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mand upon the Kroome * range , which in some parts overlooked and commanded the position . He appears to have made his dispositions skilfully , and so far to have succeeded as to reach the summit ; but his further progress was stopped by a broad belt of bush stretching across it , which was strongly occupied , and he was fiercely attacked by a large number of Kafirs , who suddenly made a dash upon the column while the men were refreshing after their long and fatiguing march . The enemy suffered severely in consequence of departing from his usual cautious tactics , and was most steadily repulsed by the Seventy-Fourth and the other troops , as » n »* s »« % !•* * a * v % rt-v * * - * . £ + V * r \ m VtAiitnr + i *\ lH" * li PH . WTlllfi lFOIH l of them being touchedwhile from
scarcey a man , the precision of their fire they must have done much execution . Apprehending an attempt would be made to occupy the pass by which he had ascended , the colonel retraced his steps to the head of the pass , just in time to prevent it ; but whilst descending , the gallant Highlanders , who had so well maintained their renown , lost eight of their number through the misconduct of the Fingoes , who , struck with a panic , rushed headlong down the kloof , throwing the rear companies into confusion , and preventing them from using their arms to defend themselves . This untoward event is graphically related by the colonel in his despatch to which we refer our readers . The Kat River Hottentots also misbehaved on this
. The inhabitants of Graham ' s Town , threatened by large bodies of Kafirs , had mustered in military array . The colonial frontier swarmed with Kafirs . It was said that Kreili and Umhala intended to join Seyolo and Stock . Altogether , the war is looked upon as farther than ever from a termination .
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A NEW RUSSIAN MARTYR . John Bakunin , of whom we have several times spoken in our columns , has been executed by the Russian tyrant . In informing our readers of this event , we communicate a Necrology of the martyr , which we find in a Polish weekly paper published in Belgium , the Demokrata : — " The foreign papers state that our political coreligionist , our friend , for though a Russian , he was a sincere friend of Poland—a fellow worker in our efforts to render all the Slavonians worthy of the brotherhood of our nation , by inducing them to desert the camp of despotism , and pass over to that of liberty , viz ., John Bakunin , after having expiated his noble endeavours , first in a . Saxon prison fur two years , then in an Austrian dungeon , and finally in a Muscovite one at ISchliisselburg , has crowned his apostolic life by the death of a
martyr . It is well known how intrepidly , though ] aden with irons and horribly tortured , he affirmed before his executioners rather than judges , his faith , which he in exile defended both by his pen and spoken word , and by the sword on the barricades of Dresden . It is also known how basely the Austrian bumhailiffs delivered him to the Muscovite hangman . Wishing to convey to our readers both the grief and the admiration that overpowers our hearts for the martyr , we will simply remind them of the hearty and remarkable speech he delivered on the occasion of one of the anniversaries of the 29 th of November , commemorate . I in Paris , and his address to the Slavonians , which , though uninfluenced by our Democratic Centralization , was a development of its fraternal appeal to them . We will here acquaint our readers with the homage the French Republicans rendered him , by communicating to them the following lines which appeared in the National : — " ' The important part Bakunin took in the last Eurofiean revolution , his sincere devotion to the cause of iberty , his high degree of intrepidity , of which he gave unquestionable proofs in all dangerous emergencies during his political career , and , above all , the melancholy fate his executioners prepared for him , insure him forever the sympathy and grateful remembrance in the bosoms of all true Republicans , enlisting him into the holy phalanx of their martyrs , who assuredly will not forget hits memory in their day « of triumph . ' " DARING BURGLARY and GALLANT DEFENCE . Two men , named John Titman , of Yaxley , and JameH StokeH , of Ramsey , wen ; chained before the insigiHtruteH of St . Ive'n , on Monday , with having broken into the Iiouhi : of Mr . Faulty , shooting nt him with intent to kill him , and carrying off mnulry articles of h « H property . 'The narrative of the burglary , as told by Mr . Fairley , i « extremely interesting . " 1 am bailiff to Mr . lluKsey , and live in a lone farmhouse at itaveley . On the night , of L ' jiday , October 2-1 , I went to bed between nine and ten o ' clock , leaving all fast . 1 Wiis awakened about , eleven o ' clock by a noise outtiido resembling u chip of thunder ; tin : door wan down in a moment . I jumped out of bed : iml went to tin : window looking into the yard ; I could not see the door ; 1 called out , but received no answer ; 1 turned round and got . my pistol * , and then h : iw a light at . the Htair-foot . I nlwayH Bleep with the door open , i went to the door and cried ' Urwurc ! ' The light vviih then withdrawn , hut Bpeedily returned , und 1 » aw n nmn and fired at him The man miid , ' <) , you keep thone tlnngH , do you ? Wo ' ve got plenty of those ; ' und in ii minute or ( wo lie returned the lire , but mis . sed me . 1 culled out to know what they wanted , um 1 could hear by the whinpenng that there were more than one They naid they wanted money , and I Haiti I had none , 1 had paid it . all away thut morning . They ward , ' Come-down , ' and 1 replied that I Would not . I mud , ' Conic up , two of you , you cowardly rascals , if one ' afraid . ' They again desired me to eom © down ,
saying there were ten of them ; and I said , ' I don't care if there were twenty of you , 1 am prepared for you , and fired at the man I could see . They returned the nre . They fired five shots at me in all . The man I could see w . is under cover in a room below . After they had fired three times , they said they would fire the house ; but I did not think they would come that . One said , Bring in the straw ; ' and they lit a fire with some bean straw , and fed it with the leaves of a large Bible , the barometer , and the clock case . They then fetched the instrument they broke the door with , and knocked out the window sash of the room below , and broke the door into the passage . The smoke nearly suffocated me , and I went to the window , and found a man had command of it with
a pistol . He threw some stones in . My wife could stand it no longer , and rushed down stairs . They then pushed her into a closet , and shut her in . I fired once after she went down , and one of them called out , ' If you fire again , we will shoot Mrs . Fairley where she stands . ' I was then obliged to give up , calling upon them for God ' s sake to have mercy on my wife . They then came up stairs . I had put the revolving I had used away ; but it was some time before the rascals would believe that I had no firearms . They said to me , ' Go down stairs , yott old —— . ' I can speak positively to the prisoners . My wife screamed just before I fired the last shot , and it was then they threatened to shoot her . There was a much larger ^ rnan than Titman there—a great lumbering fellow . They
wetted the bean straw to make more smoke . There were five men in all . They all had masks on their faces . They ransacked the drawers and the bed , looking for property . When I went down , I found one man in the kitchen ransacking my desk , and James Stokes keeping guard over the closet door . Stokes had no mask on then . He had a gun and a pistol in his hand . I sat down on a chair , and Stokes said to me , ' I reaped a week with you last harvest . ' He did not , however . My pistol was loaded with ball . I was slightly wounded by a shot in the thigh . They remained about half an hour after I surrendered ; while I was on the stairs they said , ' Come down , and we will give you a glass of wine . ' They had got the liquors when I went down . When the men
came down that had been up stairs , I and my wife were ordered up stairs ; they came down with their masks on . Titman struck me three times with a poker as I was going up stairs ; he hit me once across the kidneys , and I have a bruise there yet . I said , ' You have got my property ; for God ' s sake spare my life . ' I and my wife sat down on the edge of the bedstead when we got up stairs . I asked for a light , but no _ answer was returned . Titman and Stokes then came up stairs without their masks and asked where the bread was . I know the smile on Titmau ' s ugly face . My wife told them to look about for it . Titman and Stokes then went into the next bedroom , and then went down again and returned with a litiht , and took my gun away . I had hid
the revolver . They wanted to know where it was , and I said I had flung it into the garden . The men Ihen went down stairs and enjoyed themselves , and I saw no more of them till we saw them leaving the house—that was about three o ' clock . I asked my wife if she dare sit alone while I went for assistance . She said , yes ; and I then saddled my horse and rode to Upwood ( about a mile ) , and soon returned with Mr . Wright , the constable , and other parties . The walls at the side of the staircase are marked ' with shot as though theie had been a siege . The balls from my pistol lodged at the bottom of the
stairs . They drank and carried off about a dozen and a half of ( currant ) wine . The waistcoat produced ( taken off Titman ) is my property . ( Mr . Faiiley identified a box and bag of' powder , found on Titman , some chee .-e , a bottle and a half of currant wine , and a gun , produced by Wright . ) There was no wine in the house but currant wine . There was some brandy , and I should have been glad if they had got hold of that , as , perhaps , we might have caught the other men . My wife and 1 were the only persons in the house . "
The two men were captured the next morning drunk , and fully committed for trial . The coolness and courage of Mr . and Mrs . Fairley have deservedly won for them the admiration of all the county .
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THE AN 1 MUB OV AUSTRIA . Mr . Thurgar , a gentleman belonging to the Austrian Consul-General ' s office , accompanied by an Italian interpreter and the captain of the tthip Ida Kiss , from Trieste , came before Mr . Yardley , on Tuesday , for the . purpose of requeuing bin advice and assistance in repressing a spirit of insubordination which existed among the ciews of nevernl AuHtro Itnliiiu bhipa in the Went India Dock , and which appeared to have arisen from sympathy with the cause of Hungary and Kossuth . From the statement made by Mr . Thurgar it appeared that the crew of the Ida Kimh , consisting of Italians , hud demanded their tliHcharge from the captain , und on his refusal to comply with their request , because their coirtruct did not terminate until the ship returned to
their own country , they became very abusive und riotous , and drew their knives . The captain \ v ; ih for Home time appi eheiiKive of being mnidered by them , and , the oflieeiH of the dock had much tremble to restore quiet and calm their rage . The crows of oilier Italian vchhoIh in the docks hud also been guilty of great innubordiiiiition , and had refused to obey the onlciH of their cuptiiinH , whilo some of them hud declared they would not nail any longer under tin- ( lug of Austria , and hud expressed their Hymput . hy with Kotumth , whose name they ua « : d ; ih a pretext for very disorderly conduct . The Italians , directly they euuie to thin country , funded they could do ju « t an they pleased , and were guilty of all manner of cxcchhch , which they would not ( lure to commit in any of the territorics of Austria , where they were under the control of Iuwh titriclly ciuricd out and enforced . Mr . Yardley aaid ho had no power whatever to interfere with the internal diaoipline of a foreign ship , or to prev « mt the orew tawing her , if they thought proper j but
as for as he could protect the captain from violent * r > A prevent a breach of the peace , he would do so wj ?• * rected Mr . Holmes , an inspector of the K division ? accompany the Austrian Consul-General ' s agent and ' tiT captain to the Ida Kiss , and see what he could do in the shape of remonstrance and advice , and also to OT ^ i to the dock officers on the subject . The Italians must h told that any breach of the peace , or anything leading t a breach of the peace , would be noticed and severelv punished , and that they must neither threaten the cantain nor draw their knives upon him . y n In the afternoon Mr . Thurgar , with the Italian in terpreter , again waited upon the magistrate and In spector Holmes said the Italians were extremely sub missive and repentant when he spoke to them through the medium of one of the gentlemen present , and pro raised not to misconduct themselves again . They also * stated that they should not have acted as they had done on Monday if they had not been intoxicated .
Mr . Thurgar said , that he feared more restraint would be necessary to prevent the Italians from committing acts of violence and disorder , and that already there had been two cases of stabbing ift Cork , and a terrible case of a similar nature ia Gloucester very recentl y amontr the Italian seamen . ' B Mr . Yardley said , if any one presumed to draw a knife on another in this country , and the case was made out he would be punished . ' Mr . Thurgar intimated that the Italians ought to be under the Burveillance of the police during their stay here , and taken out of the ship and punished . Mr . Yardley said the Italians , as subjects of Austria were entirely on the same footing as the subjects of her Majesty , except as regarded the contract they had entered into , which he had nothing- to do with . Forei gners were not only subject to the English laws while they were here , but were under the protection of the English
laws . Mr . Thurgar : Why , the Italians drew their knivea yesterday upon the captain . Mr . Yardley said that was a breach of the peace for which the parties were liable to severe punishment , and if the captain were here , and would make a statement of the occurrence , he would issue his warrant for the arrest of the men , and they would be dealt with according to law . Inspector Holmes : The Italians have faithfully promised not to misconduct themselves or draw their knives any more . Mr . Thurgar : There is a party of men among the Italians who declare their sympathy for Kossuth , and state they will not sail under the Austrian flag .
Mr . Yardley said he had nothing to do with that . If the Italian seamen drew their knives on the captain , or any other person , for any purpose , or with any view whatever , he would call upon them to find bail , or commit them to prison . It was a thing not to be tolerated for an instant . If the captain were under any fear for his personal safety , he would issue process , but it must be on his personal application . Mr . Thurgar then retired with the Italian interpreter , and intimated that an application would be made to Lord Palmerston regarding the law on the subject , and the discipline on board foreign ships in English ports .
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POLITICAL I'JBKSECUTION « Y A GOVERNMENT CONTHACTOU . An incident connected with the hearty demonstration of goodwill to Kossuth , has come to our knowledge , which ought to be widely known . A compositor , a good workman , employed by a firm engaged in supplying certain Government oflices with forms , desired two hours' holiday on Monday morning . Another united the same favour , stating that he wanted to see Kossuth . The foreman communicated with the manager of the firm . Meanwhile the first applicant had donned his hat and coat and was preparing to depart , when up rushed the said manager , red with rage , exclaiming , "Anyoneof my men who dares to leave thin place to run after any political humbug , ahall not return to work here . " Nothing daunted our hero quietly went Iub way , und faithful to hia promise returned in two hours . The Head man was as good an his word , and the workman was dismissed there and then . We know that this is a fact . We could name the parties Three workmen had been previously discharged by the Bume firm for the mime offence . Are we to take it as a ( specimen of the animus of the Government , or not ? Anyway it is a specimen of petty tyrunny m JOughind worthy of Paris or St . Petersburg , . Naples or Vienna .
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TRIAL IJY JURY . The annual gathering of the friends of Trial by Jury , who uiiiko the names of Home Tookr , ilaniy , « Thclwall their rallying cry , took pluoe on Thu . Hday inM -, the fifty seventh anniversary of the »< - '" / lltta , J ' . „ .,. _ ' membeiH of the Corresponding Society . " » J < » ' » " , ' th Hided . Tin- first toast , after the removal o the - > > was " The Sovereignty of the People , " drunk Ht >< K > wi . hthreetimeH three . Then "The Queen . ' Mr II """"" withtineetinien tnree . men * » , r v *«^ -- Ml '
, Hunt gave « Trial by Jury . " Mr . W . J- X" * ' ^" » The Memories of HarJy , Tooke , und 1 Iwal Ah marking the cnthuHiusm of th « present t < > tount wus drunk , we observe , vv . th loud vhur « ' three times three , contrary to tbo usual . »» l () I » - , . Parry gave the " Scottish Martyrs M ur , Ij J Murgarot . " Mr . David Masson gave ll jj l . cal lief . all ubuaeH , and a full and true r « pre » . n Jt people In Parllu . nent . " Dr . T . uso . ia . udn ' ^ ' ullkI 1 to the t »«» t , ' '»>« Struggling peoples . iUe OU » u wm duly tonated , and th « company ¦ epwr ««« u .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 8, 1851, page 1060, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1908/page/8/
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