The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

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CENTRAL OF SPAIN RAILWAY.
A special general meeting of the shareholders in the
above undertaking was held yesterday afternoon, at the
London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, tor the purpose of
receiving a report upon the present position of the
company, and taking into consideration the resignation
of the Spanish direction. The Hon. Mr. P. 11. Butler,
M.P., in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said, perhaps the best course he could
pursue would be to read the letter of resignation, re-
ceived from the Spanish direction at Madrid. The letter
assigned three reasons for the resignation ; first, the
want of confidence between the board at Madrid, and
the English direction ; secondly, the want of confidence
of the Spaniards in the result of the undertaking ;
and, thirdly, the abandonment of the branch to Lisbon,
through the disturbed political state of Portugal.
The Chairman, after reading the letter, went o❑ to say,
that at an interview he had with the Spanish direc-
tion, some few months ago, certain treaties and
concessions were made, but subsequently the Spaniards
repudiated the agreement, and proposed more stringent
conditions, which he declined to agree to, pointing out to
the direction that they had failed to subscribe a single
ducat towards the undertaking, while they had delayed
the issuing of the shares for speculative services. He
then returned to England, and a third party was
sent out to negotiate a peace. That peace was effected,
but the _Spaniards again violated their agreement, and
followed it up by sending in their resignation. It was,
perhaps, ungracious in him to give such advice, after the
reception ho had met with in Spain, but he felt it to be
his duty to advise Eaglish capitalists not to speculate in
Spanish undertakings, managed by Spanish boards of
direction. There was no faith to be placed in these bodies,
because they were generally under the thumb of
large Spanish speculators, and the issuing of the shares
and collecting of money was made subservient to their
movements on the Bourse of Madrid. It was true their
engineer's plans were rejected by the Spanish authorities,
but really they were rejected because the capitalists he
had alluded to had desired it. Now, the question for
them to consider was, how far it was desirable for them
to proceed with the undertaking. He had no doubt the line
from Madrid to Badajoz would never pay, but a line from
Badajoz to Lisbon and from Badajoz to Madrid would
pay, but then it must be carried out by an English, and
not a Spanish executive, and he would recommend them
to carry out that line if they could get ample guarantees
and securities from the Spanish Government.
The report stated that the line was conceded in
1845, and 40,000/. were subsequently deposited
with the Spanish Government as a guarantee for
the due carrying out of the line, and after giving
in detail the statement just made by the chairman, pro-
ceeded to add that the reason the plans were registered
was because the Spanish executive of the company bad
gone so far as to make a report against the plans of
their own engineer. An embargo had been placed upon
the deposits of the concessionaires, and if the share-
holders determined to break up the company, the Spa-
nish executive, in accordance with statutes granted to
the company, would be compelled to defray their share
of the expense which had been incurred.
In answer to questions,
The CHAIRMAN said' any shareholeer might have dis-
closed to him the details of the various negotiations if
he would call at the office of the company, but it was
not prudent to make them public. The basis and terms
of the agreements which the Spanish 'executive had
agreed to and violated, would be printed and forwarded
to each shareholder.
The report was then put from the chair and unani-
mously adopted.
Captain WILKINSON !aid he wished to explain how it
was that his plans were rejected.
A SHAREHOLDER (a Spaniard) said be was convinced
the shareholders threw no imputation upon Captain
Wilkinson.—(No, no.) They had evidently got rid of a
set of sharpers and tricksters, and there was no use
paying any attention to their imputations.
Captain WILKINSON said his plans were rejected
simply because he would not connive at the truckling
and dishonesty of the Spanish directors. On one occa-
sion the directors wanted him to wink at their exchang-
ing the shares of the company for property of no value
whatever ; in fact, they wanted to give 35.0001. worth
of shares for property scarcely worth 15,0001.
Mr. SMITH complained that no statement of the ac-
counts had been made, and charged the directors with
having put forward an advertisement unfounded iu
truth. The first prospectus stated that all the deposits
would be returned if no concession were obtained.
Only a promise of a concession had as yet been made,
and therefore the deposits ought to be returned. Fifty
thousand shares were to be allotted in this country, but
only 28,000 were allotted, and of that number not more
than 10,000 were paid upon. He contended, too, that
the engineer had been overpaid, and protested that the
directors had been guilty of a dereliction of duty in not
having rendered the directors in Spain more liable than
they were at present.
The CHAIRMAN admitted that some of the abuses had
occurred, but it was before he became connected with
the company. Upon a future day all these matters of
account would be fully explained.
The SECRETARY said that it was true that 50,000
shares were reserved for distribution in England, but
only 28,000 were allotted ; and of that number about
10,000 were paid upon. There was no doubt that the
concession had been made, and that the Spanish direc-
tion were certainly liable for their proportion of the ex-
penses. The money remaining in hand amounted to
about 1,5001. Some of the servants and the engineer
had been part paid for their claims in shares. '
Eventually a committee of inquiry was appointed ;
and a vote of thanks having been passed to the chair-
man, the meeting broke up.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ROLLS' COURT, Dec. 14.

COLEMAN V. THE DIRECTORS OF THE EASTERN COUN.

TIES RAILWAY.

This was a motion on the part of the defendants to
dissolve an injunction that had been obtained by the
plaintiff on the 19th of November last. The injunction
was to restrain the defendants from entering into a con-
tract on behalf of the Eastern Counties Railway with
the Har‘tich Steam-packet Company. It appeared that
the defendants and the other directors of the Eastern
Counties Railway, conceiving that it would have the
effect of bringing considerable traffic from Holland and
the northern ports of Europe, were desirous of effecting
an arrangement with the proprietors of the Harwich
Steam-packet Company, guaranteeing them a certain
interest on the principal, as well as funded capital
of 150,0001. of the company, for the conveyance of
their passengers to Rotterdam and other northern
ports of Europe. The plaintiff, who is one of the share-
holders in the Eastern Counties Railway, was opposed
to the execution of this contract, and filed a bill on be-
half of himself and other shareholders, and obtained the
injunction in question, which the defendants now sought
to have dissolved. In support of the motion, it was con-
tended that it was the wish of the majority of the share-
holders that this contract should be car ied out, the ad-
vantages of it being obvious, ;and that the reason of the
plaintiff's hostility to such being effected, originated in
the fact of his being the secretary of the General Steam
Navigation Company, with whose interests it would of
course materially interfere to hare such an arrangement
as they proposed carried out.
Messrs. Findersley, Groves, and Coolmister, appeared
in support of the motion, and Messrs. Turner, Roupell,
and another Learned Gentleman in behalf of the plaintiff
The case had not concluded at the rising of the Court

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 14.
LIBEL.-THE SPECTATOR NEWSPAPER AND THE SOCIETY
OF BRITISH ARTISTS.-RURLSTONE V. CLAYTON.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. Nibbitt produced the memorial which had been
transmitted to the Hume Office for presentation to the
Queen.

- Mr. George Stevens, one of the managers of the in-
' stitution, stated that the attention of the society had been
directed to the publication of the notices of the Spectator,
from the time referred to up to the present time; that
tickets had during the whole of that time been regularly
transmitted to the editor of the Spectator, as well as
. noblemen, gentlemen, and Members of Parliament, for
, private views of the exhibition, and that he had been
• furnished with a season ticket which had not ex-
pired. He also proved that the names attached to the
memorial were either the signatures of the persons
themselves, or were affixed by their express permission.
Mr. HILL, Q.C., then addressed the jury on behalf
of the defendant. He said the defendant, as soon as
he ascertained that the writer of the article
had fallen into an error on account of the hasty
glance which he cast at the memorial, he made
an ample apology, and expressed regret for its
publication ; he was at a loss to understand why the
plaintiff had not deemed that apology sufficient. On the
evening of the day on which the article was published,
Mr. Flight, the solicitor, and Mr. Hassall, the scere-
tary to the institution, callel at the office of the
Spectator newspaper, and expressed a wish to see the
editor. They were immediately introduced to Mr. Rin-
toul, the editor and prop:ietor of the paper, who, on
hearing the statement that the article was de.
void of truth, informed them that he should
take the earliest opportunity of retracting the
expressions contained in the article of which they com-
plained. He inserted a retractation in the following
number, which stated that they (the Spectator) were
bound to admit that the statement in the article was
devoid of truth, and that as it was contrary to the
poliev of the Spectator to publish statements
which were untrue, they took the earliest opportunity
of retracting the statement, and expressed their regret
for its insertion. But after the interview with Mr.Rin-
toul, and before the publication of the retractation, and
when it was fully uoderstood that the matter would be
thus settled, the plaintiff intimated through his solicitor,
Mr. Flight, that it would be absolutely necessary to
bring the matter before a jury. He referred to a case
tried before the late Lord Elh•nborough, which was an
action brought by a Baronet. named Carr against a bar-
rister named Wood, for publishing a humorous
parody on the works of the Baronet, but the jury give
an adverse verdict. Li that case Lord Ellenborough
held that a person publishing a b )ok, or exhibiting a
picture, laid himself fairly out for criticism, and that a
critic had perfect right to express himself according
to his opinion. In this case nothing more had been
done, and what :was incorrect had been amply atoned
for. Here the defendant had been invited with others
to criticise the exhibition, and it was criticised according
to the opinion of the writer. Two editions of the Spectator
were published, one on Saturday morning, and another
in the evening, which contained the markets and the
principal news of the day. A portion of the matter in
the previous edition had to be withdrawn to
make room for the later intelligence, and in
this way the paragraph complained of in the
article in question was withdrawn. Looking at
the whole of the facts, he apprehended that
the defendant was entitled to a verdict; but if they con-
sidered he was not, he thought they would be of opinion
that the injury which the plaintiff had sustained would
be met by mere nominal damages.

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Mr. Ilatford, a compositor employed in the printing-
office of the newspaper, proved that the paragraph and
a one-line paragraph from the fashionable intelligence
were omitted to make room for the late news.
Mr. Brimble, a clerk at the publishing office, cor-
roborated the interview referred to, and added that as
soon as Mr. Rintoul discovered that the statement was er-
roneous, he directed him not to dispose of any more of
the early editions.
Sir F. THESIGER replied. He said the plaintiff con-
sidered the apology, as it was called, had aggravated,
instead of destroyed the sting which the libel had in-
flicted. The defendant could hardly plead carelessness,
as he had pursued the same style of criticism for many
years; besides, he had not taken the earliest opportunity
of retracting the libel, as he might have done so in the
late edition of his paper or in the daily papers.
Lord DENMAN summed up, and left it to the jury to
say the amount of damages which the plaintiff was en-
titled to. It was true the defendant had made an
apology, but he thought it would have been more satis-
factory, if, instead of saying he was bound to admit the
incorrectness of the statement, he had stated that he
was satisfl,d of its inaccuracy.
The jury, after a short deliberation, found a verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001.
LEMAN, BROTHERS, V. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

Mr. W. H. Cook, who appeared for Mr. Leon Solo-
mon, said I do not dispute the law, as laid down by Mr.
Ball, but he has carefully avoided the question here. In
the case of Greenacre the charge was for murder —a
totally different offence from the present—which is one
of forgery ; and when Faulkner and Fabian were taken
into custody they admitted that the money taken from
them was that which they had received from Mr. Solo
mon ; and he identified some of the notes as those for
which the forged scrip had been the consideration. They
are intimately connected with the offence committed.
They had money and other scrip raised from the sale of
forged Buckingham scrip. It was admitted by the
persons charged that 2001. found upon them were the
proceeds of a previous transaction with Mr. Solomon ;
and my application is that you will protect the interest
of Mr. Solomon upon the strength of that admission.
The inspector made the following statement, without
being sworn—When Faulkner and Fabian were brought
in custody to the station. house, Mr. Solomon came up
to the desk to me with some forged scrip in his hand, and
said the two persons were charged with forgery to
the amount of between 6001. and 7001. Faulkner or
Fabian answered, " Your money is there," referring to
the money I had received from Faulkner at the station
house. He handed it over to me, and Mr. S ,lemon said
can I take it. I said certainly not. You have brought
these persons on a charge of forgery, and now they are
in custody I cannot give up any of the property. I de-
sired Mr. Solomon to send me the numbers of the notes
he could swear to, and he did so the next day, and the
numbers corresponded with the sales for 3601. I had in
my possession.
Mr. W. H. Read, bill discounter, stated the parti
culars of what took place when he went with Mr. Solomon
to the office of Faulkner and Fabian. What one of them
said was immediately adopted by the other, and they said
that whatever transactions Mr. Solomon had had with
Mr. Richards they felt bound to take upon themselves.
Inspector Walker said he had delivered up 360/. to
Mr. Solomon, and 101. to Faulkner, holding in his own
hands 6551.

Mr. Cook—We claim 4801, and 2001., making toge-
ther 6801.. of which we have had 3601, and we do not
claim the railway scrip.
The cei‘e was then adjourned for two days.
Alderman Gums yesterday delivered his decision upon
the appication of counsel, as follows :—.` On the ap-
prehension of Faulkner and Fabian on a charge of for-
gery, the prisoners delivered up to inspector Walker
sundry bank notes and scrip railway shares. After se-
veral examinations they were committed for trial at the
Central Criminal Court, but afterwards they were bailed
by one of her Majesty's Judges. Faulkner surrendered
at a subsequent seism,- --took his trial, and was acquitted.
Fabian did not make his appearance there, nor has he
surrendered at any subsequent session, and his recog-
nisances, as well as those of his bail, have been estreated.

Application has now been made to ma, the committing
magistrate, to order the property in the hands of In-
spector Walker to be restored either to Faulkner and Fa-
bian, the accused, or to Mr. Solomon, the prosecutor, and
counsel was heard by me in support of the respective
claimants. After considering the argument of counsel
in the behalf of both parties, it appears to me that some
portion—but what portion does not appear—of the pro •
perty found upon Faulkner and Fabian, now in possession
of Inspector Walker, was admitted by both of the ac-
cused to be the produce of fraud, and as Fabian, one of
the accused, has not yet surrendered and taken his trial,
I consider it a question still undecided to whom the pro-
perty admitted to have been in the joint possession of
the accused, really belongs. Consequently, I don't feel
justified in making any order.
Thomas Johnson, who was charged by Messrs. Chaplin
and Horne, the carriers, with having stolen a truss of
silk, value 125/., was brought up for final examination.
Mr. Watts, of the firm of Goodman and Watts, of Cole-
man-street, appeared for the prosecution.
Mr. Riches, clerk to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne,
upon being further examined, said he superintended the
general delivery of the parcels. They were called over
from a book. The prisoner had been sent, on two occa-
sions, to Messrs. Machin with trusses similar to the one
lost. The word "silk" was put upon the delivery ticket,
and the prisoner returned the ticket the same night.
The prisoner packed the parcels according to the book,
and there was only one truss sent out that day.
Mr. W. Chappell, silk throwster, of Whitchurch, in
Hampshire, knew Mr. Machin, of Twisters alley, and on
the 23d of November sent a bale addressed to him, which
weighed about 164 pounds.
Arthur Stanbury, a person in the employment of the
South-Western Railway Company, said he recollected
the arrival of the truss on the 23d of November, and
the delivery of it to the prisoner to convey it to Messrs.
Machin's premises. It was placed in the centre of the
van, and witness said to the prisoner, by way of -caution,
this is silk.
Mr. Cope, clerk to Messrs. Machin, of Twister's-alley,
stated that a bale of silk was expected on the 24th of
November from William Chappell, but it never arrived
at the warehouse. The value of it was 1251. 16s. 10d.
George Henry Williams, assistant to a chemist in
Chiswell-street, stated that on the 24th November the
prisoner called at the shop with two hampers, and on
going left his book on the counter, and did not return for
it, although called to in a loud voice. Afterwards a boy
called for the book.—Committed for trial.
THAMES.

Edward Lock, alias Langliton, alias Locksley, who
stands charged with stealing 951. from a cash-box on the
premises of Messrs. Thomas Martin. and Co., linen-
drapers in the Whitechapel-road, was again brought up
on remand before Mr. Yardley.
The robbery was committed on the night of the 27th
ult., when a cash-box was taken out of a desk in the
counting house, the bottom of which was cut away. The
box was afterwards found in a waterbutt on the premises.
The papers and securities it contained were undisturbed,
but the money was all gone. The thief who committed
the robbery must have concealed himself in the cellars
till the inmates retired to rest, and then obtained admis-
sion to the counting-house by cutting out a pane of glass.
After the robbery was effected the shop door and street
door wero broken open, and the thief escaped in that
direction. The evidence against the prisoner, who was
formerly in the employ of the prosecutors, was entirely
of a circumstantial description.
Mr. Pelham, for the prosecution, asked for another re-
mand, and said the police had obtained a clue which might
lead to important disclosures.

Mr. Ve;ey, for the prisoner, opposed this proposal.
Mr. YARDLEY said there was a case of strong suspicion
against the prisoner, and he was very reluctant to let
him go at large. He could not, however, continually go
on remanding the prisoner without evidence. He finally
consented to accept of bail for the prisoner, himself in
501. and one surety in the same amount, for his appear-
ance on Monday next.
SOUTHWARK.

George Paul Fitt was brought before Mr. Seeker,
charged with obtaining three several sums of money,
amounting to 21. 145., under false pretences, from Eliza-
beth Ann Clay.
The complainant stated that her husband was a dealer
in timber, and that, about three months ago, he was con-
victed at the sessions of receiving stolen goods, and
sentenced to two years' imprisonment in Brixton House
of Correction ; that on the occasion of his trial a Mr.
Ralph Games was employed as his solicitor ; and, that,
subsequently to his conviction, she sent for the prisoner,
who she was led to believe was was an attorney usually
employed in defending prisoners at the police-courts and
sessions. She exhibited the papers relating to her
husband's case to the prisoner, and, after perusing them,
he remarked that Mr. Games bad managed her hus-
band's business in a scandalous manner, and added,
that if she gave him (the prisoner) two sovereigns, he
would obtain his release from gaol with as little delay
as possible. She handed him a sovereign, he promising
to draw up a petition to the Home Secretary on the
subject. He then went away, but returned the same
day, and told her that he had had an interview with
three barristers, to whom he represented the facts con-
cerning her husband's case, and that they advised that
a writ should be preferred against Mr. Games for the
manner in which he had acted in her husband's de-
fence, adding, that the expenses attending the process
would be 10s. 6d. She accordingly paid him that sum,
for which he gave his receipt (produced), and on sub-
sequent occasions the prisoner called upon her again and
induced her to advance him other sums of money, for
the purpose, as he asserted, of filing a declaration and
adopting other proceedings against Mr. Games ; and, in
order to obtain money from her, he informed her that
if she did not proceed in the business after the writ had
been served upon Mr. Games, judgment would go by
default, and the latter person would be in a position
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to seize upon her goods. At a subsequent interview the
prisoner said that it was necessary for complainant to
appear at the Rolls' Court, in order to make her affidavit
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Mr. Hill, a solicitor, gave evidence of his having
searched the lists for November and December at the
Writ-office, Queen's Bench, and that there was no pro-
cess filed by the prisoner against Mr. Games, as had
been asserted by the former in his statement to the
complainant.

The complainant's daughter handed in a paper, which
she received from the prisoner, and which purported to
be a writ of inquiry fur damages, addressed to Mr.
Games.

Mr. Roberts, who conducted the case against the pri-
soner, said that there were other cases of a similar
description against him, and that it would be necessary
to remand him, in order to have the attendance of
persons interested.

The prisoner said that that was what he wanted, with
a view to have the professional assistance of a barrister;
and that it would be found he had faithfully performed
the business he had undertaken.

The prisoner was then remanded until Wednesday.

Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., has been named as a
candidate for Norwich, in conjunction with Mr. J. H.
Gurney.

FARM SERVANTS' ASSOCIATION.
(From the Inverness Courier.)
We learn from a correspondent in Ross-shire, that a
meeting of a Northern Farm Servants' Association was
held for the purpose of taking into consideration the
measures attempted relative to the allowance of potatoes
(already guaranteed to them) for the curt ent year,
when the following resolutions were unanimously ap-
proved of:-
1. That the meeting think it putting the cart before
the horse in the farmers of the North to call meetings of
their farmer societies, in order to suggest, recommend,
and lay down rules and regulations for converting the
guaranteed allowance of potatoes to an equivalent in
meal, seeing that, in this transaction, they are the par•
ties failing to implement, and, at furthest, have only a
right to come and ask us, the farm servants, what we
will take to give up " the bond."
2. That although they find that they have the " whip-
hand" of their masters at the present " hour," they are
noway disposed to lay on heavily, believing it to be the
want of experience, rather than anything else, that
wonld induce the farmer to propose a boll of meal in
lieu of two bolls of potatoes. In order, therefore, to
enable the farmers to fudge correctly in this matter, the
meeting suggest to them to try the experiment upon
themselves for the now current half-year 1 They would
then be enabled to state more clearly the amount of food
necessary for a working man, his wife, and family of
five or six children. The meeting here take the liberty
to remark, that the farmers in Scotland are proverbially
a feeding and experiment race. The horses, cattle,
sheep, pigs, and poultry, at agricultural meetings, are all
in exemplary condition. The meeting admire this spirit
of experimental feeding with respect to the lower
animals, as it invariably consists of something added
to their daily fare, but they cannot help seeing
the discrepancy that prevails when human flesh is the
subject of experiment : this, somehow, always tends
(even at the present time, when farmers are obtaining
such enormous prices for their corn) to the elucidation
of the lowest diet that flesh and blood can hang toge-
ther upon. The farm servants of the north, therefore,
as far as they are concerned, discard all experimental
feeding of the human species, but they promise to give
every facility to others to ride their hobby. in trying
the experiment of feeding themselves, their wives, and
children for half-a-year, on four and a-half bolls of meal
each family.
3. The meeting have no wish to oblige their masters
to purchase potatoes at an extravagant price, on their
account, if an equivalent in wholesome food is substi-
tuted, but they know that a boll of meal is not equiva-
lent to two bolls of potatoes in the consumption of a
family. They know, from experience, that a mixture of
food is more healthful and less expensive than living upon
a single species. They know that bulky food, like the
potato, goes farther in stilling the calls of a hungry
family, than the same amount of nutriment in a more
concentrated state ; besides, they know that the very
waste of the potatoes serves a useful purpose to them
in assisting to feed the pigs and poultry ; but more
than this, they see that a good part of their family's
subsistence will be rendered null for the want of the
potato. What can one make of a salt herring without
a potato ? Why, the herring remains a dead letter,
and the whole of the family must be on the meal. All
these things considered, we, the farm servants of the
northern counties, at this meeting assembled, have, after
much experience and mature consideration, come to the
conclusion, that one boll of oatmeal is only equivalent to
one boll and a half of potatoes in the consumption of a
family, and we firmly believe that the great bulk of the
farmers in the north, if they would think seriously
over the matter, would come to the same conclusion.
4. That as this food agreement is a matter entirely
between each individal master and his servant, the far-
mers'societies had better leave it alone.

SWINDLING EXTRAORDINARY.
POSES PL ASTIQUES.
This week the inhabitants of " the faithful city" have
been delighted by the performances of Professor Coli
snd Company, who have been exhibiting very attractive
living statuary and poses plastiques, at the City and
County Library, and finished their exhibitions by the
most singular and striking tableau of all at our Police-
office, yesterday (Thursday) morning.
A week or two back a young man presented himself
at Mr. Sefton's, printer, Broad street, and stating that
he was secretary to Professor Coli, of poses plastiques
renown, requested that some bills might he printed, an-
nouncing the extraordinary things with which they were
about to please the people of Worcester; " and," added
he, in the most straightforward way imaginable, " I am
a perfect stranger, and therefore lam in the habit of
leaving a deposit." He put down 10s. on the counter,
and said the great Coli himself would pay the remainder.
" You musn't be astonished," said he, " at his manner;
he will probably come into the shop, take a chair, say
you're the printer, I believe,' ask for the bills, put down
all the money, and walk out again without another word.
You'll be sure to know him, for he is a tremendous big
fellow, quite sufficient to smash both of us if he pleased."
With this pleasing intelligence the secretary departed,
the bills were printed, and as the bill sticker, our own
veritable Quin, pasted them on the walls, gaping crowds
read of classical models such as " the Death of Denta-
tus," and "the Sleeping Beauty," &c. &c.; how Herr
Dobelli would recite this and Herr Bradigni spout that,
and how Boadicea would address the Ancient Britons as
in days of yore—till their mouths watered and their ears
tingled again. And what gave it all such an air of ge
nuinenesa and authenticity was a line at the bottom of
the placards stating that all bills were to be sent to Mr.
Sefton's by Thursday morning at ten o'clock.
The Monday when these grand performances were to
take place arrived, and the company having taken up
their abode at Mr. Sim monds's, in Mealcheapen-street,
the secretary went to honour the various tradesmen of
the city with a visit, and to procure from them the things
necessary to their evening's doings. At Messrs. Hill
and Turley's he bought 25 yards of green baize, a quan-
tity of cambric, cloak lace, binding, &c. &c. The things
were to be sent to the City and County Library and the
bill to Mr. Sefton's. Some inquiries were made at Mr.
Sefton's, and the articles sent. The same thing was
done at Messrs. Sidney and Hanson's, and several other
places. On the Tuesday, the secretary and Herr Do-
belli walked into :dr. Sefton's and narrated how the cur-
tain would't act on Monday night, and how they hoped
to do better in future, and at last how they wanted
some fresh bills immediately. As soon as they were
gone, Mr. Sefton writes the gentleman a note to say
that it was not his custom to supply a second lot be-
fore the first was paid for. Down comes the secretary
in a trice, and in a rage, too. He had never been served
so in his life before. He considered he had been most
grossly insulted. Let Mr. Sefton make out his bill in-
stantly. His purse, and he pulled one out apparently
well filled, had enough in it to pay everybody, and fifty
or sixty pounds besides. The bill %yes made out—Mr.
Sefton didn't wish to hurt his feelings—the bill was folded
up and placed in the pocket along with the purse—matters
were made smoother—the secretary was rather appeased,
and finally Mr. Sefton printed another Ist of bills, with-
out being paid for either. Soon, however, various
tradesmen, with long faces, came to Mr. Sefton, to
know something more about the Professor—who was
he? 'where did he come from ?—and, finally, some of
them determined to pay him a visit at his rooms that
evening. Mr. Hanson accordingly went down just as
the large and respectable audience were about to as-
semble, and demanded his money. The consequence
was that the performers were brought to a dead lock.
Their last appearance was never made—they deserted
the rooms and fled. Then it was discovered that they
had got all their things packed up, and had ordered a
fly to be ready at the door as aeon as the performance
was over, to carry them, Heaven knows whither. The
Thursday morning would have aawned a blank, and Mr.
Sefton would never have been visited by the tbryemaennddobuys,
bi., fellow of peculiar manner. The police,
apprehended the performers at the Mouth of the Nile,
on a charge of stealing a glass and a sheet from Mr.
Simmonds s, and the officer set off to Spetchley in quest
of the Professor himself, till at length, having kicked
his heels ab sut till two o'clock in the morning, peeping
into the 'busses, and inspecting all the second classites
that were going off, he began to suspect the real truth
of the matter, that the Professor was, to use an, expres-
sion of Jeremy Bentham's, a " fictitious entity," that is
to say, he had no existence save in the imagination.
On Thursday morning the five living statues, the poses
plastiques themselves, were brought up. They consisted
of three men and two young girls, a. mong whom the
secretary figured conspicuously. He who formerly was
Mr. Ludovick, the secretary, was now Mr. Samuel Cole,
otherwise Professor Coli himself, it being usual, he said,
to adopt aliases in the profession. Herr Dobelli ap.
peared as plain Henry Dobell, and Herr Bradigni as
Henry Bradley, while the ladies, with high-sounding
euphonious appellations, sunk down into ordinary Mary
Ann Price and Mary Ann Roberts. The case, as de-
tailed above, was gone into, and at last the four subor-
dinates were discharged, while the active secretary, the
embodiment of the Professor, was kept in custody, on
the charge of obtaining goods under false pretences,
and upon which he was committed for trial this morning.
Nothing could be made out of the charge of stealing
the glass from Mr. Simmonds's, as, though they had
taken it without leave, it bad been returned again.--
Worcester Herald.

THE POLICE OFFICER AND HIS VICTIM.—One
evening during the present week, a police officer acting
in a borough not more than 100 miles from Preston,
being on the night beat, brought to the etation-house, an
unfortunate delinquent on a charge of being " drunk and
disorderly." Cruel to relate, the "keeper at the station-
house" thought the " preserver of the peace" as bad as
his victim, and both being lodged in "durance vile" for
the night, were brought before the magistrates the fol-
lowing morning, when they were respectively subjected
to the usual fine of ss. each and costs.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT THROUGH THE FROST.--On
Saturday morning an accident of a most frightful cha-
racter took place at the residence of Dr. Dakins, No. 40,
Norland-square, Notting-hill, Kensington. About eight
o'clock a female servant was cleaning the drawing-room
on the first floor, she took a rug on to the balcony for the
purpose of shaking it, and while doing so, with her arms
extended over the balcony railings, owing to the frozen
state of the bottom on which she was standing, her feet
slid from under her, and she fell head foremost over the
front of the balcony on the railings of the area beneath.
The noise of her fall and her cries were first heard by
Dr. Dakins himself, who ran to her assistance, and on
getting outside found her hanging with her head down-
wards, her ankles being fixed between the tops of the
area rails. She is stated to have been seriously injured
on the head, that one of the spearheads of the rail pens.
trated her thigh, and that not the slightest hope is en-
tertained of her surviving.
PROMOTION IN THE CHURCH.—The Rev. William
Gabbett has been appointed to the ineumb,ncy of St.
George's, Suttoi:, Mace;esticid, vacant t the promotive
of the Rev. John Burnet, LL.B., to the vicarage of Brad-
ford.