The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-07 00:00:00

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THE INSURRECTION IN POLAZ:OS:

The following proclamation ..!: ;„,e e;; of the PrOviiional
Government at Cracow, occupied by the insurgents, w•as re_
ceived at Paris at a late hour cn Thursclay night, and pub.
lished in some of the journals. These documents are copied
from the Herald.

" MANIFESTO OF THE POLISH GOVERNMENT OF
THE GENERAL POLISH CAUSE.
"P...1.Es I
" The hour of insurrection has sounded. All dismembered
Poland riaes and greatena. Already our brothers of the
Grand Duchy of Posen, of Russian POised, aril of Littuar ia,
have ii,eta aid in Ru..,.sia comliat agahe.e. eiLtny : they
combat for their most saaeil right, taken leom them by force
and fraud. You know well what has passed and is passing.
The flower of our youth languishes in dungeons. Our Where,
whose councils stistained 1.11, to aantempt, Our
clergy is I:049d; Wildey,4 deeires five or die for Pelanti
is destioyed or Pings in g dungecp, or is liable every element
to he till-own Auto one. Me tireana cif ioillituis of our
Sybil perish under the knolit in subterranean dun-
geons, and are sent away to tha remote ends t f the. conz
tries of cur oppressors, submitting to all the egging§ of
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prohibited our language; ipterdic,Qq qtu i,;,ek,e,ion tit
the faith of our fat.bst4.. oppose insurtuouutable
berriere rile aideitteat:oa of our St%eial state, arm
irather againet -brother, and calumniate 044 tuot
honoured ehildren of our euttutry_ t;fl4l!4(*A, one etep
more, and P 04,114 qrt;s}§ pp, lunar. Our grand
Fhildrep will our memory for having left them nothing,
tti opq of the finest countries of the world, but deserts and
ruins ; for having left our warlike people in irons ; for
belting forced them to profess a foreign faith, to speak e
strange language, and for having reduced them to be &laves
of our oppressors. The dust of our leilicee, marty rs of the
righ 4 Of tilO pries from the tomb to avenge them.
Children et the breast implore us to preserve for them the
country that (,}pd Itae confided to us. The free nations of
the world invite us not to allow our nationality to be de-
stroyed. God hisnself invites us, he who will one clay
demand an account of our 847144141 P. We are twenty
millions l set Us rise One men, and lie force on earth can
crush our power.
" We shall have such liberty as never was enjoyed on this
earth. Let us endeavour to c,onoinr a focus of liberty of a
community, where each shall enjoy the goods of the earth
according to his merit and his capacity. Let there be no
more privileges, but each Pole find full security for himself,
his wife, his children, and let him who is info ior in mind cr
body, find without humiliation the infallible aid of the nation,
which shall have the absolute property of the land which
to-day is only enjoyed by some. Interests (class interests?)
thus cease, as well as corres and similar righte, and those
who shall fall with arms in their hands ter the national
cause, shall obtain an indemnity In land or -national goods.
Pol a! from this moment we recognise not any 'difference.
Let us henceforward be as the children of one mother—of
justice ; of one father—the God who is in Heaven. La us in-
voke his aid ; he will bless our arms, and give us victory ;
but in order to draw down his blessing, we must not sully
ourselves by the vice of drunkenness, or any other infamous
action; let us not treat despotically those who have been
confided to us ; let us not kill those who are without atms,
nor such as do not think with ourselves, nor strangers ; for
we fight not with people, but with their oppressors. In
token of friendship let us mount the national cockade, and
take the following oath :

" I swear to serve Poland, my country, by council, word,
and action. I swear to sacrifice to her my opinions, my life,
my fortune. I swear absolute obedience to the nation Al Go-
vernment, which has been erected in Cracow the 21tki of this
month, at eighf o'clock in the evening, in the lw,e,f Kry-
etoforz, and to all the authorities instituted by the Govern.
men(. And may God assist me to keep this vow.
"This manifesto shall be inserted in the Government jour-
nals, sent into all Polaad, and notified in ail the churelaA
from the pulpit, and in all the communities by placards in
public places.
" Cracow, 2.2 d Feb., 1848.

"LOUIS GORZKOWSKI.

DECREE.

" 1. The Government of the revolution being absolute for
all Poland, and responsible towards the nation ;
" 2. Whoever is charged by the Government, or by an
authority of the Government, to exercise an employment,
or provisional functions, must exercise them under pain of
death.

•" 3. Whoever, capable of bearing arms, does not, rithin
24 hours after the proclamation of insurrection, place himself
under the local authority, shall be taken as a deserter before
the Council of War.

" 4. Pillage, violence, however merited, extortion of inte-
rests or come, active resistarce, espionage, Misapplication of
the public funds, or their employment by any other than
the Government, shall be punished with death.
" 5. Whoever without authority of Goverment shall e ta-
blish clubs or societies will be considered as a traitor to his
country.

" 6. Each district shall establish signals of communication,
to be r.rranged with his neighbour. The signals are to be
ciiiiy•Jsil of lung ribs with straw steeped in pitch. The
dosti uttion of a signal will be punished with death. The
tlatioral ti,, is white and purple—a white eaglil upon a
purple ground, with uutsp.-ead wings, arid the head turned
to the right; in the right claw a crown of oak, and in the
left a crown of laurel. This eagle is the seal of all the tri-
bunals and authorities of the country.
" LOUIS GORZKOWSKI,
"JEAN LISSOWSKI, and
" ALEXANDRE GRZEGORZEWSKI,
•
" CHARLES GRZEGORZEWSKI,
"Secretary of the Govcrument.
"Cracow, Feb. 23, 1846."
" lirystoforz was the residence of Joseph Poniatowski,
during the campaign of 1809, and is held in respect by the
Cracovians. Cracow itself was the cradle of the old Polish
monarchy, and capital of the kingdom under the Jagellen
race."

In addition to the decree above given, it is stated by the
Paris Debate that other decrees were issued on the 24th, and
among the names attached to them appears that of Count
Potnlicki, one of the richest citizens of Poland, Court Wod-
skid, an 01 soldier, has been named, it is said, Commander
of the Guard of Safety of the Republic.
The Provisional Government has taken the most urgent mea-
sures of defence, for on all sides Prussian, Austrian, and Russian
forces were marching to crush the insurrection. The Austrian
Colonel Hanfeldt, with 400 of the old Cracow militia, have
passed over to the new Government. It was said that deser-
tion had manifested itself in the regiments Mazadulla, and
Bertotilli, and that they had been sent away from Gallicia.
It was the attempt to destitute this Colonel by the Austrian
General, De Collin, which caused The militia to rise, and
forced De Collin to retreat to Podgorze.
The three Consuls of the Protecting Powers bad retired
into Gallicia and Silesia. Their houses were plundered
during the first explosion. The insurgent force was said to
be twelve thousand, armed with scythes; but the scythe is
the national weapon of the Poles, and it was with this arm
that they beat the Russians at Radavia, under Kosciusko.
The town of Cracow is an open town, without any defence
but an old castle on the Podgorze side.
In Gallicia, it was said, on the faith of travellers, that the
insurgtnts were well armed and furnished with cavalry.

JOHN'BULL and JONATHAN POLK.
:Jomi BULL—Master Jonathan, you are getting a little
bonneible about Oregon.
JONATHAN PoLK—Us won't' arbitrate—l guess I would'nt
arbitrate whose sovereign this is that I have t4-;t in my
pocket.
J. 13.—You beg the question—we don't dispute your right
to anything you are in possession of—we won't call it a soya-
reign, we'll call it twenty shillings. I have got SDHIB hi my
pocket and you have got :wino is yours—u Lat. you have got
there may stop there and.what I've got I mean to keep—you
want to kick up a bluster and say, you'll take away what I
have got.

J. I guess the whole twenty shillings is mine
and I'll have it—Oregon is ours.
J. B.—Don't you wish you may get it. Well, you say it
is yours,' I am ready to arbitrate—but you shan't take it
away by force.
J. P.—We won't arbitrate, it's ours and we'll have it, and
now what do you mean to do ? I guess you've got no pluck
—look to Ireland—your afear'd to touch us.
J. B.—You make me laugh—lreland, indeed—the Irish are
a little dissatisfied because they have not had justice den©
them—if that is your only hope, a poor weak stick you have
got to rest upon. Queen Victoria has not a more loyal set of
subjects than the Irish, and they are as gallant as they are
loyal—they will never put up with your insulting a woman
—their idolized, their beloved Queen—not they—
J. P.—Well, and what will you do now—Oregon is ours
and we'll keep it—do your best and do your worst—what's
your next move ?

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J. I3.—What's the next move ?—a pretty fellow you are
for a President—you don't know the first then, so I'll tell
you—by this time we have got a sufficient force landed to
protect our subjects in their rights awl privileges and to
maintain the authority •f the Crown of Great Britain—
J. P.—lt's all my ,ye. I guess—
. J. B.—l'm not POLKING fun at you—
J. P.—You be though.
J. B.—l am nut.
J. P.—Then it's a declaration of war?
J. B.—No it's not.
J.P.—Do you mean to do this, and not declare war?
J. B.—l tell you it is done already. What necessity to
declare war? If no one meddles with us, we shall not med-
dle with them. We do not claim the sole right to the coun-
try; we shall not interfere with the rights of others. if we
are molested, we shall not ask whether they are americans,
Mexicans, Texiane, or any other countrymen—but at them
at ones. We shall not make it an American question, If
you choose to declare war with us, because we go to protect
our rights, we cannot help that ; we must make the best of it.
J. P.—You don't seem to care much about it. We shall
have France with us.

J. B.—France? Ah, ah I
J. P.—Yes, France.
J. B.—France, indeed, with you. Why your blustering
news about not arbitrating on the Oregon question caused a
treater panic on the Paris Bourse !hen it did on the Royal
'xcliange in London; a greater depression in the price of
the Frer.ch funds took place than did in the English funds.
A war between England and America would hurt France as
much as it would do England. France with you ?—you
make me laugh.

J. P.—Then you acknowledge alwar with us would do you
no good?
J. B.—God forbid I should think it would. Let any body
try to turn us away from Oregon at their peril.
J. P.—Us will do the thing, I guess. We'll show our
strength.
J. 8.--I think you ought to say, your weakness.
J. P.—Do you mean to insult our stars?
J. B.—No, nor do we mean to insult ourselves; and if you
turn us away from Oregon, you must conquer the British
nation.

J. P.—lt is all nonsense about our wishing to turn your
people away from Oregon, they may stay and trade as long
as they like ; we shall not trouble them.
J. B.—Weil, we shall not interfere with anybody but our
own people; and those we will protect. If you don't touch
us, we shall not annoy you.
J. P.—We shan't annoy any of your people in Oregon.
Have you not thousands and tens of thousands of your people
in the United States, and do we attempt to annoy them?
Not we; but Oregon is ours.
J. B.—lf you do not molest us, we shall not he annoyed
at your singing out across the water—" Oregon is ours ;" but
keep your hands off.
J. P.—We won't arbitrate,—Oregon is ours, Oregon is
ours,—we Arbil). ik:e.

J.13.—N0, nor will you fight,
J. P.—Oregon is ours.
Ilfracombe, March 6.

WEYMOUTIL—Thero has been a constant succession
of high tides, and, being the " top of the spring," they hare thrown
a very heavy sea into our bay, and caused much damage to the
esplanade walk. which has been washed down to the space of two or
three.hundred feet We have long remarked that,the sea has been
gaining rapielly along the edge of Greenhill and the north part of our
bay.—Dormt Chronicle.
The latest intelligence received from the army of the
Sutlej is dated January 19. No official Information has been received
of any action having taken place since the 22d of December hetween
the Dritish tro'ops and the 6eikh Wee.