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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26, 1862.

The Ticket of Leave System we may confidently '
regard now as doomed. It has received its quietus,
of late effectually, from the knuckle• dusters of the
Garotter. Englishmen will no longer tolerate a
slovenly mode of punishment like this : one
that is perpetually casting loose upon society the
most ruffianly scourings of the gaols—seonndreis
prepared to celebrate their release from the felon's
cell by murderous assaults upon inoffensive passers
by in our most crowded eities, and in our most public
thoroughfares. If we can boast nowadays of our im-
munity from the perils besetting the wayfarer a cen-
tury since on the road to Hounslow, when Tom KING
an DICK TIIIIPIN, and other redoubtable high-

wziymert, were in the saddle—lords of the situa.

tion—levying black mail day and night upon his
MAJESTY'S lieges : we must boast of that immunity
from a peril, long since out of fashion, with but a
very small grace indeed—seeing that a danger of

a far more brutal kind has been brought so much
nearer home to us! Thanks to the Ticket of Leave
System, and its pampered pets the Garotters !

The Highwaymen of old, compared to these ruf•

fianly Garotters, were refined gentlemen, as corn
pared with the veriest blackguards of the back
slums. There was a touch of chivalry about
Monsieur CLAUDE DUVAL—one of whose most
redoubtable exploits was celebrated, a season or
two back, by the gifted Academician whose
brush pourtrayed that Hero of the Road grace-
fully dancing a minuet or a coranto with a lady
whose release from captivity is assured to her
upon that one condition. "Your money or your
life," though an unpleasant alternative enough—
still was an alternative. Nowadays there is none,
A blinding blow—a throttling grapple—and the
victim lies there upon the flag-stones in a
state of insensibility, his clothes torn open at the
breast, his watch gone, his pockets rifled : the
garotter gone as well as the watch; and nothing
for it, when the tardy policeman comes up, but to
obtain a stretcher as quickly as possible and to exer-
cise his discretion promptly as to whether the vic-
tim shall be borne off to the nearest police station
or the nearest hospital.
The evil is becoming, nay, has already
become, most serious. The magistrates—though
dealing as rigorously as they may (and do)
with the exceptional few among the garotters
who are caught—acknowledge themselves, more
and more frankly upon every opportunity, power-
less to deal with these deadly criminals now haunt-
ing our widest streets and lurking in our obscurest
133' ways. It is not forgotten yet how, in the midst
of last session, a member of the House of
Commons was struck down by one of these
garotters--while crossing the open space
where Pall-mall and Waterloo place converge,
Just in front of the Guards' Memorial—when
on the way to his Club from the Houses of Parlia-
ment. A
frequently
by burning, as the miserable cases of death
in consequence of the cruel persistence
of our fair county",
In
and destructive°fashienin maintaining the ridicu-
louson of crinoline—as fre-
quently as the instances
of child-murder brought to
light perpetually in all
P this metropolis—
aro the evidences of thei ;its of
man of the Ticket-
of-Leave system in affordinga sortityof semi-official
license to the most skilled among the adepts in the
science or art of Garotting, These, in fact, are the
three crying evils of the hour—becoming fast (each
of them) more and more frightfully multiplied.
"
Infanticide ! Burning to death through crinolineGarotting—or, as the slang phrase for it is, Put-
tin,
the Mug on !"—in the highways and byeways
of 14.)ndoti and Wes!minster Resulting, as the
from the operation of the
latter evil glaringly does,
horrible Ticket-of-Leave-Leave system, it becomes manifest
that the Legislature, must, immediately
after its re-assembling in February, adopt
the most energetic measures with a view to the
suppression of this social curse by a careful
and vigorous and discreet revision of our criminal
la ws, so far as that revision can in any way tend to
affect these infamous Garotters.
Meanwhile—if every person attacked would
act as promptly and as energetically as a gentleman
connected w ith the Customs did only the other day,

when suddenly robbed of his purse by a woman
passing by, and immediately afterwards set upon
by three ruffians, manifestly her accomplices! Mr.
BIRT was the hero of this little incident : and we
honestly commend to her MAJESTY'S lieges gener-
ally the adoption at once of a system of Birtiny, by
way of retaliation to the savage marauders. It
will be the most effectual means, we are satisfied,
' of at once putting down this brutal system of
Garotting. The case was simply this—for it Is '
really worth giving exactly as it was related
by the reporter at the Mansion House, whither
the accused were brought before the bench on
Saturday. Their intended victim,EDWlN
JOIIN BIRT, belongings o the EXAMIIIer s-office in
the Customs, stated th " about a quarter-past 7
o'clock he was in Church-passage (a narrow, dark
alley, leading from Fenchurch-street, underneath
the Blackwall and North London Railway to
Crutched-friars), and had his purse in his hand,
taking some coin out, when he was suddenly ac-
costed by a female, who, snatching his purse away,
darted off down the alley. He followed, but
i suddenly the prisoner HART came out of a door-
way, where he concealed himself, and, stopping
him, asked ' what his game was.' Pro-
secutor not liking the man's appearance,
turned round to get away, when he was confronted
by two other men who were close behind, and who
instantly seized him by the throat, and endeavoured
to throttle him, at the same time his coat was torn
open to get at his watch. Getting away from their
grasp, he struck out with a heavy-loaded stick, hit-
ting at them indiscriminately. He felled one of
the men by a blow on the head, who called out,
'Oh GOD! my head, BILL.' What became of him
he could not say, for he followed the two prisoners,
who tried to escape ; but he kept up with them,
hitting at them with all his might. He at length
secured HALL, and some passers-by pursued LEAT
for nearly a quarter of a mile, when he ran into a
constable's arms, and was secured." Both the
ruffians captured were eventually, as a matter of
course, committed for trial : regret being expressed
at the same time by the presiding alderman, that the
woman and the man whose head had been hammered
were not also themselves taken prisoners. Such in
brief was this really exemplary instance of sum-
mary punishment administered to Garotters—a
system of punishment that we fain would once
more hold up to general imitation, upon every pos-
sible opportunity, under the name, style, and title,
of flirting!
In illustration of the flagrant audacity character-
ising some of these assaults at the hands of
Garotters, here is another case-in-point of
very recent occurrence indeed, a case thus briefly
related by our chief morning contemporary :
"In Sloane-street, Chelsea, a respectable woman
was standing with her husband and two friends,
waiting for an omnibus. They were at the
Knightsbridge end of the street, and, consequently,
in one of the most open and well-frequented places
to be found in the metropolis. In fact, besides that
the party were four in number of themselves, the
whole neighbourhood, we are told, was ' thickly
crowded' at the time. Could a highway rob-
bery be thought conceivable under such circum-
stances ? One would certainly say not, but it
actually occurred, and with the most incredi-
ble characteristics of audacity. The lady, while
standing at her husband's elbow, was suddenly
seized by the throat with great violence, while her
brooch was torn from her shawl, and her shawl
from her shoulders. As soon as she could manage
to scream, one of her friends, who was ' not more
than two yards from her at the time' came to
her rescue, her husband joined, and a policeman,
who himself was ',not more than 40 or 50 yards off
at the time, in uniform,' took the robber into
custody. The whole case astounded even Mr.
PAYNTER'S experienced mind. He said these ruf-
fians ' seemed to be getting more and more daring,'
as indeed they do. , Hero was a respectable
woman, surrounded by her friends, garotted and
robbed under the very eyes of the police, in a
great thoroughfare, one of the busiest in Lon-
don. It really was outrageous.' " The latter
being the words of the adjudicating magistrate.
Another instance must suffice for to-day—other-
wise (these crimes being of such terribly frequent
recurrence) we might fill column after column with
miserably apt illustrations. The prosecutor, in the
instance we are now referring to, thus tendered his
evidence in the Police Court at Marylebone:—

" I am," he said, " a jeweller's assistant, and reside at
17, Holles-place, Haverstock-hill. On the 12th of this
month, at about 11 o'clock at night, I was in Maitland-park.
The road led from Haverstock-road to the Maldon-road. I
was crossing the park when a man stepped in front of me
and asked for relief, saying, Would you please to relieve a
poor distressed fellow ?' I replied that I had no money
with me, and never carried any. I only saw one man.
Scarcely had I said this when the man seized me with
both his hands by the throat, and at the same instant I
received a tremendous blow on the back of my head. I
think the blow was given with the fist. It partially stunned
me, and the effect was that it made me ill. I have been un-
der the doctor's hands ever since. The man at the back of
me put his hands in my pocket and took my purse out. The
man in front released my throat with one hand and seized
hold of my watch-chain, which broke as he attempted to
pull it from me. My purse contained two sovereigns, 18s.,
a pair of coral and gold earrings, and some coral beads. I
had a struggle with the man in front of me, and saw some-
thing flash in his hand like a knife. He put it to my throat,
and I threw myself back. The instrument cut my collar
and grazed my throat. I called out ' Police,' and the men

ran away•"

Are these atrocious crimes any longer to be
tolerated ? Are the Garotters to run riot in our
metropolis—almost with impunity, as they have been
doing for months ? We cannot but feel at length
perfectly well persuaded that the evil has at last
attained a magnitude and a flagrancy that call
imperatively for what they will obtain, the vigorous
interposition of the Legislature.

So then the party conflict of next Session is to be
over reduction of taxation. So we are told, and
we could wish it to be true. We do not, however,
believe it. Tories will be miserable volunteers in the
battle for reduced taxation. Mr. DISRAELI—whose
chief Tory quality is ambition for office—would be
willing to reduce taxes, or raise church rates, or do
anything else that would place him in power,
not so the wary old Tories, without whose
aid he can do nothing. Economy is, in
their eyes, the cardinal sin, expenditure the car-
dinal virtue. It is their instinct. Never were they
mere surprised than when their leader, last session,
proposed to reduce our " bloated armaments," and
cut down our expenditure, say some five millions.
He
very
well knew that was the road to office, but
they as well knew that taking office on these terms
was taking unfurnished lodgings. They grumbled
or were silent as
he spoke. The only cheers were
from the
independent members. The sons of fathers
and the landlordh
in theilouse of
bro-
thers,
mention the gentlemen actually
services," whether Whig
their displeasure. Lord
at the earliest possible o
Lieutenant's blunder, and
proclaimed throughout the
cr Tory, belonging
could
sought of their penniless
an their offspring, not to
DERBY as their
ever since
opportunity
that they are not the men to .. no not o
conceal " the
rectified
hasfied his
spokesman,
been
country by the Tories,
grudge what is ne-

cessary for the national honour." 'National honour
and an expenditure which finds occupation for

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younger sons, being always synonomous expres-

sions.
Still we rather hope that reason, and the
exigencies of the time, may be too strong for
both Whigs and Tories. The latter like
the former, would never spontaneously proffer re-
duction, but if reduction must be, why then the
lowest bidder might be the buyer—of office.

Political auctions once begun, it is not easy to say
where the biddings will atop; and if less must be
spent—if so, the nation wills it—why then Tories
may think that they may as well have the spend-
ing of the curtailed amount, as their opponents,

trusting to providence for giving them an oppor

tunity to increase their estimates again. Thus,
though sadly against the grain, the Tories may be•
come glad to adopt their leader's speech of la's
session, contemptuously and angrily as they then
received it. They will forgive Mr, DISRAELI
when they see that he only anticipated what was
inevitable, and so gave them a locus standi in the
battle. On the whole, however, we must counsel
our readers not to rely on Mr. DISRAELI and the
Tories for reduction of taxation, but on themselves
alone. Though the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer
would gladly return to office with a popular budget,
nothing will induce his followers to back him up
in that line, but the knowledge that the people will
compel any Government to produce one.
We are now assured, in the language of certain
knowledge, that our load of SEVENTY MILLIONS is
to be reduced by TWO MILLIONS. It may be so.
We have had no special communication from any
of the fifteen lords and gentlemen who are sworn
to secrecy on matters of Cabinet discussion.
Assuming the correctness of the report, we have
only to tell Lord PALMERSTON that two millions
will not do. Mr. GLADSTONE himself gave us the
cae when he told us that if we could be content
with sixty-five millions, he could dispense with the
income-tax. That is, therefore, the course that
our demands must take. Mr. GLADSTONE con-
siders that the abolition of this most odious, inqui-
sitorial, and unequal of taxes would so increase
consumption, as to recoup him the sacrifice, in the
larger produce of other taxes. We should save five-
pence, and gain ninepence. We have no doubt
that Mr. GLADSTONE knew well what he
said, and that his calculations would be as de-
cidedly justified as they have been in regard to the
French treaty.
We warn Lord PALMERSTON, however, that if
he means to remain in office, the " honour of the
country" dodge will suffice no longer. We have
had enough of it now for several years, at the cost
of ever increasing estimates. He must listen to a
hungry country, and not to the hungry "services."
The demands of Lancashire will equal several pence
in the pound, we fear, of the income tax,
and the increasing amount may well be-
come such as private benevolence may prove it
competent to meet. Besides the suffering operatives
also, there is a rapidly increasing number of per-
sons who will feel the ruinous effects of the loss of
their consumption of the articles they deal in.
Tradesmen of all classes will find their incomes dimi-
nished or gone—landlords and masters even will
have less to spend than usual—the circle will be
ever widening, while this cotton famine lasts, which
will feel the affliction more or less severely. This
is the grand fact of the day as regards taxation.
Generous contributors will feel it too hard to pay,
in addition, taxes for " national honour." Suffer-
ing tradesmen will feel it yet more—suffer-
ing masters will join in their complaints—
even landlords will begin to think it too bad; and
there will be a general conviction that for the
I nation, as well as the individual, " seeking the
bubble reputation e'en at the cannon's mouth', is
paying rather too dear for the whistle. Lord
PALMERSTON has long enough identified " the
honour of the nation" with the number of her
cannon and her bayonets—but the nation begins
to see that he has overdone it.

Who would have believed it possible to find
Count DE PERSIGNY and M. BILLAULT cited to
answer a civil claim in an English court of justice P
Who, if they heard of such a fact, would have sup-
posed the debt could be for services in the English
Press? We all know that the days of bias and
influence are likely to last as long as the world lasts,
but in our simplicity we had supposed that the
days of hiring a newspaper to advocate certain
opinions had long passed away. There was a little
unpleasant affair, to be sure, not long ago in Ireland,
but the exceptien in that case, so far as it went,
only proves the rule. It is manifest, however, now
by the pleading of the man who thinks himself
defrauded of his due, that the proprietor of an Eng-
lish newspaper did sell the use of his paper and his
pen to the Imperial Government, Mr. Sergeant.
GLOVER, on the one part, and ik essrs. PERSIGNY
and BILLAULT on the other being the contracting
parties. The learned sergeant's action is only
in a very incipient state, yet it is not too much to
say that the prima facie case is complete. Mr.
GLOVER would not have brought such an action
unless he were quite certain of a claim on the merits
as well as the law of the case. Nor can :we be
wronging the defendants, we conceive, in assuming
that they led the plaintiff to believe that he should
be fairly remunerated for his outlay and services.
That if Sergeant GLOTER, in fact, held a brief for
his MAJESTY in the English Press he should be
fairly remunerated.
At :present the purely technical question
of where the cause of action arises is the only
point. A point which has nothing to do with
the merits of the ease. The Count appears to the
action—M. BILLAULT wishes to be out of the affair,
as well he may. The amount claimed—Ll4,oo0—
seems large, but that is a question of degree for a
jury. When, however, we find that it was required
for the conduct of the Morning Chronicle and its
satellites, the Morning News, and Evening Journal,
we know at once that a large sum may have been
sunk by the Sergeant in attempting to get up a
circulation ; and without that the Chronicle, and its
adjuncts, could have rendered his MAJESTY but

little service. But Mr. GLOVER had charges for
work done in the purely editorial line. He wrote
Imperial articles, as instructed no doubt, for the
Chronicle ; we well remember them, we imagine.
His value in the work was that, if PERSIGNY and
Co. found statements and arguments, he would best
know how to dish them up for the English taste.
As a matter of fact they did much amuse English-
men. It was hardly supposed they were paid for
in hard cash ; but at a time when the EMPEROR'S
views were an object of curiosity, it
was conjectured that saying the best for an
Anti-English policy might be rewarded with that
valuable article to a newspaper, the priority of in-
formation on one subject, respecting which all the

world was curious.
Far beyond this, however, were the services, and
expected rewards of the learned Sergeant. He in-
forms us that he conducted the three papers for his
MAJESTY, but " wrote and translated from the
French, and printed in the Morning Chronicle cer-
tain articles, and wrote certain other articles to be
translated into the French language, for insertion
and publication in certain French papers, the

teur, Constitutionnel," &c. The account is not very
clear; we understand him to mean that, amongst