The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-18 00:00:00

JEWEL ROBBERY.

On Wednesday morning, a fashionably-dressed
young man, who gave his name and profession
Gust Shulte Johsohn, professor of the German
and French languages, was examined before
Major Allen and Major Willard, of the Brighton
bench, on a charge of attempting an extensive
robbery of jewels. The prisoner had c::11ed at
the shop of Mr. Cochrane, Brighton, and of Lon-
don, jeweller, and representing himself as interpreter
to the Countess Rivolski, who he said was staying
at the York llotel, selected a diamond brooch,
value 225 guineas, representing a butterfly ho-
vering over a flower, which the Countess had seen
in passing the door, and likewise a sapphire
and diamond brooch worth 20 guineas, and two
pins value 18/. and 161. All these articles he
wished to be taken to the Countess for approval ;
and Mr. Cochrane, consequently, accompanied him in
a fly to the York. They entered a sitting-room on
the first floor, when the prisoner knocked at the
door of an adjoining bed-room, appeared to listen,
and then went in. In a few minutes he returned,
said the Countess was unwell, and in bed, and
that she wished him to send in the articles for inspec-
tion. Mr. Cochrane, however, refused to part with the
jewels, whereupon the prisoner again entered the cham-
ber, and on returning the second time, said the
Countess would not detain them a minute, as she
merely wished to see whether the butterfly-
brooch was the same that she had seen in the
window. Seeing Mr. Cochrane hesitate, he told
him he was sure he could get 220/. for the but-
terfly, but that, in that case, Mr. Cochrane must
make him a present. Mr. Cochrane then intrusted
him with the butterfly and the sapphire brooches,
with which the prisoner again entered the bed-
room. Mr. Cochrane waited his return for a
couple of minutes with great anxiety, and then
opened the passage-door, when he found the pri-
soner, who had passed through the bed-room into
the passage, creeping stealthily past the door. Mr.
Cochrane seized the prisoner near the staircase, and
having recovered the jewels, sent him to the Town-
hall. From the evidence of one of the waiters at the
York, it appeared that the prisoner had hired the
apartments about an hour before' for the Countess
Rivolsk,i who, he sail, was related to Count Nessel-
rode. The prisoner was committed for trial.

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A report, on which we are disposed to place some
reliance, and which is, indeed, in a great measure con-
firmed by Mr. O'Connell's late manifesto from Derry-
g
nane, has reached us, that the leading members of the
remnant of the Irish Whigs (includin Sharman Craw-
ford, Lord Charlemont, &c.) are at this moment occu-
pied in arranging the terms on which they proposo once
More to sell themselves to Mr. O'Connell. A formal
declaration of their adhesion to the cause of federalism
Whigs ota
will, we are told, make its appearance in a few days,
solely
appendedto the to
Irish it. Our informant's
i 1
; 1 fm
butr there
letter with the names of several of the most influential mem-
bers
ohfa stbeir reference party
can be little reason to doubt that the Lichfield House
conspirators on this side of the water are parties
compact. This is precisely what we have all along
an-
ticipated would be the case ; and will, •f'
the wretched Whigs who are parties to it I possible, sink
of degradation than they to a lower abyss
occupy
and O'Connell is the last already. Federalism
card they have to
I b •
( them 3 i play, and is
evidently expected
ing Herald. to turn out a trum Aforn-
P.—

ANNUAL SALE OF PRINCE ALBERTS LIVE FARM.. ING STOCK.—The annual sale of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert's live stock, selected from the Norfolk and
Flemish farms, at Windsor, in the occupation of the Prince,
will take place in a few days, at Norfolk Farm, in the Great
Park. The portions which have been selected for this
annual sale consist of between 70 and 80 Scotch gallo-
ways, Welsh short-horned cows, heifers, and Shetlands,
in fine condition for stall-feeding ; nearly 500 South
Down ewes and wethers, a beautiful Suffolk cart
stallion, and a very extraordinary and well-bred
Suffolk boar.

COUNSEL TO THE IRISH OFFICE.—The Dublin Mail
states that Mr. Batty has been appointed to the long
vacant place of Counsel to the Irish Office in London,
which had been filled by the late Mr. O'llanlon.. Mr.
Batty has been for several years a Lunacy Commissioner.
Jointly with the Attorney-General he had published