The Express.
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23.

to protect with such barriers as we may thou whom
the wisdom of an inscrutable Providenoe•- has de-
fended with slighter strength of will oe' leader
faith than those who bout that they cla
stand.

We do not, indeed, invoke the arm of the law for
the protection of the State from these social perils.
We have lit* hope of reformation by statute, and
would rather see that general consent which •
statute would express applied more directly and
efficiently to the removal of the danger. And
this we urge the more, because legislative action
would exclude the main element on which the
remedy depends. It is to women, rather than to
lawgivers, that we appeal in this matter. They
have the fate of their sisters in their hands.
They fix the laws of society, and determine by
irreversible penalties what shall be held permiasible
or forbidden. They have in our own generation
practically abolished drunkenness and swearing
among the upper classes, by enforcement of the
simple rule that the man who thus offended ono,
in a drawing-room should never enter again. They
have the same control over a grosser, and what
ought to be with them a more unpardonable
offence. They can resolve that the man who has
ruined a woman shall not be forgiven by women.
They can decide that the man who notoriously
haunts with the abandoned of their sex shall not
sit at their tables nor sully their daughters' hands.
And by thus doing they will strike at the root of
all the evil. Men will not often offend if they
know such to be the penalty ; and if men ceased
to offend there would be little offence left. We
do not allege that the depravity is always
on the man's side. We are willing to
allow that it. may be equally divided, and to
admit that, as there are men, so there are
women who will defy restraint, and continue by
preference in sin. But to some extent, even
amongst the wont, the supply is regulated by the
demand, and the trade of vice would in great mea-
sure fail if it ceased to be profitable. This, how-
ever, is to take tho lowest view, and to consider
the effect of the remedy applied in the least hopeful
cases. But there are a very large proportion of
cases in which vice is not inherent but accidental,
and in which, if the temptation were not offered,
there would be no yielding. Let honest wives
and mothers think upon these cases. Let them
remember how, by their stern indignation and re-
buke, they can prevent men from toying with
affections which they only gain to break. Let
them think of the loving natures that are lost
through unguarded love, and be the guard which
such weakness needs. Let them think to what
peril high spirits, love of dress, love of pleasure
and freedom so easily carry ill-regulated minds,
and resolve that the treachery which uses foibles
to tempt to sin shall receive no mercy at their
hands. And when they read animated accounts of
the mirth and pleasure of a masked ball, let their
thoughts wander from that glare of light and
sound of music and merriment under which their
inter women, in frenzied revelry, are defying the
laws of GOD and the decencies of man, to the
peaceful villages, sleeping in the moonbeams,
where aching hearts yet throb in unhealed agony
for the loved and lost ; to the grey church towers,
standing like Heaven's sentinels over the dead that
sleep around, where every week prayers are still
choked in sobs for those who were better dead.
Let them think:how among the bedizened women,
whose unimaginable degradation is flaunted I
in the face of unpitying scorn, are thorn whom
mothers have tenderly nursed, and those who
have never known true mother's care; let, in that
thought, the horror of the scene be lost in the
unutterable woe ; and so let them resolve hence-
forth to have no pity for the slayer of a
sister's soul—resolve to be, In eo fttr as tit;
may, that defence to their sisters' honour which
the mourning mothers would wish, and which the
motherless so sorely need.

LAN! INTELLIGENCE.
(Moan
THE EXIDOIiTION IN HOLSTEIN.,
HAMBURG, Die. 22. Bvsepa.
It is positively stated here that Hanoatian
troops will relieve the Austrians quarterel in this
city, and that the whole of the Austrians will
march into Holstein.

~~

PUBLIC Masquerades, which formed the charming
excitement of our great grandmothers in their girl-
hood, but which for long lay under the axial ban of
their descendants, have, among other Kigali of the
times, re-appeared in these latter days. They are
still, it is true, established only on the outskirts of
society ; but the barrier between the outskirts and
the centre hie to a considerable extent of late been
broken down. The Pariahs of life have become
in some matters an envied caste, end their manners
and customs have been adopted as the chosen
models of highborn imitators. So we shall not
wonder if fashion should again adopt masked bells,
and place them once more on the pinnacle of pro-
priety. In some degree, indeed, this may be said
to have been already effected. If matrons and
maids of lineage and purity do not yet stoop to
jostle in the throng of dancers, at least their eons
and brothers do, and some even among themselves
will condescend to sit on high and game on the
aunts below. So it may be well, while there is
;at*, ti?pll mibUa opitt.toff hiterpoes 1111
hteisty restraints, by saying plainly what those
kenos are. For this the bat maw/Wet Her Majesty's
Theatre, which on Monday night wound up M.
Jrcueir's series of concerts, affords a favourable
opportunity. It is favourable at least to the in-
stitution in question, for we believe there was not
apparent in this instance that exhibition of gross
and general lewdness which on former occasions has
been a chief characteristic of the assemblage. But
unhappily it is impossible that a. place of amuse-
ment which is open to all, and which offers especial
attractions and advantages to the moat depraved,
should not display examples of flagrant obscenity.
Those, therefore, who have curiosity to visit such
spectacles may be forewarned that they are liable
to witness there what must make them blush and
tremble beneath the thickest mask ; that they will
see painted shamelessnem glorying in its utter de-
fiance of every restraint of decency ; that they
will see men acting towards women as if they were
—what, else ! they have made themselves---lower
than the brutes that but indulge their appetites and
perish. Such may be the penalty of curiosity on
the part of the pure and the tenderly nurtured—a
penalty which we well believe needs but to be
suggested to prevent its being incurred.
But there is another class besides the pure and
the tenderly nurtured who claim from us, in this
respect, a sorrowful consideration. Those who
are fallen are not all utterly degraded. Vice has
its degrees as well u virtue ; each is capable of
being heightened by teaching, and neither woman
nor man becomes all at once wholly vile. But
what can be a better school for the utmost ex-
treme of depravity than to see the individual ex-
amples of wildest excess the moat encouraged,
applauded, and followed ? And against this seduc-
tive influence, let it be remembered, those who
have but overstepped by ever so little the strict
limits of honour have small defence. A girl who
has yielded to temptation is, even while still un-
abandoned by her lover, cut adrift from all ties of
home, or friends, or reputation. She has none but
public amusements to resort to, and her life is
moulded by their teaching. Half despairing
already she is reckless of consequences, and eager
for excitement, because excitement alone brings
forgetfulness of the past. The display, befori one
Trepared, of rigs at Mt fultme and triumphant
the most Estal lure to its imitation. It is the
strongest possible agent at work towards the terrible
end of removing all hope, and reducing the err-
ing to the level of those steeped deepest in sin.
Nor let those who are always ready to cast the
first stone, and who refuse all place to pity or ex-
tenuation, imagine that this is s question which
only concerns the victims themselves. By a just
Law of retribution the victims become the tempters ;
and what shall we say of the future of that
" worshipful society" whose ASPASIAN of the hoar
are educated by such examples, and rival each
other in such proficiency f Not even, indeed, to
those who have already gone astray is the force of
this influence restricted. We may all remember,
with awful wonder and fear, how near the steps of
many who still stand are to the edge of the preci-
pice, and bow slight the breath of temptation that
suffices to draw over the weak and giddy brains
that rashly tempt destruction. We may well strive

THE PAPAL STATES.
CONDEMNATION OF BOOKS.
ROME, Dam 29.

The congregation of the Index has condemned
all the works of Georges Sand, and different works
of various French, German, and Italian authors.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY
,EVENINGAECEMBER 23, 1863.

AN ARISTOCRATIC ?BENCH PAM
We read in the Paris Priebe of yesterday _"The
Dube de Kowthy's greed. file at his superb dootais4
Mosein Rosales, ow eft as Saturday with all the Mee
cad maguilloence which was to be expected from his es.
quisits taste and large fortune. Two special trains were
organised, one of which brought forty pests to dinner at
so'clock, the other arrived at 7 with the rest of the ow-
pally. At the Ilailles-Mouchy statiou the visitors fund
the duke's carriages and four and postillions in powdered
wigs waiting to take them to the chateau. At half-
past 9 private theatricals mammon. The theatre was
improvised in a temporary building adjoining the awn
oneerratory, at a little distance from the how. All the
ladies were conveyed thither in Bath chubs, called
Visa eyretin. The gardens were brilliantly illuminated.
The performances were (Hire:4re den Sou, sad an eon.
nasal piece called Lee Cascade. de Morchy, written by the
Marquis de Mew. All the performers were princes,
dines, marquises or counts.. The Fain of the Cascades
was represented with great snows by the Countess de
Pourtalce; the Margolis de Gain played ► Vinodiere,
and sang wend couplets with the Duke de Money.
After the play, the ladies bong takes back to the how ia
their rolling chairs, there was a first nipper. This over,
dancing began, and at 2 o'clasek there was an animated
Wilton. The lint return train book away a great many
ladies at 3 o'clock ; but enough of the party renateed to
keep up dancing all night. Then was a wood sapper at 4
o'clock, and it wee MA till half-put 7 ►m. that the lights
were pet out, and the last train loft for Paris. The fete
was worthy of the most brilliant days of Leon XV., sad
will never be forgotten. Bouquets were preseated to all
the ladies, amides tau of white silk on which were written
is red lotion the names of the noble performers in the
theatrical entertainment. The following is a list of some of
the company, besides those above-named :—The Prime sad
Princess de Metternich, the Princess de Sew, the
Count de Saint-Roman. M. and Mme. de Gaon,
M. and Mon de Causal, M. and Mae. Alphonse
de Rothschild, M. and Mma. Gustave de Rothschild,
Mme. de CUM and her sister, ML and Mum Coutat
Deefootaines, Mme. de Relleynce, M. Vould, the Prefect of
the Oise, Baron Float, MM. de Saint-Pries, de Merlemont,
Ronk Lupin, de r Aigle, Auguste de Belleyme, de Belle-
roy, Talleyraod de Perigord, Poniatowski, de Minunon,
nonlinear, de Balboni, de Moutreoil, Ac."

istatorozr CHI:BCE EXTENSION SOCIETY.
Lost night the annual inseling of the Winston
Church Extension Society wee in Rehm Wilerm's
Nernedal L'hurchitemill ; Ilishopel LONDON is the
their.
Thu Ine. Yr. ALUM reed the report, which stated that
since the ecnintememneet of the society is 1850 four sew
churches had ben erechid in the parish, two mere were in
mune of coasirnetion, and four others were in emitempla-
tima. The report referred to the peat increase in the pops-
laths' of the perish of Winston, which sow sammated to
170,000 souls. The neelpth during the year, theludiag the
Warm of 3781. from the previous year, anicuated to OW ;
the whole of which bad been disbursed, except 101.
The Bishop of LONDON said it would strike everyone that
the sum anneamed in the report was sot largo, sad if
the results of the amociation were to be nisesored by the
sum of money which passed through its bands, its opera-
tions could not be considered as very important. But
it would be • great mistake to estimate the kn-
ot the association, or others of a similar
Erdrctry the sum of money which actually passed
through its hands. The business of them meals-
lions, in whatever neighbourhood they were pieced, err to
create an interest in the subjects which they madomrenred to
being before metes inda When they had just beard frees Mr.
Allan that of the churches cootem at the beginning of
this unociatiou there was a fair prayed of seeing all before
long actually finished, and when they knew that the work
was so far advanced, they mad grant that the sammiatioa
Ind sot failed in doing • groat work of pod in thie neigh-
bourhood. Bat he should sot confine hie reseerks to the
great sad important parish of laliogtae. but Amid refer to
the subject of church extension as cannoned with the whole
diocese. They might well be appalled by the little
which they were aNe to do, wondering the MANUS of
the objects in view as well as the venoms of their zemi
batty in dealing with the extraordinary population el Lon-
don. That population was appareatly raised up by God to
its present pre-eminence amongst men : as • city It had ad-
vantages which no other ever enjoyed before ; it was the war
der of earroutiding enigma, and it had therefore respemerhi•
Sties which were mealcidable. It was now seven years lime
he had undertaken the labors of the diocese, and it wee
sometimes melancholy to consider how little tholes seem
years had produced. Yet when be considered what was the
matter with which they had to deal it was impossible to ex-
pect that the work *odd be doe. except in • very extended
time. All they could do was "to labour while it was yet
day." But they had not been idle. They bad endeavoured,
by God's blessim, to meet the evil in every part of the
diocese, but still it was impossible to deny that the result
had sot been so greet as might have been wished. Be be-
lieved they had now arrived at • aide in the condition of the
diocese—that they had arrived at • time when some great
effort must be made, and if they failed now, there was very
little prospect that the work would succeed. He might
tell them that in the month of Joao last year an sipped was
made toe. number of influential persons in the diocese to
come forward and nisi the Bishop of London in the great
work of church extension, and he would inform them of the
result of that appeal. The population of the diocese was
now nearly three millions, and it was increasing annually
by 44,000. There were in the metropolis three rorishee,
each with a population of 31,000, and only one church;
eleven with • population of between 20,600 and 30,000 ;
fourteen with a population of between 14.000 end 20,000 ;
and 54 with a population of between 10,000 and 15,000.
There were 28 large perishes with an aggregate moieties
of 600,000, sod with only one clergyman to 6,000 souls.
(Hear, hear.) It was difficult to understand the amount of
evil which such a site of things disclosed, but he was afraid
it mast be allowed, where the people were untouched by
religious ordinanote, that a vast &mown Ofdetpadatiou,
ircorance, and crime existed. (Beer, hear.) They were
all aware of the efforts which had been mode in past years
by his predecessor in the way of building and consecrating
churches. What would be the condition of Loudon sow but
for thole effort.? Durieg the last seven years 300,000 im-
mortal souls had been added to the population. Had no
churches been built, and no clergymee sent amongst that
population, what would be the state of Loudon? Thank
God, owing to the 'tertian of this and kindred institutions,
they were enabled to keep pace with this growing population,
but no more. The mass of evil which had accumulated
when Bishop Blotnfield began the work was where it was.
The 270 churches which had been built date then were
only sufficient to meet the increase of population which had
Olen plane. When they considered the subject they found
that 1,000,000/. would be required to make soy erosible im-
pression on the mass of the population which had been
suffered to grow up neglected. Ten churches were required
every year to meet the wants of the growing population.
These ten churches could not cost much lees than 100,0001.,
which in ten years was 1,000,0001. During the last ten years
this amount of mossy for this purpose bad been raised.
What be Whiled was, that by a double effort 2,000,0001.
should be raised in the next years, so as to reach the evil
which had been suffered to accumulate is past years. Now
the appeal which bad been made in the end el June pro-
clued already a sum of nearly 100,0001.—(hear, bear)—ef
which 28,9001. had been actually paid. Considerieg the
short time they had been at work—and as they were
aware the months of July, August, September, and October
were sot the most favourable for operations of this kind in
the west, as the wealthy classes were thee out of town—
this was not a bad beginning. 'Hear, hear.) He wanted
100 additional clergymen and 100 additional Scripture-
routers to work in the most destitute parts of the metro-
Thu was what they wanted to establish in 10 years,
but is the short space of two months they had got 25 addi-
tional clergymen and 15 additional Scripture readers.
(Hear, hear.) This great effort at church extension
was to be directed to two objects, the providing
of living *gaits to be sent to preach the gospel,
sad the perfecting of the parochial machinery by the erec-
tion of houses consecrated to the service of God. (Hear.)
It 11111 said that the church of England was Dot sufficiently
elastic, and was too much tied by rules. At we time he
thought so too, but whether it wag 0'44 to iiHreage of yeah
or some other cause, he was afraid it woo now Mbar
too elastic. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) limy poems
were in the habit of answering appeals made to them by
saving, " I approve of your object, tt is very good. but do
not like your way of doing it." They now meet such per-
sons by saying, " Well, if you like the object, set about it
your own way, bat set about it at all eventa." He had said
they had come to • crisis. It w now or never. There
was a wonderful spirit of liberality abroad in this matter,
and the munificent donations which had been made by iodi-
viduals to the church, of which they had more than
instance in Isliegtoo, was most gratifying. This showed
that great public efforts would not interfere with private
munificence, but that both might go on hand in hand. He
stood there as a member of the ecclesiastical commission—
s body which was certainly net very popular. But perhaps
they were only like other men and bodies ci men who, un-
popular when they are poor, bemire popular when they get
i*.ch. (Laughter.) The ecclesiastical COMMiIigOINTS werepoor,
and of tours every one who came to them with requests
and was denied became their mortal enemy. But they were
now rich, hawing realised 1,000,0001. by rigid economy, and
there was every en:meet that this 1,000,0001. world become
6.000,0001., which would be applied to provide for the noose-
satire of the poorer parishes. (Loud cheers.) It was maw
thing that they were able to offer an endowment of .1001. •
year to every district which could form a pariah of 10,000
souls from one end of the kingdom to the other. To be sure
10,000 was • large number for a parish, but there was every
prospect that by January next the number would be reduced
to 8,000. The church of England had passed through a great
revolution io the arrangement of her financial system during
the last twenty years. That could not be effected without
great difficulty, and without raising obloquy and pre-
judices.. But the church of England under the new
system would be able to have those external
helps which were indispensable to her apietual progress.
But they must remember that after all these were but ex-
ternal helps—that endowments, the sending of rcioistere,
the creation of aerobes, were but memos to an end which
government would indeed bless if they set to work in the
irit of prayer. But they must set to work in that spirit,
and then perhaps they would have good reason to hope that
as this great metropolis had been raised to such a pcaition
of temporal grandeur as no other city ever occupied, it
might for many ages in time to come enjoy the highest spi-
ritual privilege'. (Applaumi)
The Rev. J. Lau moved the first reseletion, approving of
the report, and appointing a committee, which was seconded
by the Rev. R. BURGESS and adopted.
The Rev. W. CADMAN proposed the next resolution,
pledging the meeting to give continued and increased sup-
port to the society in carrying out its laudable and im-
portant object..
Toe meeting was also addressed by the Rev. D. Wilecoo,
vicar of Islington, the Rev. J. H. Ward, and Mr. Lovell

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Bofors Mr. Clowniaslaw GmThom)
no as common LID SAULT. DMDIUID.

The b;siritili ion;vcsio;;;;;Z:(47,7Tßoteleli.
lase, sad of Southasptoo. They failed upwards of six
years e4o, with liabilitias of easily 30,001 X. Thies hays
bees previous dividends, sad Mr. Gniliaaa, the amid
amp", Dow rsporead a sam of 6001. in based, which, after
dedosetag expesese, will be applicable to a small farther
dividend.

II BB W. WOOD.—AI ABSCOND'S° NISCSANT.
The bankrupt was daseribsi as a general nisrcbant, el
Corded'. Tkis was the sitting for examination and di-
thers*, bat them eras DO oppresses on the Fart ci the
banksapt, whole supposed te be aimed. The liabilities an
estimated at 9,0004, most of Thiele, it is stated, bate been
incurred within• few macibs el the bankruptcy.
An adjournment sine die Tae oedema&

The bankrupt was rlioTisiidvicanaller, of the Lion's
Cave, Marpistresrest, Oeveudiebagesre, and formerly of
six or sores other places. DAP, 1,3434, partly secured.
A gentleman who append far Mesen. 14amin and Han.
bury opposed, sud examined the bankrupt as to the disposal
of some property in Welworth, which he was possessed of
I. 1862. He bed_ reesived SW., sad invested it with other
money, in the purchase of the Manor Arms, Walworth, for
2,0004
Mr. Goedday 'eked for an adjournment, in older that the
bankrupt might give an promult of the disposal of the whole
of his property.
Adjourned axardiegly.

SURREY SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before J. E. Johnson, Esq.)
GAROTTE ROBBERY ON AN OLD WOMAN,

Jaws Manning, 23, was indicted for assaulting
both McFarlam, a poor old woman, about 80 yeses of age,
and robbing her of certain money the property of dames
McAdam.
Mr. Thompson prosecuted, and Mr. Lilley defended the
prisooer.
The prosecntrix said that she and her husband had for
many years sold fruit in the street, and they resided is
Duke-street, in the Mint. On Saturday night, about 12
o'clock oo the 28th ult., they were passing down the Mint
towards home, when the prisoner and swo others surrounded
them. She had about 26. in copper money is her right kand
at, the time, which she bad taken during the day. One of
the fellows pushed her husband down, another seined her
by the neck, and the prisoner forced the mosey out of her
bared, and then they all ran off. Knowing the prisoner she
punned him and saw him stopped by a police-constable,
when she gave him into custody.
Thomas Dmovan, 9r M, mkt be was on duty in the Mint
on the night in question, when be heard air d " Polito !"
and met the prisoner running as hard as he could from the
spot where the cries came from. He 'topped him, and
immediately sfterwards the old lady earns up. and sent,
"Hs has robbed me of all my money." She then described
the manner in which she had been robbed, and pee the psi.
limier into custody. On searching him at the station-home
he found tenpeace in coppers in his pocket.
In defence the prisoner said that he knew nothing of
the robbery, and when stopped by the constable was runnier
home. He accounted for the possession of the coppers by
saying that a few minutes before be changed a 'billing at a
publitshouse in the Borough for a pint of porter.
The jury, without the slightest hesitation, found him
when Mr. Hesse read to the court a list of no leas
than eleven former convictions, among which were three tor
six months.
The Chairman observed that be bad bean an incorrigible
thief for the last seven years, and it was no use dealing
leniently with snob a character. He therefore sentenced
him to four years' penal servitude.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

WORSHIP-STREET.
AMBIT= BOICIDI Bi • CHILD.
Jo?tonna Dotiorms, a girl apparently not more 12 yeah
old, but stated to be 14 years, was charged before Mr.
Cooke, with attemptioff to destroy herself by whoa.
A police-constable said—On Thursday last I was called
to a house in Pearl-street, Spital6elds, where I saw this
child stretched upon the floor insensible, in which state she
continued more than an Door, although under medial
attendance, and she was then removed to the London Hos-
pital, where she has until now remained.
(A certificate was produced, showing that the girl had
swallowed • quantity of corrosive sublimate.)
Mr. Safford (clerk)—Has she said anything to you as:to the
motive of this?
Constable—She told me that she had not any mousey nor
any home. Her tether is outside the court now. He did
not go ones to see her while in the hospital, and appeared
to treat the matter very lightly.
Mr. Cooke—What led you to take poison, girl?
Girl-1 did not know what to do. I had been at service
and left only • week before I did it. He knew that I had
not anywhere to go to I sold some oranges in the street,
but only got • few halfpence, so I bought the poison and
kept it in my pocket several days before I took it.
Mr. Safford—Have you any mother
air ; She died two years next March.
Mr. Cooke directed that the man should be called in. and
on entering the witness-box he knelt and crossed himself.
Mr. Cooke—How is it that you have not taken care at
year chikl ?
Father—Oh, she ought nicer to have left me ; sure she
hada good friend in me—sure enough.
Girl—You knew I had no other home, and yet you would
Dot let we in. (The man here made some remark in such
strong Irish that sot sty one but the child understood him,
and she replied—" Then you were drunk.")
Mr. Cooke—Why, you did not even go to see her in the
FCal.
ather—Yon see I was ashamed, because she had no
TOMS to do it.
Mr. Cooke—Have von other children?
Father—Sure and I have. Oh, Pre been • good friend to
her.
Mr. Cooke—l shall remand this girl and ascertain what
can be done for her.
Girl—Please, sir, I should like to go into a school some-
where.
Prisoner was remanded.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
SEASONABLE BENEVOLENCL
During the past few days mayoral sums of money have
been received for the poor-box of this court, amongst others
the usual annual donations from the Merchant Taylors', the
Goldsmiths', and the Mercers' Companies. A huge number
of poor persons—many of them aged, and several of them
with families—bare been assisted—no an. receiving any-
thing till proper ioquiries have been made (under the di-
rection of the chief clerk, Mr. lesdlev) by the warrant
armors of the court—aShaughnessy, Trower, and Hub-
Matey —to ucerteia whether the persons applying are
really deserviog.
SOUTHWARK.
aI•ILWAY nun R.
A tall, fuhimiably-draweed young woman, who gave the
name of Emma Morris, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Burnham, charged with attempting to pick the pockets of
several ladies oa the platform of the London and South-
Western R.ilway, Waterloo-bridge terminus.
William Combs, formerly a sergeant of the L
said he was employed by the railway company, at the We-
, terloo terminus, es • detective officer. On Saturday evening
about 8 o'clock he was on duty on the platform, Just before
• train was about to start for Southampton, when he sew
the prisoner pushing among the passengers, especially the
female portion. Suspecting her from her rii ,he watched
her, end distinctly saw her put her hands under ladies'
shawls and dresses. Witham called the attention of Mr.
Bent to her, and as she was leaving the platform, knowing
she was watched. she was given into custody.
The prisoner here said she was a respectable snaffled
woman, and it was all false what the witness had stated.
Mr. Thomas Bent, the superintendent of the vadaty
company's police, said that he was performing his
doty oa
the platform at the time mentioned
when called his
attention to the prisoner, whom he at once identified as One
of the most expert railway thieves in London.
Mr. Burnham asked him whether he had ever seen her at
I their railway station before.
Mr. Bent replied in the affirmative. She wed to come
with antn old
e ma, years of age, but whenever she
sa
Iwitness was about. but if he was absent the prisoner was
generally suocessfuL
wwis she n
made off. 80
There were no robberies while
Mr. Burnham asked if she had ever been convicted.
Mr. Bent replied that she hid several times. belt he bad
lost sight of her for some time. Perhaps she bad recently
been in some prison.
Mr. Burnham asked the prisoner whether she had any-
, thing to say in answer VI the e!targe.
' The moo' ger answered that it was no use saying anything
after what bad been stated.
Mr. Burnham had no doubt she was a practised thief, and
be should take care she did not ply her avocation for some
time to coms lie acconliogly sentenced her to three
months' bard labour.

MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL. —The winter
speeches +hick are made at the conclusion of the balf-
yearly examination at this school were delivered yesterday
al tenioon. Amongst a large company present were—Mr.
Baggallay, Q.C. ; the master of the Merchant Taylors'
Compaq ; the wardens; the Yet, Archdeacon Browne
and the Rena. C. Matheson, the examiners ; the Bev. Jas.
Augustus Hersey, D.O L., master of the school ; the
Dr. Kyneston, high master of St. Paul'. ; the Rm. Haig
Brown, head master of the Charterhoues ; the Rev. R.
Cognate)°, the Rev. T. Nolan. and • number of the Mer-
chant Taylor from the universities, end other friends of
the boys. The speeches °assisted of manes from Aria.
tophanee, Moliere, sod Lytton Balwer's "Mosey," and
were delivered with great spirit and effectiveness. These
were followed by a variety of translations by the boys from
oar best English poets, which did credit both to the
scholarship sod to the elocution of the writers.
MR. CHARIER DICKENS AT CHATHAM.—The occa-
sion of Mr. Charles Dickies, the presidest of the Mechanics'
Institute, giving a readies at the Lecture Mall, Chatham,
on Tuesday evening lmt, served to draw together • brilliant
and most numerous audience every portion of the hall
being crowded, even to Mammonism" long before the hour
announced for the reading to take place. Oe Mr. Dickens
iog on the platform he wee greeted with a burst of op.
use of the most hearty deacription, the audisoos ap
welcome him no longer es a stranger, but rather salTnidell
and deservedly esteemed friend.
THE LEEDS MURDER.—REPRIEVE OP TRH CHL-
11117.—ne Seerstary of State for the Home Depertamot
bail thought flt, on the recommendation of Mr. Justice
Mellor, to commutes the sentence of death peed upon
Patrick Farley. for the murder of Anthony Gadding at
Leeds, on the 33rd August lad., to penal servitude (miffs
The fact will be announced to the wretched can this
morning by the governor of York Castle, theca:ill Milos.
dm having been emit of last night.

STELIOUg ACCIDENT TO LORII LAMPTON.—An acci-
dent of a very Barham nature befell his lordship, who is the
eldest me of the Earl of Durham, on Monday. near Wash.
ington, a salmis situate a few miles from Newcastle.oe.
Tyee, end a short distance from Lambton Castle, the seat
of the earl. It appears that his lordship, who is about
eight years of age, was in the booties-field accompanYieg
the Newcastle barrier', and that. very coon after the bounds
were thrown off, his pony, on taking a ditch, fell over upon
him and fractured his thigh. The sport was at once brought
to an abrupt termination, m.dioal assistance procured, and
bias lordship afterwards conveyed to Lanibton Castle, where
he is progressing favourably.