The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-07 00:00:00

found the most troublesome during the last events
in Poland. That such is the case it has been
proved, since a long and most elaborate circular
from the Director of the Department for Home
Affairs to the Civil Governors of the kingdom on
the subject has been forwarded, marked " strictly
confidential." The document, the authenticity of
which is beyond doubt, being very profuse and dry,
I am obliged to contract it, and reduce it to the
following extracts :
" Considering that the persons whose business it will be
to select persons for the military conscription from the no-
minal lists drawn up with this object should possess the
necessary information, not only respecting the social position
and occupation of those included in such lists, but also of
their political conduct,inasmuch'as one of the chief principles
of this conscription is to be to get rid of those people who
aid by their conduct in disturbing public order, the,e func-
tions are to be performed :

"In towns : by the civil governor, the councillor of the
military police department, the military governor or his
assistant, and the president of the town.

"In districts : by the chief of the district, his assistant
for the recruiting business, and the local commandant of the
gendarmes, with the power of calling in cases of necessity
on the presidents or magistrates of towns to give the neces-
sary information. The Council of Administration also brings
to notice that it will be the duty of every recruiting district
to provide a certain fixed number of recruits, who should
be especially chosen from among people having no permanent
occupation, without work, and at the same time unfavour-
ably noted as to their conduct during the late disturbances
irrespective of the circumstances of some particular town or
district having, relatively to other to wns or districts,a greater
or smaller portion of recruits. The following are to be
erased from the list of persons exempt from military duty
by the 9th art. of the law of 1859."

Here follows a list of 29 professions, &c., whose members
are, by the existing laws, exempt from military duty, but
whom the arbitrary will of the Government declares eligible
for the conscription.

To guard against " arbitrariness" and " partiality" (I) in
the case of the persons with regard to whom the law is to be
thus violated, the chiefs of districts are next directed to for-
ward lists of their names, with the reasons for their selec-
tion to the civil governor. It is obvious that these reasons
will be easily found and approved of where persons obnoxious
to the Government are in question.
Then come directions for the formation of a " reserve"
list, with the view of supplying recruits in the event of the
numbers selected not being sufficient.
The military " are to give every possible assistance to
the civil authorities, with the view to the proper conduct
of the conscription, and observe that the fulfilment of this
conscription, in present circumstances, will require the use
of extraordinary means, and the exercise of energy and
provision."

After some administrative arrangements, " the closest se-
crecy" is ordered in the preparation of the lists, &c. Then
follow other arrangements for giving the civil power the
assistance of the military, after which the attention of
governors is called to the "necessity of selecting the majority
of the recruits from the town populations."
"Finally," so ends the despatch, "you will warn the
employes concerned, that tho business relating to the con-
scription should be carried on with OR greatest quickness,
energy, and firmness of conduct, and that all instances of
neglect or failure in this matter will entail severe responsi-
bilities on their authors."

Instructions, such as those contained in the above
document, need no comment, they speak for them-
selves, and disclose the ma'hinations employed, and
the wickedness of the Russian Government in all its
glory.

Some time since the Governor of Wolhynia
ordered lithographed copies of an address to the
Emperor from the peasants to he signed by them.
The address purposed to explain that the peasants
are from a different origin than the landowners,
and soliciting the Emperor's particular solicitude.
The peasants not knowing how to read or write,
passed the address from one hand to another with-
out any concern for it.

The Russian ministerial journal, the Northern
Bee, makes of this address, which, by the bye, has
❑ever been sent by the peasants, a state document,
showing the great love for the Czar and hatred to
the Polish nobles. In publishing this, the Northern
Bee had the modesty to mention the real and bona
fide addresses of the nobility of the kingdom, of
Padolia and of Minsk, which all reached the Em-
peror, and for which many Polish nobles are now
imprisoned in St. Petersburg, awaiting their trial
before the Russian Senate. Such is the impartiality
and respectability of the Russian official journal.