A CAREER OF caiMh:.

Stavdard. A well dressed woman, who gave her name as Madam de Varney, was arrested last July on a charge of pocket picking in the Champa Elysoes. She protested a^iDßfc tho i m " putation, but waß, nevertheless, incarcerated at St Lazare. M. Merie, the examining magistrate, who instituted an enquiry into her ca?e, learned from the prisoner that she was living oa a boarder at Neuilly with (he family of M. Fabre, a former police commissary. All tho3G who had. made Madame de Varney's acquaintance at that hoarding house, and M. Fabre himself, said it was impossible she could have been guilty of tne act imputed to her. Moreover she was a woman who had plenty of money, and whose delicate sense of honour was vouched for by twenty people. Madame de Varney Btated that she was an American, and accordingly the American Legation interceded for her, obtained her release, and she left France, where, she declared, it was impossible for an honest waman to get into a tram-car without running the risk of being mistaken and arrested as a thief, M. Goron, the c uof of the dr-fcaefciva foriia, beli ved hia men hsd tut been inis.aken, and Beut a photograph of tho womau to Mr Byrne, chief of ths Now York police. M. Goron haß j ant received from the American cffioial tho report of the result of his long and sesrohing 1 inquiry. lc tursis oub thac Madame rta Varney, who is about, thirty yei.r-3 of age, is one of the moat ce'ebratod criminals of America. Har parents, her Biaierß, and her two huebanda were all pro." feffiional thieves, and she herdeU lias pi way* lived by robbery, .Her father, who was an adroit thopliftci 1 , trained her to that specialty of crime. At the age of twelve she was an adept at it. When sixteen years old, Bhe married a thief named Harris, who was arrested during his honey raoon, and what has become of him is unknown. Bhs got away, and continued her nefarious operatio&s elsewhere. In her wanderings she met a clevor rojjbec named Ned Lyons, whom she married, and in a Slew years made a fortune by their robbeiiee, ■Ned Lyons then thought the time had come to live like honest people ; bo the oouple Bettkd down, and lot & time lived on their ill-gotten wealth. Mrs. Lyons, however, oould not resist the temptation, to steal, and. one day stole soms* thing ia a shop, when she was caught, and cent to gaol for five years. Ned Lyons, being rich, bribed the prison warders, and soon enabled his wife to regain her liberty. They fled to Canada, where they purchased a country house, and livecj bo as to win the esteem of all who knew them. They had four children— one boy and three girls. But this quiet life was not the taste of Mrs. Lyons. One day she arrived in a caniago at the door of a New ~£ork bank, at an' hour when Bhe knew there wero only two clerks in the establishment. She sent in word that, being lame and uable to leave her carriage, shb would be greatly obliged if a clork would come out and Bpe&J: with her, She kept him talking a loeg time, during which her aooomplioes pillaged the bank, /it another time she was in a bank where a gentleman wap counting a ls::ge sum of money, She dropped her pookcti handkerchief close to him, and asked him to pick ifc u'£» He politely did so, and. meanwhile, Mrs Lyons' accomplices had made off with seven hundred dollars. At length it became periioij.3 for her to remain longer in America, and ehe abandoned her husband and children. He died shortly i after, and her son, who became a thief also, died i* 1 prison. Her daughters were takon care Of by Borne charitable people, who placed them in a convent afc Montreal, where they are still. As for Mrs Lyons she has been travelling about Europe, nerer leaving a country till she found it too hot to hold her. It wac after visiting, with profit, England, Germany, Austria, and Eussia, that Mra Lyons, under the name oi Madame de Yaruey, camo to Paris ; but it was not long after her career here was cut short by the Ohampe« ElyeSes incident. The police of a lazgp number of countriec of Europe and America would like to know her present address.