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The camp at Aldershott is beginning to attract attention, as the season draws near when it will be occupied by the Militia regiments not on gar- rison duty, and snob of the Guards and regiments of the Line as can be spared. The huts are arranged in two camps, separated from each other by the Basingstoke Canal, one for 12,000, the other for 8000. The larger camp is occupied by five regimenis of Militia, mustering 3000 bayonets ; the smaller camp is set apart for the Guards and the Line. Already 400 of the Guards are in possession, and in a few days of the more regular troops will have arrived.
Philip Palmer, a returned transport, recently arrived at Liverpool from Australia ; and took an opportunity to carry off a hag of gold worth 2501. belonging to a fellow passenger, Joseph Ruddock. Ruddoek offered a reward of 501. for the recovery of his treasure. Inspector Murphy traced the thief to Pumford, near the Derbyshire Peak. A solitary cottage on the summit of a rock was pointed out to him ; and, approaching by a circuitous and almost inaccessible Sight of steps hewn out of the solid rock, he cautiously entered the retreat, and secured his prisoner before he had allowed him the chance of resistance. In the house the officer found the missing bag, containing 1901. ; and other sums were found on his person. On the way to Liverpool, the prisoner, who is a strong, determined-looking fellow, swore that if he had been aware of Murphy 's approach up the steps, he would have sent a bullet through his heart, " as the Russians did the English and the French before Sebastopol." This desperado, it is said, seed " good behaviour " so well in Australia that ha was appointed an Inspector of Police at the Diggings.
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