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London, England, 1863-02-16 00:00:00

lost more than 200 men in killed and wounded-

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 fire. 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 Mielitza.
Having thus gratified their revenge, the Russian
troops returned to their quarters at Kielce and
Radom. The writer adds that since this affair
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 l'omaszow, in the
government of Lublin. The latter did not number
more than 100 men, and the town was conseqacntly
tak,n 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. Chinierlewski, 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. Alechren,
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. Leukowitcb, a custom-
house officer, married, and the father of a family ;
8. Czlrtonapki, a custom-house officer;
9. Korow-
ski, a public functionary, murdered in his house;
10. Z,,likowski, a physician, burnt alive vs ith his
servant on a heap of straw in his own house. Seve-
raln other atrocities are mentioned. Thero Russian
corps, corps, which was composed
of
l nelthen returned
, sceo
infantry, two sotnias of Cossackso,twod feLPpieces of
cannon, and commanded by a
'1 he
ion i
to their quarters at ZAM.O .s Nut,sp r vevaidtihnsgt a. tiding
this severity the insurrection
In the affair of Wengrow the
insurgents, driven from one position, re-form in
a nmo ted he r.insurgents,
onlyar
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. If these men were

A letter from Athens says that if the reports of
the Government took a long time, the decree of the
downfall of King Otho and his dynasty, and the
proclamation of Prince Alfred as the result of the
popular suffrage, took but very little time the next
day. As for the first, there was some danger of its
leading to lengthy discussion about the form of the
decree, which was calculated to weaken the general
effect of the unanimity existing in this respect.
More than a dozen different projects of decrees were
presented. At the last moment, however, the in-
convenience of such a proceeding was felt, and it
was determined to form into a committee all those
who had proposed the different projects. This led
to a speedy understanding, and the following short
and pithy decree was the result:—" The Second
National Assembly of Greece, sitting at Athens:
considering the decree of the nation of the 22d of
October, 1862, which has pronounced the downfall
of King Otho from the throne of Greece, and which
has abrogated the rights of Queen Amelia to the
regency, as well as those of the Royal House of
Bavaria to the above mentioned throne, decrees that
the throne of Greece is declared vacant by right
and de facto since the 22d of October, 1862."
The decree was adopted unanimously, the whole
house rising.
The decree having passed, Korroneo, the Presi-
dent of the Commission drawn by lot for the count-
ing up of the votes of the plebiscite, made its short
report, according to which the votes were as fol-
lows :

Prince Alfred
Prince Leuchtenberg
An Orthodox King . 1,917
Emperor of Russia 1,841
Grand Duke Nicholas
A King 1,763
Prince Nicholas of Russia
Zeto the Three Powers 482
Grand Duke Constantine ~
Prince Napoleon 345
An Imperial Prince of France.. 246
A Russian Prince
A Republic
An Imperial Prince of Russia 9
Romanoff
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
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 and Ireland, 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 not'

fled 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 7e 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 returned from the service, as it hod gone, in
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 Gu:,rd of Athens and of
the Piraeus, which appeared for the first time in a
body. 4,600 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 in 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 suoh 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 cheered lustily
when they marched past before the Provisional l 1
Government and the President of the Assemb y,
and every one went home at least six inches taller
than he had come.

THE ODDIST REASON !—England never has had
an octogenarian leader of the House of Commons.
It will be quite an event in our history if Lord Pal-
could contrive to hold on till
thenrston (now seventy-six)
[i.e., for four years longer I]. it is worth while keep-
for the curiosity of the thing ! There
tng him m ogice just
are many people who would not mind acquiescing in a few
eccentricities 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 ono 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, Sa-
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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FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE. ir-;‘,140 ‘.._.°• ,ptz
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Yesterday morning, shortly before 8 cecloclWerr.
greatest confusion was caused in the immediatiel a s
neighbourhood of High-street, Vauxhall, in conse-
quence of the outbreak of a most destructive fire in
. some premises immediately facing Messrs. Burnett's
distillery, in High-street, Vauxhall. The building
in which the disaster occurred belonged to Mr.
Poley, of Kennington-road, but was let out in tene-
ments to sundry poor families, as were several others
adjoining. These houses were of great antiquity,
and were built, principally of wood, as long since
as 1666. The houses on either side—in fact, th©
entire clump, comprising several—were built in a
similar manner, there bring nothing more than
lath and plaster partitions between each, which to a
certain extent will account for the extraordinary
spread of the fire; and unfortunately with what
was still worse, fatal results to a female bordering
upon 90 years of age.
From the inquiries made upon the spot doting
the raging of the fire, it appears that as a police-
constable of the L, or Lambeth division, was patrol-
ing his beat, he noticed smoke issuing from one of
the upper rooms in the tenure of a Mrs. Perton.
An instant alarm was given by the officer, and as
soon as assistance arrived, messengers were de-
spatched to call the engines, and also the Royal
Society's fire escapes. In the meantime an Effort
was made to enter the room in which the fire had
occurred, it being supposed that Mrs. Perton was
in the loom, as she had not been seen to leave the
building. The flames, however, spread with such
rapidity that no one could get up to the apartment
to render the least assistance, and meanwhile the con-
flagration assumed a fearful aspect, thefiames rushing
right and left into the adjoining houses. The Royal
Society's escapes and two engines from Barnett's dis-
tillery promptly attended,as well as that of the parish,
another from Hodges' distillery, one from Beaufoy's
vinegar works, South Lambeth, and three of the
London Brigade, under the superintendence of Mr.
Henderson, the chief officer of the D district. Such
a formidable appearance, however, did the flames
then assume, that the inhabitants of the surround-
ing houses commenced removing their furniture,
and the mob began to pull out the front windows,
which caused the inmates to run into the street in
a state next to nudity. Mr. John Burnett, the distil-
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 tke 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 tie inmates were.in-
sured.

VOYAGE OF AN IRON-CLAD.

A letter from Port Royal, South Carolina, of Tan. 19,
says :—" The iron-clads have made their debut in South
Carolina. The Montauk arrived here this morning at one
o'clock, after a rough passage of 40 hours and sailing a
cruise of 300 miles. After waiting for a north-east blow to
pass off we left anchorage in Beaufort (North Carolina)
harbour at four o'clock on the afternoon of last Sunday,
Jan. 17. The Passaie, with her consort, the Rhode Island,
preceded us, and soon after the Montauk and James Adger
followed. Arrived outside the bar we took the Adger's
hawsers, and making them fast, steamed out to sea. As we
passed the Passaic and Rhode Island we discovered the
latter at anchor, and concluded, it being a little rough, that
the first attempt to get her hawser to the Passaic failing she
had come to anchor for the purpose of accomplishing her
object. At dusk we thought we saw them steaming after
us, since which time we have seen or heard nathing of
either of them. Sunday morning we found a heavy sea, a
cloudy sky, with the wind in the north-east, where it re-
mained till noon, when it veered around into the north.
Anxiously we watched the little pennant over our heads,
and as anxiously watched and waited for the long low arc
of clear sky on the western horizon to get the mastery over

the clouds which hung like a leaden pall above us. The
Adger had out N fathoms of hawser to us, but has not
towed us a mile during our passage, but with the hawsers
slack in the sea, merely maintaining with wonderful accuracy

the distance between us. This was as intended, for we were
making seven knots easily, with 45 revolutions of our en-
gine, and were anxious to avoid the sudden tightening and
relaxing of the hawsers that we experienced off Hatteras,
and which would have resulted from a greater speed in the
Adger. Fortunately the sea was with us, and the Mon-
tauk, with peculiar buoyancy, rose and fell as easily and
gracefully as a yacht. At 12 o'clock last night it cleared
away, but with the wind rising, and point blank north-
east, and an increasing sea. I was awakened early this morn-
ing by the steamer's pitching and plunging through the sea;
and going up on the turret found a cloudy, stormy sky,
a violent north-east wind, and a heavy sea. The light-
ports through the deck were closed from below, the iron
scuttle set in above, the hatches bolted dcwn, and the deck
smooth and clear, and most of the time submerged. Around
the staunchions on the turret is a broad band of canvas or
weather cloth,' a shield from the wind and sea, yet not
much shield this morning, for, as the sea dashed against the
turret, clouds of spray were thrown over us, not at all agree.
able in the cold north-east wind. As we looked from off the
turret this morning—our deck entirely out of sight, the sea
making over it four and five feet deep ; now plunging head
first into the ocean, completely immersed, and then rising
from it, the water pouring in torrents from off her :sides,
billows ahead of us hiding from our view the Adger to her
main yards—it was, indeed, a sight terrific and sublime,
sufficiently satisfactory with one experience. At 8 o'clock
we made the lifeboat off Port Royal. Soon the pilot steamer
came out to us, but, finding we wanted no assistance, ac-
companied us in."

G OETHE'S CORRESPONDENCE.—The private cor-
respondence between Goethe and Karl August,
never published before, will soon appear in print. The pre.
sent Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar has entrusted Dr. Vogel
with the arrangement and publication of this correspon-
dence, which, it is said, comprises about 600 letters, and
will be ready for print in the course of the season.
HOCUSSING AND ROBBERY IN A RAILWAY
RTAGE. t
aho ne
atte the
n-
South- Eastern line at Strood, in Kent, last
two
a respectably
—On the arrival of one of the terei
,es CA R-
tion of the station-master wasf a
directedth
third-olass carriage, who
dressed woman, an ocoupant ?
insensibility, and apparently
80n in the carriage was a wo-
lifeless. The only other was discovered in a state of
%Pose% the attention of the t
te of her companion, at the
ticket-
collector a.
man, who
ressing her belief that she was dead. Mr.
a had what appeared to be
same time.exP immediatelyfirst
t the s
the dead body of the woman removed from the carriage and
placed in the waiting-room, and in the meantime sent for
medical assistance. On the arrival of Dr. W. Brown, that
gentleman pronounced the patient to be dead, and, indeed
to all appearance she was so, as no motion of the heart could
be detected. After applying restoratives without any effect,
Dr. Brown advised the removal of the body to the dead-
house. Notwithstanding the assertion of the medical gen-
tleman, the porters at the station, assisted by two females,
Price,
statiew:sB:mgleratefi r
continued their efforts to restore animation, and despatched
messengers for Mr. Steele and Mr. Langstone, surgeons.
The latter gentleman arrived, and after about two hours
signs of returning animation began to appear. After some
time the woman again breathed, and the same night was
sufficiently recovered to be removed to the Stroud Work-
house. On regaining consciousness she stated that her
name was Bell, and that she had but recently arrived tram
the United States, on a visit to her father at Glaegoll
her
answer to further questions, she stated that she
soldier.was At
way to Chatham to visit her brother,
wli°vowmas an a
entered the
Gravesend station a respectably dressedrs atia stt
with
her. Atter
carriage, and commenced a
the train had left the station s to asked her to give her
change for a sovereign,
on
pretence that she had not pur-
chased her ticket. Having complied with her
request, the
stranger asked her to partake of some brandy, which she at
first declined doing, but on being pressed she partook of
about half a glassful. The instant she had swallowed the
dig, and she became insensible, could remember nothing
until she found herself in tho infirmary of the workhouse.
The person who had given her the brandy had robbed her
of her purse, containing 305., together with her muff and
shawl, the female escaping with the whole during the con-
fusion which prevailed at the Strood station. Every effort
is being used by the police to trace the woman who perpe-
trated the robbery,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 16m.—Afternoon, 12h. sOrn
To-moßßow.-Morning, lh. 18m.—Afternoon, lh. 43m.