The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-24 00:00:00

learned that Djuk had a mistress, called Martha
Marabak, living at Tijak, about half a league from
the church of St. Nicholas, to which church her
husband was attached, and that Djuk always
visited her on Saturday night when her husband
had left home to be ready next morning for his
occupation at St. Nicholas. Having assembled
sixty hussars, and forty peasants, and placed
them both under the command of Djebaka,
steward to the Lord Kyraby, I went to Irjak
early on Saturday morning. We seized Martha
and her husband; the latter on learning the in-
fidelity of his wife swore revenge, and promised
to help us against the Oprychki. Convinced of
his determination, I gave him a pair of pistols,
which he loaded with silver bullets, assuring us
that Djuk belonged to the devil, and that leaden
bullets would not harm him. Our men being
properly placed round the house, we waited—but,
my Lords, the steward Djebaka had better tellyou
the rest—he saw all that took place, and can ex-
, press himself better than I."
The steward consequently came forward and
spoke as follows :—The commandant and twelve
men were concealed in the house with Marabek
and his wife. Every part was carefully closed,
with the exception of a window, near which
Martha was placed, after having previously
threatened her with the most dreadful punish-
ment if she made any sign to Djuk of the recep-
tion which awaited him. For my part, I went
and hid myself behind a hedge. As soon as the
sun went down, I heard several whistlings, and
soon after heard Djuk's voice at a short distance,
saying, " Here, my brave fellows, load your
guns with two balls, and watch over me. We
are going to pay a visit to the pretty Martha
Marabek." When they were close to the house,
Djuk said, "Remain here—l enter alone." He

then approached the window, and said, " Good
night, Martha—good night. Is supper ready?
Martha, are you asleep ? why don't you answer
your beloved Djuk?" Martha replied, with a
trembling voice, 'I am not asleep, but I cannot
receive a robber into my house." 4lf you will
not open the door I will force it open ;" and.,
suiting the acition to the word, he gave it a vio-
lent push, and the fastening gave way. A shot
was immediately heard, and Djuk fell into the
arms of two of his companions, who at the sound
of the gun had run to his assistance. The whole
of the band then came out from their place of
ambush, and a desperate combat ensued, which
ended in the capture of thirty-six of the brigands.
Marabeck, on being called on for his evidence,
declared that he felt no resentment against his
wife, because Djuk was not a man but a demon.
"It was I," he said, " who fired on him, but I
certainly should not have killed him if I had not
taken the precaution to put into my pistol a silver
ball, which had been blessed by the reverend
priest of St. Nicholas."

Martha was afterwards called in. She was a
woman of a most prepossessing beauty. Shecon-
fessed, with a blush on her cheek and a downcast
look, that six days after her marriage she met Djuk
in the forest, where she had been to gather a
bouquet of wild flowers. She was then only 17
years of age, she was now 22, and, during these
five years Djuk every Saturday night came to
visit her. She added, in a timid voice, but still
with an accent of firmness, that, if she could
have cautioned her lover of the trap which was
laid for him, she should not have failed to have
done it. She retired, endeavouring to restrain
her tears, which, in spite of her efforts, might
be seen forcing their way through her black eye-
lashes. Marabeck, her husband, was perfectly
unmoved.

The examination of the witnesses being finished,
The President questioned the prisoners, and
demanded of them who were their accomplices.
Their answers were to the same effect—" Our
companions, our brethren, are in safety, in a
place where none has ever penetrated save
eagles, goats, and hardy and intrepid moun-
taineers."

" You are very guilty," interrupted the Presi-
dent, " you might, however, gain the clemency
of your judges by frank and unreserved confes-
sions."

" No! take our lives; the Oprychki have an
nclination to be silent—a neck for the hang-
man."

A number of other questions addressed to
them by the President were unanswered by
them, and the jury immediately declared the 36
prisoners guilty.
Four of them, Jean Goula, Ebenna Skiliba,
Marie Doik, and Stanislas Sava, four lieutenants
of Djuk, were sentenced to be hanged, and the
other 32 to hard labour at the hulks tbr life.
No sooner had the officer whose duty it was to
read the sentence finished that ceremony, than
the whole of the prisoners, with a spontaneous
movement, commenced singing one of their
beautiful mountain chorusses, which made the
very walls of the Court echo. They were then
re-conducted to prison.

DR, LUSHINGTON'S WEST INDIA

ESTATE.

We are given to understand that Dr. Lush.

ngton, though he has published no contradie

tion to our statement " that he is the owner of an
estate in Jamaica," denies that to his friends and
acquaintance. We must, therefore, now state,
that we had the statement from unquestionable
authority, and that if the estate be not his, he is
very unfortunate in having the reputation of
ownership, without the profit, for it is generally
believed in Jamaica to be his. It is situated in
the parish of Clarendon, and a person engaged
on the estate, writing home to his mother, says,
" I have got an employment on the estate be-
longing to the celebrated Dr. Lushington, of
London." He then mentions his salary, and all
the particulars, with which neither we nor the
public have any concern ; but his mode of de-
scribing the proprietor of the estate as the cele-
brated Dr. Lushington, of London, leaves no
doubt whatever as to the individual he means,
nor as to his thorough and complete belief, by
what means produced we cannot say, if his mas-
ter and the proprietor of the estate be not
Dr. Lushington.
The letter which we have seen is a family letter ;
it has no reference whatever to anything but
family matters, and is such a letter as a young
man, glad of a certain degree of success, would
write to his friends. If Dr. Lushington deny
the ownership :n private, it is the more incum-
bent on us to state our authority, and require him
to give it a public contradiction.

THE FREE-TRADE CRISIS.
(From the Derbyshire Chronicle.)
Rights of sugar, rights of coffee, rights of timber,
rights of corn, all manner of rights we hear of except
rights of man. But yet it strikes us, that amidst their
profound regard for all sorts of rights, the Tories might
have felt a little regard for these. In pity also they
are not deficient, compassionating the usurers of the
West and East Indies, the monopolists of Montreal, and
the negroes of Demerara, who live upon such bad fare
as roast fowls, bottled porter, and Champagne ; and yet
they have no pity for Englishmen, driven to live upon
carrion. Their regard for our safety, too, is most sen-
sitive. The colonies are in danger, the farmers are in
danger, the aristocracy are in danger, the Chureh—(we
never remember a time when she was not in danger)—all
are taken into the careful consideration of the Tories
(worthy souls !) except the danger of general starvation
and ruin.

(From the Western Times.)

The monopOlists started with the cry of humanity.
The old slavemongers ; the men who resisted negro
emancipation at every stage, who yielded not till they
obtained twenty millions of our hard-earned gold, and
even then tried to defraud us of the bond—we all remem-
ber the meeting held in this city to expose and resist
their abuse of the negro apprentice—these jobbers in hu-
man flesh, the owners of the blood, and bones, and sinews
of their fellow-men—are all at once seized with the ten-
derest concern for the poor negro, and they desire to
promote the " great experiment" of emancipation !
even though they only get twopence per pound over and
above the fair market prioe for every pound of sugar
which they grow by this great experiment. The hypo-
crites! how dare they show their faces before the people
of this country ! They have denied the negro a human
soul—they have rioted amidst the fruits of labour ex-
torted from him by the lash and the goad—they have
disregarded every natural tie of affection, buying and
selling husband from wife, and child from parent and
when the nation would no longer submit to this hellish
system, and generously came forward with its gold,
heaped and piled up in such a mass as to be the wonder
and astonishment of the age--these men, thus convinced,
yield to the impulse--they receive the gold, and become
" emancipists ! Only give them a few millions more
in the shape of a grinding monopoly, and they will con-
sent to carry on the " great experiment " of emancipa-
tion ! Was ever such a combination of greed and im-
pudence I It is barely possible to hear the case stated
with patience, much less to prostrate the reason to argue
with them. But it is not only the West Indian who
fibres in this memorable debate. All others who live
byb monopoly, or have vested interests to protect at the
expense of the people, join them in the cry—that the
great work of emancipation shall be fairly carried out.
Why, who ever heard a Tory cry out against slavery be-
the nation abolished it ? Who stood by slavery till the
horrid system was actually struck down by the indie•-
nant people of this country ? The Tories. One and
all, individually and collectively, they rivetted the fet-
ters of the slave.
(From the Coventry Herald.)
The question whether the Corn-law is an evil or a
good, wants no discussion ; and the printing of the peti-
tion, and its circulatiOn among the inhabitants of Coventry,
previous to laying it open at the hall for signatures,
leaves the opponents of the undertaking without any
pretext for saying there was any desire to obtain sig-
natures under false colours. Let the emissaries of the
aristocrats we have before a 'tided to, who are, and have
been prowling about all over he country with pocket pe-
titions, do the same if they Luc. Let them leave it to
the free will and, choice of the poor creatures whom they