The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-24 00:00:00

THAMES.

A SERIES 01' ROBBERIES BY A SERVANT GIRL.—A
young Irishwoman, named Mary Sullivan, aged 20, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing three
gold finger rings, two gold earrings, a silver thimble, a
piece of Coburg cloth, two pairs of goloshes, two chemises,
a glass cloth, three handkerchiefs, and £2 ls. 3d. in money,
from the dwelling-house of Mr. Joseph Clarke, of the Sun
public-house, on Tower-hill.
It appeared that the prisoner had only been in the ser-
vice of Mr. Clarke for three days, and in the course of that
time the above property was missed. Suspicion fell on th•
prisoner, and her mistress searched her box and found the
..hree gold finger rings wrapped up in paper on the top of
the box. The other property and a purse belonging to Mrs.
Clarke, containing £2 ls. 3d., was also found in the box•
On Saturday night the prisoner said two dresses were
being made for her, and she was allowed to go out
on her representation that she was going to fetch the new
dresses. She was gone about three hours, and upon her
return she had on a pair of new boots. She excused her-
self for her long absence by stating that she had waited
while the boots were being made. She then had on a piece
of neck ribbon belonging to her mistress, and on being
asked how she came by it, she said she found it. Other
property was afterwards missed, and the prisoner was given
into custody. She then said sumo of the rings belonging
to Mrs. Clarke, senior, the mother of Mr. Clarke, were in a
piece of poplin under the drawers. A policeman named
Burgess subsequently discovered Bs. 9d. concealed between
the bed and the mattress in the room where the prisoner
had been sleeping.

Mr. Yardley asked how it was the prisoner could have
taken S 9 many things and so much money in so short a
time, and Mrs. Clarke replied that the prisoner came into
her service with a tolerably good character and had access
to everything in the house.

Mr. Yardley remanded the prisoner until to-morrow.

B ANKRUPTCY COURT MYSTIFICATION

One word on the mystery of book-keeping, in
relation to the Court of Bankruptcy. How is it
to be accounted for, that we so frequently find
men of business, who are well able to keep
their own accounts in an intelligible manner,
frankly admitting that they cannot understand
the accounts brought out in what ought to be
the very head-quarters of clear and intelligible
acaountantship ? I must confess that, although,
perhaps, more accustomed than the majority
of tradesmen to dealing with accounts, both of
a private and of a public nature, those of the
Bankruptcy Court are to me an inscrutable mys-
tery. The accounts of the plodding trader who has
kept his own books after his own fashion—not
perhaps exactly in the style and form which would
please a professional accountant, yet so as to pre-
sent a clear and consistent meaning to himself, or to
any one who examines them in the light of mere
plain common sense—go into the hands of the ac-
countants of the court, are dissected, turned,
twisted, and reconstructed according to
their fancy, and then reproduced with such mar-
vellous transformations that the bewildered debtor
cannot recognise his own transactions in
them, and possibly with some prominent point
which he knows to be inconsistent with fact; yet
to these accounts he is required to swear without
book-keeping, and involving
stigmacom p comprehending hoefn din
defectivethe m, on pain of incurring the
both himself and the estate in the annoyance of
delay, and of a second enormous expense, by refer-
ring them back to the accountant. A little practical
experience in such matters tends to explain how
it is that the honest trader who is driven by sheer
misfortune into the Bankruptcy Court,
is so frequently snubbed and exposed to
the imputation of defective book-keeping,
while the astute swindler, whose business career
has been a fraud from beginning to end, succeeds
in placing himself so completely en rapport with
of the Court as to come
thethr ougiwithbook-keeping
rfly otinngeioolnosurs,
parading, as no unim-
portant item in the capital with which he com-
mences a fresh campaign against society, the eulo-
gium pronounced by the Commissioner upon his ex-
cellent book-keeping and the clearness and beauty
with which his accounts set forth his success in
doing his creditors.—Lilwall' s Mercantile Circular.

FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

in the following table E signifies that letters are despatehe
by evening mails from London, and M by morning mails.

1 11010
DESTINATIONS, 1 Despatch Port of Diail
of Mails. Despatch. due.
Australia and Mauritius, via
Southampton May 12, M Southamp. May 10
Ditto, via Marseilles
Bahamas and Havana via Newt
York , May 12, E Liverpool.. May 10
Canada, &o. (by Canadn. pckt )'April2s, E Liverpool.. April 25
Cape of Good Hope, Ascen-1
aeon, and St. Helena ,May 5, ElDevonport May 3
China, Penang, and Singa- ,
pore, via Southampton ;May 4, MSouthamp. May 2
Ditto, via Marseilles iApril26, Et April26
Gibraltar, via Southampzon ..,April27 ,M;Southainp. April 25
Honduras and Blewfields .... I May 17, 2,11 ,Southamp. April 29
India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, I
via Southampton May 4, M Southamp. May 2
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via South-I
ampton 'April27, MI Southamp, April 25
Ditto, via Marseilles I May 3, E May 4
Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, i
and F. Islands May 9,M Southamp, May 5
Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto April 27 , M 86tithanip, May 1
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via
Southampton 14pr1127 , M ,Southamp. April 25
Ditto, via Marseilles I April 26 , Ei April26
Mexico and Havana
Newfoundland iApril27, E,Liverpool..
United States and British N
America (by British packeo April 28, E Liverpool.. May 2
Ditto (by U. S. packet) 'April 25,E Southamp.
West Coast of Africa, Ma-
deira,
and Teneriffe April 23 E; Liverpool.. May 10
West India, California, Vene-
zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey-
town, New Granada, &o May 2, AI Southamp. ,May 14

TIIE IRISH BAR IN AUSTRALIA.—The Dublin
Eveming Packet quotes from a return obtained by Sir E.
Grogan, in order to show that Irish barristers have con-
trived to get the " best things going" in Australia in the
way of public employment. Here is the catalogue of the
fortunate Hibernians :—The Chief Justice of Victoria. Sir
William Foster Stawell, is a member of the Irish bar;
salary, £3,000 per annum. Mr. Redmond Barry and Mr.
Robert Molesw orth, puisne judges (salary £2,500), are both
Irishmen ; Mr. Richard Davies Ireland, the Solicitor-
General (salary 1,500) ; Mr. Wrixon, judge of the County
Court (salary 1,500) ; Mr. Michael Francis Macaboy, chair-
man of General Sessions (.C1,500) ; Mr. James Langton
Clarke, ditto ; Mr. John Foster, Mr. M'Creight, and Mr.
John Atkins, Crown Prosecutors at General Sessions
(salary £600), all are Irishmen, and members of the
Queen's Inns, Dublin. The Irish element is more in
the ascendant in Victoria than in any other British colony.
The colonelcy of the 10th Regiment remains
vacant by the death of Sir Thomas M'Mahon, and no re-
commendation has yet been made to her Majesty respecting
the selection of th© officer to be appointed in his place.-
41rmy and Navy Gazette.