The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-09 00:00:00

X 1 . 4 SUIT LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 9, 1863. As yet might has not prevailed against right. Notwithstanding the determined tone of the news from St. Petersburg, the hosts of Russia have not summarily quelled the rebellion of the insurgents, as they style it, others might call it the rising of the patriots. The force which the Russians have opposed to the Poles has been considerable ; and yet, after the lapse of fifteen days, no success has been attained by their army. The long smouldering feeling has flamed forth, and it is like" fettering flame with fl txen band" to attempt to crush summarily the outpourings of a nation's wrath. It is a satire on the management of the Itussians that so desperate a cause should so prevail and rally round its standard so considerable a body of men. They have not succeeded, as they boasted at first they would, in quelling on the spot all revolutionary attempts, and as yet their victories have been gainsaid by defeats, for as soon as we hear of some advantage gained by the Imperial arms, so soon do we also hear they have been check mated by those they have despised, till at last they have been obliged to dread them. They find that they have to encounter, not as they supposed a few excited hundreds, but thousands of men in earnest, armed with the courage of despair, and fighting in the cause that has always been the foremost to send dauntless hearts to the conflict, and maintain the ground against all opponents. Pro aris et focis has always been a watchword that lea the forlorn hope, and fanned the expiring flame in the cause of nations. It is, perhaps, only too certain how all this may end. Russia has not deteriorated in power or in energy since the time of the fatal over throw of Polish rights— "When leagued oppression poured to Northern wars Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars." she has thousands to obey the beck and call of the absolute EMPEROR, and now, AS then, it is to be feared that the:blood of the patriota will deluge the earth, crying from thence for vengeance from the skies, but left unheeded and unminded by men who prefer their own security and interest to troubling themselves about the rights or wrongs of ethers. However, the defeat of the Poles will not be a victory for Russia. The loss of the trampled-down outcasts will not be gain to the ruthless invader, the heartless oppres sor who has trod down a nation beneath the iron heel of conquest, utter).y regardless of the sorrow and suffering, totally unmindful of the grievous 'Wrongs Which were inflicted upon the helpless People who bore the curse of foreign invasion. The cold and cruel world is roused from its apathy to hear of Polish youths being dragged from their bids at night, t o eerie in the ranks of the Tyrants ; also to learn that those who are taken in revolt are sent far away to pine in the wastes of Siberia over their ravished homes and blasted country. Per • haps shame may induce the Russians to concede what conscience cannot; at all events they seem _ try i r 4 to adop t some conciliatory measures, even now in the thick of the fight, and while the air resounds with the ciamlur of the c3rnage-field. Among other things the EMPEROR has ordered that "all th e reports of the Polish Council of the Empire to the Crown shall be in future in the Polish language." Various other rum ours are afloat, for whose au thenticity we cannot vouch, at present, as, for in stance, that there were already steps taken with a view to introducing reforms into Poland. If this be true, it is a pity that there was no candid friend to tell the EMPEROR, when he authorised his Coun cil, that reform might, with advantage, begin at home. At all events, for the present, the Russians have ceased to levy the conscrip tion, and this, of itself, speaks volumes of the effects that this obnoxious measure was known o produce. It also testifies to the conviction of the Russians that they had gone too far, and must temporise with their outraged assailants. They are not able to build a golden bridge for their retreat ing foes, but they wish, at all events, to smooth the road to future mediation and compromise. Had these concessions been made some time back they would have been of great use ; but now they are powerless, and totally insufficient to check the progress of the rebelion, or to still the rage of the in surgents. It is one thing to make terms with men who contemplate an insurrection, and another to stop them when it has begun. By the time they are in arms the primary motive which impelled them is almost lost sight of in the hosts of accumulating thoughts when once the field is taken and the cry of war is sounded. BYRON, in his matchless de scription of the field of Waterloo, has celebrated the onset of the Highlanders to battle, and among the inducements that urged on the warriors he brings forward " the stirring memories of a thousand years." If this incites men onwards, what memories must urge on the Poles when once they have taken up the sword, and met in open day the tyrants who have erased their country from the map of the world, as far as its existence as a State is concerned, and seem deter mined now to stultify the inhabitants of the out lawed nation. Whether or not, the insurgents are put down without any important results being obtained by their energy and devotion, at least they have again appeared against their oppressors, in the sight of GOD and man ; they have shown the civilised world their wrongs, and if no notice is taken of them outwardly, at least it must produce some effect on the minds of their cruel enemies at home. Even the haughty CZAR, the Emperor of all the Russas, cannot afford to lose more of the world's good opinion than he at present possesses. What may accrue it is impos sible to conjecture, but it is to be trusted that some thing of good may be in store for this outraged people. It is satisfactory to notice that this out break seems to have reached to the stronghold of autocratic absolutism, and been regarded as of momentous importance by the proud conquerors who have lorded it for so long a period in that afflicted land. We shall look eagerly for the next telegrams from Poland, but whether or not they announce success to the insurgents, it is not yet decided whether some good may not come out of evil, and let us hope that this bitter struggle may be the dark hour that precedes the dawn, which, under the blessing of Providence, may hereafter turn to the morning of joy that succeeds to the heaviness of the night of mourning and despair. At a time when it is of great importance that ' the police, whether in the metropolis or in the provinces, should receive every assistance from the public generally, and from the working classes particularly, to the end that the wide sp: ead crime of robbery with violence so preva lent of late throughout the length and breadth of the land, to the great scandal of our penal laws, should be put a stop to; it is a great pity that the revival of an old feudal law last session should be the cause of gradually but surely widening the gulf which must to some extent always exist between the ser vants of the law and those who, if not dishonest themselves, look with not unfriendly eyes upon those who transgress statutes which none but county magistrates and game-preservers consider to be criminal. Poaching has ever been considered by those who are not personally interested in the preservation of game, as a trial of skill between gamekeepers and unli censed sportsmen, and except where wanton in. jury is done, the feeling of the public is in favour of the poacher. No unprejudiced individual will for a moment maintain that any comparison can be made between the man who enters an open wood and shoots or snares wild animals which own no master, however much Lord License or Squire Turnip-top may call them his property, and the thief who breaks open a fowl house and steals its contents. Yet, whatever may be the opinion formed by the public at large, the sages who ere supposed to legislate for the good of the community in the Palace of Westminster, last session passed a bill which not only included under the head of birds and beasts sacred to the shrine of wealth and title, animals never before considered game, but gave power to the police to stop and search any person suspected of poaching, in fact treat him as he would a footpad or a burglar. The following is the wording of the act:— "It shall be lawful for every constable or peace officer, in any highway, street, or public place, to search any person whom he may have good cause to suspect of coming from any land where he shall have been unlawfully in search or pursuit of game, or any person aiding or abetting such person, and having in his possession any game unlawfully ob tained, or any gun, part of gun, or nets, or engines used for the killing or taking game; and also to stop and search any cart or other conveyance in or upon which such constable or peace officer shall have good cause to suspect that any such game or any such article or thing is being carried by any such person ; and should there be found any game or any such article or thing as aforesaid upon such person, cart, or other conveyance, to seize and detain such game, article, or thing, and such constable or peace officer shall, in such case, apply to some justice of the peace for a summons citing such person to appear before two justices of the Nees," Sze. The question may justly be asked how can this be in a country like England, which boasts of its advancement in civilisation and the extension of the liberty of the subject. We do not maintain that there should be no protection for game ; the necessary restrictions imposed on all classes alike to secure the birds from destruction during the breeding season is a matter of course; but why, because a country police constable, either from his Own fauey, or from malicious information given hi • m by some interested party, chooses to consider a n y wayfarer a suspicious person, should the -l aw empower him to stop and search such patty, a n d by an ingenious perversion of English law shift the onus probandi from the executive to the accused, and make him prove how he became possessed of any contraband of war, such as gun, net, &c., or any kind of game. Really our contemporary Punch, who always takes up popular controversies, did not exceed the limits of possibility when he depicted a picnic party surprised while preparing to commence a pheasant pie by a rural policeman, who indignantly exclaims, " Hallo ! what have you got there ? " Let us hope that this obnoxious bill will be reversed. . Mr. PAULL has given ' notice that on an ear l y d ay ho w ill introduce a bill • en this subject. W e t r ust thst it will have the effect of rectifying an error of last session, er l wh a i t c i h does little credit to the good sense or ton of our legislative assembly. ff there be one argument nt in favour of the payment of members less unreasonable than another, it would be that it would introduce an element into the House which, however objectionable in other re spects, would at least keep in check the selfish pro pensities of those who, however straightforward and liberal in general affairs, forget it all, so soo n as S. LINDSAY, M.P.—The Rising Genera g - • tion—Our Prize Essays — Mrs. Grundy's Gosn, in FUN this week. One Penny. Of all Newsmen. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. - Harrison, `Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING Wallace's new Opera of LOVE'S TRI UMPII : Miss Louisa t'yne, and Mdme. Laura Baxter ; Messrs. Gcorg,e Perren, W. H. Weiss, H. Corri, A. Cooke, and W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon. - - --- After which, the Grand Comic Corilnns Pantomime, en iitied HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Doors open at halt-past 4.-( 'ommence at ?; THEATRE -R 0Y A DRURY-LANE.- Lcssee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, DON CESAR DE BAZIN. Messrs. Henry Lorraine, Sinclair, Chas. Selby; Mrs. Bowers, Mrs. Edmund Falconer, Miss H. Howard, &o. After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES. Commence at '. THEATRE-R 0 Al, HAY MARKET. Lessee Mr. J. B. fluckstone. THIS EVENING. at Seven o'clock. will be performed CUE AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Tronchard, Mr. Ruck- Etone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. After which, a new and orizinal Extmvazanza, entitled RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ARYSSINIA ; or, The Happy Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley. Concluding with OUR MARY ANNE. THEATRE ROYAL "LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER. THIS EVENING, Feb. 9, to commence with an Ori.linal flketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. lkiessrs. Shore, Carden, 11. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Airs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New RomTHE antic Drama, in Three Acts, and PrStOrr,tte, entitled DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. '[he principal character will be sustained , by Mr. Pechter, sunported by Messrs. G. Vinin_, J. Bro_llg.lap , , H. V, iddi combo, W. ff'lntyre , F. Charles, Garden, R aymond, H. Butler, Dawson; Misses Carlotta Leclereq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery arc engaged, and will shertly appear. r oo rs open at half-past Six, performance to commence at reven. Private Boxes, £2 Vs. dd., and £2 2s. Places regiotered. Stalls, 6s. fid. ; Dress Circle, ss. 6d.; Upper Circle, 4s. ed. Prices at doors—Stalls, es. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Circle, 45.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, is. No half-price. Box office of en daily from 11 till 5. The public are entreated to take notice that no charge is made to the occupants of b )xes, box places, or stalls, either for playbills or for the sate keep ing of hats and cloaks : and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. it) • Lee and Manager, Mr Lindu3. THIS EVENING. LAW v. LOVE : Miss M. Oliver. Followed by ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES AN OTHER. Mr. R. Roxby and Miss Amy Sedgwick. Atter which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, RIQUET WITH THE'TUFT ; or, Harlequin and Mother Sbiptou." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and liudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and Mr. Halter& N• W THFATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manae - er. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE LI TLE THE •%SURE. Mr. Billington, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole, P Bedford, and Mrs. Billington. To be followed by "GEORGE DE BARNWELL : or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, M 149 Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed ford, S 7:ephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri; columbine, Miss Caroline Adams; Clown, Mr. W. Hildyard ; 1 ntaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and .I..;el•trand. Commence at 7. The Weather.—Sull Office, Feb. 8, 1863. THERIVIOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday. 5O Lowest during the night This day at N00n..... Barometer-29.97. Wind —Northerly; light, with fine weather. Rain in the night and morning. FEB. 9. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday .. 43 Lowest during the night This day at Noon _ -- Barometer-30.19. Wind—N.-Westerly; light, fine and frosty. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T FII3 DAT.—Morning, sh. 20m.—Afternoon, sh. 40ca. To-mom - tow: Morning, sh. 59a3.—Afternoon, 6h. 20m. THE SIJN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 9, 1863. their own hobby is concerned. Let us hope that Parliment will see its mistake and rectify of its own accord with a good grace, and not wait Until pressure from without compels them to make a virtue of necessity. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] LIVERPOOL, FEB. 9. The George Griswold, from New York, with con tributions of provisions for the Lancashire opera tive, has arrived off this port. She will enter the Mersey this afternoon. SPAIN. MADRID, FEB. 8. Government has not yet taken any resolution respecting the dissolution of the Chambers, and it is considered uncertain whether this step will be takEn. PARIS, FEB. 9. The Paris papers of to-day publish a telegram from Lisbon, dated the Bth inst., asserting that an English steamer had insulted a Portuguese steamer in the port of Angola, but that the commander of the former gave satisfaction the following day. The telegram contains no further details. THE GREEK THRONE. GOTHA, FEB. 8. The official Coburger Zeitung of to-day publishes an account of the negotiations in reference to the election of the Duke of Coburg to the throne of Greece. The Duke made his acceptance of the crown de pendent upon the four following conditions : " 1. That loyal explanations on the subject should be entered into with the Bavarian dynasty. " 2. That the Diet of Gotha should consent to the Duke becoming a candidate. "3. That Greece should be materially strength ened. "4. The Duke not to renounce his position as a German Sovereign, but only to provisionally con duct the Government of Greece until his nephew, the Prince of Coburg-Kohary, should become old enough to ascend the throne. The official Cobouryer Zeitung further states that the negotiations were broken off by the declaration of the Duke that no favourable result could be ex- pected. /Dull ocair,..__ Cilt 4,41 ,14014, ("A, HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 7. The Quc, , on drove out yesterday morning, accom panied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce and Lord Alfred Paget. The Queen walked and drove out in the grounds in the afternoon with Princess Louis of Hesse. The Queen drove out this afternoon, accompanied by the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Helena, and attended by Lieut.• Colonel du Plat. The Lord Chamberlain arrived at Osborne, and had an audience of her Majesty, to present the Address from the House of Lords in answer to her Majesty's Speech. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, arrived at Osborne this day from the Ranger's House, Greenwich Park. FEB. 8. The Queen, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, and the ladies and gentlemen of the household, attended divine service at Osborne this morning. The Rev. G. Prothero officiated. The Prince of Wales visited Marlborough House on Saturday. His Royal highness, attended by ieu , .-General Knollys and Major Teesdale, honoured the performance at the Oiymptc Theatre in the evening with his presence. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, with his gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Vaughan, Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, preached the sermon, from St. Luke, chap. vii,, verse 23. The anthem, " 0 how amiable are thy dwellings, thou Lord of Hosts," (Greene) was sung by Messrs. Wynn and Benson. THE FRENCH CHAMBERS. At the meeting of the Chambers on Friday, the 6th inst., M. Ernest Picard reopened the debate on the amendment proposed to the paragraph on Mexico. He declared that it was his wish not to speak of the war but of the expedition. Hitherto there had been no opportunity for discussing it, since the papers which had been submitted to the Spanish Cortes and the English Parliament had been withheld from the French Chambers. Now those do cuments were produced, and it was possible to express an opinion. He questioned the urgent necessity of the expedition, and asked "was this a moment to exact indemnities which Mexico could not possibly pay. Juarez was in such a state of penury that the Am bassador for France could not leave for want of funds for his voyage. The real motive of the expedition remained to be sought. With re gard to other reasons, the chief creditor was a well. known banking establishment, whose principal was Swiss. At what moment did this national creditor become French ? The date of his nationality is March 26, 1862. It was in March, 1862, that the individual became a Frenchman, to whom is partly due the rupture of the Cauvention, one of the causes for the departure of the allies. With regard to the project of establishing a monarchy in Mexico, every one could understand that if France went in arms to propose a monarchical government to Mexico, the Mexicans would be alarmed, and would listen to nothing. I repeat," added the speaker, " that it is with great regret we have seen published in the address to the Mexicans proclamations which re call those which in other days were addressed to the French by the generalissimo of the armies of Prussia and Austria." (Murmurs.) After proceeding in this strain at some length, M. PicaTd continued— " The address expresses a hope that the war will have a speedy and a happy termination. This is what every one desires, but what is understood by the phrase ? Is it a military occupation ? Are we to seek at the distance of two thousand leagues a new Algeria when the Algeria so near us has been for thirty years so little and so badly colonised ? In a question so important in its financial, its future, and its political aspects, let I us be told distinctly what is meant. The Government has sought to follow in its ex terior policy the same system which it has un fortunately applied to the interior—that of force. (Fresh interruptions.) Has it answerel ? What is our influence in Europe after so much loss of blood ? The Throne of Greece is vacant. Who have been the favourite Candidates ? _ Several voices—" Greece is not the question." M. Picard—Yesterday you were at Turin for Turin, at Rome for Rfime. A voice—" Come back to Mexico." M. Picard—A year ago it seemed that France was to deliver all struggling nationalities. You heard yesterday how the Minister has declared that he will treat the Poles. (Interruption.) 1 repeat what I have said. If you act on the princi ple of non-intervention, you must explain other wise than you do your Mexican wars. If you are for the contrary principle, you should not be in Mexico when you ought to be elsewhere. (Con- fusion.) M. le Baron Jerome David then rose to speak, and said that his national spirit resented the asser tion made by M. Picard that all the world was in the right but France. (Applause.) He admitted that the Mexican expedition had created much ex citement, from the distance of the seat of war, the obstacles, the uncertainties, the expenses of the enterprise. Nevertheless he was prepared to defend the policy of the Government on the grounds of justice and truth. It must be remembered that the preceding Government, notwithstanding its pacific policy, had been driven to arms ,to redress the same grievance. He proceeded to argue the question upon its merits, and declared that France was the only one who had remained con3tant to the original views of the convention of London. England, he said, had taken part in the enterprise to prevent Spain from appearing alone, for she was always anxious to separate Spain as much as possible from her old colonies. France subjugated her material in terests to the grand principles of civilisation. (Ap plause.) Franceth ad nearly 100,000 subj ect s scat tered through the Spani,th American Republics. If in those distant localities an English subject was in- jured the blow which struck him resounded through out all England. Should Frenchmen not be as careful to protect their compatriots ? It was easy to spread alarming roumours, to suspect the inten tioras of the Government, but then q was necessary to go further and declare that France would afford no protection, no succour to her natives. But, said the speaker in conclusion, if you reject such a doc trine let us declare that the more difficult and arduous the expedition:the more it is meritorious. Let us en courage those heroic soldiers who defend in Mexico the honour of France. Let them know if they fall that they fall in a noble cause in serving France and civilisation. (Loud applause.) M. Favre then, amidst some interruption, proceeded to answer the ministerial speech, and to comment upon the two preceding dis courses, and wound up a lengthened analysis of the question by declaring that the Mexi can expedition was a fault which it would be im possible to repair. It would be a second occupation of Rome without the glory of having defended a great principle. M. Billault said that the lateness of the hour compelled him to defer his answer for the day. But he undertook to reply to all the accusations brought against the Ministerial policy. M. Jules Favre.—On condition that I may reply. The sittings then terminated at six o'clock, and the discussion adjourned till the subsequent day. The debate was resumed on Saturday, when M. Billault, in a long and eloquent speech, defended the Ministerial policy; and after a short reply from M. J. Favre, the Corps Legislate rejected the amendment proposed by the five members, and adopted, at the close of yesterday's sitting, the 3d and 4th paragraphs relating to Mexico. Mr. Colley Grattan, a gentleman known in the London literary world, has been appointed Consul at Teneriffe. The Rev. Charles Merivale, rector of Law ford, Essex, who has been recently appointed chaplain to the House of Commons, in place of the:Rev. Henry Drury, de ceased, is brother to Mr. Herman Merivale, one of the Under Secretaries of State, and is the author of " The His tory of the Romans under the Empire." Mr. Walter Lacy has been appointed Professor of Elocution at the Royal Academy of Mus'c. A further material for paper pulp has been dis covered in the fibre of the Hibiscus Moschentes, an indi genous tree which grows in great quantities throughout Pennsylvania, and is said to yield seven tons per acre. The " Hanging Committee" for the coming Royal Academy Exhibition has been appointed, and is to consist of andMl.C.e\. P. e\rperofl7;hileh, ARcamylS,lrandCllallfrrli B jn ,Ablandsaemerb R.A Cooper, R.A.—The Reader. A FAIR PENS ION. —Mehemet Ali Pasha, ex grand admiral, has received a pension of 75,000 p. a month —above £B,OOO a year. Considering that his highness is already one of the richest grandees of the empire, this may be regarded as a pretty fair" retiring allowance."—Levant herald. --• THE CROWN OF GREECE.—Th e final answer of the Duke of Saxe Coburg has now been received. His z'ereno Highness has positively reso , ved, for several rea sons, not to allow his name to be put forward as a candi date for the Hellenic throne.-11forning rost. REDUCTIONS IN THE NAVY.—It will be seen by the following statement that we have made a very material reduction in our naval forces during the last six months. On the Ist of August last wo had in commission 322 ships, mounting 4,702 guns, manned by 60,058 officers, men, marines, and boys. On this day we have only 232 ships in commission, mounting 3,414 guns, and manned by 47,207 officers, men, marines, and boys; showing a reduc tion of 90 ships and 12,851 men. The ships we shall doubt less find at th e i r respect i ve moor i ngs; b u t, we ma y be per mitted to ask, what has become or will become of the nearly 13,000 meu ? They cannot all be accommodated on board the Canopus and Hannibal, even when the marines are de , ducted from the number,._. .4rmy and Navy Uazette. Reception of the Princess Alexandra. 1 he Royal Reception Committee of the Common Coun cil, at their first meeting at the Mansion House, resolved that a deputation of their body should wait upon Sir George Grey, to learn from him further particulars relative to the route to be taken, and the time at which her Royal High ness was expected to arrive. On Saturday, accordingly, a deputation, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Anderton, and the City Remembrancer, had an interview at the Home-office. It was understood that the route to be adopted from the Bri klayers' Arms Station would be through the B rough, over Le ndon-bridge, through King William-street, by the Mansion-house, the Poultry, Cheap side, St. Paul's-churchyard, Ludgate-hill, Fleet-street, the Strand, and through the parks to the Great Western Rail way Staticn at Paddington. Her Royal Highness will arrive in this country on Saturday, the 7th of March. The exact hour of the day is not yet known. The South- Eastern Railway Company have decided upon fitting up their stations at Gravesend and at the Bricklayers' Arms in a manner worthy of the occasion. At the Louden terminus there will be seats provided for the direc tors and their friends, and a limited number of spec tators, who will be specially invited. The floor of the sta tion will be covered with scarlet cloth and groups of flou rishing plants and shrubs, and the roof and sides will be gaily decorated with flags, conspicuous among which will be the British and Danish colours. A reception room will be provided for the Lord Mayor, the sheriffs and such mem bers of the corporation as may attend. The royal carriages, for the conveyance of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess and their respective suites, have been taken in hand to be thoroughly beautified; and the engine which will draw the royal train will carry an English and a Danish flag. The chairman and some of the directors will be in attendance at Gravesend, and will travel with their Royal Highnesses to London. On the arrival of the train, a congratulatory address will, it is understood, be presented to the Prince of Wales and the Princess. The Lady Mayoress will be prepared with a bouquet of choice flowers to hand to the Princess on her arrival. A guard of honour will receive their Royal Highnesses, and an escort of the household troops will accompany them to Paddington. Ar rangements will be made by Mr. Commissioner Harvey to prevent the traffic of the City from impeding the proces sion on its way through the City, and at Temple-bar the arrangements of this description will be in the hands of Sir Richard Mayne. The members of the Hon. Artillery Com pany, the Rifle Brigade, the 3d City of London, and the 4th (Foresters) Corps will line the thoroughfares of the City. It is expected that some of the volunteeer corps of Surrey and Kent will line the streets on the Surrey side of the river. It is also intimated that other corps «eill be on similar duty west of Temple-bar. The Mansion House will be properly decorated with flags, and seats will be provided on the balconies for a limited number of the friends of the corporation. Temple-bar will in like manner be magni ficently decorated, and along the whole line through which the procession will pass all the public buildings will be de corated with flags. A triumphal arch will, it is said, be constructed at some convenient spot on the route, bearing appropriate mottoes and national emblems. Demonstrations of welcome will, we have no doubt, be made by every house along the whole of the route over which their Royal High nesses will be escorted. WOOLWICH, Feb. 8. An official communication has been received by the Mayor and Corporation of Gravesend, to the effect that her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Denmark, ac companied by her parents the Prince and Princess hris tian, and suite, will disembark at the Terrace Pier from the royal steam yacht Victoria and Albert on Saturday, the 7th March. The town of Gravesend will be beautiful y deco rated on the occasion, and the day and evening will be marked by festivities and rejoicings of various kinds, to gether with a general illumination. Various details as to the reception of the distinguished visitors will be considered at the quarterly court of the corporation, which will meet on Wednesday next. The arrangements for the disembarkation will take place under the direction of Commodore Sir F. W. E. Nicolson, superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, and flag officer of the port. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE ROYAL CALE DONIAN CURLING CLUB.—At the annual meeting of the representative committee of the R. C. Curling Club, held in Glasgow last July, it was announced that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had signified, through the Earl of Mansfield, his acceptance of the office of Patron of the Club, formerly held by his illustrious and lamented father the Prince Consort. At the same meeting it was re solved to present his Royal Highness with a pair of cur ling stones, and it was remitted to the secretary to take steps accordingly. The stones are made of green serpentine, found near Crieff, Perthshire, and generally known to cur lers by the name of Muthil stone. The handles, the wood of sOrch is of oak from Linlithgow Palace, are richly mounted in silver. The plates which screw on to the stones are elaborately chased with thistles, forming shields in the centres, which bear the following inscription :—" Presented by rho Royal Caledonian Curling Club to ILR H. the Prince of Wales, Patron, 1863." The handles are wreathed with thistles, engraved, and the mountings on each end of the wooden part have a wreath of oak leaves and acorns executed in the same style. Thd Late Lord Lansdowne. Frances Browne, the blind poetess, in a graceful ditty to the memory of the late Marquess, speaks, or rather sings of him (in the Examiner of last Saturday) as— A statesman above craft, a champion free From party hate or bias, the true ft Mud Of men and nations, light and liberty, Loved in his youth and followed to the end. And at the close of her memorial lines says of him, very beautifully,— His life was like a long midsummer day Which saw no shadow till its closing grey, But went down warm and lovely to the last, Made rich with memories of the sunshine past And hopes toward a brighter morning cast. Lord Lansdowne used to relate that when, after Turner's death, ha went to the artist's house, on a foggy day, in the hope of g:tting a sight of his reserved works, the old woman in charge, looking up through the area railings, took him for the cat's-meat man, and told him he needn't come again, since some rascal had stolen her cat. Three days before Lord Lansdowne died, ho was reading and discussing Kinglake's " History of the In vasion of the Crimea." Although but a few days have ch.ps,:d since hi s death, it is said that the Correspondence of the late Marquis of Lansdowne is being prepared for pablicati , n. It is pro bable that his lordship commenced the work himself. The Duchess of St. Albans and Llcly Diane Beauclerk and Viscount Falkland intend to return to town on or about the 27th instant from the Cont;nent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clunricarde are expected in town in a few days from Portumna Castle, Galway. The Earl and Countess of Tankerville left town on Saturday for Brampton Park, Huntingdonshire. Lord and Lady William Powlett will leave town on Wednesday for their residence at Bath. A PROBLEAL—The Cincinnati Enquirer pro pounds a problem. If 1,500,000,000 dols., 400,000 lives, and two years of war fail to take Richmond; how long will it take, how much money will it cost, and how many lives must be expended before we subjugate the seceding States r THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND, LEMEi G Feb. 7. Six thousand insurgents, under the command of Baron liddel, are said to have been beaten by the Russian general, Mack, near liroucsczk. Two battalions of peasants threw down their muskets at the first fire. Many of the insurgents dispersed, and are wan dering in the forests. The Russians have set fire to the town of Wouc sozk. CRACOW, Feb. 7, Yesterday evening the insurgents attacked Gra nica, Sosnowice, and Modezejow, upon the frontier between Poland and Prussia. The Russians were defeated, losing 49 killed and wounded. Feb. 8. The number of persons joining the insurgents continually increases. The Polish portion of the Warsaw and Vienna Railway is in the p,-wer of the insurgents. Three thousand 3f them are in the immediate neighbourhood of Myslowitz. The news of the victory of the Russians over the insurgents near Woucsozk is confirmed The na tional Government of Sandomir has been suspended. WARSAW, Feb. b. General Ramsay has been relieved of the com mand in chief of the Russian troops in the king dom, as stated in the decree, in consequence of an attack of apoplexy. His successor, Gen. Samukin, is already upon his way to Warsaw from St. Pe tersburg. Feb. 7. The news of a great battle near Woucsozk, aryl the defeat of the insurgents with great loss, is con firmed. No official report of the battle, has, how ever, yet been received. BRESLAU, Feb. 7. Sosnowiec. a town upon the Russian frontier, opposite Kaltowitz, the seat of a custom-house, and only feebly garrisoned, I as been taken by the in surgents after a sanguinary conflict. _ Feb. 8. The Schlessfsche Zeztung of to-day says:— " According to reliable information, matters in Poland are so serious that a tattalion of Prussian infantry has been forwarded to the frontier to-day, by special train from Oppelo. "Ocher special trims have beEu ordered to be got in readiness to-day." The Breslauer Zeitung of to-day publishes a tele gram from Myslowitz, dated Feb. 7, 10 p.m., which slys:-- "Fugitive Russian troops are arriving here in great numbers; 500 of them have been disarmed. " The neighbouring provincial district has been totally cleared of the Russian military by the insur gents, who have a large number of e Avalry." Accounts from Warsaw and other sources of in formation supply details of the progress of the Polish revolt up to the 3d inst., at which date the impres sion in the neighbouring countries was that the insurrection was increasing, and that the most ener getic measures on the part of the Russian Govern ment were necessary to restore order. A corre spondent of the Breslau Gazette says :-- "Very little official information is published from the province of Augustowo, where, however, the contest between the Government troops and the in surgents is most intense. It is notorious that at Lapy, a station near Bialystok, the insurgents are surrounded by regular intrenchments, composed of the stonework cf the place. Lapy is the principal depot of the railway from Warsaw to Wilna, as the Government, with a view to the preventive system, on the building of the railway, would not allow the factory and depot to be so near Warsaw, as, in the event of a revolt, they might possibly fall into the hands of the insurgents, and thus the communica tion with St. Petersburg might be interrupted. The insurgents, however, have taken the works, and, besides having thoroughly destroyed the means of communication behind them, they have fortified themselves in the place, and, with unexampled ac tivity, have set to work to manufacture weapons, which are principally sent to Wilna. A similar as semblage of insurgents is between Biala and Luckowo, whither, as also to Lapy, strong detach ments of imperial troops are continually being sent.' , The semi- ufficial Austrian correspondence brings the following information : " Almost all the Russian frontier guards in Poland have been disarmed by the insurgents without bloodshed, yet a sanguinary conflict has taken place at Krzeszow. There are no Russian military till deep within the interior of the country, as they have retired to ZAMOSC. Although nobles and citi zens have up to the present time participated in the revolt, the country people remain generally passive. The greatest terrorism is exercised by the insur gents, as they compel persons either to surrender arms, or to contribute money to the revolutionary funds. In consequence of tbis pressure many mo derately-inclined nobles and Jews have taken flight to Galicia. At Lublin a number of recruits were taken from their guards by the insurgents, and the rest of the body were liberated by the Russians. The recruiting there has ceased." Respecting the attempt to poison the Margrave Wietopolski, it is stated that atter dinner the margravine and her children, as well as several servants, found themselves unwell, and the medical men who were called in declared that belladonna had been mixed with their food. The margrave himself did not suffer in the least. In the evening the Grand Duke Constantine and the Grand Duchess visited the margrave and his family to express their sympathy. The official journal of Warsaw continues to pub lish details of engagements with the insurgents in different parts of the country, in which, of comae, the military are almost invariably victorious. A correspondent of the Berlin National Zeitung, writing on 3d inst., s ays— "A considerable number of insurgents are assem bled at Wonehocko, in the government of Radom. A traveller, who arrived here yesterday furnished with a pass from the Provisionary Government, states that 20,000 men are concentrated there, and that they ace constantly receiving weapons from Galicia. He saw two waggon loads of these arms himself. The official reports of the Dzienna naturally do not agree with the private intelligence received. In the town of Opoczno 2,500 insurgents, among whom were 500 horsemen, after driving out the Russians, have takes up their quarters, under the direction of Colonel Legocki, who has served under Garibaldi. The town authorities paid him becoming honours, and a crowd of peasants flocked to his standard. Some intelligence that has been receivedrespecting the plundering of the post-offices is not entirely correct. Nothing is known of a certain Frankowski, a leader of the insurgents, who is stated to have given receipts for the money stolen, and the central committee cannot discover the thieves. The post-carriage from Lodz was plundered by the conductor himself, and all this was put down to the account of the Provisionary Go vernment. However, the bank at Lodz, a branch of the Warsaw bank, has been visited by the insur gents. They ordered the books to be laid before them by the cashier, and, after an inspection of the figures, they gave him receipts for 19,600 iounles, which they appropriated. They then went to the chief of the commercial community, and desired him to deliver up the arms belonging to the Government and deposited with him for the service of the rifle club. Two hundred arms were thus found, std ceipts were given for ihetn. M. Kraszewski, Polish Dumas, has received an order to quit Ihi country, and his paHsport has been harldtd to him. Fit; will go to Drut , den. I.Vs banistant:tit bLum occasioned by a correspondence with the Lziennik Poznanski. It is stated that o proclamation will soon be iszued by the grand (laity urging thept-cpit io maintain peace and order under threats of st vet, treatment. Warsaw is still perttet 3 quiet." Another communication from Warsaw contain:, the following:— " The insurgents seek to completely cut off the Rtisians InlVartaw hem all communication with other places, and thert fore eudeav _ur to destroy 11 me ans of transport, so far as they are not useful to themselves. The partial destruction of our three railways (trona St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Bromberg), as well as the telegraphic ines,, is still continued. The most zeccnt event ot his kind is the demolition of the btacige over the t'ilica near Bialobrzegy, on the Road from Warsaw to R . ,:clotn, the building of which cost a cousicera sum of money only a few years ago. A short time since three Russian couriers came into Warsaw together, having lett St. Petersburg at intervals of three days from one another. They had come by different routes, and had all experienced some diffi culty in making their way, as the railways were impracticable." In addition to the account of a stoppage of a train mentioned a few days since, the Breslau Gazette furnishes the following particulars of a similar oc- currence:-- "Passengers just arrived by the train from War saw state that at about two verats from that city they were met by a strong body of insurgents. Their leader, some minutes before the train ap proached, intimated to the driver by signals that he must stop, and the followers of the leader gave weight to this expression of his desires by pointing their revolvers at the train, which was halted in consequence of this threatening demonstration, when three of the insurgents mounted the locomo tive, and intimated to the driver their wish that he should pi oceed so far as they required. When they arrived at the fourth station this side of Moscow (the train having passed some stations without stopping), the driver announced that he could pro ceed no further for want of water. The insurgents acceded to his wishes, but before the driver had taken in as much water as he needed the leader of the band ordered him to proceed. On arriving at Skiemiewice, nine miles this aide of Warsaw, the insurgent% who had ridden in the different carriages amongst the passengers, left the train. They were about 100 in number, and amongst them were some of the better classes of Poles, all well armed." DENMARK. A great ball, is honour of the future Princess of Wales, was given last Thursday at the British em bassy by Mr. Augustus Paget and his lady. Besides the Princess Alexandra, a crowd of titled and fashionable persons attended the festivity, partizularlarly H.R.H.'s parents, the Prince and and Princess of Denmark, and the members of the Royal Family. The Hereditary Prince Ferdinand and his consort the Princess Caroline were, how ever, unavoidably absent, the Prince being still far from well, FRANCE , M. Baroche's speech in the Legislative Body is admitted even by the Opposition journals to be a most masterly exposition of the principles which direct the Imperial Government: Several of our contemporaries express their dissent from its doc trines on particular points, but they all praise the admirable manner in which the hon. minister ex plained his views. Some of those journals also ex press their regret and disappointment at the deci sion of the French Government not to make some demonstration in favour of Poland, finding fault in particular with the manner in which M. Billault announced that intention. The Debuts expresses itself on the point in these terms :—" The Govern ment, through the medium of M. Billault, has re fused to join in the manifestation proposed to the Chamber in favour of Poland. While referring to the ancient sympathies of France for Poland, M. Billault declared in a decided manner that the Po lish nation could expect nothing 'from an insurrec tional attempt,' which he believed would only bring fresh misfortunes on that unhappy country. ' The Emperor's Government,'said M. Billault, is too wise to afford, by vain language, a deceitful aliment to insurrectional passions, and it is too jealous of its dignity and of that of France to repeat for 15 years in anAddress useless phrases and idle protestations.' This reply, so justly blamed by M. Jules Favrs, has produced an unfavourable impression on public opinion, and if we are well informed there was rea son to hope that the langu.ge of the Minister would be attenuated in the account of the sitting published by the Meniteur ; but that expectation was not reakised. The words of M. Billault cut short the discussion, and that unfortunate incident thus came to an end, The .Monde, in speaking of the same subject, ex presses its dissent from certain assertions made by M. Jules Favre in the course of his brief remarks, its language running thus:— " That hon. Deputy thought fit to add some less successful observations, which are directly opposed to his argument, in reproaching the Catholic Church with no longer protecting the people as formerly. He would wish Pius IX, to imitate St. Ambroise, closing the doors of his cathedral to Theodosius. There are still prosecutors, but they are no longer repentant. Nor is the influence of the Church what it formerly was, for the simple reason that nations aro no longer so Christian as they were. Who protested against the partition of Poland ? Who protected that heroic nation ? A single Power which was unfortunately the Papacy. Who is it now that pre powerless — serves the remains of that cruelly-tried people ! The Catholic Church ; and who is opposing and weakening the authority of the Holy See in all Europe ? Precisely that democratical party to which M. Jules Favre belongs. The philosophy of the eighteenth century it is which has effected the partition of Poland, and the French Revolution it is which has maintained the effects and aggravated the consequences of that act. What is most sad is that the speech of M. Jules Favre has brought M. Billault, the Government orator, to coldly condemn the resistance of the Poles to Russian oppression, and thus give to Russia a solemn proof of good understanding in circumstances in which other sentiments would have better responded to the sympathies of France for Poland." BOURSE, Feb. 7.—The market has been rather heavy, but Threes, for the Account, have been up to the present time maintained at nearly the quotation of yesterday, being now at 70t. 40e. Little cluing in Railway Shares, and fluctuation trifling. The market closed as follows: it per Cents 99 Do. end month 99 ; per Cents Do. end month., 7O 40 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier.. „ 1183 7d !;0, end month 1187 A -- RAIL' Bank Shares 3395 - - Credit koncier 1525 Piedniontese Fives Italian Loan 7l 49 Russian Austrian Spanizh Threes Home Debt TAYa. Cash, Account. 1105 1110 -- 1030 .. 1035 Orleans ... Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1132 50 .. 1185 G enava .. 4lO 415 Southern Western Eastern ... , Sardinian Austrian Lombard , North of Spain Saragossa 690 .. 690 Ditto to Barcelona SHOCKING DEATH IN A POLICE CELL.-0,1 Sa turday an inquest was herd at the E'ephant and Castle Tavern, King's-road, St Pancras, by Dr. Lankester, respecting the death of Mrs. Ellen Russell, aged 39, who expired in the cell of the Albany-street police-station, under the following circumstances :—lt appewed from the evi dence that deceased was a respectable woman, living on an annuity, and residing at 24, Clarendon-square, but at times she gave way to intemperance. She was found by a police-constable at the corner of the Hampstead-road in a helpless state of intoxication, and was removed to the sta• tion in Alb any - street, where she was locked up. While there she complained of being paralysed in her right arm, and on being visited soon afterwards she was found dead, lying on her face on the bench. The medical evidence Proved that deceased died from apoplexy from alcoholic drink. Verdict—Death from drunkenness. THE EMPEROR ON ALGIERS. The Emperor has addressed the following letter to Marshal the Duke de Malakoff, Governor- General of Algeria : "Monsieur is Marechal,—The Senate will soon undertake the examination of the general bases of the constitution of Algeria; but awaiting its deli beration, I think it ot the utmost importance to put an end to the uneasiness excited by so many dis cussions on Arab property. Good faith and our interest, well understood, make this a duty. " When the Restoration conquered Algiers it promised the Arabs to respect their religion and their property. 'lbis solemn engagement is still binding on us, and I feel bound in honour to fulfil, as I did for Abd-el-Kader, all that was great and noble in the promises of the Governments which preceded me. "On the other hand, even if justice did not so command, it seems to me indispensable for the tran quillity and prosperity of Algeria, to consolidate property in the hands of those who hold it. What hope, indeed, can there be for the pacification of a country when nearly the whole population is under constant apprehensions as to the tenure of what it possesses ? How can prosperity be developed when the greater part of the territory is struck with dis credit by the impossibility of selling or borrowing ? How can the revenues of the State be augmented when the value of the Arab real property, which alone pays taxes, is constantly diminishing ? "Let us state the facts. In Algeria there are three millions of Arabs, and 200,000 Europeans, of whom 120,000 are French. Of an area of about 2,900,000 hectares, composing the Tell, two millions are cultivated by the natives. The available domain of the State is 2,690,000 hectares, of which 890,000 are adapted for cultivation, and 1,800,000 are covered with forests ; lastly, 420,000 hectares have been granted to European colonisation ; the rest consists of marshes, lakes, rivers, commons, and heaths. Out of the 420,000 hectares granted to colonists, a great portion has been either resold or let to Arabs by the grantees, and the rest is fa r from being all rendered productive. Thol e these figures are only`approximative, it must le acknowledged that, notwithstanding the lau dable energy of the colonists and the progress real isee• the efforts of the Europeans are ex e r c ised as Set over a very small extent, and that it will certai nly be long before land is wanting to their activity. 4. In presence of these results, it is impossible to admit the utility of cautoning the natives, that is to say, of taking a certain portion of their lands to extend the area of civilisation. "The project of cantonment submitted to the Council of State has therefore been withdrgwo by unanimous consent. It is now necessary to do more —r o convince the Arabs that we have not come to Algeria to oppress and despoil them but to bring them the benefits of civilisation. Now, the first condition of civilised society is respect for every man's rights. ri I t will, perhaps, be objected that the Arabs have no rights. The Sultan was formerly sole pro prietor of the soil, and conquest transferred it to us with the same title. What ! Should the State avail itself of the obsolete principles of Mahometaniera to despoil the old possessors of the soil, and, in st laud become French, should it invoke the despotic rights of the Grand Turk ! Such a pretension is exorbitant ; and were it to be enforced, it would be necessary to drive back the whole Arab population into the desert, and inflict on it the fate of the Ltdians of North America, a measure impossible and inhuman. " Let us, therefore, endeavour by every means t° conciliate that intelligent, proud, warlike, and agri cultural race. The law of 1851 consecrated the rights of property and occupation existing at the time of the conquest, but the occupation being il l defined, remained uncertain. The time is net come to remedy this precarious situation. The ter ritory of the tribes being once determined, it wil l be divided into douares, which will hereafter admit the prudent initiative of the administration to in' troduce the principle of individual property. Having become absolute owners of their land, the natives will be able to dispose of it as they please, and from the multiplicity of transactions, there will arise between them and the colonists daily re' lations, more efficacious in bringing them to adopt our civilisation than all coercive measures. "There is a vast extent of land in Africa. TO resources to bs developed are numerous enough for every one to find room and give full scope to hi B industry, according to his nature, manners, an d wants. "To the natives, the breeding of horses and cattle, the natural cultivation of the soil. " To the enterprise and intelligence of European 6 the working of forests and mines, draining, irriga' tion, the introduction of improved modes of cultica" tion, the importation of those manual arts whi ch always precede or accompany th e p rogress o f ogre culture. " To the local Government, the care of gene ral interests, the development of the moral welfare by education, of the material welfare by public work s ' It will be its duty to suppress useless regulati° Ps ' ,nd to leave transactions the most complete liberiP Moreover, it will favour great associations of Far o ' perm capitalists, by henceforth avoiding to act as the director of the emigration and colonisation , °r to lend painful support to individuals without re sources, attracted by gratititous grants. o Such, Monsieur le Marechal, is the course to b ° resolutely followed; for, I repeat, A geria is oc' t colony properly so called, but an Arab Kitigd °lll .; l'he natives have an tqurtl right with the coloniti`e o my protection, and I am as much Emperor of Arabs as Emperor of the French. , "I'llese ideas are yours ; they are also those_ o 1 he Nlinister of War, and o f a ll who, after ty :n this country, combine lull confidence in l ye u tur( with deep sympathy for the Arab . I har p c.hargt d Marshal Randon to prepare a draft' ° , - r i e Serial us Contsnhum, Of which the prineir,l art — will be to n.nder the trila,s, or fractions of tr t ib b e :; , t ) r c a c c ug on i a ) l er p m o a ss n e e s n s t i l o y n , , locommutahie proprietors 'of the territory - "This measure will and of which they , b wi:l interfere with no works of public interest, f l ole no have matter n o r e b t y r 0 ct what iv e t i t t i T roct,t3 it wia in no respect weaken the appiica ti°ll . ° c . law on expropriation for causes of public utilit..t. 4 therefore, pray you to send me all the statistics documents documents which can enlighten the discussion the Senate. hal prey" And with this, Monsieur le M alec God to have you in His boy keeping. 0 ti NAPOLEON' ~l' a; b; al an to tu: ] tel 1 rial 3 p ( 3 I\TC,I, II( Ind firs ' Pr, Du nu] En nn, Co