The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-16 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur embarked on
board the paddlewheel steamer Vivid, tender to the
Fisgard, H. W. Allen, master, at Woolwich, on
Friday morning at 8, and proceeded to Shoebury-
ness to witness the gunnery experiments. The
Prince was accompanied from Greenwich by Major
Elphinstone.
A large number of non-commissioned officers and
privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Marine
Light Infantry were on Friday awarded badges for
good shooting during the past year. The badges
were of three kinds, and are to be worn by the re-
cipients during the present year, when others of a
similar nature will be competed for. The name of
the best shot is private Tomkins, of the 24th com-
pany, whose badge is a couple of crossed muskets in
gold wire, surmounted by a crown, and carries with
it a gratuity of 3d. pee day during the 12 months
for which he is entitled to wear it. The other first
class badges, 10 in number, are similar to the
above, with the exception of the crown, and entitle
the bearer to the gratuity of 2A. per day for 12
months. The second class badges distributed were
78, of a similar design, with id. per day gratuity.
The 96th Regiment, under the command of Lieut.-
Col. the Hon. A. M. Cathcart, arrived at Portsmouth
en Saturday, from Shorncllffe, by the South East-
ern ails,. South Coast Railways. On arriving at the
Laridport terminus the train continued its course
I into the dockyard by the Government line of rail
portion connecting the South Western and Southoast
s lastued o f marching
of Companies' station at Landport with ihe dock-
yard, a great improvement upon the system hitherto
the troops,
a train
of on arrivalcarriages
theconvey ter-
minus, through town o
the f Portsea to the dock-
n
yard. In less thanPthure hour from the arrival of
ing the regiment in
the
men, women, dockyard, all the officers,
and children were on board the
Himalaya and placed in their berths, under the
energetic supervision and arrangements of Town-
Major Breton, Acting
General. The following is theadnt detailed strength of
the regiment embarked :—Lieut.-Col. the Hon. A.
M. Cathcart, in command ; Major G. P. C Bray,
Capts. James Briggs, E. J. Scovell, co.. "
Bar-
nard, J. M. Kirkwood, C. E. Wright, M. Ay toun,
and J. Toke; Lieuts. J. Whitley, H. Houghton, P.
L. G. Gray, Hon. A..F. A. Sandys, A. H. Morse,
W. G, Mackie, T. 11..kiug, A. G. H. Church, and

The following27th of
onthe
January, 1863, by the Secretary of
State to Judges, Recorders, and Chairmen of Quar-
ter Sessions, with respect to the remission of sen-
tences of penal servitude in the case of convicts
under a second or subsequent sentence of pena
servitude :

gi Whitehall, Jan. 27, 1863.

" Sir,—With reference to a circular letter ad-
dressed to the Judges, Recorders, and Chairmen of
Quarter Sessions by Secretary Sir George Grey, on
the 27th of June, 1857, a copy of which is enclosed,
I am now directed to acquaint you that instructions
have been given that the regulations therein set
forth as to a remission of a portion of the sentences
of penal servitude to be passed under the statutethe
20th and 21st Victoria c. 3, shall not apply to per-
sons sentenced for a second or any subsequent time
to that punishment.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" H. WADDINGTON."

" ' (Circular) "Whitehall, June 27, 1857.
" Sir,—l have the honour to transmit to you the
copy of an Aet which received the Royal assent on
26th inst., and which will come into operation on
the Ist day of July, entitled " An Act to amend the
Act of the 16th and 17th years of her Majesty, to
substitute, in certain cases, other punishment in lieu
of transportation."
" The following are the principal alterations in
the law made by this Act :
" ' 1. It extends the provisions of the Act above

jests, by substituting in all cases the sentence of
penal servitude for the sentence of transportation;

"' It extends the terms of penal servitude so as
o make them correspond in duration with the
;erms of transportation to which convicts might
formerly have been sentenced ;

" '3. It gives a power to pass sentences of penal
servitude of a shorter duration than the former
minimum term of transportion, but of not less than

three years ;
" '4. It attaches to the sentence of penal servi-
tude the liability of the convict to be removed
while under sentence from this country to a colony,
there to be dealt with in all respects as if he had
been sentenced to transportation.
" ' The second and third of these alterations have
been made in accordance with the recommendation
of a Committee of the House of Commons appointed
in 1856 to inquire into the provisions and operation
of the Act 16th and 17th of Victoria, c. 99.
" The last and most important of them will
enable the Government to avail itself to the fullest
extent, of facilities which may from time to time
exist for removing to a penal settlement abroad
convicts sentenced to penal servitude. But
although the sentence of penal servitude will here-
after subject the convict to the liability to removal
under such sentence to a penal colony, the number
of convicts who can be thus dealt with must
depend on the facilities existing at any given period
for their employment and absorption in a colony and
on the willingness of the colonists to receive them.
For this reason, and for the additional reason that
those only can be sent to a colony who from age,
physical strength,
and other circumstances, are fitted
for the employment which can be there found for
them, it is impossible to determine at the time when
the sentence is passed whether a prisoner sentenced
to penal servitude can be removed by virtue of such
sentence to a colony.

" ' As a considerable discretion has therefore been
left in the hands of the Executive Government as to
the manner in which such sentences are to be car-
ried into effect, I feel it right to inform you of the
general rules which it is proposed to adopt with
regard to prisoners on whom the sentence of penal
servitude will hereafter be pissed.
" In the earlier stages of their sentence all con-

victs under sentence of penal servitude will, as a
general rule, be dealt with alike. They will be sub-
jected to separate imprisonment for a period of eight
or nine months, after which they will be removed to
one of the penal establishments created under the
sth of George IV., C. 84, there to be employed in
hard labour upno public works. From among the
prisoners so employed a certain number will be se-
lected from time to time for removal to a penal
colony, such selections being made, as far as pea-
from among these whose sentences are for
terms of not less than seven years.
" The Committee of the House of Commons, in
recommending the extensions of terms of penal ser-
vitude to a duration corresponding with former sen-
tences of transportation, expressed an opinion that
euery punishment by penal servitude should, besides
a fixe..-Ct period of imprisonment, or hard labour on
public works, include a further period, capable of
being abridged by the good conduct of the convict
himself. In accordance with this recommendation,
which appeared to meet with the approval of Par-
liament, it is proposed that, while a certain fixed
term of the sentence shall in all cases be inflicted, a
remission of the remaining portion of it shall be
granted to those convicts whose conduct in prison
is such as not to deprive them of this in-
dulgence. In carrying. this into effect it will be
necessary to make a distinction between those who
are removed to a penal colony and those who are
retained in this country. In the case of the former
it is proposed that the period of imprisonment and
hard labour upon public works here shall he con-
siderably shorter than in the case of the latter. Tney
will be removed to a colony after having undergone
about one-half of their original sentence, and they
will become eligible by good conduct, shortly after
their arrival, to a ticket of leave, followed, after a
certain interval if their conduct continues to be gooa)

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THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND.

A letter from Posen of the 11th inst., contains
the details of a sanguinary action which took place
between the Russian troops and the Polish insur-
gents under the command of Langiewitch. Two
very numerous Russian corps set out from Kielce
and Radom to attack the insurgents posted at
Wouschock. One of these corps met about 60 in-
surgents in the village of Sch'edniow, where there
are extensive ironworks. After a slight skirmish
the Russians occupied the village, where they are
accused of having massacred the unarmed inhabi-
tants without distinction of old men, women, or
children. Their first victim was the landlord of the
inn where the insurgents had lodged. The house
itself was burnt, and with it a part of the village.
This event took place on the 3d inst. The follow-
ing day the columns sent from Radom and Kielce
formed a junction in front of Ilrouschock, which
they attacked on two sides. A detachment of in-
surgents deployed as light infantry from the village
of Mielitzs, and held their ground courageously for
three hours against repeated charges of the Rus-
sian dragoons, who lost many men. The insur-
gents, encouraged by their success, abandoned their
position in the wood, and scattered themselves over
the open plain, where the Russians covered them
with a murderous fire of grape shot. After an
heroic effort to capture the cannon, the insurgents,
armed only with scythes, were forced to retreat in
the direction of the town of Opatow. The Russians
lost more than 200 men in killed and wounded—the

insurgents likewise suffered severely. MM. Pren-
dewski and Koziechi, two of their chiefs, were killed
in this affair. The Russians, masters of Wouschock,
committed a frightful butchery, massacring with-
out distinction the unarmed inhabitants and the
wounded insurgents ; they then pillaged the houses
and sets them on firo. Wouschock is at present a
heap of ruins. A church and a dispensary are the
only buildings standing. The Russians likewise
burnt five villages in the neighbourhood, to avenge
themselves on the peasants who had not informed
them of the ambuscade laid for them at Alielitza.
Having thus gratified their revenge, the Russian
troops returned to their quarters at Kielce and
Radom. The writer adds that since this affa;r
nothing is known of the movements of Langiewitch
and his companions.
A letter from Cracow of the 10th inst. states that
on the sth a corps of 1,000 Russians attacked the
Polish insurgents in the town of Tomaszow, in the
government of Lublin. The latter did not number
more than 100 men, and the town was consequently
taken and burnt, after having been given up to
pillage. The insurgents lost five men killed and two
prisoners. The following are the names of some of
the inhabitants massacred by the Russian soldiers
—l. Chinierlewaki, cut down at the door of his
house; 2. Zarchoki, an old blind man, formerly a
schoolmaster; 3. Brzeski, an officer of the Russian
army on half pay, murdered in his bed ; 5. Mechren,
an officer of the Russian army on active service on
the staff of the Inspector-General of the Engineer
department at St. Petersburg, on a visit with his
sister, murdered in his bed ; 6. Dabrowski, an
army surgeon, dragged out of his house into the
street and murdered ; 7. Leukowitch, a custom-
house officer, married, and the father of a family ;
8. Czartompki, a custom-house officer; 9. Borow-
ski, a public functionary, murdered in hischohuhseie;
10. Zelkowski, a physician, burnt
alive
eusle it.
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servant on a heap of straw ins
ral other atrocities arc mentiohnern
two companies of
corps, which was composed The Russian
b a colon
infantry, two sotnias of Cossa:f o, aellidtfieleunrrpeiteuerenseodf
cannon, and commanded y
Zamoso. Notwithstanding
to their quarters at
this severity eissitsiepnre,
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form hi
ne
nrgen ettsi, the insurrection
driven from one
p insurgents,
other. In the affair of
engrow the insurgents,
armeda only with sticks, charged the artillerymen at
their guns, and notwithstanding the grape shot and
the fire of musketry, they passed right through the
Russian ranks. This struggle lasted four hours.

The Russian officers, forced to defend themselves
with their revolvers, could not but admire the
courage of their adversaries. Tf these men were

Prince Alfred
Prince Leuchtenberg 2,400
An Orthodox King ... . 1,917
Emperor of Russia 1,841
Grand Duke Nicholas
A King 1,763
Prince Nicholas of Russia .. 1,741
Zeto the Three Powers .... 482
Grand Duke Constantine . . .. 478
Prince Napoleon 345
An Imperial Prince of France.. 246
A Russian Prince l4
A Republic 93
An Imperial Prince of Russia 9
Romanoff 8
Comte de Flandre
Prince William of Denmark
Prince Ypsilanti 6
General Garibaldi 3
The Duke of Aumale
The Emperor Napoleon
Prince of Sweden
Prince Joinville 1
General M'Mahon 1
Eynard the Philhellene
Otho I 1

The votes had been counted up before, and had I
only to be verified—a work which the Commission ,
accomplished in three days.
In consequence of the result of the vote, the fol-
lowing decree was proposed by the Commission :
, Considering the result of the counting up by the
Commission named ad hoc of the votes given by
the Greek people in ten departments of the king-
dom, and in the different consular circumscriptions,
for the choice of a Constitutional King ; consider-
ing that theßoyal Prince of England, second son of
the Queen of England andireland, has been elected
by 230.016 votes out of 241,202, as Constitutional
King, by the Greek people ;
" Decrees as follows :
" His Royal Highness Prince Alfred has been
elected Constitutional Sovereign of Greece by the
sovereign will of the nation.
" This decision of the Greek people will be noti-
fied by the President to the Provisional Govern-
ment, which will invite, according to the necessary
formalities, and without delay, his Royal Highness
Prince Alfred, so much desired by the people, to
take possession of the Throne of Greece.
"Athens, Jan. 3, 1863."
The decree was voted by acclamation amid the
cheers of the Assembly and audience. Only four or
five members remained seated, and taking no part
in the proceedings.
In consequence of the solemnity of the occasion
the President raised the sitting at the early hour
of four.

At sunset a salute of 101 guns was fired at Athens,
the military bands marched through the town at the
time of the "retreat," and the President of the As-
sembly, as well as the Provisional Government,
decided to have a 2e Deum next day, at which the
National Guard, as well as the garrison, were to be
present. All the native shops were closed, and the
population readily joined in the festival.
A salute of 101 guns at the Piraeus and the pas-
sage of military bands through the town had an-
nounced the dawn of the festive day, another salute
of 101 guns announced the first prayer for King
Alfred. At the end of it the Provisional Govern-
ment
i
returned from the service, as it had gone, n
a body, and went to the steps of the Palace, where
a large crowd had collected, listening to different
speakers.
The prominent feature of the festival was, without
a question, the National Guard of Athens and of
the Piraeus, which appeared for the first time in a
body. 4,500 stand of arms had been distributed
among them by the War Department, and there were
quite 4,000 armed Nationals, by voluntary inscrip-
tion, present. The battalion or " phalanx" of the
University led the way, as the best drilled, most com-
plete its uniform, and as having been the first in
the field after the 22d of October. The other five
battalions followed, few of them in their uniform,
and only cognizant as yet of the first elements of
drill ; yet the short time they had handled the
musket had already made a vast difference in the
lounging, rather slovenly gait of the lower classes.
You could see that this short time had been suffi-
cient to give them a self-reliance such as they never
dreamt of before, and the strong muster they made
seemed to have impressed them with a conscious-
ness
of their own strength ; so they cheeredlust
when they marched past before the
Provisional
Government and the President of th.e
tallerAssemb
ly,
and every one went home at least six inches
than he had come.

Tu oDDisT REASON !—England never has had
an octogenarian leader of the House of Commons.
be quite an event in our history if Lord Pal-
It will
nierston (now seventy-six) could contrive to hold on till
then [i.e., for four years longer I]. It is worth while keep-
tog him in ,/ice just for the curiosity of the thing ! There
are many people who would not mind acquiescing in a few
eccentrisities of policy as the cost of securing so remarkable
an historical phenomenon. It attracts more than the mere
politicians. It excites the enthusiasm of those worship-
pers of the body who pass by the name of Muscular Chris-
tians, and secures even the notice of students of natural
science. The Premier's efforts to live in harness up to
eighty are looked upon by one set of observers as a marvel-
lous display of pluck, by another as a great scientific expe-
riment illustrative of the longevity of man. As we near the
critical age, the excitement becomes tremendous. (And so
on—and so on.)—Saturday Review.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE ELECTION,—CAMBRIDGE, Ss-
turday.—Lord G. J. Manners wns this morning elected
without opposition, on the nomination of Major Pember-
ton, seconded by Major Tryer.
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ler, seeing the pitiable state of the poor creatures,
nearly naked, and exposed to the water flowing
down the street and the cold, gave orders that they
should be removed to his premises, and he not only
kindly sheltered them, but provided a breakfast
for them. Fortunately the mains of the Lambeth
Company yielded a bountiful supply of water, from
which the engineers of the private engines, under
the direction of Mr. Pratt, Lieut. Beckerson, and
other officials, went to work in an admirable man-
ner, but the flames could not be conquered until the
premises in which they were began were all but
destroyed, and the houses numbered respectively 5
and 6, also let out to poor families, severely dam-
' aged by fire and water, and the furniture broken
by hasty removal. Mr. Superintendent Webb, of
the L division, with a powerful body of police,
rendered essential aid by keeping a great crowd out

of the way of the firemen. As soon as the fire was
got under a search was made for the unfortunate
female missing, and it is to be regretted that she
was found by the firemen in one of the upper rooms
burned in a shocking manner, and quite dead. At
present no clue can be obtained as to the cause of
the catastrophe. The buildings were insured in the
Royal Fire Office, but none of the inmates were,in-
sured.