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Show ' SERIOUS TROUBLES IN ; POLAND. j New York, 27. St. J'etUobiirg , letters give the particulars of disorders ( in Poland, growing out of an attempt I to foren the inhabitants to uttach 'themselves to tho .Russian National j Church. Tho prie?U of twentv-six Jpari-ihes in Siedlece, wore all. iiopris-Jonfd iiopris-Jonfd for refuoing lu obey theoidero of the Russ-io-On t V Church. The 'peasants refused to recognise the Russian prict-j or to .attend the churches; wher-jiqnm tl icy were sent there by force. Ju some" places the peasantry bto;i-d the prieoLs, and m the village of Cralof resisted the mil-itary. mil-itary. Several soldiers and otliecrei ' were wounded by pikes and stone. ' The soldiers fired on the peasantry 1 and a large number wera killed. In the village of Protulin a similar disturbance dis-turbance occurred, in which several olticers and many soldiers were killed and Jifty-tMjvon peasants shot down. Jhe prisons at Siedieco and other i chief towns are crowded with prison-era. prison-era. Beside these, arre-ts the mhali-itantsol mhali-itantsol tho troubloua districts were sentenced to be beaUn, the men with fifty blows and the women with twenty-five, children ten each, without with-out distinction, of age or sex. Sjruo women "who were violent in their language, received as many an loU blows, " |