The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON TH Uli SDAY E V ENING MAY 28, 1863

tions had already been secured. The directors had conti •
dente in the success of the undertaking, and no efforts on
their Dart would be spared to secure it.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
said works had been commenced, and in four or five weeks
he hoped men would be engaged on the whole length of the
line.

The report was adopted, and Mr. Cliffe and Mr. Wynn
the retiring directors, were re-elected.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the proceed.

Government to abstain from doing so. Aceor dingly
the taxes are not collected. It is impossible
to proceed to execution, for the process-servers
and others would not be safe unless accompanied
by troops, and the troops have work of their own
to In case of
property being really seized and
confizcated there are no bidders for it when it is put
up for sale, and there are many villages near which
insurgents are hovering about, where it would take
at least 500 men to carry off a pig or a cow.
Only the other day three Jews entered into a
contract for the purchase of some property which
had fallen into the hands of the Russians. They
were warned on the part of the Polish National
Government not to buy it, and abandoned their
bargain, although they had already paid up a por-
tion of the purchase-money. One only of the three
was ingenious enough to get back his deposit, which
he Lad left in the form of bills of exchange.
Last week the National Government of Poland
negatived the appointment of M. Laski to the direc-
torship of the Bank, and we shall now see how
far its veto will prevail against the direct nomi-
nation of the Government of Russia. The Polish
Government recommends M. Laski not to venture
into public life at all, and in the meanwhile declares
him quite unfitted, from want of intelligence and
want of patriotism, for the post of director of the
Bank, and orders him not to accept it. Among
other offences it appears that M. Laski executed
contracts for the Russian Government during the
Crimean war.

The National Government is also dissatisfied with
a contract entered into about a month ago between
the Government of Russia and some well-known
English contractors for the execution of certain pub-
lic works in the City of Warsaw, and declares it
null and void in a decree of which the following is
a translation :

" Warsaw, May 1

" Art. 1. The contract relating to waterworks
for the city of Warsaw, concluded on the 20th of
April of the present year between the President of
the city of Warsaw and the foreign contractors, Sir
Samuel Morton Peto, member of Parliament, Ed-
ward Ladd Betts, and the house of John Aird and
Co., is hereby broken, and must be regarded as null
and void.

" Art. 2. We entrust the carrying out of this de-
cree to the civil and military authorites."

I do not suppose it is from any contempt of water
(of which a regular supply is much needed in many
of the houses of Warsaw), that the above edict is
issued. Nevertheless, the moderate tax at present
levied by way of water rate is generally looked upon
as a very tyrannical impost, probably for no other
reason than because it goes towards the maintenance
of public works established by the Russians. The
contract entered into between Sir Samuel Morton
Peto and the President of the city of Warsaw may
be objected to, however, first on legal grounds,
because it has not received the sanction of the
Municipal Council; and secondly, on personal
grounds, because the President of the city is Count
Sigismund Wielopolski. In any case the contrac-
tors may rest satisfied that they will not be able to
execute the works. _ _

MAY 22.
The dead are coming to life again. Frankowski,
entombed long ago by the daily journals, and en-
graved in the weekly illustrated ones as a murdered
man, walked out of Warsaw citadel the other day
in the disguise of a Russian soldier. As the report
was immediately afterwards spread that Lewan-
dowski, and not Frankowski, had escaped, it is quite
possible that no search may havebeen instituted for
the latter until it was already too late to look for
him. The Krakaner Zeitung declares, now for the
second time, that Cieszkowski, fired upon by the
Russians as he lay wounded in his bed, and pierced
through and through with a dozen balls, is never-
theless alive. Count Zaluski, supposed to have been
mortally wounded near Olausz, is not only alive,
but is recovering. The request of his sister, the
Countess Zelinska, that he might be delivered up
to his friends was ultimately not disregarded, for he
is at this moment in Count Potocki's hospital at
Krzeszowice. In reply to the statement that when
Prince Schachowsky telegraphed to Warsaw for
permission to surrender the wounded man the an-
swer came back in these words,—" Zaluski's body
not to be given up,"—the Russo-German papers
now observe that in the first place he was given up;
and, in the second, that the Countess Zelinska asked
for her brother in what appears to them to have
been an unbecoming tone. Thus when she reached
the outposts before the camp at Olkusz, and was
requested to describe the prisoner for whom she was
inquiring, her response is said to have been, " He
has'eight bayonet wounds, two of which are of a
frightful character; and no wonder when he fell into
the hands of such savages as you."
Not only is all attention directed just now
towards Volhynia and Podolia, but all the prin-
cipal bands formed in Galicia and in the south of
the Kingdom are said to be under orders for those
provinces. Contradictory accounts are received from
Brody, the frontier town between Galicia and
Volhynia, and all that can be said for certain about

the insurrection is that it exists, and that the
peasants have not yet risen against the insurgents.
Russian telegrams, while denying that tranquillity
has been in any way distured in Volhynia and Po-
dolia, say, nevertheless that a few malcontented re-
volutionists have been seized by the country people
and delivered over to the authorities. Whether the
peasantry can be employed generally in this manner
against the proprietors remains to be seen. I do not
think the proprietors themselves are by any means
convinced that such an arrangement would be im-
possible, but the attitude of the peasants in Lithu-
ania has been infinitely better than had ever been
anticipated ; and who knows that the same will not
be the case in the Ruthenian country P Still, con-
sidering that the peasants in the kingdom of Poland,
who speak the same language and profess the same
religion as their proprietors, are, on the whole, op-
posed to them, and not above selling them to the
enemy on very moderate terms, it is difficult to be-

lieve that in Volhynia, Podolia, and the Ukraine,
where the peasants belong to a religion which the
proprietors hate and despise, and speak a language
which, however much it may resemble Polish, is not
Polish nevertheless, it is difficult to believe that in
these provinces the peasant, influenced by priests who
call themselves " orthodox," but whom the insur-
gents term "schismatic," and under the guidance of
Russian functionaries, will not show himself some-
thing more than indifferent to the Polish movement.
Nevertheless, there is just a chance that the peasant
may remain neutral. He may consider that his
interests are not at stake one way or the other;
but he will certainly not fight for the Poles, and it
is to be feared that he may be induced to attack
them, if not with any political motive, at least for
the sake of plunder. The land which these Ruthe-
nian peasants cultivated as serfs until the edict of
emancipation came into force has now been given to
them in freehold by the national Government; but
it may be doubted whether this present, made
inn
the very day of battle, will have much effecttalittle
gaining their support. If we could only get
and the
ge
authentic news from Volhynia, Podolia,
Ukraine these speculations would
that the Ruthe-
become -rain; but,
as it is, it is impossible to
nians openly oppose the Polesforgetit; Galicia, where they
belong nominally to the same Church, and, there-
fore,
difficult to believe that they will unite with
them in the contiguous provinces, where they have
for the most part belonged to a Church which the
Poles detest above all others, ever since the cud of
the last century.
The Czas was seized this morning on account of a
letter from Olmutz, which is said to give a ver
true account of the hard position of the Polish priy-
soners confined in the fortress. The edition had
been partly distributed when the police resolved to
prevent its further circulation. The consequence of
this step will he that ell the newspapers in Europe
will hear of the Czas being seized, and for what

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reason. Otherwise the objectionable letter from
Olmutz might have passed almost without notice.
The latest military movements in the Kingdom
are of no new character, except that the interior is
now their principal scene, the frontier being every-
where so we•il guarded that to cross into the King-
dom either from Posen or from Gglicia would at the
present moment be very hazardous indeed.

Chachowski, in Sindomir, comes down every now
and then from the Mountains of St. Cross, routs a
party of Russians, and goes back again. Other
chiefs are victorious from time to time, but Cha-
chowski is never beaten. He is in a good position,
no doubt, but he seems also to understand the prin-
ciples of partisan warfare better than the great
majority of the Polish leaders, and to be resolved to
keep to these principles under all circumstances.
Chachowski has now for some time past commanded
about 1,500 men, but he has never yet yielded to
the temptation of fighting a great battle. On the
other hard, he harassed the Russians perpetually,
cuts off their supplies, never loses more than a very
few men in any one engagement, and, finally, has
kept his ground without intermission for two
months. Chachowski retired to the mountains of
St. Cross after Langiewicz's last battle (Grochow-
iska), and has been there ever since.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

A correspondent, writing from Valetta, May 22,
says—Vice-Admiral Robert Smart, K.H., has now
assumed the command of the Mediterranean squad-
ron, in place of Vice-Admiral Sir W. F. Martin,
K.C.8.; the latter, with his retinue and family,
embarked on Friday evening last in her Majesty's
paddle frigate Magicienne, 16, Captain W. Army.
tage, and left at 10 o'clock the same night for Mar-
seilles, by way of Sicily and Italy. Major-Gen.
Wood, who has been suffering from ill health, and
Mrs. Wood also took passage by the Magicien nem ith
the intention of returning in her from Marseilles. The
Governor (Sir Gaspard Le Merchant) and all the
principal civil, naval, and military officers, went on
board to take leave of Admiral Martin. On the return
of the Magicienne from Marseilles about the end of
the month, with Rear-Admiral H. R. Yelverton,C.B.,
this officer will transfer his flag from her to the Re-
venge, 73. It is understood that Capt. Fellows, now
commanding the Revenge will then take the com-
mand of the Marlborough, 131 (flagship of the Com-
mander-in-Chief), in the place of Captain W. H.
Stewart, C. 8., who goes home, and that Capt. the Hon.
F. A Foley, lately in command of the Edgar, will re-
turn to the Mediterranean, as flag-capt. to Rear-
Admiral Yelverton, whose flag-lieut., Lieut de Ro-
beck, and retinue, were to leave Southampton by the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer of the
20th inst. On the arrival of Admiral Yelverton, the
Commander-in-Chief will proceed on a cruise, and
probably visit Athens and the lonian Islands. The
Governor paid a visit to the Commander-in-Chief
on board the Marlborough on Saturday last. On
the 20th inst. the Bishop of Malta paid a return visit
to the admiral on board his flagship. There has been
no instance of a visit afloat from the local head of
the Roman Catholic Church since 1830. The hon-
ours paid to him cannot but prove satisfactory to
the native population. Soon after the arrival of her
Majesty's gunboat Alacrity,4, Commander J. K. E.
Baird, from Beyrout, a court of inquiry was held to
investigate the circumstances of her getting ashore
on Ras-Ibnhani, near Latakia, on the night of 11th
Feb. last. On the report of this investigation being
submitted to the then commander-in-Chief, Vice-
Admiral Sir W. F. Martin, K.C.8., he passed cen-
sure on Commander Baird. Not satisfied with the
justness of this censure, Com. Baird requested that
he might be tried by court-martial. Accordingly,
on the 18th inst., a court assembled on board the
receiving ship Hibernia (bearing the flag of Rear-
Admiral H. T. Austin, C. 8.), Commander R. B.
Harvey, in Malta harbour. The court was composed
of Capt. the Hon. T. Baillie, commanding H.M.S.
Trafalgar, president ; Capt. W. H. Stewart, C. 8.,
Marlborough; Capt. G. Wodehouse, Meeanee ; and
Capt. C. Fellowes, Revenge ; Mr. H. Jones, secre-
tary to Vice-Admiral R. Smart, K.H., Commander-
in-Chief, officiating judge-advocate. The court found
that Commander Baird and Acting-Master Cava-
naugh were much to blame for having placed too
much reliance on the dead reckoning, and for not
having given closer personal supervision while pass-
ing the dangerous point of Ras-Ibnhani. Lieut.
Lloyd was found greatly to blame for having ne-
glected to call the commander when a light and land
were reported; for having removed the leadsmen from
the chains when close to land ; and for having twice
left the deck during his watch. The commander
and acting-master were sentenced to be severely
reprimanded, and Lieut. Lloyd to be severely repri
mended and dismissed his ship. Her Majesty's pad

dlewheel despatch vessel Caradoc, 2, Lieut.-Com. E.
Wilkinson, returned yesterday afternoon form
Corfu, whither she had proceeded from Malta, to
take the Lord High Commissioner, Sir H. Storks,
on his usual visit to the Southern Islands. The
Caradoc left her Majesty's screw frigate Liffey, 39,
Capt. G. Parker, at Corfu, on the 19th inst. The
Surprise, screw gunboat, 4, Commander W. H.
Whyte, was at Patras on the 14th. Her Majesty's
ships at the Pincus on the 16th were the Queen,
76, Capt. C_ F. Hillyar; Pelican, 17, Commander
P. Brock; and the Foxhound, 4, Commander W.

H. Anderson. Acts of brigandage continue to
occur in different parts of Greece. One took place
lately near Pentelicus, where two English officers,
on leave from Corfu, were attacked by the brigands,
who contemplated taking them to the mountains
and demanding a ransom for them, but, finding that
they were English officers, they contented them-
selves with robbing them of their money, watches,
&c., and letting them go. Her Majesty's screw
sloop Icarus, 11, Commander N. Salmon, V.C., now
in Malta harbour, is under orders to leave to-mor-
row for the Pirmus, to relieve the Pelican, which
will then return to this island. Her Majesty's screw

corvette Malacca, 17, Capt. G. J. Napier, left Bey.

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arrived at Alexandria. The injury suffered does not
appear to be of much practical importance at the
present moment, as messages continue to be sent and
received with that precision and regularity which
have generally marked the working of the line from
the period of its first immersion. Mr. Scamp, Ad-
miralty engineer, who has been at Malta, forming
estimates for the new naval dock which is to be con-
structed in this island, left on Sunday last, on return
to England, via Italy. The following officers of the
garrison and fleet have left this island during the
week on different terms of leave of absence :—Lieut.
Col. Yates, R.A., and family ; Capt. Orde, 15th
Regiment, and family ; Lieut. Colquhoun, 15th Re-
giment; Lieut. K. H. Savage, 15th Regiment ;
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Lieut. IL C. Willis: 23d Regiment; Mr. Brady,

R.N., and wife; Mr. Ramsey, R.N. ; Mr. Clever-
ton, R.N.; Mr. Warren, R.N. ; Mr. Hill, R.N.
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THE ARMY.

The 2d battalion 60th Rifles, under the command
of Col. Palmer, C. 8., loft Portsmouth garrison yes-
by special train to Farnborough,
terday morning,
en route to Aldershot.
The military invalids, who arrived at Spithead in
the Agamemnon sailing transport on Tuesday, as
noticed in The Sun of yesterday, were disembarked
in the steam-tug Lucifer and conveyed to the
Military Hospital at Netley.
The works in connexion with the erection of the
batteries and forts near Garrison-point at the en-
trance to the Medway, for the better protection of
Chatham dockyard and arsenal, will now be carried
on to their completion,
no further delays being per-
mitted in the progress of the work, the Government
being desirous of having the first line, or outer de-
fences, completed before any considerable progress
has been made in the Chatham dockyard extension
works. The foundations of the massive casemated
fort to be placed at the extreme limit of Garrison-
point have been laid upwards of 12 months, since
which operations have been entirely suspended in
order to allow the foundations to solidify and be-
come settled before the battery is erected. The
substructure having had sufficient time to settle,
the first section of the superstructure will be pro-
ceeded with this portion of the fort embracing the
main tier of casemates, which are intended to mount
guns of the very heaviest metal. The form of the
fort is semi-circular, with its front facing the main
channel approach to Chatham harbour. It will
consist of two storeys or tiers, and will be con-
structed of a strength far surpassing any modern
erection of that kind, so as to be able to mount the
heaviest known kind of ordnance. The position of
the first, or outer fort, will effectually cut off any
attempt of a hostile vessel entering the Medway
from the eastward, while that of the guns placed en
barbette will command the entire channel by which
vessels ascend the estuary of the river to Chatham
harbour. In order to allow for the sinking of the
foundations and the settlement of the fort, the
work will be proceeded with under separate con-
tracts, which, although prolonging the time for the
completion of the undertaking, will add materially to
the strength and security of the structure. The
western face of the fort will command a portion of
the channel about 1,000 yards in width, through
which all vessels proceeding np to Chatham have to
pass; the guns from the battery on Garrison-point,
in conjunction with those mounted on the Martello
Tower en the opposite side of the channel, thus cut-
ting off any hostile squadron attempting to enter
the channel from the Nore.

Yesterday a review of the troops comprising the
garrison of Chatham was held on the Lines by
Major-General H. Eyre, commanding the district.
The force on the ground consisted of the mounted
field D battery of the 9th Brigade, Royal Artillery,
with their 12-pounder field Armstrong guns, am-
munition, and ambulance waggons; the corps of
local pensioners of the Chatham district, under the
command of Col. Jenkins; the three battalions of
infantry of the line, including the depot companies
of the Ist and 2d battalions of the 4th King's Own,
the Ist and 2d battalions of the 12th Regiment, the
Ist and 2d battalion of the 19th Regiment, the Ist
and 2d battalions of the 20th Regiment, 31st, 35th,
43d Light Infantry, 51st King's Own Light Infan-
try, 52d Light Infantry, 75th, 77th, 81st, 83d, 91st,
94th, 101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers), and the 102 d
(Royal Madras Fusiliers) Regiment, and the Chat-
ham division of Royal Marines, upwards of 1,100
strong. The troops were formed on the ground
shortly after 10 a.m., in contiguous quarter distance
columns, and on Major-General Eyre arriving on
the ground he was received with a general salute.
After riding along the front and rear of the divi-
sions the general took up his position at the flag-
staff, when the entire force defiled past in open
columns of companies in quick time, led by the
Royal Artillery. This completed, the troops were
put through the usual manoeuvres incidental to a
field day, all of which were executed with steadi-
ness and precision. After this they were dismissed
to their quarters.

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land, on sic certificate : and Commander Brar4;.Nl ki. S
reth, of her Majesty's ship Marlborough, also
leaves to-day for England on promotion. Her Ma-
jei.lty'ti ships in port are:—The Marlborough, 131,
(bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral R. Smart, K.H.);
the Hibernia, receiving ship (bearing the flag of
Rear-Admiral H. T. Austin, C. 8.); the Trafalgar,
70 ; the Revenge, 73; the I`,leeane, 60 ; the Me-
dina, 4 (being broken up) ; the Icarus, 11 ; the
Alacrity, 4 ; the Wanderer, 4 ; the Caradoe, 2; and
the tenders Boxer end Growler.
A court-martial was held on board the flagship
Victory, at Portsmouth, yesterday, for the trial of
James Holmes, gunner, Royal Marine Artillery,
doing duty on board her Mjasty's ship Black
Prince, for disobedience of orders w Coutrmnci..r
Mich, his superior officer. The prisoner pleaded
gnjty, and was sentenced to he reduced to second
elass for conduct, to receive 48 lashes, and to be
imprisoned for three months in Lowes Gaol.
The ships of war on the Australian station at the
• date of the last advices were—The Fawn,l7, Capt.
• Cayter, at Hobart-town ; the Harrier, 17, Capt.
Sullivan, at New Zealand ; the Miranda, 14, Capt.
Jenkins, at Sydney ; the Pioneer, 6, C.lpt, Reilly,
in Port Jackson, the Eclipse, 4, at Sydney.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. E. Mitchell, to
the Esk ; John Molloy, master, to the President;
C. E. Bell, C. E. Wood, G. S. Parker, E. H. Old-
ham, and J. H. T, Citowue, midshipmen, to the
Esk; A. C. B. Bromley, Alex. De C. Crawford, J.
H. Bainbridge, E. B. Boyle, Vasey Knox, and Ber-
nal W. Fielding, to the Cossack; C. E. Grissell,
naval cadet, to the Esk; Theodore G. Fenn, Richard
R. B. Hopley, and E. H. Richards, master's assist-
ants, to the Esk; R. S. Stuart and T. H. James,
master's assistants, to the Cossack ; and W. L. Fen-
cock, assistant clerk, to the-Warrior.