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TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. MARCH 16, 1846.

into the town, and hailed him with joyful acclamation." The
Austrians found that .the castle and the principal guard-
houses of the town ;Orb already Occupied by a stnall detach-
Elea of Russian troops. The armed bands of the insurgents,
when they evacuated Cracow; before the Russisto and Aus-
trian troOpit had marched into the town, took refuge in the
Wistern territory of the republic. Being pursued by the
Austrian and Russian cavalry, they surrendered at discre-
tion, and 800 men gave themselves up to the Prussian com-
mandant. The troops were assembled together on the fron-
tiers of Prussian Silesia. The Prussian officer ordered the
insurgents at once to be disarmed, and they were forthwith
incarcerated in Prussian fortresses.
PRUSSIAN SILESIA—PLESSE, MARCH 4.—On the 3d inst.
a number of Polish ecclesiastics, secular and regular, passed
through Bialu, under a military escort. They were taken
to Austrian Silesia. The Gallician families who had fled to
the frontier are returning to their homesteads. This morn-
ing ten pieces of artillery passed through Bialu, where a
large number of troops are at present concentrated.
PRUSSIAN SILESIA—NICOLAI, MARCH s.—This morning,
at eight o'clock, six hundred and eighty insurgents arrived
here, escorted by a body of cavalry and infantry. When the
dragoons and hussars were about to attack them yesterday,
they laid down their arms. Amongst these insurgents are
to be found the flower of the Polish youth. I hear that they
all declare that they would far prefer to live under the
Prussian Government than submit to the Russian yoke. The
cavalry, artillery, and 10th regiment of infantry continued
their march towards Cracow, where they will arrive to-
morrow or the day after. Some few of the prisoners appear
in good spirits, but the great majority of them are heart-
broken, and mourn over their country like a child who has
lost its parents. Whilst they were marching to Nicolai the
chief of the insurgents met his mother and sisters, who had
come forth to take a lingering look at him as he passed on to
his prison. Many an eye among the rude soldiery glistened
with those drops which sacred pity engenders, at witnessing
the heartfelt sorrow caused by this meeting. It is said that
there are three ecclesiastics amongst the prisoners. What
will be the fate of the Polish insurgents is not yet known ;
certain it is, however, that the submission was only accepted
on condition that the submission was to Prussia, Russia, and
Austria, collectively.— Cologne Gazette, March 12.
PRUSSIAN SILESIA—BRESLAU, MARCH 6.—One of the
divisions of the insurgents, when they evacuated Cracow,
proceeded towards Gallicia, and marched, it is said, to
Wiliezka. Perhaps they thought that they would be able
to hold out longer in that stronghold and hotbed of the Gal-
lician revolt. It was generally imagined that the whole body
of the insurgents, on leaving Cracow, would have fled to the
high mountains of Gallicia, where they would have been
joined by the Goral mountaineers, by whose assistance they
would have been able to carry on a guerilla warfare for a
long time. Had they taken this step, they could also have
opened a communication with Hungary. Another division
of the insurgents professed to surrender to the Prussians. It
is obvious that at Cracow public opinion is so strongly in
favour of the Prussian form of government, that a very
strong desire exists that Cracow should be incorporated with
Prussia. This circumstance may, perhaps, introduce some
complications into the forthcoming diplomatic negotiations.
—Cologne Gazette, March 12.
PLzsCHEN, MARCH 3.—Some travellers inform us that
Russia is concentrating a large body of troops in several
places in Poland. At Vroklavek there are eight thousand
men, and the lines all along the Polish frontier are kept by
Cossacks and Gensdarmes. Precautionary measures are also
being taken in the interior of the country. It is said that
the Treasury was attacked at Mezi-Bronno, but that the
attack was unsuccessful.— Voss Gazette, March 9.
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COURT CIRCULAR.

PRICE of POTATOES in IRELAND.
By order of the Honourable the House of Commons,
a4.oturn has been issued " of the highest price of pota-
toes in the various markets in Ireland, per bushel and
stone, in the week ending the 24th day of January, for
the last seven years (from 1840 to 1846 inclusively), as
well as they can be ascertained." From the printed
copy of this return we subjoin a few random gleanings,
which cannot but speak for the urgency of the position
of our fellow-countrymen. The following figures, in-
deed, are more eloquent than the most forcible rhetorical
flourishing could be :

The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent,
the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the do-
mestic household, attended Divine service yesterday
morning in the Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace. The
sermon was preached by the Bishop of London, and the
pray ers were read by the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Cour-
tenay.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their accus-
tomed early walk yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
were taken their usual airings yesterday in the royal
gardens.
Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen on
Saturday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the royal
gardens on Saturday forenoon. The Prince afterwards
rude out on horseback, attended by Sir Edward Bowater.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an
airing on Saturday.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, on Sa-
turday, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Caroline Leveson
Gower, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the
Earl of Lincoln, the Earl and Countess of Delswarr,
the Right Hon Sir George Cockburn, Sir George Couper,
Bart., and Captain Francis Seymour.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert did Messrs. Hunt and
Roskell the honour of inspecting, on Saturday, the
jewels they have just completed for her Royal Highness
Princess Sophia, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxony;
also the piece of plate presented to his Excellency M. de
Lisboa, and the magnificent silver candelabrum, part of
a service of plate now finishing for his Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of Russia. Her Majesty and his Royal
Highness were pleased to express their approbation.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House.
Thee' Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge honoured the Italian Opera with their pre-
sence, on Saturday evening.
Dispatches from the Governor-General of Canada,
and also from the Governors of the other North Ameri-
can provinces, were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office.
The Duke of Wellington, Lord G. Paulet, and Sir
Frederick Trench attended the early service yesterday
in the Chapel Royal St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley
officiated, and preached the sermon at the daily service ;
the Bishop of Salisbury preached the sermon, and the
Rev. Dr. Sleath officiated at the communion service.
The anthem, " 0 God, thou art my God" (Greene), was
sung by Messrs. Bennet and Bradbery. Mr. Turk pre-
sided at the organ. The Marquises of Anglesey and
Northampton, Earl and Countess Delawarr, Earl and
Countess St. Germans, Lords Palmerston, Cantalupe,
Ingestre, Hatherton, and Foley were among the nobility
present.
The following are the Lent Preachers at the Chapel
Royal, St. James's Palace, for this present week :
Sunday, March 15—Lord Bishop of Salisbury.
Wednesday, March 18—Dr. Wesley.
Friday, March 20—Dean of Lincoln, Mr. Ward.
The Ecclesiastical Commissimers for England had a
Comtnittee•meeting on Saturday afternoon, at the office
in Whitehall-place. There were present the Bishop of
London, the Bishop of Oxford, the Earl of Bessborough,
and the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse.

Highest Price, per stone,
'Week ending Jan. 24.
1840. 1846.

ANTRIM.

Antrim ...
Ballymoney...
Belfast ...
Cushendall
Lisburn

Crossmaglen
Keady .
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Tallow

Bailieborough
BallybaiEe
Cootehill
Stradone

Ballyvaughan
Kilrush
bliltown Malboy
Scariff
Tulla ..• ••,

Middleton
Newmarket
Ratheormae

Ardara ...
Creeslagh
Dungloo
Glenties
Movi le ...
Raphoe ...

Banbridge ...
Donaghadee
Kircubbin ...
Portaferry ...
Saintfield ...

Balbriggan ...
Ballylohill ...
Clontarf
Howth
Skerries
Tallaght

PRUSSIAN SILESIA—GLEWITZ, PIARCII 7.—The Polish in-
surrection virtually terminated, when the remainder of the
insurgents, amounting to seven hundred men, placed them-
selves under the protection of Prussia, and laid down their
arms. The insurgents passed by here yesterday on their
way to Kosel, escorted by two companies of the 25th regi-
ment. The nobility and gentry among the insurgents
seemed to bear their misfortunes with equanimity, but the
lower orders appeared as if overwhelmed with sorrow. The
insurgents are now dispersed, and the territory of Cracow is
occupied by the Prussian, Russian, and Austrian troops.—
Berlin Universal Gazette, March 11.

INTERMENT IN PROTESTANT
CHURCHYARDS.
(From the Dublin Evening Post.)
An occurrence took place this morning, in St. Cathe-
rine's Churchyard, which appears to us deserving of
severe reprension and public exposure. Arrangements
had been made for the interment of a highly respectable
citizen, the late Surgeon Roney, of Kildare -street, in
the burial-ground of that church, where many mem-
bers of his family have found their last resting-place.
As the de2eased !gentleman was a Catholic, his rela-
tions were anxious that a clergyman of that communion
should attend the funeral, and read the burial service
at the grave. For this purpose, as the law requires
it, application had been made yesterday to the
rector, the Rev. H. Hurst, for the necessary permis-
sion. This form having been complied with, and no
refusal having been given, a Catholic clergyman accor-
dingly attended this morning ; but just as he was about
to commence the solemn office, the sexton, or some other
underling of the rector, made his way amongst the rela-
tives and friends of the deceased, crowded around the
grave, and served the following notice :
" To the Minister or Priest about to officiate at the fu-
neral of Roney, Esq.
" I hereby warn you that if any religious services,
otherwise than those of the Church of England and Ire-
land be performed in my church-yard by any one than
an ordained minister of the church, and according to the
rites of the Established Church, I will take legal pro-
ceedings against you."
. "H. HURST, Rector of St. Catherine's, Dublin.
" March 11, 1846."
This insulting and unnecessarily offensive proceeding
caused the deepest indignation amongst the relatives
and friends of the deceased. If permission had been
refused yesterday, the interment would have taken place
without the Catholic service, or the remains of Surgeon
honey would, probably, have been consigned to one of
the Catholic burial-grounds. But, the feeling was na-
tural that his ashes should mingle with those of his
family in the same burial-ground ; and it never could
have been contemplated, when a day had elapsed after
the application to the rector, that such an outrage upon
the feeling-a of hia relatives, and tha sanctity of the grave,
would have been attempted.
It is thus, however, that the Established Church in
Ireland confronts the Catholics of this country at every
turn, and renders it impossible for them to forget, for an
instant, the power still conferred on that Church by the
law to insult the people with its arrogant ascendancy,
even at the brink of the grave. Such mementos, at such
a place, have a most salutary tendency—they remind the
people of one of their most intolerable social and politi-
cal grievances.
The Protestant incumbents of Dublin have already
lost a large revenue since the establishment of the Ca-
tholic cemeteries. The exhibition in Catherine's church-
yard, this day, must strengthen the repugnance of Ca-
tholics to incur similar insults to themselves and their
clergy for the future.

The Post Ampt Gazette, of Frankfort, has the following
from Coblentz, dated the 10th :—" The reserve of the army
and the landwher of the Rhenish provinces, have been called
out, in consequence of the events in Poland. On Sunday
the commandant formally announced this on parade, and a
superior officer stated that the third corps of the regular
troops would be put on the war establishment, and called
into active service. It was reported yesterday that M. de
Thiel and General de Canitz had been called to Berlin by
telegraph." The same journal states that on the 3d, 2,500
insurgents, who occupied Cracow, left the city in two divi-
sions, one of which moved towards Gallicia, and the other
into Russian Poland.

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A Berlin letter of the Bth, in a Frankfort journal, states

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that the three protecting Powers will keep up ihelforce which
had been sent into the Polish provinces, until the revolt is
entirely put down. Prussia, Austria, and Russia will, it
adds, act with the greatest leniency towards the individuals
who have been led to take part in the movement, but will
adopt the severest measures against the leaders of the revolt.
The Universal Ge,naan Gazette states that a noble lady,
who enjoyed the special favour of the Queen, had arrived
at Berlin on the 7th, at the head of a deputation of ladies of
the Grand Duchy of Posen, to implore the clemency of his
Majesty.

SWITZERLAND.
A foreign journal publishes the two follewing dis-
patches, which have been addressed by Lord Aberdeen
to the British Minister in Switzerland
(No. 1.)
" Foreign-office, Jan. 13, 1846.
" Sir,—The intelligence communicated in your dis-
patch of the 24th of November, with respect to the
affairs of the Canton de Vaud, and more particularly as
regards the conduct of the Government of that canton
towards the clergy, has been received with great regret
by her Majesty's Government, and has excited deep
sympathy with the persecuted pastors, among various
classes of her Majesty's subjects.
" So painful indeed has been the impression which
recent events in that part of Switzerland have caused in
this country that members of different evangelical per-
suasions have petitioned her Majesty's Government in
exert their influence with the authorities of the canton
in behalf of the clergymen who have, on conscientious
grounds separated themselves from the Church recog-
nised by the state. But, although this petition is con-
fined to the prayer that the Government of the Canton
de Vaud will afford to those pastors their protection in
the free exercise of the worship of God, and does not
profess to seek for their restoration to the churches
which they have for conscience sake been constrained
to abandon, her Majesty's Government feel that it is not
competent for them to interfere, even in this limited
sense, with the internal administration of an independent
state.
"At the same time I can have no hesitation in
authorising you to express in any quarter in which you
think a knowledge of it may be useful, the feeling of
deep regret with which her Majesty's Government have
received your report of the proceedings to which I have
above alluded, as well as their conviction that perse-
verance in such a course must sooner or later involve
the canton, and indeed the Swiss Confederation, in re-
newed troubles, and materially impede. a settlement of
the previously existing differences which her Majesty's
Government have already had occasion to deplore.
" t am, &c.,
(Signed) " ABERDEEN."
(No. 2.)

MURDER IN ST. LUKE'S.
Yesterday morning (Sunday), at the early hour of Oreo'clock,
o'clock, the immediate neighbourhood of Golden-lane, St.
Luke's, was the scene of great excitement, in consequence of
the following occurrence, which was attended with fatal
results to an unfortunate woman, named Mary Murray, a
widow.
It appears that at the hour above-mentioned, the unfor-
tunate deceased was, together with several other persons, in
a house in George-yard, Golden-lane—one of those sinks of
iniquity so common in that district, termed private gin'.
houses—in which spirits are retailed after the regular taverns
and public-houses are closed. Whilst there a young man,
named Martin Jennings, a bricklayer's labourer, went in,
and after conversing with the deceased, called for a quartern
of gin. Upon taking his money out of his pocket he said he
had lost a shilling, and accused the deceased of having
picked his pocket. The allegation was denied by the woman,
high words ensued, and Jennings struck the deceased on the
face with great violence. Some of the people in the place
tried to reconcile them, but the deceased still persisting that
she had not taken the money, Jennings gave her another
dreadful blow over the eye. he deceased then made for the
door, and, having gained the court, was in the act of escap-
ing to Golden-lane, when she was overtaken by Jennings,
who again struck her a violent blow on the temples, which
knocked the poor creature down upon her back, her head
striking the wall of a dust-hole as she fell.
Some of the persons present perceiving that the deceased
appeared to be in a state of insensibility, raised an alarm,
when Mrs. Tye, the owner of the house in which the affraycommenced,
commenced, came out to render assistance. Upon lifting
the head of the unfortunate woman, life appeared to be fast
ebbing, and she was laid in the dust-hole whilst information
was conveyed to the police. Mr. Inspector Tierney, upon
being made acquainted with what bad happened, sent a
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Luke's workhouse, where it will remain until the coroner's
inquest is held.
The police, without loss of time, went in search of Jen-
nings, and succeeded in apprehending him in the neighbour-
hood. He was forthwith conveyed to the station-house, when
the charge of having caused the deceased's death was en-
tered against him. Ne was locked up in one of the ceil
and constables placed therein to watch him. He still per-
sists in stating that the decased had robbed him. He says,
that whilst she was sitting on his knee she placed her hand
in his pocket and abstracted the shilling.
It is stated that the deceased has left three children. The
prisoner, we understand, is a single man.

" Foreign-office, January 30, 1846.
" Sir—Your dispatch (No. 4), of the 22d inst., en-
closing the note addressed to you on the 14th by the
Council of the Canton de Vaud, relative to the differ-
ences which have arisen between the Government of that
canton, and a portion of the clergy of the National
Church, has been received and laid before the Queen.
"My dispatch (No. 1), of the 13th inst., will have
made you sufficiently acquainted with the painful effect
produced in this country by the proceedings of the Go-
vernment of the Canton de Vaud towards the seceding
clergy, as well as with the opinion entertained by her
Majesty's Government thet a perseverance in such a
course must, sooner or later, be attended with results
most detrimental to the welfare of the canton and indeed
of the Swiss Confederation.

" You will have likewise gathered from that dispatch
that the desire of her Majesty's Government not to in-
terfere with the internal administration of an indepen-
dent state, was the sole reason which prevented them
from expressing those sentiments officially to the Go-
vernment of the canton. But, now that the Vaudois
Council of State, invested as it is with full powers in re-
spect to Church affairs, has itself invited her Majesty's
Government to pronounce their judgment upon the pro-
ceedings which form the subject of the documents trans-
mitted to you on the 14th instant, her Majesty's Go-
vernment can have no hesitation in authorising you to
express directly to the .Executive Government of the
Canton de Vaud, in answer to that invitation, the feel-
ing of deep regret with which they have viewed the
course pursued by that Government towards the clergy
of their canton.
" The Council of State observes, at the conclusion of
toyobue omnadteheibl4tbthe in-
tshtseelte,tt,eTrbwahtiachditshteinyeatidbd addressed
easilycanbre
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do-
cuments in question, between what bears a general s
cha-
racter and what is peculiar to the legislation and position
of their canton.'
" Her Majesty's Government are unable to compre-
hend how any peculiarity of legislation or position can
be considered as justifying a departure from those first
principles of civil and religious freedom, the mainte-
nance of which forms the distinction of civilized Chris-
tian states, and had, till now, been the boast of the Can-
ton de Vaud. On the contrary, her Majesty's Government
were entitled to expect that those cantons which call
themselves liberal would have been solicitous to establish
their claim to that title, by setting the example of a
scrupulous regard, equally for the rights and liberties
of their own citizens, as well as for those of their con-
federates.
" The respect which her Majesty's Government enter-
tertain for the independence of the Swiss Cantons, as
for that of all Sovereign States, would, I have already
observed, have withheld them from expressing their
opinions in the present official fortni_. but the Vaudois
Government having appealed t,) her Majesty's Govern-
ment for their judgment, they feel that they cannot
give a better proof of the sincere interest they take in the
welfare of the whole confederation, of which the Canton
de Vaud constitutes so important a member, than by
frankly, but with deep regret, expressing their Convic-
tion, that perseveratte in the course pursued by the
Government of Lausanne' with respect to religi-
ous matters, must involve the canton, and indeed
the Swiss Confederation, in renewed troubles, and by
impeding a settlement of the previously existing differ-
ences, which her Majesty's Government have had al-
ready occasion to deplore, endanger, through the rup-
ture of the Federal Compact, the national independence
of all the Swiss people.
" I have to desire tt.at you will communicate a copy of
this instruction, as well as of my dispatch (No. 1), of the
13th inst., to the Government of the Canton de Vaud, and
that you will make known the sentiments expressed
therein in any quarter in which the knowledge of them
may be deemed useful. " I am, &c.,
(Signed) " ABERDEEN.