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27 , 000 infantry , 5000 cavalry , and 70 guns . The Turks , well provided , awaited the enemy with resolution , orders being given to hold out to the last , and , if necessary , to retire upon Erzeroum . The Turkish General demands reinforcements of men . only . Up to June 30 , nothing new -had occurred at Yeni-Kaleh . English Recruiting in Switzerland . —A letter from Berne , in the Cologne Gazette , says that the English minister in Switzerland has complained energetically to the National Council of the severity displayed by the police in preventing enlistments for the English Foreign Legion whilst recruiting for the Neapolitan Government is allowed to be carried on freely . The National Council , adds the letter , has , notwithstanding the complaints , directed the cantonal authorities to cause the persona who are accused of having made the enlistments for the Eng lish to be prosecuted .
The Russians at Kara-Dacii . —A despatch from the Russian General Mouravieff , dated the 5 th ( 17 th ) of June , gives some particulars of a I'ecormaissance made the day before , terminating in a slight contest with the Turks , who retired beneath the batteries of Kara-Dagh . The Russian General estimates the Turkish loss at sixty men , and sets down his own at four killed and fourteen wounded . The despatch , however , is full of hyperboles— such as six Russian sotnias pursuing one hundred baski-bazouks and two regiments of regular cavalry , under the fire of artillery . This quite eclipses Falstaff ' s men in buckram .
The Foreign Legion . —The Inde ' pendance Beige says , that all the officers of the first two battalions of the Foreign Legion enlisted at Heligoland have served during the revolutionary period against Denmark in the Holstein army . The same paper ( or rather one of its correspondents ) says that " England appears to attach more importance than ever to the preservation of that old Danish position ( Heligoland ) which the Congress of Vienna bestowed on her at the reiterated request of Lord Castlereagh . I have been assured that the English Government intends to execute the project of Lord Liverpool's Ministry , which had resolved to convert Heligoland into a first-rate fortress , intended to command the North Sea , as Malta and Gibraltar command the Mediterranean . " This sounds rather doubtful .
Russian Reinforcesients . —A correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette , dating " from the Polish frontier , July 6 , " enumerated the Russian troops now on their way from Poland to the Crimea , having been set free by the declared " expectant policy" of Austria . From the interior of Russia we learn that the entire first infantry army corps is on the march for the Crimea . These , however , are Russian reports . Rkduction of the Austrian Army in the Principalities . —Advices from Vienna announce a reduction in the Austrian army occupying the Principalities , corresponding to that which has just taken place in Gallicia .
Death of Admiral Naciumokf . —A despatch from General Pelissicr , of July 12 th , says that , " according to the report of a deserter , Admiral Nachimoff was killed by a ball in the forehead the preceding day , in the Central Bastion . " Flags of Truce . —An account appears , in an oincial paper published at Helsingfors , of the violation by the English of a Hag of truce , at a place called Ruomo . It is to be hoped that this assertion will be disproved . The Retreat " in Exoellent Order . "—The Daily News Crimean correspondent says that , so far from tlie retreat of the French on the 18 th of June being "in excellent order , " as General Pelissier averred , it was a panic-struck rout ; and that of the English was only a degree better .
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• OUR CIVILISATION . ASSIZK CASKS . James Dariiy and Jamics Ashton have been found guilty at the York Assi / . os of robbing and assaulting two old men , who in mid-day were conveying across Wentworth Park a large buiii of money for the payment of the artisans at some neighbouring ironworks . The , old men made a very bravo resistance , and one was I Beverely beaten about tlie head by a life-preserver ; but 1 he resolutely kept his feet on the rug of the chaise in which they were riding , and , the bag of money being thus hidden , it was passed over by the ruflians . Having found upon one of the old men a tobacco-pouch , which they imagined to contain a large sum of mono } -, the , thieves suddenly made oil "; but one was apprehended a I few days after , and the other gave himself up . Thomas Jackson bus boon found guilty of tho manslaughter of Goorgo Lowi . n , n private of tho 7 th Hussars , : at Sheffield , utider circumstances which we detailed in the £ e < t < fer of July 7 . Jackson was sentenced to transportation for life . Wuxjcam James , ngoil seventy , schoolmaster , was ¦ j charge ! with feloniously forging and uttering to tho " \ R « V . W . PP Walsh , at Oxford , on the 10 th of April , ¦ 1865 , a certain paper writing , purporting to be tho last ™ l and testament of one John Couling , well knowing . ; , »• Mine to bo forgod . Tho case having boon proved , ¦; 1 «• prisoner woa sentenced to hard labour for eighteen months . BwwMUunr . —At tho Winchester Assize * . William
jioiaswortn , wun , ana xnomas Cole , were indicted for breaking into the house of Miss Janet Hoyes at Bitterne , near Southampton . From the statements made by Miss Hoyes and her two servants , it appeared that early in the morning of the 29 th of November last , the house of the former was burglariously entered by four men , and property to the value of 140 / . was stolen . Great violence was resorted to by the . thieves , ' one of whom struck Miss Hoyes with a life preserver as she lay in bed , and threatened to murder her and set her bed on fire . The jury found the prisoners Guilty , and they were sentenced to be transported , Holdsworth for life , and Cole for twenty years . Attempted Child Murder . —At the York Assizes , Mary Walker was found guilty of throwing her newlyborn infant down a privy , and casting stones upon it . She was tracked by two men into the place , and the child was rescued . Her defence wa . s that the child was born while she was in the building , and that it fell ; but other evidence contradicted this . She was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment .
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Jovial Burglars . — David IJamctt and David Polack were brought before the Lord Mayor , charged with having been concerned ( on Sunday the 8 th instant ) in robbing the premises of Messrs . Deane and Co ., King William-street , ironmongers and jewellers , of watches and jewellery to a large amount . They were remanded for a week . The burglary was effected through the facilities presented by the neighbourhood of an uninhabited house , from the roof of which the thieves managed to enter by the skylight of the house of the prosecutors , which , as it was Sunday , was closed and empty . After having supped and shared some rum on the premises , the perpetrators returned with their load by the way they entered .
Daniel Mitchell- Davidson , Cosmo William Gordon , and Joseph Windle Cole , have been again remanded . Cruelty to Horses . —The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has within the last week brought several cases of cruelty to horses , by overworking them , before the magistrates . Mr . Forster , the superintendent of the society , said , in answer to the Hammersmith magistrate , that the Society had prosecuted lifty cases during the past month , and in the past year the number of cases amounted to 461 . Courageous Women . —At Worship-street , Samuel Harris and George Edwards , two notorious thieves , were charged with robbing a lady of her purse . They were Aotantnri . inrl iinnrfhpnfipfl onfirfilv f . lirnuffh tlie COUM £ re
of a lady and her servant , who happened to be passing at the time of the occurrence . Suspecting the prisoners from their conduct , they watched them , aud on seeing one of them pick the lady's pocket , the servant girl collared the thief , charging him -with the robbery ; whereupon he dropped the purse , which the girl picked up and returned to the owner . The men then fled , but were pursued and overtaken by tlie two women , and again collared and held by them , in spite of a desperate
resistance , until the arrival ot tne ponce , Avno nnaiiy secured them . The prisoners were committed for trial . Fatal Case or Stabbing . — -Two Lancashire glassblowers , named John Peters and Thomas Rose , having quarrelled as to which was the best glassblower , a fight ensued , when Peters covertly stabbed Rose five times with a clasp-knife which he had secreted in his hand . Rose died soon afterwards ; and Peters has been committed for trial .
Wife-killino . —Henry Watts , n beer . hop-keeper , in Spring-street , Paddington , was brought up at the Marylobone Police Court , on Tuesday , charged with having caused the death of Sarah , his w ife , by throwing her down-stairs . The court was much crowded during the inquiry , throughout which the prisoner evinced much anguish , and buried his face in his hands . The quarrel appears to have arisen from tho poor woman interfering to prevent her husband punishing one of their children . The man , who was drunk at the time of tho offence , and who , after the outnt ^ , ilid his utmost to prevent medical assistance being procured by one of the female lodgers , was remanded .
WiFic-TOKTUitiNG . —Thomas BicWey , a cadaverouslooking young man , was sentenced , at tlie Lambeth Police OHiec , to three months' h « r < l labour for brutal treatment of his wifi , who had been seized with the pains of labour in a water-closet common to the public in tho neighbourhood , where she lmd sought shelter after being kicked out of the house by her husband ; and he hud absolutely allowed her to bo delivered without tho care of a medical man . Mk . Hicnry Cuomwkll , a middle-aged man of
gentlemanly appearance , and a well-known member of tho turf , was brought up at Lambeth on Wednesday , charged with making a desperate attempt on his life by , in the first place , swallowing a largo dose of laudanum , and , ( hiding it had not the desired effect , attempting to dash out his brains with a poker . Ho stated , in answer to tho magistrate , thnt ho had fallen into groat pecuniary distress , from having boon a man of property ; that his wife was dead ; and that his daughter was kept away from him at school . Tho magistrate directed that ho ahould bo taken to tho workhouse infirmary , until a
brother whom he had mentioned could be communicated with . Sir J . D . Paul anx » Messrs . Strahxk and Bates were again brought up at Bow-street on "Wednesday , when Mr . Bodkin stated that the very voluminous books of the accused were in course of examination , and he therefore asked for a further remand . The prisoners will be brought up on Wednesday next pro forma , with a view to another remand for a week more . James Monroe' was on Wednesday examined and remanded on a charge of robbing , on separate occasions , two sailors , one a Dutchman . The other , an Englishman , had been nearly strangled by him .
Hope v . Hope . —This cause of separation , promoted by Mrs . Hope against Mr . Hope on the ground of adultery and cruelty , was decided on Thursday in the Consistory Court . The cruelty had not been proved , but it appeared that the adultery had been clearly established . The husband , however , had likewise proved adultery on the part of Mrs . Hope ; and under these circumstances Dr . Lushington , without hearing the arguments of counsel , dismissed the parties . Theft by a Gentleman . —At the Mansion House , on Thursday , James Oswald , a young man of gentlemanly address and appearance , and said to be connected with a highly-respectable family in Northumberland , was charged with having stolen clothes of the value of 10 / . 3 s . 6 d ., the property of Moses and Son , of Noa . 2 and 3 , Aldgate , outfitters . The prisoner , who , hia solicitor said , was a medical gentlemari of high attainments , was committed for trial .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . The French Loan . — The Moniteur publishes the terms of the new loan . It is to be for 750 , 000 , 000 f ., open to public subscription from the 18 th to the 29 th of this month . Subscribers to have the option of 3 per cents , or 4 £ per cents . ; the 4 £ per cents , to be issued at 92 . 25 , with interest dating back from the 22 nd of March , 1855 ; and the 3 per cents , to be issued at 65 . 25 , interest to date back from the 22 nd of June , 1855 . Subscriptions to be received from 10 francs of interest , increasing by tens . If the subscriptions should exceed 750 , O 0 O , 000 f ., and the supplementary 30 , 000 , 000 f . for expenses , shares will be submitted at proportionate reductions , excepting subscriptions under 50 francs
interest . In order to favour those who desire to place small amounts in the rente , the subscriptions to the loan of 75 O , O 0 O , O 0 Of ., for 50 f . of rente and under , will not be liable to reduction . As , however , speculators might prevent the attainment of this object , the Minister of Finance has decided that , for sums of 50 f . of rente and under , " list subscriptions" shall not be received , and that one and the same subscriber shall not parcel out a larger sum into several demands for 50 f- tickets . Subscriptions made contrary to these regulations will be cancelled . —The subscription commenced on Wednesday . There were very large crowds at the Treasury and all the mairies ; and the Bourse was acted on favourably by the eagerness of the public to subscribe .
The returns of the Bank of France for the past month are extremely unfavourable , the stock of bullion showing a diminution to the remarkable extent of 3 , 340 , 000 / ., making a total falling off within the last three or four months of more than 5 , 000 , 000 / . The natural effects of tliis , however , have , in a great degree , been prevented from manifesting themselves by a further increase of 1 , 000 , 000 / . in the note circulation . —rimes City Art . y Monday . ... _ . „ ., „_ , _ of the French
The Extraordinary Legislative Session Chambers came to a close on Friday , after the passing of a bill authorising the various new taxes demanded , as well as acts of a more local character . —The Paris correspondent of the Daily Neios says : — "The Report of the Committee on the Taxes Bill is , beyond all question , tho most important parliamentary paper that has appeared since the abolition of * parliamentary government . ' The Committee appears to have studied the financial propositions of Government with deep attention ; adopts the measures proposed , only with the qualification that they are to be essentially provisional , fixing a date by way of showing that what is said is attention of tho ruling
meant- and presses upon the power ' various independent suggestions . The first of these , I regret to say , is a peremptory demand tor the repeal of one . of the Emperor ' s Free Trade measuresthat permitting tho importation of foreign spirits , lo their entire approbation of the provisions of tho bill , which raise the excise duty on spirituous liquors , tne Committee tacks an argument by one of its members , to which it gives its emphatic adhesion . Iho manutacrsc < rr = s %%% « S » S tUUrloa iimits can only be manufocturrfM * to * £ — Further , { he importation of ' ^¦^^ ifoST
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I Jui , y 21 , 1856 . J T'H E LEADER . 689
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Leader (1850-1860), July 21, 1855, page 689, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2100/page/5/
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