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17,, _4 , e c r/ IV 1? t ►, .':~ . /2 7 3,„„_____-- - _-- , _________,,.......„._ ,---c --- ..) NEWSPAPER ae tt ' .„-1. 7 ,,, .. • .0 , . , / A% . . ' «• , _ ,- • AlO. -- ~'" 1 • i• alt h i. 4,1 411611 S. M. p 4 , 4 1%, 6, .ctri•sr 4 , ,—a - #O, , I prosecution of those who 5..4. .. ~ : .. r.. ~ ' - -c .44, . y, / _ .\itil i t -\_, -'-'-' ViAir . 4z 5i*1,Q.11.5" 4 , 1 . if . ~P.: , i , ~.... ft.__, ~.. " . , , ; ••, Kamieniec. It is not only a q -.*Ti".'' - -74.i i ; ' ' . 7 ' ‘ , i' . .- I . "I',. w 1 ...tik.* -- 1` ._.' . \ .., ;„,,,„. 11 , .._ t,,,, ‘ , 7.*:::- - -..-, 4„*" „. .' ~ ' - ;01 i'-- - /,, I - ;-' ( 4 ),/..,eii . ' and internal order which is thus sklimil t. ll -'.. 1 , 1. • i' '..lP,''' - ‘,4„ , ' 411- Ali' - r * „24.„,,,„' _',. ali,-,disViii, „.'"- 44 ' ' ''..:CIIILA. \-............___ \:----- ~.. • ~,' Nt, *, tribunal of the Russian Senate, bIN ,F. -tioksof * '\ 7 ‘ ~:.3.<14' .',. -.-"7"--'c., "TI• "' --1 -1 - 4 itn+ ...._,,......„..,_ ,.,.......,0rr• . ,--- ).. ent . are ! 114 PanY ' a nd en= leaved. Pas' European public right. The meeting of Kamieniec, in asking for the administrative reunion of the pro vince it represents to the Kingdom of Poland, has not violated any of the fundamental laws of the Empire ; it has not in any way attacked the prin. cipie of its unity or its integrity, inasmuch as Podolia is not an integral part of the Empire, any more than the other Lithuanian or Ruthenian pro vinces. What is its crime then P Its having claimed at last to enjoy the political condition in which Europe placed it in 1815, and its having be lieved that under the reign of Alexander 11. it was permitted to recal, R without tre ison, the promises of Alexander I. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1862. N°. 21,989. PR1CE.....-..4d. STAMPED ....sd. PUBLICATIONS. HOTELS, &c. welcome addition to our knowledge of the region in ques tion. We give the followingl3amples of its contents : the best of the evening, and is well remembered to the pre sent day. NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of "JOHN HALIFAX." Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 Vols., 215., MISTRESS AND M AID. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." " All lovers of a good novel will hail wl'h delight another of Miss Mulock's charming stories."--John BulL Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. iIHAPL,IN'S 11.0 TEL °A1.11) SPREAD EAGLE TAVERN, 84, GRACECHURCII-STREET, LONDON. omfort, combined with moderate charges, will be found at this Establishment. Pill VA TE APARTMENTS FOR FAMILIES. Sitting Room, is. per Day. lied Rooms, is. &i. and 2s. per Night. A Night Porter in attendance. NO INCREASE OF-CHARGES. FAMINE AND PESTILENCE. Our time has been spentmostly within the limits of our residency, the mission only moving out for a few hours' exercise daily, either for a ride at sunrise, or for quail shooting in the fields outside the city walls. On these occa sions, whilst traversing the filthy lanes of the city in our egress and ingress,we bad full and painful proof of the suffer ings of the people from the combined effects of scarcity and pestilence; for epidemic sm4ll.pox, which first made its appearance in the city shortly before our arrival, was now raging with terrible virulence, and greatly multiplied the horrors of the famine. Almost every house had its doomed, dying or dead, whilst the houseless lay naked in the public thoroughfares —a most sickening and disgusting mass of sores and corruption—in the silence of death, or else in the ravings of delirium or the pangs of starvation, filling the already foully-tainted atmosphere with most pitiful moans and cries • a feast to pyriacis of flies, which, whilst they gorged themselves, fillet the body with worms, and then hastened away to dissemin►te the plague. This terrible pestilence and famine ceninued with unabated severity for full six weeks after our arrival, and the daily scenes of hideous suffering we encountered on our way to the open country proved a most painful ordeal. Most fortunately, the pestilence, which vas so rife in the city and surrounding villages, hardly existed within the citadel —a fact for which no very satisfaotcry explanation could be found; for, though it was somewhat cleaner than the rest of the city, and also less densely peopled, it was quite impossible to prevent a constant We of communication be tween it and the infoeta quarters, . Its Ulleskte.ata, also, consisting as they did of the troops and adherents of the heir-apparent and their families, were better supplied with provisions than the generality of the townspeople—a cir cumstance which no doubt, coupled with the other condi tions above mentioned, exerted a due influence in enabling them to resist the attacks of the fell enemy, but yet not sufficient to account for their almost total immunity from the disease, unless one is allowed to suppose that the well cared-for native is less predisposed to the contagion than the starved, so as to be in a measure protected from it. Be sides, the fact of most of the natives of this country having already had small-pox in their youth, either by natural - means or innoculation, may have had some weight in pro tecting the better classes from a second attack, whilst the starved fell easy victims to its ravages through the pre dispesing circnmstances of their condition. FINANCIAL 'CUTENESS. THIRD EDITION, REVISED, WITH ADDITIONS. Now Ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., FEMALE LIFE IN PRISON. By A. PRISON MATRON,, " The authoress writes throughout with good sense, good taste, and good feeling."—Times. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. We certainly do not pretend to assert that Europe should intervene or take part in the prose cution. The cause is, however, that of Europe; Europe cannot fail to take an interest in it, and perhaps it would have been wiser in the Russian Cabinet not to revive Luch questions. _ . . UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MA )ESTV. INDIA AND THE COLONIES. PASSENGERS Embarking or Disembarking wiAl find superior accommodation and moderate iiarges at CHAPLIN'S CLARENDON HOTEL, GRAVESEND, Now ready, 32d Edition 1 Vol. royal Bvo., With the Arms beautifully engraved, h andso me' y bound, gilt edges, 31s. 6d.. L ODGE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1863, This prosecution reminds us of another instituted in 1828 before the Senate of the Kingdom of Poland, made into a National High Court for the occasion. The members of a secr e t society formed with the object of reclaiming for all parts of POland the maintenance of their nationality, the liberty, independence, and restoration of their country, were also accused of having conspired against the sove reign rights of the Emperor, and the integrity of the empire. All were acquitted, and a report of the President of the High Court to his Majesty the Emperor and King, explains the causes of the ac quittal in terms which may be applied with singular apropos to the present prosecution. V All the accused and their defenders," says the report, " in unanimously declaring nationality to be the sole obj ec t o f the society, have in their justifi cation app ea l e d to th e t rea ty o f Vienna. They look upon good work mein o o r f y, t a h a e laatgeuEarmapnetreoer given to of this glorious the inhabitants of ancient Poland (as it was in 1772) for the maintenance of their nationality, viz., for the right of continuing to be Poles, and to have a representation and national institutions whatever may be the rule by which they are governed. " It has therefore appeared to the court, in con eurrence with the opinion of the public ministry it self, that this object was in no way condemnable. The Advocate-General has, however, thought that it could only be regarded as lawful in the kingdom, and that it became criminal so soon as it extended be yond its limits, for, in that case, it necessarily con nected itself with the second object attributed to the society—of reuniting all the parts of Poland in one body. Adjoining the Terrace Pier. A Lawn in front, extending to the River. CORRECTED BY THE NOBILITY. "The readiest, the most Useful, and exactest of modern works on the subject."—Spectator. Hurst and BlaCktit, 13, Great Marlborough -street. THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. FOUR-AND-A-HALF PER CENT. PREFERENCE STOCK. The GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY is pre pared to receive applications for sums of £lOO, or upwards, of the above Stock, bearing a fixed Preferential Interest of 4i per cent. per annum. Interest commences from the date of payment. Applications to, be made either personally or by letter to the undersigned. On Mond '4, 22d, will be published, in 2 vols., B'►o., with Maps and numerous Illustrations, price 245., LIFE IN NORMANDY. SKETCHES OF FRENCH FISHING, FARMING, COOKING, NATURAL HISTORY, AND POLITICS, Drawn from Nature. By an ENGLISH RESIDENT. Edinburgh : Edmonston and Douglas ; London : Hamilton, Adams, and Co. J. B. OWEN, Secretary. Bi•hopsgate Terminus, December, 1862. Now ready, price 365., LONDON - OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY FOR 1863. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, • No. 11, Lombard-street,"London, E.C. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. DIRECTORS. Sir MINTO FARQUHAR, Bart, M.P., Chairman. CHARLES WIL LIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., G. Shaw Lefeyre, Esq. Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Charles F. Davits, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. James Goodson, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq. John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. James Tulloch, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. Noel Whiting, Esq. T hos. Tallemach, Esq., Secretary Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary SIX HOME COUNTIES DIRECTORY also ready, price 365. London : Kelly and Co., 18 to 22, Old Boswell-court, Strand, W.C. ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., and all Book sellers. ,s NORTH COUNTRYMAN" on BREEDING ; "BEACON " (late of BelPs Life) on the PAST SEA SON'S RACING; and "RHYMING RICHARD," appear in THE SPORTING GAZETTE (Limited) of Trim DAY (SATITRDAY), December 20, together with Important Articles on the Breeding of Short Horns, and Pike Fishing; Performances of Two-year-Olds, and Turf Statistics in 1862; Special Reports of Baldock and other Coursing Meetings ; Hunting, Chess, Drama, Cricket, &c. Price THREEPENCE Stamped, FOURPENCE. To be had of all Newsagents. CHRISTMAS SONGS.—The GOOD RHEIN WINE, the most powerful and telling song of profes sional and amateur singers, with piano and band parts for an orchestra. Also CALLER OYSTERS, the melodious, echo song of the Bonny Fishwife, with piano and band parts. By J, GRAY. rhappeii, 50, New Bond-street, W. LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN ACT or PARLIAMENT, this Company , now offers to new In -urers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Whi le ` Ocie 4no ° ye oale. A na 4°. 35 0 t° to 3°B per qr. ► e ~icg op 580 per dow dowP. • • 1 0 09, ; rote' trio' i L3O ,w; toy" stow r... ...I'. 0. ). Is. , 6 , f• 6. A' E.l °tiler ••- ride , 'ire °. of i 4 I , 6 ce, 0044 ted dt est 'ol°- [l 6ll‘ SID' Olt aged e tt• 13 of I.t bliti? ree t l age- 3Fil. , ;her , ,idiv IV, 01 THE ATLANTIC TELV GRAPH COMPANY ( Incorporated I,ar Act of each shareholder' s L a bili ty is 'Parliament i n 155', w h ere by aloe su b scription). specially li m it e d t o th e amoun t Guaranteed S p etion and workini- , , , cor e • ' per ce n t . the British Government upon of the cable. £600,000 in 120,00 e, tcent One pound Shetka_3. Shares of £5 each. Deposit on allot- The Right DIRECTORS. II Peer JAMES STUART WORTLEY, Sheer House, 'Mortlake Surrey, Chairman. Cjl PP IS M LAMPS(Jai Esq. Nessrs. C. M. Lampson Rua Co.), 64, Qat , (MeGel: ae s o r r i s rni ge_ a P ti e . abr ei, Cheapside, L' radon, Vice -Esq., 22, Old Broad-street, London Francis ti reorg'i Peabody and Co.) rancts Le park, Breton,Esq., 21 Sas sex-place, Regent's s l l l t7 s hn Pe t .der, E.q , 11LP ; M anc h es t er Di rec t or o f th e Jo a .k!7. c] . Irish Mag ne ti c T e l egrap h C ompany ). Charms • Brett, Esq., 2, Hanover-square, London (Vice- Ala Submarine Telegraph Company). s 'ael nd Moon, Esq., Liverpool. Gurney, Esq., M.P., 65, Lombard-street, London .4.Bsa•s. Overend, Gurn, y, and Co.). iv Miami Brown, Esq. Liverpool, (Messrs, Brown, Ship -43', and Co.). Ship- Edward Cropper, Esq., Swaylands, near Penhurst Ihrector of the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph e n ° „_ in PallY, and of the London and North-Western Railway Ca pes in A. T. HarAilteli, 12, Bolton- r o w , P. Bidder Ear 24 Great George-street, Westmin ster (Director $ 4, ,eorge-s _ le ra h co_a of the lectric and International le g . P . _ e 4,1 IV, and late resident of the Institution of Civil eers). 'w - HONORARY DIRECTOR. 8d on behaStephl`e Esq., late Official Director on this z • of her Majesty' s Government, and now 3.a In/lan Of *rale Board of Indian Revenue. ELECTRICIAN AND ENGINEER. Cromwell F. 'Parley, Esq. Willi CONSULTING COMMITTEE. British William V " airbairn, Esq,, F.R.S., late President of the 1 , 08 - 4bsociati on . Proff P Whitworth, Esq., F.R.S. prr •eras or Whentstone, F.R.S. essor W. Thomson, F.R.S., of Glasgow. SECRETARY. • George Seward, Esq. BANKERS. Bank of England. SOLICITORS. Freshfields and Newman. Offices--22, Old Broad-street, London. ti,"e Directors have the fullest confidence in the suffi ,2lcY of: the scientific and practical facilities which now ''et for working long deep sea Por t . 1848 . uunared yrcbsages were sent through the cable in ofe r „. 'Of these two messages alone to general commanding llior in Canada and Nova Scotia, countermanding a pre- R, iti AR order for th e em b ar k at i on o f t roops to I n di a, save d t h e .eh Government £50,000 ; another message assured 4144 ,,„,t0tts friends in England, in the collision of the Europa - "tul Arab ia ' off , -"" passengers and the vessel. The Directors have determined to place this undertaking V.ithin the reach and interest of all classes of the commu- IW Y bY issuing the preference stock in shares of £5 each, £1 t h et share payable on allotment. A considerable portion of lisoshares has alreafly been taken up by themselves and b original shareholders, and the Board now confidently ,„•tte the public to subscribe the remainder. t h .lhe total amount of the present issue is £600,000, and t he Briti s h i s guaranteed a dividend of 8 per cent. per annum by G overnment on the completion and during the vos„ tig of the table. e ttne t T,..sh"Ares are specially guaranteed 8 per cent. per cabl e the British Government on the success of the .6 surplus p ro fit s o f th e C ompan y rema i n i ng a f ter t h e 8 h b aid out on the new capital, and per cent. as een p li r!' Cent. on the old capital, will be divided pro rata be '"en them both, after providing for a reserve fund. Subscribers to the present capital are thus effectually 11 ted their first 8 per cent., irrespective of competition or other contingency, except a total loss of the cable ; and is addition, participate equally in the large surplus of 1 1 . 44 ,,1 t that may legitimately be expected to accrue from the on a line so peculi, sly situated as that of the Atlantic ikcLe,g'raph Comp an y, connec ti ng as it d oes, b y i ts so l e te, graph the two vast networks of aerial and submarine al l 'aPhic communication of Eurtype and America. _,attesers. Glass, Elliot, and Co., the telegraph contractors, 0 . 1 . er to subscribe and pay up, in cash the sum of £25,000; T h u ll lf selected to manufacture the cable, they will allow Libt ec toPany to pay we e kly for the materials used and ta eniployed about the making and laying of it, charg t4ho profit thereon, and nothing for the use of their wo r k s Pro,,,,. lllae liihery, nor for their personal services during the la e aless of the /manufacture, nor until the cable is cora jharsucceseful. When, however, th e ca bl e h as b een lY laid and effi c i ent l y wor k e d d ur i ng one month, the co luiat 1 3 8 talrnent of profit is to be paid. This profit is to the of Atlantic Telegraph shares, credited as hilly paid aQ,'"" value altogeth er of 20 er cent. upon the actua Z_tbe s h ares being divided into 12 equal instalments, l arliverable to the contractors by one instalment per awful surveys on b e h a lf o f this Company have been by the British Government off Ireland and New- Wadi and respectively—that off Ireland by Master Hoskyn, 4 1 , , and that off Newfoundland by Capt. Orleb, R.N Abe supposed precipitous cliff about 300 miles from ar Ireland . , V hich has been urged in depreciation of that route, is found Mr. Hoskyn to be a descent equable throughout, and of aILO greater pitch than would allow of the working of a lo comotive up and down it, while the bottom is everything that can be desired, the soft mud of which it is composed being of a nature continually to increase in depth, and cer tain in a few years to so cover the cable as to protect it from all external influences. On the Newfoundland side, Captain ()rider has shown that a deep channel exists from the approach to Trinity Bay to a place called New Perlican, where there is every facility for landi ng, and by adopting which as terminus l lPWards of 40 miles of oatic will be moved. This Uompany possesses th e exc l us i ve r i ght of landing telegraphs on the entir e Atl an ti c coast of Labrador, and on the coasts of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and the State of Maine. It also possesses agreements with the entire telegraphic system of America, undertaking for the latter to c onnect exc l us i ve l y w i t h this Company, and cove liallting in so me i ns t ances t o re t urn eac h wee k i n cas h , as a die co unt for the encouragement of the Atlantic Company, ~" Per cent. of the charges received by them for messages " N 'et their lines to or from the cable. ni• calculation has been prepared, and may be had at the 'r a oe ! sho w i ng t h e pecuniary resu l t if t h e traff i c b e snffi :"zit i° keep the cable at work at a very moderate rate for period in each year equal to an avenge of 175 whole rather less than half of the year. It should addition her be remarked that, owing to the difference in longitude " W e'eu Europe and America, the cable must necessarily :Vet. day and night. „era regards th e spee d o f wor ki ng t h at may b e expec t e d. v or n a t ifto Wen ag ree , one an d all, i n stat i ng t h at twe l ve th r us Per minut e , as a rainumum can be telegraphed ° ugh a prop er ca b le between Ireland and Newfound oe, ' even re d uc i ng t hi s m i nimum basis by nearly 20 1 ) ". „ a cent., taki ng t h e new cap i tal at £600,000 and the old d a Pita Lz.l at £ 462,860 ; a ll ow i ng, moreover, only 16 hours per or each clay's work, and 300 of such working days per t.4 1 :1 1 %. the revenue at 2s. 6d. per word (the tariff autho tt,',`Ashy Government), after paying 18 per cent. per annum l ea : l4 e Lew capital, and 14 per cent. on the old capital, will d o e o PWards of £240,000 per annum balance for forma ts„ of a r eserved fund, being practically sufficient money AY for an a ddi tional line of cable out of profits every !,or three years. itr allotment will be made or deposit demanded until liabF i l . t a £300,000 have been applied for. Nor will any of ~l ' ltY be incurred by the new subscribers on account rre litnittary or any other expenses, unless that amount t reached. If sufficient capital beyond the £300,000 be 14'1 Ultimately raised, the deposits will be returned— h; email amount for expenses—at a time to be fixed by „general meeting of shareholders in February next. .001plications for Shares, Prospectuses, and Ferms of aPhcation to be made to Mr. George Saward, the Secre -.Y, et the Company's Offices, 22,01 d Broad-street, London. By order. 22 GEO. SAWARD, Seoretary. `Old Broad-street, London. INIE SILENT FRIEND ON MARRIAGE, Net g. l9 ° Pages, illustrated with 100 engravings, price ls., ite. a aroe 14 stamps, sealed 20, containing prescription of Pre -44,ve Lotion. Make this invaluable work ybur Guide and the 'kr, for self-cure in al cases of secrecy, resulting from bat i ,:rrors or excesses (f youth , or from infection. loss of lla e ` il Power and rigour, all female irregularities and bar -11 bel l , ' B . Address Messrs. PERRY as Co. Surgeons, 19, Rer ltet, x f ord- s tree t, Lo and from 5 till 8. Sunday, 11 till 1 o'clock. -A, I3 CION TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS.— nni , r. SMITH has just published a FREE EDITION of Vii" copies of his valuable work, THE PRIVATE MEDI 13ebt„rRTEND ma pages), on the Self-cure of Nervous tea t aY, Los e of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude. _be., fte e t' i ng from the secret sins of youth. Copies may be had testd,,/ s ending a stamped directed envelope to the Author's `ee, 8, Burton -crescent, London, W.C. to, ft . Consultation by Letter without Fee. 'torr k *N i - e,rlll will, for the BENEFIT of persons su ff ering of th -- ' 4 0 7 01:1S DEBILITY, dic., on receiving a description eir ease (enclosing a stamped directed envelope for re 1141,send his written opinion, with advice and directions for titst successful treatment and cnre.—Address, Dr. Smith, on - crescent, London, W.C. TAE viootat OF YOUTH RESTORED IN '414%`" °UR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF Ti, Militt Wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most tke e ,:rd constitution, whether arising from self-pollution, 1 11 ?,, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu eitsei'lee. The time required to cure the most inveterate 11 41 1 lour weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in etio ,Thi. i n, (which ar r em ed y mp). failure is impossible. ', , arr' ,f c - restoringy should be taken by all about to ifL a, Its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by „Sti,`"eal press to be the greatest discovery ever made. 'uitrs - r g m in every ease is as certain as that water quenches Dr . 6t r ' Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in -1441 vrn B for use at 11 s , or four quantities in one for 335., ill be self any Part of the world, carefully packed, ktut Mitt of remit fence or ost-office order payable to out ".• Paten tlte , ti !in eWa p reh °use, 229, S trand London. CAUSES of PREMATURE DECAY.— Yon,an't_utho.ra of eminence . have ascribed the decline of the feid,ta erapire to the effeminacy of manners, which precluded Pa•bit. l 'ee; and this effeminacy 'hey trace chiefly to vicious 4111%„-„aceuired in early life, by which. in our own time, an e litio - „T i al journalist has endeavoured to account fbr the de cade,-.. DePulation in the Asiatic provinces of Turkey. dpeculiar source of physical rd moral degeneracy al ° has at all times been specially deprecated by philo- Ayin°Abe !nd philanthropists. It besets inexperienced youth, ur, 4%110 foundation of future misery, poisoning, ibe.nnptial 4 4 44 ti I „ . e bitter malignity; 4 ae cone it, during' 16 brief career, a scene of anguish, from Th e 'elousness of humiliating infirmity. lie lke evil is but too rife in our age and country ; and .eiacpe the 17 can often discern the sad results in the early d ths, tqw:redit 1 I "arY and perpetuated ailment, and the matri- I.N. discords and sandals described, in convential par i %NOR " unaccountable" and “mysterious." In ca s s u es n 9_ bee, a.;:ned injury to or suspension of faculties whose o d happir l vigour form su h a prominent constituent in human . thief , heBB. sufferers may have their fears removed, the 7 111 !- Itrix e :Mcaver severe and inveterate, eradicated, and their "alis nePes of rest ,ration to life's prerogatives fully teatmetor "A IT.D., has been engaged for 20 years in the 7ervath.,,' et theF.e disordrsn his treatise on "Self-1 re- Vat " describ es how e all, a the attributes of Manhood are , 11 eliended and how they can be restored and main rri, in health 'and vivour to an advanced period of life. 3 9, "18 o dailp,Con e, Rt free in a sea ed envelope 20 stamps, by Mann, t ; or from the Author. who may be consulted rorall MI 2 a nd 6 till 8, at his residence, .37, B EDFoRD-SQUARA London. AMUSEMENTS. CANTERBURY HALL. ‘.l GRAND SELECTION from POPULAR OPERAS, as usual. The Comic by Unsworth (the original Stump Orator), Xucrene, Duley, Little Bob, E. Marshall, A. B. Hollings worth, Arthur Lloyd, and Miss Georgina Smithson. The wonderful performances of the Etoile Family. CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENT. On BOXING NIGHT will be produced the THIRD EDITION of the celebrated Pantomimic Sketch, THE ENCHANTED HASH, by E. Marshall, thirteen Transfor mations, new characters and new dresses, in addition to the usual entertainment H E O X F O R I), 6. OXFORD STREET. Re-appearance of Unsworth (the original of "Or any other man.")—The Colleen Bawn, by Miss Caroline Parkes.— Euzene, the great Burlesque Prima Donna.--Arena and Angelica, the Neapolitan Minstrels.—W. Randall and A. B. Hollingsworth,—Mr. T. Maclagan's Entertainment.—Drew Dean's Solos on the Flute.--- , omic Pas Seul, by Henri—ln addition to varied high-class musical attractions, consisting of Selections from Verdi's "Nabuco" and "Il Corsaro," Donizetti's " Don Sebastien, " Auber's "La Circassienne," and Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., &c., by Miss Russell, iliss Townley • Messrs. 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The British and the Afghans for some years took place there in 1841-42, has since then been rarely re garded each other with mutual suspicion, and intercourse was shunned. It happened, however, that the Persians, during the late war, threatened the Afghan frontier ; the Amir Dost Mahomed, therefore, sought alliance with the British Government, had an interview with Sir John Law rence, received a subsidy of a lakh of rupees a month, toge ther with some 8,000 muskets with which to arm his troops, and it was arranged that a deputation of British officers should, during the continuance of the war, reside in the country undir the Amir's protection. Accordingly Major H. B. Lumsden and his brother, Lieut. P. S. Lumsden, with assistant-surgeon Bellew, proceeded to Kandahar, where they remained during the Indian mutinies, and contributed by their presence to prevent the Afghans at tacking Peahawur, and thus exciting a revolt in the Pun jab, in which case the consequences to the British would have been most disastrous. As it was, the Amir remained firm in his alliance with England, and nothing occurred during the stay of the Mission to disturb the friendly rela tions between the two Powers. Prefixed to Mr. Bellew's journal is an interesting account of the Afghan origin and character, together with considerable information respecting the capabilities of the country. It is peopled, it seems, with many races, of which the Afghan is the dominant one ; that people possessing the greater part of the soil, numbering some three millions, and differing from those around them in appearance, manners, character, and language. Though , Mahomedans in religion, they are evidently Jewish in type. They style themselves " Bani-Israil," or children of Israel, and they trace their pedigree back to Saul. However this may be, the author appears to think that there is no doubt that they are of Jewish race. This their traditions, phy r sique, and peculiar J ew i s h customs tend to prove, wh i lst their a remarkable as their , at instability, yin turbulencieff,-anneedkd,, ancestors.heatredofrestraintareas em Nothing, in fact, can be much worse, than the state of society among them. Neither for life nor property is there the least secu rity. The wretched peasantry, oppressed and plundered alike by the chiefs and the soldiery, are killed without scruple if they have the impertinence to resist or complain. In no country does " the good old rule" that might is right seem to flourish with greater - vigour, and the consequence is that industry is paralysed, crime and licentiousness are rampant, filth and disease are prominent throughout the land, and a more hopeless state of things it would be diffi cult to conceive. Thus the residence of the mission at Kandahar was far from being pleasant, and it was with no feelings of regret that the members of the mission once more found themselves on British ground. In feet, the esti mation in which the Afghans are held is significantly ex pressed in the proverb that " A man who goes to Hindoos tan acquires wealth ; a man who goes to Afghanistan loses his head." Of the opportunities afforded to him Mr. Bel lew appears to have made good use, and his volume is a A few days ago the heir-apparent adopted a somewhat singular, and, I need hardly say, most unpopular mode of increasing his finances. After due notice (of about 24 hours only I) had been drummed through the city, all the copper coinage then in circulation was called in and collected in the Government treasury, under heavy penalty for evasion of the order. But previous to the collection, the value of the current copper coinage had been declared depreciated to one half its previous value by the arbitrary law of the Sardar. Thus a Kandahar rupee, which before this unjust decree consisted of 32 ganda, or eight anna, was now declared as worth only 16 ganda, or four anna; and at this rate the en tire copper coinage floating in the city was collected and bought up at the Sardar's treasury. Here the coin was re stamped, and, after a few days, again issued at the usual value of the coin, viz., eight anna to the ruppee ; the Sar dar, by the transaction, clearing cent. per cent. profit on the entire copper currency of the city, which was said to repre sent between thirty and forty thousand rupees. This ruin ous stroke of finance—ruinous to all but the Sardar's purse, .—was repeated on five different occas i ons d ur i ng th e resi dence of the Mission at Kandahar, and in two of these in stances affected the silver currency also I AFGHAN MODE OP HANGING. These Afghan soldiers are truly the most lawless set of villains to be found in the country. They oppress the people in every manner with the utmost impunity. Nothing is safe from their clutches — cattle-lifting, burglary, and the kidnapping of boys, are acts of daily occurrence in the city and neighbouring villages. Where force is of no avail to enforce their demands, they wreak their vengeance on the unhappy offenders by false accusations of robbery, defraud • ing Government of revenue, sedition, and such like. Of late, this outrageous conduct of the soldiery has become so flagrant and of such frequent occurrence, that the Sardar has been obliged to resort to very severe measures to check the evil, and some seven or eight of the most daring of the culprits have been hanged in a most barbarous manner on the parade-ground, as a warning to others similarly disposed to unbounded lawlessness. The gallows were formed of a cross-beam, supported at each end on a high post about 12 feet or more high. The justly doomed victims of the law were hauled up to - the cross beam by a rope fastened round the neck, and running in a block pauey nzea to it. Here they were allowed to hang for a few moments, and then suddenly let down with a run, and immediately on falling to the ground they were again hoisted up to the cross-beam. And this process of hoisting up and dropping down was repeated some dozen times, till at last the neck became dislocated, and signs of life disap peared I For minor offences scores of men had their ears cut off or slit in two ; and not a few were exposed to the public gaze, by being nailed by the ears to the posts at the entrance to the principal bazaar, and kept in this position from sunrise to sunset. " HONOUR" AMONG THIEVES. Khan Gul's story was to this effect :—" It is many years ago that I, with my father, brother, uncles, and cousins, were leagued together as a band of burglars and highway - men. Our operations used to extend all over the hilly country north of Kabul, as far as and beyond Bamian. One evening my uncle, brother, cousin, and myself set out to visit a house in a neighbouring village, which we had long marked down as worthy of our notice. My uncle and brother had effected an entrance, soon after our arrival at the house, by the process of nakb-zani,' which consists in boring a hole th roug h the wall of the tenement w i t h an i ron instrument (not unlike a sailor's marlin-spike), known in' the vernacular by the term swarlai.' The operation is easy, rapid, and noiseless, owing to the structure of the walls in this country; which are composed of a tenacious mixture of raw clay and chopped straw. As soon as the aperture was sufficiently large, and all appeared safe in the stillness of the night, my brother, as leader of the band, en tered the house, and, having passed out various articles he could lay hands en to us through the hole, was in the act of retreating, when his feet were suddenly caught by the inmates of the house. Bad luck to them, and may they share the fate of their burnt fathers I The alarm was at once raised ; we all strove to drag our captured leader through the orifice by main force, butinvain. There was no time to be lost, as discovery would prove the ruin of the whole family (whose honour would for ever depart if they were detected) ; at the same time our leader could not be abandoned to his fate in the clutches of his captors. There was but one remedy to prevent identity, and that carrying off with us the head of our leader. And this," said Khan Gal, " was done at his own request. His last words were, Cut off my head and fly for your own safety, with mine and my family's honour undefiled.' We did so, and aban doning the spoil fled to the fields, as fast as our legs would carry us, with the trunkless head of our devoted and high souled relative and leader. Alas I alas! we mourned his loss in secret for many days. But God be praised, the honour of the house was preserved. A few years after this my art uncle owing to quarrels amo ngs t ourse l ves , our soon afterwards. I th en b ecame a py was died brokenad, soldier, and by the blessing of Providence and the good will of my masters, have been advanced to my present honour able position." THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF LONDON SOCIETY. OffiCe, 49, Fleet-street. The contents of this number consist of tales, moat of which have reference to the approaching season, and each is embellished with one or more engravings. From " Christmas Charades" we extract an instance of STAGE FRIGHT. I once sent " on" a young medical student in the cha racter of a lover, who had to make a declaration, be accepted, be surprised by a rival, challenge him on the spot, declare that he would not stir until this green sward was stained with the be-lood of one if not of both, order parenthetically pistols for two at once and coffee for one in ten minutes, and, in fact, go through the greatest amount of bom bast compressible into a short time. Of course, the love making was to be one of the most high-flown character. On he went, and at the sight of the audience and the lady seated at her work-table, subsided immediately into a very abyss of fear. Instead of rushing i rant i cally towards the object of his affections, flinging himself on his knees, and bursting into a tremendous rhapsody, as he ought to has , e done, he simply stood and looked at her, twisting his hat feebly in his hands. Not one word could he say, but in dead silence crept across the stage, slowly took up a chair, set it exactly opposite the lady, put his hat under the chair , offered to sit down, looked behind him to make sure if the chair was really in its place, sat down on the extreme edge o f it, looked at the ground, rubbed his knees slowly, and now and then glanced up at his intended bride much as a dog looks up when it has stolen something and knows it is go ir g to be whipped. The audience were in ecstacies. They all thought it was pure acting, and that th e part was that of s a ba s hfu l Certainly, any one w h o cou ld act h alt as w el l ou g ht pos session of the stage some seven or e i g h t m i nutes without speaking a word, when he opened hi s mouth once or twice, rubbed his knees ag ain, a nd at last said i n a b ro k en an d husky voice, hi fortune, H e h a d b een in "How's your mother I" A pe r fect sh r i e k of l aug hter burst from the audience, and gave the opportunity for getting him off the stage. Th e r i val rus h e d f orwar d, lover. to make p oun ced on him, hauled him off by his collar, flung him self on his knees, did all the rhapsody himself, and we had to patch up the scene as we beat could. Although so com plete a failure on the part of the individual, the scene was FLINDERSLAND AND STIIRTLIND, OR THE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OP AUSTRALIA. By WILLIAM R. H. JESSOP, M.A. Two Vols. R. Bentley. These volumes contain considerable information respect ing Australia, through which the author travelled—we pre sume recently, for ho is chary of dates—and kept, it would seem, a tolerably minute journal, not only of what he saw, but what he thought. The commentary, however, is the least welcome part of the book. The manner is vulgar and braggart, and beset with affectations of expression and criticism which, as literary efforts, are not only ill conceived, but are excessively wearying to read. " Bumptiousness," in short, is the inherent characteristic of Mr. Jessop's style. He can tell nothing in a plain and modest manner, but en crusts his text with a rank exuberance of apostrophe, ver bal conceits, and phrases couched in all the artifices of labo rious antithesis. To exemplify. He writes :—" One of those memorable and few days on which the misery usually attendant upon my existence was suspended ; when 'he essence of felicity, as far as poor mortal man can receive it, was imbibed by my senses ; when a sublime kind of ecstacy was thrown, as a spell, over all my faculties; when the na ture within me was so exalted by the nature without, that existence itself seemed doubtful; such a day as this was that Sunday in September when I entered the glory of Aus tralia, the matchless harbour of the Queen of the South. It is a day to be remembered. It was a great day, being Sun day. It was a glorious day, the sun shining with all the majesty of youthful vigour. It was a matchless day, the wiud and the waves being lulled till they sent forth a gentle aerial sound. It wall a marvellous day, my good genius having arisen in a brave good humour. It was a splendid day, everything contributing with might and main to create a scene which should rouse men's thoughts to heaven. It was a happy day, a most happy day, a complete and perfect day of bliss." (Fudge.) Again, " How is education amongst you, good people of Tasmania ? not very high, not very wide, not very strong. Slow work here; slow work and bad in the Parliament also, men, far from honourable in their position or their talents, occupying a seat, and exercising the same great means of working weal or woe as those of esteem ; weal to themselves, however, if possible, and woe to all. Compar ing paper with paper, if you are no better in this respect than your neighbours, you are by no means worse. You love to lead a quiet life, but a quiet life is not always the best. I suspect quiet people, and I have my reasons. The most venomous thing that troubles mankind is at the same time the most quiet—a snake, to wit. Not that I hereby allude to your progress and proceedings being serpentine— not in the least. Where there is overmuch quite, there scandal takes up her residence. I hope it is not so among you. I hope you have better work to do than to be tearing one another to pieces. Have an eye about you, good peo ple, for the signs are not favourable. There are evil reports flying abroad, flying all abroad. The land is good, say strangers; we should like to live there, but the people are naught." Were it possible to denude the volumes of this tiresome overlaying of words, and the lamentable absurdi ties of vein into which the author's pen perpetually runs, they would probably be read with interest, inasmuch as they deal with countries which are daily becoming more and more important, the inner life of which is not too well known. Mr. Jessop's accounts of the early discoveries of Bass and Flinders are among the best sections of the book —that is, if the reader can stomach the fantastic and dis agreeable style in which they are narrated. ADDRESS OF 7HE PODOLIAN NOBLES TO 711 E EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. The following is the translation of an article on this subject from the pen of M. de Sacy, which appeared in the Journal des Debats of the 16th inst.:— In the beginning of October the nobility of Po dolia assembled at Kamieniec for the election of the functionaries whom they are legally empowered to appoint, unanimously voted and signed an ad drebs, in which they demand of the Emperor the administrative reunion of the province to the king dom of Poland. " Sire,"—such were the words of the address 4, the situation of our country is deserving of ail your solicitude ; in it you behold a people without instruction, schools insufficient both by their num bers and the state of education ; trade deprived of capital and devoured by usury ; the exportation of corn rendered impossible by the want of communi cation by roads ; capital withdrawn from funded property through the want of credit institutions and of a system of mortgages; institutions opposed to the customs, the traditions, and the normal de velopment of society ; the execution of the laws rendered impossible by a foreign bureaucracy which seeks its inspirations elsewhere than in the wants and interests of the province; finally, a society de prived of organs which, elected by itself and from its own body, would watch over the affairs of the country. " Such a situation, which is the result of our separation from the kingdom of Poland, threatens the country with complete ruin. To prevent this there is but one means—to reunite us administra tively to a country whose traditions, interests, and principles of civil and religious liberty are the same as ours." Although the discussion and the voting of an address which exposes the wishes and requirements of the province was, on the part of the meeting at Kaimeniec, an act formally authorised by law, the governor of the town opposed it, and threatened to bury the meeting beneath the ruins of the hall where it held its sittings if it persisted in carrying out this project. But neither prayers nor threats had any effect, The address, as stated above, was unanimously agreed to, and the governor having re fused to take charge of it, the marshals, faithful to their commission, themselves sent it to the Empe ror. The answer was an Imperial ukase, dated 31st October, which deprives the marshal of the pro vince and all the marshals of districts who signed this address, most humble, but criminal in its tenour, of their functions, and sends them before the Senate for trial. The marshals included in the accusation were accordingly, in the beginning of November, arrested in their homes and escorted by troops to St. Petersburg, where they are now pri soners. But let us return to the Imperial ukase. "His Majesty," so runs the preamble, " after having listened, in the Council of Ministers, to the respectful report of the Minister of the Interior on the illegal address et the landholders of Podolia, finds that those who signed this address, which was approved in the provincial meeting, have not exposed in it the local wants which really relate to their province, as the law authorised them to do; but that, rashly censuring the state of the Govern ment established according to the principles of the laws of the empire, they have already manifested a tendency to change and shake the integrity and unity of the empire. It clearly appears from the very terms of this ukase that the provincial meeting of Podolia was authorised by the law to expose " the local wants of the province"—and if we return to the terms of the address, it will appear that it does nothing else :—" Sire, the situation of our country is de serving of all your solicitude," &c. It is the suf ferings and the wants of the province that are in question. The address goes no further. Not a word can be found in it that attacks " the prin ciples of the laws of the empire." But at least are its unity and integrity threatened by the wish to see the province administratively reunited to the kingdom of Poland and the other Poli s h provinces ? This is evidently the point on which the accusation rests ; it is this which , in the e y es of the Emperor and his Council, has appeared to constitute, on the part of those who signed the ad • dress, a crime amenable to the high . jurisdiction of the Senate. It is also chiefly from this point of view that we have to examine it. The nobility of Podolia does not ask to be sepa rated from Russia. The kingdom of Pola nd, which she asks to be administratively unite d, like the other so - called we stern provinces, whic h are once i mentioned in the address, is subject to t he a authority of the Czars. And, on the other hand, Podolia cannot be co nsidered as reall y forming an integral part of the empire, any mere than the kingdom of Poland and the other Polish provinces. Th e text of the treaties by which their present political position is regulated cannot give any open ing for the slightest equivocation, or leave any doubt on the matter. The first article of the Treaty of Vienna, after establishing a kingdom of Poland, formed of the old Duchy of Warsaw and " united to the Russian Empire by its Constitution," goes on to say—" The Poles, respectively subjects of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, shall obtain a representative and national institution, regulated according to the manner of political existence that each of the useful a governments nd te which they proper to grant Thus the very treaty which makes t h e Poles of t t y t b h e e l m on! , will judge it the incorporated provinces subjects of Russia, gives them the right of obtaining " a representative and national institution." Is not this what Podolia asks for P Administrative re-union is, in its view, nothing but the means of obtaining and insuring the possession of those national institutions and that representation which were promised to the Poles, 47 years ago, under the guarantee of all the Powers that signed the Treaty of Vienna. Podolia does not seek to break the bond which unites her to Russia; she only asks that the bond may be given its true character. She addresses the Emperor ; she might, without any crime, have ad dressed herself to Europe, and Europe might have demanded, with her or without her, what she de mands. There can be no doubt as to tee tine meaning of the provision of the Treaty of Vienna, which we have just quoted. Another article of the same treaty, Art. 11, says— " The principles established concerning the free navigation of rivers and canals in the whole extent of ancient Poland, as also regarding the use of har bours, the circulation of the products of the soil and of industry between the different Polish pro vinces, and regarding transit, as enunciated in two treaties between Austria and Russia, shall be in variably maintained.'' Thus, although parcelled out among three diffe rent States, no commercial barrier was to be placed between the Polish provinces, Their rivers, their canals, their harbours, remained, in the whole extent of ancient Poland, open to the products of their soil and their industry. What Art. 14 did for their commerce the second paragraph of Art. 1 was in tended to do for their nationality. The well-deter mined and clearly-defined intention of the Powers was that the provinces of ancient Poland, though placed under foreign sceptres, should remain Polish. We shall only recal here the terms of the instruc tions given in 1815 by the English Government to their plenipotentiary, Lord Castlereagh. Is not this again all that the address of Kamieniec asks for ? 4 , Institutions in conformity to the traditions and interests of the provincs"—a representation by means of which "organs elected by the country and chosen from its people watch over its affairs," " communication by way of roads for the free ex portationof its produce." The very terms of the treaty are to be found in the address, and nothing more. We have said and proved that the intention:of Europe, assembled in Congress at Vienna 60 years ago, was not doubtful; we shall soon show that there are at least more cabinete, than one whose opinion on this point has not changed, and that, notwithstanding the sort of indifference (laisser aller) of which the Powers have given proof on every occasion when Poland was is question, the subject has never been completely lost sight of. But it may be well now to observe that among all the Sovereigns assembled or represented in the Aus trian capital in 1815, not one showed more zeal, or a more anxious desire for the guarantees to be given to the Polish nationality than the Emperor of Rus sia, Alexander I. In doing this he only showed that he was faithful to the engagements he had solemnly undertaken in 1811 and 1812 towards the Poles and the Lithuanian provinces; but from the zeal which he showed in this portion of the negotiations, it is easy to perceive that this was not in his view only a question of keeping promises, but that it was the result of a well determined conviction, and affected one of the essential points of his policy. He would have wished at once to re-establish under his sceptre the whole kingdom of Poland, such as it existed before the three partitions ; he wished, at least, to re-construct a Poland by the re-union of all the palatinates and districts subject to his authority. He was prevented by the anxieties with which such a subject inspired Austria and Prussia for their Polish possessions. But he wished and obtained that, though under dif ferent sovereignties, the various parts of ancient Poland sbculd remain Polish ; he wished for the existence of a kingdom of Poland, and he expressly reserved to himself the right of giving to this king dom, which was to be completely independent, all the internal development which circumstances might seem to him to admit, viz., to augment it by the annexation of the Lithuanian and Ruthenian provinces, all of which formerly formed part of the old Republic of Poland. Thus, all that the address of Kamieniec asks for is, not only what Europe wished in 1815, but what the Czar, Emperor of all the Rassias, wished at that time. This reunion of all the palatinates and districts of ancient Poland in one single kingdom, which he had not been able to get adopted at Vienna, and which, so far as he was concerned, he had reserved to him self the right of effecting, Alexander I. did not cease to hold out to the nation as a thing to be hoped for, as a prize to be won by its good behaviour :—" A few more steps directed by wisdom and moderation and marked by confidence and honesty," said he on openin g the Diet of the Kingdom in 1820," and you will attain the objects of your hopes and mine ;" and this object was the restoration of the Polish father land so far as it could be accomplished by Russia alone. The same promise may be found, in termsrcore or less explicit, in all the speeches pronounced either at the cpening or the close of the various sessions of the Diet, and already the Lithuanian army had been reunited to the Polish army under the command of the Grand Duke Constantine, and this prince has himself pointed out, as one of the causes of the fatal but glorious insurrection of 1830, a confidential letter, rendered public by an indiscretion,in which his brother the Emperor Nicholas announced to him that he had determined not to carry out the pro mises of Alexander and completely to change his policy with regard to Poland. The intentions of Alexander I. cannot be then matter of doubt, any more than those of the Go vernments that were contracting parties in the Trea ties of Vienna. We have said that, notwithstand ing the perhaps excessive tolerance which Cabinets have shown to the Powers who partitioned Poland among themselves, whenever the obligations con tracted by them in 1815,with regard to their Polish possessions were in question, the matter was never entirely lost sight of, and that their intentions have not changed. Proof of this may be found in a despatch, addressed in 1831 by Lord Palmerston to Lord Heytesbury, the then Ambassador of the King of England at the Russian Court. There is one other point to which I wish to direct your attention. By Art. 1 of the Treaty of Vienna it is stipulat e d th a t th e P o l es , subjects respectively of Russia, Aust r i a , and Prussia, shall obtain a national representation and institutions, regulated according to the kind of political existence which each of the Governments to which they belong shall think it useful and fitting to grant them. It is understood that although this stipulation has been executed by Austria and Prussia, it has hitherto been entirely unfulfilled by the Russian Govern ment. His Majesty's Government have been in formed by the French ambassador at this Court that instructions have been sent to the Duke de Morte• mart to draw the attention of the Russian Govern. ment to this matter. . If the question should be agitated, your lordship is instructed to state that as far as his Majesty's Government are informed of the facts of the case it does not appear to them that the provisions of the Treaty of Vienna applicable to the Polish provinces of Russia have been hitherto carried into execution. These explanations appear to us sufficient to justify the importance whieli,we here attach to_the "It has nevertheless appeared to the court that this induction could only be justified by analogous acts. In the absence of such acts, the thought of the accused can only be looked upon as a wish which they have moreover sought to excuse— " Ist. By the expressions of the Treaty , of Vienna, by which his Majesty the Emperor Alexander had reserved to himself the right of giving to the king dom of Poland such internal extension as he may think proper. " 2d. By the expressions in the speeches pro nounced by the throne at various diets. And in consequence of these considerations the President declared that the Court had not been able to " find a criminal tendency in the expression of wishes on which the whole prosecution depended." The position of the Marshals of the province of Podolia is much stronger than that of the accused of 1828. It is not as members of a secret society, whose acts may always be, with more or less jus tice, likened to conspiracies, that they 'are to appear before the tribunal of the Senate. They have not conspired ; they have acted in broad day, with the greatest loyalty, and in the exercise of a commis sion clearly defined by law. But it is no longer a Polish Senate—it is a Russian Senate that tries them. Will the Russian Senate, at least, strictly apply to their ease the laws of the Empire P These laws give the electoral meetings of the nobility, in every province, the right of discussion on the wants and interests of that province, and, further, to ex pose them, through the provincial Marshal, to the Governor of the province, to the Minister of the Interior, and, in important cases, to the Emperor himself. The nobility is forbidden to make regulations contrary to law, and, in such case, the assembly collectively, and Marshals individually, are liable to penalties of from 150 to 30 roubles ; but " as for representations addressed to a governor or an inferior authority on the subject of the wants of the pro vince, the repression of local abuses, or the suppres sion of irregularities observed in the local adminis tration, even when these abuses proceed from some general arrangement, they are not considered con trary to the laws, if put forward in reasonable terms." In the face of such provisiatis, it is difficult to understand how the prosecution can be maintained before any tribunal whatever, and how it will be possible to obtain a condemnation. But it is not for us to examine this side of the question here ; this is the business of the advocates who will plead before the Russian Senate. The only branch of the subject we have in view, and to which we think it our duty to call the attention of our readers, is that by which this affair is connected with the public rights of Europe, and which we have en deavoured to place in the clearest possible light. DESPE.RA7E AFFRAY Wl7ll BURGLA.RS. On Wednesday morning a house at Hazlewood, in the Hagley-road, Edgbaston, in the suburbs of Birmingham, occupied by Mr. Reynolds, solicitor, was broken into by five burglars, who were fright ened away by a servant, severely wounding him in a struggle that cook place. The house, it appears, stands at the bottom of a garden, the front being towards the town, and in the rear is a walled court yard, with a heavy door leading to a kitchen gar den, beyond which is a smaller garden and a field. The man -servant slept in a room over a stable,which was included in a range of houses. The burglars, it appears, crossed the field and the two gardens from Augustus-road, and obtained entrance to the courtyard by the door. Having ga ined access, their first step was to silence the bell by placing tow round the clapper, and they afterwards forced open the door of the kitchen, thereby gaining admission to the house. It appears, in the meantime, that their steps were heard by the man who slept in the room overhead. He got up to a small window in his bed room, which overlooks the courtyard, and seeing at a glance the p os i t i on of affa i rs, promp tl y an d cou rageously det e rmi ne d, if possible, to foil the at tempt, partially dressed himself, armed himself with a hatchet, and taking a lighted candle, sallied down to the kitchen where he found the men. As far as can be gathered from his account, given since in moments of consciousness, he attacked the men, a scuffle ensued, in which his candle was put out, and he himself was knocked bleeding and un conscious to the ground, from a heavy blow with a sharp instrument on the head, and he was also struck and wounded in the breast. The burglars must also have " hocussed" a watch dog which was kept on the premises. The young man remained unconscious up to noon on Wednesday. Two men have since been apprehended on suspicion of being concerned in the burglary.! EXTRAORDINARY CAPTURE OF A WHAM-Our Falmouth correspondent informs us that a messenger arrived on Monday at the office of Messrs. Fox and Co., stating that a large whale had been seen as - lore near Portloe. It measures 45 feet in length, and is supposed to be of 20 tons weight. The noise of its blowing drew Mr. Blarney, farmer, with his men, to the ,spot, when the whale was found beat ing itself about on the rocks. 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