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such circumstances as these, different exercises with
guns, cutlasses, and muskets in order that they
might be efficient defenders of their country in the
event of war. Men'' e n drilled were nothing more than
a mob. Some might be inclined- to say, " Ch ! we
should do very well ;" but if he took 100 of the'4oo
seamen present and accustomed them by discipline
to tile use of guns;: cutlasses, &c., he would wager
his life that if he were to put himself at their head
he would " lick" the whole of the rest. (Laughter
and cheers.) Sailors and beachmen could not be ex-
pected to come forward as riflemen ; they were
born to the sea and accustomed to the sea only;
but it was to them that the country looked for its
defence. The Government had not asked him to
address the meeting, but being on a visit to his
daughter in the neighbourhood he had volunteered
to ask those present to volunteer. If they did not
do so, any " lousy" privateer might come down
upon them, burn their houses, ravish their women,
commit all manner of atrocities, and drive them like
a flock of sheep before the wind. Another view of
the matter was that in the event of war the Go-
vernment might compel them to come forward.
The Queen had a right to call upon them to de-
fend the country, but now, when there was no
immediate chance of attack, her Majesty offered
thorn a certain sum of money to go and be drilled,
that in the event of war they might be able to de-
fend themselves, their wives, and property. With
reference to impressment the Parliament and people
of this country were dead against it. He had him-
self broUght a bill into Parliament not to establish
a pressgang, but to exercise a little gentler compul-
sion. His measure was to the effect that every boy,
after serving three or four years in the merchant
service, should, before he was entitled to be ranked
as a British seaman, be compelled to serve two or
three years on board a man-of-war, that he might
be fit for service. He thought when he brought
that measure forward, and he thought now, that
this would be an excellent preparation, but the
House of Commons would not entertain the scheme
because it was a species of compulsion. He stated
this to show that the House of Commons was op-
posed to the slightest show of compulsion, and for
this reason sailors were now called upon to volun-
teer. He did not wish to deceive them. If a war
broke out it would be absolutely necessary to com-
pel men to come forward, and everybody must do
so—not only sailors, but gentlemen and noblemen.
He was not one to say that the poor man should be
the first to serve and fight, but every, man, from the
Prince of Royal blood down to the poorest in the
land; ought to come forward, if it were necessary
for him to do so, for the defence of the country.
(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN stated that he was informed, on
excellent authority, that a battery would be shortly
erected at Pakefield, commanding the gateway, and
another at Lowestoft Ness Point, commanding the
roads.
Sir C. NAPIER, in acknowledging a vote of thanks
accorded to him for his attendance, noticed the al-
most total extinction of corporal punishment lathe
Princess and ditroeyfaelrrisanigd,toint hteh laatt e
casem ut na
ny oan board
atnhae
12 captains sat to inquire into the circumstances,
while when the men of the Great Eastern refused
to scrub the decks a single magistrate committed
them.
The proceedings shortly afterwards terminated.

VOL

utPs.

(Frain the Ttmet.)
A short article on our Volunteer Corps in the
Cornliill Magazine deserves consideration as a good
contribution to our stock of knowledge on that
new but most important subject. The paper in
question is brief and simple, but an air of authority
pervades its remarks, a professional bias is discer-
nible in its tone, and when we add that it is openly
attributed to Sir John Burgoyne we shall have said
enough to justify our notice of its contents. With
the views it expresses we certainly cannot wholly
agree, and if we can accept some of its general
conclusions it is because they may be received with-
out assent to the arguments on which they are based.
In a few words, then, Sir John is of opinion that
our volunteer force will certainly not answer the
expectations with which it was originally raised ;
that it will not enable us to resist or repel the
advance of a powerful and well-disciplined army;
that it will not even furnish us with an efficient
or formidable body of irregular troops ; but that it
does repreSent a " mass of most superb material,"
which may be moulded by a judicious process into
a form exceedingly valuable. It is worth while,
therefore, to ascertain how, according to so high an
authority, these results may be accomplished.
In the first impression of the public mind on this
subject there prevailed, as Sir John thinks, a gene-
ral idea that a volunteer force, if it were only nume-
rous enough, and sufficiently well skilled in the
use of the rifle, would be able to annihilate any
invading army. No hostile troops, it was argued,
however highly trained, could force their way
through a population of sharpshooters. Perhaps
there were some opinions of this kind afloat, but we
need not discuss them at present, since Sir John is
content to dismiss them as already exploded. He
goes, however, a step or two further, and proceeds
to question the value of our volunteers even as
auxiliaries in support of a regular army. Every
company, he maintains, and every battalion, must,
if it is to be of service, form part and parcel of the
army in which it serves ; that is to say, it must be
at the disposal and orders of the General in com-
mand, who must be able to handle it and employ it
as he would employ any other division of his troops.
Now, this in the ease of Volunteer Corps he would
be unable to do. Volunteers not being under such
strict obligations of service could not be relied upon
for such implicit ebedience ; they would not repre-
sent a fixed or positive amount of military strength,
but would be merely an uncertain and fluctuating
body, for which no Commissariat would know how
to provide, and on which no commander would
know how to reckon. In the next place, to be of
real utility in the field, volunteers must act in com-
bination with other troops, and principally as light
infantry, whereas they have not hitherto been
trained to any such complicated manoeuvres, but
are usually taught only the rudiments of drill and
the secrets of musketry. Finally, even suppos-
ing that a 'Volunteer Regiment, besides being
composed of courageous men, had been tolerably
well disciplined, it could never be expected to
endure the hardships of real campaigning. The
fatigues of marching ;the miseries of a wet bivouac,
the occasional stoppage of supplies, and the other
privations incidental to active warfare would
" thin its ranks prodigiously," and leave it but the
skeleton of itself. To encounter such trials as these
we need the hardy, well-knit soldier, and not the
civilian, who, whatever may be his spirit or intre-
pidity, would sooner or later be prostrated by the
want of his daily comforts. That is the sum of
Sir John's estimate in the" matter. His advice on
the subject is, that our volunteers should not con-
tent themselves with the manual exercise and mus-
ketry drill, but should perfect themselves in light
infantry manoeuvres ; and, above all, that they
should march into camp at Aldershott or Colches-
ter, and try a few weeks' practice under the condi-
tions most nearly approximating to those of real
war. This, as a matter of course, would lessen
their nuttibers, bit that is precisely the result which
Sir John would desire. He would rather see our
volunteer corps weeded at once of all ineffectives,
rather than leave these weak points to be discovered
at an actual pinch. The residuum would then ap-
pear in a certain number of battalions really fit for
duty, and capable of doing good service with the
troops of the line.
We need be at no trouble to point out the'truly
professional character of this conclusion. The
simple consequence would be that we should lose
our" volunteer force" altogether, and gain a few
thousand more soldiers of the regular stamp. Be-
tween a volunteer corps, as regulated by Sir John,
and a battalion of the regular army, there would
be little or no difference ; and just as we have
" embodied" our militia until we have made a
tenth of them regulars, and lost the rest, so we
should be exercising our volunteers until we had

stripped them of their original character and re-
duced that force also to a scanty contribution in
aid of the Line. Sir John's single idea, in short, is
that of a regular soldier. One volunteer out of
twenty, is perhaps, convertible into this precious
article, and we had better accomplish the transfor-
mation, and let the other nineteen go. They
may be useful as orderlies or in local garrisons, but
fur the real work of the field the regular soldier is
the man.

To this theory, however, although we acknow-
ledge the foundation of truth on which it is raised,
we must needs take objections, and, as our limits
are narrow, we may remark at once that we can-
not allow the necessary superiority of the regular
soldier in those physical conditions of which Sir
John makes so much. Where is the advantage of
the ordinary linesman over the ordinary volunteer ?
In his strength ? In his activity ? In his powers
of endurance ? Certainly not. Taking an average
of specimens, we unhesitatingly assert that a young
man in those classes of society from which our
volunteers have been mostly raised is more active
and more robust than an ordinary recruit, and that
he is in general far better qualified to endure fatigue.
Where, let us ask, are our regular soldiers taught
to confront and to endure those privations which it
is assumed would be so fatal to people of comfort-
able habits and indoor pursuits ? What is the mili-
tary exercise by which troops of the line are trained
to such hardships ? Certainly some progress has
been. recently made in this way, and, as we took
no little pains to advocate the principle, we heartily,
rejoice at its adoption; but it would still be a mis-
take to imagine every soldier as patient and as
hardy as aTyrolese mountaineer. Sir John seems
to be confusing soldiers with veterans. After a
war or a campaign there is, doubtless, a remnant
of almost invincible material ; but how have the
ranks been thinned previously ? Take any second
battalion from Aldershott, brigade it with a regi-
ment or two of volunteers, send the whole force on
the duties Sir John describes, &id then see if long
marches, rainy nights, short supplies, and severe
privations would not reduce the numbers of the
linesmen at least as much as those of the volun-
teers. As for bodily activity, as soon as a volun-
teer has learnt to carry his knapsack he would
probably outmarch any regular soldier. Chob-
ham and Aldershott have improved our prac-
tice in this respect, but ten years ago a simple
five-mile march would have been a severe trial for
many battalions.
We come, then, to the conclusion that Sir John
is not entitled to assume on behalf of the regular
soldier any decided advantage of physical capacity
as compared with that of the volunteer. Certainly
an ordinary recruit possesses no such superiority,
and as certainly mere ordinary drill will not endow
him with it. He may acquire it by campaigning,
but so would a volunteer also. The Crim`ean cam-
paigns, and indeed all wars alike, have taught us
that soldiers enjoy no exemption from the visita-
tions of sickness or suffering. Deprive men of their
rest and their food, keep them without shelter or
sustenance, and they will sicken and fail whatever
may be the terms of their service, though experience,
indeed, informs us that men who have previously
lived under good conditions possess greater powers
of endurance than those who have been less fortu-
nately circumstanced. We do not. see, therefore,
but what a volunteer regiment might take the field
with at least as much chance of holding out against
the trials of a campaign as a regiment of the line,
but we admit that Sir John is right in suggesting a
more extended drill, and in reconiniending that
the ranks of our volunteers should not be encum-
bered with men who, front age or constitution,
must naturally be expected to break down. We
observed at the outset of this movement that a man
who was too old for even the militia could hardly
hope to become an effective soldier under the name
of a volunteer. Still, even for these Sir John admits
that both place and duty may be found, and he dis-
cerns such general advantages from the study of
musketry and the acquisition of military habits,
that his,pnal estimate of our volunteers becomes
pretty satisfactory. This is the conclusion in which
we coincide ; we only venture to think that the
weakness of the system is not so great as Sir John.
conceives, and that we need not reduce the force
to insi;nifieant dimensions before We can make it
truly available.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jan. 5.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Thomas Augustus Cowan
was charged with embezzling two sums of £l2 9s.
Gd. and £32 103. 9d. respectively, belonging to his
employers, Messrs. Waterman and Co., Mark-lane,
hop merchants.
Mr. Wontner, who appeared for the prosecution,
said the prisoner was in the service of the prosecu-
tors as traveller upon salary and commission for
about three months prior to the middle of Decem-
ber last, when he suddenly absented himself from
his employment without notice, and was not again
seen until he was apprehended on Wednesday night
by detective Webb. Suspicion was, however, ex-
cited by his absence, and inquiry being in conse-
quence made among the customers of the firm, it
was discovered that on Nov. 19 he hid received a
sum of £l2 9s. 6d., and on Dec. 10 a sum of £32
10s. 9d., from two country customers, without
having accounted for them. Webb saw the prisoner
in the garden of a house at Islington, and asked
him if his name was Cowan, to which he replied in
the negative, and when Webb said he felt sure upon
the point, and that the prisoner had been traveller
to Messrs. 'Waterman, of Mark-lane, he positively
denied that he knew anything whatever of any such
firm or their transactions. But notwithstanding
this denial, Webb took him into custody, and at the
station-house the prisoner admitted that his name
was Cowan, and that he was the man who was
wanted. He was then searched, and, from hotel
bills which were found upon him, it was evident
that he had been hiding himself at Cheltenham
from the 17th to the 31st of December.

Mr. Wontner then called a witness, who proved
that the prisoner had absconded from the service of
Messrs. Waterman and Co., while Webb, the detec-
tive, deposed to the circumstances connected with
his apprehension ; after which
Mr. Wontner applied for a remand, in order to
enable him to produce witnesses who had paid to
the prisoner the sums which he was charged with
embezzling.

Mr. Holiler, for the prisoner, did not oppose a
remand, but asked that his client might be ad-
mitted to boil—an application which was refused.
Aaron Blake, city police-constable MG, appeared
in answer to a summons, charging him, upon the
complaint of James Griffiths, with a violation of
his duty.
Mr. J. Butler, jun., solicitor, 191, Tooley-street,
appeared to support the complaint, and Mr. Wont-
ner for the defence.

Mr. Butler said he had a painful duty to per-
form, which was neither more nor less than that of
charging the defendant with having committed a
violent assault upon the complainant, who was
foreman and manager at a timber-yard in Tooley-
street, and a highly respectable man. There had
already been proceedings in the case upon a com-
plaint made to the Police Commissioners, which
had resulted in the present summons. He (Mr.
Butler) knew that the police had often a most un-
pleasant duty to perform, and he regretted that,
under the Act, the defendant could not give evi-
dence, but if it could be done by consent he was
willing that it should be so.
Mr. Goodman (Chief Clerk)—The Act does not
permit it. _ _

James Griffiths said—l am foreman to Mr.
Elston, timber merchant, Tooley-street. On the
night of the I 1 th of November I was in company
with a friend named Martin, in Gracechureh-street,
about 11 o'clock. There was some music in the
street, and my friend crossed over to listen to it, while
I waited for him on the kerb. After a minute or two

the defendant came up and asked me what I was
lounging about for. I said it was not his business,
but he said it was ; upon which I said, " Well, my
friend has just crossed over; he will be back again
in a minute, and if you stay a minute I expect
you'll see him." He said, " That won't do for me ;
that is not satisfactory," and I said I should tell
him no more. Some words passed, and he called
me a blackguard several times. Mr. Martin came
up and said, " What. is all this about. ?" and when I
told him said " Take his number." I had some dif-
ficulty in doing so, and I just put my finger on de-
fendant's shoulder to hold his collar so that I might
take his number. When I had got his number I
said to Mr. Martin, " It really is too bad that we
are compelled to pay police-constables to come up
and insult us while standing quietly on the pave-
ment." With that the defendant turned and said,
" You, you thing ! you pay police-constables."
I said, " Yes, I pay towards it." I walked away,
he following inc and again calling me "Blackguard!"
When I and my friend had got about ten yards
away the defendant struck me from behind a violent
blow on the back of the neck, at the same time say-
ing, " Take that, you lanky -; that's how I serve
such - as you." I was on the middle of the pave-
ment when he struck me, but the blow staggered
me into the middle of the road. When I recovered
myself he placed himself in a regular fighting atti-
tude, and said, "What will you do now ?" By the
advice of my friend I walked on till we met a police-
man.

The Lord Mayor—What is your impression ?
Was lie sober ?
Complainant—l thought he must have been in
liquor, and said so when I went directly afterwards
to the Seething-lane Station, but the inspector said
it was impossible, as the man only went on duty at
9 o'clock. Several days after I came to this court
for a summons, and from the advice I then got I
wrote to the Police Commissioner.
Mr. Martin,foreman to Mr. Roslin at his timber-
yard, Bankside, Southwark, was examined at great
length, and substantially corroborated the evidence
of the complainant.
Mr. Wontner said he had several witnesses to call
for the defence, but before he did so he would re-
mind his lordship that in Gracechurch-street, owing
to the number of ladies and gentlemen who go for
the purpose of taking omnibuses, the number of
thieves who frequent it, and the numerous robberies
there committed, the police bad a most difficult
duty to perform. One part of their duty was
to prevent improper characters from loitering
about, so as to prevent robberies, and it was
impossible for them to know who was a thief
and who was not. In the present case two men
were seen to enter the street, one of them crossing
the road, and standing on one side while his com-
panion remained standing on the other. This was
a favourite mode of action with thieves, and.natu-
rally at 11 o'clock at night excited the suspicion of
the officer, who consequently asked the complainant
what he was loitering about for, and instead of at
once saying lie was waiting for his friend, who was
listening to the music, when all would have been
well, the complainant stood upon his dignity, and
wanted to know what business it was of the police-
man. Besides that it would be shown that he used
language calculated to excite the defendant, and
that instead of striking a violent blow the defen-
dant only put his hand to the complainant's back,
and pushed him gently onward.
The learned gentleman then called his witnesses.
When they had been examined,
The Lord Mayor said—Well, Blake, I can but
come to one conclusion, and that is that you ex-
ceeded your duty in acting as it is clearly proved
that you did act. You had a perfect right to ask
the complainant in a proper way who and what he
was, if—of which, however, the evidence certainly
does not satisfy me—he was waiting about for an
unusually long period; but then you should have
done so in a courteous tone, and not, as I am sorry
to say, you did in a manner extremely impertinent.
For it would be very hard if two respectable work-
ing men, taking their walk after their day's work
was over, could not go along the streets in a quiet
strolling way without being roughly questioned as
to why they were "lounging or lurking about,"
and, although these two men exhibit no elegance,
yet they are so evidently respectable that I am sur-
prised that, with your experience, you did not at
once see their real character. Your language was
altogether most unjustifiable. Upon evidence per-
fectly clear it appears that three times over, at
least, you called the complainant a blackguard, and
that, not content with that, you afterwards struck
him a violent blow on the back of the neck, which
drove him several yards into the road. Here I
must refer to the conduct of the witness Martin,
who did i imself great credit by placing himself be-
tween you and his friend, and so prevented the
latter from returning the blow, as your conduct was
calculated to excite him to do. Your witnesses say
that the complainant used excited language to you ;
and I am not at all surprised if such was the case,
for it is natural that a man should feel excited and
indignant after being treated as you treated him.
It is very true it i 3 your duty to look after people
whom you may suspect to be lurking about for im-
proper purposes, and you may sometimes find that
duty difficult in its performance; but there is no-
thisig in the circumstances of this case at all to Jus-
tify your conduct. You clearly exceeded your
duty, and I therefore fine you 10s., or to beimpri-
soned for seven days.
The defendant was taken below in custody, but
soon after paid the money, and was discharged.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Mary Ann Brown, a
woman of respectable appearance, was charged
with the following robbery :
A voun,*6 woman, named Martha Newland, re-
siding at Croydon, returned from visiting some
friends at Hertford on the preceding afternoon,and
on leaving the Eastern Counties train had a net
purse containing near a pound's worth of silver in
her dress pocket. She stood for a few minutes at
the gates of Bishopsgate terminus, waiting for an
omnibus, which came up and she entered it, but
immediately missed her purse and got out again to
question the bystanders. Some persons told her it
was the prisoner who had robbed her, and she
Lnew stiQ had stood close by her while waiting,

She spoke to a constable and gave the prisoner,
who was coolly standing a short distance off, into
custody. The persons referred to were two boys,
named Gotto and Carter, who swore to seeing, the
prisoner take the purse from the pocket of the pro-
secutrix, pass it rapidly to a fellow in a flannel
jacket, and then cross behind a cabstand.
Inspector Constable said the prisoner had given
her address as at Stratford-bridge, whereas she
lived in a notorious streetcalled Keate-street,Spital-
fields, and was a well-known thief. Deeble, the
detective, said he knew the prisoner very well ; she
was a married woman, whose right name was Per-
cival, a common thief, and her husband was now
undergoing a twelvemonth's imprisonment for a
watch robbery.
Mr. Beard, hearing this evidence, at once advised
his client to plead guilty, and asked for a summary
judgment.

Mr. D'Eyncourt, in consideration of her husband
being in prison, said he would not send her for trial,
but she must go to the House of Correction for six
months' hard labour.

THAMES.—Frederick Woodward, a remarkable -
looking old man, who has long been known to the
police as a thief, receiver, and trainer of young
thieves, and three boys, named Michael Campbell,
Patrick Harrington, and Robert Edwards, were
brought up on remand, charged with stealing a sil-
ver watch, value £3, from Thomas Hogg, formerly
a Thames police inspector, and now a marine store
dealer at No. 4, Back-road, Shadwell.
The case had been remanded to give an opportu-
nity to Dunway and Deeble, detective officers of
the H division, to trace the owners of sundry purses
containing money found upon Woodward when he
was taken into custody, and which it is believed he
received from the boys.
The two detectives said that Woodward was the
most dangerous fellow in the district; that he
trained young thieves, and had been in the practice
of accompanying boys on their predatory excur-
sions and receiving their plunder, and he was so
engaged with the three boys on the 27th ult., when
the exhibition of a figure of Christmas on a car,
surrounded by emblems of plenty, gave the gang
an opportunity of easing many persons of their
watches, purses, and money.
William Walker, police-constable 488, said that
since the last examination of the prisoners he had
been to the lodgings of the prisoner Woodward, in
Spitalflelds, and there he found three cigar-cases,
two paint brushes, two new knives, and a duplicate
for a valuable watch, which was stolen from or lost
by a city pollee officer in Commercial-street, White-
chapel, a few months ago.
Mr. Yardley—ls the owner of the watcn here ?
Walker—Yes, sir. He found out where his watch
was pawned, and he redeemed it from the shop of
Mr. Cresswell, a pawnbroker in Whitechapel, some
time ago. He cannot say whether it was stolen
from him or whether he lost it.
Mr. Yardley—Then that case fails.
Walker—l also found a timepiece in Woodward's
room. It was intrusted to him by a tradesman to
repair, 10 weeks ago.
Mr. Yardley—There is no charge of felony there.
'Walker—As to the purses and money found on
the 'prisoner Woodward when he was taken into
custody, we find no owners for them.
Mr. Yardley—Very well. Then Mr. Bowdler, the
clerk, will take the depositions in the first case on
which the prisoners were apprehended.
Thomas Hogg, marine store dealer, 4, Back-road,
Shadwell, said. that on the afternoon of the 27th
ult. he was athis own door looking at an exhibition
of Christmas, and saw all the prisoners in conversa-
tion close to him. He felt something at his watch
chain directly afterwards, saw the chain hanging
down in front of his person, and missed his watch.
The three boys went down the street, and all of
them spoke to Woodward, who appeared to receive
something from one or more of them, and he walked
with them some little distance ; they separated for
a short time, and Woodward walked by himself.
He followed the prisoners through several streets.
Sometimes Woodward was a few yards behind the
boys, and sometimes a few yards before them, but
very close to them all the time, and occasionally
communicating with them and pointing out goods
in linendrapers' :aid jewellers' shops. At the corner
of Charles street, St. George-in-the-East, the boys
parted, and Edwards said to Campbell and Har-
rington, whose watch or lot was that ? he could not

say which. The answer made by either Campbell
or Harrington was, " Why, it is Henry Mitchell's."
Woodward was then about five yards from the
boys. After this Campbell, Edwards and Harrington
came towards him, and stared. The boys returned
to Woodward, who said something to them, an a they
all went away together up the Back-road. He fol-
lowed them through a place called Bluegate•fields
into High-street, Shad well, where they entered a
public-house called the Bull's Head. He immedi-
ately called the police and gave the prisoners into
custody.
Thomas Harris, a police-constable, No. 81 H,
stated that he saw all the prisoners together in
Brick-lane, Spitalfields, on the morning of the 27th
ult. He knew them to be thieves.
John Moss, a city detective officer, said that Wood-
ward was convicted at the Old Bailey sessions in
1857, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment
and hard labour for receiving a quantity of plate.
In the latter part of the year 1848 the prisoner was
charged at the Worship-street Police-court with
stealing umbrellas, to which charge he pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced tc six months' imprison-
ment and hard labour.
Several officers here said that Woodward had
been in custody for being concerned in more than
one serious robbery since his conviction at the Wor-
ship-street Police-court, but his principal business
was the training of young thieves and disposing of
the property stolen by thm.
Robert Greenaway, a police-constable, No. 209
R, stated that on the 7th September, 1859, Camp-
bell pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a watch,
and was sentenced at the Woolwich Police-court to
two months' imprisonment.

Other officers'said Harrington and Edwards had
bean summarily csnvicted.
Mr. Yardley said this case was one of great public
importance, and the depositions having been form-
ally completed, he committed all the prisoners for
trial.

LAMBETH.—Susan Bird, servant to a gentle-
man named hart, in the Kent-road, was finally
examined on a charge of stealing several articles of
plate, the property of her master.
The prisoner pretended that the house had
been entered by a thief, whom she saw escape by
the back garden, who stole several articles of
plate and other property, but, unfortunately for
herself, she was observed by Police-constable
204 F to dig up some earth and bury the identical
articles of property she represented to have been
stolen.
She pleaded " Guilty" to being the thief herself,
and was sent for five months hard labour to Wands-
worth House of Correction.

WANDSWORTH.—Mr. Frederick Cazenove, a
gentleman residing at 84, iNfount-street, Grosvenor-
square, was summoned for unlawfully smoking in
a carriage upon the South-Western Railway.
The defendant was fined 20s. and 4s. costs, which
were immediately paid.

A YOUTH SCALDED TO DEATH IN A TAN PIT.—
On Wednesday an inquest was held at the Leeds Town-
hall, Blackburn, touching the death of William
Wade, a youth 15 years old, who lived at Buslingthdrpe.
The by
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, who was
an orphan, worked at the tannery
of Mr. Jackson, Buslingthorpe, and on the 21st ult., he was
carrying some leather from the sheds to the warehouse,
when (being in conversation with a companion, and not
looking whither he wax going) he fell into a pit containing
scalding hot bark dust, the boiling liquid having been only
just removed. He was fearfully scalded all over the body,
and was removed as speedily as possible to the Leeds In-
firmary, where he died on Tuesday from the effects of the
scalding. Verdict, " Accidental death."
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