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THE LEADER . [ No . 299 , Saturday ,
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day . After a sharp fusillade , which lasted for an hour and . ahalf , the enemy retreated , leaving some thirty prisoners ( two of whom were officers ) in the hands of the French , whose loss was insignificant . " Baga , Orkousta , and Skvaka , " says the Daily News , " are three villages situated at the eastern extremity of the valley of Baidar , and form the extreme right of the French position as well as that of the Allied ariny . Our Allies are posted very strongly here , and their reserves are close at hand . "
Fighting has again commenced in the Crimea . The French Minister of War has received a telegraphic despatch from Marshal Pelissier , communicating the substance of a report from th e General in Command o £ the First Division of the First Coups , who says that a body of from two to three thousand- Russian infantry , and about four or five thousand horse , attacked Baga , Orkousta , and Skvaka , at daybreak on < * h e morning of last
Satur-Receut despatches ( dated , however , previously to the foregoing news ) say that the Russians are fortifying their position near Inkermann ; that they are removing from their lines of defence , and concentrating troops at Baktchi-Serai and Simpheropol ; that the corps on the Belbek has been reduced ; that the northern forts do not fire much now ; that the Allies have constructed twenty-six batteries to attack those forts ; and that three hundred and sixty cannon are in position on our lines of the Tcherna 3 'a . Russia still holds on with a determined , though perhaps desp erate , grasp ; and the winter will not , as was at one time
supposed , see her expulsion from the Crimea . Winter , indeed , will offer her some facilities for maintaining her stand ; and we are are already told by the Kreuz Zeitung that , since the snow has been covered with a crust of ice , enormous trains of " sleds , " six miles long , have entered the peninsula by Perekop and the Spifc of Arabat , loaded with provisions and other articles for the use of the army . The closing of the navigation of the Sea of Azof is looked on by the Russians as securing their left and rear in the Crimea , and as releasing several of their troops from mere purposes of defence . The Neva , also , is becoming closed . Ice showed itself there for the first time on November
23 rd , and on the morning of the 25 th the river was frozen over below the town . The fall of Kars appears now to be certain . The news is announced and criticised with the utmost confidence by the Morning Post , which adds that " Ismail Pacha ( General Kmety ) , with another officer , who succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the Russian outposts , have effected their escape . When they quitted Kars , General Williams had been compelled by famine to send a flag of truce to the Russian camp , offering capitulation . " It
appears that , on the 9 th of November , ten thousand men , under Selim Pasha , left Erzerouni to relieve the'beleagured city ; but the assistance was too late . The smullness of his force , and the alertness of the Russians , have prevented the arrival of Selim to the succour of his distressed countrymen . The Muscovites , therefore , have for once had a triumph j but the heroic defence by a handful of men , under a scarcity amounting almost to starvation in the case of the human beings , and quite so in that of the horses , is a triumph also , anil one which the world will know how to honour .
Omar Pacha was loft by the most recent advices , on the bunks of the Marini , at a very short distance ) from Kutnis . He was waiting the arrival of the division of Mmtaplm Pacha ami the . Egyptian division , 12 , 000 strong . The Journal d : St . Petersburg publishes the following intelligence from Kara and its neighbourhood , relating to a period antecedent to the sunmission of the town : — . .
" Tho Turks havo reinforced tboir Kobouleti dctaohmontby n landing of Nizam * , uml , uflor having occupied Logvy and Otchkumour with regular trooj > M , they commenced thoiv offensive movement . On . tins 2 » th October- ( 10 th November ) , about four hundred mon loft tho Ht . Nioliolaa Htatiou , and took th » direction of tho Tehokhat bridgo , which had boon destroyed by us , but mot on thin point »> ytno Uuriol militia , they withdrew with u small Iohh oi killed and wounded .
"On tho 30 th October ( 11 th Novombor ) , beiivy mnssofl of tho enemy ' s infantry and oavalry advanced on tho village of Liklmour ( south of Utmi >; uetti ) , o » j on this point also aftor an hour ' s combnl , th « y l 0 book on tho river Tehlok . Wo bad throe . « iLlit » iui » on killed and three wounded . It is reported tliat im
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jj ON and Another v . Ireland , that nobody needs attend to the crossing of cheques . A solicitor's clerk conveying cheques to the banking-house , approp riating one to his use , got it cashed by a tavern-keeper , at whose house he was a customer , deposited ^ 15 and some shillings to Ms employers' account , arid absconded with JS 33 . The solicitor brings an action against the tavernkeeper , for that balance , on the ground that the tavern-keeper had improperly cashed the cheque-in spite of the crossing . The tavern-keeper ' s reply was , that he had reason to believe the clerk to be a respectable man , and the Chief Justick decided that he was not bound to exercise any peculiar caution on account of the crossing . The crossing of cheques , therefore , in future will be a precaution of that kind , which , by giving a fallacious ajipeaiance of safety , renders the document less secure . The safety fails at the very moment when its operation is required . If people choose to observe the precaution—that is , if they are perfectly regular and respectable people—it will be observed : if irregulars get hold of the instrument they may neglect the crossing with impunity . Now so many people have no bank , and find the crossing an obstruction , that undoubtedly it will be disregarded , and evidently some new arrangement is needed . The Times suggests an Act of Parliament ; the Globe , the reversal of the position of the crossed banker ' s name and the payee's putting the banker ' s name in the body of the cheque , the payee ' s across . Meanwhile the public should know how invalid this security is . The Assize Courts have continued in full play , and an unusual amount of the romance of real life has been recited before them . The most conspicuous case is that of Joseph SnaithWooleb , accused of poisoning his wife Jane . In interest it exceeds the case of Laffarge ; for the crime of poisoning is ascertained , it is traced by the same careful analysis and accumulation of evidence , but to the surprise of everybody the husband is acquitted , — is pronounced to be manifestly innocent ; while the Judge on the bench declares that his fancy points to some other person , and the medical men stand convicted on their own testimony of strange reserves and equivocations . Another romance , too , is kept before the public . Just at the time when the publication of a succinct account of the affairs of Stkahan , Paul , and Bates has been laid before the public at the Bankruptcy Court—just at the time when , from this more complete survey , some degree of leniency is extended to the unhappy men by observing the degrees with which they were led into their fatal crime—just at this time they are subjected to an additional punishment : they are pilloried in effigy , amongst the figures of Madame Tussaud ' s Exhibition , with " the benevolent Pius the Ninth . " The several districts of London have now appointed their new vestries ; the vestries have elected their representatives in the Board of Works ; and London City even , after making some wry faces , has appointed its three to sit with the forty and be swamped— -for such is the expectation in the City . In the election of the vestries the contest has lain between the continuance of the old members under the new law , and the constitution of really new bodies—and the new bodies have prevailed . We have u new broom , then , in the vestries , and must expect an overruling energy in tlie new Council of Forty presiding over the federal republic of the metropolis . We trust that the fears of the City will be verified , for what we apprehend is not tyranny but apathy—not innovation but routine ; in short , not tho health we hope to have , but the chronic disease of neglect and dirt under which we have laboured . Tho name of tho PniNOK Consoht appears among tho officers of tho Guards , memorialising the Crown to retain the privileges of that body as distinguished from officers of tho Line . Officers in the Guards hold a titular rank nbovo their real rnnk ; but , moreover , they expect promotion according to their titular , " and not to their real rank . A Captain of tho Guards is called " Lieutenant-Colonel , " and has hitherto been permitted to be made a General as if he had been Lieutenantgeneral from tho date of his Cuptaiu's commission . Tho present Government has overridden this rule In reference to thq war , placing the Guards and the Lino on a level . Tho Guards complain ; the FftiNCia is Colonel of the Grenadier Guards j and he has suffered his name to follow the memorial . There . can scarcely bo a doubt that Her Majest y will refuse ; and , as- the Times remarks , tho
unadvised use of the Prince ' s name subjects him to share in Che refusal which his Consort must give I The Reverend B . Jowett , whom we have known as the promoter of the pedantic civilservice school , has published a work which contains passages throwing a new lig ht on the doctrine of the atonement . From the passages , published separately , the reader must infer , that he does not hold God to have been reconciled to man by the sacrifice of Christ , but men to have been reconciled to God by the sacrifice . Philosophy would mention many arguments to this second view ; but Dr . Macbride and Mr . C . P . Goligutly , made an appeal to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford , asking him to challenge Mr . Jowett again to sign the thirty-nine Articles , one of which distinctly expresses the exact opposite view . Mr . Jowett signed at once—believing one way officially , another intellectually ! Mr . F . O . Ward continues vigorously his contest with the " eminent engineers , " against whom he is pitted ; and who , to say truth , have by no means the best of the battle . Foiled in his attempt to get his powerful antagonists before a mathematical tribunal , and batter them with a plus b , Mr . Wa r o proposes , with a grave simplicity in which ( if we mistake not ) there lurks a touch of scareasm , to bring the dispute to a practical issue , by swimming a turnip down the Fleet river , and so timing the velocity of its current , and the discharging power of the ten-feet tunnel through which its waters roll . This float , by Stephenson ' formulae , should only go two miles an hour ; Mr . Ward backs it to go ten miles an hour ; and the ratepayers , he observes , have .= £ 800 , 000 staked on this new kind of race . To the permanent interest of the question , Mr . Ward adds that which is derived from its bearing on the election , now pending , of the chairman to the New Central Board . For Mr . Jebb and his supporters , he tells us , back Stepenson and the low-velocity formulae , involving the more costly and colossal works ; and Mr . Jebb , as our readers know , is chairman of the existing Commission of Sewers , and candidate for the chairmanship of the New Board now coming into office . Mr . . Ward ' s unanswerable letter on this subject appeared last week , in all the daily journals , except tlie Times .
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The Trial rou Bible-Burning . —This trial took place on Friday week , and resulted in tlie acquittal of Father Peclxerino , on tho ground that there was not sufficient proof that lie knowingly and . wilfully threw tho Bibles into the fire . In the course of his defence , Mi * . O'Hagan gave the annexed particulars of the n . ther mysterious lledemptorist Father : — " He is a stranger , gentlemen , coming from a strange land here ; and , though his residence has been long enough and familai" enough , to make him one of ourselves , be in his own land was born , I beliovo , oven of noble family , and ocoupiod a high position and a place of public trust in the University of his country , ami had opened beforo him a great career of honour . And , gentlemen of tho jury , ho in not to be blamed for this , that ho Maori fioed all worldly advantages find burst all earthly ties at the mandate of his conscience and bis duty . Ho in a stranger ho re ; ho has been sorno fourteon or twenty years an alien from his own land , because , with the impulses of coiiHcioncej strong upon Lum , ho felt that the opinions which were early hirt , could not bo so for any longer time ; and he abandoned homo and family , country old associations , eluu'iijhod friendships , fair hopes , and a fair ambition , to dovofco himself in utter poverty and self-negation to tho advancement of tho immortal salvation of his follow men . " A acono of tho most tumultous exultation followod the declaration of the verdict ; and tho greatest joy baa boon manifested by tho lower or < kuvi in Dublin at tho acquittal of their priest . John Hamilton , a boy , has also boon acquitted on a similar charge ; but I'Idward Haydon watt found , guilty of mi aggravated assault upon one of the witnesses examined for the Crown during tho trials . Ilo was recommended to mercy ; but tlio court aojitoucod him to three months' imprisonment . Mn . Geoikik L . Puhciiahis has addressed a letter to the shareholders of the Crystal 1 ' alaoo Company , recommondiug that the " government" of tho concern should bo " constitutional , " and undor tho control of the shareholders ; and suggesting various improvements in tho management with rortpoot to tho surplus proporty , tho moans of aeooHH and departure , tho rovonue and working exponsQH , tho refreshment department , &o . IIkvoivt oir thh Bashi-Ba / . ouks . — Tho Brvslii-Daxouku in ISngliah pay luivo committed excesses nt Adriunople . Othors huvo revolted on board tho Tanored , but wore arrcstodby tho brig-of-war IVOHvior at Smyrna . Tlio rosi « todl , and caused some death * , and many wore wounded .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 15, 1855, page 1190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2119/page/2/
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