The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-16 00:00:00

Second Monthly Mail to Cape of Good Hope,

In addition to the mails for the Cape of Good Hope and
Natal, which are despatched monthly by the direct packet
from Devonport, mails for those coloni s will in future be
made up on the despatch of each monthly mail to Mauri-
tius, and will be conveyed from Mauritius b 3 steam vessels
to be provided under an agreement just concluded with the
Union Steam Ship Company.

These vessels will leave Mauritius immediately after the
arrival of the mail packet from Suez, and will proceed to
Table Bay, calling at Natal.
All letters, Ito., for the Cape of Good Hope or Natal
which are posted after the deepatch of the direct Cape
packet and in time for the Mauritius mail will be forwarded
by the route of Mauritius.
The following rates of postage will be chargeable upon
letters, newspapers, and book packets forwarded to the
Cape of Good Hope or Natal by way of Mauritius :
Via Southampton and Mauritius—Letters not exceeding
oz., Is ; every additional i cz., Is. For each Newspaper,
2d. Book packets not exceeding 4 cz., 41 ; every additional
half—pound, Bd.
Y if; Marseilles and Mauritius—Letters not exceeding
cz., is 4d; every additional oz is 4d For each news-
paper, 3i. Book packets not exceeding 4 0z3., 61; every
additional half-pound, is.

Upon letters the postage may be either prepaid or not at
the option of the sender, but unpaid letters will be liable
to an additional rate on delivery.
Upon newspapers and book packets the postage must in
all cases be prepaid, or they will not be forwarded.
Letters, newspapers, and book packets for St Helena and
Ascension may also be forwarded as far as the Cape by this
route.

By command of the Poa!maater-General.
General Poet office, Nov. 16, 1864•

The Great Polish Trial at Berlin.

The examination of those of the accused who are placed
in the same category with Count Dzialynski is at length
approaching its termination, and such of them as are absent
on leave have been summoned to present themselves at the
Court on the 3d inst. so as to be present when the counsel
on both sides address the judges, which, however, will pro-
bably not be before the 9th inst.
Count Boleslaus Chotomski, of the well-known house of
Chotomski and Koronowicz, of Konigsberg, was examined
on the 29th ult, He denied that he had established his
firm for the purpose of facilitating the commercial transac-
tions of the National Government; his object had been only
to develop the commercial resources of his country, and to
overcome the prejudices of his fellow-nobles with regard to
trading. After giving an eloquent picture of Polish pa.
triotism and Polish suffering the count concluded by de-
claring it to be his conviction that there was no intention
among the insurgents of attacking Prussia.
His partner, M. Koronowicz, admitted that he had pur-
chased arms ; but denied that he had done so for the pur-
pose of assisting the Polish insurrection.
J. Reichstein, a Russian subject, accused of having as-
slated the Polish insurgents, denied the charge, and declared
he had never had any hostile desig, s with regard to Prussic.
His former confessions were false, and had been extorted
from him by threats that he would be given up to Russia.
In support of the latter statement, Herr Elven examined
a police inspector named Jagieleki, who denied that be had
used any threats to the accused.
The following conversation then took pliseq—

Herr Elven—Did you not say to the accused, " I will
send you to Mouravieff, and you will have to confess under
the gallows ?"
Witness (in confusion)—I can hardly recollect,
Herr Elven—Pray, give me a defiaite answer.
Witness (greatly confused)—l don't remember. It may
be perhaps,•
Herr Elven—Did you say you would put the accused in
chains ?
Witness—l don't know. I don't remember.

The hearing of the case was resumed on the 31st, when
W. Holz, a merchant of Konigsberg., deponed he had Ire-
vently been connected with Reichstein and Count Cho-
tomaki in the purchase of arms.
Herr Holthoff here remarked that the witness was not
sworn, and was a spy by profession; and a witness was
brought forward, who deposed that Holz had threatened to
accuse him of providing the insurgents with arms if he did
not give him 1,000 thalers.
Messrs Holthoff and Elven then proposed that Count
C hotomski, M. Koronowicz, and Reichstein be liberated.
The court rejected the motion.
J. W. Ketrzynski, accuse l of having purchased arms for
the insurgents, said he knew nothing whatever about the
Grand Duchy of Posen or the insurgents there, and denied
every charge against him. The court refused to liberate him.
At the next sitting, which took place on the 2d inst., Dr
Schu'z and M. Gosoiki were examined also on the charge of
hiving purchased arms f.,r the insurgents. Nothing mate-
rial was elicited against them.
M. H. Goslawaki, who had been arrested with some other
insurgents on the Prussian frontier, was next examined.
He said he was not an officer, but a simple volunteer, among
the insurgent troops ; nor was ho charged with the forma-
tion of a detachment. The notes to this effect found in his
pocketbook were written by a spy named Desvarts.

On the 3d inst. several of the counsel for the defence
proposed motions for the liberation of their clients, all of
which were rejected by the Court, A motion of M. Lent,
that Councillor Kruger ho heard in the caao of the ticket
with the red seal stated to have been found among M. Mos-
zozanski's papers, was also rejected.
M. Collier made the following remarks regarding the en.
listment of insurgents :—The enlistment of insurgents has
been several times alluded to in the course of the trial. I
never heard of any such enlistment in Prussia, and even
in the kingdom of Poland it was forbidden by a decree of
the National Government. The war was to be fought by
volunteers only, and none but volunteers went with us to
battle. I would never have consented to fight for so great,
I may say so holy a cause, side by side with mercenaries.
The sitting concluded with a speech from the Abbo Jaro-
chowski defending the conduct of his fellow-clergymen
during the insurrection,

UNWELCOME VISITORS.—The Sinus are off again,
but this time they have taken away with them whatever
they could lay their hands upon, whether begged or stolen.
Horses, oxen, cows, calves, pigs, and other live stock were
taken from the farmyards or the plains during the night
when they commenced their departure, and either killed or
driven out of the settlement by the least frequented :tracks.
At one house a pane of glass was broken in each window,
and every article within arm's length abstracted, and seve-
ral houses were broken open and plundered. They stole
potatoes out of the fieldr,and coolly walking into the nearest
house, asked to be allowed to cook them. The red rascals
visited every house where they had sold children during
their visit last winter, and took the children away, even
against their wishes, in many cases. In one instance, the
master of the house coming up, seized by the arm the boy
they were dragging away, and several of the Sioux held on
to the other arm, both sides pulling away, while the child
was screaming with fright—at length the Sioux moved cif
discomfited. They stole the communion cloth from the
church at High Bluff, and some ornaments from the altar of
the French chapel near Sturgeon Creek. In short, we have
had such a warning on this visit that we must take steps to be
prepared to make a stand against these invaders when next
they come. They may profess that their object is to endea..
your to open up a trade with the settlement, but we must
make such a display of force as will cause them to fear and
respect us, or Elie we must place ourselves at their mercy,
and the result will probably be the re-enactment in cur
midst of the MinnesJta massacres.—.Nor'- Wester.

WIGAN.—The Relief Committee met on Monday,
and the retrace presented showed that for the first
time for many weeks there had been an increase in the
number of persons relieved and in the amount distributed.
The increase was 40 persons. Last week the Guardians
relieved 4,123 persons, at a cost of £266 2s 7d ; show-
ing an increase on the previous week of 76 persons,
and of £3 Os in the amount paid. In the meeting
of the Relief Committee, yesterday, the following re-
solution was moved :—" That in consequence of the re-
quirement of the Manchester Central Committee, all
women having bastard children, and being in receipt of
relief from this committee, be struck off the books, and
that such women be not relieved for the future ; but
that this committee cannot help expressing their
strongest opinion that this resolution is unfair and
impolitic." An amendment was moved to the effect that
the relief be continued to the women as individuals, no
regard being paid to the children ; but the motion was car-
ried by the casting vote of the chairman —A census of the
factory operatives in the district, prepared in accordance with
the request of the Manchester Committee by a house to
house visitation, was laid before the meeting. This showed
that there were 1,471 hands employed, 4,558 unemployed,
1,135 working at other trades, while 300 had left Wigan.
The returns of those employed and unemployed are nearly
correct, but it is evident that the lists of those who have
left the town are from 1,509 to 2,000 below the real number;
for the total number of operatives in the census is only
7,600, whilst when all the mills were working close upon
10,000 persons found employment in them. The Borough
Surveyor has prepared a return of the money expended
under the Public Works Act. The following is a
summary : Materials on water works, £5,482—0n
streets, £5,429—t0ta1, £10,911. Skilled labour : Water-
works, £6,418—0n streets, £O9G--total, £7,114. To factory
operatives: Waterworks, £2,610—on streets, £l,3l3—total,
£3,932. It thus up ears that, although the factory opera.
tives have only done two. sevenths of the work at the
waterworks, they have received nearly two thirds of the
money paid for improving the streets—a work which is still
going ou very satisfactorily. The total amount expended
under the Public Works Act has been £21,000, half of which
has gone in materials.
STATISTICS OF CRIME IN LIVERPOOL.—The chief
constable of Liverpool (Major Greig), has just
issued his annual report on the criminal results of the past
year. This report shows that 4,326 indict b.ble offences have
been committed during the year, against 4,00 in the pre-
vious year, and 2,125 persons had been apprehended, against
2,433 the year before. The magistrate had disposed of
36,448 summary cases, against 34,61.5 in the previous year.
There are 1,473 known public resorts of persons of bad
character in the town,