Glasgow Courier. — 1862-04-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

TORTURING PRISONERS AT WARSA W. —Great excitement prevails here in consequence of an atrocious outrage committed by the Government. You will perhaps recollect that in my last letter I alluded to the seizure by the police of M. Alexander Zamoyski, who was suspected of having been concerned in the publication of a pamphlet entitled "The Voice of the Nation to Archbishop Felinski." It appears that the authorities haddetermined to revive,in this case, the course pursued by the Holy Inquisition, in forcing their victim to reveal the names of his accomplices; and accordingly they began by removing from the commission of inquiry those members who might have obstructed their views by scruples of humanity. The Polish members—MM. Skowronski,Dabrowski, and others—and two Russians were thus shut out from the proceedings, which were left to be carried on by three Russians who have of late chiefly distinguished themselves by their unscrupulousness and barbarity. You may rely on the truth of these particulars, which 1 have from one of the members of the commission. This savage triumvirate conducted their examination of the unfortmnate prisoner at night, from 10 to 1 o'clock, for several nights, and during the whole of the examination he was stripped and flogged in the most merciless manner, the blood flowing from his body in streams. The torture, however, failed in eliciting from him any information as to the authors or other persons concerned in the pamphlet; and at last M. Zamoyski was so exhausted with the frightful wounds he had received that fears were entertained for his life, and he is now in the doctor's hands. The Government is only waiting for his restoration to health to inflict new tortures upon him, for he has just been sentenced by the commission to the galleys for life, and 200 lashes in addition to the hundreds he has already received. —Letter from Warsaw. The Civil Tribunal of the Seine has just given judgment in an action brought against an English Insurance Company, the defender having a branch in Paris, by the widow of a tradesman named Morin to recover the sum of 40,000 f., for which the deceased had insured his life. The policy was executed by Morin on the 30th September 1859, and on the 30th January 1861, he committed suicide by hanging himself. The 4th article of the policy provided that if the assured lost his life by suicide, a duel, or a judicial condemnation, such fact should not invalidate the policy unless the cause which led to the decease took place within twelve months after its date. . .  When.the widow applied for payment of the 40,000 f., the company refused on the ground that the deceased died by his own hand. Before the Tribunal the defendant's counsel pleaded that, although suicide did not, in England, void a policy of insurance, it occurred more than twelve months after the date of the policy, article 4 of the policy was null in France, as being contrary to public order, and an encouragement to suicide. The plaintiff's counsel, on the other hand, maintained that suicide did not annul a policy unless premeditated at the time of insuring; that in the present case there was no motive for such a crime, as the deceased had not been in embarrassed circumstances, but was at the head of a flourishing business when he committed the rash act in a moment of temporary i•isanity. The Tribunal took the same view of the case, and accordingly condemned the company to pay the 40,000 f., , with intend and oosts.-oaUgnagii.  having Potomac, be military departments. That the lialleck and Hunter, and that port, lying at West Knoxville, Tennessee, and designated the department of the the the commanders of depots were ordered -- to the Secretary of War. The New York Times of March 15  necessary a.. society for exploring .., French possessions lishment of communications and Senegal, either directly bactoo,