The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-01 00:00:00

THAMES.

ROBBING A MASTER MARINER. —John Hayes, Mary Ann
Hayes, and Anna Murphy, were brought before Mr. Paget,
charged with stealing £4l, the monies of Mr. John New-
land, master mariner, cf No. 3, St. Paul's-terrace, Mile-end
Old Town.

The prosecutor stated that about a quarter past 12 o'clock
last night ho met two women, neither of whom were the
two women in the dock. He accompanied them to a house
in a court, the name of which he did not know. He there
saw Murphy and John Hayes. They asked him for some-
thing to drink. He handed a sovereign to Murphy, and
told her to obtain some drink. He remained in the room
while she was gone, with the male prisoner and a girl named
Moltman, and two other females. He shortly missed his poc-
ket-book containing his money. He had taken it out a few
minutes previously to take a cigar out, and returned it to the
breast pocket of his coat. It contained an Irish £lO note,
an English £5 note, a £3 Irish, and a number of £1 Irish
notes, amounting, altogether, to £4l. Mary Ann Hayes
was not in the house at the time he missed his pocket
book. •

In answer to questions by Mr. Paget,
The witness said that ono woman was sitting on his
knee. No ono had a hand about his person. Murphy left
the house before ho missed his pocket book. He was sure
Hayes was the man he saw in the house. No one was
sitting on his knee after ho last saw his'pocket book. He
was perfectly sober. •
Jemima Tiltman, of No. 1, Angel-court, Shadwell, said
she was an unfortunate girl. About 1 o'clock this morn-
ing she went home and saw the prosecutor corning down
the stairs. He sat down on a chair in the back room, and
• gave Murphy a sovereign. She wont out to obtain some
drunk. After this the twp wo.nen who were with the
prosecutor left the room. The prosecutor, a girl with a
brown dress, a woman, and witness remained. Soon'after-
wards John Hayes came in, and she afterwards observed
him with a lot of bank-notes in his hand, which she told
him he had better put away. She asked the prosecutor if
he was going to treat her. Ile said yes, put his hand in
his pocket, and missed his money. She and the prosecutor
thou went to the corner of Charles-street, St. George-in-
the-East, but she returned to the house in Angel-gardens
for her jacket and bonnet, and John Hayes and Murphy
were quarrelling about some money. She ran up the
court and met the prosecutor, who said he had been robbed
of his money by the master of the house. Directly after
this she told a policeman about the robbery.
Donald 3,l`litty, a police-constable, No. 27.5., said the.pri-
soners wero :at infamous characters, and, had been in Cus-
tody before. At 4 o'clock this morning. the prosecutor
and the last witness gave him some information which in-
duced him to arrest the prisoners in the court where they
lived. On the way to the statiouhouse Murphy said the
prosecutor "gave me a sovereign to get some change, but
Mary Hayes has it." Ho charged Mary Anu Hayes with
being concerned in the robbery, and she .said she was not
indoors all night. Murphy said, " You know I gave you
a sovereign." Hayes replied, "There is no good in you
telling lies." Murphy said, "You know you have got the
sovereign."
Dlr. Paget commented on the extreme indiscretion of
htwo loose women to an in-
famouse prosecutor accompanyingloo.se in his pocket. There was
not
sufficient
housee
withdenet4alg
ainst the two women to justify
him in detaining thorn. They must bo discharged. He
remanded John Hayes for a week.

SIR TV. MANSFIELD AND MAJOR JERVIS.

Never certainly have the rights of woman been
more strongly put by any of her advocates than by
the Commander-in-Chief in India. The aides-de-
camp are warned that " when Lady Mansfield is in
India any HINT (sic) which she may give with re-
gard to matters connected with the establishment,
leaving of cards, reception of visitors, &c., is to be
received as if it were an absolute order from the
Commander-in-Chief." The double under-lining
which is represented in print by small capitals, may
perhaps suggest the sex of the commanding officer
by whom this memorandum of military duty was
framed or revised. Again,." whenever Lady Mans-
field may require the personal attendance of an aide-
de-camp,
the latter is to be in uniform." Further
instructions are given in the duties of military polite- '
ness. "On occasions of State balls at Government
House or elsewhere, it is expected that the whole
of the personal staff will avail themselves of the
invitation afforded them. They should time their
arrival so as to enter the rooms of the host in the
suite of his excellency."
" Whenever the master or
mistress of the house enters a room it is customary
for the expectant guests and the sons of the family
to rise, even though they have sat down to dinner.
This and other forms of social ceremony cannot be
too carefully attended tom.a military household."
The manual of etiquette was however insufficient,
and a year after a second edition was published,
aimed directly at Capt. Jervis by name. He is re-
minded that on the day befOre, being " Lady Maus-
field's reception day," " many visitors called, and it
seems to have been forgotten by the aide-de-camp on
duty that it was part of his duty to usher in ladies
or gentlemen who called, and to remain in the
drawing-room while the visits lasted ; performing
his part in the entertainment of the visitors, and
showing them out ag tin." After some further
snubs, it is laid down that " his Excellency de-
sires to signify his disapproval of the disappear-
ance of his aide-de-camp from the drawing-room,
after dinner, before the disappearance of other
guests." But we cannot quote further from this
curious handbook of head-quarters gentility.
Bad temper bred bad blood, and from bad
blood sprang angry charges which could
not be sustained, and a course of conduct
which the head of the army has found it necessary
so emphatically to robuke. But while we deplore
and pass over these ebullitions on the part of an
officer of Sir W. Mansfield's rank and merit, we
are hound to measure out at least equal leniency:
and to show some more tenderness than the Govern-
ment has done to the unfortunate aide-de-camp
whose neglect of his carpet, not to say servile,
duties led him into
disgrace, and who was thence-
forth pursued with an almost feminine pertinacity
of persecution. To dismiss him from the army is a
hard sequel to a long course of misfortune originat-
ing in the bad taste of leaving Lady Mansfield's
drawing-room too early, or not obeying with exact
military submission her ladyship's "

ASCENT OF MONT BLANC.—An ascension of Mont
Blanc was made on the 20th inst. by Mr. S.-Leathe, of St.
Louis, United -States, accompanied by three guides of
Chamounix. Mr. teathe igft,that village on the 18th, and
reached the Grauds-Mulets the same day. Oa the 1911 he
started for the suum3it, but being surprised by a violent
snowstorm at the Corridor was forced to return. The fol-
lowing day, - the weather h 3 acconl-
pliblied tho feat.