The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-23 00:00:00

Marshal Pelissier on Russian Barbarism,

The la►e Marshal Pelissier had a great regard for
Colonel Sigismund Sierakowski, who, it will be
remembered, was one cf the first victims of Mcura-
vieff during the Polish insurrection last year. The
marshal made the acquaintance of the gallant Polish
officer in Algiers, whither Sierakowski had been
sent by the Russian Minister for War, Milutyn, for
the purpose of studying the criminal code of the
French army. When he first presented himself to
the marshal the latter received him coldly, thinking
ho was a Russian, but on learning he was a Pole he
immediately changed his manner, and conceived
such a liking for him that the next day ho offered
him apartments in his palace, where they frequently
passed the evening together in conversation on the
Crimean war, the state of the Russian army, and
the reforms which Sierakowski was about to in-
troduce into it. On terminating his mission Ste-
rakowski returned home. The insurrection broke
out a few weeks after, and his heroic achieve.
ments in the insurgent army, so suddenly
put a stop to by his dreadful death, are
well known. "I shall never forget," said one
of the late marshal's aide-de camp in Paris the
other day, " that evening on which a bundle of the
last Paris papers, which had just arrived from Mar-
seilles by the mail boat, was brought to the marshal.
There were several of us assembled in the drawing-
room, and each taking a paper eagerly devoured the
news of the Polish insurrection. Suddenly the
marshal, who was reading the "'aerie, struck the
table a tremendous blow with his fist, and broke the
silence with his stentorian voice, exclaiming, 'Mais
irfest une horreur, c'est une infamie Being as yet
ignorant of what had occurred, we all turned round '
with surprise, and observed an expression of ex-
treme indignation and anger on the marshal's face.
bien,' he continued after a pause, vous avez
tons connu et aims, comma moi, ce brave officier
Sierakowski, qui a e'e ici ranee: passe—lo mal-
henreux jeune Lomme, it n'existe plus! Mouravieff
l'a fait assassiner avec une ccraute digne d'un can-
nibals.' He then threw the paper on the ground,
betraying the most violent indignation in every
movement. Finally, after exclaiming several
times, Qae pense l'Empereur, comment pent-il
rester indifferent en face de toutes ces barbaries
he went into his bed-room, where he remained,
refusing to see any one, the whole evening."

MARRIAGE OF MR. HENRY .MILBANK E AND LADY
SUSAN OSBORNE.—Oa few occasions has St.
George's,
Ilanover-square, been attended by a more nu-
merous company than that which assembled yesterday
in on the occasion of the marriage of Mr Henry Mil.
bmaonlinretge Lady Susan Georgians Godolphin Osborne, eldest
daughter of the Duke of Leeds. The church was in fact
almost filled before eleven o'clock. The bridegrznm arrived
soon after eleven, attended by his "best man," Mr Sykes,
and in a short time afterwards the bride was conducted into
the church by her n, ble father the Duke of Leeds, and by
12 bridesmaids, namely :—Ladics Emma, Charlotte, and
Blanche Osborne, her sisters; Hon. Blanche Pitt, daughter
of Lord and Lady Rivera; Miss Osborne, daughter of Lord
and Lady Francis Osborne; Miss Hervey, four Misses
Milbanke, and two Misses Courts, nieces of the bride-
groom. The ceremony was performed by the Hon. and
Itev. S. G. Osborne, and at its conclusion the- register was
attested in the vestry by the Duke of Leeds, the Marquis of
Carmarthen, and Mr Milbanke, sen, About 3 o'clock in
the afternoon the newly-married pair left town for New.
stead Abbey; 'Notts. The bride's presents from the Duchess
ofMr and Lady Au-
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Alvanley, the
Martinis and Marchioness of Carmarthen, and Frances
Ann Marchioness of Londonderry were nog; beautiful and
costly,