The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-12 00:00:00

only 18, and was enciente at the time, was
to the most brutal treatment in the p's
husband by Russian soldiery disguised at.'
She ultimately managed to escape from them, al let
with no clothing but a greatcoat, succeedeci in
reaching a neighbouring forest where she was takcas."
prematurely ill. S'io was conveyed to Wilna, where
she was lately seen in a dying state—though Dot
then, as the telegraph has since reported, become a
lunatic. Her husband has been thrown into prison
at Dunaberg, Up to the present time there has been
no proof brought of his complicity in the insurgent
movement. The same may indeed be said of several
other noblemen of Lithuania whohave been arrested
on the estate of Count Ly berg Plater, whose wife, it
is reported, was similarly ill-treated. Arms were
indeed found concealed, but he alleged they were
insur-
gents. Unfortunately the agents employed by the
rlaced there without his knowledge by the
Government did not confine their violence to the
suspected husband. These are some of the atroci-
ties of which we lately road as having been per-
actree I by the Itasekolnicke, who, though by no
!Leans immaculate characters, are too ill disposed to
the Government to espouse its cause, even when
a massacre of the proprietors is in question ; they
are malcontents on religious grounds, and have
mote than once broken out in open revolt. The
idea of disguising the soldiers quartered at Duna-
awl imputing the atrocities
ttrlg. a s
haveitass kol iF'
committedekto this class of the population,
is one which can only acquire for the Governor who
devised it the execration of Europe. Some of
the details of the outrages which these fiends its
human shape perpetrated upon high-born ladies are
unfit for our columns, and can only be paralleled by
those which reached this country at the time of the
Indian mutiny. On a deputation of the Lithuanian
nobility applying to Nazimoff for protection against
these terrible marauders, he only replied—" I have
neither the wish nor the power to guarantee the
lives or fortunes of the unhappy Nachtchosnebb."
In Russia the term unhappy is applied to any one
who is under sentence, pronounced either according
to law or by the Czar, for offences, political or other-
wise. The result of such an answer must inevita-
bly be to drive theproprietors whomight have been
disposed to stand neutral to side with the insurgents
it being a lesser evil to be slain in fair fight than to
be massacred in bed. Daily the insurgent bands
ar-i.nereasing in the vicinity of Wilna, while that
Wee. ite.•'..t is surrouerled by ere eeßleced on the
ne;ghbouring slopes, from which, in the esert or es
rising, it can be bombarded. Meanwhile the terri-
ble 13th of May is drawing near. The acts of bar-
barism we have described are only a foretaste of
those atrocities which will be inevitably committed
under the measures authorised by the government
to be resorted to on that day. The Russian Govern-
ment may yet have the satisfaction of exciting Ea-
ropean sympathy in favour of Poland to such a
pitch that it will no longer be possible for Emperors
or Cabinets to refrain hone an active intervention.
HERALD.—What would have been the outcry in the
Liberal press, what the indignation of her Majesty's
Ministers, if Mr. Bishop, instead of being foolishly
and almost unwittingly mixed up with a conspiracy
against Victor Emmanuel, had suffered for intrigu-
ing against the Neapolitan Bourbons ? To judge by
what took place when Ferdinand was King, and
Neapolitan prisons were not half as full of political
prisoners as they now are, war would have been the
inevitable result. Admiral Mundy, instead of enter-
taining La Marmora,would have been called to bom-
bard St. Elmo, and the subversion of a dynasty
would have been the mildest expiation of the
affront put upon the Citns Romanus. Unhappily
Mr. Bishop has gone on the wrong tack. He has
made friends with the losing cause. He has per-
mitted himself imprudently to be drawn into the
meshes of the reactionary—i.e., the Royalist—net,
and, therefore, he must suffer without a protest.
Gentle solicitation is all that can be expected from
our Foreign Minister. So this poor young English-
man, smitten with a sore disease, languishes in Pied-
montese dungeons for six months without a trial,
and is then condemned, in the face of Neapolitan
law, to ten years at the galleys. The felon's doom
is commuted for a sort of political imprisonment,
and that is the extremity of Piedmontese mercy.
We fancied the present Government had some claim
upon Turin; that their vaunted sympathy, their
constant encouragement, their moral aid, had placed
Victor Emmanuel under some considerable obliga-
tion ; that if at this moment he is ruler over
22,000,000 Italians, he owes his augmented power
principally to English statesmen. At least, this is
the proudest boast of the Liberal press and Liberal
speakers. " See," say they, " the influence England
has acquired in the Italian peninsula." Mr. Bishop
has tested this influence to the full. Lord Russell
has begged hard for him, but Victor Emmanuel is
obdurate. They may knock off the iron that chains
him to a felon, but they will not give him his liberty.
They will have their pound of flesh. He is theirs,
they urge, by the law, and they will hold him, ac-
cording to the terms of their proclamation, "alive
or dead," for all that Lord Russell may entreat or
threaten. Wo own we are not very much surprised
at this. We recollect that two English engineers,
entirely innocent of any crime, were left is the pri-
son of Salerno for months until the advent of a Con-
servative Ministry to power. We know that
Earl Russell has too much at stake to quarrel, if
he can help it, with an Italian Ministry. But we
are amazed at the ingratitude of Turin. Hero at
least was an opportunity of showing some considera-
tion for the feelings of Englishmen. Policy as well as
feeling might have dictated acquiescence in the
requests of the English Ministry. But no. There
could be no fusillations in the Capitanata if the
Englishman escaped scot free ; there could be no
strength within if there were any display of
deference to a foreign power. And Mr. Bishop, in
spite of E srl Russell's remonstrances, is still a pri-
soner. It is only fair to say that the Italian Govern-
ment is not especially severe towards Englishmen.
There is M. de Christen, a gallant soldier, convicted
on notoriously false testimony. He, too, is immured
in Neapolitan dungeons, and his sentence to ten
years has also been commuted for a less harsh im-
prisonment. But how does this merciful Govern-
ment deal with their prostrate enemy Eighteen
months after his confinement, and six months after
his conviction, he is threatened with a new trial for
participation in the storming of Callato. It hap-
pens unfortunately for the credit of his accusers that
on the day on which he is accused of this feat at
Callato he was on parole at Rome ; and that some
hundreds of friends, Englishmen amongst the num-
ber, can be found to prove the alibi. But what of
that ? Where there is, according to Mr Layard, a
corrupt administration of justice, with demoralised
juries, the great thing is of course to keep the bird
encaged ; end this, by hook or crook, the Pied-
montese U svernment will accomplish. We sym-
pathise der ly with Mr. Bishop in such hands. We
cannot so school our feelings for our countrymen as
to measure our sympathies by their politics, and re-
vile or applaud them according as they may happen
to oe Liberals or Tories. And we cannot under-
:itand the sneers with which Lord Normanby's
generous support of an unfortunate prisoner in a
foreign gaol was greeted in the House of Peers.
i
Piedmont owes the present Government much,
i-
f rat
Italy ow es them little. It is the height of ingo
tude that, in a matter of so little moment ig
ent as L
de-
Piedmont should so
tention of one ailing prisoner,
We
ina learn from
arrogantly set us at defiance.
our " moral aid"
it the respect and influence which
has earned for us from the men who now sway the
destinies of

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