The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-13 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND. (From the limes' Special Correspondent.) BRESLAU, April 8. Leaving the Cracow hills and the immediate scene of the Langiewicz catastrophe, we have only to go a little distance to fall in with one of the most re markable specimens of guerilla enterprise. As the reader may recollect, Langiewiz, shortly before the last battles, tried to diminish rather than increase the numbers under his command. Among the corps then detached from the main force a few squadrons of horse were destined to distinguish themselves above others. About 400 strong, and headed by Cieszkowski, they left the common camp at Gosvez on the 19th. Their orders' i were to infest, tear up, and damage in every way the railway line in the southern half of the kingdom. Dashing away for the west, while Langiewicz marched to the east, to fall a premature victim at Welce, he first appeared at Radomsk, a station 20 miles north of Czentochow. Having relieved the Government Board of 6,000 roubles, he tore up the rails the day after at Zawierciez, a few miles south of the last-named place. A Russian column interposed, fired a few shots, and sent the Poles hurrahing to the wood. Twenty- four hours more sufficed to bring him to Czenstochow, where he alarmed the garri son, and, collecting horses and provender, made off to Wielun, 30 miles to the north-west, and about as many from the railway line. To leave the latter for a few days had become imperative, half a dozen Russian columns having been set upon him, and marching to and fro incessantly between Piotrkow and Czenstochow. The line was now protected from his destructive tendencies, but the troops were detained in the south, notwithstanding the urgent demand of General Brunner to send him succour to Kalish. By nailing down the garrison of Czensto chow, he thus saved from utter defeat the band of Mielencki, fighting about 100 miles to the north, and which otherwise would have received the finishing blow from General Brunner. After this useful service on the 22d, he seized the Government moneys at Dziloszyn (ten miles south-east from Wielun) on the 23J, and on the 25th tore up the rails at Kuznica, an hour's distance from Czensto chow. On the same day the Government Gazette destroyed him for the first time ; but, as on the 27th he had returned to Dzialoszyn, the scene of his last raid, we shall be excused for believing that the encounter was just enough to scare him from the line and send him back to his former haunt. All this futile pursuit on the part of the Russians—all this sud den re-appearance mid victorious retreat of the Poles, as the reader will not fail to observe, was the work of a few days, and confined to an area of 50 miles square. He repeatedly intercepted communi cation between Warsaw and the south, delaying the transport of troops, and making it necessary for the trains to drive at the slowest possible rate, to guard against running into a cut intersecting the embankment. For provisions he had to rely upon the villages, as none could be carried about in his swift and spasmodic movement over the country. Carriages, too, had to be demanded frequently of the peasants, as 100 infantry (or some hundreds accord ing to other sources) had been gradually added to his successful band. On the 27th, however, became to grief. While encamped at Rodoszewice, near Dzialoszyn, the Russians, in great strength, fell upon him during the night. Whether owing to the negligence of his sentinels or the fatigue of the men it is probable that the sixth or seventh part of his corps had to pay with their lives for the escape of the rest. Among the booty made by the Russians were seven guns small calibre, 50 horses, and about as many prisoners. This being the time the Russian troops were pouringin to the south from the northern garrisons, Cieszkowski thought it as well to place a greater distance between himself and the rail, which was fast becoming tabooed. Before marching off towards Kalish (50 miles north-west from the place of his defeat) he told off a few daring charac ters to penetrate to Zarki and Lazy, and burn the railway bridges as a parting kindness to his friends. The commission was partly executed, this being the second time that all inflammable in the Lazy bridge disappeared before the application of his torch. To inflict this defeat upon him, and cause the removal of his camp some 30 or 40 miles to the north, he had been tracked, dogged, and pursued for the last fortnight by three Russian columns, ' averaging between 1,000 and 1,500 men, and sup ported by six pieces of rifled artillery. His de • pasture was the signal for the military occupation of every terminus by garrisons varying between a few hundred and a thousand men. At the same time, the station masters have been superseded by officers, and pickets placed upon every locomotive to protect or keep up the loyalty, as the case may be, of the engineers. Day and night, and night and day, Cossacks and Tartar patrols ride up and down the lines until meeting with their comrades from the next station. if the English and espe cially the military reader, should be astonished at the difficulty the Russians experience in protecting the line, the fact of there being one rail only ac counts, I believe, for the trouble they have had since the first rise of rebellion. A railway may be protected with some degree of efficacy by keeping engines ready at every station, and sending soldiers up and down in rapid succession; but, to admit of this plan, a double line is required, especially with Polish guards, and when the action of the telegraph cannot be relied upon. It may be said, without fear of contradiction, that, apart from the strategical mistakes committed at the outset, decisive measures might have been accelerated in the south by at least a fortnight had the Russians succeeded in keeping open their communication with Czenstochow. But to have to look after th e cu t s across the l i ne, and being obliged to pass the innumerable rivers, rivu lets, and morasses of Poland, minus the convenience of bridges, proved a serious obstacle amid the exi gencies of the time. At the time Langiewicz met his fate in Cracow, the district of Kalish promised to become another hotbed of rebellion. There was the large force of Kurowski near Dombrowa, the band of Oksniski near Wielun, and a constant influx of Prussian sub jects congregating under Mielencki in the neigh bourhood of Konin. All of a sudden, however, the bands, formerly so active, determined upon a dif ferent line of policy, and have of late given but few signs of life. Mielencki, with his 2,000 Prussians, all well armed, and the majority Landwehr men, de feated Prince Wittengenstein on the 21st,was himself defeated on the 22d, and with part of his men returned to Prussian ground. The Poles lost 100 wounded and killed in this obstinate fight, which is differently called the battle of Biniszew, Slesyn, or Konin, This feat accomplished, the Russians retired to the garrisons of Wloclawek, Konin, Len czyn, and Kalish, which are the only places occupied in an area of 60 miles square. About 2,000 men, however, were distributed over Peisern, Kazmirz, and Slupza (40 miles east of Posen), to guard against fresh visitors from the adjoining kingdom. The remainder of N ielencki's band drew off to the morasses of the Warta, and in some unknown locality conceals itself under the command of one Malczewski. Half-a-dozen minor encounters have lately taken place near Konin ; but it is impossible to ascertain the strength of the insurgents, the issue of the fights, and the exact locality they haunt. Guerilla tactics seem to be excessively developed in that part of the country, causing the observer to doubt whether what he has before him is the conse quence of design or unintentional weakness. From a paucity of men, as well as a desire to exhaust the enemy, the Poles may bo shifting about with a ra pidity that defies an estimate being formed of num bers and purpose. The same circumstance, it is obvious, militates against pronouncing any very positive opinion as to the success of the Russian operations in that province. We perceive the flames of rebellion breaking out here and there, and sub after a short-lived flash, but we are siding again unable to distinguish at this moment whether the eclipse is produced by want of fuel or the applica tion of the damper. As things look, neither of these alternatives is, however, as probable as a desire of the insurgents to keep back for a while, and, by the very fact of their continued existence, gi ve the People ti me t o recover from the blow sustained in the south. The latest news goes to show that the garrison of Kalish has b een seriously alarmed by the app roach of a powerful f orce, With the late reinforcements the garrison consists of 6,000 men, including a dozen guns and six squadrons of horse. It is pro bable, then, that the insurgents, causing the turn out of so powerful a force, must be sent down at an equal figure; if so, .Kur•owski the lost has come to the surface again. The same advices also speak of a new struggle at Pranks., a place on the Prussian frontier, 10 miles distant from Dzialosyce, whence Ciszkowski was chased less than a fortnight ago by the Russians. Another fight near Czenstochow was spoken of at Warsaw- It is all but impossible to form a correct estimate of the Russian troops occupying at present the western part of the kingdom, from Czenstochow in the south to Plock and Thorn in the north. (here are, however, sufficient indications to show that the border and railway lines have attracted most attention, the interior as well as the province at large being all but entirely evacuated by their former garrisons. In that part of the country, indeed, none but a few district towns seem to ba occupied by the soldiery. Railway and border together seem to employ a force of 10,000 men, the greater part of whom are dis posed along the Prussian frontier, between Kalish and Konin, to serve as a check upon the inflam mable portion of the wealthy, and hence all the more dangerous, people of Posen_ Taking everything into account,we are forced to the conclusion that, from Kalish and the province of Warsaw generally, few, if any troops can have been despatched to the south. By this inference is confirmed the original news, stating the two northern provinces to have been drained for the occupation, in force, of the south. It ought, however, to be recollected that the 80,000 men originally placed in the kingdom are now being gradually reinforced by 30,000 Grenadiers, and a swarm of irregular horsemen, variously given be tween 6,000 and 10,000 men. Deducting killed, wounded, and:non-combatants, it is presumed that there will shortly be assembled something like 90,000 men to execute the behests of the Czar in Poland. A few additional words upon Lublin, Podlachia, and the north will finish this compressed account of the actual state of things. A letter from Kowna contains details of the com bats with the Russians in Samogitia : " A report addressed by the mayor of the com mune of Ejragol makes known that several young men have joined the insurgents, and that they have been followed by the teacher of the commune, an Orthodox Russian. The Russian troops pillage, burn, and give way to every kind of excess. Gen. Magdell, the Military Chief of the Government of Kowno, does nothing to check them, and the pea sants therefore leave their homes on the approach of the soldiers. In the night of the 27th March a band of insurgents disarmed two Russian posts at Kiejdany. The following morning a Russian de tachment, commanded by Col. Dellingshaussen, at tacked that town and sacked the palace of Count Cz3pski. The soldiers nearly killed the judge of the district, M. Stathowski, a peaceable old man, who was mera.y stopping for a day at the palace. He was dragged into the court, where he saw the soldiers tearing in pieces the rich uniform of the Count's Chamberlain. He cried out in Russian, Look how they ill-treat the Imperial uniform.' These words for a moment diverted the attention of the pillagers, and the old judge availed himself of it to affect his escape. On the 28th a combat took place at Szlapoberze, between the same detachment and the insurgents under Ponrewicz. The Poles had 12 killed and lost their medicine chest ; the Rus sians had 45 killed, including one officer; three soldiers died soon after from their wounds. After this defeat the Russians invaded the property of M. Zaurika, and killed the cook, who was engaged in preparing dinner. The same day the insurgents, near Wilki, completely destroyed a company of Russian Chasseurs. The Poles did not lose a single man." LOSS OF H.M.S. ORPHEUS. ADMIRALTY, April 12, 1863,. The Secretary of the Admiralty begs to acquaint the editor of The Sun that the intelligence contained in the accompanying document has been received at this office :. " Her Majesty's ship Miranda, Auckland, Feb. 10, 1863. " My Lord,—ln addition to my first letter from the scene of the wreck of her Majesty's ship Orpheus, dated the Bth inst., sent to their lordships, to save the Southern mail, by the Wonga Wonga, I have to enclose for their further in formation the detailed narrative of Lieut. C. Hill, the se cond lieutenant, and the senior surviving officer. It is a clear and truthful account of the whole proceedings of this melancholy calamity, so far as he and the other c fficers that are saved are acquainted with them. " 2. According to my judgment on the spot, nothing can exceed the exertions of Lieut. Hill, the other officers, and all the survivors of the crew, who, at the imminent peril of their own lives, continued to the last to make the utmost endeavours to save the lives of their shipmates. " 3. I am informed that the Wonga Wonga was at the time of the Orpheus striking steaming out of the south chan nel of the Mannkau. She first steamed outside the bar to the entrance of the main channel, but afterwards returned by the south channel, picking up the boats off Paratutai Point, and towing them to the wreck by the main channel, "4. Their lordships will observe from the narrative of Lieut. Hill that from the time the steamer was first ob served, at 2 o'clock, until she reached the wreck at 6, the most critical and invaluable time was unaccountably lost, but Capt. Renner and all on board the Wonga Wonga were most kind and hospitable in the treatment of the sufferers when they reached his ship from the wreck. " 5. Mr. Wing, pilot, and in charge of the signal station at the Manukan, informed me that the wreck of the Orpheus is preisely on the bearings laid down in Captain Drury's chart and sailing directions, since the publication of which the middle banks and ,small shoal on which the ship first touched have shifted bodily and considerably to the north. " 6, With their lordships, I deeply deplore the loss to her Majesty's service of an officer so distinguished as Com modore Barnett ; it appears he met his much-to-be-re gretted death when, sitting in the mizen-futtock rigging, the mast fell over to port, and, the top striking him on the head when in the water, it is said he never made the least exer tion to save himself. i 4 7. I have directed Mr. Sullivan to proceed in her Ma jesty's ship Harrier to the Manukau Heads, rand to detach an officer and party as far as he may consider necessary along the shore, north and south, for the purpose of .bury ing, with such honours as circumstances will admit, the bodies of any officers and men, late of her Majesty's ship Orpheus, which may be found, and also to recover such re mains of the wreck, public and private, as he may deem fit ; so soon as he may consider it no longer necessary to con tinue on this service I have directed him to conduct the duties of senior naval officer in New Zealand. " 8. With the view to save the mail which will leave Sydney on the 20th inst., it is my intention to proceed at once under steam to that port with the six officers and 10 of the crew of the Orpheus who have been selected as the most able to give evidence relative to the loss of that ship. These I propose sending to England by the mail steamer; the re maining 51 men and boys I have detained for disposal on the station—the majority have already volunteered for the Miranda and Harrier. I have sent 25 to the Harrier, for about which number she has vacancies to complete her complement. 64 I have the honour to be me, my lord, your obedient servant, _ " ROBERT JENKINS, Captain and Nenior Officer. " The Right Hon. Lord Clarence B. Paget, C. 8., Secretary to the Admiralty." "Her Majesty's ship Miranda, Auckland, New Zealand, Feb. 5. "Sir, —ln obedience to your directions I have the honour to report, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that her Majesty's ship Orpheus sailed from Sydney on the 31st of January. After a fine passage to the coast of New Zealand, we sighted the land on the morn ing of the 7th inst. ; it was my forenoon watch, at about 8 miles from the bar of the Manukau. Steam was got up in two boilers; we bad been condensing. The ship proceeded at 12 30, under all plain sail, with starboard foretopmast stud sail set, towarks Manukau, steering east till 1 o'clock, then N.E.E., being the courses laid down—so the master told me—in Capt. Drury's sailing directions, keeping the Nine pin on with the end of Paratutai. The hands were on deck, the ropes manned for shortening sail, the commodore, corn mander,and master on the bridge ; leadsmen in both chains ; spare tiller shipped, with relieving tackles hooked, and six men stationed ; gratings and hatchway covers were placed ready for battening down. " The wind S.W. to S.S. W, force 5 to 6, with occasional slight squalls ; high water at 12 20. As we approached the \ bar there was nothing more to see, in the shape of rollers or sea on, than I h a d b een led to expect. The signal from the pilot station h a d b een flying sine bar ;' the com mo d ore and master e ll 30 a.m., Take the the chart on the b r id ge, and ver y were very attenti ve w ith ' particular in th e s t eerage of the ship, and in th e i r or d ers to the engi n e-room, t o k ee p the steam at command, the sign a l of a the look out. At about 1 30 s h e touched slightly i an nt o h n e after part, when the commodore gave th e or d er, ' (liv e h all the steam you can.' At about 1 40 the ship stru c k for ward ; order given, ' Astern full speed ;' but the engines or screw never m oved. At the same time the commodore ordered ' Hands shorten sail.' The ship broached to, with her head to the northward, lurching heavily to port, the rollers setting in from the westward, which immediately made a clean sweep of the upper deck, taking away port quarter boats (second cutter and jolly boat), netting, and bulwark. Sail was shortened as far as possible, the men not being able to keep the deck; imme diately the ship took the ground the hatchways were bat tened down, which, however, proved perfectly useless, as the fastenings were thrown up by the bumping of the ship. " The commodore then ordered the port guns to be thrown overboard (we succeeded in lightening the ship of four guns) and the starboard cutter to be manned and lowered, the paymaster and secretary to place in her his private signals, the public records, and the ship's books ; but from the heavy lurching of the ship the men were unable to pass all the books they wanted ; somo were lost overboard. Mr. Fie!ding had orders to land what he had got and return. After great difficulty the cutter got clear of the ship. She was reported to be swamped tNo or three times. When seen on one oc casion five hands were observed to be missing. It was about this time a steamer was seen coming out of the Heads. The commodore next ordered the pipe, ' Hands, out-boats,' yards and stays having previously been triced up. The pinnace was the first boat out. As I was returning from the main top Commander Burton ordered me into the pinnace to go to the assistance of the cutter ; the commodore then came to the starboard gangway, and on my telling him that I had seen the cutter all right when on the mainyard he ordered me to take Mr. Amphlett, paymaster, who was well ac quainted with the place on shore, for the purpose of getting assistance. Mr. Amphlett was then and there told to jump into the boat—this was at 2.30. We shoved off, and with great difficulty, from the strong ebb, cleared the ship. As we proceeded I observed the smoke of a steamer to the southward, going seaward. After a two hours' pull against a heavy rollingsea, we weared the Ninepin, when I spoke Mr. Wing in the pilot boat. We learnt from him that the steamer in sight (now seen coming up the South Channel) was the Wonga Wonga, returning to the Heads, that he had no boat to send to the Harrier to report our distress, that there was a lifeboat hauled up on shore, but no hands or means to get her afloat; it would take 12 men a consider able time. The cutter now came up with us ; Mr. Wing and his Maories came into the pinnace, while Mr. Amphlett, two sick men, and two boys, and two others started off in the whaler of the Harrier. " "We pushed on to the steamer, now between the Heads, waving, signalising, and making every effort to gain her attention ; after some delay she turned round and closed us, taking pinnace and cutter in tow, proceeding to the wreck, which we reached at 6 p.m. I found her very much lying over to port, the masts all standing, the crew in the rigging above the tops, the sea at times sweeping as high as the fut tock rigging; the sails had been cut away from the yards, it being impossible to furl them. Taking, in addition, the pilot's boat crew, four young Maories, with the pinnace be ing to windward of the wreck, we dropped down to about 30 or 40 yards on her starboard bow, hailed the men on the bowsprit and jibboom to jump off and swim for it. I picked up seven or eight; having drifted to leeward, the steamer came and towed me to windward. I dropped down a second time with the cutter in company. This time three or four men were taken in in the pinnace, and four or five in the cutter, It was now about 7 o'clock; the flood tide had made, the rollers soon became very high and dangerous on the change; the jibboom broke off short by the cap; it was quite impossible, with safety to the boats, to remain any longer by the wreck. As I was going back I shouted to the wreck to make a final attempt, but none would venture. " The steamer picked up boats and anchored close to the north side of the South Spit, distant from wreck about three quarters of a mile. This was at 8 o'clock. At 8.30 the masts went. Boats returned to the wreck. The Wonga Wonga kept burning the blue lights, blowing her steam whistle, and ringing her bell. The pinnace picked up six or eight. and returned to the steamer with one or two in the last stage of exhaustion. On again nearing the wreck I found the ship completely broken up. It was a beautiful clear moon light Light, and masses of the wreck kept passing in with the flood, clinging to which Lieut. Yonge and six or eight men were saved The cutter got so far to leeward that she made for the land, the pinnace returning to the steamer. We remained on deck the whole night, keeping a sharp look-out. At daylight nothing could be seen of the ill-fated Orpheus but a stump of one mast and a few ribs. " From the commencement and during the wholeproceed ings nothing could exceed the coolness and decision of Com modore Burnett, C. 8., the commander, and the officers, all in their stations, sentries on the spirit room and store rooms ; while the good feeling and steadiness of the men was beyond all praise, remaining at their posts until ordered by the commodore to mount the rigging. Many were washed overboard in obeying orders. ,6 I must not forget to mention the gallant conduct of the Maori crew ; they were first and foremost in saving lives. On going ashore in the cutter Mr. Hunt and Mr. Barkly (midshipmen) were picked up, one Maori taking Mr. Barkly on his back and carrying him along the beach to his hut. They afterwards gave them food and put them in their own beds for the night. " William Johnson (captain of the mizentop) three times jumped out of the pinnace with a rope to the rescue, and was the means of saving three drowning men. " On board the Wonga Wonga, which officers and men reached cold and naked, the greatest kindness and hospi tality were shown and continued by all on board, until we were transferred to the Avon, where I had reported myself to you. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, "CHARLES HILL, "Lieutenant her Majesty's ship Orpheus." "LIST OF SURVIVORS. " Officers—Lieutenant Charles Hill, Lieutenant Duke D. Yonge, Mr. E. A. Amphlett (paymaster), Mr. Bernal W. Fielding (midshipman), Mr, C. George Hunt (midshipman), Mr. H. M. Barkly (midshipman), Mr. W. Mason (boats wain), and Mr. James Beer (carpenter). " Seamer.--Ropert Carpenter, William Fisher, William Johnson, George turtle, Charles Weir, W. Cooper, W. Clews, Alfred Pilbeam, Samuel Bannister, Noah Wells, John Quinton, James Parsons, Henry Walker, John Nicholson, Joseph Jorden, Georga Roberts, William Russell, James Summers, Henry Holmes, James Taylor, George Ward, James Kennedy, William Langrish, William Pasin, Patrick Daley, Edward Briggs, Arthur Tilly, Thomas Smedden, George Seal, Charles Fox, Thomas Burton, William 011ert, William Ball, Henry Graham, Jcseph Boland, Henry Port bury, James J. Brown, James Wilson, Thomas Herbert, John Cochrane, Alfred Ankett, Henry Bentell, Henry Brown, Frederick Butter (belonging to Harrier), Henry Stuftle, James Graham, John Finnies, Edward Walsh, William Mayes, Henry Newman, Thomas Rusgell, George Young, John Hall, John Morby, William Geary, James Sparshott, George Hurlestone, Rich. Roe (marine), Joseph Crowson (drummer), William Herbert (boy second class), John Ideson (boy), William Hortigan (commissioner's ser vant), picked up at 1 o'clock on the Bth by a coaster off Peeponga. " List of Men Left behind at Sydney—Sergeant Carter (Royal Marines), George Monday (gunner Royal Marine Artillery), Stephen Hodge (private Royal Marines), George Tarpler (boy first class), James Ashwood (boy first class), Thomas Rees (ablebodied seaman), William Barnes (boy first class). " CHARLES HILL, " Lieutenant her Majesty's ship Orpheus." (From the New Zealander, Feb. 9.) Yesterday (Sunday) morning, at an early hour, the inhabitants of Auckland were horrified by the intelligence that her Majesty's ship Orpheus, for some time back expected on this station, had been totally wrecked in attempting tocross the Manakau bar, and with the awful loss of 185 souls out of a ship's company mustering 256 officers, seamen, boys, and marines. The Orpheus (a fine new corvette of 21 guns, 1,706 tons, 400 horse power, sailed from Sydney on the 31st of January, and after a fair pas sage, under canvas, fetched the land off the Ma nakau heads on Saturday, at noon. The ship was at that time under all plain sail, and within eight miles of the entrance, the signal flying on Paratutai "Take the bar"—Commodore Burnett and the mas ter being at the time on the bridge. Steam was got up at once, the commodore determining to go in. The lead was kept going ; a sharp look-out was observed, the ship steering east until one p.m., and then north-east by east, the Ninepin rock, on with Paratutai, being in accordance with Drury's sailing directions in the New Zealand Pilot. At 20 minutes past 1 the ship bumped slightly, but still went a head. At half-past 1, however, she struck hard, and orders were given to back astern full speed. The engines never moved. The ship fell off broad s id e t o t h e rollers, the sea knoc ki ng away h er *tempest, port bulwarks, and boats, and making a clean sweep over all. The wind was from about S.W. to W.S.W., a stiff breeze, with occasional puffs. In this dismal plight Commodore Burnett, whose coolness and deeision were the theme of ad miration among his officers and men, gave orders to Mr. Fielding, midshipman, to take a cutter with the records, ship's books, and other articles ; but, on losing sight of her, fearing she was swamped, the pinnace was got out, and, with Lieut. Hill and Mr. Amphlett, paymaster, was despatched to her assist ance, with instructions to push on towards the heads, in the vain hope of obtaining relief through White's lifeboat, known to be stationed there, but, alas, without a crew to launch or to man her. It was an awful moment, but it is gratifying to know that even in this extremity all hands, officers and men, spoke in praise of each other, andof their gal lant chief, who expressed a determination to be the y t s o w haulept her under the b last to quit the wreck. After the pinnace had left the launch was got ove r th e s id e , w ith 40 men to lay out anchors, in the hope of making grapplings fast i intosmooth water.owe, where Thee shebb tide was u n stove, p • and nearly all on board, including Lieut. Jekyll, were drowned. The pinnace meanwhile continued her course towards the heads, descrying the steamer Wonga - Wonga, outward bound for Wellington ; the anxiety was intense, as the Wonga Wonga went round and round, and nearly out of sight, Mr. Amphlett at length succeeded in reaching the pilot boat, and came up with her Majesty's ship Harrier at half-past 10 p.m. The Wonga Wonga anchored, and the few survivors were transferred to her flow the boats of the Orpheus that had been got afloat. Had White's lifeboat been able to be launched and manned, we are informed, upon good authority, that most of the ill-starred seamen might have been saved. The heavy guns broke adrift about half-past 5 p.m., tearing up the upper deck, and driving the people to the tops, the rollers becoming longer and heavier, The masts stood firmly until the flood tide made, about half past 6 p.m. They then began to go, and the ship parted in halves, the rollers breaking into the tops. When the masts went the crew gave three cheers as if taking farewell of life. Commodore Burnett and the young gentlemen were in the miz , . , n-top ; all perished except Mr. Barkly, son of the Governor of Victoria. Commander Burton, Mr. Strong, sailing master, and Lieut. Mudge, who were in the main top, were lost. The men who were saved succeeded in getting down the jib stay to the jib-boom, drop ping from thence into smooth water, where they were picked up. Many of the survivors are badly wounded, having legs and arms broken, and bodies bruised and maimed by the guns and falling spars. A despatch from Commander Sullivan, her Majesty's ship Harrier, which was received on Saturday at midnight, informed his Excellency the Governor of this disastrous event. With the utmost promptitude the military authorities took measures to render every possible assistance—Colonel Gamble, Quar termaster-General ; D. A. C. G. Chislett, Mr. Ham ley, Ordnance Department, with six ambulance waggons, tents, 500 blankets, and other requisites, aetting out for Onehunga. The steamer Avon, in charge of Mr. Hunt, with Captain Jenkins, her Majesty's ship Miranda, started yesterday at 2 a.m. On reaching the heads not a vestige of the wreck was to be seen. The Wonga Wonga, which was on her way to Onehunga, on meeting the Avon, trans ferred the rescued seamen to that vessel, and proceeded on her southern voyage. The Har rier got under weigh on Sunday at four a.m., but having grounded, had to wait the flood tide, an d did not get fairly away until nearly 3 p.m., about which hour the Avon had got back. The Avon went at once alongside the One hunga wharf, and every care and attention were paid to the wounded. (Frown th 4 Wellington Spectator, Feb. 12.) The Wonga Wonga sailed from the Onehunga wharf, Manakua, on the 7th inst. On arriving at the bar she noticed a vessel in the offing, appa rently a man-of-war, but the signal being up to take the south channel the Wonga proceeded on her course. On getting well clear of the channel, Captain Renner noticed the vessel to be labouring very heavily, and apparently ashore. Capt. Renner then proceeded to the outer entrance of the north channel, but being unable to take it, on account of the heavy sea on the bar, he returned to the pilot station by the south channel. On reaching the pilot station he found two boats, the pinnace and cutter, belonging to the ill-fated vessel. The pilot then went ou board the Wonga Wonga, took the two boats in tow, and proceeded to the scene of the disaster. On arriving there he found that the sea was making a complete bieach over the vessel, and she was, of course, labouring very heavily. He then found it was impossible to get alongside with the boats, in consequence of the heavy sea; the boats were therefore pulled as close as possible under the jibboom, and the officers in charge of them called to the crew to jump into the water and they would pick them up, as it was the only chance left of saving their lives. Several of the men jumped into the water and were picked up by the boats, but some were unfortu nately drowned in the surf by the drawback. At this stage of the proceedings the scene was most appalling, the only chance of the crew getting saved being to jump into the boiling surf. All the men at this time were clinging to the rigging. The Wonga was steam ing as close as possible to the scene of the wreck, and was fearfully tossed about by the tumultuous sea. The boats then returned to the Wonga, hav ing succeeded in picking up about 14 of the drown ing men, several of whom were nearly exhausted, and every means was adopted to restore animation, by the application of hot blankets and other reme dies. Several who were wounded and very much bruised bad their w ounds dressed, and every pos sible attentcn shown them. The boats in charge of the second lieutenant again gallantly put off to the wreck, and succeeded in rescuing several from a watery grave. By this time it was becoming dark, and the pilot, not deeming it prudent for the Wonga Wonga to remain in the position she was then in, proceeded a short distance into the channel and anchored. At about 9 o'clock, the night being very dark, the foremast went by the board, casting all the poor fellows who were clinging to it into the raging billows. Immediately after, the main and wizen masts fell over the side, carrying the last of the crew with them. Daring all this time the most superhuman exertions were being made by the second lieutenant and the gallant crews to res cue his unfortunate shipmates. The two boats, and a boat belonging to the Wonga, were pulling about amid the breakers until past midnight. All hopes of saving any more lives having vanished, the pin ance, in charge of the second lieutenant, returned, with several more of the unfortunate crew, to the Wonga, and the cutter proceeded into the pilot sta tion, being unable to fetch the Wonga, and landed seven more of the crew in safety, including the son of Sir H. Barkly, Governor of Victoria, who was saved after clinging to a spar for upwards of two hours. ['he Wonga burnt blue lights, and showed other signals until daylight, in hopes of picking up any more of the unfortunate crew who might be floating about the wreck. At daylight, the Wonga proceeded towards the wreck, but by this time a very small portion of the ill-fated vessel was to be seen. Cam mender Jenkins returned thanks to Captain Renner, his officers, and the crew of the Wonga Wonga, for their praiseworthy exertions and unremitting kind ness to the sufferers. One of the captains of the mizentop, who was one of the boat's crew, gallantly jumped overboard three times, and on each occasion succeeded in saving a shipmate from a watery grave. The Commodore was last seen in the miz,n rigging, and is supposed to have been killed by the falling of a spar. The wind was about W.S.W., with a terrific sea on, when the Orpheus went to pieces. GEOLOGY AND REVELATION.—The unity of the human race, if not the original unity of language, is a fundamental principle of revealed religion. The former we hold to be equally important to the well-being of man, whether revelation is admitted or not. But in a period of four or five thousand years it is indeed very difficult to ac count for the development of races by climatal influence, especially when we find the Negro figured upon the tombs of Egypt of 4,000 years ago with the same features he has to-day. It is equally difficult to account for the American race with its 600 languages. If in 3,000 years the ludo- European languages have not lost the evidences of their radical and grammatical relationship, how are we to ac count for the development of the Chinese, Hebrew, San scrit, and Egyptian in a much shorter period ? In the discussion of these points, while the advocate of revealed religion may point triumphantly to the wonderful accordance between the account of the creation given in the boek of Genesis, and the results of the most recent disco veries, he is nevertheless placed at a disadvantage as re gards his opponents, by a more question of chronology. Now, although it would be very absurd to expect a treatise of geology or of any other science in the book of Genesis, we should like to know how much better the exposition of any modern geologist, who had to address people wholly igno rant of physical science, would be than the Mosaic account? If Scripture contained a revelation of the laws of nature, it would have taken away the greatest stimulus to activity by which man is influenced, viz., the desire to know causes. For this his mind is constituted, and the triumphs he has attained prove it. But he possesses no faculty by which he can know of a hereafter, a nd for this alone was a revelation accorded. Th e wonder, therefore, is, not that the book of Genesis should appear to differ in minor points with the results of scientific investigation, but that in so short a space it should be possible to give so perfect a sketch of the creatien, And now, by a simple change in the chro nology, the Mosaic account will harmonise with the condi • tion of science even better than it did when it served as the incentive and guide to geological investigation. — The Home and Foreign Review. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. SATURDAY REVIEW.—There are some disadvan teges, undoubtedly, attending upon the political longevity of which Lord Palmerston was so inces santly reminded by his Scottish admirers. One of them arises out of the extreme handiness of the topic for complimentary addresses, flattering leaders, and the like. It is so easy to treat, and involves so little disputable Planner, that it is sure to form the chief ingredient of all that class of compositions. Unfortunately, however, it does not in itself neces sarily involve any great statesmanlike qualities— and topics of eulogy which are dwelt upon with exceptional frequency are apt to be looked upon as the most prominent characteristics of the person who is the subject of them. Saying of a statesman that he is venerable is rather like saying of an or dinary man that he is worthy, or of a young lady that she is a nice unaffected thing. It is apt to mean that there is nothing else to be said. But there is another and far more serious inconvenience in the longevity which is so much prized upon the other side of the Tweed. It seems to have a curious tendency to convert a man into a myth be fore his time. It has been truly said that the younger Pitt became mythical before he had been dead ten years. But then he died at the age of 46. When a statesman lives till he is 80, he can hardly com plain if the myth making instinct inherent in man kind declines to wait till he is dead. It has already been for some years busy with what it is difficult to avoid calling Lord Palmerston's memory. He is now the ideal type of a healthy animalism—the embodiment of animal spirits and physical vigour. He is to the Genial school as the incarnation of the cardinal virtues of toughness and high spirits; and they are resolved that their triumph shall not be evanescent. An enthusiastic votary of that per suasion, writing in the Times, is not satisfied that the first saint in their young calendar should be the leading English statesman of his day. He wishes to make their supremacy eternal. From this day forth, all successful politicians in this country are to be distinguished professors of Genialism, Much is not said about the intellectual qualities of the English statesman of the future. These are com paratively immaterial, and may be left to take care of themselves. The "social element" is the one thing needful. Such qualifications as " the gift of speech, capacity for office, generous patriotism, political courage," are treated with supreme con tempt. The Premiers who are henceforth to rule over England may or may not be endowed with these; but they "must be able to ride, shoot, fish, and play at cricket, besides understanding some thing about various other sports in which it is needless to join, but which yet contribute topics to every table"—by which circumlocution, we may presume, the Turf is gently indicated. Further, it is necessary for a statesman's political success that he live out of doors, be much on horse back, and learn to endure the extremes of heat and cold." He must be " ever in front of life," and "if he has to work night and day for a week, he must find himself the better for it at the end." Such is what an American would call the latest platform of the Genial school. Any politicians who are unable to satisfy it may save themselves the trouble of can vassing Genial votes. It might be invidious to ask how many existing statesmen could claim this catalogue of virtues. We shonld like to see a com petitive examination in these acquirements, held for the benefit of admiring foreigners. Few spec tacles would be more edifying, and, except for the infallibly disastrous results, more entertaining, than the sight of all the members of the past and present cabinets trying whether they can " ride, shoat, fish, endure the extremes of heat and cold, and work night and day for a week, without being the worse for it." Clearly the only course for the Queen, when next there is a vacancy in Downing-street, will be to naturalise M. Jules Gerard, and to re quest him to form a Ministry from among his friends. It is a very common failing in great minds to value themselves most for that which is least va luable in them. Richelieu was specially proud of his powers as a poet, and Newton used to lay the greatest stress upon his divinity. But it does not often happen to a man that the same mistake is made for him by his friends. Lord Palmerston's case is, in this respect, peculiarly unfortunate. He has many qualities which have obtained for him the confidence of his countrymen, and which will secure for him a lasting name. His wonderful tact in managing rival parties at home and contend ing Governments abroad has enabled him to carry alike his country and his Ministry through junctures of considerable difficulty. He has shown great ad ministrative skill on one or two occasions in which the country would have been seriously perilled by Incompetence. His foreign policy, right or wrong, has not been impotent or purposeless. It has left a mark upon the destiny of Italy, of the Turkish Empire, and of China; and its effects will form an important element in their future history. These are merits that have procured him a great pope !arity, which in the main he has fully deserves. But, in addition to this set of qualities, his political position has forced him to cultivate anoth , r set of a very different kind. He has never, during his present administration, been in the command of more than a very precarious majority, and he has been weighted with the alliance of one or two un popular colleagues. The result is, that he has been driven to resort to unusual expedients for keeping himself in power. Other Ministers have been content to rely on the strength of their party, or the excellence of their measures. Lord Palmer ston has been compelled to supplement these by supports of a icss ambitious kind. He has been forced to sustain his positiOn by a process of per petual electioneering. SPECTATOR.—The vague expectation that after Easter home politics may be more lively, is, we con ceive, unfounded. Apart from accident, the rise of some wholly unexpected question, the death of some eminent individual, or an unintended defeat of the Ministry on some point which Mr. Walpole had not perceived in time, there is nothing visible which promises gossip mongers the smallest excitement, or politicians the least satisfaction. There will be more to do, of course, as there always is after Easter, for there will b e the budget to discuss, and Lord Palmerston has promised an explanation about his Polish negotiations; and some American ques tions, in spite of the unreasonable temper of the house, must receive a patient hearing. Sir George Grey, too, may positively be whipped into a show of activity, and it is not very likely the session will pass without one of those demi-theological debates which the house can never avoid, and for which, with its habitual reticence, it is so unfit an arena. The country does not want anything, now that Easter has passed, any more than it did when Par liament reassembled, and till it wants something there can be none of that external pressure which stimulates representatives into energy. Lanca shire distress, we trust and believe, will not become a party question, for though Liberals should be a little more inclined to delay, and Tories to schemes of immediate emigration, the bulk of our public men are certain on such a point to consider only the permanent welfare of the State, and landowners and millowners are for once united by the bond of a common interest. The Ministerial scheme is sure to be moderate, if not feeble, and it is feeble mea sures, z.e.,'measures which give the country time, and make no concession to the demand for spasmodic energy, which will best content all but the few on the one side who would sacrifice Lancashire if only they might be rid of Manchester, and the few on the other who would feed the operatives for ever out of State funds, rather than endanger the faintest chance of a revival in their trade. Lord Palmerston will most certainly not commit himself to any theo logical question, his friends will contrive to gild the cowing educational pill in some endurable manner; and for the rest, the Tories in England want no thing, and that is precisely what Lord Palmerston so cheerily professes to give. Out of England every body wants a great deal, but then no two men are agreed as to the lengths they are willing to go, or to combine in securing some possible instalment of good. A very large party in England would approve the recognition of the South, and another large party desire that the Southern fleet should be seized, but neither are prepared, or indeed able to carry their desires into action, and the result is a passive appro val of all that Ministers do. If they demand the sur render of the Peterhoff, the anti-Yankee feeling is aratified; if t hey seize t heAlexandra, South ern friends mutter discontentedly that after all public decency must be respected. Lord Palmerston is certain in any case to maintain the national honour with even too high a hand, Earl Russell is equally certain on American claims to be coldly but clearly just, and, short of a great concession or a great injustice there can occur nothing, in our American relations which would conso,idate the fractions of jarring opinion into a strong reproof. So, also, with the Polish revolt, which still engrosses Continental atten tion, and is considered by diplomatists the vital question of the hour. Finally, the chance of a purely p arty contest, of a desperate struggle of Outs and Inns, directed to office and not to a measure, seems as far off as ever. The Liberals, growing audibly, still march under Lord Palmerston's banner, and, at the worst, only tell Mr. Brand not to rely too implicitly on their votes. They com mand, when the Irish are not in ill humour, and Mr. Cobden not furious with the Premier, a work ing half of the house ; and when those contingencies occur, which happens at least once a month, there is the reserve guard at hand. Without great ci ues tions or party conflicts a parliamentary session se ems to the politician dull. W hether thatdull ness, the offspring of content, is as injurious to the nation as to newspapers, may be questioned ; but the prosperity produced by the steadiness of the current of affairs is, perhaps, not greater than the prosperity which results f rom th e i n t e ll ec t ua l [activity stimulated by occasion a l s h oc k s . Sl eep i s only invigorating when it is not too long. LONDON REVIEW.—The Chancellor of the Ex chequer seems disposed to avail himself of the calm ness of the session by obtaining from unquestioning houses their legislative sanction for some of his crotchets. After an interval of ten years he has re turned to the attaek on the Three per Cents., which failed so sadly in 1853. He has passed the Post Office Savings Basks Bill through the Commons, and, having safely landed it in the Lords, he has justified the prediction we made at the time it was introduced, and has announced his intention of in trodueing after the recess a bill to extend its provi sions to the funds of ordinary savings banks. The operation on the funds involved in the Savings Bank Bills is so intricate that its effect does not seem easily understood ; but, as an interlude between these two bills, Mr. Gladstone has brought forward a third measure, in which the funds are openly dealt with. The Stock Certificates Act announces in its title anintended operation on the 3 per Cents. The details of the Stock Certificates Bill are sufficiently simple. At present its operation is confined to the Three per Cent. Consols and the New Three per Cents. ; any person having his name in the Bank books as a proprietor in these stocks will be enabled to obtain in lieu of such registered title certificates in blank transferable to bearer, with coupons for the half-yearly interest annexed to them. It is provided that the certificates shall only be issued for £5O stock, or exact multiples of £5O, end that no certi ficate-shall be issued for a larger sum than £l,OOO. This last regulation is one of those rules dear to of ficial persons, but incomprehensible to ordinary mortals. The nature of the case forbids any limit to the number of certificates issued, and supposing any one should ever wish to hold certificates for £lO,OOO stock, the only ends attained by forcing on him ten certificates instead of one, are the increased con sumption of paper and the multiplication of writing. The regulation is precisely like that which requires a person who wishes to send £3O by Post office orders to take out six orders for £5 each, instead of one for the whole sum. To return, however, to the details of the scheme : the coupons will be paid as they become due, minus the current income tax ; and the payment of the amounts upon them to the bearer absolves the Bank from any further liability. It would appear, though it is nowhere expressly stated, that an innocent purchaser of a stock certificate which had been stolen w ou ld be protected in his possession. A holder can secure himself against loss from theft by availing himself of a process which will at the same time deprive his certificate of any peculiar value. He can write upon it his name, address, and quality, and thereupon the certificate becomes absolutely inalienable, ex cept so far as the title would pass by the death, bankruptcy, or (in the case of a woman) marriage of the holder. For the purposes of sale, a certificate with a name inscribed on it —or, as it is called in the act, a nominal certificate—would only be a bore. A cautious man who had written his name on his certificate, and wished afterwards to realise, must present the certificate at the Bank, prove his iden tity, get himself re-entered on the Bank books as an ordinary stockholder, and then procure a transfer of the sum so entered into the name of the purchaser from him. It is clear that, instead of writing his name on a blank certificate, a holder had better re turn it at once to the Bank, and get himself in scribed on the Bank books as an ordinary proprietor. A section provides that no holder of stocks as a trustee shall take out a certificate, unless he is au thorised to do so; and should he do so without such authority, he shall be punishable as guilty of a breach of trust. We are left to the law as to what the punishment will be, and unless the trustee is guilty of fraudulently converting the stock to his own use, the threat is little more than a brutum fulmen. There is no provision for the protection of those who have obtained a distringas over any share in the stocks. It may be asked, what use is this Stock Certificates Act designed to serve ? but the question is more easily asked than answered. The act will apparently involve the nation in some ad ditional expense, as it contains a clause enabling the Treasury to make an extra payment to the Bank on account of the trouble, expense, and re sponsibility imposed upon it ; but we may hope that such extra p a y men t w ill b e sma ll , as t h e ope ration of the act itself will most probably be very limited. EXAMINER.—For the brutal murder of Jessie IVlTherson in Mr. Fleming's house at Sandyford, proved against Jessie M'Lachlan, that criminal was most righteously sentenced to death. To the crime of murder she added that of false witness, and by breach of the ninth commandment she succeeded in procuring from the blind mercies of the Home Office partial absolution from her penalty for breach of the sixth. But her false witness was of the most detestable kind. Found red-handed, the prints of her naked foot stamped in the blood of her victim, afterwards selling the plate for her own use, seek ing to dye and alter and take to herself her victim's clothes, carrying her own clothes dabbled in blood by railway to a distant field, there tearing them and scattering them abroad, exculpating herself when accused by three successive sets of minutely circumstantial lies, and not daring, when on her trial to play the last card in her hand in a fourth set of lies, also minute and circumstantial, that could be on the trial openly met and confuted, this woman was declared guilty on the clearest evidence. It was only after judgment pronounced, that her ad vocate produced in court her last and most infamous set of excuses, in which she sought to save herself by casting the load of her own infamy upon an in nocent old man. If the contents of that paper were true, it contained the woman's only just defence, and would have been produced upon her trial and sub stantiated. It would not bear open judicial sifting, and was therefore produced after the verdict, for the purpose of creating a diversion in the prisoner's fa vour among weak-minded people out of doors, and giving a handle for appeals to the Home Office. And the Home Office actually admitted an appeal founded upon this pretended confession, one of a series of con tradictory confessions, that in some part refuted itself, and that was rightly characterised by the judge,with all the public evidence before him, as infamous. The Home-office listened to the appeal, and under took in the secret way customary to it when it acts as a private criminal court of cessation, to inquire into the lie. The result of the inquiry was an un explained commutation of the sentence of the mur deress from death to imprisonment for life. This is assumed by more than half Glasgow, and by all professional philanthropists to be justification of the calumny with which a wretched woman sought, through a fresh victim, to escape from th & last penalty of murder. By help of Sir George Grey, who is virtually her accomplice in this dark work if he do not publish all the evidence that justified his interference with the course of law, Jessie M'Lachlan has lied herself out of the hangman's noose and an innocent man into infamy. Mr. Stir ling will next Friday bring this matter before the House of Commons. No British subject ever suffered greater cruelty at the hands of despotic foreigners than old Mr. Fleming has suffered at the hands of the Home-office if there was no ground for the com mutation of M'Lauchlan's sentence. If there was found any fresh ground of suspicion against him he has a right to know what it was, that it may be openly established against him, or that he may not be denied the opportunity of clearing himself, as we are sure he can. He and his family have courted and prayed for full and open investigation. The old man has been stabbed in the dark with consent of the Government. When it is a mere question of injudicious or judicious mercy to an individual offender, the Home-office may act unchallenged on private information. Here there is not only a deal ing at discretion with the guilty, there has been imputation cast upon the innocent. We cannot doubt that Mr. Stirling will be supported on Friday in his endeavour to procure fair English justice for the Fleming family in this most wretched case. LAW TIMES.—The " Devil's Own" have main tained their reputation at the grand review at. Brighton on Monday. By universal admission they were the most soldierly of all the corps that took part in the business of the day. We should have been inclined to question our own judgment, for we have a natural bias towards our brother lawyers, and a pride in our profession, of which we are not ashamed, but which might lead us to look upon them with partial eyes. But the opinion we now place on permanent record in this Journal of the law and lawyers, is that expressed by all the newspapers, without exception, albeit not usually inclined to praise our craft, that the I nns of Court Corps were conspicuous above all the rest for the physique of the men who formed it, for the precision of their step and movements, for the neatness o f theiraccou trements, for the manifest perfectio n of their drill, andfo a r sk T d ei o r ften martial bearing. i'he question has been why this should be P Lawyers are not men chosen for their bodily, but for their menta l . powers. Th e I nns of Court have some advantages in frequent opportunities for drill while at home ; but then they are on circuit and in vacation for at least half the year. Wherefore is it, then, that they make st.ch admirable soldiers? We believe it to be the result of the habit of obedience to those placed in authority over them, which a lawyer contracts in sensibly, and practises every day of his life in the courts. Implicit obedience is the foundation of drill, and drill makes the soldier. A SAD CASE.—At the Hull quarter sessions, on Friday, a case of peculiar interest was heard. A woman, born a Prussian, the daughter of a general and the wife of an eminent merchant, was tried for felony for the fourth time, and sentenced to three years' penal servitude. The Recorder said he knew her to be of distinguished family, but an uncontrollable love of drink had brought her to this miserable condition. Extraordinary Case of Iforsestealing. ________,_______ On Saturday morning, shortly after 11 o'clock, a msn was seen to enter the town of Bishop Stort ford on horseback, whose movements attracted the attention of the police, and while they were thus engaged one of the Cambridgeshire constabu lary came in by the morning train, and gave in formation that two mcn had been brutally ill treated at Sixmile-bottom, near Newmarket, the assailant knocking one off a horse he was mounted upon, then jumping on the animal's back and riding off, at the same time threatening to murder them if they followed him. Mr. Inspector Ryder, suspect ing the offender was the man that he had been watching, at once went to the George Hotel, and in the stables he found the man giving instructions to the ostler, when he informed him that he should apprehend him on the charge of stealing the horse, and also with the intent to murder. The fellow as sumed a consequential air, and threatened to ruin the inspector if he did, although he admitted that he had that morning come from Newmarket; but when Mr. Ryder intimated his intention of execut ing his duty the ruffian resisted with such deter mined violence as to make it necessary to handcuff him, and in this manner he was con veyed through the town to the police station. When there he gave his name as William Beau mont Hotharn, of 9, Alfred-place, Bedford-square, London, and described himself as a gentleman. 'l'l.e further circumstances of the offence have thus been furnished to our reporter :—Early on Saturday morning two grooms in the employ of Mr. Cassidy, of the Sun and Whalebone Hotel, Harlow, named Marshall and Dedman, left Newmarket, the one in charge of five horses, and the other of a horse and fly. Marshall, who was in charge of the latter, states that when he arrived at Sixmile-bottom he overtook tha prisoner, who requested that he would give him a ride, bat which he (Marshall) deolined to do, when the fellow, he says, jumped up on the fly, and, after proceeding a short distance, struck him a most violent blow on the face, following it instantaneously with another under the ear. He called out to his companion—Dedman—for assistance, who, at the time, was only about 50 yards off with the horses. The prisoner no sooner saw Dedman stop than he jumped off from the fly and advanced rapidly towards him, and with a silver-mounted oak walking-stick, struck him also a violent blow on the head, and also with his clinched hand, causing him to fall off the horse which he was riding. The ruffian then sprang on to the animal's back, and, with a horrible exclama tion, threatened to murder either of them if he dared to follow him, then galloping away at a most furi ous pace. Both men say that for a time they were somewhat paralyzed with fear, but that when they came to themselves they proceeded to Wilbraham, and gave information to the police of the occurrence, who rapidly followed after the prisoner as far as Newport, where they took the rail; and Mr. Super intendent Flood, of the Essex constabulary, followed up the road track on to Bishop Stortford. It was in this town, as we have previously stated, that the prisoner was apprehended, and where he was at once taken before the Rev. Vander Meulen, one of the Herts magistrates, who, after hearing some formal evidence, remanded the prisoner until Mon day (this day). In consequence of the outrageous conduct of the prisoner while under examination, the police were compelled to handcuff him and place the leg-irons on. It further appears that the fellow attempted at Newport to borrow from the landlord of the Rose and Crown Inn £5 on a cheque pur porting to be drawn by " W. J. Baker " on the Lon don and Westminster Bank for £lOO, and which is suppcsed to be a forged document. This was found on his person when he was apprehended, and like wise a betting-book, a beautiful gold ring with a fine cut cornelian stone, and a summons issued on the 9th of April from the Newmarket County Court, for the recovery of 19 55., by Mary Clark and Co., of that town, against Hotham, for goods sup plied in October, 1862. From this fact, and race cards in his pocket, the prisoner is no doubt one of the race meeting pests. He is apparently about 40 years of age, dark complexion, and rather good looking, in height about sft. 10in., and altogether a well-proportioned strong-built fellow. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was an increased supply of wheat to-day, and the prices of last week were fully supported, with a firm trade. Few samples of barley offering, at former prices. White wheat. 45s to 46 , I Red wheat ........ 41s to 458 Malting barley ...38s to 40s Chevalier barley...Me to 37s Distilling do. 33s to 35s I Oats. ......24s to 28s Flour, 32s 6d to 33s Od per sack from the miller. YORK— SATURDAY. There was a rather better supply of wheat to-day at our market, and the demand was pretty active, sellers realising fully late rates. Barley scarce, with an inactive sale, and late rates barely supported. Oats a dull trade, and prices as of late. Beans steady. Wheat, red 42s to 46s Oats . 2os to 24s White do .44s to 50s Beans ........... 38s to 40s Barley .28s to 35s Peas ....-8 to --11 Malt, 62s to 64s per qr. ; rye, 34s per qr. ; flour, 34s to 388 per sack. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. Old white wheat, 56s to 601; new, 46s to 53s per 36 stone. Old red, 47s to 52s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, new, 34s to 39s per qr.; grinding, 27s to 30s; old oats, '22s to 28s; new oats, 22s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, new, 34s to 38s ; old, 42s to 45s per 38 stone. N ORTHAMPTON—SATURDAT. New wheat, 45s to', 50s ; red, 42s to 48s. Barley, 28s to 40s per qr. New oats quoted at 22s to 27s ; old, 28s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 36s to 38s; new, 348 to 365. Peas, 338 to 44s per qr. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. This corn market to-day was rather better supplied with wheat than on the previous week, and the quality was ge nerally good. The demand good, and prices rather higher. —White wheat, from 43s to 535; red wheat, 42s to 49e. Barley—malting, 32s to 428; grinding, 27s to 295. Oats old, at 25s to 31s Od; new, 22s to 275. Beans sold at 33s to 458 per qr, Flour, 31s to 408. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE, Aiwa - alit( and Mauritius, via Southampton. ..Apr. 18. _ via Marseilles 3razil and Cape Verds, by British pachet. May 4. Cape of Good Hop,., Ascension, and St. Helena.. May 3. ( .3hina, Penang, an d Singapore, via Southampton. Apr. 18. Falkland I s l ands ... via Marseilles ...Apr. 12. .... Gibraltar, via South ampton India (Calcutt a ), an d Ceylon, via Southampton A p r. 18. via Al arseilles Apr. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton via Marseilles k p r. 20. Portugal.... May 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Ap r. 10. via Marseilles May, 5. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, Ly Brit. packet.... Apr. 15. by U.S. packet.... TenerifeCanadian packet. Apr. 10. W.C. of Africa, M a d e i ra, and Bahamas, via New York .................. May . 7. Mexico.. Ali parts 01 West Indies, including Chili, Peru, Apr. 28. Californi a , an d British Columbia.. 1 Apr. 13. Births. BOYLE.—On the Bth inst., at the Royal Arsenal, Wool wich, the wife of Captain R. Boyle, Royal Artillery, of a son. CAMERON.—On the 7th ult., at Pcona, India, the wife of Lieut -Col. Cameron, 4th Regt., of a eon. NORRIS.—On the Bth inst., at Ashley House, Epsom, the wife of James Norris, Esq., of a son. Marriages. ASIITON—TURNER.—On the Bth inst., at Haslingden, A. Ashton, Esq , son of the late Richard Ashton, E s q., of Limefield, Bury, Lancashire, to Wilhelmina, youngest daughter of the late Win. Turner, Esq., of Flax Moss House, Haslingden, Lancashire. PROCKTER—PEACOCK.—On the 9th inst, at St. James's, Bermondsey, Jas. S. Prockter, Esq., of Beckwith House, Grange-road, to Sarah Ann, youngest daughter of Mr. Wm. Peacock, of Grange-road, Bermondsey. Deaths. BAYLY.—On the 11th inst., Charlesßayly, Esq., of Knock holt Lodge, Swanscombe, Kent, and Sadlers, Essex, aged 76. CADELL.—On the 11th inst., at Edinburgh, John Cadell, jun., Esq., formerly of Liverpool, aged 34. CURLING —On the Bth hist., John Curling, Esq., of Offlesr Holes, and Gosmore, J .P. for the county ox Hertford, aged 79. SANDYS.—On the 10th inst., at Chesham-street, the Lord Sandys. STERLING.—On the 10th inst., at South-place, Knights bridge, Charlotte, the wife of Sir Anthony Sterling, K.C.B. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sufi Office, No. 114 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County 0 1 Middlesex.--Monday, April 13, 1863. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1863.