The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-10 00:00:00

iI•FE.ILILE IMPOSTOR.

During the past fortnight reports have been made
at the Northern Post cffice, Glasgow, of various
thiefts and frauds having been committed, under
circumstances of peculiar audacity, by a young
female, 16 years of age, an account of whose depre-
dations we published a few days ago, so far as these
were then known. The authorities no sooner re-
ceived information of the fair unknown's proceed-
ings than they set about trying to arrest the culprit,
but for a long time were unsuccessful, and it was
only on Friday last, after almost every expedient in
the power of the detective to adopt had been tried,
that a young female, answering the description
which had been given, was found by Sergeant
Pierce, of the Northern district, at a louse in 26,
`Water-street. Sb e gave her name as Jane Frame,
sixteen years of age, and stated that the person
with whom she was living was her mother. This
the woman of the house admitted, but denied
having had any knowledge of, or participation in,
the frauds with which her daughter was charged.
Since her apprehension, information has been lodged
which swells the list of her delinquencies to 11 dif-
ferentod
eases, including those which had been re-
prtepreviously, and reveals the systematic scheme of barefaced fraud and deliberate plunder
pwrhaiccthi s s young
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it as fa'r as Shettleston, the
same' S that described by us in
, but the mode is always the
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In the Shettleston case which
occurredor formerone
notice.
the
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1114,:., she had introduced herself to the people of the
house by presenting some orthodox religious tracts, a
number of which she:always carried with her. She
then explained that shewas a meinber. ofMr. M'Coll's
church in Bridgegate, Glasgow—enlarged, with
genteel pronunciation and persuasive language,
on the many advantages which would ac-
crue to them by becoming members, also, one
of which was, that they would participate in
the benefits of a society connected with Mr. M'Coll's
congregation, by whom she was appointed to dis-
tribute clothing to needy people—all which advan-
tages, temporal and spiritual, were to be put in
their possession on payment Wier of 2s. each. She
gained her point. Six shillings were handed to
her by the inmates, three in number, and on rising
to depart she suggested that one of them, a girl
named Elizabeth MTadyen, should accompany her
to the city, to receive the cards certifying their ad-
mission to the church. This was agreed to, and
the two set out. On the way, the artful Jane in-
sinuated that she was cold, and the artless Eliza-
beth immediately offered her her shawl, which
was pronounced to be very acceptable. Having
brought the deluded girl into the city, she left
her standing in Canal-street, Port Dundas, till she
went into some house for the purpose of
getting [the cards regularly signed, pro-
ceeding up a close for said purpose, and, of
course, forgot to bring either the cards, shawl, or
herself back. The same arts were successfully
practised upon a party in the house of Mrs. Mary
M‘Geechan or Hardy, 55, Cowcaddens-street, ls.
having been obtained from that person, a like sum
from Mrs. Catherine M'Donald or M'Luskie, and a
semmet from another woman, the money paid
being for entry to the church--the semmet to be
returned with a similar one, new. In one case
she got as much as Bs. from the inmates of one
house. The full extent of clothing which she has
received from time to time cannot, of course, be
ascertained, as some persons may have been
" diddled" who have not yet reported their
cases ; but it is satisfactory to know that detec-
tive Joseph Bowker, of the Northern division, has
succeeded in recovering all the articles stolen
of which information has been given. After
her arrest, Mr. 111'0)11 was communicated with,
and, on seeing her, he of course said that all
her statements about his church were untrue. He
gave it as his opinion, however, that she must have
attended some of his meetings, from the knowledge
she displayed of them, and from her having named
several ladies connected with them.

The girl was brought up at the Northern Police-
court on Saturday, and remitted to the sheriff on
the eleven different charges above-mentioned.—
North Britisi. Daily Mail.

The ',Earl of Carlisle is entertaining a family
circle at the Ice-regal seat at Dublin. The Marquis and
Marchioness of Kildare, Lady Caroline Lascelles and Misses
Lascelles, the Hon. and Rev. F. and La iy Elizabeth Grey,
and Captain Lascelles are staying with his Excellency.
CRYSTAL PA LA CE.—The favourable change in
the weather, and the opening of the new West-end Ter-
minus (Victoria Station), has already had a beneficial effect
upon the number of visitors, and nith the special attrac-
t:ow; announced will probably continue to do so. In de-
ference to the promoters of the Saturday half-holiday,
Saturday next will be set apart for a shilling day.
It is reported from Havannah that a president or
director of one of the banking institutions at that port has
recently absconded with £240,000.

STRANGE BUT TRUE.—One day last week a
farmer in the neighbourhood of Callender, while angling
in the Teith, hooked a largo pike, which with some trouble
he succeeded in landing. He had laid it on the bank for
dead, when his collie dog happening to brush past it, it
caught him by the tail. The dog, howling with pain,
plunged into the water in the direction of the farmer's
house, the pike still retaining its hold, nor did it relinquish
its hold until the dog had reached his master's farm• yard,
when he was speedily relieved of his encumbrance. The
pike weighed 211bs.—.Alloa Journal.

MIXED WOOD AND STONE PAVEMENTS.—When
wood payments were first introduced in the streets of Lon-
don the weather was fine, and people thought that a new
metropolitan luxury had been acqui7ed. Everyone re-
joiced to see the cabs gliding so noiselessly along the
the streets, like screw liners in smooth water, the conversa-
tion possible to be sustained at the ordinary pitch of the
voice, and the increased facility of traction which enabled
the horse to fly along with his draught as if on a tramway,
or that it was only a sleigh on the frozen Nevskoi of St.
Petersburg. Tho verdict in favour of the new invention
was almost universal—even the Dean and Chapter of St.
Paul's adopting it, as we learn from Sydney Smith's cele-
brated joke. But when the wet weather came matters
took a different turn. The comparative silence was still pre-
served ; but all secure foothold for horses was lost, and
serious accidents became of daily and even hourly occur-
rence. The problem then became, how to preserve the
security of the stone and the stillness of the wood, and an
ingenious attempt has just been made to solve it by laying
wood and stone in alternate rows, a method which it is ix;
pccted will combine the advantages of both systems
the nuisance of either. A portion of the cast end
of Lombard •street has been laid down in the now
manner, and as far as we could judge from a
it bids fair
examination made by us yesterday, withou
present it
to answer the purpose intended.
t at which
is covered with a layer of gravel, and as theseAabt weatherou,
and the wind high a good deal of dust flies
I a' little ; but in afew
is dry
the neighbouring sh,pkeepers grumble
days the road will have attained'
turn
o iosuet,
compromise between wood and
en
nthtue
to be a very advantageous comp ratsbneorrnal condition, and
there seems to be little doubt bu_to.rtirnheattlyitdNivmilil
stone. The wood will certainlyto
stone must must give security to the
cost will not be materially
horses,whilst t haendalternate t
the
quleasy,
principlequestion
isfo fs
here the crossings are all com-
already in operaticn in the
astlrteeeretsd.of
cubes,with strong wooden battens inter-
posed of stone
itis
considered that the composite
I laid, and there
h stronger and more durable than
nt is touch ThelN 1 Melbourne, lhourn e ,
pavement
drivers 0 p ged of one material. The cab and omnibus
plan, which
their point of view, they consider' to '
looked at from iavlelrs c
are generally in favour of the proposed
give
much better foothold than all wood ; and the shopkeepers
admit that
,_
even already great comparative silence has been
oiey complain, however, of the dust ; but they
n
until the first wet day, when that evil
will disappear.
butsatined. .Th
patience
have

A GARIBALDI AND THE 'POPE FACTION:FIGW.
_On Monday night a war of words
relative to thachieve-
ments of Garibaldi and the ofclaimsthe Po
nacedurt off Crosshall-street, speedily assumed which took
assumed the
placecharacterin
an proporti, ns of a serious riot, in which men
and women ranked violently on either side, as their
predilection moved them to enthusiasm in the cause
of Italian freedom, or sympathy with the falling
fortunes of the Pope. Yells and party cries soon gave
place to more powerful arguments. Clubs, pokers, tongs,
and, mi.) abile dictu, fiat-irons took precedency of wagging
tongues, and a general affray, as well as a somewhat
dangerous melee, ensued, in which broken heads were
more common than logic. One woman was severely
cut on tho head with the angle of a flat-iron, and
a man had his knowledge-box rudely visited by a pair
of tongs, while another man was stabbed in the chest
with a pair of scissors by a woman named Bridget Duffy.
A. number of the champions were taken into custody
by the police. and the offenders were charged, en Tuesday,
before the magistrates with having created a riot and as-
sault. The woman Duffy was committed for trial ; a man
named Clogger, owner of a bookstall, was fined 40s. and
costs for striking a woman on the head with a flat-iron;
Dennis Kelly was also fined 40s. and costs for breaking the
head of John Coupland with a pair of tongs. In both of
these latter cases there was an alternative of two months'
imprisonment in default of payment. Besides the easels
mentioned, it seems that other seven or eight persons were.
injured in tho affray, which was maintained with great
spirit for upwards of an hour.—. Liverpool Albion.
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change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight
is about 109 a per cent., which, when compared with the Mint
par between the two countries, shows that the exchange
is slightly in favour of England ; 'and, after making allow-
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