The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-26 00:00:00

OUTRAGE ON TWO BRITISH SUBJECTS•

The letter of our special correspondent from
Bucharest contains matter which cannot be allowed
to pass without comment. The subject is of s°
grave a character, that abstention from all passion
and exaggeration iu discussing it becomes an tin'
perative duty. We shall speak of it, in the first
place, as if it concerned only third parties in win°,
we have nu interest whatever—on its abstract
merits, in short.
On the 11th of this month, three travellers, two
of them English subjects, the third a German gen'
tleman, arrived in Bucharest from Giureevo. Their
passports were perfectly en regle, and were dub:
deposited at the police-office ; they had travelled
in open day along the public road, had been chid'
lenged by and had answered satisfactorily all the
patrols and videttes they passel ; they were Per'
sonally known to most of the high officers in tutl
Turkish and Allied armies ' • and had conduct.
themselves irreproachably. These gentlemen vier.
soon after their arrival in Bucharest assailed--lre
can give it no other name—by the Wallachi.l.ll
police in the most wanton and outrageous manse;'
For the details we refer to our correspondent
letter : elough that it was attempted to drag correspond
by brute force before some petty functionary; .I/t.,
offence being laid to their charee ; on the
of a hasty, inexplicit scrawl from the Turkishcl;
mander-iu-chief, which gave no description or 'Jeer
persons, and mutilated their names to a degthe
that renders them utterly irrecognisable. A. le
authorl J
gentlemen were soon set at liberty on their mint ;
parole, without being obliged to quit the t°weet,
as the Turkish officer in command in Bileitellish
by his refusal to see them, appears to air;
to avoid mixing himself up in the OA
and as the English and other 09°/
and a high English military eithof
of
are strenuously exerting themselves in 1)(31 es'
the party aggrieved, the final denouement an. o
planation of this mysterious drama may be pat° n
tir
awaited for. But there must be a
factory explanation of such a gratuitous an, ote ;
accountable outrage upon two British sukieheris
upon that both the Turkish and English alit boo
ties may rely. Our hope is that the wil°le ors
arisen from some precipitate inadvertence nli.jiy,
part of Omer Pacha; aggravated by the stuPtoised
and it may be the malice, of the Russii.a pea
full andruir
gendarmerie of Bucharest. Mistakes will "gaier
in countries so unhappily circumstanced as ",esent
chin, is at this moment ; but when as in the P1...0051
instance, they lead' to infringement of the Pei:teed
security of Englishmen, of immunities guaraloo.
to Englishmen by treaty-stipulations, an elp that
rion and apology for the mistake is the least,
can be looked for. e .001'
What renders the outrage of which We 3,..1. 1,10,0
plaining at the first glance utterly unaccolint:f tee
the personal character and osition of one open'
sufferers—we speak of our owns pecial
dent. The extent to which this gentlemannotej,
in uuications from the seat of war have be"&aliell
commented on, praised by almost a the dle.
and continental journalists and publicists,
, nfteshe ea:
us to dispense with any derailed statement - He by
sential services he hasrendered to Turkey, same
corr,s
cow
sought for accurate and exhaustiveinformation.o the
death and danger—on the battle-field and in
pestilential encampment. With a natural, g. Flu'
pleasing eloquence, he has won assent to his e°"-• ne
diastio
si ve ex posures of Russian falsehood, and vi° ;more
of Turkish characterand conduct. These serv.7 hest
known to and have been acknowledged by the 10 0
Turkish authorities. He is personally kn°nt Inv
Omer Pacha, and up to the time of the recedistio.
accountable incident has been treated witill
,v 7 thea
guished kindness by that great man. i' • sod,
comes it that we find .such a person suddenly, ectee
without any assigned or assignable reason, eli1•1, be
to such scurvy treatment at the hands of t'' .0 big
has essentially served, as we find described in
letter ? est 06
When the first laconic intimation of big arr-lectriO.
conveyed to us—now some days back—bi e„ed 0
telegraph, we confess that our suspicious turn
rise'
Austria as the origin of the mischief. Our con •
spondent's suspicions, it will be seen, turns aro
different direction. The reasons be assign ro.
of a nature to render them still more that
Fable than ours. It is a pregnant fatiele
the correspondents of the European ion' As- 00.
and especially of the English—eeperieneeu the
varying kind and respectful treatment &oil], sto
Turkish authorities, civil and military, previstio
the arrival of the rench and English armies ,"" to
their commandersin the East ; and that their net
went has since that time been gradually altering
the worse. That the Head of the French Gove;ii
went would willingly bring the journalism 011.4
E urope into the sa rue gagged and manacled condibl,-
as that of France is iHighly probable. The illy. .rate hereditary antipathy. borne by our aristoco46
English functionaries, civil and military, t° .00.
newspaper and all connected with it is notori° of
There can scarcely be a doubt that the .arms
Omer Pacha has been poisoned, and that ,Ilti to
cessant and insidious whispers he has been '6l the
0
believe that the gentlemen acting in behalf for •
English newspapers in the East—the ohjects„:oo-,
time of his enlightened friends'hip and proteePeter,
belong to a class of men, mischievous in 0110%0 J
Ind socially so inconsiderable in thei.rth ior
country that they may be trampled upon wi
_sod
punity. The press of England cannot °noir
with the whisperers of such aspersions in..ever•
cowardly awl insidious slanders ; but it has, 'iota
theless, a different kind of power at its cont 0411
to baffle their machinations, and if nut to fl %or
rise this power. At this moment the press nod the
laud is the only free press in Europe, aunt oil
slightest encroachment upon its privileges niliv re'
this account be jealously watched and firn3„jer °
pelled. Many circumstances conspire to re'rojeal
essential that its ability to obtain and disloont
trustworthy information regarding the East bee°,
at this time be kept unimpaired. °Had it °thee
for the free-speaking of the English press tool
!ant soldiers of England (and of France_ die c!.,
that matter) would have been allowed trtio, i;
like rotten sheep% by disease and- of - ilia': ofthbe
order to preserve appearances in the eYe't for the
public of Western Europe. Were it std as Ott
tree-speaking of the English press, we woutiho great
moment be in imminent danger of seeing thelie;,„
,2oinhined movement of the two nations at ip Wl' s
at' European civilisation, to turn back tllO 001,
)f Russian despotism, perverted into a I'n
0000
for the aggrandisement of Austria, and the nresetito
laden of its ferociously stolid power. Tlie,tancl of
is a time that calls upon the press of Tee'eciton 0
battle ci l'outrance for its privileges and rfestuntio
action ; and in this point of view it is iote Oleo
shat the first experimental attempt to vi° f 011 e t,,
should have been made upon the person °,o,ien,
listinguished :and respected as our
the antiquated English military martinet_ baeinfe
corresro erer.,,
(ey, and the sympathisinet portion of oulLish Pr;
it home, may rest' assured that the Eng epee,
will vindicate its own peculiar lights a'the co'
promisingly as it has always vindicatedi
.Aretes'
!non rights of the English public.--l'az Y
lotirt°ll*

CITY OF LONDON REGISTRATION. ---,----' 0," 0
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he revising barrister, has intimated his intentionor 01
I tericing the annual registration of voters The pf
:ity of London on Monday, September 18. n flea'
:tteding-s will take place in the Court of CJietil°-
G iildhall. ilt c°l*
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Gazette.
THE..t DOC 0
BRIDGE STEAM-80AT41... .100 .0
Phe riotous proceedings which have been frli'dost „Is
he Surrey side of Loudon Bridge the last tsve ;,4 ee:
tttempting to fix a steam boat pier at the eta-terdil
i Yee ea
'',o Fenning's-whrtrf, were brought to a cose .0 org i
'Horning at the desire of the harbour-moster. I' k of tbio
moored by the Fenning's-wharf people abres% pot
stairs have been removed, and the 'ate they
0 Pmr-
;ll ve .wi tit d rawn` from the contest, until theY „-tiorfi
curer the Lord Mayor's written authority for ere-000c
11 . Two summonses have been taken out IV 0 whie
hour-master thethaegsatianisrts,a h
and
proprietorsill of the hrlorgset SO 0.:
obstructed O,
wark Police Court t d which
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ALLEGED DEATH THROUGH THE ADMlnlNars:at:illegt:
i!LmodßyKLorfail—arYyeG,,teihrbdtayis,Mtrh.eßwakifeer
ehielda an DA": tailor
1
t)::shianyeess in the Mile•end road, whose death we e.,0 deli'
been accelerated through the iticanti..." offer;
nistration. of lobelia by her husband while she %"..A 133
beenliig under tygr;tuuhsleafrelavmtetree.rdicwsltal appeared that deceAel-r °list'
ink,
(r:tiemhsuocasrubibaenda.forDbycadansea(gient of Coffin, the been die
for
missedw ip'
the medical practitionerevidencsehawaft'
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iyht.,ent
tleieo
fr,hmerhussabiadn'
deallainh
fur trial. Tiltii
which
herad been accelerated by a powerful dose nif)ister%
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97etvju'ry‘ had directed their acquittal, on the gretiotiel
existed
as possible for them not to know that 01000 '
in the stomach, so that there was DO it,rifid°,lfOr ii:
to send another case for trial. The agents
,e.lo`',fliog fortbl:
had found, were as active as ever, notwithst..L th til ;
a fine of 201 had been inflicted pon one in ""e riect'.
,hfi 4 P, ~i‘s
practising without being a regularly qn..--` son -
tioner. The conduct of the husband of dece '--Ite be
highly improper, and the result ought to 1,,_...., • ''
OA hlw or
cautious in future how la gdzabiztered zaa44l.9"'—'
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