The Sun. — 1863-06-24 (London, England)

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.  We have recently seen the third annual report of this society, which contains some interesting particutars of its proceedings. The principal objects Proposed by its members are the introduction and acclimatisation of animals, birds, fishes, insects, and Vegetables, useful and ornamental; the perfection of races already domesticated ; and the transmission Of animals from England to her colonies and to foreign parts. These designs are likely to be very beneficial, if properly carried out, and to add largely Fq our comforts and luxuries at home and abroad. As a proof of the increasing favour in which the *4lciety is held, we may mention that its members have increased more than 136 per cent. during the last year. The results of the experiments with Chinese sheep, prairie grouse, Honduras turkeys, and the Ailanteus silkworm, have been especially atisfactory. Some of the newly-introduced vegetables have also been successful. Lord Powerscourt 48 been making several experiments with a view to domesticating and acclimatising several rare kinds of deer, with varying success. He reports as the esult of his experience that the climate of Ireland la too damp to be favourable to tropical animals, although he has not entirely abandoned the hope of naturalising the eland or some similar species in these islands. The society is likely to be of even .greater service to our colonies than to ourselves, while the climate of our Australian settlements more especially would offer fewer obstacles to their experiments. We observe that its annual festival will very shortly be held, when several new and elaborate dishes will pique the curiosity of the gourmand,  m „ FIE roLISHINSITRRECTION.—The Czas publishes the following letter from Polish Livonia :—" The whole of l'l.oland will utter a cry of lamentation on hearing of the death of Count Leon Plater, shot in the square of the fortress of Dunaburg. This great patriot has stained with his blood the soil on which Count Henry, his grandfather, Ambassador from the States of Livonia to Sigismund Arigustus, King of Poland, took leave of his electors in the Stavostie of Dunaburg, which for centuries, up to the partition of Poland, had belonged to his family. Leon Plater, was only 26 years of age, and from the moment he tell into the hands of his executioners he suffered martyr(l°ol. He died calm and resigned for the liberty of his country. In returning from the execution we entered a church where were assembled the desolated sisters of the murdered man, his family, and his friends, who had taken refuge near the altar, and were offering up their prayers. ..a.,, "0 admired the courageous mother of Leon Plater, n°, seeing those around her bathed in tears, consoled them by saying, Do not weep, my dear friends; you see that I do not. I should have shed tears if my dear Leon had been afraid of the Muscovite condemnation; I Went to give him my blessing; I prayed to God for him and with him.' It is only faith in the holiness of the cause that can inspire such heroic courage and perseverance. A nation which produces such characters cannot die in Muscovite chains. Twenty Russian soldiers guarded the venerated tomb, and were reinforced at midnight. At one o'clock a cart came and conveyed it into the interior of the trtress, his body pierced with balls. It appears that be had been provisionally buried in the bastion which bears the name of Constantine."