The Vice-Chancellor, yesterday, dissolved an injunction obtained by Mr. Thomas
Duncombe, to prevent the holder of one of his accep- tances for 1.000/. from taking legal measures to compel payment of the name. Mr. Duncombe bad paid into court all that be conceived to be justly due to the holder of the note; but the injunction was dissolved on the ground that Mr. Duncombe's affidavit, alleging fraud, bad not been regularly filed, when the application was made to the Court. Mr. Duncombe was not to blame for this.
At the Mansionhouse, on Monday, Lord Mayor Kelly was engaged in a private investigation, which furnished the materials for some mys- terious political gossip.
packet of letters was by mistake taken to one house in the City instead of another, by the servant of a gentleman of rank, who was the bearer of it from Germany to this country. The packet was directed to a foreigner who lodged in the house to which it ought to have been brought ; and was partially opened and perused by another foreigner, who lodged in the house to which it ought not to have been brought. Several days elapsed before the party to whom it was addressed learned that an error had been committed in the delivery ; and when an indignant application was made for the packet, the answer was, a re- fusal to give it up, on the ground that it contained matter of a very serious nature connected with the French Government.
" The Lord Mayor, after having examined some witnesses and consulted with Mr. Nobler, said, that as the enclosures in the envelope alluded to some persons much better known at the West than at the East end of the town, and were at the same time quite enigmatical, he thought the most advisable way of dealing with the matter was, to refer the correspondence to the Secretary of State for the Home Department. It would be improper to state the particulars of the transaction at present ; but it is necessity to mention, that several ridiculously exaggerated rumours were dispersed about the hall and the police-room."
So says the pentiy.a.line gentleman ; who, if he had known or guessed at any particulars, would certainly have violated the rules of propriety and gladly given them to the world.
From a subsequent investigation before the Lord Mayor, on Thurs- day, it appears that Sir Edward Vavasour brought a packet from Dresden for Mr. Grau, counsel of a French gentleman, who calls him- self the Duke of Normandy, and son of Louis the Sixteenth. This packet was taken by Sir Edward Vavasour's servant to the house of a Mr. Smith, a printer in Mark Lane, by mistake. Smith opened it ; and finding, as he said, that it contained something about a plot to assassinate the King of France, took the packet to the Lord Mayor. Mr. Grau has written a long letter to the Courier, ridiculing the story of the plot, and denouncing the conduct of Smith.
At the Union Hall Office, on Wednesday, Thomas Sheffield, book-
keeper at Astley's, was lined 40s. for dragging a gentleman, who hissed Miss Woolford, a female equestrian, out of the box where he was sit-
ting into the saloon. The'privilege to hiss as well as to applaud is paid for with the ticket of admission.
At the Marlborough Street Office, on Wednesday, Count George Ramer, a French nobleman, was fined 30s., for indecently assaulting a i
married woman in Little Windmill Street. The Count was very in- dignant at this mode of visiting the little/aux pas of a nobleman.
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