The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-27 00:00:00

SWEDEN.

The long-expected Swedish Reform Bill has at
last been laid before the Swedish Parliament. It is
worthy of the King, Carl XV. from Ns hom it has
sprung, of the Cabinet which has anxiously weighed
every paragraph, and of the free and gallant nation
to which it is addressed. The old forms were
not only cumbersome and absurd, but the four
chambers sometimes came to a dead lock on the
most important questions. There will now be two
chambers only, each of them with equal pawers.
The Upper House will be chosen direct by the pro-
vincial assemblies and town representatives, with
the census for the deputies of an income rather
high in Sweden, about £2OO, and the Lower House
indirectly, by electors, but with a very low census
for the voters. Count De Geer's introduction or
explanatory remarks were most masterly, and the
whole plan has been received with acclamation.
The two lower Chambers, the House of Yeomen
and the House of Burghers, have already agreed to
thank his Majesty in corpore.

THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND.

BRESLAU, Jan. 26 (Evening),

The BreBlauer Zeitung of to•day states that the
largest body of insurgents is in the districts of Gas-
tonin, and asserts that Kielce and Pietrokow have
fallen into the possession of the rebels.

A revolutionary proclamation has been issued
promising all landed property to the peasants, and
announcing to them that General Mieroslawki is in
Poland.

Many landed proprietors have fled to Warsaw.

LEMBERG, Jan. 26.

Intelligence has been received here that it was
by desire of the Secret Central Committee the per-
sonsdestined Lr military service dispersed through-
otit the country.

The report that Kielce had been taken by the in-
surgents is incorrect. _

DRESDEN, Jan. 26.

The official Dresdener Journal of to-day publishes
a telegram direct from Warsaw, dated Sunday
evening, which, however, contains nothing new. It
states that perfect tranquillity prevails at Warsaw,
and that the insurgents are being pursued in all
portions of the provinces.
BERLIN, Jan. 26.

Some Berlin bankers have received letters from
Warsaw to-day,with the postmark of Saturday last,
stating that telegraphic communication from War-
saw has been interrupted in all directions. For
this reason no reliable intelligence has yet been
received here from Poland. A telegram, however,
from Myslowitz, sent by a traveller who left War-
saw on Sunday morning,states that tranquillity pre-
vailed in that capital at the time of his departure.
BERLIN, Jan. 26 (Evening).

The latest reliable intelligence received from Po-
land states that the insurrection at Warsaw has been
completely subdued. In official quarters here it is
confidently expected that. the rising which has
taken place in other parts of the country will like-
wise soon be suppressed.
Intelligence from the Grand Duchy of Posen states
that there is no trace of any connection between
that Prussian province and the insurgents, tranquil-
lity prevailing even upon the frontier between Po-
land and Prussia. No news of Polish insurgents hav-
ing entered Prussian territory has been received.
BRESLAU, San. 26.

The Sehlesische Zeitung of to-day announces that
the goods traffic upon the Upper Silesian Railway
from the Prussian side to Poland has been stopped,
and that no goods whatever are despatched hence to
Poland.

It was mentioned yesterday that the official jour-
nal at Warsaw had published an article announcing
that the levy of troops had taken place in the most
satisfactory manner; but as the present insurrection
is considered to have broken out in consequence of
this measure having been adopted by the Russian
Government, and as the outbreak gives the most de-
cided denial to the official statement, the article in
the official journal is now given entire :
" On the 15th inst., in the early hours from one
to eight in the morning, the levy of military took
pl ice at Warsaw in the most complete peace and
order. No single instance of opposition had to be
contended against, and for the last 30 years there
has not been such an example of willingness and
pleasure on the part of the conscripts. In the coun-
cil hall and in the citadel, where they were placed
in the meantime, and where they were tended with
every care, they showed the best and indeed joyful
feeling. Many of them complained of the revolu-
tionary attempts on the part of the anarchists and
the pretended authorities of this party, who led
them from the paths of honourable labour to idle-
ness and senselessdreams, and thereby had sacrificed
their previous earnings. TEds agrees entirely with
the depositions which were made by the people ac-
cused of having belonged to the so-called national
organisation when under examination at the court-
martial. Many of the conscripts expressed the joy
they felt that by entering the school of order, which
military service would be to them, they would be
withdrawn from irksome inactivity and idleness, the
more so as there is now a diminution of the time of
service, and as the treatment of the soldiers in the
ranks is changed for the better. Many persons who
were indicated as belonging to the Warsaw conscrip-
tion, but on account of absence on the day of the
levy, or from other unavoidable causes, could not
take their places, have now come voluntarily to
the authorities. The number of these is 49, and
others have announced themselves as volun-
teers. The repressive measures taken by the civil
and military authorities in case of disorder were
not at all necessary. The military and the police
conducted themselves in a most exemplary manner,
and the fortunate result of this important mea-
sure in the capital gives rise to the hope of a
similar termination in the provinces, and that
there also the agitations of the anarchists will be
equally fruitless."

DEATH OF MR. W. BECKETT.—lnformation
reached Leeds yesterday by telegraph of the death
of Mr. Wm. Beckett, formerly the Parliamentary represen-
tative for Leeds, and ono of the principal members of the
oldest banking establishment in Leeds. Mr, Beckett, who
has been ill but for .a short time, died at Brighton yester•
day afternoon, at half-past 12 o'clock, He was brother of
Sir Thomas Beckett, and of Mr. Edmund Denison, the
chairman of the Great Northern Railway Company. He
represented Leeds in Parliament from 1841 to 1852, when
he retired from the representation of that borough, and
was in the same year elected for Ripon, which city he re-
presented for a few years. He was a Conservative, but
supported free trade, and in general the measures of the
late Sir R. Peel. He was born in 1784, and married a sis-
ter of Mr. H. C. Ingram, of Templenewsam, near Leeds.
He has left no children, but his wife survives him.
ALPINE SNOWS.—A letter from Coire, in Swit-
zerland, dated Thursday last, states that the com-
munication with Italy through the passages of the Alps,
which had been interrupted, is again free, thanks to the
exertions of the post •office authorities and the nlighbour •
ing peasants. The mail from Milan was stopped for five
days at Campodolcino, on the south side of the
Splugen-road. There were ten feet of snow on the ground,
and it became necessary to postpone the burial of the per-
sons who died in the village. The passage of the St,
Gothard was likewise completely closed, and even the tele-
graphic communication was interrupted. The excellent
dogs maintained in the hospices of the Alps had rendered
great service. The snow was 14 feet deep at the Bernardin.
The village of Bedretto di Mezzo was ov.rwhelmed by an
avalanche on the 7th, at noon, Only two houses escaped ;
thirty-two persons perished. At Crodo, near Domodossola,
eighty persons were buried under the 'snow. News from
Lunigiana and the province of Lucca gives sad particulars
of the ravages calved by the torrents swollen by the rain
and melting snow,