The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-01 00:00:00

THURSDAY V N N G, 0 C 0 B R 1, 1857

Naval and Military intelligence.

We learn by electric telegraph from Liverpool
that the transport sailing ship Lord Raglan arrived
at Bombay ou the 27th of August with the left wing
of the 33d Regiment from Port Louis, whence she
s tiled on the 14th, making the passage in a little
over 12 days. The right wing had previously been
brought up by the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steamer Pottinger, after a passage of over 14
days.

Yesterday morning, in consequence of a telegra-
phic despatch received at Chatham from the War-
office, a draught of the 83d Regiment, numbering
20 non-commissioned officers and men, left the pro-
visional battalion and proceeded to Cork, where
they will embark on board the Calcutta steamer for
conveyance to India for the purpose of joining the
service companies of that regiment in Bombay.
A considerable augmentation has b•en made in
the strength of the Provisional Battalion at Cha-
tham by the arrival yesterday morning of the depot
companies of the 51st Light Infantry and the 94th
Regiment, from Pembroke garrison, numbering
upwards of 200 non-commissioned officers and men,
with the following officers :—Capt. H. B. Houson,
Ensign E. M. Crowe, and Ensign H. Chambers,
51th Light Infantry ; Capt. H L. Cafe, and En-
sign W. Clegg, 94th Regiment. On arriving at
Chatham garrison both the companies of the above
depots wore attached to the 3d battalion, under the
command of Lieut.-Col. C. Elmbirst. A further
increase in the number of the Indian troops at
Chatham, to the extent of nearly 1,000 officers and
men, will take place in a few days by the arrival of
the depots of the sth (Fusileers), 18th (Royal Irish),
33d (Duke of Wellington's), and 98th Regiments,
which are ordered to join the 3d battalion at Chat-
ham garrison.

Yesterday the officers and men of the depots of
the 19th and 83d Regiments at the Provisional
Battalion moved from Chatham barracks to
the huts at Prince Henry's bastion, where they
will be quartered through the winter ; the 51st
Light Infantry are also to be hutted. The depots
of the 43d Light Infantry, 64th, and BGth Regi-
ments likewise marched from Chatham barracks
yesterday to Brompton barracks, where they are
to be quartered with the troops of the Royal
Engineers.

We have Malta letters to the 25th of September.
They announce the departure on the afternoon of
the 21st, after only 48 hours' stay at anchor out-
side Valetta harbour, of • Admiral Lord Lyons in
the Royal Albert sere w-stz.amship, accompanied by
the Princess Royal and Centurion, for Corfu,
whence they be expected back about the 20th of
October, when, if nothing of importance in the
Mediterranean calls the squadron elsewhere, it will
take up its winter quarters.
Her Majesty's screw steam corvette Ariel remains
at Malta, to convey any despatches which may
arrive for the Admiral, and the Wanderer and
Vigilant, screw steam gunboats, are left to carry
over to Cagliari, for telegraphic communication to
the British Government the summary of the Indian
and China intelligence. The European and Aus-
tralian Company's steampackets the Vanguard from
M irseilles, and the Tamar from Southampton,
with the mails, arrived at Malta early on the morn-
ing of the 21st.
The Sir George F. Seymour, Bermudian bark,
with returned convicts, arrived at Spithead
yesterday.

DEVONPORT, SEPT. 30.
The Chesapeake, 50 (screw), Commodore R. B.
Watson, C. 8., arrived in the Sound on Friday, and
s tiled again on Sunday afternoon, for the East

The Valorous, 16 (paddle), Captain Aldhaul.—
Orders have been received at this part to get this
ship ready for set with all possible despatch, her
services being required immediately. She will be
ready to morrow. It is said the Valorous and the
Styx are to convey troops to Suez for India over-
land.

PEMBROKE, SEPT. 28.
That splendid new screw steam frigate the Mel-
pomene, one of the new class, left this irr,rning, the
28th just., for Portsmouth, in charge of Mr. Tom-
kins, assistant master attendant of that establish-
ment. She was launched here about a month ago,
and is to ba commissioned at Portsmouth as soon
as ready. She was towed down the haven by the
Prospero and Lucifer steamers. The latter will
accompany her the whole voyage.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 30.
The screw steam-transport Abeona, Capt. G. C.
Smith, arrived to-day from Gibraltar, with the fol-
lowing officers and men belonging to the Ist, 31st,
48th, and 92,1 Regiments and Royal Artillery :
Lieutenants Turner, Ist Royals ; Cassidy, 31st ;
Feneran, 43th ; Wallace, 921 Highlanders ; and
Staff A. S. Kilruy, and 66 non-commissioned
officers and men of the above regiments, invalids.
The Abeona left Gibraltar with these troops Sep-
tember 2t, and encountered strong head winds on
th 3 voyage. This ship was sent out to Malta to
bring home a Regiment, but she broke down.
Ad:niral Lyons finding that the regiment was
wanted, and knowing the drain on the country for
the Indian servi,:e, at once ordered the Conqueror,
101, screw ship to bring them to England. This
was done, and the regiment arrived here some six
weeks ago. Having had her defects made good,
the Abeona had nothing to do but to return home,
but in doing so brought from Gibraltar the above
invalids. They are landing this afternoon. At
Gibraltar the only man-of-war was the paddle
sloop Vulture, 6. She was to leave for the African
coast. The Curlew, 6, screw sloop, had left for the
same coast.

There was no news at Gibraltar, but some excite-
ment had been caused by a Spaniard having been
killed by a boldi:r of the 92d Highlanders. It ap-
pears the soldier was on duty as sentry, and that
the Spaniard was placed in his cligNe by a police-
constable on some charge of smuggling articles from
the m Lin land. Whilst tha sentry's back was
turned the Spaniard ran out of the sentry-box, and
hid got about 90 yards away before the sentry
found that he ha€l lost his prisoner. He called out
to him to came back, but this not being attended
to, the sentry fired and shot the man through the
hick ;he dropped down dead. This occurred just
before the Abeona left.

The convict ship, Sir George Seymour, arrived
with convicts, whose term
itiot-sdeaxypfirioem Bermuda,
d.
The City of Limerick, merchant steamer, which
left this port late on Monday night with a detaoh•
ment of the nth Regiment for duty at Jersey, re-
turned agiin this morning with a detachment of
the sth Regiment, comprising 140 non-cornmis-
silned officers and men, and the following officers :
Ciptains Lyons and Parker, Lieutenant Parry,
Ensigns Hoare, Shegog, and Bathe. They have
landed to-day, and have proceeded by rail to the
camp at Colchester. The regiment its3lf is in
India.

As soon as the sth had landed, a detachment of
the 731 Regiment marched into the dockyard and
embarked on board the City of Limerick, which
will sail to-night with them to Jersey. They num-
ber 140 men.

The Dee, stelm troop-ship, arrived at Plymouth
on Tuesday from Woolwich with machinery.
The Orion, 91, was paid off to-day.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :
Commander J. W. D. Macdonald, from the Per-
severance to the Urgent ; Arthur Thom?, master,
to the Virago ; Richard Thomas, Master additiona:,
to the Aj ix, for service in the Orion ; Henry
Yorke Slader, Second Master additions!, to the
Cyclops ; J. A. Messum, Paymaster additional, to
the Pembroke.

ders from the War-office to leave Oxford on Thurs-
day (this day) for Woolwich and Deptford, but yes-
terday the order was countermanded, and they will
probably remain where they are for ano'her week
cr ten days. The reason assigned is, we under-
stand, that at present these is not sufficient room
for the regiment in the barracks.
ACT OF VALOUR.—The Sindialv says ;—" On
the occasion of the mutiny of the 14th Bengal
Native Infantry, at Jhelum, Captain W. Miller,
of the Bombay Fusiliers, charged a body of 25 of
the mutineers, at the head of five sowars only,
though himself, it is said, unarmed. His horse
was shot under him, and he received two bayonet
wounds ; but the sowars, we are glad to hear, cut
up the mutineers to a man. Captain Miller is
doing well."
THE VICTORIA CROSS.—It has been notified in
the Calcutta Gazette that officers and soldiers of the
East India Company's service are eligible to receive
from the Queen the decoratitn of the Victoria
Cross, on the same condition as it is awarded to the
royal army.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —Sept. 30.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Charles Fould, ali&s De

Efenry, alias M'Mahon, alias Da Fleury, a French-
man, was brought before Mr. Alderman Hale,
charged with having obtained up wards of 4,0001.
worth of goods from Mr. J. F. Sykes, a flannel and
blanket manufacturer, 72, Aldertuanbary, under
false pretences.

Mr. Lewis, jun., who appeared on the part of
the prosecution, said—The prisoner is charged with
defrauding a number of warehousemen and mer-
chants in the City by means of making false state-
ments to them, as an inducement to obtain their
credit for goods. The prisoner, who is a French-
man, seems to have come to this country, from what
can be learnt of him, about two years ago. He at
first passed under the name of M‘Malion ; he after
wards changed that to De Fleury, and after aviog
taken several other aliases he started, at No. 3,
Cannon-street, under the name of Fould. Now
Fould is the name of the Minister of the Interior in
Paris. He has male this a means of ere lit that he
was a relative of that minister, and that he had
contracts with the French Government to purchase
goods to a very large amount. He went to the pre-
mises of Messrs. Sykes and Co., manufacturers of
flannels and blankets, at 72, Alderwanbury, and
he obtained from that firrei uowards of 1,0001. worth
of goods upon this statement, which turns out to
be utterly false. He said the blankets wei e wanted
for the French Government at once under his con-
tract. Instead of there being any contract with
the French Government, and instead of his being
any relative of M. Fould, he did not want there
for that purpose, for it appears that directly he got
possession of the goods he took them to same pre-
mises in St. Mary-Axe, where he disposed of them
for a mere nothing, and appropriated the pro-
ceeds to his own US3. He has also visited other
houses. I shall call before you, i.i addition to
Mr. Sykes, several other tradesmen whom the pri-
soner has swindled out of their goods. Finding he
could no longer keep up credit in the City, he lately
took a house in the neighbourhood of Brixton, in
the name of De Fleury, where ha has been living
and secreting himself from his creditors. In addi-
tion t 3 obtaining 1,0001. worth of goods from
Messrs. Sykes, he has in several instances procured
3001., 4001., and 5001. worth of property, miler
similar circumstances, from other tradesmen in the
City.

Mr. John Foster Sykes said—l am a flannel and
blanket manufacturer and carrying on business at
72, Alderma.nbury. On the 18th May last the pri-
soner came to our warehouse for the first time. He
was brought to me by a person named Knight, who
was formerly in the employment of a firm with
which I had had dealings. The prisoner told me he
belonged to the firm of Fould and Company, of 3,
Cannon-street, and he left a card. He applied to
me to sell him 42 pieces of flannel, amounting to
1441.45. Gd. Having given me a reference, I Fold
him those goods upon credit. On the 20th of the
same moan he bought goods of me, 'consisting of
flannel, to the amount of 1201. 12s. 2d. He said
he was connteted with the French Government, and
that he was relaeed to M. Fould, Prime Minister
of France. He gave me a bill at three months for
these goods. fle told me that he expected to have
an order for blankets under a contract he was
making with the French Government. That was on
the 20th May. I suppliel him with those goods. I
next saw him again the first week in June, when he
tild me that he had sampl(s of blankets fiamn other
houses, and he gave me an order for '2OO pairs as
Samples, of which 150 pairs were sent in. He told
me that that order was from the French G vern-
went for the camp at Chalons. (A. laugh.) He said
that those who sold the blankets cheapest would get
the order. Two or three days afterwards he calle i
upon me, and sail that the samples had been laid
before the Government, and that the order was for
me. He showed me• a paper with a French
heading to it, which he took away with him.
Idi I not understand what the document was,
but he told me it was a contract from the French
Government. He showed me, upon the back of
what he said was the contract, a list of goods com-
prising several thousand pairs of blankets. He told
me that they were to go the French government.
He said he wanted a certain number every month
—about 5,000 pairs monthly, I believe. He gave
a reason why he wanted them monthly, saying he
was afraid he should not be able to supply them all
at once, and that it would be as well both for the
French government as for us to supply them in
that manner, as the payments would be every fort-
night. He told me that In himself would make
the payments. Upon that representation I cup-
plied. him with goods to the amount oh several hun-
dreds of pounds.
Mr. Lewis—Now, have you traced these goods
to the French government in St. Mary-axe, instead
of the French government in Paris'? (Laughter.)
Prosecutor—From information which has reach -
ed me, I believe, if the prisoner is remanded, I
shall be able to prove, on a future day, that the
goods were taken to St. Mary-axe, and there dis-
posed of. I have received information from the
carman who carted the goods that that is the case.
The prisoner was remanded.

Lambert Philip Molledown, a commission mer-
chant, carrying on business in Mark-lane, who had
Leen remanded upon the charge of having uttered
a forged endorsement to a bill of lading, with in-
tent to defraud Mr. George. Anton, corn-factor, of
23, Feuchurch-street, of 7501., was brought up for
further examination.

Mr. Robinson again appeared for the prosecu-
tion, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Church.
Mr. T. D. Roach, a commission merchant at
Hull and Altona, who gave his evidence on Mon-
day last, was re-called, and, in answer to Mr.
Robinson, said—l stated at the last examination
that only one clerk in our employment, of the
name of Witt, signed bills by procuration. I wish
to correct that statement. I find that another clerk
besides Mr. Witt signs by procuration. I also find
that the bill was not drawn against the cargo in
question ; it was drawn for other goods that the
prisoner had got.
Mr. P. W. H. Angel—l am in partnership with
Mr. Roach, and we carry on the .business of commis-
sion merchants at both Hull and Altona. I shipped
:on board the Catharina 300 qrs. of linseed, and re-
ceived on the 3d of Sept. three bills of lading fur
Ora cargo, of which .the two produced are part.
One of the bills of lading was sent over to Lon-lon
unendorsed to the prisoner. At the time I sent it it
had no writing on it. The second bill of lading I
also received, and gave that as securi y t Messrs.
Young and Macdonald, in Hamburg. Before I
parted with it I endorsed it as it appears to be en-
dorsed now. The endorsemelit on the bill of lading,
the subject of this prosecution, was not wr:t:en by
me or by authority. I had in my possession a bill
accepted by the prisoner, I suppose on the sth Sept.
I sent it on the 2d, and got it back about the sth
Sept. It was a balance due to me of about 5001.
The bill was for 7791.155. 2d. It Nvis to pay a cargo
of oil cakes that had been sent to Hull. At that

t:me he owed me abut NW., and besides that I
had orders to execute for him. The cargo of linseed
was only to go in p trt of the bill if it was paid. The
prisoner had no authority to obtain that cargo of
linseed. He would not have had any interest in the
linseed till the bill was plid.
Cress-examined by Mr. Church—l intended to
ship the seed to the prisoner to order. 1 shippel it
ou the 3d Sept-., and sent him the bill of lading on
the same day. The prisoner might have got the
goods under the bi'l of lading if he had paid the bill
and. the general balanca he owed ID f). The value of
(he cargo was about 8601. or 8701. Th 3 seed t eft r: e
t o in the letter prodtred is the linseed mentioned in
the bill of lading. The bill for 779/. odd was drawn
on general account.' I handed to Messrs. Young
and Co. the prisoner's bill in payment for the oil
cake, but they objected to iq as not being a pool
()no. I- endorsed the bill of exchange. I 11 No made
several sales of cargo to the prisoner. I have sent
him on E event]. occasions unendorsed bills of lading
by post; and we have been paid for thos3 cargo s. I
d nut know how he ob an all these cargoes. It is
usual to send unendorsed bids if we are nut sure of
getting the money.
Re-examined—The prisoner had no authority
from us to deal with the cargo of linseed in any way
before the bill was paid.
Hugaett, the detective officer, said—l appro.
heildedthe prisoner on Saturday evening last. I
showA him the bill of hailing, and said to him, " I
have instructions from Mr. Anton to apprehenl
you for forging an endorsement on this bill of lad-

ing." He asked, whose name was forged. I replied,
" The name of Mr. Roach," pointing to that gen-
tleman, who was with me. The prisoner said, " I
beg your pardon ; it is known both to Mr. Roach
and Mr. Anton that that bill of lading is in the
same state now as when I received it."
This closed the cane for the prosecution ; and the
prisoner, who said he should reserve his defence,
was fully committed for trial upon this charge.
The prisoner was next charged with uttering a
forged bill of excnange for 4531. 19s. 5d., under
the following circumstances.

Mr. G. Anton, the prosecutor in the last case,
said—On the 16th May I received from the pri-
soner the bill of exchange produced, dated 27th
April, 1856, for 4531. 19s. 5d., purporting to be
drawn by G. Hall and Co., of Gloucester, on Jobn
Taylor, late Taylor and Francis, Nottingham. I
took the bill in part payment of a cargo of barley.
The bill, which is made payable at the London and
Westminster Bank, was presented and dishonoured.
I have addressed sever al letters to G. Hall and Co.,
Gloucester, and they have been returned tome. 1
believe the bill has been forged.
Mr. E. Estcourt, superintendent of police at
Gloucester, said he had resided in that town for 24
years, that he had made inquiries there for G. Hall
and Co., and could not find such a firm.
The prisoner was remanded upon this charge.

BOW-STREET.—Mr. John Holder, late a lieu-
tenant in the army and paymaster of the Royal
Lancashire Militia, was brought up by warrant, in
the custody of Sergeant Whicher, of the detective
force, chargd with embezzling upwards of 1,0001.
Mr. S. Kirby, of the War-office, proved that the
defendant was paymaster of the sth Regiment of
Lancashire Militia, in which capacity he was en-
trusted with large sums of money. He resigned the
appointment in Feb., 1856, after which defalcations
to the extent of about 1,8001. were discovered in
his accounts. These moneys ought to have been
paid to the army agents, Messrs. M'Gregor and
Co. The defendant addressed a letter to the autho-
rities, which witnass now produced.
Defendant—Oh, 1 admitted the deficiency, and I
admit it still ; but I deny that there has been any
embezzlement. I had none of. the money. My
Pay-sergeant did the business.

-It was stated on benalf of the prosecution that
a remand would b 3 desirable without going further
into the case at present.
Defendant—l also wish the case to be adjourned,
for. my solicitor is out of town, and my family and
friends are all away. I presume I shall be ad-
mitted to bail.

Mr. Henry—The defalcations are to a serious
amount.

Defendant—Supposing the full amount of money
is put down.

Mr. Henry—That cannot be done. If you can
find two sureties in 2,0001. each, besides your own
recognisances (giving 24 hours' notice to the prose-
cution), you may be admitted to bail.
The case was then remanded for a week, the de -
fendant being committed to prison.

CLE RKE NWE LL. —Yesterday having been
appointed for the examination of C. H. French,
late cook at St. Pancras Workhouse, the court was
crowded, with respectable persons, amongst whom
were some of the directors, vestrymen, and other
parishioners. _ _

The case excited great interest, it having been
stated that the frauds on the workhouse have ex-
ceeded 2,0001. per annum

The prisoner, a respectably-dressed man, about
40 years of age, residing at 64, College-street,
Camden-town, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Tyrwhitt, charged with stealing 841bs. of sugar,
the property of the directors and vestry of the
parish of St. Pancras.

Mr. Humphreys attended for the prosecution, and
Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, for the prisoner.
Mr. Humphreys, in opening the ca,e, said he
attended for the prosecution on the part of the
directors of the poor of the parish of St. Pancras and
the parishioners generally, but more particularly on
the part of Mr. Cook, the vestry clerk, and who
by special act of Parliament had power to prosecute
in such cases. The depredations that had been
committed were exceedingly great, and he should
when he had produced some evidence ask for a re-
mand, when fresh charges would be brought against
the prisoner. He then called
Mr. Charles Hubbard, who said—l am a clerk
to the directors of the poor of St. Pancras, and Mr.
Cook is the vestry clerk. In consequence of some
inquiriesthat were made antecedent to the 15th of
Sept. the prisoner was suspended by the resolutiou
of the directors. The prisoner did not reside in
the house, but he had a private room in the work-
house for his own particular use in his department
On Monday, the 21st, I went with some gentlemen
to prisoner's room, which was locked. I obtained
the key from the master. We fouud the two inner
cupboards and a small brown paper bag under his
desk. We sent for the prisoner, but he could not
be found. We then sealed the cupboards and locked
the room. On Wednesday, the 23d, we again pro-
ceeded to the room, when we saw the prisoner there.
I broke the seals, and the prisoner unlocked the
cupboards. On the floor we found a quantity of
loose brown sugar, weighing 381bs. In the cup-
board we found a white bag full of sugar, weighing
411b5., and some also lying by its side, of the same
s,,etas that found in the bag. Among the loose
sugar there was one large lump. The prisoner said
he should like to have the storekeeper sent for to ex-
plain about the sugar, as he might get into trouble,
meaning the storekeeper. Mr. Young told him it
was quite unnecessary for him to say anything
about it. He then said the sugar was sweepings,
and had been accruing for the last two years and
a half. He then went away, and the cupboard and
ch st wers again sealed up. I have no doubt that
the sugar found in the prisoner's room, and pro-
duced in court, is St. Pancras sugar.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis--I should not have
known this to have been St. Pancras sugar had I
seen'it in a grocer's shop. The prisoner has not ab-
sented himself during the whole course of this exa-
mination. Ho was told why he was suspended, be-
cause of the quality of some broth furnished toethe
paupers. The white bag was in the saturated state
that it now is in, and that arises from sugar. His
intention in sending for the storekeeper was to
have an explanation. The storekeeper was not sent
for while the prisoner was there.
Mr. Richard Ryan—l am storekeeper to the
parish of St. Pancras. I was in the habit of supply-
ing the prisoner with sugar and all other things.
I supplied him daily with tea and sugar, and weekly
on Wednesdays. The daily supply was in locked
cans, he having one key and I another. The
weekly supply was in paper bags, containing 281 b.
each. One of the bags found iu the prisoner's room
was of the same description as that supplied to the
prisoner. I have looked at the sugar produced,
and it is certainly of the same description as we
have in store, and delivered to the prisoner. I have
not the least hesitation in saying that this sugar is
part of what I delivered. The sugar produced I
have no hesitation in saying is workhouse sugar.
Cross-examined—I have be: n in office about nine
months. My reason for saying it is workhouse sugar
is because it was in the workhouse. I believe it was
workhouse, because the prisoner said it was the
ac-
cumulation of years. I should not have said so if I
had seen it in a grocer's shop. It would take me a
fortnight to tell whether the marks on the bag are
caused by sugar. I think the sugar in the bags is
not the accumulation of years,; for if it was it would
be almost in powder. In a twelvemonth it would
lose all its saccharine, which makes it stick together.
If constant additions were being made to the sugar,
it would help to keep it moist. The prisoner was
never supplied with half-a-pound of moist sugar
every Wednesday for his own use. I will swear
that prisoner was not entitled to receive it. For his
own use he was supplied with lump sugar.
Palice:c instable Cook, 193 8, said he took the
prisoner into cueto ly yesterday afternoon at the
College Arms. When he told him the charge, the
prisoner said they could not make a felony of it
as he Lad never removed the sugar on the premises.
The weight of the sugar in court was 81 lb.
Mr. Lewis contended that there was no case made
out against the prisoner.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said ho should take bail for the
prisoner—two sureties in 151. each.
The bail having been put in, the 'prisoner was
allow,rd to go.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Maria Clark, charged
on the first examination on suspicion of having
caused the death of her illegitimate daughter, nine
years of age, was brought up for final examination,
charged, on her own confession, with murder.
The case has already been reported. The pri-
soner arid her child were iumtites of Homerton
Union workhouse, and on the 3d September they
I:,tt the workhouse, unknown to the authorities.
On the same evening
she complained to her sister
~f hiving missed the girl by the side of the canal.
On the following morning the pointed out a spot
where she alleged her child's bonnet had been seen
on the surface of the water, and there the body was
found. Subsequently letters were discovered in
her hand, confissinu that she caused her daughter's
death ; and now the following evidence was given.
Sergeant Mate, 28 N, stated that on the 14th
instant the accused was in the station-house, and
said in his hearing—" I drowned my child because
I did not wish to see it grow up and wear those
large hats the girls now wear in the street." She
then, holding her arms out, added, "It laid in.my
arms like this, and I threw it into the canal. It did
not struggle much, but died like_a lamb. I thought
drowning an easier death than hanging, but found
it was not." ,

The depositions being completed by Mr. Safford

the'second clerk, the prisoner was fully committed
for trial. •

Ellen Elogg, charged with concealing the birth
of her illegitimate child, and d sposing of the body,
was likewise committed to the Central Criminal
Court for trial.

THE GUARDS AND THE "FIGHTING
DIVISIONS."

"An Old Soldier" writes to a contemporary as
follows :

Sir,—l crave a little space in your columns, that I
may speak a few words in behalf of soldiers gloriously
absent from amongst us—of " fighting regiments," at
this minute most like in line before Delhi, or marching
at the back of Havelock.

The siege of Sebastopol lasted from the 17th of Oct.,
1854, (the day we opened fire) to the Bth Sept., 1855,
i.e., 11 months and 21 days. Of that time the Guards
did uo duty "in the front" from Feb. 24, 1855, to Jane
17, 1855, that is for about tbree months and 21 days,
about one-fourth of the period of open trenches. •
On the Alma the Guards fought nobly ; at Inkerman
they fought gloriouely ; but after that never-to-be-for-
got-en occasion, they tool no forward part against the
enemy ; in the two grand assaults upon the place they
were in reserve, and not engaged.
Let us turn to the line. The 2nd and Light Divi-
sions bore the fiercest brunt of the battle on the Alma ;
they behaved with splendid bravery at Inkerman ; they
were foremost at the bloody assaults of June and Sep-
tember, 1855 ; they toiled, without intermi.sion, in the
trenches from the moment the first sod was turned up
till the hour of triumph. In the words of Russell,
"they were put to everything from the beginning to the
end of the war." Nor sheuld I omit to mention that
the brilliant combat of October 26, 1854, was won by
Sir De Lacy Evans single-handed, with the Second
Division.
Well, sir, Sebastopol fell, the troops returned home--
ribbons, and rewards, stars and crosses, were distributed;
but how distributed ? Did the old fighting regiments-•-
7th, 23J, 77th, 88th, 47th, 49th, 55th, and others, ob-
tain, as was their due, the lion's share of British' and
foreign decorations ? The very reverse. It was the
Household Brigade" which the Horse Guards de-
lighted to honour. Nay, on the high-caste Brahmins of
the English army, "legions of honour" had Sardinian
medals were so lavished, that young guardsmen who
merely landed in the Crimea, or were heroes of a single
fight, now parade Pall-mall with breasts dazzling to look
upon. Mark, yet another " order" remains to be given
away—the Turkish Medjteie ; and, according to a list of
officers se!ected for the order which two of your minis-
terial conteniperaries have published, and which, in spite
of repudiation " by autnority" inserted in the Times, I
am persuaded is substantially a correct list, the same
scandal is to be acted over again, scion les reyles--the
" Brigade" is first and biggest on the roll, Otters are
named to wear the Ottoman ,crescent who did not reach
the seat of war till after their battalions had retired from
active participation in the heroio dangers of the siege.
In other words the " Guards Club" has possession of
nearly one-third of the entire catalogue.
Lastly, where are the " fighting regiments"—the 2nd
and light division—now ? Face to face with the Ben-
gales fiends probably ; but 15,000 miles from Whitehall.
Where is the "Household Brigade" now ? On guard at
St. James's, in the Royal Barracks of Dublin, and at
the ear of the War Department.

Only let public attention be directed to the foregoing
facts, and a revised, a comparatively equitable " Mtdji-
die" list will appear before long. The English people
must stir in this ; they must not allow their absent aol.
diers to be forgotten and wronged.