mopolitan in the purposes to which it is applied than our telegraph. It is employed in transmitting messages to and from bankers, merchants, members of congress, officers of government, brokers, and police officers; parties who by agreement have to meet each other at the two stations, or have been sent for by one of the parties; items of news, election returns, announcement of deaths, inquiries respecting the health of families and individuals, daily proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives, orders for goods, inquiries respecting the sailing of vessels, proceedings of cases in the various courts, summoning of witnesses, messages for express trains, invitations, the receipt of money at one station and its payment at another; for persons requesting the transmission of funds from debtors, consultation of physicians, and messages of every character usually sent by the mail.

"TELESCOPED, BY JINGO!"

A CUNNING butcher one morning took a ticket at the Derby railway station, for a trip to Birmingham. He was about to seat himself in the train, when he was accosted by one of the officers, as to a dog he had with him, for which, it appeared, he had not paid the usual fare. The butcher stoutly refused to pay what was demanded; and after the exchange of sundry words between the disputants, the animal was "taken in charge," much to the chagrin of its owner.

In a brief

interval, the dog either escaped, or was released, and

scampered along the platform towards the place where it had been separated from its master, who, during a trifling delay of the train, had just time to secure the animal, ere the whistle blew, and the carriages were in motion: this circumstance, however, did not escape observation, as appears in the sequel. The traveller patted his dog, in the exuberance of his delight at having "done the railway chaps for once;" and then, turning to a fellow passenger, and casting an incredulous, half contemptuous glance at the magic wires along the line, confidently exclaimed, "They may telescope me Now, if they CAN!" Onward sped the train; Birmingham was at length reached; but the man of economy had not walked many paces from the carriage in which he had been seated, before he was interrupted by a sudden tap, followed by-"You've not paid for that dog!" The butcher stared at the officer, then at his dog, and paid the money, growling out, "Telescoped, by jingo!"

ROSINQUIST THE RUSSIAN, OR THE AMPUTATING STEWARD.

"Look in the ten o'clock train from here, (Normanton,) for a young man about twenty-three years old, with long dark hair, a glazed cap, short jacket, (speaks broken English,) and send him back in charge. He has run away from his work." This message was transmitted from Normanton to Rochdale, forty-one miles, on the Manchester and Leeds line, on Tuesday,

October 26th, by the 12-5 train, and was thus answered by the 12-30, the train having arrived rather late. "He is found and detained here, and will be with you by the 1-20 express train in charge of a porter." The captive was taken in company with another young man on their way to Liverpool; having left the vessel that had recently arrived at Hull from Russia, and wherein he acted as steward; he had taken with him, when he absconded, a coat, a quadrant, and other articles belonging to the ship, which he pawned prior to his departure in Hull. These facts were proved before a magistrate, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial.

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THE FASCINATING FRENCHMAN, OR VERE THOU GOEST I VILL GO."

THE telegraph had only been completed from London to Liverpool a few days, when its power as a police agent was exemplified upon an interesting scale.

One eventful Saturday, a droll-looking, dark-complexioned little Frenchman took up his abode at the Trafalgar, in Bath-street. On the following day, another gentleman, a Yankee, took up his quarters at the same hotel, to sojourn there until the ship Patrick Henry slipped cable for New York. The "strangers" soon became intimate; ate and drank together, and were inseparable companions. Little or nothing was known of the Frenchman, except that he was without any wardrobe, beyond that which he wore. Frequently

he complained of the non-arrival of his tronc from London; uttering ever and anon an interjectional curse upon the railway company, whom he saddled with its mysterious miscarriage. This, with ludicrous effrontery, he urged as a plea for his shortness of cash. His friend, however, philanthropically supplied his wants, and paid his way for him. As he was about to cross the Atlantic, he wished to cash some Bank of England notes, under the impression that gold was more serviceable in America. Accordingly, he went to one of the Liverpool banks, and with him his constant friend, the Frenchman, who said, as usual, to his benefactor, "Vere thou goest, I vill go." The notes were refused, on the ground that the bank was short of gold; and the owner of them returned with the Frenchman to their hotel, and replaced them in his portmanteau in his bedroom. On the following day, the man of money, wishing to see the lions of Liverpool, and the embryo beauties of Birkenhead, invited the Frenchman to join him; but the latter, as will be seen from the sequel, had more reasons than one for staying at home, and of departing, by an affectation of indisposition and ennui, from his usual declaration of "Vere thou goest, I vill go." hour or so, the absentee returned, and found that the Frenchman had fled, after having broken open the portmanteau, and taken therefrom a 50l. note, one 201., and three 107. Beneath lay a bag of fifty sovereigns, but this had been overlooked. The thief had left Liverpool by the express train for London; but full descriptive particulars of the Frenchman and

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the fraud had preceded him, by the hue and cry of the telegraph; and behold him collared and in custody while presenting his benefactor's notes at the Bank!

THE TELEGRAPH VERSUS VENUS.

A YOUNG girl left Cambridge by the new Defiance coach for the railway terminus at Ware, en route to meet her lover in London. Fortunately, the father missed the maiden; and the telegraph at Cambridge having communicated a description of her to the telegraph at Ware, two policemen made themselves known to the fair runaway, and induced her to accompany them back to Cambridge, where she had to endure the paternal frown instead of enjoying the attention of her affianced at Shoreditch.

TOASTING HEALTHS BY THE TELEGRAPH. "THERE was high feasting" held at York and Newcastle; the respective mayors and corporations on a certain day happening to entertain simultaneously convivial parties at both places. The health of the mayor and corporation of York was drunk about ten o'clock. The courteous exchange flew over the wires, and was acknowledged "in less than no time" by full bumpers at the Mansion House in York; and despite the interposing snow, a swift answer was received in the Assembly Rooms at Newcastle, to the effect that the compliment had been reciprocated with three times three, and as many more for the telegraph.