The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-10-28 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF
ATTEMPTED FRAUD.

In London, in Tuesday, John Teitch, aged in, a respect-
able-looking lad, described oe the chem.: sheet as an ofthe
boy, was charged at the Southwark Biliee.court with being
concerned with another, not in custody, in obtaining lot
from Lady Mary Egerton, ler the pretence that it was
A Correspondent has sent the following to The for the aid It the Empress Eugenie.
Tieies, in connection with the foregoing : - The Comte if Avilliers, Aidesle-Catup to the Em-
it was not In a proclamation that the Emperor Napoleon
Em-
declared that "his capital would only see him again dead or perm Napoleon, was in attendance, with Mr. Albert,
victorisua." it was in a despatch to his Ministers, to which the interpreter.
allusion occurs in a letter of your Paris correspondent, Nathaniel Druscovich, Chief Inspector of the Be-
mired August to. 1.70. and published in The Tioics on the , tectiye Police at Scotland-yard, said that about a fort-
return t lab :—" The
Pact Empeit ror's
in answer to those who urged him to
, 1., e received information that several letters had
o sis cris a lined that he is ihtermined not ,htainh
to survive defeat." I been received by the nobility and gentry, like the one
It was never imagined that the Emperor should consider it produced -(one letter No. 11—in consequence of which
a duty "not to survive defeat.- All that has ever been
he went to 33. Lynton road, St. James's-rowl, Bermond-
au p-
vged woo that defeat must for ever close the gates of Ids Hey, in company with Sergeants Nlucklejohn and Little-
capital against him. There was nothing boastful, or, AS child. Alsait a quarter to seven he saw tile prisoner
Count Deviling calls it, " preenniptuous,' in this declaration, enter the house and receive seine letters. On leaving
It *imply sprang from aci inert estimate of the conditions of the I nag he went di.wn a turning, an under a lamp-
France, and of the chances of the Sovereign who had plunged i st i' f'ipened the two letters produced (Noii. 2 and :0.
that country into them. There was no necessity whatever ! po
that the Emperor should die But with the collapse of the Witness then went up to him while he Was reading the
army the doom of the Empire was sealed, and with it, as I , letter from Lady Mary Egerton, in which WM a Post-
believe, all hopes of a restoration, at least for the Emperor office order for 10s., and asked Inni to whom the letters
himself, if not for the Imperial dynasty, were at an end. belonged? He replied that he was authorised to open .
Ithem, and declined to say by whom. Witness said, !
" Very well, then I shall hafk you up ; but shall first
A TELEGRAPH ROUND THE GLOBE. take you to your father." The prisoner them turned
round, and said. " I'll tell vest all about it." Last
The rapid development of submarine telegraphy is Saturday three weeks a lady in liar 1111 l tolsey stopped
rine iff the chief marvels ofrnur age (remarks the Doily t rne, and asked me for the Spa-rimil. I toll her I was
News). When we rnmember that only twenty vent's going that way. and would show her. On the road she
have elapsed shim, the tint experimental cable was I asked me who I was. I told her. and she asked nte if
laid acrose the English Channel. we shall better I eMila vie where letters yield be received in this
realize the extramilitiary fit that the construction of neighbourhood. and I told her I would, and male an
a line betabeen the Atom ieati c.s..st and the Empire of apisiintment to meet her i‘lli another flay. Whim she
.11. pan is the only thing needed to complete the tele- met me she *ace me a draft iif a letter, and mkial me
ir.aphie circle of the glob,. " The missing link" in to make 40 copies aud meet her M :IMI. She then gdye
this splendid chain of biteieramoilidcathsi hi about to tue the addresses, axsl requesi-e.l me to put them
Is. ...applied by Mr. I 'yrus Fiell. id Atlantic Cable in envelopes and send them iii. icif Mg me a sovereign
relt4wity, who hag projected a line from Vieviria, the to pay the expenseo. I itecorffingly posted them as she
eapital of Vancouver's Island, to ilackodiffli, in requested. She said she would tint me 'Penally in
Japan, and from thence to the 'Nash,u naiad proportion to the amounts received, and I have an
Statioli On the roast of Asia, where, across the impointment to meet lair at nine o'clock to MorrOW
etePpeS of Sitio iii, the telegraphie wire penetrates morning." Witness took him to his father, and on the
to St. Petersburg, and is united with every following morning accompanied hini to St. 'Thomas"
port of the great European system. 'ilk ~e,,, street, Borough, where he had appointed to meet the
fine, the estimated length of whieli Li 1,370 nautical woman ; butt after stopping there wane time he was
miles, will touch at Melia, one of the Almitian I-danils, unable to le int any one ont to him. Witneui then
A second route, I,a-ejected by Mr. Field, is identical took him IMO mistolly. Witness added that at the
with the fret, as far as Atclia, from which place, base. time the-.e letters were written and sent ont, the
ever, it teranes a more southerly eeliffe Mita it ntakes Emperor. Empress, and suite were absent from Chisel-
land at Yokohama-- a distance from the United States hunt, the lonise beteg under repair.
of 1.235 miles. Front Yokohanta it deserilies a .4.. - Inspector Ibutricovieli hero prolueed the letter for-
mem of a ',bele until it reaches Shanghai --a further warded, of which t:e following is a copy:—
distance of 1,010 miles. Returning to the Jap me, No. 1.
city another branch crosses the Islam lof Isi iiihon am I the Chi... Murat. Ii). 7, I,7l.—Madame,--T as a lady attached
;Jaffa. Sea, and joins the Russian hues at Possitte. A to the home:hold ~f the Empress Eugetii., venture you to ad-
third and last route starts from San Francisco, tra- dress on her behalf My beloved mistress ib in great distress,
n,erses the North Pacific to fionolidn, in the Sandwich and mail expected supplies arrive from Trance, I know not
Islands, coinects this group with Nliilway Island, and what we shall to. I therefore, 'Madame, supplicate your
bairn tleame jourtieys to A iikohmilit -a total fll,tatire gi 1:al i!ifl' ,"-fil„avtoll'ie n"bwlTrit"attli.dfli"a'sae"Mhillanndlo'rtfil"r
Of 5,573 miles. Making an allowance of 20 per fait. of ila. ersamince payable to Madm ae lafiliise. D'AlMativille, 'at
for slack, the length if viable required for the first the Pest °Mee, thariejf.eroSS isM.lOll, l shall the metropolis
route is 5,214 mil„,, ; fax the ,s.c. aid, 5,211; for the visit faith. 504 and any communication ad, Missed to Mudanto
third, is,lrlfi. Thi3 cal. 'dation elf course implies that Louise lElll.mile, 31. ',piton-road, !Whit Janies'eroad,
711; wiill,..lie,,by ine received, if this address teaches before the
each line will terminate at Possiutte, which is I,ISO
miles from Y,,k,thwfia. AS the leading tot men ef Mast he aciPllVni '.7,11:11:r I ;e.rit ldr"egl la; ittiritZt=4 t?tleYlrd;
Russia have always exhibited a keen appreciation of Virgiefekeept,iislettersprofountlrseretiormyr.yalmistres.
the practical value of the telegraph, it is not nut- jealously guar& her sorrow front the world and Seolat clever
prising that they slimil.l take the deepest interest forgive inn if she knew what I had dared to write. Favourme
by an early reply, madam. if possilile, as I shall he In London
in a colossal enterpriae which, when carried Mit,
fel. etle week. mid the name I myself permit to assume la not
will bring St Petersleirg into instantanei/11,1 Own- the Olicite at Chiseniurat. Trustitig to reeeive your
munication, not only with Jap irm Japan. but abio with the • elous aid, I remain, madame, your devoted servant,
chief citiesi off the American I.7ition. As soon as either Louise D'Almanville. 1.0 —Do not, I pray you, refuse your
of the come,, whirl, we have be.-n able authorA:ig help. I:er t that to ambit a crowned 1, .1 is the purpose,