The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-03 00:00:00

POLAND.

By the information dispatched from Cracow on the
26th ultimo it would seem, as we briefly intimated
yesterday, that a skirmish has taken place between
the populace and the troops, in cons quence of the
refusal of Government to allow Polish emigrants, not
natives of Cracow, to remain in the town. Barri
cades were erected, and several rockets are said to

have been thrown from the Castle. Peace was even-
tually restored by the emigrants voluntarily re-
moving. Gen. CASTIGLIONE is said to be wounded.
We transcribe the following letter, addressed to
the Baron VON ARNIM by Prince CZARTORTSLI :
" Berlin, April 26.
" M,nsieur le Baron,—l arrived at Berlin full of
hope. Prussia, the organ of the generous sentiments of
all Germany, seemed to desire that she might be the '
first to undertake the reparation of a great injustice.
She appeared nut merely to propose the raithfu► exe
cution of the promises she had made in 1815, but by
new acts ot beneficence to that part of Poland which
she holds under dominion, to efface the vestiges of an
cient injuries, to put an end to recriminations, and to
strengthen Germany by the gratitude ot the Poles.
" I quit Berlin with a heart heavy from the disappoint.
ment ut these bright anticipations.
" Whatever may be the cause; it is the fact, that up to
this day not one of the promises made to the inhabitant,
of the Grand Duchy of Posen by the Prussian Govern-
ment has been realised; and during this time the pro-
longed uncertainty which has existed concerning the
future destiny of the country, and the satisfaction that
would be granted to its wishes, has produced, instead of
the union so necessary to the common welfare ot the
two nations, a feeling of excessive irritation and the most

deplorable disorders.
" Calumnies wholly destitute of foundation, assertions
the most contrary to truth, have been employed for the
purpose of blackening the character of the Poles, rob-
bing them of the sympathy of the German nation, and
destroying in their minds the confidence which they
ought to place in its justice.
" The German inhabitants who, in pursuance of a
policy hostile to Poland, had been induced to settle in
the Duchy of Posen, have been excited to reject, with
hostile demonstrations, under the pretext of their pecu
liar interests, measures which the common interest of
two people made to live on good terms with each other
was about to realise.
" The still more narrow interests of the Prussian offi-
cials, who find their position menaced by a change in
the Government of the province, have had, there is no
doubt, the greatest share in this fatal reaction.
"It is this state of things that the Prussian Govern-
ment, even before deciding on the reorganization pro-
mised to the Duchy of Posen, announces the determina-
tion to reduce it by nearly one half of its territory, and
to attach immediately to the German Confederation
that part of the duchy inhabited chiefly by Germans.
"This operation, which legitimate interests, constitu-
ting new rights, may render necessary, could not poi
sibly be executed with equity in a moment of confusion
and irritation. It should be accomplished in conformity
with the wishes of the inhabitants. But the mode in
which those wishes should be ascertained ought to be
guaranteed against practices tending to falsify the
result.
" To reduce at this moment the territory of the Grand
Duchy in a precipitate manner, and on statistical data
which are notoriously inaccurate (for they go so far as
to make a German town of the capital of the duchy
itself), would be to accomplish a new partition of Poland
—a measure to which the noble sentiments of the King
are undoubtedly opposed, and against which all Poles
will protest. It is their duty to do so. I also must
fulfil this duty on quitting Berlin, and I perform it,
Monsieur le Baron, by this letter, which I have the
honour of addressing to you.
" The marks of goodwill which I have received during
my stay in this capital form a new reason why I should
leave no room for doubt as to my sentiments on the
subject.
" I entertain besides a profound conviction that the
true policy of the Prussian Government requires that
those unhappy complications should be remedied as
speedily as possible, and that union and confidence
should be re-established between the interests of Ger-
many and regenerated Poland. Poland should not be
compelled to seek that union and confidence elsewhere.
It must not be forgotten that Germany, on the da)
when she pronounced her resolution to be free, and again
to become a powerful nation, felt the instant necessity
of repudiating the crime formerly committed by her two
principal representatives, and of constructing on her
eastern frontiers a barrier necessary for her own security.
" I flatter myself with the hope that the Prussian
Government will perceive that it ought, without further
delay, to acl,)pt these views and reduce them to practice.
Its interests and a due regard for good must equally
require that it should do so.
" Accept Monsieur le Baron, the assurance of the high
consideration, Sce.,
" ADAM CZARTORYSKI."
The Polish emigrants already assembled at Cracow
number more than 1,200 most of them in a
deplorable state of embarrassment. On the 25th
ultimo, these unfortunate men made a very signi-
ficative demonstration, and at which the whole
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orders
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per-
mit no more Poles coming from France to enter the
territory of our republic, a column of 730 of them
was 'stopped on tho trilAtier. Some of them haviAg,
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