A would-be agreeable, taking his .seat be- ; tween Madame de Stael and the reigning beauty of tbe.day, said— "How happy I am; to be thus seated between 'a wit and a!beauty !" "Yes,!' replied Madame de Stael, "and without possessing either." Durinsr the hearing or a reebnt-case in the Thames Police Court, a statement was made by a foreign detective officer ,. which can be fully warranted by all "who have 'any experience of the real working of the detective system. The. officer referred to said ; that for the prevention and detection of crime, and villanies of every description, English newspapers were worth more than all the police in Europe.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 704, 23 July 1870, Page 4
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