But there is a worse evil in the manners of this country in regard to servants.  It is rarely that they are considered in any other light than as mechanical instruments.  It unfortunately belongs very little to our national character to feel what the common brotherhood of humanity requires of us in a relation with our fellow-creatures, which however unequal, is so close as that of master and servant.  We are not accustomed to be sensible that it is any part of our duty to enter into their feelings, to understand their dispositions, to acquire their confidence, to cultivate their sympathies and our own upon some common ground which kindness might always discover, and to communicate with them habitually and unreservedly upon the topics which touch upon that ground.  This deficiency would perhaps be more observable in the middle classes than in the highest, who seem generally to treat their inferiors with less reserve, but that in the latter the scale of establishment often removes the greater part of a man’s servants from personal communication with him.  Whether most prevalent in the fashionable or in the unfashionable classes, it is an evil which, in the growing disunion of the several grades of society is now more than ever, and for more reasons than one, to be regretted.

(To be concluded in our next.)

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THE SCHOOLMASTER’S EXPERIENCE IN NEWGATE.

(From Fraser’s Magazine.)

Although in the present day, notwithstanding the severity of the laws, the different modes of committing crime are almost endless, the principal actors in criminality may be classed under the following heads:—­

Classification of Rogues.

  Housebreakers Vulgus—­Cracksmen, pannymen.

Highwaymen & }                     Grand-tobymen. 
Footpads     }                     Spicemen.

  Coiners Bit-makers.

  Utterers of base metal Smashers.

  Pickpockets Buzzmen, clyfakers, conveyancers.

  Stealers of goods and money from } Sneaks.
    shops, areas, &c. &c. }

  Shoplifters Shop-bouncers.

  Snatchers of reticules, watches, } Grabbers.
    &c. &c. from the person }

  Horse and cattle stealers Prad-chervers.

Women and men who waylay         }
inebriate persons for the      } Ramps.
purpose of robbery             }

  Receivers of stolen goods Fences.

  Forgers Fakers.

  Embezzlers Bilkers.

  Swindlers of every description, } Macers, duffers, and ring-droppers.
    among which are }