The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

7PALITIES.

JASSY, SEPT. 21.
Our time-honoured treaties, Use treaty of Paris, the
solemn promises of the Western Powers, and the procla-
mations issued by the Turkish Commissioner, Dervish
Pacha, at the outset of the last war, are at this moment
a dead letter. Our hopes of improvement are vanishing
by the hour. The rights of self-government, so long en-
joyed by the Moldo-Wallachians, are violated by the un-
heard-of proceedings of the Porte. Under the rule of the
Phanariote Princes, when the Ministers of the Sultan
most interfered in the government of the Principalities,
the wishes of the Suzerain were made known by firmans.
This form is now dispensed with, and ministerial de-
spatches take their place. Not content with giving
power to the Austro-Russian party, the Porte has deter-
Weed to supersede our old self-governing institutions.
The Caimacan has just been authorised by a letter from
the Grand Vizier to receive the customary annual grant
of 600,000 f. to the Prince. At this very time the reve-
nue of Moldavia is not equal to 4 millions of francs. A
ministerial despatch has been considered a sufficient
order to close the Bank of Moldavia, and abolish the
liberty of the Press. These encroachments on our pri-
viieges and rights are made at a time when our country
is supposed to be consulted on its desires arid its wants.
We are gagged when we ought to speak. Better, a
thousand times, to be a Russian province than a Turkish
Pashalic. Yet this is what the Treaty of Paris has
brought us to. As for Austria, she evidently has the
noblest part in this drama. England and France have
lost torrents of their best blood that Austria may
reap the fruits of their victory. The Cabinet of Vienna
has just sent her orders to the army of occupation to
take up winter quarters in the Principalities. They are
overjoyed at this, but little know that they are serving
the Russsians better than themselves. Patriotism, in the
meanwhile, becomes a bye-word, and we are called ironi-
cally les Occidentaux (partisans of the West). " Your
Napoleons and Palmerstons are noble friends, are they
not ? See what they are doing for you! France and
England are holding the noose for you ! " Such is
the style in which we are daily railed at
by the partisans of despotism. Unfortunately for
us, circumstances bear out the truth of these sarcasms.
The Star of the Danube and the Zimiro, the only inde-
pendent and liberal journals in the Principalities, have
been suppressed, and a dead silence and stupor prevail.
The Constantinople Journal can now assert without fear
of contradiction that the Russians reject the idea of an
union. We can only trust in future to the efforts of the
independent press of the West to remind the world of the
rights which we are losing. We have now no rallying
point here, and indignation is now uppermost in every
heart. Read the following Turkish despatch. It is the
last we have received, and a specimen of what may ye►

PLAYING ON THE BANJO.—Charles Hutchins and
Henry Page, two servants, were charged before the Lord
Mayor with robbing Mary Robinson, a servant girl.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutrix that
she had a holiday the previous day, and went out to
enjoy herself. She and a friend repaired to the Bri-
tannia, but on arriving there they were unable to gain
admittance, aid they went to a public-house opposite,
where they saw the two prisoners playing on the banjo.
They were much delighted at the music, and after stay-
ing there some time they rose to depart, when the two
prisoners offered to accompany them home, which was
accepted. On their way home they called at a public.
house and had some porter, which prosecutrix paid for
because the men had no money. They afterwards went to
a coffee shop and had some refreshment, where they re-
mained until 1 o'clock, when they were turned out. As
they were going down Aldgate she felt Page's hand at her
pocket and she missed her purse. She charged him with
robbing her, but he denied it, and his friend offered her
two sovereigns not to say anything about it. A police•
man coming up at the time, she gave the prisoner into
custody. The purse, which contained 3/. I 8 s., had not
been found, but a foreign coin that was in it was found
upon one of the prisoners.
Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—l suppose yon were out
for an evening's spree
Witness (smiling)—Yes, sir.
The prisoner denied taking the purse, and said that
the girls picked them up and stuck to them, and that
they were unable to get rid of them.
The girls indignantly denied the assertion.
The Lord Mayor sent them to prison for two months.
BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A. WIFIL—John Morgan, a man
employed in looking after offices at 44, Mark.lane, was
charged with a brutal assault yesterday on his wife.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner is a
dissolute man, and yesterday, after being out the whole of
the previous night, he returned to his home abut
the middle of the day, and in consequence of his wee
having no dinner ready for him, he strack her and kicked
her in a most brutal manner. The poor woman's face
presented an awful spectacle from his ill-usage, and when
persons came to her assistance they found a large pool of
blood on the floor. The poor woman said she had been
married to the prisoner about five years, and that he had
frequently ill-used her, but she had been restrained from
feelings of affection towards him from proceeding against
him.

The prisoner, in aaevver to the charge, attempted to
vindicate his conduct, and said he wished to be sepa-
rated from her.

A gentleman in court said it had been discovered that
the prisoner had a second wife living.
The Lord Mayor said the prisoner should be separated
from his wife for a short time, and sentenced him to
six months' imprisonment, and after that to be further
imprisoned till he found sureties to keep the peace
towards his wife for six months longer.

GUILDHALL.
Tikomas Stevens, porter, of No. 1, Northport-street,
Horton, and Wm. Robin4on, alias I. Kirk, of No. 44,
Hart-street, Covent Garden, were placed at the bar
before Sir Peter Laurie on remand, the former charged
with stealing various articles the property of his em-
ployers, Messrs. Borras and Co., warehousemen, Alder-
'Danbury, and the latter with receiving the goods, know-
ing them to have been stolen.
Mr. Buchanan defended Stevens.
After hearing some further evidence implicating the
prisoners in the robbery they were committed for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
DARING GAROTTE RODDERY.—Edward William, a
tall, stout young fellow, was brought before Mr. Bing.
ham, charged with the following daring garotte robbery
Thomas Sparkes, a seaman residing at No. 5, Tyler's-
court, Regent-street, stated that last night he met with
the prisoner and two other men in a public-house near
Leicester-square, where he treated them with something
to drink. Witness was rather fresh at the time, but
knew what he was about. After remaining in the public-
house for some time, they adjourned to a coffee-house in
Castle-street and partook of some coffee. They then
left the house, and directly he got outside he felt quite
drunk and stupid, as if he had been drugged. The
prisoner and the two other men supported bins, and after
proceeding a short distance down the street they pushed
him into a court, and the prisoner seized him by the
throat and threw him down, while the other two men
rifled his pockets, taking from them a purse containing
V. 10s., and a silver watch worth 4/.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

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THAMES.

CONVICTION OF A DANomsous Win. Oabotan,
aged 18, described as having no trade and no home,
was brought up on remand, before Mr. Yardley, charged
with stealing a large quantity of carpenters' tools. It
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father, who died in that town a month before, and that,
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statement, said he courted investigation, and told such
a plausible story to the inspector that he was about to
be liberated, when Cleary begged that he might be de-
tained until he made inquiry at the wharves. This
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proposition was acceded to, and Cleary soon ascertained
that no steamboat hadarrived that afternoon from New-
castle, and this information decided the inspector in
detaining the prisoner. This morning four carpenters
attended to identify the tools in the basket, and one of
them, Thomas Sparkes, selected 20 different tools from
the basket, and said they were his property, and he had
been put to great inconvenience by the loss of them. Jas.
Sparkes identified one tool, and two carpenters recog-
nised other tools. Cleary said the basket of tools was
stolen from a shed in a carpenter's yard, in the Horaferry
Branch-road, Ratcliff, on the night he Stepped the pri-
soner. The shed had been repeatedly broken open and
tools and other property stolen. The proprietor of the
*led believed the prisoner was connected with a gang of
thieves who were continually plundering carpenters'
workshops.

The prisoner said he would plead guilty to the charge;
and on being asked if he had anything to say of him.
self, he said he had been a traveller all over England,
Ireland, and Scotland; that his father died at Newcastle,
where he was born, a fortnight ago, and that he came
up to London in search of work.

Mr. Yardley was afraid the prisoner was telling lies,
and he had no doubt he belonged to that dangerous
class of thieves who were continually stealing work-
men's tools and breaking into carpenters' workshops.
He sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for 6 months
in the House of Correction, and kept to hard labour.

SOUTHWARK.
DARING WATCH ROBBERY AT THE BRIGHTON AND
CROYDON RAILWAY ZEIMINIIO.—John Williams, a well-