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London, England, 1862-06-05 00:00:00

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20th, 27th (Enniskillens), 34th, 42d (Royal High-
landers),
43d Light Infantry, 48th, 54th, 77th, 79th
Highlanders, 80th, 88th Connaught Rangers, 90th
Light Infantry, 92d Highlanders, 94th, and 97th
Regiments, and 3d battalion Rifle Brigade. The
number selected to embark for Bombay is 28 officers
and 842 men of all ranks, belonging to the 3d (Prince
of Waifs's) Dragoon Guards, Royal Artillery, 28th,
33d (Duke of Wellington's), 44th, 56th, 72d High-
landers, 95th, and 103 d (Royal Bombay) Fusilier
Regiments. The reinforcements placed under orders
to embark for Madras include 20 officers and 752
non-commissioned Oilcan End privates of the 17th ,
Lancers, Royal Artillery, IE4 battalion Ist Royals,
Ist battalion 13th Royal Irish, gd battalion 60th I
Rifles, 66th, 649[13, 74th Highlanders, and 91st Regi-
ments. In addition to the above, 8 officers and 210
non-commissioned officers and men selected from
the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards,
battalion 4th (King's Own), Ist battalion 19th, 51st
(King's Own) Light Infantry, and 71st Highland
Light Infantry Regiments, have been placed under
orders to proceed to Kurrachee for reinforcing the
regiments at that station. The whole of the rein-
forcements will embark at Gravesend as soon as the
necessary amount of tonnage has been taken up for
them by the Hon. Council for India.
The Megmra, screw troopship, Commander Hen-
derson, arrived at Portsmouth at an early hour
yesterday morning from Alderney, with the remain-
der of the 55th Regiment on board and two batte-
ries of Royal Artillery. The 55th were disembarked
sea Joined headquarters in Portsmouth garrison.
Theßoyal Artillery on disembarking were forwarded
by special trains on the South Coast and South-
Eastern Railways to Dover. The two batteries of
the Royal Artillery comprised—Second Capts. H.
W. Briscoe and H. B. Mauls ; Lieuts. H. G. Cob-
bold, S. M. Mulreman, J. F. Jenkin, and J. A.
Lawrie; Assist.- Burg. W. H. Pollard; 10 sergeants,
2 trumpeters, 13 corporals, 177 privates; 31 women
and 44 children.

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VEWSPAPER
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back a little, as the people mig t.
had been fighting and that hi '7 OC
ning away. Melanie came up _
to bid goodbye to the Mexican t 1
suddenly the French cavalry, wi: .
warning, charged the Mexicans in the rear.
They were quite taken by surprise; they had
not time to draw their swords or unsling their mus-
kets before 12 of their number were cut down and
15 taken prisoners. The rest escaped. General
Melanie was knocked off his horse when the attack
was made. After he had recovered front his sur-
prise he remounted. He then saw a French i.rooPer
order a Mexican lad of about 16 to disinount. He
saw the same trooper draw his pistol, blow the pour
boy's brains out, and then rifle his peckets, all in the
presence of the French officers, who looked on. Two
troopers rode up to,lelanie and ordered him to dis-
mount under pain of being immediately shot. Mo.
lanio turned to them in a cool manner which is
habitual to him, and said, "I hove no doubt you
would ; ic is no e.lcr. than I w,,nd els-pect after whst
I hil/2ve seen. But let me tell you tilqt I ,u-k General
Melanie, of the Spanish army, and that if you blow
my brains out you will answer for it." At this CriSiS
the French officer interfered, and Melanie was al-
lowed to leave at once.
.He joined Prim, and they
continued their journey !oveards Vera Cruz. The
English hauled down theirildg from the wall of the
town, and saluted the Mexican flag with 21 guns on
the 25th ult. The French have seizad the Custom-
house and revenues, and augmented senral taxes.
What appears strange is that the French have not
hauled down the Mexican flag from the walls of the
fort, but loft it flying alongside of the tricolour.

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EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF

A most extraordinary case came last Tuesday
before the bench at Mark-cross, East; Sussex, Messrs.
Watson, Smyth, and H. Dixon. Sarnes Menarge,
M of 16, Clever:street, tenningtnn.tzross, was
charged 'with threatening to accuse Wm. i.;.ixon of
an infamous crime, with the intent to extort
money from him, and also, in conjunction wii.h
Robt. Westfield, 22, of 1, Brydges-street,Covent,
garden, of conspiring by false pretences to obtain
money from the said Wm. Dixon. Mr. Dixon was
formerly the senior partner in the firm of Dixon,
Brook, and Dixon, bankers, ChNleery-lane. The pro-
secutor, produced a bundle of letters in the hand-
writing of Menarge and Westfield, but principally
the former. In these Menarge demanded. interviews
with Mr. Dixon about important matters, .hinting
darkly that prosecutor had injured him when 6 boy
at Brighton, and that if he did not come to term);
legal proceedings would be the consequence. To
avoid annoyance and the injury to his business
which would arise from such a charge Mr. Dixon, in
an unfortunate moment, consented to give money to
the fellows. From a memorandum book he read the
.
following items of sums paid by him to the prisoners
and Maynard :-January 11, Menarge, £5O ; Mar
nerd, £5O ; March 1, Maynard, £2O ; Menarze,
£2O ; 15th, Maynard, £5O (as he said he wished to
go to Australia) ; April 1, Menarge, £5O ; 18th,
Menarge, £6O; May 9, Menarge, £5O; Tune 6,
Menarge, £7O; 29th, Menarge, £100; July 22,
Menarge, £lOO ; August 17th, Menarge, £5l; 29th,
Maynard, £52; September 13, Menarge, £52; 28,
Menarge, £5O; October 10, Menarge, £10; Nov.
10, Menarge, £2OO ; Dec. 11, Menarge, £5O ; 20th,
Menarge, £250 ; 30th, Maynard, £5O. This was all
in 1858, but in 1859 still larger sums were extorted
from the unhappy victim :-January 17, Menarge,
£400; Feb. 26, Menarge, £4OO. It was with things
in this state that Westfield was brought upon the
scene, he and Maynard tendering their assistance to
rid Mr. Dixon of the enormous extortions to which
he was subjected by Menarge. In some of the letters
Menarge said he had Mr. Dixon under his thumb,
and it would be folly to let him tzlip. Arrangements
wero also entered into forgetting further sums, and
especially pointing out what Westfield was to do in
the matter. Jr. this state of things the gtzme of ex-
tortion in 1859 proceeded as follows:--Match 27,
Maynard, £22 ; Westfield, £22 ; April 3, Maynotd,
£25 ; Westfield, £25; 11th, Menarge, £4OO ;
18th, Maynard, £25 ; Westfield, £25 ; 19th, May-
nard, £5O; Westfield, £5O; May 8, Westfield'
£100; 21st, Westfield, ; 29th, l'ilenarge, £100;
June 10, Westfield, .£lOO ; 11th, Menarge, £53;
Westfield, £4; 221, Maynard, £4 ; Westfield, £4;
Westfield, £204 ; Menarge, £102; 27th, Menarge,
and Westfield, £100; July 27, Menarge and
Westfield, £100; Westfield, £2. In this state
of things Mr. Dixon, who has been paralysed for
25 years, was, by the advice of his medical atten-
dant, removed from this country, and the system of
extortion ceased. About a fortnight ago, however,
Mr. Dixon came to Frant, on the borders of Kent
and Sussex, to see his sisters, who reside there.
Scarcely had he arrived before the prisoner Men-
argeivas on his trail, and he actually had the
im-
pudence to tell his story first to a policeman named
Dennis And afterwards to Superintendent Bennett,
of the East Sussex Constabulary. Mr. Bennett
asked him why he was staying at Frant. He said.
" Mr. Dixon has used me very bad. He took me
away from my place at Brighton when I was °nil
14, and committed an unnatural orime on me." Thy
last offence, he added, was 29 years ago.
Mr. Ben-
nett cautioned. him, and that evening 'Westfield
arrived at Frant. The wife of a coachman at the
Miss Dixons proved that Menarge had called at the
house for an answer to a letter he had sent by a
lad named James. She told the prisoner there
days
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shouldwas oanswer
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if she remembered him at Reigate. She told him
ait several to
she did, because she remembered him and two
was living there,
others watching Manor house, Wray - park,
for an hour. Miss Dixon
Dixonaad M is
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to-
gether at Reigate. The moneys were given to
both at the same time. I gave it because they said
they required it to punish Menarge for some crime
he had committed upon a Jew boy, which I believed
to be true at the time. The money I gave to Me-
narge was to prevent anything that would be an-
noyin g or
prejudicial to my partners in the banking
business." Mr. Dixon, who appears infirm and ad-
vanced in years, was accommodated with a seat on
the bench. Mr:Morgan, of the firm of Morgan and
Humphreys, Giltspur-street, was for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Lewis, jun. (Lewis and Lewis, Ely-
lace who who defended Westfield, said, as the pri.4
Boners must be committed for trial, he should re-
aerro tho clofonoo. Wootfiolci woo bailed to appear
at the assizes by his father, Robert Westfield, cab
proprietor, Eagle-yard, Holborn, and his partner in
the Star Coffeehouse, 1, Brydges-street, Covent-
garden, a fashionably-dressed young woman, who
appeared much affected, in £lOO each. The bail
offered by Menarge, his father, was refused, and he
was committed for trial at the Sussex assizes.

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HOME TEACHING FOR THE BLI ND.—The lineal
meeting of the society for supplying home teacher !c ,
books in Moon's typo to enable the blind to read the2.s if 7.,
tures was held yesterday afternoon at Willis's-re s o 4fol;','
street. Mr. J. C. Colquhoun presided, and or:
Smith, Mr.
were the Rev. Robert Maguire, Rev.
a. Fowler, M
Moon, Mr. Assistant-Judge Payne, Mr. Al.
iatereethig ac.,r .
Consul Parkes, &c. Tho report gave a valayrilig the year itt
count of the proceedings of the so t "
this country and in various
had been £319 Os. 5d., and
aftedr:nremained in the hands of
pelisses a balance of £l6 4s.
parts of
ecethiteionl;votrhlde.nTecheessraercyeienxt!
1 support was earnestly requested
extend its operations. The
the treasurer. Increased
inchairman
t thatsaid
thet
howi
cwieptoYrtnlanihto of the society was not to be
• no of the society, and he could say it de-
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estimated by the amount of its
income. He had examined
into the operatio
served the most cordial support. In this country there was
tion of 30,000, of whom 2,000 had been reached
a blind pop's of the society. In London there were 2,300
by the agency
rsons and the society had reached 700 of tbent.
Thesebii Pa
figures conveyed no adequate idea of the benevolent
results which accrued from the society's agency. He
earnestly hoped that these who had means would show their
sympathy to the blind by giving increased pecuniary assis-
tance.: Mr. Pemaefather moved the adoption of the reports
and earnestly advocated the claims of the society. The Revs
G. Smith, in seconding the motion, said the more the society
was known the more liberally it would be supported. Tho
motion was carried unanimously, and several gentlemen
afterwards addressed the meeting, which was well attended.
METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, DEVON.SnLisIItrEe:
SQUARE, CITY.—The aggregate number lasPabe 1-
edical,
lieved during the week ending May '
3.
113, 651 were WV
1,269 ; Surgical, 633 ; total 1,902, of wine
cases.

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