The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-06 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The Trieste Gazette has correspondence from Con-
stantinople of the 21st ult., stating that on the 17th
of August the British corvette Modeste, driven into
the Dardanelles by stress of weather, was fired on
with two guns from the fort, and was compelled to
put to sea again. The commander of the Modesto
subsequently went ashore, and accompanied by the
British Consul, visited Hassan l'aeha, commander
of the fort, and informed him that he should place
the matter in the hands of the minister of his sove-
reign at Constantinople.
When the British fleet ventured, in order to back
the Sultan's independent protection of the Hungarian
refugees, to appear at the mouth of the Dardanelles,
stress of weather drove some of the ships to take
refuge within the forbidden strait. At that time
the question was raised as to the limit allowable to
armed foreign ships during stress of weather. But
even if the Modesto transgressed this limit, certainly
no proceeding can wear a more ungracious aqs.et
than stretching the letter of the treaty to fire into an
English cruiser, forced by tempest into the strait, while
the honeying diplomacy of France opens the pas-
sage to t 6 Charlemagne. The allegation that the
I British corvette refused to stop outside until a fir-
man bad been procured from Constantinople is an
absurdly lame excuse for the outrage, as the most
expeditious steamer could not go from the mouth of
the Dardanelles to Constantinople and return within
two days, leaving out of calculation the proverbial
delay of Turki-h chancelrics. The question is not of
days, but of minutes in such a case, when a ship
may be torn from her anchorage, and wrecked at
the foot of Achilles' tomb, or the bleak coast of
Tenedos.

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Omer Pacha, who has been decorated by his sove-
reign, returns to his former command in Bosnia.

AUSTRIAN BANDITTI.—The Vienna journal/ con-
tain an account of a very horrible affair " A peasant of
Galician I'odolia went ten days ago to the fair of Zharaz
to 'sell a pair of oxen. On his return, having been
drinking rather too much, he placed his money in a
girdle, which he fastened round the body of his daugh-
ter who accompanied him. On passing through a
wood a man stopped them and imperatively de-
manded their money or their lives. The peasant
declared that be had no money on him ; but the
man, knowing that he had sold his oxen, seized him
by the hair, and dragged him a little way into the
wood. There two other men joined him, and the
three murdered the unfortunate man. The girl dis-
tinctly saw the crime perpetrated. Orestly terrified she
took to Hight. and after proceeding some distance saw a
cottage. She rushed into it, and fund a woman. She told
the woman what had occurred, and said that she had the
money on her. This money the woman took and fastened
in a drawer, and in compliance with the prayer of the girl
placed her in a bedroom for safety. After a while three
men entered the cottage—they were those who had com-
mitted the murder. One of them was the woman's hus-
band. They told her that they had killed the man, and
that they had been dreadfully disappointed on finding no
money on him. The woman, with a loud laugh, produced
the belt, and told them that the girl who had confided
it to her was in the next room. The murderers mani-
fested great joy at the sight of the cash. But after a
while they reflected that the girl might denounce them,
and they deliberated as to what they should do with her.
The poor creature distinctly heard all they said. They de-
termined to kill her, and that no trace of the crime might
remain, resolved to burn 11,r to death in the oven. They
proceeded at once to light the oven, and in ashort time the
poor girl heard the flames crackling. Driven to despera-
tion, she looked about fer means of escape. Fortunately
she ascertained that the wall was only of clay, and she was
able to make a hole in it large enough to creep through.
She escaped, and after proceeding some distance met two
gendarmes. To them she related what had occurred. They
proceeded at once to the cottage, and arrested the three
murderers and the women.

I)INSER To MR. ()RD.—The liberals of Newcastle-
oa•Tyse are about giving • dinner to Mr. Ord, who has re-
presented them for half • century in parliament. The list
of noblemen and gentlemen who intend being present in-
clude. the Earl of Carlisle, Earl Grey, and Sir George Grey,
Mr. Marshall, M.P., the Hen. E. Howard, M.P. the lion,
C. Howard, M.P., Mr. Heedlam, M.P., Mr. Ingham, M.P.,
Mr. Hutt, M.P., Mr. Beaumont, M.P., Mr. Blackett, M.P.,
and Mr. George Ridley, besides many other leading re-
formers.—Netorattle Chemaiek.
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A CONFIRMED MuttoEnEqs.—The woman, Louisa
Ferris, who was transported for cutting. a policeman's throat
at Bristol, having behaved herself en a mast exemplar)
manner whilst in gaol at Van Diernen's Land, obtained •
ticket of leave; almost immediately afterwards she rut
another man's throat in Melbourne, and she had been left
for execution when this intelligence was despatched.—Bath
Chronicle. _ _

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—Probably one of the meet
miraculous escapes from death, by a railwey engine, hap-
pened at South Shields on Friday. A pour woman, the
wife of a labourer named Thomas Walker, and residing at
Stokoe-terrace, in that town, bad gone out to the harvest-
ing, and left a little girl, two years old, at a friend's house,
near the Itigh station of the York sad Berwick Railway, a
mile off. About 10 o'clock in the forenoon the little thing
had wandered on to the railway, and was making along the
line towards its home ; the 10 o'clock train was coming
down from Sunderland and Newcastle with great rapidity
at the same period of time, and, rounding a curve, the
driver of the engine saw the child some distaace before him,
in the middle of the down line, and laughing at the engine
as it approached her. It wan impossible to bring the en-
gine up, in time; the coupling-chain of the tender struck
the child, threw it down, and the engine and long train of
carriages passed over it. Having got about twenty yards
in advance, the engineman was eniblist to bring the train
up, when he and some of the passengers ran back to where
the child was laid. She was foued considerably cut about
the head, and watched, as if she had been dragged a short
distance. Mr. Bowlby, surgeon, was in the train, and
attended to her wounds. On Saturday, the child seemed
quite recovered, and was running about as if she had sus-
tained no injury."—Sewerland News.
1)EATI1 PROM JUMPING OFF SUAESPEARE'S CLIFF
—A coronet's inquest was held before O. T. Thompson,
Esq., at the military hospital at the castle, on Monday last,
on the body of • private of the 30th depot, named Edward
Dunn, who had met his death by jumping off the summit of
Shakspeare's Cliff on the previuns evening. The body pre-
sented a revolting spectacle, the skull and several of the
limbs being much disfigured, doubtless occasioned by the
unfortunate man coming in contact with the jagged portions
of the cliff in the course of his descent. Henry Dampstin, a
private 30th depot, said—l knew deceased perfectly well.
1 Yesterday, about a quarter to 12, I saw him in the cooking-
room at the barracks, when in the course of ourconvenation
he said, " 1 am deranged in my mind, II amps tin : it is more
than I can bear." I asked him what was the matter, hut
he did not tell me : he only said, " ROMP innocent blood
will be shed to night, and God help the poor soul wIV
has. to suffer for it." I wan then called to go upon guard-A
when he wishe.l me "good bye." This was an unusual
thing. 1 did not speak to him afterwards. Ilia manner
'reined very wild when talking to me. I :have writton
letters for the deceased to his wife lit Bristol, and tern
those written by her to himself. Neither "f the last I, t-
tars (received and written last week) contained anvhi e
of an unpleasant kind. The jury found art:relict of "'Tem-
porary Insanity."—hover Chronicle.
KEPREsIENTATION OF OLDHAM. Mr. Robert

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Owen, the socialist, has ,nnouneen hinnt It a etantidato c
Oldham.—Nottistschamsh.re Chartism.