* * * * * 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 } Stealing from carts and } Dragsmen. carriages of all kinds } To which may be added, all kinds } Light-horsemen, heavy-horsemen, of plundering on the river and } game watermen, do. lightermen, its banks, on board shipping, } scuffle-hunters, copemen, &c. barges, &c. } The whole of these are carried on by confederacies of small parties, and at other times by gangs, when their operations become more extensive. The forger and the highwayman are exceptions; the latter offence is generally committed by one or more, in a fit of need and state of desperation, without any system or plan for carrying on the practice; and it may be affirmed, that, in almost every case of this nature, the criminal never committed the like offence before. There have been some few instances of five or six individuals associating for the purposes of committing forgeries, but the cases are rare. _Boy Burglars._