The Press. — London, England, 1853-11-26 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 26, 1853. sir Robert suited that Liu engaged the defendant near Kbights• bridge Barracks, and ordered twit to drive to Parldaukeut•street. He started at an extremely low pace, and when he celled to him to strive faster defendant replied that as the fares were WIT abated to lA. per wile he could not increase hieowe. Sir Robert informed him that if he would take him faster he hunt no objee. uou to give him la. or Is. d,d. per mil., as he was in haste. De. fondant did not quickest hie pee... hut said that according to the new law he ought to be paid beforehand. Mr. Doormat , observed that the driver was dead wrong in that respect to begin with. Sir Robert added that he at once intimated to defendant that be knew better, and immediately directed him to drive to the nearest police court, but he refused to do so, and *aid he did not know where there was one. In Pkirliament•rtreet, however, the app earanee of a police•ronstable had the effect of inducing him to discover the situation sit this court, which he then admitted he knew, sue whither he drove the Lion. baronet, who add e d t h at In the course of Lila experieuee of cabdrivers Le tie% er met with one imbed as thin 11111 U. . . . . Defendant admitted that he told the gentletuan he could not drive Meter than six utiles au huitr. and that malt. all, NIA Ns re. rattled the remainder he was neither offensive nor insuluim, and never was to anybody. Mr. littaonruir remarked that it was quite clear lefendant had been guilty of gross aniabehat tour, and fined Lim tWellts eldllutbs or fourteen days. Defendant was locked up in default. &ors have frequently occurred at a coffee-shop in Dean-street, Soho, a place much used by foreigners. between some French frequenters of the house and a gang of Englishmen. The disturbances having been renewed, with increased violence, on Saturday night last, two of the Englishmen, persons named Budd and Taylor, were given into custody, and examined on Monday at Marlborough police-oilice. Besides the riot, they were charged with destroying a quantity of crockery and other property in the coffee-room. From the evidence of the waiter it appeared that the coffee-house was the resort of a great numbers of foreigners, prineipally Frenchmen. On the night in question the defendants came into the coffee-room, and were told they would not be served, in consequence of their having been to the house previously and made a disturbance with the foreigners. The defendants replied they did not want serving, they wanted a row with the Frenchmen, and they immediately began to insult some who were in the room. One of the defendants commenced the affray by striking a Frenchman. A general fight then commenced, the Frenchmen using their sticks and knives, and the Englishmen their fists. Cups, saucers, milk-pots, and sugar basins were the ammu nition of both sides, and in ibis way damage was done to the crockery and coffee•room to the extent of 54)5. Witness was certain that. the two defendants were among the most active in throwing the crockery about. The riot was subdued by the police, and the defendants were lodged in the station-house. Mr. HlN(iii.ol remarked that, of the belligerents, the Frenchmen appeared to have had the best. The waiter said he thought is, too ; but there were sixteen Frenchmen to six Englishmen, and it was sticks against fists. The defendants asserted that they received the first insult from the Frenchmen. Some conflicting evidence was given by different witnesses on the question of " first insult." Finally, the magic• trate declared himself satisfied that the defendants had gone to the house for the purpose of creating a disturbance. They were fined in the amount of damage, 405., and ordered to tiud recognisanees for their future behaviour. ATTEMPTS having been made more than once to break into the Lombard-street Post-othce, the police set a trap, into which a foreigner, named Charles dos, was beguiled. He got into the premises, be lieving them unwatched, and was cleverly captured inside, with housebreakers' tools and some stolen articles on his person. The offence was closely traced at his examination before Mr. Alderman Law• reuce, at the Mansion house. The chief curiosity of the ease consisted, however, in the prisoner's de fence. He said : A fortnight ago, 114 I was going over Landon-bridge, an Englishman came w me and asked me what langnage I spoke. I replied, " Danish, Swedish, and broken English." I after wards said I spoke German and Norwegian. The man told me that he spoke German too. lie asked me to go with him to Tower-bill ; and I went to a small street there, the name of which I do not recut loct. He asked me if I could go somewhere with him at twelve o'clock at night. I said I had some thing on my mind, and T did not go with him. At font o'clock in the morning he came to me again and asked me why I did not go with hint. lie gave me twelve shillings and a package eontaining the arti cles produced by the °dicers. lie ',aid I could get some money on those things by disposing of them. I went with him to Tower-hill, when be left me, and I went home to bed. Before he went away be toLl tue to meet him in a coe of days th e Monument. lie asked me to go with him that night, as he wanted to speak to me. I replied, " No; speak to me now." Ile asked me to wait tiU daylight, and said he would speak to me then. Ile gave me four shillings, and told me I should see him asrain on Monday night. He told me that on the following mght I must do him a favour which would bring me plenty of money. He said to me, " There's a house close by, whene there's a girl, but I can't speak to her ; I can't en in." He told me that be knew an entrance, and that I must help hitq. Lie told um to cum • at MOTO THE PRESS. o'clock to the burial.grouud. I Were met a third party, who asked me if I wanted anything to drink— wine or ruin. The tiro party whom I had g o t ac quainted with was not there. The third party gave me so much to drink that I was tipsy. There was something broken at the window, and I said to the third party, " You want to break in? He said. "No; it was already broken, and it was to be put right again for the Post-office. Ile said to nie. You go through the window, I cannot I am too heavy." lie said to me, " When you firt there there's a small door in the passage to get out again—thvre are two doors loeked inside." And he gave me the chisel, and said, "When you come to them put the chisel down tinder them. and they will not crack." I said to hint, if 1 ant found inside it will be an unfortunate thing for MC." Ile replied, "Oh no, it will not—nobody sleeps there." He told me he would give me V., anti he did give it it to me. When I got in there the officers laid hold of me. Notwithstanding this defence the prisoner was cont mined, it being left t•, a jury to decide what credit should he given to his ingenious story. SECOND EDITION. SATURDAY EY ENINtI. LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. THE TUEKIsII WAR. A despatch 11;m iionstannuople, dated tin, inst., states : Mahe Russians attacked Cheftakil (St. Niehol as), in Asia, by land and sea, bnt were repulsed five times. .t Russian steam( r, with 1,500 wen on board, was stranded. 'Twenty-dve of the crew were saved by the Turks, and brought to Constantinople as pri soners of war. "General Baraguay d'llilliers arrived at Constan tinople on the 15th." The armaments continue. It is said that the army is to be greatly increased. A corps of cavalry composed of Christians is being organisod, and placed under the command of Matto met Zadik Paella, a Polish renegade. A foreign legion has also been formed at Kress, in Asia. Several eonvo v of Russian prisoners have at rived in Constantinople; they are lodged in the houses of Greek inhabitants. From Odessa, on the 13th, it is announced that a division of the Russian fleet, consisting of three line of-battle ships, five frigates, and several steamers, went out from Sebastopol as soon as Turkish men of-war appeared in the Black Sea. The Russian head-quarters were transferred, on the :22nd, from Budetschi, on which flay General Diumenburg returned to Bucharest. It was said he would join General Fischbach at Sistine or Krajows. The Turkish patrols still kept the right bank of the Danube, and detachments guarded the points of passage, but no large force was in Hight. Thu Wellachian militia is brigaded with the Rus sian army us an active force. Bucharest was perfectly tranquil on the 17th. The Russian army has taken up positions which effectually protected that place against all the acci dents of war. The Turks made an attempt on the 16th to cross the Danube at and Sistowa. They were unsuccessful. Russian battenes have been placed on the heights which command the crossings of the Danube at Oltenitza. The retreat of the Turks across the Danube has produced a favenrable impression in the Austrian capital, because it favours the hope of the restimp. Lion of negotiations. A few days ago an attach; of the Ottoman Legation left Vienna for Constantinople with a note which will, it is said, open the way to direct negotiations between Turkey and Russia. Yesterday the funds again rose on the Paris Bourse, the pacific settlement. of the Eastern ques tion I,eing bt .l l confidently believed in by the specu lators. TUE QUEEN AND Count wvut into private mourning for eight weeks, on Titviday lasi, the 29-nti inst., for the late Queen of Portugal, first cotikin to her Ma jesty awl him Itoyul HER MAJESTY purposed to leave Windsor at ten o'clock Om morning, and was expeeted to arrive at l'ortsmouth shortly after noon, en route for thiborne house. At TliE PILO COI' cl t, held ye,teri lay at 11 indsor Parliament wee ordered to be further prorogued from Tuesday nest, the 29th inst., until the 3rd of January, 11451. THE EARL or DARTMOUTH died on the Stud at Patshall, the family seat, in Stafford. Ile is sue eerded by his .nn, Viscount Lewishuni, M.P. This event will cause a vacancy in the representation of South Staffordshire. NORTH SHIELDS, NOV. 25.—.-The Puke of Northam_ berland, who is deservedly held in the highest esteem by the seaming popoiation in the northeast ports, is ',Nut tv rake $ prilcely thittativa to, the mono iO7 visiting the Tyne. Notwithstanding 25,000 vessels euter that port during the course of the year, no •• Home has been pr. .tided for the immense number of seamen who bring those vessels into port. The Duke of Northumberland, however, i►► about to erect, and present to the port, a handsome Snipes Home at North Shields, the cost of which will iv 4,000/. 'rho laud, which has also been contributed by his grace, is worth 1,004 MOM The building will have accommodation for shove 1(►0 seamen, and will be furnished with a library, savings bank, baths and N asl►houses, nautical school, Sc. All that the duke requested of the shipowners of the port s before commencing with the building, was that they should raise I,oooi. for its endowment. 1.1/0111. harts been subscribed, and thu ether &Olil. have just been guaranteed by several gentlemen belonging to Shields. The trustees will be appointed by the sub s crib ers . 'rho duke has also promised to erect and endow a chapel for the use of sailors. CITY, Two ,l'elok.k. The Conaol Market opened very firm, at 1)' 0, in consequence of the rumour of renewed negotiationg between Russia and Turkey, and the probability of au armistice. The fall in the price of dollars in Chitia, which will prevent a further exportation of silver, has also haul a NVOl`rable 6616616'v. Con" l4, 9 5 i 111exiesn, 251; Spanish, 1H I ; ditto Deferred, 221; Russian, 111 119 ; ltirminghan•, 1031 1; Leeds, 67 ; Midland ► ON ♦ ;leduniac, tvit 1 ; Yorkshire, 211 1; North of Fiance, ;141 I ; Strasbourg, 321 :4 ; Lyons, 191 1; Mt Volt*, i 1 pm.; Exchequer tt p 2lttibtnts nnb Offtncts. Tut: WIND AND STLANI Frova Mtn. belonging to Mr. Itawsthurn, Liverrool, were eon. sumed on Wednesday night. The estimated loss on the buildings is from 4,000/. to 5,000 t, and ou the stoek atom 4,11410/. The origin 41 the tire is mat. known. The premises had jie.t been fitted with MA, chiuory at a cont of 1,04/4 No lives wore lost, though I/110 of the lirenien Was much 'mitred. NIB. 114H.Krii, met with it serious accident on Wednesday in last week. ile was walking throng,' his works at renlyreli, in Herefordshire, when lin unfortunately struck his foot against a piece of iron and was thrown violently to the ground, thereby causing a fracture of the small bone of his right arm. Dritthie A Il6a4se: Foci on Monday night several persons tell into the Niue Locks and htourbridgo Canal, at Mierley hill, in Staffordshire, and six of them were drowned. Two were named Reece; the names of three others were ltidley, tintles s and Male. The other was a boat-buy front IVolvethatup ton, whose moor is So'lllll other per sons were, fortunately emoted from the canal in time, or they would have met with a similar fate. A Fou, of greater density than has been ',moot for very many years, envel o ped London during the greater part of Tuesday and Wednesday last. At, night the obscurity waft such that all the 'minibuses reamed running, and indeed no vehicle could proceed without extreme ilitliculty, and at a it 'dhow pace. Pedestrians were also much inconvenienced, and many of them were fore's' to grope their way with litikhoyi in advance, as it was often literally teapot bible to see objects at the distriire of three or tour feet. lummierable accidents of a minor description occurred, but there was but one fatal casualty re• ported, a woman having fallen under the wheel of a railway-van IA Searle street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and been killed instantaneously. On the river the stop. page of intik was complete. Leetlft, Cambridge, and other towns have also been visited by fogs, though of less duration and severity. Two 1101.111 if AN ii(ii. , Tmlinit-sraEirr, Purism:en, f e ll down on Thursday eveiung, and caused the death of several persons. The premises, which were veir old, haul been bought by the lltuktrovemuut Commis siouers, fur the purpose of widening the street. The purchaser of the otatesials sold the (loots, windows, and moveable portions tu lots to various persons, whet removed them forthwith. The place was tints thrown open, and became the resort of a number of lade. who were playing about, when, with the exception of the two walls, the whole suddenly fell in. Many escaped with slight bruises, but six of the lads were dug out lifeless. 'IIIX WM:OYMa Ur A BARS/MIMS Mtausu, COVI • niitted at noonday, was made near Wellinghain, rn West Norfolk, on the lhth. The victim is a nitwit of Baden Baden, named Lortatzu Ischia, who kept a milverstitith's in Norwich, but Wien travelled round the neiglibuuriaimal with watches and jewellery on sale. His tasty was found in a copse mar t b, road, the head having been rut with a hatchet, which was left on the spot. Thom/mi t , a l a b our i ng lad, aged Pi, has been apprehended, und e r circum stances of strong suspicion, on the charge of bull's evamaimed the warder.