The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-08 00:00:00

THAMES

A TALE OF WOF.—A wretched-looking young wo-
man, 3 native of Suotland, barefooted and bareheaded,
and very lightly clad in garments saturated with lain,
came before Mr. Selfe, and told her pitiable tale, which
excited much commiseration,
The poor creature, who was shivering and very cold,
said she was the daughter of a soldier who was killed at
the battle of the Alma. She had been employed for
some time at a factory, in Glasgow, and the work be-
coining slack, she went to Manchester, but could not
obtain employment there, and walked to London. She
went into the hop district, in Kent, and obtained a few
days' work, and at the termination of the pickings re-
turned to London, and had been wandering about en•
deavouring to obtain employment, but without success.
She was afflicted with rheumatism, her legs were 'my
bid, and in this state she applied to the authorities al
the workhouse, St. George-in-the-East, Old Gravel-lane,
last night, for relief. She was allowed a night's lodging
in the workhouse, and tu rued out this morning.
Mr. Selfe—l think if the Board of Guardians of St.
George knew your case they would take you into the
workhouse; effectually relieve you, and pats you back
to your native country. You seem to be in a very de-
pllrable condition. Ho wrote a note to Mr. Rooke, the
rolieving officer of St. George, recommending the case
of the applicant to his notice, and ordered her a shilling
from the poor-box.

Major the lion. IT. Butler Johnstone, M.P., has
which was embodied for permanent
joined his r gianent, the Dumfries, Roxburgh, and
Selkirk
Dumfriesit on the let inst.
servicea
tAi iI

THE NEW BOARD OF CONSERVATORS or THE THANES.
—The following form the new Board of Conservaters of
the Thames under the Act of la t session :—For the
Admiralty—Capt. H. Austin, R.N., and Commodore
Shepherd, R.N. ; Board of Tra le—Captain Sulivan,
RN. ; and the Trinity-house- Captain Shepherd, the
Deputy Master, and Captain Drew. The new beard
will hold their sitttings at Guildhall.
AN UNNATURAL FATHER.—A journeyman carpenter,
named Mesnil, of 45, lire St. Jacque, was on Saturday
tried by the Tribunal of Correctional Police for ill-treat-
ing his son, aged eleven. It was proved that he had
made a sort of box in ,ahich h,, fai'e;:ed the chill's leg
by means of a chain, elo;;e:i by a padlock, and eotupeled
the poor boy to remain so for days together. Being unable
to change his position, the poor c1,i13 Ruff :red greatly,
and uttered loud cries. The neighbours at length corn-
phined to the police, and rescued the boy. Toe man
admitted that he had confined the boy in a "little ma.
chine," but said that he had done so because the child,
being of a roving disposition, would not remain at home
The tribunal sentenced the father to six mon• iropri-
s mment.
The execution of four natives of Morocco, who in May
last were tried and found guilty of the murder of th-•
wife, two children, and the servant of a farmer, residing
at La Senia, took place at on the 28th ult. at Oran. 0
the keeper of the prisoner informing them in the morn-
ing that their last hour had arrived, they heard the
announcement with the most perfect calmness and sub-
'pitted without a murmur to the last preparations.
They each'before setting out for the place of execution
asked for a cup of coffee, which was given them. They
were csnveyed to the scaffold in a cart under an escort of
gendarm aim, and as the crowd assernflecl amounted at
least to 10,000 persons, it was deemed n ,cessary to sur-
round the scaffold with a cordon of troops The ctn.
demned men ascended the steps with great firmness, and
in a few seconds human justice was satisfi
BOBBERY BY A COACHMAN.—A person of Vaugirard,
who died a few days back, left a considerable r•um in
money and securities, t gether with various (ffects ;
and, in order to afford time to ascertain his directions
repecting the disposal of them, they were placed in a
room which was sealed up. A coachman of Sceacx
was nornisaed guardian of the seals and eequestrator.
On Saturday it was disciivered that the seal. had been
broken, and that the guardian had disappeared. Ile
was at once sought for and was soon arrested. Oe
being searched he was found to have placed beneath
his arm-pit a small pocket-heok, and in this pocket
book were a 4,0001. and 1001. note, four Victor Em-
manuel railway share's. a share of CA'.43,40 Generale des
Chemins de Fer, a share of the Comptoir Genersi de la
Bourse, and a security for 12,000 f. rents. The man
was sent to the Prefecture, and there ordered for trial.
RIOTING IN BORRISOKANE.—At the fair at Borrisokane
on last Saturday, after the business of the day, the farm-
ing and labouring classes indulged to a great extent in
drinking spirituous liquors, which was attended with the
most disgraceful riots, and were it not for the unceasing
exertions of a large police force, under Sob-inspector
Healy, in arresting the priucipa's, the most serious
consequences might have eventuated. The conetabu

lary patrolled the town, which was greatly disturbed
till late at night, and while supprev4ing a riot at
eight o'clock Sub-constable Aiken was knocked
down, kicked on the face, from the effects of
which he bled profusely, and was so seriously injured
that he is not yet pronounced out of danger by Dr.
M'G►rvey, who was promptly on the spot and dressed
his wounds. Sub-constable Dwyer also received injuries
of the hand, but not of a serious nature. Head constable
Aubrey arrested the principals, who were fighting in a
most serious manner, and conveyed them with much
difficulty to the barracks. A large number of persons
were arrested during the day, and Mr. Sadleir, J.P.,
with Mr. Saunders, J. 13,, remained to a late hour of the
night disposing of the several cases, some of which were
remanded to the next petty sessions.—Nenag.k Guardian
In the tobacco manufactory of M. Prmtorins at Berlin
has just been constructed a machine for making cigars.
It rolls 5,000 cigars a-day, and economii.ea both tobacco
and manual labour.

SWINDLING BY A LADY.—The polico have just re-
ceived information that, for some time past, an ele-
gantly-dressed young woman, carrying a splenidly bound
prayer- h.mk, as if she had just returned from church,
has been in the habit of going to the shops of mercers,
lace-dealers and jewellers, and after inep cting goods
with great care, giving orders in the name of the
Marquise de Sainte Colombo, or the wife of a
wealthy manufacturer of Amiens, or of other per-
sons, all of whom turned out not to exist ; she, on
earth occasion, contriving to absttaot pieces of silk
or lace, or articles of jewellery. The police escer-
tained that she had resided at an hotel in the Rae
Notre-Dame des-Victoires, but disappeared a few
days ago. Sho left a large trunk which she bad
represented to contain works of art of great value,
but it was found to have nothing in it but stones and
straw. The pclice have also learned that a man, repre-
senting himself to be a comedian, has lately been swind-
ling theatrical performers pretty extensively on the pre
text of raising a fund for the relief of a provincial actor_
named Verdier, who, be stated, had fallen into.distress,
though no such person exists. A few days back, it ap-
pears, this swindler did a very impudent thing. A
young actress to whom he appliei for a subscrip-
tion said, pulling out her puree, " I have only a
piece of 201 r. you see, and I cannot afford to give that I"
"Oh !" said the man, "—rwiltget you ohm gv !" and he
snatched the coin from her hand, went off with it, and
never returned.

PRESENCR oP MIND.—The Norwalk (Connecticut)
Gazette says—".on Satarday last a runaway hor,e
rushed up Main-street in that town and ran into the
New Canaan stage, in which there were. two ladies, a
Mra. Raymond, with an infant in her arms, and Mrs.
Huested, wife of the Rev. Mr. Huested, of the Methodist
Church, with her three children and another Ia• 1. The
collision started the stage horses at a furious speed with
all its precious freight of frightened women and children.
Mrs. Raymond jumped out with her child in her arms,
but was struck on her back and head, and was very
seriously, if not fatally injured. The child was unhurt.
But Mrs. Huested, though a small, frail woman, had
the courage and presence of mind needed in such an
emergency. She did not jump, but with great difficulty
kept the children from leaping or falling out, and finally
made them lie down at the bottom of the stage. She
then climbed forward, seized the reins, which were 'tied
in front, and succeeded in so far controlling the fright-
ened steeds as to avoid collisions or overtures until they
reached New-bridge, a distance of a mile and a-half,
when she brought them to a stand. Her coolness,
probably, alone saved all inside from severe injury, if
not death. Scores of terrified citizens—some of them
probably fathers and friends—pursued the 'atag,e, but
could do nothing to assist its inmates. There probably
bad not been so many blanched cheeks in Norwalk since
the terrible railroad disaster as when these horses were
seen tearing at such a furious speed with a stage filled
with women and little children."

ROBBERY BY A SOLDIER.—The Military Tribunal on
Saturday tried a young soldier of the 2d regiment of the
Imperial Guard, named Fvrard, for robbery. On the
3d August he went to the shop of M. Cohen, a money-
changer in the Rae Vivienne, and offered for sale some
bonds, 12 in number he said, of the Western Rail-
way. The changer offered 3,0001. for them, and
the man, in answer to his inquiry, represented
that he was servant to a gentleman of 72, Rue
Richelieu. M. Cohen said that he must pay the
money at the gentleman's lodging?, and he taok his hat
to go with him there. The man expressed a disinclina-
tion to go home, and begged for the money at once ;
but Cohen would not love it, and they lett together.
After going a short distance, the man said that he had
changed his mind, and would not deli the bonds ; and he
requested the money-changer to restore them. But
the latter, who had begun to suspect that all was not
right, refused to give them up, and on counting them he
found that then) were 13, and not 12 ; this increased his
suspicion, and he gave the man into custody. The man
then sail that lie was no domestic, but a soldier and
servant to Captain Dupont, of the 2J Regiment of the
Guard, in garrison at Rued, and that he had found the
bonds. It then turned out that the bonds belonged to
an old lady named Chalvet, in whose house the captain
lodged ; that she was accustomed, from fear of
robbery, to carry them always about her, and to place
them wrapped in a handkerchief under her pillow at
night ; that she had iu the morning of the 3d August
forgotten them there ; and that the prisoner had been
able to steal them, because, in consequence of his being
a quiet !young man, she had given him a small sum
weekly to masse the bed for her. The tribunal c,n-
deinued the man to eleven months' imprisonment.

THE FINANCIAL NECESSITIES Or TIIRKEY.—Under
this head the Revue Contemporaine publishes a paper
by M. Eugene Poujade, from which we glean the fol-
lowing :—ln virtue of the Tanitnat, the inequality of
taxation has almost entirely disappeared, the only
difference still in existence resulting from the dif
ferent periods at which the harvests are got in in
that vast empire, and the different nature of the
produce. There are also certain districts privi-
leged in consquence of treaties or otherwise, such as
Moldavia and Wallachia, Servia, Egypt, the island of
Samos, Mount Lebanon, and the merely nominal vassals,
such as the Princes of Abyssinia, Yemen, Tunis, and
Montenegro. With these exceptions, taxation is regu-
larly established everywhere as follows :-1. The land
tax (verguioo, meaning donation), amounting to 51 per
thousand of the value of the estates. 2. The ianei
askeriyelt, or poll tax (formerly kharadj), txscted from
those who are not Mussulmans, and not liable to serve
in the army. This tax amounts to about 80 millions of
piastres (about 20 millions of francs). 3. The Russoomat,
or tithes, viz., the oche or corn tithe, the bcdelat or fruit,
wine, cattle, and oil tithe (both these being due by
all subjects_of the Porte without exception), the gum,
rule, or customs duty, of 12 per cent, on exports and
five per cent. on imports, and lastly, the .Russoomate
mute ferriece or sundries, consisting of certain duties
levied on passports, stamped paper, manufactures,
ports, wharfs, &e. The sum total of the product:
of all thesetaxes is perhaps inaccurately estimated at 220
millions of francs per annum. The public debt of Turkey
is composed of the following items : amount of two loan.,
200,000,000 francs ; paper money bearing interest.
60,000,00 W.; ditto not bearing interest, 76,000,000 f. ;
debts of the arsenal, 16,000,0001. ; ditto of ropliana,
10,000,000 f. ; ditto of theseraskierate, 10,000,000 f. civil
list of the Sultan, 40,000,000 f. ; sundries, resulting from
war, &c., 80,000,000 francs. Total, 492,000,000
francs. This debt, M. Poujade says, is far from exor-
bitant compared with the resources of the empire. Mar
metallic currency in circulation amounts to about
160,000,000 francs ; it does not clntain more than 45
per cent. of intrinsic value, and the balance of value
therefore, constitutes an additional debt, which will bi
fel, as soon as Turkey shall begin to substitute unalloyed
coin for this base currency, which she will seon be
obliged to do in order to establish her credit. The paper
money being depreciated in proportion to the eoin, tilt
Turkish Government will, in the event contemplated.
have to reimburse it at its full value, an operation whicl,
Will entail an additional loss of about 70,000,000 francs.