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LONDON, FRIDAY, PIM. 11.

NOTIMIG is more commas, when one of our cri-
minal court. has just brought to light some gross
system of fraud long practised with swam, than to
hear reflections made on the credulity of the public,
which, it is said, is an encouragement and even 'temp-
tation to vicious ingenuity. The reproach le not
always just. Valuable as caution is, it may be
carried too far. Most of tte know some one or
other of our acquaiatame la whom the mow of
this quality saps the mere rearees virtues, and de-
forms a character which would otherwise be amiable.
Only minds of the lowest cedar ma exist long in an
atmosphere of suspicion. There w ems mention of
fraud of which one would rather be the dupe
than suspect their existence on any bat the
clearest ground.. Bat, in fact, an indiscriminate
spirit of distrust is no protection against villany,
and they who begin with Impeding whole cilium
and prollsesions are the most likely to furnish victims
to their least reputable members. Thepopulardialike
of lawyers anesally throw. hundreds of people into
the land& of sharpers over whom no professional
body exercises a control, and provide. 'handset basi-
nses for the courts; while those who grudge to pay a
fair fee to a respectable doctor, their neighbour, carry
without sample fire times the suns to an unknown
quack.

The case of " SCATTLILGOOD v. Branrarr," dulled
in the Wseteunater County Court es Widmer
day, disclosed a swiss of beads which had been
practised ea secteal pesetas whose comma
setae we have se num to suppose wee
below the average. The dullinekat, lons Oman
Hmexarr, held himself eat Is the public se
a surgeos-aarie. Then is as nelson to suppose that
D. had prepared binsself by study or training far
dealing with one of the most marvellous organs
with which ALttlOtt?T wisdom has furnished His
creatures. In the earliest period to which we as
trace him be wee an assistant to a practitioner, of
whom, u we have not been able to discover his
mate in the " .Msdical Directory,• we an say as
Already at this time, sesording to the
evidence of a messenger in the servise of the sum
practitioner, Bay !rare was advertising as a medical
man and in a Wee name a remedy far nwvea
disorders, which, being sent in return for postage
stamps, °assisted in "a pill made of new breed
" and plums dusted over with soar." He was else
vendor of a nostrum " for making ladies' skins like
" those of uhlidren ten years of age." Could be
have been seatonted with the steady gala of this
potty esamwee the ears of many ladies would
Dave escaped torment, the present case would not
have been board of, and in time Mr. Beriiterr, re-
naming his proper name, might haws retired to his
suburban villa and his one-horse chaise, and perhaps
even become a respectable member of society. But
he bad higher ambitions.

The plaintiff, Mas MART SCATTERGOOD, informed
the court that, being a sufferer from deafness, she
read an advertisement stating that that complaint
could be cured in ten minutes. Acting on that
statement she went to 6, Leicester-place, Leicester.
square, where the defendant was receiving
patients as " Doctor Cour.seofv." He told her he
could cure her "in ten minutes for ten pine's,"
but afterwards undertook the cure for half that
amount. On the following day she went again to
his house with the fire guineas, which she paid to
him, and " sat down, thinking she wee going to be
" cured at once." The defendant, however, making
a trivial excuse, sent her away with a bottle of
mixture, which was to be used at night, and
" cure her perfectly by the following fawning." She
went away and applied the mixture, which made
her heed and ears sore, and she became much worse.
When she went to the defendant's house to com-
plain she was told by a person whom she believed to
be his brother that Doctor COCESTOS could not be
seen, and that he would be away for several
days. She subsequently called repeatedly, and
was at length told that he had gone
abroad—to Madeira. Two years paved away, and
Miss SeArrianoon was accompanying a female
friend, Miss TDOMAI, to the house ot a "Docker
MAT rote," in Spring-gardens. There the plaintiff
recognised the defendant, and was recognised in re-
turn. Subsequently, when Mir Tnoltus bad to sue
IMATTON," Burman appeared in wart ea the
defendant in that action, and Mime 13csrizz000n '
identified him a. COCLSTON.

A witness named MuLcale proved that he accom-
panied his da,igliter on a visit to Spring•gardeno,
and there had an interview with him as " Dr,
WATTERS." Mr. Muki.ss having occasion to ask
the " 1 hector" for tho return of an over-payment, the
latter called him a " greybeaded old rascal,"
threatened to throw him down stairs, and sco►ded
him for taking op his time, " for he bad fifty
" patients to see every day, and wan a mach greater
man than Sir BENJAMIN BRODIE." Miss ROSAITEI,
another witness, haring been attracted to Spring-
garden, lit the defendant'. advertisement, had paid
him, as " Dr. WArrras," 41. 34. to care her " in
" ten atinates," with the anal result.

The defendant's answer to them numerous allega-
tions was a bold one. He went into the witnees-boa
and said that he had wryer received any money from
the plaintiff, or ever seen her before that day. He
had never resided at 6, Leicester-place, never poe-
tised ea Dr. Couttrow. Not only Miss ScArren-
t.w.i., but the witnesses M cf. LeN and Rosstrmi, were
entirely mistaken as to bier identity. He mentioned
hts brmher al haring been " ceemeeted with •
" Mr. Cut Leru,t se an mamma." The brother wan

put into the box. He appeared some tea years
younger than the defendant, and said that "
tiff was a gratis patient of Mr. COULSTON, and
"never paid a halfpenny." He was asked whether
sash a person as Mr. Comma really existed; sad,
la reply, expressed his empties that that geed mss
was not present, " as he had been subpmuaed.• The
names of " SAIILTZL COULSTON " and " Doctor
Banat. Comm= " were called, but the only
upeue was the laughter of the audience. The
/edge, when the case had been fully laid before
him, mid there could be no doubt that a conspiracy
sad a fraud h►d been committed, and he should at
the same time order the defendant to be taken into
custody for perjury.

Half the usefulnema of this exposure will be last
if it ends in a mere feeling of moral satisfaction that
justice is in a fair way to be avenged on those who
have long defied her. All the young women—for we
do not hear of any male patients—who, if the verdict
L jest and true, were the victims of the man who
was by turns COITIATON, MATSON, and WASTERS,
were in positions to command the best advice in
England. The most accomplished aurist in London
would not have taken Mies SCATTERGOOD'S five
guineas at a first interview. We do not speak
of ear infirmaries, because these patients were
very properly willing to pay money in return
far the counsels of experience and the ex-
ercise of skill. Yet they all became an
easy prey to imposture. It cannot be that these
ladies had no means of distinguishing the honest and
qualified surgeon from the quack. Every one of
them knew some medical man who, at their request,
would have recommended to them ea mist of
ability and repute. But he would not have been
able to direct them to one who would premiss " a
" care in ten minutes." This was the attraction.
A stranger, confident only in his powers to baffle
meiotic@ and punishment, and disdaining to eon-
demend even to the decent hypocrisies of cautious
charlatanry, had only to promise this, and he might
" see fifty patients a day,' and be " a greater man
" than Biotit' By all means let skill have as
open field. Let our tradesmen inform us I. the
broad-sheet of their pretensions to furnish our
houses and bedeck our wives, bat the expedient
which is wise, politic, and legitimate in their calling,
because they submit their products or wares to the
open and competent judgment of the public, is not
permitted to the surgeon or physician, whose func-
times, withdrawn from publicity, and proceeding
epee principles understood only by few, demand the
gesrantee of personal character and the seal of pre-
hension' reputation.

Mots evasion—more reluetanos—more delay.
The Naval Faustus., Nr Joint Psitutorore now
informs no, are not to be brought on until the 26th
inst.—a fortnight to-day. This is how Ministers
keep their pledges. On Monday last Mr. Dishmtu
told the Howe that the Government business was
argent. Then why is it not pressed ow? Ha
said its discussion would occupy a oonsiderabla time.
Then the mare need to bring it forward, if the
Rehm Bill is to wait far it. These postponements
Si, making a bad impression oat of doors—and no
weadsr.

LORD MAIRLSIMIT Dahl lost night, is replying
to Earl Br. Giamatti, that it la almost certain that
• Ga•gwse will have to oassenbn to settle the stairs
—not of Italy—bat et the Danubian Principalities.
♦t all swab, he said, ths Powers who signed the
Cearvention will have to consult about the double
shed= of Colonel COUZA, by which the two Hospo-
daisies have been united in one person. He added
that It wield be " manifestly improper" in him to give
an opinion is the legality of the second election, be-
cause be should have to give one elsewhere. Otani's,
if his lordship has not made up Ids mind, it would
he premature and unwise to commit himself to as
opinion ; but if he thinks the Moldo-Wallarlians
are right or wrong, we cannot for the life of es see
why hi need be ashamed or afraid to say so. Bat oar
Ministers of Foreign Affairs, imitating the sagas of
despotic Governments, will keep up this habitat reti-
cence to the last. Most people know that this Moldo-
Wallachian business contains the germs of a serious
international quarrel. in which France, Russia, and
Austria would be principals, with England far an en-
tangled party. Under these circumstances it would
have been satisfactory to Englishmen to know
whether the policy which our Government is going
to adopt is one likely to blight or =tale those
gams. A very simple course is open for as. We
' have done our part to give the Moldo-Wallachians
free institutions, which they are using in a pone-
able and orderly manner, according to their
knowledge of their wants. Why should we inter-
fere with them, although they have effected a union?
And if we refuse to be parties to their molestation,
Austria and Turkey mast acquiesce. Besides them,
no Power wants to interfere with the young nation.

How hard it is to do unto others ea you would
they should do unto you. Mr. Browses is in grief
because the religious books supplied to Roman
Catholic soldiers in the Queen's army are not Pro-
testant in their character and teaching. Religious
books are as much a recognised part of our military
expenditure as the pay of the chaplains. In the
estimates for the current year the item is thus entered:
Cost of religious books and carriage thereof,
"2,0001." Nobody has ever suggested that it
is too much, but Mr. Sroos Eft is grieved
because others besides his eo-religionists get a share
of it. There is a regulation stock for the meu,
why not a regulation religion? Last night the
hest. gentleman asked the MlxtsrEn for WAR
"whether a book called the' Garden of the Soul' is
" purchased sad distributed at the cost of the
" State." That was how he put the question, and
the plain answer is that this Popish book is so
bought and so distributed. If Mr. SPOONZR is not
satisfied with the arrangement, let him bring for-
ward a more equitable proposition. It religions
books are issued at all to the army, their dis-
tribution cannot be allowed to become a weapon
of opinion or a means of humiliation.
The "Darden of the Soul" is a Roman Catholic
book of devotion. A sound Protestant taking it up
to read would soon get angry. No matter: we
accept the services of Catholic soldiers, and if we
pretend to provide for their religious wants we must
recognise their religious belief. Let each of us
seize and embrace for himself all the truth he as
find, and still the differences of earnest and sincere
men will be great enough to teach us to be humble ;
but in our dealings with one another the golden rule
of car Master, justice which is no respecter of
opinions, is the only safe guide.

It is said that the report about to be presented by
the Re, al Communist fir limning the Navy will pr..pwe
system which, fa the option .1 the ecestaimimere. wll
beam the eseinteamets of that mitre In a state of yerfect
ellelemy at all tams. at an 'Mika to the precut outlay
set moodier 400,0t)01. ice ammo.
Baas time back Lord Overstate ceased to be
Wald br diettibet.on aorta; his friends a Medias of
scares Inset, on ruiresey. lie tun sow elm • eh:War col-
ic Mai ea commerce hem pamphlets ►y lesiva, Veber
Illieimetleaa, Tacker, Temple, and "them TM velum bet
bum Wised by lir. 'Mull:alt. sad the Mks et UN various
estleilas triad tram the raga of Jaw s I. to 118/1.

be Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE. P's. 10.
Her llajeety's dinner party yesterday included
the Pelson Mire. the Archbishop el Canterbury, the
Duke end Duchess et Bearden, the Hal of Carlisle, the
Right Hon. H. and Lady Mary I.4banehme, Colonel the
Han. Sir Charles Phipps, and the Hon. Me,. Biddalph ,
also the Duchess of Sutherland, who mind on a visit in
As afternoon.

The band of the Grenadier Guards played daring dinner.
After dinner the Windsor end Stan Royal Oleo and Madri-
gal Union hod the honour a singing before her Majesty and

goiters. Altos—Messrs. Knowtin -Marriott, and -Aims;
Tenure—Messre. Hymen and Whitten; Bassee—Measn,
Bridgewater, Hamby, and Lambert.
Her Majesty's private band wee in attendant*, and tbs
performance was so follows :

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Her Majesty aad W Prism Cowed baspec'ed yesterday
afternoon tan horse* which hays lately arrived as a present
from the Sultan of Morocco to the Queen.

To-day, Ming the anniversary of Der Illejeaty's marriage,
the band of the 2nd Life Guards played a selection of fa-
vourite sire on the East Terrace at 7 o'clock this morning.
In the forenoon the Qum and Prince Consort, 110300.
ganied by the PlilloollleB Alice and Helena, rode out on
horseback, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart and the
Equerries in Waiting.

The Archbishop of Canterbury left Windsor by sn early
brain; the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort bsvo also lilt the
Conde.

A performance of awn' magi° wee given in fit.Gleergie•
hall In the evening by an whales of upwards of 160 per-
formers.

The drat pert oon.sisted of Mesaboobies Overture rid
Manic to Shakepean's " Mtdatuanset Nigher♦ Dram." Yin
long, with &one, " Ye spotted stakes," Wig wag by Ms
Loair Fyne sod Mr Leanne&

The eseandl pert amerbed the " Olor:a in mesh& Dee:
from Komirre Pees 1e C, No. 12. The Grand Seems stem
D•r Noyeshoute, " flobly sighs the yoke of main," mmig
by Mee Lades Prue.

The perlbrueetOe cootincled with the moattroyWeiseee
" Lohassis," ea perfornot et the grant concert glom et
Bockbaghast Palms os the eves*/ of the reetalese et hot
ford Righweee Vittoria, Primer Royal nl Roglood, and
bin Royal Ransom Palen Prokeick William et Prase*
the wade erg molly altered eat adapted tor the occasion
by T. Olipheat, Req.

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The composition is deaerlp,ivii of a bridal proooesiow,
wedding am* sad Idpithilandain.
The bridal procanioa Wag illoatrated by the ',Abides

0 Neff may England's I'th:otos
OM brae at .orrow bow;
Per her tray lite's rude billows
Wiik pub clearest Sow.
We hell wIM n.p Mnladases
The bow w.fi.bPea
NMI Is lir Primo ot Prised* I
Rea, Itanlmots daughter fair
The so'o vocalist' wen Kim Louisa Fyne and Him
Laseks.
The bead =misted at her Kalestre private hind, Meted
by several d the priselpel leotremeatelists of the Philhar-
monic lissisty, Her Kelsey's Theatre, sad the Royal Its-
ass Opera. The e.horne were selected Rom the operas, with
a stammer body of amateurs tem the Seared Hallam/0
lansear-hell.
Tee peellanesses was camlocied by Mr. Massa, the
ember d kat )14eatf • priests bead ; p 4. W O. Cube'
ridding at the ergo.

A dayatador or dr Warr at dr as!. at grata by might
INA as Warrior wilt the Aar Hat. 3. W. Risky oil H.
Bad of Doembror• yerroloyor dr °Mr at the Board of
Trade. TM 4spa.atou conairad of Yr. Witham Drown.
M.P.., Yr. M'Craa, M.P., Mr. Pair*, 11. P., Mr. Bag-
ley, M.P., Mr. Grepas, M.P., Mr, John Abel Saila,
Id.P., Mr. Haaday Itossall, XP., dad Mr. Arthur Huta,
M.P.

♦ deputation from the parishes of ffpfttbayal end hamlet
of Msaithorpa to., is the county of L solo, corsdatiog of
the Right Hon. Sir John Trollops, Bert., 21. P., the Hon.
Fred. Jr. Tollemachr, Mr. Richard Hansby, Mr. William
Beaked, and Mr. William Mandan, club of the umgisirsteer
bad an Interriew with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday, ea
the lime Mee, ea the subject of the proposed extrados of
the borough of Grantham.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Como" estreiseday.
da appeal from lb. Admiralty Court, "no Thome god Itr-
gamine," was heard. The lord. proornt we Lord Klass-
do.ro, Sir C. Cr. swell, Sir E. Ryon, sad rL. Pool.

DMpeichee were semi from Lb; Ooloatil-cllse, I emerday,
lo the Gorentere of Cullom, Hoag Kam lbs Mauritius, sad
Labium.

THE PRUSSIAN LEGATION.

His Huang the Prussian Minister and the
Couto' Beressesr gave a grand enterttinmaet last evening
at Praia Home, Carlton House-terrace, In celebration of
the birth of the Mint Prince of Petunia, grandson of her
Majesty that:amen. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, attended by Colonel the lion. James Macdonald,
honoured his Excellency and the Countess by his company.
Their Royal Eightsome the Duchene of Cambridge and the
Prisons Mary, attended by Lient.-Col. Home Purees, also
grand thebanquet by their presence, their Royal Mainstream
arriving at 8 o'clock, end wore welcomed in the vestibule by
his Excelleney Count Berastorff, Count Brandenburg, and
Count Blucher. Shortly after the snivel of the Royal
guests dinner was announced. Covers were laid for twenty-
two, and, in addition to the noble host end hooters, them
were prevent their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge,
the Dachau and Primes Mary of Cambridge, him Serene
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Duchess of
Inverness, the Lord President of the Council and the Mar-
chioeess of Salisbury, the Earl of Malmeebury, the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon, the Earl and Comm, of Derby sad
Lady Emma Stanley, the Lord Chancellor sad Lady Chelms-
ford, Lady Alice Peel; Colonel the Hen. Jr. Macdonald
and Colonel Home Purees in attendance on the Duke and
Duchesi of Cambridge; and Count Brandenburg and Count
Blucher attached to the Premien Legation. The Countess
Bernoterff opened her saloons at a later hour In the evening
for a Me dement, at which all the embeasadors and ministers
and their ladies, besides the members of the different foreign
legs. ions, were present. A host of the lading members of
the arhtocreey, at present located In tows, also honoured the
Conners by their company. The Duke of Cambridge re-
tired early ; the Duchess and Primes Mary remained to
nearly half-past sae o'clock.

DRAMA.

ADIELPHI.

Mere than twelve years ego Mr. Plane/if, the king
el bmiesgue writs" peodsced at the Haymarket hiamaMer-
pisss 21«. /levied* News, which, from its intrinsic merits,
and hem the admdrable manner In which the principal parts
were played, by Mi.s P. Horton, Kim Reynolds, Kiss Julia
Bennett, and Mr. James Bland, whieved as extraordinery
sumer, and took the town by storm. Lest night it wet
revived at the Adelphi ; and if excellence on the part of the
motors and admits= on the tart of the sadiron may be
takes NA criterions, It is very probable that Ile noted "ran"
may be equal to the dra. Sated, surfated, as the public
have been MUM years with extraragenser, it Is hapowdble
to Keen to any watt el Mr. Planchce pea without plee.ure
—the puss are so meat and telling—the line. tow so easily
and seeledirealy—the repartees are so crisp and crackling.
Modem writers wen: merely to take up Use dictiestery and
(*karma to see how many meanings words of simile, found
can be strained into; but In all Mr. Planchts writings
the joke teems to come spontaneously, and what It &team=
rotaie mate empty jingle, bat a witticism which will bear
ammination sod repetition. Only two alterations hare
been made in the original copy—the mbstitution of a new
en•a fer that formerly snag by Mir Julia Bennett, sad a
eaw.dreele, in which the author apologises for the want of •
past "last some" by explaining that in his day It was
eaficisst if the "some were made to last."

The burlesque was °vitally weed: Mrs. Mellon was
spirited and dashing es Loads 1., Mir Mary Keeley's sing-
Mg coke we. never hard to ma effect than in the Kegs Of
Princess Iquisitelittisper, Mite Kate Kelly was a piseemat
nature of pertness and piquancy as Apriorrine, and Miss
Arden looked brilliantly and made the most of the Toby
Cientiqa. Mr. Toole's Prince neared was really a as.
makable Montane', the very ease of burlesque. atm
regent to a degree, but in no way trenching upon the limbs
of propriety. Whether this young actor thought he had yet
to seeks his mark at the Adolph{ we ►now not, but estialnly
he played with the greatest spirit, that carried the sedlemos
with Mu throughout.

The piece is sleelleady pet upon the stage, aid In noose
will doubtless espq tbs tessegaisi liberelity.

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