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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 by G-eneral K ^ ett ' s friends , not by himself , as justly proven . The lEnglish mblie listened with sympathy to G-eneral Williams ' s praises of his enemies , it would scarcely have been less tolerant of a just tribute to the gallant exile serving in the army of an ally . ** ^ ^ - ^ i ¦ * * ~ i __ _ _ 1 1 _ ___ .
When Sir F . " Williams publicly thanked General Kmety 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 tliose 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 Kwcety is by no means sparing in the praises of his subordinates , and he presents the Turkish officers to us in a new and
The enemy s troops echeloned between these two camps had been withdra-wn , immediately after the battle , to his head-quarter camp . No support , therefore , could have conae 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 . mi _; _»_ -. * - *•¦» *• > . . _ '
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 , as 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 as a general would be premature , until the appearance of the work which he has himself promised us ; meanwhile , we cannot hut regret , that "by his attack upon Omab Pacha , and by his conduct towards his comrade , General Kmett , 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 hare so justly exalted him in the eyes of his countryuien .
favourable light . No Engliah officer who has been brought into contact with the privates of that army has spoken of them as otherwise than ; . " sober , hardy , 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 inatter of back-stairs influence , that to officer a Turkish army efficiently with Turks was hopeless . General Kmety , however , records feats of some amons their number not
unvrorthy of " the pen of Mr . Russell . " The conspicuous gallantry of numbers among them is recorded with tlieir names . The achievements of Hussein Pacha , Zarik Mottstapha , and Colonel Za . ohab . ia Bey are told at length . " Kebim Pacha , the r&iss , or lieutenant , of the cornmander-inchief , accompanied by one aide-de-camp , one servant , and four ICurds , fought his way - through , the enemy , and entered the Tachnnas redoubt . " They were 15 , 000 strong , and at most points within pistol-shot . i ITe xemained conspicuous on horseback , giviug
OTders to tliose about him , and undisturbedly smoking his chibouk amid the hail of shot that Tattled on all sides of him , aad when two horses had been successively shot under him . " "We doubt whether there were many cooler hands than this same Kekim Pacha in either the Malakhoff or Redan . Captain Haul Bey , 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 strategy of Sir I \ Williams in defending Kars , unless we infer , from his remark on the disproportion of the lines to be defended to the strength of the troops—an opinion shared in by many continental officers , especially those in the Turkish service- — that it was an unfit place to defend . He complains , however , that the support sent up by , we suppose , General Wiiiiams from the town , came in by ' driblets , ' and were thus rendered nearly useless ; he also criticizes the English general ' s inaction after the battle : —
The Turkish army , profiting ; by the enthusiasm which prevailed , and taking advantage of the inequalities of the ground and the darkness which reigned during the eatty part of the night before the rising of tlic moon , should have undertaken an attack on the night after the J ? ° A-J * y Beveral Msht movable columns , directed rroin different Bides upon Ainalli , to surprise th « enemy ' s troops , which , Borne 8000 or 4000 strong , after having been beaten back from the Ingliz Tabina , had retired to that village , and were there encamped .
ThiB camp was distant more than four hours' inarch ffin Jm ^ C T Bt tho ene «> y ' B head-quarters near "TSiTS J ya ' WhOrOa 8 lfc Wa 8 only onc ho « r « d a half distant from . us .
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TKE 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 ' ' : facts , omitting many points very desirable to be known , and the coroner ' s inquest was conducted witaout sufficient deliberation . "We must state the case as it appears in the evidence .
The offices in Dublin of the Midland Great "Western " Railway 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 tlie principal door of the terminus there is a hall , with a . window looking out on the railway platform , and a staircase leading up to a corridor above . The corridor ( to your right as you reach the top of tlie stairs ) leads to a suite of four rooms ; the fourth
room was the cashier ' s offic e- The cashier , Mr- G-eoeoe Little , was a gentleman aged forty-five , a bachelor , living with his mother and sister . He was a quiet , timid gentleman . 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 cleric , William : CiiAMBEBiiAiN , who sat with him in tlie same
room . About three or four weeks ago poor Mr . Little , sitting alone in his room after liis clerk had gone , got a great start . " A labouring man in corduroy trousers and fustian jacket came in " while tho 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 left , " came to his door in turn , but on turning the handle generally found it locked , and heard Mr . Little say from inside , "lam not gone yet . " This was the general routine ; but on one or two occasions Mr . Little did not answer , although the door was locked azid he was inside . On one day last week ( Wednesday ) a little girl of fourteen , daughter of tho housekeeper , knocked at the door on some errand , but Mr . Little would not admit her until he heard her voice , and was told her business . On Thursday , the day followiug , hia clerk left at ten minutes past live
but Mr . Little had some accounts to maka up . ( The room in which he sat ih corner room ; there were two windows , one acmg the door , the other in the wall at the left hand of the door as you entered the roonu The greater part of the room w ^ partitioned m by a counter and some rail , ings , with apertures for paying money , such as are usual in offices . Behind this counter was a large table , and behind the table wasTa chan- m which Mr . Littjlea short . siehtPa
—, gentleman with spectacles , usually sat ) Af about half past five , that is , twenty mi nutes after his clerk had left , the little girl , assistant to the housekeeper , tried the door ; it was locked , and , as usual , she supposed that Mr . Little was within . At ten minutes past seven , the housekeeper herself came to the door , and saw the light comine t
hrough the keyhole : the door was locked . About that time , the other servant , sitting in the room below , heard a step in Mr . Little ' s room ; she swears that it was hia , but this is doubtful . At eleven o ' clock , the servant again tried the door : it was locked . Nothing more was known , until in the niorning the door had to be forced , and the dead body of Mr . Little was found , with one terrible
wound over the left ear ( from a heavy angular instrument ) , several smaller wounds in the head , and a deep gash in Ms 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 tlie left ear was evidently inflicted while Mr . Little ' s head was stooped ; There was no sign of a struggle ; his clothes were very little disarranged ; the papers lay neatly on the table before him ; the money , counted before him in little piles of silver , was lying
undisturbed . Blood 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 30 OL in gold was missing from a safe behind the chair . There were traces in blood of a man ' s escape ; first he tried a back staircase , aud failed ; and then evidently escaped , through a window on the ground floor , on to the platform , from the platform through a door , bolted every evening , but found unbolted the morning after the murder .
The question first is , was the murderer acquainted with the office , and the habita of the clerks ? The manner of entry , and the manner of escape , indicate that he knew the place ; but this knowledge may have been acquired by a stranger in a casual visit . The most singular fact is the mute but terrible evidence of the mark over the left ear that the first stunning blow , precluding all struggle , was given while Mr . Little was sitting at his desk . ( What a terrible picture !—the poor ,
hard-working clerk , poring over his papers , while his murderer is poisixag the weapon over his head . ) Now , Mr . Little ' s door was locked on Thursday evening ; how did the murderer get in ? and how did he obtain the opportunity of an unexpected blow ? K a stranger knocked at Mr . Liitle ' h door , ho , cautioua and timid , would surely have called out , "Who is that ? " * md even if he ad- t
mitted the man , which is unlikely , he mus have come out from behind the counter to do so . Wo learn that Mr . Little had an objection even to acquaintances or friend 3 standing behind the counter . But , seeing a stranger , would ho have unsuspectingly returned to his desk , . sab down again , aud bont over the papers , while he stood in the room ? l ? or it is clear that Mr .
Little was . struck down , almost sonsolesa , while sitting at his desk and beading over his papers . Another supposition is , was it some friend or familiar nc-
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1116 THE I ' EAPEB . [ -No . 348 . S . ^ ., IM ' ' - ' " ** > . ¦ ¦ ¦ ^ wi ¦
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1856, page 1116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2168/page/12/
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