The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-17 00:00:00

CRACOW,

A letter from Cracow has the following :--'` The
sudden arrival in this city of Count Mensdorff
Pouilly has had the effect of imparting activity to
the zeal of the local authorities in their campaign
against the Polish element in Gallicia. The last
females arrested were the Countess Marie Tarnowski
and the Countess Zalusko, grand-niece of Thaddeus
Kosciusko, the most illustrious patriot of Ancient
Poland. The Governor-General declares that he will
adopt the most severe measures to make them con-
fess their complicity with the National Government.
The men are treated no better, M. Bentkowski, the
eminent deputy of the Berlin Parliament, who has
been detained for 10 months in an unwholesome cell
without having undergone any interrogation,is dying
of an affection of the lungs. Gan. Kruszwski, for-
merly in the Belgian service, but since settled in
Gallicia for several years, is also ill and deprived of
any assistance from his family. Lastly, General
Count Joseph Zilaska, a veteran of the First Em-
pire, has just been torn from the works of art and
history to which he was devoting the remainder of
his life. A companion of Napoleon 1., he was en-
gaged in analysing and describing with talent the
wars and combats of which he had been a witness.
His interrogatory commenced. on the 27th ult. in
the criminal prison of Przumysl. The following is
an official report of the extraditions published by
the German journal of Cracow :-275 inhabitants
of the kingdom delivered up to the Russian autho-
rities (the journal takes care to add that 46 were
hunch d aver by constraint) ; 359 expelled, probably
to France; 217 sent for fixed residence Koncegs-
gratz in Bohemia, and 80, belonging to different
nations, sent to their respective countries, This is
the official return, but it is very far from attaining
the real number, which we shall give when an op-
portunity presents itself."

FRUIT PROSPECTS IN DEVON.—The country ge-
nerally, and North and East Devon in particular, is
looking remarkably well just now. The late fine growing
showers came just when they were wanted. If no unusually
severe frosts come on, the prospect for fruit of every kind is
a most excellent one. It is long since such a splendid dis•
play of apple blossom has boon seen ; the trees and even
whole orchards are one mass of bloom. Pears are likely to
be abundant and are set, some of the young fruit already
measuring two inches round.—Cherries, too, are forward,
some being an inch and a half round. There is every pros-
pect of plenty of garden fruit.—Tiverton Gazette.
TIGERS IN SINGAPORE.—Captain Nelson, of the
Madras Presidency, induced by the unceasing ac-
counts appearing in the newspapers of the dreadful de-
etructionof human beings in Singapore occasioned by tigers,
has written to the Government to suggest that an attempt
might be made to poison the brutes by means of strychnine.
lie mentions a case in which he succeeded in destroying a
tiger, together with a great many vultures, jackals, dogs,
&e., by putting str3 chnine on the carcass of a buffalo which,
the tiger had killed and only partly consumed, and to which
he returned to complete his weal. The teethed recom •
mended by Captain Nelsen is about bring tried here by the
commissioner of police, and we hope it will be foundsuc-
cessful, although there are doubts on the point, as repeated
attempts have been made in Singapore to poison tigers, buy
without any good result. Dogs have been tied up in the
jungle in places resorted to by tigers, their necks having
been previously shaved and rubbed with strychnine, means
being taken to prevent their licking cif the poison. Calves
have also been tethered in the jungle with their necks pre•
pared in the same manner ; but none of the experiments
succeeded, although from the marks of tigers' feet all round
the bait in several instances it was apparent that their no-
tice had been attrac ed to it. In one or two cases strych•
nine has also been placed on the bodies of persons killed by
tigers, but the tigers did not again touch them ; indeed, we
are assured it has been generally observed that in Singapore
tigers do not return to eat bodies, whether of men or beasts,
which they have only partly
.Press, April 7.