The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH. 6, 1863

bouricood. It is scarcely worth while to take such
reeautions rgainst each insig,nifia',aat foes, But in
truth the Russian soldiers have felt the force of the
courage of desperation. The recent victory of
LANGIEWICZ at Malogoszsz was not over a few
detachments but a force of 4,000 men. The firing
lasted from eight in the morning until one in the
afternoon, when the Russians began to disperse,
having lost 400 men, and killed, it is said, only
1130 of the enemy. The Russians afterwards fell
in with the Polish rearguard, consisting of 100
men, who were escorting a train of 32 waggons.
The Russians achieved the triumph of routing this
small detachment, who fled, leaving, it is said, their
most empty waggons behind them. From the
selection of the waggons we may presume that this
flight was not a very hurried one, as in such a case
the lighter waggons would have been more suitable
companions ! Now, how does the Russian organ
report the affair ? It tells us that the combined
bands of LANGIEWICZ and JEZIORAUSKI having
encountered the Russian troops were totally de-
feated; that all baggage, waggons, and horses fell
into the hands of the troops, LANGIEWICZ himself
being wounded and taking to flight. The peasants,
it continues, seized the flying rebels and surren-
dered 200 of them. The loss of the Russian army
is stated to be inconsiderable. A total defeat is thus,
by the stroke of the enchanter's pen, transformed
into a decided victory. A trifling success becomes
a triumphant achievement, while statements which
are entirely fabrications, are made with an air of
confidence and precision that might deceive many,
were they not found in a Russian despatch. The only
foundation to which can be traced the asserted flight
of LANGIEWICZ exists in the fact that he has pushed
forward at the bead of 5,000 men ; it is not known
in what direction, but he has probably the intention
of making a bold stroke, having the command of
so large a body of men. His bands ale eon-
inualty reinforced. The eagerness of the young
Poles to lock to the revolutionary standard
result, it is said, in a perfect exodus from Warsaw
towards the camp. No less than 1,200 young men
left the city on the lat, and, although a few were cap-
tured, by far the greater portion succeeded in elud-
ing pursuit, The bands of LANGIEWICZ are now
becoming daily more organised and disciplined.
The rough and untutored peasantry, with no wea-
pon but scythes, no training but the long course of
Russian oppression, have become transformed into
armed and uniformed soldiers, profiting by expe-
rience and animated ty success. It is not easy for
the Russians to annihilate such a band. Defeated
in one quarter they will re-appear in an opposite
direction ; repulsed in one attack they will return
at a more favourable opportunity. Familiar with
the country, certain of the favour of the population,
they belong to that class of combatants which, as in
the highlands of Scotland or the woodlands of L
Vendee, always prove so difficult to subjugate. The
Russians proved, in 1812, the impossibility of a
conqueror profiting by his conquest in the face of
an indignant and determined people. How is it
they do not learn the lessons taught by
their own history ? Time is fighting the
battles of the insurgents by augmenting
and disciplining their forces, as well as changing
what was at first considered a mere local outbreak
into a revolution which effects the whole of Europe.
The prolongation of the conflict is, on the contrary,
against the Russians. It is diminishing their
prestige, weakening their authority, and destoying
the confidence of their supporters. The CZAR and
his advisers may soon find themselves in the
awkward position of President LINCOLN, who
vowed to conquer a people he has not been able to
subdue, and rushed recklessly into a cruel and pro-
fitless war for the sake of subjugating a country
whose inhabitants would never willingly submit to
his rule. L:?t the Cabinet of St. Petersburg then
take warning in time. The French journals seem
to hope much from the recent diplomatic ieterven-
don, which, it is said, NAPOLEON was willing to
have pushed a little farther than the English
Government were disposed to venture. La France
of last night says that M. BILLAULT is going to
communicate to the Senate a document recently de-
spatched by the French Government to St. Peters-
burg. The reply of the flaß, to this communica-
tion is daily expected, and it is hoped that its tone
will be favourable. It is also rumoured in Paris
that ALEXANDER 11. intends to issue an ukase,
reconstituting Poland, as it was in 1830, with the
Grand Duke CONSTANTINE as Sovereign. We shall
probably learn to- morrow the substance of his reply
to French intervention. It had need to be com-
prehensive and liberal to the last degree before it
satisfy the excited feelings of the Poles. or allay
the suspicions which recent events have ree
awakened in Europe.

The Qualification for Offices Bill

POLAND.

Tr.e following copy of any comsiJondeneu
which passed between Lord Clarendon and her Ma-
jesty's Government in 1856, relating to Poland,"
was published yesterday :
__

" No. 1.

" THE EARL OF CLARENDON TO VISCOUNT :PAL-

MERSTON.
" (Received April 17.)

" Paris, April 15, 1856.

" My Lord,—Sinc3 the commencement of the
Conferences I have not failed to bear in mind the
deep interest which tier Majesty's Government have
always taken in the condition of Poland, and I have
been most anxious to bring that question before the
Congress, in order to obtain some expression of opi-
nion on the subject from that body, or some assur-
ance from the representatives of the Emperor of
Russia that his Majesty intended to adopt a more
conciliatory policy towards It's Polish subjects.
"On the 9th inst., at the request of Count
Walewski, I held a conversation with Count. Orloff
on this subject. I said that the condition of Poland
had been discussed, and in future organization de-
termined, by the Congress of Vienna, and that the
present Congress could not view the ques-
tion with indifference; but that, to the best of my
belief the Poles would be tolerably well satisfied if
national institutions were restored to them, if their
religion were respected, if they were allowed to use
the Polish language, and if all their children were
educated at Polish schools, instead of, as now, a
limited number of them only at Russian schools.
suggested at the same time to his Excellency that he
should volunteer some assurance to this effect, or
shonid be prepared to declare it in answer to a ques-
tion put to him by the Congress.
"Count Orloff replied that the Emperor had de-
termined to restore to his Polish subjects everything
I had suggested, but that the announcement could
not be made to the Congress, as that would be mis-
represented in Russia, and his Imperial Majesty
would be thought to have yielded to foreign pres-
sure, which would deprive him of the grace of the
Qpontaneous acts he meant to perform.
" Count Orloff said to me in a friendly manner,
D‘) not, in the interest of the Poles, bring the sub-
ject forward in the Congress, for I can tell you
nothing there, nor admit your right to interrogate
me. My answer, therefore, must be disheartening
lo the Poles, and the Emperor may perh4ps think it
a matter of dignify to postpone what he intends to
do.'

"I said that the question seemed to rest between
a voluntary declaration on the part of the Emperor
to the Congress, or a proclamation at some future
period to Poland, and that I thought that the for-
mer would be the more gracious curse, and at the
same time be advantageous to the Emperor as en ear-
n :st to Europe of the policy which his Majesty in-
tended to adopt; and I urged that such a declara-
tion could not be derogatory to his Majesty's dig-
nity, nor lead to misinterpretation.
" Count Orloff answered that, knowing as he did,
the Emperor's view respecting Poland, he had de-
lermined not to write to his Majesty on the subject,
but that he would make known by telegraph what
I bad then suggested.
" His Excellency yesterday, in answer to my in-
quiry respecting the answer he had received from
St. Petersburg, informed me that he must decline
to make any declaration respecting Poland. He
said tqat the Emperor had determined to do every-
thing that had been suggested, and that the amnesty
would be comprehensive, but that he wished to
signalise his coronation by these and other acts of
grace, and .hat their good effect would be destroyed
if his Majesty's intentions were declared beforehand.
His Excellency repeated that, if I persisted in bring-
ing the matter before the Congress, he should be
compelled to give an unfavourable answer, and to
gay that foreign intervention would probably lead to
a postponement or a diminution of the favours which
his Majesty meant to bestow on his Polish sub-
jects.

"Under these circumstances Count Walewski and
I have agreed that the more prudent course would
be not to bring forward the question in the Con-
gress.—l have, &c.,

" No. 2.

" CLARENDON,"

" VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO THE EARL OF
CLARENDON.

" Foreign-office, April 17. 1856.

"My Lord,--I have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your lordship's despatch of the 15th
Inst., reporting your conversations with Count
Walewski and with Count Ortuff on the question
of Poland, and I have the honour to acquaint your
lordship that her Majesty's Government entirely
approve the cout se pursued by you, both in bring-
ing the subjfct into discussion with Count Orloff,
it,d in abstaining, in consequence of what Count
Orloff said, from mooting the matter in the Con-
gruss.—l have, &c.,

" PALM ERSTON."

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 5.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
the Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out yesterday
afternoon, attended by Lieut. Colonel Hon. D. de
Kos.

Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia,
walked in the grounds this morning.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse drove.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia returned
from L ndon last night.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
visited the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia.

The Right Hon. Sir G. Grey arrived at the Castle
last night and had an audience of the Queen.

Arrival of the Princess Alexandra off
Margate.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
MARGATE, FRIDAY MORNING.

The Roy al squadron, with the Princess Alexandra
on board, which anchored off Margate last night at
11 o'clock, will remain here until about 3 p.m. this
day (Friday).
It will then proceed to the Note and remain there
all night. Ad well.

Marriage of the Prince of Wales.

SOUTHAMPTON. Friday Morning.

Official information has been received this morn-
ing that their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales will pass through this town to
Osborne on the afternoon of their marriage. They
are to leave Windsor at half-past 3, and will reach
this place about half-past 5 o'clock.

The Health of Prince Alfred.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS,)
MALTA, sth March, 10.20 a.m.
The health of his R )yal Highness Prince
Alfred is steadily improving. The fever has en-
tirely left him, and he is allowed to take substantial
meals.
His Royal Highness is expected to rise today.

We have authority to state that Lieutenant-
Grneral the Han. Charles Grey and Colonel Francis
Seymour, C. 8., have been despatched to Brussels by the
Queen to conduct her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra
of Denmark to England. They have been selected for this
duty as being the senior members of the Household of her
Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, and
as having attended his Royal Highness upon his arrival in
England.

Toe Earl and Countess of Yarborough have ar-
rived at their residence in Arlington-street for a few days.

Toe E Arl and Countess of Verulam and family
are remaining at the Queen's Hotel, Hastings.

The Rirl and Countess Delawarr and family still
remain at St. Leonard s on account of her ladyship's health.
The Earl and Countess of Arran and family have
arrived in London from Brighton.

The C )untess Speticer'e party, which was an-
nouri,:ed for Tuesday, March 10, is postponed.

The E trl and Countess Russell entertained at
dinner on Wednesday the Russian Ambassador and
Baroness Brunnow, the Spanish Minister, Earl Grosvenor
and Lady Constance Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Wodehouse,
Baron Marochetti, Capt. Fitzclarenee, Mr. Meade, and M.
Tricoupi.
The Countess (Dowager) of Yarborough has
returned to Portman-square.

The Marquis of Bristol, the Countess of Scar-
borough, Lord and Lady So-des, and Mrs. Lane Fox left
Brighton on Friday, in order to attend her Majesty's Draw-
ing Room, and to remain in town for a few days.

Lord Polwarth has left Thomas's Hotel, Berke-
ley-square, for Scotland.
Viscount Falkland, the Duchess of St. Albans,
and Lady Diana Beauclerk have arrived at their residence,
4, Prince's-gate, from Rome.

Lord and Lads. Huntingfleld and Miss Vanneck
have arrived at the St. George's Hotel.

The Mght Hon. Sir G. Grey returned to town
yesterday morning from Windsor Castle.
Tne Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Miles have arrived at
the St. George's Hotel.

Hon. Frederic and Lady Elizabeth Villiers have
left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley•square, for Sulby Hall,
Welford.

Sir Francis Shuckburgh has arrived at the
Queen's Hotel Upper Norwood.

General Buckley, and Lady Catherine
Buckley and family have arrived at their house in South
Audley-street from their seat in Wiltshire.
Lieutenant the Hon. Albert Denison hds re-
turned to Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Portsea.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—
Two NEW ACTS OF PARLIAMENT —Yesterday two
Acts of Parliament connected with the approaching royal
marriage—the first of the session—were printed. The
first act is in reference to the annuities granted to the
Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra of £40,000 and
Li° ,0( o—to commence from the day of the wedding. The
Queen is empowered to grant an annuity of £30,000 to the
Princess Alexandra in the event of her royal highness sur-
viving the erince of Wales. The annuities are charged on
the consolidated fund. The second new statute is appli-
cable to bills of exchange and promissory notes payable in
the metropolis to-morrow, the 7th inst. The preamble
recites, "It is intended that 11.11.11. the Princess Alexan-
dra of Denmark shall pass through the metropolis on her
arrival in England on the 7th March, and it is apprehended
that on this occasion there will be so great a concourse of
people as to materially interfere with the transaction of
busine.s." It is enacted that the provisions of the 7th and
Bth G:o. IV., c. lb, and 6th and 7th Wm. IV., c. 58, with
respect to bills of exchange and promissory notes payable in
the metropolisbn fast-days, &c., are to extend to bills and
notes payable on the 7th March. The metropolis, for the
purpose of this act, is to be the same as defined by the sta-
tute for the better management of the metropolis.
The Saeriff's Court and Secondaries Court will
he closed on Saturday (0-morrow), and on Tuesday (the
day or the wedding) the former Court certainly, and the
latter, so far as is compatible with the interests of the Law
Courts. The legal profession in the City will have a general
holiday on both days,

We understand that it is in contemplation to
open the theatres gratis to the public on the night of the
marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

THE (JRETO CHASED.--A letter dated Key West,
Feb. 11, says—" Tne gunboat Sonoma, Commander
Stevens, arrived at this port on Saturday night from a cruise
in the Gulf in search of the Florida. She left this harbour a
fortnight ago, and on the Ist inst., while passing over the
Bahama Banks, on her way to Nassau, discovered at 7
o'clock in the morning, while enteringthe Queen's Channel,
a strange sail, which upon nearing hoisted English colours.
immediately (suspecting her character) Captain Stevens
ordered a full he al of steam, and, with all sail set, started
in pursuit, supposing her to be the Oreto. Scarcely had the
stranger hoisted her colours when she altered her course,
to the north ward and westward, made all possible sail, and
commenced firing up rapidly. The Sonoma beat to quar-
ters, anticipating she would soon be in range of her guns,
and followed her, with varying success, for 34 hours,
through the Queen's Channel, the tongue of the ocean, and
north-east Providence Channel, 125 miles to sea, losing sight
of her on Monday night, Hole in-the-Wall then nearing
west, south-west. There is no doubt that the speed of the
Oreto under steam is exaggerated, for while the wind was
light and the sea smooth the Sonoma gained gradually but
surel, upon her. Upon getting, however, into the open sea,
and the wind freshing and the waves increasing, the Oreto
rapidly drew away, until, night coming on, she was lost
sight of. For 24 hours the crew were at quarters,
anxiously awaiting the order to open fire; but three
times, while the Oreto's capture seemed almost a certainty,
some derangement in the Sonoma's machinery interfered
in her favour, until, after chasing her for 34 hours, a
distance of over 300 miles, she succeeded in making
her escape. When last seen she was steering to
the eastward, possibly with the intention of making one of
the windward passages. Had the Sonoma possessed the
necessary qualifications of a sea-going vessel, the capture of
the Oreto would have been an accomplished fact, and her
destruction inevitable. As some solace to their disappoint•
maul, next morning they captured the barque Springbok,
with a valuable cargo of contraband goods, from Fal-
mouth, England, bound into Nassau. , This prize Cap
rain Stevens sent to New York for adjudication. Her
Britannic Majesty's ship, Galatea, Captain 111‘Gutre, from
Havannah, arrived in our harbour on the 6th inst., and
remained until yesterday, when she sailed for Nassau. The
usual salutes were exchanged between the ship, the fort,
and the admiral's flagship. Another prize has been added
Margaret,
to our long list by the arrival of the schooner
with a miscellaneous cargo of contraband goods. She wife
captured by Admiral Bailey's last improvised man-of-war
the Two Sisters, herself a late prize, and now doing good
service in watching the Quicksand Passage,"

Dr. Colenso's Reply to the Address of the

Bishops.

Su bidned is the answer which the Bishop of
Natal hts made to the address from the arch-
bishops and bishops of the Church of England and
Ireland, inviting him to terminate the difficulty
experienced by the prelates ;n reference to his
published volume on the Pentateuch by retiring
from the Episcopate :

" To HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF
CANTERBURY.

"My Lord Archbishop,—l have seriously con-
sidered the address which has been forwarded to

me by your grace, signed by a great number of the
archbishops and bishops of the Church of England.
"In reply, I feel obliged to say that I am unable
to comply with the suggestion therein conveyed to
me, that I should resign my episcopal charge.
" I trust that I yield to none of your lordships
in a heartfelt reverence for the Holy Scriptures ;
but certainly I do not believe, as the words of the
address seem to imply that your lordships do be-
lieve, that ' all our hopes for eternity rest' on the
literal historical truth of such a narrative as the
scriptural account of the Noachian Deluge.
"But I must refer to my books for a statement of
the reasons which justify to my own mind the course
which lam taking. To resign my office would be
to admit that my conduct has beenlegally or morally
wrong, which I am very far from feeling.
" Rather I am persuaded that my duty to God
and the National Church, through which I have
received, in the same manner as your lordships,
that episcopal commission which we .have no power
of abdicating, requires me to persevere in the
task which I have undertaken namely, to set
before the English Church the real facts of the
case in regard to the composition of the Penta-
teuch, in accordance with the most trustworthy
results of recent criticism.

" I venture to add that the progresss of true reli-
gion appears to me to be grievously impeded in this
country by the contradictions which undeniably
exist between the traditional notion of the histori-
cal truth of all the narratives contained in the Pen-
tateuch, and the conclusions of science, as now
brought within the comprehension even of the
youth of both sexes by the general extension of
education.

" And it is my firm conviction that this subject
deserves more than any other at this time our most
serious consideration, and, if possible, our united
action as bishops of the National Church.--I am, my
Lord Archbishop, your Grace's very faithful and

obedient servant, "S. W. NATAL.
"London, March 5, 1863."

Police Regulations for the Royal Procession.

The regulations to be observed to prevent ob•
strucrions in the thoroughfares on the arrival in
London of her Royal Highness the Princess Alex-
andra, on March 7, from the Bricklayers' Arms
Station to Paddington, will be as follows :