we now ex-
change money orders with Canada, Victoria, Western
Australia, South Australia, Queensland, New Zealand, the
Cape of Good Hope, Gibraltar, and Malta; and it is anti-
cipated that we shall soon do so with New South Wales
and several other colonies.

THE CONDEMNED MURDERERS TN MAIDSTONE
GAOL.—The execution of Alfred Eldridge, convicted
of the murder of Richard Steed, and Alfred Holden, who
pleaded guilty to the murder of his infant 80; has been
appointed to take place on Thursday, the 20th inst. Since
his conviction the prisoner Eldridge has confessed his guilt.
His account is that on the night of the murder Steed and
himself were walking home from the Prince Albert public-
house. The deceased said Eldridge owed him some money,
which he denied. Steed. then pushed him off the path, and
behaved roughly towards him. Eldridge then said, "If
you do it again I'll knock your -- head off;" but Steed
pushed him off a third time, and he then struck him in the
face, knocking him down ; and in his fury and revenge for
old grudges gave him several kicks in the face, being at the

time so much under the influence of drink that he had no
control of his passions. Eldridge was visited by his brother
on the day succeeding his trial, but his wife is not in a con-
dition to visit him. With regard I.) the other condemned
prisoner, it is understood that a memorial has
pre-
suited to the Home Secretary, praying for the
other, pri-
of the sentence on the plea of insanity. L
ike '
soner, he attributes the crime to drink. Iloldea
uncle
died in a state of delirium tremens,irr, dtchenibmeeuntation
commit-
ted suicide while in a similar state. Both his s tether
died the culprits arer
peni.ent, and listen with attenwtten_
on to
the chaplain, Rev. C. Shirley
inert.he exhortations of
MYSTERIOUS LOSS OF A liner.
MYSTERIOUS LETTER
of he Ipt 13A G.—On Saturday the Posraastet
ward of £5O for the rhaeo.onv.orert),
letter-bag, containing 6,
letters,
c.,
& which disap-
r•General offered
ered
swich regisa re•
peered in its transit to St. Martin's-le-Grand one night
it is removed and placed on a shelf
place the registemredepletter-bag within the large bag, and
the other letters are being sorted.
in tho mail vanusual, and the small bag Was then re-
placed.Suc. h is the account given by the nien employed,
but
General Post-office the re;4s' ' . .ered bag
v; has vet been N. 73,5 not to be found, and ..-. 0 n htald ot' its g
butonarriving at the