The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-16 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY.

Messrs. London and Ryder, jewellers, of New Bond-
street, have been the victims of a well-studied robbery. A
few days ago a man entered their establishment and
requested that some jewellery might be sent to an
address in Berkeley-street, Portman-square, for the ap-
proval of his wife. An assistant went as desired, taking
with him jewellery to the amount of £2,000. On reaching
the house the door was opened by the man, and the
assistant was asked to walk into a rodm. While entering
the room he had his arms seized from behind, and at
the same mordent a feniale advanced towards him, and
thrust a pockethandkerchief, on which it is supposed
there was chloroform, into his face. The assistant be-
came insensible, and, on recovering his senses, found
himslf alone in the room, lying on a sofa, with his arms
fastened behind him by means of a pocket-handkerchief
the man and woman having effected their escape, taldng
with them the whole of the costly jewellery. The assistaut
having got his hands at liberty gave an alarm, but no
trace of the persons could be discovered. The matter is
in the hands of the police, who are making diligent in:
quiries into it:

At the Privy Council held on Saturday, Parlia-
ment was prorogued to the 9th of February.
CABINET CouNciL.—Summonses have been issued
for a Cabinet Council on Thursday next, at the Premier's
official residence in Downing-street. The members meet
at three o'clock.

THE MiNISTRY.—Most of the members of the
Cabinet will assemble this week in town. Mr. Glad,•
stone arrived on Saturday, and the Duke of Argyll,
the Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, the
Right. Hon. Edward Cardwell, the Right Hon. Chi-
chester Fortescue, the Earl de Grey, the Right Hon.
H. A. Bruce, and the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen
are already in town. Mr. Childers, who is
still staying at Mrs. Hanbury's seat in Hertfordshire;
remains in delicate health, and owing to the inclemency
of the weather, has been Linable to take outdoor exercise.
Viscount Halifax, with her ladyship and daughter, re-
turned to Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire, on Thursday, from
visiting the Dowager Countess of Cooper at Wrest Park.
The Marquis of Hartiugton is staying at Hardwick Hall,
near Chesterfield.

We learn from our New York correspondent that
Judge Brady has given tt decision in the case of the suit
instituted by the Erie Shareholders' Protection Commit-
tee, which "is not unfavourable." We have no precise
information as to the purport of the judgment given, but
from the nature of the communication we are led to
believe that something has been at last gained in the
contest with the Erie clique, and we wait with much
interest further particulars on the subject.—Railway
News.

ANECDOTE OF MR. BRASSF.Y.—His charity is said
to have been as extensive as it was unobtrusive in its
exercise and well-directed in its application. "An unusual
instance of largeness of heart was mentioned, about the
time when it occurred, exejusively in the columns of the
Builder. A little before Messrs. Peto and Betts' failure,
Mr. Brassey having become aware that the firm was hard
pressed, called upon Sir Morton and offered, as simply as
if it had been the most ordinary transaction, to lend him a
hundred thousand pounds—and not only so, but, with the
aid of Mr. Lucas and two or three other friends, to raise
the loan to half a million, if he received the asburance that
that sum would entirely rblieve the recipients from em-
barrassment. To the honour of all parties this generous
offer was declined, on the ground that it would not be
suilicient.—Builder.

NEWSPAPERS IN PARlS.—Since the commence-
ment of the siege, 49 new journals have appeared. Many
of them have already ceased to exist, but counting old
and new newspapers, there must at least be 60 published
every day. How they manage to find paper is to me a
mystery. Some of them are printed upon sheets intended
for books, others upon sheets which are so thick that
I imagine they were designed to wrap up sugar
and other groceries. Those which were strongest
in favour of the Empire, are now the strongest in
favour of the Republic. Editors and writers whose dream
it was a few months ago to obtain an invitation to the
Tuileries or to the Palais Royal, or to merit by the basest
of flatteries the Legion of Honour, now have become per-
fect Catos, and denounce courts and courtiers, Bona-
partists and Orleanists. War they regard as the most
wicked of crimes, and they appear entirely to have for-
gotten that they welcomed with shouts of ecstacy in July
last the commencement of the triumphal march to Berlin.
—Lotter front Paris.
"THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE WonLn.—
The daily circulation of our paper—to actual bona-fide
paying subscribers—is just five million six hundred and
twelve thousand and forty-two sheets. We have employed
upon the paper five hundred compositors, and three hun-
dred and twelve mailing clerks, and other aiders too nu-
merous to mention. We have taken special charge of the
Falls of Ohio, and use them exclusively for "wetting down"
our paper. We have eleven paper mills constantly in opera-
tion, the smallest of which turns out two hundred thou-
sand bundles of paper daily. It requires seventeen nine-
storey Hoe's presses to work off our vast edition, and we
are compelled to engage all the coal that is mined in the
Lehigh Valley, as well as a contract for all the coal that
comes down the Ohio River, to supply our engines with
fuel. Our correspondents are all graduates of the first
universities and colleges in the world, and are stationed in
every city, town, and hamlet in the habitable globe.—
Louisville Journal.

THE LADY STUDENTS AND THE EDINBURGH
INFIRMARY. —The lady students of the Edinburgh Univer-
sity have issued a circular to the " contributors to the
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh." The arguments they
urge are principally these :—The question as regards
the Infirmary is not one of detail, but of i
principle. What the court of contributors have
to decide is not (as has been erroneously represented)
whether " mixed classes " are desirable but whe-
ther or not the ladies now studying medicine are to
be absolutely shut out from all the advantages of the
Infirmary, which is the only hospital in Edinburgh at
which any student can obtain a qualifying ' course of
instruction; no other hospital possessing the requisite
number of beds, or fulfilling the other conditions pre-
scribed by the Medical Board. It should be distinctly
understood that we do not ask for mixed classes, and
are willing to leave every detail of arrangement
to the managers, if only a ' qualifying' course of in-
struction is granted to us in any form whatever. Three
of the medical officers have invited us to attend the
practice in their wards, and if we are allowed to accept
tneir invitation, we shall be at once provided with all that
is necessary for our purpose. It is to be presumed that
these gentlemen are the best judges of the alleged ' im-
possibility ' of our attendance,. and all we ask is that you
will, by your vote, protest against our arbitrary exclusion
by the managers from those wards to which we are invited.
We beg to remind you that we have formally under-
taken to confine our attendance to those wards in which
our presence is welcomed by the presiding physician
or surgeon ' • and unless the public deliberately distrust
our word, this promise makes quite unimportant the
opinions of the other medical officers whose wards we do
not propose to enter. The Infirmary is so large that-the
portion to -which alone we . ask admittance is sometning
less than a quarter of the whole; and, even if no restric-
tion is laid on the attendance of the male students,
it will be only by their own choice if they attend in
the same wards with us while more than three-fourths
of the hospital will be devoted exclusively to their in-
struction.