A LONDON GHOST.

The good people of Brockley and Lewesham have been in a high state of excitement over a startling story of a ghost, which haß made it appearance iv the lonoly lane leading from Lady well to Brockley Rise, and hundreds of persons have made their way to the spot where the apparition had been seen. A gentleman who siw the ghost, and who related his experiences while sitting in his office in. London, said to one of the representatives of a city newspaper: — "It is now about three weeks ago that I had occasion to pass along the Brockley Road on my way to Wickham I Terrace. It had just gone two o'clock when I set out from Forest Hill, and I should say it would be half-an-bour later when I passed the Brockley Jack on my left. I was walking and thinking in an automatic way when I was arrested in my progress by a cause for which 1 could not account. Glancing around I saw, for it was not at all dark, that I was alone, but to make sure I listened, fearing that I might have been followed, and that it was a sense of approaching danger. Turning to resume my way I observed, perhaps five or six paces from me, the motionless figure of a man on horseback. I was considerably startled, for their presouce there was uot apparent when I first came to a stand, and everything I have told you about did not occupy more than 10 or 15 seconds. Neither man nor beast was in the flesh. They were shadowy forms, but so distinctly did they show the man's face under a threecornered hat, his leather pistol pouches, and the panting and sweating horse, which seemed to be resting after a severe run, were beyond all doubt, and if I had the ability of an artist I could limn them even now to the life — or rather spirit. While I looked at the apparition it disappeared, and I never saw it again, nor do I wish to. I have nothing to say in explanation of the apparition. Friends to whom I have mentioned the matter in private have started theories about highwaymen, murders, burials at cross roads, but I cannot do more than give these simple facts. It was an uucanny sight, as we say in the North, and my desire is to forget it." It is only fair to add tha the informant is a man in middle lift*, apparently well and strong, an ex-athlete, and a total abstainer of long standing.