The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1864.

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THE CITY MERCANTILE CLUB
AND
DINING-HALL COMPANY (T.imited).
NOTICE.—In the Preliminary Contract made by the Di-
rectors for securing Premises, in their opinion, yarticularly
eligible for the Ciub-house, they were restrained from iden-
tifying the partieivar premises so purchased until several
thousand share+ had been subscribed tor, and the application
for shares being already far in excess of this r, striction,
the Directors have now much p easure in announcing to the
public that the Premises they have secured comprise the
nob e pile of Buildings, Nos 107 and 10,1, 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. Knowl( s,
F.I R A.

THE CITY MERCANTILE CLUB and
DINING HALL COMPANY (Limited).
(Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862.)
Capital, £BO,OOO, in 8000 shares of £lO each.
Deposit, Li 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.
Join Sainsbury Davenport, Elq. (Deputy Commissary
Generhl), Clarendon Lodge, Brighton.
Thomas Shann 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 Lnckie, 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, CiLy.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS.—The London and County Bank, Lombard-
street, City, and Hanover-square.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Tippetta and Son, 2, Sise-lane, Bucklersbury, City.
Messrs. Upton and Yewdall, Leeds.
AUDITORS.
Johnstone, Cooper,Wintle, and Co., SA, Lothbury, London,
H. W. Blackburn, EE', Bradford.
BROKER—Alfred Ashton, Esq., 75, Old Broad-street,City
SECRETARY (pro. tent.)—Mr. J. W. Tempest.
Temporary Offices-24, Bucklersbury (two doors from the
Mansion House.)
O
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
The Club, with its private dining, reading,
greatly wanted.
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 .rooms.
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, amagnificentrangeof buildings
(recently erected under the superintendence of an eminent
architect) in the centre of Cheapside having nearly 30,000
,
feet of floor space, and pre-eminently adapted to the re-
quirements of all branches of the proposed establishment.
It will be for the consideration of the 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
ent.
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.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
o.
To the Directors of the City Mercantile Club and Dining
Hall Company (Limited).
Gentlemen,—l request that you Will allot me
Shares of £lO each, in the above Company, and I enclose a
cheque for the deposit of £l. per Share thereon : and I un-
dertake to pay the further sum of 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

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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
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seven men of the brig Brothers of South Shields, she was
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dry rot.

THE PARIS CONSPIRACY.

(From the Times Correspondent.)

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 Monchy, otherwise
Democharis, a Doctor of Sorbonne, and Canon of
Nolen 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
Mouchartg 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 mouche, 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 diecovered the
first thought that occurred to the public was that if
net concocted by police agents, it may have been

fomented and 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'Accusation, or Bill of Indict-
ment, which will be read to-morrow in the Assize
Court by the Procureur Imperial. The Acte d'Ac-
cusation 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 amen named Trabuco had been pointed
out to the authorities on the frontier as en 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 5 in 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 word with each other, and pretended to

take different directions; but the four, Imperator
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,
',Weapon and Greco (under the name of Fioretti)
hired rooms,in 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, Ree St. Honore, where
Greco,who had formerly lodged there, recommended
nim and hired a room for him. These arrange-
ments, however, were only temporary. Oa the
29th Greco presented himself at the Hotel de
Naple, 176, Rue St. Honore, and hired three rooms,
which were occupied the same day by him, Maspeli
and Trabuco. The last-mentioned, on quitting the
house, 198, took the precaution, as he had dune
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 iu 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. Honore, ho observed to the
landlady, Madame Musset, that the locks of the
chests of drawers tied 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. Wnen 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 hie
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. In 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-
served past of the gardens of the Tuileries. The
same day they drove by the Place de la Concorde,
and the central avenue of the Champs Elysees in a
carriage, which by their order moved at a very slow
pace, and they carefully noted every spot they thus
passed over.
"On 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-
huco and Greco went to the hairdresser's, Ranciot,
under pretence of getting shaved ; they then en-
tered the covered passage or gallery which leads
from the rue Lepelletier, clone 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 It inciot, the hairdresser, on going
to the Opera with his wife, found his two customers
under the peristyle, where they seemed to be on
the watch. On the 2el of January Greco, Trabuco,
Imperatori, and Maspoli visited the approaches to
the Tuileries. But their nbstractio❑ of mind was
visibly on the increase. They looked es if they felt
they were watched; took circuitous drives or walks
in the streets ; and when they went on foot they
were ever looking back or aside as if they thought
some one was dogging their steps. They were much
embarrassed when paying their bill at the hotel,
and seemed to be waiting impatiently fur a letter
and money. On the 3d of January, alter inquiring