The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-02 00:00:00

POLAND,

General Ski zynecki, Commander-in •Chief of the Polish
army, has written the following letter to the King of
Prussia :

" Siennica, July 9, 1831.

" Sire,—l take the liberty of addressing you, in the hope
that your Majesty will deign to admit that my character of
Commander-in-Chief of the Polish army, and the impor-
:ance of the subject to which I am about to call your Ma-
rsty's attention, warrant my adopting this course.
" Sire, since your elevation to the throne, justice and
uprightness have never ceased to illustrate your paternal
reign. In appealing to those sublime virtues, I experience
'ome relief, amidst the vexations and annoyance occasioned
to us Poles by the civil and military authorities of Prussia.
In conjunction with several other European cabinets, yon
have proclaimed the principle of non-intervention, and I
have no doubt but the Ministers of your Majesty have re-
ceived instructions in accordance with your royal wishes.
The Polish army would consequently be wrong were it to
complain of your Majesty. They are only anxious to ac-
quaint you with their grievances.
" Every day we witness occurrences which convince us
that in spite of the neutrality your Majesty officially agreed
to observe towards Poland, the civil and military Prussian
authorities not only violate the spirit of the laws of neu-
trality, but, what is more, they afford direct and efficacious
assistance to the Russian army, without which the latter
would have been long since compelled to retire from our
country.
"1. The Prussian authorities supply the Russians
from the magazines of Thorn, and the vicinity of that
place, with provisions.
" 2. Prussian artilleries have been admitted into, and
embodied in, the Russian army, and fight against us.
" :3. The Russian forces draw warlike stores from the
Prussian fortresses.
" 4. The clothing ofd severießossian regiments was
made in Prussia 4 4
" 5. A Prussian a d
in fn Marienwerder was corn-
missioned to collect nec ary materials for the construc-
tion of bridges, t able the Russian army to cross the
Vistula' at Ziot •
" I could refer to various other circumstances to show
the hostile intentions and acts of the Prussian authorities.
I confine myself to facts I have mentioned, persuaded tia. I
am that as soon as your Majesty shill have been. made ac-
quainted with them, you will deign' to prevent the .r.Fcur-
rence of practices, which, no doubt, take place•unktown
to your Majesty, because they are directly in contradiction
with the sentiments of political probity you have ever
professed.
" Begging your Majesty to excuse my troubling you
with this despatch, I entreat, Sire, you will listen to the
voice of humanity, addressed to you through the organ of
those whom, he they ever so weak, giants would he un-
equal to overcome, were they not secaltl4 assisted by the
civil and military Prussian authorities."
The letter was returned to General Skrzynecki, with
Phis declaration—" That his Majesty the King of Prus-
sia could not enter into correspondence' with a power that
was not acknowledged by the Emperor Nicholas."

KIRKALDY.-The Reform Bill, the cholera
morbus, and dull trade, are prevailing topics of conversa-
tion in this place. A public meeting may soon be ex-
pected here for the purpose of accelerating th,g, progress
of the Reform Bill through both Houses of Parliament.
Every legal means ought to be tried by the people to
prevent the return of the old Tories to power, whose anti-
quated system of legi,lation, thong twirl', may inflict a
lasting injury both upon the countreand the cause of free-
dom in general.—Scotsman. j
PRECOCIOUS MUSICIANS.—JuveniIe vir-
tuosi are much in fashion at Berlin just nirm. They have
a clever pianist, THEODORE STElNAtflbar Hamburg,
eleven ye3rs old, and two brothers, AuoLrit and Juttus
STAT.): NECHT, the one ten, the other only six, playing the
violin and violoncello, and giving concerts ; while young.
Ma RIM, only twelve, performed some of MAYSEDER'S va-
riations at his father's concerts.—Harmonicon for Aug. 1.

EFFECT OF IMAGINATION.—The following
case, in illustration of the operation of mental causes on
the bodily frame, is related by Dr. J. C. WARREN, the
professor of anatomy and surgery in Harwood University,
Boston, in a lecture on the importance of Physical Educa-
tion, a copy of which we have lately received. " A short
time since a female presented herself to me with a tumour,
or swelling of the submaxillary gland of the neck, which
had become what is commonly called a wen. It was
about the size of an egg, had lasted two years, and was
so very hard, that I considered any attempt to dissipate
it by medicine to he vain, and advised its removal by
an operation. To this the patient could not bring her
mind ; therefore, to satisfy her wish, I directed some
applications of considerable activity to be made to the
part, and these she pursued a number of weeks without
any change. After this she called on me, and with some
hesitation begged to know whether an application recom-
mended to her would in my opinion be safe. This con-
sisted in applying the hand of a dead man three times to
the diseased part. One of her neighbours now lay dead,
and she had an opportunity of trying the experiment,
if thought not dangerous. At first I was disposed to divert
her from it ; but recollecting the power of imagination, I
gravely assured her she might make the trial without ap-
prehension of serious consequences. A while after, she
presented herself once more, and, with a smiling counte-
nance, informed me she had used this remedy and no other
since I saw her; and on examining for the tumour, I
found it had actually disappeared."— The Lancet.
EDUCATION.—To diffuse information among
the people, and render them capable of comprehending
sound reasoning on public business, was a favourite object
of CECIL. In contradiction to the absurd idea that igno-
rance is the parent of good order, that men will prove the
best subjects when they bestow no thought on their social
relations, it was the maxim of this sagacious statesman,
" that where the people were well taught, the King had
ever good obedience of his subjects. Considering the
church as the grand channel for the moral as well as reli-
gious instruction of the people, he earnestly laboured to
fill every ecclesiastical office with able, learned, and active
teachers. To impress these sentiments on his sovereign as
well as his political colleagues, he warned them that where
there wanted a good ministry there were ever bad people :
for they that knew not how to serve God, would never
obey the King. —Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia,
Vol. XXL
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MISERY PERSONIFIED.—The following ex-
traordinary instance of avarice and deception has, we
think, been hitherto without a parallel in the annals of
human wretchedness:—On Saturday last was committed
to the House of Correction at Cockermouth, for one
month, a vagrant named ROBERT FERGUSON, a native of
Stirlingsbire, who for several days past had been soliciting
charity in that neighbourhood. The external appearance
of this remarkable impostor was well calculated to excite
equal astonishment and commiseration. He had neither
shoes nor stockings, and in lieu of breeches wore some-
thing like a blue apron, while the skirts of his ponderous
upper garment partly coveted his thighs behind.
Thus accoutred, with the addition of large black
whiskers and a beard long unshaven, Lis aspect was
altogether t,rrific, and had often impressed terror on
weak and timorous minds. Upon examining his per-
son when in prison, it was found that his coat, which '
was in some places two inches thick, with patches of
various colours, contained between twenty and thirty
pockets, filled with pamphlets, tracts, schoolbooks, songs,
kc., and in one of his private receptacles were discovered
a promissory Edinburgh bank note for 130/., and two
of the British Linen Company, one for 431., and the
other for 42/. 13s. In the packets of his waistcoat
(about twenty in number) was deposited 21. 7s. 91(1. in
silver and copper, almost every shilling and sixpence
being separately placed ix the fingers of old gloves, and
crrefully tied up. The whole sum found upon this
wretched disciple of 'Mammon amounted to 2181. 2s.
91(1., which, by order of the Rev. E. FAWCETT, has been
lodged in the bank. The entire motley habiliments of
this sturdy beggar weighed nearly eight stone, including
about seven pounds of bread and a small quantity of oat-
meal.— Scotsman.

THE CHARMS OF THEATRICAL PROPRIE-
TOASITIP.—A paragraph appears in the Chester Courant,
imperatively calling for explanation ; it is perfectly fright-
ful. There must be some aggravating facts connected
with the case that are suppressed, otherwise the punish-
ment is so infinitely disproportioned to the offence, that
it will excite alarm throughout the whole country. The
statement is, " that the late manager of a ninor theatre in
Manchester, a Mr. NEVILLE, is now in prison, and actu-
ally on the tread-mill (!), for his inability to pay a fine
of 501. imposed on him for allowing an Italian opera to
bee performeda,tmed fur the purpose! His family in that house, when no other place could
ar
If this be true, for Manchester we ought toreeasdta Morocco
rocCO':
such an exertion of power is more
itba character with the
justiceover Government
and
vilest despotism under the sun, than in w
hanthat professes to be regulated by the laws of
humanity.”-.Dilettante in Harrnonicon, for Aug. 1
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