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suing his brilliant victory at Oltenitza , ana forcing him to retrace his steps across the Danube , when , if allowed to go on , he would have easily chased the Russians Lome a . year ago , being twice as strong on the Danube as they were , before Austrian-England and Austrian-France . afforded time to the Czar for sending down two armies to reinfbrGe them . But if I were an Englishman or a Frenchman , nothing in tba world could give me greater mortification than the recollection of what has passed at Silistriu . To stand almost within the hearing-of the battering cannons , and not only not fly to the aid of those t'lorious brave , but to
arrest even Omer Pacha ' s main army for weeks from rescuing them , though a few hoars ? march would have sufficedwhy , gentlemen , tliat is so terrible that I am sure- every true English patriot would give much to blot out that dark page from history . ' Yet , 'if I understand tlie fact , to hand over to perfidious Austria the Princi pa lities—liberated exclusively by Turkish blood , by Turkish gallantry—would lave been so shocking to political morality , tliat the affectation of yonder claim was wanted , in order to cover the turpitude of this most terrible monstrosity of out day . I mean the pre-arranged occupation of Moldo Wallacbia by Austria . "
Here are some statements popular with a certain jparty . . " Those who read ) the blue looks know that a fortnight before the Russian legation departed from Constantinople , and a whole month -before one Russian crossed the Prutb , the English ambassador , gave tlic ^ authoritative advice to the Turkish Government ,, that not only no resistance should be ¦ offered to the Russians on their occupying the principalities , but that they should not be > resisted even on their crossing the Danube , and' tuitt forbearance should cease only on tliat line which could not be passed by an enemy mthoni danger 16 tlie capital .- " . I'Now- ' that means evidently the BaHain iinei Tlie English Government so much approved of tliis that Lord Clarendon insisted - . very strongly that positive orders should he given . to Oiner Pacha to keep himself hi the limits of this oyier-timid and ruinous ppjicv * . This gives
jou : the key to the disgraceful fact that neith er ; your armies nor Omer Pacha did . anything to relieve Sjiistria . Thus jou see that the allied armies -went to tlie East with . tlie positive orders not to act , arid not to allow the Turks to act , ¦ on tlie Banube and beyond . Yoit see that tlie Czar was ^ ppTised of this fact ,, therefore lie could with perfect security -cross the Danube and besiege Silistria , arid you see that the Turkish Government , on the contrary , had neither freedom of action nor hope of assistance for driving the- Russians out of the Principalities ; and tliat England , and Fiance could , with such a pressure , not fail to induce the systematically-intimidated DiVan to sign the . fatal convention with JVustria , \ v ] iichthe-poorfellows , despairing ofTurkishbravery , and fettered and forsaken by tlieir allies , took to be their
last _ liope for getting the Principalities evacuated . ¦' . The ' Russians , oh the contrary , knew that their power had -besii broken by the glorious heroism of one single for tress garrison . They actually began their retreat on the 22 nd of June , iind have been aware of the fatal necessity of this retreat since the , 29 th of May , so disastrous to them . They wanted to have their rear securedj and' the Turks k « pfc but from the Principalities ; they therefore informed Austria that they ¦ were about to retreat , and required her to conclude the convention' with Turkey , thusto get the required security by it . That js the history of this dirty trick ; not upon the risk of having to meet the Russians , but with the knowledge that ¦ they will effect their retreat as soon as that convention is isigncd . . and their retreat protected by it . "
Tlie great Magyar has a small opinion of England apparently ; " Lord Clarendon informed the peers of tlie realm that * Austria really did announco her intention to occupy Wal-Iflchiu , but not as belligerent , she being not at war with Russia . ' Well , is not that an official confirmation of what Lord Oliiniicardo said , and of which I warned England months ago ? And England ' s people do still permit matters to be curried on as they are , Why , what is this people of Englund ? Is it anything or is it nothing ? Is it fisli . oils it flo ,-, h ? What is it ?" The strategist gives his opinion against the expedition to the Crimea :
" My opinion is that it is at Warsaw , by driving the wedge of a Polish insurrection into the very backbono of Russia , that you can bo euro to take Sebastopol . For the presi-nt £ desire to wnrn you against a diuigerous imposition . The expounders of your Government ' s policy say , * The object of the war ia to obtain security for the future against the ambition of Russia , and to reduce her power pormanqntly so -as to make her incapable to encroach upon the UVertios of Europe . For this true object of the war a movement across the Danube would have done very little ( oli ( what , a disgrace ) . The brand policy of the war consists m striking at the very heart of Russia ' s power , and that heart is Sebastopol . * Now , ^ entlomen , I proclaim thus assertion to bo thu ( most contemptible nonsense , or t-ho grossest mystification , which . , diplomatic malice could invent . SebttBtopol is an advanced guard , but not the heart of Rutfsiu ' a
power , riw hpwfc of liue » ia ' 8 power to Poland . With Poland in tho dominion of Ruasia , tlio Cssur is dtuirgoroua nt tho Baltic as at Solmatopol , at the Caucaaus na at the Danube ; overywhoro , -with Poland wrested from his « raap , with Poland free , the Cztir ia neither dangerous on tho Black Sou nor anywhere else , Suppose you ta . ko Sobustopol , destroy it , and bum it , and sink tho fleet now sheltorod thoro : } what then ? Will Hint deyrivo the O / sar of tho power to bid « his time , until by tho uiaaonsione of tho othor powera , until by weakness of aotno of those powers , ho ahould had . a . butter opportunity of accomplishing hia design ? ' Ti » la uosortptum of tuo < k » ngpc ag « lnat which Karopo in to l > o scoured by this war is not mine , it ia JLord John KusauU ' B , n ? ? , ° - r " ? tlmt * tho K « fil » al » would bo tho mutt BMy at mortu s , if they were to sign an iuaeouro peace , whUili wou ( 1 lemve it U * Rimin thus to l » id « tho first bottoi- opportunity ot ftccompliohwg luer ambitious doBiim . ' Wol ) , mix i \ mm In hw Hoiiaoa aeaert that the destroying of his float and of bobuatonol will deprive tho Ozar of tho power of provu . fi
you to have been tbe most silly of mortals in this war , if you are content with such an issue ? Poland is the heart of the Czar ' s power . There you must strike , if you desire to strike him at heart . If you don ' t strike there , then I proclaim aloud , to God and to man , those assurances about reducing the power of Russia to innoxious proportions all a humbug !" After a bitter criticism of the conditio ns of peace put forward by France and England as essential , but not all required , M . Kossuth proceeded to wind-up : — " That your Government never did mean to reduce the power of Russia , that was clear from the very moment that they began to court the alliance of Austria . " Russia is the corner-stone of despotism , and Austria is despotism .
Imbecility itself must know that despotism never will lend its hand to overthrow its own corner-stone . Your Government had never , been a serious enemy to Russia . He who pretends to be at war with Russia , and neglects to take Poland by . the hand ; cannot be serious in his professions of hostility against Russia ^ Oh , how different would be the results if Mehemet Ali Pacha , the creator of the brave Turkish army , and the impersonation of its patriotic heroism , had not been ousted from power by England ; and if tho Turkish Government , rising to a level with the spirit of its heroic soldiers , had thrown the pretensious friendship of England and Prance overboard , and taken her natural allies , Hungary and Poland , by the hand ; or if England would have remained English , and France French , instead of turning both Austrians . WelL it is as it is , " .
... The upshot was that M . Kossuth recommended a sort of League for bringing to bear on Parliament the opinioris on foreign affairs , ^ professed by bis peculiar followers .
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CRIMINAL RECORD . Juvenile offenders iSgure in the police reports this week There i .-s a sad , but not uncommon case . Daniel Shea arid John Beanies were charged at the Mansion -house with picking packets , and both cornmitted for triijl . Beanies , a inerebojv told this story . Last Wednesday : Shea caihe put of prison , where he had been for three months , and he called upon me at my master ' s liouse . I was jgoing upon an errand ^ . and I . accompanied him and never w « nt liomesincB . He took me to Bkickhorse-caurt , in the G 5 ty , and on pur
way he took a handkerchief out of a gentleman ' s pocket and sold it for Is . 6 d ., half of which he gav& to me . ThLi morning lie came to me in my xoom at the house in which he lodges , and asked me to go with him to steal handkerr chiefs on London-bridge ; After trying a good many pocJt ^ ts , he touclied the pocket of the prosecutor / and told me there was a _ handkerchief in it , and X must go and take it . Ldid take it .- I assure your lordahip tliat he made a- thief of me , for I had no idea of thieving until he came and took me out , Shea said : I don't know anything at all about the gentleman . The prisoners were committed for triiU .
Ou the same morning , Thornas Mount joy * , berween eight and nine years of age , was committed to ¦ . pn $ oh for 21 .. days upon the charge of having crept behind the counter of a shop a . ri 4 robbed the tilL The wretched little creature said he had a mother who lived witli a rnah who was not her husband , ' and that nobody cared for him . As for the robbery , lie said ho had been put up to it by a big boy , who showed him how to get at the money , but it was not his intention to take much . Mr . Alderman Garter * gave some particular directions about the unfortunate child , who . is to be- visited by the humane chaplain to Holloway prison . The sitting magistrate at Lambeth Police-court , Mr . Elliott , was engaged for upwards of three hours on Monday in hciu-ii ) g charges of felony against a slioul of practised pickpockets , brought together from all parts of the metropolis by that annuiil nuisance , Camberwell Fair . Among them were several children under twelve years of ago !
Wife beating flourishes in full vigour . Charles Thoms " had a difference" with his wife in the street , " about somo money he was sponding ; " to settle the aftair Thorns struck his wife on the face , and g « vo her black eyes . She ran away crying murder , when a policeman came up and arrested Mr . Thomas . Sentence three rnonthu' imprisonment . This took place at Worship-street . At the Olerkenwell office , on the same morning , Monday , William Gordon , 28 , -was charged with half-killing his wife . He was a jealous man . On Sunday he came to his dinner , which she had comfortably provided for him , when she perceived something strange in his look and manner . They eat down together , and shortly afterwards ho took up tho poker , jipd , saying ho would huve her lifij , he felled her to the floor with a tremendous blow , which inflicted a dangerous wound on her head . As he was about to repeat the blow , the womnn ' a screams brought in people arid policemen . Gordon was sentenced to six months' imprisonment .
A singular murder took place at Troy-town Rochester , Bomo time since . Mr . Smith , postmaster at Jersey , was sent to Han-well Asylum , and was recently lot o-ut , quite cured , He txiolc hia wife to Rochester , arriving thera on Saturday ; on Tuesday he shot her as she slept and tlwn wulked down stairs and told tho landlady of -what ho had done . He is in custody . Mr . lCUiott has ngnin remanded tho Ncwtons— . the young men who beat M'Kor at Bouliih . Spa—as Miolr victim is not yet out of danger .
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CANADA . The Canadian Mail screw steaurt-ship the Cleopatra , Captain Sstft , arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday from Quebec , -with dates to the 9 th instant . A proclamation had been issued in an extra edition of the Canada Gazette , of the 9 th , CQtvvolciiig Parliament foe the despatch of business on the 5 tli proximo . The Quebec Chronicle , of tho 9 th , says * ' the ireturns for , * 123 constituencies have been received ^ leaving only the counties of Chicoutape and G-aapa to be heard from . We have adopted the most intelligible classification , and have marked each member as a ministerialist or anti-ministerialist ; , according to his declared opinion . " The following may be considered an accurate statement op the result of the general election , as it is possible under tho oircum ,-stancea to procux-e : —Ministerialists , 47 ; anti-Ministerialiats , 81 ; majority againat Ministers , 34 , Another statement makes tlio majority the other > vay .
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AMERICAN NOTES . Turn American Conffroas eloped on tho 7 Hi , after a session of eight months . The President , Oonerol Pierce , had been pelted by a drunken inuu . Ho carao up and shook lumda with Mr . Pierce , and as tlio lafctor turned « . way ho felt something strike his lwt , whjcli he supposed hud fftllen from a window nbovo . 1 hinking nothing more about it , ho > v « a aurpnflcd to find that tho young man who had shaken hands with luin hud been avrrested fov poking tl » o Tresidout with a hard boiled egg . The youth , it appears , waft tipsy a * tlio time . , , , i > i Both Houaes of Congress had witnessed the violent scorao . i which unfortunately seem to have become customary with thoolosing days of the session . Mr .
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who needs a little refreshment on his one holiday " What is a traveller ? " is likely to become an important question . On Sunday week five guests arrived at " Jack Straw ' s Castle , " H&rapstead * between one and two , and ordered dinner . Two arrived in a brougham , two in a gig ; and one on foot . They paid for their dinners and drinks before halfpast two ; but the police ^ who liad ; watched them in , not seeing them come out , entered the house , and found these five gentlemen finishing their dinner and sitting over their wiuei Mr- Robert Ware , the tavern-keeper , was summoned before Mr . long , at the Mariborough office , and tliat magistrate had to decide whether the five persons were " travellers " within the meaning of the act . He decided that they were , apparently on account of the distance they had
travelled ; for he said that any one going frofti Cheapside to Piccadilly to dine would not be a traveller , ¦ while proceeding to Hampstead was sufficient . The summonses were dismissed . But virtually the ma gistrates are left to make the act of Parliament On Tuesday , Mr . Simpson , of Cremoriie , aai > some other keepers of well-known suburban places of refreshment , waited or Sir Richard Mayne , to discove * c , if possible , what he intended to do , and what lie . understood by a ' -traveller . " But Sir Richiird pror perly thiulcs that he is an executive officer , bound not to interpret but to enforce tlie law , ani he discreetly refrained ftom attempting a definition of the word traveller . He prorqised , rta * Vever , in testiig the law , not to carry it out with harshness and oppression . ¦ ¦ : ¦ "'''¦ . '¦ : ' . * . " ' : : . " ' ¦ ¦' . ¦¦ ¦ '¦ . : ' . > ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ' . ¦¦ ¦ ¦ > ' ' '' ' ''
In Scotland there is " , an act regulating thfi spinthouses , and the opening on Suiiday ,, called ^ Forbes Mackenzie ' s Act . How does it work ? ¦/ . & Scotoh paper > ays : — " We fear tlie teturn of cornmitmauts for drunkenness in Jtily and ^^^! Aiigu « t wll be- very unfavoijrable . " The Caledonian Mtrcury saysi—r " The commifmeiits for dmnkenness at the yaribiis policebflfices in Glasgow on Saturday night and Sunday morning ^ exhibit an aiarmirig increase ; At tjie Central-oflice , from tvro E . ai . op Saturday till five a . m . pn Sunday morning , the numbers were—Men , drunk and incapable , 40 ; women , in the . samq state , 2 Q *** Besides these there were charged with disorderly conduct , assaults , and other offences , but all -moire or less the worse for liquor , 19 rrien and 15 women . It has become noticeable that a very large prcn portion of persons committed carry a ' pocketpistol . '" The Am Advertiser says :-- " From the
number of tipsy persons seen staggering about the streets on Sabbath , it is evident that a supply of whisky can be proewred somewhere , for it is not likely that the tipplers are all so provident sis to have a stock laid in the previous night . The fact is , spirits may be had in any quantity on Sabbath , both from licensed and unlicensed houses . The buyers , of course , are as much interested as the sellers in keeping up the traffic ! and are therefore unlikely to become informers . " In Edinburgh it is just tho same . The drunkards seem to increase ; illicit stoxes are opened ; stocks are laid in on Saturday ; there are whisky-clubs for private-swilling on Sunday ; and parties into the country well armed with bottles of the enchanting liquor . How are these mad people who stupidly drink in excess to be dcalth with ? Surely not by coercion .
THE BEER ACT . Two attempts have been made to prevent the tipplers of England and Scotland irorn procuring drink on a Sunday . In England thore is tho now Beer Act , which provokes such a storm of opposition from all kinda of people , except tlmt comfortabio set which owns a well-stored collar . It ia found to proas most unduly , not upon tlio drunkard so much , for ho will drink upon tho week-day , as upon tho sober nwn ,
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August 26 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 799
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 26, 1854, page 799, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2053/page/7/
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