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 Magazine, and the Curzostties 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 those 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 Spirit, the divine Paraclete."

After dwelling on the benefits which the early Roman
Catholic Church had conferred on humanity, by extending
civilisation, preserving the learning, arts, and science:; 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 test 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 treaeure 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 1809 we presented 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 wuks, 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 attract
theinm
g
individual attention towards them. May God reward
ou, dearly beloved children, pray
as He only can. But do y
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
on support
that magrificont institution, the French Propagati 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.
ti Alas ! what is this among so many that need help
You will easily see bow 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 thanks 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
destitute. Of these we have far beyond the proportion in
other places, and we need, therefore, much exteinal aid.
"Wherefore, in the name of Holy and undivided Trinity,
we we exhort you—nay, we conjure you to contribute
largelyinvite,
and with good heart to the collection made on the
Sunday especially dedicated to the commemoration of this
divine
yrostay. erythe God of all consolation first inspire you to
do great things for His sake, and then reward you for your
charity as He only can.
‘, Given, and ordered
to b
chapels of the archdicceseoflev read in al
eetminster,ael churches
n and
Sunday,
this
31st day of May, 1863
cexaNnonsug ,L WISEMAN.
" N.
F.
EARL; Seeretary.,,

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, KING'S CROSS.-
Number of patients for the week ending May 30, 1,046, of
which 378 were new cases.

HE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A FRENCH GENTLE-
MAN IN THE CITY.—Upon inquiry yesterday it Was found
that Mons. Hypolite Linde, the French gentleman who
attempted to commit suicide at Fiveash's Hotel some short
time back, has sufficiently recovered as to allow of his
removal from the hospital. He is still very weak, one of
the bullets having passed through his lungs, rem:oring his
recovery uncertain. On removal from the hospital, after
some 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 Ti /las.)
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-
went" 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
statements, in Grodno only ; according to others, of
a later date, throughout Lithuania. Thus, all the
independent officials, elected or nominated from
among the landed proprietors, had abandoned the
Government. Even the Russian civil functionaries
were being replaced in some localities by military
officers.
In the province of Minsk each district was send-
ing a fixed number of men to join the insurrection.
In Mohilew (or Mogileff) 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 after wards 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 ne wil
find Orsza on the Dnieper, at about an equal die
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 at 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 bean 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, bat 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
atoppheaavreaanrcreivoefdabynew band of insurgents near used
langa.
they had marcshe
langa. They were well armed, and were supposed
,i,o,n expected ea
d,
fthoughrom th
ei t
interior was also t
o trumouredheeoast
in order to cover a disembarcation of troops and
"a'inßmahulneintted from day to day.
On the borders of Courland and Livonia " Dah-
lengo" (a pseudonym, probably derived from
been badly wounded, and worse still, has fallen into
a village or township on the D wins) has
the hands of the Ruseians—for nearly all the Polish
chiefs who hear 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-
uanian commanders. Nevertheless, he appears. at
prising, and also the most popular of all the Lith-
the last moment to have been deserted bhis men.
He bad been shot, and, like Narbutt, was being. cur-
.'. sole aim to
ried, when the Russians pressed round him in over-
whelming force, and, making it their
in
s supporters ma
take him prisoner, succeeded before long
in accom-
y
plishing their object. Seriakowski'
ected of them in the
who bore Nar-
ordinary way of fighting, but those
have done all that could be expected
butt died rather than forsake their chief.
that companies
Ministry of the Interior, announces
The Northern Post, the journal of the Russian
ia Podolia, and
(that is to say, Lithuania, Volhyn ,
of peasants are to be formed in the western provinces
perty." The destruction of life and property is the
the Ukraine), " for the protection of life and pro-
by the performances
got together, if we may judge
Government in
real object with which those companies are being
of the banditti organised by the
been rewarded and
punished, but have actually /, A recent
Livonia—who, by the way, have not only not been
arru_s of upwards
number of the Czas contained the n publicly thanked for their '' loyalty.
ed and devastated
of 20 mansions and estates destroy
by the infuriated raskolnazi• known in Cra-
well
these estates are, many of them, The proprietors of
d and foot, and carried
tied hand
severely wounded,
• to the railway sta-
bleeding,
or driven, bound and
cow, and it is notorious here that
they were beaten,
to Dunaburg, to be
imprisonment for having ex.
further punished by
d ill-will of the Russian colo-
tion, whence they were sent on
cited the suspicions an
in this manner. It does not
the peace were treated
the persons attacked were
nists. Several priests and some twenty justices of
appear that many of were
killed outright. which the raskolnikt
burnt to death in a house to
endeavouring to taiie it by
set fire, after vainly
badhad defended her
storm; and a maid-servant, w
Two gentlemen, however,
mistress with great courage,
An old man of 70 had his arms tied behind him ,0
tightly as to dislocate them. In being driven towards
her throat cut,
re chained could
the manner in which they we
the railway station those who from loss of blood and
aster,
scarcely walk were beaten to marestill
'The victims of these outrages
ake them go f
stle of Diaabarg.
to the number of 400, in the
ca
Around Warsaw the insurrection gains at least as
week or two since a baud
and Russian frontiers. much as it has lost in the vicinity of the Austrian
and pursued it within ei
.ghiles of the city, T,
ue
of insurgents dispersed a Rut ssi
man forca near Warsaw
and the Russian detachments between Rawa and
Country about Rawa is still iu the hands of the poles,
Warsaw, and also in the vicinity of Praga, on ~
ine
other side of the river, are said to be continual!
y
on the alert.

MAY 25,

A Government despatch has been received here
,riving news of a formidable insurrection around
r 5
Kaininiec-Poclolski, the capital of Podolia. Hitherto
the existence of the Podoiian 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 squally 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
the garrison is already thought to be rather weak
nor from the country around "Warsaw, where all
classes, secretly or openly, are assisting the insurrec•
tion, and where one large district (that of Rawa) has
been for some time in the hands of the insurgents.
Near Polanga, again, on the Baltic, the Russians
are constantly threatened. On the Dnieper, up in
the north, and in the vicinity of Smolensk, they
have lost the town of Orsza ; some 50 miles to the
south-east of Warsaw they ha\ 3 lost the town and
district of Rawa. They have, moreover, been beaten
and pursuedeight miles o
Within f the capital, and
they have had
the city of lie
to
iti
fight a little battle just out-
side,
which has belonged to the
Russian empire since
1683. Even on the Galician
frontier, in spite -
of the
strong cordon which is now