The Press. — London, England, 1855-11-17 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 17, 1855. 109' 097 MMI111•1111 ion he itch as light." Lo you To .ember , when S own. your es out, wuing ar, and ne pro- 'tan to ion by •niched 1 ho had !. Mr. against .gain re Intl flew Lowitzer , ling his taw the )(Jut the icket of- rriug to onished Smith's himself. weiug a member obeyed, hat that irk that ceivcd a visit the .thin six He then 'self; so, ered off. .4 1, and, at vas being Joys, and Les seven C. Lewis not have ,rdasher's tone, by delusion piece of otediately leaved up ire so like mistake." of Vienna . Russell, igar-divan ture, and excellent Jther Lord ace. " The ter, losing Lie Queen's 11 ordered , declaring A inherent ao cognate tices Erle, tworth was The only Secretary, ould resign hours later a religious at the un- of a party Lion to his sermon at thing quite fe, he made ing him in o told him to Viscount by declaring o'clock—no sympathise :toad, instead THE PRESS. which sailed from our shores with so much pomp a few weeks back, is comfortably lodged in barracks at Scutari, where they will merrily pass the winter. How different is their lot from that of our own boyish recruits, sent on active service as soon as they have learnt their goose step, and made to perform the severest labours, and suffer the greatest hardships and dangers. Turnabout would seem fair play. One argu ment (the main one indeed) urged for the Foreign Legion was, that it would give us seasoned soldiers. Why should not the German Legion be sent to the Crimea to relieve some of our own thinned and over worked regiments ? The triumph at Kars has been rivalled by a victory on the banks of the Ingour by OMER PACHA. This first and great success of the Pacha iu Asia will be received with unfeigned satisfaction by the Allies. In the Crimea OMEn PACHA was wholly out of place; with a separate and supreme command in Asia Minor, he will doubtless do justice to the expectations which Europe, in 1853-4, formed of his high military talents. The passage of a river in the face of a powerful and deter mined enemy is au achievement which requires the highest skill on the part of a general, and the greatest courage on the part of his troops. In both those qualities the Turks have, more than once this war, proved themselves to excel. By the brief telegraphic reports received, we learn that the Turks passed the river at four points, and defeated the Russians, after a desperate fight of five hours, with the loss of 400 killed and wounded, sixty prisoners, and the capture of three guns. OMEn PACHA'S course is now clear; he will march straight on Kutais, which, if the place be defensible, the Russians will probabb hold with tenacity. Delay would be ruin to the Pacha at this time of year, when once in the heart of the country. Ho possesses no siege train, and depends solely on a rapid success, which would establish him firmly on the road to Kars, and enable him to hold MOUIAVIEFF in check. Unless he take Kutais by a coup de main his position, if not perilous, will at least be unsatisfactory. ODE TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL ON HIS GUILDHALL RECEPTION 'Tis done !—but yesterday a Chief Obeyed with servile zeal, And now thou'rt brought to scorn and grief, Which even thou must feel. Hissed in thine own Constituents' halls, Hooted by Whigs and Radicals, And followers of Peel, And hushed to silence by the storm Raised 'gainst the Hero of Reform. Yor thee the Popular applause Hath ever been the test Of statesmen, constitutions, laws— All else was but a jest ; And ever in the fierce debate Thou'st held up to the Rabbles' hate Those who had served them best. Are all things changed that it is thou Who art the People's loathing now ? True, thou may'st scorn their fickle spite, And deem it small disgrace — Wrong they may be, but wert thou right To bear a double face ? To act against thy honest sense, To mask the truth with false pretence, And all to save a place, And aid in waging still a war Thou own'dst there was no reason for ! Bah ! Russell, where is now the pride That marks thee and thy line ? Invoke it ere thou'rt thrust aside In obloquy to pine. The power thou'st lost thou'lt scarce regain By lecturing in dullest strain On platitudes like thine. Bear thy fate silently—'tis just; And thy shield shows " What shall be, must."* • " Che earn eara," the motto of expediency, and of the House of Bedford. ACCIDENTS IN THE FOG. THE fog which enshrouded the metropolis on Thursday and Friday was, as might have been expected, productive of several accidents, none of which, however, so far as we have been able to learn, have been attended by fatal consequences. The editor of the Economist .wao) making his way, in the obscurity, down to his office, and, as he thought, had entered it. He sat down, and said to the first person saw, whom ho took to be the sub-editor, " We want an article, such I used to manufacture, with some style about it, and not too light "It must not be felt, I suppose, sir ?" was the reply. " How do mean? On the contrary, it must be felt. I wish it to be felt." his exceeding surprise, in a minute or two, the Honourable Member was asked to stand up to the looking-glass and try that article, he discovered that he had entered a hatter's shop iusteai of his He laughed very heartily, and has been singing " Who's hatter ?" ever since. Lord Palmerston would not have his horses for fear of accidents, but insisted on groping his way over to Dom street, the consequence of which was that he went much too far, got into St. Margaret's Church, where service was going on. The ceedings there naturally puzzled him ; but, after trying in vain make out what it all meant, he scandalised the congregation addressing the pew-opener as " waiter," and desiring to he furnished with a programme. He was, however, recognised by a beadle, who known him in other days, and conducted from the edifice. Cobden, who had come up to town to institute prosecutions against the editors who had dared to intimate that he would not be agail turned for the West Riding, walked into the Ordnance office, and into a tremendous rage, because he found a little model of a howitzi on the first table he ran against. Mr. Vernon Smith was feelin way up Derby-street, into Whitehall, when he thought lie sat Premier on the other side of the way, and called out, " How abotr Colonies ?" Unhappily the person he addressed was a ticks leaver, who, considering the remark as personal, and us referrir his enforced residence in Australia, ran over, and gave the aster Vernon what he termed a " rattler on the ivories," and Mr. dentist has since been in a better temper than Mr. Smith hit Sir Charles Napier made almost as awkward a mistake, for seen slender, active person pass him, the Admiral thought it was a nir of his committee, and ordered him to shorten sail The other and ol4Charley, grappling him, said, " I say, I wonder whin lubber, Charley Wood, thinks of my getting in? I'll work precious Admiralty buffer." He paused for a reply, and receb most uncivil one, to the effect that he was at liberty to visit locality which last year he pledged himself he would go to withi weeks of sailing, unless he got into St. Petersburg sooner. found that he had caught hold of Sir Charles Wood Mink muttering something about duplicate figure-heads, he sheered The Chancellor of the Exchequer lost his way several times, last, got into a charity school where the multiplication-table was said. He was greatly pleased with the answers of the little boys, to one iu particular, who had been asked how many nine times were, and instantly replied, " A underd and hate !" Sir G. ' presented half a crown, declaring that he himself could not answered so correctly. Mr. Frederick Peel went into a haberdasher'' shop, and was utterly disgusted at being asked, in a bullying ' the shop-walker, how he had dared to stop out so long. The was kept up by Mr. Peel mechanically stooping to save a red-tape that was under a chair, which remnant he was immediately charged with intending to purloin. The mistake was then cleared by an apology which did not seem very satisfactory—" You are one of our young men, sir, that any one might have made the m' Lord Clarendon, meaning to call at Ackerman's for a pictur. of (which he was going to send anonymously to Lord John marked the jacet Johannes), got into the neighbouring cit instead; but seemed in no way displeased at. his adventi smoked for an hour or two with much complacency, making jokes against lecturers at the Hall opposite, and asking whet. John had mentioned fog as one of the " obstacles to progress. Lord Chancellor went into the wrong court at Westminster, sight of the mace-bearer and usher, and took his seat in the Bench, where the fog was very thick. But Lord Campbell him out very roughly, and would listen to no explanations, that poor Lord Cranworth wanted to " subduct " from the jurisdiction of the Bench, with which his own court had no . affinity, with other lucid speeches, more suo. But Justices Wightman, and Coleridge interposed, and the mild Craw rescued from the growling wrath of the fiery Campbell casualty that we have heard of was in the case of the Home who got into such a rage with the fog that he declared he won office if it did not clear off, and as it certainly lasted some hi than this threat, we may suppose that Sir George—who, as man, always tells the truth—has kept his word, and that fortunate Palmerston has to find three new colleagues out o that cannot even supply him with a single decent addition Cabinet. A PUZZLER. THE Premier observed that, after Lord John Russell's . Exeter hall, there came a " Doxology." This being something beyond him, and what he had never heard of in all his life, inquiries of several people who called, but they, supposing joke, evaded reply. At last he met Bernal Osborne, who ' that it meant a stand up supper, with which explanation the went home, and threw his family into extraordinary mirth by that their next party should sit down to suoper at one o', more unsocial doxologies. Mr. Osborne ouglt rather to sp. with a nobleman whose religious education has been neglected, of leading him further astray.