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MA Y l7, 1851.

labours. The remarks on this subject are well ;
worthy of consideration, but their application is not I
sufficiently carried out in the character of Archer.
Although we heartilt respond to the E entiment with
which Mr. Horne sets forth, and are fully prepared
to admit the worth and social utility of both dreamers
and workers; we can hardly think his examples so
good as his sentiment ; for dreamy, do-nothing
Archers, such as he has depicted, are little likely
to do the atate much service, and the
social value of a dozen such would be insignificant
by tiiB side of one resolute, energetic, persevering
Harding. Yet, if in this solitary instance the moral
of the work is not enforced quite so effectively as it
might be, the very story of Archer and Hard-
ing carries its own lesson, and dreamers and workers
will both consult with profit the conclusive reasoning
and encouraging advice so abundantly to be met
with in these pages. Tne idea of the " unseen city"
of poverty arid sorrow, hid by the palaces, and parks,
and stately mansions of a great town, is beautifully
and feelingly set forth and carried out by the hearty
sympathy of the Working Harding, and the poetic
fancy of the Dreaming Archer, for which see the
second volume of "The Dreamer and Worker." We
have said nothing of the story itself, but it, too, has its
moral, and very happily exhibits the folly of any life-
long companionship being entered into by persons of
incompatible tastes and feelings. The good and sen-
sible Mary, the first betrothed of Archer, will divide
with the more fascinating Ellen the sympathy and
admiration of the reader.

CHRISTOPHER TADPOLE. Part VII.
The present number of the re-issue of this glori-
ously comic tale contains the visit of the Gudges to
Venice, and the act of brigandage perpetrated on the
amiable Mrs. Hamper by the free-and-easy gentry
of the Apennines.

THE GOLD-DUST ROBBERY.

William Panspiin, the person who has been appre-
hended at Winchester on the charge of being concerned
in the gold-dust feathery, and who was remanded asst
!Neel, was again brought up, yesterday, before the
Mayor end magistrates of Winchester.
Mr. Crombite the solicitor, attended to prosetml.e cn
behalf of the Souih-Western Railway Company, and a
London solicitor attended en behalf of the prisoner.
The first witnecs called was a porter at the Win-
chester Railway station, who deposed that the prisoner
came to the station at about a quarter-past 11 last
Thursday night, some time after the luggage train, from
which the gold-dust wes stolen, had passed, and asked
• what time the next train started. He had a package
under each arm, and appeared by his staggering walk
to be in liquor. He (thew itness) went, shortly after-
wards to the Eagle public-house, near the station, for a
•
glass
of beer. While he was there be saw the prisoner
go into the tap-meta, and he followed, to make sure P
was the same man he had seen at the station, since the
prisoner did not appear to be so drunk in the tap-room
as when seen previously with the packages under his arm
Another porter belonging to the Winchester station
deposed that he was standing at the door of the station
at a quarter to twelve on the night of the robbery, wheal
the prisoner came up and asked if he might stop in the
station until the train left. He was carrying a bag and
parcel. On being told that he could not he went away.
The witness raw the prisoner appear again at the station
just before the train started, take a ticket for the Water-
loo station, and go from the booking-office into the last
carriage with his bag and parcel.
The Governor of Winchester Gaol deposed that on
searching the prisoner when he was apprehended, a
piece of black cloth was found in his pocket, in which
some heavy box, meaeurines 15 feet by 8, plainly ap-
peared to have been couveyed. The cloth bore marks of
having been in contact with sealing-wax and chalk. Oct
of the boxes of gold dust missing was about the size of
the above measurement, and on it was sealing-wax, and
if thrown from the train near Winchester; it would have
pitched on a chalky soil.
Inspector Field deposed that he had made inquiries
rear the prisoner's residence, and found that the latter
was in the habit of keeping late hours; that his wife
denied, when first asked, that she had quarrelled with
him (the prisoner's excuse for being away from home
was that ho quarrelled with his wife). She, how-
ever, afterwards stated that she had. The witness had
ascertained that a cabman had conveyed a man with
two packages who had arrived at Waterloo-station last
Friday morning by the next mass that left Winchester
after the goods train from which the gold-dust was
stolen to the Shoreditch-station; that the person who
had hired the cab got out of it close to the station, dis-
missed the cabman, end entered a coffee-house opposite
the station, and that a man of a similar description hired
a cab from thence, and was conveyed to another part
of London, which he was not at liberty to name, as it
would defeat the ends of justice.
The prisoner's solicitor submitted to the magistrates •
although the evidence against the prisoner was perhaps
sufficiently strong to justify a remand, he ought to be
admitted to bail.

In opposition to this the solicitor for the prosecution
pointed out to the magistrates that the prisoner stated
when apprehended that he had left London in search
of work; yet, almost immediately after he had arriveu
at Winchester, he was seen at a distance from the town,
and in the neighbourhcod of the spot where the box of
gold was fuund; end that it had been given in evidence
on a former exewination, that, in talking to a woman at
the public. house near the spot bilire alluded to on Fri-
day afternoon last, he stated that he had missed the 3
P.M. up-train on that day; and yet he had asserted to the
police-of-deer that he had left London by the 1 P.m.
train en that day; and, consequently, that he had not
arrived at Wirchester when the 3 A.m. train left.

When the evidence had concluded the mayor ane. ma-
gistrates remanded the prisoner until next Friday, and
refused bail.