To remedy these defects they brought the engineer, who strenuously exercised his intellect on the subject for three days; but as he exercised nothing on the waste-pipe, I insisted on having the copper basin baled out, and secured a bucket for my ablutions.
During my first day in Newgate, the officers occasionally dropped in for a minute's chat with such an unusual prisoner.

I found them for the most part "good fellows," and singularly free from the bigotry of their "betters." The morning papers also helped to wile away the time.

I was pleased to see that the _Daily News_ rebuked the scandalous severity of the judge, and that the reports of our trial were reasonably fair, although very inadequate.

The _Daily Chronicle_ was under an embargo, and could not be obtained for love or money; the reason being, I believe, that many years ago it commented severely on some prison scandal, and provoked the high and mighty Commissioners into laying their august proscription upon it.

All the weekly papers, or at least the Radical ones I inquired for, were under a similar embargo, for what reason I could never discover.