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London, England, 1863-03-19 00:00:00

TriE SUN, LONDOI4I, TZETSDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1863.

1 considerable. In one year 663 patients were taken
t there in public conveyances, of whom 110 died ;
thus showing the serious nature of their complaints
And it ie, as Mr. BRADY observed, a remarkable
fact that of this large number 530 persons were
thus sent to the hospital by parish authorities.
This satisfied him that these authorities, being the
natural guardians of the poor, and the representa-
tives of the ratepayers, were the proper persons
to carry into operation the provisions of the
bill be hes brought forward. This bill
would, probably, not entirely meet the case,
but as he himself observed, it might be
amended in committee, and we can only regret
that the hon. member consented to Sir G. GREY'S
suggestion for postponing the second reading of his
treasure. Mr. AYRTON'S objections were really
frivolous, and his question as to the.evidenee of the
transmission of diseases by such means is suffi-
ciently answered, one would think, by the ex-
perience of many generations as to the contagious
nature of several dangerous diseases. Mr. GRIFFITH
spoke more truly when he said that Mr. BEADY
deserved the thanks of the community for having
brought forward the subject. He mentioned a case
which had coma under his own knowledge, in
which a servant with the small-pox was
sent to the hospital in a cab. It was plain
that the cab might be, and probably was,
engaged within five minutes after its departure
from the hospital. We fully agree with Mr.
GRIFTITH when he says that it would be a most
extraordinary thing if nothing could be done to
mitigate the evil. There might certainly be diffi-
culties in the way of allowing a cabman to refuse a
fare, but it is not the way to conquer difficulties to
refuse to face them; and to push off the subject as
hopeless. It would certainly be unjust to impose
penalties on cabmen conveying fever patients in
their cabs, and then to provide no other means of
transit for such sufferers. The remedy is simple.
Let the parish authorities be compelled to provide
such vehicles, and let the ratepayers find the means
for the provision. The protection of their health is
surely worth as much as the insurance of their
houses or property from damage or destruction.
There would probably be no opposition to such a
payment, which could be but trifling, and let the
House consider what regulations will meet the cab
difficulty. If there really is ground for legislation,
as is admitted on all sides, why should not the health
of cab passengers in the weeks between this
and June be worth preserving from risk as well as
those after that date ? The indifference of the
Government on a matter so nearly concerning the
public health is little to their credit, as a small
amount of time and consideration would find means
to mitigate a serious evil.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

CRACOW, MARCH IQ..

Intelligence received here from LithuaniP, states
that all the marshals of the corporations in that
province, all the judges and judicial officers, and all
independent public functionaries rave rent in their
resignations en masse.
These resignations are based upon the resolution
not to receive any communication from the Govern-
ment in the Russian language.
The functionaries who have resigned are raid to
have declared infamous all who should consent to
fill the positions they vacate.

SKALMEIRZYKE, MAncn 17.

An important engagement between the insur-
gents and the Russian troops took place yesterday
at Lorzodek, three miles from Kilisch. The latter
were compelled to retreat, and the town was re-
duced to ashes. The number of insurgents con-
cerned in this battle amounted to 3 000 men. Rein-
forcements were sent this morning from Kaiisch
to the Russians.

BERLIN, MARCH 18.

Private letters received here from Warsaw state
that the Grand Duke Constantine has, in conse-
quence of a council of war, given up his idea of pro-
ceeding to the theatre of war.

CRACOW, MARCH 18.
Count Staryenski, marshal of the Polish nobility,
has tendered his resignation.
Governor Nazimoff has ordered the arrest of 300
landed proprietors in Lithuania.
The insurgents have been victorious over the
Russian troops at Rudnika, in the Government of
Mohilew.

LEMBERG, MARCH lg.

Raczynski, one of the insurgent chiefs, has, aftcr
many engagements, succeeded in leading his band,
which has been continually increasing in numbers.
to Pinsk. He has occupied that town, and pro-
claimed the National Government.

INDIA.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CALCUTTA (via Suez), MARCH 2.
Grey shirtings and mule twist tending upwards,
Indigo unchanged.

Exchange on London, Baring's credits, 2.01
Government Securities 5 per cent., 106,1.
Freight flat.

ANERICAQ

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
NEW YORK, March 6 (per Jura).
Tho Confederates, under Gen. Van Dorn, have
advanced towards Franklin, Tennessee, but were
driven back by the Federals. Fighting conticues.
Tho skirmishing around Nashville is active.
The report of an attempt to assassinate General

Banks at Orleans is said to have been a canard.
A Secession demonstration occurred at New Or-
leans, on the occasion of the departure of a large

number of Confederate prisoners for the South.
A large number of people assembled on the levee
to witness their departure, and made various Seces-

sion demonstrations. Gen. B_inks sent a regiment
of soldiers to disperse the assembhge, and no dis-

urbance occurred.

All the Ge.nr,ral Appropriations Bills were passed

by Congress before the close of the session, and have
been signed by the President. These, together with

other appropriations, amount to about-one billion

dols. The Miscellaneous Appropriation Bill, origi•
nally introduced by the Committee of Ways and
Means, appropriated 1,200,000 dols., but before it
passed through both houses the sum was enlarged to
20,000,000 dollars. The bill to admit Coloraco and
Nevada as States of the Union, which passed the
Senate, failed to pass in the House of Representa-
tives, the latter refusing to suspend the rules for its
consideration.

Before the adjournment of the Senate, Mr. Doo-
little, Republican, of Wisconsin, urged that the last
moments of the Senate should be passed in some-
thing besides recrimination. He stated that all
events went to show that America would crush out

the rebellion, and stand before the world greater,
more powerful, more glorious than ever, and be-
yond what had ever entered into the mind of man
to conceive. He wished to show the traitors at
home, and the men who talked of intervention, that
America had just begun to fight, and would fight
it through. America bought Louisiana and Florida,
in order to have that opening to the ocean ; and he
would say, in the name of the north-west, that be-
fore they would allow an independent empire at the
mouth of the Mississippi, they would reduce
Louisiana to what it was before America pur-
chased it—a territory of swamps and crocodiles.
He told the nations who suggested the possibility
of an inch- pendent empire at the south-west, that
such talk s to talk what the people of the United
States, though it should result in the upheaval of
the whole of North America, would never sur-
render. It was his religious belief that the American
Republic was that political Power foretold by the
prophets, and for which good men of all ages looked
and prayed, and to whose success and duration
Heaven, with all its omnipotence, was pledged.
Speaker Grow, in his valedictory address to the

House of Representatives, declared that, no matter
what changes were wrought in the social organism
of America, its territoridl limits would continue the
same, The war must be prosecuted until the last
armed rebel is subdued.

Speaker Grow received a unanimous vote of
thanks from the House, a compliment which was
never paid to any speaker but once before.
A large meeting has taken place at Trenton, Nev,
Jersey, in response to a call to celebrate the dee,
of a Congress which had trampled upon the liber
ties of the people. Speeches were made declaring
that the people were in a worse condition than the
people of Austria, and hopes were expressed that
the State Government would do its duty to protec'
the citizens. Resolutions were also passed denouncing
the unlimited control Gf the purse and sword o. the
nation, and the unrestrained power over the person'.
of the citizens given to the President, and declaring
that it was the duty of the States to resist firmly ail

encroachments upon their rights ; that the Con-
scription Bill was an aggression up n the sovereignty
of New Jersey, and that the State authorities art
called on to take measures for the successful vinii•
cation of the rights of the State. The em plo3 men'
of negroes was denounced, and New Jersey was
stated to be utterly opposed to the prosecution of
the war upon any other than a constitutional basis.
Both Houses of Congress passed the resolutions
concerning mediation, as reported from the Com-
mittee of Foreign Relations.
At a meeting of the Democratic Association, Pre-
sident Lincoln's name was hissed.
The New Yosk Tribune, referring to General
Banks's arrangements with planters for negro
labour, says—" The military authorities of the
Gulf who were charged to recognise and maintain
the freedom of the blacks, have gone into the busi-
ness of slave-driving on the largest possible scale,
and officers who went to suppress a slaveholders'
rebellion, are made overseers of plantations which
Government stocks with re-enslaved blacks." The
2ribune charges General Banks with administering
his department entirely in the interest of the slave-
owners, and denounces his course as an oppression
of the negro.
An influential meeting has been held at New
York to forward the laying of the Atlantic cable.
A committee was appointed to act, and five gentle-
men have subscribed over £3,000 to assist the en-

terprise.
'The New York 7itnes says that 2,000 Mexican
troops had embarked at Mazatlan and Jamiarz for
a southern port of Mexico in order to operate
against the French.
It is considered probable that a conflict may have
taken place at Vicksburg, and not impossible it may
have been evacuated by the Confederates.
General Joseph Johnston, who commands at
Vicksburg, is the General who evacuated Manassat•
And Yorktown in such a wily manner, and at such
moor ents as to seriously disconcert the Federal
plans, based upon his resistance at each point. HI
may have repeated the same move at Vicksburg,
which is supplied by only one line of railway. Ai
he has, Port Hudson being strong enough to hole
in check the Federal advance down the Mississippi,
Johnston may throw himself northward upon
Memphis, or to the north-east upon Rosecrans
even by a rapid southward movement, in
conjunction with the small but formidable-
Con federate fleet, attempt to recapture New
Orleans. By adopting either of these plans he
would of course abandon for the time the Red Rivet
country, which lies between Vicksburg and Port
Hudson, and through which the Confederates re-
ceive immense supplies from Texas.
Much anxiety is felt in regard to Charleston
The expedition against that place is meat formidable,
and great efforts will be made to take it, but Gene-
ral Beauregard has been allowed time enough to
complete all his fortifications, solid and floating,
and to concentrate a powerful force.
There are growing symptoms at the West of
popular dissatisfaction, and much is said of secret
associations, organised both to support and oppose
the Government.
In this city a State judge has declared his inten-
tion of executing his writ of habeas corpus against
a Federal colonel who, however, remains in his
castle at Governor's Island.
In the Senate 17 members took their seats yes-
,terday, nine of whom were returned for the firet
time; of these nine, six may be ranked as Opposi-
tion members, two as extreme, and one (Mr. Mor-
gan, of New York) as a moderate Republican.
The municipal elections in New York State indi-
cate great gains for the Democratic party.
NEW Yonx, March 6 (Afternoon),
The reports concerning the condition of the
steamer Indianola, when captured, are conflicting.
Some say she is seriously damaged, and others that
she is in an effective condition, and that her sur-
render was unneceesary.
The Kentucky House of Representatives has
passed a resolution calling a national convention
and a convention of the Mississippi Valley States.
It is supposed the Senate would concur in the re.
solution.