The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-30 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

POLAND.

WARSAW, APRIL 25, EVENING.
A recent arbitrary act has excited public indig-
nation anew against the name of Wielopolski. Since
the time when Prince Gortschakoff replaced Paz
kiewicz as Viceroy nothing so flagrantly urjust in
administrative matters has been perpetrated here.
The cause of complaint is briefly thus :—For some
time past it has been intended to improve the health
of the city, unhappily notorious for an extraordi
nary high rate of mortality, by amended water
supply and drainage. The town council lately in
office had been very zealous in the matter, and we
Dow learn from official quarters that Count Sigis-
mund Wielepolski, the President of the town, has
of his own accord placed this undertaking, which
will entail upon the citizens an expense of two
million florins, in the hands of an Englishman, upon
terms which double the estimate of the engineers
engaged by the town council to prepare the scheme.
The financial management of the enterprise is en-
trusted to the banker, Laski, a very intimate friend
of the Wielopoiski family, and report whispers that
the President himself is not without some interest
in the affair. Suspicions of this description find
general belief in a land of universal corruption when
officials venture on such arbitrary proceedings, and
tend to increase the stock of inflammable materials
already largely present among the population. Nor
does the Government aid in decreasing the elements
of danger by orders like that of yesterday, forbid-
ding religious processions in the streets.

These solemnities take place every year at the end
of April or the beginning of May. The clergy walk
in procession from one church to another, in order
corresponding with the rank in the hierarchy of the
patron saint to whom the church is dedicated. Until
recently they met with little public interest. In 1861,
however, when the discontented party, failing or
ganised and defined concentration, were glad to
avail themselves of ecclesiastical means of agitation,
the processions were made the vehicles of political
demonstrations by the people, who attended them
singing patriotic hymns in their progress through
the streets. Last year Archbishop Felinski, then

friendly to the Government, forbade the processions
on account of the state of siege. Whence the chief
ecclesiastical dignitary in the country has been in-
spired this year with precisely opposite sentiments
I am unable to divine; it is sufficient to chronicle
that upon this occasion, spite of the state of siege, the
archbishop insisted that the processions should take
place. It wts in vain that the Minister of Public
Worship and the Chief of the Police negotiated
, with the high dignitary even as late as yesterday.
No arguments they could adduce were able to move
him from his purpose. If the Government had a
better memory they would surely have remembered
in what an unpleasant predicament they were
placed by the temporary Archbishop Bialobrzeshi
closing the churches, and that it was only through
the compliance of Rome they could obtazn a suc-
cessor, who made his debut by reopening the sacred
edifices. To bring this extraordinarily delicate
subject once more into prominent notice at this cri-
tical period, and to go to loggerheads with the
clergy, worst of all with Archbishop Felinski, whom
they had hitherto used as a tool,was a step to which,
one would think, the Government could only have
been advised by their most virulent enemies.
The appointed processsion, from Liszno to the
Elector's-street, came off, therefore, to-day with due
t formality and perfect quiet, the Governmental pro-
hibition being violated unpunished by the people.
But after the termination of the ceremony all the
clergy who had participated, among whom was
canon Wyszynski,who only returned a few months
ago from Siberia, were arrested, and carried off to
the citadel. The party of agitation is, of course,
overjoyed at this blunder of the Government, which
must lead to further collisions. But I grieve to
say that I perceive in the matter the commence-
ment of a rising in Warsaw, which the Govern-
ment will have the dismal merit of having brought
about. _ Had they not issued the prohibition, the
present leaders of the revolution would not have
dreamt of using the processions for their own pur-
poses, as they have already seen, in the case of
Felinski himself, how perilous to freedom is an
alliance with the superior clergy. But through this
ill judged prohibition the processions are now
stamped as political demonstrations, from holding
which neither the people nor the clergy will allow
themselves to be restrained; and, therefore, I repeat
it is to be feared that melancholy sights will soon
be seen in Warsaw.

A story of an act of revolutionary vengeance is
current here. In the middle of last week a post-
chaise arrived at a small town not far from Wloc-
lawek. The occupant of the vehicle, a well-dressed
person, sought out a police official suspected of being
a Russian spy, arid begged his assistance to follow
up the traces of two horses which he stated had
been stolen from him. The policeman obtained per-
mission from his superior to accompany the stranger.
The two got into the postchaise, and drove out of
the town, where their vehicle was seen to be fol-
lowed by another. To the side of the high road,
outside the town, is situated a small wood, into
which. by the wheel-tracks, both carriages nous)
have passed. Here the policeman was afterwards
discovered, hanged, with a sign upon the tree be-
side the corpse, designating the execution as au act
of political vengeance.
While Fate overtakes a spy, Fortune bestows her
favours upon the bold. One of the prizes in the
recent Prussian Lottery, amounting to 50,0 .0
thalere, fell to the lot of a resident in Kempen.
When he received the news of his good fortune he
had joined one of the corps of insurgents, and had
the money forwarded to him in camp.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.

Messrs. T. and W. Smith's ship St. Lawrence,
1,200 tons, Capt. Joseph Tai nbee, has passed up
Channel. From Calcutta, Jan. 22, and Table Bay,
March 6. She brings a general Calcutta cargo,
with a large quantity of indigo and shell lac. Her
passengers are—From Calcutta—Col. A. K. Ather-
ley, 92d Highlanders, Mrs. Atherley, and 4 chil-
dren ; Mrs. Col. AL.xviren and 3 children, Col. and
Mrs. J. W. Carter and 2 children, Col. and Mrs.
T. C. Blagrave, Mrs. Col. Cos and 5 children, Major
J. S. Dunbar (Bengal Steil' Corps), Capt. and Mrs.
Ramsay, Madras army, Capt. and Mrs. Baggs,
Capt. Miller, 52d N. 1., Capt. C. Bailey, 17th N. 1.,
Dr. C. M. lie.nderson, Dr. Reid, 20th Hussars,
Lieu! s G. Stainforth, 4th Sikh infantry, M. Rind,
107th Regiment, P. Brind, 44th NJ., Richards,
94th Regiment, B. Arbuckle, RA , Mrs. Chevers
and 3 children, Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. Taylor and
3 children, Mrs. Hannah and 4 children, Mrs.
Duncan and 4 children, Mrs. Wood and 3 children,
Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Mayes and child, Mrs. Ander-
son and 2 children, Miss Newton, Miss Maxwell,
Messrs. H. H. Brakspear and Coiappini. From
the Cape of Good Hope—Mrs. Fellowes and Mr.
Finlay. The St. Lawrence spoke Feb. 13, in 22
S. 67 E. the Dutch barque Hendiana ; Feb. 27, in
34 S. 25 E., the ship Annott Lyle, from Bombay for
Liverpool, 44 days out; March 25, near the Equator,
in W,, French ship Montisquier, from Bordeaux,