The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-13 00:00:00

NEW WRIT.

Upon the motion of Sir S. NORTHCOTE, a new writ
was ordered for flevizes, to elect a member in the room of
the late Captain Gladstone.
The honee adjourned at a quarter before eight.

Address of Victor Hugo to the Russian
Army.

The following spirit-stirring address to the
Russian Army from Victor Hugo has just ap-
peared :-
4, Soldiers of Russia, become men again.
That glory is now offered you; seize it.
Whilst it is still time, listen.

" If you continue this savage war ; if you, officers, who
are noble-hearted men, but whom a whim can degrade and
cast into Siberia ; if you, soldiers, serfs yesterday, slaves
to-day, violently tom away from your mothers, your be-
trothed, your families, subjects of the knout, ill-treated,
badly fed, condemned for long years and an indefinite term
to military service, more severe in Russia than the hulks in
other countries ; if you, who are victims, take a part against
the victims; if at this holy hour, when venerable Poland
rises, at this supreme hour, when the choice is given you
between Petersburg where the tyrant is and Warsaw where
liberty is ; if, in this decisive conflict, you are unmindful of
your duty, your only duty, fraternity; if you join against
the Poles, with the Czar, their executioner and yours ; if,
being oppressed, you have learned from oppression no other
lesson than that of supporting the oppressor ;
if, from your
own misfortune, you work out your shame;
if you, when
armed with the sword, place your blind and deluded strength
in the service of despotism, an unwieldy and weak monster
that crushes you down, both Russians and Poles ; if, in-
stead of turning round and facing the butcher of nations,
yot cowardly overwhelm by the superiority of your arms
and your numbers those heroic and despairing populations,
claiming the first of all rights, the right to their country;
if, in this 19th century, you consummate the ssassination
of Poland ; if you do those things, know ye,a men of the
Russian army, that you will fall, which appear impossible,
even lower than the
gangs of the Southern States of Ame-
rica, and raise against you the execration of the whole civi-
lised world I Crimesa committed by might remain crimes ;
public horror is a plty.
" Russian soldiers, let the Poles inspire you ; fight not
against them. What 3ou have before you in Poland is not
the enemy; it is example. " VICTOR HUGO.
Hauteville House, February, 1863,"

FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. —By a return yester-
day issued it appears that 168 persons were flogged in the
army in 1861, and none in the militia. Of 8,325 lashes
ordered, 8,204 were actually inflicted.
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