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

THE ROMANCE OF SWINDLING;
At the Dover Quarter Sessions oiz Friday, he
Hon. William O'Brien Fitzgerald, alias William
Bennett Sothers, underwent his trial ter 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 Eliz, that her mother was related to
the ninth Duke of Narfolla, and her name was Lady
Alin Isabella Howard, and that her father was
ral William O'Brien Fitzgerald, of the Guard.. Such
statements were talse. The prisoner was formerly a
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 priaener and his aside. In the course of last
August he received a letter from them. Bath were
confined in a prison at Pau, in the south of France, at
the haaa of the Pyrenees. The letter stated that they
had fallen into an awful predicament, from the neg-
ligence of their agent, who had failed to remit them
3,0001.; that they had tfre misfortune to lose 1,8001.
on their journey ; and that about 4001. would set
them Halm 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 10
prison more than 12 months, having been
denounced as swindlers. Finding they were
euefering great misery, prosecutor paid 4501.
for their debts, and 2401. as security t°
the Court of Appeal for their appearance when re'
quired. He pleaded for them at the Court of Appeals
and obtained their liberty. He then brought them
to Dover and supported them. They then askall
prosecutor for 401. to go to the north of England 111
see some relations, when they would soon get some
money from them to repay him. The money wa
advanced, they went away, and nothing more we
heard about them. Their representations about being
connected with high families and their agents were
discovered to be untrue, and in the course of swain
seven or eight months they were apprehended at Bi
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nard Castle, near Durham. In the prisoner's hO%
was a letter dated July, 1850, from the Earl Powis t°
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innocent of the charge. He was sentenced to trams
portation for seven years.

INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL
ENGINEERS.
A spcial general meeting of this institution WOr's
lgst night held at the rooms of the Society of Art i•
Mr. M'Connell, engineer of the North-Western Rail'
way, in the absence of Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.r.,
presided. The following papers were read and di s'
cussed :

Mr. 2,lmisn ALr„ the secretary of the society, reed
a paper on the principles of the centrifugal pun 3
I furnished by Mr. Scott, of London. These pumps, 1
may be remembered, excited considerable interest t
the late Great Exhibition, and a controversy the
originated, which has been continued to the presenA
time with considerable warmth with respect to tb e
merits of Appold's, Gwynne's, and Bessimer's arrang"-
went of the radial arms and other points connected wit ,
the carrying out of the principle. As it was expected
that the paper to be read on this occasion, and Viet
discussion that would ensue, would throw some •ligh't
on the subject, there was a considerable attendaece
of engineers and scientific penons. Unfortunately.;
however, the paper dealt only with the principles
the centrifugal pump, and did not profess to give aer
practical result Whatever. The opinion of the writer
of the paper, that practically considerably less that
50 per cent. could be obtained by the centrifugs'
power, was combatted by the friends of Messrs. Bp"
pold and Gsvynne en the one hand, and by the out
vocates of the old system on the other. On the Ora
of the former it was contended by Mr. Crawl:44
and others that the result of the trials made at
,t"
Great Exhibition by Mr. Hensnian showed a elett.,
it
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 e°l:l3a
facts connected with the working of a pump CO13;
strutted upon his plan ; but in neither case was 513,,
sufficient data given for arriving at a satisfacte...
result.
Mr. VIGNOLES stated that the whole question of the'
value of this class of pumps resolved itself into tbo
profitable conversion of speed into power, and 85 9°'
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 next meeting.
The remaining papers read were :—On the ExPe:
sive Action of Steam in Locomotive Engines, by
Daniel K. Clark, of Edinburgh ; on the Expansic'a
of Isolated Steam and the Total Heat of Steam, bI Mr. Charles W. Siemens, of London; on Bourdon '6
Metallic Barometer, Indicator, and other applica•
tions of the same principle, by Mr. Charles Cowper'
of London ; on an Improved Screw Propeller,
by
Mr. George Bovill, of London • and on a New Direct
Acting Steam Pump, by Mr. iNrin. K. Whyteheadt
of London.
The meeting then adjourned.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JUNE 30.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was an improved feeling eV
hibited in the share market to-day, and a good busineall
has been done at higher prices. The transactions were 0
follow :—Bristol and Exeter, 100—Greet Western, 973 i".
Caledonian, 441/2—York and North Midland, 52.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 30.,
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market presented an
proved appearance to-day, and prices generally had a ten"
dency upwards. The transactions were as follow :—Blr-
kenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 221. Shares, 5 dis•-•
Chester and Holyhead, 23/—East Lancashire, 19% e."--
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Dittoitto p
hire a
ort nd Yorkshire, 82—Ditto, Fifths, 3 13-16 dig.-- , N
and South OVelevstQßuairdtie.gs,
6Thy: .-Aion), 2:A dis.—Liverpool, crosbP
D , 20 %a London and North-Western, 13014"-
P —Midland, 721/2—South-Eastern
and Dover, 2..ey, —York and North Midland, 25M.

-BIR6IIIvt3HANI, JUNE 30,
STOOK EXCSANGE.—The business to-day was rather lll'
!tilted, but prices were firm. The only transactions reported
were—Birmingham ,Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 10/9
—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B),

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HOUSE OF Lonns.—A report on the Parliswe fr
office, and on the office of the Gentleman Usher efse t O
be
of
Black Rod, has lately been confirmed by the Ho'l
that
Lords, in reference to the new Parliament. It apptsrs
a fee of five guineas is paid by each Duke to the 111es.,f.
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seuachmother Peer, which emolument has produced on ti,'[.
average of four years, including one new Parliament, '
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per annum. The Lords' Committee resolved, that as a
other fees paid by Peers of the House of Lords, and also by
Members of the House of Commons, have been abolished, ill: :
fees paid by Peers on receiving their writs of summons “
also discontinued, and that in lieu thereof there be paid o
the messenger, during bis life, 2001. a year, from the Ist
of
June, and that the messenger in the Crown-office be Paid
45/. a year for obtaining in future the writs of summons, and,,„
attending during the sitting of the House to deliver the"
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the Peers. This new arrangement is now in force.
ST. IVES, JUNE 29.—The Hope sloop, of Salconibe,
struck en the stones in this ILy yesterday, and inll3lB-
- sunk; crew saved.