he proceeded so far as to give notice of trial. The case, however,
never went before a jury in that shape, and by this time it was
discovered that there was no truth in the story told by the defendants.
It was proved at the period when the accident was alleged to have
occurred to the female defendant, she was residing with her husband, and
was in her usual health. With regard to O'Brien, there was no evidence
to show that he was upon the train at the time the accident happened,
but, according to the testimony of a witness named Darke, during the
period when the negotiation was going on with the company, O'Brien
requested him to write a letter to Mr. Harrison to the effect that he was
riding in the same carriage with Mrs. Duncan and her brother at the time
of the accident, and he was aware of her having been injured, and gave
him a written statement to that effect, which he copied. This witness,
in cross-examination, admitted that at the time he wrote the statement he
was perfectly well aware it was false, and he also said that
notwithstanding this, he made no difficulty in doing what O'Brien
requested, and also that he should have been ready to make a solemn
declaration of the truth of the statement if he had been required to do
so.

A verdict of "Not Guilty" was taken as to the female prisoner, on the
ground that she was acting under the control of her husband. The jury
returned a verdict of "Guilty" against the two male defendants.

Mr. Clarkson said he was instructed to state that, at the period of the
catastrophe on board the Cricket steam-boat, the prisoners obtained a sum
of 70 pounds from the company to which that vessel belonged, by the false
pretence that they had received injury upon the occasion.

The Recorder sentenced Duncan to be imprisoned for twelve, and O'Brien
for six months.

_Annual Register_.

A BRIDE'S LOST LUGGAGE.

The trouble which is bestowed by railway companies to cause the
restitution of lost property is incalculable. Some years ago, a young
lady lost a portmanteau from the rest of her luggage--a pardonable
oversight, for she was a bride starting on a honeymoon trip. The
bridegroom--never on such occasions an accountable being--had not noticed
the misfortune. When the loss was discovered, and application made
respecting it, the lady spoke positively of having seen it at the station
whence they started, then again at