myrmidon of our police--some English Vidocq--would write four pretty
pocket volumes like those of the French policeman. Perhaps some of the
new appointed will take this hint.

To conclude, after what we have said, our readers need not be
recommended to turn to _Vidocq's Memoirs_. They will find the
translation generally well executed, although we have detected several
slips in the last volume.


[2] A _ruse_ of this description will be found in the MIRROR,
vol. X. page. 305, prefixed to a paper on French Gaming Houses.


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SOUTHWELL CHURCH.


[Illustration: Southwell Church.]


The town of Southwell, in the county of Nottingham, is situated in the
midst of an amphitheatre of well-wooded hills; the soil is rich, and the
air, from the vicinity of the River Trent, is remarkably pure. It is
fourteen miles north-east of Nottingham, about as many south-east of
Mansfield, and eight south-west from Newark; the River Greet, famous