The Press. — London, England, 1854-09-30 00:00:00

920 capable of containing three pints. Any man, therefore, that got a blow from it must go down if he got it on the head. I went to one village, and, after looking about for the most comfortable home or cabin, went to one that had recently been whitewashed, and found a venerable Turk outside, smoking of course. I asked him for some sckmeck (bread), at the same time showing him three piastres ; he told me to go to the door, and called to his wives to serve me. I saluted them very politely, and as one of bis wives had got about four or five words of English, and I had about a dozen of Turkish, we got on very well. I bought some bread, and filled my calabash with milk for two piastres ; as for eggs they were, according to our money, four a penny. I was coming away, yingratulating myself upon my good fortune, when, in passing the old Turk, and giving him a nod with the usual salute, ` Bono Tnrco,' I was stopped by him, saluted by a ship on the shoulder, and ' Bono Jenny,' and signs were made to me to go back into the house. I went ; the Turk motioned me to sit down, which I did crosslegged like himself. He then spoke to his wives, who brought out a leg of lamb, with some vege table marrows, cheese, cucumbers, and vinegar. I fell to with no little gusto, for we had had a long march, with nothing before It but cold coffee (without sugar), and 'biscuit. After I had done he gave me a chibouque, and as the tobacco was mild I smoked with the Turk. But what surprised me most of all was his bringing out a bottle of English porter. I began to question him as 0 where he got it from as well as I could, but there was no difficulty : the word Varna settled the matter. The Turk's kindness did not end here, for, telling him that I wanted some wood, he put four or five logs upon his araba or bullock waggon, and sent a boy with me to bring it back. I must here mention a circumstance that occurred while I was dining and smoking. A girl, of about 18 or 10 years of age, came into the room for some domestic purpose, and stared very hard at me. No wonder ; she had probably seldom seen an English soldier in full uniform, with the exception of the shako, sitting dining and smoking on the best terms with her grave father. Well, when they all went out to put the wood upon the aniba, I went for my haversack, &c., and found her intently and curiously gazing upon the number and name inscribed upon it. She was so absorbed in this task that she did not at first notice me, nor, indeed, till I was close upon her. She started up, for she was kneeling, and burst into tears, perhaps, as a Turkish girl, thinking herself guilty of some forwardness or impropriety, for they have od I notions on such points. At this moment her father entered, and, seeing his daughter in tears, no doubt ima gining that 1 had in some way offended, perhaps insulted, her, he directly drew his knife. I started at him and seized his arm, while his daughter spoke to him, and I imagined assured him I was not to blame. He, however, ordered her out of the room ; but it was all right, and I was bono Jonny and he was bono Turco as before. I thanked him for his kindness as well as I could, and went back to the camp, thinking over the fortunes of war. At the next place we went to I was still in office as cook, and had to cook the men's rations. " In a very dark night I had to go forth about midnight to look for wood. T stumbled upon an old farmhouse, with a dry wooden stake fence around it, and, as there was a scarcity of fuel, I was pulling up three or four of the stakes, when a whole legion of dogs were let loose upon me : it was a good job for me that they were not English dogs, or my campaign would have ended on that spot; but the Turkish dogs are the greatest cowards of their species that I have ever met with. As they advanced I put my back against the fence, and Ea they came at me I knocked the leaders down, seven in number, and the remainder then barked at a distance, or went howling about the village. I must ad mit that I was very considerably frightened ; in the dead .of the night, no aid near, and full twenty hungry dogs with their infernal wolf-like heads about you : but, after all, I got the wood, and the rations were cooked about two in the morning." Two Sou:4am, named Amat and Magnien, of the 4th French Light Dragoons, in garrison at Joigny, were lately tried by a conrt•martial for robbery. A woman named Vyon, of the village of St. Aubyn, near Joigny, gave the following evidence :—" On the 9th August last these two soldiers came to my house and took breakfast. 'the bill amounted to sf. lii sous, and they paid it like gentlemen. They were very polite, and I was greatly pleased with them. I put their money in my till, which was pretty full, and pushed the till to, but did not lock it. They then turned away as it' to leave, but one of them said,' Suppose we take a bottle of beer?' and the other accepted. ' But,' said the first speaker, 'it must he quite fresh from the cellar!' On this I went into the cellar, without the slightest suspicion, and brought np the beer. They drank it quickly, threw down 10 sons to pay for it, and hurried away. liut, gentlemen,' 1 cried, I have four sons to give you back ! ' Oh ! never mind the four sons!' answered they, give them to your servant, or keep them for yourself. ' ' Thanks, gentlemen—my best thanks.' And I said to myself, these are real gentlemen. And if ever they come here again I will treat them well. Then I opened my till to put into it the ten-sous piece ; but oh, horror ! my money bad disappeared. The brigands had robbed me whilst I was in the cellar. Well might they give me four sous, the wretches. Considering what they had taken from me, the scoundrels, it was little enough. But without loss of time I ran after them, and saw them running in different directions. I screamed ' Murder—fire—thieves!' and the peasants who were working in the fields went in pursuit of them. After a long and difficult chase over fields, hedges, and ditches they were both captured ; and were conveyed in the custody of gendarmes, and under the escort of the villagers armed with reaping-hooks and scythes, spades, and clubs, to Joigny. And now I demand that the brigands shall be severely punished—the guillotine or the bagne—nothing less." The soldiers were called on for their defence. Amat confessed that it was he who had taken the woman's money. Magnien denied that he had participated in the robbery. The court aecinitted Magnien, and sentencEd Ain't t 6 a year'S THE PRESS. RETURN OF THE KING OF PORTUGAL TO LISBON. THE King of Portugal has at length returned to his dominions. On the 14th inst. the Mafra telegraph annotniced the Minden° to be in sight : this being commu nicated through the various stations to the fresco de (lama, off the Arsenal, she fired the signal gun of preparation, when all was hurry, bustle, and confusion; the Ministers dressed, the troops began to assemble. and many people took their stations, hut it appeared that instead of the Mindello it was a British war-steamer that passed the bar going to the south. This was the first mischance. How• ever, at daybreak on the 15th the Mindello really entered the bar, accompanied by the steamer belonging to the Brazilian line of packets. The salutes from the various ships, forts, and castle, besides numerous discharges of rockets, immediately thundered the fact into the eats of the sleeping inhabitants, who were soon on the qui vice, but the boats of the guard-ship and the !Board of Health at Belem having visited the Minden°, she anchored in front of the quay, and was placed in close quarantine; this was a second disappointment,—but the King Regent, his children, the Ministers, and others, en suite, went to speak with the King and his brother, the Duke of Oporto, and afterwards relanded. Magnificent preparations having been making to re)eive the royal personages were continued with increased ac tivity—the ships were decorated, and Black Horse square, with the line to the Cathedral, and again to the Necessidades, were adorned with flags ; a pavilion was erected at the former place, and the windows were bordered with crimson drapery throughout the square, as well as in the Rua do Arsenal, while each lamppost had its garland of evergreens and two regimental flags crossed, as well was the well-known statue in the square decorated ; in fact, the preparations would have done honour to the first monarch in the world. In front of the Arsenal an ex tended portico was raised, while the old columns were covered with evergreen, and covered platforms erected for bands of music. V ---- Similar preparations were more or less displayed over the whole city, and Sunday, the 17th. being fixed for the disembarkation, at an early hour the troops, national battalions, and people, began to assemble. At ten the King Regent, Ministers, &c., embarked under the usual salutes to join the King at lielem, when the Mindello, Count de Tojal, and Lince steamers weighed anchor and proceeded up the river amidst discharges of artillery, rockets, flags waving in the breeze, and the cheers of the seamen who mauled the yards of the men-of-war. At Black Horse-square his reception was as enthusiastic as can be conceived. The landing took place at eleven o'clock, and shortly after another mischance happened. The day preceding (the lfith) had been fine and clear, with an almost insupportable heat ; the morning of the 17th was ushered in equally brilliant, but afterwards the sky became interspersed with clouds, and just after the landing salute had ceased its roar the sun became ob scured, and the sky to the north-east excessively black, volleys of thunder, unaccompanied by lightning, rolling in the distant heavens, when. approaching nearer and nearer, a slight shower was quickly followed by a torrent of rain. The dense and thickly-crowded multitude then began to close and crowd towards shelter, which of course they could not obtain : a few accidents occurred. The ladies, too, who thought proper to mob it, came in for a good drenching ; all which impeded the military spectacle of the troops marching to Necesstdades and defiling before the King which had been intended. The cortege, %how ever, rroceeded to the cathedral, where Te Dem was cele brated, and then along the route marched to the Necessi ds.des ; the spectacle closing at about three o'clock, when the troops marched to their quarters. AusraTAN JoruntAts advert in the following terms to M. Moritz Hartmann, who was arrested by the Wallachian police at Bucharest at the same time with the two English newspaper correspondents :—" M. Hartmann was not so lucky as the two English gentlemen. The English Consul proved that they were English subjects travelling with English passports ; he had a French passport in which he was described, not as a French subject, but simply as a person protected by France. In addition to this the Austrian authorities had already discovered that this ci-derant delegate to the Diet and member of the Rump- Parliament had been prosecuted before 1848 for his song ('np and Sword,' and had sought refuge in France as a political exile since 1849. Hartmann is said to have been delivered up to the Austrian consulate at Rutschuk. We trust his fate may be less severe than is anticipated by many. After a lapse of six years surely Austria can afford to forget and forgive." Tint Journal de M. Pelersbourg gives its readers the following novel version of the Windsor Courts-Martial : " Lieutenant Perm who was on board the 7'iger when it was taken by the Russians at Odessa, has been brought before a court-martial. The young man has been acquitted on account of the long and loyal services of his father, hnt is obliged to leave the Royal Navy of England and sell his commission. This has caused great excitement, and numerous subscription lists are already opened in favour of Lieutenant Perry." A FEW weeks ago the managers of the Royal infirmary, Edinburgh, received an application of rather a novel cha racter on this side of the Atlantic. A lady graduate of Cleveland College, Ohio, named Miss Blackwell, after having been employed a short time in the Royal Maternity Hospital, applied to the managers of the Royal Infirmary for leave to visit the female wards of that institution. Per mission to visit the infirmary is at all times most readily granted to gentlemen who have graduated at English or foreign universities, and who may, on visiting Edinburgh, desire it. The request of the lady, however, was to the managers nn reeedented, and they considered it to be their ditty respecdYhliy to decline acceding to it. • 8 - APP tout anb lastion. The Queen and Royal Family remain at Balmoral, where her Majesty enjoys her usual share of autum nal freedom from Court etiquette and political beta.. ness. Prince Albert goes deer stalking and other wise pursues the sports of the field with praiseworthy diligence. The Earl of Aberdeen left town on Tuesday for Perth, en route to Balmoral, on a visit to the Queen. Lord and Lady John Russell and family do not intend to visit the Lakes of Killarney, but have left Minto-house for Scarborough for a few weeks. The Lord President is expected in London in the course of the ensuing month. Most of the Ministers continue absent from town, recruiting in different localities. The Duke of Nest castle and Sir J. Graham are alone detained in Lon don by the urgent duties and responsibilities of their respective functions. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston return to Broadlands, near Rom•ey, towards the end of next week, from a brief visit to the Isle of Wight. The Home Secretary comes to London in the course of next month. The noble viscount has let his seat, Brocket-hall, to the Marquis of Abercorn. Sir William Molesworth was to arrive in Edinburgh, from Keir-house, Perthshire, on Friday (last) evening, and to leave Edinburgh to-day for London. The right hon. baronet expressed his willingness to receive the honour proffered by the town council of Edinburgh this morning, at eleven o'clock, at which hour the Lord Provost will call a meeting of the council. _ _ Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli arrived at Plymouth on Monday afternoon, and were received at the station by Sir J. B. Y. Buller Bart., M.P. and S. Tris cott, Esq., of the Royal William Victualling-yard. Mr. Disraeli is the guest of the latter gentleman during his stay at Plymouth and Devonport. On the evening of his arrival a large party of gentlemen of various shades of political opinion were invited to meet him at dinner, and on the following morning Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli went to the official residence of Lieut.-General Sir Harry Smith at Devonport, where they witnessed a review of the South Devon Militia. Lord and Lady Holland have left Naples for Paris . Lord Vernon has arrived in Naples from Ischia, where be had a slight attack of cholera. Both their lordships, whilst at Ischia, were unremitting in their charity and attention to the poor of the island, who will long remember with gratitude the many benefits they received during this sad visitation. Queen Maria Amelia, Countess de Nenilly (ex. Queen of the French), the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, and their Royal Highnesses' children and suite, were expected at Plymouth on Thursday, apartments having been secured for them at Elliott's Royal Hotel. The distinguished party have been on a tour in the north of Devon, and come to this town from Endaleigh-cottage, the seat of the Duke of Bed ford, near Tavistock. The Prussian Minister and the Countess von Bern stoff, who are sojourning at Brighton, are to-day expected to return to the embassy on Carlton-ter race. His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh has been staying at Douglas Hotel, Edinburgh, for nearly a week past. The marriage of Robert Cutlar Fergusson, Esq., of Craigdarroch and Orraland, and Ella Frances Catherine, only daughter of Sir Archibald Alison-, Bart., was celebrated on Tuesday last, at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Glasgow, the ceremony being per formed by the right rev. the bishop of the diocese, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Oldhatn. The marriage between the Hon. and Rev. William Lyttelton, brother to Lord Lyttelton and nephew to Lord Spencer, and Miss Pepys, daughter of the Bishop of Worcester, and cousin to Lord Cottenhani , was expected to take place in Staffordshire before the end of the current week. . By the demise of the late Marquis of ()monde, a blue riband of the order of St. Patrick falls to the disposal of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, also the colonelcy of the Kilkenny Militia. The deceased marquis, under several Administrations, held ap pointments in the royal household. Ile was Heredi tary Lord Chief Butler of Ireland. The Earl of Ossory, the successor to the title, is but eleven years of age. THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE VINDICATION OF SCOTTISH EIGHTS IS about to hold a " demon stration " in the form of a banquet to the president, the Earl of Eglinton, to be given in the G las g ow City-ball, on Wednesday next. The Dnke of Mon trose will preside, and Sir Thomas Gladstone, of Fasque, elder brother of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, is to act as croupier. The list of honorary stewards compri s es three members of the Scott peerage, twenty-one provosts, five baronets, and tile members of the House of Commons, Mr. Baird and Mr. Cairn,. bh noNIIII■