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l'Industrie. Among the members of this association are not only the partners of some of the principal commercial houses of France, but also a number of persons whose names do not usually appear in trading enterprizes, such as the duke de Choiseul, the countess de Choiseul, general Foy, the marquis de Clari, the marquis de Croix, Alexander Laborde, the duke de la Rochefoucault, the baron de Montmorency, the duke de Massa, the marquis de Praslin, general Sebastiani, the prince de Talleyrand, &c. The object of this Society is to supply funds for every enterprise, agricultural, manufacturing, or commercial, which may be thought likely to succeed. capital of the company is 50,000,000 of francs, with the power of doubling it. The subscriptions have already exceeded that sum. A president and vice-president are at the head of the institution. Thirty directors, chosen from amongst the shareholders, are to examine the plans which may be proposed, and to determine whether they are worthy of the support of the company. The number of sub-directors and censors, for scrutinizing all the transactions, is unlimited. All the offices are gratuitous. The company is to engage in no commercial transaction on its own account, and in no speculation in the national or foreign funds. IRISH MARRIAGE.· A curious example of the manner in which marriages sometimes take place in Ireland, to compromise criminal proceedings, occurred in a late trial at the Cork Assizes. John Hearne, a farmer, was capitally indicted for a rape upon Mary Conolly. She swore positively to the fact of the outrage, but her cross-examination elicited much humour. She denied

having said to him at the time, "Jack, my darling," and declared, "that she would not make it up for all the money in the world;" but a minute after, she agreed, amidst the laughter of the court, to marry the prisoner. "The happy couple" withdrew into the judge's chamber, and a priest was soon introduced to tie the knot, which Jack Ketch was at first attempted to be put in requisition for. Some difficulty occurred in procuring a ring, and the split ring of the high sheriff's watch-chain answered the purpose. When the ceremony was concluded, the jury acquitted the prisoner, who went away with his bride " more in sorrow. than in anger."

20. A remarkable incident occurred at Edinburgh. Bills were stuck up in different parts of the city, which, after stating that a youth of eighteen years had been lost, and alleging that a person answering his description had arrived on the Thursday before, in one of the stage coaches from Glasgow, described his person and dress, and announced, that any person who knew where he was, would, upon giving information to a gentleman in Leith, be rewarded. A gentleman who resides in the east end of the New town, happening to see one of these bills, thought that the person alluded was an individual, who he knew had taken lodgings in a house adjacent to his

own.

He lost no time in giving information at the place required. He was there furnished with the address of a brother of the lost person, which was at an hotel in Princes'-street. The brother accompanied the gentleman to the place, and on the way informed him, that he had travelled through a great part of France, and also

through England and Scotland, in quest of his brother. The meeting of the brothers was very cordial but it soon turned out to be most affecting. In a few minutes after they met, the one who had been in concealment told his brother, that he had taken a considerable quantity of laudanum just before he came in, and that he would not have spoken of it, had it not been for his arrival, neither would any antidote have been applied. A medical gentleman was immediately sent for, who gave him an emetic, which relieved him, and saved his life. The peculiar singularity of the incident consists in the arrival of the elder brother just in time to save his brother's life after so long a journey, without being able to discover the object of his pursuit, till after the act had been committed which was to put a period to his existence.

FRAUD ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE. The committee of the Stock Exchange, after having been for some days engaged in investigating a charge of improper conduct against Mr. Edward Josephs, one of the members of the house, came to the determination of expelling him. The following is a statement of what came out in the course of the investigation.

A company was brought before the public some time ago, called "the Lower Rhine Steam Navigation Company." A prospectus, in which it was stated that the capital was to be 100,000l. to be divided in 1,000 shares, was issued: the names of the directors and other particulars, were put forth; bank receipts were issued by Everett's house for the deposits on the shares in the usual way, and dealings took place to a considerable extent. Certain persons sold those

shares in large quantities for time bargains, without possessing them, so that they became what the stockexchange vocabulary denominates, bears. Towards the approach of settling day, the premium rose to 28 per cent. The bears found themselves unable to deliver the shares which they had sold, and they resorted to the following expedient to obviate the difficulty in which they were placed :-Receipts were printed on paper exactly similar, to that on which those of the company were printed, the type and the border being in all respects the same. Indeed, the new differed from the old only in the name of the banker, "Weston, Young, and Bostock," having been substituted for "Everett and Co," and in the omission of the name of the printer. The book of receipts so prepared was dated, by the party who concocted the new company, the 6th of August, although it was not presented to the bankers until the 9th, when it was handed in by one of their customers, a Mr. Back. None of the co-partners of the firm were in the way at the time; and the book was received by a clerk, who issued a certain number of the shares on th uthority of Mr. Back alone. With these receipts Mr. Josephs commenced his first attempt at passing the bubble off, by selling to a Mr. Bryant, of the stock exchange, twenty shares for money, at a premium of 184. The fictitious scrip was of course rejected, and thus the subject became necessarily a matter of public notice and complaint. On the 11th of August, a gentleman, who was much interested in the original shares, called upon the bankers, and this was the result of the interview.-Mr. Weston handed him the book of receipts, and in an

swer to his inquiries, said, the receipts, although dated the 6th, were not presented until the 9th, when they were handed in by Mr. Back. The clerk might have been aware that they were ante-dated. The account appeared in the books in the name of "The Lower Rhine Steam Navigation Company." He did not know, whether it was usual to open accounts in the name of a Company without knowing the names of the Directors, not having before opened an account of the kind. He knew of no Directors. The only person he knew in the business was Mr. Back, whom he always considered a highly respect able man, and who was one of the best customers of the house. Mr. Weston, upon being asked in what light he viewed this transaction, said, without hesitation, that he considered it to be a most gross fraud. After all these circumstances, however, a letter was published by the bankers, stating that they would not return the deposits, and edifying the public by informing them, that the receipts would be issued on pink instead of yellow paper.

Upon comparison of the paper and type, &c. of the original and fictitious shares, it appeared palpable to the Committee that the same machinery had been used upon both occasions, and it was a subject of remark that the bankers, after their declaration that they knew nobody in the transaction but Mr. Back, should have issued receipts in which were the following words :-" Received of the Directors of the Lower Rhine Steam Navigation Company the sum of 51. to account for on demand."

SEPTEMBER. POMPEII. Recent excava

tions at Pompeii have brought to light some of the most interesting objects which have yet been discovered. They consist of a house, which, from its paintings, has been named the Casa del Poeta Dramatico; a public bath complete; a marble statue, similar to those of Cicero; a large equestrian statue in bronze, supposed to be that of the emperor Nero; and various other objects. The Casa del Poeta, by its commodious distribution, the elegance of its decorations, and the manner in which every thing appears to have been perfected, is superior to any that have been yet discovered. At the door is the figure of a watch dog, well traced in Mosaic with the following motto

cave canem ;" on another part of the pavement is a Mosaic of a woman playing on the tibia, an old man exhibiting two tragic masks, and two actors preparing for exhibition. The paintings on the wall represent a poet or an actor, reading a manuscript before three handsome women, who listen to him with great attention. In a bed-room is one of those obscene figures so frequently found in the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii. In the public bath every thing is complete. There are four rooms, which the ancient Romans required in these establishments, namely, the hypocaustum, or furnace, the warm bath, the cold and the vapour baths, besides the room which served as a dressing-room, the corridor for the persons who waited their turn, and the entrance hall. These balnearia are very highly ornamented, the ceilings and walls being covered with handsome stucco-works, and the floors of different-coloured marble or Mo saics. The roof of the chamber wherein is the cold bath, is a dome

with an opening in the centre, through which the light penetrates; the bath is lower than the pavement: it is about 20 feet square, and is composed entirely of white marble. In the hall of the warm bath is a large conca, or shell, on the edge of which is written, in large letters of bronze, the name and quality of the giver, and the price to be paid for it. In the corridor is a bronze furnace, at which the frequenters of the baths warmed themselves. Several strigiles have been picked up, which have been sent to the Royal Mu

seum.

3. About half-past eight o'clock in the morning, Whitechapel-road, and the numerous streets in that neighbourhood, were thrown into the greatest state of agitation, by the inhabitants experiencing a most tremendous shock. The houses for a considerable distance were deserted by their inhabitants; and men, women, and children, were seen running about in all directions. It was soon ascertained that their alarm was produced by the explosion of the factory of Mr. Brock, a maker of fire-works, at No. 11, Baker'srow, Whitechapel-road, nearly opposite the London Hospital.-Mr. Brock had resided for the last five years in Baker's-row, and at the back of his dwelling-house was his repository for fire-works, where they were manufactured. This building was about fifty-five feet by twenty, and contained three magazines, which were lined with lead, and would be perfectly secure from fire, should it occur on any of the adjoining premises. In these receptacles were deposited all the powder, and other combustible matter employed in the manufactory. A few weeks since he had taken two boys out of the poor-house to

instruct them in the art of fireworkmaking; and he kept them chiefly employed in filling and ramming the cases of the sky-rockets, serpents, squibs, &c., &c. The latter part of this stage of the work is done by a funnel, or piece of tin made in the shape of an extinguisher, and a small piece of iron wire, about a foot long, which is used as a ram-rod. The small end, or nipple, as it is called, of the extinguisher, is introduced into one end of the rocket or squib, and the boys ram down the powder and wadding with the ram-rod. On Saturday morning Mr. Brock and his men left the factory to go to breakfast, leaving the two boys engaged at the work-board, ramming the sky-rockets. They had scarcely set down to their meal, when they, as well as the inhabitants round them for some distance, heard a sort of rumbling noise, as if of distant thunder, and the next moment a tremendous and deafening explosion followed, when the air was illumined with lights of various descriptions, accompanied by continued reports. The concussion was so great, that the inmates in the different houses were shaken from their seats; and tables, and tea-things, were upset and broken to pieces. Windowframes, were forced out, and brickbats and materials were flying about in every direction. The roofs of Mr. Brock's manufactory, and the factory of Mr. M'Devitt adjoining, were blown to a great height, and the falling materials did considerable mischief. After the agitation had somewhat subsided, an inquiry into the cause of the accident took place, when it appeared, from the statement of the two boys (who were blown a considerable height,and much injured),

that they were at work, ramming the rockets, when the ram-rod struck against the funnel, and the friction caused a spark, which flew into the bowl of gunpowder that stood near them; this soon exploded and ran like a train to all the other fire-works in the factory, and at length communicated to the magazines, which caused the disaster. Mr. Brock, however, declared, it could not have arisen in that way, for the nipple of the funnel being copper, friction would not cause a spark.

FEMALE DARING.-A daring attempt at escape was made from the Police-office, Bow-street. Mary Anne Smith, a woman about 25 years of age, was committed to the House of Correction, for an assault upon a watchman. Previously to her removal, she was locked up in the gaol-yard, the place usually allotted to those prisoners who are not in custody for any atrocious offence. This vard is 20 or 30 feet square, and surrounded by a brick wall of 20 feet in height; and it was over this barrier that the prisoner Smith resolved to effect her liberation. Taking advantage of the temporary absence of the gaoler, Ford, she placed the wooden bench, upon which the prisoners sit, upright, and using this as a ladder, contrived to reach the shutter which encloses the grating midway, in her ascent, and thence to gain the top of the wall. From this elevation she made her way over a house and chimney top, until she came to an open window on the back part of the house of Mr. Day, bootmaker, in Russell-street. From this window to the landing-place of the stairs, a distance of some feet she must have made a dangerous leap, over an interval descending the whole depth of the build

ing. This unexpected chasm indeed had nearly proved fatal to her pursuer; and had the wONEN missed her footing in any part of the track instant death must have been the consequence. In the mean time, notice having been given of the escape, Ford commenced : pursuit by the same route. Wher he reached the window in Mr. Day's house he threw himself in, but losing his balance fell, and would have been precipitated to the foot of the building, had he not saved himself by holding on with one foot to the ledge of the window. In this perilous situa tion he remained hanging for some moments, when by a despe rate effort he contrived to spring up, and succeeded in grasping the balustrade of the staircase, by the help of which he soon regained his legs. In the house of Mr. Day consider able alarm was created, by this invasion of the premises. The woman got to the street-door unnoticed, when she was met by Mr. Day. To him she confessed her purpose, and he told her the best place for concealment was the cellar, into which she immediately descended; but the officer was already in the house, and overhearing the dis logue, followed up and secured his prisoner. Mr. Minshull, upon be ing informed of the particulars, went to visit the fugitive. The poor creature stated that she had been driven to risk her life in the manner she had done on account of two infants who depended upm her for sustenance, their father having died three weeks ago. In consideration of the woman's dis tress, and the perils she had encountered for the sake of her liberty, Mr. Minshull, after a suitable admonition, ordered her to be dis charged. Not one of the many