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London, England, 1863-04-27 00:00:00

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THE POLISH QUESTION.

ital, as at present. rot; Ttit
accommodate about 300 patients, Which is probAblY
in excess of the number who will ocet4y Alt 09
time. This arrangement will place at the disposal
of the authorities the present garrison hospital, a
commodious building at the back of Chatham bar-
racks, which, according to present arrangements,
will be converted into barrack rooms for the troops
of the Line. The casemated barracks at St. Mary's
will also be set apart for the same purpcse, and will
in all probability be reserved for regimeuts arriving
from ludia. By this arrangement additional bar-
rack accommodation will be provided at Chatham
for about 2,000 men buoucl the present number
quartered at that station. The importance of pro-
viding separate quarters for the married non-com-
missioned officers and men, as at other garrisons,
which has frequently been adverted to in The Sun,
has attracted the attention of the authorities at the
War-office. It has now been decided to erect suit-
able buildings in the vicinity of the infantry bar-
racks for the married troops, and thus do away
with the reproach which has so long attached to
Chatham of being almost the only important gar' i-
son town at which a separate building was not pro-
vided for them. At present there is no separate
building provided for the married non-commis•
sioned officers and men of the Royal Marines, but
it is probable that the Admiralty will see the neces-
sity of erecting suitable quarters of the kind now
that the Government has decided upon bestowing
that boon on the troops of the Line.
The order issued some days ago for the discharge
of a number of mechanics and labourers from the
carriage department of Woolwich Arsenal was on
Saturday caccelled, when the men received notice
that they would be retained on the usual conditions.
A similar order, it was stated, had also been re-
ceived at the Royal gun factories and the other
branches of the Arsenal, with a probability that the
numbers would shortly be augmented.
The following promotions and appointments,
dated the 23d inst., were on Saturday announced at
Woolwich to have taken place in the Royal Marine
Corps :—First Lieut. John F. Sanders, of the Ports-
mouth division, to be Capt. at the Plymouth division,
vice W. C. P. Elliot, retired ; Second Lieut. Francis
M. Shairp, of the Plymouth division, to be First
Lieut. at the Portsmouth division, vice Sanders,
promoted; First Lieut. and Adjt. James P. Murray,
of the Portsmouth division, to be Capt. at the Ply-
mouth ; Second Lieut. Erskine Tudor Risk, of the
Plymouth division, to be First Lieut. at a division
to be hereafter named.

PARIS, Saturday Evening.
In the Corps Legislatif on Friday M. Emile
011ivier took the opportunity of the vote on the
section of the budget which relates to the salaries
of agents abroad to question the Government in the
following terms :

The attitude of France relative to two very serious foreign
questions, viz., the Mexican and the Polish, were the special
pre-occupation of the public. He did not, however, think it
either reasonable or practicable to provoke a debate on either
of them at that moment, I will, therefore, said the hon.
member, confine myself to asking a few questions. At what
point have we arrived in the Mexican business ? Where is
our army? Is it:attackinglPuebla ? Is it marching on the city
of Mexico ? The enemy is a long way off, and there is no
fear that any indiscreet language pronounced in this place
to-day should compromise our soldiers. Respecting Poland
negotiations seem to be in progress; but we have a succes-
sion of contradictory reports. One day we are told that
France is acting alone, then that she is acting in concert
with England and Austria; at one moment Austria its
leaning towards us, and at another she is making advances
to Russia. Undoubtedly, if the Government gave no ali-
ment to these rumours, we should have no right to call oat
it to break silence; if we were told "France negotiates, do
not mar the efforts of diplomacy by your curiosity,', wo
should only have to acquiesce. But the Government in
unfortunately only represented not only by the Ministers
and privy councillors here present, but also by its journals.
One of them is the Pays. We know that this paper is in.
the hands of the Minister of the Interior, who
dismissed one editor to have another of a more docile cha-
racter. I mention this to show that we have a right to at-
' tack some importance to the language and revelations of
that journal. Now, a few days, the Pays indicated the sense
of a despatch of M. Drouyn de Lhuys to M. de Montebello,
destined to be submitted to Prince Gortschakaff. First of
all, I will put this question—These incomplete publications,
acting upon and troubling public opinion, why are they
authorised ? Then I ask—ls the idea given of the de-
spatch exact ? and lastly, I request the Government to com-
municate to us the despatch, and to give the Chamber all
the information that the Minister may think it ought to
possess. I hope that the reply will be satisfactory.
M. Billault replied as follows :

The hon. member is right in presuming that the Govern-
ment would touch with extreme brevity on one of the ques-
tions at issue, and with a perfect discretion on the other.
(Applause.) My reply respecting Mexico will be brief,
because serious official intelligence only arrives twice a
month, and is then instantly published in the Non itctir.
We expect news at the end of the month, and hope that
these, or the very next after, will announce the first triumph
of our arms. The facts will be published when officially
affirmed. With respect to Poland, if ever discretion were
necessary in a case of public interest it is, as all will admit,
necessary in this. (Assent,) The Government will give
no explanation after the solemn debate which recently took
place in another assembly, Words would be either vague or
detrimental to the success of the negotiations now going on.
We are all animated with cordial sentiments towards the
unfortunate Polish nation : we are convinced that it is a
European question, and that the sentiments of all Europe
ought to aid in its solution. (Applause.) As to the inter-
pellation relative to non-official communications, this is my
reply:—The Government has only two organs, the lifonttearr
for written communications and the government commis-
sioners for the business of the chamber. The government,
cannot take on itself the responsibility of either true or false
intelligence which may be found in the journals. I regret
only that in a country as noble and generous as our own
people should so easily accept the most extravagant asser-
tions—the most contradictory allegations. The government
avoids both extremes. Let the country suffer itself to be
a little less deluded by reports ; let it show itself less acces-
sible to the rumours of the press, to the illusions of the
Bourse. (Great applause.) Let us have confidence in him
who, holding in his hands such vast interests, has a full
sense of their importance. (Applause.)
The above ministerial reply amounts it will be
seen to just nothing, and the Government it must be
admitted is not necessarily blameworthy on that
account. English Ministers are often and of neces-
sity quite as impervious to questions as M. Billault.
But the stereotyped official fiction that the French
Ministry has no organ in the press but the 211onteur
deceives no one, however often and solemnly it may
be repeated.

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an intimation froin
THE ST. GlLEs's MURDER.—On Thursday ser.
the effect thasthinefoonliabtioin had been received
gean t Glass, of the Cardiff police, apprehended a ni
the arrival in.
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thehe descriptionperso person
at Newport, Monmouthshire, on suspicion of being the an
murderer, that he left Cork for
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given of the supposed
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a small vessel in the coal trade
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had gone on after pledging a pair of boots, he
latter place
crime the man made theWport. When charged with the
--That he had gone to e following remarkable statement:
cent execution in that Cork to act as hangman in the re—
" expenses; that he city, for which he received £6 and
the spree and lost all hswi was there 10 days; that he went on
money ; that the governor of Cork
Gaol gave him a s •
int of clothes, and he then left
that and
came to Newport, via Bristol, as already stated, intending
was conveyed to go on tramp to London. The accused
to
Cardiff to be examined before the
magistrates. EXECUTION OF THE RIBCHESTER AT
URDERERS.
—Duncan 111Thail and George Woods, the mur-
derers of Mrs. Walne, at Ribchester, near Blackburn, suf-
fered death at noon on Saturday, in front of Kirkdale Gaol.
The atrocious character of the Ribchester murder created
general indignation in the district, while a groat deal of in-
terest was also crowded into the case, from the fact that one
of the murderers died on the morning of the trial and an-
other turned approver. Carr, the prisoner who died, ap-
pears to have taken the prominent part in the outrage.
The deceased Mrs. Walne, it may be remembered, lived in
a lonely place and in an isolated house, of whichashhaewkwears
the only inmate. M`Pail, from his business as d
with the premises, and as the decease
had become familiar
iny
sold beer, &c., he had frequent opportunities of stud. her
habits and mode of living. It had been ascertair.ed by
M‘Phail that the old lady had received £lB fromthe sale
of one of her cows, and that she intended to deve,te this sun
to the payment of her rent, and accordingly M'Phail, toge..
they with the other prisoners, wont to her house at rriii..
night on the 11th of November for the Purpose '
her. The deceased whilst in bed was tied d of robbing
own and
violently beaten about the head that when d' ' 813
was quite dead. The executioner was
Calcraft.
iscovered slat
of 20,000 persons were present, Both Upwards
share in the murder, Woods died men denied personal
AlThail struggled much, instantaneously, but