The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-22 00:00:00

A COUNT TRIED FOR HIGH TREASON.

Count Alfred Wedell, castellan to the ex-King of
Hanover, was put on his trial at Berlin on Saturday for
high treason. ' The charge against him was that he con-
tributed money towards the formation of the so-called
Hanoverian Legion in 1867. Proceedings were taken
against him at the time, and in 1868 he was condemned if;
contumaciam to ten years' imprisonment and to police
supervision. Having recently surrendered himself to the
Prussian authorities, the matter was gone into de novo-
The Court sentenced him to five years' imprisonment,
and to five years' further disability to vote or act as jury-
man.

GREAT ROBBERY OF £2,000 WORTH OF

JEWELLERY.

On Monday morning it was discovered that the shop
of Mr. Burlingham, jeweller, Peterborough, had been
broken into, and goods worth nearly £2,000 taken ; but,
fortunately, the property was afterwards found. It,
appears that a police-constable who had been round the
Bishop's grounds, on coming out thought he saw twomen
standing under a tree on the other side of the Cathedral-
yard, near the Deanery. This was about three o'clock in
the morning. The officer worked his way round to the
men, but they caught sight of him, and rushed off. One
ran round the ,Cathedral, and was caught by another
officer, who was just then entering the Minster precincts.
The other managed to escape. In the meantime it appears
another of the gang witnessed the exciting chase from
the roof of some premises at the back of the shop broken
into, and he also made good use of the opportunity, and
effected a retreat. The man captured had upon him goods
worth £l5O, including twelve gold watches, and a great
number of rings and lockets. On entering the premises it
was found that the burglars had completely cleared
several glass cases, and had also taken a great quantity of
articles from the windows. They had effected an entrance
from behind by Means of a rope ladder. They then
tried to bore through a door, which proved too much for
them, having a sheet of iron fixed in its centre. A hole
was then cut through a place formed only of plaster and
laths, through which they seemed to have crawled, and
then commenced their work of plunder. They had pro-
vided themselves with a bag of some thin material, and
while making off with their booty the bottom of this
bag fell out, leaving the articles on the roof of one of
'the outhouses. It appears they were about to re-gather this
property when surprised by the policeman. The man in
custody gives the name of Thomas Henry, a ship's car-
penter, and one of the others is well known in the city,
having been apprenticed to a builder there. A reward
has been offered for their apprehension. Fifty-two gold
and fifty-six silver watches, several hundreds of rings,
pins, lockets, and other articles were found upon the roof.
It has been ascertained that the two uncaptured men
had no property upon them.

Tattersall's Subscription Room will be closed on
Monday next, Boxing-day. ' Business will be resumed on.
Monday, January 2.
FEARFUL STORM IN THE NORTH.—TelegraMS
have reached us from all the principal ports on the north-
east coast of Great Britain reporting a violent storm
which raged there on Tuesday, and occasioned some loss of
life, as well as great destruction of property.

TRAGEDY AT SEA.—The Waterford correspondent
of the Irish Times states that the master of the barque
Martha Jane, which ran into Waterford, reports that
when 700 miles west of Cape Clear, his cook, a coloured
man, named Jones, quarrelled with an able seamannamed
M`darthy. and plunged a knife into his heart. Jones
jumped overboard, and was never again seen.
RATES FOR SECTARIAN TEACHING.—A meeting
of the Nonconformists of Birmingham was held on Tues-
day, at which resolutions were passed protesting against
the levying of an education rate for sectarian teaching,
and requesting the Central Nonconformist Committee to,
watch the action of the School Boards in the appointment
of schoolmasters as sectarian teachers.

THE -PENDING ELECTION PETITIONS.—OnIy two
election petitions are pending for trial—Norwich and
Brecon. Mr. Justice Keating will take the former peti-
tion on the 4th January, and the latter has been put off
by Mr. Justice. Lush until after the 15th April next. NO
petition against the returns in the Colchester and New-
port elections has been presented.
JEM MACE AND JOE COBURN.—The recent
" wrangling " between these two pugilists has, as was
doubtless foreseen, resulted in articles of agreement being
drawn up to try conclusions in the roped arena, for £2OO
a side, on the 11th of April next, in Canada. Half the
money has been already deposited in the hands of the tem-
porary stakeholder, Frank Queen, editor of the New York
Clipper. Spoz tsman.
SINIULAR APPLICA.TION ON • BEHALF OF A
MURDERER.—A brother-in-law to Patrick Durr, who lies
under sentence of death in the gaol, Strangeways, Man-
chester, applied to Sir. J. I. Mantel!, at the County'
Police Court, on Tuesday, for permission to visit the con-
vict. He also solicited the bench to order his relative to
be supplied on Christmas Day with some toa and a 40
cake. In answer to the first request, the magistrate tots
the applicant to apply again ; bnt with regard to the
second, he said he could do nothing for him.