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London, England, 1853-02-03 00:00:00

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The Austrian Government, having, probably, a
clearer knowledge of a danger immediately contigu•-•
ous to its own dominions, dreading the influence of
Russia in Montenegro, and finding that the agents
of France and England have not attended as yet to
this subject, has at once proceeded with vigour to
endeavour to arrest these calamities. Count Lein-

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ingen has already been dispatched on a special mis-
sion to Constantinople to induce the Porte to recog-
nise the state of semi-independence in which the
Montenegrins have lived for so many years, to stop
the effusion of blood, and to pretest against the
persecution of the rayabs on the frontiers of Euro-

pean Turkey, which Austria announces herself de-
termined to prevent. At the same time, a consi-
derable force has been collected on the Dalmatian
frontier, fullx equipped to take the field under the
command of Jellachich, the Bnn of Croatia, whose
influence over the Southern Slavonian provinces
has already in former years produced results of such
vital consequence to the Imperial Monarch. If the
Court of Vienna should act upon the declarations
which it is understood that Count Leiningen is in-
structed to make, it is evident that an entirely new
and important element is introduced into what is
commonly termed " the Eastern question." The
policy of Austria towards Turkey has been for upwards
of half a century ultra-Conservative. Even when
France, England, and Russia combined to establish
the independence of Greece, she refused to par-
ticipate in so revolutionary a scheme, and no Power
hax shown, till lately, a stronger desire to support
the tottering foundations of the Ottoman Empire.
Some recent events have, perhaps, modified this
friendly feeling,- and thu part -which Austria has
now assumed towards the Christian subjects of
Turkey in Europe is extremely significant. Prince
George Petrovitsch, a near relative of Prince
Daniel, of Montenegro, is known to be at Vienna,
and in close communication with the Imperial
Government. If the choice of the Ban of Croatia
be confirmed as the commander of the Imperial
forces on the frontier, his name is known through-
out those provinces as the living impersonation of
that warlike Slavonian race which has been crushed
for centuries by the Turkish Pashas. From Servia
to the Dalmatian coast it is scarcely possible to
doubt that a decided indication of support from the
Austrian Government would be followed by a very
general movement amongst the Christian popula-
tion.

Were the Government of the Porte in the hands
of more discreet and enlightened Ministers they
would have foreseen and avoided these alarming
contingencies by abstaining from the attack on.
Montenegro. But as matters now stand at Con-
stantinople we have no reasonable ground of con-
fidence that the moderate counsels of any foreign
Power will be listened to, or that the Turks will
attend to any remonstrances. The financial condi-
tion of the Empire ought indeed to bring them to
reason, for after hiving rejected the loan they have
dissolved the Bank, and seem now reduced to live,
like the Nizam, by exactions on the great vassals
or wealthy merchants of the country. All their
late acts bear the stamp of headstrong presump-
tion, and if the Sultan attempts to check the pas-
sions of the party in whose hands he is placed it
might cost him his life or his throne. Yet the con-
tinuance of such a state of things must lead, at no
distant period, to a catastrophe ; and in the pre-
sent state of Europe, when so little cordial union
can be said to prevail between some of the principal
States, it would be more than ever difficult to deal •
on common and general principles with questions
affecting the Turkish empire. Probably the grow-
ing spirit of independence among the Christian
population of the European provinces of Turkey
will at last give the signal of that change which
diplomacy has so long laboured to avert ; and, pos-
sibly, the present expedition againt Montenegro
has been undertaken from a belief that some ter,
rible example is needed to crush these tendencies
to insurrection. But this is a dangerous game.
The whole country from the Danube to the Balkan
might be roused by such a contest, and the mani-
fest interest of the Porte is to terminate the dis-
pute with Montenegro before it has assumed more
serious proportions.

SUSPECTED MURDER AT .RATCLIFF.

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Yesterday morning, about half-past one o'clock, as
police-constable 300 K, was going his rounds in Glass-
house street, Rateliff, he stumbled over the apparently
lifeless body of a man lying in th roadway, under the
windows of the Newcastle
shop, at the corner of Broad-street and Glasshouse-street.
The man had only his shirt, drawers, and stockings on ;
there was blood oozing from one of his ears, and from
the position in which the man was found the policeman
was at once led to believe that he had either fallen
or been thrown from the upper floor of the beer-house.
The policeman immediately knocked at the door, and
some of the inmates, who had not gone to bed,
answered him, and the mutilated and wounded man was
at once identified to be Captain Edward Pennington, the
master of the ship Pallas, trading between the north
and London, an old frequenter of the house, who was
there on Tuesday evening, and went to bed in a room
on the second floor, the window of which overlooks
Glasshouse-street, at 11 o'clock the same night. Mr.
Carson, a medical gentleman in Broad-street, and others
of the faculty, were immediately sent for, and did every-
thing in their power to restore the unfortunate man, but
he was beyond the reach of human skill, and he expired in
about six hours afterwards. Bayliss, the landlord of the
beer-house and his wife, said their opinion was that the
deceased had thrown himself from his bedroom into the
street. Very strong suspicions, however, are entertained
that Captain Pennington has come y his death by
unfair means, and that he was thrown into the street by
some of the inmates. From a minute examination of

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the window of the bedroom was raised to a height of one
foot and nine inches, when Captain Pennington was
found in the street. There are marks of a person's
hands on the window sill, or stone, as if he had tena-
ciously clung to it for life as long as he was able ; and
there are also marks on the brick-work beneath, The
deceased, in his fall, struck the first floor immediately
under the window of his bedroom, and dislodged two
panes of glass. The frame of the window is also broken.
There can be no question that the deceased fell in a per-
pendicular direction, and that he made a desperate effort
to save himself. His body .was found close to the side
wall of the house. If he had flung himself from the win-
dow of his bedroom his body would have been in the
middle of the street. It appears that the house in ques-
tion is frequented by thieves and prostitutes. Many
robberies have been committed there, and some of them
have been of a very serious nature. The upper part is
registered as a common lodging-house, and there were
several women of the town, visitors, and others staying
there on Tuesday night. A few of them slept on the
same floor as the deceased. The affair has caused a great
sensation in Ratcliff and its vicinity. Very recentlT
Captain Peter Gray was hocussed and robbed in Gar-
den's-court, in the same vicinity, and, on a post =orient
examination, opium in sufficient quantity to destroy life
was found in the stomach.

DISCHARGE OF MRS. THERESA SLOANE FROM NEW-
GATE.—Yesterday morning Mrs. Sloane was discharged
from the gaol of Newgate, having completed the term of
imprisonment to which she was sentenced. It will be
recollected that, at the February session of 1851, at this
court, she and her husband, George Frederick Sloane,
the special pleader, pleaded " Guilty" to a series of most
revolting cruelties to their servant girl, Jane Wilbred,
and were sentenced to two years' imprisonment in New-
gate. In autumn last, being fast sinking, he received a
pardon, and was removed from gaol to a lodging close
by, wbere he only lived a fortnight. The miserable end
of her partner in cruelty does not seem to have much
affected her, for her health has been good, and she
seemed in good spirits upon quitting the gaol, only look-
ing somewhat pale from long confiement. She does not
seem to have any friends, for, excepting Miss DevanzA,
who is stated to be a daughter by a previous marriAget
not any one has called at the gaol to see her.
DEATH OF LADY MUNCASTER.—Her lad hip, who
died on Saturday, in Connaught-place West, was
youngest daughter of the late Sir John Ramsden, Bart.,
of Byram-hall, Yorkshire, and aunt ,to the present
baronet. Her ladyship survived the late Lord Alun-
caster, who died in 1838, by whom she has left issue
the present Peer, born in 1831, and other children.
STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND
THE AMERICAN CONTlNENT.—Yesterday afternootz, about
one o'clock, the splendid screw steam-ship City of Man-
chester, Captain Leitch, sailed from the Mersey -wan
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pool. About half-past one o'clock, the same aftteern_ouoin;
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SHOCKING DEATH.—Some men employed at a soap-
boiler's, in the Rue Rigord, at Marseilles, perceived a
few days back some bones and afterwards some female
attire ascend to the surface, as they stirred up the boil-
in.. matter. The clothes were at once recognised to have
been seen on the sister of the foreman, who had disap-
peared since the morning. Notice was given to the
commissary of police, who had the boiler cleared out,
and the rest of the remains of the deceased collected for
burial. The flesh had completely disappeared, having
been boiled down by the action of the heat, with the
exception of the liver, which still remained entire. The
bones had been in some degree eaten into by the boiling
matter and the alkali. It is supposed that the deceased
had thrown herself into the boiler in the morning early,
during the absence of the workmen.—GaZignami.