The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-16 00:00:00

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MINTED AT AT COURT. Mr. Barimoss.— Asd THE GALICIAN PETE.

PRINCEOW
Tau Enigma, A MIDSUMMER ES.IGHTS DREAM. Aad
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a BALLET from the burlesque of the Whiter's Tale.

SURRET.
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totter; Was Nur ott— THE PILLIS PAHILT.—AM HOW
WE LIVE IN THE WORLD or LONDON. Heal. Sherbet
and Wicklionab.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16.

THE good old saying that "one halt the world is
ignorant how the other half lives," ought long shins
to have been numbered among popular fallacies. It
. . .

was true enough, no doubt, in the world before news•
papers; it has ceased to be true now that all break-
fast tables are invaded by the daily broadsheet, with
its photographic pictures of every phase of human
existence. The law and police reports of the daily
journal are the daguerreotypes of actual life, afford-
ing, if rightly regarded, more sure indications of the
characteristics and tendencies of the world we live
in, than all the labours of statists and all the theorise

of philosophers. We will select a single pic-
ture from oar yesterday's group se Mash-at-
lag a branch of human industry which just
now appears in a very donrishing state—the art
of living upon other people's credulity. This
elevated science has never probably attained a
greater perfection than in the present day. Modern
life is very rapid, very artificial, and very careless.
In this great metropolitan hive of drones and bus,
where nobody knows anything or cares anything
about his next door neighboer—" to NISI • is, in
nine cases oat of tea, the same thing as "to be."
We have all too mach headsets of our own, to
trouble ourselves much about other people's. The
individual whose home is separated from our own by
the impassable barrier of the, partition wall may
be a swindler or a black leg, but as long as
appearances are kept up and the bailiffs kept
out, no suspicions are excited and no question
are asked. It is needless to point out how eminently
convenient all this is for people who have the bat
reasons for not wishing to be too well known, whore
stock in trade is a certain degree of privacy, and
whom weer of life is to get credit from everybody,
to pay nobody, and puma, to live in luxury oo
the easy outlay of "nothing a-year." Stich a career
as that of Itomox, the Crystal Palace clerk, with
his pair of bays, worth 360 guineas, and his tele-
bested little trotting mare, "Fanny, who Gould
leave London-bridge when the train did and reach
Bydenham before it t " with his splendid villa
at Kilburn, his "Columbine" in Craven-street,
and another expensive "pica of frailty" in a
bower at St. John's-wood--such a cameras this could
hardly have suggested itself even to the lively imagi-
nation of the penny-a liner, except in each times as
these and such a state of society as that of the
smtropelis.

The esso we is about to mention vranW that
ninths. of tOMISO, which, whether fabulosely or not,
has gathered resod the comet like career of the
Bydenhain swindler i but as a fair swap erases
of proficiency in the science of living handsomely for
mese years with leas than nothing to start epos, and
nothing added to that to go on upon, it is sot
aidsserviag of attention.

The use arose in the Bankruptcy Court: the
bankrupt, whose new nese to have varied fros
JOHN Tomo to JOHN FITZROY YOUNG, MI ocossion
required, was described as a "general coominion
agent, and ale bad porter merchant; carrying on
benison under tbe Inn of "JOHN Toone and Co.'
His balance-sheet, which extended over a period of
three years was not an intricate one; seam it to say,
that to inset "creditors' claims" to the extent of
1,121 f., and " liabilities • estimated at 1,4044 there is
is the hinds of the official enigma as amount of
property ominously described as consisting of "Mock.
vain between 41. and 61., sad sone shares and
In creerexasainnics as to the history of his provisos
eerier, the following facts as oaf. Ho bad been
three than Woolens, with the following results In
1839—n0 dividend paid by himself, though ease of
the liabilities had, he believed, been settled by
atheist in 1848—so dieidesdi in 1866—n0 dividend.
Rees of these debts were in his balance-
sheet—were left out, hie advocate would have
is helloes, " through inadvensuos." In 1853 be
starts la the asnaissiee gassy Use under the style
of " Joss Toms and Co." The " Co." of course
is a pure Sake. He keeps no olden He lives at
mime places, including Lindsay's Hotel, In the
Qaadrant, and the Parthenon Club Chambers, Re.
gest-street. Ho takes, of course, to a little dirty bill
discounting as ocuuniedon for • Mond " who is
sew on theeentineet," and who, whoa here, used "to
get his paper doe. " at the node's% figure of sixty
per cent. This infleential gesslonsa, who appears
to have been himself the manager of the" Wan&
Bewege and River Company," seems to have lino-
dosed his Mond to a ccenostion with several other
Familiar near= of the like Mod. Amongst a
number of moaned sonpanies two are aped*
nsentiesed as bowleg named the sane of
Mr. lons Torso, or woe probably of ,
:0/111 Morey Youth°, Require (for this we
seven to be the true entree of the orieteralie aides, i
for die list of their directorate. Then fortunate
conpusies. which, however, have net elan quite '
realised the hopes of their profaners, wroth. Patent 4
Brick Company sad the Sydney sad Melbourne
Railway Compasy. JOHN FITZROY YOUNG, Bet,
was net only a director is the farmer esespeny, but
signed its deed for 1,000 shame: in the latter be
then& his mane sufficient, and does not appose to
lave takes shine, if Weed there were any to take. '
Residue getting the bills of hie "Maud sew os the
antineat " diecceated at 60 per nat., the eonsaissie•
agency house of "lons Yointo sad Ce." oar
simony did a little private heathen with thee as
Its own moues On one manes the firm appeared
at Meows. flowzasse sad MOTOWN, of Regent-street,
with " a lady " on ass ars, and a little bill of the
"Maud sow on thecootinent "in its pocket In es.
&sage for this little bill, the amount of which is not
sposifisd, Masers. Boersise sad TATION were 5511
ens,* to seed to the residesee of Joss Firm=
Toxins, Require, I. Bosserest•strest, Partnsageare,
for the especial benefit of the anesyness lady, "a
pipers shawl worth forty-eve guises' and a dress
worth fifteen.' Is it asesesery to add that the bill
wee diebesoored, and that Maws Boum sad
TATION are remitted—Se for their easy gallibility
they really deserve to be—to take their Aare of the..
prosinag eons sow is the pommies of the Asia