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their feet in the mud, they have no change of clothes, and •
how any man can stand it I know not. For instance, I
was on duty in the trenches the other night ; it rained and
snowed all night ; wet through and cold, we waded
through a river of snow and slush to our tents, about a
mile and a-half up hill, dead beat. I heard the man com-
paring notes ; none of them had a change, and they came
to the comfortable conclusion of turning into their tents,
white with snow outside, and damp inside, to lie down in
their wet clothes and rest ! Poor fellows, my heart bleeds
for them !"
Something has been done towards the improved care
of the sick, and mere still remains to be done, but it is
now certain that the representations which were stigma-
tised as malicious falsehoods were too well grounded.
Lord Raglan has displaced ens medical officer for
neglect of duty, and censured another. This, so far as
it goes, is right ; but we should be glad to see some
praise as well as blame, and that the meritorious ser-
vices of medical officers do not escape notice more than
their faults. Was a word of honour given to the memory
of Dr. Thomson, for a noble example, who volunteered
the charge of 700 wounded Russians on the field of the
Alma, assisted only by a single servant, as devoted to
duty as himself I This hero in the cause of humanity
died of cholera, immediately referable to his exertions
and exposure amongst putrefying bodies. Had he lived,
would he have obtained the praise which is bestowed on
a staff officer for galloping with a message on the field
of battle, or for helping the Commander-in-Chief in doing
nothing in a soldiers' battle and victory I It is two well
proved that our army pines under " the cold shade of the
aristocracy." The smallest services of the men with
names and positions are overweeningly prized, the
noblest services of the unconnected and humble are un-
noticed and unhonoured.—Examiner.

sa-'I7.RAORDINARY CASE OF PERJURY.

By the direction of Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, the
Commissioner of the City police, the circumstances of an
alleged robbtTh of which a man named Mallett was
found guilty lase. month, have been under inquiry for
some days, and R. W. Carden, who committed
that person, on oviLlence which appeared to be conclu-
sive, has entered into the magisterial investigation with
great earnestness. In !pastor Scott, of the Bishops-
gate station, together :with the detectives Jarvis,
Finnis, and Watkins, all oa! whom are officers of well-
known experience and sagacity, were employed by Mr.
Hodgson, the superintendent, to sift the matter of accu-
sation. The following will disclose the important par.

titulars :
On the 11th of December notice was given to tho
Police that a woman named Harrison, the wife of a stags
carpenter, had been violently assaulted and robbed ii
her own house, No. 2, Bull-yard, A.ldgate. Upon pro-
ceeding to that place, the officers found Mrs. Harrison
with her hands tied together, about foar inches apart,
with the cord twisted round between her hands. She said
that a man knocked at the door and asked for Mrs. Har-
rison, and told her he had brought some work from his
sister, and that upon being asked to walk in he did
so, closed the door after him, blew out the light, and
demanded her money, at the same time presenting two
pistols at her ; that he then struck her with a largo
stick which was in the parlour, on the back of the head,
knocked her down, tore her pocket, and took from it
about a pound's worth of silver, after which he dragged
her along the floor, jammed her between two chairs, and
then left her, went upstairs as far as the first floor, re-
turned, and then went out at the street door. A man
who partly answered the description was shown to her,
but she said he was not the guilty person ; but she sub-
sequently pointed out Mallet in a penny theatre as the
thief and assailant, and that uafortnnate man was ap-
prehended and convicted, and sentenced to transporta-
tion for 15 years.
A. complaint of robbery, under somewhat similar cir-
cumstances, having been mad* some days ago by the
same woman, Inspector Scott immediately comrauni-
cated the suspicions to which the particulars he had
heard gave rise, to the higher police authorities, and
after a strict enquiry made, with the assistance of the
other officers, whom we have named, made a report fur
the information of the commissioner, to the following
effect. The last robbery and assault were stated by
Mrs. Harrison to have taken place on Monday evening,
the Bth instant :
"I received information at this station about seven
o'clock on the above-named evening that Mrs. Harrison
had again been robbed and assaulted a short time pre-
viously, and went immediately, accompanied by Sergeant
Lannderson, to her house. We saw her being brought
down stairs, apparently in a very weak state. On in-
quiry she toad me that she went upstairs to the second
floor roost with an infant in her arms, leaving another
_ _ _ _

child, four years of age, asleep on the sofa-lied in the
parlour. No person was in the house, the female lodger
having left the house about ten minutes before, when
she fastened the door inside with a chain ; that on her
return to the parlour, with the child on one arm and
a candle in her hand, she faw a man and a buy in the
parlour, and during the short time (ten minutes) she
was upstairs two boxes in the parlour were broken
open, and the contents were strewed about the room ;
that the man, who wore a mask, struck her in the
face and made her Rose bleed ; that is the struggle she
pulled the mask from his face, and threw it in the pas-
sage, when he said something to the boy, she did not
That she idarntified the man. utter patlteg
off the mask, as the person who bad offered to her a
sovereign about the time of the examination of Mallet,
who was tried at the Old Bailey for robbing and assault-
ing her on the evening if Monday, the 11th of Decem-
ber last, when sentence of death was recorded against
him. She said that the boy cut her shoulder through her
clothes with a knife. After which she ran upstairs with
the child and candle, followed by the boy, who had hold
of the hair of her heal, pulling her all the time until she
arrived in the second-floor roots, where he pushed her
down whilst she was crying 'Murder !' and 'Police !'

That he then raised the window, and stepped out, and

that the man was down stairs all the time. That that
was all she remembered, only that. going upstairs, she
beard some oue upstairs at a small back wind•w, which
she heard broken, and some of the pieces which fell upon
her.

"The result of the searching inquiry into the whole
matter is the following :—Having minutely examined by
means of a rope and ladder the roof of the house, and
more especially the second-fieor window, from which Mrs
Harrison states the boy escaped, we could not discover
any footmarks on the sill of the window, nor on the water-
spout, to indicate that any person had been there at all.
The dust from the dry weather having accumulated
en those places, the slightest touch would have left
an impression. The window en the second-floor is
about 22 feet from the ground, and it could not be
lifted up more than a foot, so that no person could
slip ont without falling into the street. The spout be-
neath the window is five inches wide, and is seven feet
from the coping stones en the roof. It appears to be
impossible for any one to have escaped this way to the
house-top, without assistance, and then it would be even
dangerous. In reference to the small back window
which Mrs. Harrison stated was broken when the bey
was pursuing hei• up stairs, great pains were taken, and
a most minute examination was made of the glass and
window, when it wan discovered that nearly all the glass
had fallen outside in the gutter, evidently broken from
within.
,
"is regards the assault, I inquired of Mr. Cook, a
surgeon, residing in the Minories, who was at the house
of Mrs. Harrison on, the night in question, whether the
wound in the righeshoulder was cut ? Me said there
was no incised wound, and that the shoulder was merely
scratched with something very slightly. On comparing
the dress and chemise worn by Mrs. Harrison at the
time of the alleged assault with the scratch on the shoal-
der, Mr. Cock, in the presence of Jarvis and Finnis,
stated that, beyond the least doubt, the incision in the
two garments would not correspond within three inches,
nor was there any blood en either garment, and the
scratch on the shoulder was in a contrary direction t)
the cuts in the dress and under garment. The blew
on the nose was very slight. Mr. Cook said that any
vermin could have inflicted upon themselves marks of a
similar nature with their own hands.
"A surgeon, named Blackman, of Whitechapel, was
present when Mr. Cook examined Mrs. Harrison, and
he said he was positive the woman never received a blow
in the face at all. As to the man whom Mrs. Harrison
left down stairs, no one ever saw him, nor could the
mask be found. A waiter and a man named Remain,
from the Bull Tavern, immediately opposite Mrs. Har-
rison's house, said that upon hearing a female scream
in that direction, they burst open the street door, which
was chained inside. Remain ran up stairs with sonic
other neighbours, and found Mrs. Harrison lying dowu
with the child en the ground. The waiter remained at
the door until the police bad searched the house, but
he saw no one come out of the house. If they had,
he says he must have seen them, as there is ne place
where any person could escape from the rear of the
house, the rooms being all in the front. With respect
to the robbery, I and the officer examined the boxes,
and found that they had been forced open with a chisel,
leaving marks of rust behiud. Subsequently a chisel
,(used by Harrison in his trade) was found in the house,
which exactly fitted the marks in the boxes, and upon
this chisel is a mark of rust corresponding with that
on the boxes. Harrison said at first he lost 21.,
but afterwards he said it was only four half-crowns,
three shillings, and a fourpenny piece ; a black coat,
torn in the sleeve, two dresses, net made up, and that in
the coat-pocket were a handkerchief and a pair of gloves.
Steps were then taken to trace the missing property.
The coat and one of the dresses were subsequently found
pledged, and from a description of the person which the
pawnbroker gave, it was supposed to be none other than
Mrs. Harrison herself. Mr. Cook, the surgeon, was asked
if Mrs. Harrison was in a fit state to appear before a ma-
gistrate at the Mansion-house? He replied, he considered
she was. We then requested her to attend to state the par-
ticulars of the occurrence which happened to her on the
evening in question. She did so, which is as taken down
in writing by Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk ; and Mrs.
Harrison and her husband and the pawnbroker were
lconfronted
Hinethepresence of the magistrate (Sir R. W.
His wife iHntaertrrinantede
Cardee): askedu Harrison if the ceat produced be-
longed to him
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Attartaet)e then asked the pawnbroker
The gloves and handkerchief
Tranre.enioion pawned the coat. He
(James Lawes,
said (pointing to Mrie.,he:
pawnbroker
That woman.' She
exclaimed, Me !'
It was pledged on the 4th of Janurarysaii(2!' Yes, you.
young woman was in the shop at the time you ; a
there, and after you were gone the woman asykoeud were
I knew you. She then told me you were the person
upon upon whom that outrage was committed in the Bull-
y d The pawnbroker said he knew Mrs. Harrison
ar
from seeing her in his shop two or three times before.
Yes, I know you very well.' Two dress
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lengths, ligtrhesp,neodi made up, were then produced by the pawn-
broker,eve were also pledged by Mrs.
which he believed
garrison, her name being on one of the duplicates. The
house was then searched, and in a box were found three