the street, when the latter again insulted him.  This was immediately resented by the former, who inflicted severe corporal chastisement on the latter.  The grand duke refused to interfere in the affair.  A trial ensued, in which some abuses of the president were exposed, and Janiszewski sentenced only to forty days’ imprisonment.  This affair, and this decision, created a strong sensation at the time; and emboldened the commission appointed to investigate the affairs of the town-house to insist on their rights.  The commission, being at length roused by the numerous abuses that were pressed on their attention, obtained an order from the minister of the interior to proceed in the execution of their duties.  They immediately formed themselves into branch committees, each two taking cognizance of a department.  The task of investigating the abuses in the quartering of the officers devolved on two citizens, called Schuch and Czarnecki.  They found, on inquiry, that the owners of large houses were induced to compromise with the billetmaster for a sum in cash equal to one-fourth, and in some instances to one half of the amount of rent, in lieu of having a general or any number of inferior officers quartered on them.  In Warsaw many of the houses contain from fifty to a hundred families; consequently, the billet-compensation money was a grievous tax.  The mass of extortions were found to exceed in reality any previous estimate.  A new scene now opened to view.  Those gentlemen received evidence that the Russian generals were participators in the pillage of the town, and in league with the president and billet-master.  Feeling that they should be detected in proceedings so disgraceful, they consulted a lawyer (Wolinski,) to know if the researches of the committee could not be legally prevented.  His opinion was given in the negative; but, in order to divert the public mind from the investigation, he advised Czarnecki to provoke one of the commission to strike him, when he should be able to prosecute him for attacking an employe and by that means get rid of the investigation. Czarnecki used the most insulting language to Mr. Schuch, and in a fit of desperation seized hold of his arm, with the intention of putting him out of the room by force.  The committee-man being on his guard, the manoeuvre failed. Czarnecki, seeing himself foiled, his iniquity discovered, and his ill-gotten wealth likely to be confiscated, committed suicide, and thus left the president and generals to fight their own battles.  The artillery of Messrs. Schuch and Czarnecki was now directed against the whole of the Russian and two Polish generals, the notorious and unprincipled Raznieki, the head of the secret police of the kingdom, and Kossecki.  Means had in vain been tried to bribe Messrs. Schuch and Czarnecki through the commissary of the circle, that the investigations should cease, or that the generals should not appear