CRYPTOGRAPHY.

Evening Star, Issue 3323, 14 October 1873, Page 3

CRYPTOGRAPHY.

To the Editor. Pir —When I sent you the cryptographic problem, which you did me the kindness to insert in your Saturday’s issue, it was not with the intention of commencing a senes of these puzzling enigmas, hut simply with the view, as I stated, to give the public at least that portion which is interested in these matters —the same opportunity of exercising their discriminating powers over a difficult cypher as it afforded myself. I was therefore somewhat surprised when I. saw in your yesterday’s issue another of those complicated compositions, and which seems to me to have been sent more with the object of taxing my powers in that direction, than with any other object in view. Because, how a cypher of so easy a character could remain in a family (as asserted) for over fifty years, and none able to make anything of it, puzzles me beyond all question, lor fear, however, the public should think I had got a nut I could not crack, I took the trouble last evening of spending an hour or so over Mr Mitchell’s cypher complication. Tbe result is be'ow. The cypher, as it appeared in your yesterday’s issue is as follows : Nlliv, hj, Z hylfmwivo Szey tig hfiv nmilinzgrln gsqg droorznhlm rh luu gl myo blip glnliild droo mzy srn srxvob R szev ziizinton drgs Kvzihln tli gsv wvowh gl yv nn blfi mynv nliv glnliild mrts-g , , Y Qyxphi.m. This is the interpretation, letter for letter : Moore’s a scoundrel. Have got sure informs tion that Williamson is off to New York tomorrow. Will nab him nicely. I have arranged with Pearson for the deeds to be in your name. More to-morrow night. E. Jackson. If Mr Mitchell will call upon me, instead of troubling you again, I shall have much pleasure in giving him the key to the above. Hoping you will kindly insert this in your next-— I am, Ac., Henry Lynch, Jun , Bellringers’ Troupe, Shamrock Hotel, Dunedin, October 14.