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THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND.

(From the Times' Special Correspondent.)
CRACOW, April 7.

The local news this evening is very b.d. All the
detachments that have left Cracow during the pre-
sent week and since Friday last have been driven
back without having produced any impression
upon the Russians. The official journals of War-
saw will tell the truth for once if it states that
the insurgents have th's time been dispersed along
the whole line of the Cracow district. If they
had been sent out for the very purpose of being
beaten affairs could not have been better managed
to that end. Mieroslawski, aiming still at an im-
possible dictatorship, and refusing to accept any
lower position at the hands of the National Go-
vernment, sent off on his own responsibility the
greater portion of his corps (about 250 men) to
Igolomia, a village about 20 miles to the east of
Cracow, on the Vistula. This was the beginning of
the last Cracow eampaign, and it led to a rout,
which would have been more disastrous had it been
less sudden and less complete. Nevertheless, a por-
tion of the Mieroslawski corps contrived to bury
their arms in the Kingdom before recrossing the
Galician frontier. Mieroslawski himself had not
yet taken the field, but was waiting to superintend
the departure of his last companies. If the Russians
had also waited' all might have gone well; but
knowing, as hundreds of persons in Cracow knew
that an expedition had started for Igolomia they
prepared to meet it, and, concentrating an over-
powering force near the threatened point, found no
difficulty 'whatever in repelling the Poles, almost
before they had thought of attacking. At the
frontier post of Michalowice, about six miles from
Cracow, there were only 20 soldiers OR the day of
the fight, whereas the number generally there
amounts to from 200 to 300, Troops had also been
collected from other parte,,and, curiously enough,
several proprietors living between Igolomia and a
military station some 25 miles distant in the interior
took refuge in Cracow the very day that the expe-
dition was to start. They were under the impres-
sion that the Russians would be beaten, and would,
according to their custom, burn, pinn der and massacre
in the course of their retreat! But, on the contrary,
the Russians were victorious, and committed no out-
rages whatever. I believe tip the atrocities of which
they have been guilty were perpetrated by them
one sometimes on the they have vented
their after unsucceasful attadliecor disappointments of
soinstancesme kind.rs, is
wounded lying on the battlefield, sometimes even
on the dead.
s e
rage, -

The second of the receht defeats was that of
Miniewski and Nullo, with- the Zouaves and the
Franco-Ttalian company, near Olkusz. Here again
the Russians were quiteprepared for their visitors,
and assembled in due time and in great force to
receive them. It would have been strange had it
been otherwise, for the departure of the Zouaves
from Cracow was quite a public affair, and their
friends went to see them °if; and parted from them
in the plain of Wola just outside the city, as though
they had bean starting on 'some expedition recog-
nised and encouraged by the-State. The Poles say
there were Russian spies in the corps, which is pos-
sible enough, but without that some account of the
march of the Zouaves would have been sure to reach
the enemy. Besides the spies who enlist in insur-
gent regiments, there are resident spies in Cracow,
and there are the Gallician peasants, who are always
willing to give information to the Russians about
the insurgents, and never to the insurgents about
the Russians. The "Zouaves de la Mort" did not
quite justify their melodramatic title at their fight,
near Olkusz. They neither gave death, nor did
they in large numbers receive it. I believe they
had scarcely any choice but to cross the frontiet
that is to say, their position would have been hope-
less if they had remained in the Kingdom opposed
to a-force which they could not possibly overcome.
-At the same time, it is admitted by every one that
the frontier is a great temptation to inexperienced
troops, who, if they find themselves engaged in an
altogether unequal struggle, have a very easy way
of getting out of it. The most lamentable thing in
the battle of.Olkusz was the loss of Colonel Nullo,
the celebrated Garibaldian chief. His horse had
been shot and had fallen with him, and he was
being raised by his men when he was himself struck
in the breast with a rifle bullet. He died calling
upon the Italians to rush forwards, and they obeyed
the order, and avenged him in the most heroic man-
ner—sacrificing' themselves, but also killing an im-
mense number of Russians. The grief caused among
the Italians by the death of Nullo is said to have
been most heartrending, and it attracted universal
attention in the midst of the battle. They called
outhisnraumsheed
name, suobpb
oned
te
,hshernieemyked:
when they for the and by a general
impulse
are thanss the five
country) miles most part met the same fate as their leader.
The third repulse of the insurgents took place at
lea
from Zabierzow,from Cracow and
aSbicoeu't nthotreemo(cro
the first station on the Cracow-Vienna Railway.
Sice is a frontier village, and hundreds of insurgents
had scarcely entered it when they were driven out
again. About 120 laid down their arms on re-
crossing the frontier and surrendered to the Aus-
trians, who were waiting for them, and who had
watched the combat from the beginning.
Against these disadvantages I may mention a
great victory gained by Sezioranski in the province
of Lublin. Three hundred Russians were left on
the field, and buried by the Polish general. The
insurgents lost 50 killed, and about the same num-
ber wounded.

April 8.

Fugitive insurgents continue to arrive, and before
to-morrow morning it may be expected that all who
had left Cracow for the kingdom during the last few
days, and who have escaped the Russian bullets,
will be on this side of the frontier again. The num-
ber of killed it is impossible to ascertain. The most
desperate fighting seems to have been done by the
Franco Italian company, under the immediate orders
of Nullo; and one of the foreign officers, who has
just found his way back to Cracow, declares out of
a band of 30, 26 were left on the field of battle.
Other companies stood the first discharges of
unemus-
ketry well enough, but broke and fled directly ar-
tillery was brought against them. At Sice three
companies, composed of students, sons of proprie-
tors, angentlemen
servants,
keptup a very
three hours before they retreated; and, as usual,
the loss in men of education and position has been
out of all proportion with that sustained by the great
body of the insurgents. The workmen have often
of
l various
unequal contest for nearly
fought quite as well as the members of the nobility,
and the peasants have on many occasions done won-
ders with their sithes. As for the servants, they
have not only followed their masters faithfully,
but as a rule have preceded them—in so far that
they took up arms before them, and really proved
that they had more of the Don Quixote than of the
Saneho Panza element in their composition. But
a certain number of servants without places and
i workmen without work enlist n every detachment
that goes forth from Cracow, and these persons have
no scruple in availing themselves of the security of
the Austrian frontier as soon as they find themselves
at all hard pressed by the Russians. Of course, too,
the men who hold out the longest are those who
would feel most keenly the misfortune of being
beaten ; and it may be fairly said that the loss of
50 men on the side of the Poles is a greater loss to
Poland than that of many hundreds on the Russian
side is to Russia.

leapnd to sign, in which
ared for the proprie-
tort
printedoi fa reportedt hp ea
p Ke
risn hghadevoreme ,b
eooenfn
r:very.por good authority, that
they are to state whether they are for or against
the Russian Government. If they declare against
the insurrection their names will be published, and
the Russian Government Will maintain that the
most influential class in the country is on its side.
If, on the other band, they pronounce against the

Russian Government they will by so doing incur
the penalty of confiscation. This scheme may seem
very ingenious to the Russians, but it will not
answer ; for if they can discover any proprietors
cowardly enough to think of applauding or ap-
proving their rule, they will scarcely find one daring
enough to nr.ke up his mind to oppose openly the
strong sentiment of the whole country. The pro-
prietors of Poland told the Grand Duke, in the cele-
brated Zamoyski address, how to avert the insur-
rection, and if they were anxious then to prevent
its breaking out, that in itself is a good reason why
they should now be heartily opposed to the Govern-
ment which provoked it.
M. Mukhanoff, late Director of the Police in
Warsaw, has taken up his residence in Cracow.

Banquet
..to Her Majesty's Judges at the
Mansion House.

The annual banquet to her Majesty's judges was
given last night at the Mansion House by the Eight
Hon, the Lord Mayor. The reputation of the City
for hospitality was well maintained on this occa-
sion, the Egyptian Hall being filled by a distin-
guished company. Amongst those present were—
The Lord Chief Baron and Lady Pollock, Vice-Chancel •
for and Lady Stuart, Mr Baron Bramwell and Lady, Mr
Justice Blackburn and Lady, Mr Justice and Lady Mellor,
Mr Commissioner Goulburn, the Judge-Advocate General,
Q, C., M.P., and Mrs Headlam, the Right Hon. Jas. White-
side, Q.C., M.P., the Viscountess Forbes, the Hon. George
Norton and Lady Menzies, Sir G. Bowyer, Bart., M.P.,
Sir R. Levinge, Bart., M.P., Sir G, Honyman, Bart., the
Queen's Advocate• General and Lady Phillimore, Sir Wil-
liam and Lady Mary Topham, Admiral Sir Stephen Lush-
ington, K.C.8., the Hon. Adolphus Liddell, Q.C., General
and Mrs. Knollys, Gen. Sir Andrew Scott Waugh, Colonel
Sargent, C. 8., Major-Gen. Davidson, Mr Justice Hallibur-
ton, M,P., and Lady, Mr R. W. Kennard, M.P., and Lady,
Mr J. C. Ewart, M,P., and Lady, Mr T. M. Weguelin.
M.P., and Lady, Mr. Beale, M.P., and Lady, Capt. Jervis,
M.P., Mr J. Somes, M.P., and Lady, Mr W. Murray, M.P.,
Mr Mains, Q.C., M.P., and Lady, Mr O'Malley, Q.C., Mr
Temple, Q.C., Mr Overend, Q.C., Mr J. Locke, Q.C.,
M.P., Mr Glasse, Q.C., Mr Bovill, QC., M.P., and Lady,
Mr Selwin, Q.C., M.P., the Common Sergeant, Q.C., and
Mrs Chambers, Mr Lush, Q.C., Mr Forsyth, Q.C.,
Mr Huddleston, Q.C., Mr Grove, Q.C., Mr, Cleasby,
Q.C., Mr Sergeant Ballantine, Mr Sergeant Payne. The
following Metropolitan Police Magistrates, viz., Mr Henry
and Mr Corrie, Mr Yardley, Mr Arnold, Mr Woolrych, Mr
Burcham, and Mr W. M. Cooke ; Mr W. H. Bodkin, As-
sistant- Judge; Mr Joseph Payne, Deputy Assistant. Judge;
and the following members of the bar :—Messrs J. Clerk,
Garth, Chas. Pollock, Horace Lloyd, the Hon. R. Bourke,
Gifford, W. C. Sleigh, Dr Spinks, B. C. Robinson, F. Law-
rence, H. B. Poland, Bulwer, Swanston, Beaumont, Henry
James, J. H. Hodgson, Buller, Edmond Burke, R. N.
Philipps, Orridge, Metcalfe, Patchett, Raymond, and
Petheran. The following solicitors, members of the Com-
mon Council, viz. :—Messrs. J. Anderton, Deputy Gam-
mon, Deputy Lloyd, Deputy Lott, Deputy Jones, G. R.
Longden, T. Parker Burkitt, J. Hudson, Carritt, C. Young,
and C. 0. Eagleton ; the Mayors of Brighton, Bristol,
and Hastings, and the Sheriff of Southampton ; Alder-
men Sir John Musgrove, Bart., Sydney, M.P., Sir F. G.
Moon, Bart., Salomons, M.P., Finnis, Sir R. W. Carden,
Carter, Lawrence, Hale, Phillips, Gabriel, Mechi, Abbiss,
Dakin, Besley, Waterlow, Mr Alderman and Sheriff Law••
renee and their ladies, the Town Clerk, Comptroller, City
Solicitor, High Bailiff of Southwark, Mr. Secondary Pot-
ter, Mr. Under-Sheriff Farrar, Mr. Deputy Rathbone, &c.
Some 270 ladies and gentlemen sat down to tables
furnished with the choicest viands and the rarest
wines by Messrs. Staples, of the Albion. Full jus-
tice having been done to these good things, and the
loving cap having been duly circulated,

The LORD MAYOR proposed, in a few brief and
well-chosen sentences, the usual loyal toasts, which
were loyally responded to.
The toasts of the Army, the Navy, and the Volu-
nteers was coupled with the name of General Knollys,
Admiral Sir Stephen Lushington, K.C.8., and Capt.
Bulwer, of the Inns of Courts Rifle Volunteers, who
severally returned thanks.
The LORD MAYOR then proposed the toast of the
evening, " Her Majesty's Judges," duly dwelling on
the unsullied purity of the bench, and its intimate
connection with the preservation of our liberties,
and coupling the toast v% ith the name of the Lord
Chief Baron.
The LORD CHIEF BARON, in returning thanks,
said he believed that the occasion on which they
were assembled was one which was not thoroughly
understood. It was right, therefore, to mention that
it belonged to the entire administration of justice
throughout the whole of England. In every assize
town, the duty of the judges, after opening the com-
mission and going to church to pray for a blessing
upon their labours, was the next day to give a dinner
to the magistrates. This occurred in every assize
town throughout the kingdom. The differeace in
London was, that the judges went to St. Paul's, and
the chief magistrates gave them a dinner, which was
a very agreeable alteration. (Laughter.) They had
formerly dined with the Lord Mayor twice in the
year. In the reign of George I. the judges used to go
to St. Paul's at Michaelmas and Hilary terms ; now
only at Easter and Trinity. He believed that so
many City officers died of catarrh and consumption
from going to St. Paul's in the gloomy months of
November and January, and so many judges fol-
lowed their example, that the visitation of St. Paul's
was confined to the spring and summer months.
That was a great improvement. He had no objec-
tion to any improvement which might take place in
the administration of the affairs of the city of
London, but he thought that was not an improper
occasion to congratulate the city of London
upon the permanence of their institutions.
(Cheers and laughter.) He would as soon destroy
the house in which Shakspeare was born and lived,
which a grateful nation had preserved as a memorial
of his genius, as he would abate altogether what
some people called the nuisance of the City of Lon-
don. (Cheers.) The City of London performed many
public duties which could not be supplied in any
other way. It was connected with the history of
the country as the cradle of liberty, and he felt the
largest interest in it because the profession to which
he belonged had run the same race, bad performed
the same duties, and had been allied with it in the
extention of liberty and the enlargement of the
privileges which belonged to the constitution. To-
gether they had secured a constitution which was
the envy of the world, and the cause of the greatest
happiness to the greatest number. (Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR then gave the toast of " The
House of Commons," which was responded to by
the Hon. James Whiteside, Q.C., M.P.
The remaining toasts were: " The Bar of Eng-
land," for which the Queen's Advocate-General re-
turned thanks ; " The Stipendiary Magistrates of
the Metropolis," which found an able exponent in
Mr. Henry ; " The City iNlagistrates," replied to by
Sir John Musgrove ; " The Sheriffs," to which
Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence responded ; and
"The Lady Mayoress." The enthusiasm with which
the last toast was received was only a just acknow-
ledgment for the graceful, genial way in which her
ladyship has uniformly performed the hospitable
duties of her position.

The musical arrangements were under the direc-
tion of Mr. J. L. Hatton, who was assisted by Mrs.
Harriette Lee and Mr. Young. The band of the
Coldstream GuArds, under the direction of Mr. God-
frey, performed an excellent selection of operatic
music during the dinner. Mr. Harker officiated
as toastmaster.

ASTEROID.—The career of Asteroid has been a
curious one. Bred by the late Duke of Bedford, he
was taken as a sort of heriot by Admiral Rous, to whom the
duke left the best horse in his stable. Little time was lost
in turning the bequest into money, and Sir J. Hawley
bought
lbat
him, improvidently as many then thought, for
£3,000. His success last year was varied. lie
vl-a ism en
er beaten
by by Elcho and Caractacus at Epsom ; by Tim
Carbineer at Ascot; he took his revenge on the latter by
winning the Ascot Cup two days after, but Was again beaten
at Doncaster by Tim Whiffler. lie then ran, under a
crushing weight, third for the Cesarewitch, and has, of 172
horses entered (the next below him being Caller Ou, receiv-
ing 121 b), now won the ChEster Cup, enjoying the doubtful
but glorious privilege of giving weight to the whole.—
Mirror.