The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-25 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

FRIDAY, Nov. 25, 1853.
State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
FoLKESTONE—S. strong breeze—overcast.
TIINERIDGE-S.E., calm—overcast.
GREENWICH—CaIm—overcast.
STRooD—S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
SWINDON-5.E.' fresh breeze—rain.
CAXBRIDGR—S.E., gentle breeze--cloudy.

The returns from the following places indicate the state
of the weather on Wednesday morning at nine o'clock :--
LIMERIOIC—S., strong breeze—heavy rain.
MULLINGAR—N.W., calm—partially cloudy.
BIRMINGHAM—S.E., gentle breeze—foggy.
LANCABTEH— S., gentle breeze—cloudless.
HOLYHEAD—S. by W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
DARLINOTON—S.S.W., gentle breeze—overcast—foggy
—sharp frost.
Smu'— S.E., calm—overcast.

MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tots DAY —Morning 26 min.after 8 I Evening 6 min.aft. 9
To-lloaßow—Morning 43 min.after 9 1 Evening 15 min.aft. 10

THE WEATHER.—SON OFFICR, Nov. 25.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

45 —highest since noon yesterday.
39—lowest this morning and during the night.
44—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30'17.
WIND, W. -- Light breeze, and dull, hazy weather.

06'a...
Awlt,

LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1853.

It is satisfactory, of course, to receive, again
and yet again, official re-assurance that the most
perfect accord continues to be maintained between
the French and British Governments. A division
between these Governments just now could not
fail to be singularly calamitous, not merely to
their own interests, but to those also of entire
Christendom. Therefore, we cannot but accept
every indication of cordiality reciprocated across
the Channel with very peculiar and profound satis-
faction. It is manifest that so long as this
friendly alliance is preserved, Europe possesses the
most substantial of all guarantees that Turkey
shall not be dismembered, that the ambition of the
C shall not be realised, that the Russian ban-
ners shall not flutter from the domes and mina-
rets of Constantinople.

Nevertheless—g,ratifying though it must neces-
sarily be to learn that the Cabinets of VICTORIA
and NAPOLEON are most amicably disposed
towards each other, it is essential so far as the
hopes of any happy consequence from that
good understanding are concerned, that active
measures should be adopted in furtherance of
the generous designs and chivalrous policy attri-
buted to the combined Administrations. Other-
wise we are only felicitating ourselves upon an
empty phrase when we are exulting in the friend-
'ship existing between the French and British Go-
vernments. Briefly, let us add, that it is due
to the dignity of both nations, to the honour of
France and of England, that something like deci-
sion should be displayed, at least an opposition to
the lawless and flagitious proceedings of the AUTO-
° it4T• Everybody admits that the time has
long since gone by for negotiation. That fact
being universally established, it follows, in conse-
quence, that the period has arrived for direct
instead of
indirect (meaning thereby diplomatic)
interference.

Everything prompts u
to this interference—
every consideration whether
of prudence or of
magnanimity. It would
be unwise to refrain
from aiding the Turks at such an extremity—
conscious as we must be that the dismemberment
of the Ottoman Empire by the CZAR would be
most perilous to the independence of the other
nations of the Continent, and most pernicious in.
its influence upon the destinies of civilisation. It
would be ungenerous not to yield assistance to the
Government of the SULTAN, because that assist-
ance has long since been promised by the repre-
smtatives of the Court of St. James's, and by
those also of the Court of the Tuileries. The in-
terests of Turkey, in fact, are those of France and
of England--they are those, indeed, of the whole
of the European. populations. Let them be
guarded, therefore, in the name of Truth and of
Justice. Common/ sense urges this course upon
us, and it is urged. upon us also by all the nobler
instincts of magnar dmity.
Besides—the Tv rkish soldiers have already ap-

proved themselves in opqp combat worthy of the
aid of Frenchmen and Englishmen. They have
displayed qualities such as should never be
allowed by generous lookers-on to be beaten down
by brute force, by the lawless might of a foe
greater in bulk, and therefore (and only therefore)
superior as an antagonist. After the glorious
victory won by the Turks over the Russians
at Oltenitza a battle minutely described
elsewhere in our impression of this evening—
and one which will be memorable in the annals of
the present generation--it would be an indelible
blot upon the escutcheon both of France and of
England if the Porte were left to compete sin-
gle-handed with the legions of the daring and in-
furiated AUTOCRAT. It is only necessary to peruse
observantly and thinkingly the annals of the cam-
paign which may be said to have commenced in
earnest, with the firing of the first shot at
Oltenitza, to perceive that the troops of
the SULTAN-CALIPH are by no means the in-
capable and ill-disciplined recruits they were
said to be by the depreciators of the Osmanli
power at Constantinople, and as the followers of
OMER PACHA have shown themselves valiant in
the hour of danger, that eminent captain has
already revealed his really distinguished merits
as a tactician and a strategist. Reviewing every
bygone occurrence connected with this Eastern
Question, we cannot but cry out with our whole
heart, "GOD defend the Right !" giving voice in
the end in so many words to what has been from
the very beginning our cherished aspiration.
Nevertheless, while we would wish the Turkish
armaments success in the struggle against the
Muscovites, we would fain see that success at
once assured by resolute and energetic measures
of co-operation, simultaneously on the part of the
French and of the British Governments.

It is indeed time that something should be done
for the protection of females. Day after day,
week after week, we hear of new cases varying in
detail, but also presenting features of unmitigated
atrocity and brutality. At one time we are hor-
rified at reading in the police reports sundry in-
stances of burly miscreants knocking down their
ill-fated wives without the slightest provocation,
kicking them with heavy iron shod shoes, or
trampling on their prostrate bodies so as to inflict
permanent and serious injuries. Terrible as they
are, these appear to be the mildest forms of the
offence. In a subsequent case we find them modi-
' fled by the use of the " bludgeon," which is readily
resorted to. The sulky ruffian who has been
caught in the act, thinking that he was quite
justified, himself, when called on to answer for
the unseemly outrage of which he had been guilty,
declared that she (his wretched victim) " had
aggravated him beyond endurance, and he punished
her accordingly," but without condescending to
inform the presiding Magistrate of the nature or
extent of the alleged " aggravation" that merited
such stringent treatment. The sentence has
scarcely been passed on the cowardly miscreant—
scarcely has the police van conveyed him to the
place where he is to endure his well-merited,
though very inadequate punishment, and while
our indignation and disgust are still at the highest
—when another case is called on, and a wretch is
placed at the bar, who, with down-cast look and
ferocious aspect, hears himself accused of having
cut or stabbed his miserable and ill-fated partner
—of having placed her life, and, by a neces-
sary consequence, his own, in imminent danger—
he is probably remanded until the result of his
sanguinary offence be ascertained, so that the
charge to be preferred against him may be clearly
defined. If we visit the City we behold a crowd
dispersing after having witnessed the execution
of one who had, in the indulgence of his malevo-
lent passions, completed the sacrifice of his wife,
and paid the fearful penalty attached to his atro-
cious crime, by the Divine as well as by the human

Surely, then, when in a single day we behold
so many terrible illustrations of the unfortunate
prevalence of the offence—when, too, we perceive
the total inadequacy of the existing law to check
the crime, or to deal with the ruffians, who
nearly reduce their victims to "death's door,"
without sending them beyond the gloomy thres-
hold—it becomes an imperative duty to see that
the terrible example that has been made be not
lost sight of either by those who, by their own
infamous conduct, degrade themselves beneath the
level of humanity, or by the Legislature, which
is bound to provide an efficient and adequate re-
medy for the wide-spread evil—to adopt any suit-
able means for tho abatement of the great social
nuisance of the nineteenth century.
That the cases above referred to are not in any
degree exaggerated, we may briefly refer to a few
recent cases. We need scarcely point out to our
readers the case of JAMES HAYES, who, by a
very great extension of the principle of giving a
prisoner " the benefit of a doubt," was only con-
victed of manslaughter, and sentenced to perpe-
tual banishment, although no man had more richly
merited the gallows for his horrible and unfeeling
brutality.
,NlYe need not recal the case of a scoun-
drel named.,9&?INELL, convicted, during the same
session, of tz twitggravated assault on his wife,
from which l;!er life was greatly endangered,
and for which he received a sentence of only six
months' imprisonment, with hard labour, the
same which the magistrate who committed him
for trial, and who thought his power totally ina-
dequate to deal with so atrocious a case, might
have ordered. We need not look beyond the
present week. We find PHILIP GRINNEY
Committed for trial for a most sanguinary
attack on his wife, whose throat he had cut in
three places, having used three different knives
during his attack, a third being procured when
the resistance of his victim had deprived him of
the former weapons. The
unfortunate woman was rescued debcylared
whom
that,the
when they interfered, the "prisoner was stabbing
his wife with cc knife in the throat, just in the same
way that a butcher would a sheep/!"
But this was not all. None were certainly so
bad as this rival to Mous. We find, however,
that even within a few hours after the execution,
and before the quicklime had quite consumed the
body, which, in accordance with the sentence,
had been buried within the precincts of the gaol,
no less than four persons sentenced at different
to terms of six months,
police courts, imprison-
ment (with hard labour) each. Three of menthem
were for assaults on wives. In one case, a
Man
named WILLIAM CURTIS, a tailor, had, OR the
and Sunday morning, coolly a deliberately stripped
• ripped up her stayswith
his wife stark naked (having n
severely, threatening at
a penknife), and beaten her
the same time to " dance her guts out if she
halloed." The policeman, who was compelled to
break open the door to rescue the unfortunate
•
complainant, " heard the noise of tremendous
blows, and saw wheals upon her arms and neck as
broad as his two fingers, corresponding with the
stick with which she said she had been beaten."
It appeared that he terrified his victim, so as to
check her screams, by declaring that he would
meet a similar doom to that which had fallen on
MOBBS. A similar threat was also made by
JAMES WRIGHT, another tailor, who cut open his
wife's head with a sleeve-board--a threat which he
repeated in the presence of a policeman, declaring
that as soon as lie got over that transaction, "lie
would smash his wife's brains out." In another
case, JAMES CROPLEY, a Lancashire collier, re-
ceived a like sentence for having struck his wife a
severe blow with a stick on the nose, wounding her
seriously, merely because, being burdened with a
child in her arms, she
was unable to walk as
rapidly as the miscreant
who assailed her.
Who can say that any of these cases would
not have been appropriately dealt with by a strin-
gent flagellation, publicly •
loted, so that the
wretches might have been brought to open shame
before their neighbours. We feel all the objec-
tions to the nature of the punishment—but it is
necessary. It is only for the one species of crime
that it is suitable, and if properly and judiciously

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administered whenever circumstances justified the
,pplication, and when there was no provocation
on the part of the wife, there could be no sym-
pathy for the criminal, and the offence would
soon become comparatively rare. As we have
repeatedly stated, it was an enactment authorising
such a punishment that checked the unmanly out-
rages against our beloved QUEEN, and similar pro-
tection should be afforded to the humblest of her
subjects of her own sex.

REPORTED APPROACHING MARRIAGE
OF THE PRINCE,SS MARY OF CAM-
BRIDGE.

The Gazette di Genova of the 19th inst., copying
from the Parliament° of Turin, announces the
approaching marriage of H.R.H. Princess Mary of
Cambridge with Prince Napoleon, son of Prince
Jerome Bonaparte. We cannot, of course, certify
the correctness of this report, nor should we insert
it had it not gained ground among the highest
circles in London and Paris. It would, indeed, be
a singular instance of the vicissitudes of fortune
and the short-sighted speculations of our greatest
men if a Bonaparte should be united to a " fille
d'Angleterre."—Morning Herald.