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iIAILWA'

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

AIARLBOROUGH-STREEI.

AN INCORRIGIBLE DEAF AND DUMB BEGGAR.—
Thomas Shepherd, a deaf and dumb young man,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with begging.
Police-constable Newby, 160 C, proved seeing
the prisoner begging at cab doors at two o'clock
on Sunday morning in Piccadilly, and he then took
bim into custody, and on searching him at the st t-
tion he found lls. 9d. in his possession.
The Rev. Mr. Smith, chaplain to the Association
in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb, having informed the
prisoner what was stated against him by means of
signs, said that all the prisoner said in answer to
the charge was that the constable had been drink•
ing. (Laughter.)
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that it was a case of begging
without any excuse._

The Rev. W. Smith said the prisoner had been
before Mr. Knox several times, and on two occa-
sions Mr. Knox had given him (the Rev. Mr.
Smith) money to procure the prisoner clothing and
situations, and he had done so, but the prisoner
would not stay in his situation, preferring to lead
the life of a beggar. The prisoner had been in
prison for felony and several times for begging, and
nothing could be done with him.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for a month
with hard labour.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE THROUGH THE LOSS OF A
CHILD. —Sarah Billow, a married woman, residing
at No. 19, Jaines-street, Kensington-square, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt wit, attempting to
commit suicide at the Serpentine.
Henry Smith, a young man, living at Knights-
bridge, said that passing theSerpeutine on Saturday
night he heard a voice from the water, and on going
to the Serpentine he saw the prisoner lying on her
face in the water. He took her out, and hearing
her say something about a child, he looked into the
water to see whether there was any child there, but
could not see one, and directly afterwards the pri-
soner said that the child had been dead a month.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said the young man had acted very
properly.
The husband of the prisoner stepped forward and
said that the child was a grandchild, and that ever
since its death his wife had fretted very much, and
her mind had become affected.

The prisoner said that her husband had had some
words with her daughter, and told her to pack up
her things and leave the house, and she went after
her daughter, feeling it was her duty to go where
her daughter went. She did not think she could
have been in her right mind or she would not have
gone to the water, as she had a dread of it.
Mr. Tyrwbitt seeing the excited condition of the
prisoner said the best thing would be to remand her
to a place where she would be taken care of.
The prisoner here became still more excited,
calling out " Don't send me to prison. I shall go
mad. I shall go mad." With some difficulty the
prisoner was removed from the court, the magis-
trate giving directions that she should be carefully
looked after.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Sept. 13.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied L.y her
Royal Highness Princess Louise, drove in the
grounds yesterday afternoon.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went
out.

LITERATIME.

-- 0-- --

The Last Century of Universal History, 1767-1867•
By Alexander Charles Ewald, F. S. A. Frede-

rick Warne and Co.

As wonderful a record this is as the world has
ever seen published. It is an epitome—admirably
arranged for reference—of the most astonishing
century (humanly speaking) in the annals of
our race. Within the space of these hundred
years last past mankind has made visibly and
appreciably the most astounding advance in the
development of knowledge, in the neestery of the
forces of nature, in the expansion and application of
all the material resources of modern civilisation.
During the earlier half of the century the grandest
political movement related in all history,
whether
ancient or modern, was commenced and accomplished.
A new epoch in effect dates from it—from the
commencement and accomplishment of the French
Revolution a movement, in point of fact,
through which all Europe was in a manner
revolutionised. During the earlier part of
this century again the world witnessed the rise and
the fall of—not to use the words in any invidious
sense—the greatest and the most astonishing of 511
Adventurers. The Child of the Revolution. Its
incarnation. Hero, Conqueror, Lawgiver. A nog
Sesostris, with the chariot of his triumph drawn by
Kings. At one time—namely, when his success was
at its highest—virtually ruler or lord paramount of
the whole European continent. A leader of men
cast in the mould of Plutarch. An imperial warrior,
whose fame and whose achievements are by common
consent ranked side by side with those of Ca3iar, of
Alexander, of Charlemagne. 0113 the histiory of
whose life is of itself the most wonderful of all
romances. Born in the island of Corsica on the
15th of August, 1769—dying fifty-two years after-
wards (and,of those fifty-two years, six in exile after
the actual completion of his public career at the
early age of six and forty) on the sth of May, 1821'
on another island far away in mid ocean, an
island still haunted by his memory, although his
august remains have long since been removed fro'
it—the island of St. Helena. An event like the
French Revolution, a ruler of men like
Napoleon
Bonaparte, ushered in this wonderful century—•th°
later half of which has been illustrated by achieve'
!write in their way quite as extraordinary. At theclose of the hundred years which have elapsed be-
tween 1767 and 1867 what marvels, in truth, lisv°
there not been accomplished ! From our prasen!
standpoint in 1868—with Mr. Evrald's " Uuiver3sl
History of the Last Century" held in our grasp 35
a guidebook to the wonders it recounts—what i 3
in effect, among the crowd of marvels thus achieved,
that we behold? Why, as a matter now, literallis
of every-day occurrence, we know that thought, tbs
articulate speech, is running to and fro through
the earth, and over it, and under the depths of the
ocean, with the speed, on the wings,
actually with the very throb or pulse °I,
the lightning We know, moreover, that ta3
has long since harnessed to ,the carriages dray('
ing both himself and his merchandise, a fiery
dragon of his own manufacture, and one that le fag
more docile in its obedience to his will than
tb
fleetest charger, a creature of iron, with a breat',
of steam flying over the ground with a sustained
seed like that of the famous racehorse Eclipse
Pa mile a minute! While we have thus on land
our railways and our locomotive steam-engines":
while we have at sea our steam pickets indaPel3
alike
dently gliding over the ocean in defi tinesce•
,
wind and of tide—while we have the electric tele;
graph, so to speak, everywhere, trailed over 011.0
ho ts_Aopzt, under the payola Jilts we walk upon
our crowded cities, strung from pole to pole along„
all tle lines of our railroads—we have our prtralt.'
taken as if by magic in a few seconds by the pen
of a sunbeam—we have our woren fabrics Pro,
ducA no longer by the old-fashioned beam wee
shuttle of the hand-weaver, bat, on the contrary'
through the all but sentient agency of tnechillic'ts
contrivances, wonderful alike for the swiftnesh;
accuracy, intricacy, and yet, in another sense, for t
equ illy marvellous simplicity of their operations• of
have been enabled to demonstrate the revolution;
the earth upon its axis by the oscillations of a C!cd
dulum. We have been enabled to test the phYst
L, the
properties of the fixed stars through
the
medium of spectrum analysis. sounding the
depths of space in another way, by
aid of gigantic reflecting telescopes such
as
Kepler and Galileo never dreamt
03:dr ne-
bulaha been enabled to resolve
into incalculable myria Is of ancl
• h the su,
We have been empowered to wog
one,_
ere
t4°
the planets, and their satellites, one re
h we
balance, with as much precision us thoug ~jet
uneP' A
calculating the weight respectively of a P
131%10'
of se many apricots, or of so many s dere
currants. And so on—the catalogue of won le
scaoPaPstellations.
ma
achieved within this last
of alland(a thgaine
speaking) most astonishinganY s°'
might be extended here beyond a length in eto
reasonable. To them— to all the marvels °L
ban ce
dies
liceonotkurnyow(lu7n6d7ertnootlioBe67is)
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piled. It is ingeniously subdivided and the most comprehensive guide ever 1:et„,
Lists of
annotated Table of Chronology, iat° 0
the i‘ir.
readiest,Eal the r
Contemporary Sovereigns, into a Dietil°,:nrtjee of
Battles and Sieges, and into Biographiea too A
Eminent Individuals. The work springs jt
ou..
side
deserves thought most admirably carried by
w
deserves a place on every library table, au' wolf big
with Mr. Frederick Martin's annual issue best
Statesman's Year-Book. It reflects theis I:egrtbY
credit upon the compiler's industry, an d
,lish Con,
of the Author of the Digest of the -Eno
stitution.

The Chandos Byron. One Vol. Pp. 638.
°'eci.
Warne and Co.
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Lor Byron's Poems in one volume for 1;00
crown.me
astonished
This year Messrs. Warne and Co.
P us still more by publishing those ;lira
oloems complete, exquisitely printed, as the cost
the 06
v ume of their ‘1 Chandos Classics," at
of merely a shilling. Tile edition is reallitieto
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0
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published during his lifetime." And )fet--leedia
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the
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Hug Longfellow—what can alone repay the
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