The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-30 00:00:00

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♦ SPECIAL EDITION of the • EXPRESS,"
esmeining the regatta of the day's Rises, is pub-
lished every evening duriag die Sporting Season, at
ell o'clock.

Ws seem to to in the height ct=nne-telling
season. Scarcely a day perms some fresh
proof that there exists amongst we in amount
of knavery and dupery to state width In fiction
a history would mar the era isemliewee of the
one, sae impair the credit of the other. The other
day there was a can of witch finding in Frees, in
whisk the whets population of a considerable vMage,
inclading the 100i1 DOOREILIT, VS./WU, and all
their following, were only just prevented from
oxereising 'mammary vengeance on an unpopular old
woman, in the firm belief that she had bewitched
• bad girl into the habitual me of foal language,
had lamed settle, and driven pigs to commit ,
suicide by °leathering up pear tree/. Then came
the mare elaborate swindle of HERE STZIXTHAL,
the " Teutonic Thecooptwo," who got IEI. of hard
oath ant of Moo, the well-educated Prussian baker,
by convincing him that, in order to win • prise by
• sham lottery ticket, nothing more was requisite
than to tarn his money over in a midwife's bosom,
to berry it in the earth, and after its interment to
walk so mthy times beekwird and forward on the
shady side of a hedge while the master muttered
spells, and an acoomplhe dug up and made off with
the booty.

A case reported in our columns of yesterday,
though lees dramatic, is hardly lees absurd thin
either of the foregoing. JEAII/Mlll MTER3, reported
as "a very pretty seed interesting looking young
"person," in errant at Shacklewall, was accosted
last Tuesday movoing by " a swarthy middle-
- aged woman with very !tiniest features," who
began by asking if there was any china to
mend. being answered in the negative, she pro-
ceeded at once to liminess, and asked the girl
if eke would like to have her fortune told ; she was
so Any, bat " a seventh daughter," and would
tad Miss Melia her destiny for 3d. By-the-bye,
from what port of the country did the young lady
come ? The young lady told her from Poole, in
Darsetshire. Well, that was extrao-dinary, for she
—" the swarthy woman," vies married than. This
wry of coarse, irresistible, and " the seventh
" daughter" was at once privily introduced by back
ways into the kitchen. There the meal thing fol-
lowed. Miqs Metes was to be a wife and a mother
in two years' time; she was to be very lucky—ban/I
a sovereign given to her on the 4th of next month,
and get • good situation. This was commonplace
enough. bat something else ensued which
russet be better told than in the very words of the
"innocent loilirg " JaAnstera :—" She pat al
0 bottle into my band, which she said was dragon's
" blood. I was to squeeze it hard while she told me
" the good isews, end I did so. Then she took it
° from me and dropped one drop, only one, into the
" fire, and I saw it fall. She said, ' You are not a
" bed good-for-nothing girl, or it would blaze.'
" After that At corked sip the bottle, pat it in her
▪ pocket, and asked me whether I had got about a
0 sovereign's worth of clothes. I went upstairs and
" returned with two size es, • shawl, and two pairs
oof boots, belonging to me. She told me to wrap
" them up in paper or rag, and I folded thus I
the table-eloth. She said she must take them to
" the churchyard, and throw down mould upon
" them, sad bier them, after which she would re-
" turn with them. I was to 'catch her go into lAe
▪ elercAgard, where, she said, she sat fur hours
" reeding wery night. I went upstairs, and a she
• left the house I saw her from the window turning
" away from the direction of West Hackney chards,
"but she baked up at the window and saw me; I
° think she then turned towards the *hutch. I watched
"far, and had she gone into the churchyard I most
have nu her, but she disappeared all of a sudden,
"aid I hoboes alarmed, followed, and asked some
0 parsons if they had seen a woman with • bundle,
• A man advised me to go to the Kingsland station,
"aid I did so, and told the police, then returned
"home, when some time afterwards they cams and
" sail the woman was in oustady."
Such is the simple JEANNXITeII simple tale, and
it is of coarse deplorable enough to find that there
are still some grown-up people so fatuous, and others
so knavish, as to render such a traimaction as this
possible in London on the 28th of September, 1838.
'saris Ertl was not uneducated : she went to the
parish school at Poole when between four and five
years old, and war at school altogether about ten
years. Whatever the existing means of instruction
could do for the girl had been done, yet she at once
falls a victim to the gross and vulgar artifices of a
wretched impostor like this "seventh daughter."
It was the same with Moo, the Prussian baker :
after the very commendable fashion of his country,
Moo had received what in oar prison calendars
would be styled " a sapenor edusation." Yet the
delusion which prevailed against him was, if some-
what mom elaborate, not • whit leas absurd than
that which proved too strong for JaA:rerrre Writhe.
It may be observed that in both these cease the
Magistrates expressed, what under similar circum-
stance* they are naturally enough in the habit of
expressing, comidesoble surprise that the amount of
Detraction evidently poesessed by the victims of
hese miserable impoators had not kept them beyond
the reach of delusions so grove and palpable. The
sarpriee is no doubt natural, bat we have only to