The Sun. — 1833-11-25 (London, England)

RUSSIAN BARBARITIES. The Polonais gives the following extract of a letter from Warsaw, dated the sth instant :—" Three of the confederates of Dziewicki, who has poisoned himself, have been shot at Warsaw, in the public place of execution, without the walls. They all died with a display of courage and firmness, hoping that their deaths might be useful to their unhappy country. Olkowski, in particular, showed great self command. While on his way to execution, he ea thered up a handful of the soil, and exclaimed—, For this we have [night, and for this we are willing to die 1' The tombs of these young heroes have become objects of veneration to the people, who strew flowers and garlands upon them. Many women have compromised themselves. A youne lady, named Helen Nowakowska, has received 200 stripes, fir having sent provisions to some unfortunate insurgents, who were dyin! of hunger in the woods. The horrible punishment was inflicted in one of the barracks at Lublin, to the sound of military music ; and to render it mm e severe, they afterwards shaved her head, and confined her in a convent, and no one can tell when she will be relea.ed. The wife of Orloatska has been con demned to teceive 500 stripes, for having sheltered one of her relations. She entreated that her punishment might be inflic,ed publicly at Warsaw, in order that it might inflame the courage of the patriots. This favour, how. ever, being denied her, on the day her sentence was to have been executed she was found dead in her prison, having forced pins into her bmorn  SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A LUNATIC AT THE LEICESTER ASYLUSf.—On Friday evening an Inquest was held at the Swan and Rushes, Oxford-street, before Mr. Alderman Yates, Coroner, on the body of Thomas Franks, a- lunatic confined in the Leicester Lunatic Asylum. The case excited considerable interest from the artful and cunning method the poor maniac had resorted to to destroy himself, proving the old adage, that " some men have method in their madness." Ribert Newberry was a keeper at the Leicester Lunatic Asylum. On the 13th of August last the deceased, Thomas Franks, aged about forty, was brought to the Asylum in a state of mlancholy madness, from Great Dalby, in Leicestershire, where witness understood his fsther resided. Deceased had been under the care of witness ever since, and on Thursday night, about seven o'clock, William Wall, another keeper, put him to bed. Witness, as was his usual custom, went to see it all was right (the lunatic having been removed to the present cell for safety), and found him in bed. He had a strait-waistcoat on, with hopples on his feet ; a long leather strap passed over his arms, to keep them secure, and another leat,er strap was fastened to his feet, the whole being confined by strap fixed in the he stead, to keep him down. Witness thought it impossible for a men, under such circumstances, to release himself, and locking the door, left him for the night. The next morning witness went to the cell at seven o'clock, and unlocking the door, found he could nor open it. After some difficulty he succeeded, and on entering the cell he found the deceased hanging by the neck from a hole about seven feet from the ground, and quite dead. Witness then proceeded to examine the bedstead, and the various articles he had made use of to effect his end, fie found that the straitwaistcoat had been completely gnawed through below the right elbow, and thus having succeeded in getting one hand free, he with difficulty removed the floppies and two leather straps from the bedstead, tied up the blankets and rug in a bundle with part of his shirt, while with the mattress and strait-waistcoat he contrived to make another bundle. The strap that bad fastened his legs he then well knotted round his neck, and pulling a piece of hoard (about two feet in length and six inches broad) from a pipe made in the cell to let off the foul air, he fastened it to the other strap that went over his arms. On the side of the door, about seven feet high, there was a hole in the wall, about the size of a brick, made also to let the air in. The deceased, it appeared, then placed the two bundles under the hole, and having fastened both the straps together with the greatest ingenuity, be put the wood through the hole (and lest the leather should rub, he had taken the precau'ion to put the remainder of his shirt on the edge), and turning it round so as to catch the bricks on each side, kicked the two bundles from under him. Witness on examining him found that he must have struggled a great deal, but when found in the morning he was quite cold and stiff, his toes scarcely touching the ground. After the evidence of another witness the Jury returned a verdict of " Insanity."—Lin. colnshire Chronicle.