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European importance of maintaining the Ottoman
empire, that the deputation may rest assured that there
is not the slightest intention on the part of her Majesty's
government of abandoning Turkey."

NARRATIVE OF LAW AND CRIME.

A Housebreaker has been captured by a lady at Liverpool.
On Saturday evening the 1st instant, Mrs.
Elliot, wife of Mr. Elliot of Camden Street, on going
into her bed-room, found that her jewel case on the
dressing-table had been meddled with, and that various
articles were disarranged. She was questioning the
servant, whom she had called into the room for that
purpose, about the matter, when she suddenly perceived
a man's feet projecting slightly from under the bed.
She ordered the girl to go into the street, being careful
to shut the front door after her to keep the thief in, and
seek for a policeman. The robber, hearing this
energetic instruction, sprang from his imperfect place of
concealment, and made a rush at the chamber door.
Mrs. Elliott, however, threw herself in his way, and
grasped him with a firmness and tenacity which resisted
the fellow's strenuous exertions to shake her off. The
servant girl returned in a few seconds with an officer,
and the burglar was given into custody. The most
singular part of the matter is, that some time ago the
same courageous lady received the thanks of a grand jury
in Liverpool for a similar capture of a housebreaker in
her premises. The prisoner, J. Tutty, a man well known
to the police, was sent for trial at the sessions.

An extraordinary attempt at Housebreaking has been
made at Glasgow. Mr. D. C. Rait, the most extensive
jeweller in Scotland, has a shop in Buchanan Street;
above it is the warehouse of Messrs. Campbell and Co.
On Saturday night the 1st. instant, two men, by means
of a false key, got admission to the warehouse. They cut
a hole in the floor, to get admission to the jeweller's shop;
but they were foiled, for between the warehouse-floor and
the shop-ceiling there are iron plates. The burglars then
removed the hearthstone, sawed through the joists,
broke the plaster, and descended by means of a rope
into the shop. There they made a selection of diamond
rings, chains, brooches, and other costly articles, valued
at more than £2000, which they deposited in a japanned
leather hand-bag. They ascended the rope, traversed
the warehouse, and descended the stairs towards an iron
gate at the end of a court, once through which they
would have been pretty safe to get clear off with their
booty. It happened, however, that a private watchman
attached to the court had, some little time before, opened
the iron gate, and, after locking it behind him, stumped
up-stairs (he has a wooden leg); but, hearing a noise at
Messrs Campbell's door, which he had already passed,
he returned, and from a recess on the stair, the two men
confronted him. One of them instantly seized him by
the throat, threw him down, and attempted to cover his
mouth with his hand. This the old man resisted, and
called out so loudly, that he attracted the notice of a day
police-officer, who happened luckily to be passing along
Buchanan Street at the moment. He made his
appearance at the grated door; when the burglars,
seeing that their position had become dangerous, rushed
up-stairs, and sprang into the court from a window
about sixteen feet high. They immediately took to
their heels; and as the streets were quite still at the
time, one of them got clear off unpursued. The policeman
chaced the other; who ran into a court which was
closed at one end with a door, and there he was secured.
The robbers had left the bag of plunder on the stairs of
the warehouse. The man who was taken is a young
Englishman, who calls himself Jackson. He had been
staying at one of the principal hotels, and had made
several purchases at Mr. Rait's. He had sent his
luggage to the railway terminus, and if the robbery had
not been frustrated, he would probably have got off for
England by the Sunday afternoon train; in all probability
the burglary would not have been discovered till
Monday morning, and the accomplished artists would
have had a good start for the disposal of their plunder.

A daring attempt at Garrotte Robbery was made
near Dunfermline on Sunday evening the 2nd inst.
About eight o'clock, as Dr. White was on his way to
Dunfermline accompanied by his servant boy in his
gig, a man and a woman met them. The man sprung
forward and seized the reins and drew the horse to the
side of the road. The doctor, taking it for a drunken
frolic, tried to coax the fellow to let the horse go. He
held on, however, and when Dr. White saw he was not
disposed to relinquish his hold, he gave the boy the
reins and leapt out of the gig. The woman called out,
"Don't be afraid, doctor, he will not harm you." He
then went up to him and requested him to desist, but
as soon as they were close together the fellow sprang
upon the doctor, tripped up his feet, and threw himself
upon, and attempted to choke him by twisting his
neckcloth. The woman also threw herself on him and
attempted to loosen his great coat, which was tightly
buttoned up to the throat, her object apparently being
to take what money she could get whilst the man held
him down. Fortunately the doctor's neckcloth came
away, which relieved him, when he seized the man by
the throat, and after a severe struggle succeeded in
getting uppermost, when he got out of the fellow's grip
and leapt into the gig and drove away. He had gone a
very short distance when he met a number of men with
whom he returned and overtook the robber, who was
secured and lodged in Dunfermline gaol. His name is
John Gillon, an Irish coal hewer at Halbeath. The
woman is his wife.

A very audacious Robbery was perpetrated on the
evening of the 4th, about two miles from Faversham,
near the Canterbury road. Five men, masked, entered
a cottage, seized a man, his wife, and a labourer, and
tied their hands; one was left as a guard over the
prisoners; the others proceeded to the neighbouring
house of Mr. Monk, a cattle-dealer. They seized him,
his housekeeper, and a boy, tied their hands behind their
backs, and put them in a cellar; the other three
prisoners were brought from the cottage and put in the
cellar also. Then the robbers regaled themselves, took
£50 in notes, some watches, clothing, and other articles,
put them in Mr. Monk's cart and drove off. Some
neighbours saw them pass along; but the villains
escaped capture for a time.

A man who had been Cut off with a Shilling by his
father's will, brought an action for recovery of the
legacy in the Liverpool County Court. The plaintiff
was a surgeon at Halifax, named Theakstone; the action
was brought against his brother for £5 1s., the shilling
being the amount of the legacy, while the £5 was
claimed for the trouble and expense he had been put to
in professional services in applying for payment of the
shilling. The defendant paid the legacy, together with
1s.11d. costs, into court. The plaintiff's counsel applied
for costs upon the whole amount sued for, which the
judge declined to grant, observing that he hoped it
would be the last time he should be called upon to try a
cause for a shilling. There was no pretence for a claim
of £5, and the judgment must be for the defendant. If
the plaintiff's father in the present case had left him
some relic, there might have been some pretence for the
action, but he did not understand a person who had
been "cut off with a shilling" bringing an action to
recover it. The judge further remarked that he once
tried an action of trover brought to recover a shilling,
and nonsuited the plaintiff who brought a fresh action
for ninepence. The pleadings in both actions were
drawn by counsel, and the cause ultimately went to the
court above, at an expense of about £50 on each side.

Two Irish tailors, Donoghue and Donovan, were
brought before the Lord Mayor, on the 10th, charged
with a Street Row and an Assault on the Police. They
had been, at one o'clock on Sunday morning, seen by
the policemen in Duke's-place, fighting a couple of bulldogs,
amidst a crowd of vagabonds of both sexes, and
the whole neighbourhood was in a state of alarm, many
having started out of their beds in the belief that the
whole city was on fire, such was the shouting and
roaring of the multitude. The policeman, upon
endeavouring to separate the dogs, received the unsavoury
contents of a jug which was thrown at him by Donoghue,
and Donovan joined in the assault. There were several
other tailors at the dog-fight, and the policeman would
have been completely overwhelmed if another of the