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    • TUB SJSTO&S GUIDE. A Continental Handbook for the British Traveller Proper. BY ONE OF THEM.
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      after such conduct , his retention in the Ministry is a disgrace to it and the country alike . But Mr . Bruce had not yet exhausted his stock of wise and benevolent utterances . " The young men could prosecute the Police for assaults ; " " this would cost next to nothing , " & c , & c . But the humorous intellect of Mr . Bruce could not perceive that the offence of the Police , paid servants of the State , was not an assault , but wilful malignant perjury ; and that , in their official capacity as defenders of the public peace . There may be no precedent for a public prosecution under the circumstances , but we venture to assert that any Judge would , in any ordinary trial , have committed the witnesses for perjury in a similar case , if they had been mere private individuals . But we all know the Police are not private individuals ; they are the pets of Scotland Yard , and are tried and punished ( if at all ) for tribunal such , of little which failings the decisions as wilful can and as malicious little be questi perjury oned by b a ypublic secret opinion as the evidence on which it decides , both being equally concealed from the knowledge of the outside world . ; We have again and again pointed out that there is but one remedy for the present state of insecurity which , rightly or wrongly , people feel with regard to the Police , and that is , to insist that all members of the Force who shall be accused of any violence , or be practically condemned by a magistrate for giving false evidence , shall be tried publicly for that offence , and punished with severity . As long as the Commissioner of Police is allowed practically to override the law of the land by holding private inquiries into the conduct of offending members of the Force , so long will dislike and distrust of the Police exist in the minds of the public . It would be strange indeed if the Police did not number among their members ignorant and brutal creatures , who used their brief authority for the purpose of oppression . For the sake of the many worthy , brave , and honest members of the Force , these black sheep should be punished with as much publicity as possible . It is not too much to ask that the Crown should undertake in these cases , as it does in others , the punishment of those of its servants who betray their trust and abuse their power . Bankers might just as well leave to their customers the prosecution and punishment of defaulting clerks , as Government leave to individuals the expense and labour of bringing to justice those paid preservers of public order who convert themselves into licensed highwaymen . The Police do not need protection from the public so much as they do from themselves ; it never ought to be possible for them to acquire in a public court the stain of suspected perjury and cruelty , which cannot be wiped off in an equally public court . As for Mr . Bruce ' s share in the case , which led to the rem Police arks which Commissioner we have lies made the , on disgrace him much of this more scandal than . It is impossible to expect any reform from within in the officials of Scotland Yard , if they can always rely on the unscrupulous sup-1 port the cas , and e of unblushing any delinquencies encouragement on the , part of a of their abinet subordinates Minister in .

      68 The Tom Ah A Wk. [August 14, 1869.

      68 THE TOM AH A WK . [ August 14 , 1869 .

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      Tub Sjsto&S Guide. A Continental Handbook For The British Traveller Proper. By One Of Them.

      TUB SJSTO & S GUIDE . A Continental Handbook for the British Traveller Proper . BY ONE OF THEM .

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      ON SOME ALPINE SNOBBISM . on Now the , Continent there are . many You may ways lounge of making about yourself the Rue consp Rivoli icuous in a shooting coat and towelled wide-awake . You may insist on being the Grimsel and served adorn . with You that ham may mediaeval take sandwiches a paint but -pot well and up -lettere ' 47 the port Drachenfels d ruin on the with top with the of in You you tables aristocratic that , may , and unsatisf empty be name the your of hero but pocket "SNO of the s , B with , half " in the red business hour other cap while itals fools . Indeed , you , three at are the feet engaged German hi have gh . ying stimulating , you to only and the make to thrus yourself ' t yourself elevation sufficientl forward of British y consp in any Snobdo icuous capacity , m , on you any . will occasion There attain is , much however confidence proper , one special . Go road in for which climbing I can . I recommend do not proper mean to you cours with e , by sane this and , the ordinary ordinary traveller climbing bent ; on that health comes recreation in the way , and of exer the - , cise self- . advertising I refer you , useless to that , d utterl angerous , y monstrous , boyish , , break clambering -neck , , , reckless which it , has lately become the fashion to extol , and invest with the digfoolhardy nity of pluck spirits ! No have doubt been a caug good ht many up by adventurous the influence but of reall the y leading hour , and very risked often their nowhere lives , in with crawling the view up on of next reaching to nothing some- , thing But this that is neither somebod trul y has not been nor mad manl enoug and h to while reach before have . freshly before us the late y courageous catastrophe of the unfortunate y ; clergyman from aspect of ghton this , indefensible I might pause pursuit for a . moment Often , as on it the appears more to serious have with no been motive erro in the neous beyond case theories to which an exaggerated as I to have the just benefits love made of of enterprise reference the mountain , , there coupled air is thought at great wrong altitudes to . run With unquestionable no better reason risks than on shifting this , ifr is not fashion pathless that crags , , were and jeopardise it attempted , in a here Swiss in ravine England , one on ' s life equ ally intervene dangerous and terms call , one in ' s the friends famil and doctor relatives . When would a victi probabl m is y sacrificed under such conditions y it is difficult not to feel the force of the remark made by the , Ti ? nes the other day on this if subject this is , and the bring judgmen in a t passed verdict on of the " temporary better men insanity what " shall And I motiv say of e the in thi refuse s Alpine ? What suicide of -hunti the ng miserable is a contemptible Snobs , whose love onl y try ephe to meral rival notoriety their brothe ? What rs of the of these music- unspang halls , without led athletes having , who an iota of an excuse to put forward—not even that of earning their livelihood What can by be the mo pr r o cess pitiabl ? e and little than the feeling which jealou prompts sy than a grow that n m of an repeating deliberatel the y to dangerous risk his life foolery with that no no other bler fools that of hav writing e successfull an account y accomplished of his apeishness ; with no which loftier aim Times than lish for w ? an Ca t of n news anything , at a exceed dull season the childish of the year vanity , , may , the possibly unmascu pub line - , self-consciousness of this ? And yet , so little is the thing apprefor ciat and the e d at sole its r th p u ro e p ose er ir v of alue w hich e , that ing th n aliv im ere at e , e in s absol it all u its The tely pristi n lose Cl ne ub n nobility o for t me ime d my good gou , end : sp get your gaiters , your boots , your alpenstock , , your with nothing yo veils u b , eautiful rope risk s , g to your uides see , , neck nothing and , scrambling useful rest of to learn along pa . rap where Up hernalia with there you j up is , I say : drop the intellectual , and try the animal ; quit the paths of Times reasonable . You are men a , true and British see if y Snob ou can : not must get a not line be into out of e such noble work as this ! you ( To be continued . )

      Resi Popular Gnation. Work By Austin (Fr...

      Resi Popular gnation . Work By Austin ( from Bruce the , late press Secretary of Public for Opinion the Home ) . —¦ Department .

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Aug. 14, 1869, page 68, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_14081869/page/4/