Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-28

The Original Oause OF she Eastern
OOmplicati0ns-A Reautiful VlbR.
nisn Rnd Her English Purchaser.
Free Pressl
The French Superintendent of
Police, who, when a crime was re-
ported at his bureau, asked, before
knowing any of the circumstances,
" Who is the woman?" contributed
an axiom to the science of detection
by the aid of which other than
criminal problems might find a So
luton. AT the present moment all
Europe is in a hubbub ostensibly
arising from adherence on the part
of England to traditional senti-
ments touching the maintenance Of
the Ottoman empire, and desire
on the part Of Russia to rearrange
the map of Southern Europe. The
diary Of a French nobleman--the
proof-sheets of which we're sup
pressed by order of the late Empe-
ror Napoleon, but which are short
| ly to be reproduced by Messrs. Ber-
tier & Calvin, Of the boulevard Sc
yastopol-enables our Paris CORE.
spondent to supply the answer by
saying, GA Beautiful Albanian
gIsye." The story, extracted from
the proof-sheets of the forthcoming
publication, is shortly this: When
The occupation of Paris BY the al
lies was at an end, and the various
crowned heads and princes were
departing to their own dominions
certain Important dispatches Of
joint import were sent from the
Duke of Wellington and the newly
installed French government to the
Sultan. The bearer of the French
dispatches was a young French no
bleman, the VicOmte de Nh
since become celebrated as a sup.
porter of the Legitimist party in
France, while the Duke of Yelling
toms dispatch was intrusted to an
al tache of the English Embassy
who has since become famous for
his vigorous and undertaking an
tagonism to Russia and her policy
in the East. While waiting at Con
stantinople for the answering dis
patches, as was then the custom,
they came in contact with a Russian
of distinguished presence and ap-
parently inexhaustible resources
On several occasions the young
Englishman and the Russian had
found themselves in friendly
rivalry; but at reception at the
Austrian ambassadors an alterca-
ton arose between them, and the
young Englishman had turned in
sudden wrath and was about tc
strike the man who had questioned
his word, when the latter, stepping
back to avoid the blow, claimed tC
be the Czarowitz. The Austrian
ambassador, together with the Other
guests, at once interfered, and the
Englishman, bowing to the Russian
prince, and followed by his friend
whose diary we quote from, left The
room.
Thus the first breach was made
between the future emperor Of al
the Russias and the man who il
after years was to thwart that EN-
peror's views and invoke the En-
glish sword in deicnse of the Turk
1t happened that a sale Of slaves
vas TO take place in the slave mar
ket Of Copstantinople = then al
institution ia full yigor - and tn,
two young attaches from Pari
attended it. Our correspondent
gives the account Of what tool
place almost as the diary tells it
only in another language, /" w
passed" says the yicOmte, into az
open square in which the sale, cul
pable and inhuman, though absorb
ing to our curiosity, was to TAX
place. Here were numerous group
of persons, male and female, abou
to be sold TO the best advantage
There were many groups Of men
inhabitants Of Turkish provinces
and negroes from parts Of Africa
we knew not which. Some ais
there were whose nationality diI
not reveal itself, but who showed b
the snectAtor much sign of misery