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English and French scandals.
More Frauds in high places.[from the Paris correspondent of the London lander, July 23d.]
The financial scandals which have been the privatise topic here during the past week have ripened into bloom.
The "director of a great public establishment," who has been compelled abruptly to resign his post, Mode St. Georges, has been able, owing, it is said, to august interference, to compound with his creditors, by handing over to them a handsome sum down, and making arrangements for the ultimate liquidation of his debts.
The "pawnbroker general" whose misdeeds I have alluded to, is M. Dieu.
He has absconded.
Among the charges against him one at least is romantic.
A lady of high rank, the Duchess de — being in want of a large sum of money, pawns her family jewels, including diamonds of great value.
As a matter of course they were soon afterwards redeemed, but instead of the diamonds and emeralds she had deposited with the untrustworthy by M. Dieu,