The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-12 00:00:00

TURKEY.

A letter from Bagdad gives the following account
of the combat which a telegraphic despatch stated
Omer Pacha had recently been engaged in on his
way to that city:
It was at Der, on the Euphrates, that the conflict took
place. When Omer Pacha arrived near the town with his
troops, he called on the inhabitants to supply him with a me-
min quantity of provisions, which he promised to pay for.
But the inhabitants (it is not stated for what reason) not
only did not comply, but even did not return any answer. A
second time they were called on to give the neomeary supply,
but by way of reply they fired on the memengere. Omer
Pacha then caused some home soldiers to advance, in order to
prove that he meant to have his demand complied with; but
they were met by a greater number of Arabs on horses and
camels, and the Arabs sasumed a hostile attitude. On that
Omer Pacha ordered a discharge of fire-arms • the people of
the town turned out, and a regular combat ensited. It ended
by 400 of the people beime killed, and by 60 being taken pri-
soners. These prisoners have since been incorporated in
Omer Pitches troops. The affair has created a great sensa-
tion, and Omer Pacha is accused of having acted as no true
kinseulman should have done.

The Osservatoso Dalmato has the following from
Masks:

--on the disembarkation of the 4,000 Turkish troops at KU
a boat was upset and seven men drowned. The troops are
oommanded by Hadri Parka, and are accompanied by 1,000
homes to carry ammunition and stores. They have taken
the road to the mountains, and the steamers which conveyed
them have returned to Constantinople. Everything is tran-
quil on the frontiers of Montenegro and the Herzegovina, and
no new conflicts are expected. But it is said that a combat
has taken place between Spices and Podgortszs, towards
Albania, and that the Turks were routed with some loss.
The Turkish garrisons in those parts have received rein-
forcements, and 3,000 men have been disembarked at An-
tivarL _ _ _

A letter from Vienna, of the 6th, says:
Prince Denbo has announced to Baron Man n& that ha
has taken measures for preventing his subjects from corn-
witting seta of hostility in the Turkish territory. It is said
that he m►de this declaration because he was recently told
that his principality would be occupied by Austrian troops
in tha event of such acts being continued.

THE VICTIMS or THE Aux LErELLErIER PLOT.
—The Koalas,. of Saturday publishes. bill which has bean
presented to the Corps Legialatif for granting pensions to
certain persons who were msimed or otherwise injured by
the explosion of Orsini's grandee, or who hare been deprived
of their neareet relatives by death from the wounds thus in-
dicted. The names and circumstances of each person ere

stated in a schedule annexed. It is stated that 160 persona
were moo or less wounded, of whom nine have died. Five
of these were men who have lest widows and orphens; four
were unmarried men. There are also thirteen persona who
have been permanently crippled or disabled for life. It is
proposed to give each widow a pension of 1,000 frame yearly
nor life, and to the parents sr children of the deceased a por-
tion of 600 francs each. The persons °rippled receive a pen-
non of 600 francs, except one man, whose injuries being
especially serious, receives a compeestion of 1,000 francs •
year.
DEATH OP JOHN FREDERICK FOSTER., ESQ.—The
sudden and unexpected death of John Frederick Foster,
Esq., for twenty years past chairman of the Salford Quar-
ter Sessions, was announced ta Manchester on Saturday.
On Friday Mr. Foster was apparently in geed health, and
during the day ha conversed with a friend relative to the
business of the sessions, to commence this day. In theeven-
tog he attended a meeting of the Monet= Missionary
Society, at Charley Church, Alderley, Cheshire, intnag
own residence, and his love of musk led him to volunteer his
services on the organ at the opening of the proceedings. For
that purpose he took his seat at the instrument and com-
menced a voluntary, but was observed to fall on one ride, and
it was found that he had been seized with apoplexy. Hie
Mends removed him to his own residence with all possible
haste, and two medical gentlemen followed him home from
the church, but he expired within an hour and a half from
the attack. Mr. Fader commenced practice in Manchester
as a conveyancing barrister, succeeding Mr. J. Norris first
ea stipendiary magistrate at the New Bailey, and afterweads
(in March, 1838) as chairman of queer sessions. He died
in his 63rd year. His father wee a Moravian bishopp, and ha
received hie education from that excellent body of ChridismS
for whom he retained an unshaken attachment to the last.
Throughout his professional and official osier he was highly
moped by all dames of the community.
MUTH Or SIR DAVID WEDDERBIIIIN, BAIT.
—We regret to announce the death of Sir David Wadder-
burn, Bert , who for some yeses sat In the House of Com-
mons as the representative of the Scotch borough of St.
Andrews. The deceased baronet was Postmaster General of
Scotland from 1823 to 1831. In 1104 a baronetcy of Scotland
was conferred upon J. Wedderburn, of Blackmer, and
this desceaded in due course to the fifth possessor of the title,
who having been taken at the battle of Culloden, was un-
tainted and executed. Hie eon, however, continued to assume
the We, and was father of the deceased baronet, who in
1803 received • baronetcy of the United Kingdom. The late
barmen le succeeded in his title and estates by his half
brother John, who was &miserly accouatant-general at
Bombay.
MERE LITERARY " EDUCATION."—The new MIDIS
for literary competitions as tests for many offices sad frac-
tions is not yet long enough in operation to have had any
marked effect on our English youth, but while we appexiste
it as a check to mere family patronage, we fear it may tend
to multiply a very undesirable class—. young men of good
education," with no special bias for an calling, and no
special acquirements for any profession. There are, doubt-
less, few of our readers who do not know in their circle of
friends some young man who is a subject of /serpentl
anxiety to his friends, because he has received a good general
education, and is fit for any employment. There is no lack
of such young men in this country ; the columns of the Moses
testily daily to their destitution, and their readiness to
accept say employment not menial, and for the smalket re-
manerstice. If, instead of learning Win, Greek, mathe-
matics, and history, these young men had been trained to a
mastery risme craft, they might become the real creators of
the espnierfty of England—they might become builders,
road-maker., firmer,, architects, engineer'. Bat we have
them filling Landon garreu—" with blinded eyeeleiLptserb
over =ignoble books," Instead of taking stoutand
strong hands to countries where rich fruits reward tail. And
with this surplusage of clerk", linguists, scholars, men who
can correspond in three languages and write Latin verses to
admiration, we have our statesmen, in their high wisdom,
devising rewards for the multiplication of the class. It la
right to give civil service poets only to men literary enough
to do the work, but why give the poets as rewards for a Mo-
ney education far beyond the work P It is like offering
premiums for the influx of weavers into Spitalfields, or
encouraging an increase of needlewomen in London.—Tde
Leader.

THE AFFAIR OF TRINITY COLLEGE AND THE
PoLtuu—The whole transaction is so intenwly Irish that
we are sensible of the difficulty of peeing any judgment
upon It. It lea question of emotion from drat to last. The
students and others under the influence of feeling pelt the
police; Colonel Browne under the tnduenoe of feeling lets
the police loose upon them ; under the influence of feeling
the pollee break the heads of two or three of them ; unisons'
Dublin is immediately under the Mamma of feeling; under
the influence of feeling the iewpdry Is instituted; Colossi
Browne as a witness. asprmass hid
--deep
• falls

of regret ; the anneal cirose-
instantly under the inflossee ~_and a
gentlemen eras that be osn't ask mother qualm ;
eindents are at cam brosgbt under Ur inikasses of Mk*,..,
and we doubt sot, like a set of hearty good-towedeiati
lads, freely forgive tbdr We antegadet, and re es
to ask him to dinner. How is a mater-el-feet
to pass any judgment upon the delay of 'meow' eo dim
similar from those among whom We own Bee is mend f
Their ways ere not our we r; if they ere ell gadded, why
should we express diamtidaetisa t It s .Is. User that
Coked Browse is considered to have dam " the bmirteme
thing," sad mast probably, if the " Wings" of the colle-
gians are consoled, there will be as and of the was.—
neg.

-.FATAL ACCIDENT IN CONJIIIIALL.—On Thu
last Major Croker, Royal Misers Artillery. woe, 'd=
ooaellinao, drowned in s llekpand ea the Prides= estate,
sear et.lllaysey, wide be menial tiir Cabman Rualsist.
It &Awned Rut Ike peed was tray gown with week to
clear wgteh s det•bottemed pant being* to • sailing
poke kidskin obtabred. By aims mots unknown tits
boat was upset, and botk Ito oconyards 11101111111 Wangled in
the weed and vaketenataly &yowl.