The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

POSEN.

The following letter from Posen, which we find in
the cologne Gazette, seems to indicate a sudden
change in the Prussian policy towards the Poles. Is
it the sense of necessary, though tardy justice, or the
apprehension of the Russians, now fast gathering on
the frontier, which has produced so beneficial a
change ? We must leave further events to determine.
" POSEN, JUNE 14.—Are the proceedings in the
Duchy of Posen to take another course ? It seems
so. The following circumstances may be taken as the
unmistakable signs of an altered policy. KRAUS.
HOFER-KROTOWSKI is now much better treated in
the prison. The chief of the staff, Major VON
OLBERG, the author of the official reports which
have been so often accused of wilful perversion of
truth, has been transferred to Dantzic with the
rank of a Major attached to a battalion of the line.
This is tantamount to a degradation. General PFuEn
has unexpectedly left Posen for Berlin, on the 11th
inst., without having accomplished the object of
his mission, and having been obliged previously
to raise the state of siege in Posen.
The 18th and 19th regiments of the
line are positively to leave our town the day after to-
morrow for Frankfort and Magdeburg, and it is said
that the whole division of the Prussian troops in
Posen will shortly follow them. To enhance the im-
portance of these facts, the rumour and the news
from Berlin affirms on the best possible authority
that the Ministers have come to the decision
to abstain from the partition of the Duchy,
and to re-organise it as an indivisible unity
according to the promises of 1815. We are con-
cerned to be obliged to say that all the classes of the
Polish people are loud in their distrust, and place no
faith in the most solemn assurances ; if, there-
fore, the Government means to establish a better
understanding, the deed must follow quickly the
word. It is no use to deceive ourselves; the in-
surrection has not been put down, and the feeling of
indignation and hostility towards us is as strong as
ever. Every moment may set all Europe on fire, and
this would be the signal of a war of extermination in
the Grand Duchy, as sure as heaven is over us.
Here is a proof of this undying hostility. Rumour
says, and we think it perfectly true, that all those
who have been marked with vitriol have bound them-
selves by a solemn oath and formed a strong society,
some members of which will always follow General
PFUEL, go where he may, in order to find an oppor-
tunity to cut off his ears. Whoever knows the rage
with which these marked men speak of General
PFOEL, the author of that ignominious proceeding,
will not treat the rumour as devoid of probability.
The Jews are already beginning to think about a
general emigration into the German provinces of
Prussia. Those among them who are able to leave
the Duchy of Posen directly, lose no time in doing
it, for the determination of the Poles to break off
every commercial connexion with them does no
longer admit of any doubt. "
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DASTARDLY AND ATROCIOUS CONDUCT

OF PRUSSIAN SOLDIERS.
WILKOWO, MAT 31. JOHN RAKOWSKI, a
furrier of this place, who, according to the con-
vention concluded with General WILLisEN, had
returned home, but on his way was arrested at his
sister's house, and imprisoned in the fortress at Posen,

was a few days since set at liberty and provided with
a passport. Scarcely had he arrived here, than the
Jews pointed him out to the soldiers, who instantly
set about beating him in the most ferocious manner,

although he showed them, as a proof of his
being a liberated prisoner, his closely shaved forehead

and a passport from General PFUEL. When they
got tired of beating him, one of the hussars tore his
passport, and led him to the public-house of

LLAZEWSKI, a Jew, knocking him on the way with
a large stone cn his back, on the head, and in the
face. In the public-house, a crowd of soldiers knocked
RAKOWSKI down, and kicked him with their spurs
until lie was streaming with blood from head to
foot, and then thrust him into the street, whence
he was scarcely able to crawl to his house.

This horrible scene was witnessed by MICHAEL
FENDER ; STANISLAUS KRAST ; the daughter of the
inkeeper ; the wife of MARKOWITZ, a Jewish mer-
chant ; and BERNE, a Jewish trader.—From the
Gazeta Polska of June 12, 1848.

CLERICAL RooKs.--A crow's nest with young
may now be seen on the summit of one the spires at the
eastern end of Durham Cathedral.—Newcastle Journal.