there is not a chance of their doing now as
they used to do. If a man attempts to pick a pocket, it is ten to one if
he is not seen, which was not the case formerly."

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CRIME IN PARIS.

Vidocq, in his Memoires, relates, that in 1817, with twelve agents or
subordinate officers, he effected in Paris the number of arrests which
he thus enumerates:--

Assassins or murderers 15
Robbers or burglars 5
Ditto with false keys 108
Ditto in furnished houses 12
Highwaymen 126
Pickpockets and cutpurses 73
Shoplifters 17
Receivers of stolen property 38
Fugitives from the prisons 14
Tried galley-slaves, having left their exile 43
Forgers, cheats, swindlers, &c. 46
Vagabonds, robbers returned to Paris 229
By mandates from his excellency 46
Captures and seizures of stolen property 39
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811

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WITNESSES.

The protracted proceedings of our criminal courts are productive of one
serious evil, which we have never seen noticed. Domestic servants, and
others who appear as witnesses, must frequently wait, day after day, in
the court-yard and avenues, or in the adjacent public-houses, until the
cases on which they have been subpoenaed are called for trial. During
these intervals they converse and become acquainted with others in
attendance, a large proportion of whom are generally friends or
associates of the prisoners. It is thus that the most dangerous
intimacies have been formed; and many instances have occurred where
servants, who have been seen in the courts as witnesses for a
prosecution, have soon afterwards appeared there as prisoners.

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YOU'LL COME TO OUR BALL.

"Comment! c'est lui?--que je le regarde encore!--c'est que vraiment il
est bien change; n'est pas, mon papa?"--_Les premiers Amours_.

You'll come to our Ball--since we parted,
I've thought of you, more than I'll say;
Indeed, I was half broken-hearted,
For a week, when they took you away.
Fond Fancy brought back to my slumbers
Our walks on the Ness an