The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-06 00:00:00

THERMOMETER.

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This morning
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This day at Two o'clock 62

Barometer-29.88.
Wind—S.W.; moderate breeze, and cloudy,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, sh. 9m.—Afternoon, sh. 31m,
To-monßow.-Morning, sh. 58m,—Afternoon, 6h. 2533.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1863.

How long are the great Powers of Europe going
to look on, to all appearance most apathetically,.
while the Polish patriots are struggling fiercely,
spasmodically, for life and death, with the great
Russian Autocracy? Rsmemb3ring the history of
Poland, aware of the disproportion between the
opposing ranks of the belligerents—an inflexible
persistence on the part of the great Powers in the
application to this new phase of the Polish question
of the principle of non-intervention certainly does
seem not only cruel, it seems hardly less than crimi-
nal. While we write, this afternoon, there just now
comes to us as the latest telegram from the seat of
war, yonder in the north-east of Europe, the
announcement of yet another engagement between
the Imperialists and Insurgents. The contest in this
instance, we learn, took place- on the 29th ult. at
Grochowy. The result—as so often before now
has proved to be the case, since this last popular
rising of the Poles commenced—turning out
decidedly in favour of the Insurgents. The
Russians, we read in the telegram, were defeated
by the Poles with great loss—that is on the 29th
of May, in the battle which then took place at
Grochowy in the Kalisz Palatinate. Not only
was this the result, but upon the next day, that
is upon last Saturday (this day week) the vic•
tory won by the Insurgents was repeated!
The Russians returning to the attack on
the following day, the 30th ultimo, were again
repulsed—this time at Slawiszyn ! And, as if this
renewed advantage gained over the Russians by the
Polish Insurgents were not sufficient to satisfy the
patriotic determination of the latter, yet a third
contest took place, there, in that same Palatinate of
Kolisz on the very day afterwards, the 31st, that
is last Sunday—several waggon-loads of Russian
soldiers (we presume wounded) being driven across
the frontier of the Prussian territories from the
direction of Brudzewo : there, when safely lodged
upon the Prussian soil, being hospitably received
by the local authorities and cantonned at Pleszewo.
Satisfactory though these tidings are in themselves.
when we read that the Russians were again and
again defeated, the Polish insurgents again and
again being left by their imperial antagonists masters
upon the field of slaughter—one can never hear, at
the same time, of one single Polish victory without
a qualm of anxiety as to the result of those same
tidings when
,!-)rought to the Imperial councils at
St. Petersburg. There, in the Palace of the CZAR
--Mr. KIN GLAKE has pointed the moral and
adorned the tale of this formidable
truth in regard to the Great Northern
Autocracy—there, in the Palace of the CzAR, at St.
Petersburgh, sits in his chamber the despotic ruler
of 60,000,000 of men. One who has but to stretch
forth his hand, there, in that palace chamber where he
sits—who has but to stretch forth his hand, to ring a
bell, to utter or to breathe a few syllables, and
within a few seconds issue his mandate through the
electric wires to the extremities of his vast dominion !
Mandates setting in motion wherever and whither-
soever he pleases hundreds of thousands of armed
men—soldiers well armed and highly disciplined—
ready, by their concentration upon any given
Point in overwhelming numbers, to repair
any ordinary disaster of a warlike kind !!All
t
r" 11'14 possible any day, if the rest of the
Great Powers
to be
still
Ilestahould appear to the CZAR himself,
policy of upon resolutely carrying out the
apathy, out
at
11.1! events like this with seeming
ciple of nen-interveaut4. devotion to the vaunted prin-
Poles, sometimes 07:.. In the instance of the
seriously that
Americans, we a,„, tainint the instance of the
the period for thus persiostitMuk this policy of
non-intervention has at lengtinigh
en Pulsed.

It is not many years since the- state of o.
n
fieances was the cause of serious concern 'Rabin
forebadiegs and dismal Prophecies abounded, and
there were not wanting some who doubted
whether
it were worth while, in a monetary Point of vievt ,
so unprofitable are empire.
to retain posQession of
But a few brief years have passed, and what do we
see? By the wand of the two beneficent fairies._
peace and prudent financial administration—the
deficit has been converted into a surplus. The
empty exchequer has been replaced by an elastic
revenue, and the Indian financier is enabled, after
reducing the obnoxious income tax by one-fourth,
lowering the duty on iron. and diminishing that on
beer to one half, to leave himself, in the new finan-
cial year, an unemployed sum of nearly half a mil-
lion. This large amount, which be retains unap-
propriated, will serve as a reserve fund to meet any
possible emergency, or supply an unexpected defi-
cit ; or, better still, it may hr, employed in develop-
tv,
- resources of the country by road making