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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1863.

proposal for vote by ballot; and, as I should on any occa-
sion when such a proposal came before the house vote
against it, I can have no hesitation in supporting the amend-
ment of the hon. and learned gentleman opposite to delay
the second reading till this day six months. (Cheers.) Every
argument I have heard adduced in favour of this bill could
be adduced in favour of vote by ballot at Parliamentary
elections; and the objections to such a mode of voting at
Parliamentary elections apply in principle to the present
proposal, because the election of a municipal body is a poli-
tical election. (Hear, hear.) It has not the same political
importance as an election of members of this house, but
there is no question that it is a political act. (Hear.) The
principle which I think a sound one in this free country
is that no man should perform a political act without
its being known to his fellow-citizens how he performs
it—that he should bear the responsibility for good or
evil of the act which he has thought fit to do. (Hear,
bear.) 1 think responsibility ought to go hand in hand with
political action. (Cheers,) The object of the bill is to with-
draw thelconduct of voters at municipal elections from pub-
lic observation—to make their voting secret, and therefore
to divest them of that responsibility which I think under a
free constitution ought to follow every political act. I shall
therefore vote against the bill, and support the amendment.
(Cheers.)
, the house divided, and the numbers were—
For the second reading
Against it
Majority against second reading —3s
UNION RELIEF AID ACT (1862) CONTINUANCE

BILL.
This bill as amended was considered.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION (IRE-
LAND) BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
The house then adjourned.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 3.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS BILL.

Order for second reading read. Motion made and question
proposed, " That the bill be now read a second time."
Amendment propoied, to leave out the word now,' and
at the end of the question to add the words "upon this
day six months." Question put, " That the word 'now'
stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes,
58; Noes, 93.

AYES-58.
Acton, Sir J. Greene, Capt. J. Potter, E.
Adair, H. E. Hennessy, J. P. Robartes, T. J. A.
Atherton, Sir W. Ingham, R. Russell, Sir Wm.
Ayrton, A. S. Kinglake, A. W. Scholefleid, W.
Baines, E. Kinglake, Serj. J. Sheridan, H. B.
Barbour, J. D. Kinnaird, Hon. A. Sidney, Thomas
Bazley, Thomas Knatchbull-Hugess Smith, J. A.
Berkeley, Hon. H. Layard, A. H. Stangeld, J.
Blake, J. A. Lawson, W. Stuart, Col.
Butler, C. S. Lewis, Harvey Taylor, P. A.
Buxton, C. Locke, John Tollemache, Hon.F,
Childers, H. C. E. Merry, James Vivian, H. H.
Cobbett, J. M. Mildmay, H. Warner, Edward
Collier, R. P. Mills, J. R. Wemyss, J.
Cox, W. Morris, D. Whalley, G. H.
Doulton, F. Onslow, Guildford Williams, W.
Duff, M. E. Padmore, R.
Fermoy, Lord Paget, C.
Forster, W. E. Paget, Lord C. E.
Gilpin, C. Pease, H. Smith, Augustus
Goldsmid, Sir F. Pilkington, James Dillwyn, Lewis L.

TELLERS.

NOES —93.
Adderley, C. B. Grogan, Sir E. Palmerston, Viect.
Addington, Hon.W. Handley, John Parker, Major W.
Baring, Sir F. Hardy, J. Patten, J. W.
Bathurst, A. A. Henley, J. Paull, H.
Black, Adam Hodgson, R. Pritchard, John
Bovill, Wm., Horsiall, T. B. Puller, C. W.
Briscoe, J. I. Hotham, Gen. Lord Ridley, Sir M. W.
Bruce, C. L. C. Howard, Lord E. G. Scott, Lord H.
Buller, J. W. Humberstone, P. S. Scourfield, J. IL
ButlerJohnstone,ll. Jolliffe, H. Selwyn, C. J.
Cairns, Sir H., King,-J. K. Smith, Abel
Calthorpe, F. H. Knatchbull, W Somes, Joseph
Cavendish, Hon. W. Laird, J. Spooner, R.
Cavendish, Lord G. Langton, H.G. Stanley, Lord
Chapman, J. Leader, N. Stuart, Col. W.
Codrington, Sir W. Lep, W. Taylor, Colonel
Collins, T. Leighton, Sir B. Tempest, Lord A.V.
Cubitt, George Leslie, W. Thynne, Lord H.
Cubitt, Ald. Liddellalon. H. G. Tomline, G.
Disraeli, Benjamin Lygon, Hon. F. Torrens, R.
Edwards, Major H. M.'Cormick, W. Vansittart, Wm.
Fane, Col. Mackinnon,W. A. Verner, Sir Wm.
Farquhar, Sir M. Malins, R., Verney, Sir Harry
Fellowes, Edward Manners, Lord J. Walker, James R.
Ferrand, W. Miles, Sir W. Watlington, J.
Fitzgerald, W. S. Mitford, W. T. White, L.
Forester, Gen. Montagu, Lord R. Whitmore, H.
Gard, R. S. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J. Wood, Rt Hn. Sir C.
George, John Newdegate, C. Wynne, W. W. B.
Gore, J. R. 0. Noel, G. J. TELLERS.
Gower, G. W. L. Northcote, Sir S. H. Hardy, Gathorne
Grey, Rt. Hn. Sir G. Palmer, R. W. Bridges, Sir 8., Bt.

THE DISPUTE WITH BRAZIL.

The following further correspondence respecting
the plunder of the wreck of the British bark Prince
of Wales, on the coast of Brazil, in June, 1861, was
published yesterday :
"M. MOREIRA TO EARL RIISSELL.-(RECEIVED
FEB. 27.)
" (Translation.)

"Brazilian Legation, London, Feb. 26, 1863.

" The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the Em-
peror of Brazil, has the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of the note addressed to him this day by
his Excellency Earl Russell, &c., and hasten to
transmit to his Excellency a cheque for the sum of
£3,200 on the Bank of England, which her Britan-
nic Majesty's Government has fixed for the ship-
wreck of the Prince of Wales.

"'Phis payment being made, it is now the impe-
rious duty of the undersigned to do what he already
had the honour to announce in his note of the 9th
inst. to the Right Hon. Earl Russell—that is to
say, to declare that his Majesty the Emperor, in
making this payment to her Britannic Majesty's
Government, does not recognise in any manner the
right or justice, on the part of the British Govern-
ment, to pretend to make the Imperial Government
responsible for the wreck of the ship Prince of
Wales on the coast of Brazil, inasmuch as the Im-
perial Government used all the means in its power
to punish the supposed malefactors, and sincerely
and loyally made all possible efforts to demonstrate
the invalidity of the claim which the British Lega-

ion at Rio de Janeiro put forward in this affair.

'And the Imperial Government, being thus fully
convinced of the right which appertains to it, de-

clares—

"1. That it cannot and ought not to assent to the
unusual principles which it is pretended to establish
against it on the occasion of this shipwreck, nor can
it accept the responsibility thrown upon it, against
all which it loudly and categorically protests.
_ _

"2. That, therefore, it refuses, as it has already
refused, to consent to and take part is the liquida-
tion of the losses suffered by the owners of the
shipwrecked vessel, or of any compensation for the
damages which resulted from that shipwreck; and
thus, likewise, the Imperial Government absolutely
declines to take cognisance of the fact that the Bri-

tish Government abstains from making any pecu-
niary claim for the ship or freight, as declared in a
note to which the undersigned is now replying.
" 3. Lastly, that in transmitting to her Britannic
Majesty's Government the aforesaid sum of £3,200
for the shipwreck of the Prince of Wales, the un-
dersigned declares, in the name of his Government,
that this payment thus made to the British Govern-
ment is made solely in consequence of the illegal
and violent proceedings committed upon Brazilian
ships in the territorial waters of the empire, and is
the simple result of force, without in any way im-
plying the admission of right or justice on the part
of the British Government. Wherefore it will never
be possible, by this payment, to establish a prece-
dent against Brazil or any other maritime nation,
inasmuch as the imperial Government does not re-
cognise the right of such an act, but, on the con-
trary, most formally and solemnly protests against
it and its consequences.
" The undersigned, in making this protest to her
Britannic Majesty's Government, for the due effect
thereof, reserves in the meantime the right of claim-

ing, in the name of his Government, satisfaction for
the violation of its territorial sovereignty, in conse-
quence of five vessels belonging to Brazilians having
been captured and held as prizes in the territorial
waters of the empire, by way of reprisals, by ships
of war of the British navy ; as also an indemnifica-
tion for the damages resulting from the said cap-
ture, against all of which the undersigned now pro•
tests; and he takes, &c., "C. MOREIRA."

" EARL RUSSELL TO M. MOREIRA.
" Foreign-office, Feb. 28, 1863.
"The undersigned, her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a2know-
ledges the receipt of a check on the Bank of Eng-
land for the sum of £3,200.
" The undersigned would have gladly confined
himself to this simple acknowledgment, had not
Senhor M oreira, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the Emperor of
Brazil, in transmitting the cheque, made various
statements which it is the duty of the undersigned
not to leave uncontradicted.
" The first of these statements is, that the said
sum of £3,200 is a sum ' which her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Government has fixed for the shipwreck of the
Prince of Wales.' The undersigned has already
informed M. Moreira that no sum is claimed for the
loss of the ship Prince of Wales, nor for the freight
of the cargo. The sum is claimed for the shameful
plunder of the cargo, and for the negligence shown
by the Brazilian authorities in their inquiries to
ascertain the delinquency of the supposed malefac-
tors. When Mr. Consul Vereker arrived on the
coast on the 16th of June, eight or nine days after
the shipwreck, finding that eight or ten dead bodies
were said to be on shore, he requested the Municipal
Judge to proceed to an inquest on the bodies, but
he declined to do so. The Consul attributes this
refusal to the presence of Senhor Faustino, the In-
spector of the District, with an armed force which
outnumbered that accompanying the Municipal
Judge. Here was at once a failure of justice. Had
the-eight or ten bodies been at once produced, and
had those bodies been examined, it would have been
ascertained whether there were any marks of
violence upon them ; and as they were withheld for
a considerable period, until the bodies were in a
state of decomposition, the cause of death could not
be ascertained.
"Had a Brazilian ship been wrecked on the coast
of Cornwall, and dead bodies been found on the
shore, the coroner of the district would at once have
had the dead bodies produced, and would have held
his inquest upon them.
" Had any magistrate appeared with an armed
force to prevent or control such inquest, 24 hours
would not have elapsed before that magistrate
would have been dismissed, and a military force
would have been sent to protect the judicial pro-
ceedings of the coroner.
" The undersigned will not enter further into'the
case. The circumstances are well summed up in a
letter of Rear-Admiral Warren to Mr. Christie,
dated Sept. 23, 1862, contained in the papers re-
specting this case presented to Parliament by her
Majesty's command (page 96).
" The shipwreck took place in June, 1861. Her
Majesty's Government having been mocked for 18
months by the evasions, subterfuges, and unfounded
assertions of the Brazilian authorities, her Majesty's
naval squadron proceeded to enforce the moderate
demands of her Majesty's Government. These pro-
ceedings have been conducted according to the rules
of international law, after a long period of patience
and forbearance.—The undersigned, &c.
" RUSSELL ."

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FATAL RAILWAY ACClDENT.—Yesterday Mr.
Bedford held an inquest at King's College Hospital
on the body of Benjamin Brown, aged 41, an engineer in
the employ of the London and Brighton Railway Company.
From the evidence of several witnesses, it appeared that on
Tuesday last the deceased was superintending some works
at the Clapham Junction station, when a signal was given
that a train was approaching. Deceased got on a fence,
which was only two feet from the main line, and instead of
getting over the fence he sat astride on it, thinking the train
would pass him. In this, however, he was mistaken, for,
according to the evidence of two witnesses, the carriages
in the train struck the deceased, and knocked him off the
fence, fracturing his left legs and one of his arms. He was
seen by a surgeon, and afterwards taken to the hospital.
The fence in question had been constructed under the direc-
tions of the deceased, but he had given instructions the same
morning to have it removed further back from the main line,
as he considered it too near the trains. Mr. Wm. Smith,
house surgeon, said the deceased was admitted on Tuesday
last. He was suffering from a compound fracture of the
right thigh, and a fracture of the elbow joint. There was
also a severe scalp wound, and a large wound on the left
thigh.
Amputation was resorted to and he went on well
till Wednesday evening, when he began to sink rapidly. He
,
died at 10 the same night. The coroner having gone through
the evidence, the
jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
death."

RUSSIAN BARBARITY.

The attack on the house of Count Polytelo by the
Russians has been mentioned in our columns. We
are now in a position to give, from an authentic
source the details of this barbarous outrage, which
was entirely unprovoked on the part of the suf-
ferers :—Count Leopold Polytelo, member of the
Polish Council of State, after having taken his wife
to Nice for her health, went to live on his estate of
Woyslawice, Lublin, with his two young sons, in-
tending to await events, The insurrection broke
out, and he continued to hold the opinion he had
often expressed, that this movement could only
have the effect of bringing down measures of re-
pression upon the country. None of his servants
took part in the insurrection, and no conflict took
place in his territory. On the 12th of February he
assembled, to do honour to the fifth birthday of his
eldest son, his brother -in-law, M. Titus Woycie-
chowski, a former colonel of Grenadiers in the
Polish guard, and a former major of the Polish
army. These gentlemen, over their coffee and
cigars, discussed the events of the day, when at
half-past three in the afternoon, the steward of the
estate, Salkowski, came to tell them that a detach-
ment of Russian troops, consisting of three compa-
nies of infantry, a squadron of lancers, with two
guns, and some Cossacks, had made a domiciliary
visit to the chateaugof Rakolupy, belonging to the
Count Aurele Polytelo, that they were marching on
WoyGlawice, and that they would arrive in half an
, hour.

The gentlemen considered what they had better
do. They could easily have avoided a meeting
with the troops, as the time more than sufficed, but
the two old soldiers recommended that they should
remain quiet, seeing that it was not a Tartar horde
that was coming down upon them, but a detach-
ment of regular troops, commanded 1y civilised
chiefs and men of honour, who would make the
domiciliary visit, and, finding nothing, quit the
place. Soon after there were heard in the distance
two reports of cannon, fired in the little village of
Woyslawice, situated about a quarter of a league
from the chateau. These shots killed four inoffen-
sive men, and wounded others.
Then there were seen from the windows several
Cossacks, who approached at a gallop along the
road, and shortly afterwards tirailleurs were seen to
extend and to march upon the chateau, where their
balls already began to break the windows. Behind
them were the masses of infantry. The guns were
put in position at 150 paces, and at this distance
the officers remained, while the infantry approached
the chateau and began to break the windows. Count
Polytelo wished to go out and parley with the com-
mander of the expedition, in order to save the in- ,
habitants of the chateau and his guests from the
danger which menaced them, but he was prevented
by his brother-in-law, who pointed out that there
was no one with whom he could treat, as no officer,
not even a subaltern, appeared among the soldiers.
Then began a horrible slaughter. The soldiers,
having broken the windows, began to fire, without
up to that time having wounded any one; but as
soon as they came into the vestibule they began to
massacre the servants with the bayonet. Count
Polytelo seeing this, and convinced that his future
life was to be counted by minutes, bade farewell to
his brother-in-law and his guests, and saying that it
was his duty to die with his children, he went to his
sons, whom he found with their aunt, Mille. Dunin,
and three female servants on their knees. He fol-
lowed their example, and for an hour and a half, dur-
ing which the carnage lasted, he passed the time
praying and awaiting death. The count, his chil-
dren, and the women who were with them, were
saved as by a miracle, since the door of the room in
which they were was riddled with balls, and all
around them the soldiers had been firing about at
random, and breaking open the doors.
Towards six o'clock in the evening the firing
ceased, and the count, leaving his retreat, learned
what follows. M. Woyciechowski and his son
Joseph had withdrawn into the cabinet of the count,

and when the mitraille commenced, the missiles
which came through the windows killed the young
man and wounded his father. Major Kunn and Col.
Dunin awaited the assa6sits in separate rooms.
Major Kunn was attacked with the bayonet, and

defended himself with his hands. Afterwards he
lost two fingers from a bullet, and then received
several bayonet wounds, and numerous blows on the
body. The victorious soldiers took him prisoner and
led him before an cfficer. From him he asked for
medical aid, as he was weak from loss of blood, but
the officer replied that he had surgeons with him,
but that their services were fcr the Russian soldiers,
and not for the enemies of Russia. He ended by
giving him a blow on the face with his sabre.
Colonel Dunin (70 years of age) sat calmly upon
a sofa in the drawing-room, awaiting the attack,
when the door was opened, and four soldiers fired
upon him simultaneously. He was wounded in
several places. Then the soldiers set upon him,
and he was wounded in the hand, pushing back the
bayonets. He wished to check the fury of the assas-
sins, and compelled them to take note that they
ought to deal with him as an old man and veteran
soldier. For reply he received wounds and blows;
then the soldiers supporting him because he grew
weak with the great loss of blood, conducted him to
the major commanding the detachment, who re-
mained impassable beside the guns in the midst of
this scene of carnage. Colonel Dunin addressed
the major as follows :—" You are a soldier, and yet
you are not ashamed of thus killing an unarmed
crowd, unable to defend themselves." The major
replied that 100 shots had been fired from the cha-
teau, and he had then caused it to be attacked.
Colonel Dunin replied, "It is an infamous lie. I
am an ancient colonel of the Grenadier Guards,
aide-de-camp of the General of Division Zymirski.
I am decorated—nay, I swear to you by my grey
hairs; I give you the word of honour of a soldier,
that since the disturbances arose there has not been
a single insurgent in the chateau, and that there
has not been a single weapon in the building—
neither musket, nor revolver, nor sabre ; in a word,
not a thing. Besides, I am in your hands ; let a
domiciliary visit be made, and if you find any other
articles but some pen-knives and table-knives let
me be shot." The major replied, "But what do you
tell me, when T have seen some one in the court
aim at myself at 20 paces." Colonel Dunin re-
plied, " How dare you tell such a lie ? But, good
heavens what kind of leader are you ? and how
have you not seized that man in a court filled
with soldiers ?" The Russian major perceived he
had told a fib, was silent, and at a given signal
the fire ceased. At a second signer the soldiers
resumed their ranks. Thus it is not by the fury of
insubordinate soldiers, but, in fact, by the order of
the leaders that the crime has been committed. At
last the major ordered the mayor of the village to
be called, and placed the wounded under his care,
after which he told the soldiers that they had be-
haved courageously—like heroes. Ho went about
a quarter of a league from the place, and next morn•
ing returned from this glorious expedition to Kra-
suystaw.
There are six killed—four at the town of Woy-
slay wice, and two at the chateau, M. Joseph Woy-
ciechowski and a servant ; there are besides at the
chateau nine wounded, who have been 11 hours
without being attended to, since there were no doc-
tors or other assistance to fetch to them in these
places. The sack of the mansion has been complete.
The ground-floor has been covered with wreck ;
furniture, glasses, china—everything has been
broken ; the linen was given to the flames. They
carried off the jewels of the countess, and abstracted
12,000 florins from the chest of Col. Dunin. They
have also taken from a maid servant 3,000 florins
of savings, and from Controller Gorchonski 12,000
florins, which constitute his all, the fruit of savings
during a long series of years.
We have not yet succeeded in learning the name
of the Russian major who commanded this com-
pany, but we are able to give the name of the
colonel (Baumgartner), military con mandant of the
district of Krasneystein, who, having to engage a
band of 2,000 insurgents four leagues distant from
that place, at Dubrenka, contented himself with
sending a moveable column to Woyslawice to mur-
der a councillor of state and his guests, all inoffen-
sive and unarmed men.