The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Debats,' in commenting on the intelligence
from Poland, observes that the object of General
Mieroslawski appears to be to collect together the
various bands disseminated throughout the govern-
ments of Plock and Warsaw, and after a time
attack Kalisch. As that town is placed on the
extreme frontier of Russian Poland adjoining
the Duchy of Posen, it cannot well be the
theatre of a struggle of any length without
Prussia showing either by her inactivity or her co-
operation what course of conduct she will adopt,
and thereby proving if the Convention of Feb. 8
has become a dead letter or not. Considerable un-
easiness is said to prevail among the Russian gar-
risen at Kaliseh, but to obtain precise information
on the subject is exceedingly difficult. The Debats,
after summing up the intelligence brought by the
last telegrams, says :
" What is exact and authentic is the proclama-
tion addressed by General Nazimoff, Governor-
General of Lithuania, to the troops under his com-
mand. Politics at times, and war almost always,
live on falsehood, but it must be confessed that Gen.
Nazimoff singularly abuses his right to present facts
in the manner most favourable to his stategy. In
order to bring over the peasants to the side of Russia
and exasperate them against the landed proprietors,
he reminds them of the benefit of the abolition of
serfdom, for which they are indebted, according to
his account, to the Goverment of St. Petersburg. It
was the nobility of Lithuania who, in a petition ad-
dressed to the Emperor Alexander 11. at the time of
his accession, had first and spontaneously prayed for
the abolition of serfdom. What is more, the Em-
peror, by a letter which was made public,
took care to thank the landowners of Lithuania
for what they had done, and solemnly held them
up as an example to the Russian nobility. Such
is the real truth of the matter. And yet under
such pretexts, attempts are made to excite the pea-
sants almost to a regular slaughter or jacquerie,
without feeling any uneasiness at the effect which
such examples might produce in Russia itself at the
moment when the 3d March arrived ? Sixteen years
ago the Marquis Wielopolski made his debut in the
political career by addressing to Prince de Metternich
his famous protest against the massacres of Gallicia.
He there laid the bases of his Panslavist system by
horror for the Austrian Government, which he de-
nounced as the instigator and as the accomplice of
that great catastrophe. The Emperor Nicholas,'
he exclaimed, 'is too good a gentleman to ever
have recourse to such means.' At present, when
the Marquis Wielopolski is the Chief of the Civil
Government of Poland, will he send to General
Nazimoff a second edition of the Lettre d'un Gen-
tilhomme Polonais a M. de Metternich ?' "
THE BOURSE.—PARIS, March 7.—The decline
which took place yesterday has not continued, and
although the market is very inanimate, Threes for
the Account, hold firm at 69fr. 90c. Mobilier have
slightly recovered. The Railway Share Market is
heavy, but without any material variation in quo-
tations. Four-and-a-half per Cents. are quoted to-
day ex div. 2fr. 25c. The market continued firm,
and left off as follows :

41 per Cents. .. 96 75 Bank Shares 1385 --
Do. end month.... Credit 1, oncier ....1490
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 95 Italian Loan 7O
New 3 per Cents .. Russian
Spanish Threes s2s
Do. end month.... Austrian .. —
Home Debt .. 45!
DC roe. dei tn
dMionboinl itehr ........
11222350 --__

RAIL'

'AYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans lll2 50 .. 1117 50

Northern
New. ditto • ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1188 75 .. 1191 25
Geneva
Southern 7Bl 25 .. 780
Western
Eastern -
Sardinian
Austrian
Lon-bard
North of Spain
Saragossa ..
Ditto to Barcelona 350 .. 351 25

POLAND,—The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
has consented to take the chair at the public
meeting with reference to the present struggle in
Poland, to be held at the Egyptian Hall, the day
of which will shortly be announced.

The Ahkbar of Algiers states that, in accordance
with a recent Imperial decision the native troops of
Algeria are henceforth to contribute their quota to the gar-
rison of Paris. This distinction has been conferred as a
reward for the brilliant services they have never ceased to
render since their first organisation. The detachment to
Paris are to consist of a battalion of sharpshooters taken
from each regiment successively ; and of 50 horsemen in
turn from each regiment of Spahis. Tho infantry and
cavalry will both remain a year in Franco.
EXTRAORDINARY ENGINE CHASE.—An extraor-
dinary occurrence took place on the Caledonian Rail-
way on Thursday, the 26th of February, which had very
nearly been the cause of a fearful accident. It appears that
early on the morning of that day an engine was detached
from an up luggage train at Beattock station, and shunted
on the down line for the purpose of taking in water. When
this operation was completed, the driver, instead of going
to the points and returning to his proper line, put on steam
and started for the south alone. The fireman, who was on
the platform, F eeing that if the engine kept on it would
inevitably meet the down limited mail face to face, lost no
time in getting ready another engine, which fortunately
had steam up, and started in chase on the proper or up line
After a race of 13 miles he overtook the truant engine near
Locket by, and on getting alongside leaped from one engine
to the other. He had just time to reverse the engine, wake
up the driver, who was asleep, and then run to the adjacent
signal-post, when the limited mail came thundering along
from Carlisle at 40 miles an hour. It was fortunately
stopped by the signal in time when within a few yards of
the runaway engine. Had the fireman hesitated as to the
proper course to pursue, even for one minute, a very seri-
ous accident and loss of life must have occurred.—Carlisle
Journal.

London,
A SCIENTIFIC GHOST.—The Polytechnic Institu-
tion,
—he rises out of the solid floor, and you may walk right
has a great attraction in a real ghost
through him, and cut him in two with a sword. For the
right to use the ghost in a now piece the manager of one of
our theatres has offered £5OO. The mode of producing the
ghost belongs to an ex-civil engineer named Dicks, who
first broached it at a meeting of the British Association in
1858.