6 APRIL 1878, Page 3

It seems impossible just now to ascertain the truth about

anything. The whole of that story about Lady Rosebery's jewels, though minutely given in the Times of Friday week and other papers, was untrue. Burglars, between one and three a.m., did, indeed, attempt to enter the ground-floor of Petworth House, and may have been in pursuit of jewels ; but they did not get in, did not enter the dressing-room, or the floor on which it stood, and tried to enter a dummy window not made to open,—clear proof, as Lord Leconfield writes, that they were not a very scientifie gang. Lastly, Lady Rosebery's jewels were not taken down to Petworth. We only need an assurance that Lady Rosebery was not in Sussex either, to make the story quite perfect as an illustration of modern daily history.