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      hesitation in saying , had I done what Sir James Graham wished me to do , plainly expressed in letters , both public and private , I should have lost her Majesty's fleet ; a . nd I think Sir James Graham deserves impeachment for goading me to do in the winter what he was advising me not to < io in the . summer . Roebuck was so successful with bis Sebastopol Committee that he ought to take up the Baltic . Sir James Graham has been publicly accused by me of perverting my ( query , his ?) letters , and of endangering the Queen ' s fleet , and that accusation ought not to lie dormant . Were I in Parliament , it should not sleep for twenty-four hours . I do not think it right to send you the papers , but would be glad to show them to you had I an opportunity . —I remain , yours very truly , Chakles Napier . " Mr . Ironside ' s motion was carried .

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      THE OXFORD COMMEMORATION . TnE past week has been Commemoration week at Oxford , and has been signalised by some events of note . Count Montalembert ; Mr . Buchanan , the American minister ; Sir John Burgoyne ; Sir De Lacy Evans ; Colonel Sabine ; Dr . Adams , the discoverer of the new planet ; Sir Charles Lyell ; Mr . R . M . Milnes , M . P . ; Alfred Tennyson ; and some others of Ies 3 note , have received honoi-ary degrees ; and Oxford has been even more than usually full of company illustrious in the aristocracy of mind .

      On Monday , a bazaar was held at the Star Hotel , in aid of the funds for the restoration of the Abbey Church of Dorchester , Oxon . On Tuesday , a Horticultural Show took place in the gardens of Trinity College . The display is spoken of as not so good as on some previous occasions ; but , the day being very fine , the attendance was large . In the evening , there was a conversazione in the Radcliffe Library ; the electric light was exhibited on the dome of the Library , followed by a display of fireworks ; and a Masonic ball was given at the Town Hall . Wediiesday , however , was the great day—the Commemoration Day , emphatically—the day on which the annual commemoration of founders and benefactors to the University took place in the Sheldonian Theatre . At this Convocation , the honorary degrees

      above mentioned were conferred . Count Montalembert was well received by the large audience which crowded every part of the theatre ; so was Mr . . Buchanan , the American minister . Sir J . Burgoyne , the Crimean General , and still more Sir De Lacy Evans , met with a storm of applause , accompanied by waving of caps and hats . Sir Charles Lyell , Colonel Sabine , and others , were likewise received with cheers ; and the name of Alfred Tennyson , ¦ which had already elicited tumultuous applause , was now once more greeted with acclamations so long and loud , that even the reception of Sir De Lacy Evans seemed to be surpassed . We are glad to see the Oxonians thus recognising the worth of the chief poet of this generation—the interpreter , in noble and harmonious language , of the highest aspirations of the nineteenth century . After all the degrees had been conferred , an oration was made by the Public Orator ; the Latin Essay and the Latin Poem , the English Essay and the English Poem , were read ; and the Chancellor ( Lord Derby ) declared the Convocation dissolved . In the afternoon , the first stone of the New Museum was laid by Lord Derby . The company then sang the National Anthem , and dispersed .

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      LETTIOltS FllOM PARIS . ( Extracts from Private . Correspondence . ') On Saturday lust nftor Hoiirse hours , the speculators who oonirroimto in lVont of Tortoni ' s , wero suddenly seized with a panic . The funds fell rupldly , and m

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      OUR CIVILISATION . A Swindler Exposed . —A short time since , the attention of Sir R . W . Garden , at the Mansion House , was directed to the proceedings of a most accomplished swindler . The practice of this-worthy , who signs himself R . V . Fynn , is to insert advertisements in the newspapers for governesses to whom he promises large salaries , the opportunity of travelling ; through the greater part of the Continent , and other advantages . He pretends to be a married man , with children , whom the governess is required to instruct , and dates ise letters and advertisements from Wiesbaden , Frankforth on-the-Maine , and Cologne . Having got his victims into the trap , he induces them to place in his hands any sum of money they may have with them , under pretence of his applying it to their travelling expenses ; hthen disappears . In this way he has sometimes got as much as between one and two hundred pounds from one

      governess alone . In several instances he has made attempts to ruin the po ' or creatures whom he has thus decoyed ; and once he asked a young lady , on the first day of their meeting , to marry him . Tlie young lady observed that she had understood him to represent himself as a married man ; to which he replied , that such was the case , but that his wife was in a consumption , and could not live two months . He has been pursuing this system for several years ; and the marvel is , not so much that he should have escaped punishment so long ( which is what chiefly surprised Sir R . W . Carden ) , as that so many persons should be found simple enough to trust their money and their personal safetj' in the hands of a stranger . The father of one of the victims sent the man 60 / . in addition to what his daughter had paid , simply upon Fynn writing to ask him for it ; and it was only upon a still further application that the suspicions of the father were aroused . The subject has been twice since brought forward at the Mansion House , and several letters setting forth some of the foregoing facts have been read . From one of these jve gather the subjoined particulars of the rascal ' s biography : —" The delinquent ' s real name is Robert Nicholas Tynn , a native of Galway , in the west of Ireland . He is a member of the Irish bar . After four or five j ^ ears' practising as a briefless barrister , he was most unaccountably appointed about ten or twelve years ago to the office of chief justice of the island of Tobago , in the West Indies , through the influence of Lord Oranmore . At tliis time also , Fynn inserted in the papers a notice to governesses of something to the effect , as well as I recollect , that their position was to be more that of a lady in waiting than

      that of a governess , and that they were to have the same privileges as those attending on her Majesty . This having come to the ears of Lord John Russell , he immediately cancelled the appointment , after Fynn had all his luggage on board ship , and ready to sail , and emblazoned over with the broad R and the grand seal of Chief Justice of Tobago . Some time after this Fynn left London for Brussels , where lie managed to get introduced to some highly respectable families , and he passed himself off as Count Fynn , with many other etceteras , and contrived to get married to a beautiful woman , niece of a member of the House of Commons . " Bksieoino an Englishman in his Castle . —A case of disputed possession , or rather an assault arising out of it , recently came before the Judges at the Middlesex Sessions . Edwin Miuter had married the daughter of a retired tradesman , one Mr . Knight , who gave him u . house in Eversholt-strect , Oakley-square . No legal instrument of assignment , however , was made ; and Knight and his son-in-law speedily disputed as to who really owned the house . On tlic 10 th of May , James Bucklin and Edward Baker , who were now indicted for ¦ assault and forcible entrance , went—it i . s presumed at the instigation of Mr . Knight—to tho house

      occupied by Mr . Mintor , and laid positive siege to it , ultimately obtaining ingrtess by scaling the balcony . Pokers , hatchets , and other weapons wero used , and personal injury was inflicted . Tho men having been arrested , Mr . Knight was applied to for hail , which ho refused to give . Tho Assistant Judge recommended the parties to come to an amicable arrangement ; but Mr . Knight denied having countenanced violence . Ultimately the prisoner * were ordered to ontor into their own recognizances to come up Cor judgment when called upon , it being understood that , if they did not interfere with Mr . I \ l inter , they would hear ) ia more of the matter . uiuucr .

      A lii . ow—am > A Kiss . —A man wan charged at Worship-atrcel , on iSuturday lust , with such violent treatment of his- wifo , wh ) was Car advanced in pregnancy , that , when attending before tho ' niagi . stratii , hIic presented a pitiable . spectacle , anil was scarcely ablo to speak , owing to her lower jaw being injured by the Wow a nho had sustained . The only provocation uppeurcd to bo that tho wiCti had not ; got ready a clean shirt for hor husband as hooii as . ho de . iirod . At the conclusion of her testimony , tho woman who had been hystorioal throughout , was seized with strong convulsions , and fuiuted . Having been taken out of court , and restored by means of wine and water , further evidence , on her return , wa « received , and the prisoner wan remanded . Whilo liin wifo was being carried away nearly Honseluas , he stooped over tho chair in which who was sitting , and kii « oi . M ) ur cheek .

      Samuel Seal , who has been from time to time remanded on a charge of stealing a quantity of granulatec gold , was on Saturday last discharged from custody , n ( further evidence being produced against him . The Mukdeb in Limehouse . —Jeremiah Foley , tht Irishman charged with the murder of Hannah Bell , a woman of bad character , has been committed for trial . On the final examination at the Thames police-office , evidence was given which showed that the accused premeditated the destruction not only of Bell , but of her female companion Macaulay also ; ' for he produced a hammer to a woman to wliom he declared he wotdd murder them both with it before he went to bed that night . Louisa Harbison has been sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour on the second charge of perjury . The facts of this singular case we gave last week . A Returned Convict and his Brother . —At

      Clerkenwell , on Tuesday , Charles Henry Page , a fashionably-dressed young fellow , was charged with burglary , committed during tlie middle of the day on Sunday . Another man , giving the name of Williams , was also in custody as an accomplice ; and one of the witnesses against the second prisoner , as connecting him with the first , was a police-sergeant , who on the day of the robbery , and about an hour before its occurrence , had travelled in the same railway carriage with both , and had seen them afterwards enter a City-road omnibus . Two or three hours later , the sergeant happened to call at the Islington police station , heard of the apprehension of Page , identified him on the following day , and at the same time saw "Williams at the police court , and took him into custody . Before the

      magistrate , Page admitted his own guilt , but solemnly declared , as though he were * " going before his God at thai moment , " that Williams was entirely innocent , adding , after a little questioning , " The fact of it is , your worship , we are brothers . " ( Here Williams burst into tears . ) " I admit that I am a returned transport , and he has not seen me for years . My name is Isaac Williams , and I do not care what consequence it is to me so as you believe me that he is innocent of this . He is a hard-working young man with a family dependent on him . I know he has never done a wrong action , and I hope your worship will believe me , although I convict myself to save an innocent brother and father of a family . " The magistrate expressed his belief that Page had drawn his brother into the affair , and therefore refused bail . — If the story be true , it is botli singular and affecting .

      Henry Palmer , the escaped convict , who was remanded at Worship-street last week , has been committed for trial . Daniel Mitchell Davidson , and Cosmo William Gordon , who carried on business as general merchants and colonial and metal brokers at Mincing-lane and Cousin-lane , City , and as distillers at West Ham-lane , Essex , were on Tuesday placed at the bar of Guildhall for iinal examination on the several charges of not surrendering before the Commissioners in Bankruptcy , of obtaining under false pretences large quantities of goods on credit within three months of their bankruptcy , of concealing a portion of their effects , and of feloniously uttering fictitious spelter warrants with intent to cheat and defraud their creditors . The case has extended over

      several weeks , the prisoners having been remanded from time to time for the production of further evidence ; but the chief facts appear in the above statement of the charge . Messrs . Overend , Gurney , and Co ., are great losers by the affair . The forged spelter warrants were placed in their hands , and it has been asserted that they should have made the matter publicly known ; but Mr . Edwin James , Q . C ., who attended on their behalf , submitted that the warrants had all tho appearance of being genuine , and that it would have been imprudent in his clients to raise a panic in the money market by expressing a suspicion of their validity . Tlie prisoners wero committed for trial upon the bankruptcy charges , but on tho other charges wero remanded for a week , to enable the City Solicitor to make inquiries with regard fo tho frauds not connected with the bankruptcy , and to

      decide whether the City -would prosecute or not . Kioxous " Navvies . "—Nino " navvies" bound for the Crimea were on Thursday reiniindod at tlie Lambeth police office , on a charge of riotous conduct at 1 unga , near the Crystal Palace . Two policemen were severely wounded , the left arm of ono Iwing broken . Emptying a Pkivatic IJ . iuai . ( Jkound . —Mr . Henry Jones the proprietor of a private burial ground called the New Himliill l- 'ieltls Uuriul Ground , was summoned at Clorkemvoll on Thursday Cor having created a nuisance bv removing tho ( load bodies , m consequence of e " o , nd having been closed under Lord Palmerstona u ¦ The « MiiH . * tf lvon by the witnesses of the horrible stench which infected tho surrounding neighbourhood , ¦ , Il ( l Of tho black slimy multor which was brought up iv ,, m the graves , were most wickening . Mr . Jouoa was lined lOrf . and costs .

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      AMERICA . The Perry and Soule quarrel proceeds , and seems likely to turn out " a very pretty quarrel" indeed . Mr . Soule has published a letter stating that there is not a word of truth in Mr . Perry ' s assertions , charging Mr . Perry with hypocrisy and cowardice , and threatening to " show him up" in the history which Mr . Soule' is about to publish of his ambassadorship . A letter from Paris is said to assert that Mr . Perry has obtained from the Spanish government a very satisfactory settlement of certain matters in dispute . Nevertheless , Mr . Perry has been recalled .

      The " rowdies" have again been finding vent for their energies . At Columbus , Ohio , a procession oi German turners was attacked , stoned , ami beaten , apparently without any provocation ; and at Portland there has been a serious riot owing to a suspicion entertained by the people that the mayor had been purchasing liquor to resell . The military were called out ; but the captain in command of them refused to order his men to fire . Ultimately , tho door of the liquor-room was burst open by the mob ; a portion of tho military fired , by order of tlie mayor ; and one person was killed , and six or seven wounded . At Baltimore , twenty-live persona belonging to a marringo-party , and including tho bride , have been poisoned by eating custard with which arsenic had been mixed . They wero not expected to live . The perpetrator has not been discovered . Tho Kano Arctic expedition has departed . Ilio cholera is raging at New Orleans .

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      June 23 , 1855 . ] TIE LEADER . 595

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1855, page 595, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2096/page/7/