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I son could be found. She went out another day, and
name back, saying that she had found her friend, and
that she. would come for her at halt-past six o'clock. I
offered to send a responsible person to ascertain that it
was all right; but she said there was no occasion, as she
was quite satisfied. A lady in a cab came that night,
and she went. As her health. was delicate, and she did
not feel well enough to do an 3 thin!, we were not on the
whole sorry that she decided on leaving.'
"Mrs. L--- thanked Madame ---, and rose to
leave. The lady requested that her name might not be
brought forward, and Mrs. L-- promised that it
should not. She was a very well conducted young
person while with us,' added Madame --- ' I have
nothing to say against her.' ,
Notwithstanding Marie's confession that she was an
impostor, the Rev. S. L. did not at once abandon her
to her fate, neither did be, as we are inclined to think
he ought to have done, give her into custody ; but
having learned from her that certain ladies at Ghent,
who kept a school, and with whom she said she was
acquainted, would receive her, he shipped her off on
board the Ostend packet, the steward of which saw her
take the train for Ghent; on visiting Ghent some few
months afterwards, the Rev. S. L. made inquiries for
Marie, but no trace could be found either of her or of
the ladies she bad mentioned, and since that period she
has been seen in London, and is probably at this moment
a spy in some Protestant family. That Marie is a spy
in the hands of the continental Jesuits we think is evi-
dent, and while we state this we at once acquit the
ladies of the establishments at I. and at S. of all cotn-
plicity in the plot. On the Liverpool priest who intro-
duced her to these ladies much suspicion rests,
but he, we are inclined to believe, was a mere
sub-
ordinate ; the concoctors of the plot are to be found
' in France, and perhaps the biographer of St. Elizabeth
of Hungary could, if he chose, enlighten us as to the
real history of Marie L. G. The letters from the
supposed Mr. Clifford were, it is true, all posted in
London (in almost every letter he states that he has
sent it in the church parcel to be forwarded), but of
the various letters addressed to him at Manotte, at
Marseilles, at Nice, not one was returned • there must,
therefore, have been accomplices at all these places,
and at all these places the French Jesuits have
large establishments. The objects of the imposture
were various, and it was so cunningly contrived that
one or other of them must inevitably succeed. The
Romish priests boast of the numbers who have recently
left the Anglican Church for Rome, but' these are far
outnumbered by those who have left the Romish
Church and embraced Protestantism, but who dare
not make open profession of their faith until they
have found refuge in some Protestant household,
where they may be safe from the persecution to
which they would he, by order of the priests, sub-
jected. Now the case of Marie L. G., should her im-
posture be discovered, was the one of all others cal-
culated to induce Protestants to shut their doors
against any proselytes from Rome, and thus to " give
a heavy blow and a great discouragement" to the
progress of these conversions, while, in the mean-
time, the spy was making herself acquainted with the
minutest details or the history of the Protestant mi-
nister and his flock,. which were, no doubt, regularly
transmitted to the Jesuit bead-quarters, and there
carefully recorded for future use. But this was not all,
nor near all that the Jesuits hoped to accomplish by
locating the spy in the family of the Rev. S. L.; the
main and principle object was no doubt to endeavour
to blast the character of an exemplary Protestant
clergyman, and to hold him up to the world as a ca-
lumniator. The pretended autobiography of Marie
was, it appears, fairly copied out from her rough
draft by Mrs. L. Now Marie, after it had been
so copied out, was exceedingly anxious to regain pos-
session of her original MS., and at the same time was
importunately urging the publication of the autobio-
graphy. The autobiography was no doubt so care-
fully compiled as to admit of the production of direct
and indisputable evidence in contradiction to every
essential particular. Had the Rev. S. L. therefore,
acceded to Marie's desire on this point, there cannot
be a doubt that immediately after the pub-
lication Marie and her MSS. would -have
disappeared, a cloud of witnesses from all quarters
would have borne testimony to the falsehood of the
statements contained in the autobiography, the Rev.
S. L. would have been challenged to produce the
original MSS., and on his confession of his inability
to do so, the Holy Fathers would at once have de-
nounced him as an unprincipled fabricator of calum-
nious falsehoods, and John of Tuam would have pro-
bably held him up as a pattern specimen of Protes-
tant " vermin." Fortunately, this cunningly-devised
scheme has been rendered abortive by the straight-
forward truthfulness of the different members of the
family, and by the plain, good common sense of
Mrs. L. It, however, by no means follows that such
will always be the result of these attempts, and it is
a duty the Rev. S. L. owes to society to give the names
and addresses of all the parties concerned at full length;
and, above all, to unkennel the Liverpool priest, whose
evidence would probably lead to a discovery of the
real culprits.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.
The Queen, with her Royal Highnen the Princess
Royal, drove out this morning in a pony phaeton in
Windsor Park, Colonel Buckley attending on horse-
back.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out this morn-
ing on horseback, attended by Lit ut.-Colonel Alexander
Gordon.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise in
the Slores and Windsor-park.
The Royal dinner party this evening will include her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Lady Fanny
Howard, the Baroness de Speth, and Lieut.-Colonel F.
H. and Lady Emily Seymour. The hand of the Grena-
dier Guards will attend and play during dinner, and her
Majesty's private band will afterwards perform.
The Countess of Charlentont has succeeded the Mar-
chioness of Douro in her duties as Lady in Waiting to
her Majesty.

Lady John Russell has issued invitations for two
grand assemblies on the 14th of May and 4th of June.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, APRIL 22.

ELDON LAW SCHOLARSHIP.

The eighth election of an Eldon Scholar will take
place on Wednesday, the 4th of June neat, at the resi-
dence of his Grace the Puke of Richmond, 51, Portland-
place, London. All applications must be left at the
office of the Honorary Secretary (llr. T. Metcalfe, 5,
New-square, Lincol❑'s-inn) sealed up and endorsed
"Eldon Scholarship—candidate's application," and with
the candidate's name also endorsed. The forms of cer-
tificates and declarations required, together with the
rules and regulations relative to such election, are depo-
sited with the senior tutor of each college and hall, and
with the Registrar of the University.
The annual value of the scholarship is 2001. for three
years.
TRINITY COLLEGE.

The Rev. Joseph Smith, 8.D., Senior Bursar of
Trinity College, succeeds to the living of Rotherfield
Greys, near Henley, vacant by the death of the Rev. W.
M, Kinsey, B.D. Patrons—the President and Fellows
of Trinity College.