The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-05 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 3, Evening►.
In consequence of the insurrection, it has been
resolved to increase the force of cavalry stationed
in the kingdom of Poland.

It is stated in official quarters that the regiments
which were to be transferred next spring to Poland
are about to be despatched for the present to
Wilna.

rwo regiments of Cossacks have set out to-day
for Poland, and will be followed nest week by two
regiments of Uhlans and a battery of artillery.

February 4.

Aide-de-Camp Nostiz, with the force under his
command, was attacked last Sunday night near
Biala by several bands of insurgents. The con-
flict lasted two hours, when the insurgents re-
treated to Janow, carrying with them 42 killed and
wcunded.

General Likhatsche, with a division of Hussars,
coming from Wilna, attacked a body of Polish in-
surgents, inflicting upon them a loss of 20 killed
and taking four prisoners.

Another insurgent band has crossed the river
Niemen, and appeared in the district of Troki.
WARSAW, Feb. 2, Evening (by Telegraph
from Breslau.)

The main body of the insurgents is said to be
stationed near Augustowo, and under the command
of Jelinkiewiez, lute a Colonel in the army of Gari-
baldi. A second division, commanded by Count
Iyskiewiez, is taking up positions near Rawa, on
the river Rawka, in the district of Warsaw. The
third division of the insurgents, commanded by
Frankowski, is posted in the district of Lublin.
The insurgents muster strong in the district of
Radomsk. The communication between these dis-
tricts is interrupted.
BERLIN, FEB. 4.

Letters received here from Warsaw announce
that the insurgents occupy and are fortifying Lypa,
on the Polish and Lithuanian frontier. They have
occupied the railway station at thfAt town, and used
the materials of the workshops attached to the sta.
tion in constructing their fortifications.

Siege trains have been despatched against Lyp...
LEMBERG, Feb. 4.
The Grenadier Corps of Novogrod will be con-
veyed by railway through Prussia.
The communication between Wilna, Grodno, and
Warsaw is interrupted.

THORN, Feb. 4.

On Sunday evening 800 insurgents entered the
important manufacturing town of Lodz, in the pro-
vince of Masovie, and took from the branch esta-
blishment of the Bank 18,000 roubles, and from the
Post-office 31,000 roubles.

They also ordered a conscription to recruit their
own forces.

Private property was respected.
All the public functionaries fled from the town.
POSEN, Feb. 4.

The journals of this city state that the conscripts
confined in the citadel of Warsaw refuse to take the
oath of allegiance.

A letter from Vienna, dated Jan. 31, says :
Prince Gortschakoff accuses this Government of
having supplied the insurgents in Russian Poland
with arms, but, as Austria has no establishment like
Tula, she can hardly have rendered the same service
to the Poles that Russia has done to the disaffected
subjects of his Mttjesty the Sultan. Not long ago
the Austrian War Department had on hand a large
number of good though somewhat old-fashioned
rifles and muskets, but all of them are now in the
hands of the belligerents in North America. As soon
as Lieut.-Gen. Count Mensdorff, the Stadtholder of
Galicia, heard of what was doing in the kingdom of
Poland, he applied to Count Degenfeld and M. von
Schmerling for instructions, and was told that un-
armed fugitives were to be allowed to cross the
frontier, and to reside in some town or village which
would be indicated by the Government. As has al-
ready been stated, many Russian subjects are now
in Galicia, but the exact number is unknown to the
Austrian authorities, as the fugitives crossed the
boundary line at different places. The Russo-Aus-
trian frontier, which extends from Myslowitz in
the west, to Dwonogrod in the east, cannot be much
less than 500 English miles in length. The Vistula
divides the western part of Galicia from Russian
Poland, and as it is now frozen over it is to be ex-
pected that the number of refugees will rapidly in-
crease. Some few persons have gone from Cracow to
Russian Poland, but in general the Galician Poles
display very little inclination to go to the assistance
of their oppressed brethren. Shortly before the rebel-
lion broke out the Russians in this city spoke much
of the enormous military force in the kingdom o
Poland, but now it appears that the army which
the Grand Duke Constantine has at his disposal is
so small that he cannot venture to send any rein-
forcements from the capital to the outlying districts.
In Austrian official circles it is known that the con-
scripts in Podolia, Volhynia, and Lithuania are al-
most as unruly as their fellow-countrymen in the
kingdom of Poland; but the official organs of the
press are silent on the subject, as they are unwilling
to give the lie to the St. Petersburg papers. In mi-
litary circles it is believed that the insurrection in
Poland will be unsuccessful, but the general opinion
here is that weeks, and even months, will elapse be-
fore peace is entirely restored. The new Central
Committee in Poland continue to issue proclama-
tions, which are signed " Leon Franchetti," but it is
supposed that this is merely a nom de guerre. A
guerilla war is now carried on in Poland,and many of
the insurgent bands are under the command of young
men who were educated in the military school at
Genoa.

In the neighbourhood of Lubartow, in the de-
partment of Lubin, the insurgents captured eight
guns, but they were speedily retaken by the im-
perial troops. In almost all the towns the troops
have been victorious, bat in the country districts
they have received some severe checks. Among the
fugitive conscripts are many Jews, a race which
has in general a very strong dislike to war. In some
parts of the country the peasants make common
cause with the fugitives from the towns ; in others
they are either indifferent or hostile. If the soldiers
refuse to attack the insurgents the latter behave
well; but if once blood is shed the fugitive con
scripts show no mercy to their opponents. On the"
person of M. Czerkasow, a Colonel of Gendariants,
who was killed by some peasants, papers were found
which contained highly important official informa-
tion. In consequence of an agreement entered into
into 1833 at Munchengratz, Austria and Prussia
would be obliged to assist Russia in " pacifying"
Poland, had not Prince Gortschakoff a short time
ago declared that the Russian Government con-
sidered that agreement no longer binding. The
partition of Poland began in 1772, and it is evident
that the Poles are just us hostile to their Imperial
pel'(i)a,ll
and Royal spoliators now as they
the 27th inst. 11 of the " rebels 1'
wer y the
citadel at Warsaw, and on the preceding
Marquis Wielopolski, the chief of the Administra-
weree:hodat in the
tion, gave a grand ball.

THE TRADE IN CRINOLINE.—It would hardly
be believed how important an industry has sprung
tb'ors
from the fashion of wearing crinolines, if there were not
o vie rheed steelw i; l a 8 cottonPrin"
statistical documents to prove the fact:
for petticoats amount to 4,800,0001 b weight per annum
Franco alone, 2.400,0001 b for England,
and 1 201
cotton
) 000 lb for
the rest of the world. These springs,
are sold at the rate of lfr 25c per lb, which
employed in
rage of 10,500,000 fr annually, The gives an
aye"
covering them is sold at about 301
the Rum 1,200,000 fr, r the 201 b, which makes