The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-21 00:00:00

THE LATE DUEL AT BERLIN.

The North Prussian Gazette, of the 17th inst.,
contains the following declaration, sent to it for
publication by Herr von Rochow, of Krabne, the
brother of Herr von Hinekeldey's opponent :

" The accounts, partly incorrect anA partly false, that
have been circulated concerning the cause of the duel be-
tween the Director General of Police, Herr von Hinckeldey,
and Herr von Rochow, of Plessow, make it incumbent on
me, as the brother of the latter to make known the follow-
ing particulars, the truth of which in every sense I guaran-
tee. The conduct of the police towards the member,' of
the Jockey Club ire the month of June last year induced
my brother to lodge a complaint, which led to the punish.
most, for breach of discipline, and the removal of Herr
D—, the lieutenant of police, and it afforded to my
brother the satisfaction of seeing the official acts of Herr
D--- condemned as unjustifiable, and sae injurious to
the parties who had suflered by them. Inn convention
that took ;free° respecting this affair between my- brother,
accempauied by Herr —, and the Director-General of
Pollee, von H u:keldey, the Latter mil le to tl.em a comta":11-
nicatien which my brother considered himself bound
after ho had taken down the expressions, and verified
their acenracy by written and verbal conference with
Herr —, to repeat to two other gentlersien, the parties
most concerned. One of those gentlemen, belonging to
the military profession, considered himself obliged in con-
sequence to lay the care before the Council of Honour,
which step caused the putting of a question to Herr von
Hinckeldey. In reply, Herr von Hiuckeldy declared offi-
cially that ho had not made that consmunication to Herr
von Rochow and Herr —. The military tribunal above-
named, upon receiving this answer, declined proceeding '
further in the affair. Through Herr von Hinckeldey'e ,
official declaration, my brother lay under the imputation
of having uttered an untruth ; but being, on his side, con-
vinced that he had strictly and faitiffnlly reported the ex-
pressions of Her von Ifineketley, he cempleined through
the official channel, and demanded, by stating the affair
and bringing forward Herr as a witness, that Herr
von Hinckol ley should be made acqueinteivrith his paint,
and that he should be induced to make such a declaration
ae to render it possible for him (the complainant) to alter
his opinion that Herr Vora Hinckeldey had officially
uttered an untruth. This plaint led to various other
ate s, but in the cause itself ta no further result than the
judicial dedlelon, imparted to my brother, that no reason
appeared for officially prosecuting the matter. In the
course of these negotiations it transpired that Herr von
Hinckeldey thought and maintained that his communica-
tion had not been as represouted, and that it did not bear
the construction put on it by Messrs, von Rochow and
—0 bet that he had merely made it hypothetically, and,
moredver, cenftdentially. This latter assertion was not
assented to by my brother; on the contrary, it was de-
clared positively by him, as wellss by Herr —, that
Herr von Hinckeldey had made no appeal to the discretion
of himself or Herr so far as the expression was
concerned, but solely far another part of the conversation,
and upon this point he and Herr were entirely agreed
from the very first, when the purport of the conversation in
question was verified between them. My brother attached
such importance to this point that he made the omission
of it by Herr von flinckeldel the condition of a settlement
sought to be arranged by the mediation of a third party.
This condition was also accepted by Herr Yoe Hinckeldey,
and thus an understanding was effected reenacting the con-
tents of a declaration which the latter was to make touch-
ing the disputed expresaion that had given rise to the
proeeediegs, But an understanding could not be effected
respecting the form in which this declaration was to be
drawn up. The case appeared quite as little to the judi-
cial authorities as it did to Heft von Hinckeldey to war-
rant a legal plaint, even on the grounds of private wrong,
although my brother emphatically repudiated tie insinne-
tbsn made of Eris wishing to provoke a duel, and although
he expressly resorted to this judicial mode of vindication,
-Under such circurustatioese my brother thought he need
entertain no scruple of presenting to one of the gentlemen
named above, who requests it, a copy of the resolution
adapted by the military tribunal, declining the mediation
of the Council of Honour, together with comments of hie
own on the steps actually taken or intended to be taken
by himself with the authorities in order to obtain an offi-
eial settienient. Haling been Made acquainted with the
resolution in question, Herr von Minekekley sent my bro-
ther a challenge to fight a duel with pistoled The issue of
that-dtiel has been already made known by the umpire,
Herr v. d. Marwitz, whose statement was published in
Na. 61 of the Xcus Prussian Gazette for tho 12th of March,
this years "A. vole Rocuow, of Krohn°.
" Berlin, Mardi 11, i81)0."

LORD ST. LEONATtDS AND THE IRISH COURT OF CHAN-
citt—Yesterday was published a copy of the communi-
cation addressed to the late Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, Mr. Goulbura, by Sir E. B. Sugden (now Lord
S. Leouards), on about the month of December, 1344,
relating to the finances of the Irish Couit of Chancery.
This paper contains sundry suggestions oa matters of
detail, including arrangements respecting salaries, the
appointing of a taxing-officer, and other points of a simi-
lar character.
PILOTAGE RETURNS.—A blue-book of 300 pages, just
out, contains voluminous returns of the by-laws and
regulations relating to pilots and pilotage, the names
and ages of pilot 4, the rates of pilotage in force, and the
amounts received for pilotage at the various ports. It
appeArA that the total amount received for piloting yes-
-els into the port of London in the year 1854 was
81,551/. on British and foreign ships. The total amount
received for piloting vessels out of the said tort of Lon
don in 1854 was 36,001/. These returns were ordered
§ to be printed last August, but have only just made their
appaikmuce.

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THE O.BI.IIRAN CAMPAIGN.

,
arestroun, March 18.—List evening, Mr. Aegestrie
Staffers% M.P., appeared bef.ere a large audience at the
Arssombly-rooms in this town, to give an account of two
, expeditions undertaken by him to the Crimea in two rue-
! coaling years—viz.. in 1851 :ten 1855—in which, as he
remarked, he found at the same place and among the
i same peoele a state of things ea utterly different.
After a few prefatory observations, the lecturer said be
should begin his narrative at Marseilles, proceed thence
to the Crimea, and then conduct them to that place which
had been the subject of so many sympathies—Scutari.
' He embarked on the 24 Sept. last at Marseilles, on
board the Meta, 'an English transport, with 760 French
troops. Cholera was in the town when they sailed,
and eight hours after wards it broke out ainoug the
troops on board. As they steamed southward the heat
increased, and so did the cholera. This large number of
men had been sent out without any medicine whatever.
Not, possessing the silent fortitude of English soldiers,
their cries were most piteous. On reaching Malta, the
state of the ship was so horrible that he almost deter-
mined to quit it; but, at the urgent request of many
poor sufferers, he was induced to stay with them. Cholera
then began among, the English ,tailors. After briefly
glancing at the scenes which ensued before the close of
the voyage, the lecturer remarked that the French
transport system is not, with all faults, so gelid
as ours. It was told him by a French officer on
board, and it had been confirmed indirectly by many per-
eons who had opportunities of ascertaining the sae e
statistics, that this French hail lost between July,
1854, arid July, 1855—slain in battle, left dead on the
field, 12,000 ; died afterwards of woueds received iu '
battle, 7,000 ; Sent home with loss of limb or broken in
constitution, 25,000 ad ied of disease, chiefly diarrlicee, cho-
lera, and dysentery, 60,000—total loss, about 105,000,
exclusive of all who had i een killed or died during the
last seven months. "But," added his interment, "we
do not put this in the newspapers ; we only report a lees
of 20,000. You English know too much about your
army ; we know tio little." The hon. member then de-
scribed Balaklava harbour, stating that he should think
the bay was not above 400 acres in extent. The first
s law lie had of SebastoPol—he spoke as a civilian—made
him wonder why our army did not advance and take it
at once, and 10 minutes' explanation from 'an artillery
officer melts him despair of taking it at all. Ile went
through the town after it was taken, and he must say
that the evidences of the civilisation of Russia, judging
from that town, nearly, if not fully, equalledanything in
this country ; and, though we were at war with Russia,
he could not ride through Sebastopol without a sigh to see
so many homestead., so utterly laid waste. It was cur-
prising .to see the vast amount of earth which had been
raised to the top of the Mamelon and of the Redan in
the fa, eof the enemy. This was as wonderful to our
engine:- e es it wee wonderful to our Commissariat how
the Russians lied been ante to feed so vast an army with
the sea supply entirely cut off. Bearing these facts in
mind, hs. must ray he thought that history would award
t ee glory to the defenders rather than to the besiegers of
Sel a qopol. While he was standing near the Green-hill
' a t ry a cennen shot carne by him, and it struck him
that it was like the sound of crisp snow driven sharply
over ice. The hen. men bsr ueet do scribed " that most
mis treble villa re of Ba'aklaea," the iiifainous extol.. ions
praeNserl by Melte ea loni in, and it thee et ilikeepers in
its street e and the horrors et its hospital, where he found
-urgeons querrell ng with orderlies, and orderlies with
surge* la while thew. we tched patients died. No ar-
rangemen's were ma le for t' • e nharkation of the sick
at Balakia a. Somelim a the French were cbliged to
c e.r4 down our tick to the,s, shore ; there were not sufii-
eie4 boats to embark them when they got to the shore,
end4hen the transp its came the unfortunate creatures
had to lie on the hard boards until the skin was worn cff
thei' pints by the friction occasioned by the motion of
the vessel. Yon might treed the course of these tran-
sparest from B ilakiave harbour to the entrance of the
B si)hsrue by the skeletons of the m'serable sick thrown
overboard on the way. On arriving in the Bosphorus,
owing to the insufficiency of accommodation, three or
four day; i ome`dmes elapsed heft re the sufferers could
be landel; when they did 'and there were ne arrange-
' merits for supplying th m with food, or for their recep-
, tienjin tl e h ispitais ; and, between one thing and ano-
the 1, he had kno vn th tin to be from 4 o'clock in the
e.ftefuomi until 12 the next day without anything to eat.
AltOgethee so dire was the aspect of affairs at Scutari
thae.it seemed as if He even had forsaken us, and as if
our 1 sins lad given us over to destruction. At this
juncture cone Florence Nightingale, and then order
swede out of cl a .s. Our story brightened from the arri- .
vat id that lady there. He was at Scuteri in the autumn
of 1854. and then he saw the horrors which all had heard
desnribed, and which he would not attempt to describe
agave He was there in the autumn of 1855, and ell was
changed. Confusion had given place to order, flair to
cleanlinessthe aggravation or neglect of every human
suf4ring tithe mitigation of all the evils of war. But
th ~4) was one hing not cheep el. He found among our
soldiers the same geed feelit g, the same noble demea-
nour the came heroic spirit that he witnessed the year
bef re. And there Was another thing not changed ; for
in t e same little room, with no Luxuries and very, few
co, orts, engaged in her cea-ele's work, there he found
Florence Nightingale. Considering the difficulties she
had: bad to contend with, she had been one of the few
that had not disappointed England. He was in the
French tent hospital at the front of the camp, and they
owned that in the comforts and luxuries supplied to the
sick and wounded they could no longer compete with us.
Re lasked Mica Nightingale, " What do you think of the
soldiers now V' She said, " They have their faults, and
thoSe who in their several positions in life may teel that
the have a little nsg,lecteil the education of the lower
orders will be the last to blame those brave men for the
faults they do possess ; but they respond to kindness and
theY recognise discipline, and, for ourselves, we Lave
never heard from them one word or seen one gesture
tha4 might not have I een fitted for the drawing-rocm.
They Laval Inert to ris, and to all the ladies, gentlemen
aediCeristiaes." He asked one poor fellow what he
tie Meht of Miss Nightingale, and the reply was, "Well,
I hope she will go up to Heaven before she dies." Afer
glaucing at the huriAl-place at Scutari, where as many
as IC corpses were ecc,ionally consigned ceffinless to
the 'arth at ins time, the lion, member concluded an
elequent and highly-interesting lecture with a glowing
tribute to the memory of the bravo men who had so
nobly fought and died for their country—themselves
desdendauts of the heroes wile fought at Agiremrt, at
Blenheim, and at Waterloo. Tne lecture was listened
to With marked atfeetion throughout, and frequently
elicited hearty applause.

MK. LAYARD AT ABERDEEN.

Itesterday Mr. Layar,/, M.P., was reinstated as Lord
Rector of Mariscbal C9liege and University, Aberdeen.
In the incrning he was entertained at a public break-
fa.li and hat a most fl,tering leception. On the sub-
ject!of the war he said, " There is every probability that
by the end of the month we shall have a treaty of peace
signed. Very few public men cl.:sirc war, and peace in
the 'abstract Is certainly more to be wished fir, but I
have no confidence that the present peace wilt be upon
the ' whole a satisfactory one, and there is scarcely a
man to be found from the Lard's-end to John-o-Grlat's
but would like another year of war—(great cheering)—
and for these reasons ; first, the political aspect of the
quei.tion does not warrant us to expect a lasting
peace, and, second, now we we fully prepared fur it,
another year's war would show the world that there is
that in Englishmen which would conquer every difficulty.
(Cheers.) If we have peace now matters will be left in
pretty much the saws state as that in which we found
them. (Hear.) True, we have protected Turkey against
Russian aggression in the Black Sea ; but, so far as the
great questions of civil and religious liberty are con-
cerned, they remain pretty untie) the same as they were
before the war began, and therefore, I think, the peace
will be premature."
The installation took place at to o o'clock in the great
halm of the University, and was a most successful affair.

AWFUL DEATH OF AN ATTENDANT
UPON NAPOLEON THE _FIRST.

Yesterday Mr. William Carter, the coroner for Sur-
rey, held an inquest, in the Board-room of Lambeth
Workhouse, on the body of Ann Coleman, aged 75 years,
who was burned to death under the following circum-

stances :

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The deceased was a regular attendant upon the great
Napoleon, and travelled with him over many parts of
the globe, ge'sg even as far as St. Helena, when he
was sent to that plane. Having returned to this country,
she (the deceased) during the last three or four years
bad been lodging 10 the hoase of Mr. Fawkes, a stone.
mason, 76, Union-street, Lambeth-walk, where she dis-
played great eccentricity of character, and, until two
days before her death, would never all :w any one to
enter her apartment. Being, however, taken suddenly
ill, she sent for a little girl to attend upon her. On Tees-
day night last, Mr. Fawkes, her landlord, came home,
and whilst in his room he heard the deceased groan,
1 and, on proceeding to her room, he found the door
locked. Atter knocking some time at the door, and
getting no answer,
the dcor was forced, when a fright-
ful scene presented itself, for the unfortunate female was
found on the flu r with her e:Jothes on fire. The fire
having been extinguished by Mr. Fawkes and others, a
medical gentleman was sent for, and the poor creature
was covered with flour, and afterwards removed to the
infirmary of the workhouse, where everything was done
for her that humanity or surgical skill eoullde
to devise,
but but in spite of which the deceased was only able
give
her age and say that her shawl took fire, and her ce the
accident which caused her death. Verdict, "Accidental
Death."
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RIGHTS OF WAY AT KENSlNGTON.—Considerable ex
citernent has recently been manifested ia the town of
Kensingbon in consequence of the stopping up of a foot-
path opening a way between a large and populous dis-
trict of the parish of Kensington Gardens. A very large
and most respectable public meeting assembled last
Tuesday at the Vestry-ball upon the subject, and on
Wednesday the vestry elected under the new act took
up the matter with equal warmth and feeling. 1?or years
the inhabitants bad been urging on the Govern went to
concede to them this great public convenience, rand laPt
year the Office of Woods, as soon as they got. posteskioii
of the grounds, with great consideration for the comfort
of the inhabitants, made a footpath across it, and threw
it open fur general benefit. The Board of Ordnance, it
is now understood, have again acquired possession, and
their first act has been to close the footpath and to put
the Kensington public to great inconvenience. In these
days, when it ought to be the object of a Government
to throw open all convenient thoroughfares for the ac-
commodation of the inhabitants of this unwieldy metro-
polis, it is a novelty of no very pleasing description when
the Government steps in and withdraws from a larg4
population a convenience which has been Co recently
granted.