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THE, SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1864.

MISCELLANEOUS—Continued.
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Business
done.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

Silo? ROBBERY.—Catherine Collins, address refused,
was charged with stealing from the shop of Mr. Henry
William Birch, hosier, 23, Old Compton-street, 50 scarfs of
the value of £4.

Charles White, assistant to Mr. Birch, said that about 6
o'clock the previous evening the prisoner entered the shop
and asked to see some scarfs. He showed the prisoner
two boxes, but none of the scarfs in thorn would suit her,
and she then asked to see ono from the window. Having
a suspicion of the prisoner, while at the window he turned
round and saw her putting something under her apron. He
then walked round the counter and told the prisoner that
she had something under her apron. At first she said that
she had not, but directly after pulled the scarfs out and
throw them on the floor—there being 50 of them, of the
value of Li. The prisoner then asked to be forgiven, but
on Mr. Birch sending for a constable she became very vio-
lent, and tried to bite Mr. Birch's hand. She was then
given into custody.

Donelly, 628, proved being called to Mr. Birch's, and
said that on taking the prisoner into custody she denied
stealing the scarfs, and said the assistant had dropped them.
She refused her address, and on being searched only is 7d
was found in her possession.
Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner,

CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—Thomas Wicks, in the employ
of Mr. Mathe.son, 11, Rathbone-place, furniture dealer,
was charged at the instance of Mr. Wm. Love, chief officer
of the Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Ani-
mals, with cruelty to a horse, by using it while in an unfit
state.

From the evidence of George Cloyce, one of the society's
officers, it appeared that he was on duty in Poland-street,
when he observed the defendant driving a horse attached
to a cart, The horse appeared to be paralysed, lame in its
fore legs, and could scarcely get along, the lock tendons of
both legs being contracted, and the poor animal altogether
in a state of debility. While talking to the defendant the
owner came up and expressed his wish to have the horse
destroyed at once. The owner was then in attendance.
Defendant said he had driven the horse for 14 or 15 years,
but had never noticed it going lame before.
The owner said it was his wish to have the horse de-
stroyed at once.

Mr. Knox ordered the horse to be destroyed at once, and
the defendant left the court with Cloyce for that purpose,
and reported that the poor animal had been put out of its
misery.

LITERATURE,

Military Ends and Moral Means. By Colonel
J. J. Graham, author of "The Art of War." Ono

Vol. Pp. 464. Smith, Elder, and Co.
Colonel Graham has a true eppreciatien of the
real dignity of calling. He is animated by a
genuine esprit•de.corps, and would fain hive every
soldier, from the highest to the lowest, regarded
with respect by the rest of the community; and,
above all, he would have every soldier regard his
chosen profession with feelings of reverence and
affection. Especially does the Colonel quarrel with
the "theory of enlistment" as put forth '
by many of
those who have given their evidence before the
Recruiting Commission, and who impute the young
recruit's enlistment to the lowest motives. The
pros and cons of both sides of the question are very
logically considered by the Colonel, who sums up
his evidence with the declaration that " the pro-
fession of a soldier is a noble one, and, as a rule, it
is desirable that every man should get credit for
entering it from noble and worthy motives, end
his cisciplino should be regulated accordingly
until a change of system is called for by his own
misconduct." "As the vigour and beauty of the
tree in the natural world depend on the roundness
of the roots, so the efficiency and morale of an army
correspond with the intrinsic moral and physical
standard of the individual members composing its
ranks." The Colonel's very praiseworthy object in
publishing this most excellent and interesting
volume is t ) direct the practical attention of all who
have the Soldier's interest at heart to the importance
of that moral element by which he, as well as every
other thinking being, is so much influenced. The
soldier is not to be regarded as a machine but as a
man, in proof of which in how many instances have
not battles been won by moral influence when, esti-
mated by the laws of physical force, they were
hopeless! Snch instances abcind in the various
historical references with which the work is illus-
trated. Under the heading, " Moral Influence,"
the wonderful power exercised by some commanders
is particularly dwelt upon. Sir Walter Scott, in
writing on the influence of the Chief over his
Soldiers, exclaims—
"They love a captain :o obey,
Boisterous as March and frank as May,
Ever tho first to scale a tower,
As venturous in a lady's bower,
Such valiant chief shall lead his host
From India's fire to Zambia's frost."
This volume, so honourable to its author and his
profession, is very appropriately dedicated (with
special permission) to the Duke of Cambridge,
Cotamanding•in•Chief, who has in so many in-
stances evidenced his personal anxiety to uphold
the dignity and ameliorate the condition of the Sol-
dier. Colonel Graham has evidently bestowed
much time and labour upon his task, which has
to him been a labour of love. He has collected
evidence and information from very nume-
rous and most various sources in reference to part
and present times and to the military arrangements
of our own and other countries. His work will welt
repay a careful perusal, and is admirably calculated
to aid the cause which is so dear to his soldier-heart. ,

The Stream of life on our Globe. By J. L, Milton,
111.R.C.5. Oae Vol. pp. 614. liardwieke.

At first sight the reader is disposed to regard
with dismay a work which professes to propound
to him " the archives, traditions, and laws of the
stream of life on our Globe, as revealed by modern
discoveries in geology, and palreontology," &c., but
on a closer investigation we find that Mr. Milton
has arranged his very imposing materials
with such a careful and happy discrimination
that the result of his labours affords us a
very interesting matter of contemplation. Be-
ginning almost before the beginning, with
the amazing revelations of Geology we find new
cause (as may readily be found every day) to mar-
vel over " the things of heaven and earth that are
undreamt of in our philosophy." Here for example
is a startling picture of