circumstances are here narrated as shewing, on the one hand, the prompt restoration of lost articles to their owners, and on the other, the fortunate finding of said articles by persons who, in two cases at least stood in need of pecuniary reward. Two gold watches were lost on two separate occasions, and each by a lady unknown to the other. Somewhat curiously, they were picked up by two persons of the same sex, also unknown to each other - the one a cripple and the other a vendor of water-cresses. The former immediately set about, with her brother's assistance, to ascertain, if possible, to whom the watch belongs, and was not a little rejoiced to find, a few hours afterwards, that a reward of £2 10s. was offered to the restorer of the lost article. With the utmost promptitude the watch and the money exchanged hands, to the satisfaction of all parties concerned. In the other case, an equal anxiety appears to have been manifested by the finder of the watch. The poor woman and her daughter were daily on the look-out for an entire week for some announcement of the missing property, but so silent was the Crier's bell, and so provokingly uncommunicative were the placarded walls and shop-windows on the matter that the woman had well-nigh despaired of finding an owner for the little gold ticker, and was about to give it up to the police authorities. At length, however, the lady who lost the watch took the proper step of making her loss publicly known, and offered, the comparatively small reward of £1 to the finder. No sooner was the announcement by handbills fairly circulated than the poor water-cress seller, relieved of her anxiety, hastened with the watch to claim the reward. If one might judge from the expression of the countenance, it would not be difficult to believe the poor woman's statement that the money was quite a "godsend" to her, as it would enable her to pay her four weeks rent, with something left over for other necessities. The third case was this:- A poor widow, having a large family, sent one of her children with a sovereign - the amount of two or three week's earnings to purchase some provisions, but ere the child reached the shop, the sovereign was lost. Fortunately for the loser, the coin was picked up by honest hands, and was restored to its owner immediately on her loss being made known. The finder, though in humble circumstances, refused even the smallest compensation, feeling, as we believe he did, a consciousness of reward in having performed an honest deed. After the above was written a fourth case, not very dissimilar to the last was reported to us. Let it not be said then, that honesty is not to be found in these towns.
Magnificent Liberality(?) Whether similar honest and generosity to the cases narrated above was exhibited in the following equally -
