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

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

THE ROBBERY or A DASSEUSE'S JEWELLERY.—Mark
Thomas Marshall, a lad, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt
with being concerned with another lad now in custody in
stealing jewellery to the value of nearly £lO9, the property
of Madlle. Marianina do 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-street, 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 he admitted that he was at 16, Lei-
cester-street on the night of the robbery, but said that it
was committed 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-
duce that day.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner till the day to
which Jones is remanded.

MR. NOBLE'S BUST OF THE LATE DUKE OF
SUTHERLAND.—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, ,K.G., a truly Christian nobleman, whose
great and unobtrusive benevolence led him uniformly to
promote every judicious design for tho health, comfort, and
well-being of his fellow-men, the proprietors of these works
---couemer.ced in the year 1843, 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. SUN.]

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 header remarks—Great
excitement prevails in Rome on account of an extempore
visit paid by the Pope to Dr. Listz, 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
the 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 and mode
of life; and on Sunday, the 18th 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 app.,ared 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-
scious of their doom, the Little Victims Play"—be-
fore being dressed I—A Saturday Reviewer remarks—Per-
haps all the world does not know exactly what happens
when children whose mammas are par'icular are taken out
in town for a regulation promenade. One of the victims 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 the 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-
tance 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 1861.
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 in 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 past-offices 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 7 587,045 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, Westarn
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 son, 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. Stead 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 cif a third time, and ho 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. Eldridgo 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 to the other condemned
prisoner, it is understood that a memorial has been pse
thdeen's father
seated to the Home Secretary, praying for the comonathuetraptiroin
of the sentence on the plea of insanity. Like .
soner, he attributes the crime to drink.
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died in a state of delirium tremens, "d
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penitent, and listen with attention to the exhor
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ted suicide while in a similar state. Booi;t uhnocle commit-
eu t
the chaplain, Rev. C. Shirley Woolmer.
MYSTERIOUS Loss OF A REGISTERED LETTER
ward 01,
G:—On athyothreeepostmastee
rcontaining bankers' General i
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e re-
din its transit to St. Dlartin's-le- Grand one night
last week in a mysterious manner. It is customary to
place the registered letter-'sag within the large bag, and
during the journey up it is removed and placed on a shelf
in the mail van while the other letters aro being sorted.
This was done as usual, and the small bag was then re-
placed. Such is the account given by the men employed,
but on arriving at the General Post-a:lca the registered baa
was not to be 0,10, and !Whin has yet heard el it, -

LITERATURE.

Three Lives in One. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett,

IThis story is so very unequal in parts, that we
might almost incline to doubt its being all the work
of one hand; that it is so, we ultimately be-
lieve, but that hand is one as yet unpractised in the
mysteries of the craft. For a first work, however,
as we are inclined to regard it, it evinces, with all
its faults, no little power, and no small amount of
the imaginative faculty. We shall expect better
things hereafter at the hands of the author of
" Three Lives in One. The first volume relates
the struggles of the orphan family of an improvident
doctor. The scenes and characters are not simply
domestic but commonplace, and trivial. We will
confess, now that we havefinished the book, that our
perusal of it nearly came to an end in the course of
that same first volume ! As an evidence of the height
to which absurdity of description can go, imagine
the following—The orphan family aforesaid let part
of their house, and among their lodgers arrive a young
lady and gentleman of title. The morning after
their arrival, Katherine Montague waits upon Lady
Geraldine Harcourt to inquire her orders for dinner.
Lady Geraldine, in her morning-dress, is described
as being so remarkably charming that, we-are told,

" Katherine could alfizost hare worshipped her ! "1
As the, story advances, however, the tone improves.
The hero is one Ralph, whose three very diffdrent
lives as Ralph Palmer, Ralph Clarendel, and Ralph
Acres constitute the subject of the history
—Three Lives in One. This life, or
lives, of Ralph is, from first to last,
a series of great improbabilities. Until
sixteen he grows up as the eldest son and heir
of Lord Clarendel, the son of the Earl of St. Mark.
Ralph, as the heir, is an object of interest to every
one. It is then discovered that he is not Lord
Clarendel's lawful son, that Lady Clarendel is not
his mother, but one Mrs. Palmer, xhom he has
regarded as his nurse. Full of indignation and
eager for revenge, Ralph, instead of seeking for
a fortune in accordance with the education he
has received, resolves, with a foolish de-
fiant pride, to give up the aristocracy and
join his mother's class. He goes to the village of
Acres, where he was born, takes the name of
Palmer, and becomes a fia)d labourer! A little
later on we find him a domestic servant—a youth
who until sixteen had received the education of a
gentleman 1 At length he finds a more suitable
career—as a soldier—where he rises from the
ranks, and is adopted by Colonel Clarendel, and
begins his second life. We will not follow his
eventful fortunes step by step. Solace it
to say, that in his fitful career he learns,
by painful experience, the folly of him who
would set class against class. A Chartist, a
demagogue burning for revenge on the aristocracy,
Ralph Palmer is for a while the idol of that class to
whom he devotes himself heart and soul. Very
bitter and heart-sickening is the disappointment
that ensues, when having made " idols " of the
people he "finds them clay." In his third career
Ralph Acres, if a sadder, is a wiser and a better
man. Improbable and even ridiculous as his story is
in parte, it contains a very truthful lesson, and reads
a warning to the young and enthusiastic. It abounds
with life and adventure, and, as we have already
said, with all its faults, it leads us to expect future
excellence from its author.