ance, but it was found
impossible to continue it, and so the occupants of the compartments
beyond the one nearest the scene of the disturbance could learn nothing
as to its nature, a vague feeling of alarm seized them, and all the way
along to Peterborough a succession of shouts of 'Stop the train,' mixed
with the frantic screams of female passengers, was kept up. On the
arrival of the train at Peterborough the man was released by his captors
and placed on the platform. No sooner was he there, however, than he
rushed with a renewed outburst of fury on those who had taken the chief
part in restraining his violence, and as he kept vociferating that they
had robbed him of his money, it was some time before the railway
officials could be got to interfere--indeed, it seemed likely for some
time that he would be allowed to go on in the train. As remonstrances
were made from all quarters to the station-master to take the fellow into
custody, he at length agreed, after being furnished with the names and
addresses of the other occupants of the carriage, to hand him over to the
police. The general impression on those who witnessed the sailor's fury
seemed to be that he was labouring under a violent attack of delirium
tremens, and he had every appearance of having been drinking hard for
some days. Had there been only one or even two occupants of the
compartment besides himself, there seems every reason to believe that a
much more deadly struggle would have ensued, as he displayed immense
strength."

INSURED.

The engine of an ordinary railway train broke down midway between two
stations. As an express train was momentarily expected to arrive at the
spot, the passengers were urgently called upon to get out of the
carriages. A countryman in leather breeches and top-boots, who sat in a
corner of one of the carriages, comfortably swathed in a travelling
blanket, obstinately refused to budge. In vain the porter begged him to
come out, saying the express would reach the spot in a minute, and the
train would in all probability be dashed to pieces. The traveller pulled
an insurance ticket out of his breeches pocket, exclaiming, "Don't you
see I've insured my life?" and with that he set up a horse laugh, and
sunk back into his corner. They had to force him out of the train, and
an instant afterwards the express ran into it.

A NEW TRICK.

A novel illustration of the ingenuity of thieves has been afforded by an