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of 6d. a day.

The remaining articles are occupied in detailing the regulations under which these gratuities, good conduct pay, &c., shall be forfeited or restored; or the period of service necessary to confer a title to them in certain degrees abridged: and the warrant concludes by declaring, that "soldiers who were present at the battle of Waterloo shall be allowed to reckon two years in addition to actual service; and those enlisted before December, 1829, shall be allowed to reckon three years for two of actual service, after the age of eighteen, in East and West Indies (in other than West India regiments)."

6. ROBBERY AT AN HOTEL.Central Criminal Court.--Charles Bowen, aged 22, waiter, and George Lake, aged 22, waiter, were indicted for stealing a Bank of England note of the value of 501., and various other notes, altogether of the value of 1501., the moneys of the Rev. William Price Lewis; and John Duncock, aged 22, waiter, and George Bates, aged 26, jeweller, were indicted for feloniously receiving the money, well knowing that it had been stolen.

The prisoners Lake and Bowen were engaged as waiters at the Trafalgar Hotel, Charing Cross, the former having been employed for nine months, and the latter for as many weeks, at the period the robbery was committed, which was on the 28th of November last year. At that time the prosecutor, who is a clergyman residing in Wales, was staying in the hotel, and on the day in question he went to the banking-house of Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax and Co., and received change for a check for 1507., obtaining in payment one note for 50l., and the remainder in notes for 107. and 51. each. The prosecutor upon his return to the hotel rolled up the notes and placed them in his portmanteau; and he then went out, and on his return at night he discovered that his portmanteau had been opened, and that the whole of the money had been abstracted. The next morning the prosecutor gave information of his loss, but for some time no clue was obtained as to the perpetrators of the robbery. It was soon discovered that Duncock had been negotiating the stolen notes, and as he was known to be well acquainted with Bowen, the latter was arrested. Upon this taking place, the prisoner Lake became in so excited a state that

quenting his establishment. He trusted, that as the guilty parties in the present instance had been very properly prosecuted to conviction, such a result would not follow, but still he was bound to look at all the circumstances of the ease; and, as the object of punishment was to deter others from the commission of a similar crime, he must take care to pass a sentence calculated to have such an effect. It might be very true that Lake had been induced by Bowen to commit the offence, but it was also clear that after having been for a considerable time in the service of a kind and indulgent master, he had very readily entered into a plan to commit a robbery to a large amount upon one of the guests in his house. Under all the circumstances, he felt compelled to order the prisoner Bowen to be transported for 15 years, Lake for 10 years, and Duncock and Bates for 14 years.

7. THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS.— The French journals contain an account of a brilliant advantage over the indomitable Abd-el-Kader in person by General Jussuf.

"On reaching the valley of the Temda, General Jussuf was soon on the trace of the enemy, who had just raised his camp. The numerous cavalry of the Emir had proceeded in one direction, and his baggage in another. General Jussuf resolved to attack the latter. A portion of the baggage was already in the hands of the pursuers, when the Emir presented himself on the left, at the head of 700 or 800 regular cavalry, who trotted up in excellent array. General Jussuf immediately charged them, with about 450 chasseurs, gen-d'armes, and spahis, who were received with a murderous fire of

musketry when they came within 50 yards of the enemy. The latter opposed an obstinate resistance; they were, however, soon put to flight, but rallied at some distance from the field, round the white banner of Abd-el-Kader. The French cavalry again attacked them in that position, and again routed them with considerable loss. During this second engagement the Emir's horse was killed, and his men were seen to gather round him and place him on another horse. The fugitives then took a third position, from which they were driven with the same intrepidity. Abd-el-Kader ultimately retreated, leaving in the hands of the French his killed, wounded, horses, tents, and baggage. The difficult nature of the country, and the great distance which separated him from the Marshal's infantry, did not allow General Jussuf to derive more advantage from his victory.'

8. DARING ROBBERY.-Central riminal Court.-Thomas Smith, red twenty-four, was indicted for aving committed a robbery, accompanied with violence, upon Thonas Phillips, and stealing a 107. bank-note, his property; and Anne Jones, aged thirty, described as a married woman, was charged with feloniously receiving the note, knowing it to have been stolen.

Francis Galloway deposed, that on the night of Sunday, the 14th of December, she was living in the house of a Mr. Hamblin, near Crayford Road, Camberwell, and about eight o'clock in the evening, upon hearing a knock at the door, she went to open it, and found the prisoner standing outside with a letter in his hand, which he requested her to deliver to the lady of the house. She asked him whom the letter came from, and he replied that it was all right. She hesitated at taking the letter, and the prisoner threatened to shoot her if she did not, and at the same moment produced what appeared to be a pistol from his coat-pocket, and under the terror of his threats she consented to take the letter, and went up stairs with it to the drawing-room, leaving the prisoner standing in the passage. A gentleman named Phillips, who happened to be in the house at the time, having read the letter, which contained a threat of violence if money were not given, came down stairs and asked the prisoner what he meant by endeavouring to extort money; he replied, that if he did not immediately give him 107. he would

Mrs. Catherine Hamblin spoke to the same facts, and she likewise produced the letter referred to, and stated that before Mr. Phillips interfered she had attempted to leave the house, but the prisoner, who had a pistol in his hand, prevented her from doing so.

Mr. Thomas Phillips gave the same account of the transaction, and stated that he was solely induced to give the prisoner the 107. from a fear of violence.

A police constable proved the apprehension of the prisoner Smith, and to show the guilty knowledge on the part of the woman it was proved that she had changed the stolen note at a pawnbroker's to redeem a watch, and had purchased a quantity of new wearing apparel; and it likewise appeared that she and the prisoner lived together as man and wife.

The female prisoner, in her defence, declared that although she and the other prisoner went by different names, she was really his wife, and that they were married at Northampton. She admitted that she had changed the stolen note, but she said her husband gave it to her and told her to do so, and she did not think there was any harm in it.

Mr. Justice Erle having summed