The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-26 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The 2d Battalion 13th Regiment, at Aldershott,
are ordered to embark for the Cape of Good Hope
on the ith proximo. This regiment commenced
forming at Winchester in March last, and was coin-
pleted to its establishment of 950 men by the end
of October. 800 will embark for the Cape—of these
about 150 have gone through a course of musketry
instruction. The remainder will have to complete
their drill after their arrival in the colony.
The Rev. W. Hare, M.A., late Chaplain to the
Forces in Malta, having been appointed chaplain
to the Royal Regiment of Artillery, at Woolwich,
in succession to the Rev. W. Melville Wright, has
entered on the duties of his appointment at Wool-
wich, and will officiate at the garrison chapel on
Sunday next.
Dr. J. E. T. Parrett, Senior Surgeon of the Medi-
cal Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, having
been appointed Deputy-Inspector General of Hos-
pitals, is succeeded by Dr. H. Briscoe. recently
acting in temporary medical charge of that estab-
lishment. The medical institution in the Royal
Arsenal, which was erected during the progress of
the Russian war, to supersede the former inefficient
establishment, has been inspected by the Engineer
Department, under orders from the Secretary of
State for War, with a view of carrying out some
important improvements and a considerable enlarge-
ment of the building, as from the constant rating
of the establishment employed in the Royal Arsenal
(equal to that engaged during the war in the
Crimea), the demands on the medical department
far exceed its present capabilities.
The new building in course of erection at Wool-
wich to augment the riding-house establishment of
the Royal Artillery being nearly completed, an ad-
ditional corps of 1 captain, 2 lieutenants, 2 staff
sergeants,rd d t 0
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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1859,

tended that suspicion hung over the whole of the
evidence which was in support of a transaction giv-
ing one of the children £5OO more than any of the
others would receive.
A person, named Aitcheson, was examined. He
had married a daughter of the deceased, and he
said he had entered into an engagement with the
defendant to the effect that a codicil should be
drawn up, and signed by the old gentleman, and
that William Dixon should give him £2OO when it
was executed. He told the son that he did not
know how a codicil could be signed, because he did
not think the testator was in a fit state to alter his
will, but he eventually agreed to the paper being
signed. It was at his suggestion that the medical
man was called in to attest it, but he (witness) did
not know what the codicil contained.
The learned Judge—lt will be hardly necessary
for Mr. Power to cross-examine this witness, after
his admission that he consented to accept a sum of
money on the signing of the codicil, with the object
of committing nothing less than a fraud.
The witness excited some laughter by remarking
—" That's just it, my lord."
The learned Judge having carefully summed up
the whole of the evidence,
The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant,
William Dixon.
Upon the application of counsel, the learned
Judge gave costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Jan. 25.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Wm. Goode ve, Clerk to
Mr. Horniman, 30, Wormwood-street, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with embezzling
£65 10s., belonging to his employer.
Mr. Morgan appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Beard for the prisoner.
Mr. F. J. Horniman said—The prisoner was in
my father's employ as clerk for the last two years.
On the 30th or 31st Dec. I gave him the 17 cheques
produced with others, and it was my duty to place
them in letters of advice to the several parties, and
to see that they were posted. The 17 cheques,
amounting to £65105., have been returned to us as
paid.
Mr. P. Jackson, a licensed victualler, in Bridge-
street, Whitmore-road, Hoxton, said—l know the
prisoner. On the Ist January I received an enve-
lope, which had been left by him at my house, con-
taining the 17 cheques. On the day previous he
asked me if I would pass a few cheques for him
through my bankers, as they were crossed, and ho
wanted the money to pay some people. I promised
to do so, and after receiving them I paid them into
my bankeis, Messrs. Davies, Shoreditch. I after-
wards ascertained that the cheques had been paid,
and having given him £2 on account of them, I, on
the 4th inst., gave him my cheque for £63 10s. I
have on two previous occasions cashed cheques for
him in a similar manner. _ _ _

Mr. J. Ford, cashier to Messrs. Davies, said—l
received the 17 cheques in question from the last
witness on the Ist of Jan., and placed them to the
credit of his account. Messrs. Hankey clear our
cheques, and their name is stamped on those pro-
duced, as well as the name of our house.
Mr. C. Woodin, cashier at the London and West-
minster Bank, said—The cheques produced were
paid by our bank through the clearing-house with
Messrs. Hankey.
G. Watkins, constable, 600—I took the prisoner
into custody on Saturday night, and charged him
with robbing his employer. 1 found L 2 1 ls. I.ld. on
him and a watch and chain.

Mr. Beard declined putting any questions to the
witnesses, and the prisoner was remanded.
Samuel Watkins, who had been remanded upon
the charge of having assisted in the rescue of a
deserter from an escort belonging to the Ist West
Yorkshire rifles, was again brought up.
Mr. Foreman conducted the prosecution on the
part of the War Office.
Further evidence was given in support of the
charge, and the prisoner, who denied his guilt, was
fully committed for trial.
Sir It. W. Carden handed to our reporter the
following communication, which had been addressed
to him, in reference to an application sent by some
Yorkshire female flax workers for pecuniary assist-
ance, some weeks since ; a report of what took
place upon that occasion having appeared in our
columns. _

" Essones (Seine and Oise, France), Jan. 22.
" To Sir R. W. Carden, Magistrate, Mansion-
house, London.
" Sir,—Under the high-sounding title of Shame-
ful Deception of Leeds Flax-workers,' the misad-
ventures of five factory women have been going
the round of The Sun and other English newspa-
pers for the last three weeks. These women
applied, to you, sir, at the Mansion-house, for the
purpose of imploring your pity relative to the mis-
fortunes they had incurred in France, at a flax-mill
at Corbeil, their return to England under the sup-
posed protection of the British Ambassador, and at
last obtaining from your kindness the means of
getting back to their native town.
" This mill is our mill, sir, and we are the hard-
hearted manufacturers whom the story of these
women and the reports of your paper have de-
nounced to universal indignation.
" We beg to place the matter in its true light, so
as to destroy the false imputations brought out
against our character, and to prove to yourself, sir,
that you have been shamefully imposed upon.
" In Sept. last, we sent to Belfast and Leeds an
English manager, James Chappel, a native of Barn-
sley, lately employed in our establishment, in order
to inquire for a dozen female flax workers. He was
aware of our customs, and the length of our work-
ing time (which is regulated by a law in the whole
of France). James Chappel did not try to deceive
his countrywomen in executing his errand. In con-
sequence of his proceedings, and by a written agree-
ment which is in our hands (not at all according to
mere verbal assurances), two sets of females, one of
five, the other of seven, arrived in Corbeil. We
paid, of course, all the travelling expenses (about
£3O), and agreed to employ them at the rate of
Bs. 6d. a week. The duration of the agreement was
not at all stated, but it was positively written that
the working hours would be the same as for the
French hands. _ _ _

"We were not long in perceiving that we had
been gratified with some of the worst amongst the
working class of Yorkshire. Having free lodgings
in a house of our own, close to the mill, getting
their food in the English'way, by the care of a re-
spectable Englishwoman (the widow of an old Eng-
lish overlooker of ours residing with us for the last
25 years), and when ill attended by the doctor of
the establishment, they were, or at least ought to
have been, in the best possible condition. But,
coarse in their manners, language, and conduct,
idle, insolent, and drink half the time, they were
soon guilty of such misdemeanours that the police
was obliged to interfere ; and one day four of them,
who had been out for eight days, were put into
prison. We see in their story to you, Sir, they for-
got that episode of their tale. When claimed by us
and restored to their work, after their punishment,
they behaved pretty well until the day when the
lot of five, wishing, as they said to you, to free
themselves from suc a hopeless state of thraldom,
escaped without giving any notice, and we did not
hear anything more about them until the above-
mentioned article, here enclosed, was sent over to
us by some of our English friends.
" The other party of sever remained in our mill,
and is glad to work with us, free from the oppressive
domination of these blackguards in petticoats.
" Now, we dare say it is most probable the story
of their having been well received by the British
Ambassador in Paris is no truer than all the rest,
for some time before they left we applied in person,
James Chappel being with us, to the Consular-
office, at the British Embassy, to inquire what was
to be done • with them. We were told that the
Embassy did not interfere in such matters; that
these females were no doubt bad women, and that
if they refused to work as they had agreed, we had
nothing to do but to turn them out, and then the
police would take them up and convey them to a
seaport.
Here is a last proof of the duplicity they ex-
hibited to deceive the honourable magistrate they
addressed. The one who acted as spokeswoman
for the company said she had never been able to
forward more than ls. for the support of the child
she had left in Leeds. Now on the 15th Nov. it is
proved by our books, through an honourable firm of
Leeds, we paid to one Catherine lteardine, the
keeper or nurse of the above child, 10s. This money,
as well as all the rest advanced by us to those
hands, is lost for ever, as the work really performed
by them does not represent half of the amount of
our expenses.

" Now, sir, as the imputation on our character
has been made public, we think it just that the truth
of the case should be equally made so. We have
therefore sent a copy of this letter to the Sun, re-
questing the insertion of it at the earliest oppor-
tunity.
"With many apologies, sir, for having taken up
so much of your valuable time in a question of mere
personal interest, and trusting in your love of
justice for the appreciation of our motives,—We
remain, Sir, your most obedient servants,

FERAY AND CO.
" P.S.—We refer you for the respectability of our
firm to his Excellency the Puke of Malakhoff,
London ; Messrs. Charles Devaax and Co., bankers,
London ; Sir Peter Fairbairn, Mayor of Leeds ;
Robert Hyde Greg, Esq., formerly member of the
House of Commons, Manchester ; and Messrs. An-
toine and William Galignani, Paris."

BOW-STREET.—EXTENSIIT ROBBERY BY A
BARmAs. —Robert Thorpe, late barman at the