The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-15 00:00:00

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men and women who lived among them relying
upon their hospitality. Neither need the argument
of the sanctity of the Turkish flag have had. any
weight with the crew of a British vessel of war.
That flag had failed to extend to their fellow-
Christians the protection upon which they had
relied,
and might well have been utterly disre-
cfarded."
On the 20th Namik Pasha arrived with his
troops, and some semblance of order wa-3 restored.
Miss Eveillard and other rescued Europmns were
transferred on board the Cyclops. In spite of the
opposition at first made by the Pasha the crew and
marines were afterwards landed with the British
and French colours, and, escorted by a body of
Turkish infantry, they were led to the newly made
grave, over which the funeral service was read, and
the Eugliyh and French flags were rehoisted under
a salute of 21 guns. On the 24th the Cyclops
sailed for Suez, where she arrived on the 3d inst.,
bringing home 24 refagees. The number mur-
dered at Jeddah was 21, and at the present moment
not a Christian remains in the place.
' The Hadramaut merchants are said to have-been
the chief actors in the outbreak. This raises the
qu9stion whether commercial jealousy may not have
acted in the matter as concomitant with Mu,ssul-
man bigotry ; but until fuller information be ob-
tained it is perhaps idle to speculate by whom or
how the outrage was instigated.

a°l7-F:,RNMENT STOR ES.

WASTE

(Prom the Tinzcs,)

People who do hot assiduously attend the Masse of
Commons' debates Inc
sea great deal of entertainment.
•
'tray the dramatic effects that are
No mere words can po.
oight you may there see some
there produced. Every
inuence. Thera are wicked
triumph of calumniated o'n
emmoile as elsewhere. There
people in the House of C
;la
are Captain Vivian, who s not hesitated to speak dis-
storekeepershas. been wanting in due
storekeepers Department,
respectfully of the Army
and Colonel Boldero, who I
reverence for the Clothing ;'3oard. It must have been
pleasant to witness, on Mon day eveninjs I ast , the con-
dign punishment of these two irreverent men. General
Peel came down upon them, e ven before the offetsoe was
quite perpetrated, and cons .ounded them by three
pregnant sentences. There St tg a sonorous chorus of
"Hear, hears," amid which the t ailprits slunk into silence,
and the Weedon establishment was seen to come forth
from the trial spotless in integrit. y, approved in efficiency,
and perfect is its organization. That was the general
idea conveyed by the scene.
But there is a Blue-book. .1t is a repulsive folio in
nearly 500 pages. It has neii er index, epitome, nor
report. To the general reader t he information contained
in it Is as if it did not exist. T.t has all the appearance
of being the safest repository that could he found for
disagreeable facts. But in this age of busy idleness no-
thing is safe. There are people who fled it part of their
duty to turn over the pages of this book, and their at-
tention soon becomes riveted to its contents. Two or :
three years since we used to poll et from our pedestal of
superior virtue to the malpractiot s in the Russian and
Turkish service, and we used Face isly to thank Heaven
that we were novas other men art ; but with this Blue,
book before us we are obliged t o c onfess that contract
frauds are not confined to 11useia, and that even
corrruption is not a plant exclusively of Turkish
growth. We are even come to this—that it is
a matter of so much congratulation as to be
received with cheers in the • House of Com-
mons that, not 170,000 pairs of boots, but
only 74,000 pairs, have been improperly sold out of the
public stores since the termination of the Crimean war.
As we tread this maze of disagreeable facts we pass
from surprise to astonishment, but before we get through
half its windings we almost become accustomed to an
atmosphere of corruption. At the threshold one feels a
little gentle indignation at finding that a contractor is
in permanent ill-favour, and has his goods sent back as
imperfect, not on account of the imperfection of the
articles, but as a penalty for want of politeness in the
manufacturer, who had walked into one of the public
offices with his bat upnn his head. But this is only the
insolence of office. As we get a little way into the
Weedon Blue-book we meet with much worse things.
There is a Mr. George Pays stuck fast in a Slough of
Despond. Hp has 500 sets of accoutrements, which be
is bound to deliver, but which are always being rejected.
Sometimes they are stronger than the pattern, some•
times they have been crushed by the people appointed
to examine them ; but the result is always the same—
they are always sent back upon Mr. Pays 's hands. The
general market for waistbelts, swordknots, pouchbelts,
and swivels is not very lively, and the contractor is in
a desponding state of mind. But there is a good angel
at hand, and his name is E. Downing. "You
will never get. your goods passed in the way you
are going on," said the good angel. " Why not 1 "
said the innocent contractor; "they are equal to the
pattern." "That is nothiag," said the angel; "the father
of Moore, one of the viewers, is employed ate one of the
other contractors'." " I see," said the awakening ac-
coutrement maker ; "wl.at am I to do l" "Change your
system." "How "You a man of business, and ask
how ! We poor viewers can't be expected to give is fair
view unless we have some compensation." The accoutre-
ment-maker did chaege his system. Two sovereigns
fell from his band, and his feet were loosened from the
Slough of Despond. Every week the good Downing
and his mate, Mr. Garrattt, called to see him, and every
week he persevered in the practice of his new system.
Two hundred pounds were thus expended, and the ma-
lignant influence of Moore was neutralizal. Of course
we cannot expect Mr. Pays to say that the .accoutrements
deteriorated in quality as the viewing became lees f sr-
midable, but under the new system 9,000 of them were
passed with a profitable celerity. As we proceed into
other chambers of this house of crime and punishment,
we hear the wailings of this Downing and also of this
Garrett, who, with other victims, are being tor-
tured by that ardent Head Inquisitor, Mr.
Roebuck. They twist and writh e upon the rack, but
they confess their crimes, and disclose enough to let us
guess the rest. We scarcely require to listen to the tale
how Mr. R. S. Garden was led to adopt the new system ;
how, when the viewers found that he was " not up to
the game," they called upon him, and said, "You cannot
get on without us ; we are the men that inspect the
things ;" or how Mr. Garden did as Mr. Pr ya had done.
Neither is it necessary to relate how, in acknowledg-
ment of their fees, these viewers were in the habit of
changing the good articles of those contractors who
would not pay for the bad articles of those who would.
All these abuses follow necessarily from " the system."
Se also if swords bond with a blow like iron hoops, if
crossbelts rot and shoes go to pieces, all this follows from
" the system.", This " system" was condemned to be
hanged four years ago, but it is as lively and industrious
as ever. You have viewers taking bribes from some con-
tractors and doing journey Qork for others, drawing a
wretched pittance of 15Q. a week, and passing or 1, jocting
at their will goods to the value of thou ands of pounds. It
is just the system of Russia, Turkey,and China; and they
who originate it or work it cannot be ignorant what the
cond.t els of such a serti.le are.

If corruption rules below, mania seems to ravel above,
"I am informed," said Mr. Shies', "that when goods
are once packed for a certain destination, and arc not
seat, they are not again taken into store, but are sold
as old stoup." That Mr: Shaw was rightly informed
was proved quite to his own satisfaction by his buying
150 pairs of new boots with the Crown mark upon them,
all of which had been sold by auction as old stores. In
these inquiries hundreds rapidly swell to thousands ; a
system of this sort' works in the nil's pengreeei en.
sts,espoe cls Muses Levi, a merchant, with a
civic establishment and an aristocratic West-end resi-
dence, is introduced. He is about to retire from busi-
ness, and, although at the commencement of his inter-
view with the committee he was not so plain spoken
as they wished, he left an impression that he is a
wealthy and a prudent man, who knows much of the
conduct of public affairs. Mr. Levi had bought "many
thousands' of these new boots at public auctions—
how many thousands he could not. say. They were all
Government boots, that had been viewed and passed,
and paid for and taken into stock. During the last and
present years he had bought about 10,000 pairs. He
gave from 43.410 d. to 63. 31., according to the biddingr.
The Government, as we learn from another witness, paid
lls. 33. for them. Mr. Levi sold these boots again to
the contractors who were supplying the troops. For
aught that appears, they may have gone again into the
Tower sales, may have passed again into the hands of
Mr. Levi, been again transferred by him into the hands
of the contractors, and, the bribes to the viewers having
been honourably discharged, they may have passed once
again into stock and be now awaiting their third ap•,
pearance on the table of the Government auctioneer.
This is a commercial curriculum highly advantazeons to
every one engaged in it, except only to the public. How
Mr. Moses Levi could think of leaving such a business
as this it seems impossible to explain. ,
This is the innocent system which was so grossly
calumniated by Captain Vivian, and whose honour was
vindicated by General Peel amid the applause of the
House of Commons. There is, it seems, no absolute
proof in the Blue-hook that 170,000 pairs of boots have
been sold. The only distinct evidence as to numbers is
that " George Dalhousie Ramsay', E;quire," whose
official rank is not specifically set forth, tells Sir Charles
Napier (Q. 3,975) that "in the early part cf this year
74,000 pairs of blots were sold ;" so that it is evident
that the Weedon establishment has been very iIS-used.
The worst feature in all this quagmire of c-irroption and
wanton waste is the partial defence of General Peel
and the apathy of the Houle of Commons. There was
a time when people mounted upon hustings and called
themselves Administrative Reformers, giving many
r)iedZ=s as to what they would do in that line if placed
in Parliament. We never had much faith in that
defunct absurdity called the Financial Reform Associa-
tion, but it seems that it was not even of use as a scare-
crow. Even within reach of the echo of these noisy
people's speeches the viewers were busy screwing bribes
out of the contractors ; the contractors were teeing the
viewers ; the Government auctioneers were selling the
best new Government stores ; the Government store-
keepers were receiving them again into store ; and the
prudent Jews ware working the operation, oiling the
wheels, and pocketing a good share of the profits. Of
course everybody is indignant. Mr. Roebuck is indig-
cant with the contractors who alio iced the bribes to be
extorted from them. Mr. Isaac is indignant with a poor
creature named Tiffin, who is ruined and dismissed be-
cause ho rejected some of Mr. Isaac's socks without
putting his band into them. The War-office authorities
are most indignant with Mr. Bischoff because he will
not account to them for his evidence given to the House
of Commons ; but the drama ends in the usual way—all
the little rogues are crushed, and all the great folks go
off in triumphal cars.

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IF,ELAND.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MOWING.
LORD =LINTON IN THE WEST.

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The Earl of Eglinton has fixed Thursday, the 22d, for
the Galway banquet in commemoration of the despatch
of a second vessel fram that port to solve the problem
of communication with America, On Friday, the 23d,.
his Excellency will go down the noble bay in the Ame-
rican Empire steamer, and attend a grand ball the same
evening, to be given, together, with the dinner, by the
gentry of the town and country. On Saturday, the 24th,
he will be the guest of Mr. Lynch, the father of the
High Sheriff, and return to Dublin in the evening.
Apartments for the Viceregal party have been already
taken at the Railway Hotel in Galway.