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a valuable gold watch from Mr. Legros. The purse,
with its contents, was her property.
Mr. Louis Legues, lodging-house keeper, 38, Bury-
street, St. James's, corroborated the latter portion of
prosecutrix's evidence, and added that while he was as-
sisting in detaining the prisoner his gold watch worth
151. was st len from his waistcoat pocket.
Brady, 344, A, apprehended the prisoner from a
mob of about 200 people. Ile searched him at the
station but nothing of consequence was found upon him.
In reply to Mr. Beadon, witness dened saying the
prisoner was his friend, or refusing to take him into
custody. The fact-was quite the r3verse, the prisoner
was a man whom he had been long looking after.
Cole, 319, A, said the prisoner had been previously
con victed.
The prisoner in defence said the charge was trumped
up by the woman, because he refused to make her a
present.
Committed for trial.

MR. EIOPLEY ON EDUCATION.

The 'following note is appended to the Second
Lecture of Mr. Hopley's Series on education
There are many into wios) hands these pages
may fall, who will find a portion of the truth con-
tained herein too hard for them.' That education
is to be the agent, under God, of banishing crime
and misery from the earth—that health, intellect,
and morality, are -destined to more and more
abound, until, in God's good time, perfect obedi-
ence to the Creator's laws shall bring about perfec-
tion in the human race—this, though it has been
agitating, more or less confusedly, the minds of
deep-thinking men from the period of the imtitu-
tion of the Jewish priesthood to our own day (as
seen in the w rks of Moses, Solomon, Esaias, Plato,
Bacon, Butler, and various other writers, sacred
and profane, as well as of ancient and of modem
times), is yet so contrary to the habits of thought
which have olr,ained thronghout the world, that it
needs must be looked upon by not a few as the
offspring of mere enthusiasm. But science is
making rapid strides ; and the further science
advances, and the more carefully the Scriptures
are studied in connexion with its advances, the
greater will the wonder grow that for thousands of
years after God has declared that He wills not the
death even of a sinner—that for upwards of
eighteen centuries after Christ has preached that
' God is love' —the bulk of mankind should have
continued , with such erroneous notions of the
Creator's great designs.
" Through evil report, therefore, and through
good report, the author intends (God blessing the
effort) to prosecute, to the best of his ability, his,
arduous undertaking. , And 'he earnestly and
affectionately Prays of.all.those who shall see in
these lectures valuable truth, that, for the sake of
tLemselves and others, they will help to spread the
same abroad. And to those who would feel in-
clined to cavil with the work, he would say,
'Find fault with the style, for it is that of an
erring man, but beware lest in cavilling ye find
fault with truth, for that is God's. And to such as are,
though kindly-intentioned, inclined to doubt—and
to such as would hope, but afraid—the author begs
to suggest, a 3 a fitting theme for reflection, the
calmly-written words of one of the profoundest
thiukera that the world has ever known Do not
despair,' is the faithful counsel of the illustrious
Bacon—' Do not despair, as imagining that the
project for a `rand restoration is infinitely beyond
the power of mortals to execute : for in reality it
is the constituted means of stopping and prevent-
' in; universal e,ror.* As our state is mortal and
human, a full accomplishment cannot be expected
in a single age, and must, therefore, be commended
to posterity. Nor may man hope to succeed, if
he arrogantly search for the sciences in the nar-
row cells of his own understanding instead of sub-
missively in the wider world. . . . We antici-
pate that the fortune of mankind will lead this
commencement to such a termination as it is not
possible fur the present race of men to conceive ;
. . . but God forbid that we should ever of-
fer the dreams of fancy for a model of the world,
but rather in his mercy vouchsafe t o us the power
of writing a revelation and true vision of the traces
and Moulds of the Creator in his creatures:t
"Every one, however humble, who does his best
in the cause of truth, helps to hasten that resto-
ration' for which our prophets and wise men have
laboured.
" May Thou, therefore, 0 Father, who be-
stowedat the visible light as tfie first fruits of Thy
creation, and who infusedst into the fashioned man
a portion of Thine intellectual light fur the accom-
plishment of Thy works, protect and guide this
work, which, issuing from Thy goodness, seeks in
return Thy glory. When /Thou surveyedst the
works which Thy hands had wrought, Thou sawest
that all were very good, and Thou didst rest ; but
when man turned to the works of his hans, he
saw that all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and
he found no rest at all. But if we labour in Thy
cause, Thou wilt make us partakers of Thy vision'
and sabb.l6. Humbly, therefore, do we beseech
The?, th-tt Thou will keep us steadfast in our re-
solve ; and that Thou mayest see fit to endow the
human family with new blessings through - our
hands and the hands of those,(and oh !' that they
may so )11 be many !) ou whom Thou shalt bestow
the same spirit.' Amen."

* lufiniti errom finis et terminus Itgiaraus.
Instauratio Magna. .4,- Ibid.

LLOYD' .3 SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Sept. 17.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.;
light breeze and fine.
OFF QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 15.—Arrived—Erin-gd-Bragb,
from Callao, and proceeded for Liverpool.
HULL, Sept, 16.—Wind S. weden, from
St. John's. •
LERWICK, Sept. 15.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Escorsea,
from Bilbo,.
OFF PYLMOUTII, Sept. 15. —Arrived—Prince Albert,
from Jamaica.
SWANSEA, Sept. 16.--Wind N.W.—Arrived —Naha-
dale, from Csldeira.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 16.—Wind S. E.—Sailed—Sacramento,
for Bombay.
GLOUCESTER, Sept. 16.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—De-
spatch, from Ismail.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday, 10 A.M.

Wind S.l
Arrived—Two Friends, from Cardiff; Despatch Oh
Jersey ; Susanna, Newport ; Alliance (s), Havre.
Sailed—Matthew Thompson,' for Newport; Pet, Sun-
derland ; Courier (s), Jersey ; Havra steamer, Havre ;
Argyll (s), New York.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning.

Wind S.W.
Arrived—J. N. White, from New Orleans ; Seriogapa
tam, Bombay ; Enterprise, Bahia ; Moreton Castle, Porto
Cabello; Susannah, Mlrseilles ; Lusite, Passages Italian,
steamer, Havre ; Bamberg, New Orleans; Orinoca, Prince
Edward's Island ; I.Trania,Mareeilles.
QUEENSTOWN, September 15.

Wind &UV:
Arrived—Jewess, from Richebucto; Rosins, Calao;
-Reliance and Mountain Eagle, Bahia ; Tartaro, Odessa ;
Sumpter, Sr. John's, N.B. ; Irarnan, Taganrog? Augusta,
Odessa; Harmonia, Galatz ; Langaiden, Carthagena ;
Sovereign of the Seas, Callao ; Mischief, Labrador ; Stag-
hound, St. John'e, New Brunswick ; Amazon°, Giardano
Mare° Polo and Lisa, Odessa : Helvetein, Altama, and
Hope Oa, Laguna ; Australia, Cardiff, pumps choked ;
Tribune, Callao ; Isis, Demerara.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
• GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.30 a.m.
Wind S.W. ; tide 24 hours' flood, fine.
Arrived, 16th Duo de Brabant, from Moulmein ;
Dahlia, Ceylon ; Cornwallis, Calcutta • Edgar P. Stringer,
St, John's, N.l- ; Jackson, Cronstadt ; Robinson, Con-
stantinople ; Friendship, Memel ; Rotunda, Miransichi ;
Queen Amelia, Trinidad de Cuba.
Arrived, 17th—Soho, from Havre; Triton, Calais;
Alton%; Sea Star, Shanghai ; Ecliptic, Maz Alan ;
York Town, New York ; Tornado, St. John's New Brims-
wick ; Jeuxima, Riga ; Deptford, Trinidad ; General
Totdleben, Libau ; Furet, Gravelints ; W. Darley, Alex.
andria.
Sailed—Favourite, for St. John's, Newfoundland.
DEAL, Thursday, 9 a.m.

Wind, S. S.W., light.
Passed —Her Majesty's 'ship Rhadamanthus, from the
westward, for London ; Paris and London screw steamer,
from London for Paris ; Paris and London, frem Paris, for
London ; Colinda, Sunderland ; Dorothea, St. Vincent,
London.
Anchored—Princess Louise, from Loudon, for Barba-
does; Pestonjeo Bomaujee, Sunderland, Cape of Gocd
Hope.
Sailed—Chanticleer, for Jamaica ; Clio, Demerara, with
others outward bound.

TIIE VICTORIA. TRANSPORT.—The following is an ex
tract from a letter received yesterday from an Artillery
officer on board the Victoria, dated St. Vincent, Thurs-
day, Aug. 27, 8 a.m.:—" We have had a splendid run ;
our smallest day's log was 190 knots, our greatest.2o.
Our fine weather leas been uninterrupted. The mgat.
are delicions—we lie on the decks and
very great
—BB degrees in our cabins, 130 degrees in the engine
We have only seen two ships for seven dap.
niorn.
We are treated most liberally on board. They give us
hock and -berry every day for dinner, and champagne
on the Sabbath and Thursday, We shall never have to
eat salt moat the whole way out. Fresh bread and hot
rolls every day, and we have all kinds of fruit ; ay, and
fruit tarts for dinner every day. The men, too, have
never seen a ship in which they were so well off, so that
our lines have fallen in pleasant places. You will see
that St. Vincent is 2,380 nautical miles from Spithead.
and we have published it off in 10 days 22 hours, All
are well on board.
FIRE ON THE RIVER TIIAMES.—A fire was discovered
yesterday morning in a vessel on the river TbameF
laden with spirits. The lower steam float followed the
vessel, got to work, and finally extinguished the flames,
but
not before a vast quantity of the spirits was
detro‘"ed,
and serious injury done to the craft.
We are requested to state that the list of officers to
whom the Turkish Order of the Medjidid is to be pre-
sented, published on Saturday by some of our contem-
-1 poraries, has been published without authority, and is
incorrect.

The Instructive Picture Book ; or, lessons in the
Vegetable World. By the Author of " The Heir
of Redclyffe." E lmonston and_DJuglas, Princes-
street, Edinburgh,
It is pleasant to find beauty and utility combined
in a work interidel to convey information to the
young.' Botany is a charming science, but is often, ,
and, indeed generally, encumbered with tedious
and dry difficulties, which cause, the juvenile novi-
ciates to rejoice when the book of study is clozed.
To delight the eye, impress the memory, and en-
large the mind by a focus of literary and pictorial •
art is no easy task ; but the gifted author of " The •
Heir of Redclyffe," in this publication, has appealed
with unerring force to the sense of beauty, the ,
feeling of admiration, and the natural thirst_ for
knowledge. Thirty-one coloured plate 3, arrangedby
R. M. Stark, afford a gorgeous an:l attractive illus-
tration of the vegetable world, and the letterpress
yields ample, concise, and simplified instruction du
a host of natural glories and wonders, including
seaweed, fungi, mos ea, spring, summer, autumn •
and winter flowers ; edible production., grasses,
grains, polsonous plant., fruits,. and various .
other interesting subjects connected with • bo- •
tans. We cordially confess that we have never
met with so appropriate and excellent a. work for
the purpose of arousing and stimulating the young
learner to a real love of this portion of Natural .
History ; and parents why wish to advan•!e the .
hearts and brains of their childrewin refinern.:nt
and intelligence will do wall t-r place " The In- '
sttuctive Picture Book" in their handy. •

Recollections of Mrs. Hester Taffetas. Knight and
Son. Clerkenwell-close.

In this volume we have a number of stories,
chiefly running on the papular end an-
cient theme of love ; and Mrs. T ►ffetas tells
them in a quaint ani pleasant style. A
strung dash of improbability is visible here
and there, but any symptom of original power
i 3 worthy of notice in these days of sterer_typed
sentiment and twaddle ; and there is certainly a de-
gree of freshness in some of these gossipping recitals
which merits a fair portion of praise. We
should imagine the writer to, be young in the
craft of authorship, and in her next public
eisay a little more attention to the con-
sistent acti.:n of the char icters and general ''
construction of incidents would enable her to pro
duce a batter specimen of her inventive talent.
Meanwhile we can honestly recommend the Recol-
lections of Mrs. Hester Taffetas as a light and
.amusing volume.

MILITARY SERVICE IN THE &NITED STATES:

(From the New York Tinter) "
The desertion of one-third of the force seeeked
for the Utah expedition, involving the all but total
annihilation of an entire regiment, suggests a few
considerations regarding our treatment of our army.
which are worthy of attention. The history of the
sth infantry during the last ten years, the deban-
dade of which is causing so much del ler and annoy-
ance reflects, we think, very great discredit, not
simply on the military authorities. but on the,
whole public. This regiment, after arduous ser-.
vices during the Mexican war, was immediately
sent to the Texan frontier, where it had to undergo
all the hardships and dangers of frontier life until
two years ago. It was then sent to Florida, and
served a campaign against the Indians in the
swamp. This over, it was abruptly despatched to
Kansas, and ordered to male% 1,000 miles
through a howling waste, infested by savages, to
fight a hostile population on its own soil. Now, .
we have the highest possible opinion of the
American army, composed though it be in the
main of foreigners. Its whole history has been
marked in no ordinary degree of courage and for;
titude of the highest order. It will endure any-.
thing with alacrity which human nature can be
brought to endure ; but such a life as this sth Regi:-.
ment has been leading is a life which no human'
being in possession of a man's ordinary instinct and .
a man's legs can be got to undergo.
The greater portion of our military service is a
kind which no other army in the world could be got
to perform. This outpost duty, in which our troops
pass their lives, is one which European arinids,.
whenever they are engaged in it, perform only for
cirtain fixed periods. The- Russian regimente
serving in the Caueasus are either composed of men
guilty of some cffence, military or other, or are per-
mitted to return to civilisation at stated intervals.
The French army in Algeria is in comparatively
comfortable quarters onee.the razzia is over. The
reitish regiments serve in exposed positions in re-;
gular rotation. The condemnation of any one re-,
giment, or bet of regiments, to perpetual service in
a Kaffir war would lead to mutiny.
In all other armies, too, the restraints .of mili •
tary discipline derive some mitigation from change
of scene and from glimpses of gaiety, of relaxation,
and even of luxury, snatched here and there on the
march or in garrison. To-night the soldier bivouacs
on the roadside, but to-morrow he will find him-
self billeted in a snug tavern in ri large town. If
he passes the Alps he descends upon the rich
plains of Lombardy. After Canna Comes Capon.
The pleasing uncertainties of his position, the mix-
ture of wild enjoyment with fierce excitement and
terrible suffering of which his career is made up,
have for some natures an indescribable charm, and
go far to furnish the hosts who pile up hecatombs
on battle-fields.
The American soldier, from the day of his en-
listment to that of his discharge, passes from swamp
to swamp and forest to forest, sees no human faces
but those of his companions in misfortune, knows
rig excitementbetter than fighting with a foe whom
it is no glory to conquer, has no hope of advance-
ment, lives wretchedly, and perishes obscurely.
Change of quarters brings no relief. His condi-
tion is not much improved by being transferred
from the banks of the Colorado to the Everglades.
A march to the Salte Lake is not a very pleasing
variety after scouting in Florida. The officers are
buoyed up under this terrible task by the influence
and resources of education, by the voice of honour,
and the hope of distinction. But Whence shall the
poor Irish and German, who compose the rank
and file, derive their consolation I Russian
serfs could scarcely bo got to accept existence
on such terms. We can hardly wonder if,
in a free country, 'where labour is valuable,
and where a civilian's exertions are rewarded 'by
wealth, comfort, and honour in a far greater mea-
sure than in any other part of the world, the sol-
dier, whose life is all toil and privation, should
'scowl "false to his silt." Military discipline will
do a great deal with men of any race and under any
circumstances, but military discipline _alone will
not keep up the morals fleet's-sexy for the perform-
ance of great eeterpr.s.s.
We are so essentially a non-military people
that our standing army is in a measure forced
upon us by pressing necessity. We are ob-
liged to have one, but we atone for our chagrin
by treating it as badly as possible. We don't
suppose we shall effect much by appealing tO the
humanity of the people upon this question, but we
hope its economical .aspect will meet with some
consideration. It is -the sheerest and most 'as iltul
extravagance to lead a body of trained soldierssuch
a dog's life that they shall desert en masse the first
great strain they undergo. The immense extent of
our frontier, and the daily increasing complication
of our relations with other Powers, are rendering
our stmndingarmy of yearly increasing importance.
Tceie is a deeply-rooted feeling of hostility to any
increase in its quantity, but its quality may, be
whatever the War Department pleases. The present
mode of employing it renders it all but utterly
worthless, as this expedition proves. Troops drilled
and trained and organised as ours are, are totally
unfitted for ft ontier service against Indians. The
superiority of a trained force is shown only when
lit acts in masses. "Rangers," trappers, pioneers,
Bashi-Bazouks, any sort of irregulars, skilled in
the use of their weapons, and led by daring
-men, would root. out Indians twice as well as
" United States' Infantry or Dragoons." It
is well known that our regulars are the laughing-
stock of our backwoodsmen iu their conflicts with
the Indians. They are constantly outwitted; out-
manoeuvred, and outmarched by them. Ten
thousand infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
scat-
tered in microscopicaont: roiribitewdetachmentsosolratrge over a frontier of
2,000 miles of forest, are simply so many convicts
undergoing
in of punishment. Con-
centratedof books,
Short, of all the social influences under which the
society, and civilisation,bodi bodies, within
bin
reach, reaciilnmen were born and brought up, they would be a
powerful and effective posse—so many greyhounds
straining in the leash. The mere talk of such an
expedition as thislagairst the Mormons would rouse
them in the eagerest excitement. Their morale
would be kept up by contact with the rest of the
world. They would be, in short, an army—a
lay
ysigelnaaimtir to which, they can hardly
arefowrotohdiatmseonrt,
aptituderoraenissoeelepdrti'ae rnsd
Indian'fighter
one must be "to the manner born." Our frontier
duty we might easily perform by the aid of such
Texan Rangers," made up of the
cgsocrare
ntdhe:Capegoats who haunt our borders in
o ofr
life, have
and a any y
os sort of iaecowigfl :onofaadtt4 apeupri
pmatspiseauasmbers, and who won't submit to rigid dis-
cipline, but would deal with Comanches iu their
harum-scarum fashion far better than Frederick's
Grenadiers, were they still in existence. The re-
gular army we could then reserve in full efficiency
for special service en masse, where its drill and its
discipline and expensive organisation would come
into play. We should flans Consult the claims of
humanity and the' claims of our own pockets at one
and the same time.