The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-23 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, July 21.—The Captain-General and the
Civil Governor of Seville will be brought before a
Council of War on account of the late troubles.
The journals of the 1&h have arrived. Two of
the spectators of the executions at Seville who were
wound'd, as already stated, hail died. The execu-
tions had caused a profound sensation in the town,
all the shops being closed and the streets dese:tni.
The number of persons killed in the recent affairs
was 98. The ban] which had appeared near Bay-
len had formed the design of seiz:ng Despenaferros,
but had been disappointed. At Badajoz, the au-
th tri'ies were faking precautions from the fear that
the chiefs of the recent conspiracy at Lisbon miAt
make an attempt to cre ito di,turbances there. The
Criterio of Madrid, which bad long been the organ
of Marshal O'Donnell, had ceased to appear. The
steamer Pirona had sailed from Cadiz for Pi.xto
Rico with 60,000,00 i.) rea!s, destined to replace the
local money, the intention being to have for the
future only the coins of the mother country in the
colonies. This, it is stated, is the first time that
silver has been so sent out.

POLAND.
A letter from St. Petersburg of the Bth, in Voss's
Gazette, says that the Pol.sh nobility of Witeb,k
have addiesed the following petition to the Em-

peror :
Penetrated with veneration for the faith of our ances-
tors, and attached with all our hearts to the langaai4e
which our children have spoken from their cradles, and
in which we offer up our prayers to Gad ; and consider-
ing that it would be a great benefit to the country if the
dying generation could receive a complete education,
which they cannot do at present from the want of a
university in the country,
We homily supplicate your
Majssty, lst, to a'l ,w the re.iestablis.hmerit of tho catho-
lic churches, which are falling intl rums, and to establi-b
cures in the towns and c .untry according to the wants
of the inhabitanta
qua 21,
shall be spoken in the schools,
• that your Mie,sty will order
that the Polish lan
and that the erection ge
of a university at Polnok, or in
sense other town of the province, shall be permitted.
The nobility of Minsk, Volbynil, and other dis-
tricts have pr.:seated eirniFir petitions. All
have
received ut,favourable replies. The following is
that sent ti the nobility of `Vitebsk :
The Secretary of State, Prince Galitzin, hascom-
municated to me the petition of the nobility of Witebsk.
I have submitted the same to his Majesty, and coin-
rnunicated at the same time the written opinion of the
military governor of \Vitebsk, who thinks that the
nobility have no reason for making such applications ;
first, because the nobility of Witebsk possess ample
means for properly educating their youth, since there
are two colleges and a military school ; second,
beause, as regards the repairs and construction of
Catholic churches, the same regulations exist as for those
of the orthodox faith. I have on my part considered it
my duty to call the attention of his Majesty to the evi-
dent tendency of the petition—namely, the preservation
of the pretended Polish nationality, a preten,-ion that is
the more frivolous that it is unfounded. In fact, the
country has never had an existence of its own, and has ,
never been cons dered as conquered, but ae retaken by
Russia, to which it belonged for ages. The representa. ,
tious of the nobility are moreover improper. The Etn•

peror has conequently ordered that the petition rhali
be considered as null and void, and the marshal of the
nohili,y will be told that he has acted with weakness,
and those who have signed the petition will be informed
that they have done wrong in bringing forward requests
which are unfounded,

GORTCHAKOFF.