The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-24 00:00:00

his late Majesty William IV. Indeed, the observ-
ance of the Sunday, not as a pharisaical Sabbath,
but a day of repose from the ordinary labours of
the week, is a time-honoured' institution among all
classes of Englishmen; and it deserves the support
of all who are the real friends of the working com-
munity—'it humanises by the help of conversation
and society the manners of the lower classes; it en-
ables the industrious working man to pursue his
occupation in the ensuing week with health and
cheerfulness.' The Sunday is in every sense the
poor man's holiday,' to which every hard-handed
peasant in the kingdom is entitled as his inheritance
—a birthright which the law in • its humanity will
not allow him to sell. The Atherton magistrates,
therefore, deserve not the reproach but the grati-
tude of the labouring population in their neighbour-
hood for protecting them against those who, for
their own interest, seek to deprive the weekly la-
bourer of his Sunday's pri%ilege, and who are sordid
enough to get a day's work out of their poor neigh-
bours by the temptation of drink instead of the
payment of honest wages."

The Ghost Visiting the Lord Chancellor,

BASINGSTOKE, Wednesday.
THE PATENT OF DIRCKS AND PEPPER, ON THE OPPOSITION
OF LOIBL AND SONNHAMMER, WILD, KING, AND OTHERS.
Yesterday afternoon the Lord Chancellor was visited in
his lordship's library, at his mansion, Hackwood Park, near
this town, by no less a personage than the übiquitous Ghost
and a number of gentlemen all claiming more or less legiti-
mate relationship with him. Messrs. Luibl and Sonnham-
mer, the proprietors of the Pavilion Music Hall, at the top
of the Haymarket, took him down. Mr. Wild, of the Al-
hambra, Mr. King, of Bath, and Professor Pepper, of the
Polytechnic, and others, were also in attendance, supported
by their respective legal advisers. The facts of the case are
as follow :—ln February last, after Messrs. Dircks and
Pepper's ghost had turned out a "hit" at the Polytechniclast December, they obtained a provisional specification,with
a view to patent ; in the following March, just
before it was
time to obtain the Great Seal, the other parties above named
lodged objections according to the Patent Law Amendment
Act. On account of these objections the patentee obtained a
further month's provisional protection to answer them.
Affidavits were further filed on both sides, and the Lord
Chancellor fixed yesterday for the disposal of the case, so
far as the issue of the Great Seal was concerned.
Messrs. Loibl and Sonnhammer were represented by Mr.
Bower, jun. (Bower, Son, and Cotton, Chancery-lane); Mr
Wild by Mr. Mayhew, Mr. King by Mr. Clarke, Messrs.
Dircks and Pepper by Mr. Hughes (Hughes, Kearsey, and
Co., Bucklersbury).
After disposing of some legal technicalities, which his
lordship adjusted to meet both sides,
Mr. Bower went into the merits of the case. He put in a
number of affidavits tending to prove that the invention was
by no means new, and that it had been exhibited in London
and throughout the country as far back as 1845, the pa-
rentage of it seeming to rest on Herr Dobler, the cele-
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lighted up," and his lordship had the pleasure of witnessing
the ghost business very conveniently. He was also shown
ghost photographs, taken by King, of Bath, and Sylvester,
of New Bond-street, in 1860. Mr. Sylvester is also a ghost
exhibitor, and has met with singular success at Canterbury
Hall. As Mr. Pepper is in the arrangement there was no
opposition from that quarter. Mr. King was also a patentee
in rivalry with Mr. Pepper, and has undertaken to indemnify
all his customers against any hostile action on the part of
that gentleman.

In the course of the argument his lordship said he remem-
bered seeing the same thing when a boy, 55 years ago ; it
was exhibiied by Belzoni, the celebrated traveller, and an
account of it published.

It was urged that by Messrs, Pepper and Dircks exhibiting
it in December last year at the Polytechnic, it was a publi-
cation that barred the right of patent. On the other side,
affidavits were put in from Sir David Brewster and Profes-
sor Wheatstone, testifying that the invention was new.
The Lord Chancellor delivered a very clear and elaborate
judgment at considerable length. He reviewed all the affi-
davits, and said the objectors had no grounds before him;
tney came in at the last moment and wanted to overturn
all the three hearings of the Attorney- General, who must
have been satisfied of the merits Lefore he remitted the patent
for the Great Seal. If he withheld it the patentees had no
remedy, no appeal elsewhere; but by granting the patent
he placed them in a position to prove and maintain their
right to it. Nor would this inflict any wrong on the ob-
jectors, as they could try the value of the patent in a court
of law. His lordship then directed the Great Seal to issue
with all costs and charges against the objectors.
The case extended over three hours.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Sept, 23.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)

Charles Jestico, a man of middle age, described in the
calendar as a "dealer," was arraigned upon an indictment
charging him with feloNiously receiving certain valuable
securities which had Fern stolen from a post letter, well
knowing them to have been stolen.
Mr. Clerk and Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted ; Mr. Sleigh de-
fended the prisoner.
The prisoner had been a lettercarrier in the General Post
Office for 17 years, but relinquishing that situation he had
latterly kept a beershop in St. George's-circus, Blackfriars-
road. There he became acquainted with one Robert Dowle,
who lodged in his house, and to whom, on removing to
Chelsea, he let the shop, which Dowle has since used for the
sale of boots and crinoline, having of the same time a resi-
dence at 30, Manor-place, Walworth, It appeared that to-
wards the end of June last Mr. William 11. Nicholson, a
banker at Rochester, and a shareholder in the Scinde Rail-
way, was, with others of the shareholders, offered by the
company a certain number of new shares, which were then
being issued. He and members of his family signed five let-
ters of acceptance of such new shares, representing in the
whole 115 shares of £2O each, and in respect of 72 of which
Mrs. Phillips, his sister, had signed. They were then selling
in the market at £1 per share premium. On the Ist of July
Mr. Nicholson enclosed the five letters of acceptance in a
letter addressed to Messrs. Upward, of 15, Throgmorton-
street, hisbrokers. That letter, which was posted at Roches-
ter by one John Lough, his servant, never reached its des-
tination; and the prisoner, with an accomplice, was found
dealing with the letters of acceptance, which had been en-
closed in it, the very next day after it should have been de-
livered in London in the ordinary course of post. On the
2d of July, about 2 o'clock in the day, the prisoner called
upon his acquaintance, Dowle, at the shop in St. George's-
circus, and after some ordinary conversation as to how he
was " getting on" asked him to have something to drink.
Dowle had an apprentice named Redpath, a boy of 12 or
14, whom the prisoner sent out for seine beer and gin.
While the lad was absent on that errand the prisoner pro-
duced a quantity of gold and silver, and asked to speak to
Dowle privately. With that view they went to the private
bar of the Duke of Clarence Tavern, hard by. There, ad-
dressing Dowle, the prisoner said it was a pity a smart
young man like him should be " hard up." Dowle replied
it was, but he could not help it. The prisoner said he had
it in his power to make his fortune, and with that he pro-
duced a pocketbook, from which he took a half sheet of letter
papar, pat tly written and partly printed. Opening that,
which proved to be one of Mr. -Nicholson's letters of accep-
tance, he said, " This is what we are doing now ;" explain-
ing afterwards that it was one of several allotments of shares
he bad in the Scinde Railway. He asked Dowle if he knew
any stockbrokers. The reply was that he knew two. "So
much the better," said the prisoner, adding that if he would
go and sell the shares next morning his (Dowle's) share of
the profit would amount to £24 or L.A Dowle led the
prisoner to believe that he would do so, and made an ap-
pointment to meet him the same evening, but which he did
not keep. The prisoner, as he was leaving, said the matter
about which he had spoken was only a trifling affair, but
he had something in his pocket representing £4,000. To
realise that, however, would require a journey to St. Peters-
burg. Dowle, on parting with the prisoner, went forth-
with to the Bow-lane Police-station, and made a communi-
cation on the subject to the authorities there. He met the
prisoner next morning, according to appointment, at the
Obelisk in the Blackfriars-road. The prisoner taunted
him with not being quite smart enough, and then, pointing
to a man who was approaching, said " If you won't do it,
here's a man that Ns ill." The person referred to, one
John Calder, is now a prisoner in Newgate, having since
been convicted and sentenced to penal servitude. Dowle
and the prisoner parted, and as they did so the latter told
Calder to walk on to the Oxford publichouse, in the West-
minster .road, and he would join him there.
Mr. Francis Austin, a stockbroker, of 25, Tokenheuse-
yard, was called as a witness for the prosecution. He said
he remembered Mr. Bennett, a stockbroker, bringing him
the five letters of acceptance in question on the 3d of July,
and their having a transaction with respect to four of them
were°n then at
72 shares, being excepted. The shares
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minus on them was £43. Having completed the transaction
he handed Mr. Bennett a cheque for the amount, less his
brokerage, declining at that time to deal with the allotment
of 72 shares.
Mr. Frederick Bennett—I am a stockbroker at 2, Cop-
ns me we ith
conversationthe fi veletters
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alai-chambers. On the of July a man named John
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same day to Mr. Austin, and sold the shares at £1 premium.
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question,ler called
Aftern
The fifth allotment, representing 72 shares, was also sold,
subject to inquiries as to the genuineness of Mrs. Phillips's
signature. As I left my office to go on this business I met
the prisoner Jestico, about two minutes' walk from my
door. I had known him when I was a clerk in the Post-
office. He was at that time a lettereatrier in the same office.
I spoke to him and asked if he was in the habit of delivering
ruby letters at the office of Messrs. Freston, solicitors, in
Coleman-street, and if they were respectable people. Calder
has Elven me their names as referees, The prisonersaid he