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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1861

than those three single gentlemen rolled into
one, in the person of Admiral the Hon. Sir
FREDERICK GREY. The first naval Lord of the
Admiralty under this omnium gatherum Whig-
Liberal-Radical Coalition Cabinet, whose re-
cognised and almost, we had said, whose avowed
system is—How Not To Do It. Without any
circumlocution in regard to these political occur-
rences of the last few days, we may very confidently
take these three events transpiring now at Cam-
bridge, now at Devonport, and now again
actually, in the legislative palace at Westminster,
to mean, if they mean anything at all, something
exceedingly like a Revulsion of Feeling against the
Government. We won't call it—the phrase, we
believe, is intolerable to ears polite—a Conservative
Reaction! But we will call it—we must, per-
force, call it, in simple, honest utterance of
truth—a Revulsion of Feeling against the
Government. A Revulsion of Feeling—out of
doors—among the constituencies. A Revulsion of
Feeling—in doors—in the House of Commons itself.
And what honest, practical, conscientious Liberal,
what earnest, heartfelt, aspiring Reformer amongst
us all, can there be anywhere discoverable, either
within doors or without doors, who will
have the consummate effrontery for one single
instant of time to affect to wonder at it ! A Revul-
sion such as this was a thing quite inevitable.
Sooner or later it was the result to be looked for •
It was a sequel anyone not in the least gifted
with the genius of Prophecy—even we will go so
far as to say Dr. CUMMING himself, who can see
about as far into the millstone of the future as a
man born stone blind—anyone, even Dr. CUMMING
might have predicted this issue, and this issue alone,
as absolutely certain to come from the Do-nothing
Palmerstonian policy. " Better an open foe than so
very Candid a Friend," says Cambridge. And
" Ditto to Cambridge " thunders Devonport.
And a growling echo to both comes re-
verberating in the public ear from the divi-
sion lobbies of the Commons last evening, the
evening of the very first division of the session.
The constituencies and the house are so much of
the same mind that the coincidence of their opinions
so very early in the year, has certainly about it a
peculiar and most impressive significance. It seems
like a triple expression of scorn for the emptiness
of the Ministerial programme for the session,
as unfolded is the Speech from the Throne,
upon the day of its inauguration. The Cabi-
net, however, has still its' breathing time. The
gallant old Premier takes shelter for yet a little
while longer—behind a bridal petticoat ! After the
silken train of the Princess ALEXANDRA has swept
from view : then—as when Greek meets Greeks—
will come the tug of war. Then Mr. Purim's Race
for the Derby will be fairly run between the Whig
Hobby (seriously threatened every day with being
scratched)," Retrenchment," and the Tory (fast ris-
ing every day in the betting) " Division." " The
Gray Mara"—as a droll farce at the Adelphi just re-
minds us all by its abbreviated title—'' is (proverbi-
ally) the Better Horse." But not the GREY Mare.
The Devonport constituency (rather peeking
itself about its powers of spelling, apparently)
would particularly have the country to un-
derstand that.' All the votes making up the majori-
ties in these recent pollings at Cambridge and at
Devonport, and in that first division last night
in the House of Commons, are straws not so much
showing which way the wind blows, as the one
path taken just now by the steady drift of a
hurricane.

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEB. 14, 1863.

In the House of Lords, yesterday,
Lord ELLENBOROUGH presented a number of
petitions from officers serving in the Indian army,
who complained that they had not obtained the
advantages that had been promised them at the time
of their transfer from the company to the Crown.
The noble lord made some suggestions on the ques-
tion with a view to its better adjustment.
The Make of ARGYLL did not see any foundation
for the complaints of the petitioners. The Govern-
ment had treated them in a liberal manner.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S speech last night was
full of interest. It referred to the question of the
Indian officers, which the noble lord discoursed
upon at great length. He commenced by present-
ing petitions from some officers who complained
that the understanding upon which they
had been transferred from the Company
to the Crown had not been carried out.
The noble lord thus explained his own views
which, on this question, of course are of paramount
importance. The view which he took of that Act was
" that Parliament entered into an engagement for
the protection of the interests and rights, not of the
army as a body but of every individual in the army,
and that whatever advantages in the way of promo-
tion or otherwise each individual might have
possessed at the time of the passing of that Act
he was still entitled to—that the Crown had taken
the Government of India subject to that condition,
and that must be absolutely adhered to. Economy
could have no voice where the question was one of
justice. This preservation of the rights and privi-
leges of the Indian officers would in no way con-
flict with the power of the Crown to re-organise the
whole body of the Indian army. That power re-
mained as it was. But consistently with that
re-organisation the Crown must maintain the inte-
rests and rights of the officers as they existed on
the day the act was passed." Surely there is great
force in these arguments, and all disinterested
men will coincide with the noble earl in his
straightforward opinion. This passage is
peculiarly appropriate from such a speaker.
Everyone knows that Lord ELLENBOROUGH is as
energetic a man as any in either House, and also
that he is certain to express his opinions without
reference to anyone's prejudices. The noble lord
did not entirely coincide with the prayer of the
petitioners but he gave the subject his most earnest
attention. He said that the real question, which
interested the whole army that were not employed on
the staff, was that of promotion. The officers com-
plained that their promotion had been impeded by
the re-organisation. One grievance was that a Staff
Corps officer was allowed to return to command a
regiment after many years absence, and thus he
superseded the officer who had taken his place in
the meanwhile. He thought, however, that some
compromise might be made, and that the Govern-
ment might extend the privileges given to the staff
corps to the infantry and cavalry after a certain
number of years' service. " Thus brevet rank would
after a certain number of years, be conferred upon
officers remaining with their regiments. Thus,
what he believed to be the main grievance would be
done away with, and there was nothing to prevent
the Government from supplying regiments which
were deprived of the subscription of their absent
officers with funds for the maintenance of their band
and mess. He was sure their lordships would agree
that in all transactions with men, the only honour•
able course, and with the soldiers, the only prudent
course, was that of strict justice; and he would
remind their lordships of what the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON said, that, in dealing with soldiers, you
must not only keep trust, but make them believe
that you do so." We have quoted his lordship's
words at length, because they express so exactly the
views which ought to be adopted at headquarters,
but which,
I of ARGThLI:ItaoPPiIy, so rarely prevail. The Duke
followed the noble earl, held out
no hope whatever
that the prayer of the petition
would be answered.
HegivenGovernment
thoaidthtehatartmhye guaranteedrannteoet
prevent it from taking any course that general
policy dictated in reference either to economy
or reform. This is the fatal notion that always
imposes its evil influence when
creepsan
and where and
it should least be tolerated. Re-
forms in expenditure: are :always intruded where
they offend some important branch of the service,

Their lordships adjourned at half past six.

In the House of Commons,

Mr. PEACOCKE moved that an address be pre-
sented to her Majesty, praying that no sales to
facilitate enclosures shoald be made within fifteen
miles of the metropolis of Crown land or Crown
forestal rights.
Mr. Cox seconded the motion. Mr. PEEL op-
posed the motion. Sir. G. GREY read a correspon-
dence vath the Inclosure Commissioners, which
went to prove that there was no occasion for this
measure. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
was against the motion. After some discussion the
house divided on the question, when the motion
for going into committee was negatived by 113 to
73. Thus, the first division of the session was lost
to the Ministers by a majority of 40.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
a resolution to authorise the bringing in of a bill
relating to the Post Office and other savings banks.
The resolution was agreed to. The House then
went into committee on the Customs' Acts and To-
bacco Duties.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved re-
solutions for a reduce 1 scale of duties upon several
sorts of tobacco. He gave a general outline of the
objects of the measure, which were to prevent
smuggling, and extend competition abroad as well
as at home.

After some discussion these resolutions were
agreed to.
The House adjourned at seven o'clock.

Affairs are really beginning already to look very
seriously, indeed, for the PALMERSTON Govern-
ment. Three discomfitures within a single week—
the first whole week of the Session. What is still
more, they are such defeats Two without the
walls of Parliament. One—the latest—within the
walls of Parliament. The former being defeats by
independent constituencies. The last-mentioned, a
defeat, and, what is most noticeable about it, a very
signal defeat, in the House of Commons—upon the
first division that has taken place this year in either
branch of the legislature. Certainly Ministers had
better look well to it, before the coming of the Ides
of March. For, even now, they have thrice come to
grief in the first half of the narrow month of

February.
The division last night, it should be observed,
marked quite distinctly a defeat of the Government.
For upon the Ministerial proposition for going into
Committee of Supply at the close of a brief but
animated discussion relative to the public rights in
certain lands, including among those certain lands
Epping and Hainault Forests—that motion for
going into Committee of
Supply was distinctly
negatived by 113 to '73 ! And this just -a —just at the
tail of the donble-barrelled electioneering defeats
aforesaid—the defeats of pro-PALmEits,rox
can.
didates, here at Cambridge, there at
Devon-
port The decadence of the popularity of
the once all-popular Premier has been signalised,
in truth, in a very noticeable manner by the return
of POWELL, the Tory candidate, in lieu of FAW-
CETT, the advanced Liberal candidate—the latter of
whom secured his own rejection inevitably (as
the event: indeed, has proved), by avowing hina2elf
on the hustings to be a thoroughgoing supporter
of Lord PALMERSTON'S Government. Yet more
astonishing, as indicative of the paling out of the
hitherto radiant prestige of the veteran Premier was
that amazing triumph won by
a true-blue old
Tory, quite of the old school, like Mr. BUSFIELD
FERRAND, over a Whig pur sang, a n
REY even ! a
senior first Lord of the Admiralty to boot!!! The
defeated candidate at Devoeport being no less

or otherwise mililate against the general good of
the community. A greacmistake was made at the
time of the transfer of the Indian authority to the
Crown in not giving the bounty-money to the
army. There was no occasion to have raised a
dispute on the question; better to have conceded
the point gracefully, and thus have conciliated
men who had indeed borne the burden and heat
of the day, in a conflict which has seldom been
equalled in intensity. When we call to mind
the sums that are lavished in needless ex-
penses, squandered in profuse outlay, and utterly
thrown away in useless undertakings, it seems
incomprehensible how men, with the responsibility
of such high position, can excuse themselves for
these beggarly savings and these miserly man-
oeuvres. They will go on with their parsimonious
spirit till one day their cheapness will cost them
too dear. For instance, why could not the Duke
of ARGYLL have come forward last night and met
the petitioners half way if he could not have wholly
conceded their request. His speech will spread
dissatisfaction through the ranks of those who, dis-
pleased before, will be indignant now. There is vo
greater mistake than for those dressed in a little
brief authority to drive all before them in
their obstinate adherence to their parti-
cular plans, and their resolute furtherance
of their pet prejudices. This episode in the House
of Lords is another link to the chain of evidence
that Ministers are resolved not to allow the claims
of individual interest to weigh in the balance against
the carrying out of their own arrangements. They
may go on too far in this style, but it is of para-
mount importance that whoever is in authorisy
should sink prejudices and discard partiality, so as
to give the greatest possible satisfaction to the
community at large, and studiously to avoid giving
offence to those important branches of the public
service, the army and the navy. While they will
not see that all they gain is a loss if it irritates and
offends those whom they should make it their first
object to conciliate, those in high places have yet
I to learn a most important lesson.

PRINCE CZARTORYSKI.

The following letter from Prince Czartoryski, in
reference to the late remarks of M. Billault in the
French Chamber rbspecting he events now passing
in Poland, appears in the iTcurnal des Debats of the
12th inst. :

Sir,--I do not wish to give expression here, although
there is only too much reason for doing so, to the sentiments
with which we are all inspired in consequence of the events
which are at this moment desolating Poland. Permit me
only not to accept a misunderstanding which I see too often
repeated, and to vindicate in al its integrity the dignity of
our sufferings and the completeness of our rights. With
this object, could I do better than address myself to you,
sir, who, within the limits of your opinions and natural
political reserve, have always given so sympathetic a sup-
port to our cause ?

Perhaps, with a little more attention and foresight while
events are preparing, people would be less surprised when
they take place. Perhaps too, with more care in maintain-
ing the authority of even a restricted law, of a law written
and created in our favour, a system which makes of our
lives a permanent and legitimate insurrection would have
been crushed in the bud. In any case the movement
which has just begun could not be regarded as an un-
foreseen one; it has arisen f!om that intolerable situation
which has been imposed uprn us, in which protest in
every shape has remained out only and last weapon ; and
in this particular case it is the inevitable consequence of a
series of excesses of power of which the arbitrary conscrip-
tion was the climax. Now, it seems to me that I perceive
on the part of certain persons a too precipitate disposition to
distort the true meaning of this insurrection, to represent
it in a false light, as if to damp the interest which it might
inspire, and to discourage us of every illusion. These
efforts are useless. Our illusions are as modest as our fates ;
and although the national instinct of our people does not
deceive itself, and knows well where always to
seek true friends, although we cannot forget that
our misfortunes were contemporaneous with those
of France, although only lately we have been called
in the Berlin Chambers " some of the vanquished of
Leipzig," still we do not pretend that the misfortunes of
our nation should in any way regulate the policy of other
countries. I wish a quiet conscience to those who think
themselves bound to pity us in order that they may feel
themselves more free to deprive us of all hope. We neither
ask to be pitied thus, nor to be aided by the natives of
Europe otherwise than it is the power and the duty of great
Powers to do—namely, to act under the inspiration of their
highest interests, when the proper hour and day shall have
come; and that it will come I am confident.
"So far we ask for nothing ; one thing alone we ask for,
sir, and we have the right to ask for it—that is, that the
dignity and reserve of our misfortune may be respected—
that the parts may not be so reversed that those who are
struck, those who die, may be termed criminals and dis-
turbers of the peace, and those who strike, generous and
magnanimous—that we may not be constantly referred to
the magnanimity of and liberalism of Russia. This gene-
rosity and magnanimity of Russia has been known to us
for the last thirty years; we have experienced it; we have
just received fresh testimony of it in this conscription,
stripped of every guarantee of equity—transformed into a
discretionary operation of the police—into a law against
the suspected, and applied by night to an entire nation.
To offer to us, as our only guarantee, the equity of a force
intoxicated with its own greatness—not respecting any-
thing, even its own laws—would be too bitter an irony,
which would not be worthy of such a cause. What is
called the work of insurrectional passions is, on our part
a vindication which must be always legitimate, of what is
dearest and moat sacred to man. That cannot be a ques-
tion of right—it will be, at most, ever a question of oppor-
tunity. Still, even to be able to give an opinion on the de-
gree of opportunity, we must ask ourselves whether
despair has limits—whether it would be just, above all, to
remind those of tho rights of a nation who brutally injure
it and provoke these disasters ?

Notwithstanding the reiterated assertions of the
Russian organs, the state of affairs in Poland is
evidently serious. It has been justly observed that
the intelligence which reaches the rest of Europe is
mostly gathered from the frontiers, and we know
scarcely anything of the condition of the interior.
If the facts are as stated, and the defeats of the
insurgents so decisive and continual, it is strange
that the rebellion, instead of being speedily crushed
out, is spreading more and more. It is strange
that Austria and Prussia have taken the alarm—
the former forbidding the export of the materials
of warfare, the latter concentrating troops on the
frontier of Prussian Poland. It is true that it is
rumoured in certain quarters that the caliing
out of the reserves is intended to silence
refractory deputies, rather than to affect the
struggle in the North, an object which
must be highly encouraging to the friends
of Constitutional liberty in Prussia, and which
shows that after all WILLIAM I. puts more faith in
cold steel than in the divine right of kings. It
is evident that this outbreak, which was so
lightly thought of by many at its commencement,
has resulted in an universal expression of that popu-
lar disaffection which is the chronic difficulty of
the Russian Government in Poland. In another
part of our impression will be found a very interest-
ing letter from one of the most eminent of
the Polish exiles, Prince ADAM CZABTORYSKI,
addressed to the editor of the Journal des Debate, on
the subject of the recent speeches on Polish affairs
in the French Chamber of Deputies. After cour-
teously expressing his thanks for these evidences
' of French sympathy with the sorrows of his coun-
try, the venerable patriot preceeds to " vindicate in
all its integrity the dignity of Polish: sufferings
and the completeness of Polish rights." He only
expresses the honest opinion of Europe, when he
declares the present outbreak to be " the inevitable
consequence of a series of excesses of power of
which the arbitrary conscription was the climax,"
and asserts that the rigours of the Russian law
make of their lives a legitimate and permanent
insurrection. In truth, it is universally felt that
to ask Poland to submit passively to Russian
tyranny is to expect her to renounce her nationality,
to forfeit the patriotism of her children, and to
abandon at once her history and her hopes.

"We haya long been, sir, the living, unfortunate, and
perhaps embarrassing representatives of those rights. It
is not our fault if we are an embarrassment—but we can-
not dry up the blood in our veins and the love of country
in our souls. Our country may yet have to pass through
many trials. We will await with an unalterable hopeful-
nsas and an inextinguishable firmness of devotion. We
will wait until the feeling of right shall have regained
sufficient strength to regulate the relations between peoples,
until the measure of our misfortunes shall, if necessary,
have been filled, and until it shall at length be perceived,
by the number of victims, that we have purchased a tardy
justice at a sufficiently high price.—Accept, &c.,

" CZARTORYSKI."

SIR W. ARMSTRONG.

Well may Prince CZARTORYSKI ask, with a
bitter irony, that they may no longer be referred
to the greatness of soul and magnanimity of Rus-
sia, for they have experienced it too often. In the
confiscation of every national right—in the forcible
suppression of free thought, free speech, free action
in the imprisonment and exile of her best and
bravest—in the midnight conscription that cun-
ningly drafted out those eminent for genius,
courage, or love of country—Poland has learned
too well to appreciate that magnanimity. It
is not surprising that her people fly to their arms,
rather than trust it once again ; that they
maintain their nobl9 but desperate cause in the
lofty but resigned spirit so touchingly expressed
by Prince CZARTORYSKI. "We shall wait," he
says, " with unutterable patience and inexhaustible
firmness of devotion. We shall wait until the feel-
ing of right shall have become sufficiently strong
to regulate the relations between peoples—that the
measure of our misfortunes may be filled if it should
be necessary, and that it may at length be per-
ceived, by the number of the victims, that we have
purchased a tardy justice at a sufficient high price."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In announcing my resignation in The Sun
of yesterday you have fallen into some errors which
you must permit me to correct. I haVe never yet
held any interest in the Elswick Ordnance Works,
as you suppose, although by my agreement with
the Government I reserved the right of joining the
company whenever I pleased. The contract for the
manufacture of ordnance between the Government
and the Elswick Ordnance Company is now to be
terminated, and I am induced to join the friends
composing that company in the hope of rendering aid
towards making their important establishment pro-
ductive under its altered circumstances. I have
felt, however, that I could not join the company in
a sap :city to be useful without causing undue in-
terference with my official duties, and I have there-
fore decided on resigning my post, although I still
desire to render the Government gratuitously any
further assistance they may require.—l am, Sir,
your obedient servant,
W. G. ARMSTRONG.
London, Feb. 13.

VALENTINE'S DAL—We have ju.t seen three
charming valentines from the repertoire of M. Rimmel, of
the Strand, combining the attractions of his delightful
scents, with the favourite floral emblems of the seasen.

The Duke of Coburg was greeted as he entered
his box at the theatre of Gotha on the evening of the 6th
with thundering applause by the public, who rose to their
feet and kept up a fire of " Hochs" for several minutes.
The cause of this display of enthusiasm was the announce-
ment that the duke had determined not to accept the Greek
Crown. _ _ _ _

The devotion which animates the ranks of the
insurgents is shown by the exploit of the 200
volunteers who, in order to cover the retreat of the
great body frum Wengrow, offered to rush against
the enemy and throw themselves on the guns. This
heroic sacrifica secured the safety of the main body
of their comrades, and their deaths figure promi- I
nently in the Russian account of the struggle, with-
out the explanatory fact which converts a tragedy
into a triu mph. The discrepancies between the official
reports and the occasional narratives which creep
into Germany from other sources are very striking,
and encourage the wellwishers of Poland to hope
that the present struggle may nut terminate with-
out winning some advantages for this long perse-
cuted people. The insurgents have at last gained
a decisive point, in answer to the self-gratulaticns
of their antagonists. Wonchozk is again
in their lands—a proof that the insurrectionists
are not always put to easy flight. Another evi-
dence to the same effect is found in the declara-
tion of the Poles, that unless their prisoners are
treated with due regard, they will retaliate upon
the Russians left in their hands. How does this
coincide with the statements of one Russian killed
and one wounded at Wonchozk against 60 rebels
dead and 50 captive ? The other instances, where
it is gravely asserted that 12S rebels were killed to
six of the Russians wounded ; or the Austrian
organ, which gravely tells us that one thousand
five hundred mcn surrendered to the Russians at the
command of one of their leaders. It is reported
from less interested sources of information, that the
losses of the Russians have been very heavy, and the
agitation felt in Prussia does not foretell a speedy
settlement of the difficulty. The savage spirit of
the invaders is shown by their ruthless devasta-
tion. In the neigl,boarliood of Wengrow we learn

THE REPRESENTATION OF DUBLIN.—Mr. Benja-
min Lee Guinness has, in reply to a deputation, consented
to stand for the representation of Dublin in the room of Sir
Edward Grogan.

REPRESENTATION OF LlSBURN.—According to
latest reports, which came down to 9 p.m. on Thurs-
day, there has not been any renewal of the disturbances in
Lisburn, the early closing of the publichouses having had a
good effect. The force of constabulary in Lisburn is now
very large, having been swelled by new detachments, and it
is hoped that it is sufficient to prevent any renewal of the
riots.

ACCIDENT TO MR.BAss, M.P., AND HIS SON.—We
are sorry to hear that accidents have occurred to Mr.
M. T. Bass, M.P., and Mr. Arthur Bass, his son. A few
days ago Mr. Arthur Bass was following the hounds, and in
jumping the fence near Foremark, his horse tell, and threw
him on his shoulder, dislocating the shoulder bone and tear.
ing the ligaments. It will probaby bo some months before
he can use his arm with freedom. Mr. Michael Thomas
Bass fell on Monday, in the hunting field, and was injured
rather severely on the hip. One of his ribs was also much
hurt. The latest report represents him as slightly better.
—Nottingham Daily Guardian.
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they set seven villages in flaws. It is time for this LATEST INTELLIGENCE
barbarous system to be abandoned, if the Russians '
ever hope to regain their E.scendency. If it is
annihilation that is their coject, the sword, the
faggot, and the conscription nay do their work, but
they will not aid in governing a noble and high-
spirited people, or in securing the countenance or
approval of the more enlightfned European powers.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]
THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND.
STETTIN, FEB. 14.
The Oeste Zeitung of today has the following
news respecting the Polish insurrection :
" The insurgents have captured a courier bearing
despatches from M. de Tengoborski to Baron Bud-
berg, Russian Ambassador at Paris, and M. P.
d'Oabril, Russian Ambassador at Berlin, relative to
the attitude of Prussia and Austria in reference to
the insurrection, and accusing the latter power of

encouraging the movement.
"The insurgents also captnreil. letters addressed
by the Grand Duke Constantine to a foreign Prin-
cess and the Count d'Aquila, expressing his sur-
prise at the outbreak of the insurrection, but at the
same time stating his resolution not to abandon the
course he has hitherto followed."

BERLIN, FEB. 14.

The Convention between Prussia and Russia in
reference to the Polish insurrection was signed on
the Bth inst.