POLAND.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 86, 1 September 1863, Page 6 (Supplement)

POLAND.

(From the Home Vows.) The Polish insurrection makes rapid progress. The power exercised by (lie secret government is so great and decisive that the Rus-ian authorities may be said to bs superseded in Warsaw. Several instances occurred recently. Certain documents in the hands of the Russian officials wire necessary to procure the conviction of one of the State prisoners. The secret government issued its orders, or commands, that these documents should l>e transferred to their hands. The order was no sooner made known than the documents disappeared. An English Company had entered into a contract for the water supply of Warsaw. The secret government issued a deciee declaring the contract null and void, in common with all contracts to which ihe Russian authorities were parties, and the company immediately withdrew. The secret oommi tee wanted five millions of silver roubles. That sum immediately disappeared from the treasury of the "Warsaw Bank, and with it four of the officials. \V'hen the Commissioner of the Exchequer came to investigate the matter, they found, in place of the money, a receipt dul)signed by the National Government. An insurgent chief and a Capuchin priest were handed in Warsaw. The archbishop and the clergy protested against this proceed ing, and demanded the body of the priest for interment. The answer of the government was a summons to St. Petersburg, to which plaie the archbishop has repaired to take the consequences of his act. At this point of the story, the National Government interposed, transmitting a private message to the Grand Duke Constantino that it could no longer be responsible for Ins safety. If insurgents and priests are to be ignominiously hung by one government, the Polos are resolved to let ii be seen that grand dukes may be rendered amenable to justice by another government. It is much the same in the field. Almost e^ cry where the insurgents are the victors. At Nova Weiss, after a long and desperate fight, the Russians \v*i j re totally routed, and obliged to fly. Another victory, of a still more important character, was sained by Ox'mski in the neighborhood of Kalisch Here the number of Russians reported to be killed and wounded is stated to have been very large. In the Ukraine the revolution spreads steadily. In Volhynia the Kusrfians outnumber the insurgents, but in the Palatinate of Agustowo the peasantry are up in arms to a man. It is not to be supposed that in all cases the insurrection is triumphant. There are some exceptions. The Russian occasionally overpowers his agile and indefatigible opponent ; but there is no doubt that there is a heavy balance of successes in favor of the Pofes. In one affair at Konskie two Russian companies were completely destroyed; and another conflict, | attended with equally important results,..] occurred in the Palatinate of Plock. The | Russians, unable to cope in the engage- i ments with their active adversaries, take their revenge in barbarities. Mouravieff has established a reign of terror in Lithu ania, which increases ever day in horror. Neither age nor sex secures even these who are suspected of dissaffection from a cruel death. One of the barbarities attributied to Mouravieff, that of condemning j to the ignominious punishment of the knout all women who wear mourning, has I been disclaimed by Prince Gortschakoff on i behalf of the authorities; but enough of proved barbarities remain behind to reflect indelible disgrace on the .Russian Government. | Happily there is at last a chance of ob- ! taining a settlement of some kind for the i Poles. England, Fiance, and Austria have forwarded to St. Petersburg three notes, nearly identical, laving down the basis of arrangement for Polish independence, an outline of which will be found in another column. Politicians who have Ihe best means of forming an opinion on the subject, do not venture to prophecy ihe result ; but should Russia continue obstinate, diplomacy must inevitably, sooner or later, give pla.-.e to intervention of a more peremptory character.