The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-04 00:00:00

POLAND.

WARSAW, DEC. 24.
The official organ has, no doubt by order of the
Government, denied the condemnation of the priests
and other persons to exile i❑ Russia or to the mines
in Siberia. Nothing can be easier than to give to
this denial the most positive contradiction, for here
are the names of some of the unfortunate victims—
The Rev. Mr. Smolinski and the Rev. Mr. Pierer
have been sent to Perm ; the Rev. Mr. Wiszniew-

ski and theßev. Mr.lllleezek to Kostrom ; the Reve.
Teskao, Sigismond, and Borowski to Wiatka ; the
Rev. Mr. Kryniski to Kason ; the Key. Mr. Zak°.
zewski to Takonlok ; the Rev. Mr. Rzewnski, to
Vologoda ; the Rev. Mr. Tastriembski to Volomi-
dir. The destination of the Rev. Mr. Kurzacow-
ski is not known yet, and that of many other ecele-

siastics. Of the workmen and artisans a great
number have also been despatched to the same
quarter—indeed, the official journal has printed a
list of them ; and it is hardly necessary to repro-
duce it in this short correspondence. Twelve stu-
dents from the Academy here, and ten other young
gentlemen from Kalisch, among whom are Xavier,
Wolowski, Brukowski, Chlehowski, Skorabiski,
&c., have also been sent off to those pleasant regions ;
and in spite of this clearance the prisons are swarm-
ing with fresh candidates. The most arbitrary
mode of pouncing upon people is adopted. Thus,
Mr. Baumann, a merchant, was mistaken for his
clerk, arrested, and kept in prison, nobody knows
why. His wife, having solicited his release, was
told that until the clerk be produced, her husband
must be detained. At Kolo Colonel \Vigmor had
ordered the president of the town to be incorporated
in the Russian army, and his head entirely shaved.
The family lodged a complaint against so tyrannical
a proceeding with Mr. Krusenstern,Under Secretary
of State in the Ministry of the Interior, who re-

plied, that in times of war, military men are not
called upon to account to the civil authorities for
the measures they may think fit to adopt. Mr.
Krusenstern (who I believe is a German) is the same
gentleman that issued a circular enjoining his agents
to arrest all suspected persons and to carry them to
the nearest prison or fortress.
Mr. Hube, who replaced the Marquis Wielopolski,
as director in the ministry of Public Worship, has
entered upon a regular war with the clergy. See-
in g the impossibility of inducing the priests to open
the churches by persuasion, he compelled the
monks who profess the Greco-Latin creed to
open their churches, in which he obtained help from
the bishop, who was frightened at the loss of the
property the Church possesses, and which was to be
confiscated. This threat, however, did net, succeed
with the Roman Catholic priesthood, who remain
unmoveable in their dete
officialrmination declaration that they
not to open the
churches without an
will not be profaned. Pressed by Mr. Hube, they
replied that the decision must come from the
Archdeacon Bie.lobrziski, the administrator of the
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Warsaw,o death,who,as you know, having
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is still lingering in the
diocese of
condemned
citadel of Warsaw.
As if not satisfied with this sort of campaign,
the Government is about to levy 20,000 recruits for
the Russian army. This is a pretty fine specimen
of the boasted benevolence and good disposition of
the Czar towards the Poles ; and it is surprising
how the European public are credulous in believing
that an autocrat could wield his sceptre otherwise
than by exercising it in the most tyrannical manner.
This opinion is not exaggerated ; it is shared by
even all the enlightened and intelligent part of the
Russian people, who themselves are beginning to
call for a different treatment. In proof of this, I
may cite a 'wide-spread conspiracy in Russia, whose