The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-12 00:00:00

POLAND.

A Warsaw letter of the 6th, in the National
Gazette of Berlin, says :
"lei, Keller, the Director of the Commission of
the Interior, has resigned and been succeeded by
Count Ostrowski, brother-in-law of the Marquis
Wielopolski. This fact proves that the latter hes
happily surmounted the late crisis, and that his
second adversary, General Berg, will also soon leave
the place. Count Ostrowski will, moreover, be a
Director of the Interior, In partibus irOdelium, for
there is not perhaps a single public functionary who
would not more willingly obey the National Govern.
ment than his regular uffieial chiefs. The clerks here
send back most of the timid people who come to pay
their taxes ; the officials of the passport establishment
furnish the volunteers with the means of joining
the insurgents, and the other functionaries of the
Interior have for the most part handed over their
powers to the military authorities. At Lodz, the
insurgents have for the second time invaded the
bank and carried off 10,000 roubles. The saint.
happens to most of the public treasuries not pro-
tected by a garrison. Under tt ose circumstances,
as most of the clerks have been deprived of their
salaries for several weeks past, the burgomasters of
the small towns have requested the inhabitants to

pay at least such a portion of their taxes es will
enable the clerks to receive one•half of what is due
to them."

The Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna has the follow-
isg from the Austro-Polish frontier of the 6th
" A warm fire of musketry was heard the day
before yesterday near Niepolomice. According to
a wounded insurgent who crossed the frontier it was
caused by a detachment of 200 men with two pieces
of artillery, on their way to rejoin other binds, be-
ing attached by a body of Russians. A Polish de-
tachment, 400 strong, was on the same day attacked
and defeated by the Russians near Igolomia. This
detachment was destined to be commanded by Mier-
oslawski in person, and was to have been increased
to 600 men, but that chief was not present in this
affair. The subdivisions were commanded by French-
men. After a combat of an hour the insurgents
entered on the Austrian territory, and delivered up
their arms. The Russians lost 30 men, and the in-
surgents 50."
The Vienna Gazette of the Bth says :
" Captain Annenkoff of the Russian Guard, went
to Czulice the day before yesterday for the pr.rpose
of ascertaining on the spot the circumstances con-
nected with the violation of Austrian territory by
the Russian troops. Being satisfied as to the facts,
Captain Annenkoff gave 1,200 florins to a woman
named Pi‘ff, the si,ter and only relative of a soldier
who had been killed by the Russians, and
offered an indemnity to Lieutenant Gebara, who
at the same time had been despoiled of his money
and watch ; but the latter declined to accept it, as
his loss had already been made good by his own
sovereign. Captain Annenkoff then assured the
lieutenant that the Grand Duke deeply regretted
what had passed, and promised that the officer who
had been in fault should be duly punished. From
Gzulice Captain Annenkoff went to Michaelowice
and Miechow to recommend the troops there, in the
name of the Grand Duke, to strictly respect the
Austrian frontier ; and he afterwards went to
Ulanow and Narol to pay ample indemnities to the
inhabitants of those localities who had suffered from
the violation of the frontier."

Reduction of the Army at the British
Museum.