The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-26 00:00:00

certainly not known to any one else in Warsaw,
and which, even if it were true, did not justify the
Government in taking the measures it did. The
Allgenzeine Zeitung is, of course, of another opinion,
and differs from all the other accounts of the con-
duct of the Government on the occasion ; no men-
tion is made of the disgraceful scenes which took
place in the churches, and the whole story is garbled
in the most unblushing manner. Attention is then
drawn to the Administrator's letter to the Govern-
ment, which is characterised as a clear proof of the
hostile disposition of the clergy towards the autho-
rities. Such a letter, the writer thinks, ought to
have met with instant punishment ; and he ex-
presses his surprise that three weeks should have
elapsed before the Administrator was arrested—an
instance of leniency on the part of the Government,
which should indeed excite surprise, if it were not
known—doubtless by none so well as the writer
himself—that during these three weeks the Govern-
ment did all it could to reconcile the clergy, and
that the arrest of the Administrator at the end of
that period was only an act of petty vengeance of
the priesthood in general, of whom he is the head,
for foiling their plans.
This city continues to be the scene of numberless
arrests and outrages of every description. Fifteen
students, five of them Jews, have been sent to serve
as common soldiers in the Orenburg Corps. This
mingling of the Jews with Christians in Poland for
a common cause is a significant fact, showing how
all old enmities are forgotten in the present move-
ment, and how all classes unite in their efforts for
the salvation of their country. The Jews form a
large portion of the population, tied their co-opera-
tion, which is most zealous, has been of the greatest
importance to the national cause. These students
were preceded by a band of wretched mechanics
bound for the same destination. The journey
to Orenburg is a most arduous one. At Brzesce-
Litewski, the captives are loaded with
chains, and driven along all the rest of
the way by the brutal soldiery, who beat and
abuse them at every step, leaving them very little
time for rest by day or night. The conduct of
the soldiery in the streets of Warsaw makes one's
blood boil. Take a few instances, which are but
fair specimens of what happens here every day :
A woman went out of her house at night accom-
panied by her servant, the latter carrying a lantern
in obedience to the order of the police. They had
not gone many steps, when they came upon a
patrol, who immediately seized the woman for hav-
ing no lantern, the one carried by her servant not
being sufficient, it appears, to illuminate both. The
poor woman cried and protested, saying that she
had left a sick child at home ; but it was all of no
avail, the stony hearts of the barbarians refused to
be moved, and she was carried off to prison, where
she remained three days. At length, when she was
set free, she ran home to look after her child, and
found it dead for the want of the care and nutri-
ment of its mother. But cruelty and violence are
not the only means of repression used here, every
species of indignity is heaped upon these unfortu-
nate Poles by their oppressors. A civilian meeting
an officer, an old friend of his in the street, shook
hands with him heartily; upon this Gen. Brumer,
who happened to be passing, accosted the officer in
these terms : " You disgrace your uniform, sir, by
shaking hands with a civilian ; I place you under
arrest. And you, you rascal, in a paletot," turning
to the civilian ; " how dare you shake hands with
an officer and insult the uniform of his Imperial
Majesty ? I order you off to prison." Both were
sent off to the guard-house accordingly. A young
man of nineteen, named Bartozinski was walking
in the street, when suddenly a soldier struck him
in the back with his fist, being, no doubt, in one of
his sportive moods. Bartozinski turned round
quickly, and said, what any other man would have
said, under the circumstances " What are you
striking me for, you rascal ?" For this he has been
sent to serve as a common soldier to Orenburg, as
we learn from the papers.
General Luders appears to have made up his
mind to remain in the Viceroyalty. As for
Wielopolski, the rumours of his disgrace with his
Imperial Master appear to have been premature.
The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 10th instant
publishes a rescript signed by the Czar, in which he
appoints him a Knight of the Order of the White
Eagle, " in regard to the self-denial which he showed
under the difficult circumstances in which he was
called upon to take part in the pacification of the
kingdom of Poland, and as a reward for his zeal
and useful labours for the common weal." This
certainly does not look like a disgrace; and people
here still hope that the marquis will come back to
Warsaw invested with full powers as the originator
of a better system of government. Although
Wielpoiski is anything but popular, and his go-
vernment would certainly not suit the views of the
patriots, it will at least be possible to live in the
country when he is at the head of affairs, which is
more than can be said under the present rule. The
situation is becoming so intolerable, in fact, that
my change can only produce an improvement.
And at least with so moderate and able a man as
Wielsposlki it will be possible to give full expres-
sion to the wants and requirements of the country,
which the horde of savages who now fill all the
posts of the Government, from the highest to the
lowest, will neither understand nor permit.
Another instance of the unceasing efforts of the
Government to excite the peasants against their
landlords, and bring them over to the side of Rus-
sia, has recently come to light. At Sieradz the Go-
vernment employes spread a report that the
peasants will receive the lands of their masters
from the Government on payment of a small sum.
The peasants, believing this, collected their hard-
got earnings and gave them to the employes, think-
ing thereby to acquire a right to acquire a right
to their masters' possessions. The consequences of
this imposition might have been serious, had not
the peasants been speedily undeceived; but it is
more than doubtful whether they will get their
money back. Meanwhile the greatest efforts are
made to secure their good-will towards the Govern-
ment. They are exempted from the operation of
many obnoxious laws which press hard on their
masters, and the numberless Government agents in
the country are constantly speaking to them of the
benevolent intentions of the Czar. Such, however,
is the universal hatred of Russia, that all the stra-
tagems have as yet been unsuccessful.

THE CONDEMNED CRIMINALS IN WARWICK GAOL.
—Monday next has been fixed for tho execution of Thompr.
son for the murder of his paramour at Birmingham, and
Beamish for the murder of his wife at Coventry. The
former prisoner maintains the same stolid indifference as to
his fate that he exhibited on his trial. On the other hand,
Beamish, it appears, had all along expected an acquittal,
on the ground of the difficulty of bringing the crime home
to him through the medical evidence.
QUEER PETITIONS TO ROYALTY.—The two new
volumes of State Papers relating to the reign of Charles 11.,
recently published, contain records of strange requests pre-
ferred to his Majesty ; amongst others the following :--
"Dame Martha Jackson, widow. For the place of Gentle-
woman of the Horse and Lady of the Crupper to the Queen ;
also to be Countess of Pall-Mall, Viscountess of Piccadilly,
and Baroness of Mews. Has suffered much for the ser-
vice of horse and foot soldiers, and was once shot in the
thigh." The services of Peter Carey are, perhaps, on the
whole, the most singular in the book. His mother, Eliza-
beth Carey, widow, prays—" That the pension granted her
for service to the late King may be transferred, she being
old and decrcpid, to her son Peter, who followed his
Majesty to Oxford, and was there bitten by his dog
Cupid."
PRESENCE OF MIND JUST BEFJRE BEING MUR-
DERED —A party of Whiteboys entered a house in which
were a man, his wife, and their daughter, a little girl. The
three were all together in one room. The ruffians rushed
into the room, drageed the man out of the house, and there
proceeded to murder him. In the room where the won. au
and the girl remained, there was a closet with a hole in its
door, through which a pe son placed inside could see into
the room. The woman concealed the little girl to the closet,
and said to her, " Now, child, they are murdering your
father down stairs, and when they have murdered him they
will come up here and murder me. Take care that, while
they are doing it, you look well at them, and mind you
swear to them when you see them in the court. I will
throw turf on the fire the last thing, to give you light, and
struggle hard that you may have time to take a good view."
The little girl looked in through the hole in the closet door
while ber mother was being murdered ; she marked the
murderers well. She swore to them when she saw them in
the court of justice, and they were convicted on her evi-
dence.—lrish .Eristory and Character, by Goldwin