The Sun. — London, England, 1859-01-24 00:00:00

~....... •••• THE NAVY. A .eonlrt '-martial assembled on board the flagship Waterloo. at Sheerness on Wednesday, to try Mr. Stevens, third-class carpenter, lent from the For midable for duty on board the steam sloop Malacca, in the s team reserve. The charges against Mr. Stevens /ere for absenting himself from his ship without I cave, and for drunkenness. Captain E. F. Heist ed, in command of the steam reserve, prosecute d. The Commander-in-Chief presided. The charges were fully proved, and the sentence of the Court w as that Mr. Stevens be deprived of his war rant fo - c two years, during which period he is to serve :is an able seaman for duty in the carpenter's crew. Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Liffey, 51, Capt. W. Preedy, C.B. anchored in St. Helen's road',s, off Portsmouth, from Portland, at 3 p.m. on Friday, and sailed again for Portland on Saturday inone ing. 111. x. Majesty's steam sloop Argus, 6, Commander Ingram, sailed from Spithead at 6 p.m. on Satur day for Devonport, with supernumeraries for the Me. literranean squadron. The new steam line-of-battle ship Edgar will in short time be ready for a trial of her engines. The Locust steam vessel, Lieut.-Commander Field, arrived at Sheerness from Portsmouth on Friday night last. The Locust was run into by a brig - while she was riding by the fair buoy of the chan nel into Portsmouth harbour. She has received so much damage that she will have to undergo repairs forthwith. The paddlewheel steam frigate Leopard, 18, Capt. J. F. B. Wainwright, is being caulked and repaired at Keyham. Mr. Paul, Assistant Master Attendant at the Devonport Dockyard, with 11 riggers, 11 seamen riggers, and some seamen from the ordinary, is ap pointed to navigate the school ship Conway to the M erse y. The steam sloop Virago accompanies her, and will probably bring back Mr. Paul and his par ty. The Conway conveys her own moorings. The - Mersey, 40, screw, in the Portsmouth Dock yard steam basin, is progressing as fast as engineers and riggers can work upon her. The screw, from the Messrs. Maudslay, the makers of her engines, has arrived, and presents as fine a metal casting as can be conceived. There is another feature worthy of consideration. Owing to the enormous size and weight (about 14 tons) the screw has been divided into three portions. The two blades are cast with flanges, and screw on to the centre boss with nuts an d screws, rendering it so portable as to be easily taken apart in the event of accident, and also a gl-eat advantage in stowing spare blades. The Mersey is the most powerful frigate in the world at present; her broadside will throw solid shot or ten-inch shell ; her " fighting quarters" are 18 feet between the ports. She can carry eight days' co:tling at full speed, and if she realises what is confidently expected of her—namely, the average speed of 14 knots an hour—she will accomplish the -voyage from Portsmouth to Malta in seven days. Her tonnage is very little short of 4,000, and her cast may be calculated at £200,000. She is being fitted with Clifford's patent boat-lowering gear on both sides. She will be ready for her sea trial in the month of February. DEATH OF COMMANDER JOHN BARCLAY, R.N. —We have to record the death of Commander John arclay, which occured on the 11th inst. at Albury, S urrey, aged 77. This gallant officer was midship man of the Hydra, and served in her boats at the capture of an armed lugger under a fire of musketry, r 4, ear the river Tongue, in 1803. He was acting lieutenant of the Britannia at the battle of I Trafalgar, for which service he was promoted to be lieutenant on the 20th November, 1805 ; was lieu tenant of the Latona at the capture of Curacoa in 1807, and retired with the rank of commander on the 23d January, 1853. He had received the silver naval medal with two clasps for his valuable services. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER 0. MAC FARLANE, R.N.—Advices from Malta, of the 19th inst., announce the death of Lieutenant Alexander 0. lacfarlane, - which occurred on board the Hibernia, 104, flag ship, on the 11th. Lieutenant Macfarlane served as acting mate of the Valorous, 16, paddle frigate, in the Black Sea fleet, and of the Indus, 78, flag ship of Rear Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.8., on the North American and West India station; mate of the Brilliant, 20, on the North American and West India station ; for a few months was mate of the Racoon, 21, screw corvette; and had served as lieutenant of the Recruit, 6, paddle, in the Mediterranean since October last. THE ARMY. The officers in command of the several East India depot battalions have received orders for the fol lowing cavalry and infantry troops to be held in readiness to embark for Calcutta—viz, 34 non-com missioned officers and men of the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, 64 non-commissioned officers and men of the Bth Hussars, 32 men of all ranks of the 17th Lancers, 29 men of the Ist bat talion 3d Buffs, 12 men of the Ist battalion sth (Northumberland) Fusileers, 2 men of the Ist bat talion 19th Regiment, 25 men of the Ist battalion 20th Regiment, 3`? non-commissioned officers and men of - the 29th Regiment, 29 non• commissioned officers and men of the 42d Royal Highlanders, 20 men of the Ist battalion 60th Rifles, 11 men of the 61st Regiment, 13 men of the 70th Regiment, 16 men of the 71st Highlanders (Light Infantry), 10 men of the 72d Highlanders, 20 men of the 75th Regiment, 21 men of the 93d Highlanders, 43 non commissioned officers and men of the 94th Regi ment, and 46 non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artillery. Four officers and 220 non-commissioned officers and men of the 2d battalion of the 19th Regiment arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday from Winches ter, and were marched into quarters at Anglesey Barracks, to wait for further orders. The detachments landed from the dismasted troopship Bombay early in December, and which have been since that time in barracks at Plymouth, I)evonport, Stonehouse, and Drake's Island, were conveyed on Friday in the steam-tugs Pike and Zephyr to the troop-ship Cospatrick in Catwater. The paddlewheel iron sloop Virago, 6, Commander B. Dunn, from Ireland, arrived on Saturday even ing with the remainder of the military engaged to be conveyed in the Bombay. They are appointed to join their comrades to-day (Monday) on board the Cospatrick, which will then be ready to leave Plymouth for Kurrachee. The Under Secretary of State for War, Sir Ben. jamin Hawes, has just issued the annexed memo• randum of instructions regarding the future exa• mination of pay list and agents' accounts : " War-office, Jan. 6. " The Secretary of State having decided that the system of examination of pay list and agents' accounts after March 31, 1859, shall be altered, the following instructions have been drawn up for the guidance of examiners : " All charges of irregular and unauthorised expenditure are to be disallowed on the abstract of examination. " No disallowances are to be made for deficiency of vouchers when the requisite information can be obtained by reference to accounts already in . this department ; but the amount involved is to be specified in the article of objection. " ' All disallowances are to be made distinctly under their superior heads, such as pay,beer-money, &c., and not to be included in one sum. " Short charges and over credits are to be noti fied to the accountant on the abstract of examina tion, but not to be taken in account until after the receipt of his explanations. " ' The examiners are invariably to correct the accountant whenever a charge or credit is placed to the wrong head of service, and to transfer it to the correct head of account. - - After the abstract of examination shall have been approved the disallowances are to be classified in the new form, which will be inserted in the general statement, the total amount of the sums thrown out to be invariably credited by the accountant in his pay list next rendered after the receipt of the ab stract of examination. The examiner will, how ever, in the meantime, apprise the paymaster, on the abstract of examination, of the actual balance after such disallowances have been deducted. " In making the decisions on the answers to the accountant the examiner will refer to the pay list, and such sums as may be submitted for allow ance, whether struck out or short charged, or such as are confirmed as disallowances, are, after being approved, to be entered by the examiner t red ink, on the general state, as additional ex penditure, or as additional disallowances, without altering th e t o t a l s o f th e or i g i na l s t a t emen t. I n authorising expenditure on the occasions by re seinding any of the allowances notified to the accountant on the abstract of examination the examiner must take care that those disallowances have been duly accounted for ; or if not accounted for in any account receivede at that time th e autho rity must provid e for reference enee being given by the accountant to the acccoun in which due credit ha s been or will be given f or the disallowances referred to when the charge sanctioned by such authority is made ; and should there 11,3:a, against t the accountant the other h an d, any further disallowances ( not stated as such on the abst rac t of examination to the necessary steps must be taken secure the credit, the rough decisions to be sent to sub-divi sion E, to be booked, as soon as they have been copied. Every assistance will be given the examiners by the bookkeeper to enable them to carry out the s new mode of examination.' " The foregoing instructions have been drawn up as a general rule for the examination of accounts, but great care and discretion will devolve upon the examiners under the new mode of examination ; and their attention is particularly called to Article 6, the rules therein enjoined having been hitherto almost entirely disregarded. With a view to insure a correct classification a form will be appended to the pay list, showing the different he ids of service. " B. HAWES." THE PUBLIC MEN OF SEE VIA. The following sketch of the members of the family recently brought uppermost by the turn of the wheel in Servia, with some account of the rule of Alexander Karageorgevitsch, in his turn expelled to make way again for Milosch, will be of interest in the present juncture of affairs. The career of these personages, in all its singular vicissitudes, comprehends the history of Servia , from the first recognition of her independence to the time at which we write. The individuals briefly noticed towards the conclusion of the sketch, Elias Gara schanin and Wuksitsch Peritschisch, also present, each in his way, a distinct type of semi-civilisation hardly known to western Europe. First, then, of Milosch Obrenovitsch. The son of a labourer in Tescha, and of the widow of a peasant in somewhat better circumstances at Obren, Milosch was born in 1780, grew up among extreme poverty, and eked out a scanty existence by tend ing cattle. While employed, in 1804, in this ca pacity, by a brother, born of his mother's first marriage, the oppressions of the Turks occa sioned the rebellion, by means of which Black George became famous. The distinguished bravery of the young cattle-herd was insufficient to efface the taint of his humble origin, and he therefore attached the surname Obrenovitsch to his paternal designa tion, with a view to obtaining the appearance of more distinguished birth. He was entrusted by the people with the administration of three districts, but Black George, through jealousy, limited his power to one small and insignificant division ; and upon Milosch joining a conspiracy against him, would even have commanded his execution, had not his young rival been so universally beloved. In 1813 the Turks again made an inroad into Servia. Milosch was commissioned to defend the Bosnian frontier, and held an unfortified village 17 days against a greatly superior force. He did not relin quish his post until it was reduced to ruins, and then hastened to join another detachment. All had, however, fled, and he too hurried towards the Saave, but halted upon the bank of the river. " Brothers," he replied to the entreaties of his com rades that he would accompany them across the river, " I will not go empty-handed into Germany and allow the Turks to carry off and sell my old mother, my wife, and my children into slavery. I will return to my district, where my people are still in arms. So many have fallen under my guid ance, that I will stand or fall with my country men." He returned to his command, but finding resistance unavailing, was compelled finally to sur render to the Turks. He even rendered them ser vices, and aided in the suppression of fresh out breaks. Milosch was one day in the suite of the Pacha of Belgrade, when the head of an old companion in arms was brouuht in. " Seest thou that head, re bel ?" said one of the suite to him. " Beware ! thy turn will come soon." " Friend," replied the wily Milosch, " I have long known that the head which I carry on my shoulders is not mine." The hint, however, was not lost. A day or two afterwards he procured leave of absence, and repaired to Bruss nitza, where he possessed a small estate. His patriotism revived when he found his safety threa tened, and he no longer withdrew from the urgent impatience of his friends. His preparations being completed, he presented himself, carrying the Servian national flag, on Palm Sunday, 1815,t0 the people, and proclaimed a renewal of the war. The contest which ensued was one of singular vicissi tude. At one time Milosch was at the head of a considerable force, with which he achieved import ant victories at Ertari and on the Matschwa ; at another he was deserted by all, and forced to seek concealment in the mountains. In time, however, he succeeded in compelling the Turks to conclude an armistice, and to recognise his nomination by the Servian people as their prince. The Turko-Russian treaty of Akjerman estab lished the present state of affairs. Important privi leges were conceded to the Servians—free choice of their ruler, independent courts of justice, and of internal administration, with right to levy their own taxes to raise a stipulated tribute. Milosch hoped to gain Bosnia and the Herzegovina in con sequence of the war of 1821, but the Russians declined his assistance, because a Servian kingdom extending from the Danube to the Adriatic by no means suited their plans. They required, indeed, that their protege should forbid the passage of the Turks posted in Bosnia, and thereby cover their right flank. Even for this not unimportant service they manifested little gratitude, and forgot their promise of procuring for Milosch in the Adrianople negotiations for peace the transmission of his title to his heirs. He attained this eagerly-desired end by a decree of the Sublime Porte in August, 1830. The same arts of corruption which he brought into play upon this occasion called forth the hatti- icheriffs of June 4 and December 4, 1834, by which his last differences with the Porte were arranged. In order to secure within that peace already attained from without, Milosch became a stern and frequently cruel ruler. He was a faithful imitator of what he had seen done by the Turks in his youth, the sole difference being that he substituted deca pitation for impalement. With all this neither system nor principle had a place in his policy. According to the humour of the moment, and just as his inborn craft led him to adopt this or that expedient, he humiliated the wealthy or injured the poor. In place of attaching to him one of the two native parties, either the people or the nobles, he offended both, treated every one who preferred a complaint before him, with contumely, and perpe trated exactions ; and, after having excited the wrath of the majority of the nobles, he had the houses of 200 poor people in the Saavestrasse, at Belgrade, burnt to the ground, because he required the site for a bazaar. His chief reliance was upon his Momaks (body-guard), an armed suite, without whom he never appeared in public. The universal discontent encouraged the nobles to an outbreak (1835), which he was unable to quell. His prestige was gone, and his violation of the constitution which he had accepted, combined with Russian in trigues, deprived him finally of all power of resist ance. On the occasion of a fresh revolt his Momaks were surrounded by militia at the convent of Rako witz, and laid down their arms. On the 13th June, 1839, he signed his abdication, and quitted the country two days later. His exile was soothed by the possession of an enormous fortune, as he owned large estates in Wallachia and in the Austrian States, and had prudently deposited in the time of his power 1,600,000 ducats in the Bank of Vienna. His appeals for assistance to foreign courts were as in effectual as the intrigues he constantly set on foot in Servia. In 1848 he imagined his restoration was at hand, and fell into the snare laid for him by Ludwig Gaj, Illyrian agitator, who, seeing himself crossed in other plans by Milosch, enticed the latter to Agram, and retained him some time in confine ment. Russia forgave his having desired t o ren d er himself independent as the Servian ruler, and he then became the subservient tool of the late Czar. During the recent war he raised a corps of Servian volunteers at his own expense, to overrun Servia and Bosnia, and open the way to the Greeks in llessalv, but the Austrians, under Count Coronini, defeated the scheme. The result of the present revolution proves how successfully he has employed his wealth in purchasing adherents in Servia since 1848. MICHAEL OBRENOVITSCH, younger son of Milosch, was horn September 4, 1823, and, together with his elder brother, Milan, educated first by the Rus sian Professor Zoritsch, and from 1837 entrusted to the care of a young Triestine Greek, Banos, from whom the youths received instruction in modern languages. Michael was upon the point of making a tour through Europe when the troubles broke out which unseated his father. Servia then received the constitution now in operation. After the downfall of Milosch his eldest son was called upon to assume the sovereignty, but died three weeks afterwards of decline. The Porte nominated Michael as his successor, associating with him a regency, not one of three members of which was favourably disposed towards the young ruler. His uncle, Jephrem, intrig ue d f or his nephew's over throw in his own favour an d t h e other two m of the regency desired the accession of the son of Black George. The powerful hand of Russia was Michael's only support, and he in return so im plicitly followed the advice of the Russian consul, Waschtschenko, that Servia was to all intents and purposes a Russian province. Two of the members of the regency were expelled by outbreaks got up by Russian agency, but the ambitious Jephrem was ntained as scapegoat for unpopular measures. The two exiles intrigued with such success as to lead the government bring i a n b t o o n t the bis r e e r s r t o e r r a t t l e a n t o s a c l h l th w e a i r s seeking toand efforts were exerted to avert this danger. They entrusted, therefore, the most important posts to by the p m a o t s r t i o b t i s t te whom r ha t r they g k a i n n e s w t t t h o ei b r e an a In the meantime they embittered the nation by e l i e in n t a t oppressor. ed their tyrannical decrees and violations of the law, by their boundless persecutions, and by a large increase of the already heavy taxation. The last drop in the cup was the tax upon acorns, which the Servian finds in quantities in the forests of his native land, and requires for his herds of swine, in Which consists his principal wealth, A Turkish Plenipotentiary warned the infatuated ruler in vain, and the advance of a Turkish division to the vicinity of the frontier created no impression. The troubles which broke out in some districts were pertinaciously ascribed to the influence of Milosch, and patriots again placed at the head of the troops charged to suppress the movement. The object of the discontented party was thereby half achieved, and with assistance of Wurczicz and Petroniewicz (noticed further on), who had in the meantime returned from Constanti nople, an outbreak took place in the summer, which the Prince endeavoured to subdue with 10,000 troops. These, however, equally with his other adherents, deserted him ; although he twice attempted to give battle, the same scene was repeated upon each occa sion. He sought refuge upon Austrian territory, Sept. 7, 1842. Shortly afterwards the Scuptschina decreed the deposition of the Obrenovitsch family. Prince Michael had withdrawn to Semlin, whither he had been followed by the European consuls. The pre sence of the diplomatists awakening within him a last gleam of hope, he protested to the Porte against the decision of the Scuptschina, but without effect. Intervention of the great powers in his favour met with a little success, and he was given to understand that he must quit Semlin, as his presence so near the frontier was productive of disquiet. He has since devoted himself to study and travel, and has insignificant. ALEXANDER politically speaki ng , ALEXANDER KARAGEORGEVITSCIL—When the Servians, in the war which Austria and Russia conjointly undertook against Turkey, took up arms for their faith and were vanquished, an old man with his son fled towards the Saave. At sight of the river which would separate him from his native land for ever, the old man declared that he would return and surrender to the Turks, for he could not live away from his mountains. The old man re maining deaf to the prayers and entreaties of his son, the youth exclaimed, " Shall I live to see my father tortured to death by the Moslems?" and drawing a pistol shot his father through the heart, divided his effects among their companions, and crossed over to the Austrian territory. This youth was George, from that time forth surnamed the Black—in the Servian dialect Czerny, in the Tur kish Kara. He distinguished himself in, all the ' engagements which followertwith the Turks, and soon attained the chief command. In 1811 he was Prince of Servia, supported, however, only by the people ; the aristocratic party were opposed to him, and at their secret instigation he was induced, in the next engagement, to divide his troops, who were successively defeated. Being informed that the hostility of the Turks was directed against him personally, and that if he would with draw a favourable peace might be concluded, he went a second time into exile, and during his ab sence Milosch usurped the supreme power. Two years after, as Black George was returning to Ser via, he was beset by assassins almost upon the frontier, shot, and his head despatched to Constan tinople. The son of this Servian hero, Alexander Kara georgevitsch, was born Sept. 29, 1806, at Topolo. He was about ten at his father's death, and had been placed up to that period in an ordinary school in Bessarabia. After that catastrophe his mother brought him to Wallachia, where she received a moderate pension. As long as Milosch was at the head of affairs Alexander dared not re-enter Servia, but he was recalled by Michael Obrenovitsch, who nominated him his adjutant. He soon became the pivot of one of those intrigues incessantly carried on in the country. The so-called national party attached themselves to his fortunes, and Prince Michael was no sooner expelled than he was called upon to assume the sovereignty. A popular as sembly, which met September 14, 1842, at Belgrade, proclaimed his accession. Austria, Russia, Eng land, and France, refused to recognise the choice as constitutional, but, with the exception of Russia, practically accepted the nomination. The latter power, however, protested vehemently against Alexander, and succeeded in prevailing upon the Porte to declare a new election necessary. The Servians obeyed, and re-elected the son of Black George, on the 27th June, 1843. Russian influence in Servia now sank to zero, but was still able to occasion an outbreak in October, 1844, which was instantly suppressed. Perfect tranquillity then reigned in Servia until 1848. By the aid of Wuk sitsch reforms were undertaken which entirely changed the face of the appearance of the country. Education, as well as material interests, met with the most careful encouragement. A series of ex cellent roads gave the products of the country access to to the neighbouring provinces, while ex ports and imports were almost doubled. The prudent policy of Alexander, to acknowledge the Sultan, who never took part in internal affairs, as sovereign of the country, and to oppose his fidelity to his sovereign to the efforts of foreign diplomacy, greatly favoured the development of indepen dence. The events of 1848 put a sudden stop to this fortunate condition. The South Sclavonians at first intended to join Servia, Bosnia, and the Turkish Herzegovina, as united provinces to Hungary, and subsequently to Austria. It is probable that the plan would have been frustrated by Russia, but it failed even before that power could interpose, owing to the war of races in Hungary. This Hungarian civil war was for Servia a turning-point in the most fatal sense of the word. Up to this time the reform ing and conciliating policy of Alexander had suc ceeded in holding the balance between the contend ing parties ; from henceforth the fanatical Sclaves obtained the supremacy. The secret influence occasioning the movement was revealed clearly enough by a meeting to consider the advantages of a Russian protectorate held by Russian officials and the Servian youth at Belgrade, and by the toasts given by the Russian consul-general at a public banquet in favour of the union of Servia with the great Sclavonian kingdom. During the Eastern war Russia made frequent overtures to the Servian ruler, but the latter re mained firm in the maintenance of neutrality. Upon the return of peace a new opposition was formed against Alexander, originating with the Senate. External intrigues fanned the flame. The breach between the Prince and the Senate grew daily wider, and was greatly increased by the Senate dis• puting the right of the Sovereign to nominate ministers who were not members of their body. Alexander gained his point, it is true, but from that hour the Senate rejected all propositions laid before them by the Ministry, not alone for the sake of opposition, but also with a view to seizing the sovereign power. In June, 1857, the Prince re ceived information of a conspiracy to procure his overthrow, concocted principally by the Senate. On October 9 some senators were arrested, and more in the following days. The prisoners were fully convicted of intended regicide and high trea son, partly by evidence, partly by confessions, and ultimately condemned to death. The Porte inter posed, and, assuming the privilege of confirming or vetoing the sentence, nullified the proceed ings. The condemned —among whom were the President of the Senate, three Senators, the President of the Supreme Court, a clergy man, and a custom-house officer—were conveyed to Rustschuk, where they were treated with sufficient indulgence to enable them to bribe a young foreigner to declare that Prince Alexander had hired him to assassinate these, his chief enemies. The Porte, through Ethem Pasha, Turkish Pleni potentiary Extraordinary in Servia, further com pelled Aleiander to change his ministers, which brought the national party, a coalition of the Rus sian and democratic elements, again into power. The apparent tranquillity of the country spread but a flimsy veil over the troubles in preparation. A smothered discontent was perceptible, increased by the uncertain tenure of the sovereign's power, the equivocal attitude of the Senate towards the regent, and the secret exertions of the adherents of the Obrenovitsch family. The best means to issue from the prevailing uncertainty appeared to the discontented to be the meeting of the Scuptschina, which, according to the constitution, should take place annually. This popular assembly possesses privileges unknown in the Parliaments of more civilised nations—among others, the right of calling the Government to account for all its deeds. Fear ing the exercise of this privilege, the Prince had not summoned •a Scuptschina since 1848—a course which was justly regarded as a breach of the con stitution. The Senate was of the contrary opinion, and rejected a proposition for the meeting of the Scuptschina by a small majority. Upon this result becoming known much general excitement was manifested, and in some districts assemblages took place with a view to calling upon their own re sponsibility a meeting of national representatives, which, according to ancient Servian customs, should consist of all males capable of bearing arms. Seeing this Alexander took the initiative, and laid before the Senate, upon the 15th of last September, a pro posal to execute the wish of the people, which met upon this occasion unanimous acceptance. In November instructions were issued relative to the mode of choice, according to which the assembly must contain not only the elected representatives, o p r na a bs r y but al so 17 j u d ges, 17 mayors o f communes, an d 17 priest s . Th e const i tut i ona l id eas of t h e Serv i ans are so slightly d eve l ope d t h at t h e declarat i on of the Prince, i ssue d at t h e same time, that a resolution of the Scuptschina p ossesse d no actua l f orce unt i l he an d theas a f AtSenatertehsh eelections r had e acb o g iv f e e i e t their leeof nt sot iftansttshieoennt national., was regarded t le h ar at n o t n t e he or le o s t s h o e n r e o x f pe t ri he en a c lu e etaeacphaerstiaelslicsoat y l tolerably b sure t e o l e s e u t ff e d e r . wereA t lea s adherents t three-fourths oft he Obrenovitschof the m em party. The Scuptschina was opened on the 16th Dec. by the Prince in person, the entire ceremony occupying scarcely five minutes. The, Prince read THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1859, a short speech, and departed with the customary salutation, " With God, brothers !" to which he received a " with God" in reply. The choice of officials removed the slightest doubt as to the poli tical bias of the assembly. The member for Belgrade, a salt merchant, named Mischa, was chosen as pre sident—a man of small capacity, but who, from his enormous wealth, has played an influential part in Servia, and in all the changes and chances of the times has managed to be upon the winning side. One of the most zealous agents of the Obrenovitsch party, the district-commandant Michailovitsch, was selected as vice-president. The plan of the cam paign was arranged in nightly sittings at the house of the president, and consisted simply in the resolu tion to compel the Prince to resign the chief military command to the Scuptsckina, or, failing this, to decree his deposition. How their design sped is now matter of history. ELIAS GARASCHANIN.—There exists in Servia a class of nobles which those less favoured by fortune endeavour to decry, by styling them, in allusion to the animals which constitute their chief possessions, the pig-dealer aristocracy. Certain it is, never theless, that many sound thinking, and, in their way, distinguished men belong to this body, some of whom have originated valuable measures of reform. One of the most ancient and distinguished of these families is that of Garaschanin, and none of the name enjoy a higher reputation than Elias. Born in 1807, in the village of Garasch, he had added to the benefits of an excellent educa tion by foreign travel before he entered upon a public career. In 1844 he was nominated by Prince Alexander, in whose election he had played a con spicuous part, as Minister of Education. His exer tions in this capacity are deserving of high praise. He invited to Servia teachers and scientific men in all branches, sent at the expense of government young Servians to London, Paris, Berlin, Prague, and Vienna, established libraries and museums and even instituted agricultural schools. Milosch had purposely allowed the formerly existing schools to fall into disuse, as he said, from religious motives. Garaschan in founded and carried on with success an entire system of national instruction. Upon his nomination, in 1852, as Chancellor and Minister President, he advocated the schemes of the national party with a zeal that rendered his removal neces sary a year later. After the Eastern war he became confessedly a protege of the French consul, Des Essards, whose intercession in his favour with E them Pacha occasioned his being again forced upon the Prince in 1858 as minister by that functionary. He bore an active part in the intrigues formed against Alexander, and was one of the chief movers in pro moting the summons of the Scuptschina. Garas chanin is one of the provisional government chosen by the Scuptschina to carry on the affairs of the country until the return of Milosch. In person he is a man of commanding appearance, with a strongly developed Roman nose, flashing eyes, and black bushy beard. Wuksitsch Peritschisch bore an honourable share in the Servian war of liberation under Milosch, and belongs to the notables of the people. Without having received the slightest education during his military career, his undoubted eminence in the state is due solely to his experience and to the aptitude with which he adapts himself to the various situations into which he has been thrown. In 1825 he aided Milosch in thesuppression of an outbreak, but five years later was at the head of an opposition intended to bring the prince under the influence of the chiefs. An attempted insurrection to this end in 1835 was quelled, without Milosch daring to bring the leaders chief among whom was Wuksitsch, to justice. When the Porte, by a hatti scheriff of February 22, 1839, established a Senate to control the acts of the Servian ruler Wuksitsch was among those nominated to the dignity. Milosch was unable to agree with his new assistants iu the cares of the State, and intrigued to abolish their functions by the aid of the troops, but was so far worsted as to be forced to nominate Wuksitsch to the chief military command. Chiefly by his means Milosch was forced to abdicate in June, 1839, in favour of his son Milan, upon whose accession Wuksitsch, Jephrem Obrenovitsch, and Amram Petronievitsch were associated with him in the government by the Porte. In consequence of the intrigues already noticed, Wuksitsch and Petronie vitsch were driven into exile, from which however they were recalled in 1844, to the extreme delight of the people. Both then took office in the ministry, and much of the wise and prudent course of the Government in later years is ascribed to their counsels. Wuksitch is of a thoroughly genuine Ser vian nature, wild as a beast of prey and crafty as a fox. IJis colossal stature, simple attire, and camp habits render him popular to a degree hardly credible. For some years he has retired into pri vate life, but still possesses much influence upon public opinion. From his antecedents it is scarcely probable that he will view the return of Milosch with a favourable eye.—Daily News. RELIEF OF THE SUFFERERS BY THE DISTURBANCES IN INDIA. A report of the Calcutta sub-committee of the Fund for the Relief of Sufferers by the Disturb ances in India, issued on the 3d November last, with a somewhat voluminous appendix, contains some information of interest with regard to the adminis tration of the funds placed at their disposal. The committee commence by submitting to the sub scribers a balance-sheet of the'receipts and expen diture, from the establishment of the fund in July, 1857, to the 31st October, 1858. The amounts are calculated in Company's rupees. The receipts in clude subscriptions in Calcutta, 1,96,027 r. ; Madras, 78,000 r. ; Ceylon, 24,000 r. ; London, 1,91,717 r. ; Liverpool, 86,161 r. ; Glasgow, 48,484 r. ; Manches ter, 47,761 r. ; Mauritius, 36,000 r. ; Hong Kong, 15,147 r. ; Cape of Good Hope, 53,081 r. ; the King of Burmah, 10,000 r. ; Ayrshire, 9,896 r. ; Tipperary, 2,689 r. ; Sydney, 49,433 r. ; Belfast (Victoria), 1,600 r. ; and Batavia, 1,562 r. Under the item of payments we find 4 ,05,932 r. devoted to free grants, while there have been expended for monthly allowances 1,02,322 r. ; loans, 60,676 r. ; passage and diet money, 1,11,619 r. ; passages to England, 1,18,244 r. ; ladies' committee, 54,000 r. ; house ex penses, 58,275 r ; sundries, 19,735 r. ; advertising charges, 2,442 r. ; clothing account, 10,614 r. ; school ing account, 33,293 r. ; Bengal Patriotic Fund, 50,000 r. ; Lawrence Asylum, 10,000 r. ; Mofusial remittances, 3,40,035 r. ; and Bombay committee, 13,280 r. ; leaving 'a balance of 92,837 r. The sub committee, after giving some details of their pro ceedings in the various districts of India, which are of merely local interest, state th a t th e y h a ve " Lately reconsidered the loans granted at an early stage of their proceedings, and with a view to equity and uniformity of action cancelled all the loans which were granted under circumstances which, at a subsequent period, when the funds were larger, were considered to entitle the applicants to grants. The sub-committee have, in all cases, endea voured to deal with applications in a spirit of libe. rality and sympathy, and they desire to pursue the same spirit still. But they co ns id er th a t all claims not arising out of recent losses or bereavements should be regarded with much caution. The pres sure of the public calamity has ceased, and in a large number of cases it is certain that the road to promotion has been opened ; and advantages rather than losses have already followed the mutiny to very many persons. There still, however, remain in the country a considerable number who are legiti mate objects of the bounty of the fund." The object of the committee, as stated in their own resolution, was to relieve, as far as practicable and necessary, the distress caused by th e mu ti n i es i n India, care being taken not to supersede the assist ance which ought to be given by Government, by the established Widows' and Orphans' Funds, or by the relatives of the sufferers ; but to supplement it to the extent to which it fell short of a just mea sure of relief. Having laid down the principle that compensation for losses, as such, would in no case be given the objects the committee specially ap plied: themselves to were—to enable the sufferers to live with frugality in 'their respective states of life until other means of subsistence were available ; secondly, to provide for the maintenance and edu cation of children in cases in which it had been interrupted or prevented by casualties arising out of the mutiny, and in which it could not be pro vided for from other sources ; thirdly, to assist the sufferers to come to this country or to go to India when the circumstances rendered it proper that they should do so and the means of paying for their pas sage could not be obtained from any other source ; and, fourthly, to afford reasonable aid, by loan or otherwise, to officers and others who had lost their equipments, furniture, or other property by the necessity of sudden flight from their stations or the destruction of their dwellings, when without such aid they would be involved in pecu niary embarrassments. It was further determined by the committee that relief according to these principles should be given, without distinction of religion or nationality, to every person, of whatever rank, who had a just claim upon the sympathy and opulence of the British people. Several houses were taken in Calcutta for the occupation of refugees from the disturbed districts; but, as many of these persons have returned to their former stations, the number of inmates, which in February last was 280, had been reduced at the date of this report to 185. The number of children receiving education in Calcutta at thG expense of the fund in April last was 62, at a monthly cost of 1,395 r. In addition to the in mates of the houses there were also 136 incumbents on the fund, who received for themselves and their families monthly allowances to the aggregate amount of 7,611 r. Several of these persons, it is stated, will probably be permanently dependent on the public bounty, and it will be for the general committee to decide on the most suitable means of securing the necessary annuities. The- sub-commit tee add that the claims upon them are " So numerous that they cannot form an accurate estimate of the total sum likely to be expended. It is evident that a large number of cases still remain to be considered. Officers generally appear to shrink from applying for aid, and yet the sub-committee, knowing that the destruction of property and the loss of staff allowances occuring contemporaneously with events that have occasioned many unusual and unexpected expenses must have placed many of them in circumstances of great embarrassment, have all along been willing and prepared to afford liberal assistance. It has already been stated that all the grants of the sub-committee are confidential, and that no names will be published. To officers and to all others who are really sufferers the sub-committee offer their succour, and they believe that they have justly represented , the public feeling in their endea vour hitherto to make their aid in every instance, substantial and effectual. If in any cases they have granted more than was sufficient, the error has arisen from the desire so to administer their trust that no real want should be unrelieved, and that the afflic tions of these eventful times should not be aggra vated by a narrow and jealous spirit in the distri bution of the Relief Fund. In many cases the sub committee well knew that their grants have afforded timely and necessary aid to those who had seen all their property destroyed, and their earthly pro spects blighted, and their dearest relatives taken frora them by a stroke ; and they fail to estimate the extent of suffering to which hundreds must have been exposed had no such fund existed." The aggregate number of persons relieved by the fund up to the date of this report is not given, but it is incidentally stated that up to the 3d February assistance had been afforded in nearly 2,000 cases. One of the tabular statements accompanying the report shows the various glasses of persons (includ ing men, womeitoind children) to whom relief has been given. The total number included in this table is 777, of whom 6 were officers, 101 officers' wives and children, 70 in the railway and public works' departments, 91 in the uncovenanted and patrol service, 116 indigo planters and agents, 29 clerks in public offices, 101 traders, 18 missionaries (Protestant and Roman Catholic), with 23 women and 54 children, 78 non-commissioned officers, &c., and 90 widows and orphans. The appendix also contains the correspondence which has taken place on the subject of the fund between officials in India and the late Lord Mayof of London (Mr. Alderman Finnis), the late Mayor of Liverpool, and other gentlemen who took an active part in promoting the subscription on behalf of the sufferers by the mutiny in this country. Portions of this corre spondence have already been published, and the re mainder, from the lapse of time since it took place, has ceased to possess any interest for the general reader. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Jan. 22. COURT FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF CROWN CASES RESERVED. (Present, Lord Campbell and Justices Crowder and Willes, and Barons Martin and Watson.) THE QUEEN V. BERRY. The prisoner was indicted for perjury, committed before a magistrate upon a matter of affiliation of an illegitimate child. It was proved that the mother of the child had laid an, information, not in writing or upon oath, upon which a summons against the prisoner was issued. The prisoner and his attorney attended before the stipendiary magistrate, the merits of the case were gone into, the mother swore that the prisoner had visited her several times at a particular house, and was the father of the child, and she also swore that he had paid her money for the maintenance of the child within 12 months of its birth. The prisoner then was sworn, and he stated that he had never visited the mother at that particular house, and that he had not paid the mother money within 12 months of the birth of the child. Upon this the prisoner was indicted for perjury. It was objected that the magistrate had no jurisdiction, as the information ought to have been in writing and upon oath ; and further, that the payment of the money was not material, so as to justify the proceedings for perjury ; and it was also urged that the prisoner could not have waived the objection, although he permitted the case to be gone into upon the merits without objection. The prisoner was convicted, but these points were reserved. Mr. Sergeant Atkinson (with whom was Dr. Wheeler), was heard in support of the objections on behalf of the prisoner ; and Mr. Cross argued in support of the conviction. Yhe Court took time to consider its judgment. THE QUEEN V. RICE. The prisoners were convicted for stealing 8501 b. weight of lead affixed to a wharf. They were also charged with a simple larceny of stealing lead. The points left were whether lead affixed to a wharf could be considered as affixed to a building, so as to bring it within the statute, and whether it could be a larceny, as no other lead was stolen but that affixed to the wharf. Mr. Laxton appeared for the prisoners. The lead formed the gutters of a shed. There was no vari ance between the indictment and the proof—one charging that the lead was affixed to a wharf, the other that it was affixed to a building. The Court said it was too clear—the wharf con sisted of timber, brick, and tiles, and it was a build ing to which the lead was affixed.—Conviction con firmed. THE QUEEN V. ROBINSON. The prisoner was convicted of obtaining two dogs by false pretences, and was sentenced by the Re corder of Liverpool to seven years' penal servitude. The point reserved was whether a dog was a chattel so - as to come within the statute. - Mr. Littler, for the prisoner, contended that a dog was not a chattel. Mr. Brett said it was not a chattel at common law, and it was not so, because in the books it was stated that it was not thought right that a man should die for so inferior an animal; but as to a horse, that was stated to be good for food, and. therefore, stealing a horse was made a capital offence. The punishment for stealing a swan was, that it should be tied up by the beak, and the of fender should pile up wheat until it was covered. Mr. Baron Martin said that did not bear much proportion to seven years' penal servitude. Lord, Campbell said it was clear that stealing a dog was not larceny ; that being so, and there being a specific punishment of a milder nature for stealing a dog, it would not be right to say that obtaining a dog by false pretences should subject th e o ff en d er to seven years' penal servitude. Conviction quashed. (Before all the Judges, with the exception of Mr. Justice Erle.) THE QUEEN V. SKEENE AND FREEMAN. 'The indictment alleged that the prisoners having been intrusted with a bill of lading they had frau dulently disposed of it for their own benefit, and the question arose on sth and 6th Vic., cap. 39, which contained a proviso that no agent should be liable to be convicted if he should, before indicted, have disclosed the facts before any commissioner of bankruptcy. The prisoner pleaded not guilty before the Lord Chief Baron. At the close of the evi dence the prisoners' counsel tendered a disclosure which the prisoners had made before the Court of Bankruptcy. The counsel for the Crowu objected that under the plea of not guilty the disclosures were not admissible. The Chief Baron admitted he evidence, and he now asked this Court whether the written examinations were admissible, and whether the examination was a disclosure within the statute. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine appeared on the part of Skeen., and he had to support the objection made upon the trial and to contend that they were not properly convicted. The main question to be raised was, whether a disclosure in the Court of Bank ruptcy, which was a discloSure of the facts, did or did not render the prisoner liable to be con victed. As to the first question, whether they were admissible— Lord Campbell said if they amo un t e d t o a defence hey were admissible. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said it was conceded that a disclosure had been made which was sub stantially a disclosure of the facts, and a deposition had been .taken before a magistrate which was sub stantially the same. Assuming the examina tion in the Bankruptcy Court to be a dis closure, it could not be destroyed by something that took place elsewhere. It was a good disclo sure under the statute, unless something had taken place before to destroy the effect of it. The Chief Baron said there was nothing left for them to disclose ; it was fully known before. Lord Campbell—After one disclosure could there be another ? The depositions and disclosures were precisely the same. Mr. Sergeant Ballaptine said the evidence before the magistrate might be very imperfect ; all that was wanted there wad a prima facie case to commit. The words of this statute were very clear; it was to disclose before indictment. Until the bill was found by the grand jury it was no indictment. Chief Justice Cockburn—lt must not be a spon taneous disclosure, because a case was known where such an attempt had been made. The Crown said the facts were already known before the magistrate. There could be no subsequent disclosures. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said the prisoner had been bound to make this disclosure. Chief Justice Cockburn said the act did not apply where the facts had been already known to the world. Lord Campbell—Supposing the depositions had been read, and the prisoner had said, "It is all true," would that be a disclosure ? Mr• Sergeant Ballantine said it would, if made in the Court of Bankruptcy, and it would warrant him, in asking for the protection of the Act 'of Parliament. Mr. Giffard was heard on behalf of Freeman. The prosecutors themselves examined the bank rupts at the Court of Bankruptcy, and enforced the disclosures. The Chief Baron—And. now do not appear P Mr. Giffard—They have obtained their money. The Court—And having got that do not care how the criminal law may be defeated. The Court took time to consider. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge-Ordinary and a Special Jury.) TODD AND PRICE V. SUMPSION AND OTHERS. Mr. Sergeant Pigott, Mr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Mills were counsel for the plaintiffs ; Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C, Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Mr. Thompson Chitty, for the defendents. The questions raised in this case were whether the will of the late Mr. Benjamin Tratt, of Hamil ton-place, St. John's-wood, dated the 27th of January, 1858, was duly executed, whether at the time of its execution the testator was of testamen tary capacity, and whether it was executed by him in consequence of the undue influence obtained over him by Miss Sarah Todd. The will was pro pounded by the executors and opposed by Mrs. Sumpsion, the sister, Mr. Spriggs, the nephew, and other relati ves o f the testator. The trial was resumed at the sitting of the Court by the examination of witnesses in opposition to the will. The principal witness was the defendant, Mr. Chas. Francis Spriggs, who stated that he was always much loved by his uncle, Mr. Tratt, and (It very good terms with his aunt ; but that after Miss Todd went to live with them she gradually obtained a complete control over Mr. Tratt,"and induced him to forbid the house to him and other relations. His account of the quarrel with Miss Todd was that he had given her no provocation whatever when she threw the candle at him, but was sitting quietly in a chair, and had not spoken to her. He admitted that his uncle was very angry with him for sum moning Miss Todd before a magistrate. Upon Mr. Tratt's retirement in 1849 he gave Mr. Spriggs the goodwill of the business and the stock, and from time to time assisted him with various sums of money, amounting in the whole to about £5,000. Mr. Spriggs added that he never had an unkind word from his aunt, that he had never neglected his business, and that he never went in a state of intoxication to his uncle's house, as Miss Todd had suggested. Mr. Spriggs complained with great warmth of not having been allowed to see his uncle before his death, and appeared to weep when he mentioned that he had not been invited to the funeral. One of the sons of Mr. Sprigs also de scribed the interest taken by Mr. Tratt in his wel fare, and said that previous to 1855 the old man had frequently promised " to make a gentleman of him." The examination of Mrs. Sumpsion, the sister of the testator, who is too old and infirm to attend, was read. She described her brother as having been much affected by his wife's death, and having shortly afterwards become quite childish. He was accustomed, she said, among other foolish habits, to have his legs nursed and dandled by Miss Todd, to the tune of " Here we go up, up, up, Here we go down, down, down," much to his gratification. Mrs. Sumpsion expressed her great disappointment at finding that the will was not to be read at the funeral, for " what else had she gone there for ?" and her surprise at the small sum (£500) left to her by her brother. Mrs. Sumpsion's evidence was partly corroborated by her servant, Lydia Linfield, who mentioned, in her cross-exa mination, that she remembered the time when' Miss Todd was a kitchenmaid in the household of Lord Wensleydale. In addition to the evidence adduced on their behalf reliance was placed by the defendants upon the difference between the provi sions propounded, the declared intentions of the testator, and the contents of previous wills ; and upon the offer of marriage to Miss Todd, and the transfer of £45,000 stock to her name. Mr. Sergeant Pigott, in reply, submitted that the evidence on both sides clearly proved that the old gentleman was a perfectly free agent in every act that he had done up to the day of his death. Sir C. Cresswell summed up, and The juryimmediately returned a verdict upon all the issues for the plaintiffs, establishing the validity of the will. Ajuryraan asked whether a recommendation of the jury with regard to the payment of costs would have any weight with the Court in a case of this kind ? Sir C. Cresswell said it would not. That was a matter entirely in the hands of the Court. His lordship then decreed probate of the will, and reserved the question of costs for consideration. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Jan. 22. MANSION-HOUSE.—William Henry Preston, aged 34, clerk to Mr. Young, architect, 35, King street, Cheapside, was charged with embezzling the money of his employer. Mr. R. Ashby, builder, of 24, Bishopsgate-street without, said—l have known the prisoner as a clerk in the employment of the prosecutor. The paper produced is a receipt for the payment of £3los. due from me to the prosecutor, but I cannot recollect whether I myself paid the prisoner the money. The prosecutor said—The prisoner was a clerk in my service. It was his duty to receive moneys and to account for them weekly. I believe the re ceipt produced to be in the prisoner's handwriting, and I find no entry in my book of the payment of the sum referred to by the last witness. On refer ence to my book I find he has not accounted for other sums paid him on my behalf. I saw him yes terday, and he shortly afterwards sent me a list of his deficiencies, together with other papers which I now produce. Huggett, the detective officer, asked for a remand for the production of further evidence, there being 26 cases against the prisoner. The prisoner was remanded accordingly. Wm. Brown, alias Diamond, alias Beck, John Megan, and John King, were again brought up.. Brown and King had been committed fot trial upon several charges of obtaining , goods from wholesale warehouses by means of forged orders, but were remanded with Megan for the purpose of enabling Mr. Humphrey, the solicitor for the pro secution, to go through the evidence with a view of ascertaining whether he could establish a charge of conspiracy against them. Megan was discharged, Brown and King stand ing committed as before. Margaret Agnes Hackblock, aged 27, whose eyes were blackened and her face covered with contu sions, was charged with assaulting Mr. J. Mans field, who keeps the China coffeeshop in Bishops gate-street-without. The complainant said, the prisoner had lived with him as servant and otherwise for the last nine years, but she had recently become so violent in her conduct towards him that he had been compelled to part with her, and on two other occasions he had provided her with an outfit to get another situa tion, received her back again into his house, how ever, on each occasion, upon her promise to behave better for the future. Mr. Goodman (chief clerk) —But she lived with you as your wife, did she not ? Complainant replied in the affirmative, and went on to say that he had always treated her well, not withstanding the frequent violence of her conduct. On the previous evening, however, he found her sitting in the public coffeeroom, tossing- - with some men, and; sending out for drink. He told her to go to the bar, when she refused to do so, and when he took hold of her arm to drag her away she struck him on the face and got away from him. She then got under the table, and he again took hold of her arm, upon which she flew at him, stuck her teeth into his face, and held him so until pulled off by others. Finding it impossible to quiet her otherwise he sent for a policeman and gave her into custody. For some time past he had been endeavouring to get rid of her, but she would not go, although he offered to give her a sum of money, and also to provide for her child. The prisoner, who spoke in a very excited man ner, said, the truth was, she went to live with the complainant as servant about nine years ago, when he seduced her, and she had been living with him ever since, and had had a child by him, but that he had been in the constant habit of ill-treating her ; and in proof of his violence on the previous day she referred to the state of her face, and, nulling up her sleeves, showed her arms covered with bruises. With respect to the charge, she said it originated in a rather peculiar transaction. On Friday morn ing a ladylike young woman went to the house and asked if she could be accommodated with a private room for the purpose of dressing herself for her marriage, which was to take place at a church in the neighbourhood on Tuesday morning next, offering to pay for the accommodation. She (pri soner) asked complainant, who at once gave his consent, and the young lady went away, but very soon afterwards returned in a cab, accompanied by a gentleman, who she said was the one to whom she was about to be married. This gentleman re quested the complainant to allow him to represent himself as having lodged at the house for some time past, when, as he was then about to do, he went to procure a special license, a request with which com plainant at once complied, and furnished the gen tleman with one of his tax papers to enable him to give an appearance of undoubted truth to the state ment, and the parties then took their leave. After their departure some words took place between her and complainant, and subsequently, while she was standing at the foot of the stairs watching the sky light, where some people said they had seen a man peeping' complainant c ame up to her, and ,ll ol outaiwo. :i r, n d, pushed he r down with great vi° lc ''r She added, that the gentleman and lady gave 5 ,9 names as C. harles Richard Teage and Olivia I ,l 'w and said. it was to be a runaway match. The Lord Itl r ayor told the complainant, vh ° no contradiction to this ext raor di nar y statelu . ; that he had ec.'mmitted a grave offence in e tli spiting to promote a fraudulent marriage, and 10, .his conduct to the prisoner, after seducing her , quite unjustifiable. The Lard, Mayor asked the prisoner whethero* 4i 1 would go home and not annoy complainant 4 , more ? And she promised to cease all annoy' and never go near Mr. Mansfield again. The Lord Mayor then endeavoured to prevaiL Mansfield to allow her something towar P o maintenance ; bat he stedfastly refused to do although he -was willing to keep her child. The prisoner was then discharged. WORSHIP-STREET.—Wm. Richard Jark s • ° :' a youth, was re-examined on the charge of e concerned in - uttering forged cheques with W l ,. to cheat and defraud iris father, Wm. Richard J i. ,, 3e , e son, a meat salesman, carrying on business in 11 ' Tuns-passage, Newgate-market. The prisoner did not utter a word, and ' Hammill, remarking on the distressing nature the case, ordered him to be committed. for trial. Wm. Weston, a journeyman cabinetmaker , charged with the following outrage : An inoffensive-looking German named Aug us e te r Hauser was a fellow-workman with the prio rj e l in the service, of a master manufacturer 01 11 it Jones, in the• Curtain-road, Shoreditch, and seemed that while Hauser is the quiet man "' OO represented to be, the prisoner was such a' &s l o e bully as to be a terror to all the workmen in 0 shop. On the 7th inst. Hauser heard the priscs e , sawing in the yard of the house, and, susf o d ing what he was about, looked into the yard, 9 4 found him engaged in sawing up some w ood ti' o belonged to him (Hauser). He remonstrated t 4 him on his vexatious conduct, and his mis t did so likewise, but the prisoner jeered 11 i i bullied them, told them they , were all frighte; at him, and after grossly insulting his e t ; ployer's brother-in-law, who interposed put a stop to his insolence, he returned the workshop, and conducted himself with s ue t° blackguardism to Hauser that he at last s t o od til ) to give him a good thrashing. In this the prisun o , had the advantage at first, by driving the pr ° oo tutor against the wall and then throwing him he his back across a bench. While in this position t; prosecutor was heard to exclaim, " Oh, the se° w . drel is biting me," but Hauser thrust him off 111 , ~,0 flung the prisoner in the same way across bench, and was about to strike him, when the P: soner seized him round the neck with one 03 ;d grasped a long iron bedscrew with his disengEto o f hand, and, although the prosecutor called to on e the shopmen to take it from him, the youth was te terrified to do so, and the prisoner stabbed HO or in the left eye with the screw. Mr. George Helme,house surgeon of the hospit deposed that when the prosecutor was b rou ght il to that institution h e f oun d th e neighbourhood o'f the left eye greatly con t use d, a gas h .i n th e ull i e i t eyelid, the vision not on ly grea tly i mpa i r ed partially gone, and the eye altogether in suc h bad state that it was d ou btf u l if t h e proses The would ever entirely recov er th e s i g ht o f it. 1 5 screw produced was well calculat e d to inflict Sr' injuries. The prisoner impudently declared that all tk witnesses, four in number, had invented an en' pack of falsehoods against him ; but Mr. Hammill told him that the threats he - - o f uttered too clearly showed his intent to admit td any doubt, and ordered hi m t o b e comm itted ' trial. SOUTHWARK. Henry Hinds, a Custom-hod officer, was charged w ith s t ea li ng 35 fancy 10,eA, schaum pip es f rom a case on b oard the John -DI Hamburg steamer, th e property o f Messrs. WI? and Co., merchants, Sambrook -court, Basing ll street. At the request of th e p o li ce th e pr i soner w as remanded for a week, but admitted to bail. LAMBETH.—A middle-aged man, who gave Y fictitious name of Christopher Stoddart, and. 0 ,, e , refiased•to state his address, was examined on i" following charge : It appeared from the evidence that betel 10 and 11 o'cl oc k i n the fore noon th e pr isoll_ i v, called at the h ouse o f M rs . T ravers, on Cha ff pion-hill, C am b erwe ll, and other respectab le ladies in the neighbourhood, and representing hid self to be Mr. Stoddart, a respectable ironmong e o in the High- s t ree t, C am b erwell, said he flcto making a subscripti on to get a poor woman i°,4 the Putney Hospit a l ; th at h e h ad already c",:t lected and paid in £2O, an d t h at i f he did 11,.n't succeed in getting £3 by 12 o ' c l oc k t h e woman's goods must be sold. Unfortunately S, him Mrs. Travers happ ene d t o k now M r . St o dda,P o the tradesman he pe rsona t e d, an d thi s l e d to 0 , prisoner's apprehension. Mrs. Deyks, a lady residing in Grove-hill, Car l, r berwell, identifi e d th e pr i soner , w h o h a d pa id t i c ti two visits on th e su bj ec t o f c h ar it y, an d pro d u ccu note which he pres en t e d t o h er on th e last occ ii sioß, and which p urporte d to h ave b een written 1/, the Rev. Mr. Moore, but which was a forgery. The prisoner, who was respectably dressed, v'" about 50 years of age, was remanded. EXEMPTION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY FROM LOC° TAXATION.—On Friday a great meeting of members of VS liament, and others int eres t e d i n giving effect to the roe'n' . mendations of the select committ ee of the House of CO D ' mons—" that , all property occupied for public pure/4 6 should cease to be exempt from local tax a ti on "— wa s at the King's Arms, Palace-yard, Westjninster. A del) tation to the Chancellor of the E xc h equer was appointed and the meeting separated. [ADVERTISEMENT.] AND HEARING. TACLES.—POWERFUL TELESCOPES. —OPERA, RACE, PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. Messrs. S. and B. Solomon', opticians, 39, Albermarle-Street, Piccadilly. ObserVq opposite the Yo r k Hotel, W.—Opera, Race-course, Fi'. and general Out-door Day and Night Perspective Glasse 4 4 very small, for the waistcoat pocket, each containing 1 2 !V.I. 181 nses, constructed o f G erman g l ass . Will s h o w el„ tinetly a person to know them at t w o- an d- a -h a lf an d thre e miles, and an object from eight to ten miles distant. l' e a Majesty' s C oast Guards are making use of them as daPt„-e, night glasses i n p re f erence t o a ll o th ers ; th ey are a l so Pr ~a ferred for d eer - sta lki ng b y spor t smen , gentlemen, g', gamekeepers. T e l esco pes 31 inches l ong , b y w hi c h a Per Son may be cl ear ly seen and known a t 3f miles' and g 0 • object at 12 t o 14 miles,' distance; and with an ex t ra astO ct nomical eye-piece, Jupiter's moons, Sat urn ' s r i ng s, ni, 1 , 0 the doubl e s t ars are distinctly see n . All the above can i' d had of larger and all sizes, with i ncreas i ng powers, °lt, are secured by • her Majesty's R o y a l L e tt ers P a tent' The Royal Exhibition, 1851. A , valuable, newly invented, very small, powerful Waistcoat-pocket Glass; the size of a walnut, by which a p erson can b e see n and known one and . a halt mile distant. They answe r every purpose on the Race-course and at the Opera' houses. Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at four to six miles. • They are invaluable for shootial deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gare ° : keepers, and tourists. Price 3 0m—Spectacle Lenses of tl: i greatest transparent yower. The great a d vantage der iv6 l from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired 1 ' preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons ; O. ° enabled to employ their Sight at the most minute occupau°' —can see with those lenses Of a much less magnifYl power, and they do not require the frequent changes to th e dangerous effects'of fufther powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the world by sent ing one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, an stating the distance froth the eyes they can read small pip' with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by statingtheirage. Deafness.—NewDiscovery.—The OrgaviS Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful small newly-invente instrument for Deafness, entirely different from all other° , surpasses anything of tie kind that has been, or probably ever can be, produced. Being of the same colour a s the skin, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies; the unplea sant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely re; moved, and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Ohserve-- - opposite the York Hotel, W. BIRTHS. Ant .—On the 19th inst., at Copenhagen, the wife of Ales. Aird, Esq., of a son. CARTMELL.--On the 18th inst., at 'Asfordby Rectory, the wife of the Rev. John Cartmell, Esq., of a daughter. TOWSR.—On the 21 st inst., the wife of William Beckwith Esq., of Fishmongers'-hall, o f a son . ,—On the 21st inst., a t 7, P ar kfi e ld Vi llas, St' w T A a B E I John's-wood - park, Mrs. James Walker, of a son. MARRIAGES. EwiNG—O'GRADY.—On the 20th inst., at Conlara Church, Alex. Crum Ewing, Esq., eldest son of Humphrey E. C. E w ing, Esq., of Slnthleven, Dumbartonshire, M.P., to Jane, only daughter of Vice •Ad m i ra l H ayes O'GrtlY, of Erinagh-house, co. Clare. • WREY—PHILPOTTS.—On. the 18th inst., at the parish church of St. Feoch, Cornwall, the Rev. Arthur B.Wrey, M.A., to Helen, second daughter of the Rev. Thomas Philpotts, of Porthgwidden, and vicar of the above parish. DEATHS. BARRIE.—On the 20th inst., at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, Dorothea, second daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Sir R. Barrie, K.C.B. BELL.—On the 20th inst., at Gloucester-terrace, Campden hill, John Bell, Esq. BICKERS. —On the 19th inst., at Kings-road, Chelsea, and late of Charles-street, Berkeley-square, Win. Bickers, Esq., aged 77. FRERE.—On the 20th inst., at 9, Queen-street, Mayfa TT Mrs. R. Temple Frere, aged 38. HUNTER.—On the 21st inst., in Cambridge-terr ace , Hyde park, Janet, widow of the late Sir Claudius S. Hunter, Bart. Osnonm.--40 the 19th inst., at Bruhswick-cottage Leeds, Wm. Oslioin, Esq., aged 94. RENTON.—On the 18th inst., John Renton, Esq., F.S.A., West-street, Finsbury, aged 83. LONDON : Printed and Published by 31 - UltDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Misidloon, Monday, January 240859. 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