e feel that we
are but lending our humble aid towards effecting that object in now
publishing the real names of those gentlemen who were captured, and who
passed themselves off to the police and the magistrate as being 'Jones,'
'Smith,' and other conventional misnomers. (Here follow the names.) Our
Correspondent has told us of a certain noble lord, who was running here
and there, on the night of the capture of his friends, striving, in the
first instance, to get them bailed out, and, failing in that, to provide
for them creature comforts in their cells. We cannot avoid mentioning
one or two little incidents connected with this affair. The admission of
spirits to prisoners in a station house is strictly forbidden, but, on
this occasion, their friends outside succeeded in introducing eight soda
water bottles filled with excellent pale brandy, so regularly corked and
wired, as to deceive even the sharp eyes of the Inspector.

"Next day (Sunday), at 12 o'clock, they were bailed out, but, on the
following morning at Marlborough Street Office, a sad mishap had all but
blown up the misnomers; for, when the name of 'Jones' was called from the
police sheet, the gentleman who had honoured that name by assuming it,
quite forgot his condescension, until one of his companions in trouble
nudged him in the side, saying, 'D---n it, that's you.' By the way, the
croupier escaped through the skylight, with the bank, amounting, it is
supposed, to, at least, 500 pounds. He, and a boy who escaped with him,
had but a minute or two the start of the police. As it was, the croupier
met with a most severe accident, having cut his thigh so deeply as to
cause a most serious hemorrhage. The gutter was flooded with his blood."

I wind up the year by chronicling an event which, I fancy, will never
occur again, one of the most singular circumstances connected with it
being, that the penitent was a Jewess. It occurs in a letter in the
_Times_ of 19 Dec.:

"ACT OF PENANCE, ST. JOHN'S, CLERKENWELL.

"Sir.--Understanding that many stories are afloat concerning the above
act, performed on Sunday last (15 Dec.) by a young woman of the Jewish
persuasion, named Deborah Cohen, I thought the particulars might be
acceptable. This affair appears to have arisen from some family quarrel,
the action in the Ecclesiastical Court, having been brought against her
by her brother, for having made use to her sister-in-law, Rosett