The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-09 00:00:00

TO CORR ES PON DENTS.

A CORRESPONDENT, who gives her name, complains that on
the 22nd of last month, while returning from seeit:g her
husband away to sea, she purchased a-few shells from a
woman hawking them about on the landing-stage, in
payment fur which she gave a shilling. Having done so,
the shell-woman accused her of giving a spurious ridding,
and gave her in charge to a policeman. Our correspon-
dent complains chiefly, that the officer showed gross
partiality in refusing to have the accuser searched, and
that lie used harsh manners, and very impr,tper language
towards her.. She was taken to the Police-station, and
afterwards to Bridewell, on the charge made by the she; l-
- woman, who, however, did not appear to prosecute, and
the case against the complainant was dismissed. She
• has, she states, since then, made application to have the
matter investigated, and the conduct or the police-otlicer,
as well as that of another constable, who she says in-
sulted her, inquired into, but without success. Without
pretending to offer any opinion on this case, it cannot be
doubted that very gross injury may be inflicted on
an innocent individual in the manner referred to; and
every meths of justification should be afforded to the
accused.
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TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1854.

BOMBARDMENT OF ODESSA.

WE have at length authentic intelligence of a
movement on the part of the combined fleets in
the Black Sea, which gives earnest of active hosr
tilities against the common foe of Europe. The
apparent dilatoriness of Admiral DUNDAS had led
to the belief that he was acting under private in-
structions from the PREMIER not to do more than
he could help ; and it was said that the Turkish
Government suspected the fidelity of England,
because so little had been achieved to realise the
many promises of support. This distrust must,
however, now be dispelled, for the thunder of
British cannon has sounded on the shores of
Russia, and the dismantled forts of Odessa testify
to the striking fact that England at last is terribly
in earnest. A steamer that had been sent to
Odessa with a flag of truce, to bring off the British
Consul, was fired upon in violation of the usages
of civilised warfare, and brought the startling news
to the British fleet of the insult to ,which she had
been subject. It had an electric effect; it aroused
the spirit of all, from the Admiral to the cabin-
boy, and forthwith a squadron of steamers was
despatched to take a fearful retribution. How
they•performed their task the despatches will tell.
The duty was performed by nine men-of-war, and
the attack was completely successful. The Im-
perial mole and the land .batteries were entirely
destroyed, with all the Russian ships lying in the
outer mole ; the great powder magazine exploded ;
and all the loss sustained by the assailants was
eight men tilled and eighteen wounded. The ac-
count, which was despatched from Belgrade, con-
cluded with the significant intelligence that imme-
diately after the attack upon Odessa the combined
fleets sailed for Sebastopol. This early success
will no doubt lend vigour to our soldiers and
sailors in their future encounters with the enemy,
and will also tend considerably to disarm any oppo-
sition to voting the necessary ways and means for
carrying on the war. The expenditure• will of
necessity involve additional taxation—an evil ine-
vitable to all warlike operations—but we believe
the great majority of our population will willingly
contribute their share of the pecuniary burden, in
order to vindicate the honour of England, and curb
the grasping ambition of the Northern despot.