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. TUKKEY . " . Four battalions of the Guard have left Constantinople for the purpose of taking part in the expedition against Montenegro . The Naib , Chief of the Circassians , dismissed by Sefer Pacha , has arrived at Constantinople . Sefer Pacha , who is at tfie head of 30 , 000 men , has addressed a proclamation to the Circassians , inviting thenx to wage an energetic war against the Russians . A serious conflict took place on the 8 th instant at Trebizonde . Some Turkish boatmen tore down the tlag -of a Russian merchant vessel , and threw the siulors into the sea . The Russian consul has demanded the dismissal of the commander of the town , an indemnity , and the punishment of the boatmen with the bastinado . The Divan is inquiring into the matter .
A portion of the Imperial Ottoman Guard is embodied for Herzegovine ; the Porte declaring that it wilL cause its rights in Montenegro , "which is an integral part of the empire , to be respected . It is stated that the Western Powers will interpose as mediators . The squadron under Admiral Lord Lyons , according to the French papers , has received , telegraphic orders from London to remain , in consequence of the difficulties raised by Russia respecting the cession of Bolgrad and her claim to the Isle of Serpents . It is added , that the French Government , which has hitherto taken no part in the recent naval demonstration in the Black Sea , is sending- ships . For the same reason , the Austrians will remain in the Principalities .
An abstract of a note , addressed by the Turkish . Government to the Cabinets of the Powers which signed theTreaty of Paris , and dated about the end of July , has been published . It has reference to the question of the union of the Danubian Principalities , -which the Porte strongly opposes , the document asserting that the Sultan , while wishing to guarantee " an independent and national internal administration , " cannot consent that the form of the government should be " opposed to the constitution of the empire . " The Ottoman Government < loubts what is asserted by the partizans of the union , viz ., that a state would thus be created strong enough to serve as a harrier for the empire , the population being too small to furnish a large army . It is also questioned
whether the proposed measure would be for the benefit of the people themselves , as the weaker Principality would of course be absorbed into the stronger , and would lose the advantages it has hitherto possessed . " When the treaty decided to consult the wishes of the two provinces on the reforms to be introduced in the Principalities , the Turkish Government always understood that nothing more was meant than a revision of their organic laws , so as to make their Government strong and their administration just . To consult the wishes of the two provinces on their form of government , consequentl y on their relations with the empire , the vassals of-which they would be , the Turkish Government thinks ' establishing a precedent which would scarcely be in harmony with the conservative ideas of the great Powers of Europe . The Porte regrets that
there should be any difference of opinion between it and some of its * llies ; but , -wishing to give them a proof of its regard for them , it does not wish to give a public refusal on this question in the firman for the convocation of the Divan ad hoc -which is preparing , and hopea that they , justly appreciating this proof of confidence , will co-operate to obtain a result in conformity with the views , nay , the rights of the Porte . In conclusion , the Turkish Government insists that the question , which touches so closely the rights and interests of the Sultan , should not bo submitted to the public discussions of assemblies which are not accustomed to great political debates , but to the serious examination of the Powers , and that the question should be decided before it comes within the range of the passions of populations which are already excited , and which , by their incomplete social education , might prefer Utopias to truth and realities . "
THE DANUBIAJ * PniNOirALITIES . Great opposition having been made by the Austrian Government to the concession granted to Captain Mugnan by Prince Ghikn , before his removal from power , for a line of French steamers to run on tho Truth and the Sereth , the Porte has sinco cancelled tho permission . gtven . M . Thouvoncl , fhe Trench ambassador at Constantinople , has protested against this , and baa iutini . itcd that he must still consider the contract as legitimate , " since it not only emanated from the will of Prince Ghika , but has been ratified by a council of ministers . " He continues : —• " I may add that , in presence of tho clear and positive toxt of Article 23 of the Treaty of Paris , the Porto itself resigns the right of annulling by a firman or by an qrder of nny kind an internal adininiatrntivo measure adoiited at Bucharest or at Jassy . "
llie Puchft commanding on tho Danube has received Orders to occupy with troops tho seven or eight points at which the rls-cr is practicable , and to fortify the tctcs th jpont on both Bides . The recent movement of Ottoman troops from Widdin to ICalafut , on tho loft bank of the Danube , was effected iu pursuance of thia order . Tho resolution of the Porto is said to liavo tho full approval of the Austrian Government .
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porter has truly recorded what was said , but it was probably not within his province to narrate the stronglyexpressed disgust of a crowded court at the refusal of Mr . Dayies and Mr . Horry to respond to the earnestlyexpressed opinion of the Recorder that they should return to the poor-woman the money for which they had rendered no services . At . length they promised to return 21 . ( he next day , but the poor creature lost another day's work attending to receive the money , for none was returned . " The writer theji gives sqine ' general details with respect to the defenca of the poor : —" ' The material to work upon is amply , provided by the affections , the ignorance , the hopes , and the misery of the friends and relations of prisoners who attend at every session . Month , after month , hundreds of prisoners are tried , causing thousands of
hearts to be wrung with indescribable agony ; and , whatever seliish depravity may appear in the duck , our common nature brings to aid them-hearts full of sensibility . Sacrifices almost incredible are constantly made by the mothers , wives , sisters , and friends of prisoners , but more particularly women ; men cannot go through these scenes . Often I hear the mother , with glazed eye ; saying ,. ' Father ' s taken to liis bed since this affair ; it ' s unucrved him ; ' or , ' Father couldn ' t bear an interview . ' And father s-its in the lobby while mother goes into . Newgate , her love neither ' chilled by selfishness nor daunted , by . danger ,-. nor weakened by wortldessness , nor stifled by ingratitude . ' "—Mr . Davie ' 3 has since written to the Times to state , that he has returned the sovereign he received , and so ho believes has Mr .
Horn-.-CuujEr . Tuea-Tjiest of A Giul . — The wife of a farmer at Tavistock , named Grills , has bean charged at the Town Hall-with ill-using a girl' of fourteen , who Lad been taken from the union workhouse to serve in tho house of Mrs . Grills . The poor girl , who was horribly emaciated , had been repeatedly beaten , cut , and burnt ; and Air .. Grills , who seems to have been a humane man , was often obliged to interfere to protect the child and would even call in ' the neighbours to assist him . At length , he removed the girl , and Mrs . Grills was apprehended . She was commit ted for trial , and , on being removJd , would * probably have' experienced some rough treatment from a large mob had she not been taken through ; a back door . — -A similar case has been brought
forward at the Doncaster ' Borough police-court , where James Wood , a tailor , was charged -with ill-using his apprentice , a deaf-and-dumb boy . Being dissatisfied with some woik he had performed , Wood plunged a clasj-knife into the boy ' s leg just below the knee , causing a . deep wound . A few days afterwards , the lad was violently struck on the left temple , the blood flowing copiously ; ¦ and similar treatment was of frequent occurrence . The boy , also ,. was half starved ,-and " was driven to robbing an orchard to get something to eat . The bench compromised the iiiiitter / proposiug that'half'the premium- ( 7 /; 10 s . ) should be ' refunded ,. all the costs paid , and tho indentures cancelled ; committal for trial being the alternative . . Tile terms were accepted .
UuuGLAitr ix YoiiksiuitE . —A public-house , about midway between Sheffield and Barnsley , kept by a Miss Hohson , an old . woman ,-was entered on Monday night by five men , three of whom carried lighted candles . Tho faces of two wore blackened ; thosq of the other three ¦ were smeared with red , and nets were thrown over their heads . Having thrown the bed clothes over tho faces of Miss Ilob . son and of her niece , who slept with her , and having threatened them -with sticks , thoy ransacked tho place , and departed . One of them had previously struck both the women with hia stick , on their attempting to uncover themselves ; but the blows were not violent- They left behind them a bunch of skeleton keys and threw formidable bludgeons .
A SiiVKitii Sexthnch . —Three-fourths of a field at Combmartin , Devonshire , were lately used by Mr . Robert Hole , a gentleman farmer of considerable property , for pasturing cattle . At the beginning of tho present mouth , several of the animals belonging to other renters suddenly died , and exhibited symptoms of poisoning . One of the boasts so killed was a donkey ; and a post mortem examination . shoivod that it hud been destroyed by corrosivo sublimate , Suspicion fell on Mr . Hole , who had frequently been hoard-to warn several people to take their cattle away " while they were safe . " lie was accordingly arrested , tried at the Quarter Sessions , found Guilty , and sentenced to four years * ' penal servitude . His motive appears to have been iv desire to get tho whole of tho field into liis own possession .
AxoxiiKit Hoax . —The story which has been circulated about a Mr . John Fletcher of Wilmshaw haying got up n . hanging exhibition in imitation of the execution of ? Palmer , witli somo of tho original aud genuine propertics , ' bus been iiuljgiuiutly denied by tho norson . implicated . A SiiAicsi'KiVuKAN Iu-u . sTJtA'i'iON . —Shakflpeare makes Cordalia in Kiny hv . ur talk of " Darnel , and all thu idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn . " An example of tho truthfulness of thia nllusion camo before tho Lambeth magistrate on Saturday . A burly gentleman , who turned out to bo a Huntingdonshire fariuur , fifty-seven years of ago , ai ) d of tho jinmo oC Darnell , wns brought up on a charge of being drank and disorderly . Ho has recently come into aomo largo
Embezzlement . —\ Villiam Farr , a young man of respectable exterior , pleaded Guilty at Worship-street' to a charge of having committed numerous acts of embezzlement , and of stealing the sum of 10 / , 5 s . from his employers , Messrs . Cater and Co ., silkmercer . sj Fiusbury Pavement , a . deficiency which he made up for ' , by a forged cheque . He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment . ' Legal Sharks . —A species of cruel rascality now commonly practised in the law courts luis lately come before the notice of the Itecorder at the Central Criminal Court , and is thus described in a letter to the Times , by-Mr . Under-SherifTRose , who relates a particular instance which occurred last week ;— - " A youth was chargec \ with a petty fraud at the Guildhall police-oUiee . A female
relative , the prisoner ' s aunt , attended to aid him in his distress ; her famine-struck face and cold cotton gown proclaimed her callings—a poor needle-woman . She was iinmciSatcly pounced upon by one of the legal agents who , to tlic disgrace of the authorities , are permitted to infest these courts , and told that 11 . would be required . She returned to her home , begged , borrowed , and pawned , at length obtained the sovereign , and handed it over for the defence of her nephew . The ' vuluc received' in the shape of legal ndvoency may be imrsgincd—the prisoner was committed for trial . Having discovered her home , she was followed there , aud 11 . Is . more was wrung from her affection and misery . Tho sessions at the Central Criminal Court approaching , another visit extorted a further sum of 17 . 2 s- Tho trhil came on ; no attorney ,
no counsel appeared for him ; the unfortunate lad knew not that liis aunt had stripped her honlc to provide for his defence . On tho Monday ho was convicted and sentenced , and on the Wednesday Mr . llorry ' s clerk informed tho poor woman that he lind never seen nny brief in the case . When these facts were communicated to the Recorder ( a judge whoso keen sense of honour , dignity of presence , kindness of heart , and conscientious administration of justice , and of mercy too , have nevor been excelled—rarely equalled ) , ho directed Mr , Pnvie . and Mr . Horry to attend before him . I had the greatest dillieulty in getting tho attorney to enter an appearances in court . Mr . Horry . stayed outside tins door listening , and only appeared when I stilted to the judge that ho was thero , out of uiyht , but within hearing . Your re-
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September 27 , 185 ( 3 , ] THE LEADEB , 919
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FORGERY ON THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY . A FORGEur on the Crystal Palace Company to the extent of a little less than 5000 J . has been committed by a clerk in the transfer office , named William James Robson . Towards the close" of last week , it was observed by the accoimtant of the company , who had . lately returned to the duties of his office after illness , that the numbers on certain dividend certificates and . those of the shares standing in the -names of the owners did not tally . He sent to Mr . Kobson , through whose department these shares would pass , and drew his attention to the fact , inquiring how it could happen . Robson replied that there had been two transfers of the shares , some of them
riot having been applied , for ; that they had lain in the office for a year and a half , and that he did not think it necessary to enter the first name . The accountant observed that there must be a- certificate of transfer somewhere . " Oh yes , " replied Kobsou , with great confidence , " I liave got them all locked up at my house . " The accountant reminded him that these certificates should be in the oflice , and said he would have a horse put to at once , and drive over -with Mr . ltobson to his house at lulburn , for the purpose of fetching them . This was agreed to , and they immediately started for Kilburn . On . their arrival , Robson showed the accountant , with whom he was on terms of
acquaintanceship , into the parlour , and * ordered luncheon , . they should stop some time . He then : left the room for an instant , and returned . This going out ari \ l re-entering occurred several times without occasioning any doubt on the part of the accountant , until a longer absence than before led to suspicion . On inquiry , it was found that Kobson had flown , and speedily- a man arrived with a note from him , stating that he bad sent a man and an account back to the Crystal Palace , as he himself "was compelled by urgent business to go to town that night . An immediate investigation of the accounts and shares took place , and the board , at their meeting last Saturday , declared the ascertained loss to be somewhat under 50007 .
A reward of 250 ? . is offered for tlic ' apprehension , of Eobson , who is described as of gentlemanly appearance , and as being thirty years of age . We understand that he lived in superb " style at the Priory , Kilburn , though his salary at the Crystal Palace was only 200 f . a year ; that lie kept several carriages and horses ; and that he represented-himself to his friends , as a gentleman of independent property , lie is a person of good education , aud possesses some literary faculty , having lately published a blank verse piny called . JJian ' , which contains unquestionable evidence of poetical powers . He is also author of Love and Loyalty , which was played at the Marylebone Theatre about two years ago , and of some other plavs .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 27, 1856, page 919, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2160/page/7/
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