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the 29th of May, 1855, an
13: inlunetion was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and
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T" RUGEL EY MURDERS.
i/e,--In this terrible case, suppose that Palmer had relied
upon his professional character and pleaded that the poisons had
been given medicinally, we have yet to learn how such a criminal
could have been brought to the bar of justice. Would not the court
and judges have been helpless in such a cage? James Morison, the
eleetmtesrtseaPyas, 'l.thaWt ellliymgaerstshi,rby reason of their pro-
Hygeist, warned the country of this years ago, and now the dreadflil
sethese vile poisons, bold at this moment one of the
Hibbert, of Mooches-
is the only medical man who
Justice on this question, by
oitnlhirehiseMewnoonrrtiksro;nwas indebted for lifting his
ons in her Majesty's dominions."
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Icy
pro-
test sronksi
i,
tednqge usah
proudest
nnsssciptteuu alllabi
situations
Lat dlsputare ;" and Palmer, in reference
administered medicinally, might to these have said the
same thing.
We are, sir, your obedient servants,
gvsbtaoaaptisviiros;aagamPdg:a` tviah,it i
ntohleeessartthyt,rotaoothnmoifsee so:Mnetonysnope rdmoati
THE MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH,
New-road, London, for the Society of Hygeists.
.Tan. lit, 1856.
• Ilygeists do not war with doctors as men, well knowing that there
are many most learned and good men in the medical profession, but
against their system, which sanctions the use of these infernal poisons
as medicines.

SOCIETY OF ARTS.—On Friday last was held, at the
society's house in the Adelphi, a meeting of the repre-
sentatives from mechanics' and other institutions in
union with the Society of Arts; the Rev. Dr. Booth
F.R.S., chairman of council, in the chair. The discu
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teaching, and the necessity of active steps being taken
to aid in the formation of classes at the several institu-
tions, to be followed by examinations as tests of progress,
and by the issue to the candidates of trustworthy certi-
ficates of their acquirements, to serve, instead of the
present delusive testimonials so heedlessly given, as
passports to employment. After a very decided and
general expression of opinion on the part of the repre-
sentatives in favour of a scheme of this kind to be un-
dertaken by the Society of Arts, the meeting separated.
In the Court of Common Pleas on Saturday success-
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for a rule calling upon the Eastern Counties Railway
Company to show cause why an injunction should not
issue against them, upon the ground that they were car-
rying coals for the Norfolk and Eastern Counties Coal
Company at a less prie than they charged to Mr.
Crickmer.

CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, J. 6.
At present the sanitary state of the army is
most satisfactory. By an error of calculation, I
stated in my last letter the amount of sickness as
about 10 per cent. It does not exceed 6)t, or, at
most, 7 per cent. There are particular corps which
are less healthy ; thus, for instance, in one divi-
sion of the Army Works Corps there is consider-
able sickness ; the other is healthy. The difference
between this year and last is very striking. To
take the Light Division as an example ; it is about
6,500 strong, and has 433 sick, no cholera, and but
a small proportion of serious cases. In December,
1854, there were 258 deaths in that division ; in
December, 1855, there were only eight, and three
of those were from wounds. Of course the absence
of trench work duty goes for a good deal in this
enormous difference, but not a little of it is also to
be attributed to the shelter, warm clothing, and
good food the army now enjoys.

JAN. 7.

A Greek has been for three days in confinement I
at head-quarters on strong suspicion of being a
spy. He was sent away from Karanyi last August,
and warned not to come back. He lately returned
to the Crimea with a French passport, but instead
of remaining in the French lines went to Karanyi.
He is to receive 25 lashes, and be sent home to his
country, with due notice that if he shows himself
here again he will be hung.
There has been considerable excitement during
the past week among the masters and officers of
transports in Balaklava harbour on account of the
second officer of the Star of the South, a large steam
transport of 1;890 tons, haying been logged by the
Provost-Marshal. It appears that he was taken
to theguard-house on Sunday night last by a police-
man, who charged him with being drunk. He had
resisted capture, and his clothes were torn and
soiled in the struggle. The next morning Captain
Frayne, of the Star of the South, and Capt. Cham-
pion, of Her Majesty's steam transport Melbourne,
went to the Guard-house to intercede for him, and
to request he might have a hearing, as he denied
having been drunk, and said he could produce wit-
nesses to prove his sobriety when taken up. Their
efforts, however, were in vain, and he received 18
lashes ; and one of the two transport captains hav-
ing been overheard by a soldier to remark to his
companion that this was brutal treatment, he was
threatened with the like if he did not go on board
his ship. A complaint was made to Admiral Fre-
mantle, and some correspondence has taken place
on the subject between the naval and military
authorities and Captains Champion and Frayne,
who, as highly respectable men, holding very re-
sponsible situations, and well known to and es-
teemed by many officers out here, naturally feel
aggrieved by the menace of a disgraceful punish-
ment. The second mate's friends deny that he was
drunk. It appears that he stutters, which may
have contributed to a mistake as to his state. How-
ever, whether drunk or sober, his case is a hard one,
for, besides the lashes, he loses his situation, which
he at once gave up, feeling himself disgraced and
that he could not in future expect respect from the
crew. The office of Provost-Marshal in Balaklava is
an arduous one, and the officer who now fulfils its
duties does so, I have been assured, in an efficient
and satisfactory manner. Without severe measures
it would be impossible to maintain order among the
motley floating population of Balaklava. In the
above case, if the mate was drunk, the Provost-
Marshal did not exceed his duty, although per-
haps a preliminary investigation might have been
allowed when asked for by the prisoner's own
captain, who was ready to speak to his subordi-
nate good conduct during many months that
he had been under his command. I believe
the correspondence I have' referred to is not yet
brought to a close, but I think it unlikely, from
obvious reasons, that it will lead to anything. The
affair is to bo regretted, especially if it should re-
sult (as it is to be hoped it will not) in a bad feel-
ing on the part of the transport service towards the
officers of the army. There are few military men
in the Crimea but have been frequently on board
transports, and indebted for many little acts of
attention and kindness to their captains and offi-
cers. The Star of the South and the Melbourne
have been long out here, and long commanded by
their present captains.
Mr. Doyne, chief superintendent of the Army
Works Corps, goes to England this week, to urge
upon the Government the necessity of a different
organisation of that useful establishment. It is
considered desirable, I understand, both by Gen.
Codringtou and Mr. Doyne that, before another
campaign opens, a greater control should be esta-
blished over the corps than is afforded by the agree-
ments the officers and men have signed, and which
do not bring them under the action of military
law. There is consequently no sufficient check on
them in case of insubordination, and the want of
power of restraining and punishing them might
prove not only inconvenient but perilous, should
they be called upon to march with the army in the
spring.

JAN. 8.

To-day wo have a gale from the south. The
snow is rapidly melting away from the plateau, and
the ground is in the transition state from the dry
and crisp to the deep and muddy. To-day it is
simply sloppy ; to-morrow—unless another shift of
wind brings hack the frost—it will doubtless be in
that agreeably tenacious state so often described,
hut the abominations of which mock the most vivid
description.
I have received letters from Kertch up to the
4th inst. Nothing note-worthy had occurred since
the cavalry skirmish in which Captain Sherwood
lost his life. The severe frost which set in
on the night of the 17th of December lasted
up to the 3d inst., when there was a slight thaw.
The Contingent and other troops were well supplied
with warm clothing, and set the cold at defiance.
The Turks were contented, well-behaved, and in
excellent health. I lately saw, by the by, in a
London newspaper some very gross mis-statements
respecting the Contingent, which my information,
derived from various sources, enables me to con-
tradict. The troops were said to be still under
canvass when the snow set in. The truth is, that
they were hutted almost immediately on arrival,
and long before the snow commenced. Rape, rob-
bery, and plunder were said to be the order of the
day, and what remains of Kertch was represented
to Abe in rapid process of destruction at the hands
of General Vivian's soldiery. These assertions are
completely false. One of that General's first acts
on arrival was to put a stop to spoliation. The
account of Major Guernsey's affair is also incorrect.
The facts of that unpleasant business were as fol-
low :—Major Guernsey was Provost Marshal ; he
saw three men coming out of a house with empty
bottles, and without inquiry attempted to take
them prisoners. Two escaped ; the third he oap-
tured, and flogged him without further investiga-
tion. Flogging him at all was contrary to the ex-
press agreement with the Turkish Government, by
which it is stipulated that the Turks shall be
punished by their own laws and customs (much
more severe, by the way, than those of the British
service). The Turks shouted " Help to a Mussul-
man !" The cry was promptly responded to, and
Major Guernsey would have been probably mur-
dered had not assistance come. It was for his con-
duct in this affair that he was sent home. Capt.
Hall, of the navy, is also dragged iu for censure,
and accused of riding Government horses. The
horses Capt. Hall rides are his own. Gen. Vivian's
staff is said to be inefficient, and to have been se-
lected merely because the officers composing it be-
longed to the Madras Presidency—Gen. Tivian's old
presidency. On the General's personal staff there is no
Madras officer. On the Head-quarter's staff there
are four Madras officers, three Queen's officers, one
Bengal officer, and the highest posts are filled by
the Queen's officers—General Michel, C. 8., who is
Chief of the Staff ; Co). Graham, Military Secre-
tary, and Colonel Morris, C. 8., Deputy-Quarter-
master-General. I have not time, nor would it be
worth while, to dissect minutely and disprove the
mis-statements and distortions of truth of which the
letter in question is composed. They are so nume-
rous and systematic as to give the letter, which
18
entirely unworthy of consideration, the appearance
of having been written by some disappointed or
dismissed officer.
ss

ol)u.dinTgb captain and mate,
The crew were Sligo
men. The master has left a wife and two children, and
odbaoamrodn n
SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—The ship Tory, of
Sligo, has been lost, with all hands. The following are
the painful particulars :—The Tory was bound for Sligo
from Liverpool, and having struck on a reef of rocks at
the Wand of Roughly O'Beirne, immediately afterwards
went to pieces. The owners, Mr. John Hodgson and
from whence be witnessed the destruction of every soul
Mr. James Brown, both inhabitants of Sligo, having
been on some business on the coast of Donegal, and per-
ceiving the Tory in sight in the bay, boarded her with
the intention of returning to Sligo a short time previous
to the melancholy occurrence. Mr. Hodgson, through
an
extraordinary presence of mind, leaped overboard on the
vessel first striking, and was immediately washed ashore,
the mate a family of fry*. •
g(fistvethheanindsMinr.aßll;w including

(From the Times Correspondent.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 10.
The storm which threatened Omer Pasha seems
to be blowing over. Up to last week, wherever
one went nothing was to be heard but wailing over
the fall of Kars, and a burst of indignation at the
supineness, want of skill, and even sincerity of the
Generalissimo. Howevfr freespoken the Turkish
people in general may be, their officials cannot be
accused of want of discretion. The sudden rise
and fall of political influences teach them caution,
and, whatever may be their private opinion, they
never express it, unless they are sure not to be
compromised by it. The general expression of
discontent was, therefore, an infallible barometer,
indicating that a storm was brewing against the
Sirdar Ekrem in the highest quarter, and that his
disgrace was more or less a fait accompli. The
sending of Halim Pasha, known not to be too par-
tial to him, to Batoum to make an inquiry into
the state of things there, the councils of war,
which showed their disapproval of the plan of
Omer Pasha's operations by adopting a new one,
and the committee of inquiry formed for the affairs
of Anatolia in general,—all these circumstances
told the same tale. Besides all these, signs of
Omer Pasha's approaching, or rather decided dis-
grace, were evident already at a time when we
were still uncertain whether he would not reach
Kutais, and thus secure a base of operations to-
wards the interior of the Transcaucasian provinces
for next year,
Since last week a change has come over this dark
cloud which threatened to obscure the • Sirds-
Ekrem's political fortunes in Turkey. The faces of
Ca arkulsh affi uials haVe assumed again_their stereo
typed placid expression, and they have found that
Omer Pasha was not so much to blame, after all ;
the committee of inquiry, which was no secret
before, was denied,—at least every one pleaded
ignorance of it ; all the confidential insinuations
about the Generalissimo's recall suddenly ceased,
and the whole intention of laying open the secrets
of the fall of Kars seemed entirely forgotten.
Yet all this change was made with such a bad
grace that there could be no doubt of its having
been the consequence of pressure from without, and
not that of a conviction acquired by a better know-
ledge of facts. As the change took place just after
the arrival of the two British commissioners, civil
and military, who had accompanied Omer Pasha's
army into Mingrelia, it was natural to suppose that
this arrival was connected with it, especially as it
was well known that Colonel Simmonds, the mili-
tary commissioner, having taken a prominent part
in the direction of the military operations, was in-
clined to represent them under the most favourable
light. But, in order not to jump to an unwar-
ranted conclusion about the nature of the influence
exerted, I must say a few words upon the foreign
influence in Turkey, which is so often misrepre-
sented in Europe.
Since first the intricate question of Turkish poli-
tics attracted the attention of Europe we have
heard of nothing else but English, French, or Rus-
sian influence. Such a Turkish official was the
bumble servant of such a foreign Minister ; such
another wished to uphold himself by the influence
of such an Ambassador ; such another was sold to
such a Court ; and political combinations and spe-
culations were based on these premises, which
turned out true or fake as the case might be. 411
this time it was assumed that political influence in
Turkey was nothing else but a stake played for by
the Ambassadors of the great Powers, who were
thus trepresented as the promoters of every step
taken in the maze of Turkish politics.
The fact of the matter was that we looked
through our own medium, and entirely ignored the
quiet but powerful action of native influence=, be-
cause we could not see them so plainly. And yet
it is these influences which must account for most
of the fanciful eddies in the turbid stream of
Turkish politics. Foreign influence certainly does
exert itself, and, owing to the peculiar position of
Turkey since the beginning of the war, it has in
some cases, for instance in the question of the oc-
cupation of the Principalities by Austria, imposed
itse'f in spite of the opposition of all native influ-
ences ; but, as a general rule, even at the present
moment, it does not exist independently, but only
as far as it allies itself with one or other of the in-
digenous powers which strive for supremacy in the
Turkish Government.
These native influences are three—the court, the
civil, and the military government. I don't count
what is usually spoken of as the old Turkish party.
Such a party, exerting political influence, does not
exist. It is one of the many bugbears on whose
shoulders, of unknown breadth, it is often conve-
nient to heap a goodly lot of peccadilloes and dis-
appointments. With the exception of a very few
white or green turbaned old gentlemen, from whom
it would be rather too much to expect a change of
views which they have entertained for more than
half a century, everybody sees and feels that
changes are required, and must be made, or else
the whole structure will fall to pieces. But a diffe-
rence exists between• the discretion of these refor-
mers as it is understood in Europe and in Turkey.
Europe wants to make a fac-simile of itself in the
East, whereas here there is a desire to modify
Western ideas according to the Eastern character
and the existing differences. In one word Europe
wants to proceed in the reforms theoretically,—
the Turks historically. This difference of opinion
is the origin of what is called the old Turkish
party; but it is wrong to call it party, because it
comprises the whole nation, without, perhaps, any
exception.
There remain, therefore, only three influences
which exert themselves actively in the course of
Turkish politics. They are the influences which make
themselves felt in every State, as they are inherent
in the nature of every Government. Naturally in
a despotic State like Turkey the Court influence,
if exercised cleverly, will always more or less carry
the day. The strict line of demarcation which has
been drawn since the reforms of Sultan Mahmoud
between civil and military power in Turkey has,
on the other hand, favoured the development of a
t
contrast between the two. It is in this contrast
what may be called political life in Turkey
comes into play. Each of the two parties, civil
and military, tries to win the ear of the Sovereign
through the influence of the third party, and the
secondary influence of the foreign Powers.
A look at the leaders of the two rival influences
will show the truth of this statement plainer than
anything else,—Redschid and Aali Pasha are on
one side ; Chosrew, Riza, and Mehemed Ali Pasha
on the other. When the ideas of the former were
supported by the Western Powers the latter sought
help in Russian influence, and before the war the
position was clearly enough defined,—the civil
government of Turkey represented by Redsclaid
Pasha, allied with the Western Powers, and the
military government represented by Riza Pasha,
supported by Russia. Since the beginning of the
war the withdrawal of Russian influence and the
momentary sacrifice of individual interests to the
dignity of the empire threw the parties into confu-
sion, out of which they are now beginning to
emerge. The influence of the Court party comes
now more and more into play, and it is through
this that the rival parties strive to carry their
point. The first object to be obtained in this direc-
tion is the union of the three military departments
—the Seraskierate, the Ordnance, and the Navy--
in the hands of men of the same opinions and
interests.
wan ortunity for a
who should
trial of strength. The question
bear the blame—Omer Pasba,
for not having supplied or the Government,
him with the means to in-
sure success. If the former was decided, the The fall of Kars was a good opp
Go-
vernment would have its own man at the head of
the best part of the army ; if the second, there was
a chance of getting the Seraskierate out of the
hands of Mehmed Ruschdi Pasha and giving it to
mer Pasha remains
i Kars,
ha hor ushed—Kismet,
s hn
buteodw—s
itwK sio
sme elts
verys' ,
MgaeinhemdeidtsAolbi
jeocrtosntehoorfohuigshalylli;eos.
Until now neither one nor the other party has
the allies, the weather, and
and Mehmed Ruschdi Pasha remains. The inquiry
are responsible for the fall of
likely some of the smaller
culpables will be seized upon and suffer for all.
Europe will not be much wiser, and things will go
on pretty much the same way as before.
And yet Europe has the right to know who are
the guilty. The question concerns not only Kars
and its heroic defenders—it is one concerning the
whole management of the Eastern war. What is
the use of gaining victories on one side if we are
exposed on the other by a mismanagement which is
hushed up like a family concern ? It is at the same
time nothing but fair to the individuals who were
implicated in this transaction that such questions
should be asked as " Who prevented the Turki se
Contingent from being sent to Asia ?"' Whose
fault was it that Kars was unprovided, or that
diversion in Mingrelia had so little success V' The
re-assembling of Parliament will, it must be hoped,
bring forward explanations on this dark subject.
In the meantime it will perhaps be of interest to

General Williams's letters al twat-the wretched
state in which Kars and in gene rat the
,defences on
the Anatolian frontiers were fo rand left ' no„doubt
that the-invested town could nc it hold. out or re-
pulse single-handed the Russian ;army. Lord Strat-
ford proposed, therefore, to Gen.aral Vivian that he
should go there with the Contin gent. The Gene-
ral willingly acceded to the proposition, anxious,
as he was, to show by a success that the ask which
he had undertaken—the formation of the Turkish
Contingent—was feasible ; • bat before he couli
make any arrangements it was necessary to have
some knowledge of the ground o ti which he was to
operate ; he sent, therefore, General Smith,•late of
the Bashi-Bazouks, to look at it. The report of
this latter was that with the force which the Con-
tingent then numbered—namely, 8,000 men or so
—no successful diversion for the relief of Kars
could be made. General Vivian therefore applied
to Lord Stratford to have the number of the Con-
tingent raised to 10,000 men, and said that then
he was ready to undertake the task. The Turkish
Government, to whom the proposition' was sub-
mitted, made some difficulties about the completion
of the Contingent, but expressed its readiness to
place_ other troops under the command of General
Vivian, or any other General, so as to make up the
number to 35,000 or 40,000 men. This proposition
was likewise accepted by Lord Stafford and Gene-
ral Vivian ; the proposal was sent home, and re-
peatedly urged, but the answer of the English Go-
vernment arrived, which was to stop all proceedings
in the matter. Through what influence this answer
was returned we don't know here, but that it was
the English Government from whom the refusal
proceeded I believe to be a fact.
Another question which has been mooted in con-
sequence of the fall of Kars and the ill-success of
Omar Pasha's expedition in Mingrelia is the work-
inc, of the Loan Commission. If Omar's army was
0
ill-provided, why did the commission not overlook
formalities and supply the sinews of war 7 The
Tlmmission arrived here in the benaing of Sep-
-4....,ber, but the money did not arAgio until 4bout
s month later, Nevertheless,4,-,he 1. lutmosion, set
Id once to work to establish,lll 'caoth:erl Ivith the
Ambassadors of France and England, the basis of
their control ; it was impossible to give money for
the expenditure of which they were responsible
without some preliminary arrangements about the
nature of the control they were called upon to
exercise. Besides, the Turkish Government made
no application to them for money until much later,
—at any rate, too late for the relief of Kars.
In order to establish the nature of their control,
a project was given in by the two commissioners,
with the approval of the two Embassies. This pro-
ject elicited a counter-projeot from the Turkish
Government ; this latter again a counter-project
from the commission. All this would have been

done, however, in a few days had it not been for
the Turkish official slowness, which put off the
thing from day to thy, and thus several weeks
were lost. The propositions of the commission
were—first, that a kind of statement cf the finances
should be given in order to know what the re-
sources of the country were able to bear without
foreign aid ; secondly, that a kind of voucher
should be given to show that the money had been
really paid ; and, thirdly, that all the principal
contracts should be brought to the knowledge of
the commission before they were concluded.
The stumblingblocks were the two last condi-
tions. To the first of these it was objected that it
was not the usage in Turkish affairs to have any
vouchers, which it is not difficult to believe. The
point, however, has been more or less settled by
the declaration that the commission would be satis-
fied with any vouchers which the Turkish Govern-
ment could give. The last point is at this moment
unsettled, and yet it is of no small importance, as
you will best see by an example. There is an un-
wieldy thret -decker in the arsenal called the
Mahmoudie, which the Ministry of Marine, in its
budget, which it submitted to the commission,
proposes to have converted into a screw liner, at I
don't know how many thousand pounds of expense,
to be paid out of the loan. Now, besides that we
know by experience the converting even of very
good sailing men-of-war into screw steamers is a
very hazardous experiment, it is not so much
screw line-of-battle ships as transp-rt power which
is required from the Turkish navy at the present
moment, when the greater part of the Russian
Black Sea fleet lies at the bottom of the harbour
of Sebastopol. This will show how necessary it
is to put a check on the fancies of a Turkish Minis-
ter who is intent upon shining is his depart-
ment. It is especially the Ministry of Marine
which seems to indulge in them, and it i 3 very
likely due to this circumstance that the Govern-
ment of Constantinople has determined to keep
the accounts of each Ministry separate, whereas
until now it was the Ministry of Finance whcih
was charged with all of them. In spits, of these
difficulties, which are still pending, the commis-
siln has taken upon itself, without any material
guarantee in its hands, to pay the Turkish Govern-
ment neatly a million of money, so that, with the
600,0001. which the Rothschilds advanced, they
have got 1,500,0001. It would be thus scarcely
fair to charge the Loan o,mmission with unwil-
lingness to interpret liberally their instructions ;
but, at the same time, they are responsible for the
expenditure of the money, and cannot run blindly
into it.
On the other hand, we must not be too hard upon
the Turks. It is their first step in financial trans-
actions of a European character. They are asked
to give a statement of their expenditure since the
beginning of the war ; they give it. I sent you
an extract of it some time ago ; it is, I think, not
bad for beginners.
I have seen since then some of the enclosures,

which are, of course, too voluminous to have ge-
neral interest. I therefore call your attention only
to the first, which is given by, the Ministry of Fi-
nance, and is said to contain the-general accounts.
From the wording one would conclude that this
general statement comprises the expenditure of all
the departments. But this is not the case, as I
know, since I have seen the enclosure. It con-
fines itself to the expenditure of the War, Navy,
and Ordnance Departments. It is impossible to
judge what the internal resources of Turkey are
able to bear until we know what the other depart-
ments absorb, and whether part of this expendi-
ture cannot be applied to the expenses of war, or
other internal resources created ; but for the mo-
ment all we must expect is that the proceeds of
the loan should be applied exclusively to the pur-
poses of war.
Letters from Trebizondo speak of the continued
arrival of Turkish troops, especially Egyptians,
from Eupatoria. They are destined for Erzeroum,
but the communication is now impassable for
troops, and they will probably have to remain in
Trebizonde until the weather changes a little.
The accounts from the interior speak of caravans
dispersed by snow storms and of wanderers lost in
the drifts.
Mr. Murray is said to have passed the Persian
frontier on his way to Mossoul. All attempts at
mediation made by M: Bouree, the French Ambas-
sador, failed. The Persians are anxious to bring
their oause from their own point of view before the
British Government. Having no Ambassador in
London, they submitted their whole correspon-
dence to Lord Stratford, to have it sent home to
his Government. They are said, at the same time,
to have asked for the mediation of the Turkish Go-
vernment • but this is an on dit which cannot be
implicitly 'believed. That they are anxious to
have the difficulty arranged as soon as possible
can, however, scarcely be doubted. One of the
most curious features in this affair is that the Per-
sians look upon it as a personal quarrel with Mr.
Murray, which does not affect their relations with
the British Government. The Gazette of Teheran
has a paragraph in this respect, in which it dis-
tinctly states that this lamentable quarrel will not
at all affect the strict neutrality which the Persian
Government has hitherto observed on the Eastern
question.

BRUTAL MURDER Of A WIPE AT BATIL—BATI, Jan.
21.—Considerable excitment has been produced in the
lower part of this city, in consequence of the murder,
under circumstances of the most revolting brutality, of
a poor woman named Eliza Howell, the wife of an itine-
rant vendor of oysters and fish. The parties resided in
Avon-street, one of the lowest parts of this city, and
Howell himself has borne the reputation of beings man
of exceedingly violent temper. His unfortunate wife
was, at the time of her death, vide/vie, and within a very
few days of her confinement; so that, in one sense, the
murder may be said to have been a double one. On
Saturday the husband went out with his oysters as usual,
and while upon his rounds drank
o'clock at night, having become partiallly At about 9
y intoxicated, he
proceeded to his home, where he had been but a short
free.
time before he commenced a quarrel with his unfortn-
nate wife. Unhappily the poor woman ventured to
answer him when making use of very coarse language
towards her ; he raised his foot, and, in the most delibe
rate and savage manner, ave her a violent kick on the
she had received was a
abdomen. The wife screamed and fell, and it soon be-
ryimmediately ran for Mr.
enudjruswith all possible speed ; but.
the house, the poor woman had
fact,l
her eath bad been almost
bbmtioczareoosmefexotra:ctertanehaaeaospbdranngpereheaei.o.roaeceurnnon:ulto.awlhdpsehttemborr;naaeartetia.ntiictogthhenhcenbeidonxi
and-Dr. • Barrett -then made
the hope of saving the-. child,
but it also bad died from the effects of the violence to
the mother. The husband was immediately taken into
custody, and awaits the result of a coroner's inqueo, to
be held this evening.

E. H. Banbury, Esq., Chairman of
Mr. Denman's Committee.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENDTH,
THE BEAUX STRATAGEM.
After which the New Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled
THE RUTTRRFLY'S BALL AND TILE GRASSHOPPER'S
FEAST; or, Harlequin and the Genius of the Spring.

To c-whide with
ONLY A HALFPENNY.

RIVAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXPORD-STREET.
Hader the Management of Mr. Mks Les KRAL
THIS EVENING,
KING HENRY THE EIGHTH.
gam Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean.
After which,
HARLEQUIN AND THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE ; or, the
?airy Paradise and Hanky Panky, the Enchanter.
Harlequin. Mr. Corms,ck ; Cl,)wn, Mr. Hallne ; Pantaloon. Mr.
P tulo ; and ColuaNne, Miss Caroline Adams.

THRATIZE ROYAL ADRLPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Diroctress, Madame Celeste.
TUTS EVENING.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
After which,
URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS.
To conclude wit

ACK AND THE BEAN STALK; or, liar Levin and Mother

(loom at Home Again.

which Memo,. J. Bland. P. Bedfbrii. Madame Celeste, Miss
ynl4ans, and Min E. Arlen will apaear.

ROYtT, SURIZEY THE iTRE.

Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek.
THIS EVENING
PARIS IN 1792.

To conclude with
t .
A PRINCE, OF I' : or, FUrlc lain and! lave Shore,

ROT .&L ITfitiND TH.F:ATR%

Under the direction of Mr. Parne.
MIS EVENING.
TIM HOLLY TREE
Followed by

♦ PLAOVE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES.

After which,

NOEMIE ; or, 'rho Foster Sisters.
To conclude with
NOT TO BE DONE.

R3YAL OLYWPIC TREATRR

Lessee and lianaTer, Nfr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING.
THE JFIALOIJA WIFE.

After which will bm produced a New and dlahly-moral. thvagh
xceealvely old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
TII PRINTCEAS; the Three Maui Distan.
In which Iktvitara. Erne'v, F. Robson, 11. Coopar, Miss Marston,
an 1 Visa Mailtell will appear.

I'ATLIdIY'S ROYAL AMPRITHEATRE.
Lentee and 'Rana:ref. Mr. Wm. Cook..
FIVE GRIND JUVENILE Nunn' s, by particular desire.
TflrS EVENING,
A Grand F.Queattlan Comic Panto )11M,, fIARVQUTNI
AND KT. GEORGE AND TILE DRAGON; or, the Seven Cham-
pions of Christendom.
A fler which the unequalled Exhilsition of EQITESTRIAN ART
In the CIRCLE, Including the performance of 11193 Kate Cook. la
leur de rAr&te. The sa4acious Elephants will appear.
To conclude with the faithful portraiture of one of the most popular
Romances ever written called ROOK WOOD; or, TURPIN'S
to YORK.

Rox.olice open from Eleven tW Four. Stage Manager. Mr. W.
West. v..questrlan lifreetor. W. Cook,. on.

EIIGFI WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.
T flll DAT—Morn. 10 min. aft. 2—Ev.ming 31 min. aft. 2
T )-Moititow—Morn. 52 min. aft. 2'—Evening 8 min aft. 3

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 22.
THERNIOMETER, IN THE SEIADE.
+54 - hwhest 411101 noon yesterday.
42 -- west this morning and durin the night.
43 -this day et noon.
ButoltErv.u. 29.46—rising.
WM% N.N.E. to N.E. Light, with dull, clld
weather, inclining to frost.
Heavy rain last evening.

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LONDON, TUESOA ri JANUARY 22, 135 a.

If ever there was a time when the welfare and
happiness, not only of England but of Europe,
required a steady and determined hand to guide
the vessel of the State through the shoals and
quicksands by which it has been surrounded, it is
at this moment. In nautical language, there are
"breakers ahead," and it is no ordinary skill and
vigilance that will enable us to weather the storm,
and to bring the gallant ship, unscathed by the
tempest, into a secure haven. We confess that
we fear the diplomacy far more than the arms of
Russia. In War, although she has many sympa-
thisers, she has no open and avowed auxiliary.
But she has many active abettors in the Council
Chamber—and a variety of mysterious influences
all operating in her favour, and conducing to
trienaphs which she could never achieve by physi-
cal power, The spirit of " Germanism" which
is now, unfortunately, beginning to be but too
well understood id this country is rampant on
her behalf. Every effort has been made, and we
fear will still be made, to save her from the penal
consequences of her unconscientious and piratical
aggressions to secure her-from the scrape in
which she has been involved without any real
humiliation or loos of power, and without giving
any adequate guarantee for fitters good conduct.
Russia had beeri encouraged by a long course
of successful plunder and unexpiated guilt. She
was also induced to believe that the pear was
actually ripe for the consummation of one of her
meatclarling schemes—that she had only to stretch
forth her hand to seize the coveted possessions of
" the Sick Man," to obtain an entry into Con-
stantinople and complete control over the Boa.
phorus and the Dardanelles. She was partly mis-
led by the position of the Czait's " friend of forty
years' standing," " the dear and excellent ABER-
mils," at the head of the British Government.
A very serious misapprehension respecting the in-
fueace of Mr. COLDEN and his broad-brimmed
ceadjutors was another leading cause of error—
and the presence of persona in the Cabinet, who
had grossly insulted the Emperor of FRANCE,
enhanced the delusion. Perhaps there,may have
been other causes, that may be developed at some
future time, and which are note yet so decidedly
dismipate4l as there to which we have above
alluded—which have persuaded her that
she might still Persevere, with a certainty
of eventually, and under the most inau-
spicious circumstances, obtaining a means of
escape from her difficulties wheziever they became
overwhelming and irresistible.

The forthcoming negotiation, or Conference,
offers the last chance of impunity. Should another

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
ELECTION.
46, Chester-square, Jan. 2E, 1856.
DIAN. BUNIWAT,—In reply to your letter of yesterday's:
date, I am happy to tell you that I am not one of your op-
ponents, and am not going to stand for the University of
Cambridge. The facts are simply these :—On Saturday
morning I received the very unexpected information that;
some persons of considerable influence at Cambridge, and
elsewhere, wished me to come forward as a candidate. I re-
plied that if they would bring me a requisition sufficiently*
weighty to justify my coming forward I would do so. Mr
friends, however, soon found that they were too late in tho
field ; and that such men as yourself—upon whom, perhaps,
they might have counted, if you bad been applied to in the
first instance for me—were already actively engaged on one
side or the other. I am, therefore, absolved from any
obligation to move further in the matter. You will
probably be surprised that I should have consented even
conditionally to come forward, for I have more work to do
than I know how to get through, and there is no one, I ima-
gine, to whom, personally, a Parliamentary life would be less
attractive ; but there are social questions to which, and to
the legislation about which, I have of late years given much
attention; and it seems to me (perhaps wita the captious-
ness of a bystander) that these questions are not adequately
discussed in Parliament, and that even the voice of one addi-
tional person who cares about these might be valuable. I
felt it, therefore, to be a duty not to reject such an oppor-
tunity of becoming a Candidate, whatever presumption there
might be in seeking to represent a constituency who may
justly demand to have the first men in the country as their
Representatives. I am thoroughly glad, however, that the
burden of contest is not upon my shoulders, but on the far
stronger and abler ones of Mr. George Denman, to whom I
beg to tender my vote.
I remain, my dear Bunbury, ever faithfully yours,
ARTHUR HELPS.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING,
THE GREAT GUN TRICK.
Atter which,
HeY DIDDLE DIDDLSeven AgH
es of Man.E; or, arlequin Ring Nonsense and the