POLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 180, 25 June 1862, Page 5

POLAND.

TUB CHARGE OP XORTURE AGAINST THE 'RUSSIAN GOVURJOIBNT. —TUB TORTURE OF jr. ZAMOVSKI. The Czas of Cracow gives the following details relative to the torture inflicted on M. Zamoyski, who was accused of having printed a clandestine journal called Le Pilote : — The statements relative to the barbarity towards M. Alexander Zainoyski, of which the commission of inquiry presided over by General t Koznow was guilty, are confirmed iv all points. The prisoner, stripped of his clothing and of his shirt, was subjected during the interrogatories to a frightful flagellation. The rods that were used were thicker than the thumb, and the flesh was literally cut to • ribbons, particularly on the right side of the body. M. Zainoyski endured this torment with a noble courage, without giving the least response, without utterina: a word. After he had received several hundred strokes he fell senseless ; and, in this- state, after being covered with a cloth, he was handed over to the care of a • doctor. It seems that there was little chance of saving his life from the first, the spine having been injured. This case of Muscovite barbarity needs no comment. It provokes the greatest indignation, and shows in all its horror the regime t > which Poland is now subjected." The Official Gazette of .Warsaw, of the; 2nd mst., publishes the following :— " Written at the Citadel of Warsaw, by a Commission of Inquiry, March 28, 18G2. " By virtueof a decree of the Governor-General, issued in pursuance of an order from the Aide-dc-Camp General Vamkstnik, to-day, Prince Bebu- r tow, together with the delegates named by that order, Dr. Tytus Clmtubinski, professor of the Academy of Medicine ; Charles Miuter, proprietor of the house, No. 1337 ; and Alexander Preyss, Chief Director of the Society of Land Credit, proceeded to the above-mentioned place in order to verify the ... report which was circulated in the city, that Alexander Zamoyski, confined iv the citadel, and accused of having printed and circulated a revolutionary address to the Archbishop Felinski, had been, during- an examination for the purpose of causing him to reveal his accomplices, beaten with so much inhumanity' that pieces of flesh had fallen from his body* Accordingly Alexander Zamoyski, archevist of the Society of Credit, was summoned from the place where he was confined before the above-mentioned delegates. His identity having been proved by the Chief Director Preyss, to the question which was put to him by the delegates, if he had been severely beaten, he replied—and affirmed it upon his honor—that since his arrest, not only had he been free from corporal punishment, hut not even a hand had been placed upon him. Prince Bebutow having asked him if he was not induced to make this avowal from fear, he said instantly that ■" he would undress to prove the truth of his words; but the delegate.?, who had no doubt on the matter, agreed that this was. unnecessary, and that .'■■ the falsity of the reports had been sufficiently proved. Thereupon, the proces verbal was closed, read over, accepted, and signed in the following order ::— . ■ " Dr. Chatubiiiski, Ch. Minter, Al. Preys's, Prince Bebutow."