The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-24 00:00:00

TURKEY.

A letter from Constantinople of the Gth says :
"General Dembinski arrived here lust week from
Kutayah, where he left his fellow-prisoners, expect-
ing the arrival of the commissary of the Porte and
the agent of the intcrnuncio, who were to bring the
Emperor of Austria's amnesty. General Dembinski
was perfectly well received at the French embassy.
Ile does not, as was reported, intend to stay at Con-
stantinople, but will embark in the next mail steamer
for Paris. lie has been visited by all the refugees
of distinction here, both Poles and Italians. On the
evening of his arrival a company of refugee musi-
cians, called Guribuldi's band, gave him a serenade,
and at the intervals between the airs shouted The
Republic for ever! Down with the Austrians!! in
winch they were joined by the crowd of refugees.
General Dembinski did not scent over-flattered by
this demonstration, and is even said to have severely
blamed it. Curiously enough, Garibaldi's band, aftti:
serenading General Dembinski, went to the Russian
palace, where there was a ball, and, for the usual
fee, played all night while the Russians and Austrians
danced."
The news from Constantinople, through Vienna,
is, that a fresh body of Russian troops have marched
into Bessarabia, consisting of two divisions, each
division numb ring 1$ battalions, 12 squadrons, 2
Comek regiments, and the necessary artillery.
The Orsstrn Corrempmillent, which publishes the
news, says there is now in Bessarabia u Russian
force of from seventy to eighty thousand strong.

THE POLISH AND HUNGARIAN REFCGREs IS(
LI VIMPOOL.-0a inquiry on Wednesday afternoon, we
learn that sixty of the refugees embarked in the Charles
Crocker, for New York, un Tuesday. Sixty-three alto-
gether had signed the agreement fur their trwunnksion, but,
when the muster-roll was called, three (and those Poles)
were missing. Of the sixty, thirty-two were Pules and
twenty-eight Hungarians. besides the refugees, there were
also ou hoard thirty Holsteiners, whose passage-money had
been paid by Messrs. Sehunk, Souchay, and Co., merchants,
of Manehetser, and about twenty-nine German emigrants,
who paid their own fare. Three of the refugees, who have
expressed their willingness to pr teed to America, arc sick
at the home, and one is in the hospital. The rest are at the
in Oriel-street, in the most wretched plight. Their
allowance of money does nut exceed lid. per slay, and above
twenty of them hare been attacked by bronchial alfeetiuus.
—Licerpool Timm
A WOMAN SHOT AT IN LEEDS.—A little bet=
noon, on Friday, a woman named Widdop, was shot at in
Ithsekman-lane, Leeds. Police-ufficer hales, repaired to
the place, a sort of ledge-house, where he found on a table
a brace of new pistols, and on the floor a man, who ap-
peared to be wounded in the side, and in such a state that
he deemed it necessary to have him forthwith conveyed to
the Infirmary. The Wilco learned that, u little before, the
man had fired a pistol hauled with ball at Mrs. Widdop, the
wife of a gardener, who resides in the lodge-house alluded
to. The man's name is William Scott, a whitesmith, re-
siding in Reuben-terrace, Little London. Scott, who
has been fur some time well acquainted with
Mrs. Widdop and her husband, walked into the
house of the latter a little after eleven o'clock;
awl almost instantly drew from his pocket a loaded pistol,
which he fired off at Mrs. Widdop. Fortunately the ball
did not penetrate the body, but after passing through Mrs.
Widdup's clothes, came in contact either with her stays
bone or her own ribs, and dropped from the inside of leer
apparel upon the fluor. The first person who came to the
place was Mr. Kay, a cowkeeper, of Pleasant Dairy, and
on getting to the door of Widelop's house he observed Scott
with a pistol in his hand ; supposing that he intended some
further mischief, Mr. Kay did not go in, but en he closed
the dour he heard the report of a pistol, and on looking
through the window he saw Scott fall upon the floor. Mr.
John Rhodes, a neighbour, arrived at the place shortly after-
wards, and found Scutt upon the floor in a sitting
posture; he asked him what he had been doing, but re-
ceived no answer. On Scutt being taken to the infirmary,
he was stripped, when a ball dropped from the inside of his
clothes ; blood was oozing from a wound on the left side

just under the heart, the ball having passed through his
clothing, and penetrated the flesh to the ribs. In his pockets
were found a quantity of gunpowder, some gun-raps, a
mould for making leaden balls, and a screw for taking the
pistols to pieces, all of which are quite new, and have pro-
bably been purchased for the occasion. A surgeon was
called to Mrs. Wuldop, “nd from the examination made, it
is thought that one or more. of her ribs has been broken, but
she is nut otherwise seriously injured. It is said that Scott
has for some time been in a desponding state of mind, and
that ho had committed this rash act from &onto Mums im-
pulse.