The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-29 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(I,EUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.

PARIS, JUNE 29.
M. Rouland has been nominated First Vice-
President of tie Senate.

The Emperce arrived here at 11 last night.
PARIS, June 27.
M. Vaisse his received the Grand Cross of the
Legion of Honour.
The Prefects of the departments of Loiret and
Upper Saone lave been dismissed.
A decree of ,he Emperor has been published to-
day appointinf two Prefects, 15 sub• Prefects, and
12 Councillorsof Prefecture.

The Paris Papers of to-day publish a message,
dated Constan inople, the 26th inst., asserting that
Sir Henry Bu wer had addressed, in the name of
his colleagues of the Diplomatic Body, a protest to
the Porte, referring to the indemnity due by the
Turkish Government for the persons killed in Syria,
The same taegram states that 11 engagements of
a sanguinary character had successively taken phice
in the Caucasts.

The Paris erning papers contain the following :
"It is asserted on good authority that France and
England have come to an understanding, and are
about to propose an armistice to the belligerents in
America. In ease of a refusal on the part of the
North, France and England will recognize the
South."

The Emperor will come to Paris on Monday next
to preside at a Council of Ministers.
La France of this evening publishes an article
headed" France and the Democracy," which, after
pointing out what it terms " the impotence of th,
old parties," safe ;

" The election of MM. Berryer and Triers is due
solely to the concurrence of the advanced Demo-
cracy. There exists no really serious party to face
the Government except the Democratic masses.

" It is impossible to understand why an unim
portant communal bffair should require investiga-
tions lasting at least two years, owing to the inter-
vention of 11 different authorities."

The Emperor further expresses himself convinced
of .:he urgency of this reform necessitating the re-
vision of numerous laws, decrees, ordinances, and
Ministerial instructions, His Majesty intrusts this
labour to the different sections of the Council of
State; " for if," continues the letter, " the Council
of State does not administer, it observes the acts of
the Administration."

The Emperor concludes by saying :
" As I attach great importance to this reform, I
rely upon the enlightened zeal of the Council of
State to arrive very soon at a satisfactory solution."
The state of affairs in France, resulting from the
elections of the 31st of May, may be summarised
in two words..' rhe Empire and Democracy.' The
Empire must turn towards the Democracy and
adopt its promises of reforms and its programme of
progress and liberty. The Emperor alone can trans-
form these promises into reality. It will thus give
satisfaction to the honest and generous instincts of
Democracy, without exciting its passions. The
Empire will be Revolution without despotism."
The Patrie of this evening says :
" It is asserted that Monseigneur Chigi is about
to proceed to St. Petersburg as Papal Nuncio."
A letter addressed by the Emperor to the Pre-
sident of the Council of State, has been published
to-day, in which his Majes'y says :
" Our system of centraiisation, despite its ad-
vantages, is attended by the serious inconvenience
of leading to an excess of administrative action.
BOURSE, June 27.—The market has been firm,
but without any improvement in prices—Threes,
for the Account, being unvaried at 68f. 40e. Little
or nothing doing in Railway Shares. The market
closed as follows
per Cents 97 --- Italian Loan 73 05
Do end month.... I Do. end month —
i per Cents
Do. end month.... 68 45 Do. end month....
Credit Mobilier.... 1190 Russian
00, end month... 1212 50 Austrian .. —
Bank Shares 3400 ,:rani,h Threes.,
Credit k ander 1335 Home Debt

RA IL WAYS.
Cris4h.
Orleans 997 50
Northern
New ditto
• --
Lyons and Medit urranean 1017 50 .. 1022 50
Geneva 452 50 460
southern ...... „ . 702 50 702 50
Western ...
eastern .....
Sardinian ......... . 415 , .
Austrian
Lon. hard
North of Spain
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona

Account.

POLAND.
(FRom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

CRACOW, JUNE 24.
The following is a translation of the protest of
the Archbishop of Warsaw against the execution
of the Cipucin priest Konarski. It is known that
in consequence of this protest the archbishop was
sent to St. Petersburg, whence, it is said, he will
be transported fo Wologdal:—
" 12th June, 1863, No. 1,707. To the President
of the Government Commission for Public Educa-
tion and religion.
" To•day, between the hours of five and six in
the morning, the Rev,. Konarski, chaplain of the
Society of the Capucin Fathers, was hanged at the
citadel, in pursuance of a sentence of the military
authorities. His body was left hanging fur three
hours, after which it was buried, no one knows
where, without any religious service whatever.
The indictment of M. Konarski says that in
1856 he remained for some time abroad with a
foreign passport, and that, by order of the Central
Committee, having proceeded tojoin the insurgen ts in
the kingdom of Poland, he performed the duties of
a clergyman, principally by confessing wounded
persons who were in danger of death. In the
above-named charges I see nothing that calls for
the severe punishment of death ; for it is a chap-
lain's duty, without regard to the person summon-
ing him, to give spiritual comfort to all on the verge
of death, whatever may be their political or social
position. The principle is universally recognised,
and the terrible civil war in North America affords
a fresh proof of the protection always given by
each side to the chaplains of the other, although one
of the parties is regarded by the other as in a state
of rebellion. Even this Government announced in
tt e public papers, at the beginning of the present
insurrection, that neither chaplains nor physicians
shall be punished for renderiLg assistance to the
wounded.

" Tne execution of the sentence in question is,
moreover, in complete opposition to ecclesiastical
iavv. For there are numerous decisions of the
Catholic church and of the provincial Polish synods,
stating the cases in which a chaplain may be con
&lamed to death, and clearly providing that a clergy-
man convicted of a capital offence shall not be exe-
cuted until a sentence of degred,tion shall have beet'
passed upon him, and his spiritual aignities taken
rom him, by the spiritual authorities, in order that
the profession of a clergyman might be respected,
.nd because religion is the basis of all social order.
Any infraction of this law bzings a great responsi-
bility both on those who perpetrate it and on those
who in any way assist them in doing so; and it also
causes mourning in the church within a certain
space around the place where the sentence was car-
ried out. Now, in the act in question the Eccle-
siastical Law, which has hitherto always been obeyed
in cases of this kind, has been violated in every way.
For not only have the proceedings of the tribunal
which passed the sentence not been communicated
to me, but I have not even been informed what the
offence of the chaplain aforementioned was. This
circumstance is the more offensive that the dignity
of a clergyman has been held up to public shame,
the hanging of a priest on the gallows being a kind
of death which is regarded as the most shameful of
all.

4' The present are no doubt exceptional times, but
justice,:the law of the nation, and law of God, can-
not allow of any exceptions. Although this protest
cannot prevent au accomplished fact, I have the
honour to request that you will communicate these
remarks to the higher authorities, with the view of
at least preventing such acts in future. Further,
in order at lest partly to compensate for the slight
°Mond. to the Glow, i rt,qust that the body or Ulu

late Mr. Konarski may be given up to me, in order
that it may receiva proper burial according to the
forms of religion. The Government itself acknow-
ledged the propriety of a request of this kind, when
by your despatch of the 27th May (3d June) last,
No. 3,075 (6,617), it required that a chaplain who
refused to say the burial service over a miller who
had been hanged, should be severely reprimanded.

(Signed) "X. FELINSKI."
(Here follows an extract from the Ecclesiastical
Law on the subject.)

THE POLISH QUESTION.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 27.

•
The Notes of England, France, and Austria on
the Polish question were remitted to Prince Gort-
schakoff to-day.

PARIS, June 28.

The Memorial Dip7omatique of to-day says
" We are able to announce that the acceptance by
Russia of the preliminary bases of the Notes of
England, France, and Austria appears certain, al-
though tne Cabinet of St. Petersburg intends to
demand, in an explanatory Note, some modifica-
tions of the programme of the three Powers.
Russia will, it is stated, . also ask that the seat
of the European conference on the Polish question
should be St. Petersb lrg. In designating her own
capital as the place of meetiag for the Plenipo-
tentiaries, Russia clearly indicates that she enters
completely into the views of the three Cabinets re-
venting the urgent necessity of arresting the ef-
fu,ion of blood betore the opening of the conferences.
The Russian Government has taken the wise course
of yielding to the friendly remonstrances of the
three Powers who signed the Notes of the 10th of
April last, being well aware that they are already
preparing to form a close triple alliance for the
realisation of the unalterable aim of their common
efforts in the event of diplomatic means being ex
hausted without assuring the pacification of Poland."
The Memorial Diplumatique further states that
the three Powers have agreed to recommend lirus-
-iels as the seat of the conferences, and expresses a
belief that Russia will accept this arrangement.