The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-19 00:00:00

SYRIA.

Under the head of " Latest Intelligence," La
Patrie publishes the following :
" A private despatch from Beyrout, dated the 4th
April, has brought us interesting news from Syria.
The Christian Governor of the Lebanon, his Excel-
lency Daoud Pasha, returned on the 26th March to
Sibney, his winter residence, coming from Zahle,
whither he had gone at the request of the European
Consuls. He was everywhere received with great
distinction. The inhabitants of the Christian vil-
lages went out to meet him in procession, headed
by their clergy. At Zahle he complied with the
demands drawn up by the European Commissioners.
"His Excellency Kabouly-Effendi, appointed
Commissary-General of the Ottoman Porte in Syria,
arrived at Damascus on the 29th March. The
city was in great excitement because the news
had just arrived that the great caravan of Bag-
dad had been attacked and pillaged near Palmyra
by the united tribes of Maahama. Some Arab
chiefs and Damascus merchants had been killed in
attempting to defend themselves. This event, more-
over, has caused considerable loss to the trade of
Damascus, already severely tried by the events of
last year. This act of briganc".age imposes the duty
upon the Ottoman Government of organising an
expedition to chastise the tribes of the Valley of the
Euphrates, who are more than ever addicted to their
deplorable instincts. The French steam corvette
Colbert, having on board Captain Sim)), the corn-
mauder of the French naval division, cast anchor on
the 3d of April at Beyrout, coming from Jaffa."

POLAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

WARSAW, APRIL 13.
As I anticipated in my last letter, the anniversary
of the massacres committed by the Russians on the
Bth of April, 1861, at Warsaw, was celebrated by
the Poles in all the churches of the metropometropolis.Despite the state of siege, and the ukase respecting
the wearing of certain dresses and colours, all people
were attired in black, and attended the religious
services with fervent devotion. The authorities felt
rather uneasy, additional patrols circulated in dif-
ferent streets, and swarms of spies were posted in
and outside the churches. Hymns for the,good and
delivery of the country from her enemies were sung,
but the police, so far, had the good sense not to in-
terfere. However, when the Archbishop Foliaski
ascended the pulpit and commenced to preach in a
strain not very palatable to his hearers, enjoining
them to obey and trust in the Czar, the impatience
of the young students swelled high, and loud hisses
were heard, which compelled the prelate to stop for
a time. Almost the whole of the congregation left.
the church ; the spies arrested at the doors three
young men whom they had previously noted in the
church, and more than twenty were at
once imprisoned and sentenced to serve in
the Russian army as privates; and this
is another act of that good benevolent Czar's dispo-
sition, so highly eulogised by Lords Russell and
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speech
Palmerston.Whyl the latter justly observed in
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in the, House of Commons, that
such acts
and such conduct were unworthy of a
recent
civilised Government. Had General Luders over-
looked this ebullition of youthful enthusiasm, the
religious ceremony would have ended without any

further disturbance. As it happened, there are
now fresh victims of the Russian tyranny, and an
increase of the inveterate hatred which exists be-
tween the Poles and the Muscovites.
Funeral services, in commemoration of the above
anniversary, were performed in Lemberg, chief
town in Galicia, and in Posen, and even in several
towns in Lithuania, where the reign of terror has
not ceased to exist.

At the last sitting of the Council. of State, the
Marquis Wielopolski reproached very strongly the
Senator Hube with having secretly opposed the
marquis's plan on the peasant question, and the
new law on public instruction, by communicating
his own pernicious views to some influential Rus-
sians at the court of St. Petersburg, and trying to
upset the combinations of the marquis. M. Hube
endeavoured to explain his conduct, but broke
down during his explanation, and his speech
(written) was continued by M. Lasski, without any
apparent effect.

It is rumoured that General Luders (whom, in
the art of cruelty and duplicity, we should term, in
England, "an old stager"), finding his bed too hot,
has determined to resign his post of Lieutenant of
the Kingdom ; his successor is not yet named.
General Roznow, late President of the In quisitory
Commission, has left for Kijow, whether for good
or not is still a mystery. General Tarmolar, who
has replaced him, appears to envelope all his acts
and transactions in the greatest possible mystery.
Those who have been allowed to visit their friends
or relatives in the citadel are now submitted to the
strictest inquiry; everything is recorded in a regis-
ter kept for the purpose, so that they may at once
become marked persons, and placed under the sur-
veillance of the police. These new regulations of
General Tarmolar place him in a false light with
the Poles, who see in this proceeding a pretext for
the diminution of the visitors to the suffering vic-
tims in the cells of the citadel.

A very considerable number of the prisoners of
that place have been deported into the depth of
Russia, but a few days ago.
The scarcity of the Polish journals printed in St.
Petersburg, and the necessity of diffusing among
the Polish population groaning under the yoke of
Muscovy, have induced Mr. J. Bankowski, a Polish
gentleman of high literary repute, to publish s~
paper in the Polish language called The Earth
(Ziemia), which is destined to supply the informa-
tion now so much, wanted. Its principal features;
may be divided into four parts :-Ist, Official orders
and regulations; 2dly, the solution of the peasant.
question; 3dly, articles purely of the political, in-
dustrial, and commercial economy; 4thly, matters
treating of literature, correspondence, current news,
and other varieties. This plan has been submitted
to the Censorship, and should it be approved, Mr.
Bankowski will at once select his collaborateurs,
among the most distinguished literary men in
Poland, and issue his paper, which is expected to
exercise a most beneficial influence on the commu-
nity.

The late debate in the House of Commons,
which took place on the 4th instant on Mr. Den-
man's motion, is the topic of general conversa-
tion in the higher sphere of society. The speech
of Lord Palmerston is considered an excellent one,
being pointed at the -Emperor Alexander, who is
charged by the Prime Minister with a perfect
ignorance of the tyranny and barbarity which are
practised in Poland, in his imperial name and
with his sanction. It is impossible that such a
charge should not sting even the conscience of his
Imperial Majesty, " the Autocrat' of all the
Russias."