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LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1856.

able Harlequin—Very " fowl" proceedings—The Seductive
Sedan-chair--Strange Birds in a Cage.
WATCHMAKERS' ESTABLISHMENT, CHRONOMETI-
CAL-VILLE—MILLINERS' ESTABLISHMENT, BON-
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BELLEVILLE.

Home from Scotland—Cab Fares and Mayne Force —The
Movements of the Age—What's o'clock—" The Clock strikes
two"—How to Ring a Belle—Umbrella Courtship—Who's
your Hatter ?--Early Closing Association—" Love Laughs
at Locksmiths"—La Varioviana—The Strike of Belles against
Time. -

Grand Equestrian Feats, by Signor Flexinorini.
HIGH-STREET, SPIRIT-SQUARE.
Apartments to Let.
A Cold Roll for Breakfast—The Organised Nuisance Ta-
bleaux—Punch's Pocket Book—Patent''Perambulators—Ast-
ley's Equestrian Feats—Policemen and Cooks—Monsieur
Tierce—All-round Collars and Punch's Coats—The quickest
way to the Coal-collar—Spirit Rapping Extraordinary.

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CONTRACT FOR SCOTCII BARLEY.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling,
Somerset-House, 10th January, Igh
.11HE Commissioners for executing the Office of
IL Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
nd Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the
22d inst., at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with ,tsch
persons as may he to contract for supplying and delivering in' o
her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned
article, viz.:—

When to be delivered.
Lbs. Half in 3 weeks, and the remainder in
SCOTCH BARLEY ..50,000 3 weeks afterwards, or earlier if pre-
ferred by the party tendering.

Tenders may he made for the whole or any portion of the Barley

Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten-
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thereof only as they may deem tit, or for a greater quantit7, or of
not contracting forany, and also an unlimited power of selection.

Samples of the Barley knot less than 21bs.j•must be produced by
the parties tendering.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted
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No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro-
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and bear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tender for Scotch
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THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES..

BUCHAREST, DEC. 26.
I have just had an opportunity, at .the house of
a friend of mine, who has lately returned from a
business journey through all -the principal places of
Wallachia, of inspecting a number of authentic
documents, which he had received from the autho-
rities of various towns, who parted with them most
readily, seeing that no obligation to secrecy is im-
posed on the Government employes in Wallachia
with regard to notorious facts that have taken
place before everybody's eyes ; moreover, .there
exists but one feeling of indignation in Wallachia
that the complaints of all the inhabitants and all
the- constituted authorities as to the conduct of
the Austrian soldiery meet with no attention, and
nothing like punishment ensues with a view to
prevention for- the future. I send you herewith an
extract of some of the reports of the local authori-
ties.r AM 'they extend over a considerable space of
titne, and• over nearly the whole of Wallachia, they
affOrd an interesting proof how, alas ! only too true
;those descriptions in the press have been that have
represented the discipline and the conduct of the.
Augtrian soldiery, at all times and in all places,
from the time of their entry until now, as extremely
defective and lamentable. On the saute occasion
I saw a list of all the murders of inhabitants of
Wallachia and Moldavia, which, as is shown by
Official documents, have been committed by Aus-
trian rioldirs, with the names and dates attached,
together with. reference to th• reports containing
the facts. If the course hitherto pursued of deny-
ing the truth Hof notorious facts
.be still continued,
inetead of the persons -in authority insisting upon
stricter discipline being observed, it is already re-
solved on to publish this other list. We should,
on the other hand, be curious to see a list of any
real and corresponding punishments that have been
inflicted in consequence. Nobody in all Wallachia
knows of a single instance of an exemplary punish-
ment, and yet it would have been only politic, had
any such taken place, to give it the greatest amount
of publicity possible, so that men's minds might
have been tranquillised on this point—viz., that
perfect impunity is not assured to tke culprits.
The following is the extract I have made from the
above-mentioned collection :

BUCHAREST.
An Austrian sub-officer, in a state of drunkenness,
thrust himself, Oct. 2, 1854, with his sabre in his hand,
into the rooms appropriated to the Turkish regimental
band, and, to judge by his threats and his gestures,
would have wounded various people if those present had
not succeeded in delivering him in custody to the guard.
A police employe reported, Nov. 23, 1854, that an Aus-
trian soldier had broken open the door of the house of an
inhabitant, and, sabre in hand, had searched for some-
body whom he was unable to find. A gendarme, who
was coining oat of this house, received from this soldier,
as he was entering, a sabre wound over his eye, of so
grave a nature that he was obliged to be taken to the
hospital.
The Austrian Corporal Skafa, of the Lancer regiment
Princerail, committed an assault on the Bojar Paul
Stefaneske, and thereby inflicted on him such severe
blows with a cudgel that he was left half dead. The
Bojar's life was fortunately saved by a number of per-
sons rushing to his rescue.
All the proprietors of vineyards in Colontina have
sent in their complaints against the Austrian military
that they destroy their vineyards, steal their grapes and
other fruits, fire their pistols at the vinedressers and
other servants when they venture' to remonstrate with
them, and even wound them with their sabres.
The Yellow Commission (local board), ,in a report
dated Feb. 13, 1855, informed the police of Bucharest
that an Austrian corporal, who had been drinking beer
and spirits at the shop of the Serdar Anastasius Gazoti,
in the faubourg Rastranoul, instead of paying his reck-
oning, drew his sabre and wounded the landlord Joseph,
who required payment of him. His wife was treated in
the same way, on coming to his help. Nobody could
prevent him, for he defended himself with his sabre until
he left the shop.
*The erme board reports on the 7th of May, 1855, to
the Bucharest police that an Austrian soldier has run
through with his sword a certain Nedelko, aubergiste in
the faubourg Batista, from which wound he died the
following day. A Tzigan belonging to T. Floresco, who
was present, and endeavoured to come to the assistance
of the aubergiste, was also wounded by the soldier.
DISTRICT ILFOV. _

Some Austrian soldiers were marching towards Bolin
tinow die Vale, on their road to Bucharest, on the 30th
of Sept., 1854. After everything had been supplied to
them that they required, one of them went to the auber-
-gide of the village, Basile Basilica, and used threats to
his servants. The latter took to their heels on seeing him
draw his sabre. He, however, pursued one of them,
and gave him two cuts over the head with his sabre, be-
sides various wounds on the arm, after which the soldier
made off. A strict investigatiou was made into the
matter, which corroborated the above statement, but
nothing has been ever done to the soldier to punish him
for the violence committed on the person of the servant.
The sub prefecture of Snagovu reports to the prefec-
ture of Bucharest, under date of September 22, 1854,
that the Austrian soldiery during their march throug
that district are committing a number of acts of uncon-
trolled excess, carrying off the oxen and the carts, rob-
bing the landed proprietors, and taking from the inha-
bitants anything and everything they tyke a fancy to.
Another report of the court of justice in the village
of Dragonureschti, sent into the prefecture of Bucha-
rest, dated September 29, 1854, states that four Aus-
trian soldiers came into the tavern there, and, after hav-
ing eaten and drunk there without paying, began to
maltreat an ecclesiastic present, in the expectation that
the rent of the priests would be by this conduct com-
pelled to leave the premises. But when they saw that
this trick did not succeed, and that only the priest with-
drew, they went out after him and caught him up just
in front of his own house. His brother and sister-in-law
rushed out to his assistanre on hearing his cries for help ;
his brother was killed on the spot, and the other per-
sons who took his part severely beaten.
The inhabitants of Buniassa made a complaint in Ja-
uary, 1855, to the prefecture in Bucharest, that the
Austrian soldiers, in spite of the severe frost, turned
them out of their houses, and their cattle oxt of their
stalls ; that they were conrtantly requiring of them an
unreasonable amount of service and waiting on, which
perfectly prevented them from earning their own liveli-
hood ; that already, in consequence of this r tugh treat-
ment, a great number of their cattle had died, and in
many other respects they had received considerable da-
mage.
To the same effect is also a complaint sent in by the
sub-prefecture of Snagovu.
Johann Stefanisko, residing in the neighbourhood of
Bucharest, complains that Austrian soldiers quartered
in Colontina have destroyed his whole vineyard, have
demolished his fruit trees, and burnt all his casks. On
the head gardener's remonstrating with them they gave
him several cuts with sabres on his head. The grapes
which the soldiers ate were still green, and the proprietor
has not been able as yet to obtain any indemnification.
DISTRICT PLOJESCHTI.
The sub•prefecture of Prahova reports, under date of
the 29th of December, 1854, that a troop of Austrian
soldiers, 209 strong, while on its march was quartered
in the village Kowarink on the various inhabitants for
the night. On that same night they broke open a ware-
house and stole from it 1,000 oka of dried plums, 1,500
oka of beans, 3 kilo of Turkish corn, 2 kilo of barley,
1 kilo of wheat, 2 chests of mineral waters, 1,000 oka of
apples, and 500 oka of pears. On applying for an indem-
nity to the Austrian commander in Kimpina the appli-
cants were informed that they must look for payment
from the'chief of the regiment of infantry in Bucharest,
Sigismund.
The sub-prefecture of Prahova reports in February,
1855, that the Austrian troops while marching through
committed all sorts of excesses and violence ; they broke
open the houses and cellars, and, among others, have
robbed one Radu Skafa of 120 piastres.
The Abbot of Bleriow reports to the Ministry of Pnb-
lic Worship that the Austrian troops that are encamped
there have cut down nearly the whole of the forest, and
are in all probability converting the wood into money,
seeing that they have already received from the local
Government all the firewood they require.
The police in Plojeschti report to the prefecture, De-
cember 21, 1854, that Austrian soldiers, on meeting the
shop-boy Radauk-Jowesko at the extreme end of the
town, beat him over the head till he was quite senseless.
After they had taken from him what money he had
about him, they gave him three or four stabs in the body,
from which he died in the hospital within 24 hours.
DISTRICT KRAJOVA.
Panajotti Theodor, one of the first merchants of Cra-
jova, was, Jan. 4, 1855, arrested by Austrians at the
Casina (a species of club), where he was together with a
number of men in business, and taken to the prefecture
under escort, kept there several days without any inves-
tigation being made into his case, and in spite of the re-
monstrances of the entire body of merchants and repeated
representations on the part of the Prefect.
The police of Krajova report, under date of Jan. 12,
1855. that at 2 o'clock that morning Austrian soldiers had
broken into the dwelling of the merchant Anastasin
Scherten6sko, and inflicted on both him and his wife (at
the time encicnte) several sabre wounds. The captain of
this company, on being informed of the circumstance by
the brother of the injured man, caused a search to be
made through the quarters of soldiers, by which means
six men were discovered whose weapons were found
stained with fresh blood. The certificate of M. Mini-
triadi declares that it was only with the greatest possible
care and attention that the lives of this couple could be
saved.