The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1863.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

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LEMBERG, Jcara 16.

The most painful scenes I have hitherto had to
record Occurred after the battle of Miropol, where
you mq remember I mentioned, in my bat letter,
that the insurgents met with a repulse. Proceed-
ing as aloud to the horrid work of alanghtering
the wounded, it seems that after a time the Cos-
sacks, r►ho on this occasion were assisted by the
peasantry, got tired of the work, and actually buried
the remainder alive ! . .

The piteous shrieks of the victims and.their cries
for mercy are described as having been heart-
rending in the extreme, but there was none to
help them, and they were left to their terrible
fate. We go to war to protect the interests
of the Christians in Turkey, and France
thinks it her duty to prevent the Druses from cut-
ting the throats of the Maronites, but it seems to
be nobody's business to interfere in behalf of the
unfortunate Poles. With these scenes enacting
almost irfore one's eyes, it doss seem a bitter
ineelrer: find tore rapier =Wag front rt.
Petersburg, and Lord Brougham speaking in his
place in the House of Lords, to the effect "that
from their acquaintance with the benevolent dispo-
sition of the Emperor Alexander, they are con-
vinced he will do his utmost to put a stop to the
present state of things," dm. But, even admitting
the benevolent disposition of the Emperor, the
establishment of that fact does not convey the small-
est guarantee of the proximate suspension of blood-
shedding in the kingdom of Poland and the eastern
provinces. The Emperor is probably as ignorant
as Lord Brougham himself of the horrid details
of the massacres to which the peasants are excited
in his name. .

An eye-witness of the entrance of the train of
prisoners into Zitomirz, himself half a Russian, and
educated at fit. Petersburg, assured me that he
should never forget, to his dying day, the frightful
spectacle, adding, "On my word of honour, I
don't believe that Christ himself suffered more than
those miserable creatures." This gentleman was
full of Russian sympathies, and therefore his testi-
mony is all the more worth.
Bound hand and foot, so tight that the ropes cut
the flesh almost to the bone, with their faces hor-

Ably mutilated, andtheir boding covered with gaping
wounds, to the number of some 200, on foot or
strapped to jolting carts, the unfortunate prisoners
were thusconveyed 30 miles, exposed to the broiling
sun, and continually pricked and goaded by the
lances and pitchforks of the Cossacks and peasants
who escorted them. Arrived at Zitomirz they were

cast into filthy dungeons, and all access to them
forbidden by order of the governor, Prince
Druckoy-Sokolinaki. In the cases of those who
were conveyed to the hospitals, it was days
before their friends could obtain permisaion to

supply them with a change of linen. By
not scrupling to resort to such means as these
the government has for the present succeeded in
putting down the insurrection in the eastern pro-
vinces ; though, if report speaks true, it will break
out again as soon as the promised assistance arrives
from Galicia -

Owing to the difficulty of getting it translated
from the Russian, lam compelled again to defer
giving you the text of the infamous proclamation,
which I referred to in my last letter, as having been
circulated by order of the government among the
Ruthenian peasantry. Before I close this letter I
cannot forbear relating an incident which happened
a few months ago in Warsaw, and of which I have
just learnt the particulars from a member of the
family implicated.
On the occasion of the attempt on the life of the
Grand Duke Constantine last autumn a number of
arrests wok place. Among other persons on whom
suspicion fell were the two sons of the Princess
Czetwertyuska, lads of the ages of 14 and 15 respec-
tively. They were accordingly conveyed from the
house of the tutor under whose care they were
placed, and confined for some months in the citadel
at Warsaw. The distracted mother was quite

unable to get any tidings of her children, till one
day the Marquis Wielopolski called upon her, and
promised that her sons should be liberated on con-
dition of their revealing all they knew of the mat-
ter. The mother indignantly replied that she
knew her boys to be innocent, but that even if they
were guilty she would sooner see them killed before
her eyes than that they should reveal their accom-
plices. At the same time ringing the bell, she
ordered her servant to show the marquis the door.
Some time afterwards the rest of those who had
been arrested on suspicion were liberated, but the
sons of the princess—boys of 14 and lb—were sent
as private soldiers to mount guard over the crimi-
nals working in the government mines at Orem.
bourg.

MR. GLALSREB.B NEXT BALLOON

ASCENT.

TO TILE IDITOR OF Till IFIPIUMI.
Sin,-11 the weather be suitable, the next
balloon moist for scieetigo purposes will take place on
Friday, June 26, as near to noon or 1 o'clock as can be, from
Wolverton ; and I should be greatly obliged if you would
permit me, through your columns, to requeet gentlemen pos.
sealed of angular instruments to take the altitude and
azimuth of its centre as near the beginning of every five
minutes so possible ; and if possessed of meteorological in-
struments, to take oteervationa so long as the balloon may
be in eight, and kindly forward them to me.—l am,
Blackheath, June 24. JAMES GLAISH.E.U.

INAUGURATION OF LORD HERBERT'S STATUE,
The Mayor and Town Council of the city of Salisbury and
the Herbert Memorial Committee have resolved to entertain
Lord Palmenton at • Meaner on the ocenrion of his lord-
ship's visit to that city to publicly inaugurate Baron Moro-
chetti's statue of the late Lord Herbert of Lee, on Monday
next, the 29th inst. The luncheon will be laid in the
Council chamber, in front of which building the statue is at
the present time iu course of erection, and accommoda-
tion is to be provided for between 100 and 200 guests. It is
expected that there will be an exceedingly numerous atten-
dance at the ceremony, as the deceased nobleman was held
in the highest possible esteem, not only in Wiltshire, the
southern division of which be so long represented, but oho
among • very extended circle of friends. On Lord
Palmerston's snivel he will be met by the mayor and onrpo-
' ration, and the members of the memorial committee and
other gentlemen at the railway station, and be accompanied
by them in procession to the council-house. An address
will be presented to the premier, after which the inaugura-
tion is to take place, and the statue formally handed over
to the city authorities. The di.jea ner will follow. It is
proposed that the various corps, oonsisting of ten companies,
which form the nut Administrative Battalion of Wilt-
shire Rifle Volunteers, shall assemble in the city to take
part in the inaugural prooeedinp ; and the Wiltshire Hor-
ticultural Society have also arranged to hold • „Me in the
beautiful pounds surrounding the Bishop of Salisbury's
palace during the afternoon of the same day, to which, as
well as to the cathedral and chapter-house, limiters will
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