MISCELLANEOUS.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2858, 12 April 1878, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

At a rcce&fc meeting of the Waterford Board of Guardians, Major O'Gorman, M.P., said:—" I understand some observations I made here some weeks ago hare given offence. lam heartily sorry for what I said, and I now unconditionally withdraw my remarks." Mr Bloomfield, J.P.: " When I read your apology in the House) df Commons, I expected you would apologise to this Board." Major O'Gorman: "Do you think I would apologise to Englishmen and not to my own countrymen P No!" ThA following is the official statement showmß the services to which the sum of d86,G00,000, required for additional naval and military expenditure, will probably be applicable. Army: Warlike stores, provisions and forage, clothing, medicines and surgical instruments, field allowances, transport (land) and horses, and pay and staff allowances, £3,000,000. Navy: Naval stores, coals, purchase of ships, dockyard labor, transport, and miscellaneous, £2,000,000. Contingencies, £1,000,000. Total, £6,000,000. The Eussian papers publish some details respecting the transportation of Circassian exiles, from the Caucasus to North Russia, which show the sufferings that are inflicted on them by the Eussian authorities. <One party of Circassians—l 43 in all —arrived three weeks ago at Koursk, after a march of more than a month through deep snow, and during an intensity of frost sometimes nearly as severe as that at the Arctic regions. All of them were suffering from Irostbite or typhus fever. While on their journey two of the females had given birtn to children; but although their condition would in most countries have gained them a little nympatby, the officer commanding the convoy compelled them to _ proceed in a carfc a few minutes after their confinement, and in consequence both infants and one woman died. A correspondent states that one of the Circassians, while waiting at Koursk," drew the dead bodies of the babies front under his coat, nnd, with tears in his eyes, appealed to the people against the officer. The 2000 Circassians exiled to Novgorod in the autumn had dwindled down to a few hundred, having

been literally starred to death or killed by exposure to the cold. Osmnn Pasha is stated by the Etesian papers to bo recovering from hia wrund, nnd can now move about without tho nM of a stick. His suito consists of seven officers, among wh-un is liis assistant in the defence —Tovfik Poslia. It is regarded as v somewhat significant circumstance that none «>f the officials at JL'iurkolF have paid him auy visits yut, and that, contrary lo the easo with other captive officers, n pendnrmo Ih'limjijting to the secret police is always stationed close to the house, Kuinor ascribes this to the action of tho Imperial Government in connection nith the private inquiry that is now going on respecting the Jiussiau prisoners aaid to hare been murdered at Plevna. Several times, on the Pasha quitting his hotel, he hus been saluted with abuse referring to the allegation, and no attempts have been made by the authorities to check tho insults. Ex-Colonel Valentine Baker, who is now in England, denies that the Hussions have demanded that all foreign officers should leave the Ottoman service, and that he had resigned. Finding that the Turkish Goverment had agreed to retire from the lines in front of Constantinople without defending them, he applied for a short leave of absence to England, which was granted. A letter from Vienna says :—"I have met Dr Sheps, an Austrian in the Turkish service, who was at Kara when tho Jtußsians captured the fortress. He states that the Russians pillaged the shops for three days, and that they visited all tho hospitals, taking everything of value that the sick persons possessed. They robbed himself, Dt lloserifield, and another doctor of money and many objects of value. The Russians expelled all the Turkish sick and wounded able to walk, end sent them on foot to Erzeroum. The Turkish doctors were subsequently sent to Batoum. Kars has not been damaged." The Lord Mayor of Dublin has pronounced an eulogium upon tbe deceased Pontiff, who, he said, had been afflicted all his life by the infidelity which is the ruin and destruction of Europe. "AH tbe trials of the Holy Father," he said, " had arisen from the belief that there is no God—no Supreme Being; for if his enemies had believed in such matters he (the Lord Mayor) did not think their conduct would have been pursued so far." He had " met His Holiness •' in 1866. "It was prophesied by many that that was the last year of the Papacy; but the Papacy is still there, and it will be there (he added) when we are all gone—when the kings of Europe are gone. A petition has been presented to Par* liament signed by Misa Lydia Becker, Rosanna Battey, Sarah Maria Backhouse, and' other ladies. It sets forth that marriage is the natural and honorable profession in which the majority of women maintain themselves by the discharge of the conjugal, social, and domestic duties which appertain to tbe position of a wife; that the entrance on this profession comes to a woman through an offer or a promise of marriage; that the acceptance of such offer or promise debars the woman from forming ties, and the breaking or non-performance of such promise hinders her from obtaining an establishment in life, inasmuch as a woman who has given her promise and affections to one man cannot transfer them to another without grievous loss; that men do not usually marry for a maintenance, while marriage is regarded as the proper and usual means through which women, obtain a maintenance; therefore a breach of promise of marriage by a man to a woman causes a pecuniary loss which is not usually suffered through a breach of promise by a woman to a man ; and upon these and other grounds the petitioners Eray that leave may not be granted to ring in a bill to abolish actions for breach of promise of marriage.