POLISH REPORTS OF RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 43, 15 February 1864, Page 3

POLISH REPORTS OF RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.

(From the Times) \ * The folloAving translation of an extract from the Official Journal of WarsaAv, of the 14th November, has been handed to us for publication : — TRANSLATION. " In the face of the untruths propagated on the eA-ents transpiring in Poland, becoming more and more odious, spread by the foreign press, taken for the most part from the Czas and other Polish papers, issued from Cracow, Leapal, and Posen, papers prohibited in the kingdom, but circulated there secretly, as are all the productions of the revolutionary press — it has become impossible for us longer to remain silent. We open the columns of our journal not to a systematic refutation of the -mass of absurdities daily published — the task Would be too long and too tedious — but to a categorical denial ofthe more salient untruths as they appear from tiine to time, so as to establish the truth. " We shall not always cite the journals which reproduce this style of news, the subject matter of Avhich is. for the most part invented, as before remarked, by' the editors of the Czas and other Polish papers. " To-day Ave shall refer to the folloAVing: It is false (that a woman enciente —the wife of a Warsaw proprietor — Avhom they have taken the precaution not to name, hoAveA r er, as in that case it Avould haA r e been too easy to prove trie utter falsity of the assertion 1 — has ever been whipped' with rods at the ' chanceilcrie of the eighth circle, after her arrest, for having offended against the rulo.-s set forth on the Port de Lantcrhes. The punishment inflicted in this case was b'm'ited to -one night passed au violon (cage) ; the individual so arrested, not being gravely compromised in other respects, Avas not delivered up to justice. " It is false that Avomen transported into the interior *of the empire have been so Avithout previous' inquiry and trial. Those toAvards Avhom this measure of security has been adopted have been duly charged and condemned of revolutionary plotting. One lady, viz., Rosalie Waliszrwska, Avith others, presided over a revolutionary ladies' committee, the object of Avhich Avas anything but to distribute help to. the families of insurgents killed in battle. It is false that the reply of the authorities to her ' daughters — Avhen they solicited her pardon was to the effect that if they — the authorities — had. been certain of her guilt, torture Avould have been applied. This is all the more false, as torture is abolished, as Avell in the empire as in the kingdom, and that no court-martial Avhatever has the right to apply it, or does- apply it. It is false, as asserted by the iPatrie of the 19th instant, that two Avomen have been condemned to be beheaded at Warsaw. According to the Parisian journal these tAvo Avomen now awaiting their sentence are the Countess Lecluchewska, sister-in-law to the Apostolical Nuncio at BrUxelles. No such person has ever' been arrested, either at WarsaAV or in any other part of the kingdom. The other, which the APatrie does not name, is the Sister Peliciennelnecla TraghaneAvska, Avho is most gravely compromised, but her trial is not yet terminated. She Avas a most effective member of the -reA'olutionary organisa-. tion which styled itself the National Government. She was found in possession of a printing press belonging to this organisation, and a -mass of revolutionary Avritings 'whicli she herself circulated through the country. *• The sisters Pleischer have been at liberty for several Aveeks ; ib is, therefore, false, as stated by the SBreslau Gazette, 'that at the moment of their pretended departure for their 'place of banishment in Russia they were refused the poAver of making their father acquainted with the place of their residence." . "It is false that the sage fe mme Appollonie Bayle, at, Avhese lodgings in Jasna street a secret press Avas discovered, haAdng- been condemned to the infliction of corporal punishment died after receiving fifty Woavs. She is quite well, and awaits her trial. It is equally false that she Avas offered the choice of death or a bribe of 1000 roubles to designate the proprietor of the said press. „■ She gave up his name, and the authorities "are in search of him. # . "It is false that a servant of the Yeterinary School, haying stabbed a doctor of the same school (Zieinski), the police only inflicted a feAV bloAvs upon him because the crime Avas not a political one. The delinquent, named Belecki, is delivered up to the tribunals to be judged and punished according to "the penal code."