The Sun. — 1863-03-31 (London, England)

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.   (lion the limes' ;Special Correspondent.) CRACOW, March 24.  Poor Langiewiez, after asking in vain to be allowed to go and settle in England, was taken off yesterday to Vienna—or, at least, to the terminus of the Cracow and Vienna Railway,which is all that is really known abon• the matter here. I happened by some strange chance to be in the street leading to the castle as early as a quarter to 8 o'clock in the morning, and, seeing an empty carriage guarded by four Hussars at the entrance to the church of I the district, waited a few minutes to learn who its occupant was to be. Out came the General, gloomy and black. No one saluted him or noticed him, because no one at the time was quite certain who he was. It was evident, however, that he was a State prisoner, that he had just come from the Castle, and that he was starting on what he conceivA to be a momentous journey. Langiewicz is not an Austrian, but a Prussian subject, and he has been making war, not upon Austrians, but upon Russians. Accordingly Austria is in no way called upon to sit in judgment upon him. She has, of course,! the right to send him out of Austrian territory, bat it is to be hoped that she will not deliver him up to Prussia, as those who have the worst opinion of the Austrian Government fancy she may be tempted to do. There is not the slightest chance, however, of Austria taking such a step as this, if we may judge by her conduct to those Polish insurgents now in her hands who are subjects of Russia. Not one has been surrendered to the Russians (as in old times all would have been), and the best informed persons here say that all are sure to have their liberty before long, though in the meanwhile they will be confined for a time at Olmutz or elsewhere. All the Government has done to them hitherto has been to shut them up in various public buildings, where they sing, smoke, and enjoy themselves as best they can. On the other hand, it has saved many of them from dying of hunger, or by the lances of the Cossacks, who would infallibly have murdered them bad they caught them unarmed or sinking from starvation on Russian territory. If there were any Russian deserters among them, Austria, by the terms of the extraditiontreaty, would be obliged to give them up, but they all wear the Polish costume, and the only cases of desertion one hears of among the Russian troops are those in which soldiers left their regiments under fire to go and plunder, and could only be induced to return by the officers holding revolvers to their heads, threatening to shoot them, and occasionally doing so as an example. Infamously as the Russian officers have in many cases behaved, I have heard from eyewitnesses of some few who did their duty and, disgusted at the excesses committed by their men, and finding their orders utterly disregarded, shot the worst of the malefactors with their own hands. More than one house in the kingdom was thus saved from pillage. I make the statement, no on mere hearsay, but on the authority of the pro.  prietors of these houses, who, however, could no!  remain on their estates, and took the earliest opportunity of flying to Cracow, now a city of refuge for Poles from all parts of the ancient kingdom. As a rule, wl.atever the Russian troops have done elsewhere, I have been able to convince myself by the best evidence that near the Galician frontier they have behaved like hordes of savages. The night before last thousands of persons close to Cracow saw  villages in flames just on the other side of the border, and every one knew at once that the Cossacks had  been there. The Cossacks have even crossed into  Galicia, and a skirmish—of which the full particu • lars have not yet reached me—took place the other day at Czulic, on this side of the frontier, in which an Austrian officer was taken prisoner and an Austrian soldier killed.