The Warsaw correspondent of the Times gives an account of
the Russian proceedings in that capital, which helps to explain the bitter personal hate borne by the inhabitants to the Government. He was passing through the streets by the Town Hall, and saw the Cossacks striking the passers-by with their whips in pure wanton- ness. The blows were not severe, and were only given because Poles hold a blow an inexpiable insult. The Cossacks flick their whips in the faces of the bystanders with a sort of savage enjoy- ment of the ptactice, and the writer "saw no blow taken except with an expression of disdain from the receiver." Remember that the whippers are savages, and the whipped civilized men, that a
woman is struck as readily as a man, that remonstrance is followed by instant execution, and that redress, now or in future, is abso- lutely hopeless, except from revolution.
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