POLAND

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1195, 11 February 1864, Page 3

POLAND

, The ' Czas ' publishes the following almost incredible act of atrocity : — According to an order published by General Lewchine every woman who appears in the streets of Warsaw after nightfall must carry a lantern, unless B ne is accompanied bv a man who is provided witn ? ne - A householder and his wife were returning nome, the husband met a friend and both popped or a moment on the flagway; the wife, who had advanced a few steps, was arrested by a policeman, *no dragged her to the guardhouse because she had n ° lantern. Notwithstanding the remonstrance of

the husband, the commissary of police of the eighth district of Warsaw sentenced the woman to receive five stripes of a rod. She declared she was with child, and prayed to be spared the torture. " Give her ten stripes," replied the commissary. " Since you are implacable," said the husband, ' permit me to suffer the corporal punishment in place of my wife." "It is your wish," said the police agent, —" give him 10 blows and 15 to his wife," and this execrable order was executed." M. Emile do Girardin, who has been the advocate of the Emperor Alexander since the emancipation of the serfs, copies this paragraph, and says that if the Russian G-overnment does not prove the falsehood of the statement published in the ( Czas, 1 Russia exposes herself to be erased from the list of civilized nations in Europe, and let her not be astonished that in place of the cry raised by some of " Free Poland in free Russia," there will be but one cry raised all of Free Poland in free Europe. —Times, Nov. 13.