The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-04 00:00:00

THE POLISH INSURRECTION,

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 27.
There are few cities in Europe which it is more
agreeable to leave than Warsaw. The position of
an observant stranger in the Polish capital is get-
ting to be very much like what that of a curious
visitor would be in a house occupied by bailiffs. If
you cannot help in any manner to turn the intru-
ders out, why stay? The inhabitants do not feel
particularly flattered by your anxiety to see " what
is going on," for whatever goes on all you can do is
to stare, and offer your sympathy, an unavailable

commodity, of which there is already a super-
abundant stock on hand. The bailiffs, too, like to
do their bullying in private. The place is theirs,

and if they are not acting in strict accordance with
law, they are at all events in possession, and no law
is likely to be put in force with a view to their

ejection. Therefore, if you do not like their mode

of treating the unfortunate people who have got
into their clutches, and who, like most people in

distress, have no doubt been wanting in prudence,
the best thing you can do is to go where you will

not witness it.

1 hink, too, of the personal inconvenience you are
subjected to as long as you remain in Warsaw. You
are liable to imprisonment if you go out at six in
the afternoon without a lantern, or if you go out at
nine at night with or without a lantern, or if your
lantern goes out at any time during the evening.
Bearing, then, all these considerations in mind, I
could not feel annoyed at receiving, last Monday, a
request from Count de Berg to leave the Polish
capital, and Poland in general, within 24 hours.

The invitation was conveyed to me in the politest
manner by the officer who some weeks before
directed proceedings at the clearing out of the Hotel
de l'Europe, and who, by the way, on that far more
more important occasion, also distinguished himself
by the considerate manner in which he performed a
very disagreeable task.
Need I say that I accepted the invitation ? The
only trouble was about getting my passport vise
for the journey ; and I knew that the commissioner
of the hotel had gone out. The Colonel, in the
most urbane manner, offered to assist me in this
difficulty, and kindly took charge of the passport
himself, assuring me that I should have it again in
proper order either the same evening or the next
morning. He also consulted me as to the route I
proposed to take, and seemed convinced that Vienna,
Berlin, or St. Petersburg would each and all be
nicer places for me to sojourn in than Warsaw. I
was quite of his way of thinking, and being asked
whether I did not wish to go on to St. Petersburg,
&plied that I did, and thereupon was promised a
visa for that city, but on the express condition that
I should go straight there, which meant, of course,
that I should not stop at Grodno or Wane.
On leaving, the Colonel expressed his regret at
having had to be the bearer of what he believed to
be a very disagreeable message, and asked me not
to miss the train. I thanked him for his civility,
and said I would be punctual.
The next morning, while it was yet dark, I was
awoke by the rattling of a scabbard on the floor,
and a voice calling out in French, " Please get up.
I am sorry to disturb you, but I have particular
orders to be at the station by a quarter past seven.
I have just been knocked out of bed myself."
" That is all very well," I answered, " but it is
quite dark, and I have no matches, and the train
does not start until half-past eight."
" My orders are very precise," persisted my early
visitor (who was a young officer of the Imperial
Guard engaged temporarily in unmilitary pursuits),
" and we are already behind time. It is very pain-
ful for me to trouble you in this manner," he
added, " but it can't be helped, and I must beg that
you will throw your cloThes on anyhow and come
at once. I will put seals on the doors and then all
will be right."
" Why seal up the doors ?" I inquired, hoping
for a moment that I might be suspected of having
papers in my possession calculated to throw a light
on the proceedings of what the Russians call " the
subterranean organisation," and the Poles " the
National Government."
" Only to take care of your things ; I will come
back here and have them sent on to you to St.
Petersburg."
" But I can't go to St. Petersburg without
clothes," I objected.
" And I shall be too late if you stop to pack them
up! However," continued the officer, " if you must
take them let me help you to put them up into the
trunk," and together was stowed away with mar-
vellous rapidity a miscellaneous collection of clothes,
tobacco, boots, books, letters, photographs, shirts,
and cigars. Of course, when everything was ready,
the servants of the hotel made their appearance, and
it was pleasing and instructive to observe that the
manner and circumstances of my departure did not
seem to strike them as in the slightest degree

strange.
,f you :have forgotten your watch," said the
officer as I was going out—" and here are some
more papers. Now, if you have left anything else
I must send it after you, for we have not a moment
to lose." I broke my lantern in token of eternal
farewell to Warsaw in a state of siege, and walked
downstairs.
A carriage was waiting in the court-yard, and
into it stepped not only the officer and myself, but
also a man in some kind of uniform, and with a
sabre, who did not speak French, or, indeed, any
other language (perhaps because he was not
spoken to), and who, I fancy, must have been in
the regular police.
The officer, it appeared, had been engaged in se-
veral affairs with the insurgents, and he conversed
agreeably on a variety of topics, from politics and
war to the merits of the Warsaw corps de ballet.
At the station, my guide, companion, courier, and
protector saved me an immense deal of trouble, not
only by seeing that my passport was
properly
stamped for the journey, but also by enabling med
luggagen.
to got my ticket without delay, d superintend
ing the registration of my He retained
passport, fearing, no doubt, that might
the lose it
,
in which case my ticket, available only for the day
on which it was issued, would have been sacrificed,e
and upwards of 30 roubles thrown away.
Nor was the silent attendant inactive, for when I
went from the ticket-office to the waiting-room, and
from the waiting-room to the refreshment bar,
he walked after me and, though remaining at a
certain distance, yet kindly kept me in view. It
was thought possible, I suppose, that my attachment
to Warsaw might tempt me to leave the station,
and regardless of the purchased ticket and of the
fact that my passport was being taken care of by
the officer, run wildly back to my former quarters.
At last the bell rang and I went to the train. The
officer apologised once more for having disturbed
ray rest, and pointed to a compartment where I
should have room to lie down. I, on my part, could
only thank him for having performed his rather un-
gentlemanly work in a very gentlemanly manner.
I received my precious passport from him, and we
shook hands; but it was not until the gain began to

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move, and it was evident at last that I had left Oe
city of lanterns and was on my way to St. Peters-
burg, that the youthful guardsman thought of

quitting the station.
The Russians having neither principles of their
own nor respectable precedents in their own history
on:which to ground such conduct, are always asking
what foreigners placed in the same circumstances as
themselves would do. As regards England, I do not
think an officer in her Majesty's Guards would much

tfahcatt
denotes
ttersu
stliu
like the task of knocking up an obnoxious cor-
respondent of the Journal des Debuts at half-past 6
shaost:
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known
na ro awt inv ea lsy to sPt
in the morning in order to see that he got away by
the train at half-past 8. But the fact of turning
ont a correspondent at all who, according even to
ha nacic on:
the Russians, has sometimes told the truth when it
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haviour on the part of the Russian Government, such a
conviction that its deeds will really not bear the light,
that one cannot help pardoning the Government,
in an intellectual point of view, a little natural folly,
quia Inuit= peccavit. If it did not feel very guilty
it would like the plain truth to be
written from the
scene of its action, instead of the exaggerations and
even calumnies (especially as to the personal con-
duct of Count de Berg) which are so constantly put
into circulation by journals having neither the means
nor the desire to obtain accurate information from
Poland. When Count de Berg is said to haVe fought
a duel with one of his officers upon an imaginary
and impossible ground of quarrel, or when he is
accused of having threatened to put a lady to the
torture, then his brother, the Consul-General in
London, has an opportunity for callingiattention:to
the misstatements of the so-called" friends of Po-
land," who among them have certainly contrived to
damage very seriously the character of the Poles
for veracity, and have reduced the value of a Polish
almost to the level with that of a Russian report.
As to the sudden and arbitrary arrest, every night,
upon mere suspicion, of numbers of innocent per-
sons; as to the exile to Siberia of men against
whom not one'particle of evidence can be adduced,
and who, as the Warsaw correspondent of the Golos
nes been imprudent enough to admit, are sent out
of the country because they persist in making no
avowals,—as to these and other similar matters the
Consul-General has to be silent.
Perhaps, after all, the Russians are right in con-
sidering that falsehoods and exaggerations, provided
they be sufficiently gross, do them less harm than
simple incontrovertible statements of facts. At
least they like the truth to be studied from a dis-
tance ; and as it is next to impossible to find oat at
St. Petersburg what is really taking place at War-
saw, they may imagine that a correspondent sta-
tioned here will fall into just such errors as Count
de Berg's brother loves to expose. Otherwise, to
be sent from a city of grief like Warsaw to a city
of pleasure like St. Petersburg is a punisment that
most persons would be able to bear, just as a child
I could bear very well to be sent by way of reproof
• , from the study to the drawing-room. _ _

In conclusion, and without saying anything for
the present about my last impressions of Warsaw,
I may mention that when I received notice to quit
the general subject of conversation in• Warsaw was
the fate of M. Rawicz, one of the principal pro-
prietors of Lublin, and a leading member of the
National organisation in that province. - Every one
was aware that great exertions had been made to
save him, and, as the Poles with naivete remarked,
he had really done good in joining and moderating a
Government which, wherever men in M. Rawicz's
position kept aloof from it, fell into deplorable ex-
cesses. This argument was of course not likely to
have any effect upon the Russians, except, indeed,

to render the execution of the prisoner more certain.
Nevertheless, they forgave him the capital offence.
His friends procured a commutation of the original
sentence, and I was just noticing this fact in a let.
ter for publication when I was interrupted by the
visit of the colonel, and compelled by the nature of
his invitation to make preparations for a long

journey.
I have now to add that the order commuting the
sentence arrived in Sielce the day after M. Rawiez
was hanged. In such a case as this the telegraph
might have been worked to advantage, but then the
Government would not have been able to show itself
at the same time unmerciful to the prisoner and
merciful to the prisoner's friends.

(Scharf's Express.)
WARSAW, Nov. 22.
The Dziennik says that the system introduced
under the Wielopolski Administration, of contra-
dicting false news published by foreign newspapers
respecting events occurring at Warsaw, is again to
be brought into play. The Dziennzk, will not, it
says, refute the entire mass of nonsense which for-
reign journals now publish, but will, from time to
time, categorically refute some of the most atrocious
falsehoods, and thus place the facts in their true
light. First of all, the story published by the Czas,
of a pregnant woman having been beaten because
she did not carry a lantern, is a pure invention ac-
cording to the Dziennik ; for such an offence the
punishment is merely detention till the next day.
It is also stated to be false that women have been
sent to Russia without their cases having beenbe
heard; the women internees in Russia have been
_s_
convicted of revolutionary intrigues ; Rosalie'
not been
zewska had even been president of a revolutionary
committee, The Countess Seduchowsa_a has
death,
and has
as the Patric affirms, condemned to dea
not even been arrested, Torture is never
employed,
d. The midwife
for it has been legally ab
°lrisetbeprinting-press wife
Bayles, in whose house a
discovered, did not underhgseeccorporeal punishment
and die from the effects. thereof, areof, as Polish journals
health, and volun-
tarily asserted; she is
the following •
article
good
of the press.
tarTilhyedevnzoiu:ncead ownertrheepubilni.enee,
good fortune.
special piece
from the Moscow Gazette The Russian empire
has a has been gained
of the Baron Brecetti, known
in the person
name of Gather. Brecetti, an Italian,
and zealous defender ofof Russia
under the
adjutant of Garibaldi, served
the
Government for many months
as chief of the waywodschaft of Masovia, and
Polishand a
revolutionary former
was only recently discharged from this office. It
was only after extraordinary exertions that our
troops succeeded in getting on his track, and special
im alive. Callier, after his capture
military measures were necessary in order to cap-
ture
Prince Wittgenstein, chief of the was taken
district on
tbthueibereWarsaw and Bramberg Railroad, and had the
good fortune to gain the goodwill of his victors.
They now give a description of him couched in the
most flattering and glowing terms, and say that
this young man, ,distinguished in every respect,
does not wish to tre urn to Italy until he has gained
the rank of colonel in the Russian army, a distinc-
tion which he is eager to win with his sword.
Brecetti (or C )
Cat ler has not failed to confess to
Prince Wittgenstein that he had been terribly de-
ceived in the Poles ; that the Poles in foreign coun-
tries represent their countrymen as heroes of the
Achilles and Patroclus stamp, while he had found
that they were a base people of boors, cowardly,
and unfit not only for warfare, but for everything
else, even for the plough, The zeal of the young
defender of Russia is exalted above all praise, and
deserves to be praised. His life was thus granted
him, and he himself, in accordance with his,.re-
ne
re-
quest, was drafted into the Cossacks of the 11

in the Caucasus,"
The Courier de TVdna of the 2Sth November an-
hanged :—"
nounces that the following persons have been
wicz, Francis Apanowicz, Vincent Losinski, and
Francis Alexandrowicz,dward S tanie-

publishes the following
Peter Macknewicz."
The official Invalide Busse
correspondence from the palatinate of Augustow,
dated Nov. 16, which containsborne eutiouti infur-

mation on the attempts of Moura*re
..
.. . -
the kingdom of Poland :—" We are lie.
thnia,
'now we shall no longer be allowed lop.:1 .T.
:4' 3
may rely on the word of a Mouravieft;l4ind. ii,
_. -
Promised the deputies who had an interview!Fiat s
him on the 19th of October that he will inform
the Czar, our liberator, of the unanimous wish whicih.
we have expressed to be once more for ever re-uniteil.
to
o Russia,
complaints and our groans. We are persuaded that
se who
a n d ourthavtuemwsos twoehi sell
horl ,nabglwelha be
gosrs
ohi
esaantnseaedbdal at
0:11
nartdsoetecreohavtesehatrer dot
ffty
coo:
aine.:
which crush
selves, crushed
a
yt. 7 traces of a factitious slavery. But in order to
help us,
it is necessary to know how to set about it ;
and
think, therefore, that the information we
can ;bye
A: ill not be without interest or utility. The
most povverfu./ means of Potonisation has been, both
here and in thb whole of White Russia, a Polish
education. In ord.fr to dest,•oy once for ever the
bitter fruits which mus;, necessa.ily result trom this
abnormal order of things, it is n ecessetry that the
education should be national---puce.Ty Russian. ; it
is necessary that every Polish word en'icuid bo for-
bidden in our schools. Let paid tra.;tl,-s not be
allowed to force us Russians to know amd speak
Polish on Russian soil.
" The number of high Ministerial officialts who
have been arrested in Warsaw already faMOULI,tS to
20. It is suppos,A that this measure has been tai.zen.
in :order to enable them to be superseded by RI. Is.
sians."

Royal National Lifeboat Institution,

A meeting of this institution was held yesterday at itsr
house, John-street, Adelphi—Thomas Chapman, Esq., in
the chair. There were also present George Lyall, Esq.,
M.P., Admiral Gordon, Montague Gore, W. H. Horton,
Esq., and other gentlemen. Mr. Lewis, the secretary, read,
the minutes of the previous meeting. It was reported that
the, new lifeboat which the National Lifeboat Institution.
had just sent to Filey, near York, and which Was publi
launched there on the 26th ult, in the presence alter bene-
volent donors, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of 'York,
.had done some noble service early (-in Tuesday morning last,
rescuing during a strong gale and heavy sea, two pls° r
fishermen ermen from an inevitable death. The expense of We
cly

service was £8 Os. A reward of £4 was given to the crew
of the St. Ives lifeboat for saving seven pilots who, while
wenintt.d.rionng
tthhee
Ihlatrhbouilitr.,ofwtehreatinpluacle,edryurdinagngaersotruosngpogsaitlie of
on.
Tnhereliafeehbioat had gone out in the first instance in reply to
signalcisuoifrueddgis.htreeTrs,shus itfrom t h
the services of
the
e brig Benjamin Boyd, of Bristol.
O
remains by a ship however,
lifeboat were
not re
sometimes
happens
thata lifeboat
for hours together, and finds ultimately
that its services are not required. A reward of £l2 was
also voted to the cre
the schooner Theop of the Hauxley lifeboat for going off
and rescuing, on Friday
hgatoTtogno,niegohtobhfti last,the
rocks h the crewn
the of
Northumber-
landfi v e men o
stormy weather, had Aberdeen, which, during
afisshiminilar clasrseekerettaced some years
ana four coast.
others
without success, to reach the wreck. This valuable lifeboat
ago on the Northumberland coast b
Northumberland, President of the National e Lifehoat In sti-
torexseued 86
present Duke of
tution. Since that period the havelifeboatssnal
shipwrecked persons. Rewards amounting
5 were
also voted to the crews of the Tynemouth and Bliak Ileye
lifeboats for going off in reply to signals of distress, but
their services were not afterwards required. A reward of
£4 was likewise granted to a crew of Northumber land
fishermen for going off and bringing on shore from the
Prussian sloop Maria, seven men belonging to the schooner
Heinrich, of Strasland, which, during the fearful storm of.
the Ist ult., had sunk in the North Sea. After four hours
and a halt (wrote the Rev. F. R. Simpson, of North
Sunderland), the crew of the sloop Maria succeeded in
getting the men off the Heinrich, hauling them through
the sea at great risk and danger to their own lives. They
were kept on board from the ist to the 7th ult., having
been reduced, with their salvors, to an allowance of two
biscuits daily. A reward of £1 was voted to a young luau
named John Kerwan, and £2 ss. to some other men in
testimony of their gallant exertions in rescuing, at great,
risk of life, ten men from the Greek brig Marietta, from
Lisbon to Cardiff, which was wrecked during the late terrific;
gales, near Tramore on the Irish coast. The crew, ten in
number, were seen on the top of a rock fully 100 feet high.
The sea was frightful at the time, washing completely over
the vessel. It appears that during the night, and when
the vessel was found to be breaking up, cue of the crew
leaped into the curt ssith a rope round his body, an/
fortunately, as the distance was not far, he succeeded
in reaching the rock above alluded to, and in climbing
to the top of it, a feat that one would think next to impos-
sible. He then pulled a heavy rope from the ves.,,el and
tied it round the rock, and by these means the crew got on
to the rock in safety. The next matter was to get them to
the shore, and this was done by the men on shore dropping
a line over the cliff. The people on shore then, with the
aid of the ropes, climbed up the rack and rendered assist-
ance to the poor fellows, and in a few hours nine of the men
were landed in safety. One man then remained who could
not descend, as his arm was so severely hurt that he could
not use it, A lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution
was fortunately within three miles of the wreck. She was
speedily brought round by her crew, who pulled her through.
the heavy surf in good style, and in a short time reached
the spot. Kirwan then ascended the rock and placed a rope
round the injured man's body, and assisted to lower him.
, The man then plunged into the sea, and the crew of the
lifeboat picked him up and landed him at the Cove. Dur-
ing the late gales 64 foreign shipwrecked sailors were saved
from a watery grave by the lifeboats of this institution, and
by other means for which it had granted rewards. The
names of the vessels and the numbers of their crews are as
follow :—Barque Tamworth, of Skein, Norway, 17 ; Greek
brig Marietta, 10; schooner Guilia, of Palermo, 10 ; barque
Providence, of Dant ;
ketch Snip, of Amsterdam, 5; and Italian brig *, 7 ; schooner Heinrich, ofaSntaralslDaonedk,
awhich,
Camo-
glino, 8 men. Various other rewards were also voted for
saving life from shipwreck during the late gales. Tt
was
reported that the Duke of Somerset, and other Lords of the
Admiralty, had witnessed, on the invitation of the institu-
se
n th ew e
tion, some harbour trials in the Regent's c
Limehouse, with two new ships' lifeboats. Their lordsh
sp,
_
ewi edreed mt
ouc hb
upi
Ilde a soende w
oi trh t
wt hoe
sspanmeieru,
ean
n d hel since lifeboats,de-
if approved of, would be supplied to the It Navy,
otn
month,Ea s Eastbourne, e, and to institution
Arklow,ha s n
Irish
coast. The Great Western Railway Company
as usual, a free conveyance over their line°l3aPanY
During
life-
boats to the
Pembrey, Fas past
had given,
and Arklow lifeboats. The latter will to the Pembrey
Milford e
Haven to her station, in be sailed across from
cruiser. The cost of the Pembrey°lllPallY with a revenue
lifeboat had been col-
a named The City of Bath.
lected in Bath, and the boat i
The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Com-
pany had kindly conveyed th
station, free of charge, e Eastbourne lifeboat to her
of £1,300 were ordered to bayments amounting to upwards
e made on various lifeboat estab-
lishments of the institution.
£5OO Stock was again this
month ordered to be sold from its small funded capital, to
meet in part these heavy expenses. The committee of the
institution are therefore earnestly appealing for benefactions
and annual subscriptions to help them to meet the large and
increasing expenses of the society • s 125
lifeboat stations. It.
was stated that the officers and friends of the First Middle-
sex
Engineer Volunteers had kindly promise • d to
give an
amateur
performance at St. James's Theatre, on the 17th,
in aid of the funds of the institution. Two concerts had
also recently been given at Deacon's Concert Rooms, Sed-
er's-wells, with the view of raising the cost of a lifeboat, to
be called The Sir Hugh Myddleton. The Rev. R. Sutton,
of Hype, Sussex, and the Rev. W. Finch, of St. Peter's
Church, Do Beavoir-town, Heston, had likewise kindly
sent to the institution part of the collections made at their
churches, in thank-offerings for the late abundant harvest'
Robert Whitworth, Esq., transmitted the instittition £250
collected by him iu Manchester to pay the cost of lifea;
boat. The committee decided to station the lifcbeet
Bridlington, Yorkshire. The proceedings awn tom"
nated,

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