The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-17 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS, Sept. 16.

(Before I. E. Johnson, Esq., Chairman.)
Agnes Boyd, It, a respectable-looking young
woman, a Sunday-school teacher and governess at
the Infant National School at Stepney, was indicted
for stealing eleven silk mantles, the property of
her employer, at St. George-the-Martyr, South-
wark; one cloak, the property of Mary Ann Saun-
ders ; and one mantle, the property of John Ray-
ney, at Lambeth. There were also charges of
stealing watches and other property belonging to
portions of her family. When placed in the dock
she pleaded guilty.
Sergeant Shepherd, of the L division, a very
active detective officer, on being called forward,
said that the prisoner had for some time carried on
artful and systematic robberies, not only plunder-
ing her master to a serious extent, but stealing pro-
perty belonging to a young man she kept company
with, and her own father ; but not the slightest
suspicion ever ,'attached to her until the present
time, owing to her position as teacher and her ap-
parent religious habits. It was solely through her
extraordinary extravagance and fondness of dress
of late her delinquencies were exposed. For two
years she was confidential assistant to Mr. Richey,
4, Upper Stamford-street, who carried on business
as a wholesale mantle manufacturer ; and such was
the extent to which she carried on her plunder,
while with that gentleman, that he was losing large
sums of money instead of making fair profits. In
consequence of that he relinquished business in
favour of his son, who removed the manufactory
into the City. While in Mr. Richey's employ,
she not only supplied her friends with mantles at
a quarter of their price, but carried away a vast
number. No suspicion was ever attached to her.
In June last she returned to her lodgings while her
landlady was out, and no other person was there.
When the landlady came home the prisoner
told her that thieves had entered her apartment and
plundered it of several valuable articles, The land-
lady accordingly examined her room, and found her
watch, and various other articles, gone, but she
never in the least suspected the prisoner as being
the thief. Three weeks ago the prisoner called at
the residence of Mrs. Saunders, a friend of the
family, and while there that lady left the room for
a moment to procure her a glass of water, which
shc had asked for. She then managed to secrete,
under her crinoline it was supposed, a new mantle
belonging to that lady. Information of thelosswas given to hint (Sergeant Shepherd), and on his
making inquiries, he at once suspected the prisoner,
owing to her extravagant mode of life. lie accor-
dingly charged her with the robbery,
when
little hesitation, she acknowledged stealing, after a
that
lady's mantle, and handed him the pawnbroker's
duplicate relative to it. He then searched her box,
and found thirty-five duplicates, all relating to pro-
perty she had stolen, and amongst them the watches
of her father and sweetheart. Witness found large
quantities of Mr. Richey's mantles at various pawn-
broker', where they had been pledged by the pri-

sonar; also the mantle she had stolen from Mr.
Rayney_
The prosecutor was called, and he said that his
losses were enormous while the prisoner was in his

service, but, owing to her religious habits, he never
suspected her.
During the time the prisoner was in the dock she
covered her face with her hands, and begged for

mercy.
Ihe Chairman asked if there was any former
conviction of felony against her.
Sergeant Shepherd replied in the negative. She,
however, had been convicted for unlawful pos-
session.
The Chairman, in passing sentence, told the pri-
soner that the offences to which she had pleaded
guilty were of a very serious nature, and com-
mitted under very aggravated circumstances, under
the cloak of sanctity and religion. The Court would
mark its censure of her conduct by sentencing
her to twelve months' hard labour at Wandsworth.
The prisoner was then removed.',
(Before Mr. Tilson, Deputy-Chairman.)
Michael Nicholson, 27, William Wright, 39, and
William Pelhazn, 28, were indicted for stealing a
large quantity of lead, the property of the London
and South-Western Railway Company.
Mr. Lilley, instructed by Mr. Bromall, from the
office of the solicitor to the company, prosecuted,
and the prisoners were undefended.
Police-constable 287 V said that on Monday
morning, the Bth inst., he was passing down the
Wandsworth-road, when he met Nicholson and
Wright coming from the direction of the railway
works. Nicholson had something bulky about
him, and endeavoured to avoid witness, but he went
up to them, and asked Nicholson what he had about
him. Nicholson then took a piece of lead, weigh-
ing 381b5., from under his clothes, and handed it
to Wright, saying, "Hold this a bit." Witness
asked them where they got it from. They replied
from a man working at the railway. Witness went
to the works and took Pelham into custody, when
he admitted giving the others the lead.
4 k Mr. Charles Burrows, contractor to the South-
Western Railway, said that Pelham worked for
him, and he had no right to give the lead away.
Large quantities had lately been missed from the
works in a most mysterious way.
The prisoners made a rambling defence, and were
found guilty.
The Court sentenced each to six months' hard
labour.

Jeremiah Daley, 26, a labourer, was indicted for
unlawfully, wilfully, and maliciously committing
damage, in the ni ht time, to certain property to
an amount exceeding £5, to wit, two panes of glass
value £l5, the property of John Walter Cowell.
The prosecutor is the landlord of the Black Horse,
No. 9, Blackman-street, Borough, and after twelve
on the night of the Ist inst., the prisoner was ejected
for his disorderly conduct, and the doors cicsed
upon him. As soon as he got outside he was seen
by a constable to take up a stone from the road and
smash two of the prosecutor's large windows, when
he was immediately seemed.
The Jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced
to six months' hard labour.
Catherine Hall, 23, described as a married woman,
was indicted for stealing a watch from the person
of Joseph Whitby, at the Crystal Palace Railway
Station, Penge.
The prosecutor said that on Aug. 19 he went to
the Crystal Palace with some friends, and in the
evening, while waiting for a train to carry them to
town, the prisoner accosted him, and he suddenly
missed his watch and the prisoner too. He was
certain no other person had been near him but her
from the time he saw his watch safe and his missing
it. He called to the police, and she was then
secured.

Verdict Guilty.
Sentenced to 12 months' hard labour.

Thomas Novis, 37, was indicted for stealing a
counterpane and several sheets, blankets, and other
articles, the property of Edwin Marks Belsh, his

master.
The prosecutor is a lodging-house keeper in Kent-
street, and he had for some time employed the pri-
soner as his deputy, leaving him in charge of the
house. The prisoner suddenly left his service and
took a house of his own in the Mint. The prosecu-
tor, hearing of that, examined his own property,
and missed counterpanes, sheets, blankets, &c.,
which were found by the police in the possession
of the prisoner.
Verdict Guilty.
Sentenced to six months' hard labour.
William Chapman, 41, watchmaker, pleaded
guilty to stealing at Farnham a number of watches
and other articles, the property of James Plume
Fowler.
The Court sentenced him to six months' hard
labour.

Thomas Barker, 34, and Elizabeth Barker, 25,
were indicted for stealing a clock, the property of
Henry Whelpdale, the landlord of the White Lion
Tavern, Streatham,
It appeared from the evidence that on the after-
noon of the 4th of August last the prisoners entered
the prosecutor's house, and went into the parlour,
where the watch was hanging, and each called for
a glass of ale, but to, all appearances seemed to be
strangers to each other. Soon after they had been
there the man came to the bar and purchased two
biscuits, which he took back to the parlour, and a
few minutes afterwards the female prisoner left the
house. The man was about to quit some time after
that, when the clock was missed from the parlour,
and he was given into custody. He denied all
knowledge of the female, but evidence was given
that they had for some time lived at Croydon as
man and wife. The latter was afterwards taken
into custody.
The Deputy•Cbairman sentenced the male priso-
ner to twelve months and the female to six months.
Henry Mayhew, 26, bricklayer, was indicted for
stealing a quantity of lead then being fixed to a
dwelling-house, the property of George Suter, also
with stealing three stoves and a copper in a dwell-
ing-house, the property of Edward Haiswell and
others.
The prisoner is a bricklayer, and was employed
to do odd jobs for Mr. Suter, during which time he
stole the lead and other property.
Verdict guilty. Sentence, twelve months' hard
1 labour.

John Balmer, 30, pleaded guilty to stealing a
quantity of lead, the property of Alfred Augustus

Brand. -
The Court sentenced him also to twelve months'
hard labour.
James Hindry was sentenced to three months'
for stealing an umbrella, the property of Eliza
Saggers.
Peter Currie and Amelia Carrie, man and wife,
were indicted for cutting and wounding Lawrence
Burke, a metropolitan police-constable, in the exe-
cution of his duty.
Mr. Thompson prosecuted, and Mr. Ribion, with
Mr. Oppenheim, defended the prisoners, instructed
by Mr. Binns.
It appeared from the evidence of the officer that
a robbery was committed in the street, and the thief
rushed into a house in which the prisoner lived. He
pursued the thief, when he was attacked by the pri-
soners in an outrageous manlier, his head being cut,
and receiving such injuries as to prevent him per-
forming his duties.
After a deal of evidence, the jury found the pri-
soners guilty of the common assault only, when
The Deputy Chairman sentenced the man to pay
a fine of £lO, and the female £5, and to be kept in
prison until such fines be paid.
(Before J. R. Baggallay, Esq., Q.C.)
Charles Pacey, 33, a farm labourer, was indicted
for feloniously killing a sheep, the property of
Sarah Karn, with intent to steal its carcass, at
Frensham, in this county.
Mr. Gordon Allan prosecuted, and Mr. Lilley de-
fended the prisoner.
This was a most singular case, and the evidence
against the prisoner was extremely loose as regarded
identity. It appeared that the prosecutrix was a
farmer at Frensham, and in March last the prisoner
worked about that neighbourhood, and his father
lived near the proseentrix's farm. On the 21st of
March last the manager to the prosecutrix went to
the fold, and found one of the sheep lying dead and
mangled. The legs were cut off in a rough man-.
ner. One of the Surrey constabulary examined
the spot, and traced marks of a dog's and a man's
foot-marks towards the prisoner's cottage, but
owing to recent snow they were lost. Suspicion
fell upon the prisoner, but he had quitted the neigh-
bourhood, and nothing was heard of him until a
fortnight ago, when the constable took him into
custody at Chichester. It was stated that the
footmarks corresponded with boots the prisoner
used to wear, and that he generally had a
dog with
him when he went about. There was no actual
evidence to show that the prisoner was
seen about
the prosecutrix's farm, or that he hadianY meat in
his possession.
Mr. Lilley addressed the jury at some length,
when
The Chairman told them that, according to the
evidence he did, not think that it would he safe to
convict the prisoner. They, however, had heard the
evidence, andcould return their verdict accordingly,
The jury, after a 'few minutes' consultation, re-
turned a verdict of acquittal.
John Clark, 17, pleaded guilty of stealing a cow,
the:property of Charles Wren, at New Chapel, in
the parish of Godstone-
The prisoner was seen to drive the cow from a
field, and afterwards offerit for sale about six miles
off; when he was given into custody.
' sentenced him
to 18 months
The Courthard
abour.

7HE DIPLO3IA7IC SERVICE.

The Gazette of last night publishes the following Regu-

lations for her Majesty's Diplomatic Service :

1. Nomination, qualification, and examination of candi-
dates for Unpaid Attacheships.
Candidates for the situation of attache in her Majesty's
diplamatic service will continue to be nominated by her
Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; and they
must be prepared to undergo an examination before the
Civil Service Commissioners within six months after their
nomination if they elect to undergo only one examination
(which single examination will, in that case, exempt them
from any further examination previously to their receiving
commissions as secretaries) or within three months if they
prefer to undergo two examinations as heretofore. In the
latter case the second examination may be deferred until
the candidate is prepared to undergo it.
Candidates on presenting themselves for examination on
their nomination must have completed the 21st year of
their age, and not have exceeded the 26th.
In the case of candidates electing to undergo only one
examination, such examination will comprise the following
matters :

a. Orthography and handwriting.
b. General intelligence, as evinced by the manner in
which the candidate acquits himself, and specifically by the
quickness he may show in seizing the points in papers
read to him, or read over by him, once m twice.

c. Precis.
d. The candidate must satisfy the t examiners that he is
thoroughly well grounded in the Latin grammar, and that
he is able to construe and parse a portion of some good
classical Latin author, and to give the derivations of words,
e. An accurate knowledge of French grammar, fluency in
French conversation, correctness of translation from
French into English, and from English into French, and
French composition.
f. An accurate knowledge of German grammar, a toler-
able degree of fluency in German conversation, and cor-
rectness of translation from German into English, and
from English into German.
g. A fair knowledge of the political history of Europe,
and of North and South America, from the year 1660 to
1860 inclusive, and of the most important international
trans -actions during that period.
h. A general knowledge of geography.
i. The first four rules of arithmetic and decimal fractions
as given with examples in Colenso's Arithmetic.
J. The first book of Euclid.
k. A general knowledge of maritime and international
law, to be acquired from Wheaton's " Elements of Inter-
national Law," and the first volume of Kent's " Commen-
tary."
1. Candidates will be allowed, at their option, to be ex-
amined in Spanish and Italian in addition to the above sub-
jects.
In case ef candidates electing to undergo two examina-
tions,the first examination will comprise the following sub-
jects :-
1, Orthography; 2.llandwriting; 3. Precis ; 4. Latin;
5. Arithmetic ; 6. Geography.
7. General intelligence, except as regards specific tests.
8. An accurate knowledge of French grammar, correctness
of translation from French into English, and such a facility
of speaking French as may show aptitude for acquiring
fluency after a residence abroad.
9. An accurate knowledge of German grammar.
10. A general knowledge of the political history of Eu-
rope, and of North and Smith America, from 1790 to 1815,
comprisiag an acquaintance with the most important inter-
national transactions of that period.
In either case, candidates who have passed the first pub-
lic examination in classics at one of the Universities in Great
Britain or Ireland, will be exempted from being examined
in Latin.
Candidates who shall have elected to undergo two exa•
minations must be prepared to satisty the examiners, if re-
quired to do so, as to their acquaintance with the various
matters which come within the single examination (except
as regards Latin, geography, and arithmetic, in which such
candidates are exempted from being re-examined) ; and
they, will moreover be required for their second examination,
to draw up a report on the general commercial and political
relations of the several countries in which they may have
resided, and on the internal polity and administration, the
social institutions, and the character of the people of such
countries.
If a candidate offering himseff for the single examination
should fail to satisfy the Commissioners to the required
extent, but should evince such a knowledge of the subjects
on which he may have been examined, as would have ob-
tained for him a certificate of fitness if he had only offered
himself for a first examination, the Commissioners will, in
such case, give a certificate as a first examination ; and the
candidate will eventually have to present himself again be-
fore the Commissioners for the second examination.
2. Period of Service of Attaches.
The service of Attaches will reckon from the date of
the certificate first granted by the Civil Service Commis-
sioners, and will be considered as probationary for four
years from that date, during which period the Attaches
must have been employed for six months in the Foreign-
office, and must also have actually resided at one of her
Majesty's Embassies or Missions abroad, or have been ac-
tually employed in the Foreign-office, for a further period
of three years. If these conditions as to employment and
residence have not been fulfilled at the expiration of four
years from the date of the certificate of the Civil Service
Commissioners, the probationary period will be prolonged
until they have been fulfilled; and it will likewise be pro-
longed in the case of candidates who may have elected to
undergo two examinations, until the final certificate of the
commissioners has been obtained.
3. A salary of £l5O a-year will be granted, contingently,
to Attaches on completion of their probation.
A salary at the rate of £l5O a-year will be granted to
attaches on termination of the period of probation, and on
the receipt from the minister, under whom they have last
served, of a certificate showing that their general character
and conduct, during the time they have so served, have
been satisfactory; and that, as far as such minister has the
means of forming an opinion, they understand and speak
French well, and also one other foreign language.
4. Abolition of the designation of Paid Attaches. Com-
missions as Second Secretaries to be granted to Paid
Attaches.
The designation of first and second paid attache is abo-
lished ; and in lieu thereof will be substituted the designa-
tion of second secretaries, which will be conferred by com-
missions under her Majesty's sign manual.
5. Commissions as Third Secretaries to be granted to Un-
paid Attaches on completion of their probation.
Commissions as third secretaries will also be granted
under her Majesty's sign-manual to persons now serving as
unpaid attaches, or' who shall hereafter be appointed un-
paid attaches, on the fulfilment of the conditions, appli-
cable to such persons, as specified in the present regulations.
It is clearly to be understood that the aforesaid commis-
sions of second and third secretaries will not imply appoint-
ment to any particular embassy or mission; but the holders
thereof will be subject to the same conditions and liabilities
as to removal from one mission to another, at the discretion
of the Secretary of State, as those to which attaches of all
classes are now liable.
Secretaries of the second and third classes may be indis-
criminately attached, either to an embassy or to a mission;
and the circumstance of having been attached in either of
the above capacities to an embassy will not preclude trans-
fers in the same capacity to a mission. Moreover, there
may be more than one secretary of either of the above
classes attached, at the pleasure of the Secretary of State, to
any embassy or mission.
6. Number of Second Secretaries.
There will be a fixed number of second secretaries, deter-
mined by the number of first and second paid attaches, at
the date of the issue of these regulations.
The salaries of second secretaries will be fixed at the same
rates as those now assigned to first and second paid attaches
in the respective embassies and missions • it being under-
stood that such rates have reference to the character of the
embassy or mission, and not to the services of the second
secretaries, who may be removed, without claim to compen-
sation, from an embassy or mission where the rates are
higher, to an embassy or mission where the rates are lower.
7. Rules as to Pensions of the Fourth Class.
In virtue of her Majesty's commissions, the service of
second and third secretaries will count for their pensions,
under the Act of 2 and 3 Wm. IN, cap. 116,,fr0m the date
of the issue of their first commission; but the amount of
pension to be assigned to them will be calculated, so long
as they are eligible for a pension of the fourth class only,
for each year that has elapsed since the date of theirrst
commission, at one-thirtieth part of the last salary of which
they were in receipt at the time of the pension being
granted ; provided that no pension shall continue to
be
issued to a person not incapacitated by ill-health, medically
certified, who may decline active service before he has
reached the sixtieth year of his age, after which age no
person shall be required to serve as second or third
secretary.
8. Provision for tho transfer of tho Junior Members of the
Diplomatic Service from one post to another; and pay-
ment of their expenses of removal.
Second or third secretaries, and attaches, as a general
rule, will not be employed for more than two years conse-
cutively, irrespective of the periods during which they may
have been absent on leave in the same embassy or mission,
unless for special public reasons. Secretaries of embassy
or legation, second and third secretaries, and attaches, will,
on their first appointment, or on any subsequent removal
by reason of promotion or otherwise on public grounds, re-
ceive such an allowance as shall be sufficient to cover the
actual expense of their personal journey by land, or the
actual amount paid for their personal passage by sea,
either from England to their post, or from one foreign
post to another ; and in the case of secretaries of embassy or
legation, and of second secretaries, a similar allowance for
one servant, if they have one ; but no allowance will beinade
under the head of subsistence during a journey by land;
neither will any allowance be made for the expense of the
journey or subsistence of the families of any. such secre-
taries or attaches. In the event of a passage being afforded
to secretaries or attaches on board of one of her Majesty's
ships of war the allowance made will be in conformity
with the Admiralty regulations.
No allowance will be made to the junior members of the
diplomatic service for journeys undertaken for their own
convenience, in pursuance of leave of absence ; but in all
such cases the expense of the journeys from and on i eturn-
ing to their posts will be exclusively at their own charge.
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It is understood, moreover, that in the case of any
and, will bein
bound to take charge o
journey of which the expense is to be allowed, secretaries
or attaches, unless specifal
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despatches, i
that case, they will be expected to perform the journey
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Secretaries, and Junior Clerks in the Foreign-office.
The Secretary of State will, should lie see occasion, for
ird
the advantage of the public service, allow second and
secretaries, and attaches, to interchange for a time their
duties with clerks of the three junior classes in the Foreign-
office ; the several parties being bound, for the whole period
through which the interchange extends, in every respect
to perform the duties and to submit to the obligations
attaching to the situation which they may temporarily
occupy.
The Secretary of State will, moreover, if he sees reason
to do so, direct such temporary interchange of duties to be
made, irrespective of the wishes of the parties, between
second or third secretaries, or attieb6s, and clerks in the
Foreign Office : or he will direct such persons to be em-
ployed for a time, at home or abroad, without any inter-
change, making in either case such an allowance to the
parties as he may consider just and reasonable. In the
event of any Attache being so employed in the Foreign
a. which he shall be
Office, the period, over and above the six months which ;re
obligatory as stated in section 2, durin,
actually employed in the Foreign Office,. shall reckon
towards the three years during which he is by these regu-
lations to reside at an Embassy or Mission abroad.
In the case of temporary interchanges between secre •
taxies and clerks, they will respectively rank, iduring the
period for which the interchange shall last, after the junior
in the classes of secretaries or clerks to which each of them
belongs, the clerk receiving an acting appointment as Secre-
tary of such class. The same principle will apply in cases
of permanent interchange.
if a clerk in the Foreign-office should be permanently
or should be tempo-
transferred to the diplomatic service,