The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, -JULY 13, 1863,

29, taken possession of by Gen. Schenck, for rea-
sons detailed in the following order :
" Headquarters Middle Department, Eighth Army
Corps, Baltimore, June 27.
" Special Order.--There is an association existing in the
City of Baltimore known as the ' Maryland Club.' The
meetings of this body, and of those who frequent its rooms,
or are entertained by its members, take place at a building
on the corner of Franklin and Charles streets. Departing
from the original character and purposes of its institution,
this club has for a long time past degenerated into a resort
for those who are disaffected toward the Government. hos-
tile to its legally constituted authorities, and who give
countenance, encouragement, and aid to the unnatural and
causeless rebellion by which our institutions and national
integrity are sought to be overthrown. So dangerous and
mischievous an association cannot be permitted longer to
maintain this attitude in a loyal community, The ' Mary-
land Club' is therefore suspended, and its house of meeting
taken possession of and closed. In the execution of the
order, the names of all persons found in the building, and or
all who belong to the association, and of all who habitually
frequent it, will be taken, and an inventory will be made of
the property and records or papers of the association, and
the same held subject to future orders.

"By command of Major-General SCHENCK.
" Don Platt, Lieut.-Colonel and Chief of Staff."
The following order has been issued by General
Banks at Port Hudson:--

" Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, 19th Army
Corps, before Port Hudson, June 15.
" The Commanding-General congratulates the troops
before Port Hudson upon the steady advance made upon
the enemy's works, and is confident of an immediate and
triumphant issue of the contest. We are at all points upon
the threshold of his fortifications. One more advance, and
they are ours. For the last duty that victory imposes, the
Commanding-General summonses the fieldmen of the corps
to the organisation of a storming column of 1,000 men, to
vindicate the flag of the Union and the memory of its de-
fenders who have fallen. Let them come forward. Officers
who lead the column of victory in the last assault may be
assured of just recognition of their services by promotion;
and every officer and soldier who shares its perils and its
glory shall receive a medal fit to commemorate the first
grand success of the campaign of 1863 for the freedom of
the Mississippi. His name shall be placed in general orders
upon the roll of honour. Division commanders will at once
report the names of the officers and men who may volunteer
for this service, in order that the organisation of the column
may be completed without delay.
" By command of Major-General BANKS.
" Richard B. Irwin, Assistant-Adjutant-General.'

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Russian troops, who are no more " demoralized" in
Volhynia than they were in the Crimea, and who
can certainly make as good a stand against a horde
of Polish ragamuffins as they did against the well-
trained soldiers of France and England ? At the
risk of diminishing the distant glories of what is
called the Volhynian insurrection, I cannot
help saying, simply from sympathy for the
courageous and devoted men who have been killed,
wounde,', or, if not wounded in a physical sense,
utterly disheartened by the result of the Galli-
clan invasion, that this attempt to bring a rising
about in a province where it was next to im-
possible was utterly unjustifiable. The Poles would
have undoubtedly a right to try and get back
their ancient provinces by force from the Russians
if they had any chance of succeeding in such an en-
deavour. But the chances of success were not sim-
ply more or less against them; it was a positive
certainty that they would fail, and fail in the most
disastrous manner. If they had taken Radziwilow
they could not have held it. If they had marched
into the interior they would soon have been sur-
rounded and cut to pieces. If, before coming to that
inevitable end, they had got a number of Polish
proprietors to join them, then the peasants would
have been let loose, and we should have heard of
fresh massacres and of emancipated Ruthenian serfs
proving their love for Poland by flaying and cut-
ting out.the eyes of Poles.
Even if Volhynia had been eager for insurrection,
whereas, as far as I can learn from the statements
of half-a-dozen proprietors from different parts of
the province, the general wish was that it should
be lot alone, and be allowed to limit its part in the
Polish movement to paying a very large portion of
the expenses—even then the men who were sent
into Volhynia were, taking them altogether, quite
unfit for the difficult and dangerous work assigned
to them, and any man with eyes could have seen at
a glance that many of them were fit for nothing in
the world.
"I thought," said one of Wysocki's captains to
me, when I went to see him in the hospital at Brody,
where he is lying with a bullet in his leg, " I thought
I should have found the same sort of men fighting
here that I found in Hungary when I was in the
Polish Legion. It was too bad to give me such
rubbish to command."

"If you could have seen your men beforehand,"
I inquired, " would you have left England and your
wife and family to take charge of such soldiers?"

"Of course not," he replied. "It is no use try-
ing to lead men who cannot be got to follow. I was
not merely disappointed, but disgusted, when I saw
what material I bad to deal with."
" What class of men had you in your company ?"
I continued. "Do you think I could call them vaga-
bonds ?"

" Well, they were covered with lice, and were the
sort of persons that you might find in swarms for
any sort of work in Whitechapel. I should think
' vagabonds' just the word for them."
"And how long did they remain under fire ?" I
asked. " Only for a few minutes. I was hit about
20 minutes after the battle had begun, and already
half my company had got away. I had only 40 men
left. I believe they all wandered into the woods
and dispersed as soon as I was carried to the rear.
People will be abusing the General," he went on to
say, " but he did his best, and the officers did their
best to support him.
The first and fourth com-
panies were the only ones that did any real fighting.
The others had so many bad men among them that,
taken altogether, they were quite worthless."
Another distinguished officer, who had fought in
all the great Italian battles, from Novara to Solfe-
rino, and who triad to the last to persuade himself
that the men he had to lead to the invasion of Vol-
hynia might turn out first-rate soldiers, said to me
rather sadly a few minutes before crossing th© fron-
tier—" This does not remind me much of the Italian
War of ledepencience, with the Borromei and the
members of all the greatest families in the country
serving in the ranks. However, I must do what I
can"—and he certainly did what he could, and what
few other men would have been able to do.
A
srnecoeiovneedwahuoy pay it is rather difficult, at first
part in the Galician expedi-
tion
thought, to understand why any but true patriots
jeined it. It eeerned to me at Cracow, at Lemberg,
and at various country houses in Eastern Galicia,
where I met insurgents under orders for Volhynia,
that Wysocki would have an army under his orders
really worthy of the name ; that the soldiers would
men who bad proved their worth
be of the same class or classes as the great bulk of
our volunteers, while I knew that the officers were
Italy, but for their own native
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composed, however small, might
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and who were now about to fight,
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larger force; but I had reckoned
not for Hungary or
ragamuffins who met my eyes for the
land. A force so
vened amuck
of London life, remarked, they
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These
the
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anywhere—though, as Captain..._.
have done great things. It
no one sees
Aout in the
may be hunted slums of Whitechapel,
with a fine knowledge
end I think might also be discovered in the haunts
of the vcturiens who infest the Parisian faubourgs.
They were es, their
About pay, certainly, but then
great object is not to grow rich, it is simply to live
idte. As for the danger, there is no danger
in going
into battle if you can keep in a wood and run away
directly the firing begins. They receive money, too,
for their travelling expenses; are privileged and
ereeescul be
zaare
often very see- ' ' ee --- ; are provided
week
after week and month after month with
gratuitous
lodging, food, drink, and tobacco ; are supplied
with
boots and shirts, which, when they run away, they
are not expected to return, and 1,
a together lead the
kind of life which a mean and cowardly " vaga-
bond" would enjoy. If these are the men whom
their superiors in Galicia are obliged to engage to
do the bloody work of the Polish insurrection, then
the Polish insurrection must have fallen very low
in the estimation of the Galiciansa
) whatever they
may say and write on the subject. Between the
Galician rabble who betrayed their officers before
Radziwilowf and who now accuse Gen.
Wysocki of
having betrayed them, and the 12 Lithuanian
gen-
tlemen who supported the wounded Narbutt in front
of the battle until he and they were shot down,
there is just the difference which exi • sts between
baseness and heroism of the Lithu •
amens in general.
No one says that the Galicians are bound to endea-
vour to drive the Russians out of Volhynia: but if
they make the attempt they
becoming manner, and, for the sake of the men who
mean to fight, abstain frota sending as their sup-
Porters men who are not likely to d
run away. To aim at excitingse anything but
'a i an insurrection in
Volhynia n any manner
was, however, about as
kind an action to the
Polish inhabitants of those
provinces as it would be to a child oppressed by a
giant to excite him to rise •
against his oppressor.

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back at the cattle fair of P!'gany (Charente). A
panic, the cause of NO.' h is
sudden
idcunexplained, suddenly
seized upon the whole of
nearly 300 bullocks a the horned cattle at the fair, and
:dd cows, bellowing with fury, rushed
about, trampling tinder foot men, women, and children.
TWentY" eight 'persons were more or less seziously injured,
one woman, having her face badly torn and an eye fotced
out by a, bullock's horn.
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS;

SATURDAY .REVIEW.—About May or June, if
country cousins are to be believed, a distressing ail-
ment makes its appearance among the select throng
which calls inself the fashionable world of London.
The delicate mechanism of the human eye under-
goes a periodical derangement. What may be the
precise nature and seat of this ocular malady we
must leave the faculty to determine. The symptoms,
to a casual observer, resemble those of intermittent
ophthalmia, or, perhaps, still more, those of colour-
blindness. For want of a more technical term, let
us call it person-blindness. The retina on which
all external forms and shapes are usually imprinted
wi►_h equal distinctness becomes suddenly incapaci-
tated for reflecting a whole class of persons. Sup-
pose, for instance, that a male patient, young and
handsome, and exquisitely gloved and boated, is
taking a canter down Rotten-row, or lounging
over the rails where Privilege, inclining itself at an
obtuse angle, pays an easy afternoon homage to its
fair friends. The chief features of the surround.
ing scenery will remain unmistakably visible to
him. Neither the Duk;.-.'s statue, nor Gibraltar, nor
the Serpentine, is clouded by a temporary eclipse.
Nor is the sufferer's power of recogising certain
persons impaired. He can discern at a glance the
reigning beauty of the day, as she flashes by in her
well-appointed barouehe. He can single out of the
well-dressed crowd his own fashionable associates.
But only let his eye light on some countenance,
glowing with a fresh colour,and redolent of buttercups
and hay fields, and all becomes a blank. There is
a sudden collapse of the visual organs. The eye
which just now sparkled with intelligence has lost
all speculation, and kindles with none of the tokens
of recognition
So thick a drop serene hath quenched its orbs,

Or dim suffusion veiled.
Probably that countenance belonged to some nice
gushing young lady with whom he has danced and
flirted at a county ball, or to some good fellow with
whom he has ridden, and cricketed, and sung comic
songs, but whose notions on dress are yet in their
infancy. In either case, it will become suffused with
a flush of mortification at being so coolly ignored. If
is never pleasant to be reminded of one's own in-
significance, whether by the crushing sublimity of
an Alpine solitude or the equally crushing se bli-
mity of a London dandy—eparticularly when, within
a certain radius a hundred miles from Hyde Park
Corner, you are endowed with a personality which
cannot be overlooked. The English country parish
is usually a sort of miniature Japan, with its lay
emperor, the squire, and its spiritual emperor, the
rector, and to belong to the family of either mag-
nate, the:parochial Tycoon or Mikado, is apt to breed
in the mind a self-important habit of thinking. The
young yeople from the Hall or Rectory feel, there-
fore, peculiar disgust when their cousin in the
Guards or Circumlocution Office passes them in the
Park with the same impassive stare with which he
surveys the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens.
They feel, also, a stinging consciousness of look-
ing very foolish ; for at sight of the well-known
features they have probably been betrayed into a
smile, or gesture of recognition, which fails to
elicit any response. It is always bad economy to
waste one's sweetness on the desert air, but there is
something particularly aggravating in being de-
tected nodding into infinite space.
SPECTATOR.—The origin of the Kensington job,
of the Horticultural Gardens, of recent fetes, of the
plan for a West-end Cremorne, and of the much
larger ideas which are to be " developed according
to the assistance received from the public," is the
Commission of 1851, That body, having the assist-
ance of the Prince Consort, whose name is now used
so incessantly by men without a tithe either of his
ability or his moderation, was as successful as the
Commission of 1862 has been the reverse. They
made money fast, and they used it shrewdly. Their
profit on the Exhibition amounted to some
£lBO,OOO, and, aided by Government with a grant
of £1475,000 more, and compulsory powers of pur-
chase, they laid hands on a tract of land which
proved an excellent investment. So rapidly has its
value risen that, after selling the site of the South
Kensington Museum for £40,000 below its value,
and the building site for £140,000 under the price
obtainable for the fee simple—which the country,
however, has not obtained—they are, by Mr. Lowe 's
confession, in possession of £300,000 more, and a
reversionary right to the Horticultural Gardens,
worth, should they ever be abandoned, at least as
much again. There are twenty-two acres of them,
saleable at least at £15,000 an acre after all en-
cumbrances are cleared off. Those figures imply
an immense success, and it is simply ridiculous to
abuse the Commission for a display of business
faculty which, in an individual or a body owning
estates, would .be considered worthy of all com-
mendation. Bishop Blomfield has been praised
to the skies for management less supremely
successful, and when Mr. Gladstone men-
tioned that the Governors of Bartholomew's added
15 per cent. annually to the value of their estates,
country gentlemen listened with faces glistening
with awe and envy. But the possession of this
large sum has tempted the Commission to assume a
position in which they have become as great a nui-
sance as if they had been an ancient charitable
trust. The money cannot be divided, or applied to
the National Debt, or left idle, or even—to the
credit of the Commission be it spoken—eaten up in
dinners. It must, unless Parliament otherwise
decide—and that by Act, not resolution—be applied
to purposes connected with science and art ; and so
the Commission, conscious of funds, and egged on
by peop'e who are most of them sincere alike in
their wish to propagate Taste and to live by the now
evangel they preach, have set themselves up as a
kind of quasi-official department devoted to the
furtherance of projects which are sometimes genuine
plans, and sometimes only jobs. The Kensington
Museum is of the former kind. It is an excellent
collection, which may be made better, which has
been lodged in a bad but large and inexpensive
building, and which is very fairly attended by the
people, whose trustees the Commissioners are. If
Museums are useful at all, as the experience of
civilised men seems to prove, the abuse poured on
that particular Museum is absurd. The Horticul-
tural Gardens, on the other hand, are, we fear, of
the latter and baser sort. The garden is a wretched
Sahara of a place, as bare as Kensal-green, too near
the London smoke, and entirely useless to the
people, whose rights have been acknowledged in
the gratis admission to the Museum. The money
came partly from sixpences, partly from a Parlia-
mentary grant, and both considerations ought to
have prevented the greed and exclusiveness from
which the managers cannot be exonerated.
LONDON REVIEW.—Mr. Roebuck is as good a
sensation member as could readily be found. The
daring defiance he addresses to the universe at large,
his boldly avowed determination never to be a
slave, his wild contempt for all rivals, and the cora-
placancy with which from time to time—having
executed some feat more wonderful than
the rest—
he challenges the applause of the gods in the gal-
lery, would make his fortune in any circus. There
is a lady, in circles which cannot with decorum be
described, who is notorious for producing sensations
of the kind. At one.moment she is in England, at
another in America, at a third she has beendrink-
ing the waters at Vichy, or hunting she boar at
Fontainebleau. Mr. Roebuck's universality, his de-
termination to keep pace with more steady and
his
love politicians, his variety of adventure,
love of making desperate dashes at Emperors, hist
noise, his volubility, his tongue, and a kind o
" pork-pie" raciness that accompanies him wherever
he goes, show that he is not ignorant of the lessons
to be learnt from what he sees around him. He is
the sensation member par excellence. He canters
daily down the House of Commons' floor as if it
were Rotten-row at the fashionable hour, and sur-
rounded by fashionable celebrities. He goes down
occasionally to his constituency, and electrifies them
with the thunders of his eloquence, just as if he
were a quiet and steady country gentleman. He is
on the pier at Southampton when the Austrian
Archduke lands, He is " Tear-'em" at Sheffield one
year. He is the champion of Southern chivalry,
with Mr. Beresford Hope and the rest of the gay
world, the next. But this summer he has outdone
himself—for, unasked and unbidden, he has tilt-
, veiled off and presented himself to the French Em-
peror at Fontainebleau. The sensation this extra-
ordinary escapade has produced among the
admiring audience before whom he per-
forms may more readily be imagined than
described. A raid of this kind upon the political
virtue of a tyrant is an exploit borrowed obviously
from the annals of feaaine adventure. It has com-
pletely eclipsed all other performers. Nobody cares
anything now about Mr. Kinglake's "Crimean 'War,"
or Mr. Laird's shipbuilding, or Col, Crawley, or Mr.
Bernal Osborne and the Irish Church ; since Mr.
Roebuck has come back from the other side of the
Channel. The House of Commons has been talking
of nothing else, and the honourable gentleman who
represents Sheffield has it all his own way. So
tremendous an effect has h© produced by the exploit
of alighting from Paris in a bound upon one leg
upon the floor of the house, that the French Empe-
ror has been obliged to take notice of it in the
Illoni'eur. His Majesty Napoleon 111. is quite
anxious lest the House of Commons should be taken
in, and begin to fancy that Tear-'em has really been
sent from Paris to Westminster upon a political
mission, or that henceforward all communications
for the Emperor are to be addressed, " Care of Mr.
Roebuck." Those who are acquainted with the
stern eye that the Sheffield Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee keep upon the doings of the Continent know
better. " Heaven bless you, e-jr, the usher says to
the strangers in the Speaker's sellery , • "it is only
Mr. Roebuck and the last sensati,ln arrival." There
'sway of enter-
car. be no doubt that Mr. Roebucts-