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London, England, 1863-01-02 00:00:00

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ductions c., ere coming to a stand-still, abil ou x- S
pert trade to a dead-lock. But clear facts quickly
dissipate these vaporous vaticinations. We find
that the declared value of British and Irish produce
exported from the United Kingdom during the first
ten months alone of last year amounts to not less
than £103,519,269. It is but a little while ago that
these figures exceeded our exported produce for the
whole year. That the amount is enormous speaks
for itself. It is at the rate of above £124,000,000
a year; this representing neither our total trade nor
our total production, but the declared or approxi-
mate value of that portion of our own domestic
produce that we have spared from our 'own
consumption for exportation to foreign countrits.
We have exported to our own colonies and other
dependencies, during the first 10 month of 1862,
goods to the total (declared) value of £34,591,614.
Of this produce £12,421,000 have gone to India,
£4,847,000 going to Bombay and Scinde,
£6,794,000 to Bengal and Pcgu, and £780,000 to
Madras. We have exported to our Australkn
this amount going
colonies to the value of £8,930,000; nearly half
to Victoria alone. To British
North America we have sent goods to the value of
£3,195,000, and to the West Indies to that of
£1,800)000. Sizeh are the principal items of which
our export trade to the colonies is made up. Tut n-
meree, the difference be.
ing to our foreign coo,
tween_the Northern and Southern ports of the
United States is matter of surprise, considering the
notorious and inevitable laxity of the blockade.
The export trade from this country to the Northern
ports is of the value of £11,292,000, While the
export trade to the Southern ports amounts to no
more than £41,000 ! With France our trade is
going on increasing boyond the bast hopes of the
negotiators of the commercial treaty. It amounts
during the ten months to not loss than £7,760,000,
and when we consider how inconsiderable the com-
mercial intercourse of England and France was
before that treaty came into operation, we must
agree in looking upon the extent to which it has
already attained as very extraordinary. With the
Turkish empire 'our trade amounts to not less
than £5,500,000 on the ten months ; and with the
little kingdom of Greece to £208,000, or to about
£250,000 on the whole year. Tho Hanse Towns,
however, as before, carry off the palm, and import
our goods more largely than any other European
State. Our exports to them amount, during the
ten months, to £8,330,000. We are glad to
perceive that our trade with the South American
republics is reviving, and that they are
slowly following in the wake of the prosperous
empire of Brazil, which has meanwhile imported
our produce to the value of £3,130,000. It may per-
haps surprise those who have learnt to form an over-
estimate of our trade with Russia to be told that it
amounts for the same period to less than £2,000,000,
or little more than one-third of that of the Ottoman
dominions. Such is the different result of bad and
good commercial legislation.
We may, then, on the whole, take leave of the
year which we have just left behind us with strong
feelings of gratitude for what it has brought us, in
spite of the terrible distress which we are encoun-
tering in one quarter of the kingdom. We cannot
hope for trade everywhere; we ought to be thank-
ful for the effective counterpoise which we experi-
ence in other branches of industry, and we see every
reason, during the year on which we have now en-
tered, to hope for a continuance of our national good
fortune.

The Whole Art of Garotting.

We have been told, and the statement is curious if true,
that the garotter first acquired his art in a convict ship,
where her Majesty's jailors practised it on Aim occasionally,
whenever he became very outrageous. Finding how easily
ho was subdued by this method, and how little it injured
him if coolly applied, the convict noted the trick, with an
eye to business when he should become a ticket-of-leave
man. perhaps it is because the lessons they have received
were all at their own sore cost that regular garotters work
with great care. They practise upon each other frequently
before they venture into the streets—not only to acquire
the art of garotting in every possible position and attitude,
but that they may learn how long and with what degree of
force they may hug their victim's throat without endanger-
ing his life or seriously injuring him. They consort in
companies of three—a "front stall," a "back stall," and tt
"nasty man." These designations are perfectly significant
of the part each man is expected to play. The " nasty
man" is, of course, the actual operator ; and, accordingly
he is the leader in all enterprises, and takes a larger share•
of the plunder. A regular gang does not often make
speculative ventures. They call that " throwing a chance
away," meaning that they run extraordinary risks.
Only when tho rogues are " hard up," or made
audacious by drink, or encouraged beyond their cooler
judgment by such a run of success, as they have achieved
in London lately, do they "throw a chance away." The
favourite method is to select a promising victim, mark his
incomings and outgoings, and await a fair opportunity of
time and place. By many unsuspected means, as well as
those which are open to everybody, they get to know that
such and such a man carries a good "stake" about with
him, in money, watch, jewellery, &c., and that he is gene-
rally to be found walking in a certain directions at certain
seasons. He is marked. Time and place are fixed for the
deed ; but opportunity is never forced. If success appears
doubtful on one occasion, they wait till another comes
round, and will dog one man for nights and even weeks
together. At last fortune favours the unjust, and the thing
is done. The " front stall" walks a few yards in advance
of the prey ; it is his duty to look for dangers ahead. The
"back stall" comes on at a still further distance behind, or
sometimes in the carriage-way—aloof, but at the victim's
l lifts hise
t
side. Immediately in his rear walks the "nasty
keep 1
tuuTinf
approaching nearer and nearer, with steps which
hate
withf thoserom
his o of
headhim whomia tekehn
e thatfol] o w n
all
is
second stall makes no sign to the contrary ; and then the
third ruffian, coming swiftly up, flings his right arm
elefiar rst
beyonds tl
; the
striking him smartly on the fore-
hroeuand.d Inhse victim,tioetively he throws his head back, and in that
movement
chance of escape. His throat is
fully offered to loses
his
aesrsyailant, who instantly embraces it with
his loft arm, the bone just above the wrist being pressed,
against the " apple" of the throat. At the same moment
the garotter, dropping his right hand, seizes the other's left
wrist ; and thus supplied with a powerful lever, draws him
back upon his breast and there holds him. The " nasty
man's" part is done. His burden is helpless from the first
moment, and speedily becomes insensible ; all he has now
to do is to be a little merciful. An experienced garotter
knows immediately when his prey is insensible (or so he
boasts), and then he relaxes his embrace somewhat ; but
.if
symptoms of recovery should follow too rapidly, the hug
Their
tightened forthwith. Meanwhile the stalls are busy. _
first care, after the victim is seized and safely helda,risly
kick
off his hat and their comrade's too ; hats aewtkwwen dfor the
about in the scuffle, and it is obviously field of strife,
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garotter to leave anything that ishison stall," and is aim..
o n t
thep
This operation is assigned to the "front
to perform another and
le enough; but he has sometimes
shouwtho
nasty man" have a
a far more onerous one. a Eta, plainer, should he find a
c` tumble," or, in language his subject is 1, "- • the
, t duty of the
difficulty in "screwing UP
--him by a heav blow,ygenerally de-
front stall" to
asshiestwaist. Th c screwing •
livered just under t d t
up is easy after
the seCon s all
that, and ther.l proceeds to rifle the victim's
This done, the garotter allows his insensible bur-
pockets. Ili
to
to drop the ground, carefully avoiding a fall, lest
thatut should arouse him.--Gornhi// Ma •
,qazt,lB for January

EMANCIPATED NEGROES.—There are from 8,000
to 10,000 of these helpless beings at points between
llelena and Cairo. Their number is daily increasing.
There are in the North, and within the lines of our several
armies, nearly a hundred thousand of the same class, and
in the same state of destitution. Our armies are increasing
in numbers as fast as possible, and when the programme is
Complete upwards of four millions of naked, homeless,
thriftless human beings will constitute the vast total of
those who, it seems, have claims upon our sympathy and
charity, and without which, in the form of material relief,
they will suffer and die. These negroes never before were
in nakedness, nor in danger of starvation. Slavery took
care of its victims. The awful tyranny of the South fed
and d
and clothed and housed the subjects of its despotice will.
is philanthropy which brings its children intnot
h
abandon them, while with a self-righteous sugi e world
it pratesld to
of elevating, educating, and Gospelising
thew: They want,
bread and shelter, and something to cover their
'am
ednes
and it sends them a chaplain and a school ma am to teach
them the Lord's Prayer, the Apostles' ()reed, and a hymn
about Jesus, while it stays at Koine, passes hypocritical and
lying resolutions to keep
iits winning
countenance, and hugs
itself with the idea that it s Inning the admiration of
future generations and the rest of mankind.--Cincennati
Inquirer.
Advices have been received from Athens via
Trieste to the 24th ult. They state that M. Bul-
garis, the President of the Provisional Government, who
had wished to abstain, was compelled to vote publicly for,
Prince Alfred. The elections for the Constituent Assew._
bly were almost everywhere terminated, and the new buracb.
ing destined for the sittings was ready to receive the Ar.isena-
blY• General Kalergis, the Greek Minister at Pads, who
is a native of Candia, was unanimously elected as repre-
sentative for the people of Crete.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 7m.—Afternoon, 12h. 36m.
10-MORROW.-Morning, 12h. 59m.—Afternoon, lh. 25m.