The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-01 00:00:00

BEETON'S PUBLICATIONS.

Mr. Beeton's monthly budget adapts itself to the
taste of a varied class of readers. We have first
the continuation of the beautifully got up Illumi-
nated Bible, which is now approaching the conclu-
sion of the Old Testament. Then there is the Eng-
lishwoman's Domestic Magazine, a marvel of utility
and cheapness ; the Boy's Own Magazine, the Boy's
Penny Hugazinc, and the Curiosities of Savage Life,
for the denizens of the schoolroom or rather of the
playground; the Dictionary of Universal Informa-
tion, and the Book of Home Games. All these vary-
ing serials are conducted with unflagging spirit,
and will be welcomed by their several kinds of
readers.

Cardinal Wiseman on Roman Catholic

Churches and Schools.

One of our morning contemporaries gives the fol-
lowing pastoral as read in all the Catholic churches
yesterday :
" The many extraordinary occupations which press upon
us at this moment, in addition to our usual unfailing duties,
prevent our addressing you at such length as we should
have desired on occasion of our usual Trinity Sunday col-
lection.

" Its object, as you well know, is the erection of churches
and schools ; and it forms the almost exclusive resource in
our arch diocese for this purpose. And the day appointed
for it has been well selected, since thus we place under the
divine patronage of the holy and undivided Trinity, one
God, that which is directly intended for the preaching and
the teaching of those sublime mysteries and thosQ eternal
truths which God the Father has revealed to us through
His only begotten son, Jesus Christ, and confirmed by the
grace of their co-equal Suirit, the divine Paraclete."

Atter dwelling on the benefits which the early Roman
Catholic Church had conferred on humanity, by extending
civilisation, preserving the learning, arts, and sciences of the
ancients, diffusing knowledge, and above all by maintaining
in their pristine purity the great truths of primitive Chris-
tianity--the pastoral went on to insist on the necessity of a
firm belief in the teachings of the Church, and the vainness
of attempting to teat or refute them by the light of mere
human reason. It then proceeds to say :
" The duty of the Catholic Church is the same in the in-
tellectual nineteenth century as it was in the third or the
tenth. She must as faithfully preserve and as carefully
transmit the treasure of her traditions. And, therefore, if
she have the same guarantees and safeguards now as ever,
she must employ the same means. She must deliver to
little ones the truths which she taught to their fathers; she
must nourish her flock, old and new, with the same bread
of doctrine and the same food of grace. She must in other
words, have schools for her education and churches for her
worship and preaching. The lambs and the sheep of her
fold must be assiduously and tenderly cared for. But then
that flock increases in almost in every place, not only by
conversion, but, so to speak, by discovery. There are re-
gions hidden from sight in this metropolis which have to be
explored, and when they are explored they are found rich in
souls, but unfortunately uncultivated ones, which require
new attention, and consequently additional resources.

" Thank God that it is so dearly beloved ; and be not dis-
mayed by the additional burdens which this his mercy in.-
poses on you. For what shall we do? Shall we abandon
these thousands of poor creatures, redeemed by the most
precious blood of our divine Redeemer, to certain perdition
from want of timely succour ? God forbid I And you your-
selves would forbid it even to be thought. We know that
you rejoice with us, when you hear of a new church being
opened, an additional convent being created, a fresh mission
undertaken. And you know that generally your joy will be
taxed by new claims upon your charity, and still you rejoice
and ask for more of this expensive luxury, and encourage
us to do still more.

" But, as the Apostle tells us that the husbandman shall
taste the fruit of his labour to be so encouraged to further
work, we will venture to place before you a few statistics of
our material progress in the course of somewhat more than
a twelvemonth, including last year and what is past of this.
In 1859 we pzesented you a fuller retrospect of a longer
period, but we will only refer back to it to remark that at
least three missions which were there mentioned as depen-
dencies, or offshoots of others, have since been planted out,
and are growing up alone.
" 1. Within the short period, however, just mentioned,
there have been built from their foundations, with one ex-
ception of purchase but subject to the necessity of almost
re- construction, six entirely new churches—the German,
the Italian, and those in Ogle-street, Great Ormond-street,
Hendon, and at the Franciscan Convent in Bayswater.
" 2. Four have been greatly enlarged ; an additional
aisle has been added to the churches of Hackney and the
Holy Family ; the chapel of Walthamstow has been more
than doubled ; that of Ingatestone is being considerably
increased."

After referring to the schools and convents that have
been finished during the past year, the Cardinal goes on to
say—

" In all these works, to the enumeration of which it would
be premature to add others existing yet only in promise or
good intentions, we have to acknowledge gratefully the aid
of most munificent benefactions. We feel that we should
only be paining the delicacy, and perhaps restraining the
charity of generous givers to God and His poor by attracting
individual attention towards them. May God reward them,
las He only can. But do yeu, dearly beloved children, pray
earnestly for them that our merciful Lord will ' repay to all
our benefactors, for His name's sake, eternal life.' Nor
must we omit to recommend to your prayers and support
that magnificent institution, the French Propagation of the
Faith, without whose repeated and generous benefactions
we must candidly own that we should often have been re-
duced to great straits.
" Our contributions last Trinity Sunday amounted to
£395 19s. 2d.
" Alas T. what is this among so many that need help ?
You will easily see how far beyond this feeble aid have been
the exigencies of the diocese. We fear that a false reputa-
tion of the wealth of the metropolis, and exaggerated reports
of its ecclesiastical resources, deprive us of much sympathy
and assistance, which dig for themselves other channels.
Now, though most sincerely rendering our hearty thanke to
many who, having great obligations to discharge at home,
kindly and munificently contribute to our charities here,
let us remark that the number of resident rich is small in
London compared with the immense crowd of its poor and
oZi_t.e. Of these we have far beyond the proportion in
place:, aeand
iai wi e need, therefore, much exteinal aid.
we i\V„,,hitZeWfo:ce,
hin the name' of Holy and undivided Trinity,
largely
and with ro t you ay,
ygnodheart to the collection made on the
divine sst we conjure you to contribute
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GREAT NORTHERN SOgpITAL,G I S CROSS.--
Number of patients for the week endiKlN
May 30, 1,046,
which 378 were new cases. of
THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A FRENCH GENTLE-
MAN IN THE ClTY.—tipon. inquiry yesterday it was found
that Mons. Hypolite Linde, the French gentleman whod
attempted to commit suicide at Fiveash's Hotel some short
time back, has sufficiently recovered as to allow of his
remov-1 from the hospital. He is still very weak, one of
the bullets having passed through his lungs, rendering his
recovery uncertain. On removal from the hospital, after
sonic slight investigation, he was handed over to the care
of his friends, who, it is stated, have had him conveyed to
the Continent.

THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND.

(From the Correspondent of the Times.)

CRACOW, May 24.
Authentic news from Lithuania is not received here
very regularly. By the last reliable accounts there
were ten detachments in the province or " govern-
ment" of Kovno. Among the names of the chiefs
many of great distinction are mentioned. In seve-
ral districts proprietors, peasants, and persons of
all classes had joined the insurrection. Jablonowski,
finding himself at the head of a band of 2,000 strong,
had divided it into three. The Abbe Mackiewicz,
in a hand-to-hand engagement, in which the Rus-
sians lost 50 men and an ammunition waggon, had
led the sithe company of his detachment in person.
The gallant ecclesiastic afterwards "abolished the
Russian Government" throughout one district.
In the province of Grodno the insurrection was
general, and all the marshals of the nobility and
justices of the peace had resigned—according to some
dno o n lyLi according to others, of
a later
date, iu
throughoutGmthuania. Thus, all the
independent cfficials, elected or nominated from
statements,among the landed proprietors, had abandoned the
Government. Even the Russian civil functionaries
were being lc-placed in some localities by military
officers.

In the province of Minsk each district was send-
ing a fixed number of me❑ to join the insurrection.
In Mohilew (or .Mogilcff) a general levy had like-
wise been ordered, and a considerable body of in-
surgents had beaten the Russians just outside
Orsza, and pursued them and driven them from the
town with great loss. Orsza was afterwards occu-
pied by the Poles, and the National Government
proclaimed.

Let the reader unversed in the geography of
Mohilew (or Mogileff) look at the map, and he will
find Ors.za on the Dnieper, at about an equal dis-
tance from the capital of the province and from the
Russian city of Smolensk, and not more than 30 or
40 miles from the boundary of the Smolensk pro-
vince. Mohilew was annexed to Russia ac the first
partition, in 1772. It is the most astern of the
Lithuanian provinces, and if there is one town in
ancient Poland which might have been expected
more than another to have become Russian (were
such a chance possible at all) that town is certainly
Orsza, situated as it is close to the frontiers of the
Russian empire, and on the high road to Smolensk
and Moscow.

In several places between Orsza and Kieff the in-
surrection has appeared on the right bank of the
Dnieper. Looking, however, not from north to
south, but from east to west, and from the Dnieper
to the Baltic, we find that Orsza is connected by
insurrection with Polanga, and between Orsza and
Polanga and across the extensive provinces of
Wilna and Kovno one insurrectionary chain ex-
tends. News, by the way, has been received of the
appearance of a new band of insurgents near Po-
langa. They were well armed, and were supposed
to have arrived by sea, though it was also rumoured
that they had marched from the interior to the coast
in order to cover a disembarcation of troops and
ammunition expected from day to day.

On the borders of Courland and Livonia " Dab-
lenge" (a pseudonym, probably derived from
" Bahlen," a village or township on the Dwina) has
been badly wounded, and worse still, has fallen into
the hands of the Russians—for nearly all the Polish
chiefs who bear pseudonyms have served in the Rus-
sian army, or have other equally forcible reasons for
concealing their identity. The Czas states that
" Dahlengo" is Captain or Colonel Sierakowski.
Next to Narbutt he was the most skilful and enter-
prising, and also the most popular of all the Lith-
uanian commanders. Nevertheless, he appears at
the last moment to have been deserted by his men.
He had been shot, and, like Narbutt, was being car-
ried, when the Russians pressed round him in over-
whelming force, and, making it their sole aim to
take him prisoner, succeeded before long in accom-
plishing their object. Seriakowski's supporters may
have done all that could be expected of them in the
ordinary way of fighting, but those who bore Nar-
butt died rather than forsake their chief.
The Northern Post, the journal of the Russian
Ministry of the Interior, announces that companies
of neasants are to be formed in the western provinces
(that is to say, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, and
the Ukraine), " for the protection of life and pro-
perty." The destruction of life and property is the
real object with which those companies are being
got together, if we may judge by the performances
of the banditti organised by the Government in
Livonia—who, by the way, have not only not been
punished, but have actually been rewarded and
publicly thanked for their "loyalty." A recent
number of the Czas contained the names of upwards
of 20 mansions and estates destroyed and devastated
by the infuriated raskolniki. The proprietors of
these estates are, many of them, well known in Cra-
cow, and it is notorious here that they were beaten,
severely wounded, tied hand and foot, and carried
or driven, bound and bleeding, to the railway sta-
tion, whence they were sent on to Dunaburg, to be
further punished by imprisonment for having ex-
cited the suspicions and ill-will of the Russian colo-
nists. Several priests and some twenty justices of
the peace were treated in this manner. It does not
appear that many of the persons attacked were
killed outright. Two gentlemen, however, were
burnt to death in a house to which the raskolnikt
set fire, after vainly endeavouring to take it by
storm; and a maid-servant, who had defended her
mistress with great courage, had her throat cut,
An old man of 70 had his arms tied behind him so
tightly as to dislocate them. In being driven towards
the railway station those who from loss of blood and
the manner in which they were chained could
scarcely walk were beaten to make them go faster.

The victims of these outrages are still confined,
to the number of 400, in the castle of Dunaburg.
Around Warsaw the insurrection gains at least as
much as it has lost in the vicinity of the Austrian
and Russian frontiers. A week or two since a band
of insurgents dispersed a Russian force near Warsaw
and pursued it within eight miles of the city. The
country about Rawa is still iu the hands of the Poles,
and the Russian detachments between Rawa and
Warsaw, and also in the vicinity of Praga, on the
other side of the river, are said to be continually
on the alert.

MAY 25.

A Government despatch has been received here
giving news of a formidable insurrection around
Kaminiec-Podolski, the capital of Podolia. Hitherto
the existence of the Podolian insurrection has
been positively denied by the Austrian official jour-
nal published at Lemberg. There are still no let-
ters of importance from either Volhynia, Podolia,
or the Ukraine of a later date than the 17th, up to
which time it may be fairly said that in Podolia no
rising of any magnitude seemed to have taken place.
It is equally certain that in the last-named province
the Polish movement is now assuming considerable
proportions. In the three provinces, together form-
ing one vast flat territory nearly twice as large as
the Congress-kingdom, the Russians have scarcely
45,000 men. Whence will they draw the reinforce-
ments which they must certainly send to this most
highly-prized portion of all the Polish soil subjected
to their rule ? Not from the districts in the King-
dom which adjoin Galicia—for fresh expeditions are
on the point of leaving Cracow to try the force of
the Russians in those parts; not from Lithuania,
where the insurrection goes on increasing, if not in
intensity, at least in extent, and where large num-
bers of troops have to be kept near the coast to pre-
vent a landing, which, if the coast were quite clear,
and the weather were rather foggy, might be effected
at any time. Certainly not from Warsaw, where
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