The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-13 00:00:00

NORFOLK ESTUARY.

The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this
company was held yesterday, at Gray's-iun Coffee-
home, Holborn, Sir B. Ffoulkes, Bart., in the chair.
Mr. WING, the secretary, read the report. It stated
that the works were progressing most favourably. The
contractors had been paid since the last meeting the sum
of 36,6361., and the loan of Messrs. Heywood and Co.
had been reduced by 5,0001. This must be considered
very satisfactory, when only one call had been made
during that ;period. The amount received from the
commencement of the undertaking was 127,619/. 15s. 4d.,
and the disbursements 119,1271. Os. 61, leaving a ba-
lance in favour of the company of 8,4921. 14s. 10d.
The engineer's report stated that since the last meet-
ing the works for making the two new cuts or channels
for the diversion of the River Ouse had been continued
by the contractors, Messrs. Peto and Betts, as fast as
circumstances would permit, and up to the present time
1,400,000 cubic yards of earth had been removed from
the upper cut nearest to Lynn, a very large portion
which had been excavated to the depth of one foot below
the zero mark, or within 11 feet of the intended "
bderable
and the remainder was proceeding with e9Tviould be
activity, so that there was
inno
whichdouht ttrloantily
contract.
After
gfwiovaresn4_
osos:ot progressoho,l.
being
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t
completed within the time stipulated by the
After same conversation,the propriety of
urged, a
enforcing the payment of calls
highly satisfactory account was
d now being re-
the works and the value of the
lands
tanthat the Eau Brink
claimed, as evidenced by the f
Commissioners had lately sold a large'e tract of reclaimed
lands of a much inferior quality
the rate of 361. per acre.
The report was adopted-
,the meeting
separated.
After a vote of thanks to the Chairman

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ENGLISH SWlNDLERS.—Extraordinary •
The husband represented himself
been excitefd iannthEenEglnisghlishmcairrrcileeds a:0
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e on the
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days ago, o
eitsleofofthe Dukes
colonelswindlifthe English army, and of a to be son of a
lady, and
represented Neapolitan princess ;
the daughter of an English general. herself to be
Both
of Norfolk, Leinster, and
pretended to be
:hoc:fat:ell:
Devonshire. On the 13th of F
postchaise at the Hotel de ebruary last they arrived '
in a
servants, and they lived inFrance, accompanied by several
athllieedwlitoe
rank. They ran up a bill the style of persons of the highest
to give credit f of 61, 00f., and, as the landlord de-
clinedthey caused to be fitted or more, they took a chateau, which
2,5001. on account tted up in a costly way. They paid
butcher, tailor, of the rent; but ran deep into debt with
~,, dressmaker, grocer, carpet-dealer, and do-
mestics. Inc
8951. with an lady, who affected to be very pious, incurred
from Brusselsatbobefor masses.a An English lady, who arrived
stated that her husband had
paid 50,000 f. to release give e
themi evidence, c
fer,o
m
the debtors' prison at Co-
logne. She, however, added, that she believed that they
were what they represented themselves to be; but other wit-
nesses threw doubt on this point. It was shown that they
had received letters from Lord Grey, the King of Holland,
and other distinguished persoasges. The tribunal, after
hearing all the evidence, decided that the accused had made
use of false names, and had been guilty of swindling. It ac-
cordingly condemned them to a year's
imprisonment
and
200 f. fine. On hearing the sentence the woman uttered a
piercing shriek and fainted in her husband's arms. He, with
apparently great affection, paid her every attention, and zhe
soon recovered. They were then removed to prison.
Throughout Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, the
' scythe and sickle are now busily engaged in cutting down
the wheat crops. The late fine weather brought them to
perfection somewhat earlier than was expected, and up to
last Saturday night a very large breadth of wheat had been
cut. Comparatively speaking, but little of this fell before
the edge of the sickle, the scythe being now more generally
used than ever. Our accounts agree in stating that the
wheat crops of these counties rather exceed the ordinary
yield; at all events, it is certain there will be a full average.
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