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London, England, 1864-02-26 00:00:00

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THE - Y CITY MERCANTILE CLUB
AND

DINING-HALL COMPANY '(Limited).
_ _ _

NOTICE.—In the Preliminary Contract made by the Di-
rectors lor securing Premises, in their opinion, varticularly
eligible for the Club-house, they were restrained from iden-
tifying the particular premises so purchased until several
thousand shares had been subscribed for, and the application
for shares being already far in excess of this nstriction,
the Directors have now much p'easure in announcing to the
puhlic that the Premises they have secured comprise the
nob e pile of Buildings, Nos in 7 and 103, Cheapside, imme-
diately opposite to Bow Church, and extending to Honey-
,ane in the rear, having been erected two years since, from
the designs, and under the superintendence, of J. L. Knowli. s,
F.I.K.A.

THE rY MERC4NTILE. CLUB and
DINING 11.1k1,1, CORIPAN'Y (Limited).
(Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862.)
Capital, £BO,OOO, in 8000 shares of £lO each.
Deposit, £1 per Share on application, and £1 on allotment.
Should no allotment be made the deposit will be returned
in full.
DIRECTORS.
A. J. Brook, Esq., Leather Merchant, Holloway.
Captain Capel Coape, Army and Navy Club.
JOH' Salusbury Davenport, Esq. (Deputy Commissary
Genera), Clarendon Lodge, Brighton.
Thomas Shaun Derham, Esq. (of the firm of Wilkinson
and Co.), flax spinners, Leeds.
Frederick Augustus Legg, Esq., The Willows, South
Norwood.
Thomas Hardwick, Esq., Moorland-terrace, Leeds.
Thomas King. Esq., 23, St. Paul's-grove, Canonbury.
David Fraser Luckie, Esq. (Director of the City and County
Assurance Company), 26, Ashley-place, Victoria-street,
Westminster.
Captain Arthur Palliser, Oriental Club.
John Theodoridi, Esq., Merchant, Great Winchester-
street, Old Broad-street, City.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS. The London and County Bank, Lombard-
street, City, and Hanover-square.
eOLICITORS.
Messrs. Tippetts and Son, 2, Sise-lane, l3ucklersbury, City.
Messrs. Upton and Yewdall, Leeds.
AUDITORS.
Johnstone, Cooper,Wintle, and Co., SA, Lothbury, London.
H. W. Blackburn, E. Bradford.
BROKER—Alfred Ashton, Esq., 75, Old Broad-street,City
SECRETARY (pro. tent.)—mr, J. W, Tempest,
Temporary Offices-24, Bucklerebury (two doors from the
Mansion House.)
In introducing the City Mercantile Club and Dining
Hall Company to the public the Directors have pleasure in
knowing that they are supplying a great public want, it
being universally admitted that--
A Club adapted to the constantly increasing growth and
requirements of the commercial and mercantile world of the
City of London, and
A higher class public dining and refreshment hall are
greatly wanted.
The Club, with its private dining, reading, and smoking-
rooms for the exclusive use of members, will be conducted
under the management of a committee, strictly upon the
principles of similar establishments, with a small entrance
fee and subscription, and a moderate dining-room tariff,
adapted to the views of menof the commercial world. The
establishment will contain from 30 to 40 bed evoms.
Holders of ten shares and upwards will (subject to the
ballot) be admitted to the membership of the club, without
entrance fee.
The public dining halls will be on a scale worthy of the
City, and capable of comparison with any establishment on
the Continent.
The Directors have purchased in one of the best and most
central situations in the City, in close proximity to the
principal places of business, a magnificent range of buildings
superintendence of an eminent
architect) in the centre of Cheapaide, having nearly 30,000
feet of floor space, and pre-eminently adapted to the (recently erected under the
re-
quirements of all branches of the proposed establishment.
It will be for the consideration of tne Directors whether
it is desirable to let off the ground and basement floors, the
residue of the premises providing ample space for the re-
quirements of the undertaking, and should these floors be
so let off they will alone command a rental sufficient to
guarantee a substantial dividend upon the paid-up capital.
The Directors have carefully Considered the probable
profits and returns of this undertaking, and their most
moderate calculations show a dividend of from 30 to 40 per
ant.
The Directors congratulate themselves on having secured
the invaluable co-operation of several gentlemen whose
practical knowledge and experience will be truly desirable.
In consequence of a large amount of shares having been
already applied for (and a most encouraging number of
applications made for Club membership), the Directors are
compelled to add that the list of applications for shares can
remain open for a limited period only. in the meantime
applications for the unallotted shares must be made to the
Solicitors or Secretary; the required deposit having been
previously paid to the Bankers of the Company.
The Articles of Association can be seen at the Company's
Offices.
No. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the City Mercantile Club and Dining
Hall Company (Limited).
G Shares of
each, h, re
cheque for the deposit of LI per Share thereon : and I un-
dertake to pay the further sum of
request that
above C
o
mpany, and I enclose a
you will allot me
LI on allotment, to pay
all calls thereon, and to execute the articles of association
when required.
Dated this day of 18
Names in full
Residence
Profession or trade
Place of business

FOR BATH IS " RIGHT AND TITE I"—Colonel Hogg.
LIBERAL MEMBER
ConDseOrlivßatTivFeU,LsonWorif ESTirilJEoßhnTWHEeir llogg, Bart., has an-
nounced his intention of offering himself as a candidate for
the representation of Bath at the next general election.
MUNIFICENT GIFT.—Sir Francis Crossley, Bart.,
M.P., has promised, on behalf of Messrs. J. Crossley
and Sons, of Halifax, to the National Lifeboat Institution,
to defray the cost, amounting to £3OO, of a new lifeboat to
be stationed at Redcar, Yorkshire. The present lifeboat on
that station is the oldest in the kingdom, and in going off
the other day over some rocks to the rescue of the crew of
seven men of the brig Brothers of South Shields, she was
stove in, and attimeqttently discovered to be affected with
dry ;94

THE PA.RIS CONSPIRACY,

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(Frans Vie Tidies Cul respoficient.)
In the vocabulary of the Secret Police the terms
"Mouchard" and "Mouton" are the two which are
most familiar to those who are uninitiated in its
mysteries. The word " Mouchard" is not of modern
origin. A certain Antoine de Mouthy, otherwise
Democharis, a Doctor of Sorbonne, and Canon of
Noyen in 1574, acquired an unenviable notoriety
among his contemporaries by his zeal against the
Reformers, and was appointed " Inquisitor of the
Faith." The Reformers who were persecuted by,
and who naturally hated him, gave the name of
Moucharts to those whom he employed as spies to
hunt out Dissenters. In his " History of the Par-
liament of Paris," Voltaire says :—" The famous
Mouthy was in reality an informer, a spy of the
Cardinal de Lorraine, and it was for him that the
nickname of Mouchard was invented, and which
designated all spies. The term has become an in-
sult." Other authorities will have it that it comes
from mouths, a fly, because the mouchard, like the
fly, is ever buzzing about the ears of people.
Mouton is applied to an agent who, a prisoner him-
self, is employed to lead the conversation of his
fellows in plots and conspiracies, and to gradually
tempt them to disclose their plots with the same
apparent frankness he reveals his own. They
follow him as a flock of sheep follow their leader.
Agents of this kind are employed in most political
conspiracies, and, when all is ready, they either
disappear, or may be included among the arrested,
as a matter of form, and when brought to trial in-
form against their accomplices or those who confide
their secrets to them.

When the plot for which the Italian prisoners
will to-morrow be on their trial was discovered the
first thought that occurred to the public was that if
not concocted by police agents, it may have been
fomented matured by them, and that among
the -accused themselves there was probably more
than one who had performed the part of Mouton.
How far that suspicion was founded will be seen
from the following narrative, which I take textu-
ally from the Acte d'Accusution, or Bill of Indict-
ment, which will be- read to-morrow in the Assize
Court by the Procureur Imperial. The Acte d'Ac•
motion begins thus :

On 24th December, 1863, four strangers entered
France at the same time by the Swiss frontier, and
exhibited to the Police Commissary of St. Louis
their papers, in which they were designated by the
names of Greco, Trabuco, Imperatori, and Maspoli.
The Commissary on reading the papers, recollected
that in 1862 a man named Trabuco had been pointed
out to the authorities on the frontier as an Italian
conspirator of a most dangerous character; and
without a moment's delay, he sent word by tele-
graph to the Prefect of Police that the person bear-
ing that name was proceeding to Paris with three
companions by the Mulhouse Railroad. When they
reached the Paris terminus, at half-past sin the
morning of the 25th, a surveillance had been already
organized, and from that moment till their arrest
all their movements were closely watched.

" They got out of the same carriage without ex-
changing a wcrd with each other, and pretended to
take different directions ; but the four, Imperatori
and Maspoli in one carriage, Trabuco in another,
and Greco in the railway omnibus, drove to the
Hotel Sainte-Marie, Rue de Rivoli, 83 ; Imperatori,
Maspoli and Greco (under the name of Fioretti)
hired roomsiin which they deposited their luggage.
Trabuco, whose only luggage was a French horn
and a game pouch, quitted the hotel in the course
of the day. He said that he was going to London
but he went to No. 198, Rue St. Honore, where
Greco,who had formerly lodged there, recommended
him and hired a room for him. These arrange-
ments, however, were only temporary. On the
2901 Greco presented himself at the Hotel de
Naple, 176, Rae St. Honore, and hired three rooms,
which were occupied the same day by him, Maspoli
and Trabuco. The last-mentioned, on quitting the
house, 198, took the precaution, as he had done
when leaving the Hotel Sainte-Marie, to say that
he was starting for London. The next day Greco
brought Imperatori with him, who was placed in a
fourth room;

" In these different lodging-houses the man-
ner and bearing of the four strangers seemed
singular. From the moment of their arrival
they appeared to be hesitating, abstracted, and
mysterious. At the Hotel Sainte Marie Greco
had recommended the waiter to give the key of his
room to nobody, ' not even to his own father.' In
the house 178, Rue St. Honori, he observed to the
landlady, Madame Musset, that the locks of the
chests of drawers aed of other pieces of furniture
were not solid enough; and he went out to buy, at
a trunkmaker's, named Liard, a new box with lock
and key, in which he deposited the contents of his
game pouch. When he installed himself at the
Hotel at Naples, Greco had the locks examined by
a locksmith. He himself took up his things to his
room. He waited to the last moment to show his
papers, and those of his friends. It was only on the
Ist of January that the landlady, Madame Thierry,
could get Trabuco, Imperatori, and Maspoli to ex-
hibit their passports; and Greco, who seemed an-
noyed at the thought of the house-register being
examined by the police inspectors, did not put his
name on it till the 2d of January. In a word, the
movements of these men betrayed a feeling of un-
easiness. When they went abroad they managed
so as to leave one of them in watch at the hotel.
The servant who waited on them several times per-
ceived that they kept the doors of their rooms half
open—even during the night—in order to be able to
hear the slightest stir in the house. Out of doors
their conduct was of a still more suspicious charac-
ter. I❑ the hotel they were constantly together,
had long conversations, and their going out and
coming in were combined ; still they took the pre-
caution when in the street to separate, to affect not
to recognise each other, and when they approached
to salute as if they were strangers. The morning
after their arrival in Paris they were seen to observe
' with extraordinary care the approaches to the re-
I served part of the gardens of the Tuileries. The
same day they drove by the Place de la Concorde,
and the central avenue of the Champs Elyees in a
carriage, which by their order moved at a very slow
pace, and they carefully noted every spot they thus
passed over.
"60a the 28th of December Trabuco, having
gone to the streets leading to the Opera, and on
the night the Emperor was to visit it, and having
remained some time at the house of a hair-
dresser named Ranciot, in the rue Grange-Bate-
liere, rejoined his friends. The four then drove to
the corner of the Boulevard and the rue Lepelletier.
They waited at that spot till midnight, when the
Emperor left the Opera; and they were observed to
look about them frequently, and with all the ap-
pearance of mistrust. The following morning Tra-
leuco and Greco wont to the hairdresser's, Ranciot,
under pretence of getting shaved; they then en.
tercd the covered passage or gallery which leads
from the rue Lepelletier, close to the Opera, to the
Boulevard. After waiting some time to see if they
were observed, they set themselves to examine mi-
nutely all the passages, and particularly the private
entrance reserved for the Emperor. In this they
passed half an hour.
" On the 30th Ranciot, the hairdresser, on going
to the Opera with his wife, found his two customers
ander the peristyle, where they seemed to be on
the watch. On the 2d of January Greco, Trabuco,
Imperatori, and Maspoli visited the approaches to
the Tuileries. But their abstraction of mind was
visibly on the increase. They looked as if they felt
they were watched; took circuitous drives or walks
in the streets ; and when they went on font they
were ever looking back or aside as if they thought
some ono was dogging their steps. They were much
embarrassed when paying their bill at the hotel,
and seemed to be waiting impatiently for a letter
and mouey. On the 3d at January, utter 11;1(11444