The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-26 00:00:00

THE SIJN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1865.

ESREWARD will be given to any one who
can furnish such information as will lead to the
discovery of the person or persons who with some missile
broke two of our Plate-glass Windows, in Aldgate, on Wed-
nesday Evening last, about Nine o'clock.—E. MOSES and
SONS, corner of Minories and Aldgate.

GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL.—WORLD of
MAGIC, Second tight, and " Begone, Dull Care,"
every evening at S. A Day Performance, Saturday, a' 3.
" The most varied entertainment in the metrop )11s." —Vide
the Press. Admission, is.

ROFESSOR and the Misses ANDERSON.—
Ft Farewell season. - World of Magic. Second Sight, and
the original Indian Basket Trick, in conjunction with Fre-
deric (the great) 3laccabe, the unrivaled ventriloquist, mimic,
and character actor.

VREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic,
&a, in his original entertainment, "13egoue, Dull Care,"
„Miss Mary May," " Early in the Morning." Balcony, 2s. ;
reserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, ss. ; at Kr. Austin's office, St.
James's-hall, V, Piccadilly.
A. NIMSIO, Acting Manager.

WESTBOURNE HALL, Westbourne-grove,
Bayswater, W.

THE GREATEST WONDER OF THE DAY.
MORNING PERFORMANCE, (by Special Request) on
SATURDAY, the 26th, and WEDNESDAY, the 30th of
August, and SATURDAY, the 2d of September.
The BABY ACTRESS, age, Two Years and Ten Days, will
Recite and Act a whole scene from Shaksnere's Play of
KING JOHN. give some amusing COMIC SKETCHES,
and in the course of the evening a SEA SONG and DANCE
(in character). This Little Wonder is as pretty as talented,
and excels by far any juvenile prodigy that has yet appeared
in public.

From the Era, July 22, 1865.—" A genuine and remarkable
novelty is now bell: exhibit ed. She is literally a baby, not
having reached the age of two years ; and is gifted with in-
telligence and powers of memory to a marvellous extent.
She recit,s wiole scenes from ' King John,' A Midsummer
i2lit's Dream,' &e., with appropriate action and astonishing
earnestness. A more wonderful instance of precoc'ous in-
telligence cannot well be imagined. She may be truly classed
among the wonders of the present day."

Likenesses. Is. each. Programmes and words of the per-
formance may be had in the halt during the entertainment

In addition to the above performances, Mr. ALFRED
HOWARD'S DRAMATIC RECITALS and COMIC
SKETCHES, interspersed with Music.

Doors open at 2.30. Commence at 3. Admission, Is.; first
seats, 2s. • reserved seats, 3s. Tickets may be had from Mr.
Whirley, ?Westbourne Hall, or of any book or music seller.

T H 0 X F ORD.
6, OXFORD STREET, W.

The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by
Misses Russell, Barrie, Walmesley, Tyrell ; Messrs. A. bt.
Albyn, Husk, and Green, with full Band and Chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

Balief, Comedy, Burlesque. Rm., by the celebrated D'An-
bans. Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY
and SARA. GUNNISS.
NO TICE —The Oxford has been entirely Redecorated.
Altered, Newly Lighted, and Ventilated, and now is one of
the most agreeable places of resort in the kingdom.—OPEN
EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock.
The Classical Billet, entitled TH PI BRIDAL of BEAUTY,
in which Miss TESSY GUNNISS will make her re appear-
ance THIS EVENING.
Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, is. ; private
boxes, Ios. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL.
KO KO RI KO.
This wonderful entertainment, having proved the greatest
hit ever made, will be repeated EVERY EVENING, in ad-
dition to the Operatic Sele3tions, supported by the whole
talent of the estab ishment.
Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall,
Messrs. Duriah and Davies, the D'Aubans, and Arthur
Lloyd.
Director, Mr. F. Tongmans.
All visitors to London at this season should pay a visit to
the above establishment.

IVIADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.-
Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street.
NEW ADDITIONS.—In accordance with the season, the
Exhibition has been entirely re-embellished. The whole of
the ancient Court Dresses of the most costly description,
faithfully copied from the most minute pictures, have been
renewed. Modern Court Dresses of the most splendid de-
scription, selected from the first houses in Paris and London,
and probably never equalled or surpassed, are now on view.
Life-size Models of DOCTOR E. W. PRITCHARD and
CONSTANCE KENT are now added.
Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ALDERSHOTT CAMP. - DEODORISING
CONTRACTS.
WAR OFFICE, Pall mall, S.W., August ?A, 186%
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That Sealed Tenders.
addressed to the Under-Secretary ot State for War, and
marked on the outside, " Tender for Deodorising, Alder-
shott," will be received at this Office, on or before SATUR-
DAY, 2d September, 186.5, for DEODORI-ING and
CLEANSING the LATRINE', &c, at Aldershot: Camp for
a period of Three Years from Ist October next
Proposals must be made upon the proper printed Forms,
which may be obtained on application at this Office, or to the
Barrack Master at Aldershott.
The Secretary of State for War reserves to himself Ihe
right to reject any or all of the Tenders.
TIIOIIAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts.

Charge of Conspiracy to Defraud.

It will be remembered that some days back Mr. Heath,
the Consul-General for Italy, attended at the Mansion-
house for the purpose of exposing a system of fraud which
was practised upon persons of wealth and distinction
residing abroad and on the Continent, who received letters
emanating from firms in London calling themselves agents
informing them that the writers were in possession of some
article or package addressed to them and supposed to con-
tain something of great value, which they (the writers) had
received from their correspondents, either in America or
some other distant part, and which parcel would be for-
warded upon receipt of a cheque or Post Office order for the
expenses, which were quoted at about £B. Mr. Heath pro-
duced some letters, which were signed " Mallett and Co."
A few days later the Spanish Consul sent an intimation
to his lordship that he had received some similar letters
from Spain, bearing a different signature, and the articles
were in that case attested to have been forwarded to them
from Rio Janeiro. The matter was in the hands of Detec-
tive-sergeant Foulger, who was making inquiries, and
through his exertions a man and woman,supposed to belong
to the same gang, were placed yesterday at the bar of the
Mansion-house in custody of Sergeant Foulger, and Jen-
kinson, another officer, by whom they were appre-
hended. They gave their names as Louis Gordon and
Angelina Gordon, having no occupation, and residing at
41, Whiskin-street, Clerkenwell, the charge against them
being for having conspired with others unknown and ob-
tained on the 21st inst. a Post-office order, No. 88, for 100
francs, with intent to defraud one Falario Cestalini of his
moneys.

The male prisoner is a Frenchman, and could not speak
or understand English ; the female prisoner, who he said
was his wife, is an Englishwoman, of rather prepossessing
appearance.

Mr. J. B. Heath, the Consul-General for Italy, and M.
Juan Garacan, the Consul-General for Spain, were on the
bench during the examination.
Inspector Hamilton, of the detective department, said the
case had arisen from n matter which had been brought be-
fore his lordship by Mr. Heath some days back, and he then
stated that there should be no steps untried by the police
to bring the parties to justice. The result had been that
they had succeeded in apprehending two persons, who it
was believed were two of the principals in carrying on a
system of fraud which had been practised for some time,
and most successfully, on persons of wealth residing abroad,
by an organised gang,whose plans were so well laid that it
was only by the most stringent exertions that the police had
been able at last to bring the parties before his lordship.
He might not be able at present to bring sufficient evidence
to establish a case against the prisoners ; but if after hear-
ing the evidence, his lordship would remand the prisoners,
he had no doubt there would shortly be numerous cases
against them.

The first witness called was Mrs. Mary Ashley, who'said
she was the wife of Mr. John Ashley, builder, of 30, Graf-
ton-street, Fitzroy-square. She knew both prisoners. She
saw the male prisoner on May 4th, when he took a bedroom.
He was accompanied byanother man. He took the bedroom
that day, but she did not see anything of him for a fortnight,
when he called and said there would be letters left there,
and asked her to take great care of them. The prisoner
wrote his name and address, and she asked him for the name
of the party who. was with him. The prisoner wrote the
name of " Rhubulet and Co., 13, Princes-road, Chelsea."
He wrote also the name of " Durmnt," which he said was
his friend's name. He told her he would call again in a
few days, and she was to take great care of the letters. He
called a few days after, and there were then a number of
letters-20, or perhaps more—addressed to Rhubulet and
Co., agents. She gave them to the prisoner. She saw that
they were nearly all foreign letters. There were a great
many of the letters registered. He told her when the letters
arrived there would be sometimes money or valuable pro-
perty in them. She told him her husband did not allow
her to sign for anything. He wished her to sign for them.
She told this to the postman, who told her that if she signed
for Rhubulet and Co. the prisoner must sign for them ; and
she told the prisoner what the postman had said, and made
him sign for them, and he made no objection. Registered
letters arrived frequently after that, and the prisoner signed
for them all. The prisoner brought the female prisoner
about last Thursday week. He told her the day before he
would bring his wife the following day, and sho was to give
her up the letters that came for him when sho called for
them, and he would sign the paper for the registered
letters. Witness produced a list of registered letters on
which the male prisoner had written his signature several
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blank. The female prisoner received the letters on the last
three occasions, namely, the 19th, 21st, and 22d of August,
and received eight letters. Witness said they were all
letters from abroad, and all addressed to Wm. Rhubulet and
Co., agents, 20, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square. Therelwas
no business done there, and, with one exception, nothing
but letters were left there, and then a parcel containing
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there, but the prisoner said he did not want to occupy it as
a bedroom.

The prisoner said there was no bed there.
Witness continued—The prisoner said ho would want
the room from ten till four, as he would have a great deal
of writing to do. When he went, however, he did not
stop more than five minutes, and she never saw him write,
except to sign the paper for the letters.

William Boyce said he was a carpenter and builder, of
41, Gray's Inn-road. Ile let part of his house, the second
floor back. He knew both the prisoners. Tho male pri-
soner went to him on 20th June, and asked if he could let
an apartment ; he said he should not want to occupy it,
but should only want it to receive letters. He did not
object to the bed in the room. Witness understood him to
be a sort of ship agent, but did not give his card. Tho
prisoner wrote down two references, but witness had not
got them with him. The prisoner wrote down his own
name, C. H. Rigden. He did not recollect the names of
the references. One was in Rupert-street, and the other
in Princes-street, Soho. The prisoner asked him if he
would object to a small plate on the doorpost, to which
witness at first demurred, but finally consented, and a
plate was put on the doorpost, with the name of C. 11.
Rigden on it. The prisoner told him there would be some
letters, and perhaps a
good many, and he would ask for
them. In two or three days letters began to arrive—seven
or eight in the morning, and about the same in the oven-
inc. Some were addressed "C. H. Rigdon," and some
"C. H. Rigden and Co., agents." Witness knew all the
letters were foreign, and appeared to come from all parts
of the Continent. They continued to arrive up to the
previous day, the prisoner sometimes calling alone, and
sometimes with the female prisoner. At first the prisoner
called every day, but afterwards the letters wore not quite
so numerous, and he called every other day. He came
with the female prisoner about a fortnight after he en-
gaged the rooms and introduced her as his wife, and
said she was to receive the letters. When the prisoner
first called about the room ho was accompanied by a man
who spoke English and seemed to interpret for the male
prisoner, who appeared not to bo able to speak English, and
the prisoner described him as his clerk. Witness gave
some letters to the female prisoner. There had been 17
registered letters and 91 unregistered, and also four parcels,
which were delivered by a railway porter. two of which
appeared to contain money. They came from abroad, but
ho could not say where. He gave one of the parcels to the
male prisoner, but he did not recollect about the others.
They signed for them, and he had the receipts at home.
When the prisoners called for the letters, witness should
say
they did not remain more than three minutes. No writ-
•m g was done at the " office." Neither of the prisoners
ever went up. Witness thought there were two gentlemen
who called for Mr. Rigden. One he saw himself, and he was
a foreigner. They called about 11 o'clock in the morning
evening. When the female prisoner called
ffootthh six in e
the letters, and when there were so many they called
about the
about the 12th of August, she said the other
prisoner had gone to France and would be away a few
days. Witness had not seen him since the 12th. Witness
did not know the purport of any of the letters, but he un-
derstood the prisoner was a shipping agent.

Theodore Foulger, detective sergeant, said he was engaged
with other officers in investigating the ease. On the pro-
vions day he saw the prisoner leave No. 41, Whiskin-street,
Clerkenwell. Ile was with Jenkinson and two other officers,
and, told prisoner they were police-officers, and were going
to arrest him for having defrauded several gentlemen in
various parts of the Continent, and particularly for having
defrauded M. Valerie Castelbrini of 100 f., by sending letters
to him representing that he had property of value to
remit. The prisoner appeared not to understand him, and
he took him back to No. 41, Whiskin-street, and searched
the place. He found a quantity of papers, and among them
was a letter he produced, addressed to "Messrs. Rhubulet
and Co., Grafton-street," and one to " C. IL Rigilen and
Co., Gray's Inn-road." He also found various other letters
addressed to the same parties, one of which contained
400 postage stamps, addressed to " Messrs. Rhubulet and
Co., Grafton-street." .They were foreign postage stamps,
and represented about £4. The letter was from Jaen, in
Spain. Witness found various letters from abroad, and
directed to the various names in which the prisoner had
been going. He also found a Madrid Directory, and he
believed about 15,000 letters had been sent abroad. He
found a number of letters with the name of " Gordon and.
Co." When he got back to Whiskin-street ho apprehended
the female prisoner. She said she was the wale prisoner's

wife, and was married in Paris, but she would not say
when. Ile told her it might make a difference to her if I
she were his wife, but she would not tell him. He found
on her £ll 165., and in a purse of, the prisoner's, which was
in the room, he found some postage stamps, some dupli-
cates, and a £5 bank-note, and a flash note on the "Bank
of Love" for £5. Witness said he had nearly a hundred-
weight of papers which had to be translated. Some of the
names that have been assumed by the puties aro Gerald,
Simpson, and Co., Roger and Co., Rigden and Co., Rho-
bulet and Co., Gordon and Co., ''W. Smith and Co., and
Christie and Co. Witness said he had no doubt if a re-
mand were granted he should be able to make the case
more clear against the prisoners, and should most likely be
able to obtain some of the letters which have been sent
abroad to which those found are repl'es.
When asked if they had any questions to put, the male
prisoner said the flash note was sent to him in a letter, and
he had no intention of passing it.
The prisoners were remanded for a week.

British Archaeological Association.

DURHAM, Friday.

Yesterday a special train took a large party of
members and visitors to Barnardcastle, a small town
ituate about 15 miles from Durham, which those
who are indifferent to its archaeological remains re-
member for its connection with " Nicholas Nickleby."
The special object of attraction was the castle, now
in ruins, built by Bernard Balliol in the beginning
of the 12th century. In 1268 John, his descendant,
founded Balliol College, Oxford, and when his son
was raised to the throne of Scotland, and renounced
his fealty to Edward 1., Barnard Castle was con-
fiscated, and given by the King to the Earl of War-
wick. The Neville family became possessed of it by
marriage, and Anne Neville brought it to Richard
111., who lived here when Duke of Gloucester.
During " the Rising of the North" the castle was
besieged by the rebellious barons, and held out for
11 days under Sir George Bowers. Captain Thomas
Robinson acted as cicerone, and pointed out such
remains as were of interest. Hutchinson, who ex-
amined the castle minutely in 1783, said that the
remains then covered an area of of 64 acres. It was
totally dismantled in 1630, and since Hutchinson's
time much of the walls has fallen, and the charac-
ter of the interior has been entirely obliterated,
only the outer walls, stripped of their buttresses,
now remaining. The ruins, which overlooked the
Tees, are most picturesquely situated, and the deep
moat and high walls show the castle in its prime to
have been a place of great strength. There was a
tower, called by tradition the Brackenbury Tower,
after the knight whom Richard 111. employed, and
who is so unfavourably known in English history.
An oriel window is said to have belonged to the
Duke of Glocester's State chamber:

Returning to the Barnardcastle station, the party
went by train to Cockfield, where they found car-
riages waiting for them, and rode through beautiful
moorland scenery to Staindrop church :

" Staindrop who, from her silver bowers,
Salutes proud Raby's battled towers."
Here the rector, the Rev. J. F. Hodgson, gave an
interesting description of the building. He said
that it was erected by the almost extinct family of
the Nevilles, in which they worshipped, and where
the more illustrious of them had been buried. The
chancel had been of early English work, and he
suspected that it was 10 feet longer than the nave.
Possibly the north transept was of the date of 1195.
Staindrop was a place of some importance in the
reign of King Canute. It was the head of a shire,
and might be regarded as having then been a kind
of little king among the villages around it. With
its numerous additions Staindrop afforded a remark-
able instance of a north country church, small at
first, but extending gradually in all directions—
east, west, north, and south.

The " squint" windows overlooking the altar,
from which you could see what went on. in the
church without entering it, were noticed as very
curious.

The Neville monuments in this church are of
great interest, and were briefly described by Mr.
J. R. Planche. There is a splendid alabaster altar-
tomb to Ralph Neville, the first Earl of Westmore-
land, who is represented in armour, with a lion at
his feet ; and on either side there are effigies of his
two wives,—Margaret, daughter of Hugh, Earl of
Stafford, and Joan, daughter of John of Gaunt,—
by whom he had 23 children. At the feet of all
three are small and mutilated figures of kneeling
monks. Another tomb, of wood, is erected in
memory of Henry, fifth Earl of Westmoreland,
and his three wives, the figures of his eight children
being placed in niches round the tomb. The inscrip-
tion is, " All you that come to this church to praye,
say a paternoster and a crede for to have mercy of
us and all our progeny." In the centre of the
chancel is a magnificent tomb in white marble, by
Westmacott, in memory of the eldest brother of
the present duke, who wears his coronet, is half
recumbent.

From Staindrop it is only a short drive through
the park to the seat of the President, the Duke of
Cleveland,—Raby Castle,—which is reckoned the
most perfect of the northern castles now existing.
The visitors were received in the hall by the Duke
and Duchess, and immediately passed by a fine oak
staircase, lately added, into the Baron's Hall, where,
when the Nevilles were in their full pride and of
power, the knights who held of them assembled :
" Seven hundred knights; retainers all
Of Neville, at their master's call,
Together sat in Baby's Hall."
In this noble hall, so full of historical associations,
a bountiful dinner was provided, and after their
long journey the visitors—some 200 of them—
were ready to do full justice to the venison
and famous venison pasties, the grouse and
the other good things with which the table was
loaded. The Marquis and Marchioness of Nor-
manby, Lord Houghton, and other distinguished
visitors, were staying at the castle, and with the
Duke and Duchess were unwearied in their atten-
tions. When hunger and thirst were appeased, Mr.
J. H. Planche, in the name of the Association,
thanked the Duke and Duchess for their most hos-
pitable reception, and their health was drank amid
such cheers as can hardly have rung within the old
hall since the days of the Nevilles. In reply, the
Duke expressed the great gratification which he had
experienced in receiving the Association, and his
wishes that this visit might be agreeably remembered
by the members.

-
Reassembling in the lower hall, the visitors lis-
tened to a paper read by the Rev. Mr. Hodgson on
the architectural features and some of the historical
associations connected with the castle. Raby, he
said, pointing by its name to a Danish origin, was
first mentioned in connection with King Canute,
who, after making his celebrated pilgrimage over
Garmondsway Moor to the shrine of St. Cuthbert,
there offered it, with Staindrop and the rest of Stain-
dropshire, to the saint. Bishop Flambard wrested
the rich gift from the monastics, but restored it
again on his deathbed. It continued in the peaceful
possession of the monks till 1131. In that year
they granted it for an annual rent of £4 to Dolphin,
son of Ughtred, of the blood royal of Northumber-
land. Whoever the original founder might have
been, Dolphin's descendant, Robert filius Maldred,
was, at all events, Dominus de Raby, when early
in the 13th century he married Isabel
Neville, by the death of her brother the last
of that line, and sole heiress of that great Saxon
house of Bulmer, Lords of Brancepeth, and Sheriff
Hutton. From their son Geoffrey, who assumed
his mother's surname, the history of the Nevilles
might be said to date. To his descendant, John Lord
Neville, they owed the present castle of Raby. It
was reported of this Lord John Neville (said Dug-
dale) that he was some time employed against the
Turks, and that being Lieutenant of Aquitaine he
reduced that province to quiet, which had been
wasted by the wars with the Turks, and that in his
service in those parts he won and had rendered to
him 83 walled towns, castles, and forts. It was

during the latter part of his life that the reconstruc-
tion of Raby was gradually proceeded with. Dish%)