The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

merits."

Mr. Thomas Beatsoii, M.P., 32, Grosvenor-place,
stated that on the 19th of May the following letter was
placed in his hand :

" Vicarage Acten, May 19.
" Dear Sir,—Although I have not the pleasure of your
acquaintance, I venture as a minister of the Gospel to in-
troduce to your notice the case of a lady whose sufferings
it has been my lot to experience in my visits to the sick,
and whose knowledge of the circumstances connected with
your worthy and lamented brother, Mr. Robert, who died
at Jerusalem in 1843, induces me to write.
" Mrs. Ewald is a relative of Mr. Ewald, who was chap-
lain to the bishop there, and was visiting Dr. 11`Gowan,
yoUr worthy brother's physician, and attended him as a
voluntary nurse only a few hours previous to his decease.
" She left Jerusalem shortly afterwards, and came to
Acton and established a seminary for young ladies, but
from a series of unforeseen misfortunes, she is now labour-
ing under distraint for rent; yet it is not necessary to
give the details in full.
"The poor lady is induced to hope that if her circum-
stances were communicated to you, yea would be ready to
lend a helping hand, and I can only say whatever you may
please to give will be most deservedly applied.—l am, dear
sir, yours faithfully in the Gospel,
" J. M. RonuisoN."
Accompanying the letter was a broker's distress warrant
for 281. endorsed with the names of several subscribers,
and headed with " J. M. Robinson, vicar of Acton, 31."
Upon being informed by his porter that the bearer of the
above was in the Hall Mr. Beatson went out to the pri-
soner, who was the man, and inquired how it was that
Mr. Robinson had not come himself, when the prisoner
replied that he was a very feeble old gentleman, who
seiaom came to town, and added that he (the accused)
was his gardener, and he was to request an answer to be
sent by him. Having some slight doubts respecting the
authenticy of the letter, although determined in the
event of its being true, to assist the unfortunate lady,
he told the prisoner that he would write by the evening's
post to Mr. Robinson, and could not give anything with-
out doing so, as there were many impostors about. Pri-
soner then ,went away. Complainant wrote to the Post-
office at Acton, and then applied to the Mendicity
Society.
The Rev. J. Smith, rector of Acton, said that there
was no vicar there, and the only person he knew at Acton
named Robinson was a lady keeping a boarding-school.
He had no knowledge of any person named Ewald at
Acton. Knew nothing of the letter or the broker's war-
rant produced, nor was prisoner his gardener.
norsford, jun., son of the principal officer of the Men-
dicity Society, proved apprehending the accused, and it
was shown that he had been recently committed for
three months by the Lord Mayor for going about to ob-
tain charitable contributions under false pretences.
Prisoner declined saying anything in defence.
Mr. Broderip said that the public were much indebted
to Mr. Beatson for bringing this case forward, and if
others exercised the same prudence as he had exhibited
in this matter, by inquiring into the truth of the state-
ments manufactured by those who diverted the course of
benevolence from its proper channel, there would be a
great deal less of this sort of fraud perpetrated.
Prisoner was committed for three months' hard labour
in the House of Correction.

WORSHIP-STREET.—George Hood was charged
with stabbing a man named Ship, a boiler-maker at Hox-
ton, one of whose arms was in a sling, and the lower
part of whose face was strapped up with adhesive plaister-
The Magistrate ordered him to be committed till that
day week for the completion of the evidence.

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CLERIKENWELL.—John rash, a shoemaker, was
charged with murderously assaulting Harriet Masobn, a
careworn-looking woman, whose head wasged w closely an
da up.
He as committed to the House of Correction for
three months.
THAMES.—John /ones, a well-dressed man, about
30 years of ago, described as a cabinetmaker, but who
refused to give his address, was brought up on a remand
before Mr. Ingham, charged with hocussing and robbing
Mr. Robert Chisholm Hutchinson, a master mariner.
The prisoner was committed for trial,

Arguing that we have had the best offer Russia
will ever make, Mr. Gladstone asks :
" Suppose the Russians attempt another Inkerman ;
suppose 10,000 more Russian troops are laid low with
their dead companions ; or suppose any still more signal
event should occur, do you believe the Russian Govern-
ment either would or could offer you better terms ? I
may be wrong, but my conscientious belief is that such
events would immensely increase their difficulties. It
is quite evident that there is no country in wbich the
action of the Government is more dependent upon what
may be called national feeling—and such national feeling
is ever strongest when it is allied with religious zeal—
than Russia. Now, do you seriously believe that we
can intimidate and drive Russia into peace by killing
10,0'00, or 20,000, or 30,000 more of her troops, or by
taking Sebastopol ? Do you think a nation whose en-
thusiasm was not only not extinguished, but was raised
to the highest pitch by the flames of Moscow, when
1,000,000 of men,* under perhaps the greatest general
of modern times, occupied their country, are to be driven
into terms of peace by mere military successes, be they
what they may, gained in the remotest corner of their
territory."
Was this the opinion of Mr. Gladstone when he
consented to the war ? Did he then believe that no
mere military successes in a remote part of her ter-
ritory would force Russia to terms of peace ? If
so, what object for the war and what end‘ did he
contemplate ? ,and why, above all, did he concur
in the counsels which made a remote part of the
enemy's territory the very theatre of the wary
where successes were to be so barren of conse-
quences ?
If this was his original view it was corrected by
experience, for a main part of Mr. Gladstone's ar-
gument is, that the Crimean expedition has in-
fluenced Russia to terms of peace which in his
opinion should be accepted :
"I would ask of those who say that the expedition has
been rash and ill-considered, and has entirely failed, to
observe the facts I am now going to Jay befora them—to
note the language of Russia in August, 1854, before the
expedition to the Crimea, and to note the acts and lan-
guage of that Power in December, 1854, after that expe-
dition. I, holding that military expeditions in time of
war are not to be regarded as ends but as means for the
attainment of ends, am ready to defend the expedition •
to the Crimea. On the 26th Aug., 1854, the Russian
reply was received' to the communication of Count
Buol, and what was that reply ? It was one '
which Iwill not quote in extenso, but the effect of it
was that the four points were terms to which Russia
could not consent except at the end of a desperate
struggle and a long series of defeats. That was the lan-
guage of Russia in August, 1854. You will say that
there are proofs of her temerity, her arrogance, and her
aggressive spirit ; and, is my opinion, it is impossible to ,
censure too severely the tone and policy of that Court in
the year 1854 ; but it is the marked change in that po-
licy, and the adoption of a different language and a dif- '
ferent spirit—it is the disposition which she has shown
to meet you, if you will not fly from her and refuse to
meet her—these are the facts which I want to verify ;
and, depend upon it, if we do not verify them now, and
adopt the conclusions which arise out of their verifica-
tion, we shall have to do so hereafter, under circum-
stances probably of a far less favourable nature. Well,
sir, those were the terms of Russia in the month of
August, 1854. In December, 1854, only four months
alter that answer, and nothing in the meantime having
intervened that I am aware of that could act upon the
mind of the Emperor of Russia, except the expedition to
the ,Crimea, the battle of Alma, the battle of Inker-
man, and the general circumstances of that cam-
paign—in December, 1854, the Emperor ,promised an
unreserved acceptance of those very terms which in the
preceding. August he had contemptuously and contume-
liously rejected ; and upon the 7th of January the Rus-
sian plenipotentiary announced to the three Ministers
that he was authorised'to declare that the Emperor of
Russia had accepted the four bases of negotiation in the
terms laid down by the British and Fench Govern-

Now how are the two passages we have quoted
to be reconciled ? If successes have done so much
in the Crimea, what reason can there be for Mr.
Gladstone's opinion that nothing is to be gained by
still greater successes in the same or any other
quarter ? In one breath he told the House of
Commons that Russia had yielded to force what
she had refused to justice, and in another he comes
to the absolute cvelusion that nothing is to be ex•
torted from Russia arms. The cogency of these
arguments is like that which Curran found in a
certain orator's reasoning, and which he resembled
to the cogency of nine pins, one vigorously knock-
ing another down.
There is but one explanation of this monstrous in-
consistency. It is simply that everything that was
done while Mr. Gladstone was in the Govern-
ment was right, wise, and successful, and that
everything since he left the Ministry had gone
wrong. The war to which lie consented was just and
necessary ; but it ceased to be either from the time
when he ceased to boresponsible for its conduct. The
Crimean expedition was a means to au end4when
he advised it, but it has since lost any practical
object but butchery, and is struck with barrenness
as to political results. Russia itself is changed by
Mr. Gladstone's altered position.. The Russia
with which he had to do as Minister was a Russia,
arrogant, violent, and wrongful in peace, but
amenable to chastisement in the field ; but the
Russia which he describes in opposition is an
equitable Christian Power, which will never yield'
anything to force that she has not thought due to
justice. You may cut Russia to pieces now and
extort nothing from her, and yet she is the same
Russia whose terms were so remarkably changed
and abated by Alma and Inkerman while Mr.
Gladstone sat on the Treasury bench.
The character of success in war depends also on
Mr. Gladstone's share in it. The successes with
which he had to do were righteous successes, means
for the blessed end of peace ; but successes desired
since his secession have ceased to be means for an
end, and have become immoral, inhuman, and
anti-Christian, void of any other aim than military
triumph. And to clench this argument fast, Mr.
Gladstone rules that nothing is to be obtained from
Russia henceforth by successes, the very name of
which is thus settled to be a misnomer, or lucus a
non.

The notion of the public, however, is, that if a
certain degree of success has moderated the inso-
lence of Russia, a larger measure of the same will
bring her to reason and justice.
But Mr. Gladstone asks, what are you going to
do with Russia ? Do you propose dismembering
her, or raising a war of nationalities. As to the
first, he observes :

"Not only do I think that the hairbf
of the youngest
grey before eore the termi-
nationundertaking,
would r
member among us would become
of such an believeEuret that the
consequences of such IA schemerecoil on those
who framed it, and that it would be more likely to end
in the discomfiture and rain oft e kingdoms concerned
in the prosecution of it than in bithat of the empire against
which it was directed, for hum an extravagance has ever
a tendency to violent reaction."
We wish this were more true than it is, for in that
case we should not now be waging war with Russia
in the Crimea, nor would Poland and Finland be
provinces of Russia. Restitution would, indeed,
dismember Russia. But Mr. Gladstone, if he had
his way, would secure her, both in the retention
of all her ill-gotten possessions, and against inter-
ruption in the prosecution of her ulterior schemes
of rapine and aggrandisement. For such would
be the certain effect of peace made with Russia
now on the terms advocated by Mr. Gladstone,
and for the reasons assigned. Suppose, for a
moment, that the opening of the straits to ships of
war of all nations were acceepted as satisfying the
third condition of the allies. France and England
tell the Sultan, we leave the Russian at Sebas-
topol, it is true, with his pistol loaded ready at
hand to shoot you on the first convenient oppor-
tunity ; but we have made this excellent stipula-
tion for your safety, that if he should make any
move to put the revolver to your head, you shall
be at liberty to call lustily for help, so that we may
come to your assistance and prevent murder.
As you did at Sinope, might be the Turk's ex-
emplification ; but he may at least fairly be sup-
posed to inquire, " And what will you do when
you again come to my succour You say that the
means proposed by Russia are the only means of
settling the question ; that no better terms are to
be obtained by any possible successes. What, then,
will you do if these means fail ? You will not
come a second time on such a fool's errand. Why
should you ? for to what purpose would you waste
again so much blood and treasure to leave things
again as they were, or even worse than they
were ? You would leave me to my fate. The
Russian knows this full well. lie knows that the
question is, now or never. Your Gladstone tells
your Parliament to despair of obtaining guarantees

What authority has Mr. Gladstone for the statement
that a million of men under Napoleon invaded Russia ?
The whole force was considerably under 500,000, and when
Moscow was fired the army under Napoleon did not inns-
ter 140,000, and was probably in every respect short of the
strength and efficiency of the French troops now before
Sebastopol. This very loose historical reference of Mr.
Gladstone reminds us of his exaggeration of the force of
the English army in the Crimea, which he set down when
it was at its minimum before Cbriitmas at 51,000 man.
Such statements come with startling effect from a gentle-
man who professes to speak by the card, and who has been
in the school of the Eiehequ.er, where the department of
figures ;should be kept, apart from the preymee of fable. i

from the Czar by military successes ; and if the
peace upon the basis of the standing menace be fel-
-1 lowed by another aggression, with what prospect,
with what shadow of a hope, could you enter On a
new war to control Russian encroachment ? The
same motives that induce this peace must preclude
war with that Power for ever after, and you must
lay your account with a Russian Court at Constan-
tinople,
the world."
Swift has illustrated a phasesof human folly by
the Big and Little Endian dispute in Lilliput, but
1 little could the satirist have imagined that a party
would arise in this sober country advocating
a Little Eudian policy—a little end for a great
war.
Mr. Gladstone, who is the mouthpiece of the
; i Little Endians, asks :
" \Vint were the objects originally contemplated ?
They were not so wide as the evil ; kr we thought it
too much to attempt the total eradication of the evil,
and for a long time the efforts of the four great Powers
were confined merely to narrowing its limits and hem-
ming it in."
nally proposed, have dwindled down in Mr. Glad-
But the objects, not so wide as the evil origi-
I stone's mind to something so impalpable as a coun-
terpoise in posse against the Russian preponderance
in the Eux,ne in esse. What more would you
have, he asks, than the Sultan's absolute control
over the Straits, so that be may call in the fleets
of his allies to protect him against
movement from Sebastopol ; and he holds foth upon
the
of
ffasrutchhe farther
afteraud the denouncingrejectio
this mockery of a security in the following strain,
treating, any hostile
it as fulfilling all the ends of the ware
Perrinsse°aus
"Russia has made known to us another arrangement ; ' •
and perhaps you will ask, why didnotyourselves
taiognroefa
great
the
crimeN var,
propose that other arrangement you .
to Russia? Speaking
for myself, I can give a frank answer to that question,—
because that other arrangement is one so entirely in fa•
your of Turkey, it so manifestlyrelaxes the law of
Europe in her favour, giving her- an absolute control
over the Straits and allowing her a perfect
them, that I think any Power which had
command
_of •
p
arrangement to Rnisia would have been liableiposed that • . ,
to be met
by unansweriible objecticns to it, founded upon
inequality. But I own that those objections lositse
gross'_
much of their force the moment that plan is adopted very
and
proposed by Russia herself."
This outdoes Mr. Bright. These were terms tco .
favourable to Turkey to come with any hope of suc-
cess from the Western Powers—termsprceter spem,
but not beyond Russian moderation and self-denial
But wher&is the advantage to the Porte to be
found, under what thimble are we to search for this
invisible pea ? Turkey has always had the resource
in time of danger of calling in the aid of her allies, • .
and what more would the conditions advocated
give her ? , The Russian preponderance in the
Euxine would remain unabated, but the Straits
would be open at all times to a counterpoise, that
is to say, if England and France were disposed to
submit themselves to the heavy cost of furnishing
that counterpoise. Were they to do so, they would
virtually entail upon themselves inpeace the penal-
ties of the present war. Russia would enjoy the
status quo ante, and we should be for the future
burdened with all the charge of maintaining fleets
to watch her movements, and restrain her aggres-
sive propensities. It would be the attitude and
cost of war in nominal peace. And this Mr. Glad-
stone regards as the attainment of the object of the
war. For this lame and impotent conclusion half
a million of lives would have been sacrificed. Such
havoc can casuistry make with the sense and judg-
ment even of such a man as Mr. Gladstone.

He is never to be trusted when there is a differ-
ence that can be split. Bow characteristically he
discovers that we have in the Russian proposal the
first half of the third point, and that we are quar-
relling for another fraction. Had he lived in the
days of Solomon, his opinion upon the proposal to
cut in two the child claimed by the harlots would
have been very decidedly in favour of the mother's
acceptance of the arrangement. "It is the first half
of your point," he would have argued, "and you
cannot, without a litigious, grasping spirit, putting
you in wrong, hold out for the other moiety of the
child." The arithmetical view of a question of hu-
manity is hardly more preposterous than that of a
great political subject ; and as .Lord Palmerston
observed, the value of the thing offered, and the
thing refused, is after all the main consideration
which cannot be worked out by any rule of vulgar
fractions.

We cannot pass over without remark the can-
dour with which Mr. Gladstone confesses error,
when by so doing he fastens blame in a larger pro-
portion on his late colleagues. He felt, forsooth,
justly reproved by Mr. Disraeli's strictures on the
project for the abatement of the £ussian prepon-
derailed. ,

This reminds us of a remarkable case which oc-
cupied one of our Courts a few years .ago. A cer-
tain clergyman, who figured in an action for seduc-
tion, thought to set himself right with the world
by reprobating his own conduct in the very
strongest terms. He called and signed himself the
" scoundrel Frank," said there was no langus.ge
too bad for the worthless wretch that once dis-
honoured the name he bore ; but that he had
nothing to do with that man except to live under
the same name with him, for that he had since
become regenerate, and had learnt to regard tie
former scoundrel Frank, the man of sin, with de-
testation. Mr. Gladstone has had a similar rege-
neration, or new birth to Russia, but he has this
advantage over the clergyman, so hard on his.
former self, that the judgments involving also his
late colleagues serve his prestmt attack on their
counsels. There is an old proverb about birds that
dirty their own nests, but when the bi:d is out of
the nest, and would not much care to see' it upset,
it may answer his purpose well enough to ixioul it
inrepute.—Examiner.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM SHIPWRECK
OF AN ENGLISH CONVICT SHIP.

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The following is a copy of a communication addressed
by Lloyd's surveyor at Penang to the Colonial Govern-
ment at Bombay, relative to the escape of the English
ship Hydroosee, bound for that port with convicts :
"The barque Hydroosee, Capt. Brown, arrived here
from Bombay, with convicts, on Friday last, in a very
leaky condition ; and having had to survey her, many
things have come to my knowledge which I consider
deserving of notice :-1. The meritorious conduct of
the convicts, who have been instrumental in saving the
ship from sinking. 2. The reckless behaviour of the
military guard, who had been next door to useless the
whole passage ; and 3 and last, the noble conduct of
Capt. Brown from the moment danger was apprehended,
athned
ntlooshtistryinintrgepcidireaunmdstiannteisatimgaabyle exertions, under
saving of the ship and all the lives onbbnoaartdt—ribsnotme(e'lLt'OhOe
souls. You will perceive from the extracts of the log;
that the ship sprung a fearful leak on the 17th March,
and as the crew were' unable to keep it under, there
was no alternative but to release the convicts and
send them to the pumps, or the ship must have found-
ered. About 200 tons of cargo were thrown over-
board to lighten the ship, which the convicts assisted in.
passing out of the hold, and these men worked cheer-
fully at the pumps in their irons, although every chance
was given them of taking the ship, bad they been so
disposed, through the negligence of the military guard.
Most of the convicts were transported for life, for ' wil-
ful murder,' and many of them marked as desperate
characters. So I must leave you to imagine the feelings
of the captain, surrounded as he was by such a gang
of desperadoes, especially when he was at the pumps
himself lending a hand, the guard, too, lying about the
decks asleep, and their loaded muskets at the service of
the convicts, had they wanted them. The crew at one
time wanted to take the boats and leave the convicts to
their fate. Captain Brown then threatened, not only to
cut the boats away, but solemnly promised the conten
ts
of his revolvers to the party who would attempt to l.wer
a boat without his orders, and nothing but his deter-
mined manner awed the cowardly set. The boats would
not have held a quarter of the people on board, so it
was a case of sink or swim with all hands. I bad_ for-
gotten
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TIIE BUG AND DNIEPER. —The rivers Bug and Dnieper
are navigable from the very heart of Russia almost to the
very door of the Crimea. The Dnieper is navigable for
803 miles, and empties its waters at Oczakow, close to
the gulf of Perekop, and but 42 mile§ frometl,hee town
ry
iasntdb naDuosno,faPr
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o Buoy
fDnieper,and
descrip-
tion of material to the Crimea, and all debouche at no
great distance from its shores. There are well-constructed
roads from all those immense rivers to Perekop, and
from the enormous convoys daily entering Sebastopol
there would appear to be no want of the means of land
transport. Russia is rich in horses, and every descrip-
tion of carriage is pressed into the military service.—
Morning Herald.
The arrivals of specie during last week amounted
to 450,0001. in gold. The exports have been about to,
the same extent, but chiefly in silver, the Peninsular and
Oriental steamer havingEuxine taken 460,1001., of
y which 24,700/. is gold for Ce lon,Madras, Hon Kong,
and Singapore, and 425,4001.5i1ver for Bombay, Madras,
Calcutta, Penang, Singapore, Hang Kong, Canton, and
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THE WEATHER.—Stri Otnas, June 3.
TMERMOMETZB, IN THE SHADE.
62—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.98.
WIND, S.W.—Light breeze, with fine sunshiny weather.
JUNG 4.

67—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
66 —this day at noon.

BARON ETra , 29'95.
WIND, S. W.—Rather fresh, with plenty of scud, cloudy
weather, and partial sunshine ; a littlerain in the morning,
and more in the afternoon.