The Sun. — 1863-10-15 (London, England)

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.  POSEN, Oct. 9.  The Warsaw correspondent of the Posencr Journal gives the following pictures of the present condition of the Polish provinces If a shot is fired from your house, the dwelling will be pillaged and confiscated, and you yourself brought before a court-martial. The same fate is in store for you if any person's life is attempted in front of your abode or in your courtyard. If arms or anything of a suspicious character are discovered in the rooms of one of your tenants, you will have to answer it before the court-martial. If a suspected person is arrested in your house, you will he brought before a court-martial. If any one commits a crime in the streets, and takes refuge in your house, you will be brought before a court-martial. If the wind puffs out the light in the entrance hell of your house, you will b.) punished with the full severity of martial law. Unfortunate proprietors of Warsaw houses, on all sides the gibbet is your only prospect ! If an attempt upon the life of any one takes place within a house, all the inhabitants, without distinc tion of age or sex, are considered accomplices, and, as such, brought before a court martial. If before or within a house or in the adjoining courtyard a political murder takes place, all the inhabitants are responsible to a court-martial. Passers by, stopped in the street at the time of the event in case of the actual culprit's flight, are subjected to the punishment which would have been inflicted upon the author of the attempt, had he been taken. Unfortunate tenants! unfortunate passers by ! who among you is sure of the morrow ? Workpeople in whose possession is found too large a quantity of objects capable of being used for equipping or provisioning insurgents are brought before a courtmartial, and everything they have is confiscated. Unfortunat; workpeople, for you also the gibbet is prepared !  Landed proprietors upon whose estates insurgents may be, or across whose lands they have passed, equally with those who furnish provisions to the revolutionists, are brought before a courtmartial, their mansions plundered, then set on fire. Unfortunate landed proprietors, you live in mortal fear !  Officials who do not wear round hats, those who do not shave off their moustaches, and those who allow their wives and daughters to wear blacx garments, are considered favourable to the National Government. Therefore, they receive their dismissal ; therefore, they are subsequently brought before a court-martial. Unfortunate officials, the sword of Damocles is also suspended over your heads ! In fine, we are all guilty, all condemned to death, and a drunken and licentious soldiery familiarises us with this death daily, hunting us through the streets with sabre cuts and bayonet stabs, not to mention the insults inflicted upon us by the Cossacks with delight. Our situation grows more dangerous from day to day. Yet all the brutal violence, all the refined cruelty, all the savage license and unexampled barbarities of Russia do not weaken the spirit of Poland. They nerve her, on the contrary, to combat the oppressor with energy and courage that defy defeat.