New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-15

The coronation of Car Alexander II. has been
marked by the dispensation of various graces and
ukases for the good Of his subjects. Presminent
among these il the amnesty accorded to political
offenders of 1925 and 1881 for the two nsurrec
tons: the fpt in st. Petersburg and Russia, the
second in Poland and among the peasants of the
Russian military colonies.
This act of oblivion recalls 10 their homes all the
condemned in Siberia well as the exiles in for.
ejgn counties. Those whose capital condemnation
for their participation in the uprising Of 1875 was
committed for banishnent to Siberia for life, with
the loss of their civil rights, nobar privileges aud
titles, completely recover their former social posi-
tOns Children born TO them in Siberia, Who ac-
cordirg to Russian criminal legislation, belong,
under such conditions, to the lowest social order,
rise to the rank accorded to their parents. As in
Russia proper the confscation of the property of
condemned person is not made for the profit of the
Government, but for that Of the nearest relatives,
the ukase does not abolish the coniscatiOn. But
when the coDfscated property has passed into the
hands Of brothers, sisters, and other kindred, it's
restoration will be family concern. The amnes-
n
residence in either Of the capitals st. Petersburg
or Moscow is forbidden to the restored exiles.
This is very old Russian penalty, but
those under it are generally relieved there
from by special individual dispensations. 9th.
erwise, all the amnestied can enter putt C
service or select any pursuit or occupation.
This amnesty extends TO the Russian peasantry sent
u r. Al e
to the Poles transported at that epoch aud to those
condemned by the tribunal Of Warsaw for having
been the authors and principal actors of the move
ment of 1890. Out of 265 80 condemned, few only
were in the hands of Russia, as was the chief
Wysocki, now in Sibera the mass Of insurgents,
in fact finding refuge at the time in foreign lands.
To this number belong Prince CzartOryjsk Le-
level, Ostrowsk and Others scattered over Europe.
Of these condemned insurgents, A. GurOwsk,
and Severine CichOcki, photographic artist, live
in our city. Many, BESIDES are already dead
and gone gone where tyrants trouble not,
and weary wanderers are at rest. All
other Poles not embraced in this judicially-cOn-
demned batch can likewise return to their country
few alone excepted, who took, during the last
war, conspicuous part against Russia. Concern
ing the eventual request of such ones for a per.
mission to return, the Imperial Government re.
serves its decision. Poles returning home shall
not undergo any molestatiOn whatever. They will
be able to undertake freely any occupation, do
the Russians, only they cannot sojOurn in the two
capitals. The Russian Legations near foreign gov
erpments are instructed to receive demands from
the exes the petitioners having to state when and
on what reason and occasion they eft their country
We find in European papers that Polish refugees
in France and England avail themselves of the
amnesty, and numbers Of them return constantly
to their long, long abandoned homes. But twenty.
five years Of separation and suffering will make
them strangers even there. Fresh interests and
generations, unfamiliar to them, have come on the
stage. A king has arisen, knowing not Joseph.
Thur, to many Of them no warm hand will be ex-
tended at the threshold where they played as chill
dren-none to show them the tomb of wife, children
parents, ancestors-homes and property having
passed several times into the strangers grasp. Bitter
and eyer-gspiDg are the wounds Of political exiles.
Happily, then, for ourselves, we cannot realize the
extent Of the misery of those, who martyrng their
hearts TO tlelr cOnvlctOns WANDER through INC
rude, wide world.
The last arrival from Russia brings news Of
another act of restorative justice at the hands Of
Alexander II. His two predecessors, Alexander l.
and Nicholas, transformed several hundred thou.
sands of the peasantry of the crown-dOminons into
military cOlonists. This was the greatest curse in
flicted on the Russian rustic. He was wholly de-
prived of liberty, even in the smallest household
affairs. Everything relating to him was executed
by military drill. The colonst was even deprived
of family ties as his children were brought up in
general military establishments. Alexander, in his
task of undoDg many of the actions of his father,
dissolved this military organization in the North,
and the peasants incorporated into the national
domain, thus forming free agrculturists in Russia.
The colonies in the South will soon join them.
There are rumors of a projected visit, next
Spring, of the Grand Admiral and Grand Duke
Constantine to this country, with fleet. The
Grand Duke is considered as the eagle OF the I'm
peral family and Of the nation. He processes great
admiration for the United States, the peculiar in
stitution excepted.
We published some time since graphic account