The Times has published a curious document. It is an
official account of the Polish revolt, prepared by the Russians, for the benefit of the Ruthenian peasants, and read in all the churches. It is of excessive length, but its drift is contained in the following lines:—" But no ; the Pole was never fond of peace and order, and he gnashed his teeth at being obliged to obey the Czar, and at not being allowed to maltreat the serfs like beasts, to mock the orthodox religion, to let the Russian churches on lease to Jews, as the Poles did formerly, to take away poor men's property at will, to hang or shoot with impunity—in a word, to live here on Russian soil like a savage in the woods." The peasants are further told that the rebels organized a massacre of Russian soldiers, and that their object is to enslave the peasants, farm the churches to the Jews, and take away everybody's pro- perty and life. The promise of land rent free is declared to be a delusion, and as for cheap brandy, that is a temptation of the devil. This Russian Government evidently trusts the foundation on which it is built—the ignorance and degradation of its own subjects.
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