The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-09 00:00:00

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THE POLES,

Titc fi:r of I e Polonnis, which
is published in Paris with a view to suppor
the interests of the Poles, has just reached us.
It is a most serviceable and praiseworthy work ;
while it supplies us with the best and newest
information on all matters connected with Po-
land, past and present, it gives a correct account
of the state of the Polish refugees in Switzer-
land and elsewhere,—supplies new details of
the continued arbitrary acts of the Russian
government,—and, in fine, keeps alive that
flame of Polish national existence and indepen-
dence, which it is the aim of Russia utterly to
extinguish. The present number contains se-
veral striking exemplifications of the bad faith
of Russia, of her continued efforts to incorpo-
rate Poland with herself,—contrary to the faith
of all former treaties,—by merging the national
Catholic religion in that of the Greek church,
and by a system of public instruction perfectly
blasphemous in the idolatrous servility of power
which it labours to stamp upon the young and
ductile mind. Several. articles, such as Les
Jeunes Russiennes, and L' Avenir, breathe a
spirit of hope for the future, in which we fully
concur. The bow bent too far will prove un-
faithful, and probably wound the tyrannical
hand that draws it. Such is the retributive
re-action which generally, by a happy result of
natural causes, follows and punishes acts of
pre-eminent injustice. Statesmen, however,
have no right to wait for the interdict and slow
results of the above providential adjustment ;
and we trust that English statesmen in future
will look with .a more severe and determined eve
on Russia's future actions in regard to Polaiid.
By allowing Poland to be crushed, as she did,
England committed an act of suicidal treachery
on herself ; nor ought the conduct of Russia to
be resisted solely on the ground of the faith of
treaties, which can, assuredly, never be violated
with impunity ; but on the ground that Poland
was in reality an outpost of English constitu-
tional liberty—that the Poles were, in fact,
fighting an English battle of reform against
Calmuc conservatism, and against an ambition
all-threatening and all-devouring, the tendency
at least of which—although the power be at
present wanting to the will menaces arrest or
extinction to human liberty, wherever it is, and
especially in England, its citadel. Justly may
it be characterised in the words which the cele-
brated Jurist M. Gentz appplied to that of
Napoleon, before the campaign which termi-
nated in the fatal battle of Jena :—" It is an
ambition which nothing on earth can satisfy—
which proceeds without intermission from usur-
pation to usurpation—sometimes, indeed, with,
out apparent gain, but ever intent on destruc.‘
tion,—employing, by turns, arms and the pen,
audacious violence and perjured oaths." We
give the following extract from the Polish
Chronicle, annexed to the work :

"ACTS OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERN3IENT.
" Two Imperial ukases have been publilled, which
have the appearance of being intended to drive the
Poles to utter desperation. Were not the details
subjoined, the assertion might him!, the air of a vain
and exaggerated declamation.

" I. The official journal of Warsaw contains an
order of the government, dated the 16th of January,
1834, by which the gentry of Lithuania, whose titles
of nobility have not been confirmed by the Russian
Chancery, are compelled, if they have purchased landed
property inhabited by Russian colonists, to sell them
again in three years, and to be themselves placed
under the immediate superintendence of the fiscal de,
partmentL_ _ _

" 11. The other ukase published within the govern.
ment of Lithuania, Volhynia, and Podolia, decrees—
'. I. That all such inhabitants of the country who
shall not have been inscribed in the last population re.
gisters ;

"2. And that all the wives and children of the
peasantry who have been successively incorporated in
the Russian army as recruits, shall be deported into
Asia, there to be employed in colonial labour."
Words fail us in attempting to characterise
the atrocity of these two measures ; and the
Russian government itself would doubtless have
shrunk back from the horror they inspire, if it
had not obstinately made up its mind to extin..
guish a race, the existence of which fills it at
once with sentiments of abhorrence and of fear.
—Morning Advertiser.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.
—A very magnificent rhinoceros haslately been added
to;this extensive collection, at the expense, we under-
stand, of 1,000 guineas.

A considerable sensation has been produced
during the last week at Bradford, by the first step of
a threatened legal proceeding, which, if followed K.,
must involve in dispute immense property. Yesterday
week, a person, attended by a bailiff and an assistant,
entered the house of Mr. Stephenson, who kees
beer shop at the corner of Park-street, Barker Lnk,
and made demand of the rent. Mrs. S, replied it was
paid, and in fact the landlord who had received it was
then sitting in the room. The demandant, however,
repeated his claim, saying it had not been paid to the
rightful owner. On her refusal to pay the money a
second time, the party proceeded to take an inventory
of the goods. Tbey accordingly took possession, and
retained it till Saturday night, when they went away,
stating their intention to come again on Monday. The
proceeding seems to have been taken st preset:: prin-
cipally with a view to give publicity to the claim; yet
we cannot find that it is directed by any legal adviser.
It is said that the whole of Park-street, just row
filled up with cottage houses, all recently erected; ;
piece of land above, forming part of Mr. Hustlers,.
grounds, and from hence up to Spinkwell ; part of
the estate of Crowtrees ; part or all of the grounds of
Eastbrook House, with the house itsel'i; Eastbrook
School, recently completed by the Fig:ends • conside-
rable property in houses recently erected on both sides
of the Leeds road, and in all the circuit described,_
in all probability some hundreds of houses with most
valuable building land will become the subject of the
dispute, The ground has been leased as glebe 15,nd
for ADO years, of which 373 are unexpired, The
claimants are William and Joseph Atkinson, working
men in Bradford, who come forward as the heirs at
law, and affect to exhibit deeds proving the property
to be freehold.—Halifax Express.
ESCAPE OF CAPTAIN HA— Es, THE
SWINDLER.—C4ptain Hayes, who, it will be remem,
bered, lately played the swindler at Malden with great
Alleees4, and defrauded several respectable tradesmen
in that town, has contrived to escape from the Borough
gaol. About five o'clock on Tuesday morning, Brown,
the gaoler, on going, as usual, to visit his captive,
found he had fled. The prisoner, it appears, had, for
several days, feigned sevcie illness, and, under that
pretence, had kept his bed, the clothes upon which he
took care shatilii be raised at the head, the back of tte
bedstead being close to the wall. In the abut-ace of
his attendant, he employed himself in reiroving the
bricks of the wall of his cell behind his bed ; and, with
the assistance of three knives and forks,
which had
been incautiously left in his room, he contrived to make
a hole under the staircase sufficiently large for him to
piss through. With that tact which he has shown in
all his proceedings, he declined making his exit the
front way, although he Alight have done so with faci-
lity ; but, having filmed a rope with the bed-clothes,
he let himself down from the window of a room into
the adjoining yard. The course he next took is at
present unknown ; by some he is supposed to have
t iken a boat and pulled himself off, but no clue to his
mations has been discovered. He left the following
Latter addressed to Brown, the gaoler :—‘‘ Sir, I feel
MeWhat sorry for you, because you have been kind
to me ; but I hope you will not be blamed, as no fault
attaches to you. It is my intention to keep out of the
way, if posatble, and if there is a chance of getting
over it, without being sent out of the country, I shall
then give myself up, as I am as anxious that the matter
s'iould be settled as the parties are themselves. ( Signed)
“alders."—Colchester Gazette,