The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-25 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1863.

THE MUTINY AT 33LACKWALL.

Last evening Mr. J. Humphreys, the Middlesex
coroner, resumed the inquiry regarding the deaths
of the men killed in the affray between the marines
and seamen of the Peruvian corvette Arica.

Midshipman Juan Iladoy said there were about

14 midshipmen on board the Venus hulk. On the
night of Thursday I was about to be attacked by
some men. At the time of the mutiny I was on the
main deck. It was about 2 o'clock. When I tried
to come up on to the upper deck two of the mutineers
attacked me. Callejis got between me and the men
who were attacking me, and said that they should
kill him before they killed me. The MOD who at
tacked me was Corporal Messa and the soldier
Oliva. Another soldier, Alcoras, and Perez, were
close by at the time, but Perez took my part. Ido
not know who bayoneted Callt-jas.
Antonio Perez, the soldier on board :he Arica,
said—l was one of those playing at cards. The
cause of the disturbance was the officer in charge
coming and stopping us. The second officer in com-
mand had given us leave to play till 10 o'clock. The
man who drew the first bayonet was Corporal Messa.
I was present when Iladoy was attacked, and I took
his part. Corporal Messa and another whose name'
Ido not know attacked Iladoy. Callejas wished to
take Itadoy's part. I did not strike Callejas. I
could not see who did it.

Coroner—Callejas did not stab himself, and you
say you did not do it. Must it not have been of
necessity one of the other two men, Oliva or Mesas,
who stabbed him P

Witness—l did not see them do it.
Jose Bergas (called Vargus)—l am first sergeant
of the 34th troop. Thursday was my Saint's day.
I did not go on shore that day. I had only one
gallon bottle of rum. Olive was not given into my
custody. I was aroused by a great note, and I then
went to the spot whence it proceeded, and found the
men up and armed. Before I got there the soldiers
had possessed themselves of the arms from the
armoury. 1 was not tipsy. I was sober.
Coroner—Did you try to keep the mutineers
down ?

Witness—Yes, I tried to keep them quiet. I was
not allowed to come on deck, The soldiers pre-
vented me. I was armed, but that was because I
was on duty. I did not hear Santiago tell the
men to go to bed, because Olive was keeping me
confined below.

Jose Messa, sworn, said—l am a drummer and
corporal on board. I was not playing at cards on
Thursday evening. I was on board all day. I first
heard the disturbance after I went to bed. Ser-
geant Gurra called me up between 11 and 12 o'clock
the same night. Callejas carried Iladoy away. It
was on the main deck. There were only four per-
sons there besides Iladoy. I heard Callejas say,
" You must kill me before you kill the officer." The
sergeant ordered me to attack Iladoy with a view to
frighten him. I did not intend to carry the order
out.

Coroner—When Callejas placed himself between
you and Iladoy did you see who bayoneted
Callejas?

Witness—lt was Oliva. Ho stabbed him with
his bayonet. . _

Oliva was here brought into the room by direc-
tion of the coroner, and he was identified by Messa
as the same man who bayoneted Callejas.
The Coroner informed him that he had been
identified as the person who had stabbed Callejas,
and, after the usual caution, which was communi-
cated to him by an interpreter, he asked him
whether he had anything to say_ •
Oliva said, "I never killed Callejas."
The Coroner said that where a revolt took place
on board ship the officer in charge was justified in
using proper and reasonable force towards suppress-
ing it, and if death ensued to any of the persons
who so revolted and resisted i•_ would be justifiable
homicide. That view of the law applied to the cases
of Garcia and Vasquez; they were engaged in an
unlawful act, and in endeavouring to resist the pro-
perly constituted officers they lost their lives. But in
the case of the soldier Callejas the law was different.
Seeing that the life of the midshipman, Iladay, was
threatened, he apparently from kindness of heart
placed himself before the youth, and said that they
should kill him before they killed the officer. It
was then sworn that Oliva made a thrust at the
deceased and inflicted the injury which had resulted
in his death. The learned Coroner then pointed
out the difference between wilful murder and man-
slaughter, and left it to the jury to say which of
those offences they would charge against the pri-
soner.

The jury, after being in consultation some time,
returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Emanuel
Oliva in the cave of the death of Callejas ; and of
Justifiable homicide in those of Garcia and Vasquez.
Oliva was then committed to Newgate.

The Question of Subsistence in the Southern
States.

(From the Charleston Courier, Feb. 28.)

The scarcity of food, which in another year is not
likely to become most serious, is not owing to the
incapacity of the South to subsist itself ; for it is a
fact that, in those very regions of the Confederacy
which have heretofore been chiefly grain-growing
the scarcity is greatest. It is owing to two facts,
says the Richmond Examiner—first, that the armies
of the Confederacy are continually recruited from
the farming class, instead of preserving in the ranks
the men already enlisted ; and second, that these
armies, operating as they have been chiefly in the
grain-producing portions of the country, have by
wholesale impressments, in many cases wanton,
unnecessary, and with needless rudeness and
tyranny, discouraged the farmers from puttiz.g in
further crops. On the latter branch of the subject
it is unnecessary to remark. Congress is maturing
a bill which promises to meet the evil, if faithfully
executed, and to restore large wastes of fertile land
to cultivation. History is full of admonition against
robbing industry of its hard-earned fruits. Nothing
so rapidly overspeads a country with the evidences
of dilapidation and decay as these wholesale rob•
beries of, the farmer, by insolent minions of govern-
ment.

" Let every man, woman, and child at home,"
says our cotemporary of the Mobiie Register,
" with a yard square of ground scratch it and
put in corn. Every grain carefully intrusted to
the fruitful earth, is a mite of contribution
to the nation's liberty. Every acrd of cotton
planted is a comfort to our enemies, and a nail in
the coffin of Confederate independence."
The Chattanooga _Rebel says—" We cannot too
strongly urge upon our friends the propriety of
planting no more cotton than is necessary to raise
seed for another year. We repeat what we said on
a former occasion—' Let every effort be made in
every state to secure the greatest amount of food.
Let the people go to work now to make clothing.
Do not put these things off. Let those learn to spin
and weave now who never knew before. The
highest compliment that can be paid any young
lady, after this war, will be that she span and wove
clothes for her brothers and friends in the army.
Let the wealthiest and most accomplished set the
example of plain dressing and hard work."

THE ALABAMA.—The following letter has been
received from a Rochdale youth, now serving on board
the Alabama :—" Confederate screw steamer Alabama,
havetaken
Februaraybo2vse. ,
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pretty
about.3s vessels, including the California steamer, bound
from New York for Aspinwall. She had about 140 ma-
rines on board, and we thought we should have to fight;
but we fired a shot from the gun I was at, and it nearly
knocked the foremast down. A man of war steamer,
which we had to take by force, we sunk in 17 minutes.
We were going to the coast of Galveston to pick out
some odd craft to fight us. There were in this place a
good many vessels, but by Providence we escaped with
one man wounded in the mouth; he is now all right. We
are now out at sea, and there is one man leaving the ship,
and I thought I would send you this bit of a note to let you
know where I am. I must now conclude, as there is a full-
rigged brig in sight. We can't say exactly what she is, but
if she be a Yankee she will be on fire directly.—l am," &C.
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Naval and lVlilitary Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

Rear-Admiral-Horatio T. Austin, C. 8., will, we
understand, succeed Rear-Admiral H. J. Codrington,
C. 8., as Admiral Superintendent at Malta, when the
latter officer's period of service expires in July next.
Her Majesty's steam vessel Kite, Master Com•
mander Bowden, was paid off on Saturday at Wool-
wich. The Kite arrived in England on the 1 lth
inst., with machinery disabled. The boilers had
given way six times during the voyage home, and
the entire, structure of the vessel was rotten and
leaky to such au extent that officers and men de-
spaired of making the shore in safety. She left
Bermuda on the 30th of January, in tow of the
Spitfire, and on clearing the reef made sail and
got up steam. Forty minutes afterwards it was
found that both boilers had given way, and that
the sudden rush of water from them rendered it
necessary to draw the fires. Three of the stokers

were scalded, one very severely. On Feb. Ist, the
engineers having made good the defects, steam was
got up a second time, working on the second grade.
On the 3d the port boiler gave way, and the fires
were again drawn. On the sth a heavy gale set in
from N.N.E. to E.N.E., and the ship making much
water, the pumps were constantly going. Up to this
time the vessel encountered northerly, north-west
and south-westerly winds, and made from three to
four knots with the wind favourable, and six in a
heavy gale, running under close reefed topsail and
reefed forecourse. On the llth,l2th,l3th,and 14th,
there were heavy gales S.W. to N.W., and back to
SW., with high seas, the wind constantly shifting.
On the latter date the ship was in lat. 35 3, long.
43 W., distant 715 miles from the Azores, having
only made 1,015 miles in 15 days. On Feb. 16th,
for the third time, she commenced steaming with
both boilers at very low pressure. In 11b. 30m.
after starting it became necessary to draw the fires
on account of the port boiler giving way. On the
19th there was a heavy gale from W.S.W. to N.W.
and on the 20th strong winds from N.W. The vessel
ran 72 miles in 24 hours. On the 22d, at 10,45 p.m.,
fires were lighted under both boilers, but it took
two hours to get steam up. At 215 p.m. on the
24th both boilers again gave way, the ship then
being near the south side of Pico(one of the Azores)
and the fires were again drawn _ There was a heavy
swell setting on the land, and the ship was be-
calmed and unmanageable. At midnight, after 12
hours' calm, a light air sprung up from S.E., and
the vessel had to retrace her course and stand for
the N.W. end of Fayal. She finally lost sight of
those islands on the morning of Feb. 26th, and on
the 28th encountered heavy N.W. winds, which
continued With variations over many days. On sth
March there was a N.W. to S.W. gale, and she
again got up steam; in five minutes the starboard
boiler gave way, and the fires were again
port6th
and boiler
7th
being
there of no use
were heavy
drawn,alone.
O
gales and. stormy winds and squalls from W.S.W.
to with heavy hailstorms. The Lizard
n the
was distant 209 miles. On the Bth she got up steam
in her boiler, and proceeded on the third grade ;
the same evening the Bishop's light (Scilly Islands)
was sighted, and the land was made in ten days
from the time of leaving Garciosa, the north-eastern
island of the Azores. On the afternoon of the 10th
inst. she bore up for Portland Roads, the weather
being very stormy. She arrived at Spithead at 11
p.m. on the 11th, and fell in with the Medusa
steamer off the North Foreland, and was taken in
tow off the Nore. She then broke down for the
sixth time. She expended 75 tons of coals during
a most periloas voyage, the pumps going every
watch, as she frequently shipped large quantities
of water ; the bedding and clothes were saturated
from leaks in the seams. From injuries by the
escape of boiling water, the effective number of the
crew was much reduced, and when under steam
the watch were obliged to take their turn in stock-
ing. It was remarked on her arrival at Woolwich
that not a sail, spar, or even rope yarn had been
lost, although the ship was obliged to be driven or
carried through the water with each mast and rig-
ging supported with extra gear. The mainmast,
which was made in 1857, is rotten. The Kite was
first employed at Bermuda, in 1838, and left Eng-
land for the last time in 1856. Her boilers were
condemned at Bermuda last year.
Scarlet fever has appeared among the boys on
board the training ships Impregnable, 78, Com-
mander F. S. Tremlett, and the Implacable, 24,
Commander Samuel B. Dolling, in Hamoaze,
Devonport. There are about 22 cases on board the
Implacable. Her compliment of boys is 400, but
she has at present 450; of these 225 have been sent
to a sanitary hulk.

Tha Bermuda Royal Gazette of the 3d inst. states
that the determination of the Government to con-
tinue Admiral Alexander Milne one year longer as
chief of the North American and West India station
has given great satisfaction in all tha places under
his command. The screw steam frigate Galatea,
Capt. R. Maguire, from Nassau, arrived in Grassy
Bay on the 28th of February. The screw steam
sloop Rinaldo, 17, Commander J. A. R. Dunlop,
continued at Ports Island; and the Nimble, 5, Lieut.
D'Arcy, in Grassy Bay, The French steamship of
war, Albatross, Capt. Maudet, from Mexico, which
has been repaired in the Royal Arsenal at Bermuda,
sailed on the 26th of February for Brest. This ship
and the Vauban landed several military and naval
invalids, who were sent to the Royal Naval Hospi-
tal. Many of these cases were hopeless; five have
died, and were buried in the French cemetery at
Ports Island. The most assiduous attention has
been paid to all these invalids by Deputy-Inspector
Smart and Dr. Dornville, R.N.
The French Government transport Ferriere, Capt.
Pichot, with military stores from Havre for Mexico,
was off Plymouth ou Monday.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander the Hon. E.
G. L. Cochrane, to the Sparrow ; Commander W.
F. Ruxton, to the Pandora; Commander J. Murray,
to be Inspecting-Commander of the Coastguard,
vice Commander Jolliffe, whose period of service
has expired ; Lieut. Alex. Buller, to be flag lieut.
to Vice-Admiral Sir William F. Martin,
Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean; George
L. Carr,
of
rr, master, additional,
midshipman, mto the to the Britannia ; the
M
Vic-
tory; Frederick Granamore, paymaster, to the Cam-
idge ; Thomas J.Giles, assist.-paymaster in charge,
to the Rhadamanthus ; Francis P. Lyne, assist,-
paymaster, to the Cambridge; R, ',win and R. I.
P. Jones, acting assist.-engineers, to the Fisgard,
as supernumeraries; M. Whyharn, acting assist.-
engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary; Cecil C.
Gordon has been nominated to a naval cadetship;
Augustus R. Ring and John Turner, master's assis-
tants, to the Rattlesnake; J. F. Atkinson, master's
assistant, to the Virago; William 13. Inman, clerk,
to the Majestic; Richard M. Rees, assist.-clerk, to
the Blenheim ; and Thomas Robinson, assist.-clerk,
to the Ajax,

' promoted ; Lieut. Price Frederic Blackwood,
9th Brigade, vice Straubenzee, promoted ; Lieut.
Colonel M'Crea will remain at Newfoundland in
command of the Royal Artillery serving at
that station. An exchange of brigades has been
ordered between Lieut.-Colonel G. V. John-
son, of the 10th, and Lieut.-Col. It. B. M.Crea, of
the 7th brigade. Capt. Purvis removes from Gib-
raltar to St. John's, Newfoundland. Lieut. Clarke
will joi❑ at Woolwich on April 1 next, and do duty
with the depot brigade until required to embark for
India.

The 32d Regiment, quartered in the R Tian bar-
racks, Devoaport, will leave on the 4;11 of April for
Dublin. The 78th will succeed the 32d at Devon-
port. The 73d Regiment, in Plymouth citadel, is
expected to leave in two divisions on the 22d and
27th for Aldershot, and will be replaced by the 21
or Queen's Own Regiment from that encampment.
Detachments of the brigade of Guards, numbering
about 350 men and 15 officers, have arrived at the
camp at Aldershot to undergo a coarse of musketry
instruction. The detachments consist of 64 men of
the Ist battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, 34 of the
Ist battalion and 67 of the 2d battalion Coldstream
Guards, 87 of the 2d battalion and 98 of the 3d bat-
talion Grenadier Guards—the whole under the corn
mend of Lieut.-Col, A. C. Cure, of the 2d battalion
Grenadier Guards. The detachment is quartered
in E lineF, North Camp, and is attached to the 3d
brigade.

The officers and men of the division at Aldershot
having returned from leave and furlough, an annual
spring drill has cornmenced.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

MEETING AT MANCHESTER.

Yesterday a meeting of the citizens of Manchester,
convened by the Mayor, in accordance with a re-
quisition, was held in the Town-hall with a view to
a, manifestation of sympathy with the Poles in their
present struggle for freedom. There were on the
platform General Count Ladislas Zamoyski, Mr.
Hennessy, MT., Mr. N. Z tba, Dr. Gottheil, Dr.
Watts, &c. ; and the large room of the building was
well filled.
The Town Clerk stated that letters had been re-
ceived from Mr. Bazley, M.P., Mr. J. A. Turner,
M.P., and Mr. George Wilson, regretting that other
engagements would prevent them from being pre-
sent. Mr. Bazley wrote that he should be glad to
serve on any committee that might be formed, or to
be useful in any degree to promote the freedom of
the Poles. In Mr. Wilson's letter he said his sen-
timents with regard to Poland had long been known,
as he had the good fortune to be acquainted with
the late Lord Dudley Stuart. (Applause.)
The Mayor of MANCHESTER having taken the
chair and opened the proceedings,
Mr. W. R. CALLENDER, jun., moved, and the
Rev. Canon TOOLE (Roman Catholic) seconded the
following resolution :

,4 That Russia, by the violation of her engage-
ments to Europe on behalf of Poland, and by the
system of confiscation, exile, and massacre which
she has substituted in their place, has forfeited all
right to the possession of Poland, and by the condi-
tion of normal discontent which she has thus created
in the breasts of an oppressed and gallant people
exposes the peace of Europe to constant danger,
which it is the interest of all to avert."

Mr. HENNESSY, M.P., on rising to support the
resolution was loudly cheered. He said the citizens
of Lqndon had been assembled by the Lord
Mayor, and the chief magistrate of Man Chester
had convened the citizens of the metropolis of
the commerce of the world for the common ob
ject of expressing their sentiments on the cause
of Poland, more especially because this was,
as he had always maintained, an English question.
(Hear, hear.) Poland was tied to England by
obligations which England was bound to see ful-
filled. He agreed entirely in the declaration that
Russia had no longer any rights in Poland. Russian
rights, or, rather, Russia's claims to rights (hear),
assumed the semblance of legality in the year 1815.
Lord Castlereagh, representing England at the
Congress of Vienna, failed in his endeavour to ob-
tain the independence of Poland, but he obtained
that which he himself and the English Parliament
and Government then thought was almost as good—
its national existence unde r the treaty. Lord Pal-
merston, the highest authority in this country, not
only in official rank, but in everything connected
with the interpretation of treaties, had told us that
that treaty was violated by Russia almost as soon
as concluded, and within the last few weeks he had
told us in the House of Commons that this violation
by Russia was systematic. His lordship added that
no treaty in the history of the world had been so
deliberately violated. (" Shame !") Whatever
rights, then, Russia had under that treaty were
gone. (Applause.) It was to be hoped that Euro-
pean statesmen would no longer look upon it as a
question of treaties, but as a question of the com-
plete independence and restoration of the Kingdom
of Poland. (Prolonged app►ause.) In the year
1861 events took place quite as black, tyrannical,
and oppressive as the recent atrocities there com-
mitted. Poland was then put practically in a state
of siege. For three months the churches of every
denomination—Protestant, Romish, and Jewish—
were all closed, and not merely by the four millions
in the Duchy of Warsaw, but the 16 millions of the
so-called Russian subjects, no costume was worn
except black ; not even a riband of any other colour
was sold in Warsaw, but from one end to the other
of a country more extensive than this we beheld a
whole nation in mourning. That was some proof of
the universal feeling in Poland in 1861. (Cheers.)
Now we saw that there was a nation in arms. The
movement was not confined to what were popu-
larly called the people, but all the leaders and
landowners of Poland, and even those who held
judicial authority and public functions, had joined
the insurgents. In the enormous province of
Lithuania every one of the judicial functionaries had
within the last few days resigned en masse. He bad
an opportunity of asking Lord Palmerston on Mon-
day night in the House of Commons a question about
Poland, and then had the opportunity of mentioning
a few facts which he was very happy to hear had
given great satisfaction to a large body of members
on both sides of the house. (Applause.) General
Langiewicz was a prisoner, but that gallant man
had commanded over an area in Poland not wider at
any point than 40 or 50 miles, while from east to
west we could trace a straight line of 700 miles of
insurrection, and going north from about the centre
of that line we could trace 500 miles of Poland still
in insurrection ; whereas the area in which Langie-
wicz had operated was about 1,600 square miles, the
total area of insurrection was over 150,000 square
miles. (Cheers.) It seemed evident that all classes,
nobility, clergy, peasants, and shopkeepers, were
united in the struggle. (Cheers.) It was remark-
able that the Grand Duke Constantine's order as to
the conscription directed it to be levied not against
the ordinary classes from which soldiers were taken,
but against persons of a class similar to those who
attended this meeting—the intelligent classes. In
Warsaw it was generally speaking the middle class.
The Grand Duke hoped by that means to put into
his fortresses and barrack-rooms all those who, he
thought, might lead the people. (Hear.) This,was
an English question, not merely on account of treaty
engagements, but because of the commercial inte-
rests connected with it. In 1842 it was pointed out,
that, in defiance of treaty stipulations, Russia had
extended a prohibitive system throughout her Polish
dominions. This was done, he feared, not so much
to carry out the mere policy of protection, but, like
the conscription, as a means for crushing the peo-
ple. This town-hall was familiar with the voices of
friends of commercial as well as the friends of poli-
tical freedom, and ho thought it was a fitting place
in which in reference to this question they might
vindicate the principles that they had advocated
there so triumphantly for England. (Cheers.)
Now came the practical question—What was to be