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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, DCC. 15.
Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Louise, drove out this morning.

LITERATURE.

Debenham's Vow. By Amelia B. Edwards. Three

Vols. llurst and Blackett.

Since that very successful and very charming
narrative, entitled " Barbara's History," Miss Ed-
wards has written nothing so attractive and so
in-
teresting as this very striking and effective story of
" Debenhana's Vow," and its results. The charac-
ter of Ttinple Debenhain is well ?,onceived and very
skilfuily depicted. The only son of a widowed
mother, at the very turning point of his career,
when entering upon life, he learns that be
is the heir of a ruined family, that ins
name is De Benham, and not Debenharn ; and,
moreover, that a title should be prefixed to
it. Standing in a country church, amid the tombs
of his ancesters, Temple Debenharn registers a
vow that by him shall the rights and fortunes of
the family be restored, and that another:Lord De
Benham shall again rule in Benhampton. How the
vow is kept the narrative of this history must
reveal, and very vividly it is revealed by a
very faithful pen. At the moment when
the secret of his rights is confided to Temple De-
benhatn, he is surrounded by the halo of " Love s
Young Dream." He has just pledged his faith to
a gentle damsel, well worthy of his affection, but
the terrible vow arises like an icy barrier between
the determined man and his happiness. Love and
peace, and almost life itself, are sacrificed at
the shrine of this terrible Moloch, and the
moral of the story teaches, in very
truthful language, how "prosperity is not ail
success, conquest is not all triumph, and to these
whom the gods chastise they grant the desires of
their heart." Juliet Alleyne and Claudia Hard wicket
the two heroines of the tale, are a striking contrast
to each other. Juliet is loveable and charming
throughout the whole story ; but Claudia, cold wad
haughty as she is, wins upon our sympathies
at the last, and we could wish that a less inexor-
able' dispensation had presided over her ultimate
happiness. Archie Blyth is a delightful charac-
ter, and very soon supersedes in the reader's estima-
tion the earnest and unyielding Temple Deben-
ham. We congratulate Miss Edwards on this nil'
pressive story, which will linger with good effect
in the memory of many a reader.

POLICE IN7 ELLIGEJ.V C'E.-71as Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A PRETENDED DETECTIVE.—John Sample, a shabbilr
dressed man, who described himself as a detective, wee
charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk and dis-
orderly.
Police-constable Butler, 148 0, said that about one o'clock
that morning he was in Compton-street when he saw the
prisoner about to fight with another man. He got the
other man away, and the prisoner, who was drunk, wen;
and kicked at the door of Messrs. Sewell and Cross, and
on his telling him to go away ho turned round and told
him that he was a detective, and that if he was not off be
would lock him up, as he also did the watchman Who eau►a
up. He then took the prisoner to the station, where he still
represented himself as a detective.
Mr. Knox said if the prisoner was a detective perhaps
he would show his authority.
The prisoner ',said that he was not a detective, and that
he did not know that he had represented himself as one.
He had lost his watch chain, and he supposed he sus-
pected the man ho was going to fight with of having
taken it.
Mr. Knox asked the prisoner whether he was aware
that by representing himself as a detective, ho was liab•e
to a very heavy fins ?
The prisoner said he was drunk at the time.

Mr. Knox fined him 10s., or seven days.
ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—John King was charged
before Mr. Knox with being drunk and behaving 0 3
disorderly manner, and also with assaulting Police-coa-
stablo Middleton, 50 C It.
Jt appears that the prisoner wont into the St. Jamess'
averu, Windmill-street, last night, and having beta
guilty of disorderly conduct was put out by the proprietor,
who has only been in possession of the house a few dills,
and on Middleton attempting to remove him knocked laol
down, and Middleton, besides being kicked several times
by some rough persons who were collected, lost h'e
helmet, and on the way to the station the prisoner Wae
very violent.
In answer to Mr. Knox, the constable said he had seell
the prisoner frequently about the same spot of a nig°
with bad and disorderly characters, but that the prisoner
denied.
Mr. Knox fined the prisoner 40s. or a month for the dis-
crderly conduct, and committed him for a month for the
assault on the constable, stating that it looked very Inue
as if the affair had been got up for the purpose of robber)*

THAMES.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ROBBERY.—STRANGE STOICf'
—oao Bartch, aged 37 years, described as manager of the
Sugar-loaf public-house, St. George-in-the-East, and Louie
Beaber or Beaver, 29, were brought up on remand, charged
with having by force and menace stolen £3O from AdolPh
Moritz.
Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, conducted the prosecution; 31r.
Charles Young, solicitor, defended Bartch.
In opening the case, Mr. Stoddart said that, although
the prisoners had not actually taken the money from the
person of the prosecutor, they compelled him to give it 119,„
by using threats and menaces, and the act constituted
-
larceny.
All the parties are Germans, and it appeared that the
prosecutor, whose evidence was fragmentary and dig'
jointed, was a merchant, and came here a few days agr
with £6O or £7O, in foreign money, in his possession, '0;
the purpose of trade. lie went to lodge at the Sugar-low,
and both prisoners repeatedly asked him to allow them W
change his money into English gold, and that on oh'„
occasion Bartehe's wife said her husband wanted him in
the cellar. He was descending the cellar stairs when '-
saw both prisoners, and Beaver was hiding iu a cornet
armed with a hammer or chopper. He was afraid and
turned hack. He was repeatedly requested to enter the
cellar again and refused. After he had been over and over
again urged to part with his money he was called into
Bartch's bedroom on Sunday afternoon last, the dioiet4
locked upon him:by Beaver and Bartch, who said, "
now time that I should change your money." Moritz o'l
he mistrusted the prisoners, but they compelled him tet
part with it, and he took .£3O from his inside waistcoat
pocket. Bartch took the money out of his hand.
half gave it to Barcb, and he half took it from him.
then had £BO more in another pocket unknown to th-
prisoners. He asked for the £3O he had parted with pelt
day, and was put off with various excuses until Mon
evening, evening, when Bartch said he had not got the money.
Next day he wont to Scotland yard, and Detective Set
geant Davy was sent with him to that Court. it
Mr. Charles Young said the story was as strange °-
was improbable, and elicited in cross-examination the"
Bartch said he had given the money to a foreign tfe/ff
named Bernstein. Mr. Young then put in a newspePeLei
Wednesday giving an account of the examination of a.'"
named Salk Singermann for stealing £35 from Leon Bern'
stein. Singermann was ranandeci.
an
Beaver said the prosecutor had entrusted him
Bartch to change his Germany money, £6O, into English
gold, which Moritz admitted. eh.
Mr. Charles Young submitted that put an end to ...-
whole case.
Mr. Stoddart said his client had been the victim of
fraud in which the prisoners and Bernstein were engage,,,
and there had been very recently another jobber,' 1;
Bartch's house. The scene in the cellar was full of det
significance.
Mr. Charles Young said that the prisoners were arivin,,f
pegs into casks with a mallet when Moritz entered tm"
cellar.
The prisoners said that Bernstein had the prosecutor
money.
It was here stated that Bernstein was seen in the coutc
a few minutes ago. He was called and searched for an
could not be found.
Benjamin Stubbing, en officer of the Court, 111 Gala
he apprehended the prisoners on Tuesday, and sh°od,
arrest Bornstein when he could find him. Bartell
'flitted to him that he had £29, not £3O, of the prosecut°t'7
and that Beaver was present when the prosecu,
spread it on a table. Bartch also said that be had be
ge
robbed of the money, and if the prosecutor had waited 1°
a day or two he would have made it up to him.
Mr. Benson said he should commit both prisoners 0.,f
trial, and that he believed Bernstein was a participatortl'o
the plot to swindle Moritz of his money. At preseut
prisoners would be remanded till Monday for the coruPw
Lion of the depositions.

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