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been named Royal Piedmontese Commissioner to the camp of General Pelissier . DESTRUCTION OF FORT ROT 8 INSHAXM IN TUB BALTIC . Admiral Dundas communicates a report from Captain Y elver ton , describing the blowing up of the fort of Botsinshalm and of some large Russian barracks at Kotka .
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WAR MISCELLANEA . British Recruiting in America . —Mr . Charles H . Stanly , of the British Consulate , New York , has been arrested , and placed under one thousand dollars' bond , to answer a charge of enlisting recruits for the Crimea . Great Loss of Cattle intended for the Crimean Army . —A letter from Smyrna , dated June 30 , says : — " The Ganges ( transport ) , Ilalpin , proceeded yesterday for the Crimea ; two hundred head of cattle died during her detention at the castle . " New Hospital for the Army of tiik East . — Galignani publishes a Turin letter , stating that " His Majesty of the Sicilies has signified his consent to Sir W . Temple , that a hospital for convalescents from the East should be established on the Island of Ischia , where it is known the mineral springs possess rare powers in the cure" of ague and rheumatism , and the air is particularly pure . "
Health of the Army . —From a report of Dr . Hall , addressed to the late Commander-in-Chief , we learn that " cholera and bowel complaints still prevail" ( June 26 ) , " and have been on the increase within the last two or three days ; but neither the admissions nor the deaths have been so marked as to attract special attention , though numerous enough to create uneasiness . " Dr . Hall speaks with . great approval of the arrangements for the reception in hospital of the wounded after the action on the 18 th . These arrangements , it will be recollected , have been seriously impugned by a medical correspondent of the Times , writing from the spot .
The Loss res in the Land Transport Corps by death would be extraordinary did we not find a parallel to them in the Sardinian array of Tchorgoun , which . has lost in three weeks nearly 1000 men by cholera , dysentery , and diarrhoea . The Turks and French encamped in the valley suffer somewhat from the same diseases , but it is observable that the men who die are recruits and old men who are mostly unacclimatised . At Yeni-Kaleh , the detachment of Land Transport Corps lost in a fortnight fifty men , of whom twenty-five were English and twenty-five native drivers . In its present state , it cannot supply all the wants of our army . —Times Correspondent .
Russian Advance into Asiatic Turkey . —General MouraviefT , Commander-in-Chief of the Caucasian corps , announces , under date of June 13 and 14 , that the Russian troops have crossed the Turkish frontier , and occupied a part of the Pachalic of Kars . The Russian Reinforcements sent into the Crimea have been compelled to return through want of provisions . Anapa . —The Prcsse tVOrient reports that the Circassian garrison of Anapa is harassed by a Russian force ; that the Circassians have not been able to regain the military road , and that they are encamped to the number of fourteen battalions on the heights above
Soujak-Kaleh . Sir Edmund Lyons has , mnde hi nself unpopular by n scries of rapid promotions of a son of Sir James Graham , a youth of nineteen , until lately a midshipman . A death vacancy having occurred among the lieutenants , Sir Edmund directed that a board should be hold to pass young Mr . Graham to his next step , that of a mate ; and , before lie had been in that rank , a dozen hours signalled for him to come to breakfast , and handed to him his commission as lieutenant . Such is the story as related by the Times Correspondent . A Campaign on " tiik Danthk . —The Austrian Gazette is informed , from ( Jalntz , tliat a campaign on the Danube and Pruth is expected there .
"The Grapes auk Soric . " —A soldier writing to his cousin in Belfast , relates that after the attack on the 18 th , one of the wounded men whs asked by an oftieor if it -wns grape that caused his wound . " Yes , sir , " he replied , " it was d—d sour grape to me . " Departure of Polks f <> k 'JVhki-. y . —A second transport of about one hundred of the Polish refugees , most of them young and able-bodied men , havo sailed from Doptford , * on board the so row steamer the Victory , under the command of a distinguished ^ Polish oflleer , Captain Ordon . They are , golny to join ' the corps of the Turkish Cossacks , commanded by one . of their ' ountrymen , C / . ajkowski , now Saiulyk Paohn . A Russian Compliment . —The " Ditily Xnr . i Correspondent relates that , after our ro |> ulso on the 1 Ktl » , a Russian officer , during the armistice , Haul that wo are "an army of lions led on by donkeys . "
The Baltic . —Fifteen more infernal ninohiuoH Inivo been found , making , in all , a tot . ul of sixty-one discovered during a fortnight . Two dnncrterH , who enme on board the Kxmouth on Juno the- . 'JOth , stated that two hundred of thc . HO " Huhinarinn exploders"' hud bcon laid down b y the Kussians on the south side of (' roustndt ; and that thoy were so arranged thnt ten should explode At the same moment . Admiral Scvinour , who was hurt
by the explosion of one of these contrivances , is progressing favourably . " Timid Counsels . " —It is asserted in the camp that " one of the generals of division" ordered that the cemetery which we took on the 18 th ult . should be given up . It was defended and fortified , however , by Lieutenant Donnelly , and we still retain it . The Ditch of the Abattis at the Redan is said to have been filled with bayonets fixed firmly in the earth , on the occasion of our recent attack . The French Loss from First to Last . — The Moniteur says that it results from all the documents received at the War-office , that the number of military men who have fallen on the field of battle , or who have died in the ambulances and hospitals in consequence of wounds , cholera , or other diseases , amounts for the army in the East , from its departure from France up to the 1 st of June , 1855 , that is to say , during a period of thirteen months , to 14 , 205 men , and that , according to reports already received , the number of killed during the recent combats in June may be estimated , at the highest , at
2300 . The Sack of Kertcii . —Admiral Bniat writes to the French Minister of Marine , to say he does not think many articles of value have been destroyed at the Kertch Museum , the greater number having been removed previous to the occupation of the town . General Sir George Brown has departed for England on medical certificate .
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THE SUNDAY RIOTS . The masses seem determined to continue their Sunday demonstrations " until further notice ; " so that Lord Robert Grosvenor ' s bill for " the better observance of the Sabbath" has led to a very singular method of " observing" the day of rest and devotion . There is no doubt , however , that the middle classes , and the more decent of the working-classes , stood aloof from the proceedings of last Sunday ; since , as the obnoxious bill had been withdrawn , and the Government had promised inquiry into the misconduct of the police , there appeared no reasonable occasion for breaking her Majesty's pcr . ee , or her Majesty ' s policemen ' s heads , or her Majesty ' s aristocracy ' s windows . It is pretty certain that the Government looked towards the day with much anxiety . They did not , indeed , plant a six-pounder in the park , nor were the mob stimulated by " the crash on the pavement" ( of Pall Mall , or St . JamesVstreet ) " of the trail" of that gently-persuasive instrument ; so that the pleasing vision in which Mr . Dundas indulged was not realised . But our frightened rulers thought proper to keep the soldiers under arms until the evening ; and we understand that each man was furnished with twenty rounds of ball . Happily , however , there was no occasion for their services ; for the demonstration , on the whole , was rather a tame affair . The rioters consisted chiefly of boys and youths ranging from about fourteen to sixteen—mischievous ragamuffins , whoof course had no idea of abstract principle in connexion with the matter , but who desired to have
" a lark" after their own disreputable fashion . Ihese congregated in Hyde Park , and , having amused themselves for an hour or two in hooting at those few carriages which were to be seen , adjourned to Bolgravia , and made a brilliant razzia upon the windows , hundreds ) of which were smashed . The aristocracy are great sufferers in the matter of glass ; and Admiral Sir George Seymour has been a personal sufferer in a rather considerable degree . His house in Eaton-. ^ uare having been attacked , he sallied forth with all the courage and recklessness of a sailor , and literally thrashed one of the
offenders with hearty good will . He was assailed , however , by a shower of stones , and , being badly cut on the head , was compelled to retire . Some of the rioters wore subsequentlj' captured , and about . six o ' clock the mob began to disperse . During the disturbances , Lord Palme-rat on , Lord Brougham , Lord Cardigan , and other noblemen , hud to run the gauntlet of the populace . The hero of the light cavalry charge was loudly cheered , and bowed his acknowledgments . A quantity of straw , which was laid down in lielgrave-squnre , on account of illness , was piled up in heaps , and fired .
At tin ; upper end of <« rosvenor-place , a collision occurrod between a small party of police Jind a large body of'the rioters . The police had arrested a man , whom the crowd were determined to rescue ; truncheons were used , and wore opposed by Htieks ; and tinnlly , the police , who wore roughly used , word obliged to release their prisoner , and to mako oil " , the inspector observing , " Wo aro not among Englishmen , or thoy would not treat iih fu > . " The conduct of the police was an praiseworthy and forbearing as on thu proviou . s Sunday it was reprehensible . The younger constables wore draughted on " , and none but experienced men wore employed . Altogether , tlio proceedings of t lie day may bo nearly summed u |> in one brief sentence : —There has been profitable , work for the glaziers . Two ( Jrciuulier Guardsmen , and six youths , havo been remanded for a wook at the Marylcbono office , the
latter for breaking windows near the Regent ' s Park , and the former for inciting them . A little boy , aged fourteen , has been fined 40 s . for breaking the windows of Lord Robert Grosvenor's house in Park-street . The police had a hard fight with the mob in taking him Into custody . Other offenders have been punished at different offices . Mr . Mair was on Tuesday discharged , on entering into recognizances . In consideration of the inquiry to be instituted by Government , he declined to press his charges against the policemen who had taken him into custodv .
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OUR CIVILISATION . Stealing Children ' s Clothes . —A low-looking hag of a woman , named Elizabeth Smith , was charged at Worship-street with having lured away and robbed a little girl named Jane Brooksbank , the only child of a tobacconist , living in Golden-lane , St . Luke ' s . From the evidence of the child's mother , it seemed that she had been sent out by her parent on an errand one morning , from which she did not return , and that after more than a fortnight ' s anxious search , she was brought home by one of the neighbours , half-starved
and in dirty rags . The little girl stated to the magistrate that she had been seduced from her home by the prisoner , by whom she was afterwards stripped of her clothes , and , having been detained ' in the house of the woman nearly three weeks , was turned into the streets to beg . She was accidentally seen by a friend of the family crying on a door-step far from her home , and was taken by him back to her parents . The prisoner was subsequently traced out and apprehended in a disreputable house in "Whitechapel . She denied the charge against her , and was remanded .
Divorce Bills . —In the House of Lords , on Friday week , the "VVyndham Divorce Bill , and the Ewing Divorce Bill , were read a second time , and ordered to be committed . The former has been before the House for a considerable time , and the facts have already appeared in the Leader . In the latter case , the divorce is asked for on the ground of adultery committed by Mrs . Ewing with Mr . Thomas Muir , a merchant of Calcutta . —A bill for divorcing Morton Cornish Sumner from Penelope Rubina Maria his wife , on the ground of adultery , was read a second time on Tuesday . The facts of the case were peculiarly revolting . Mr . Sumner , when twenty-four years of age , had married the daughter of Demetrius Count Valasamachi , senator of the Ionian
Islands , her mother being the widow of the late Bishop Heber . The lady , at the time of her marriage , was eighteen . About five months after her marriage she was confined prematurely of a son owing to a fall ; and after this , Mrs . Sumner took an unaccountable dislike to her husband , parted from him while abroad , and subsequently , in London , declared to Mr . Sumner , sen ., that her husband was physically incapacitated from being the father of her child , and . that " she could sweai" to the infant being the offspring of another man . She made this declaration in the presence of her mother ! There was reason to believe she had misconducted herself before her marriage ; and in May , 1854 , she was married at Corfu to a Greek gentleman , with whom she
has since lived . Forgery by A ^ Boy . —On Friday , at the Mansion House , AY . Shanle }' , a delicate-looking boy , not more than fifteen years of age , was brought before Sir R . W . Carden in the custody of Michael Haydon , the detective officer , charged with having forged and uttered a Mil of exchange for 64 / . 7 s .. with intent to defraud the Commercial Bank of London * It appeared that the boy had been very well conducted until last Easter , when he met some loose girls at Greenwich Fair , with whom he formed an acquaintanceship , and upon whom he spent most of the money derived from the forged bill . He was committed for trial .
Sending a Threatening Letter . — Mr . William Coriield , solicitor , of 10 , Gray ' s-in-squaro , appeared on a summons at the Clerkenwell Poliee-otuce for " threatening to print and publish certain matters and things with intent to extort money . " Mr . Corfield hud some real or alleged claims upon Mr . Kadford , Jun ., a young man who has recently been a student at Oxford , and who got considerably into debt while there . In consequence of this , he was compelled to leave the country . His father , however , undertook to settle his debts ; but demurred to a claim for 2 , > 0 / . by Mr . Corfield , who subsequently offered to take one hundred pounds lesa . Mr . Kadiord , Sen ., delayed sending the lesser sum , in order that ho might make inquiries ; auil Mr . Corfiold then threatened to issue a placard , oflo . ring a reward for the arrest of the young man on a charge of forgory , and describing him as having " frizzled brown hair , odd grey eyes , nink complexion , vulgar manners . ' Mr . Coriield was remanded , and bail wns refused .
Ml-rdkr ok a Soldier at Siiiu . iikm > .- —A man named Thomas Jackson lwis boon committed lor trial , charged with tlic murder of G « orb - « Lewis , a 1 ™** ° * the 7 th Hussar * , now . stationed at Sliolhold . Jackson had been drinking , together will . Iamvk < " . < son" ^ soldiers , at a public-house . He «•« . « not sober ; and he wished the soldiers to box will , him ° » ?»^ " * £ & day This thoy refused to do , and thoy all shortly left he house . On the road , J « c **> n renewed his challenge ,
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JTOY 14 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER . , 665
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Leader (1850-1860), July 14, 1855, page 665, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2099/page/5/
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