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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26, 1862

The Ticket of Leave System we may confidently
r egard 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—seoundreis
prepared to celebrate their release from the felon's
cell by murderous assaults upon inoffensive passers
by in our most crowded cities, and in our most public
thoroughfares. It 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
and DICK TURPIN, and other redoubtable high-
waymen, 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
by Nays. 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
guotters—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. As frequently as the miserable cases of death
by burning, la
consequence of the cruel persistence
of our fair min
tYwo in maintaining the iiidicu-
lous and
destructive fashion of crinoline—as fre-
quently as the instancesal:
parts
of child-murderder brought to
light perpetually
humanity of the Ticket-
of this metropolis—
are the evidences of th
.0
in affording a sort of semi-official
of-Leave system
license to the most skilled among the
adepts in the
science or art of Garotting. These,
in
(each
of three crying evils of the hour—be,,: fact, are the
i g st (
of them) more and more frightfully multiplied.
Infanticide ! Burning to death through crinoline !
G Irofting.—or, as the slang phrase for it is, 4c Put-
ting the Mug on !"—in the highways and byeways
of London and Westminster ! Resulting, a, the
latter evil ;staringly does, from the operation of the
hori i ble Ticket-of-Leave system, it becomes mauifest
that the Legislature must, immediately
after its re-assembling. in February, adopt
with a view to the
the moss energetic measures
suppression of this social curse by a careful
and vigorous and discreet revi
sion of our criminal
la sys, so far as that revision cat) 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 with the Customs did only the other day,