The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-09 00:00:00

POLAND.

(From the Nottingham Mercury.) •"3
At the organization of the Polish army there
was a great deficiency in the medical and sur4ical
department, and this induced a number of pa-
triotic and enterprising professional gentlemen
to proceed from England to Warsaw, for the pur-
pose of rendering their assistance. Amongst tl-e
b.
number was Mr. Robert Jowett, brother to Mr.
Jowett, surgeon, of Nottingham, and by the
latter we have been permitted to make the fol-
lowing extracts from a letter written by the
former, dated

" WARSAW, MAY 16.

" M DEAR BRoTHER,—I have been nine days
in Warsaw, and am attached to the Hospital of Sa-
piezynski, containing about 800 wounded, the
greater part of whom are nearly well. There. has
been no battle or fighting of consequence for: the
last dire,. wicks, but a battle is expected daily.—
About 200 Russian prisoners were brought in on
Saturday (the Hall). The army is about thirty •
English miles front Warsaw. From Hamburg to
Berlin we travelled in the Schell Post, and posted it
from Berlin to Warsaw. It cost me from the time
1 left England until I arrived at Warsaw, including
the expenses of two day,' hying in Hamburg,
three in Berlin, and two at Pozen, 22/.; and I be-
lieve we are to receive one rix dollar, or 3s. 2d., for
every German mile (200), which will arnoturt to
30/., and very probably we shall receive 3/. Or 0!.
per month for pay as surgeons. We have lodgieaai
found us. I intend to remain in Warsaw until I
have learned a little of the language, and then-per-
haps I shall go to the array. The inhabitants do
not think that the Russians can ever take Warsaw.
There are considerable outworks raised around the
town, and all the streets have strong barricades,
with holes for cannon, and the town is divided by
them into circles, which would be defended one
after another, and when they are obliged to retire
from one circle they would blow up the barricades
(as they are all undermined), and then proceed to
the next. Pozen, the capital of Prussian Poland,
is a small dirtyish town, full of soldiers, and all the
villages of Prussian Poland contain soldiers, as
there have been symptoms of revolution mani-
fested. When we arrived at the frontiers, of
Poland, we found a cordon sunitaite established,
for fear of the cholera morbus, and all inter-
course from Poland to Prussia forbidden, so that
the post-boy placed our luggage upon the high road
in Poland, and left us, and we had to wait until a
matt who happened to be there with some horses,
fetched a carriage for us. Until this time, the road
from Berlin—with the exception of about thirty
miles English—had been very bad and sandy, and
we bad not travelled more than a German mile an
hour; but as soon as we arrived in Poland, eve found
a most beautiful Macadamised road, and we reached
Warsaw, a distance of 160 English miles in less thaa
twenty hours, including the time occupied in chang-
ing horses. The villages in Poland, generally, con-
sist of rand houses, either thatched or covered with
boards, and the inhabitants seem to keep abundaree
of geese, turkeys, and fowls. The living on the road
varied considerably in price, but, upon the average,
bieakfast, of most excellent coffee, with some of
the best bread in the world, and eggs, would cost
6d. or 7d. Dinner, from Bd. to Is. Wine not very
cheap, after Berlin. Hungary wine from about 2s.
to 3s. English a bottle; claret the same—in Berlin
it was cheaper, and still more so at Hamburg. The
tea at Warsaw is very fine, coming by land from
China to Russia—it is also dear, some of it being as
high as 2.55. per pound. The best coffee is about Is.
per pound. Meat about 3d., which is at least twice
as much as it was before the Revolution. Some of
the finest flour in the world is made in Warsaw,
and it is sent in large quantities to Paris, for the
pastry-cooks there, but the generality of bread eaten
is very black and sour."

An express from Turkey, of the 14th ult.,
announced that the affair with the Pacha of Scu•rstu had
been nearly adjusted, but the marching of troops to the
northward continued. We understand that an express kid
ii'so reached Paris with an official explanation relative to
the late great military preparations of Turkey.

MISERY.—There is to be a meeting
of the Mayo committee this day, to consider the best
means of relieving the appalling distress at present existing
in Connaught. There are no fewer than 150,000 men,
women, and ehildren, at this moment in a state of actual
starvatlan in the county of Maya. This, we beg leave to
say, is no exaggerated statement. A census has been
taken of the parishes and townlands by competent and
trustworthy persons, who can depose on oath, if necessary,
to the accuracy of the returns. We have seen the fright-
ful list in the hands of a gentleman, himself a landed pro-
prietor, and one of the most active and intelligent of the
dqutation:now in Dublin, FRANCIS BLOSSE. The fol-
lowing is an extract from a letter written by the lice.
Baronet:—cc Those on the sea-coast are endeavouring to
preserve existenre on sea weed and 4bell-fish fantod alottP,-
the shores,. A clergyman, on whose authority 1 state the
fact, told me that doubting the accounts which were
• brought to him, he visited families at unexpected times,
and thus became a witness of the melancholy meal where
it mother, surrounded by her children, picked out the lid),
from the shells with a pin, apportioning the scanty morsels
to each in its turn, but too slowly to satisfy the cravings of
their hunger. In other parts of the country the pear are
living on nettles and weeds, front which experience has
taught them to extract some nourishment, and they pray
for a few handsful of oatmeal to boil up with those plants,
to furnish a meal more substantial and nutritious. lean
state that a miserable mother, with an infant in her arms.
was found attempting to prolong the existence of her
family, by sharing with each child the nourishment whirls
her breasts afforded- These facts shall be proved on oath
before the Privy Council. And shall we then appeal its
vain to the humanity of the wealthy to redeem these
miserable victims of the grave from a painful death ?• A
malignant fever has commenced its ravages; two highly
respectable Homan Catholic clergymen are already iL4
victims—namely, the Rev. Mr. PitNnsitoAsr, of Clifton,
and the Rev. Mr. HCGHES, of Crosmolina. The latter
gentleman I saw but three works ago in the full possession
of health and benevolent exertions • for the relief of
,t,r:
parishioners ; yet his sun !lath gone down wlii7e at was .
day, and he is cut off in early life by.sfeceorre3ahthleir daily
dense masses who crowded round his d
son his charity, that
food. So constant were d.c.oao
in
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