The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-31 00:00:00

true that the Austrian police has arrested in an
arbitrary and illegal manner numerous persons sus-
pected of having aided the insurrection, and it seizes
arms wherever they are to be found, and systemati
Bally imprisons insurgents taken with arms in their
hands. In short, Austria does more than Russia
has a right to expect from her, though, at the same
time, far less than she might do were she disposed
to exercise all possible means for helping her former
a:ly. Bat that the Governor of Galicia connived
with Russia to let Wysocki's expedition go into
Volhynia to its destruction can be shown to be
false ; and that Colonel Kunsti, who commands
at Brody, informed General Kreuter, who com-
mands at Radziwillow, when and where the expedi-
tion was to cross cannot be shown to be true. These
are the two great charges now made against the
Austrian Government or against its agents, and of
course neither Count Mensdorff nor Col. Kunsti
can well come forward to disprove them. It has
been stated by the Cracow correspondent of a
Breslau paper that Count Mensdorff, alter consult-
ing the Russian Government as to what he should
do with the two thousand insurgents destined
for Volhynia, was requested to let them enter,
and than thereupon he allowed them to form
in the woods, to remain there three weeks un-
molested, and only at the last moment made
show of wishing to prevent their passage on to Rus-
sian territory. Falling into the lowest depths of
the :ridiculous, the Cracow corespondent adds that
Count Mensdorff, Governor of a province, ex-Am-
bassador, a General in the Austrian service, went
himself to Brody, and " placing himself at the
head of a patrol," pursued the insurgents in the
'etoods, and captured from them a quantity of old
clothes. A French paper, after citing this non-
sense, remarks with much naivete, " Ceci n'a pas
besoin de commentaire." hdeed, the only part of
the statement worth commenting upon is that in
which it is asserted that the insurgents had time
given to them to form in the woods, whereas I can
testify that they had to take the greatest precaution
to get to the woods at all; that they were obliged
to start for the frontier the moment they received
their arms, and that the Austrians did not evk, u
give them time to learn how to load their rifles,
If the Austrians are thought to have made great
efforts to prevent the departure of an expedition
they are accused of undue severity ; if they are sus-
pected (however unreasonably) of having favoured
its departure they are charged with having played
into the hands of Russia.
As for Colonel Knnsti's letter to the Russian
General at Radziwillow the Gazeta Narodowa of
Lemberg, after declaring that this pretended letter
was in its pcssession, has abstained from publishing
it, though challenged to do so by the efficial journals
of Lemberg and Cracow, which affirm positively
that no such document exists, or has ever existed.
The Gazeta Narowdowa promised to send the epistle
in question for publication to a French newspaper;
and now the Opinion Nationale affirms gravely that
it has received it, and yet does not print one word
of it, though it can find space for a long letter from
the Russian Consul at Brody to General Kreuter,
in which nerning at all rerre.rklble occurs. It is
not for Colonel Kunsti to show that he has not been
in corresponds nee with the Russians. It is fur those
who luzard such an accusation against him to show
that they have Lot done so without any sort of
pro:f.