The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Supreme Tribunal of Barcelona, in Spain, has been
for some time past engaged in hearing a trial from a judg-
ment given by an inferior court of that district in July,
1861, relative to the identity of a young man who claimed
to be the son of a wealthy banker of Barcelona, dead some
years ago. The circumstances of this strange affair may
be briefly stated as follow :—The Marquis Don Francisco
de Cara-Fontenallas, a partner in the well-known banking
firm of Lamberto y Fontenallas, had two sons, Don Lam-
berto and Don Claudio, and one daughter, Donna Eulalia,
married to the Marquis of Villamediana, residing on his
extensive estates in the neighbourhood of Madrid. In
September, 1845, the younger son, Don Claudio, then 23
years of age, suddenly disappeared, Sand all efforts to
find him proved fruitless. It was afterwards ascer-
tained that he had been seized by, the brigands, who
carried him off to the mountains. Some days later, how-
ever, two or three letters were addressed to the Marquis
by his son, stating that he was in the power of brigands,
who refused to release him until a ransom of 1,000 ounces
of gold should be paid. Perhaps the Marquis did not be-
lieve in the reality of this capture, and regarded it merely
as an expedient adopted by his son to obtain a large sum of
money. At all events, he did not send the gold demanded,
and from that time nothing was heard of Don Claudio till
May, 1860. Meanwhile, the Marquis made a will, dated
May, 1850, in which he expressed his wish that his property
should not be divided between Don Lamberto and Donna
Eulalia, until his lost son had been found, or his death
satisfactorily proved. When the marquis died some time
after, Don Lamberto succeeded to the title, and at once
i divided his father's property betaireen himself and his sister,
the Marchioness do Villamediana. This prompt division
of the property caused some scandal at the time, as the pro-
visions of the will were generally known, but it was soon
forgotten. In 1852, however, a man named Gomez, who
had been arrested for robbery, gave the police a full account
of the abduction of Don Claudio by the brigands, and the
authorities determined on making a further investigation,
when it was found that all the docinnents relating to the
circumstances had disappeared, with the exception of Don
Claudio's two letters written while in the power of the
brigands, which the deceased marquis had given to a police
magistrate in 1850. The investigation, therefore, led to
nothing ; but nine years later, in 1861, Don Lambert°, the
new marquis, received a letter, dated May 15, and signed
" Your brother, Don Claudio," stating that' the writer had
just arrivedat Barcelona by the steamer Puerto-Rico from
Charlestown. Don Lamberto immediately sent an old clerk
of the bank, named Don Francesco Juan Marti, to meet his
brother. As soon as Marti set foot on the deck, he was
accosted by Don Claudio, who called him by his name and
shed tears of joy on meeting him. They went together
to the Marquis Don Lambert°, who appeared to
gladly recognise the young man as his brother Claudio,
and instantly sent off a telegraphic despatch to his sister,
the Marchioness of Villamediana, announcing the re-
turn of their brother. On the following day Don Lam-
berto informed the Governor of Barcelona of his brother's
arrival, and also formally acknowledged him as his brother
in presence of a magistrate. Not the least doubt was en-
tertained by anybody that the new comer was really Don
Claudio, and he continued to be entertained by his brother
as such till the 23d May ; but at 2 olclock in the morning
of that day he was arrested by the police in his brother's
house, on the charge of being an impostor. This arrest
was afterwards ascertained to have been made at the in-
stance of the Marquis and Marchioness of Villamediana.
Don Claudio was so overcome by this terrible accusation
that he was instantly seized with a violent fever, and
begged to have a glass of water, which was brought by one
of the Marquis's servants. He had no sooner drunk it than
he exclaimed that he was poisoned. He was, nevertheless,
carried off to prison, where antidotes where administered,
and he recovered, after three weeks' illness, but still re-
mained in the prison infirmary in a very weak state. Whil©
he lay there a tailor and his wife, named Felin, were
brought to see him, and they declared the supposed Don
Claudio to be their son Claudio, who had gone to Buenos
Ayres in 1857, being then only 20 years of age ; their son
and daughter also recognised him as their brother. All
four gave evidence on oath to this effect. Two other per-
sons, however—Don Claudio's nurse and foster-brothf er
declared that he was really Don Claudio. In his dedencde
before the examining magistrate, Don Claudio
To
four documents in which he was styled Don Chili
.Fon-
tenallas : the first was his commission ensign in t e
which proved that
dated April, 1857,
' he could not be Claudio Felin, as the latter sailed from
army of Buenos Ayres,
Duodena to Buenos Ay= late in February in that year,

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week
Miles opened. Receipts

1864. 1863. 1864. 1863.
. A
A
Belfast and N. Counties 146 136 2,383 2,102
Belfast and County Down 49 49 768 081
Blyth and Tyne ............ 2B 23 1,676 1,122
Bristol and Exeter 1213/4 1215 5,067 5,366
Caledonian 2813/4 2621 19,065 17,A2
Cambrian
Cockermouth & Workington - -
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 383 296
Cork, Blackrock, A Passage 6l 61 128 129
386
Cork and Youghal .. 3
8584 651
3:10
Cornwall 651 653/4 1,472 1.344
Deeside . 17 17 272 250
Dublin & Belfast Junction.... 63 63 1,283 1.473
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,278 1.323
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9ll 91 } 3,006 2,066
Furness, &o 5O 5l 2,644 3,113
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union
Great Northern • 387 353 29,817 28,901
Great North of Sootland 99 99 2,401 2.420
Li t. Northn. & Westn. (Ire!.) 7ll 711 353 354
'lt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3871 3731 7,016 6,524
Great Western 1225 1169 56,918 56,776
Hull and lionises l3 - 98
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno ll 1,1 1,074
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 11911061 1,40168 1,112
Irish North-Western l4
27 1 1,332 1,187
Kent Coast 27 27 440 240
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 402 36. 10 36.710
Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 101 121
Limerick and Foynes 264 26 85 77
Llanelly 46 44 593 513
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51 1,950 1,772
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 2671 2611 17,348 15,013
London, Chatham, & Dover 721 12} 4,1386 4,430
Do. Metropolitan Extension 111 101 1,6• 0 900
Lou., Tilbury, & Southend
Han..Shetileid, & Lineolnsh .. 2421 212} 18,445 16,416
blanch. S.Jun.& Altrincham.. 91 91 1,459 1,361
Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,504 1.441
Metropolitan
Midland (in& N.-Western)„ ll 611 156 440
Midland G 6547
t. Wean. of 'rind 262 2594 3,, 38
964 3,,815
Monkland 7ll 714 1,e82 1,409
Monmouthsh. RaiL & Canal 44 44 2,308 2,414
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
ter-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 1095 5,888
North London 9 9 3,397
North Staffordshire 251 251 8,147
Rhymney l9l 195 893
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 133 5,055
Somerset and Dorset O6 66 740
South Devon
South-Eastern 3OB 306 20,861
Taff Vale ... .. 57 57 4,526
Ulster lO5l 1051 2,307
Vale of Clwyd.
Vale of Neath 431 431 2,329
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 280
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 998
West Cornwall 274 271 i 1704
W.Hartlepool Harbr.&ltaiL 525 521 3.687
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 548
Whitehaven Junction l3 13 938
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 816
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B 828 40,021
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern Junction 261 261 321 250
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1851 1855 2,854 2,593
Detroit and Idilwaukie 189 189 6,380 4,030
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 5,671 4 570
Eastern of France
Eastern Bengal - -
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1342 1335 23,280 23,037
Great Central of Belgium 220 220 5,714 5,316
Great Indian Peninsula 553 5381 -
Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,433 3,110
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345 315 12,576 11,162
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa &A.licant 683 650 15,118 16,099
Northern of-Canada ...... • - -
Northern of France 697 697 56,044 51,473
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman ..
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1967 1781 134,143 135,805
Paris and Orleans 1616 1614 68,909 68.871
Pernambuco 774 771 726 528
Scinde lO5 105 - -
Do. Punjab, &a 32 32 -
South Austrian
Southern of France ...... 823 770 27,329 27,886
Victoria
Welland - -
West Flanders 75 75 - -
West &N- Westn of France lOll 931 41,359 40,097

Railways.

22,318
18,780
5,059
7,957

6.0.6
495
598
3,341
5,402
2.287

2.224
252

-702
3.616
547
885
832

85,053