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THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The following is extracted from a new work, entitled
"Eastern Europe and the Emperor Nicholas," by the
author of " Revelations of Russia." The descriptions
are, we hope and believe, grievously overcharged
" In the city of Minsk, in 1837, there still existed a con-
vent of humble nuns of the order of St. Bazilius. Their
time, like that of the • Sisters of Charity,' was divided be-
tween their religious duties, attendance on the sick, and the
education of poor children.
" Far and wide through the surrounding country, the
suffering and needy had learned to bless their unassuming
benevolence, and people of all ranks regarded with venera-
tion a community, distinguished not by by ascetic practices,
but through its active and unwearying philanthropy.
" The very popularity of this order, and the estimation in
which it was held, marked it out for a persecution, so atro-
cious that I know of nothing more harrowing in times ancient
or modern.
" The cruelties of Nero, Domitian, and Caligula, the most
virulent religious persecution of past centuries, and the hor-
rors of the French revolution, rarely equalled in degree the
barbarities practised on those harmless women, and sink into
insignificance beside them, when the long protraction of seven
years of suffering is considered.
"All the details of this'inhumanpersecutior might have re-
mained either utterly untnown beyond 018, Russian frontier,
or merged,' n •yaguseassmours of cruel treatment, but for the
provideptlal escape of,foue of the sufferers.
" Between 1837 and 1845, 44 nuns perished at the hands
of the Russian despotism, out of 58 devoted to duties whose
fulfilment appeals so directly -to all human sympathies, that
a religious sisterhood analegons to their own had been spared
trien during the French reign of terror, which so pitilessly
swept away all social landmarks. Of the 14 that remained,
eight had either had their eyes torn out or their limbs
broken, and of the other six only four had strength to at-
tempt, or fortune to effect, their escape. A few more
months and the whole surviving 14, at last doomed to
Siberia, might have been expiring on that weary road,
which the ten unhappy creatures left behind by the fugitives,
are at this moment being dragged or driven over, all lamed,
blind, or ailing.
"Nothing in that case would ever have reaches our ear of
the incredible sufferings of these poor victims, whose fate
would silently have contributed to swell those statistics of
proselytism which the Russian Government gives periodically
, to Europe, and which Nicholas has commemorated by the
I famous medal inscribed with the motto, Separated by vio-
lence, and reunited by love.'
" Of the four fugitives, two—the sister Wawrzecka and
Irena Macrina Minceslas (Mieczyslaska)—succeeded in reach-
ing Posen in Prussian Poland, where the Roman Catholic
archbishop, having taken down their circumstantial deposi-
tion of the facts about to be narrated, sealed it with the arms
of the archbishopric, and forwarded the document to Rome.
" An order consequently arrived for the superior to repair
to Rome by way of Paris, in which city she took up her
abode till the 10th of October last, under the same roof with
one near and dear to the author.
" Here she was led to give all the sad details of her harrow-
ing story, whilst the scars which mark her body added their
dumb eloquence tO her recital.
" Irena Mieceslas had been thirty years renowned 'for her
charity and benevolence throughout the Government of
Minsk, as head of the Bazilian convent, consisting of 34 nuns,
in the city of that name. It will be hence at once per-
ceived that she is advancing into the vale of years. The
aspect of her countenance, according to the portrait which the
writer has before him, is at once noble and indicative of deter-
mination. It derives the first expression from the position
of the eyes, which is such as we rarely meet with out of the
Scandinavian or Anglo-Norman race—viz., obliqued upwards
from the outward corners, that is to say, in a direction pre-
cisely contrary to the eyes of the feline species, of all Mongo-
lian races, and of many of the inhabitants of southern coun-
tries. The finely-chiselled corners of her mouth seems to mark
a decision of temper, of which she has given the most heroic
proofs in her conduct.
" The substance of her narrative, which the other three
sisters corroborate in the minutest particulars, is to the fol-
lowing effect :
" The Emperor Nicholas, having profited by his influence
and privileges in nominating corrupt and ambitious tools to
the bishopric of the Bazilian communion (that is say, the
Roman Catholics with (reek forms), amongst these Semi-
asko, the bishop of the diocese in which the convent of these
poor nuns was situated, had apostatized to the Greek from
the Latin church. Finding that the great mass of the clergy,
and the whole of their congregation, refrised to follow the ex-
amples of their chiefs, Nicholas ordered forcible means to be
resorted to, and set on foot a persecution, which caused the
females of this religious association great alarm, and induced
them to use the private influence of their friends in the Rus-
sian capital, to be allowed to retire from the convent into the
bosoms of their families.'
"This boon the Emperor refused, referring them to their
apostate bishop.
" Semiasko, after vainly using all his persuasive powers NOTTINGHAM, WIDNESDAT.—OPSINING OF THR
with this community, to induce them to pass over to the
Powrs.—At a meeting of the Town Council this day, Mr.
Russian Church, showed them alike the threats and promises Taylor brought forward a motion, on the subject of memo-
he was empowered to make in the name of Nicholas, and
rialising the Government, to open theports at this important
the awful signature appended to a document which earn- crisis, to prevent difficulties which must occur, should they
mended him to adopt such measures as the interests of not be opened, from a scarcity of food, arising from an in-
religion might require, to oblige all recusants to reform. sufficient crop of wheat and the disease amongst potatoes.
Finding their determination unshakable, he left them three He urged the necessity of the memorial to strengthen the
months to consider the matter ; and then, detaching from hands of those in the Cabinet who might be favourable, and
his breast one of the numerous orders with which the Em- condemned the policy of deferring to do an act which all
peror had rewarded his apostasy, he attempted to pin it on the nations of Europe had thought it right to pursue, for
the bosom of the superior, to whom he held out a dazzling the purpose of affording an ample supply of provisions to the
prospect of honours and rewards. inhabitants, and to prevent them being visited with the
" These women, it must be remembered, in their devout horrors of famine. He begged to move, that with the fearful
belief, now saw in their former pastor only an impious se- rospect of distress occasioned by the deficiency of the late
ceder from the faith of their fathers. Irna-Micceslas, there- harvest, the council deem it expedient, that a memorial in
fore, spurning this temptation, said tauntingly to the bishop, conformity with this resolution be prepared and transmitted
• Keep it, keep it; it would ill accord with the humble cross , to the Lords of the Treasury, and that the mayor do affix the
which marks my order, and with you it serves to hide a common seal to such memorial. Mr. John Bradley se-
breast beneath which there beats the heart of an apostate!' conded the motion. Mr. Wakefield thought the alarm
" These nuns had been fortified in their resolution by the I created had been greater than was necessary, but he should
exhortation of their confessor, a weak, but probably well- vote for the memorial. Many members of the council
meaning man, named Michalewitch. spoke in favour of the motion, and it was carried unani-
"As the persecution became more rigorous around him, mously, and a committee was appointed to draw up the me-
between the threats and the promises of his bishop, he was morial agreeing with the spirit of the resolution.
influenced to desert to the Russian communion, and be was i A.
VIRTUOUS CONCLUSION.—A Yankee paper gives
afterwards frequently obliged to take his seat as member of
the
following as the climax in the address of a barrister to a
the tribunal which attempted to subdue the obstinacy of
jury
in an action for seduction. Describing his client, he
these women. It is, however, probable that he yielded more
to terror than seduction, for he stve parently to Baid Ere this monster approached to beguile and betray
bury his remorse in incessant intoxications;
; and in this her, my client was blooming as the rose, gentlemen of the
condition he afterwards fell into a pool of water, where heofstep as the wild gazelle
Jury," quoth Demosthenes, "light
of the desert; gay as the larks; beautiful as the Houriej and
wm drowned. virtuoue as—and virtuous as—gentlemen—as---could be ex-
" Three days after the insulting refusal of the superior to
pected."