26 DECEMBER 1868, Page 3

It has been decided to bring six of the Directors

of Overend, Gurney, and Co. before the Criminal Courts, on the charge of con- spiring together to obtain money by false representations, to see, in fact, whether under English laws rich men can be tried for selling plated goods as silver,—a point upon which the shareholders in a great many companies very obviously have doubts. The difficulty, of course, will not be to prove the inaccuracy of the representations made, but the criminal intent of the Directors in making or allowing those representations.