The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-02 00:00:00

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IN RUSSIA.
"Prince Trubetzkoi, of whose death some mvste-
lions accounts are given, had at, least no Iteason-,'Con,
netted with any post for destroying himself.;--.sliortlt--
after the supposed insurrection in ;:iamogritia,LiebQSA:4hl
appointed military commander there, and exercised
the military justevi with a severity vrhich occasioned
his being removed, and served as the first step for the
renewal of the Konarski investigation. What the
article above alluded to says of Colonel Nasimoff
requires, in order to judge it properly, a deeper in-
sight into our administration of justice. Russi a
possesses a very voluminous book of laws, but n o
s?ttled jurisdiction ; courts of law, but no judges wh o
have studied or been. educated for office ; an d
informers, more numerous than in the times of th e
Roman Emperors, take the place of public advecates.
-;p?cial commissions are appointed for all the more
important criminal investigations, generally under the
presidency of somuinilitary person of note, and with-
out any Judicial control. The Russian employi who
wants to rise in office has nothing better to do than
set himielf to the: discovery of abuses and political
offences, as all these are reported directly to the
Enipceor, and often help the discoverer to extraor-
dinary advancement; all the more easily at the same
time 13 the denunciation believed. The first denun-
ciatorb insinuations are made by word of mouth.
'Then, in order to make further -discoveries into the
supreaed criminality, sums of money are advanced
to be used on journeys, secret investigations, &c.
Then follow surprises by night, seizures of papers, and
arrests of the persons informed against. It is not usual
certainly for the employe, from whom the first disco-
very proceeds, to be a member of the commission of
investigation appointed forthwith, but the commission
acts upon his advice. The informs have free in-
grew to all the secret transactions of the commission,'
and receive money for their maintenance during the
time, as well as for bringing up the necessary wit-
nesses.

The system of bribery is the only one which has
any chance with the witnesses for the defence, and
they are consequently strict. At the same time, to
preserve the informer from any temptation of the
kind, the law declares, that it he will hand in to
the commission the bribe offered to him, he shall
receive it back in full as the reward of his disin-
terestedness. This bribery, too, is received as
evidence against the person accused as an actual
proof of his criminality. Since the Polish revo-
lution this horrible system of denunciation has
carried everything before it, espeAilly in the govern-
ments of Wilna, Grain°, and llialystock. A con-
quered people always remains a suspected enemy,
and it needs only a suspicious temper in a ruler to re-
suscitate all the misery that Dolgorucki's humanity
had scarcely assuaged. It was in consequence of de-
nunciations of this kitQd that the present Governor,
General 3Nlirkewitz, again took up time investigation
long since ended by the execution of Konarski and
his associates. According to these denunciations,
the traitor had passed the night in the house of such
a one, andbeen long concealed in that of another. In
order to give mom connexion to the whole matter,
it was made to form a part with a supposed secret
correspondence of certain Polish families with
their relations living in France as political re-
fugees. Professors, physicians, civil officers, and nobles,
all on a sttdchu vanished from among their family
circles to he left to languish in unknown prisons.
Anxiety and terror fell upon the minds of all ; the
scourge of insulted legitimacy was the sceptre that
ruled the land. Doubts, however, it would seem, be-
gan to arise in the Emperor's mind, especially as his
military Governor, instead of sending him proofs,
only announced to him continual arrests, and the con-
sequence was that he sent his Adjutant-Colonel,
Xasimoff, to Willie, in order to have an eye upon the
progress of tlusie investigations. This active officer
and excellent man soon convinced himself of the want
(Wall foundation for these denunciations. But any one
who at all knows how very marked are the distinc-
tions of military rank in itussia, will easily compre-
hend how little Colonel liasimoff was able to effect in
opposition to the military Governor and his judges.
With straightforward openness he laid the state of
things before the Emperor, and urged the necessity of
sending to the spot some one still higher placed in
rank. In consequence of this advice, General
Kawerin, formerly tutor to the Hereditary Grand
Duke, received the very honourable mission to do
us ice at length to all parties according to truth.
After a very short time all the prisoners were set at
rtv, without any exception; and some (princi-
pally the civil officers) received compensations for
their sufferings in money. Severe justice was exer-
cised upon all the members of the Commission, and a
very energetic reproof given to General Mirkewitz."
—Konigsberg Gazette.

DISTItEss IN CIIORLEY :I—Thedistress • 1 t
pre% a en
in Chorley is probably'greater than in any other town in Lau-
eishire ; 'for one-half of the operatives have actually to
upon the donations of their brethren who are in employment.
A great body of the hand-loom w, avers have little or no work ;
the calico-printers are aim, st wholly unemployed ; and other
branches have little to do. Yesterday (Friday) week the un-
employed_ workmen paraded the town in procession, to obtain
something for the purpose of keeping them in existence. They
numbered nearly 500, and obtainedfd. in money, upwards of
nine cwt, of bread, one cwt. of cheese, and one cwt. of bacon.
On snaking a division, it amounted. in money and goods, to
about is. 2d. a heatl.—Munchester paper.
A man named Gueliez, only 2.5 year,, of age, has
just been found guilty by the Court of Assizes of robbery and
attempt to murder, under the following circumstances :—On
December 13, on passing along the Hue Coquilliere, he took
up a leather trunk placed at the door of M. Legay, a dealer in
such articles, who, however, caw the act, and running after
the thief, overtook him at. the corner of the Rue des Vieux
Augustins. A struggle ensued, during which Guehez inflicted
no lees than six wounds with a knifa on the body of M. Legg,
and then fled. lle was followed and captured. M. Legay
was carried home in a lamentable state, but, fortunately, tune
of the wounds were mortal, and he has since recovered. Tile
Court sentenced Guehez to hard labour for life, and to be ex-
posed on the pillory. •
THE LATE EARL OF MUNSTER.—(From a Cor-
respondent. )—The will of the late Earl of Munster has been
proved in Doctors'-Commons by Lord De Lisle, General
Wyndham and Mr. Cameron, the executors. 'I he will refers
to vario is family settlements, and directs the residue of his
Lordklup's property, after payment of debts and legacies, to
be laid out. in the purchase of estates, to be entailed in his fa-
mily, Lady Munster taking all the rents (except 300/. for the
present Earl) and to have the use of the houses and furniture
at Brighton and in Belgrave-street, rent-free for her li e. The
personal property wes sworn under 40,000/.

The ( ;email Journals publish a circular sent by the
Turkish Ministry to all the t3overnors of the provinces, allUd-
ing to the appointment of a commission to inquire into the
complaints of ill-treatment made by some Christian subjects of
the Porte at Smyrna, and ordering that, in future, the Chris-
tian subjects of the Porte, in all parts of its territories, shall
have justice so fairly and equitably administered to them, that
they may be no longer conipelled to place the:nselres under the
protection of foreign ambassadors and consuls, under the im-
pression that justice is not otherwise to be obtained from the
Turkish authorities.

A land-slip has lately taken place at Villequier, near
Rouen. Three or four acres of land have been removed from
their former position, carrying with them trees and hedges.
Large fissures appear in several places; one house has fallen
down altogether, and another was so it jured as to force the
owner to quit it. This land-slip was accompauied with a noise,
which is described as like a strong blast of wind. The road
from Villcquier to Caudebec presents several openings, and a
considerable sinking has taken place in part of it.
Exchequer-hills were invented in 169(i, and first
circulated by the Bank in 1706. It was not anticipated two
centuries ago that the subject would occupy a great portion of
the time of Parliament now, and more par.icularly on such an
occasion as the present.

A correspondent writes from Florence, that the
Mine of quicksilver, discovered last year in the environs of Pe-
ravezza, near Pisa, is in full work, and during the last month
yielded more than 6,0001b5. ; a produce that is daily increas-
ing. The Grand Duke had visited them, and expressed his
satisfaction at the able manner in which they had been con-
ducted, announcing the intended appointment of a commis-
sion of French, English, Italian, and German geologists and
chemist!. to search for the other mines of quicksilver, which,
according to tradition, exist in the Grand Duchy.
The Journal dm Loiret states that the Mayor of
Lorris, in the arrondissement of Montargis, had foilidden,
under a penalty of from sf. to 10f., any person under his juris.
diction to dance the galop. He has also prohibited the bend
in the Pastourelle from being 'executed "so rapidly," as
the order states, " as the ladies generally desire.". The worthy
functionary, in his excess of zeal for the morals of his com•
mune, has forgotten that the music must regulate the slowness
or rapidity of the dancers' movements ; he .sh6ttld also, there-
fore, issue an order to• composers to substitute the andante for
the allegro movement.
REVENGEFUL RECOLLECTION OF AN ELEPHANT.—
A few days since John Glascott, groom to a gentleman named
Turner, was conveyed to the London Hospital with a severe
fracture of the leg, near the anele. The injury was caused by
an elephant, and is an additional proof that that animal is
mindful (the expression is almost justifiable) of wrongs, and
seldom fails to resent them. On the morning of that day on
which Glascott was taken to the hospital, he had been wit-
nessing,' the performances of an elephant then exhibited in a
booth in the Commercial-road, East; and it is stated that he
took it into his head to amuse himself by teasing the
animal. Nothing more happened then; but, in the after-
noon of the same day Glascott returned to the booth with his
children, and, whilst they were intent on the feats of the
animal, it suddenly wound its trunk round the man's leg, and
did not uncoil it until the leg was fractured. The surgical
treatment Glaseott received in the hospital at first succeeded;
but a day or two back erysipelas attacked the system, and yes-
terday terminated fatally.
The following atrocious fratricide was coimnitted a
few days ago at Saint Just-la-Pendue, in the Loire. The cri-
minal, whose name and station are not mentioned, having been
passport, but not
'eaager to do the deed
fitorithiievgltilliatnyoartthooomb,t.airne,tuasniietd:asandsump.asposseod
he contemplated, th'at he loaded his gun, and seeking his bro-
ther shot him dead in the presence of at least fifty persons. say-
ing it was better to kill than be killed. He took refuge in the
house of a friend, where he was followed by the police otfice...s.
They were told that he had concealed himself in the loft, and
there thew went in search of him, but he was at the time in it
room on the first floor, whence, with the assistance of his friend,
lie made his escape to the woods, and, for the present, remains
undiscovered.
A \vellum, nained Cocquard, NV 11 n resided in the
Rue Beaubourg, was murdered by her husband, on Saturday
week, in a fit of jealousy. Cocquard having sent for his wife
from the shop of a tobacconist, who employed her as a char-
woman, she came, and, immediately en her entering, a quarrel
was heard by the neighbours. Shortly afterwards all was
silent, and Cocquard came out of the room in a state of great
agitation, hastened to the Commissary of Police, declared that
he had murdered his wife, and surrendered himself prisoner.
The Magistrate went to the room, and found the poor woman
lifeless, with three desperate wounds in the breast, with a
knife, which had killed her instantaneously.