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

The Late Lord Lansdowne.

Frances Browne, the blind poetess, in a graceful ditty to
the memory of the late Marquess, speaks, or rather sings of
him (in the Examiner of last Saturday) as—
A statesman above craft, a champion free
From party hate or bias, the true friend
Of men and nations, light and liberty,
Loved in his youth and followed to the end.
And at the close of her memorial lines says of him, very
beautifully,—
His life was like a long midsummer day
Which saw no shadow till its closing grey,
But went down warm and lovely to the last,
Made rich with memories of the sunshine past
And hopes toward a brighter morning cast.

Lord Lansdowne used to relate that when, after
Turner's death, he went to the artist's house, on a foggy
day, in the hope of getting a sight of his reserved works,
the old woman in charge, looking up through the area
railings, took him for the oat's-meat man, and told him he
needn't come again, since some rascal had stolen her cat.
Three days before Lord Lansdowne died, he was
Hinglake's " History of the In-
reading and discussing
vasion of the Crimea."
Although but a few days have elhpsed since his
death, it is said that the Correspondence of the late Marquis
of Lansdowne is being prepared for publication. It is Pro-
bable that his lordship commenced the work himself.

The Duchess of St. Albans and Lady Diana
Beauclerk and V;scount Falkland intend to return to town
on or about the 27th instant from the Continent.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde are
expected in town in a few days from Portumna Castle,
Galway.

The Earl and Countess of Tankervillo left town
on Saturday for Brampton Park, Huntingdonshire.
Lord and Lady William Powlott will leave town
on Wednesday for their residence at Bath.

A PROBLEM.—The Cincinnati Enquirer pro-
pounds a problem. If 1,530,000,000 dole., 400,000 lives, and
two years of war fail to take Richmond; how long will it
take, how much money will it cost, and how many lives
must be expended before we subjugate the seceding States ?

THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND,

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LEMBEG, Feb. 7.

Six thousand insurgents, under the command of
Baron Seidel, are said to have been beaten by the
Russian general, Mack, near Woucsozk.

Two battalions of peasants threw down their
muskets at the first fire.

Many of the insurgents dispersed, and are wan-
dering in the forests.
The Russians have set fire to the town of Wouc-
sozk.

CRACOW, Feb. 7,

Yesterday evening the insurgents attacked Gra-
nice, Sosnowice, and Modezejow, upon the frontier
between Poland and Prussia. The Russians were
defeated, losing 49 killed and wounded.

Feb. 8.

The number of persons joining the insurgents
continually increases. The Polish portion of the
Warsaw and Vienna Railway is in the power of
the insurgents. Three thousand of them are in the
immediate neighbourhood of Myslowitz.
The news of the victory of the Russians over the
insurgents near Woucsozk is confirmed The na-
tional Government of Sandomir has been suspended.
WARSAW, Feb. 5.

General Ramsay has been relieved of the com-
mand in chief of the Russian troops in the king-
dom, as stated in the decree, in consequence of an
attack of apoplexy. His successor, Gen. Samukin,
is already upon his way to Warsaw from St. Pe-
tersburg.
Feb. 7.

The news of a great battle near Wouesozk, and
the defeat of the insurgents with great loss, is con •
firmed. No official report of the battle, has, how-
ever, yet been received.
BRESLAU, Feb. 7.

Sosnowice. a town upon the Russian frontier,
opposite Kaltowitz, the seat of a custom-house, and
only feebly garrisoned, tas beeu taken by the in-
surgents after a sanguinary conflict.
Feb. 8.

The Schlessische Zestung of to-day says :
" According to reliable information, matters in
Poland are so serious that a tattalion of Prussian
infantry has been forwarded to the frontier to-day,
by special train from Oppeln.

" Other special trains have been ordered to be
got in readiness to-day."
The Breslauer Zeitung of to-day publishes a tele-
gram from Myslowitzrdated Feb. 7, 10 p.m., which
says:—

"Fugitive Russian troops are arriving here in
great numbers ; 500 of them have been disarmed.
"The neighbouring provincial district has been
totally cleared of the Russian military by the insur-
gents, who have a large number of c-tvalry."

Accounts from Warsaw and other sources of in-
formation supply details of the progress of the Peolish
revolt up to the 3d inst., at which date the impres-
sion in the neighbouring countries was that the
insurrection was increasing, and that the most ener-
getic measures on the part of the Russian Govern-
ment were necessary to restore order. A corre-
spondent of4the Breslau Gazette says :
" Very little official information is published from
the province of Augustowo, where, however, the
contest between the Government troops and the in-
surgents is most intense. It is notorious that at
Lapy, a station near Bialystok, the insurgents are
surrounded by regular intrenchments, composed of
the stonework of the place. Lapy is the principal
depot of the railway from Warsaw to Wilna, as the
Government, with a view to the preventive system,
on the building of the railway, would not allow the
factory and depot to be so near Warsaw, as, in the
event of a revolt, they might possibly fall into the
hands of the insurgents, and thus the communica-
tion with St. Petersburg might be interrupted. The
insurgents, however, have taken the works, and,
besides having thoroughly destroyed the means of
communication behind them, they have fortified
themselves in the place, and, with unexampled ac-
tivity, have set to work to manufacture weapons,
which are principally sent to Wilna. A similar as-
semblage of insurgents is between Biala and
Luckowo, whither, as also to Lapy, strong detach-
ments of imperial troops are continually being sent'
The semi-official Austrian correspondence brings
the following information :
" Almost all the Russian frontier guards in Poland
have been disarmed by the insurgents without
bloodshed, yet a sanguinary conflict has taken place
at Krzeszow. There are no Russian military till
deep within the interior of the country, as they
have retired to &mese. Although nobles and citi-
zens have up to the present time participated in the
revolt, the country people remain generally passive.
The greatest terrorism is exercised by the insur-
gents, as they compel persons either to surrender
arms, or to contribute money to the revolutionary
funds. In consequence of this pressure many mo-
derately-inclined nobles and Jews have taken flight
to Galicia. At Lublin a number of recruits were
taken from their guards by the insurgents, and the
rest of the body were liberated by the Russians.
The recruiting there has ceased."
Respecting the attempt to poison, the Margrave
Wielopolski, it is stated that after dinner the
margravine and her children, as well as several
servants, found themselves unwell, and the medical
men who were called in declared that belladonna
had been mixed with their food. The margrave
himself did not suffer in the least. In the evening
the Grand Duke Constantine and the Grand
Duchess visited the margiave and his family to
express their sympathy.
The official journal of Warsaw continues to pub-
lish details of engagements with the insurgents
in
different parts of the country, in which, of comae,
the military are almost invariably victorious.
A correspondent of the Berlin National Zeitung,
writing
on 3d inst., says—
"A considerable number of
insurgents are assem-
bled at Wonehocko, in the government of Radom.
A traveller, who arrived here yesterday furnished
with a pass from the Provisionary Government,
states that 20,000 men are concentrated there, and
that they are constantly receiving weapons from
Galicia. He saw two waggon loads of these
arms himself. The official reports of the Dziennik
naturally do not agree with the private intelligence
received. In the town of Opoczno 2,500 insurgents,
among whom were 500 horsemen, after driving out
the Russians, have taken up their quarters, under
the direction of Colonel Legocki, who has served
under Garibaldi. The town authorities paid him
becoming honours, and a crowd of peasants flocked
to his standard. Some intelligence that has been
received respecting the plundering of the post-offices
is not entirely correct. Nothing is known of a
certain Frankowski, a leader of the insurgents, who
is stated to have given receipts for the money
stolen, and the central committee cannot dtscover
the thieves. The post-carriage from Lodz was
plundered by the conductor himself, and all this was
put down to the account of the Provisionary Go-
vernment. However, the bank at Lodz, a branch
of the Warsaw bank, has been visited by the insur-
gents. They ordered the books to be laid before
them by the cashier, and, atter an inspection of the
figures, they gave him receipts for 19,600 roubles,
which they appropriated. They then went to the
chief of the commercial community, and desired him
to deliver up the arms belonging to the Government
and deposited with him for the service of the rifle
club. Two hundred arms were thus found, and re-
ceipts were given for them. M. Kraszewski, the
Polish Dumas, has received an order to quit the
country, and his passport has been handed to him.
He will go to Dresden. His banishment has beer.
occasioned by a correspondence with the Dziennik
Poznanski It is stated that a proclamation wilt
soon be issued by the grand dake urging the people
to maintain peace and order under threats of severe
treatment. Warsaw is still perfectly quiet."
Another communication from Warsaw contain:
the following:—
" The insurgents seek to colnpletely cut off the
Russians in Warsaw from all communication with
other
all means of transport, so far as they are not
pieces, and therefore endeavour to destroy
useful to themselves. The partial destruction
(
of our three railways.rom St. Petersburg,
Vienne, and Bromberg), es well as the telegraphic
ig still continued. Tito most leant event of
his kind is the demolition of the b-ric;ge over the
Him near Bialobizegy, on the Road from Warsaw

to Radom, the building of which costa considerable
sum of money only a few years ago. A slam t time
since three Russian couriers came into Warsaw
together, having left St. Petersburg at intervals of
three days from one another. They had come by
different routes, and had all experienced some diffi-
culty in making their way, as the railways were
impracticable."

In addition to the account of a stoppage of a train
mentioned a few days since, the Breslau Gazette
furnishes the following particulars of a similar oc-
currence:—

"Passengers just arrived by the train from War-
saw state that at about two versts from that city
they were met by a strong body of insurgents.
Their leader, some minutes before the train ap-
proached, intimated to the driver by signals that he
must stop, and the followers of the leader gave
weight to this expression of his desires by pointing
their revolvers at the train, which was halted in
consequence of this threatening demonstration,
when three of the insurgents mounted the locomo-
tive, and intimated to the driver their wish that he
should pi oceed so far as they required. When they
arrived at the fourth station this side of Moscow
(the train having passed some stations without
stopping), the driver announced that he could pro-
ceed no further for want of water. The insurgents
acceded to his wishes, but befors the driver had
taken in as much water as he needed the leader of
the band ordered him to proceed. On arriving at
Skiemiewice, nine miles this aide of Warsaw, the
insurgents, who had ridden in the different carriages
amongst the passengers, left the train. They were
about 100 in number, and amongst them were some
of the better classes of Poles, all well armed."