The case which provoked such hot d'xscussion in the Police Court yester day does not differ materially in its main - .features from many others which from time to time have occupied the attention of the magistrates. Indeed, there is sltch a striking resemblance in all these late hour captures, that a scientific observer might be led to con clude that the constabulary are subject to sleep walking , , or during their nightly rambles are hypnotised by some mys terious agency. In the course of their patrolling they see men, as they sup pose, in real flesh and blood, who turn out to be as unsubstantial as the Ghost in "Hamlet." Could anything be more mysterious than the experience of three constables on the night of the nthinst.? They saw, or supposed they saw, a man with the regu lation number of arms and legs glide into the Clarendon Hotel. When this mysterious visitor made his exit, he was collared by Constable Matheson, and instead of melting away in approved ghost fashion, this very real ghost had very real beer in a bottle strikingly like those in common use by the denizens of earth. The strangest part of the business is that when the ghost was taken into the hotel no one there had observed him. . Were the constables awake or dreaming? The landlord denied point blank that he had seen Howard, much less that he had served him with liquor, and the night porter equally disclaimed all knowledge of such nocturnal visitants. In fact the testimony of the inmates of the hotel would go to show that Howard , must have procured his drink on the same principle as deceased Chinamen, who are supposed to eat and drink from th£ supplies placed near their tombs on solemn occasions, although the process is invisible to mortal eye.
