The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-25 00:00:00

ACTION FOR LIBEL.

In the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday, before the Lord
Chief Baron and a special jury, an action for libel was
heard. It was Drought by Dr. Henry E. Eastlake against
Dr. James Edmunds, a gentleman whose name is well
known in connection with the Ladies' Medical College, and
arose out of a matter which has led to considerable discus-
sion in the medical world. When the case was called on,

Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., who appeared for the defendant, said
he had done his best to bring about an amicable arrangement,
but without success, and lie was afraid the case must be
tried. This was the last day of sittings of the court
at Westminster, and howev3r late his lordship sat the
trial could nut be finished in ono day, and it would
be extremely disadvantageous to the defendant to have the
case stated against him, and then to have the trial po.etpened
over the Long Vacation.

The Loyd Chief Mum suggested that the best course
would be to make the case a remand.

Sir George lloneyman, Q.C., on behalf of the plaintiff,
said his client was very anxious to have the case, which was
one of great interest, tried, in order to vindicate his cha-
racter, but it would be utterly impracticable to finish the
trial to-day, as it would last two or three (lays at least.
There was another action in the Comm )n Pleas, brought by
Miss Firth, a lady whose name would constantly arise in
this case, but tha Lord Chief Justice of that Court bad
ordered that it should not be tried until this case had been
disposed of.
Mr. Keane, Q.C., the counsel f r Miss Firth, said it. was
very much against her will that her action was postponed.
He himself saw no reason for postponing it, and ho should
apply to the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas to
allow it to be tried at the first convenient opportunity.
The case in this Court was then made a rcmauet.

P.RE.SENTATTON OF AN ADDRESS TO
EXGOVERNOR EYRE.

On Wednesday, an address from a body of influential
gentlemen having property in or connected with the
co: fierce of the West India Islands was presented to
ex-Governor Eyre, at Walbrook House, Walbrook-street,
City. Tho address, which was drawn up in 1866, and
offered to Mr. Eyre, but declined by him at that time, on
the ground that the prosecutions against him were still
pending, was signed by 240 gentlemen largely interested
in the West Indian trade, or holding property in our West
Indian colonies. In replying to the address, Mr. Eyre
reviewed the circumstances which had brought him so
prominently before the public during the last three years,
and wont on to say :—I thankfully accept the gratifying
testimony in my favour, believing it to bo an indication that
my fellow countrymen at large concur in and indorse the
decision which has been arrived at by three different
tribunals; but especially do I value it as coming from a
largo and influential body of gentlemen, who from their
knowledge of, and connection with, the West Indian
colonies are best able to appreciate the difficulties of the
position I was placed in and the necessity which existed
for the most prompt and decisive action to avert from a
British colony the frightful scenes which were once enacted
in the closely adjoining island of St. Domingo. That
there are isolated individuals amongst my late assailants,
who, disappointed at the authoritative termination of
the proceedings which have so repeatedly but unsuccess-
fully been instituted against me, have since sought to
weaken the effect of those judicial decisions, and have
renewed their attemits to mislead and prejudice the public
mind, by reiterating in the newspapers unsupported asser-
tions and misrepresentations, only shows how great have
been the rancour and unscrupulousness which stimulated
the prosecutions. I can well leave such persons to their
own unenviable reflections and to the just appreciation of a
British public. On my own behalf 1 would only say that I
endeavoured to do my duty conscientiously in the single
desire to preserve the lives and properties of those intrusted
to my care, and to uphold the honour of my Queen and
country.

A statue of Mr. Gladstone, by Adams, is about
to be placed in St. George's Hall at Liverpool.

WANDERING DoGs.—Colonel Fraser, the City
Police Commissioner, has promulgated an order similar to
the one issued by Sir Richard Mayne, as to wandering
dogs in the City of London. It will take effect from
Wednesday next, July 1, when all wanderers are tb be
" apprehended" by the police.

WITHDRAWAL OF THE SOUTHERN RAILWAYS
AMALGAMATION BILL.—The promoters of the above bill
being dissatisfied with the determination of the LorcW
committee to strike out the terminal charges and the maxi-
mum uniform rates to be charged upon the whole of the
amalgamated system, have come to the conclusion to with-
draw this portion of the measure altogether. They endea-
voured, but vainly, to get the committee to allow a two
years' experiment of the working of the union.
TIIE MURDER IN DORSETSIIIRE.—On Wednesday
at the Town Hall, Poole, George Ivamy, the young man
who was remanded from Monday last, and who was on
Tuesday committed for trial by a coroner's jury for the
wilful murder of his sweetheart, Anne Hancock, aged 16,
was again brought up for examination. Numerous
witnesses were called, most of whose evidence had been
taken by the coroner on the previous day, and the prisoner
was committed for trial at the Dorchester Assizes on the
charge of wilful murder.

MEMORIAL TO THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON.—
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inaugurated
by as been held at Spa-fields Chapel, to
receive
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the incumbent, on Midsummer-day,lllon Robert7a,, anccolucnotnessissteodf
of a granite obelisk, inscribed to Selina,
Huntingdon, who was born August 24, 1707, and died at
her house adjoining Spa-fields Chapel, June 19, 1791. The
report stated the amount expended upon its erection was
£5OO, and tho Laianco-sheet showed receipts to about £450,
and the remainder w:.-ts promised during the evening.
THE SHOEBUDXNESS EXPERlMENTS.—Wednes-
day's trials at Shocburyness were resumed on an experi-
mental casement designed by Colonel ,Tervoise, the deputy
director of works. At the close of the firing thirty-two
missiles had been directed at the lower half of the target.
The shot commenced with the seven-inch gun, and finished
with some from a twelve-inch. The target, which was
acknowledged by all to be made of the finest iron ever
tested at Shoeburyness, answered remarkably well, and
only succumbed to the heaviest ordnance. Even then the
damage was much slighter than in the case of the Ply-
mouth Breakwater Fort, which received ten fewc e4te.

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71IR RUSSIANS IN CENTRAL ASIA.

BERLIN, June 20.
Subjoined is the official report of the capture of
Samarcand

" Our territory having been repeatedly invaded
by Bokhara troops, General Von Kaufmann at last
res,olved to put a stop to these predatory inroads.
Accordingly, on May 25, at 4 a.m., he marched from
'Pasch Kupruck, a stone bridge half way between
Yana Kurgan and Samarcand, to attack the latter
city. 0 u nearing the riverZarafschan our troops found
the gardens situate in the valley occupied by the
enemy. They advanced all the same, exchanging a
few shots. General Von Kaufmann, having been
assured by some Samarcand Begs that neither the
people nor the priests were in favour of war, sent
Colonel Petruschefski with a hundred Cossacks
to the front to stop the firing unless the enemy
persisted in their attack ; but Colonel Petru-
schefski was received with shots. Having forced
the enemy to retreat, he, to carry out his orders,
commanded the cavalry to wheel about and make
room for the infantry of the van. At this
moment one Nasem-ud-din, who had acted as
Bukhara envoy to Russia in 1859, presented him-
self with a flag of truce, having, he said, in his
pocket the treaty of peace which had been sent
to the Ameer some time ago for signature. His re-
quest was that the troops should be brought to a
halt where they stood, and negotiations resumed on
the spot. General Von Kauffmann did not think it
advisable to accede to this proposition, the enemy
just then coming up on all sides. There remained
nothing but to give the flag of truce to understand
that negotiations could not be entered upon till the
troops had pitched their camp for the night.
" On emerging from the gardens into the mea-
dows close to the river, we saw that the bank
opposite was swarming with hostile masses. Placed
on a high and steep eminence, they seemed deter-
mined to prevent our crossing the river. The stream
being deep and rapid, and the enemy numerous,
General Von Kaufmann judged it might be diffi-
cult to force the passage, and at noon sent for Na-
sem-ud-din, to tell him that no camp could be
pitched and no negotiations entered upon in pre-
sence of the enemy. If, he added, the Ameer were
bent upon peace, he had better immediately with-
draw his troops, or else the heights would be
stormed. Meanwhile, 400 Cossacks, with four guns
and the rocket division, under command of Lieut.-
Colonel Strandwan, had advanced and cleared the
country on our right of the hostile host.
"It was 2 p.m., and still the messenger
despatched to the Bukhara forces by Nasem-ud-
din had not returned. General Kaufmann,
therefore, putting himself again in commu-
nication with Nasem-ud-din informed him that
the attack could be no longer delayed. In
reply the Bokhara envoy said that if
one more hour's respite were accorded he
would himself go to his countrymen and cause the
army to be removed. This being granted, he de-
parted, leaving the draft of the treaty in our
hands. We then discovered, to our surprise, that
the treaty was not the one we had sent, but an in-
strument drawn up by the Ameer himself in the
Persian language, and materially differing from the
original. The Ameer proved the same cheat now he
had shown himself during the six preceding months
of negotiations.
" The hour expired, and the enemy not only had
not evacuated the heights, but had begun to fire on
our lines with their cannon. Our troops, 211
companies strong, with 450 Cossacks, 16 guns,
and a rocket division, were then placed in line of
battle. Two companies of sharpshooters covered the
advance ; behind them were six companies, three
to each flank. The second line was formed of six
companies on the right flank (among them the
Affghans), and three and a half companies (includ-
ing half a company of Sappers) on the left. Four
guns, two of them rifled, were attached to each
flank, and 400 Cossacks., with four guns and the
rocket division kept in resarve on the right. The
remaining troops covered the baggage. Colonel
Abramoff commanded the first division ; M ijor-
General Golovascheff had the immediate superin-
tendence of the whole force. General von Kauf-
mann was on the left, where the attack had to

begin.
" While the enemy were firing with ball and
menacing both our flanks, our troops moved coura-
geously.forward, plunged into the river, crossed its
several arms with the water above their waists, and
advanced to the foot of the hill. The right flank
with a verst of muddy soil to get through
under the cross fire of the enemy reached 613 steep
ascent and charged. They had to wade through
two versts of morass and clear the intervening gar-
den before they could storm the heights. The
Bokharese did nut await our ownslaught, but ran
away in hot haste. Exhausted by marching and
fighting as we were, we could not get up to them.
Our cavalry, too, extricated itself with such diffi-
culty from the swamp as to be unavailable for pur-
suit. We passed the night on the heights from
which we had chased the foe. While we were charg-
ing the rear repulsed an attack upon the baggage
undertaken by a hostile detachment that had turned
our flanks. The enemy left his artillery posted on
the heights in our hands; that in the valley he man-
aged to get off, with the exception of one gun ; 21
cannon and the whole camp were our first
trophies. Our own losses were comparatively in-
significant. We had three officers and 28 rank and
file wounded, one surgeon and six rank and file
otherwise injured, and two rank and tile killed.
" It was only after occupying the enemy's former
position that we could form a correct estimate of
its strength, and sufficiently appreciate the treachery
of the Aineer. A couple of letters received by
General Von Kaufmann at Yana Kurgan. as well
as two messengers sent to him on the march to ask
for peace, without acceptance of the terms offered
—all served to prove that the enemy had only
intended to detain us on the Zarafschan. No
doubt bad we allowed ourselves to be stopped
the delay would have been represented
to the people as a sign of fear, fresh hosts would
have flocked to the camp, and the army opposed to
us have been double what it was. But, by quietly
doing our duty, we put to nought the trickery of
the enemy. We complied with all the forms pre-
scribed by national law ; marched 50 miles in two
days ; charged a strong position ; sent the enemy
flying, and captured nearly his whole artillery.
" Although we were incapacitated from pursuit,
the inhabitants of Samarcancl closed their gates
against the fugitives, and on the day following sent a
deputation to announce the surrender of the city to
the Czar of All the Russias. General Von Kaufmann
detained some of the deputies, sending back the
others to prepare for the reception of the
troops. Then, placing himself at the head of a por-
tion of his corps, and taking the Afghans with him,
General Kaufmann entered Samarcand. The in-
habitants having met him outside the gates with
demonstrations of joy, the General commanded
them to reopen their shops, attend to their business,
and fetch back their families who had been con-
cealed in the neighbourhood. While the women
and children were flocking back we took possession
of the city. Confidence in our power and honour-
able intentions is universal ; and naturally so. Each
of our men has done his duty, and, by gallant con-
duct in battle and generous treatment of the pacific
population, showed himself a genuine Russ."

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