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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

frontier. It is no less in the interest of both coun-
tries that France and Russia should be in antago-
nism. To advance the liberation of Poland should
be the object both of Austria and of England, and
this is to be done by bringing moral pressure to bear
upon the King of Prussia. The task will be more
grateful to Austria than to this country, but it is the
only way by which a disastrous war can be averted
from Prussia, end the cordial co-operation of the
people of the country be secured. Nothing can be
more trying to the people of England than to find
their sympathy dragging them in one direction and
their interests in another; and yet this must always
be the case if we impose upon the Emperor alone
all the trouble and responsibility of doing the
" freedom and oppressed nationality" work of
Europe, and then are frightened and indig-
nant when he indemnifies himself for his pains.
Were this a case in which an alliance with France
and Austria for the settlement of the Polish
question was likely to involve us in a war, we
should hesitate to recommend a policy fraught with
such grave consequences, but the present internal
condition of Russia would render her powerless for
aggressive purposes, while as an ally Prussia would
be worse than useless. It is clear, then, that these
two weak and partially disorganised Powers would
be compelled to submit to the decision of the rest of
Europe ; and when, by a rare combination, the
most despotic and revolutionary elements had be-
come merged for the achievement of a common
object, moral resistance would become as impossible
as physical. When the Emperor Napoleon, Lord
Palmerston, Count Rechberg, and Garibaldi are
working for the same result, the. alliance may be
unholy, but it would appear to us irresistible.

TIMES.—The course of the Civil War in America
has become simplified by the limitation of the ob-
jects and the gradual concentration of the contend •
ing armies. At this moment, indeed, though each
belligerent has three large armies in the field, the
real interest oe the conflict is confined to two
points—Vicksburg
and Charleston. The principal
force of the Federals, recently known as the
Grand Army of the Potomac, has been completely
annulled. Its defeat at Fredericksburg left it
little better than a disorganized mass, and the re
moval of M'Clellan from the command completed
the disorganization and discouragement of the
troops. It still lies, as it has lain for these two
months, on the north bank of the Rappahannock,
unable to advance, though unwilling to retire, losing
thousands of men by desertion, and becoming daily
less competent to cope with its vigorous and confi-
dent antagonists. It was even proposed a short time
ago that the force should be broken up and trans-
ported, either wholly or in part, to new scenes of
action in the South-West; but, though the relics of
the Grand Army might certainly be of more imme-
diate service on the Mississippi than on the Rappa-
hannock, the troops cannot be released for such dis-
tant operations. If the army of the Potomac does
nothing else, it protects Washington from the Con-
federates. General Hooker, who is actively exert-
ing himself to restore discipline and confidence,
succeeds at least in keeping General Lee in check.
Were it not for this check, the Southern Commander
might march at any moment on the Federal capital,
and the risk of this invasion has more than once
appeared so imminent that the President and his
colleagues are unwilling to provoke it by the dis-
missal of their covering army. The remnant, there-
fore, of that powerful force from which so much was
anticipated still clings to the vicinity of the Potomac,
but, except for the service which it thus incidentally
renders, it is now of little account in the proceed-
ings of the war.
The point of real importance is the city of Vicks-
burg, already twice besieged by sea and land, and
twice successful in defending itself. On the posses-
sion of this city depends the navigation of the Mis-
sissippi, and on the navigation of the Mississippi
depends the policy of the North-Western States.
These States are fighting for the Union only in so
far as the Union represents to them the free com-
mand of this mighty river. They were alarmed at
the idea of an independent and perhaps hostile
nation controlling the lower Mississippi, with its
outlets and its ports, and they took up arms in real
earnest to prevent such a consummation of their
fears. They have no sympathy with the Aboli-
tionists, nor any desire to suppress slavery in the
States of the South. They do not participate in
the general views of the New Englanders, but
are actuated by simple and obvious motives of self-
interest. They live by agriculture, and they can-
not afford to lose those markets for their produce to
which the Mississippi admits them. Yet they are
losing them as things now stand. At a bend in the
river stands the town of Vicksburg, commanding 1
with its batteries the navigation of the stream. An
iron-cased steamer may perchase succeed in run-
ning past these guns, as seems just now to have
been done, but to all ordinary vessels of commerce
the river is closed. Lower down, too, at another
bend of the stream, is the newly fortified post of
Port Hudson, and it may possibly be discovered
that some intermediate points have been occupied
and strengthened by the Confederates. The result
ie, that the North-Western States are blockaded.
They have lost the very thing for which they are
fighting, and if they cannot recover it by force of
arms they will resort to negotiation for the purpose
of regaining it. In short, if the South cannot be
presently subdued, the North-West will make
peace with it on its own account, and throw the
Union overboard for the sake of the only result
which is really prized. Aware of these sentiments
the Federal Government is exerting its last strength
in a desperate effort to open the Mississippi by the
capture of Vicksburg. If it can accomplish this,
the North-West will for the present be saved to the
Union ; if not, these populous and productive
States will either assert their independence, or
will ally themselves with the very people
against whom they are now fighting. At
this time, indeed, the North is fighting, not so
much for conquest as for self-preservation. It
the Mississippi cannot be opened, the Union cannot
be preserved even in its present proportions. The
North-West will follow the South, and the remnant
of the States still adhering to the Federal cause will
be without the power of asserting their pretensions
in the field. As it is, indeed, they are hard pressed.
Their multitudinous armies have been gradually dis-
appearing before the influence of defeat, and it is
openly confessed that it would be impossible by any
agency of bribes or bounties to raise another levy of
50,000 men. The Army of Virginia is shrinking
into an insignificant force, and it cannot be re-
cruited. The Army of the South-West is far
stronger, but it is composed of troops who are pre-
pared, if they cannot conquer in the field, to come
to terms of peace for the accomplishment of their
desires, The soldiers of the North-West are already
more than half dissatisfied with the turn given to
the war. They are offended by the President's
Proclamation ; they repudiate the designs of the
Abolitionists, and the only coercion they wish to
apply to the South concerns the navigation of the
Mississippi. If they can open this navigation by
the capture of Vicksburg, they will be content to
do so; but if the place proves too strong for them,
they will bargain otherwise for what they want.
Such are the present prospects of the war. We may
look for intelligence of the greatest interest; but
while decisive triumph may be the lot of the South,
it is hard to anticipate anything better for the
North than an exploit or two which may redound
to their military credit, and enable them to listen
with less reluctance to propositions of peace.
POST.—The King of Prussia is experiencing the
truth of the old proverb that misfortunes never come
single. No sooner had he placed himself in direct
antagonism with the national sentiment than he
finds hitnsolf in a position in which the support of
his people becomes indispensable to him. With a
revolution pending in the eastern portion of his own
dominions, with the mass of the German population
outraged and indignant, he has had the infatuation
to enter into aConvention with Russia which might
effectually afford France the opportunity of com-
pleting her " natural frontier." He has alienated
from himself the sympathy of a Government well
disposed towards him on dynastic grounds, and has
rendered the task of interfering to save him from
the consequences of his own folly, one of extreme
difficulty. If the result of his policy be only the
loss of Prussian Poland, he may congratulate
himself on having escaped from his present pre-
dicament more fortunately than he deserves. His
fate lies in the hands of the three Great Powers;
and unless they combine to force him into a
safer policy than that which he has followed
hitherto, he will fail a victim to the most aggres-
sive of them. We can hardly hope that remon-
strances from the Government of this country
alone will be of any avail; but the moral pressure
which might be exerted by England, France, and
Austria, acting in unison, and supported by public
feeling in Prussia itself, would undoubtedly force
the King to recede from the false position he has
taken up with regard to the Polish insurrection, and
from which the Powers acting in concert might
yet secure for him an honourable means of escape.
It may be that he looks to a war with France as
the best means of obliterating from the mind of his
own people the constitutional wrongs under which
they are suffering ; but circumstances are changed
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with reference to this question. It may be
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traditional jealousy is gratified by seeing
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enemy in a position of so much danger and difficulty
—or that the resent o ortunity is too tempting to
be neglected of revenging herself upon Russia for its
assurances to Hungary of neutrality, if not of abso-
lute support, in the event of a rising in that country ;
or she may think that the combined policy of Prussia
and France in the East is the greatest danger which
she has had to fear, and from which she will now be
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relieved ; or, lastly, she also
may sped some equi-
valent in the shape of a guarantee
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joining with France and inducing Austria to do the
same, that we shall have the right to check any am-
bitious schemes. It is in the interest no less of
Austria than of this country that the Rhine pro-
vinces should not be embraced within the French

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Channel fleet, under the comman 1 of Rear-
Admiral R. Smart, R. 11., lying at Spithead, are
under orders for the Nore, in order to welcome the
arrival of the Princess Alexandra of Denmark to
the coasts of England. Each ship is now laying in
coal, and filling up its complement of stokers, in
readiness for leaving Spithead, the exact time for
which is not yet known. A survey was held yes-
terday on the machinery of the Black Prince, owing
to its defective state, to decide upon the fitness of
the vessel to go with the remainder of the squadron
to the Nore. The screw shafting is seriously
damaged, and both her steam capstans are disabled.
She has other minor defects, but there seems to be
no reason why she should not accompany the other
ships to the Nore, even if, as a matter of precaution,
she should only use half-boiler power. There are
various rumours in circulation as to the actual de-
fects of the squadron. Some are to the effect that
the injury done is but trifling either to hulls or
machinery, while others assert that although the
Black Prince represents the maximum of defects in
the engineering department, yet all have suffered in
their hulls, and especially in the rigidity of their
armour plating. The plates are said now in many
instances to be very loose, a result that might natu-
rally be expected from the way in which they are
hung on to the ship's side and the weather the
ships have gone through since being comm Sioned.
It is not at all improbable that as other ships can
be brought forward the officers and crews of our
present iron fleet will be turned over to them, and
our four iron ships at present afloat—the pioneers
of the future—be laid up in ordinary in readiness
for an emergeney. There are two reasons, each
sufficient in itself, to lead us to believe that this
course may be followed. It will certainly be ne-
cessary to test our ships that carry armour all
round, such as the Hector, Royal Oak, and Mino-
taur, at. fully as we have tested our present partially
cased fleet, and we may do this with the officers
and crews of our iron-cased fleet at Spithead. The
second reason is that we cannot afford, with all
our proverbial extravagance in naval matters,
to continue experimental cruises with our iron ships
at present afloat in search of gales of wind, without
increasing the looseness of the plates and otherwise
injuring them. The working consequent upon
their looseness would result in a compelled removal
of the ship's armour and the employment of new
plates—for, of course, no one would pretend to argue
for a moment that the same "tongued and grooved"
plates could ever again be placed on a ship's side
after being once taken off, especially after such a
knocking and buffeting about as Admiral Smart's
squadron have undergone. _

Three more of the old class of 50-gun sailing
frigates—the Chichester, the Nankin, and the Wor-
cester—attached to the sailing reserve at Chatham
are to undergo a thorough survey at the hinds of
the dockyard officials, who are to report to the
Admiralty on their condition and the nu mil rof men
and probable time it will take to prepare Ihem for
sea. The Nankin was built at Chatham 1, ,t many
years since, and is the only modern 50-gu,} sailing
frigate which has not been " converted" into a screw
steamer. The Worcester and Chichester are both
older vessels. The Admiralty have also ordered
the sailing frigates Diamond, 27, and Iris, 26, at
Chatham, to be surveyed preparatory to being made
ready for sea. The particular object for which these
sailing frigates are required is not known at the
dockyard.
Capt. F. A. Campbell (Sept. 13, 1854), who has
been appointed to the Royal Oak, 34, 800-horse
joined that vessel at Chatham dockyard on Friday,
and took up his commission. The Royal Oak is
complete in her rigging, has her anchors, cables,
and a considerable portion of her stores on board,
and will be ready to leave dock about the middle of
next month.

The Racoon, 21, 400-horse
power, Capt. Count
Victor Gleichen (Prince Hohenlohe), remains in the
Medway, where she is moored off the west shore,
receiving the remainder of her supplies, stores, &c.
According to orders received at Chatham last week,
she proceeds round to the Thames for the purpose of
shipping her provisions at Deptford. It is probable
that the illness of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred
will change intentions regarding the departure and
course of this vessel.

A court-martial was held on board her Majesty's
ship Victory, at Portsmouth, yesterday, for the trial
of Mr. Alex. Wilson, boatswain of the third class of
her Majesty's ship Asia, on a charge of having,
" while on actual service and full-pay in her Ma-
jesty's fleet and doing duty on board her Majesty's
ship Eurydice (in ordinary), absented himself with-
out leave for a period of seven days." The Court
found the charges proved and sentenced prisoner to
forfeit 26 days' pay, and to be dismissed her Ma-
jesty's service.

at the Admiralty :—Commander John C. Soady, to
The following appointments
the Fisgard, for service in the Royal Oak ; S. Swan,
Were made yesterday
engineer to the Victory, for the Sprightly ; Richard
Elias Denison, in the Petrel, promoted to be engi-
neer; W. B. Trenwith, second-class assist.-engineer
tNoV W.
the Crichton,
Russell
taosstishte.-enMeginererear; acting second-class
Cecil G. Horne,
midshipman to the Virago; and Wm. H. Hemming,
assist.-clerk to the Excellent.

quarters and forwarded to Aldershot, to augment
the 2d and 24th companies of Royal Engineers.
The Royal Engineer Train is ordered to be aug-
mented by an additional troop, which will be formed
on Ist April next. The situation of the new troop
has not yet been determined upon ; but it is pro-
bable that it will be quartered at headquarters,
Chatham, or at one of the camps.
During the past week, owing to the fine weather
and the dry state of the practice grounds, the troops
at Aldershott have been enabled to execute a variety
of field manna avres,which are generally suspended
at this season. On Tuesday morning the division
was drawn up in the Long Valley in review order,
in lines of brigade, the first brigade in advance,
facing eastward, and the second and third at equal
distances in its rear; the cavalry brigade forming
the fourth line. The Royal Horse Artillery and
field batteries formed on the flanks of their respec-
tive brigades. In this order the division was in-
spected by the Lieut.-General commanding, and,
after marching past, was formed in order of battle,
the first brigade being in advance, in line, the
second brigade forming the right support, and the
third brigade the left, with the cavalry and Royal
Horse Artillery in reserve, the whole facing east-
ward. The engagement was commenced by an
advance of skirmishers of the first brigade on to
Burns's Plain, supported by A and B field batteries,
4th brigade Royal Artillery, the whole division
advancing in the direction of the camp. The skir-
mishers halted until the artillery was in position in
their rear, when they retired and the artillery opened
fire. The cavalry brigade then came to the front
in three lines, at a trot ; the Royal Horse Artillery,
with a battery on either flank of the cavalry, next
dashed up, and fired alternately as the cavalry ad-
vanced. The Carabineers, who were in advance,
took ground to the right, and the 12th Lancers
came up on their left, and thus extended the front.
Position was then changed to the left, the third
brigade forming line and advancing, supported by
the second and first brigades. The cavalry again
formed the reserve, and a steady advance was made
to the north-west, the whole force being brought to
bear upon Pyestock-bridge and the canal-side.
After advancing in this direction to the north-west
extremity of the common, the engagement was
brought to a close shortly after 12 o'clock. A con-
siderable number of spectators witnessed the evo-
lutions.
A new church for the accommodation of the
troops at Aldershott is fast approaching comple-
tion. Its dimensions are 140 ft. by 70ft., and it is
calculated to seat 1,200 persons. It is constructed
of brick, with Caen stone dressings, and the cost of
erection is estimated at £16,000. The architect is
Mr. Hardwick, of London, and the builders Messrs.
Myers and Sons. This extension of the means of
accommodation for Divine worship was greatly
needed in the camp.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

(From the Times' Correspondents.)
BERLIN, Feb. 21.

Between Polish accounts and Russian bulletins
it is not easy to get at the truth, or to reconcile
their often very conflicting reports. The Dzienna
continues to announce Russian victories, very com-
plete and almost costless. Thus we read that, near
Mlawa, great success was obtained by a Russian
detachment, which killed 30 rebels and took 46, and
had only two men wounded. Colonel Eirsgieri
routed Langiewicz's band, killing 100 and taking
their baggage and three wooden guns ; only three
Russians fell, Such reports disagree strikingly
with the desperate bravery the insurgents are said to
show. As regards the wooden cannon a letter from
Warsaw gives an explanation. In the Hungarian war,
Bern, deficient in metal artillery, bad wooden guns
made, which were mounted and transported on the
front or back of a country cart, instead of a regular
carriage. Such cannon will bear firing five or six
times, after which they are worthless and thrown
away, and of such do the Poles now make use,
abandoning them when spoilt. Those the Russians
lately took are said to be three that had thus been
left behind. The reports from the Polish aide are
extremely favourable to their cause, but must of
course be received with a considerate grain of
allowance. In Warsaw it was said that Langiewicz
bad already 15,000 men completely armed and
uniformed, including a large number of cavalry.
Great subordination and implicit obedience were
asserted to prevail among them. The same letter
mentions a skirmish to have taken place near the rail-
way from Warsaw to St. Petersburg, between the first
and second stations. The insurgents got the best
of it, and took a detachment of Cossacks prisoners;
but, not knowing what to do with them, they
stripped them to their shirts and let them go.
Several of them, wounded, bad been taken into
Warsaw. The sithe (set straight on its handle) is
described as a frightful weapon in the hands of the
Poles against the Cossacks, whose lancepoies it cuts
through in a moment. Double-edged and sharp
as a razor, in skilful hands—and the Poles regu-
larly exercise themselves in its use—it will take
a man's head off at a blow. On the 16th detach-
ments of the Hussars of the Guard reached War-
saw by the St. Petersburg rail. The Grand
Duke Constantine drove out to meet and receive
them at the station. Notwithstanding his orders
of the day, there are proofs that the Russian
troops commit excesses against peaceable inhabi-
tants. Some of them on their march through
destroyed the property of Count Poletyllo, in the
Hrabieszower district, and completely plundered
his palace. The Count himself was wounded, as
were also many of his people, in resisting the
ruffians. The same outrages are said to have been
committed on the estate of Count ',Valewski,
brother-in-law of Wielopolski. A letter of the
19th, from Myslowitz, speaks of a large body of
insurgents, chiefly young men, having established
themselves in a regular intrenched camp at Ojcow,
and says that their numbers increased, many
Italians, Hungarians, and Poles from distant places
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shot were being cast, and the rebels sought to pre-
vents
the export of corn, straw, and oats. There is
mention made of a collision near Michalovice,
between Cossacks and Austrian Hussars, in which
some of the latter were wounded and a number of
the former taken prisoners to Cracow, but if there
be any truth in this, you will doubtless hear of it
from Vienna. A despatch of last night's date, from
Warsaw, says that the insurgents have been badly
beaten at Rudka, on the Bug, and that 400 fell,
also that at Miechow 200 were killed and many
prisoners made, the Russians losing only 30 men.
To-day's Czas tells of fresh fights in the neigh-
bourhood of Miechow and Wodzislaw, and that on
the 19th Langiewicz had cut off the retreat (near
Stobnica) of a Russian force, and was driving it to
the Austrian frontier.

VIENNA, Feb. 19.
In my letter of the 12th inst., which appeared in
your first impression of the 17th, it was said that
preparations were being made at Kielce for an
attack on the insurgents collected on that part of the
Austrian frontier which is nearest Cracow, and we
now learn that the expected blow has been dealt.
On the 10th inst. two Russian columns, consisting
of 4,000 men of all arms, left Radom and Kielce and
marched in the direction of the Galician frontier.
On the following day one of the columns appeared
before a small place called Swienty-Ki zysz (Holy
Cross), which is the so-called Polish Switzerland.
As the Russians advanced the outposts fell back and
hastily joined their fellow partisans, who were
posted in the convent of Swienty•Kryzysz, which
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RADE or PRANO
,
Several orders were received last week laswholoi- g
sale houses in Paris from Germany, Spain, Italy,
Turkey, the Havannah, Peru, and Chili, for articles
of luxury, such as jewelry, flue silks and stuffs for
---="1 ladies' dresses, lace, gloves, hosiery, dress shoes, and
various other articles for which the Parisians are
celebrated. The shopkeepers are likewise doing a
good business, in consequence of the numerous balls
given by the public functionaries, and the at rival
of foreigners. The manufacturers of wax candles
were never so busily employed as at present. In
some establishments the hands are employed by,
night as well as by day. It appears by official re-
turns that the export of wax candles has increased
considerably within the last three years. In 1860
the wax candles exported amounted to 1,493,342
kilogrammes ; in 1861 to 1,858,519 kilogrammes ;
and in 1862 to 2,233,056 kilogrammes. This increase.
is attributed to the great improvement introduced
in their composition. The manufacture of chocolate
is another branch which is extending greatly in
Paris. The article itself is becoming an object of
first necessity among the French. Merchants trad-
ing with foreign countries find cocua an important
article of exchange for French produce, as well as
an excellent freight on a return voyage. The manu-
facturers of chocolate, who employed only 53 steam
engines in 1852, increased that number to 151 ma-
chines, of 703 horsepower, in the year 1859. That
power may be calculated as equivalent to the labour
of 15,000 men ; but since 1859 the consumption of
chocolate in France has considerably increased, in
consequence of the reduction of the import duty on
cocoa, and the great decrease in the price of sugar.
The manufacture of chymical produce is likewise
increasing in Paris. Operatives employed in the
preparation of eaouchouc and gutta-percha are fre-
quently employed until a late hour of the night,
and have still work enough on hand for the
rest of the winter. The approach of spring re-
vives the demand for iron chairs and other articles
for the decoration of gardens. Seedsmen, for the
same reason, are preparing to execute orders not
only for home consumption but for export, of which
the latter amounted in the year 1862 to 11,500,000 f.
in value. Zinc in sheets rose last week in Paris to
60f., being an increase of sf. as compared with the
preceding week. Lead is quoted at 65f. ; English
copper, 225 f. the 100 kilogrammes; Chilian copper,
216 f. 25c. These metals are firm at Marseilles, and
without any change at Havre.
While trade is comparatively prosperous in Paris,
the accounts from the cotton manufacturing districts
in the Seine Inferieure are disheartening. A letter
in the Opinion Nationale from Rouen states that
the Cauchois weavers are subsisting on the leaves
of the rape plant. In one parish, St. Vivien at
Rouen, there aro 1,170 families in a state of utter
destitution. these 1,170 families have pawned fur-
niture and clothing to the amount of 100,000 f. Ac-
counts from Bischwiller in the Bas-Rhin state that
while all' engaged in the cotton trade in that depart-
ment are suffering the woollen manufacturers are
prosperous. A meeting of the cotton manufacturers
of the Haut Rhin was held at Mulhausen last week,
at which it was resolved to diminish the hours of
labour in each mill in consequence of the large
stock of goods on hand. The woollen cloths ex-
ported from Bischwiller, which in the month of
January, 1862, amounted to 56,167 kilogrammes,
increased in the month of January last to 73,496
kilogrammes, being an increase of nearly one-third.

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Swienty-Krzysz an insurgent corps tried to get
possession of Miechow, where there is a garrison of
about 800 men, but they were repulsed with great
loss. On the 14th inst. the other Russian column
took possession of Sandomierz, a town on the right
bank of the Vistula, and forced the insurgents under
Langiewicz, which consists of about 3,500 men, to
fall back on Staszow and Stobnica. In Cracow it
is related that Langiewicz had taken two guns from
the Russians, but it is here known that there is no
foundation for the report. On the 16th inst. the
Russians marched in two columns in the direction
of Staszow, which is to the south-east of Kielce
and Ojcow (this place is at a short distance from
Cracow and Olkuaz), which is to the south-west of
that town; and they must have put the insurgents
to flight, as they are now in possession of Michalo-
vice (the Russian customhouse on the frontier, near
Cracow), Ojcow, and other places of importance.
During the night of the 17th very many insurgents
crossed the Austrian frontier near Czerna (close to
Cracow), where they were at once disarmed. From
Poland we learn that Langiewicz has had 100 men
killed, and lost 11 baggage waggons and three
wooden guns; but the news being of Russian origin
requires confirmation. It is, however, certain that
the insurgents in the south-west part of the king-
dom of Poland have received a very severe check,
inasmuch as they have been forcibly ejected from
the natural fortress of Ojeow. Two or three days
ago the Russians shelled the convent of Swienty-
Kzysz, but they did no great harm to the insurgents,
who managed to escape into the surrounding woods.
Swienty-Krzysz is now a heap of ruins, as are almost
all the places which the Russians have retaken
from the insurgents. On the 13th inst. the mili-
tary authorities at Warsaw ordered the commanders
of the troops to maintain better discipline, but
since that date sad excesses have been committed by
the Russian soldiers, who are plied with raw spirits
until they are as fierce and unmanageable as wild
beasts. Kurowski, the leader of the insurgents in
that part of Poland which is to the north-west of
Cracow, has sent very many youths who proved to
be unable to bear the tremendous wear and tear of
guerilla warfare to their homes. The Polish Cen-
tral Committee has agents in Paris, Cracow, and
Posen, but the revolutionary faiseurs in the two
last-mentioned cities have received orders to remain
passive for the time being. It has long been known
that there is a widely-spread conspiracy in Galicia,
but the Austrian Government is not afraid that there
will be an outbreak, "as the peasants, being well
satisfied with what has been done for them, cannot
wish for a change." We are without news from
Volhynia, but there must be disturbances in that
province, as the Russians in Poland have lost the
line of the Bong, and have no direct communication
with Ostrog, Zitomirz, &c. Official despatches from
the western part of Volhynia are now sent to Wilna
instead of Warsaw, although the last-mentioned
city is not more than 100 English miles from the
Bug, which divides the kingdom of Poland from
the above-mentioned province. On the 15th inst.
it was expected that there would be a general rising
in Warsaw, and during the whole of the day strong
detachments of cavalry moved through the streets
with sword in hand, or lances in rest. Infantry,
artillery, and Cossacks were encamped in front of
the Palace, and orderlies continually galloped from
one part of the city to the other, but the great pre-
parations for maintaining " order" were useless, as
the Poles could not be induced to walk into the trap
which the Grand Duke Constantine and the Mar-
quis Wielopolski had laid for them. It is evident
that the breach between Austria and Russia is
widening, as the Ministerial Donau Zeitung to-day
says that the St. Petersburg Cabinet brought about
the insurrection " by changing the conscription in
Poland into a proscription." During the night of
the 14th inst. eighty students were arrested at
Warsaw. The Nord Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
says there is no mention in the Prusso-Russian con-
vention "of an eventual movement of Prussian
troops into Russian Poland," but it is in error.
This Government received from St. Petersburg a
summary of the contents of the convention, and was
at the same time asked whether it would accede to
it. For the benefit of persons who may be inclined
to write a history of our times, it may be stated
that the Russo-Prussian convention was signed at
Warsaw on the Bth inst. Since the outbreak of the
revolution 1,600 persons have gone to Russian
Poland from the district of Cracow, and about half
that number have crossed that part of the frontier
which is to the north of Lemberg. In 1831 about
18,000 Russian Poles took refuge in Austria, The
Russian Government demanded their extradition,
but Prince Metternich so managed matters that
they were allowed to emigrate to America. From
Southern Russia we learn that the 4th military
division will march from Bessarabia to the north-
western part of the Russian empire if it should re-
ceive orders from the Governor-General of Kiew to
do so. At the beginning of the month six or seven
Poles, who were suspected of being revolutionary
agents, were arrested at Odessa. The Don Cossack
regiment " Kameniev" is now on its way from
Southern Russia to Poland.

Prince and Princess of Wales' Annuities Bill.

The following are the provisions of the above bill,
intituled " A Bill to enable her Majesty to provide
for the establishment of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales and her Royal Highness the
Princess Alexandra of Denmark, and to settle cer-
tain Annuities on her Royal Highness :
Most Gracious Sovereign,—We your Majesty's most
dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament as-
sembled,:having taken into consideration your Majesty's
most gracious Message that your Majesty has agreed to a
marriage proposed between his Royal Highness Albert Ed-
ward Prince of Wales and herßoyal Highness the Princess
Alexandra Caroline Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia of Den-
mark, do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be
enacted ; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par-
liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as
follows :-
1. It shall be lawful for her Majesty, in order to provide
for the establishment of his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales and her said Royal Highness the Princess Alexan-
dra, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to grant to his said
Royal Highness or to such persons as her Majesty may
think fit to name in the said letters patent in trust for his
said Royal Highness, an annuity of Forty Thousand Pounds,
to commence from the day of the marriage of his said Royal
Highness with her said Royal Highness, and to continuo
during the joint lives of her Majesty and his said Roya
Highness, to be paid quarterly on the sth day of January,
the sth :day of April, the sth day of July, and the 10th
day of October in every year, the first payment to be
made on such of the said quarterly days as next hap-
pens after the said marriage, of such portion of the said
annuity as may have accrued between the date of the said
marriage and the said quarterly day, and a proportionate
part to be payable for the period from the last quarterly day
of payment to the day of the determination of the annuity.
2. It shall be lawful for her Majesty, by letters patent,
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland to grant unto hor Royal Highness the said
Princess Alexandra, or to such persons as her Majesty may
think fit to name in such letters patent, in trust far her
Royal Highness, for her sole and separate use, but without
any power of anticipation, an annuity of ten thousand
pounds, to commence from the date of the marriage of her
said Royal Highness with his Royal Highness, and to be
payable during the continuance of that marriage on the
quarterly days aforesaid, the first payment to be made on
such of the said quarterly days as happens next after the
said marriage, of such portion of the said annuity as may
have accrued between the date of such marriage and such
quarterly day, and a proportionate part to be payable for
the period from the last quarterly day of payment to tha
day of the determination thereof.
3. It shall be lawful for her Majesty, by letters patent
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, to grant unto her said Royal Highness,
in case of her surviving his said Royal Highness, or to such
persons as her Majesty may think fit to name in the said
letters patent, in trust for her said Royal Highness, in the
event of her so surviving, an annuity of thirty thousand
pounds, to commence from the day of the death of his said
Royal Highness, and to ccntinue from thenceforth during
the life of her said Royal Highness, and to be payable on
the quarterly days aforesaid, the first payment to be made
on such of the said quarterly days as happens next after the
death of his Royal Highness, of such portion of the said
annuity as may have accrued between the date of the said
from the last thereof to be payable for the period
.quarterly
death and the said quarterly day, and a proportionate part
by this. act shall be charged on
day of payment to the day of the determination thereof,
ufoutitesofgrthanetedConsolidated Fund of the United
4. The are
and payable
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, after paying or re-
serving
sufficient to pay such sums as may have beers di-
rected to be paid out of the said Fund by former Acts f
Parliament, but with Preference to all other
payments
which may hereafter be charged on the said Vund:

RUNNING MATCH AGAINta
match of Deerfoot against time .1.1 ME.--The third took place yester-
round, Brompton, in
day at the West London Cricket G
the presence of a large assembla persons, among
whom the greatest interest was excitedge of .
Deerfoot on this
occasion was backed to run eleven miles and a half in
one hour. Tho stake on the contest yesterday was for
£5O a side, and to complete the distance the cir-
cuit of the course had to be made forty-six times.
The time appointed for the start was half-past four
o'clock, and Mr. E. Smith having been chosen referee,
the signal was given, and he started off at a rattling pace,
accompanied by Jones of Islington, doing thleefirds t
in g 4 quarter
of a mile in one minute. The first was
completed pte
Richards, the
43 seconds, when Jones retired, and
miles were run in. 9
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Five miles were run in minutes 23 se•
place of Jones.
andc°lld the first half of the distance, viz. 51 miles, was
completed in 28 minutes 19 seconds. Six, miles were rut, in.
3Ominutes 37 seconds—seven miles in 35 minutes 51 se-
-and eight miles in 41 minutes 13 seconds. The
nds
ninth mile was completed in 4G minutes 35 Seconds, and ten
in 51 minutes 54 seconds. Eleven miles were done in 57
minutes 10 seconds, and the eleven miles and a half com-
pleted in 59 minutes 44 seconds.
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kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always
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W.S. LINDSAY, M.P.—The Rising Genera-
tion—Our Prize Essays—Mrs. Grundy's Gossiping,
Le., in FUN this week.
One Penny. Of all

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
GARDEN.
c rider the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, Feb.'2-1, Balfe's New Opera of 'f HE
ARS.IOURER OF NANTES = Miss Louisa Pyne, Mrs. A.
Cooke, and Miss Anna Hiles ; Mesrs. W. H.Weiss, Santley,
H. Corri, C. Lyall, Aynsley Cooke,s and W. Harrison.
Conductor-51r. A. Mellon.
Alter which, the Grand Comic Curistmas Pantomime, en-
titled HA REQUIN BEAUTY AN UTHE BEAST.
DuLors open at halt-past bmmence at 7.

THE A T RE-R YA L, DRURY-LANE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, BONNIE DUNDEE; or, The Gather-
ing of the Clans. Mes•rs. Henry Lorraine, Edmund Phelps,
Sinclair, Chas. Selby, henry Haigh; Mrs. D. I'. Bowers,
Mrs. Edmund Falconer, ctc.
Alter which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GOODY
TWO SHOES.