The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-24 00:00:00

LITERATURE

The Edinburgh Review. No. 271.—The reviewer, who
discusses the deplorable and perilous situation of
" France " in the opening article of the current number
of the great Whig Quarterly, clings to a hope that the
foremost race in the onward march of modern civilisation
may even yet redeem its fortunes in spite of the overwhelm-
ing disasters to which they have, during the last six
frightful months, been so cruelly subjected. "We cannot
but express," he writes, " the pvefound sorrow with which
we witness even the momentary eclipse of the brightest
planet in our system. With all the faults of her
rulers, and the failings of her pet;ple, France
remains incomparably the most original, ingalious, and
vivid of the Continental nations. When we rerrhzmber
what her literaturs has done for the world in the last thre:e
centuries, with what depth of insight and keen edg.„.k.
discernment she has sounded and dispelled a host of errors ;.;
with what sagacity she has pursued every path of scientific:
research; with what lively skill she has popularised the-
arts ; with what energy she has advocated the liberties of
mankind, her conquerors of the hour are no more worthy to.
be named beside her, than the Macedonians were to rival
-
the glory of Athens. She may, indeed, have been over
eager to assert a political influence in Europe ; but the in- •
fluence of her language, of her tastes, of her genius, of her-
sympathies and even of her manners reached, and
will
reach from the Tagus to the Volga." Noble words--
words doubly grateful to every Frenchman, uttered in.
regard to that beloved and glorious nationality, now in
the supreme hour of its affliction and apparent abasement.
Rossini's Life by Sutherland Edwards, and Hector
Berlioz's Memoirs are together noticed by another
reviewer, who is of opinion that the former has very little,
value as indicating research or shrewdness and delicacy-
of musical perception. As for. Berlioz' memoirs. the•
writer disdains them as instinct, with vanie9( arid acri-
mony. An exhaustive argument is next built tip by
another contributor to the Edinburgh from the reports of
the four Select Committees on the Public and Private:
Business of the House of Commons—the first of the Select
Committees being that of 1837, presided over by Paulett;
Thomson ; the second that of 1848, presided over by the
pi esent Speaker, Evelyn Denison ; the third that of 1854,
the chairman of which was Sir John. Pakington ; and the
fourth, that of 1861, whose chairman was Sir James •
Graham. With all respect for the ancient traditions
and usages of the House, the critic deems
it to be in the highest degree desirable that
time should in future be economised by the adoption
of the French system of La cloture, as well as by the re-
stricting of the time allowed to those addressing the
House, with the exception of the proposer and seconder of
any motion, and the member or Minister who may be
responsible for the reply. Our maritime and military
forces are subsequently passed under review by the Edin-
burgh—the former in an article entitled "Facts and
Figures at the Admiralty," the latter in one
entitled simply " The Military Forces of the
Crown." " Langel's Problems of Nature and
Life," and " Kaye's History of the- Sepoy War
are each subjected to shrewd and searching. criticism.
There is also a careful inquiry into the foreign relations;
of China. Upon " Morris's Earthly Paradise" an en-
raptured reviewer pronounces an elaborate and im-
passioned panegyric. The eulogiums are certainly not
justified by the quotations, which contain within them not.
one single thought, ne, or even phrase of poetry such as.
the divine art is recognised to be in the matchless pages
of such true poets as Keats and Shelley. The closing.
article in this current number of the Edinburgh has rela-
tion to the treaties of 1856 and 1867, the strongly ex--
pressed opinion of the writer being that treaties when
made must be respected.

THE GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY.
(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.)
A portion of the valuable jewellery stolen from Messrs.
London and Ryder's assistant last Thursday week has
been recovered at Southampton under the following cir- •
cumstances :—On Sunday week Miss Emma Goodridge,
the daughter of Captain William Goodridge, residing in
Queen's-terrace, Southampton, received the following
letter :
" Leamington, January 5, 11.
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"My dear t mma,—Just a line to wish you mazly
happy returns of to-morrow, in which Michael joins
me. I hope by next birthday you will re-
joice in another title. I am going to ask a
favour of you ; that is, that you will kindly take
charge (for a little while) of a small parcel which I will
send you to-morrow. Keep it carefully for me, and send
me a line to let me know whether you received it safely.
I hope Uncle William is all right by this time, and that
the rest of you are well. Baby is getting on nicely, and I
am myself again. With kind love to all, believe me to
be affectionately, " PATTIE."
The next day Miss Goodridge received a small brown paper
parcel, the strings of which were sealed with a stamp
bearing the device of a dog, and the words, " When this
dog barks my friendship shall cease." The address on the
parcel was in a man's handwriting, but the word
" through" was evidently written by a female. Nothing
was-thought of the matter, until on Friday Captain
Goodridge read in the newspapers the report of a woman.
having been arrested at Leamington on suspicion
of being concerned in the robbery. The con-
viction that this was his niece having taken
possession of his mind, Captain Goodridge, on Sunday
consulted Mr. Palk, a borough magistrate, when the
police were communicated with, and the parcel was
opened. It was found to contain a pair of pendants, one
composed of about thirty diamonds, and the other of
large opals and brilliants. They were enclosed in a white
silk bag, embossed with lilies of the valley. Mr. Tarpey,
the husband of the woman now in custody, was in South-
ampton a week since, visiting his wife's relations, who
occupy a highly respectable position in the town. Mrs.
Tarpey is stated to have the sum of £l,OOO invested in
the funds. She was brought up under the care of an
uncle in London, and is well educated. She met her hus-
band about eighteen months ago, and they visited South-
ampton together.

No intelligence has been received of the capture of the
man Torpey,-whose wife is in custody on a charge of rob-
bing the assistant of Messrs. London and Ryder, and
it is much feared that he will elude the search
that is being made for him. A Leamington
correspondent states that the supposed perpetrators of
the robbery are both very respectably connected.
Torpey is an Irishman by birth, but left Ireland in
his youth, and resided for some time on the Continent,
where he acquired French, Italian, and German. fie
one held a confidential and responsible position with a
large manufacturing firm at Leeds, where he resided for
some time. Then he took to the Turf, and has since regu-
larly attended the principal races. He made books, and
although his bets were not for large amounts, his transao"
tions were extensive, and were attended with the cue-
tomary varying success. His wife, who is now in custody'
is also highly educated, of ladylike manners and
appearance, and well connected. Her relatives reside
in the neighbourhood of Notting-hill, where she
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married to Torpey last February. They spent
their honeymoon in Leamington, where the)?
stopped at the Crown, the well - known tom,
mercial hotel. They returned to Leamington last June,
when they engaged apartments at Windsor-villa.
Campion-terrace, a respectable but not by any means
fashionable part of the town. There they continued t°
reside until Mrs. Torpey was arrested last Wednesday,
her husband having left home the previous Mondale
for the Continent, too dispose of the proceeds ce-
the robbery. They ppear to have had no laol‘
of money until shortly before the diamonds Were
stolen. About a month previously Mr. Torpey tried ti;
induce several Leamington tradesmen to discount a 131'
for £2OO, represented to have been drawn by his Wife's
trustees. He also made an equally ineffectual effort to
induce a bank, where he kept an account, to cash the bilib
and on. that occasion gave a reference in New 13°e-u t
street. The persistence of his' efforis to negotiaae
this bill would indicite'.that he was in urgent neeto
of money. The robbery, of jewels seems not t,
have been suddenly decided -upon. About a ,if`',„!„
night after the failure ',to negotiate the bill J-‘-'5
Torpey told the person with whom they • lodge
that she should have to go to Voudon in a fortnight.
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did so on the very day she bad nanied, and that
jewel robbery was committed. Her husband wont the
London on the previous Monday ; how he spent
interval, in engaging the house in Upper Berkeley-stre
and making the necessary pr,eliminoxy arrangemente",,
already known. Mrs. Torpey had intimated hat she
should probably return to Leamington the same
but telegraphed that they had missed the train._,t
diiay, no doubt, occasioned by the failure of the wat
akngement with Messrs. Emanuel. But for
et_eo,
eiretuustance, which induced them to post to Tit? to
ington from Rugby, and their subsequent solicitt noetto,
exclude the landlady from their apartments, they
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all probability, never have been suspected
robbery.
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