The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-28 00:00:00

POLAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The following letter was addressed by Count
Victor Statzenski, one of the Marshals of the
Lithuanian nobility, to the other Marshals of the
province, acquainting them of the reasons which
induced him to send in his resignation to the
Government :
" Sir,—lt nould not be a secret to me, when called
by the votes of my fellow-nobles to the post of
Marshal of the nobility, almost at the very com-
mencement of the national movement, that I
should meet with no little difficulty in perform-
ing the functions entrusted to me. With the con-
viction, however, that it is the duty of
every citizen that loves his country and
is faithful to her historical recollections, to labour

mainly to promote the organic development of the
moral and material resources of the country ; that
such a work is both possible and necessary under
all circumstances and under every Government, I
accepted the duties imposed upon me, in the hope

hat my zealous service for the good of Lithuania

will be to its advantage, and in the belief that the
sincere declaration of its wants will meet with con-
sideration from the Government authorities.

" The pressing necessity for reforms arid institu

tious, without which Lithuania, long systemati-
cally repressed and hindered in the development of
all political life, cannot lead to a better, or even a
more tolerable, future, is well known to you, as it
is to all. Such being the state of our country, I
strove for the past two years, while repressing in
my heart the feelings dearest to a Pole, to lead the
nation to a sincere union with the Crown, in the
hope that I might succeed in obtaining those very
institutions and reforms which every Citizen, even
the most moderate, looks upon as vitally necessary.
" This sincere, though modest programme, has yet
not been duly appreciated. Both the note I sub-
mitted in February, my memorial of December last,
and the verbal representations I made on every
occasion, have hitherto produced no result what-
ever in the state of Lithuania. And, in presence
of the attitude assumed by the Government autho-
rities with regard to the present events—of the
injurious insinuaticns publicly made against the
Polish element in Lithuania—of the simultaneous
circulation among the peasants of exciting addresses
—acid, finally, of the provocation by the Govern-
ment of the social resolytion which threatens us—l
could only conclude that not only is continuance in
the office of Marshal incompatible with the per-
sonal dignity of a Pole, but that every attempt to
promote the welfare of the country is now nu longer
possible.

I therefore find it necessary, after the sad 'ex-
perience of the fruitless efforts of two years, to send
in my resignation this day.—l am, &c.,
(Signed) " VICTOR STAREENSKI.
" Grodno,. March 16, 1863."
Shortly after, all the marshals of gol ernments
and districts in Lithuania resigned their appoint-
ments.

At the same time all the local agents for the pea-
sants' question, of whom there are upwards of 250,
sent in their resignations to the marshal of the dis-
trict by the following letter :
" Sir,—The Lithuanian nobility having been the
first to take the initiative in the great work of the
emancipation of the peasants, zealously co-operated
in carrying this salutary general reform into
effect; they could not, therefore, expect either the
accusations made against them by the Government
authorities, or the daily persecutions 'by which
they endeavour to call forth antagonis& feelings
between the poor and the rich, and bring Lithuania
to a total general revolution.
" The position of the Government authorities
renders an organic solution of the peasant question
ineffectual, puts a stop to all labour on the part
of the people tending to the development of the
moral and material resources of the country, and
renders totally impossible all further action on tb,
part of the nobility in this direction.
" Under the circumstances we are no longer j

able to tuifii the duties of agents in the emanci-
pation qm,stion with any benefit to the country,
and we therefore send you cur resignation, leaving
the Government authorities solely responsible for
the further consequences of their deeds."
(Here follow the signatures.)
Wonderfully Rapid Intelligence.

The Electric Telegraph has at length been sur-
passed in rapidity 1 We have this afternoon re-
ceived a message from King's Lynn—a message
brought to ns by rail—describing the reception of
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales upon their arrival in Noriolk. The marvel
of rapidity, in regard to the transmission of this
message, consists in its having beaten, not only the
Electric Telegraph, but Time himself. The reporter
—whose name we have the cruel kindness
to abstain from giving, notwithstanding the
wonder of his achiement—resembles Shakspere,
at least in ono particular, if we are to accept DJetor
Johnson's interpretation in any way literally--.
that

" Panting Time toils after him in vain I"
For, reverting from Shakapero to the other writer,
a writer only, as it happens of " fl.msy"—we re-
ceive before one o'clock this afternoon his copy (sent
by Rail, but headed "By Electric Telegraph") dated
" King's Lynn, Saturday," but mentioning nothing
at all about the hour. We receive this message at
our office before one o'clock, ann3uncing " The
arrival of the Prince of Wales in Norfolk"—
although the Prince of Wales was not to leave the
Shoreditch Station until Half-past one o'clock on
this same afternoon !