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chief topi * of conversation in the Baltic Fleet is the infernal machines , of which at least forty-six have been discovere d and picked up off Cronstadt during the last ten days . One of them lately burst on the poop of the Exm outh . Admiral Seymour , Captain Louis , R . M ., flag Lieutenant Pearce , and four others were examining it at the time , and most wonderful it is that they were not all killed on the spot . Admiral Seymour is severely injured , especially in the left eye ; Captain Louis , R . M ., to both legs ; and the others have also all suffered more or less from the explosion . I am , however , only too happy to be able to state , on the best authority , that all the severe cases are progressing favourably .
" On the 21 st inst ., the Amphion , 36 , screw-fngate , Captain Key , while employed in reconnoitring the fortifications at Sweaborg , accidentally mistook the channel , and in consequence grounded . The boats were immediately despatched in all directions to sound ; and while so employed , one of the nearest forts opened a brisk fire upon the frigate . Four shots struck her , killing one man and wounding two others . Captain Key , however , nothing daunted , returned the compliment with such energy and precision , that he succeeded in blowing up a large Russian powder magazine , and occasioned other serious damage to the fort . "
BOMBARDMENT OF SWEABOUG . A despatch from Dantzig says that Sweaborg has been bombarded . Some magazines were blown up and various buildings fired . Narva also has been attacked with success , several cannon having been , dismounted and shipping destroyed . The small town of Nystadt , in the Gulf of Bothnia , has been destroyed by bombardment ; but at Sandhanf ( an island situated to the east of Sweaborg , near the coast of the mainland ) -we have met with a reverse . A frigate approached the batteries on the island , and opened fire . The Russian batteries replied with success , destroyed a launch which preceded the frigate and was taking soundings , and lodged a shell and some cannon-balls in the frigate itself .
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WAR MISCELLANEA . Genebal , La Marmora writes from Kadikoi ( Crimea ) , under date of the 27 th , that the cholera has almost disappeared from the Piedmontese camp . The Cholera is now almost as fatal in the English camp as when the army lay in Bulgaria , where they lost two hundred men in a short space of time . The Guards have lost eighty-seven within a month . The Grenadiers lost ten in one day , and six in another . This regiment has lost thirty-four men and two sergeants . The Coldstream Guards have been more fortunate , only losing ; eighteen men and one sergeant . The Scots Fusilier Guards have lost twenty-three men and two sergeants . These numbers are beginning to make wide gaps in the ranks . —Morning Post Correspondent .
Anapa . —The French Admiral Bruat , in writing to his Government , says that though Anapa was safe from a coup de main , he- can understand the reason for the Russians abandoning it , since it " is provided with only a few wells of brackish water ; and , once shut in , this cause alone would have compelled the garrison to surrender . " The Advbnturous Lady mentioned as having , in an hour of no ordinary peril , paid a visit to the Mamelon Tower , was , it ia said , the wife of Lord George Paget , the commanding officer of the 4 th Light Dragoons . Miss Nightingaj ^ k is about to return home . Miss Stanley has already arrived .
Letters op Maiisiial St . ArnAud . —The family of Marshal St . Arnaud have published at Paris a selection from his correspondence , written during the time in which he held the chief command of the French army in Turkey . The tone of these letters is very gloomy . Writing to his brother from Varna , on August 9 th , he aays : — " If I were to give way to my impressions , to my turn of mind and the feelings of my heart , I should never havo written you a sadder letter . I am in the midst of one vast tomb , resisting the scourge that is decimating my army , seeing my braveHt soldiers succumb at the very moment I most want them , and yet continuing , for all that , the preparation lor a formidable expedition . Have there been many such situations as mine in history ? l \ ly courage and energy ahull at least prove equal to the occasion . God , who strikes me with one hand , raises me up with the other . For a long time ,
my health has not been better , in the midat of carca and anxieties that fret mo , and which I devour in secret , irtth death at my heart , calm on my brow . Such ia my Wdstcnco . " In a letter to hia Histor , ho observes : — "Cholera , conflagration , plague , lire , anil water—I have borne them all . " To hia wife , ho expresseH his hope of Joining her in tho spring , and retiring into the calm of private life . More than once , tho Marshal complains of Way , owing to the English not being ready . ^ Privatu John Lton n , of tho Gmindiur Guards , h » a performed an act of great courage at the Quarry workn . W seized a thirty-two pounder Hholl , which had fallen mong a group of man , and hurled it over the parapet tf the works . Tho fuse was burning , nu < l tho shell wan linear explosion that it burst tho instant nfter it wan ¦ SWS over . Tho man ' s nmno and action wore reported JoXord Raglan ; but wo do not hear thot Lyons has Wn rewarded .
Captain Lyons was buried on the 25 th of June . The Foreign Legion . — A Hamburg letter of the 28 th ult . in the fndependance Beige says : — " The officer who directs the recruiting operations in the isle of Heligoland having informed the English Government that the number of men enlisted in Germany was sufficient to organise a battalion , Lord Panmure directed his agent at our port to freight the vessels necessary to convey those men to Folkestone , where they are to be equipped , armed , and drilled . " A Medical Officer writes to the Times from before Sebastopol , to complain of the disgracefully deficient preparations for receiving the wounded after the action on the 18 th of June . During the whole of that day , the wounded had nothing to eat , and very little to drink ! On the 19 th , matters were very little better .
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THE SUNDAY DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK . Notwithstanding the advertisements and placards put forth by the police authorities , in which any further demonstration of the working classes in Hyde Park was forbidden , large numbers , belonging to all classes of society beneath the very highest , assembled last Sunday long before three o'clock , the hour at which the proceedings were advertised to commence , and for some time all
went off peaceably . A few persons at different parts of the park proceeded to address the peopl e until the arrival of the police at the particular locality would scatter the auditory and cause the orator to vanish . One time , however , the people rushed at the police , and knocked their hats off ; at which the constables made a vigorous use of their truncheons , and several persons were seriously injured . A little child was forced down , and trampled upon ; and a man who , to avoid being taken into custody , leaped into the Serpentine , and endeavored to swim across , was nearly drowned . Being rescuedfly the Humane Society ' s men , he was ultimately handed over to the police . The hooting at the carriages and their occupants , and the cries of "Go to church ! " and "Take the horses out ! " which formed a distinguishing feature of the preceding Sunday ' s ceremony , weTe repeated ; and the police immediately began to arrest the hooters . Two or three severe scuffles ensued ; several heads were broken , and it was found necessary to dress the wounds of some of tfce prisoners at the Humane Society ' s Receiving House , and of others at St . George ' s Hospital , before they were finally removed to the station , handcuffed . Some attempts at rescue were made ; but they failed .
A very serious collision between the police and a number of soldiers seemed at one time imminent . The police—whose conduct all accounts agree in representing as extremely brutal — made a sudden and unprovoked attack upon a group of respectably dressed men and women , several of whom were knocked down . Some soldiers , chiefly belonging to the Guards , were . present ; and one , wearing the Crimean medal , observed that the conduct of the police was as bad as that of the Russians at Inkerman . The speaker was immediately seized ; his comrades rushed to the rescue ; and , after a scuffle , the police thought it prudent to relinquish their prisoner . The people , of course , cheered the soldiers , who appeared so greatly excited that the police sent to the guard-house , and procured the assistance of a serjeant , by whom several of the soldiers were induced to return to their barracks . Those who remained behind , however , seemed greatly irritated with the police , and expressed their opinion of them with much freedom . By eight o ' clock , the crowd began to leave the park ; but it was not until long after that hour that the ground was entirely cleared . Several persons expressed their intention of making a demonstration outside LorJ Robert Grosvenor ' s house ; but it does not appear that anything of importance occurred there . His lordship , it was stated , had left town , and had placed two hundred policemen in his house to protect it in case of attack . About one hundred-and-four persona wore taken in custody ; and on Monday tho investigation of their cases commenced at Marlborough-street . A very largo crowd of persons assembled outside the police oifice ; and several men were apprehended for stone-throwing and riotous conduct . On tho nrrival of the magistrate , he was greeted with cries of " Act . with justice ! " and one or two stones were flung , which fortunately missed him . Mr . Bullnntino appeared for some of tho accused ; but , owing to a vory discreditable delay on tho part of tho police or of the Government , tho proceedings did not commence until about a quarter to five o ' clock . Evidence was then received with respect to a youth named Edward Oopas , nnd an elderly gentleman , Mr . Francis Henry Mnir , who was described as a clerical agent and editor of a periodical . Both wore charged with assaulting tho police . Mr . Bulluntinc , in addressing tho magintratu in their behalf , said tho people had gone to the park with tho laudable desire of driving a little sense into tho ridiculous head of the author of that moat ridicujoua moaaurc , tho Sunday Trading Bill ; and , with respect to Mr . Mair , ho said ho w « a prepared to prove that tho police had perjured themselves . Mr . Clarkson said ho wna instructed by Government to say that all persons , not engaged in committing nets of violence ,
who were then in custody , might be set at liberty ; and finally , Mr . Hardwick , the magistrate , adjourned the proceedings until the following day . A strong ' patrol watched the streets in the neighbourhood of the police office the whole of Monday , and remained there during the night . At midnight , there were still two or three score of loungers in and about Marlborough-street , 'who seemed to have come there from , motives of curiosity . On Tuesday , the proceedings were resumed , when ten of the prisoners were discharged , while those accused of stone-throwing were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment , and several pickpockets were also committed . Mr . Hardwick was decidedly of opinion that
the meeting was unlawful . In the course of the day , two or three persons came to complain of the conduct of the police the preceding evening . One gentleman said he had witnessed many scenes of ferocity in foreign countries , but nothing so dreadful as the violence of the police , who attacked indiscriminately men , women , and children . The outrages on the people appeared entirely unprovoked . Several letters , containing similar complaints , have appeared in the Times and other morning papers . One correspondent says that the people , on seeing the constables striking women and children , exclaimed , " Oh , you brutes ! wait till next Sunday . " A writer in the Daily Nezcs suggests that a penny subscription should be got up'Tor prosecuting the police .
A riotous mob again assembled before the Marlborough-street Police-office on Tuesday , and broke several windows . On Wednesday afternoon , Lorri Robert Grosvenor ' s house was besieged by a large crowd ; and , on the same day , two Frenchmen were remanded on a charge of attacking the police on Monday in Silverstreet , Golden-square , and inciting the people to proclaim a Republic .
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OUR CIVILISATION . Attempt to upset a Railway Train . —A little boy , dressed in a pinafore , and apparently about eleven , years of age , was committed for trial , last Saturday , at Worship-street , for placing an iron railway " chair" on the North London line . The fireman fortunately perceived the obstruction some way in advance , screwed do-wn the break as hard as he could' and saved the ti ^ iin from destruction . The boy was seen to place the iron on the rail deliberately , and then to conceal himself that he might watch the effect ! He has since been acquitted at the Central Criminal Court ; the Recorder having ruled that the jury before they could convict must be satisfied that the boy had placed the obstruction on the line with an evil purpose .
Wiio-iam Barnes , a well-dressed 3-oung man , has been committed for trial on no less than nine charges of fraud and forgery . The mode by which the prisoner effected his purpose was this : —He ascertained by some means or other the ironmongers with whom several of the respectable builders in the metropolis dealt for nails and ironmongery , and by means of forged orders , purporting to be written by the latter , obtained several tons of nails and other property from the former . He , has twice before been tried and convicted of similar offences . Mr . Edmond O'Flaherty . —Our readers will recollect tlie scandal which was created about a year ago by the appointment of this gentleman as Irish Commissioner of Income-tax , from which he was removed on certain discreditable facts being brought to light against him .
An action has just been trifed in the Court of Queen's Bench , Dublin , to recover the value of two bills of exchange for 5001 . and 300 / ., the . first being the draft of the defendant , Mr . Gregory , upon Lord Dunkellin , and endorsed by Mr . Edmond O'Flaherty ; and the other the acceptance of tho defendant . The defence was that both the names of Mr . Gregory , as acceptor , and of Lord Dunkellin , were forgeries ; and , after a trial of two days , this was proved to the satisfaction of the jury . Both tho bills were cashed by Mr . Gregory for Mr . O'Floherty , who had become deeply involved owing to unsuccessful turf transactions . It is believed that lie is at present holding the office of clerk to a " store" at JTew York ; and it would seem that , though a warrant for his apprehension was issued nearly a year ago , no effort has over been made towards his pursuit and capture .
A Stokai in aTka-cui * . —An action has been brought in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , by which Rosehannah Fray , recently lady ' s maid to Lady Zetland , sought to recover damages for defamation of character from Sarnh Potter , her ladyship ' s housekeeper . The evidence exhibited an amusing interchange of crimination and recrimination , each litigant accusing tho other of being " a bud woman . " It seema that the plaintiff and the defendant never agreed well ; and at length the lattor accused the former to Lady Zetland of being a drunkard , and of malting improper solicitations toGunn , the groom of tho chambers , " in every hole and corner ot tn © house "—tho man beingin f « ct" a second Joseph
young , , in her hands . '' This was tho amount given by the plaintiff ; but Mrs . Potter considerably V ^\ f >*» thoiidi still making abortions damaging to Iray 8 character . Mrs . Potter , on nor Hide , aborted that the plaintiff hud accused lur of improper conduct with respect to tho somo Uuuu , of whose attentions to Fray eho waa said to bo jealous . MrB .
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— ' ¦ . . ' ;' - ' : ¦ ¦ ¦ 7 1 " •* "'• ... . ^ Jitly 7 , 1855 ] T H & X ± Ajy El 641
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Leader (1850-1860), July 7, 1855, page 641, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2098/page/5/
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