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

Marshal Pelissier on Russian Barbarism,

Tee late Marshal Peliesier had a great regard for
Colonel Sigismund Sierakowski, who, it will be
remembered, was one of the first victims of Moura-
vieff during the Polish insurrection last year. The
marshal made the acquaintance of the gallant Polish
officer in Algiers, whither Sierakowelei 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, thiuking
he 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 he offered
him apartments in his palace, where they frequently
passed the evening together in conversation on the
Crimean war, the state of the Russian array, and
the reforms which Sierakowski was about to in-
troduce into it.- On terminating his mission Se-
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 cimp 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 drawin3-
room, and each taking a paper eagerly devoured the
news of the Polish insurrection. 'Suddenly the
marshal, who was reading/the Patric, struck the
table a tremendous blew with his fist, and broke the
silence with his stentorian voice, exclaiming, Mais
c'est une horreur, o'est une infamie !' Being as yet
ignorant of what had occurred, we all turned round
with surprise, and observed an cepression of ex-
treme indignation and anger on the marshal's face.
'Eh. biers,' he continued after s pause, sous avez
tour connu et ainee, comet mei, ca bravo officier
Sierakowski, qui a 6.6 ici ante: passé—le mal-
heureux jeune Loname, it n'existe plus! Mouravieff
l'a fait assaseiner avec une ceraute digae d'un can-
nibale.' Ho then throw the paper on the ground,
betraying the most violent indignation in every
movement. Finally, after exclaiming several
times, Qae pause l'Empereur, comment peut-il
rester indifferent en face do toutes era barbaries ?'
he went into his bed-room, where he remained,
refusing to see any one, the whole evening."

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StsAN OSBORNE. —Oa few occasions has St.
quarc, been attended by a more nu-
merous company than that which assembled yesterday
morning on the occasion of the marriage of Mr Henry Mil •
banke to Lady Sasan Georgiana Godolphin Osborne, eldest
daughter of the Duke of Leeds. The church was in fact
almost filled before eleven o'clock. The bridegroom arrived
soon after eleven, attended by his "best man," Mr Sykes,
and in a ehort time afterwards the bride was conducted into
the church by her noble father the Duke of Leeds, and by
12 bridesmaids, namely :—Ladies Emma, Charlotte, and
Blanche Osborne, her sisters; Hon. Blanche Pitt, daughter
of Lord and Lady Rivers; Miss Osborne, daughter of Lord
Harvey, four Misses
balnillbaLnakdey, Fanradnetiws oCis2bliosrsnees; Coores, nieces of the bride-
groom. The ceremony was performed by the Hon, and
acv. S. a 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-
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Ann Marchioness of LNaci•QUderrY we•=e'lllost beautiful and
costly.