The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-06 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

After the Commander-in-Chief had inspected the
53d Regiment at Devonport on Wednesday his
Royal Highness said—" I am well pleased with
your appearance to-day, as also your drill, both
officers and men. My gallant friend, Lord Clyde,
has given me a most excellent account of your
bravery, &c., while in India, and I am glad to hear
that your conduct while in this command has been
very good, notwithstanding the many temptations
you have experienced since your arrival, all of you,
having money in your pockets."
In order to afford the well-conducted and well-
drilled soldiers of the line composing the garrison
of Chatham greater opportunities than are at pre-
sent afforded them for outdoor games and recrea-
tions during the fine season of the year Major-
Gen. Eyre has just issued a garrison order, autho-
rising the commanding officers of the several batta-
lions of infantry under his command to grant those
troops who for perfection in drill or conduct are
deserving of such consideration an additional
afternoon's holiday in each week, exclusive of
Saturday. Major-Gen. Eyre, in issuing the
above order, observes :—" In granting this in-
dulgence it must be well understood by the men
that all such exemption from parades, drills
&e., is to give them an opportunity of engaging
themselves either in manly games and recreations
or in some profitable and creditable manner, and
not to enable them to frequent publichouses, or
even to go into the town. Men seen in town on
these occasions before evening meal, or abusing the
indulgence in any manner, are to be reported to
their commanding officers, who will make them at-
tend all drills or parades for the rest of the season."
Commanding officers are to use their discretion
in granting the same indulgence to any well con-
ducted young soldiers who are painstaking and
attentive at their drills, and who, therefore, deserve
encouragement.

Since the removal of the Tipperary Artillery from
Sheerness the authorities at the Horse Guards have
considerably strengthened that garrison by the
transfer from Woolwich of several additional bat-
teres of Royal Artillery, in order to form a depot
brigade of Artillery, with the usual staff. The fol-
lowing batteries have accordingly proceeded from
Woolwich, and are now doing duty at Sheerness—
viz., No. 1 battery, under the command of Captain
C. P. Roberts ; No. 2 battery, commanded by Captain
H. Cardew ; and No. 4 battery, commanded by Cap-
tain C. H. Hutchinson. The entire force of Royal
Artillery now in garrison at Sheerness consist of one
complete field battery and three batteries of garri-
son artillery, numbering 18 officers, 134 non-com-
missioned officers, 730 gunners, and 87 horses, the
whole under the command of Col. W. R. Nedham.

ANCROR AND CABLE CONTRACTS

FOB THE NAVY.

Captain Trotman, in a letter to a contemporary,
say s :—On the 28th of November last I addressed
the Commissioners on Dockyard and Naval Ex-
penditure as follows :
" I respectfully transmit the annexed statement
relative to the prices paid for anchors; also to
request that I may be permitted an opportunity to
substantiate the same, and make known other
matters to her Majesty's Royal Commissioners."
The statement referred to embodied the following
facts, viz.:—

" That anchor contracts have not been subjected
to the test of public competition for at least a quar-
ter of a century, or since the introduction of
Nasmyth's steam hammer, by which invention the
cost of anchor manufacture is reduced fully one-half.

" That the official scale of prices paid under con-
tract dated 1841 is 140 per cent. in excess of the
published price-lists of the most eminent anchor-
makers of the day—specification, proofs, and tests
identically the same."
I would now beg reference to the said Commis-
sioners' report and questions ; also to the answers
of Mr. James R. Clark, chief clerk in the depart-
ment of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy
(page 399) :
" (Question).—ls it an usual thing that contracts
should run for a period from 1841 to 1861—say 20
years ?—No ; it is unusual.
" (Question).—Has there been any public compe-
tition advertised upon the subject of anchors during
that time P—No competition since 1840.
" (Question).—A statement has been made that
17 anchors from 20 cwt., increasing 5 cwt. each, up
to 5 tons weight, can be supplied for £1,428, as
against £3,434 17s. 6d. paid by the Admiralty. Has
any such statement been brought before your de-
partment P—No.
"(Question).—You adhere to the opinion that it
is not desirable to disturb a contract which has
existed since 1841 ?—I do, for the important reason
that the anchors supplied are as efficient and secure
as they can possibly be. And there is another rea-
son why this contract has been continued a much
longer period than usual—namely, that its execu•
tion required a large outlay of capital. Tenders
were tried at that period.
" (Question).—That is 20 years ago ?—Yes, and
until very recently there never has been anyquestion
about it ; but the Board of Admiralty have investi-
gated the whole subject very fully in the last twelve
months, and they have arrived at the conclusion
that it would not be adviseable to disturb present
arrangements for obtaining anchors, so strong and
so efficient as those supplied to the navy."
Doubtless her Majesty's Royal Commissioners
considered my evidence unnecessary after this, as I
received no intimation or acknowledgment of my
letter and the accompanying statement; else I
might have referred them to official letters and
documents in my possession, to the discussions in
Parliament, returns made, &e., on the subject of
underprices pnauitdieefourfatnhce hhaourst,aenrie
dtissobrepeatedly.myself
brought
It will be remembered that in the year 1852 a
professional committeeof saisxsndisttindguiisheDd naval
ffi ocers, with whom were
Dunbar, chairman of the Gene:
al sehipownnerustpSo-
ciety, and five other gentlemen, members of Lloyd's
Committee, presided over by Admiral the Hon. Sir
M. Stopford, K.C.8., &c., were appointed by the
Board of Admiralty " to investigate and determine
by a series of practical proofs and tests the relative
merits of different descriptions of anchors." Their
decision was unanimous and unequivocal—that
" the established anchor of the navy" was the worst
of all, and " Trotman's" the best of the seven com-
peting anchors brought under their notice, and sub-
jected by them to the severest ordeal, the most
powerful and varied tests. The Admiralty, acting
upon this officially recorded judgment of their own
Anchor Committee, at once discarded the " con-
demned anchor" from her Majesty's yacht Victoria
and Albert, and it was repticed with mine (Trot-
man's) ; so also from the state yacht Osborne and
the Admiralty yacht Black Eagle ; but for the Royal
Navy it is yet a reserved speciality.
Surely there ought to be some strong and very
cogent reasons why so anomalous a state of things
should continue longer ? It is said the execution of
the contract entered into in 1841 " requirel a large
outlay of capital ;" most assuredly a large amount of
official assurance was expended thus to impose upon
the Commissioners' credulity. Why, sir, the cost
and erection of a steam hammer, by which a saving
in labour of from 400 to 500 per cent. is effected,
repays itself in six months; then a rough, inexpen-
sive crane, fire hearths, and a dozen sledge hand
hammers, and your anchor shop is complete.
For this the principle of public competition is
complacently repudiated, a snug contract of twenty
'years' standing is to be perpetuated, and the " foul
anchor" (condemned in 1853 as the worst of seven
competing plans by a professional committee of
naval officers, the highest and ablest in the service, I
and specially nominated by the Admiralty them.

...

Trtre, SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1861,

years since, and then suspended,,have recently been
renewed and will shortly be completed.

At the Plymouth citadel the ofd embrasureshave
been removed and the guns and bombs taken away.
The ramparts have been excavated to a considerable
depth. Concrete foundations have been thrown in
to receive heavy blocks of granite, which make sub-
stantial platforms for the reception of traversing
Armstrong guns. Similar alterations have taken
place at the telegraph signal redoubt, Mount Wise,
on which three 10-inch traversing guns will be
worked in what is termed a barbette battery. Im-
provements are also making in the battery near the
major-general's residence. So desirous are the en-
gineers of securing what is now considered neces-
sary, that although the foundation of a covered turf
battery west of the telegraph station is in some parts
rock it has been removed to give place to concrete.
The Government report contemplated. the entire
cost of the fortifications round Plymouth at
11,740,000, or £BO,OOO a year for 22 years. Tre
gantle was to mount 60 guns and have barrack ac-
commodation for 450 r.r.en ; S2reasden, 35 guns and
300 men ; and Stadden•point, 60 guns and 300 men.
Barracks are proposed on Maker-heights for 1,120
men. The report calculates that, in case of attack,
Plymouth, I►evonport, and Stonehouse, the popula-
tion of which exceeds 100,000 souls, would contri-
bute 10,000 fighting men for the defence.

BER ItIAJESTPS IMPERIAL AND

INDIAN ARMIES.

(From the Army and Navy Gazelle.)

The measures for the consolidation of the Indian
with the Imperial forces of her Majesty have so
nearly approached accomplishment, that we may
venture to give their main features in a substantially
complete form. We have from the beginning made
the public promptly acquainted with each successive
stage of the process of amalgamation ; we have com-
municated every separate decision almost as soon as
it was arrived at ; and in the present instance our
business is not so much to inform our readers of new
details to any considerable extent as to place before
them, in one general view, and as succinctly as we
are able, the new system by which the Queen's army,
both in Europe, in the colonies, and in India, is to
be regulated, together with the steps resolved on to
provide for existing incumbents, and for the transi-
tionary period which must elapse before all officers
will have entered the military profession under the
same conditions as regards service, privileges, and
emoluments, The former portion of our task is by
far the more simple ; and it will not take us long
to describe the principles and rules by which the
army of the Queen will be governed, after a suffi-
cient time has elapsed to terminate the claims of
those who, having been hitherto serving under the
Indian regulations, are about to be made a consti-
tuent part of the Imperial forces.
In future, every officer to be commissioned and
every soldier to be enlisted will belong to the general
army, and will be available fbr service in any part
of the empire to which the requirements of the
State may call him, and in the rotation hitherto
usual among the troops of the Line. In the great
majority of the regiments what is called the pur-
chase system will prevail as at present ; but in
three regiments of cavalry and nine of infantry,
which are to bo formed upon the remains of the
local Indian European corps, the promotion will be
regulated pretty much on the plan of the Company's
service—namely, pure seniority in all but the higher
ranks. In addition to this army for general service,
and the native colonial regiments now in existence
for the defence of Malta, Ceylon, the West Indies,
&c., there will be in India a number of irregular
corps, composed of natives, but officered from the
Indian Staff, of which six members will be em-
ployed in superiutending the efficiency of each
irregular corps. This Indian Staff will in itself
form a list of officers who will volunteer to serve in
it. Their qualification will consist in their be-
longing to a regiment serving in India, in their
having previously passed two years in that
country, and in their proving their fitness by
means of an examination. We may obviate alarm
by at once stating that the nature of this
examination will be settled, not schoolmaster
fashion, but by the head of the department in which
it is proposed to employ the candidate ; that it is
intended to be practical, and having reference only
to those subjects of which a knowledge is essential
to the efficient discharge of the duties to be under-
taken. The Staff list will be ever varying in its
dimensions, and promotions in it will be regulated
only by length of service. The qualifying terms
are, for the rank of captain, .12 years' service, of
which 4 mast be in the Staff Corps; for Major, 20
years' service, of which 6 must be in the Staff
Corps ; for lieut.-colonel, 26 years' service, of which
8 must be in the Staff Corps. Five years' service in
the last-named rank will give a right to the rank of
colonel, after which the officer's promotion is regu-
lated by his army seniority. The purely military
Staff—the Adjutant-General's and Quartermaster-
General's Departments, the Brigade Majors, and
personal Staff—will be filled either by the Line as
at present, or by the Staff Corps, but in every other
department the Indian Staff will be composed solely
of officers who have given up their regiments to
join the Indian Staff Corps. Every military officer
in India will therefore belong to and serve with
either the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, one of
her 111ajesty's regiments of Cavalry or Infantry of
the Line, or to the Staff Corps. Exchanges between
these several services will be permitted under pretty
much the same rules by which they are now regu-
lated between one Queen's regiment and another.
This, then, will be shortly and simply the position
of the united army as soon as the complications
terminate which must more or less exist during the
period in which two military establishments,
hitherto regulated by widely different systems, are
being welded into one body.
But a considerable time must elapse before that
transitionary period can be brought to a close, and,
so far as the existing generation of officers is con•
cerned, the arrangements to be made—pendente
lite, we may say—are of greater and more im-
mediate interest than those which will ultimately
come into operation. We shall endeavour, then, a 9
briefly as is compatible with clearness, to indicate
their character and probable bearing upon the ser-
vices. _

.'-We believe it may be roughly assumed that the
whole of the officers of the local army are now em-
ployed either upon the Staff or with their regiments,
those whose corps disappeared during the mutiny
being nearly all engaged on Staff service. The
rights of those officers are very rigidly and
com-
prehensively preserved in Mr. Henley's clause in
the Act of Parliament passed last year, prohibiting
the enlistment of Europeans for local service. This
proviso the Government appears ready to carry out
fully, fairly, and unreservedly. Every officer now
on the local Indian establishment, either on the
with a regiment, or holding a nomination
cadetship, will be
,offered the following alter-
1. He may become a member of the new
sntSoattaatitffiNff veoscrreps, without undergoing an examination.
2. He can retain his office (if he is now on the
Spotraffin without joining the Staff Corps, his military
promotion being regulated by the vacancies which
arise in his regiment, even though that regiment
existed only nominally and on paper. 3. He may
volunteer to be transferred in his rank to a regi-
ment of the Line, under conditions which we shall
presently specify in speaking of exchanges. It is
but reasonable to conclude that the great body of
the officers will accept the first or second of these
alternatives. The Staff Corps will no doubt be se-
lected by those who are so junior of their rank in
their present regiments that their prospect of regi-
mental promotion is not so good as it would be
under the Staff Corps regulations, which insure to
them an increase of rank after a certain term of
service. On the other hand, those who otcupy a
high place in their grade in a regiment will prefer
the contingencies of regimental promotion, if in the
ordinary course these contingencies may beexpected
to give them increased position in a shorter time
than the period bringing promotion to the members
of the Staff Corps. With respect to the option of
volunteering into the Line, we have little doubt
that the local officers will avail themselves of it, at
least in sufficient numbers to fill the nine new regi-
ments about to be created, as well as to supply the
vacancies which may be placed at their disposal in
the old royal regiments by half-pay retirements
and transfers therefrom to the Staff Corps. The
conditions underwhich local officers will be allowed to
exchange or :be transferred to the Line we may
summai ise thus:—
They must be under the substantive rank of major.
In exchanges there must not be more than seven
years' disparity of age between the officers.
An officer having the brevet rank of major or
lieut.-colonel can exchange only with another pos-
sessing equivalent brevet rank.
As at present, an officer exchanging must enter
his new regiment as the junior of his rank.
Upon one point the ultimate decision of the autho-
rities has not yet been arrived at, there being, we
understand, difficulties in the way of carrying out
the original recommendation. This was that an
officer either transferred or exchanging to a pur-
chasing regiment of the Line should be permitted
to sell his commission under the same regulations
as an officer originally in the Line, who had not
purchased—that is to say, that he might, after three
years, receive at the rate of £lOO for every year of
his military service until the regulation value of
his commission should be reached, and after 20 years
that he should become entitled to the full regulation
price of his commission. The exchanging office:
will, however, retain all the advantages from the
Indian " Funds "
to which he has contributed, 8$
long as he may choose to be a subscribing member '
to these funds. His local service will count in every
reepect as Line service as regards his claims to half ,

pay or full pay retirement. He will, in fact, step
into the position of an officer of the Line, with, pos-
sibly, the exception we have named, and one other
—his widow and children will not be eligible at his
decease for the' pensions granted under the War-
office regulations, it being considered that the object
of these pensions will be met by the Indian funds,
in which the officer has acquired an interest. The
officer of the Line exchanging into the local service
will, like him with whom he exchanges, be allowed
to count his former service; and, should he have
spent 10 years in India, will acquire a right to the
Indian retirements, just as if he had been originally
a Company's officer, and his widow and children
are eligible for pensior.s from the War-office equally
as if he had not changed his regiment.
We now come to speak of the senior officers of
both armies, whose position cannot properly be said
to be regimental; and the question_ arises, how is
the amalgamation to be carried out so that a just
consideration of their claims shall be observed ? It
appears that the vacancies on the general officers'
list of the Imperial army have not so rapid an effeCt
as those of the Indian army upon the promotion
from the rank of colonel to that of major-general.
Thus, in the former we have some 22 colonels com-
missioned on the 20th June, 1854, who are still
serving in the same rank; while in the Indian
army the 25th colonel promoted in the following
brevet (the 28th of November, 1854) has become a
major-general. It was at first proposed that the
colonels of the two services should be formed into
one list, accordinc, to their army seniority, and that
the senior should succeed to the first vacancy,
whether it arose on the Imperial or the Indian list
of generals. The effect of this would in the first
instance be beneficial to the colonels now at the
head of the list in the Imperial service, but it is
now settled that future vacancies on the generals'
list will be filled up by a colonel of the particular
army, Imperial or Indian, in which they arise, until
all the colonels commissioned as such before the Ist
of April, 1861, shall have become major•generals.
When these two separate lists shall have been ex=
hauted, promotion to the generals' list will be
given to the senior of the united list of colonels,
which will be headed by the officer attaining that
rank after the Ist of April, 1861. It happens that
in each the number of effective colonels eligible for
promotion is about equal to the total establishment
of the generals of that service. Thus in the Line
there are about 260 qualified colonels to succeed to
260 generals, and in the Indian army a little more
than 220 to succeed 220 generals. In the amalga-
mated armies we shall thus start with 480 colonels
to take the place of 480 generals. It is intended, as
in the case of the colonels, so also in that of the
lieutenant-colonels, majors, and captains that ulti-
mately promotion should go to the senior of the
united armies upon the occurrence of each death
among ithe generals. But, with regard to the
bestowal of regiments, each general officer is to
be named only to a regiment of the particular
branch of the service to which he himself belonged
before the amalgamation.
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POLICE IIYTELLR;ENCE.-41 5.

GUILDHALL.—Elizabeth Smith, a woman of
about 40 years of age, who represented that she
was living with a cab proprietor named Gilbert,
and a foreigner whose real name is Edward Segers,
but who appears to have been trading for nefarious
purposes under the name of Segers and Co., Heil
and Co., and other aliases, were charged with con-
spiring together, and with other persons not yet in
custody, to obtain goods by means of false pre.
tences to a very considerable amount, with intent
to cheat and defraud a number of foreign firms in
almost every branch of trade and manufactures.

Mr. Laxton, barrister-at-law, conducted the pro-
secution, and Mr. Wavell, inspector of Stubbs's
Trade Protection Society, attended to watch the
case on behalf of various French and English corn•
mercial firms, who, it was stated, bad been vic-
timized by the prisoner •Segers and his gang to
the extent of about £20,000.

Mr. Laxton said he did not propose to offer any
further evidence against the female prisoner at
present, and he thought it not unlikely but that he
should have on a future occasion to ask for her dis-
charge, as Mr. Cozzi, the prosecutor, was of opinion
that she was only a tool in the hands of Segers and
others ; and, although she might have been cog-
nizant to some extent of the frauds which were being
perpetrated by them, it might be more conducive to
the interests of justice that the charge should not
be pressed against her. He therefore proposed to
allow the case to stand over, particularly as it
would be necessary to produce witnesses and d ,cu-
mentary testimony from Paris to complete the
evidence against Segers, and in the meantime he
would enter upon one of many other charges, for
obtaining another case of straw hats, value £ll6,
of M. Peter Tory-Cadet, a straw-bonnet manufac-
turer, of Nice, in France ; and on the next exami-
nation he would open a third charge against
Segers, of obtaining a quantity of wine, value £5OO,
of Mr. Bernstein, of Hamburg, under false and
fraudulent pretences.

Mr. John Ulric Meili am an importer of
foreign goods, and carry on business at 2, Hart-
street, Wood-street. I am the London correspon,
dent to Mr. P. Tory-Cadet, of Nice. I produce a
letter which I received from his firm about a month
ago.

-Ignatius Pollaky said—l am acquainted with the
handwriting of the prisoner Segers. I have known
him by that name for the last 18 months. He for-
merly had an office at 38, St. Mary Axe, where he
carried on business under the name of Edward
Segers and Co, as general merchants and importers,
but I never saw any signs of business going on upon
any of the occasions that I have been there. Since
then I received a communication from him addressed
from Lime-street. The letter produced by the last
witness, dated the 28th of January, is in the hand-
writing of the prisoner Segers, and the purport of
it is that he was in the receipt of a letter from M. P.
Tory-Cadet, dated the 24th of Jan., and considered
the prices for certain goods named were toe high,
but that if M. Tory-Cadet would accept the terms
he (Segers) proposed, subject to a discount of 10 per
cent., he would take a quantity equal to the value of
£ll6. The letter also urged expedition is the exe-
cution of the order, as trade was too dull to admit
of doing a brilliant business, and that any unneces-
sary delay in forwarding the goods might lose him
a good market. The letter produced dated the 9th
of Feb. is in English, and in the prisoner Segers's
handwriting; it is the order for the delivery of the
goods by Messrs Horne and Co., of Moorgate street,
to Charles R, it and Co.'s agent. I believe that
since Segers has been in London he has obtained
goods of various foreign houses to the amount of
not less than £20,000 ; and had it not been for the
information and assistance derived from Stubb's
Trade Protection Institution, the prisoner Segers
would not have been arrested, as he was, for claims
amounting to nearly £l,OOO, and consequently
would not have been forthcoming to answer tte
criminal charges which are about to be T.roved
against him.

With respect to the Artillery and Engineers, the
arrangement is simple; until the present incum-
bents are exhausted, a list will be kept of the Royal
Artillery and Engineers, and of the similar arms
of the service belonging to Bengal, Bombay, and
Madras. Promotion will go in each list according
to the vacancies arising in it, but when the last
subaltern now serving in any one of them is pro-
moted the step will go to the senior of the whole
Artillery or Engineer service, and all future ap-
pointmeuts will be to the Royal Artillery and the
Royal Engineers respectively. In like manner, it
was at first projected that as regards the medical
service of India the officers now on the list of
each presidency should receive their promotion as
vacancies might present themselves on their parti-
cular lists, the new appointments being to the
post of assistant-surgeon on the staff of the army
generally ;_ but this point is undetermined, and it
is probable that a distinct commission will have to
consider the future position of the medical service
of India in connexion with the new military ar-
rangements.

The Indian Funds, the Military or Orphan and
Medical Retiring Funds are to be abolished. As
soon as existing interests terminate no newly-ap-
pointed officers will be allowed to subscribe to them ;
but those now contributing, or having a right to
contribute, will have all their privileges preserved,
the Government receiving the subscriptions, and
making the disbursements after the same rate and
manner as if there had been no amalgamation.
Such are the principal factures by which this
great scheme will be regulated, both as regards its
formation and permanent maintenance. In the' for-
mer, it appears to us every fair consideration has
been shown to those interested ; while in the latter,
we look forward pith confidence to a system which
will have a most wholesome effect in stimulating the
enterprise and spirit of the middle classes of this
country, will provide adequately for the service of
India, and will powerfully strengthen, both in point
of numbers and efficiency, the !military resources of
the empire.

PL INIIFF AND D REE,'DANT IN THE
YELVERTON CASE.

It is a (hello between Madame Innocence and
Major Mephistopheles. Madame Innocence has
told her story first. Days ago, in the first act of
the piece, there had arisen a hum, a rustle, a
stretching of necks, as a small figure was seen
ascending into the awful pillory or pulpit reserved
for witnesses. Straw-coloured hair, almost
golden, and folded back after that seductive
French fashion—soft and tender eyes—a small
round face, almost " babyish" in shape, and
size, and tinted with a delicate pink, yet with
a tint of suffering and faint lines of pain.
Such as have travelled so far as an Eternal City,
detect a likeness to the famous Cenci picture.
Hark ! All her simple story, detailed by the
golden-haired lady—in so musical a voice-so gra-
phically, yet so sadly, that we all (junior barris-
terial element) there and then enrol ourselves as
her knights, and are prepared to do something
frantic on the first opportunity. Letters? That
thick octavo volume contains all those documents,
printed and set out for the common use of counsel.
Such tenderness, such wit—such graceful womanly
style—such playful dallying with his subjects !
Privately, we class them with Lady Mary's or
the ingenious French lady's; but we may be biassed.
Those more touching passages, where she pleads
against that desertion which she has an instinct is
overshadowing, wring our very hearts. We think
it no shame that rough impetuous Brighiside read-
ing them aloud, should have hat huskiness in his
throat,that unusual break in his voice) or that gentle
hearted Rhadamanthus-in-Chief, high in his green
pavilion, should be obstreperously busy with his
handkerchief, Elderly barristerial element, past
such things now, show signs of weakness and shake
heads mournfully. It is very sad. We are all verging
upon dotage. The golden-Wred lady in the box is
fast turning us into fools. . . A few days interval
—for this dramatic performance has spread itself
over a span of nearly 12 days—and Major Mephis-
topheles has appeared in the witness box to tell his
story. A haughty supercidous fighting man, beard-
ing the hostile population who hem him in on all
sides, with a defiant scowl. Unclean humanity in the
galleries hunger and thirst to have him away.
ready they have fallen on some luckless "e. ight out-
side, whom they have mistaken for Mephistopheles,
and are hurrying him to a muddy bath in the river,
when he is rescued. Mephistopheles is driven to hay,
and will brave it out. He owns to everything with
a strange coolness, unfolds his schemes in a hard icy
voide,alid proclaims candidly that Madame Innocence
was a poor common creature, of the earth, earthy, and
on the whole, no better than she should be. Our ears
tingle as we hear him. We are inclineds-satill theju-
nior barristerial element, by this time infatuated—to
cast lots who shall wait for him outside. But there is
retribution a hand, for Little Sergeant, crackling,
detonating all over, is now at his throat. What
strange feats he performs with that hapless officer !
How he shrieks at him; what contradictions he
involves him in; how he wrings from him—though
miserable Major strives to fence it off desperately
--
a faltering confession of a debased morality; then
lets him go! Unwashed humanity hiss and groan
each questionable sentiment, and•hoot him loudly
as he fades out into Erebus.—bickens's "All the
Year Rout,"

-Mr. Horace Horne said--The order of the 9th of
Feb. was presented at our office iv. Moorgate-street
on the same day. It was an P;rder for the delivery
of a case of straw hats, m,!.rked " P. T. 72," which
had been previously ef,-,osigned to us, and it was ad-
dressed to " Chs.rles Reil and Co."
Charles Harper, porter toa Mr. Steer, proved that
he obtained the goods on the order produced, which
he received from his employer.
Mr, IL Steer said,—l am a lace manufacturer and
commission agent, carrying on business at 64 and
65, Bread-street, Cheapside. About the 9th or 10th
of February last it received three samples of straw
hats from Mr. Leopard, of 9, Walbrook, a Ferson
with whom I am in the habit of dealing largely.
He wished me, as he frequently does in other mat-
ters, to ascertain what they were worth. I "there-
fore took them to all the leading 'louses in the
trade, but as the quality varied I told Mr. Leopard
that I must see the bulk, and afterwards went with
him in a cab to Whitecross-street Prison, where we
saw the prisoner Segers. They spoke together for
some thne in a foreign language which I did not
understand, and Segars then gave Mr. Leopard an
order the delivery of the goods, which the latter
gave me on leaving the prison. I think I heard the
prisoner say he was a member of the firm of Charles
Reil and Co., but I know it was said ir, his presence,
at all events. I told them I know nothing about
the value of such goods, but I would try and ascer-
tain it. *Mr. Leopard, before leaving, gave Segers
two sovereigns, and Segers told me that he wanted
to part with the goods to enable him to get out of
prison. The case contained 60 straw bonnets, and
I agreed to give £23 4s. for them.
Sir F. G. Moon—Did it not strike you as some•
what extraordinary that he should be selling £ll6
worth of goods for £23 4s.
Mr. Steer—Not at all, sir ; for I bad offered them
to the whole of the trade, and only three houses
were inclined to buy them. As soon as I received
the goods I went to Whitecross-street Prison and
paid Segers for then, deducting the £2 Mr. Leo-
pard had given I advanced him and £l4s.
for carrier's charges, &c, I actually gave £25 17s.
for the goods, as I had to pay Mr. Leopard £2 13s.
for his commission.

Sir F. -G. Moon—Did you buy these goods on
commission or upon your own account ?
Mr. Steer—Upon my own account, sir, and I sold
them again at a profit of £3 3s. Segers gave me
a receipt in the name of Charles Reil and Co. Mr.
Leopard is a general merchant. The straw hats
produced by Mr. Goodyear, of St. Pdul's-church-
yard, are the same I sold to him for £29.
Mr. Frederick Goodyear, straw hat warehouse-
man, and wholesale milliner, of Watling-street and
St. Paul's-churchyard, said—l bought the straw
bonnets produced. They are called capotes. There
are only 50 loft, the remainder having been made
up into bonnets, in which shape they have been
sold, or are still in stock.

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Sir F. G. Moon—Did you know that the whole.
see trade value of them was £ll6 when you bought
them for £29 ?

Mr. Goodyear—Certainly not. sir. I did not see
the original invoice, and as they are not a market-
able article, I gave as much as they were worth.
John Nye, the landlord of the house, 12, St. An-
drew's-road, proved that letters and parcels fre-
quently arrived for Charles Reil and Co., but no
person of that name lived there, and the prisoner
Sogers never carried on business there of any kind.
The prisoner Smith lived there and used to take all
letters to Segers in prison, but the parcels were
sent away, there being no money to pay the car-
riage.

Bull, the officer, said he had succeeded in stop-
ping another parcel of goods, which were now at
the Bricklayers' Arms Railway station, and some
idea might be formed of the value of them from the
fact that the conveyance charges upon them
amounted to £l5, and from inquiries he bad ma3e,
he had ascertained that since Segers had been in
prison, he had obtained between £4,000 and £5,000
worth of goods of different kinds, consisting of
iron safes, charcoal, straw bonnets, champagne,
fact nothing seemed to have come amiss to
him.

Mr. Wavell, from Stubb's Trade Protection-
office, stated that within the last six weeks
they had received no less than 25 or 30 applica-
tions from bankers, merchants, and general commer-
cial firms in Paris and from all parts of the Conti-
nent for information with regard to the prisoner
Segers. Some of these applications were from per-
sons who had aiready been victimised to a very
serious extent, and others from persons who were
about to forward large quantities of valuable goods
upon the orders of Charles Reil and Co., and who,
by a timely warning of the character of the fictitious
firm, were saved from heavy losses.
Sir F. G. Moon said there was no doubt that this
was only the opening of a most extensive con-
spiracy, and he trusted the press, with their usual
courtesy, would render all the assistance in their
power in furthering the ends of justice, by giving
the utmost publicity possible to the case. The
magistrates were at all times glad to acknowledge
services offered in support of the public good, and
he, for one, was pleased that he had the opportunity
of doing so in the present case. Re alluded to
Stubbs's Trade Protection Institution, through
whose instrumentality one of the most dangerous
gangs of swindlers was about to be broken up, and
he thought the commercial world were greatly in-
debted to the gentlemen connected with that esta-
hlishruent for the valuable aid and information they
had afforded in this matter.
The prisoner SE gers said he had sent to instruct
counsel to appear for him, bat he gentleman he
wished to engage was out of town, and in his
absence he would abstain from cross-examining

witnesses, and would not therefore object to the
remand.

Permission having been given to the female pri-
soner to put in bail, if she could get two respectable
householders to become sureties in £2O each for
her, both prisoners were remanded for a week.

BXECUTIO OF THE DUNDRI NUR-

Yesterday morning Matthew Wedmore awl,
Charles Wedmore suffered the extreme penalty 01
the law in front of the County Gaol, at Taunton,
for the murder of Sarah Waterman, the aunt of the
two culprits. The circumstances under which these
two men obtained entrance to the cottage inhabited
by the murdered woman and her husband, and the
chain of evidence which connected them with the
crime, will be too clearly remembered to need rege"
tition.

Both the prisoners rose at an early hour, and were
alternately visited by the rev. chaplain ; the): lie"
tened with apparent earnestness to his exhortations,
and were evidently prepared to meet their fate:
Shortly before eight o'clock the under-sheriff
arrived at the gaol, and, accompanied by Ur'
W. Oakley, the governor, and other officials of the
prison, proceeded to the cells. The executioneir
(Calcraft) pinioned them in the separate cells, and
they bore themselves with great composure during
the awful ceremony. As the prison clock struck
eight the chapel bell gave warning to the miseribl°
men that their hour had come. They met for the
first time since their sentence.in the passage lead;
ing to the scaffold, and at once shook bands an
bade one another good bye. The solemn procession
then moved towards the drop, the rev. chaplain
reading the burial service, the wretched culprits
fervently joining in the reponses; they mounted
the scaffold with a calm and firm step; apparently
indifferent to the execration and cries with which
their appearance was received. The unhappy 1:13.ell
both shook hands with the governor and chaphoir'
and fervently thanked them for the kindnese;exhi'
bited towards them, but neither of them said an'
thing up to the last moment as to the crime far
which they were about to suffer. Calcraft speedili
adjusted the ropes, and within a few momen'cs their
frightful crime was expiated. After hanging the
usual time the bodies were cut down, ar_d buried ie
the course of the day within the precincts of the
prison. _ _

The crowd that attended was im tnense.

COUNTRY .3141/.lfE2 S.

LIVERPOOL-APRIL 5.

There was a fair attends:ace of the te,wn and countri
trade at this morning's market, and of buyers from the
interior. We had but little busineso doing, and both
wheat and flour easier to buy. Oats and oatmeal were ill
limited sale, at rather under previous currencies. Barlelt
beans, and peas were unchanged in value or demand.
Indian corn 4 limited inquiry, and mixed was freely offered
at 378 per 4801 b, yellow 38s, and 38s 6d to 39s for white.