The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-15 00:00:00

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POLAND.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

WARSAW, MARCIT, 1862.

One would have thought that, after so many
official and other assurances tending to relax the
severity of the present system of the Government,
we should now be in the enjoyment of at least our
individual liberty. Far from this being the case,
we are still in the possession of all the privi-
leges attached to a genuine Russian state of siege.
We are still doomed to behold the Russian soldiers
bivouac in the public places of this elegant city;
numerous patrols are incessantly traversing the
streets ; no one can go out of an evening without
carrying a lantern ; the arrests and deportations
ace still the only work and profit of the officials,
who would be greatly disappointed with
the loss of such an excellent harvest. To give you
an idea of the extent of this atrocious policy I will
only mention the following fact :—A man, whose
wife being near her confinement, had been suddenly
visited with very dangerous symptoms, ran out,
without the lantern, to fetch the doctor, when he
was stopped in the street by the soldiers, and in
spite of his entreaties and explanations put in pri-
son. Two days afterwards he was released, but on
returning home he found both the wife and the
child dead in the bed. Could such an act of bar-
barity be tolerated in any other country but Russia ?
Not long ago a sum of £3,200 was sent from St.
Petersburg for distribution among the most
needy people. A poor shoemaker, father of seven
children, had, wiihout his knowledge or consent,
his name placed on the list of the recipients of
this bounty. Summoned before the agent of the
police to receive his share, 15 florins (about 65.), he
said he never asked for it, and did not know from
whom it came. " From the Emperor," he was
peremptorily answered, " because you are poor."
" It is true I am poor," replied the man, " but I
work hard to support my family, and require no
assistance from anybody." He was much pressed
to take it, but declined to receive anything. Of
course such a flat refusal gave him the character of
a very dangerous person in ,the eyes of the Rus-
sian authorities. He was forthwith imprisoned as
a revolutionary firebrand, and his wife and seven
children would have starved had not the charity
of his countrymen been extended to them.

Some time ago, while the new Archbishop
Felinski was officiating in the Cathedral, a woman
fainted, and a young student, who was close by,
ran to her assistance. The police soon arrived, and
was told by the student that their interference was
unnecessary. This remark was a sufficient pretext
for the arrest of the young student, whose name is
Jacob Yenczynski, and his subsequent incorporation
as a private in the penal military companies at
Orien burg.

It is difficult to find words strong enough to ex-
press indignation at such cowardly conduct. Though
the Archbishop protested several times, yet the
police are always stationed in the churches, and even
examine the prayer-books whether they do not
contain a prayer for the country or a national hymn.
The Archbishop had received from the Emperor his
permission to send to his Mejesty direct telegraphic
despatches, but General Luders, the Governor-
General, had produced an order to prohibit such
communications. The worthy prelate has now
learned by experience, and at his own expense,
what the Imperial promises are made of. Luckily
for the Poles, such disgraceful behaviour of the
Russian Government can only turn in the end to
their advantage.

The theatre is only frequented by the Russians,
and hardly half of the places are filled. The mourn-
ing is still worn, and no sign of public amusement
is visible. Everybody seems to be occupied With

the works of charity towards the prisoners and the
unfortunate, and emulate in zeal for patriotic deeds.
A very strong impulse has been given to the de-
velopment of the village schools by the landed pro-
prietors ; but it is feared the Government will
check it, believing ignorance to be the best
instrument for upholding despotism. However, it
will find it a hard task to turn the peasants against
their masters, as the harmony between the two
classes is perfect, owing to the praiseworthy efforts
of the late Agricultural Society.
As an act of great condescension and Imperial
favour, we were announced a visit in the spring
from the Emperor Alexander. The reports which
are sent to him on the feeling that pervades
the country towards him will, it is believed, de-
ter the Czar from undertaking this journey.
He would for certainty, should he come among us,
meet with the same cold and almost insulting recep-
tion which he found two years ago in company of
the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia
when they assembled here, not, as it was stated, to
consider the then state of affairs in Italy, but to
concoct some new wicked plan to keep down both
Poland and Hungary. The two last monarchs, no
doubt, repent of having been entrapped by the
arch-spoliator of Poland, who himself seems to be
awfully worried by his stubborn nobility in Russia,
who clearly see that he is incapable of coping with
the gigantic events which agitate his heterogeneous
empire, and in all probability he will have to make
room by and by for a new and constitutional Sove-
reign.