The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Capt. Joyce's No. 9 battery, 6th brigade Roy al
Artillery, from Portsmouth, arrived at Woolwich
on Friday, and left again on Saturday for Shoe-
buryness, to go through a course of instruction in
gunnery, to replace Capt. M'Kenzie's No. 6 bat-
tery 13th brigade, which arrived at Woolwich from
Shoeburyness on the same day.
A large number of promising recruits for the Royal
Artillery have been brought into garrison at Wool-
wich during the past month, and were transferred
in batches of 40 each to the depot butteries at War-
ley and Shoeburyness for instruction and drill.
During the past week the division at Aldershott
has been exercised in route-marching under its
respective brigadiers. On Thursday the Royal
Horse Artillery and the Field Batteries marched
out, the A battery, 4th brigade, with the 401 b. Arm-
strong guns, under the command of Capt. Stirling.
This battery consists of four of these heavy guns,
each drawn by 12 horses, with six drivers ; and four
waggons drawn by 6 horses each, with three drivers.
On the same day the Cavalry Brigade, under the
command of Brigadier-General Hodge proceeded to
the common, where they marched and trotted past
in open column of squadrons, subsequently per-
forming several field movements before returning to
barracks. On Tuesday the Ist Infantry Brigade,
under the dotnmand of Major-General Brook Tay-
lor, formed up on the Brigade-parade, about half-
past 9, and at 10 marched out in the direction of
Farnham, taking the Odinanr.road. After passing
the tollgate, they had advanced about a mile in that
direction, when a heavy shower of rain obliged them
to return to quarters.
The 3d Infantry Brigade marched out on Thurs-
day, under the command of Major-General David
Russell, on outpost duty, throwing out pickets and
taking up different positions.
The amateur theatrical performances at the club-
house, South Camp, Aldershott, continue to main-
tain their popularity and attract large audiences. On
Wednesday evening the officers of the staff and
division performed the comedy of "Still Waters Run
Deep," and the farce of " A Thumping Legacy."
The next performance, which is to take place on the
13th inst., is to be in aid of the Hospital for Sol-
diers' Wives, South Camp.

Within the last few days preparations for laying
the foundation stone of the Aldershot Mission Hall
and Soldiers' Institute have been actively pushed
forward. The ceremony will be performed on Wed-
nesday by the Earl of Shaftesbury, in the presence
of the local authorities and a number of influential
persons who have been invited to attend. A public
meeting will be held on the occasion in the Alder-
shot Assembly Rooms."

The 96th Regiment, stationed at Shorncliffe, with
its depot at Chichester, is ordered to embark at
Portsmouth on Saturday next on board the screw
troopship Himalaya, Capt. Lacy, for conveyance to
the Cape of Good Hope. The baggage of the regi-
ment will be embarked on the previous day.
The Ist battalion 6th Foot, at present stationeds
atto
Gosport, is expected to shortly receive orders
proceed to Aldershot.
A column has been erectedootnhetheemory Esplanade,
ship
of the
Southsea beach, Portsmout, sett
Y '
Chesapeake
officers and men of her Maj
who were killed or died during the ships last com-
mission.

We are informed that it can now be relied upon
before starting from our homes in the morning
whether the day will be wet, windy, or fine. Negretti and
Zambra have invented a barometer which accurately indi-
cates the weather. It is made with an upright tube in-
verted into a cistern, both being charged with mercury.
Attached to the frame on either side is a small thermometer,
one with an uncovered bulb to indicate the temperature, the
other with a wet bulb, which acts by capillary attraction,
and so forms cud unerring hygrometer. It is denominated
the Fitzroy barometer.

ADVERTISMIENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.—
Lumbago, rheutnat.sm, tic doloreux, all excruciating pains
ot the muscles and nerves are relieved with astonishing ra-
pidity by the use of this extraordinary ointment. The af-
fected parts previously fomented with warm water, have
only to be briskly rubbed with this soothing unguent to ob-
tain instant ease. The pills much assist in banishing the
tendency to rheumatism and similar painful disorders, whilst
the ointment cures the local ailment. The pills remove the
constitutional disturbance, and regulate every impaired
function of every organ throughout the human bodY. The
cure is neither temporary nor superficial, but perpailgs
and complete, and the disease rarely recurs; so perfect _et j
been the purification performed by these searching
harmless preparations.

" M. Jules Favre—That is the counterpart of the
famous expression, Order reigns at Warsaw.'
(Murmers.) History will judge of the words of the
hon. Minister, and of what there is disastrous in
them. (Renewed murmurs.)
" M. Billault—What is really disastrous are the
deceitful excitements to sentiments of patriotism,
the powerless efforts of which can only lead to fresh
misfortunes. (Numerous marks of assent.)
"M. Sales Favre—M. le President, I beg leave to
reply one word, for it is impossible that the discus-
sion can be closed in this manner. The Minister has
just spoken of insurrection; but has he defended
treaties—has he taken care that they should not be
forgotten ? Is it astonishing that a people who sees
all its rights violated should have recourse to arms ?
Will you deny that the Poles have been deceived, not
in their dreams or Utopias, but in the accomplish-
ment of destinies that have been formally promised ?
Can France be really brought to such a point that
whenever there is a struggle between right and
might she constantly takes part with the latter, de-
claring that those who revolt to obtain the execution
of solemn promises are insurgents destined to perish
miserably ?
"M. B aroche—The Government of the Emperor
has too much sense to give deceitful encouragement
to insurrectionary passions by any vain words ; and
it is too jealous of its e vol. dignity—of that of
France—to allow useless pbrases and vain protes-
tations to be repeated in the addresses of fifteen
consecutive years. (Applause,)
"The Marquis de Mortemart—l wish to say a
word about Greece and the Greek loan, part of
which has been guaranteed by France. The inte-
rest of this loan found a place in our financial laws
last year, and no one murmurs at this annual pay-
ment. I would ask whether the revolution which
has just occurred in Greece might not be an oppor-
tuniLy for claiming the payment of what Greece
owes us ? (Interruption.)
" Numerous Voices—And how are the I3reeks
to pay ?
" The Marquis de Mortemart—lt is true that
were France to make that claim it might not per-
haps be attended to. But, then, may we not claim
a territorial guarantee? The Eastern crisis will,
according to all appearances, end in the death of
the sick man: The French Government will no
doubt take measures to protect the interests of the
country. That will be better, I imagine, than re-
signing oneself to the sanction of a fait accompli.
The Eastern question may be easily terminated if
all the Powers imitate the frankness and disinte-
restedness of France.

" Paragraph 2 was then put to the vote and
adopted.
" The discussion was then again adjourned."

HOLLOWAY LITERARY INSTITUTE.--On Tuesday
eveningDr.Bradsbawgave a lecture at this institution
on "Food and Digestion." He commenced by exhibiting
and explaining large diagrams of the " fearfully and won-
derfully made" structure of the human frame, so admi-
rably constructed for the purpose of conveying nutritious
food to the vital organs of the body. The lecture realised
that great desideratum, the union of the useful and enter-
taining, though usually regarded as a dry and abstruse
theme. Being interspersed with anecdote and quotation,
its profound research and philosophical analysis were im-
bued throughout with an almost poetical glow of Can more
commmentary, and an eloquence not readily surpassed.
Its chief theme was that curse of an overwrought and
luxurious civilisation—indigestion—its preventives, its
cure, and its causes, whether attributable to excessive, de-
ficient, :or defective food, or to reckless addicti.on to
ardent spirits and tobacco, often conducing to morbiddneos
irri-
tability, delirium tremens, monomania, and even madness.
During the lecture Dr. Bradshaw introduced,, some
is the only
quo-
tations from. Horace, who says that theed
freeman and king, except
.when troubled withsag
indigestion -"
irds of Lady Macbeth,
and from Shakespere, who,
appetite tahnedwgohod digestion." On
Clarkson,w o occupied the pre.
unites " health with
moved3l..r a vote of thanks to Dr. Brad-
shaw.ts hi pre-
sident's nc
ss close
ho
rt the
re
um,
doing so he said the audience had been gratified
th goldenln
lecture. Its warnings deserved to be written
inwi—letaters of gold. !tderrved to win golden opinions ; and,
was a physician golden fee conferred on the com•
lain fact,unity instead of the latter conferring it on the physician.
Digestion being the theme, Dr. Bradshaw's professional
admonitions deserved to be marked, learned, and inwardly
digested." The vote of thanks, having been duly seconded,
was carried unanimously. Dr. Bradshaw briefly re-
sponded, and thus terminated a highly intellectual and
gratifying re-union.

THE TURKISH EXHIBITION.—We take the fol-
lowing from the Levant Herald of January 28:-
4 Since our hi st, the contributions of Saida, Beyrout, Seres,
Aiden, Silistria, and Roustchuk have been received. Of
these, the samples of produce and manufactured gocda
from Athens and Sexes are considered very inferior, and
telegraphic instructions have consequently been sent to the
kaiinakenis of both places to supplement them with such
further specimens as will save both one and the other
from positive discredit in the forthcoming display. A.
very pretty and ingenious steam engine has been sent
by a native inventor from Salonica, embodying some,
it is said, at least new, if not mechanically valuable, fea-
tures of construction. The native engineer of the Olte-
nitza screw corvette has also sent in a model of a marine
engine of very considerable merit and beauty of finish, while
from Silistria and Roustchuk a revolver and a six-shot rifle
of novel construction have been forwarded by Turkish in-
ventors. The guild of mother-of-pearl 'workers of Stam-
boul have contributed some very elaborate specimens of
their work; among others a bookcase very curiously orna-
mented with inlayings of great beauty and delicacy of exe-
cution. We are glad to learn that nine English agricultural
implement makers have applied for space, while only one
from France and another from Vienna are as yet in thecom-
petitive field against them. This is as it should be, consi-
dering our unapproached excellence of design and construe•
tion in every variety of agricultural mechanism."

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SUIT

LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 9, 1863.

As yet might has not prevailed against right.
Notwithstanding the determined tone of the news
from St. Petersburg, the hosts of Russia have not
summarily quelled the rebellion of the insurgents,
as they style it, others might call it the rising of
the patriots. The force which the Russians have
opposed to the Poles has been considerable ;
and yet, after the lapse of fifteen days, no
success has been attained by their army. The
long smouldering feeling has flamed forth, and it
is like" fettering flame with fl txen band" to attempt
to crush summarily the outpourings of a nation's
wrath. It is a satire on the management of the
Itussians that so desperate a cause should so prevail
and rally round its standard so considerable a body
of men. They have not succeeded, as they boasted
at first they would, in quelling on the spot all
revolutionary attempts, and as yet their victories
have been gainsaid by defeats, for as soon as we
hear of some advantage gained by the Imperial
arms, so soon do we also hear they have been check-
mated by those they have despised, till at last they
have been obliged to dread them. They find that
they have to encounter, not as they supposed a few
excited hundreds, but thousands of men in earnest,
armed with the courage of despair, and fighting in
the cause that has always been the foremost to send
dauntless hearts to the conflict, and maintain the
ground against all opponents. Pro aris et focis
has always been a watchword that lea the forlorn
hope, and fanned the expiring flame in the cause of
nations. It is, perhaps, only too certain how all
this may end. Russia has not deteriorated in
power or in energy since the time of the fatal over-
throw of Polish rights—

"When leagued oppression poured to Northern wars
Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars."
she has thousands to obey the beck and call of
the absolute EMPEROR, and now, AS then, it is to be
feared that the:blood of the patriota will deluge the
earth, crying from thence for vengeance from the
skies, but left unheeded and unminded by men who
prefer their own security and interest to troubling
themselves about the rights or wrongs of
ethers. However, the defeat of the Poles
will not be a victory for Russia. The
loss of the trampled-down outcasts will not be
gain to the ruthless invader, the heartless oppres-
sor who has trod down a nation beneath the iron
heel of conquest, utter).y regardless of the sorrow
and suffering, totally unmindful of the grievous
'Wrongs Which were inflicted upon the helpless
People who bore the curse of foreign invasion. The
cold and cruel world is roused from its apathy to
hear of Polish youths being dragged from their
bids at night, to eerie in
the ranks of the Tyrants ;
also to learn that those who are taken in revolt are
sent far away to pine in the wastes of Siberia over
their ravished homes and blasted country. Per •
haps shame may induce the Russians to concede
what conscience cannot; at all events they seem

_
try i r 4 to adop t some conciliatory measures, even now
in the thick of the fight, and while the air resounds
with the ciamlur of the c3rnage-field. Among other
things the EMPEROR has ordered that "all the
reports of the Polish Council of the Empire to the
Crown shall be in future in the Polish language."
Various other rumours are afloat, for whose au-
thenticity we cannot vouch, at present, as, for in-
stance, that there were already steps taken with a
view to introducing reforms into Poland. If this
be true, it is a pity that there was no candid friend
to tell the EMPEROR, when he authorised his Coun-
cil, that reform might, with advantage, begin at
home. At all events, for the present, the
Russians have ceased to levy the conscrip-
tion, and this, of itself, speaks volumes
of the effects that this obnoxious measure was known

o produce. It also testifies to the conviction of
the Russians that they had gone too far, and must
temporise with their outraged assailants. They are
not able to build a golden bridge for their retreat-
ing foes, but they wish, at all events, to smooth the
road to future mediation and compromise. Had
these concessions been made some time back they
would have been of great use ; but now they are
powerless, and totally insufficient to check the
progress of the rebelion, or to still the rage of the in-
surgents. It is one thing to make terms with men who
contemplate an insurrection, and another to stop
them when it has begun. By the time they are in
arms the primary motive which impelled them is
almost lost sight of in the hosts of accumulating
thoughts when once the field is taken and the cry
of war is sounded. BYRON, in his matchless de-
scription of the field of Waterloo, has celebrated
the onset of the Highlanders to battle,
and among the inducements that urged
on the warriors he brings forward " the
stirring memories of a thousand years." If this
incites men onwards, what memories must urge on
the Poles when once they have taken up the sword,
and met in open day the tyrants who have erased
their country from the map of the world, as far as
its existence as a State is concerned, and seem deter-
mined now to stultify the inhabitants of the out-
lawed nation. Whether or not, the insurgents are
put down without any important results being
obtained by their energy and devotion, at least
they have again appeared against their oppressors,
in the sight of GOD and man ; they have shown the
civilised world their wrongs, and if no notice is
taken of them outwardly, at least it must produce
some effect on the minds of their cruel
enemies at home. Even the haughty CZAR, the
Emperor of all the Russas, cannot afford to
lose more of the world's good opinion than he at
present possesses. What may accrue it is impos-
sible to conjecture, but it is to be trusted that some-
thing of good may be in store for this outraged
people. It is satisfactory to notice that this out-
break seems to have reached to the stronghold of
autocratic absolutism, and been regarded as of
momentous importance by the proud conquerors
who have lorded it for so long a period in that
afflicted land. We shall look eagerly for the next
telegrams from Poland, but whether or not they
announce success to the insurgents, it is not yet
decided whether some good may not come out of
evil, and let us hope that this bitter struggle may
be the dark hour that precedes the dawn, which,
under the blessing of Providence, may hereafter
turn to the morning of joy that succeeds to the
heaviness of the night of mourning and despair.

At a time when it is of great importance that '
the police, whether in the metropolis or in the
provinces, should receive every assistance from
the public generally, and from the working
classes particularly, to the end that the wide-
sp: ead crime of robbery with violence so preva-
lent of late throughout the length and
breadth of the land, to the great scandal of
our penal laws, should be put a stop to;
it is a great pity that the revival of an old
feudal law last session should be the cause of
gradually but surely widening the gulf which
must to some extent always exist between the ser-
vants of the law and those who, if not dishonest
themselves, look with not unfriendly eyes upon
those who transgress statutes which none
but county magistrates and game-preservers
consider to be criminal. Poaching has
ever been considered by those who are not
personally interested in the preservation of game,
as a trial of skill between gamekeepers and unli-
censed sportsmen, and except where wanton in.
jury is done, the feeling of the public is in favour
of the poacher. No unprejudiced individual will
for a moment maintain that any comparison can
be made between the man who enters an open wood
and shoots or snares wild animals which own no
master, however much Lord License or Squire
Turnip-top may call them his property, and the
thief who breaks open a fowl house and steals its
contents. Yet, whatever may be the opinion formed
by the public at large, the sages who ere supposed
to legislate for the good of the community in the
Palace of Westminster, last session passed a bill
which not only included under the head of
birds and beasts sacred to the shrine of
wealth and title, animals never before considered
game, but gave power to the police to stop and
search any person suspected of poaching, in fact
treat him as he would a footpad or a burglar.
The following is the wording of the act:—
"It shall be lawful for every constable or peace
officer, in any highway, street, or public place, to
search any person whom he may have good cause to
suspect of coming from any land where he shall
have been unlawfully in search or pursuit of game,
or any person aiding or abetting such person, and
having in his possession any game unlawfully ob-
tained, or any gun, part of gun, or nets, or
engines used for the killing or taking game;
and also to stop and search any cart or other
conveyance in or upon which such constable
or peace officer shall have good cause to suspect
that any such game or any such article or thing
is being carried by any such person ; and should
there be found any game or any such article
or thing as aforesaid upon such person, cart, or
other conveyance, to seize and detain such game,
article, or thing, and such constable or peace officer
shall, in such case, apply to some justice of the
peace for a summons citing such person to appear
before two justices of the Nees," Sze. The question
may justly be asked how can this be in a country
like England, which boasts of its advancement in
civilisation and the extension of the liberty of the
subject. We do not maintain that there should be
no protection for game ; the necessary restrictions
imposed on all classes alike to secure the birds from
destruction during the breeding season is a matter
of course; but why, because a country police
constable, either from his Own fauey, or
from malicious information given hi •
m by
some interested party, chooses to consider any
wayfarer a suspicious person, should the -law
empower him to stop and search such patty, and
by an ingenious perversion of English law shift the
onus probandi from the executive to the accused,
and make him prove how he became possessed of
any contraband of war, such as gun, net, &c., or
any kind of game. Really our contemporary
Punch, who always takes up popular controversies,
did not exceed the limits of possibility when he
depicted a picnic party surprised while preparing
to commence a pheasant pie by a rural policeman,
who indignantly exclaims, " Hallo ! what have you
got there ? " Let us hope that this obnoxious bill
will be reversed.
. Mr. PAULL has given
' notice that on an early day ho will
introduce a bill
•
en this subject. We trust
thst it
will have the effect of rectifying an error
of last session,
er lwhaitcih does little credit to the
good sense or ton
of
our legislative assembly.
ff there be one argument
nt in favour of the payment
of members less unreasonable than another, it would
be that it would introduce an element into the
House which, however objectionable in other re-
spects, would at least keep in check the selfish pro-
pensities of those who, however straightforward and
liberal in general affairs, forget it all, so soon as