The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-14 00:00:00

RUSSIAN UKASE OF CONFISCATION.

The Gazette of the Senate, official journal of St.
Petersburg, publishes an extraordinary document,
which sadly contrasts with the delasive hopes held
out by the agents of Russia in order to modify the
diplomatic demands of the Powers parties to the
treaties of 1815. The following is a textual trans-
lation:—

" By a ukase of the 22d of this March, the directing
Senate pr( mulgates the following regulation presented by
order of the Emperor to the committee of ministers, through
the Minister of the Interior, and sanctioned by his Imperial
Majesty on the 15th of the same month :
" Regulation concerning the putting under sequestration
of the property of the individuals implicated in the disorders
of which the neighbouring Governments of the kingdom of
Poland have been the theatre, and for the management of
that property.
" 1. Complicity in the disorders which have broken out in
some parts of the Governments of the West entails a respon-
sibility the effects of which extend to the persons as well as
the property of the guilty.
"2. The property of the persons who have taken part in
the disorders is put under sequestration, at the instance of
the superior local authority, in order to ensure the material
responsibility incurred by them.
" 3. There may be placed under sequestration the property
belonging to the individual accessory to the disorders, and
who is in the empire; such as landed estates of all kinds,
movable goods, and capital in bank notes ; shares and obli-
gations exempted from sequestration by positive provisions
of the general laws, as well as cash and credit securities.
"4 There may also be placed under sequestration the
property of every kind of which the individual accessory to
the disorders enjoys the usufruct, temporary or life interest
in virtue of deeds or any documents.
" 5. The property sequestrated is placed at the disposal
of the local Chamber of the Imperial Domains.
" 6. The houses situated in the towns and placed under
sequestration may be entrusted to the administration of the
local municipality.
" 7. The delivery of the sequestered property and of all
the title which relate to it, to the person charged with the
administraction of the sequestration, is made by a func•
tionary of the local police, or any other, on the nomination
of the superior authority of the province, according to an
inventory drawn up on unatamped paper, in presence of two
trustworthy witnesses. It is lawful f<r the proprietor, for
the members of his family who are on the spot, or for the
manager of the estate, to assist at this delivery.
" 8. There must not be written in the inventory the ob-
jects which the general laws allows to be left at the disposal
of the debtors in bankruptcy when the inventory of their
movable effects is drawn up.
"9. The property of an individual accessory to the dis-
orders which he possesses by joint tenancy with others is
left under the management of the other co-proprietors not
implicated in the disorders. However, in that case the
functionary charged with the delivery of the property, in
concert with him who has the task of receiving it, is to
verify correctly the revenue which the property produces,
and to exact from the co-proprietors in whose hands the
management of it is left a written engagement to hand over
to the Chamber of the Imperial Domains, at the expiration
of every three months, the share of the revenues to which
the accessory to the disorders would have been entitled.
" 10. The above property, held on lease by farmers not
implicated in the disorders, in virtue of contracts not subject
to litigation, and concluded before the sanction of the pre-
sent regulation, will be left in the hands of those farmers ;
but the latter will engage in writing to hand over to the
Chamber of the Imperial Domains the amount of their rents
at the time fixed in the leases.
" 11. The Minister of the Imperial Domains will provide
the chambers placed under his authority with detailed in-
structions upon all that relates to the economical adminis-
tration of the sequestered property, and the compatibility of
that administration.
" 12. All the expenses of the administration of the seques-
tered property will be taken out of the proceeds.
" 13. The revenue produced by a sequestered estate will
serve to provide for, at their expiration, all the payments
due for loans to the establishment of credit; also for State
and provincial rents, and to satisfy all the private debts
based upon certain legal titles effected before the sanction of
the present regulation.
" 14. Substraction having been made of all the payments
and expenses of the administration of the property necessary
and authorised by the present regulation, the remainder of
the revenue is to be transferred to the State Bank, or its
branches to remain there at interest.
" 15. The proprietor andthe his
m familmy
ers shaof ll quit
family have
the seques-
tered property; however, if eb
not participated in the disorders, and not. possessing sepa-
rate property, want the means of exi.stence, the local
superior authority may give them for their support a por-
ion of the net revenue remaining after all the payments
tend expenses authorised by this regulation have been met.
" 16. The sequestration will be maintained until the re
gulations whicri may he made after the definitive repression
of the disorders. However, if before that time it is seen
that the imputation of complicity in the disorders made
against the proprietors of sequestered property was rm•
founded, the sequestration will be immediately removed at
the instance of the superior local authority, and the estate
will be restored to the proprietor, with all its revenues, de-
duction having been made for the payment and the ex-
penses occasioned by the carrying out of the present regu-
lation.
The Journal des Debats of yesterday has some
pertinent remarks on this ukase, which we extract.
It says:—
" This document comes at the right time to enable us to
estimate the results we are to expect from the generous
sentiments which, according to the assurances published by
certain journals, animate the Imperial Government with
respect to Poland. How many times have not official de-
spatches from St. Petersburg announced to Europe that the
Ernp ror Alexander would restore to the Polish refugees
their estates ? How often have they not sounded the mea-
sures of clemency and generosity which the Russian Go
vernment held in reserve to se cure the happiness and liberty
of the Polish nation ? Yesterday, again, did we not our
selves register the news of a- general amnesty which the
Emperor signed a month ago, and of which the Grand Duke
Constantino was the keeper ? And now as a pledge of all
these liberal promises, as a foretaste of all those graces which
are to rain upon Poland, the Emperor Alexander 11. puts
into vigour the most odious of all the measures which weigh
upon the memory of the Emperor Nicholas—the punishment
of a whole family for an offence alleged to have been com-
mitted by one of its members. This imperial ukase will
resound most mournfully throughout Europe. It will further
aggravate the deplorable Impression already caused by the
measure which has placed in the civil and military com-
mand of Warsaw General Berg, the man who was made in
1831 the instrument, the pitiless executor of the reactionary
vengeance which the Emperor Nicholas carried out g
Poland. These two facts taken together throw a sad light
upon the present situation and upon the probable issue of
the pending negotiations."

A LIGHT SESSION.—When Parliament met after
the Easter recess in 1861 it had 85 bills before it; in 1862,
81 bills , in 1863, only 64 bilk

Nearly 4,000 dollars ha 7e been sent to Washing-
ton, from the loyal Americans in Chili, for the sick and
vrounded 'ederal soldiers,

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 13.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
the Princess Louise, walked and drove in the
grounds this morning.
Major-General Seymour has succeeded Lieuten-
ant-General Hon. C. Grey as Equerry in Waiting.
The following bulletin of the health of the Prin-
cess Louis of Hesse was issued this day :

" Windsor Castle, April 13,
" Her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse has
had a most favourable recovery.
" The infant princess continues well.

"CHARLES LOCUM, M.D.
"ARTHUR FARRE, M.D.
"No further bulletins will be published."

The Prince Witzengorff, Baron von Lindon, and
Count Victor Erekert arrived at the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn-street, last night, from Berlin.
The Duke of Newcastle has arrived at Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Clumber Park, Worksop.
The Countess of Suff)lic and Lady Isabella
Howard have arrived at Fsrranee's Hotel from Chariton
House, Wiltshire.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at
their residence in Piccadilly last night from their seat,
Broadlands, Hants.

Lord and Lady Herries have arrived at Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Everingham Park, York.
Sir John Crampton (the British Minister at the
Court of Madrid) and Lady Crampton have arrived at Paris
on their way to London.

Lady Flower has arrived at the Queen's Hotel,
Upper Norwood.

Lady Havelock and family have arrived at the
Hotel Mirabean, Paris.

Lady Charlotte Sterling, the wife of Sir Anthony
Coningham Sterling, died at her residence, South-place,
Kensington, on the 10th inst. Her ladyship was a daughter
of Major-General Joseph Baird.

The Right Hln. W. Hutt arrived in town yes-
terday from his seat, Gibside.

THE HEALTH OF GARIBALDL—The following
letter from Dr. Albanese, dated Caprera, March 31,
is published in the Paris journals :—" I am happy I can
send Sou the best news of the general. For the last fortnight
a decided improvement has taken place in his health. Rb eu-
matism has completely disappeared; the wound goes on
regularly and satisfactorily. The period of recov.-ry has
commenced, and with,. ut wishing to positively affirm that
that of elimination has ended, I think, nevertheless, we are
near its term."

THE PROPOSED AMALGAMATION OF THE CITY
AND METROPOLITAN POLICE FORCES.—Public meetings
were held yesterday, of the inhabitants of various City
wards, to consider the proposal now before Parliament
for the amalgamation of the City police with that of the
metropolis generally, At each of the meetings speeches
were delivered strongly denouncing the proposition as being
uncalled for, and as an attempt to infringe upon the muni-
cipal rights of the corporation of the city of London by the
advocates of centralisation. Resolutions and petitions to
Parliament protesting against the measure were unani-
mously adopted,

THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.—A correspon-
dent ssys :—" We hear that it is proposed to confer
the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Mr. J. F. Neil-
son, the well-known reporter for the Times—an alumnus
who has taken high honours at this University. It is ex-
pected, in order that the degree may be granted before the
close of this session, certain formalities will be waived. We
believe that the proposed honour has been suggested by the
late appearance in his native city of Mr. Neilson as the re •
presentative of the Times on the recent occasion of Lord
Palmerston's visit. This honour will be regarded as a not
unmerited compliment to the fourth estate in the person of
Mr. Neilson.—North British Mail.

POSTHUMOUS PRESENT TO SIR TATTON SYKES.—
A gentleman, Mr. Robt. Heap, has this week arrived
at Malton from Hungary, where he has for some years rc.
sided. Mr. Hasp was a native of Slingsby, near Malton,
and was on that account intrusted with a highly valuable
present for the late Sr Tattoa Sykes, of whose death he had
not heard till arriving in England. The present intended
for the late baronet was afolio volume, entitled " Les Chasses
et le Sport en Hongarie," and on one of the front pages was
inscribed, " This album, of Hungarian sporting scenes, is
Presented to Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart., by Baron Ander
Or zy. as a remembrance of his very agreeable stay at Sled-
mere Hall, on the Bth September, 1862." The present has
been forwarded to its destination, and will aoubtless be
highly prized by the family of the deceased baronet.
SERIOUS A CCID EN T.— Oo Friday and Saturday a
very painful feeling was caused in Newcastle-on-
Tyne by a deplorable accident which had befallen Mr. Wm
Newton, surgeon of that town, and an active member of
the Town Council. On Friday afternoon, between 4 and 5
o'clock, Mr, Newton had been riding out upon the Town
Moor in company with a young man named Mr. James
Scott, when the horse upon which the latter was riding
took fright, and Mr. Newton's mare sprang after it, and the
jerk threw her rider. Mr. Newton unfortunately fell with
his back upon a stone lying in the ditch. Assistance was
speedily rendered him, and he was removed to the Herd's
cottage, where he was attended by Sir John Fife, Dr,
Heath, Dr. Hawthorn, and other brother professionals.
His condition was so precarious, however, that he was not
removed home uttil 10 o'clock at night, when he had to be
carried with great care on a stretcher to his residence in
Hood-street. Upon an examination by the medical men it
was found that his spine was injured, On Saturday Mr.
Newton was in a very dangerous condition, indeed, and it
is feared that, if he ever recover, his extremities will be
paralysed.

HOOD'S WHIMS. AND ODDITIES.—Who ever
tires of that scene where the heads of two Quaker,'
are visible just above the ice on a bitter winter's day, and
which he entitles a " Coolness between Friends ?" Or the
view of a particularly bald old gentleman who has just up-
set a beehive, and whom he calls an " Unfortunate Bee-
ing." Or the " Spoilt Child," wherein the servant is
sitting with the infant under her care, she quietly reading
her paper and comfortably killing the child ? Then there
is that unforgetable " last in bed to put out the light,"
wherein the worthy couple, in all haste, dash at the bed-
clothes, making ends meet and heads clash at the same
moment!

FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. —On Saturday
morning, the 11th inst., at about 6 o'clock, thr
engine of the Wern colliery, Bagilt, near Holywell, was put
in motion with the view of winding up the colliers who bad
been working during the night, but melancholy to relate,
through the want of the signal bell being properly placed,
the engine was allowed to wind up the bucket containing
the ill-fated colliers so far as to bring it in contact with the
wheel and turn it upside down, shooting three of the unfor-
tunate men back into the pit, where they met with an im-
mediate and melancholy death. A fourth collier saw his
danger in time to jump out of the bucket, but sustained
such severe injuries in doing so as to endanger his life—his
leg being broken, besides other internal injuries. The names
of the unfortunate sufferers killed are—John Hollis, aged
67, widower, family grown up; William Roberts, widower,
tares children, youngest 18 months old; John Williams,
28 years, separated from wife, no children. The two en-
gineers, viz., Edward Redfern and Edwin Powell, were
immediately taken into custody, but bailed in two sureties
of £5O each to appear and answer the charge on the 18th
inst. The inquest was to b 3 held yesterday. No blame is
at present attached to the proprietors, Mears David Jones
and William Redferk.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO AN ACTRESS.—During
the performance of the " Peep o'Day" at the New
A.delphi Theatre, Liverpool, last week, a Miss Elton, who
represented the :character of Ann Kavanagh, fell from a
considerable height on to the stage, and sustained very
serious injuries. Both the young lady's legs are broken,
and she at present lies in a dangerous state. The nature
of the injuries are such as to prevent Miss Elton (should she
recover) from ever folio wing her profession again.

THE ULLINGSWICK MURDERER.— On Wednes
day, the Under-Sheriff, Henry Minett, Esq., by tht
direction of the High Sheriff of the county, attended at the
county gaol, and in the presence of the governor announced
to the convict, William Hope, that 'Wednesday, the 15th
inst., was the day fixed for his execution. This communi-
cation was received by the convict in perfect silence, but he
was eviden ly much affected. Since his condemnation he
has devoted the whole of his time to the study of the Bible
and other religious books, and in prayer. On Wridneschy
last he was visited by his mother, brothers,
and sisters, but
will have another opportunity of seeing them before the
fatal day. He is visited daily by the chaplain and the Rev.
John Venn, and has also had an interview with the Rev
S. M. Ware, vicar of Ullingswick, but we under. stand that.
be has made no confession of the awful crime of the perpe-
tration of which he has been convicted.—H ere/ ofd Journal,

A tragical occurrence has just taken place at
Bourdette (Ariege). An inhabitant named Andrieu was at
dinner with his family, when his son, a young man aged
twenty, net being satisfied with a portion of an ome.ette
wi h which he had been served, threw it on to the ground.
The father, irritated at this act, seized hold of a chair and
threatened to strike the young man with it. The latter,
who was of a hasty temper, caught up a gun which was
near and discharged the contents into the old man's breast,
killing him on the spot. The son afterwards went into a
wood and blew out his brains.

The life of Wedgwood, our great artist•potter, is
being written by Miss Meteyard, better known as "Silver-
pen,„

Great Sculler's Race for the Championship
of the Thames and £4OO (This Day).

This great match, which has for some consider-
able time excited the greatest interest amongst the
admirers of aquatic sport, between Robert Cham-
bers, of Newcastle, the holder of the honorary dis-
tinction of champion sculier of the river Thames,
and George Everson, of Greenwich, came off this
morning over the usual distance—viz., from Put-
ney to Mortlake.

The state of the tide rendered it necessary that
the match should be rowed at an hour rather
earlier than usual; but, notwithstanding that cir
cumstance, the attendance of the l üblic at Putney
was very great,

Everson, having won the choice of stations, took
the Middlesex side of the river, and on rowing to
his position was loudly cheered by his friends, while
the same enthusiastic reception was awarded to
Chambers. At 20 minutes to 12 a fine start was
effected, both men dashing off in splendid style.
For a short distance they rowed scull and scull
together, but the effect of Chambers's long powerful
stroke soon began to show in a most decided
manner. The circumstance did not fail to attract
the notice of Everson's friends, who thus early
began to encourage him to put forth ail his energies,
and accordingly he went to work with the
greatest determination. At the Point Cham-
bers had managed to pull his boat
quite clear of Everson, and the favourable
advantage created amongst his friends a perfect
frenzy of delight, the shouting of people on board
the steamers as to odds they would lay on Cham-
bers being something extraordinary.
Thousands of voices could be hoard shouting
"Bravo, Chambers," and thus encouraged, he went
steadily, but earnestly, on with his work, and soon
the distance between the boats of the two men
began to look very ominous for those who had
placed their money and hope on Everson. Before
half the distance was accomplished, Chambers
appeared to have the race entirely in his
own hands, and this seemed to be the
opinion of everybody, for not a single cry of
" Who'll back Everson ? " was now to be heard.
There remains little to be said regarding the race,
for all hope of Everson overhauling Chambers
seemed to have been given up, the distance between
them being now more than 200 yards. Notwith-
standing the unfavourable termination which must
have struck Everson would be the result of the race
he rowed well and steadily, but to no purpose
Chambers still held the pride of place, and seemed
to be taking it very easy.
That this was the state of affairs became palpably
evident to the thousands of persons present, for
when off Corney Reach Chambers ceased rowing,
and, with the greatest coolness, wiped the per-
spiration from his faee. This little circumstance
was seized by the friends of Everson to incite him
on to renewed exertion, tut it was of no avail, for
Chambers arrived at the winning post more than a
hundred yards in advance of his opponent.
The contest could scarcely be called " a match,"
for certainly Everson never seemed to have the
slightest chance of winning, as from first to last
Chambers maintained the lead he took shorly after
starting.

The time occupied in rowing the distance was
25 minutes 33 seconds. Chambers pulled 30 strokes
a minute, and Everson 40.

The betting at starting was 6to 4 on Chambers.
Upwards of 20 steamboats accompanied the race
and we have to thank Mr. R. Bain, of Lambeth,
who engaged the Jupiter for the accommodation of
his friends, for an admirable view of the race from
beginning to end. Although ho succeeded in giving
all on board so great a gratification, he never for an
instant allowed the boat to approaoh too near the
contending millers, a circumstance which was not
the case with some of the other vessels.