The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-17 00:00:00

CR) ST,L PALACE.

The park and gardons are now in the most luxu-
riant condition. The heavy rains of last week, fol-
lowed by the warmth and sunshine of the past few
days, have had an astonishing effect upon the coun-
try generally. The thousands of tulips in the ter-
race gardens, the valley of rhododendrons, and other
American flowering plants, are all in fall bloom ;
while the yellow gorse and spring flowers around
the margins of the lakes present a scene of sur-
passing beauty.

With the return of fine weather the attractions
of the Crystal Palace, ordinary as well as extraor-
dinary, commence with renewed vigour.
At the third opera concert this day, Titiens and
Giuglini, Madame Miolan-Carvalho, Signor Dello
Sedie, and Herr Formes will sing, and a young
Neapolitan violinist of remarkable ability, Signor
Sarrasate, will make his first appearance before an
English public•

The great flower show of the season will be held
on the following day, to-morrow (the 18th), The
entries of the choicest description of plants, which
require longer time than ordinary to place in posi-
tion, are se much more numerous than usual, that
it has been found necessary to notify to the exhi-
bitors that the doors of the palace will be open for
the reception of flowers at the very early hour of
three in the morning. To the public the palace
will be opened at 12 o'clock as usual. Military
and other bands will be in attendance up to T
o'clock in the evening, and there is no doubt that
the display of company in the great transept and
naves of the palace will rival, if not outdo the
most brilliant of the flowers.

In Whitsun week the special attractions for visi—
tors are very numerous. The well-known Christy
Minstrels, the Schweizer Sanger (a bind of female
Swiss singers, in the picturesque costumes of their
cantons), balloon ascents, large and well appointed
gymnasiums and swings in the grounds, cricket,
archery, rifle shooting, quoits, velocipedes, boatin g
on the lakes, Sc., all offer an abundant choice of
out-door amusements.

THE CHARGE OF FRAUD AGAINST A
MINING AGI,NT AT L_3S,7DS.

Mr. Paul Rabey, jun., mining agent, Leeds, ant'
Mr. Timothy Smith, his clerk, underwent an exami-
nation on Wednesday, after one or two previous
adjournments, on a charge of coryspiring together
to defraud Mr. Matthew Oath";7aite, of Leeds, of
£lOO, and of obtaining money by false pretences
from the said Mr. Outhwaite. Mr. Barret appeared
for the prosecution, and Mr. Simpson for the de-
fence. The evidence showed that Mr. Rabey is a
man well known as a mining agent, and Smith,
though ostensibly acting as his clerk, has been
copartner with him in different mining share
transactions, and a joint originator with him
of one or more mining schemes. Mr. Outh-
waite became acquainted with Rabey in March
last, and has had several transactions with
him in mining shares, which resulted in
a net loss to the prosecutor of about £647. The
allegation against the prisoners was, substantially,
that they had paid the prosecutor an imaginary
profit on one or two of the earlier transactions, in
order to iniuce him to speculate still further, and
to buy shares at a fictitious value. In March Rabey
induced him to join in buying 2,000 shares in the
South Wheal Levine Mine in Cornwall, at 6s. 6d.
per share, representing that it was a mine in
working order and it would pay well, and it
afterwards turned out that only preliminary nego-
tiations had been entered into for working the
mine (which was an old one), and all that has yet
been done is to employ two men to clear the edit.
The " cost-book" of the company working the
mine represented that there were 6,000 shares,
but the only partits who had signed it were the
two prisoners, Rabey having subscribed for 2,500
shares, and Smith for 500. The magistrates com-
mitted the prisoners for trial at the next Yorkshire
assizes on the charge, but they were again re-
manded for examination on some further charges of
a similar character which have been preferred
against them by other parties.

Yesterday morning the prisoners Were further
charged with conspiring together to defraud Francis
Hunt ,f a bill of exchange for £lOO, paid on behalf
of 100 East Releath Mining Company's shares, by
representing that £1 per share had been paid up,
whilst the books proved that there had been only
one call of ls. The evidence went to show that
Rabey had represented the mine as a good specula-
tion, and with reference to the 100 shares had said
that there was nearly £1 on the whole paid upon
them. It was contended that there was no fraud
in this representation, and if fraud, no conspiracy,
and the bench, after conferring together, decided to
discharge Smith, but to send Rabey for trial at the
assizes on the charge of obtaining money by false
pretences. Bail was accepted.