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—of which we and the General have some claim to be informed—we must reluctantly own that we consider the charge of want of fairness and generosity made l ) y General EZmett ' s friends , not by Minself , as justly proven . The English . public listened with sympathy to General Wilmajmis's praises of his enemies , it would scarcely have been less tolerant of a just tribute to the gallant exile
serving in the ariny of an ally . "When Sir P . Williams publicly thanked General Emety in the name of the Queen of England , an Englishman who -was present has told us that the Hungarian exclaimed , with tears , that he " prized those thanks more than an earldom and 20 , 000 / . a year ; " his present anxiety to stand well with us is the highest compliment a brave foreigner can offer to a nation he respects .
G-eneral Emety is by no means sparing in the praises of his subordinates , and he presents the Turkish officers to us in a new and favourable light . No English officer wlxo has been , brought into contact with the privates of that armyhas spoken of them as otherwise than " sober , liardy , docile , apt in the use of arms , with all the habits of old campaigners from their first enlistment , " in fact , as " splendid
raw material . " But there was no class , it was said , from which officers could be drawn , and promotion had become so thoroughly a matter of back-stairs influence , that to officer a Turkish army efficiently with . Turks was hopeless . General Kmett , however , records feats of some among their number not unworthy of " the pen of Mr . BussEtt . * ' The conspicuous gallantry of numbers among them is recorded with "their names . The
achievements of Hussein Pacha , Zarik Moustapha , and Colonel Za . ohaeia Bey are told at length . ... " Kebim : Pacha , the reiss , or lieutenant , of the commander-uichief , accompanied by one aide-de-catiip , one servant , and four Kurds , fought his way througTi the enemy , and entered the Tachmas redoubt . " They were 15 ^ 000 strong , and at most points within pistol-shot . "He remained conspicuous on horseback , giving orders to those about him , and undisturbedly smoking his chibouk amid the hail of shot that rattled on all sides of him , and wlien two horses had been successively shot under him . " We doubt whether there were many cooler hands than this same Kerim Pacha in . either the
Malakhoff or Kedan . Captain . HaljIi Bet , a young officer , who was wounded in the foot , seized a stray horse , and having been hastily bandaged by the first surgeon he met , was again at the head of his troops and under fire before the work they were assaulting was taken . General Kmety does not criticize the Btrategy of Sir ! F . AViiiIjIAMS in defending Ears , unless we infer , from his remark on the disproportion of the lines to be
defended to the strength of the trooras—an fended to the strength of the troops—an opinion shared in by many continental officers , especially those in the Turkish servicethat it was an unfit place to defend . He complains , however , that the support sent up by , we suppose , General Williams from the town , came in by ' driblets , ' and were thus rendered nearly useless 5 he also criticizes the English general ' s inaction after the battle : —
The Turkish army , profiting by tbo enthusiasm which prevailed , and taking advantage of the inequalities of the ground and the darkness which reigned during the early part of the night before the rising of the moon , atoouia have undertaken an attack on the night after the IT / ti * Bevoral H e movable columns , directed from different aides upon Ainalli , to surprise the enemy ' s troops , which , some 8000 or 4000 strong , after having been l > eaten back from the Ingliz Tabias , had retired to 11 andr ? « ° scamped .
^ T ' ^ fJ A . Camp - di 8 tant m <> re «*«» hours ' march ovw m ? i ^ ° TP Ot } h * enon > y *« head-quarters near Jt oSSS ; whorea 9 lt ™ »»* ™ *™ «* * half
The enemy s troops ecleloned between these two camps had been withdrawn , immediately after the battle , to his head-quarter camp . No support , therefore , could have come to Ainalli for four hours . The want of horses for our artillery is no excuse ; for by night , and on broken ground , we required , no guns , and we had three battalions of rifles . The usual order and discipline could not have reigned in the enemy ' s camp after so bloody a day , on which so many of his superior officers had fallen , and encumbered , as it must have been , with wounded . Moreover , -we were elated by success , whilst the enemy -was correspondingly depressed .
According to the information in the hands of the defenders , the enemy ' s total effective force round Kars , after deducting his losses in the battle , was believed not to exceed some 15 , 000 infantry and 10 , 000 or 12 , 000 cavalry , including the troops at Ainalli . The effective force of the defenders , at this time within the entrenched camp , might have been some 17 , 000 or 18 , 000 men , of whom , aa -will have been seen by the recital of the battle , a considerable portion had not been engaged . Any verdict , however , upon Sir Fen wick
Williams ' s qualifications aa a general would be premature , until the appearance of the work which he has himself promised us ; meanwhile , we cannot but regret , that by his attack upon Oma-B Pacha , and by his conduct towards his comrade , General Kmety , he has thrown a serious obstacle in the way of his again displaying in the East the great administrative qualities and the steadfast determination which have so justly exalted him in the eyes of his country men .
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The Dublin Murder. A Most Remarkable Mur...
THE DUBLIN MURDER . A most remarkable murder has been committed in Dublin . The murderer is unknown , and the circumstances of the crime are complicated and curious . The Dublin newspapers have rather loosely narrated the facts * omitting many points very desirable to be known , and the coroner ' s inquest was conducted without sufficient deliberation . "We must state the case as it appears in the evidence .
The offices ia Dublin of the Midland Great Western Bail way are situated in a central part of the city ( bearing somwhat the same relation to the central bridge of the city as the Euston-square terminus does to Waterloo-bridge ) . On entering the principal door of the terminus there ia a hall ., with a windowlooking outott theraiiwayplatform , and a staircase leading up to a corridor above . The corridor ( to your right as you reach the top of the stairs ) leads to a suite of four rooms ; the fourth
room was the cashier s office . The cashier , Mr . Geoege Littie , was a gentlemau aged forty-five , a bachelor , living with his mother and sister . He was a quiet , timid gentlemau . He discharged his duties at the office with care , had his cash account correct every Wednesday , and generally stayed at the office an hour or two later "than his clerk , William GHA . MTJERiiA . iN , who sat with him iu the same
room . About three or four weeks ago poor Mr . Little , sitting alone in his room after his clerk had gone , " got a great start . " A labouring man in corduroy trousers and fustian jacket came in " -while the money was all about , " inquiring for some gentleman in . the office . This induced Mr . Little to get the lock of his door so altered that he could lock himself in after his clerk had gone away . The woman who went round the offices
clearing up " after the gentlemen had loft , " came to his door in turn , but on turning the handle generally found ib locked , and heard Mr . Little say from inside , * ' I am not gone yet . " This was the general routine ; but on one or two occasions Mr . Little did not ansAver , although the door was locked and ho was inside . On one day last week ( Wednesday ) a little girl of fourteen , daughter of the housekeeper , knocked at the door on soino emind , but Mr . Little would not admit her until he heard her voice , and was told her business . Oa Thursday , the day following , his clerk leffc at ten minutes past five ,
Mr . Little had some accounts to maka up . ( The room in which he sat Wa « comer room ; there were two windows one left hand of the door as you entered the room The greater part of the room * £ a partitioned in . by a counter and some ra 5 ings , with apertures for paying money , such as aTe usual m offices . Behind this cotmter was a large table , and behind the table was a chair m which Mr . Little , a short-sbhtp ^
gentleman with spectacles , usually sat . ) At about half past five , that is , twenty " mi nutes after his clerk had left , the little girl , assistant to the housekeeper , tried the dooT ; it was locked , and , as usual , she supposed that Mr . Little was within . At ten nrinutes past seyeny the housekeeper herself came to the door , and saw the light coming through the keyhole : the door was locked
About that time , the other servant , , sitting ia the room "below , heard a step in Mr . Little's room ; she swears that it was his , but this is doubtful . At eleven o'clock , the servant again tried the door : it was locked . Nothing moie was known , until in the morning the door had to be forced , and the dead hodj of Mr . Little was found , with one terrible Tvoimd over the left ear ( from a heavy angular instrument ) , several smaller wounds in -the head , and a deep gash in his throat .
It is important to note how the body was found . It appeared as if he had fallen to the right of his chair , and the mark over the left ear was evidently inflicted while Mr . Little s head was stooped . There was 110 sign of a struggle ; his clothes were rery little disarranged ; the papers lay neatly on the table before him ; the money , counted before him in little . piles of silver , was lying undisturbed . JBlood bad fallen , but all on the
one spot where the murdered man first fell On a towel were marks of a bloody razor having been wiped ; the door was locked , the key gone , and about 300 Z . iu joW was missing from a safe behind the chair . There were traces in blood of a man's escape ; first he tried a back staircase , and failed ; aud then evidently escaped , through a window on the ground floor , 011 to the platform , from the platform through a door , bolted every evening , but found unbolted the uiorning after the murder .
The question first is , was the murderer acquainted with the office , aud the habits of tbo clerks ? The manner of entry , and the manner of escape , indicate that he knew the place ; lbut this knowledge may have beeu acquired by a stranger in a casual visit . The most singular fact is the mute but terrible evidence of the mark over the left car that the first stunning blow , precluding all struggle , was given while Mr . Little was sitting at his ( leak . ( What a terrible picture !—the poor ,
hard-working clerk , poring over his papers , while Ins murderer is poising- the weapon over his head . ) Now , Mr . Little ' s door was locked on Thursday evening ; bow did the murderer get in ? and how did he obtain the opportunity of an unexpected blow ? I * a stranger knocked at Mr . Little ' s door , he , cautious and timid , would surely have called out , " Who is that ? " and even if He
admitted the man , which is unlikely , ho must liavo como out from behind tlio counter to do so . We learn that Mr . Little had an objection even to acquaintances or friends standicg behind the counter . But , seeing a stranger , would ho have unsuspectingly returned to hia desk , sat down again , and bent over the papers , while ho stood iu tho room ? i ^ or it is clear that Mr .
LiTTiiT . was struck down , almost sensoless , -while sitting at his desk and bending over hia papers . Another supposition is , was it some friend or familiar ac-
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1856, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22111856/page/12/
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