The Sun. — 1846-03-10 (London, England)

BRESLAU, MARCII 3.--The clerks of the Prussian Postoffice in Cracow have arrived here, and all communication with that city is so far broken off. Our troops are to cross the frontiers to-morrow, and it is thought that in four or five days Cracow will be occupied by the Austrians and Prussians without much bloodshed, and the old order of things restored. The resident of our court at Cracow, who is now here, has received orders from Berlinimmediately to follow the troops and return to his post.—Humburgh Papers, March 6. BERLIN, AfAucu s.—On the evening of the 3d of this month, the civil and military authorities in Posen were informed that an attempt was to be made in the night to release th prisoners arrested as implicated in the'revolutionary conspiracy, and in fact suspicious assemblages appeared at nightfall in and about the town. The necessary precautions were taken, guards posted, and patrols were sent out in all directions. These were twice fired at, once upon a waggon without any of the soldiers being wounded, who, however, fired a few shots, by which two of the insurgents were killed, and two wounded and taken prisoners. Besides this, between 40 and 50 suspicious persons were arrested (sumo of whom were armed), and several waggons loaded with arms and ammunition seized. By daybreak all was quiet, and nothing was to be seen of the insurgents. The authorities published a notice to the inhabitants on the 4th. A considerable landowner of the province of Posen, who has just returned from Galicia, gives a frightful account of what has passed in that country. Emissaries of the propaganda in Paris, London, and Brussels, having been at work for about two years, imagined that the time was come when a revolution might be attempted with certainty of success, and corn • menced their operations at the little town of Pilsno, near Tarnon. Seven nobles and some peasants went to the house of the syndic, and summoned him to draw up a proclamation and to join them. He expressed his readiness to do so; but doubted whether they were strong enough to make such an attempt. He proposed that they should seek to procure more partisans, and in the meantime he would do his best. Satisfied with this they departed, but an hour afterwards sent a messenger to the Military Governor, informing him of the circumstance. On this they returned to Pilsno and murdered the magistrate in a most barbarous manner. On the same day a band of peasants with nine noblemen entered the town of Dembice, where they invited the bailiff to join them. He refused, representing the folly and fatal consequence of such a criminal attempt. One of the nobles shot him dead, and called on the peasants to plunder the town. They, however, moved by the energetic speech of the bailiff, and indignant at his murder, refused. A dispute arose, in which two peasants were shot by the nobles, on which the remainder fell on the insurgents and killed them all. In the circle of Tarnon, where the petty nobles are very numerous, the band of insurgents amounted to three or four hundred persons. A number of peasants was sent by them into the town, to assist them in their meditated attack. The Jews in Tarnon soon found, by conversation with the peasants, what was intended, and informed the High Bailiff; who addressed them in an animated speech, which they received with applause. lie promised ten florins for every one of the rebels taken with arms in his hand, whom they should bring in dead or alive. The result was that the rebels, not expecting any resistance, were surrounded, and a fearful massacre ensued. 130 corpses were found on the following morning, and 90 severely wounded were brought in, for whom the promised reward was paid. Though the magistrates cannot be censured for resorting to these means of defence in their extreme distress. They did not consider the difficulty of again calming the unchained passions, and to prevent a civil war, the atrocities of which will be encouraged by hatred, revenge, self-interest, and plunder. A similar offer of reward has been made in other circles. The effectsimmediately follow; the peasants fell not only on the armed insurgents, but on the nobles in general, not sparing even their wives and children. They did not confine their fury to the nobles, but extended it to their servants, then to the citizens and peaceable inhabitants—in short, to all who did not wear the peasant's smock-frock. In the town of Dembice they killed all the inhabitants except three individuals. In a word the excesses committed are frightful.—Universal Prussian Gazette, March 6.