The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-17 00:00:00

April 16, 1863.

GREAT SUCCESS OF BLONDIN IN BARCELONA.
—A correspondent informs us that Blondin com-
menced his Continental tour in the arena at Barcelona, on
April 6th. His reception was most enthusiastic, and a
perfect furore of excitement continued throughout the per-
formance. Subsequent representations have been equally
successful. He is shortly to appear in Madrid.
STRIKE OF THE PARISH LABOURERS AT PRESTON.
—Yesterday, several fresh regulations were issued
regarding the time and place of work of the men em-
ployed by the Guardians of Preston. Hitherto, the
men have worked on alternate days, the average of their
time being about five hours each day. According to the new
regulations, the men have to work every day from 9 to 12
and from 2 to 5, and several who have hitherto worked on
the Moor havebeen sent to the Cattle Market excavations.
The labourers entirely object to these rules : firstly, beelinee
they have to work longer hours without any extrhaanlci
and, secondly, because many of them, through
position of their labour, had to walk several additional
miles from and to their homes. Yesterdayerat
would at once
Moor; but on being told that the.nebow nerdy d rettised to work.
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men assembled as usual at the Cattle Molaers-k and on the
come into operation, the gepe.r.at hi e,or a in g some stand-
gingthin
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work on any other terms than those
that they
were not waling _ .
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heretofore `adopt and
of were determined to stand
about the ground until about half-past 3in the after-
noon, for the old system employment. The men continued
hang about
they formed in processional order to the num-
ber
thaof nearly 2,A00, and walked up Moor-lane and Walker-
street to the workhouse. They w ere then
and told that the
guardians had had a meeting on
had been decided the subject,
to suspend the new regulations for a that it
week. This announcement was cheered, and the men
walked quietly away.
SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN.—DUBLIN, Wednes-
day night.—The Rey. S. H. Mason, a clergyman of
the Established Church, who for many years held a situa-
tion in the office of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, was
returning in the Ulster mail steamer from Holyhead this
morning, when he deliberately threw himself into the sea
and was drowned, notwithstanding the most strenuous
efforts to save him. He wrote a letter to the captain which
leaves no room to doubt that he contemplated self-destruc-

tion.
An old four-horse stage coach will era long be less a
novelty than premature grey hair, which is fast disappearing
under the effects of Herring's magnetic brushes and combs.
which recent improvements have rendered almost infallible
in restoring the colour to grey hair, and also in removing the
agony of tie doloreux and nervous headache. N.B.—Counter-
feits are being made. Moos. 82, Basinghall-otreet, London,

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESP
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manner on Russia, In the hope that by raising a
partial insnrrEetion she would obtain a pretext
for eradicating the disturbing element in the coun-
try, she began tile ermseription ; but the giant of
revolution she thereby evoked not only bAltd her
plays, but now threatens her very existence in
Europe. Fearful of the spread of the insurrection
she imprisoned 51:,0 nobles of that pro-
vince;the effect of this measure was only to
spreadt o Lithuania,
alarmbut
and disgust among the rest of the
inhabitants, and nowhere does the flame of revolu-
tion rage so fiercely as in Lithuania. And now the
appointment of General Berg and the sequestration
of the property of the insurgents has only served to
fan the flame, and by rendering forfeiture and per-
secution the consequences of submission, to leave
no alternative to Poland but continued and despe-
rate resistance.
The fighting of the last week bas been spread
pretty equally over the whole of the Congress King-
dom (which is literally overrun with insurgents) and
in Lithuania, On the 4th 500 Russian infantry and
a sotnia of Cossacks attacked 150 Poles under
Oxinski in the district of Wielun. The battle lasted
four hours, and ended with the retreat of both sides.
The Poles lost ten killed and two prisoners. Among
the killed were several who had been wounded and
taken prisoner by the Russians during the battle,
and who after the battle were tortured to death, the
Cossacks tearing out their bowels with the point of
their lances. A large number of Russians fell be-
fore the accurate and effective fire of the Poles.
On Easter Sunday 230 Polish rifles and 32 uhlana
under Grekowicz, encountered a large body of
Russians at Szklara, near the Galician frontier.
The Poles were on a hill, and the RIIBBiOB occupied
another hill with some cottages at its foot. A
company of rifles, led by a French Zouavet
began the battle by attempting to dislodge the
Russians from these cottages. A storm of bullets
was at once directed upon them by the Russians on
the hill, but nearly all missed ; and the Poles, ad-
vancing under cover of the trees, captured the
cottages with the loss of but one or two men. The
struggle in these cottages was a fierce one, and
many of the Russians were killed. While this was
going on in the valley, the Polish rifles on the hill,
most of whom were excellent shots, directed a mur-
derous fire on the Russians opposite, who at length
wavered and fled. The Poles then took up their
wounded, and sent them across the frontier, where
the Austrians took charge of them. They had
scarcely done this when they were attacked by
another body of Russians, who, however, were also
forced to retire after a determined struggle. They
lost at least 100 men ; the Poles had 9 killed and 20
wounded, an_ong the latter of whom was their
leader. Next day the Russians approached them
in such force that the insurgents thought it advis-
able to disperse. They have, however, since re-
appeared in another part of the country.

CRACOW, April 11.

M. Srzanowski, the editor of the Czas, was ar-
rested this morning. Thirty-one Frenchmen, who
were about to cross the frontier to join the insur-
gents, have also been seized and imprisoned.
M. Bentkowski, who until the breaking out of
the insurrection represented one of the districts of
Posen in the Prussian Chamber, and who acted in
Langiewicz's army as chief of the Staff, is still con-
fined in the castle. Like Langiewicz, he is a Prus-
sian subject, and was for some time an officer in the
Prussian Artillery, which he left in 1848 to join the
Hungarian insurrection.
Most of the arrests which are now made every
day in Cracow are said to be the result of denuncia-
tions from the Russian Ambassador atVienna, based
upon the reports of Russian spies resident here.
Every now and then a Russian spy is caught and
beaten. This was the fate of one the day before
yesterday. Another was chased about the market
place for a little while, but having long legs as well
as long eats he made good running and ultimately
got off. A third, after receiving a few blows, was
discovered not to be a spy at all, but only a person
who, from a natural and ill-regulated thirst for in-
formation, had acquired a habit of going into cafes
and listening to remarks not addressed to him.
it is said now that Langiewicz's camp was much
infested ty spies, and that his halting place for the
night, the direction he took in commencing a march,
&c., were always made known by means of shots
fired off as if by accident. A spy who followed the
army at a distance of some few hundred yards un-
derstood the signals,
One and transmitted the news to
important
the Russian camp. of the numerous stories
current as to Langiewicz's arrest attributes the dis-
covery
ldo ft
hhei sAiudsetnr
Austrian
identity g
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m es agencyw h
what
tf
an
a spy, who
contrived to follow him without being observed,
prisoner they had allowed to escape them while he
was still witnin reach. The Dictator appears him,
self to have suspected that spies might be on his
track.
The greater portion of the troops formerly un-
der Langiewicz are now once more in the field.
The two detachments which left the bulk of the
army before Langiewicz's departure have kept their
ground ever since ; and some half dozen detach-
ments, of from 150 to 200 men each, have once more
crossed the frontier from Galicia to the kingdom
during the last 10 days.