The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-08 00:00:00

Tim MUTINY AT BLAORWALL.

On a bill being preferred this morning before the grand
jury against Oliva, one of the c.4oldiers attached to the
Peruvian corvette Arica, who stands charged upon the
coroner's inquisition with the manslaughter of Callegas
during the late mutiny at Blackwell, it was announced
that the other witnesses were not in attendance, that they
were pt isoners on board the hulk, and that the authorities
intended to send them back to Peru, in order that they
might be tried under the martial law of their own country.
Under these circumstances the grand jury had no alterna-
tive, and accordingly no bill was found. The prisoner,
however, must be arraigned on the coroner's inquisition,
which will, of course, result in his immediate acquittal, as
no witnesses will be in attendance. It is thought that the
prisoner will be claimed by the commander of the Arica as
the murderer of Colleges, and that he will be removed on
board the corvette and tried by court-martial for the crime.
The other prisoners, at present in irons on board the ship,
will also undergo trial for the share they had taken in the
mutiny.
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THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND.

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(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
CRACOW, April 3.

A letter from Konigsberg, dated March 31, makes
known that the peasants of Szowle, in Lithuania,
have been in open insurrection for the last five days
against the Government. At Poniewicz the nobi-
lity and the townspeople have risen. I have already
communicated to you by telegraph the news of
Lapinski, who held a command in Circassia from
1855 until 1858, having landed in Courland. His
band is said to he well composed, and officered by
men who have served with distinction in various
European armies, including one who has just
quitted the English service for the sole purpose of
assisting the Poles. We had for some days past
been expecting tidings of Lapinski's expedition,
and the latest accounts from Courland inform us
that the landing was effected without difficulty.
The Poles declare that the nobility of this province
retain their old sympathy for Poland, and that in
Courland, Samogitia, and throughoat Lithuania the
insurrection will be quite as formidable as in Poland
proper. One thing is quite certain, that before the
middle of the month the whole of Russian Poland
will be shaken from the Dnieper to the Baltic, and
from the coast of Courland to the eastern extremity
of Podolia. All that Warsaw and the fortified towns
have to do is to do nothing. The Russians dare not
withdraw the garrisons, aud, unless they weaken
them considerably, they will not be able to resist the
insurgents either in Lithuania, or in Podolia, or in
the south of the kingdom of Poland towards the
frontier of Galicia. As soon as the news of
Lapinski's invasion of Courland is confirmed you
will hear of a movement in the south-east which
will rather stagger the Russians. They are in great
strength just now on the other side of the Galician
frontier, and they know what will happen if they
retire, as retire they must before long. Already
several new bands have appeared on the Russian
side of the border, and when the signal is given—
when Courland and Samogitia, on the one hand,
and Podolia, on the other, are quite ready—the
scene of Langiewicz's recent operations will be filled
by a force less compact, no doubt, but twice as
numerous as that which the Dictator had under his
command. Gen. Annenkoff has shown that he has
a sort of presentiment that something remarkable
is going to happen in Kieff and Podolia, and with
the view of averting the danger which threatens
him, has informed the peasants that a body of Po-
lish insurgents ar© about to invade the province in
order to put all the peasants to death.

From letters dated Dantzic, April 1, it appears
two aides-de-camp of the Grand Duke Constantine,
Capt. Arsenieff and a Lieutenant of Engineers,
whose name I cannot read, have arrived in that
city, and taken up their quarters at the Hotel d'An-
gleterre, and are engaged in examining and pur-
chasing steamers for the transport of troops on the
Vistula. They at first entered into treaty with M.
Behrend, President of the Chamber of Deputies, for
the steamer called the Vistula, but it was found to
draw too much water. Rosenthal, a merchant of
Bromberg, then offered them the Matador for
25,000 roubles, and they are also in negotiation for
a vessel at Thorn, for u hich 12,000 roubles is
asked. The bargaining is done openly. The police
and the Government have been informed of it, and
make no objection to the purchase and transforma-
tion of merchant vessels into vessels of war to be
used against the Poles. On the other hand, neither
lint nor medical stores are allowed to be taken from
Prussian territory into Poland, but are seized and
confiscated without mercy at the frontier.
The General Krushewski who (as I sent word by
telegraph) was arrested here last night,or early this
morning, was one of the principal directors of the
Polish movement from Cracow. His disappearance
may cause some inconvenience, but otherwise is not
of very great importance.
It is perfectly true that a Russian major and
lieutenant-colonel were made prisoners at the battle
of Grochowiska, or Bask, on March 18, and that two
guns were taken in the same action ; but the Poles
do not murder their captives, and the two Russian
officers were rescued, and might, if they liked, bear
witness to the fact that they were for some time in
the hands of the Zouave. I know several persons
who saw them in that position. The Poles had also
to abandon the guns, but not until they had spiked
them.

Langiewicz's troops during the whole of their cam-
paign made as many as 300 prisoners, all of whom
were liberated nn condition of not fighting any more
against the Poles. It was not to be expected that
the soldiers would keep their word, but it was scan-
dalous not to allow the officers to respect theirs, sup-
posing, Which I assume to have been the case, that
they were so inclined. One of the liberated officers
was taken a second time, and Langiewicz had, of
course, no choice but to order him to be hanged.
Of latethe Russians have not behaved with their
customary ferocity to the Polish prisoners, At least
there has been one instance of humanity on the
part of Prince Schachowsky, the General who com-
mands at Miechow, and to whose corps the savages
who made the murderous assault upon Mr. Finken-
stein belong. The Countess Augusta Potocka, being
personally acquainted with the Prince, wrote to
him from Cracow, begging him to send back all
the wounded insurgents from Galicia who had
tallen into his power, that they might be at-
tended to in the special hospital established here
in the ballroom of the Hotel de Saxe. The Prince
was polite enough to forward all the Galician pri-
soners, whether wounded or not.
Three days ago (March 30) 11 Austrian soldiers
were brought in wounded to Bolechowiee, a village
on the Galician frontier. The Russians, who say
that they mistook them for insurgents, fired upon
them from a distance. The Austrians returned the
fire, and ultimately a hand-to-hand skirmish took
place, in which several Cossacks were made pri-
soners. They are now with the wounded Austrians
at Bolechowice.
Officers and soldiers of Langiewicz's army—
foreigners as well as Poles—assure me that Langie-
wicz made no charge of treason against anyone in
the i‘ order of the day" issued after the council of
war on the night of the 18th. He issued no second
proclamation ; though, had he done so, it is pro-
bable enough that, like every one else in Poland, he
would have had something to say against Micros-
lawski, who is more detested by the Poles even
than he is admired by himself.