A message from Chicago, dated Dec 19, gives the following singular story : “ 0. W. Beasley, the young Englishman, said to be a nobleman, who was arrested some weeks ago on complaint of Mrs F. M. Maitland, for obtaining money under false pretences and discharged on Dec. 2, after lying in gaol for nearly a month, has begun a suit in the Superior Court for 25,000d015, for alleged false imprisonment. He tells a pitiful story of meeting the de fendant, and of being introduced to her ' on the steamer during a voyage from Sydney, Australia, to San Francisco. Arriving in por*, they journeyed together to Chicago, and once here, Mrs Maitland introduced him into the best circles of aociety, 'where he made warm friends. He was, be said. bnt ! on inexperienced 'youth, 'on bis travels, and Sruuning short of cast;, boi rpwed a stpall 90m from the lady, ap'd wept to sew York to await remittances

I from England. She sent him a tele i gram, which induced bim to return, and ‘ ho no s oner set foot in Chicago than I bo was arrested, and lodged in gaol on the charge named. He telle, sadly, how : he was exposed to tbo gaze of the vulgar and carious while in gaol, end bad to subsist on coarse food, consort with outcasts, and listen to low and blasphemous language, like a common felon, until his sensibilities and self-res pect were so hurt that they may never re gain their wonted tone. To salvo these wonods, and enable bim to continue hia travels, aa well as to forget that he bad been held up, during the dark days of his imprisonment, to the ridicule and contempt, as be says of the whole world, be asks judgement against Mrs Maitland for 25000 dollars.
