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New Zealand Herald, Issue 4, 21 November 1863, Page 4

The Kcssiaxs is Vomitma.—A Polish nobleman, writing IVom Yulhym'u, given a dreadful accountof the utate of uiiairs. lie says : —The Government otlioials ami the Greek priests do all in their power to put the Greeks against the Catholics ; and Russian soldiers, - disguised as peasants, with all the rutlians who have been let loose from the prisons for tliis purpose, seour 'the country, attacking the country scats 011 their road where there is a chance ofplunder,'pillaging, burning, and putting to death all they contain, and destroying ■whatever comes in their way. The cruelties perpetrated by these bands is incredible. .Not content • with simply putting to death, they invent new tortures every day. They screw their victims with iron screws to the walls, knock their teefh down their throats, tear •out their eyes and tongue, and saw living men into picces; the women they outrage, and then murder, as - well as their children. My pen cannot describe to what u. fearful death we are every day exposed, and yet we must not complain; for the committees of enquiry which are sent to ascertain the truth of these atrocities always end by rewarding the perpetrators of them, finding that they had good reason for acting in that way. After.the engagements which.took place in thin zieighboroughootl—at Slawzita, Miropol, and other places —the Russians forbade any assistance to be given to the wounded Poles; and the more effectually to prevent it, ordered the wour.ded to be buried with the dead. Our Priesta were murdered at the feet of our altars while in the aet of officiating. With all this we have not the right to leave our estates, but we are obliged to wait patiently the .cruel depth which will certainly full to our lqt, for the peasants in their simplicity, tell' us that the Government has informed them that ou a certain given day all Catholies, rich and pool- alike, are to be exterminated—this being the expectation we novrjive in.