The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-23 00:00:00

11.4117BUI?G PAPERS.

We received last night Hamburg Papers to the
17th May. The articles from Warsaw repeat the
expectation of a general battle ere long between the
Poles and Russians, Some accounts are given of
manoeuvring against Diebitseh by General Dem•
hjnshi, conducted with great skill. The Lithuanian
insurgents seem to be exceedingly active. They
have even succeeded in repelling an attack from the

Russian troops, and compelled the latter to retreat
to Polangen. The following are extracts :
WARSAW, MAY 10.—The day before yesterday
it was currently reported that Diebitsch was ad-
vancing against Praga from Radzomyn, and even
from Nieporent, but the report has not since been
confirmed. A very general opinion prevails, how-
ever, that an important battle will soon be fought.
In addition to the Ministers of the Interior and of
Foreign Affairs, Count \Vielopolski has also sent in
his resignation. The Diet has passed a resolution
that those provinces formerly belonging to Poland,
and now occupied by the Russians, where insurrec-
tions have broken out, are to be considered as re-
annexed to the kingdom of Poland. Assistance is
to be afforded to enable them to shake off a foreign
yoke, and punishments are to be inflicted on those
who send succour to the common enemy.
WARSAW, MAY 12.—The Stale Gazelle con-
tains the official despatches of Colonel Dembinski.
who, on the 26th ult., at the head of 3,600 men,
manoeuvred against 40,000 Russian troops, uncle.
the Field-Marshal Diebitsch in person, and kept the
enemy employed during the whole day, only retreat-
ing when he saw himself on the point of being out-
flanked. Colonel Dembinski has been promoteJ
to the rank of General. In Pulawy the Russians
have begun to carry away the celebrated library of
Prince Czartoryski. On the retreat from Min&i,
they threw the dead bodies of those who had died
of the cholera into the wells ; and in the district of
Lublin they carried away with them the medical
men established in the different towns, leaving the
inhabitants exposed to all the horrors of contagion,
without the possibility of obtaining professional aid.
One of our papers pretends to have seen a copy of
an order from the Prussian Minister of the Interior
to the President of Breslau, ordering the latter not
only to seize all property belonging to the Polish
Bank, as being the private property of the Emperor,
but also to endeavour to ascertain whether, of the
large sums continually passing into Poland, ad-
dressed to private individuals, some are not in reality
the property of tie Bank, in which case such sums
are to be immediately detained.
MEmEL, MAY 11.—There were yesterday again
engagements between the Russians and the Lithua-
nian insurgents. At Krottingen 500 Shamaites
were attacked and dispersed by about 80 or 100
Russian cavalry, with one field-piece. At Dorbian,
on the other hand, the struggle is said to have been
more obstinate ; there were about 9,000 Shamaites
assembled, tinl the result of the affair is not yet
known. The insurgents are said to have maintained
.heir position, and the Russian troops to have re-
urned to Polangen.— Hamburg Papers to May 17.