The Sun. — 1831-12-30 (London, England)

FROM. THE RUSSIAN FRONTIERS. —Since the submit. sion of Poland, many public journals make it their business to pass erroneous judgments on the policy of Russia, to spread false news, and to blame the pre-intended systematical harshness and rigour of the measures of the Government with respect to that country ; other journals, less fertile in invention, copy such statements with especial pleasure, in order not to be behind the spirit of the age. Thus, it was lately affirmed, that the Polish peasants were deprived of their axes and scythes. They do not say, that the measure in question was the disarming of the scythebearers, and the taking away of the scythes, which had been fashioned into instruments of war. After a rebellion which commenced with murder, treachery, and pet fidy, these gentlemen think fit also to attack the Russian decree of amnesty, though it excludes as liable to punishment only those who are known and convicted of being the principal transgressors, or those who have disregarded the frequently repeated warnings and exhortations to return to their duty. The infatuation and partiality of the pretended Liberals go so far as to require that even the most guilty shall be unpunished. Very incorrect judgments have also been found in the reform of the schools which has been ordered in Poland. It is evident that the schools required a better organization, after the revolutionary Government had given them teachers actuated by the same spirit as the insurgents : it is also clear that a knowledge of the Russian language is more necessary to the Poles than the learning of foreign languages ; if, therefore, the Government has found by experience that the teachers from France inculcate only false doctrines to the ruin of youth, the refusal to admit them should be considered as a benefit, but it would not be a proof that the language and literature of France are to be condemned. In these false statements of the public journals we see, therefore, either narrow views or partiality. Equally strange is it when assertions are made respecting the still secret' policy of the Russian Cabinet relatively to the 24 articles in the future fact of Poland, which are founded on merely arbitrary conjectures. The public, therefore, cannot be sufficiently warned against reports spread either by malevolence, ignorance, or partiality. All well disposed persons, after manifestly seeing the bitter fruits of the revolutions in France, Belgium, Italy, andiPoland, ought nominally to look up with the highest confidence to a Sovereign who has given so many proofs of his clemency and magnanimity; the prejudices against those whom they call the northern barbarians ought at length to vanish. A Governmtnt, distinguished for its judgment, activity, and good intentions, a people, animated by genuine love to its Sovereign, and evidently advancing in the career of moral and intellectual improvement, an army which, after immense exertions and sacrifices, takes the capital of the rebels by storm, and enters it without plunder, without vengeance, listening only to the voice of humanity and discipline, undoubtedly belong to the civil'zed world; they merit respect and admiration.