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£344,604, while the difference, £764,719, found its way into the

pockets of certain persons," from whom the liquida- tors seek to recover it. The " companies represented by Mr. Mowatt, Chairman of the Credit Foncier Company, received .upwards of half the above amount ;" but the destination of the remainder is not indicated,—of all which the shareholders in the Imperial Land Company of Marseilles were entirely ignorant, were in fact paying up calls to meet the losses caused by these .depredations. Really, promoters of this kind ought to be cut by the City, not, indeed, for robbing—for the Eighth Commandment would make of the City a howling wilderness—but for robbing the blind. Even street thieves leave their pennies alone.

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