EXTRACTS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 27, 10 February 1863, Page 3

EXTRACTS.

thefif aIre #TARY TYRANNY IN POLAND.

! n ?fi@pinione Xntionale has the following : — ""jHMenf which lins just occurred demonstrates ■•.^^Minnnnr manner why the Pules cannot cmij^'jßiselves with the reforms as vet accorded. ■\ ' n H are these:— Charles Nowakowski, who i/Jperl on (he Bth April, 1861, during the t^°'fi k fl3 P ass(?f l before all the tribunals, nnd 'lew wns acquitted. The Senate, whose B Ht is final, has declared him innocent and et j ve l|)im to be set at liberty. The military ' fhPes replied to that sovereign decree by to Siberia. This is fgp 1 '' 7 which must be denounced to Europe. 1 rH aus own kowski, his brother, addressed in a TO a petition to tho Grand Duke Constanp||prvin2in it that bis brother bad been acP 3B>v the Tribunal of First Instance on the '''^TH-emW, 1861 ; again, on appeal, on the E\n<BK u ' lr . v fo " ow ' D - ' nnf l l ßst '. v ' D y tnP Senate Ypl|2n(l nnd 3rd May ' I hoped,' be said, \? . fr brother, who was detained in the citadel [ i y lC ! Bin, menaced with a serious ehest disease, , [Bare boon at length sot nt liberty, conforman |tlie decision come to in the name of the Or by the highest court in the country. —— |a9 niv nstonis'lnnent on hearing that my . |had been transporter! to the farthest part tin, to tlio town of Krasnojorsk, 3500 miles _l/« i from Warsaw ! A proclamation of the -'ft ; mt-Governor on the 21»t February, stated 13 ; i s committed bffore the proclamation of >of I 1 "' siesje should not come under the jurisr^- |of the military triburals ; therefore my Iso ' : w ' 10 was nrres ' ;e^ before the state of . . lis been constantly in prison, and cannot the laws in any trny. Thus, ' x Hn imprisonment of fourteen months, be is jsd to a fearful transportation, contrary to ■V> - :^decisions of the tribunals. I therefore he M supplicate your Imperial Highness to 11, gjovrtpr thnt my brother shall be restored to b e jpQTifl his return to his native land be peri jHj The Grand Duke replied to "vVenccst iK l£ l w nkowski. by the commissary of bis quarjut the petition did not merit being takea into -legation."