The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST -14, 1863.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE,

(R,EITTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

CRACOW, AUG. 14.

Gn the sth inst., the insurgents under Eminoricz,
Crik, and Rucki gained an important advantage
over the Russians at Chelm, in the Palatinate of
Lublin. Three Russian companies were dispersed.
It is asserted that the Russians, under cover of
their artillery, locked up their killed and wounded
in a barn and burned them, in order to conceal their
loss.

The Invalids .Russe mentions four enagements in
Lithuania, near Roza, Morzany, Leuinty, and Dolsk,
respective!. There was also one at Mninsk, in the
Government of Kowno.

FRANCE.
PARIS, AUG. 14.
_ .

The Moniteur of this morning publishes the
usual monthly return of the Bank of France, whinh
as compared with July
shows the following results

account: --

DECREASE.

Cash in hand ....... • 131 Millions.
Bills discounted not yet

due .•• ....... ••• 6
$,
Treasury Balance
$,
Current Accounts
4 r)
Advances ....... ~• • • 25 )9

INCREASE.

Bank Notes ............

3 Millions.

BOURSE, Aug. 13.—The market has been more
buoyant, and the business done shows a slight im •
provement, Threes, for the Account being now at
67f. 50c. The Railway Share Market has been
firm, and some of the lines Are rather higher. The
market closed as follows :--

4t per Cents . . 96 50
Do. end month....
3 per Cents ...... 67 50
Do. end month.... 67 60
Credit Mobilier.... 1085
Do. end m0nth....1083 75
Bank Shares —
Credit Foncier 1265
BAIL

Italian Loan 72 25
Do. end month —
New ditto
Do. end month —
Russian - .....
Austrian
Spanish Threes.°
Rome Debt .. —
IWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans ............. 1020 .. 1021 25
Northern ............. 990 ..992 50
New ditto — .•
Geneva ........ 490 .. 492 50
ELI
vya
sce:tnt
ee sr
flan: d.
.... Mediterranean...........
:1500207
_5O 1026 25
Southern -
Sardinian
530 .. 530
410498 —75
Austrian
Lou.bard
North of Spain
Saragossa . .
Ditto to Barcelona 355 • • 355

The Polish League and Lord Russell.

held at St. James's Hall,
--,--
Some time ago a Meeting in favour of Poland was
Sir J. Shelley presiding.
At it a deputation was appointed to wait upon Earl
Russell, to lay before him the resolutions of the
meeting, and urge an armed intervention on behalf
of Poland. In answer to an application on the
subject, the Foreign Secretary wrote, saying he was
sorry he could not receive the deputation. As the
committee thought this refusal unconstitutional,
they again applied to his lordship, and told him so,
and repeated their request that a time should be
fixed for receiving the deputation. That was on
the Bth July. No ...o answer was returned to the
second letter, and on the 7th August the committee
sent a memorial

To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
May it please your Majesty,—At a numerously attended
and enthusiastic meeting of your Majesty's loyal subjects
held at St. James's Hall, Westminster, on the 22d July
last, on the subject of Poland—Sir John Villiers Shelley,
Bart , M.P., in the chair—a deputation was appointed to
wait upon Earl Russell p
, your Majesty's Principal s:ecretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, for the purpose of laying be-
fore him, on behalf of your
Majesty's Government, the
resolutions adopted at such meeting, and urging upon him
an armed intervention if necessary on the part of England
for the restoration of the independence of Poland.
sent a reply stating
hut not that
h assigninge wany reason for this unusual
answer to a letter from the committee who convened
that meeting to Earl Russell, respectfully requesting the
favour of his lordship appointing a day and hour to receive
sorrya ,
the deputation thus appointed to wait upon
could not receiveponhim,hslord ship
the
deputation
Crown
and, as the committee respectfully submit, unconstitutional
course of proceeding-
i t t the
hear high
and rethe state-
ments -
;
The committee thereupon directed a further application to
be made to his lordship, respectfully requesting him to
Ministerrecon-
spieofuno of f the
his
lordshipßrisi)
to receive
holding
and
side,' his decision, it being their conviction that it is the duty
of
u a
ne h o
of a deputation appointed to represent to your Ma-
jesty's Government the unanimous sentiments, upon a most
important question, of so large a body of your Majesty's sub-
jects as were assembled at St. James's Hall on the occasion
referred to.
To this last application his lordship has not even vouch-
safed the courtesy of a reply.
Without commenting upon such conduct, I am directed
by the committee to dutifully submit to your Majesty that,
under the circumstances, they have no alternative, pat'
cially as Parliament is not sitting, but to address es-
es-
e-
ress them-
selves directly to your Majesty.
I beg, therefore, most respectfully and loyally to submit
to your Majesty the enclosed copies of the resolutions
adopted unanimously at the meeting referred to;
fresolu-
tions expressing, as the committee have every reason
that meeting and numerous other
meetings to believe,rota the
real and earnest sentiments of the great majority of the
British nation on the subject of Poland.
The committee also consider it their duty, as represent-
ing a large mass of public opinion, further to respectfully
and loyally submit to your Majesty's consideration the fol-
lowing points :
1. That as Prince Gortschakoff in his last reply to Earl
Russell declared that the throwing dawn b
y the insurgents
of their arms and their surrendering
themselves to the cle-
mency of the Emperor is the only
master
mt compatible
with the dignity of his august master,
and with the senti-
ments of the Russian nation, this direct
refusal to abate the
present war waged with Be much atrocity
for the renewed subjugation of Poland,lY by the Russians
in addition to halt
a century of the most iniquitOnS misrule,
to make any further attempts to 1, renders it hopeless
obtain
reparatkn of the past wrongs Which
haveby nego:iation any
been inflicted
upon Poland, or any guarantee against h
t en. repetition.
2. That as Russia has notoriousl •
violated every one of
the conditions upon which her sovereignty Poland was sanctioned bY the ei"ty
over any part of
Britain, as a party to that tret.iy, Treaty of -Vienna, Great
tice to withdraw, as regards hers,ought in honour and jus-
t , the sanction so given,
and to declare that she can no longere x
claim of Russia to such
sovereignty,
recognise any title or
with the Emperor of Russia as Kingignty, or continue to treat
ofi Poland.
3. That the restoration of the entire
every part of ancient Poland from
Russian
independence of
claimed by the present National mG
dominion, as
overnment, is the only
arrangement compatible with the d •
the Polish nation, and is at thes dignity
and sentiments of
to the preservation of the
balance me time vitally essential
lishment of pen:nal:lP/It peace in of power and the estab-
mended by every principle ofEurope, besides being de-
the honour to be, on behalf
ufjusticeh and humanity.—l have
Ma-
jesty's most loyal and obedient subject,te committee, your
joux
ROBERT
'.13, Brownlow-street
, Bedford-row, TAYLOR, Hon. Sec.
August 7, 1863.„ W.c.,
is Five days after this letter was sent to her Ma-
jesty," say's the committee in a
paper forwarded to
us, ,c and in consequence, it is
presumed, ofthe
same having been communicated by her Ma-
jesty's directions
to Earl Russell—namely, by
the last post on the 12th August instant.—the sec-
retary received the following reply to his letter of
days prev
the 28th July, fourteen
ious, from his
91
lordship:

"Foreign Office. August 11.
am directed by Earl Russell to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 28th ult., and I am in reply
to express his lordship's regret that he cannot change his
former decision as to the reception of a deputation on the
affairs of Poland.---I am, sir, your obedient humble ser-
vant,

J. R. Taylor, Esq., " A. H. LAYARD.
13, Brownlow-street,
Bedford-row, W.C.''

SERIOUS ACCIDENT BY A PRINTING MACHINE.—
yesterday afternoon an accident occurred to a man
named Samuel Richards, a workman employed at Messrs.
Banks's steam printing works, Ely-court, Holborn-hill.
He was standing at the feeding end of a large printing
machine, and got his hand in the bracket; the rack of the
machine passing at the time nearly severed the band from
the body. He was quickly placed in a cab by Mr. Banks,
ben., and conveyed by him to St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
attended by Mr. Lawrence, the senior surgeon.
hand will have to be taken off,
where
is feared h
reed w Za

Our Trade with the Confederate States.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

"Manhattan," that humorous writer in the Herald, says
that independence would give to London the great trade of
the South, while re-union would again enrich New York
with it, and that to become the factors of the South is one
of the richest commercial prizes. England as well as New
York may lose, and Paris, with Havre, may gain what we
ought to have had, and which was freely and frankly
offered by the South, which the cowardice of Earl Russell
refused, but the statesmanship of the Emperor of the
French is likely to obtain.
The Northerns exclude our manufactures by a tariff of 40
to 50 per cent., endeavouring to starve and keep idle our
operatives, though Messrs. Cobden and Bright tell these
men they are their friends. The Northerns exclude our
shipping, though Mr. Bancroft, their Minister, promised
reciprocity when our Navigation Laws were repealed,
opening our coasting, colonial, and inter-colonial ti ade to
them. The Southerns, on the contrary, offered us free
ports, free coasts, free rivers, and free trade; but as we
have unjustly repelled them, refusing recognition their due,
we cannot wonder if they favour the first of living states-
men—the Emperor of the French.
Why should Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, and others
of the Cabinet, yield to the " Cowering of Earl Russell to
the North, and his pandering to the Brights and Cobdens,"
as stated by a correspondent of yours? Looking on the
Emperor of the French, Lord Palmerston, and Jeff. Davis
as the greatest Statesmen of the day, the English people
wish to see them and their peoples allies and friends. How
Messrs. Bright and Cobden, as free traders, can support the
North is strange I

MERCAT OR,

Farming in the Prairie States and England.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The Duke of Argyll having referred in glowing terms to
the description of the Prairies by Mr. Trollope, showing
it was the El Dorado of farmers, before endorsing it his
grace should have read the practical remarks of Professor
Johnston and Mr. W. Chambers, on their tour through
British America and the States, the latter gentleman pre-
ferring New Brunswick and Nova Scotia for capitalist
farmers.

To farmers desirous of changing a certainty for an
uncertainty, we would merely state as facts that all the
farmers or landowners of Illinois, lowa, Indiana, and the
prairie States are poorer in 1863 than they were in 1856 ;
that most of their farms or estates are mortgaged ; and that
the price they obtain at their doors for their produce pays
little more than the labour, as proved by the rates current
in 1861, 1862, and this year, viz., 4s. to Ss, per quarter for
Indian corn, 15s. to 17s. for wheat, Ifd. per lb. for beef, and
2d. per lb. for pork, with wages at ss. to 6s. per day. Any
farmer will know that such prices will not pay a man
who farms his own land here, and ttiatit would be better
to pay rent and get 20s. per quarter for oats, 355. to 40s.
for wheat, sd. to 6d. for beef, and sd. for pork. Hitherto
western farmers paid no Federal though they did :State
taxes ; hereafter they will have to pay heavier Federal
taxes than we pay. The prairies in Illinois are also very
subject to fever and ague, their produce great, but that
will cease as the land becomes worn out, as the lands on
the Atlantic coast have already been from overcropping
without manure.

We would advise our farmers to read Professor Johnston
and W. Chambers' (see his "American Tour" in Cham-
bers's Journal) as well as Trollope, before deciding.

TRAVELL ER,

TILE lONIAN ISLANDS.

The following proclamation and documents con-
nected with the cession of the lonian Islands have
been published in the Official Gazette at Corfu :
" Henry Knight Storks—On the part of his Excellency
Sir Henry Knight Storks, Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight
Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a
Major-General in her AL jesty's army, and her Majesty's
Lord High Commissioner in and for the United States of
the lonian Islands, &c.
" His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner is pleased
to publish` for general information the following proclama-
tion by her Majesty in Council dissolving the present Par-
liament of these States, which is consequently dissolved
from the present date.
" Tne Lord High Commissioner has received her Ma-
jesty's commands to call the solemn attention of the lonian
people to the reasons which have induced her Majesty to
dissolve the twelfth Parliament of the lonian States. Her
Majesty, the protecting Sovereign, has declared her readi-
ness to consent to the union of the lonian Islands with
Greece, and it is with a view to consult in the most formal
aed authentic manner the wishes of the inhabitants of the
lonian Islands as to their future destiny that her Majesty
is pleased to dissolve the present Parliament.
" The lonian people will fully appreciate the responsibi-
lity which rests on them in choosing their representatives.
They are called upon to decide by this choice on the
momentous question now submitted to them, and the only
wish of her Majesty is that they may be guided to a wise
decision, by which their happiness and prosperity may be
secured on a solid foundation.

" Given at the Palace of St. Michael and St George,
Corfu, this day of August, 1863.
" By his Excellency's command,
" H. DRUMMOND WOLFF, Secretary to the
" Lord High Commissioner."

" At the Court of Windsor, the 11th day o:
June, 1863.

" Present—The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty ; Lord
President, Earl Russell; Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Milner
Cason.

" Whereas, by the constitutional chart of the United
States of the lonian Islands, it is among other things pro-
vided that the power of dissolving the Parliament of the
said United States on any special emergency shall be solely
vested in her Majesty by an Order in Council; and whereas
there hath this day been laid before her Majesty in Coun-
cil, the draught of a Proclamation to be promulgated in the
said States for the dissolution of the said Parliament (a
copy whereof is hereunder written)—her Majesty is there-
fore pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council,
to approve the said Proclamation, and to order, and in pur-
suance, and in the exercise of the authority so reserved to
her Majesty as aforesaid, it is hereby ordered, that the said
Proclamation shall be promulgated by his Excellency Sir
Henry Knight Storks, Knight Commander of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath, and Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St.
George, her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner in and for
those islands, and that upon and from and after such pro-
mulgation thereof the said Parliament shall be dissolved
accordingly.
"And the Most Noble the Duke of Newcastle, one of
her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the
necessary directions herein accordingly.
" ARTHUR HELPS."