The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-10 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND,

LEMBERG, Feb. 9.

An older of the Emperor of Austria has been
published to-day, decreeing the prorogation of the
Galician Diet until the 2d of March. The resolu-
tion is supposed to have been adopted in consequence
of Prince Sapieha having announced his intention
of proposing that the Diet should vote an address
to the Emperor of Austria requesting his diplomatic
intercession with the Emperor of Russia in favour
of Poland.

Arumour is current that the Marquis Wielopolski
has been assassinated.

Feb. 9 (Evening).
The insurrection at Olkusch is rapidly spreading,
The insurgents under Kurowski are posted near
Dombrown.

Langiewicz is preparing to attack Czenstochau.
The insurgents have promised the railway adminis-
tration not to destroy the line on condition that all
trains shall stop if signalled by them to do so.

MYSLOWITZ, Feb. 8.

The insurgents are in possession of all places
between Czentochow and the Prussian frontier.
The Russian troops who had fled into Prussian ter-
ritory have been escorted to Heiwitz.
Railway communication between Breslau and
Warsaw has been re-established.

BEIITIIEN, Feb. 8.

Sume hundreds of peasants suitable for military
service have taken refuge with their goods on
Prussian territory, near Brinica.
The great landed proprietors are assisting the
insurgents with horses and provisions.
BERLIN, Feb. 9 (Evening).

The Nord Deutsche Zeitung of this evening says :
—" News of an alarming character has been re-
ceived from the Polish provinces. Up to the pre-
sent time the agitation prevailing in Russian Poland
has not crossed cur frontier, but great excitement
has now commenced in some districts, chiefly in
t hat of Kulm, amongst the Polish landed proprietors.
It is believed that serious intervention on the part
of the Government will become necessary."
The Neue Preusstche (Krcutz) Zeitung says—
" The extension of the Polish insurrection has in-
creased. The whole of the Ist and 6th Prussian
army corps, and a division of the 2d corps, are to be
concentrated. It is rumoured that the battalion is
in future to consist of 800 men."

A Berlin journal, in a letter from Warsaw, dated
the sth instant, supplies the following information
respecting the revolt : _ _ _

The chief place of assembly and seat of the or-
ganisation of insurgents who have not hitherto come
into contact with the Russians is at Wonchocko, in
the government of Radom, and stretches on one side
over Suchodniow, where there is an imperial cannon
foundry, and on the other side over Opatow to San-
domir, on the Galician boundary, whence the insur-
gents are unceasingly supplying themselves with
weapons. Gen. Langiewicz, a former officer in
Prussia, and later, as it is said, in the Garibaldian
service, organises there, with the help of some Rus-
sian soldiers who have been captured, the insur-
gents who were partly compelled to rise, and is
forming them into a regular corps.
" A second place of assembly is the neighbour..
hood along the Lithuanian boundary from Biala to-
wards the west to Lukow, from the east to Janow
(close to the Lithuanian boundary), and to Wen-
grow on the north. Two of these positions in Wen-
grow and in Biala have now been attacked and
taken, after being for a long time unassailable on
account of the want of military. At both places,
according to the official report, the struggle was
very severe, and ended with the flight of the insur-
gents. At Wengrow 150 were found killed, and
nine wounded. The discrepancy between killed and
wounded is explained by the fact that the insur-
gents carried away their wounded with them. They
do not appear to have been pursued with much
energy. In respect of the assemblage of insurgents
at Biala, the official journal does not announce what
is confirmed by other intelligence, that an attempt to
surround them has been frustrated, and that they
have been enabled to retire to Janow.

" The third organised corps of insurgents is in the
Augnstowski Government, where a tendency to
effect a junction with Lithuania is plainly visible.
Here, also, with the exception of the above-men-
tioned fight, no decided advantage has been gained
on the part of the Government.
" As will be seen by the above account, the situa-
tion of the Government is an extremely grave one,
and although hitherto the movement was slighted
and treated as a mad proceeding, much grave
anxiety is now shown as to the result of the revolt
in these districts. Many of the well-to-do Russian
families have quitted the country, particularly the
female portion of the inhabitants.

" Where fear rules there also is the inclination to
make some one a scape-goat for all misfortunes.
However, the Russian party are not disposed to
single out M. Wielopolski. On the contrary, the
Emperor has declared, through his brother, the go-
vernor, that the margrave still enjoys his Majesty's
confidence. Consequently, the chief of the army
in Poland, General Ramsay, a known Liberal and
blameless man, must stiffer. He has therefore been
relieved of his command, as it is a rule that no high
Russian dignitary is superseded without he is ill,
apoplexy has been alleged as the reason for the
displacement of the general.
" The official reports to the Commission of the
Interior—a knowledge of which is only obtained
here by private means—are almost without excep-
tion unfavourable to the Government, and full of
complaints of the want of proper military protec-
tion. Everywhere the insurgents, even if only in
small numbers, continue to take the public treasure
and leave their receipts in exchange. The Russians
are less conscientious in this respect. The commis-
sion has received information that in some places
the Russians themselves have fallen upon the trea-
suries, and plundered them, without leaving any
acknowledgment.

44 Persons are leaving Warsaw day by day to join
the insurgents, notwithstanding the strong guards
at the gates and at all means of exit. As soon as
they reach the camps the oath is administered to
them, and they take their places in the ranks im-
mediately. How close is the communication be-
tween the insurgents and their families whom they
have left behind them, and on the other side how
circumspect are the leaders of the insurgents, is
shown by the interesting fact that entire packets
of unsealed letters from the insurgents to their rela-
tions are conveyed by ladies of this city. All letters,
however, are open, and are only written on small
scraps of paper, as other documents are not allowed
to go out of the insurgents' camp."
The official journal of the 4th inst. contains the
following report :
" In consequence of the court-martial jurisdiction
exercised by each commander of troops, with the
right of executing the sentences of these courts on
all rebels taken with arms in their hands, eighteen
men have been condemned at Plock, of whom two
have been shot.

The chief of the Radom military district an-
nounces that at the attack on the company of the
Steolenski regiment at Bodzentin, Lieut. Rapp was
Olot by M. Onainski, vicar of the Bodzuutin church.
Many clergy in the neighbourhood have deserted
their homes, and are now with th^ bands of rebels
in the woods. They were not able to induce the
country people to join them. Colonel Count Nostiz,
adjutant to the Emperor, who with his command,
consisting of 1,000 men (seven Companies of in-
fantry, two guns, and 15 Cossacks), was stationed
in the vicinity of the fortress of Brevese Litewski,
drew near the town of Biala on the Ist inst., as he
learned that 3,000 rebels were assembled there. As
the bridge over the Kyrnie river, 10 versts from
Biala, was found to be, destroyed, the troops drew
the guns over the ice, and bivouacked at night three
versts from the town after having made a forced
march of 40 versts during the day. At eleven
o'clock the rebels attacked the troops on all sides,
with the view of routing them and capturing their
guns. The struggle lasted two hours. The insur-
gents could not make a stand against the musketry
fire and the bayonets, but were repulsed, and retired
in disorder towards Janow, with the loss of 42 men
killed. The number o f wounded must have been
very considerable, but the rebels carried them off.
Of the troops three were killed and 15 wounded.
On account of the darkness of the night the insur-