The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-13 00:00:00

RETURN OF SIR CHARLES NAPIER

PROM THE BALTIC.

It is reported, and seems to be believed, that Admiral
Sir Charles Napier may be shortly expected in this
country on his return from the Baltic. His arrival
would, of course, imply that operations in that quarter
are at end for the year, and that our fleet will soon find
its way to England for the winter. We must needs ex-
press an anxious hope that the rumour in question may
not bb true, for such a resolution on the part of our
authorities would, we think, be unnecessary, ill-timed,
and calculated both to damage the cause of the Allies
and serve that of the Russians.
The only reason which could compel the return of
the fleet from the waters which it now commands would
be the approach of the winter season. As the Baltic
ports at such times are sealed up by ice, and the blockade
of the Russian gulfs is effectually maintained by the
natural operation of the climate, it would be clearly
superfluous to add any artificial barriers to those already
provided, even if it were possible for a squadron to keep
the sea at such periods of the year. Exactly, in short,
as there was a time before which it was unnecessary
that the Baltic should bo guarded by an allied squadron,
so there is a time beyond which it will be unnecessary
that this guard should be continued, but that time has
certainly not yet arrived. The period at which, upon
an average, the closure of the Neva may be expected,
is, as we recently explained, two months distant, and,
even if preparations for the return of the fleet were
commenced somewhat earlier, it is clear that four or five
weeks must still remain available for active operations.
How, indeed, are we to reconcile the two facts that,
while in the Black Sea the work of the war is just com-
mencing, in the Baltic it should just be terminated ? If
enough remains of the autumn to permit the siege of
Sebastopol to be attempted, must not enough remain
to allow. of some further enterprise in the north ?
We consider that this cessation of operations would
he ill-timed, because everything at present suggests a
contrary course. We have have just learnt our strength
and the enemy his weakness ; the Allies have been en-
couraged, and the Russians disheartened. After believ-
ing somewhat too implicitly in the imputed strength of
granite fortifications, we have just seen this persuasion
demolished by the test of experiment. The stone forts
on which Russia relies have been shown to be no match
for the floating batteries which represent the power of
England and France. If the Edinburgh at 500 yards in
even broadsides can knock a breach in the towers of
Bomarsund, why should not Admiral Chads have an
opportunity of performing the same feat at Fort Alex-
ander on the south side of the island of Cronstadt ? In
a contest which was a trial of strength between offensive
and defensive systems, that of the defence has proved
the weaker, and nothing, therefore, could seem more
impolitic than that the assailants should at this very con-
juncture relinquish the advantages obtained. The fall
of Bomarsund appeared to open to the allied squadrons
.411 the strongholds of the Russian gulfs, and it is clear
from the despatch of General Baraguay d'Hilliers that
the result wee actually regarded in this light. Where,
then, can be the wisdom of foregoing a superiority thus
established at the moment when it might be turned to
erood account ? Surely, if it has been found that we can
destroy granite forts without risk of getting our ships
awkwardly crippled, we might as well pursue the advan-
tage as long as the season will permit.
What, too, we may ask, if operations are to be thus
prematurely closed, was the object of proceeding lately
with such urgency in the equipment and despatch of
gun-boats for special service in the Baltic waters ? Every-
body observed that the chief risk encountered in the re-
cent proceedings was that of grounding i❑ the shallows,
while the chief advantage experienced by our forces was
in the superior range of our artillery. By a judicious
application of these lessons we have constructed vessels
with offensive powers of a most: ormidable character,
vessels drawing obly very little water, and yet armed
with guns of enormous calibre and prodigious range.
One piece of ordnance capable of throwing a heavy shot
nearly four miles has already reached the fleet, and,
though this may seem of DO great moment, it should be
remembered that a single 10-inch gun, well placed and
worked, had no inconsiderable share in the destruction
of Bomarsund. But there is time enough, we presume,
before the end of this month, to reinforce the fleet with
some of the gun-boat flotilla, and there would then still
remain another month available for putting their powers
in requisition. Why stop short at the fall of Bomarsund,
with such fair opportunities left for successful progress ?
We are now exactly at that conjuncture of affairs
when success would produce its greatest fruits, and when
anything like evidence of weakness would be attended
with peculiar disadvantage. Hitherto the war, though
certainly productive of humiliation to Russia, has not
been distinguished by any brilliant action on the part of
the Allies. We have driven the Czar to seek shelter be-
hind his fortifications, but we have not attacked him in
his position ; and, if our forces are too strong for him,
his defences have been too strong for us: The conse•
quence has been a temporising and uncertain policy in
quarters where a more decided success would probably
have brought about a cordial alliance, and these unde-
sirable results are only too likely to be confirmed by
proceedings which would appear to leave the field in
the possession of our enemies. We have learnt exactly
what to anticipate from the policy of the Russian
Government. If our fleet retires from the Baltic be-
fore the season is actually closed and while time and
opportunity still remain for action, the Russians
will instantly sally out into the seas thus conveni-
ently' vacated, will reoccupy the Aland Isles, hoist
their flag on the ruins of Bomarsund, parade their vessels
along the coasts of Sweden and Denmark, and then issue
a swaggering manifesto to the world, setting forth the
ignominious retreat of allied the squadrons with nothing
accomplished, the triumphant resistance of the Imperial
forces against infinitely superior numbers, and the final
ascendancy of the Czar in the waters of the Baltic. This
will probably be the issue of the campaign, and, however
false such representations may be, appearances will not
be wanting to, lend a plausibility to the story. A very
small thing makes a victory in the Invalide Busse.
We are quite aware that the first condition of opera-
tions in the Baltic was the preservation of the fleet from
such injury as would destroy its efficiency ; nor have we
been slow to inculcate on our countrymen the expediency
of acquiescing in the solid advantages of a blockade in-
stead of tempting fortune by speculative enterprises,
promising no commensurate returns. To these views
we steadily adhere ; but it is impossible to deny that
the capture of Bomarsund considerably enlarged the field
of judicious action. It was thought that guns could not
destroy granite, whereas it is now proved that granite
cannot resist guns. It has certainly not yet been ascer-
tained how far the wooden walls of our three-deckers
may be relied upon in a cannonade exposing them to
the full fire of land fortifications, nor is it necessary to
bring this question to any violent issue. Our artillery
is so superior to that of our enemies that we may carry
on our attacks without staking too much on the trial,
and, as long as these means of offence remain in our
power, it appears to us exceedingly impolitic to abandon
the field. That our fleets will have done good work by
blockading the Russian squadrons, paralysing Russian
trade, and bringing themselves safe home again, is cer-
tainly true, but this is all the more reason for depriving
the enemy of the smallest pretext for disparaging the
results of the campaign. Sweaborg or Cronstadt, and
not Spithead, should now be the destination of Sir
Charles Napier.—Times.

THE LIBERTY OFFRANCEA STUMBLING
STONE TO THE EASTERN DESPOTS.

monarchs look upon England and its constitution as
, nuisances which they have no hopes of removing and
must endure. English Ministers are rather apt to pre-
sume on their knowledge of this, and fancy that a
chronic, inactive grudge of this kind bodes them no
harm. But the Eastern despots look upon the liberty of
France as a new stumblingstone in their way, which
can be removed, and their hatred of it is as active as it
is relentless. They are anxious to subvert the present
dynasty of France, because it is of revolutionary origin,
because it professes to reign in virtue of the people's
choice, and because 'it is, therefore, by its mere existence,
a standing protest against the legitimacy of the titles by
which they claim to occupy their thrones. Knowing
this, the Emperor of the French knows that though
there may be occasional truces, and even alliances,
between the English Government and t.l2e old
despotisms, he has no such intervals of peace to
expect ; that so long as these Governments exist he
must sleep with his arms under his pillow, and keep his
powder dry. This is another reason why French dis-
trust of the equivocal conduct of Austria should be pro-
claimed earlier and with less reserve than English.
These considerations afford good ground for hope that
the sentiments of the two great Western Allies on this
score are the same, and that England is only behind
France in expressing distrust of Austria, not of enter-
taining it. The two great Western Powers of Europe
have nothing to fear from the enmity of the Eastern
despots ; but they have much to dread from their friend-
ship. The entire, unreserved confidence of France and
England, and their distrust and defiance of all other
powers, present just now the only security for the future
of both and of all civilised Europe.—Daily News.

THE WAR.-THE VIENNA. PROPOSALS'.

The Czar refuses the new Vienna proposals, and Aus-
tria declines to accept the refusal as a casus belli. Aus-
tria continues satisfied with her position of "perfect neu-
trality." At any rate she will wait for the capture of
Sebastopol—or the Greek kalends.
Such is the course which, after eighteen months spent
in negotiation, the chivalrous young Emperor of Austria
has decided on pursuing. A morning contemporary who
has steadfastly supported the policy of the Austrian Go-
vernment, under the most trying circumstances, is much
astonished and chagrined at a result which every one
whose knowledge of the empire extended beyond the su-
burbs of Vienna perceived to be highly probable, if not
inevitable. For, however much the foreign interests of
Austria may be endangered by the admission of Russia,
her domestic policy essentially depends upon Russian
support. No one who was not blinded by Austrian as-
surances, or Austrian prejudices, could for a moment
have believed that .the Cabinet of Vienna would declare
war against that of St. Petersburg, at a time when an
essentially Russian policy was still pursued towftrds
Croatia and Hungary.
The Times informs us that the active operations of war
have been delayed for so many months for the sake of
obtaining the concurrence of Austria ; and our contem-
porary admits that the expedition to Sebastopol could
have been undertaken with at least an equal prospect of
success at the commencement of the campaign instead
of its conclusion. To Austrian diplomacy, therefore, we
are indebted for the irreparable losses we have sustained
by the delay of our army at Gallipoli and Varna. We
must thank our neutral ally for the cruel ravages com-
mitted by disease in our camp, and for the additional
sacrifices which will be occasioned whenever Sebastopol
is attacked, in consequence of the preparations that Rus-
sia has made during the last six months for our recep-
tion there.

There are, indeed, some persons who believe that the
retreat of the Russians has been occasioned by the
threatened hostility of Austria ; but they should remem-
ber that the Russian army retreated before the Austrians
advanced, and that when the Russian troops halted the
Austrians halted also. The retirement of the Russians,
and the occupation of Wallachia by the Austrians, bears
every appearance of having been concerted between
Count Buol and his brother-in-law, Count Meyendorff.
For, in the first place, the Russians have not, as we now
know from authority, anything to dread in the way of
hostility from the occupying army ; and in the second,
the latter are playing to admiration the game of the
Russians themselves, by forcing on the reluctant Wal-
lachians Prince Stirbey, a man devoid of energy and
destitute of popularity, instead of the able and patriotic
General Maghero, who had been called to the post by
the unanimous voice of his countrymen, and whose ap-
pointment had received theapproval of the Porte.
Of course the Czar had nothing to say to Count Buol's
propositions. Why should he ? Why should be con-
sent to tear up existing treaties, the price of a century's
policy and war, unless absolutely compelled ? What
excuse would he have to offer, after all his braggadocio ?
Why, he dares not now do it, unless beaten. And we
have not gone the way to beat him. We have avoided
his armies in the field, and have not sought them in
their fortresses.

A single month has sufficed to destroy the illusions
respecting the strength of granite batteries and the
value of the Austrian alliance. These delusions have
followed to the same limbo the opinion so decisively
pronounced previously to the commencement of the
war, that the first shot fired would be the signal for the
destruction of Turkey. And we are happy to find in
some admirable letters which are now appearing in the
Times respecting the various Christian races of Greece
and Roumelia, full confirmation of the opinion which,
opposition to our contemporary, we from the first
ventured to express, namely, that the project of forming
a Byzantine Empire, based on Greek nationality, to re-
place the sway of the Sultan at Constantinople, was a
scheme almost as chimerical and absurd as it undoubt-
edly was perfidious and revolutionary_
A. passage in the Afottiteur of last week has escaped
our contemporaries. It gave, extracted from an Eng-
lish paper, descriptions of Kars and Erzeroum, and
added that such accounts were more than usually into•
resting, as it was the intention of the allied Governments
to occupy those towns by Anglo-French troops. Though
this was not in the official part of the Moniteur, it im-
plied the belief of the editor of the journal that Anglo-
French troops were going into Asia.
We do not know if such an event is rendered more
or less likely by the unfavourable news of the battle
which has reached us this week. No doubt Kars and
Erzeroum might by this time have been secure. Enough
might easily have been done to prevent the possibility
of Russian conquest. Twenty or thirty thousand Anglo-
French would have expelled the Russians from Georgia.
But it has been the rule of the present war to sacrifice
everything to small and secondary aims, as if great
ones were beyond our spirit and grasp. We fortified
Gallipoli when we ought to have attacked Sebastopol,
and we take Bomarsund when we should have bom-
barded Cronstadt.

Under cover of preparing for the capture of Sebasto-
pol, we have tarried for months at Varna, and the re-
sult is a greater loss than we could have suffered in
action, without any result whatever. No doubt it was
Austria's hope from the first to occupy the Principalities
without incurring the actual hostility of Russia. But
since the latter has zeturned a defiant answer to Count
Buol's proposals this may have become less certain, and
who knows but that Marshal St. Arnaud may not even
yet, notwithstanding his order of the day and the em-
barkations already begun, find himself under the sup-
posed necessity of recommending that the bulk of the
army should be kept near the Danube, in order to pre-
vent Austria from being crushed ? Austrian neutrality
is an expensive thing.
It is now six weeks and upwards since the first an-
nouncement that the flower of the Anglo-French army
was to proceed to Sebastopol. The Russians, we may
be sure, have not lost those six weeks. We know
that a Russian steamer which got out of Sebastopol
looked in at Odessa, as if for experiment, and returned
safely to the fortified harbour. The blockade had been
relaxed for the purpose of bringing the army to Sebas-
topol. We have not yet accomplished that design, and
we have dens what we could to enable the Russians to
baffle our attempt at its accomplishment.
Grave imputations have this week been levelled at the
naval commanners. It has been asserted that the ad-
minds in the Baltic and the Black Sea have not done
all that even their orders enjoined or would have em-
powered them to do. This statement, from a journal
known to receive ministerial communications, the naval
commanders must meet as they can. The same journal
could not find words of reprobation strong enotigh when
Lords Clanricarde and Dudley Stuart criticised the
movements of the fleets, It was so ungenerous to attack
the absent commanders. And when those members of
the houses of Parliament declared that their censure was
directed against the ministry and not against the admi-
ral, the indignation of the Times was by no means en-
tirely appeased. Now, however, we are told by the
same authority that these brave officers have not done
all that was expected of them. We must observe, how-
ever, on their behalf, that the declaration accords
strangely ill with the positive assurance from the same
quarter that Ithe effective prosecution of the war was
suspended until the concurrence of Austria could be se-
cured. It will be poor encouragement to men burdened
with such heavy responsibility as that which weighs
upon Sir Charles Napier and Aprniral Dundas, if they
are to a_ e made the scape-goats of deluded diplomatists.—
Examiner.

It appears, at first view, rather anomalous that the
earliest intimation or indications of what the Western
Powers really think or have made up their minds to do
in the Eastern question should all along have proceeded
from that one of the two allies who seems the least
amenable to popular opinion. In England the adminis-
tration hold their places durante bone plaeito of the repre-
sentatives of the people, and are exposed to their inter-
rogations. In France the Emperor holds all but des-
potic power. Yet the pithy despatches of M. Drouyn
de l'Huys were published for the edification of our neigh-
bours on the other side of the Channel, long before our
ministers would speak out ; and now the Government
organs in the French press are beginning to speak
(covertly, it is true, but still quite intelligibly) of Austria
in the terms it deserves, while Englishmen have no
means afforded them of discovering whether or not their
ministers are still determined, on all occasions, to " wait
for the Austrians." A little reflection, however, suffices
to solve the seemingly puzzling problem. In France
public opinion is in reality as omnipotent as it is in
England ; although Frenchmen, tired of the aimless and
endless brawls of political I'rondeurs, are contented at
present to acquiesce in a form of government which
affords public opinion no legitimate recognised organ
of expression. The Emperor of the French has the good
sense to see this : he knows that his absolute power is
absolute only so long as it does not run directly counter
to popular sentiment and opinions ; he knows that
popular dislike of any course he may pursue, " having
no tongue to speak," will of necessity first vent itself in
action ; and he wisely seeks to prevent this, and to carry
the popular will with him as he proceeds, by volun
tarily submitting to it early explanations. On the con-
trary, English Ministers, knowing that sooner or later
they must be brought to book, put off the evil day as
long as they can ; and Englishmen, satisfied that they
possess the means of compelling Ministers to render an A day or two ago two little boys were walking along
account when they will, slumber on in this pleasing con- the High-street at Windsor, when, moved by a sudden
sciousness of power, without exercising it. The cir- impulse, one of them, whom we shall call Tom Jones,
cumstance, too, that Ministers can be peremptorily in- remarked to his companion, in an interrogative form—
terrogated only a certain season of the year—while Par- "Don't you remember ?" His companion, whom we
liament is in session—renders it more difficult to extract may designate as little Joseph Andrews, in real or af-
information from them at any other time. Of late there- fected ignorance of the circumstances to which his friend
la em lister,ei nt t S
oo f twohtha pe
pol3ntthehde,
fore, the attention of the English public has been more ! referred, simply replied—" I have no recollection what-
frequently turned to Paris than to London, when on the , ever !" Now, by a stranAgorednicnottihanencitfidi‘remin,
watch for intimations of what the Allied Powers realply. , that Major
lanjtourinMaraixeus'ewllhaonadd
of happened
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think and intend to do. This habit rests on the assume
tion that the professions of entire unanimity made by
the two Governments are really sincere ; and this
tolerably well warranted. cloud of sullenness obscure the Assumption is at present
English Ministers know that the English people, , WAlister ? We know no
wrath. It seems strange otfhfi.ecyerswere that truly
of moved to
though they may be gulled for a time,. cannot permit- 1
nently be kept in the leading-strings of the Eastern'
honourable corps should thus allo • •
despot ; the Emperor of the French knows that. between , the bettor of them without A their passions to get
him and the old aristocracy of Europe there is a gulf 1 Perry—and he was but adequate cause. Young
both Governments, a lad—was deeply
placed which he cannot pass over ; , turning upon thosewho had to blares for
French and English, are bound by the necessity of personal brutelit butthe
made him the subject of
their nature to thwart and oppose the living re- 1 Adjutant were' •y, sensitive Major and choleric
t• tives of the Holy Alliance. Their coquet• ' justified in turning upon Masters Jones
presen a and
been as
, tine; with Austria has, therefore, false
and Andrews for verbal jocularity. Conscience sonic-
times lends astring
insincere as the coquetting of that antiquated flirt with into an '
them. The affectation of mutual confidence and gym- that undauntedthein
insult. Now, it does seem a little hard to us
thy has been carried nearly to its utmost limits, and , to
mete 0 witnesses of the 46th should be able
pa .
the mask must soon be removed on both sides. Of this ' civilian'sand obtain
out Horse Guards' justice to others .
impending necessity the Emperor of the French has na- Windsor justice for themselves. Let the bench of
tonally become sooner aware than have the English Mi- ' b,—
magistrates—or whoever the authorities may
constitute themselves a Court-Martial in the case of
nistry. The English Government and nation, though Masters Jones and Andrews, who have,
understand,
- necessarily antagonistic to the vital principles of East- been_
we
n the police
or the Provost-marshal, and cot about their proceedings
there despotism have been so long established that wrongfully handed into the custody
there are no hopes of putting them down; the absolute With
of
e With the fixed determination of giTillg geom Maxwell
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" NON MI RIOORDO."

•
iand M'Alister a month a-pieoe at the treadmill, what.
ever may happen. It would be proper, in the first place,
we should conceive, to constitute them prisoners, and con-
aid erMasters Jones and Andre wsas prosecutors. The good
of the street service at Windsor requires the substitu•
tion. When this has been effected, Master Jones may
be allowed to prove his case by the evidence of Master
Andrews, and vice vend. The questions should be few
and simple. Master Andrews might be asked—" Do
you upon any occasion remember that Master Jones
put to you, in the High-street of Windsor, the following
question, "Do you remember ?' " Master Andrew's
might then reply—"l have not the slightest recollection
whatever." It would be then proper to invoke the testi-
mony of a few by-standers—the peculiar intimates and
associates of the two friends, who would of course, like
them, "have no recollection whatever." Let the next
question to these witnesses be as to character :—"From
your knowledge of Master Jones, should you say that
he was a young person in the habit of poking fun at the
passers-by in the public streets ?" The stereotyped re-
ply for each and all of the witnesses might run some-
thing as follows :—" From my knowledge of Master
Jones, I am able state with great confidence to this
honourable Court that he never thought of such a thing.
If he has a defect, it is that of over-seriousness and too
anxious attendance at the Sunday school. When some
bad boys endeavoured to teach him the words of the
popular air known as ' Pop goes the Weasel,' it is a fact
that Master Jones couldn't be brought to do it to any
other tune than that of the `Evening Hymn,' when
they wos suddenly conwerted.' " Question from the
Court—" Can you inform us, Master Andrews, why the
young gentlemen of Windsor appear to have taken a
pprejudice against the two prisoners ?" Answer from
Master Andrews,—" On account of their forward and
behaviour." In dealing with the evidence
tfrorttehs to the defence, it will only be necessary for the magic-
a remember that their great care must be to pre-
vent the prisoners from calling any witness who could
be of the slightest use to them ; or, if such an one
should by inadvertence be introduced, the nuisance
must be forthwith abated, by informing him that
his testimony was not wanted. The Court had just
made up their minds only to receive evidence for the
period which began to run from five minutes later than
the occurrence of the fact to which the troublesome wit-
ness could depose. When the bystanders are got rid of,
there can be no great hesitation in recording a foregone
conclusion :—" Major Maxwell and Adjutant M'Alister
are found guilty of offence charged namely, of having
been jocularly addressed, but not otherwise, and are
sentenced accordingly to a month a-pieceat t h the
ft tread-
mill, eha:li r-
mill, with recommendation to mercy onaccount
size." This finding must then be sent up to Lord Har-
dinge, and will be soon returned with the note of that
military Minos :—" Approved, but Major Maxwell
, allowed the use of slippers and flannel waistcoats while
on the wheel, in consideration of his age and rheuma-
tism." Such would be a specimen of pure Horse Guards'
justice.
But we cannot with a good heart indulge in mere
joking over the honour and character of the British
officer. Lord Hardinge has chosen his path ; let him
see where it will end. He may be acquainted with the
temper of the British soldier, but he knows little indeed
of the temper of the British people if he presumes that
he has heard the last of the scandalous business of Mr.
Perry. Can he or anybody be surprised that the officers
of the 46th have become the objects of the gibes and
jeers of the passers-by ? Certainly we do not commend
those who violate or provoke to a violation of the public
peace. Could we suppose that any words of ours would
be effective to that end, we would entreat the young
women and little boys at Windsor to desist, and leave
the officers of the 46th to the enjoyment of their own
success and the position they have made for themselves.
But we know well, in a case of this kintl, that remon-
strance is utterly unavailing, even when the parties are
in the right ; what must it be when they are so pal.
pably in the wrong ? Lord Hardinge cannot direct
Colonel Garrett to turn the bayonets of her !Majesty's
46th regiment of infantry against the muffin boys and
orange girls of Windsor. We presume that to crown
the whole proceeding with a street massacre would be a
measure somewhat too strong even for the authorities at
the Horse Guards. Well, then, what is to be done I
Supposing, as in the case of the two officers who seized
the little boys the other day, they persist in the plan of
handing offenders over to the civil authorities? A seemly
spectacle it will be that the Queen's officers should at
any hour of the day be seen chasing the little varlets
about the streets of Windsor amid shouts of "Do yon
remember ?" " I have no recollection whatever." Be-
sides, every trial will be duly reported, and each case
will serve as a fresh stimulus to public indignation. If
the officers of the 46th have recourse to open violence,
one blow will bring on another ; there will be a general
row—murder most probably, and Calcraft at the end of
the whole transaction. Lord Hardinge must remember
that every civil magistrate, every police-officer, and
every man, woman, and child in the Queen's dominions,
with the exception of a few attached to the ruling mili-
tary clique, look upon the conduct of the officers—not
of the men, who, we believe, have behaved in an exem-
plary manner—of this regiment with just indignation ;
so they have but little assistance or sympathy to expect,
save what must be given them by the strictness of the
law. The opinion, if not the hand, of every Englishman
is against them. The only course really to be adopted
with this notorious regiment—we are speaking only of
the officers—is to keep them closely in barracks until
they can be smuggled off to the East. From the intel-
ligence we publish this day we foresee the probable occur-
rence of events which all men would be anxious to avoid.
We call Lord Hardinge's attention to the matter while
it is yet time, and before the blood of any of the Queen's
subjects has been shed. In the present frame of the
public mind at Windsor a collision between the soldiers
and the people is far indeed from being an improbable
event, and the cdnsequences of such collisions in the pro-
vinces we have had to record even within the last few
days.—Tirees.

DREADFUL MURDER OF AN ENGLISH
LADY AND GENTLEMAN IN GREECE.

ATHENS, Sept. I.—Great sensation has been caused
here on receipt of intelligence from Negropont, that
Mr. Henry Leeves and his wife have both been mur-
dered in their house in the village of Castaniotiza, of
which village and a considerable extent of land he was
the proprietor. All that is known here at present is,
that the crime was perpetrated on Sunday, the 28th
ult.; that a forcible entry of the house was effectod ; that
Mr. Leeves attempted resistance, and wounded one of
the assassins, but was overpowered, and that after the
double murder a quantity of silver plate was carried off.
Mr. Leeves was about 30 years of age, son of a former
chaplain to the British mission at Athens, and married
about 18 mouths since a young lady whose family reside at
Manchester, who a few months since gave birth to a child,
respecting the fate of which nothing is stated. It
appears that Mr. Leeves held the appointment of British
consular agent, or vice-consul, at Negropont:
'Mr. Wyse, British Minister at Athens, on receiving
official intelligence of this shocking affair, instantly
took steps towards instituting the most searching in-
quiry, with the view, if possible, of discovering the
murderers and bringing them to justice. Immediate
orders were sent to the Pirinus, to the commander of her
Majesty's war-steamer Medina, to get up her steam and
proceed to Negropont ; and Mr. Merlin, British vice-
consul at Athens, and Mr. Locock, attache to the British
mission, were directed to proceed in the Medina with
the Greek authorities, to make the most rigid investi-
gations on the spot. They left the Piraeus yesterday.
The Rev. Dr. Hill, chaplain to the British mission,
voluntarily accompanied the expedition, as he had been
intimately acquainted with the deceased, and thought he
might be of use in protecting the infant, should it have
escaped the fate of its parents.

eCihsarple4tKpoenaend,
until the 25th of the month, when a new drama is to be
opening
of
oft htehe indisposition
Princess's
Tofh3eafttr
thcOrne
presented, with Mr. Ryder in the principal character.
After superintending its production, Mr. Kean will ab-
stain from his artistic duties for a month. A meeting
of the Adelphi company is appointed for Monday next,
and the season will commence on that day week. At
Sadler's Wells, Shakspere's play of Pericles is in rehear-
sal, having, we suppose, undergone various alterations
from the original text—if ttsical Transcript.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT MARGATE.—An inquest was held
at the Town-hall on Monday before Mr. J. G.
Thompson, on the body of William Haydon, a ticket-
porter. It appeared that the deceased was occasionally
employed as a night constable, and was on duty on
Friday night week on the Fort. At about two
o'clock in the morning of Saturday a communication was
received at the station-house, in consequence of which
one of the men was immediately despatched to the spot
indicated under the cliff, when hefound the deceased quite
dead. No proof could be produced of the cause of the
accident, but the supposition was that deceased, who was
a particularly shrewd man, having had his attention
drawn to the spot near the camera obscura by some
noise, and thinking that some one was on the move, ap-
proached too near the edge of the cliff and fell over. One
of the coastguardmen had a nlrrow escape, as he bad but
just passed the spot, and he has since been very iii from
the fright he received. The jury returned a verdict
~ That the deceased died from a fall from the cliff."
He was a young man of sober and industrious habits,
and leaves a widow and four young children. A sub-
scription has been set on foot to relieve their wants.—
South Eastern Gazette.
ACTIVITY IN THEDOCKYARD.—
In spite of the advanced
priee of timber, the hands of the shipbuilderssse
ls have been
of this port
have been exceedingly full.
Many
yvehave been no lase
These were—the Lady,
built and repaired this season.
There
than three launches this week.
smack, belonging to
• Turks
Mr. Way, of Portland ; and a new and beautifully-built
smack, taken on the stocks for the purpose of lengthen-
ing, by Messrs. Valiance ;
schooner, called theMsyrtie, which was launched on Satur•
nes
slip.—
Weymouth. Paper.
day morning from Be a
CRICKET.—The match
of the United All England
Eleven V. Tw
two of Scotland was commenced at
Edinburgh on
Monday. At the end of the first day's
play the ore ,
stood thus :—Scotland, first innings, 139•
England,
- s,score
one
wicket down.
.
CATHEDRAL RESTORATIONS.—In the report of the corn•
inis on the cathedral and collegiate churches, it is
thatstated at Canterbury the north-west, or Lanfrano's
Tower, has been rebuilt, at a cost of 25,000/., and a
gradual restoration of the whole fabric, exterior and in-
tenor, has been in progress from 1823 to the present time.
The whole amount expended in 30 years is stated at nearly
100,000/., the whole arising from capitular funds.
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in as
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y'av—s e;3‘.gtoila, 1 acti
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Otefchrokearr Harrison,.M
in rt
The
e Johnwmorning,
o
as sprightly as a lark, and braves the toil and heat of the
day as stoutly as the best of her younger fellow-workers-
Martha has now been harvesting for 10 day,—Leeds
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