The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-21 00:00:00

EASTERN WAR.
(From our Second Edition. of yesterday.)

The Tin esmontains an important leading article.
It examines some. of the effects of the important
events in the East on the political relations of
Europe, and especially considers them in connec-
tion with the policy, the interest, and the duties of
this country and our allies.
The attempts to patch up the quarrel before
hostilities commenced having failed, the struggle
can now only be terminated by the adoption of
regular preliminaries, and the ultimate conclusion
of a treaty of peace.
All the past and future relations of Turkey and
Russia are thrown open to controversy ; all exist-
ing treaties are annulled, and it depends entirely
upon the final result of this war, and the attitude
assumed on these questions, in what form and to
what extent these speculations are ever renewed.
of Turkey is enabled to treat for peace on equal or
superior terms, she will then have shaken off a
series of conditions intending to place her in hu-
miliating subjection to Russian influence.
If Russia succeeds in crushing the forces of "the
Ottoman Empire, it cannot be doubted that she
would exact the revival of all her former treaties, but
impOse terms still more onerous on the Ottoman
Empire and fatal to the independence of the East.
To such a result it is needless to say that Great
Britain, France, and the German Powers cannot
in honor or policy submit, and that if Turkey
were reduced to the condition she was in when the
treaties of Bucharest and Adrianople were signed,
we should be bound by every consideration and at
all hazards to oppose the enlarged preparations of
the Court of St. Petersburg.
Russia has therefore no choice but in the man.
ner in which she may abandon these pretensions.
If she actually undergoes a defeat by the Tnr4-s,
she loses the results of a century of ambition and
intrigu,e, and if she triumphs over the Turkish
forces, she must prepare to encounter behind those
forces two at least of the greatest nations of the world,
who have indeed a great and wise reluctance to
take up arms, but who will most assuredly never lay
them down, if war be once begun, until they have
chastised the enemy of the peace of Europe, and
dictated the terms of an honorable settlement;
such is, in either alternative, the result to which
the Russian Government and other states of
Europe must now be prepared to lOok, whatever
the result of the hostilities now going- on. A
moment may shortly (wir between the termination
of the campaign and the niter* operations of the
war, and the use made of that moment by Europe
will- probably be decisive as to the possibility of
extinguishing this conflagration. If ;.he Emperor
of Russia persists in this wild and wicked
course, he has nothing before him but war
on the frontier of the dominions, and if he
provokes continuance, his country will not come
out of this contest without an injury to her
political influence, a consideration even more fatal
than the destruction of their fleets and the waste
of her resources. If the German Powers join
England and France with heart and hand, it is
impossible to doubt that Europe has the power
to enforce her will, Operations in the Provinces
will be interrupted by the season, or by the
attainment of some definite result of the
campaign. Are the mediating powers unpre-
pared to impose terms of accommodation? If
England and France are driven to employ their
forces in the Dardanelles, that resolution will ma-
terially affect the issue of the war, but the Times
cannot flatter itself that it will at once terminate
the contest. Russia relies on the neutrality of the
Servian powers, 40 hopes, ere lorig,to enjoy them
altogether, in opposition to the Western powers.
Peace can be peremptorily imposed on Russia and
Turkey, but with the co-operation of Germany; and
if war do ensue the Courts of Vienna and Berlin,
next to that of St. Petersburg, will stand responsi-
ble for it to posterity, if 'they neglect to perform
their part in repelling this aggression.

24-7? ')OUGLAS JERROLD 4ND MR.

In the Sheriff's Court, Westminster, on Thursday, a
tailor, named Andrews, residing in Cork-street, Bond-street,
sought to recover from Mr. Douglas Jerrold, the popular
author, the sum of £l9 65., for clothes delivered, at his re-
quest, to Mr. Henry Mayhew. The liability was denied.
Mr. Stammers appeared as counsel for the plaintiff, and
Mr. Hawkins (with whom wao Mr. Needham) for tho- de-
fendant.
In December, 1849, Mr. H. Mayhew called upon the
plaintiff with a, letter qt introduction from Mr, Jerrold, he
being his tailor at the time, Some clothes were ordered
and subsequently delicvered to Mr. Mayhew, The bill was
£l9 65., and the question was whether Mr. Jerrold had
made himself personally liable for the same. The bill was
not delivered to Mr. Jerrold until September last, when
the liability was denied, and the present action was brought
to try the question. The case attracted a good deal of
interest from the peculiar nature of the evidence given.
The plaintiff stated, that in consequence of the note frem
Mr. Jerrold, introducing his son-in-law, Mr. Henry May-
hew, he went and made inquiries, and afterwards saw the
defendant, and told him that he had heard Mr.
Mayhew
had been a bankrupt, and, from his extravagant habits, he
would not trust him, on which Mr. Jerrold said—"Oh, I
always intended to be responsible." He told the defend-
ant that any guarantee he gave him must be in writing,
as he had lost £4O by a verbal promise through the person
who had introduced him (Mr. Jerrold) to him.
He how-
ever told Mr. Jerrold that if he made the clothes by his
orders it need not be in writing, on which Mr. Jerrold said
that a man must be a very contemptible fellow if his word
was not as good as his written promise. Something was
said at the interview about the... Statute of Frauds being made
to assist frauds. Mr. Jerrold asked what clothes Mr. May-
hew required, and he enumerated the articles in the bill
which had been delivered, consisting of two suits, on which
Air, Jerrold remarked that they were more than he.thought
were required, but he added, "Make them, and no more."
It was understood that there should lie a special entry in
the book. He was requested by Mr. Jerrold to endeavour
to get the money from Mr. Mayhew. He made several
applications, but could not get the money. He applied to
Mr. Mayhew in the Queen's Prison, at the request of Mr.
Jerrold.

A letter written by the plaintiff to the defendant was put
in evidence, in which he requested payment, and it detailed,
a co4veqation in which Mr. Jerrold said he owed him
nothing, and that was epod Sgxqn," on which Mr. Andrews
remarked that it was not good English, for it was neither
honest nor true.

Mr. Andrews said Mr. Jerrold had paid him his bill
which had been running for four years, with interest,
and owed him nothing. Mr. Jerrold told him that Mr. H.
Mayhew was on the Morning Chronicle, writing the "London
Labour and the London Poor," and was at that time
(December, 1849) in the receipt of from £7 to £lO a-week.
The principal part of Mr. Jerrold's debt was contracted in
1850, and he paid him in 1851. Mr. Jerrold had told him
" that he was too dear," and the account was sent in to Mr.
Jerrold after he had ceased dealing with him.
Mr. Hawkins, after some formal evidence, addressed the
jury. He had the honor to appear for Mr. Douglas Jerrold,
and that gentleman would never have resisted the claim 'had
there been the least pretence for it, as he should prove by
the evidence he had given before the jury.
Mr. Douglas Jerrold stated the alleged conversation he
had had with Mr. Andrews, giving a very different version
of the affair. He told Mr. Andrews that Mr. Mayhew was
in an excellent position on the Morning Chronicle, and he
was safe tetrust him to £lO. He did not say he meant to
be responsible. He had no recollection of any conversation
about a guarantee in writing or the Statute of Frauds, and
did not believe it had occurred. He certainly did not tell
Mr. Andrews to make the clothes to his order. He (Mr.
Jerrold) had been paying large debts for Mr. Mayhew, and
it was not likely that he would make himself liable for liew.
debts. He knew Mr. Mayhew had been extravagant. When
he gave Mr. Mayhew the note he said he wanted a suit of
clothes. He did not tell Mr. Andrews to make a separate
entry, but to charge it to his account. He did not in any
instance admit his responsibility or ask Mr. Andrews to
supply the clothes on his account. All he said was, that
Mr. Mayhew was safe for £lO. The account was first sent
in to him (Mr. Jerrold) in September last, and it was long
after he had ceased to deal with him, as his charges were
too high for him. He met Mr. Andrews in the street, and
told him he owed him nothing, and after that the action was
brought. Mr. Jerrold added in his evidence, that he had
paid hundreds of pounds for Mr. Mayhew, who had married
his daughter, or he might have paid this bill.

In answer to a question, Mr. Jerrold said Mr. Mayhew
was eight years younger than he was.
Mr. Under-Sheriff Burch°ll facetiously remarked that
that answer was rather avoiding the question, which was as
to Mr. Mayhew's age. (A laugh.)
Mr. Jerrold.—He is 50.
Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell.—l hope that is not con-
sidered " elderly." (Laughter.)
Mr. Hawkins,—He is no chicken, then.
Mr. Jerrold.—Oh, no, he is no chicken. (Laughter.)
Mr. Hawkins said, he asked the question to show that
Mr. Mayhew was not to be considered as Mr. Jerrold's son,
for whom he had ordered clothes, as appeared from tie bill
he had paid.
Mr. Jerrold was cross-examined at considerable len,rth,
and repeatedly denied thhat he had ever said he woulfi be
responsible for the clothes,
After Mr. Stammers had replied,
The learned Under-Sheriff left the case to the jury.
He went over the evidence, and told them that they had a

THE NORTHERN DAILY TAMES.

painful ditty to discharge, to say by their verdict to which
side they gave credence.
The jury had, at their request, the plaintiff's account-
book handed to them.
After some consultation in the box, the jury returned a
verdict for the defendant.

THE POSITION OF THE BELLIGERENT ARMIES.
(From the Observer.)
The latest telegraphic despatches state that the Turks
have recrossed the Danube at Turtukai, abandoning Olte-
nitza, where they twice defeated the Russians in the present
campaign, and abandoning alio the strong position of Giur-
gevo. -The telegraph, however, is so thoroughly an instru-
ment in the hands of the Austrian government, and the
Austrian' government is so thoroughly in the interest of
Russia, that it is quite unsafe' to attach any especial credit
to its announcements, unless they are corroborated by an
independent source. They are not so in this instance ; and,
therefore, the news though possibly true, must be received
with very great caution.
It is difficult why it should be an object of such glorifi-
cation to Russia flow—assuming the fact to be as stated—
that the Turks should have recrossed the Danube at the
point indicated, when it is borne in mind that the Turkish
army made, and was permitted to make, the passage in the
first instance without the slightest molestation. Again, it
is not easy to comprehend how the Turks, after being vic-
torious in several skirmishes, and at least in one pitched
battle, with a base behind them consisting of the main body
of the army under Omar Pasha, and a fortified island in the
middle of the river, and with entrenchments of considerable
strength in their front, upon which they generally_ place
more reliance than troops trained in the tactics of Western
Europe—it is not easy to comprehend, it is reßeats34, how
they should have been oblige ct to eyaouate thdir position;
All these considerations stamp the news with doubt to say
the least of it—and render its probability exceedingly sus-
picious.

One circumstance certainly would explain this retrograde
movement in a satisfactory manner, inasmuch as it would
reconcile the discrepancies which the account presents upon
a close and critical analysis. Concurrent statements exist to
the effect that the animal heavy rains had set in, on the
Lower Danube, and that, in consequence, the whole plain of
that river, to the foot of the hills in Lesser Wallachia, was
submerged, Tn this case field works —such as those occu-
pied by the Turks in front of Oltenitza, would be untenable
—in fact, the whole flat country, as already stated, being
swamped; they would be good for nothing. Under those
circumstances it would be only good policy of the Turkish
general to mid his troops, to the higher ground on the
right or Ottoman shore of the river ; where, still retaining
military possession of the island in mid-stream, they would
have, as it were, one foot firmly planted in Wallachia, while
the Other 'was firmly plantedin their own country.
It is probable, therefore, that should the telegraph have
told truth, at least in so far as the reculatie in question is
concerned; this will be found the. real Gann of the rearward
movement of the Turkish army. But should that state-
ment remain unconfirmed, still more should it be contra-
dicted, the votive of the rumour is easily explainable.
Some days previously to the day named as that on which
the retreat took place, it was known at Vienna, the focus of
all the telegraphic intelligence from the seat of war at
the present moment that Namik Basha had set out on his way
to England from Constantinople, with proposals for a loan
to the Turkish government ; and it was surmised that as
Turkey and the Turks had always stood high in the money
market for integiity ands what is more to the purpose still,
that as a nation It is not bnrdened with any other debt, so
that the desired loan would in fact be in the nature of a first
mortgage, it was not impossible it world be promptly
effected. Here is cause enough for the propagation of a lie
on the part of Austria--,independent of the prospective in-
terest which thafpower has in the destruction of the Otto-
man 'Empire, in the shape of the provinces of Bosnia, Servia,
and the littorale, or coast line of Albania, passing into her
possession.
In this state of things, and in the absence of all definite
news on the subject, it will be wise to accord no especial
credence to the primary fact of the retreat of the Turkish
army across the Danube at Turtukai ; and, in the second,
whatever amount of belief may be attached to it, it will be
wise not by any means to look upon it in the light of a de,.
feat, until such discomfiture shall have been satisfactorily
preyed. In the meanwhile it should be borne in mind that
the Turkish army occupies other strong positions on the
Wallachian or left bank of the Danube, namely, at Krajova,
ICalafat,at at Rustchuk, and, probably, by this time at
Braa and Galatz, which latter fortified towns it is rumoured
they have taken ; and also that even if their centre was re-
pulsed, in part, at Oltenitza, their right, assuming the occu-
pation of Braila or Galatz to be the fact would be in a state
to close the road against return to the Ru:sis,iain:r_mo,y in the
event of a defeat on the one hand, or to shut out short sup-
plies from Bessarabia and Russia Proper on the other. The
flu. Turkish general would seem, there.
fore, to be complete for his purpose;
that in the event of a single defeat, the Russian army would
be caught like a rat in a trap, between two hostile armies
on its flanks, having the Danube in front and the spurs of
the Carpathian mountains, which separate Hungary from
Wallachia, in the rear. How the Russians may fare in Min-
gary, in case they are compelled to take refuge in Transyl-
vania, is for 'the Hungarians to determine ; there are offensive
arms enougS left among the Magyars still, and stout hearts
are not wanting, How they ought to fare at the hands
of the Hungarians is another question,