The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-11 00:00:00

that by far the greater part of the detachment com-
manded by Waligorski—though not all, as the
Russians allege—was driven back into Galicia after
the first encounter. Out of Czachowski's band,
Czachowski himself, with some 300 cavalry, still
remains in the mountains of St. Cross—the natural
fortress where this chief maintained his position for
so many months after the defeat of Langiewicz, and
the break-up of his army, in which Czachowski
held a command. The old habitzth of the St. Cross
mountains (it is fortunate for the Russians that
there are not two such strongholds in all the king-
dom) appears to have beaten the Russians in the
first of his two recent engagements. In the second,
according to the Russian official accounts, he had
as many as seventeen companies of infantry opposed
to him, besides cavalry of the line and Cossacks ;
and the Russians admit having lost eighty men,
which is about forty times the loss usually ac-
knowledged by them.
It is a remarkable sign that the insurrection has
broken oat again in several places in the kingdom,
where it was believed to have been put an end to
altogether. A band of insurgents, composed in a
great measure of workmen from Warsaw, made its
appearance two due ago at Piaseczno, some twelve
or fifteen miles from the capital, and had a skirmish
with the Russians. It may be remembered that it
was near Piaseczno that Baran Dangiel was killed
about a month ago, as he was engaged in the appa-
rently harmless occupation of planting potatoes.
The Journal de St. Petersbourg has since explained
that though Baron Dangiel was really planting
potatoes when the Russians entered his garden,
and though he was really killed, yet he was not, as
I stated, " cut to pieces" with sabres, but pierced by
some sort of gun shot. The alleged error on my
part in narrating the incident—which I pointed
to simply in illustration of the remarkable uncer-
tainly of human existence in and near Warsaw—
is made the pretext for some grave reflections on
the inaccuracy of correspondents writing from
Poland, and on the shameful charge of " cold
cruelty " brought by them against the Russians ;
though in this instance there was no question of
" cold cruelty" at all, but of sudden and shameful
attack upon an unarmed man who was unfortunate
enough to find himself in the vicinity of armed
combatants. Anxious to imitate, and if possible
surpass, the exactitude of the Journal de St. Peters-
bourg, I have once more obtained full and authentic
particulars respecting this first affair at or near
Piaseczno, and I find not only that the Baron was
" cut to pieces" (which does not, as the Journal de
St. Petersbourg chooses to imagine, mean that he
was severed into little bits), but also that on the same
evening, on the high road to Radam and near
Piasecnzo, a Crown
,lawyer named Klosowski was
killed by Cossacks as he was travelling towards his
estate, unarmed, in ordinary dress, and in a hired
droschka. The Journal de St. Petersbourg may try
to show that M, Klosowski was killed not by Cos-
sacks, but by infantry. In any case his friends know
that he is dead,and that he was murdered by Russian
soldiers under the circumstances above-mentioned.

As to charges of cruelty, what have the Russians
to say to the following evidence on the subject,
which I find, not in any Polish organ, not in any
private letter from a Pole, but in an advertisement
pubiished in a recent number of the Warsaw Official
Journal? By this advertisement, numbered 4,721,
dated September 23, 1863, Spniec, near Kalisz, the
Court of Correctional Police of the KAlisz depart-
ment requires information as to three men killed by
the troops on the 12th of July, near the village of
Led, in the district of Pyzery. Here follows a de-
scription of the three bodies, which were found
stripped :

One had received three cuts in the head and a
fourth in the neck, 11 wounds on the chest, at the
back, and under both arms, and bore several blue
marks resulting from blows.
Another had had the left side of his face cut by
eight wounds in different directions, and had nine
other wounds on his back, his right side, and on
both shoulders ; total, 17 wounds, of which ho died
the next day.
The third had received three woundS in the head,
and 14 bayonet wounds in the chest and arms !