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      The War. The War News Of The Past Week H...

      been named Boyal Piedmontese Commissioner to the caxap of General Pelissier . DE 8 TKUCI 1 ON OK FOBT ROTSINSHALM IN THE BALTIC . Admiral Dundas communicates a report from Captain Yelverton , describing the blowing up of the fort of Rotsinsbalm and of some large Russian barracks at Kotfea .

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      Wae Miscellanea. British Recruitino In A...

      WAE MISCELLANEA . British Recruitino in America . —Mr . Charles II . Stanly , of the British Consulate , New York , has been arrested , and placed under one thousand dollars' bond , to answer a charge of enlisting recruits for the Crimea . Great Loss of Cattle intoded for the Crimean Abmv . —A letter from Smyrna , dated June 30 , says : — " The Ganges ( transport ) , Ilalpin , proceeded yesterday for the Crimea ; two hundred head of cattle died during her detention at the castle . " New Hospital fob the Army oi" tiik East . — GaUgnani publishes a Turin letter , stating that " His Majesty of the Sicilies has signified his consent to Sir W . Temple , that a hospital for convalescents from the East should be established on the Island of Ischia , where it is known the mineral springs possess rare powers in the cure of ague and rheumatism , and the air is particularly pure , "

      Health of the Aioiy . —From a report of Dr . Hall , addressed to the late Commander-iu-Chief , we learn that " cholera and bowel complaints still prevail" ( June 26 ) , " and have been on the increase within the last two or three days ; but neither the admissions nor the deaths have been so marked as to attract special attention , though numerous enough to create uneasiness . " Dr . Hall speaks with great approval of the arrangements for the reception in hospital of the wounded after the action on the 18 th . These arrangements , it will be recollected , have been seriously impugned by a medical correspondent of the rimes , writing from the spot .

      The Losses in the Land Iransi-ort Corps by death would be extraordinary did we not find a parallel to them in the Sardiniau army of Tchorgoun , which has lost in three weeks nearly 1000 men by cholera , dysentery , and diarrhoea . The Turks and French encamped in the valley suffer somewhat from the same diseases , but it is observable that the men who die are recruits and old men who are mostly unacclimatised . At Yeni-Kaleh , the detachment of Land Transport Corps lost in fortnight fifty men , of whom twenty-live were English and twenty-five native drivers . In its present state , it cannot supply all the wants of our army . —Times Correspondent .

      Russian Advance into Asiatic- Tikkey . — General Mouravieff , Commauder-in-Chief of the Caucasian corps , announces , under date of June 13 and 14 , that the Russian troops have crossed the Turkish frontier , and occupied a part of the Pttchiilic of Kars . The Russian Reinforcements sent into the Crimea have been compelled to return through want of

      provisions . Anapa . —The Preste cVOrient reports that the Circassian garrison of Anapa is harassed by a Russian force ; that the Circassians have not been able to regain the military road , and that they are encamped to the number of fourteen battalions on the heights above Soujak-Kaleh . Sir Edmund Lyons has made hi nself unpopular by a eeries of rapid promotions of a son of Sir James Graham , a youth of nineteen , until lately a midshipman . A death vacancy having occurred among the lieutenants , Sir Edmund directed that a board should be held to pass young Mr . Graham to his next step , that of a mate ; and , before he had been in that rank a dozen hours signalled for him to come to breakfast , and handed to him his commission as lieutenant . Such is the story as related by the Titnt . i Correspondent .

      A Campaign on thh Danihk . —The Austrian ( ia-Mtte is informed , from ( lulutz , that a campaign on the Danube and Pruth is expected there . "Tim Grapes auk Soru . "—A soldier writing to his cousin in Belfast , relates that , after the attack on tlu > 18 th , one of the wounded men was asked by an oflicor if it ' Was grape that caused his wound . " Yes , sir , he replied , " it was d—d hour grape to inc . " PKPARTUltK OF 1 ' OI . KS FOK Tl'UKF . Y . A KCCOlld transport of about one hundred of the Polish refugees , tttttt of them young « nd able-bodied moii , havo sailed from Deptford , on , board the screw . steamer the Victory , under the command of a disliuguiMu ' il Polish officer , Captain Ordon . They are going to join the corps of the Turkish Cossacks , commanded Iiy one of their countrymen , C / . njkowski , now Saadvk Pacha .

      A . Russian Compumknt . — The Ihiify Xctr . t Corrc-HX > ndont relate * that , alter our repulse , on the IStli , it Russian officer , during tho armistice , said that we are * n army of lions 1 ml on by donkeys . " The Baltic :. —Fifteen more infernal inuehhios have wen found , making , in all , a total of sixty-one diseo-Vered during a fortnight . Two deserters , who eaino »>» Ward the Kxmouth on Juno the IJOth , stated that . two hundred of these " Hubmarino exploders" had been laid town by tho Russians on the . south side of Cronstndt ; lid that they wero ho arranged that ten should explode t the same moment . Admiral Seymour , who was hurt

      by the explosion of one of these contrivances , is progressing favourably . " Timid Counskls . " —It is asserted in the camp that " one of the generals of division" ordered that the cemetery which we took on the 18 th ulfc . should be given up . It was defended and fortified , however , by Lieutenant- Donnelly , and we still retain it . The Ditch of the Abattis at the Redan is said to have been filled with bayonets fixed firmly in the earth , on the occasion of our recent attack . The French Loss from First to Last . — The Moniteur says that it results from all the documents received at the War-office , that the number of military men who have fallen on the field of battle , or who have died in the ambulances and hospitals in consequence of wounds , cholera , or other diseases , amounts for the army in the East , from its departure from France up to the 1 st of June , 1855 , that is to say , during a period of thirteen months , to 14 , 205 men , and that , according to reports already received , the number of killed during the recent combats in June may be estimated , at the highest , at

      2300 . The Sack of KEirrrii . —Admiral Bruat writes to the French Minister of Marine , to say he does not think many articles of value have been destroyed at the Kertch Museum , the greater number having been removed previous to the occupation of the town . General Sik Geokge Brown has departed for England on medical certificate .

      The Sunday Riots. The Masses Seem Determ...

      THE SUNDAY RIOTS . The masses seem determined to continue their Sunday demonstrations " until further notice ; " so that Lord Kobert Grosvenor ' s bill for " the better observance of the Sabbath" has led to a very singular method of " observing" the day of rest and devotion . There is no doubt , however , that the middle classes , and the more decent of the working-classes , stood aloof from the proceedings of last Sunday ; since , as the obnoxious bill had been withdrawn , and the Government had promised inquiry into the misconduct of the police , there appeared no reasonable occasion for breaking her Majesty ' s peace , or her Majesty's policemen ' s heads , or her Majesty ' s aristocracy ' s windows .

      It is pretty certain that the Government looked towards the day with much anxiety . They did not , indeed , plant a six-pounder in the park , nor were the mob stimulated by " the crash on the pavement" ( of Pall Mall , or St . James ' s-street ) " of the trail" of that gently-persuasive instrument ; so that the pleasing vision in which Mr . Dundas indulged was not realised . But our frightened rulers thought proper to keep the soldiers under arms until the evening ; and we understand that each man was furnished with twenty rounds of ball . Happily , however , there was no occasion for their services ; for the demonstration , on the whole , was rather a tame affair .

      The rioters consisted chiefly of boys and youths ranging from about fourteen to sixteen—mischievous ragamuffins , whoof course had no idea of abstract principle in connexion with the matter , but who desired to have " a lark'' after their own disreputable fashion . These congregated in Hyde Park , and , having amused themselves for an hour or two in hooting at those few carriages which were to be seen , adjourned toBelgravia , and made a brilliant razzia upon tho windows , hundreds of which were smashed . The aristocracy are great sufferers in the matter of glass ; and Admiral Sir George Sevmour has been a personal sutVercr in a rather considerable degree . His house in Katon-squarc having

      been attacked , he sallied forth with all the courage and recklessness of a sailor , and literally thrashed one of the onenders with hearty good will , lie was assailed , howover , by a shower of stones , and , being badly cut on the head , was compelled to retire . Some of the rioters were subsequently captured , and about six o'clock the mob began to disperse . During the disturbances , Lord 1 ' alinerslon , Lord Brougham , Lord Cardigan , and other noblemen , had to run the gauntlet of the populace . The hero of the light cavalry cliarge was loudly cheered , and bowed his acknowledgment * . A quantity of straw , which was laid down in Belgrave-square , on account of illness , was piled w in heaps , and tired .

      At the upper end of Grosvonor-pliue , a collision occurred between a small party of police and a large body of the rioters . Tin * police had arrested a man , whom the crowd were determined to rescue ; truncheons were used , and were opposed by sticks ; and finally , tho police , who were roughly usoil , were obliged to release their prisoner , and to make oil ' , the inspector observing , " Wo are not among Englishmen , or they would not treat us so . " The conduct oi' the police was us praiseworthy and forbearing us on tho previous . Sunday it was reprehensible . Tho youugor constables werei draughted oil " , and none but experienced men wore employed . Altogether , the proceedings of tho day may bo nearly summed up in one brief sentence : —There has been profitable work for the . glaziers . Two Grenadier <» Har < lsmon , and six youths , have been remanded for a week at the Marylebono office , the

      latter for breaking windows near the Regent ' Park , and the former for inciting them . A little boy , aged fourteen , has been fined 40 s . for breaking the windows of Lord Robert Grosvenor ' s house in Park-street . The police had a har d fight with the mob in taking him into custod y . Other offenders have been punished at different offices . Mr . Mair was on Tuesday discharged , on entering into recognizances . In consideration of the inquiry to be instituted by Government , he declined to press his charges against the policemen who had taken him into custody .

      And In Dirty Rags. The Little Girl State...

      and in dirty rags . The little girl stated to the magistrate that she had been seduced from her home by the prisoner , by whom she was afterwards stripped of her clothes , and , having been detained in the house of the ¦ woman nearly three weeks , was turned into the streets to beg . She was accidentally seen by a friend of the family crying on a door-step far from her home , and was taken by him back to her parents . The prisoner was subsequently traced out and apprehended in a disreputable house in Whitechapel . She denied the charge against her , and was remanded .

      OUR CIVILIS ATION . Stealing Children's Clothes —A low-looking hag of a woman , named Elizabeth Smith , was charged at " Worship-street with having lured away and robbed a little girl named Jane Brooksbank , the only child of a tobacconist , living in Golden-lane , St . Luke ' s . From the evidence of the child ' s mother , it seemed that she had been sent out by her parent on an errand one morning , from which she did not return , and that after more than a fortnight ' s anxious search , she was brought home by one of the neighbours , half-starved

      Divorce Bills . —In the House of Lords , on Friday week , the Wyndham Divorce Bill , and the Ewing Divorce Bill , were read a second time , and ordered to be committed . The former has been before the House for a considerable time , and the facts have already appeared in the Leader . In the latter case , the divorce is asked for on the ground of adultery committed by Mrs . Ewing with Mr . Thomas Muir , a merchant of Calcutta . —A bill for divorcing Morton Cornish Sumner from Penelope Rubina Maria his wife , on the ground of adultery , was read a second time on Tuesday . The facts of the case were peculiarly revolting . Mr . Sumner . when twenty-four years of age , had married the daughter ^ of Demetrius Count Valasamachi , senator of the Ionian

      Islands , her mother being the widow of the late Bishop Heber . The lady , at the time of her marriage , was eighteen . About five months after her marriage she was confined prematurely of a son owing to a fall ; and after this , Mrs . Sumner took an unaccountable dislike to her husband , parted from him Avhile abroad , and subsequently , in London , declared to Mr . Sumner , sen ., that her husband was physically incapacitated from being the father of her child , and . tliat " she could swear " to the infant being the offspring of another man . She made this declaration in the presence of her mother ! There was reason to believe she had misconducted herself before her marriage ; and in May , 1854 , she was married at Corfu to a Greek gentleman , with whom she

      has since lived . Forgery by a Boy . —On Friday , at the Mansion House , W . Shanley , a delicate-looking boy ^ not more than fifteen vears of age , was brought before Sir R . W . Carden in the custody of Michael Haydon , the detective officer , charged with having forged and uttered a bill of exchange for 64 / . 7 s ., with intent to defraud the Commercial Bank of London . It appeared that the boy had been very well conducted until last Easter , when he met some loose girls at Greenwich Fair , with whom he formed an acquaintanceship , and upon whom he spent most of the money derived from the forged bill . He was committed for trial .

      Sending a Threatening Letter . — Mr . William Corfield , solicitor , of 10 , Gray Vin-square , appeared on a summons at the Clerkenwell Police-office for " threatening to print and publish certain matters and things with intent to extort money . " Mr . Corlleld had some real or alleged claims upon Mr . Radford , Jun ., a young man who has recently been a student at Oxford , and who got considerably ' into debt while there . In consequenceof this , he was compelled to leave the country . His father , however , undertook to settle his debts ; but demurred to a claim for 250 / . by Mr . Corfield , who subsequently ottered to take ono hundred pounds less . Mr . ltadford , Sen ., delayed sending tho lesser sum , in order Corlield then

      that he might make inquiries ; and Mr . threatened to issue a placard , offering a reward for the arrest of the young man on a charge of forgery , and describing him an having " frizzled brown hair , odd grey eyes , pink complexion , vulgar nmniuirs . Mr . Corfield was remanded , and bail was refused . Mrni . Kic ok a SoLunou at SiiKin ¦ ik . p .-A man TZ ^ ot izzx « = ?»' , » a ^ 'JK ^^^ ^ SrSE

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), July 14, 1855, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14071855/page/5/