The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-15 00:00:00

RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.

A Warsaw letter in the Czas gives the following
nformation

We have received some details respecting the engage-
ment which took place on the 20th of April, at Suprasl,
near Bialystok. At this affair several Russian officers and
30 soldiers joined the insurgents. The Russian report, as
usual, claims the advantage; it pretends that the insur-
gents were driven back into the marshes, and estimates their
loss at 30 killed. We shall wait for information from Polish
sources. A band of assassins, organised and paid by the
authorities of Wilna, is, under the pretext of searching for
arms, overrunning Livonia with sword and fire, pillaging,
massacring, and burning everything on their way. A thou-
sand of these wretches lately invaded the domain of Wyzki,
the residence of Baron Muhl, who had as guests at the mo.
mint his two brothers, Count Komar and Prince Mirski.
These three persons were shamefully ill-treated, and after-
wards loaded with chains. The coachman, who was so bold
as to defend his stables, had his skull,split open by a blow
from a hatchet, and was then quartered 1 A young Cossack
in the service of the count was murdered. These horrible
scenes were crowned by the burning of the chateau and
all its dependencies. The three prisoners were thrown into
a dungeon of the fortress of Dunabourg. Baron Mohl's
peasants, far from joining in the pillage, aided in the escape
of the baroness, whom they conducted disguised to the rail-
way. Unfortunately, being recognised there by the soldiers,
she had to undergo all kinds of ill treatment notwithstand-
ing her being enciente. At Dunabourg, exhausted by suffer-
ing and fatigue, she had a miscarriage, attended with
dreadful suffering. Another band broke into the residence
of M. Urbain Benislawski, who was also loaded with chains
and taken to the fortress. The Abbe Krandra, cure of the
district, was seized in the church and carried ff. The
peasants saved M. Benislawski's three daughters. Fourteen
other chateaux were pillaged and burned by the ruffians
sent from Wilna. The peasants, disgusted at the sight of
these infamies, have joined the insurgents in large num-
bers, and have opposed an energetic resistance to a band
who attempted to pillage the chateau of llubno. The
National Government has reduced Colonel Seyfried for not
having arrived to the assistance of Jung in time."

RUMOURS OF MEDIATION.—A letter appears in
the Rio de Janeiro journals from General Webb,
the American Minister, contradicting a report in that capi-
tal that the Federal Government had expressed a willing-
ness to agree to the arbitration of the Emperor of Brazil in
its quarrel with the South; but adding that, in the event
of any arbitration, the choice of the cabinet of Washington
would no doubt fall on that Sovereign, who had so many
claims to its respect and confidence.

A newly invented eleetro-metallie coating is about
to be applied to the plates of the iron-cased steam
frigates Gloire and Invincible. It appears that this new
cempositicn has been found to be very successful in the
preservation of metals. The Minister of Marine has ad-
dressed a despatch to the several port-admirals instructing
them to send a number of shipwrights to Paris to be in-
structed in the preparation of this new composition. Es•
perimenta likewise are about to be made to prevent the roll-
ing of froA CAA 404