The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-01 00:00:00

THE ROMANCE OF SWINDLING;
At the Dover Quarter Sessions on Friday, the
Hon. William O'Brien Fitzgerald, alias William
Bennett Sothers, underwent his trial for obtaining
various sums of money to the extent of 8701. from a
gentleman named Payne, a solicitor at Dover, under
fraudulent pretences. The case excited very great
interest, and among those on the bench was the Earl.
of Carlisle.

The prisoner had the appearance of a foreigner, and
was well dressed. His wife claimed the title of Lady
Emily Fitzgerald, and represented that she was the
widow of Count Elf z, that her mother was related to
the ninth Duke of Norfolk, and her name was Lady
Ann Isabella Howard, and that her fether was Gene-
ral William O'Brien Fitzgerald, of the Guards. Such
statements were false. The prisoner was formerly
member of the Stuck Exchange. Some four or five
years ago the prosecutor was residing with his children
at Eyethorne, and while there he became acquainted
with the prisoner and his wife. In the course of last
August he received a letter from them. Both were
confined in a prison at Pau, in the south of France, at
the base of the Pyrenees. The letter stated that they
had fallen into an awful predicament, from the neg-
ligence of their agent, N., ho had failed to remit them
3,000/. ; that they had the raiaferune to lose I,Boof.
on their journey ; and that about 4001. would set
them right. The prosecutor proceeded to the Con-
tinent and found them prisoners, as they had de-
scribed, in the prison of Pau. He took instructions
from them there as to their family connexions. They
stated that Lady Emily was the daughter of Lieute-
nant General Sir William O'Brien Fitzgerald, for-
merly of the Guards, &c., and that they were known
to the Earl of Carlisle and the Duke of Sutherland.
The Sutherland children, she said, visited her mother's,
but, in consequence of their marriage not being
sanctioned by Lady Emily's parents, the friendly in-
tercourse, with the Sutherland family had fallen off.
" Lady" Emily added that her husband's mother was
the Princess Casteglioni. They had been confined in
prison more than 12 months, having been
denounced as swindlers. Finding they were
suffering great misery, prosecutor paid 4501.
for their debts, and 2401. as security to
the Court of Appeal for their appearance when re-
quired. He pleaded for them at the Court of Appeal,
and obtained their liberty. He then brought them
to Dover and supported them. They then asked
prosecutor for 401. to go to the north of England to
see some relations, when they would soon get some
money from them to repay him. The money was
advanced, they went away, and nothing more was
beard about them. Their representations about being
connected with high families and their agents were
discovered to be untrue, and in the course of some
seven or eight months they were apprehended at Bar-
nard Castle, near Durham. In the prisoner's box
was a letter dated July, 1850, from the Earl Powis to
Lady Emily, which had contained 100/. sent to their
relief. The Earl of Carlisle gave evidence that his
family were unacquainted with the prisoner or his
wife, and that their representations of being related to
the Norfolk family were perfectly false. The jury
found the prisoner guilty. The prisoner said he was
innocent of the charge. He was sentenced to trans-
portation for eeven years.

INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL
ENGINEERS.
A special general meeting of this institution was
last night held at the rooms of the Society of Arts.
Mr. M‘Connell, engineer of the North-Western Rail-
way, in the absence of Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P.,
presided, The following papers were read and dis-
cussed :
Mr. MansneLa, the secretary of the society, read
a paper on the principles of the centrifugal pump,
furnished by Mr. Scott, of London. These pumps, it
may be' remembered, excited considerable interest at
the late Great Exhibition, and a controversy then
originated, which has been continued to the present
time with considerable warmth with respect to the
merits of Appold's, Gwynne's, and Bessinaer's arrange-
ment of the radial arms and other points connected with
the carrying out of the principle. As it was expected
that the paper to be read' on this occasion, and the
discussion that would ensue, would throw some light
on the subject, there was a considerable attendance
of engineers and scientific persons. Unfortunately,
however, the paper dealt only with the principles Of
the centrifugal pump, and did not profess to give any
practical result whatever. The opinion of the writer
of the paper, that practically considerably less than
50 per cent. could be obtained by the centrifugal
power, was combatted by the friends of Messrs. Apo
pold and Gwynne on the one hand, and by the ad"
vocates of the old system on the other. On the part
of the former it was contended by Mr. Crampton
and others that the result of the trials made at she
Great Exhibition by Mr. Hensman showed a clear.
result of 75 per cent., and that pumps since constructed
by Mr. Appold had given from 69 to 70 per cent.
A gentleman from Mr. Gwynne's also gave some
facts connected with the working of a pump con-
structed upon his plan ; but in neither case was any
sufficient data given for arriving at a satisfactory
result.
Mr. VIG NOLES stated that the whole question of the
value of this class of pumps resolved itself into the
profitable conversion of speed into power, and as DO
evidence had been given on the point they were un-
able to come to any conclusion on the subject.
The further discussion of the paper was then ad-
journed
to the meeting.
The remaining Papers read were :—On the Expan-
sive Action of Steam in Locomotive Engines, by Mr.
Daniel K. Clark, of Edinburgh; on the Expansion
of Isolated Steam, and the Total Heat of Steam, by
Mr. Charles W. Siemens, of London; on Bourdon'a
Metallic Barometer, Indicator, and other applica-
tions of the same principle, by Mr. Cbarles Cowper,
of London ; on an Improved Screw Propeller, by
Mr. Geosrtgeeamßorvuilmp,
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The meeting then adjourned.

RAILWAY SHARE P/lARKETS.
BRISTOL, JUNE 30.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—There was an improved feeling ex-
hibited in the share market to-day, and a good business
has been done at higher prices. The transactions were as
follow :—l3ristol and Exeter, 100—Gre it Western, 97N--
Caledonian, 4,l—York and North Midland, 52.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 30.
proved K
STOC EXCIIANGE.--.The share market presented an im-
appearance to-day, and prices generally had a ten-
dency upwards. The transactions were as follow:—Bir-
kenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 22/. Shares, 5 dis.—
Chester and Holyhead, 231 A—East Lancashire, 125/s Lancashire and Yorkshire, 82:q3—Ditto, Fifths, :3 13-16 dis.—
Ditto (West Riding Union),i 23/4 dis.—Liverpool, Crosby,
and Southport, 203/ London and North-Western, 130
Quarters, Ditto, New 6/s p midland, 721/2—South-Eastern
and Dover, 22 ,—York and North Midland, 257/8.
BIKIIIINtILIAM, JUNE 30.
STOCK Excmaz4GE.—The business today was rather li-
mited, but prices were firm. The only transactions reported
were—Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, JOjs
—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (13), .

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