The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-26 00:00:00

PhOTEST.

By this Act of the 25th of January, 1863, the Provisional
Government which evoked the Polish insurrection called
me to the dictatorship and to the chief command of all the
armed forces of that insurrection• -1 accepted that honour-
able burden under certain conditiena detailed in the reply
which I sent to the commissaries of the Government, and
which, as far as I am concerned, were fulfilled by me with
military punctuality. At the same time I ordered a procla-
mation to be published, to be distributed at the proper mo-
ment. Nevertheless, from a feeling of high delicacy, out of
respect for the proud sorrows of the country, which admit
neither of fictions nor surpiises, I abstained from making
my nomination publicly known until by our arms we had
conquered a territory and a tribune from which I could be
heard and listened to by the whole country. This is why
the authorities only and the leaders of the insurgent de-
tachments were informed of it, that they might not plead
ignorance in case of insubordination.
Nevertheless, taking advantage, in the most unjustifi-
able manner, of my civic prudence, hastily seizing upon
the moment when a serious attack of illness compelled me
to seek a quiet refuge, despite the most zuthentic and the
most solemn act of the National Government, Marian
Langiewicz, on the 10th of March, proclaimed himself
second Dictator of the Polish nation over some thousand
square miles of territory.

I do not accept that audacious challenge to civil war;
I confine myself to an appeal to national common tense,
protesting in the name of the witness and guarantees, dead
or living, of the act of the 28th of January against the
outrage perpetrated against that act by Marian Langievvicz.
General LOUIS MIEROSLAWSKI,
March 11, 1863. . _

Having read the above protest of General Louis Miero
slaweki, we, the undersigned, former members of the Cen-
tral National Committee, ocular witnesses and conjointly
with Ladislas Janowski, commissaries of that committee,
acting as Provisional Government, declare b have taken to
Paris, on the part of that Government, an invitation dated
the 25th of January, for him to assume the dictatorship and
supreme command of the Polish insurrection. We here
remind the country that our third colleague, La:Hsles Ja-
nowski, has scaled with his blood, on the battle-field of
Krzywosones, at the very side of the said Dictator, our
common mission to the latter.

Consequently, we feel that it is our right and duty, not
only completely to approve the protest of General Louis
Mieroslawski, but, moreover, to protest ourselves, in the
most solemn manner, in the name of the Government
which we have represented, against the iniquitous attempt
of the military chief of the insurgents of Sandomir, Marian
Langiewicz. LADISLAS DANILOWSKI.

March 15, 1863.

L&DISLAS JESKA

M. Calzado lodged an appeal on Saturday last
against the sentence pronounced on him that morning by
the President of the Sixth Chamber of the Police Court.
M. Caizado, who was arrested immediately after his con.
viction and lodged at the Prefecture of Police, is now con-
fined in the prison of Mazas.

The Charivari publishes a woodcut, in which
Europe, as a female figure, is represented interroga-
ting severely an enormous Russian armed to the teeth.
This latter points to a diminitive child in the Polish chess
and replies :—•' It is not my fault, I assure you. It is he
who began. He is always maltreating me."
ASSISTING AT A PRIZE FIGIIT.—At the New
Bailey, yesterday,:Adam Clirles Riding, Charles
Newton, Edward Long, William O'Donnell, Richard
Pa:kinson, Henry Snowden, William Graham, and Eaton
Eccleston were charged with assisting at a prize fight. On
Tuesday night the police received information that a prize
fight was to take place on the following morning at
Clifton, and engagements were made to apprehend some of
the parties engaged. At six o'clock yo,terday morning the
police appeared on the scene of action, and on their appear-
ance the spectators dispersed, but the prisoners were even-
tually apprehended. Tho whole of the prisoners acknow-
ledged that they were present, and Long admitted that he
was one of the principals. The prisoners were committed
to the sessions. Manchester Guardian.

BREACH OF PROMISE,—At the Somerset assizes,
on Tuesday, a young lady, named Dykes, broueht an
action against a veteran of about 60, named Burston, for
breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff and defendant
1 ogtcled at North Newton, near Bridgwater. They "grew
very fond of each ether," and the defendant would sit for
three or four hours at a time with his arm round plain-
tiff's waist. Defendant told many of his and her friends
that he intended to marry her, and fixed upon the last
Wednesday in September last as the wedding day. He
borrowed a cart of a neighbour and went to Tauntcn with
the intention of having the banns published at 'Wilton
Church. He, however, altered his mind when he got
there, and resolved to go to Bristol to be married
there. All went on satisfactorily until the morning before
the day fixed for the wedding, when defendant declared to
a neighbour that he would not fulfil his engagement. On
theBth of October following, the plaintiff found the defend-
ant asleep in the house of a woman named Parsons, who,
although married, did not live with her husband. She
caught her late ardent lover by the nose and beat his head
against the wall. When she released him, she challenged
him to go out in the road to fight it out like a man. De-
fendant declined, saying that he had never raised his hand
against a woman, and would not begin to do so now. Upon
that she boxed his earn, and followed him to his house,
where they remained quarrelling for three quarters of an
hour. The jury found a verdict for ebo pla,intift—
, damages £BO.