The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-29 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND.

WILNA, June 19,
The following order for the establishment of a
military and civil administrative tribunal in the
Governments of Wilna, Kowno, Gardno, Minsk,
Witepsk, and Mohilew has been issued by General
Mouravieff:—

" 1. In accordance with the Imperial use of the
9th of August, 1861, all measures applicable to a
state of siege are to be at once put in force in all
towns and circles of the above-named Governments.
The same shall be brought into operation regardless
of consequences, and upon the strictest responsibi-
lity of the military and civil officials.
rvviir police council, from whose decision
there shall be appeal, is to be nominated in every
circle. The superior military commanders equally
with the chief Governmental authorities are in duty
bound to appoint circle prefects during the time of
war, selecting those distinguished for energy and
foresight. Staffofficers commanding troops stationed
in these places are to be preferentially chosen ; but
where such officers have been already nominated,
and have failed in duly executing their functions,
they shall be immediately replaced by other persons.
The circle-chiefs appointed for the duration of the
war shall exercise authority over all troops sta-
tioned within their districts and all civil powers.
All proprietors of estates, servants, clergy, nobility,
tenants, and the entire town and country popula-
tion, without distinction of calling or position, are
dependent upon and under the jurisdiction of these
officials. The circle-chiefs are recommended to take
under their protection all inhabitants faithful and
devoted to the monarch and the Russian supremacy,
especially the rural population, protecting there by
force of arms against the insurgents, and organising
a militia from among their own body, according to
the rules hereby laid down. Remark.—Reliable
lists of all landed proprietors in the circles
and towns are to be drawn up in the form
of circle citizen-books, and to be kept in con-
stant order. The occupation of every separate
person and the degree of confidence placed in him
must be duly noted, and the strictest surveillance is
to be exercised over all. In these books the rural
population is not to be mixed up with that of the
circles and towns, but only the number of inhabi-
tants in each community is to be recorded.
" 3. The circle-chiefs shall establish a permanent
severe war police administration in the districts of
every provincial circle, committing it to the charge
of reliable military or civil persons, and keeping as
nearly as possible to the principles already esta-
blished and here laid down, or they may also intrust
these functions to district commissioners upon the
same general principles. In such parts of the circle
where it appears possible a militia shall be organ-
ized in accordance with the instructions already
forwarded to the government presidents, in order
to protect the rural population against robbery,
plunder, and outrage by the insurgents. The circle-
chiefs must use every means at their disposal—and
in pressing cases with the assistance of the troops
—to suppress even the slightest attempt at revolt
by the employment of the militia, to arrest the ori-
ginators of the disturbance, and to deliver them up
to a quarter in which they will be dealt with ac-
cording to the fall severity of military law.
"4. The circle-chiefs, for the better preservation
of order in the circles respectively committed to their
charge, shall immediately make arrangements for
establishing burgher-guards upon the roads and in
all villages and hamlets, and, are authorised to su•
pervise all persons travelling to and fro, and to allow
no one to pass without a permit signed by the cap-
tain of the circle. Tney are especially to take care
that no person escape who is in any way suspected
of participation in the insurrection, no matter to
what class such person may belong. Any one of
this description is to be immediately arrested and
delivered up to the circle-chiefs. This order, how-
ever, is not to apply to persons residing in the
neighbourhood of the guard and to inhabitants no-
toriously well affected towards the Government.
" 5. Simultaneously with the introduction of the
war police administration the circle-chiefs are not
to remain inaetive in the towns, but shall continu-
ally clear the circle from insurgents with the troops
at their disposition, and with the assistance of the
militia and rural population protect the inhabitants
from violence, taking
care that no new bands are
under any circumstances organised, and the reins of
power are replaced in the hands of the legitimate
Government.

" 6. To restore order and tranquillity completely
in the various districts the circle chiefs shall at
once take charge of all weapons within the towns
and in the country now in the custody of land-
oNs ners and their servants, the nobility, tenants,
clergy, and convents ; also generally from the inha-
bitants of all towns, with the exception of native
Russians of the abovementioned classes, and sueh
foreigners as the authorities of the town shall con-
sider trustworthy. The weapons thus confiscated
and all ammunition are to be handed over to the
military authorities, who will then, as far as neces-
sary, equip the militia from these sources.
"7. Such persons only shall be disarmed in the
rural communities, military colonies, and villages
as notoriously do not deserve the confidence of the
authorities, without distinction of religious belief,
as the majority of the rural population, although
not of the Greek faith, is unquestionably faithfully
devoted to the Sovereign, and will make every
sacrifice to restore order, by assisting in the capture
and delivery over to the tribunals of all belonging
to their respective communities who have partici-
pated in the insurrection.
" 8. The shortest possible time, in no case ex-
ceeding three days from the issue of the order, shall
be appointed for the disarmament of the circles and
towns. Whoever neglects to comply therewith in
the given period shall be arrested and delivered
over to the tribunals. The disarmament shall be
repeated in those districts where it has already
taken place. The permits to keep arms hitherto
granted are to be considered as henceforth cancelled.
" 9. Simultaneously with the disarmament of the
districts the circle chiefs are to take measures for
expelling from the circles all individuals, members
of the nobility or clergy, &c., not well affected to
the Government, who participate more or less in
the insurrection. Persons convicted of breach of
their oath shall be at once arrested and delivered
over, with the protocol of their offence, to the
nearest military Court or the governmental captain,
to be dealt with according to military law. The
circle-chiefs will be held responsible for every un-
necessary lenitney or partisanship in this respect.
" 10. All landed proprietors, with the stewards or
agents who manage their estates, must be reminded
in the most emphatic manner that they will be held
personally responsible for every organisation of re-
bel bands or conspiracies against the Government
carried on upon their possessions; likewise for the
support of any such undertakings with money or
supplies, and that the punishment for their personal
aid or participation will be greater for themselves
than for that of their domestics.

"11. Such persons shall also be held responsible
if unlicensed individuals or rebels or disturbers of
the public peace of any kind are permitted to take
refuge in their houses.
" 12. All priests, and especially the pastors in

bellion by the pressure of superior fore, shall not
be accepted, as priests who serve the star are least
of all justified in allowing themselves t) be terrified
by threats. It is their duty to devote hemselves to
the pacification of the country and to .nduce every
person to keep the oath of allegiance towards his
Sovereign. Priests who fail to accompish this duty
are doubly culpable, and will be sabected to the
severest punishment as examples to tie rest. The
superiors of Catholic convents will be nade respon-
sible for the preparation and storage it the same of
materials for the objects of the revolt and fall un-
der the jurisdiction of the military trbunals.
" 13. The cir-captains shall at once 4rrest and de-

liver over to the military authorities 111 citizens—
in especial landed proprietors, stewaids, superiors
of convents, and local clergy—who chill participate
in the revolt, or distribute revolutionary proclama-
tions, or who shall not at once infora the nearest
authorities of the formation of rebaious bands, or
of preparations tending to insurrectiot, or who shall
in any way afford the rebellion aid, sympathy, or
assistance. This order is to be communicated with-
out delay to the peasants, recommending their ob-
servance of the strictest vigilance that no revolu-
tionary assemblages, meetings, or preparations for
rebellion take place in their communities or upon
the boundaries.

" 14. The real and money property of all persons,
without distinction of position, who have sworn
allegiance to the insurgent Government, or have
taken any part in the rebellion, whether by the
supply of money or other materials, whether by the
distribution of revolutionary proclamations,whether
by a generally marked hostile and rebellious ten-
dency to overturn the authority of the Government,
shall be immediately placed under sequestration.
The Governors are strictly ordered to carry out this
decree in the severest manner and without the
slightest delay. Supplies of grain or food found
upon the sequestrated estates are to be immediately
distributed among the troops and the militia; other
materials and goods shall be immediately sold, and
the product devoted to the same purpose. Similarly
all revenues resulting from such estates shall be
applied to cover the costs occasioned by the sup-
pression of the insurrection.
if 15. In the circles of the governments of W itepsk
and Mohilew, which are not included in the ukase
of the Senate of the Ist of March last, the property
of persons belonging to the above category shall be
likewise sequestrated, and their revenues be taken
possession of by the Government. Farther, upon
such estates the peasants who, in conformity with
the ukase of the Senate of June 27, 1862, are in a
transition state of emancipation shall be at liberty
to pass at once from the payment of serf dues to the
payment of rent, without further agreement with
the proprietor; such rent, similarly to all other
revenue, but not being handed over to the proprie-
tor, but deposited in the hands of the Provisional
Government until its ultimate disposal is decided on.
Should the emancipation have been already com-
pleted upon such sequestrated estates, the rent due
is to be disposed of in a similar way.

" 16. The police authorities in towns and districts
are, together with their officials, to consider them-
selves under the immediate control of the Com-
mander-in-Chief and the sub-military commanders.
The Civil Governors, in conjunction with the Com •
wanders-in-Chief of the different governments, will
unite their exertions to suppress the insurrection,
and will apply the severest and haishest measures
to attain this end. In a word, the Governors and
military commanders will co-operate and see that
all orders are strictly carried out, without showing
the slightest consideration or mercy to the offenders,
and that the insurrection may not only be crushed
ont by the application of the severest punishments,
but also that such measures may be adopted as are
calculated to prevent any further insurrectionary
preparations.
" 17. The district military commanders will im-
mediately arrest all rural and town police officials,
rangers, forest keepers, and other persons in the
service of the State who have not given proof of
positive loyalty, and who may have rendered more
or less assistance to the insurgents, or not have
joined the general movement of officials and troops
for the suppression of the insurrection. The Go-
vernors will, after having proved their guilt, re-
move such persons from office and deliver them over
to the courts-martial as doubly guilty, inasmuch as
they have twice broken their oath by not only fail-
ing to oppose the insurgents, as was their duty, but
by joining them. In like manner, all those officials
must be considered as perjured and doubly criminal
who have openly, taken part in the insurrection.
No distinction must be made as to nationality, as
such a distinction could not be permitted, inasmuch
as all inhabitants of Russia, whatever religion they
may profess, are Russian subjects, and subjects of
the same monarch, and equally responsible for any
violation of their oath of allegiance. According to
this rule all persons must be delivered over to the
courts-martial who, being in the service of the
State, knowingly suffer to take place in the posts
and localities intrusted to them insurrectionary con-

spiracies, armaments, or preparation for the forma•
tion of insurrectionary bands, and who have not
taken timely and proper measures to oppose such
undertakings, or given the higher authorities no in-
formation concerning them. Explanations to the

effect that they had omitted making such announce-
ment from family considerations, or because they
were endangered by the threats of the insurgents,
shall not bo held to justify their conduct.
"18. The ranger and his subordinate officers are
likewise under the immediate control of the district

military commanders. It will be the duty of the
Forest Guards to keep their respective circles clear

of marauders, and to disperse any small isolated
bands of insurgents. Should, however, any eon-

siderable insurgent corps make its appearance the
Foresters are at once to report the circumstance to
the nearest military detachment, and to assist in the
extermination of the corps in question. Such
officers or subordinate officials of the Forest Guards
who may give cause for suspicion as to their loyalty,
or who may not have been sufficiently active in the
discharge of their duties, shall be treated as insur-
gents and tried by court-martial accordingly. It

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will be at the discretion of the officer command
of the troops, should he deem ,it necessary, to with-
draw the Forest police altogether, and to incorporate
it with his own forces.

" 19. The Civil Governors will issue proper orders
to the local authorities throughout the provinces to
insure the protection of small detachments, and to
provide them with quarters and rations. If on the
estates of those proprietors who are taking part
more or less in the insurrection there is a store of
provisions whence the insurgents draw supplies,
such estates must bear all expenses incurred by the
military in suppressing the insurrection. Rye, oats,
and other produce found on these estates must im-
mediately be taken for the rations of the troops,
while the horses and vehicl, s will be used for tran•
sport. The commanders of troops are bound to give
an exact account of the produce they may have taken
from these estates.

"The General of Infantry, MOURAVIEFF IL
" Vilna, May 27 (June 8), 1863."

A TREASURE OF A CAT.—" We
have a black
Tom," says a writer in the Atheneum, « which in
connection with our domestic service, ate 21bs. of rump-
steak when it was only a kitten of 19 ounces, and which, in
the same connection, has since then smoked cabanas,
broken bottles and lapped up claret, carried off kid gloves
to unknown fairy tabbies, and burned or Mislaid papers of a
confidential kind."

Yesterday being the anniversary of her Majesty's
coronation the Royal standard was hoisted at the
dockyard, Portsmouth, over all the public buildings,
and on all the salient points of the fortifications;
the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief (the Victory),
with all others of her Majesty's ships in commission
et the port, being etch dressed under its own arch
of colour. At 1 p.m. a Royal salute of 21 guns was
fired by her Majesty's ship Victory and by the salut-
ing battery on the King's Bastion of the garrison.
To-day will be observed as a general holiday in the
Sown, the dockyard, and all the public establish-
ments. The event was celebrated in a similar man-
ner at the other dockyards.
The Lyra, 9, screw corvette, under repairs in dock
at Portsmouth, is ordered to be completed by the
shipwright department by the 9th of July, and is to
be brought forward for immediate commission. The
Bulldog, 5, paddle steamer, is completing her ma-
chinery in the steam basin for immediate commis-
sion, and the Wasp, screw corvette, under exten-
sive repairs in dock, is being hurried forward as
rapidly as possible for commission.
The Industry, screw store ship, Master-Corn-
, mender E. C. L. Youel, arrived at Spithead oa
Saturday from Ascension, with stores and a few
I naval invalids. She sailed from Ascension May 23,
and called in at St. Vincent June 6. She left Spit-
head yesterday afternoon for Woolwich.