Star.
London, England, 1831-04-25 00:00:00

POLAND AND RUSSIA.
INSURRECTION IN LITHUANIA.

It was announced this evening, that there had arrived at
Paris this day news from Poland, posterior to that which we
published yesterday ; it states, that there had just arrived at
Warsaw deputies from Lithuania, to offer the concurrence
of their countrymen in favour of the common cause; it was
even added, that 10,000 Lithuanians, armed, organized, and
equipped, made their entry into the capital at the departure
of the courier: The insurrection spreads daily with an
extraordinary rapidity ; it began to gain ancient Poland
unto Smolenako. The remains of the army of General
Diebitsch were endeavouring to concentrate from all parts,
and a general battle was expected, which must decide his
fate.— Constituriminel.

The Gazette d'Etat states that they learnt on the 11th,
at Warsaw, that General Skrynecki had entered Siedlec,
and that the commandant of the free corps Zaliwski, whom
the generalissimo had named Lieutenant Colonel, had con-
ducted his corps beyond Liss-. Letters from Memel, of the
10th, inform us that Imperial Russian troops, who had eva-
cuated Polangen to retreat upon Memel, had quitted that
city, and had proceeded near Heiligentadt. There they had
assembled several hundreds of the forest guards of Courland,
and some other troops who had come to join them, in order
to attack en masse the city of Polangen. After having been
several times repulsed, they returned to the charge with a
new reinforcement, and were resolved to drive the insur-
gents from that city ; 30 rebels, and one of their chiefs were
killed ; several others made prisoners ; all the rest were dis-
persed. The city of Polangen is in flames. The Russians
on their side, it is said, had twenty wounded and some
killed.—P. S. At this moment we learn that Polangen is in
ashes, all but a few houses. The inhabitants, who have
lost all, have taken refuge upon the Prussian territory.
They write us from Libou, that the Imperial Government
has caused about 5,000 men to march upon Courland, in
order to protect that country from the Lithuanian insurgents,
and a'smt 11,000 men upon Lithuania to stifle the progress
of the insurrection.—Journal de Koenigsberg.
The insurrection of Lithuania and Samogitia is consum-
mated ; the national government is organized; the soldiers
recruit, and they do not want for cannon. The rising of
these pros inces had been decided on since the revolution of
Warsaw ; but the presence of the Russian troops, and the
arrival of the Imperial guard, bud obliged the Patriots to
delay the explosion. It would not even have burst forth so
soon, if chance had not hastened it. A circular falling into
the hands of a captain of the Russian marine, Schmalinken,
the patriots were forced to begin to act. The pastor, Rcenikier,
established at Froze, a town situated in Rossienic and Telsze,
and celebrated in Samogitia by a gymnasi mu,where are assem-
bled the choice of the youth of that province, gave the signal.
His son, formerly a pupil of the University of Wilna, had
been sent to Siberia : paternal love, and that of the country,
awakened at once in the soul of that honourable citizen.
The arsenal of Wilna had been transferred for some months
to Rossienic, in order to be more portable for the army of
Marshal Diehitsch. The Polish patriots seized it, and with
it armed nr-v levies of peasantry. The city of Wilna fol-
lowed that example, Count Plater, placed at the head of
the provisionary government, issued proclamations, in
which he calls to arms, not only the ancient
provinces invaded by Russia, in 1772, but those of Smo-
lensk°, Czernichew, on the northern side unto Livonia,
Ind Esthonia. The governor general of Lithuania, Rinisky-
Korsakoff, has been put under the surveillance of the new
government. The clergy seconds admirably all the move-
ments; they preach from the height of the pulpit, the holy
insurrection of Lithuania. All along the frontiers of
Samogitia and Prussia, there are public declarations stating:
let, That the Polish and Prussian provinces cannot subsist,
but by the immediate reestablishment of commercial relations
between these two countries; 2d, That the e:.traordinary
levy, ordained by Russia, was insupportable ; and 3d, That
they would once for all put a stop to those passages of
Russian troops which absorbed the provisions of the inhabi-
tants. The most severe orders have been given to the
patriots not to pass, and to protect against the least insult,
tee frontiers of the King of Prussia.

ITALY.
A report from Field-Marshal Baron Geppert, dated An-
cona, March 4, announces that the remains of the bands of
Sercognani are entirely dissolved. Sercognani himself has
disappeared ; it is believed that he has embarked for Mar-
'eines. Orders have already been given for the retreat of
the imperial troops, which, with the exception of a feeble
garrison at Ancona, are echelonning from Pesaro to Bologna
t"' Rimini Forli, alid Imola. The prisoners made in the
combat of Rimini, being for the most part soldiers of the
aontifical govLrnment, who had passed to the rebels, have
been consigned to the depots designed for that purpose by
the government. All the material of war, property of the
Holy See, has keen remitted to the Citadel of Ancona,—
'lliservateur Autrichien.
The Austrian commanders having refused the Pope to
name the military commissioners to judge, in the Legations,
&L: crimes relative to the insurrection, the Pontifical Govern-
ment has just sent in these provinces commissioners invested
••••ith this power. Cardinal Rivarola, one of the executioners
the Carbonari at Ravenna, has had a great influence in
'lie choice of these judges; their instructions are based
the barbarous principles which has already made so,
many victims in 1827, in the Roman states: principles

which Gregory XVI. still proclaims in the Bull of the sth of
April last, by refnsing all pardon to the insurgents. The
accused with such commissioners will then be judged and
punished with the greatest possible severity.—La National.
GERMANY.
Twenty-two pupils of the School of Application of Metz
have persisted, in spite of threats and suggestions of all
kinds, not to withdraw the adhesion which they had given
to the National Association for the defence of the soil and
the perpetual exclusion of the Bourbons of the elder branch.
At the arrival of General Delort, the bearer of the ultima-
tum of Ministers, they were called to his house, and inter-
rogated again upon their intentions. Upon their decided
refusal to retract, he declared to them that they were to be
sent for a year to their homes without salary, and they re-
ceived orders to quiff the city of Metz in twenty-four hours,
with the prohibition of remaining any where but in the
dwelling of their parents.—Journal des Debats.

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette, announcing the capital punishment
of the bookseller Mijar, who was executed to-day (April Il)
adds,that all those who write to foreign countries accounts of
acts of vengeance and oppression which nobody has suffered,
and misrepresent the disposition, the desires, and the power
of the Spanish monarchy, merit a similar fate.