The Sun. — 1847-01-05 (London, England)

GALICIA.—The following fact, extracted from a letter dated frontiers of Galicia, the 11th instant, will afford an idea of the frightful anarchy existing in that province :—" In the neighbourhood of Tarnow," says the writer, "resides an elderly lady, who, although belonging to one of the first families in the country, is so beloved by the peasantry, that she continued to reside on her estates during the recent massacres. The population living on the lands amount to about 1,001 inhabitants, only one of whom joined the bands which carried murder and devastation through the province. Having lately returned to his home, this wretch was enjoying quietly the fruit of his rapine, when, in the beginning of this month, a party of seven of his companions in crime, entered his dwelling and demanded the money they knew him to be possessed of. On his refusal to acquiesce, they threatened to hang him, and were actually preparing to carry their threat into execution when, perceiving they were serious, he determined on disclosing to them the place where he had concealed his treasure, Once in possession of it those miscreants deliberatted among themselves, and one of them having sugges that he would inform on them if they did not put him hung the man. Fortunately, however, out of the way, they concurred in the sugag3e,sotuionng, andboy heard from an adjoining room what was . going on, and haring proceeded in all haste to the village, he gave the alarm. In ae instant, ten armed peasants sallied out, and, placing themselves in ambuscade, waited until the arrival of a reinforcement, when they surrounded and forcibly entered the house. They lisgan by cutting down the man, who was hanging, in whom the spark of life was not yet extinct, and seized six of the banditti, one of them having effected his escape dining the affi ay. The peasants then formed a species of tribunal, by which the culprits wero judged and condemn.' dto death. The sentence was immediately executed. The six men were suspended from the m arest trees, and their executioners having kept guard upon them until lite had departed, placed the six corpses in a cart, and sent them to ti e authorities of Tarnow."—Galignani's Messenger. A/WIENT BRITISH Smenss.—A labourer of the name of Walker, emroop d in clavinz land in the parish of Coveney, lately discovered'two -British shields, in good preservation, lying upon the clay under the Fen soil The shields are circular, and about 22 inches.in diameter. .One is ornamented with concentric circles stamped in the metal, and the other with intertwining serpents. The handles of both are perfect, and there are remains of bronze holds for straps riveted on the inside. It is probable that they were lost by the upsetting of a canoe, as canoes have been found itubedded in the Fen soil of the neighbourhood. The shields have been purchased by the Rev. S. Badks, of Haddenhain, for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.—Bury Post The first samples of sugar from Brazil, under the new law were exhited last wed at the office of Mr. Brumley Moore ; and as the sugar crop -of this year in Brazil is most abundant, large imports may be expected. —Liverpool Mercury.