The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-28 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market opens quiet, but very strong. Sales,
probably 8,000 bales, or much more; import, 5,104.

THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH has granted
from his private purse a pension of £240 per annum to the
mother of the unfortunate danseuse, Mlle. Emma Livry,
besides £1,400 to pay for the expenses of her long illness
and funeral.

MLLE. STELLA COLAS.—This young ant gifted
a3tress, whose performance of Juliet at the Princess's
Theatre was so attractive a few months since, is pursuing a
auccessful career at the Michael Theatre, St. retereburg.

Naval Notification by the Polish Govern-

went,

The following circular has been ussued by the
Polish Government :

WARSAW, NOV. 9, 1863.
The captain•general hereby informs the mer-
chants of neutral powers that on the Ist January,
1864 (new style) he will open hostilities against
Russia. From that date, and in conformity with
the dispositions of the treaty of Paris with reference
to naval hostilities, all ships and vessels under the
Russian flag are declared lawful prize ; but the
Polish navy will always and everywhere respect
the , rights of neutrals, and the captain-general
hereby solemnly engages to do so, in the name of
the Government and of all who have adopted its
flag. For it is not a war of piracy which he declares
against Russia ; it is a regular war, made in the
name of a people regularly constituted, and under
the authority of a power emanating from and sus-
tained by the national will. The Polish sailors
will use the rights of belligerents, and will respect
the obligations which that title imposes, while
knowing how to make them respected with regard
to themselves.

It
battle, m
o might
in t
order nevertheless
tnhappen that during a
baensure the safety of Polish
h vessels, it will be necessary to drown or burn
i przes without its being possible to examine the
papers
on board and distinguish the interests of
neutrals from those of the enemy. This is a danger
which inevitably results for commerce from the
chances of war, and the captain-general hastens to
point it out, in order to prevent its occurrence, by
inviting all insurers, shippers, merchants, &c., of
neutral States to abstain from loading and insuring
Russian ships in future.
The captain-general finds it for the present im-
possible to address this manifesto to regularly esta-
blished Governments, but he is confident that
merchants will see in the publicity he gives to this
manifesto a certain guarantee of the straightfor-
wardness with which he carries on the struggle.
He has been enabled to act for several months, and
as a proof of this it will be sufficient to recall the
recent and fortunate expedition he directed on the
coast of Circassia. But he has not wished to do
anything in the dark, for by so doing he might
have compromised the interests of neutrals and the
flags of ships under his command.
If he has thought it his duty to wait, he now
declares it his luty to act ; and in conclusion he
again begs to state that he has fixed the Ist of
January next as the date of the commencement of
hostilities.

The Captain General of the Naval Forces of Poland,
AIAGNAN.

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per mine pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.30 per .£1 sterling on
comparing these rates with the English Mint price Of £3
I7s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appe,a- that gold 18
nearly 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices fromilamburg the price of gold is 9.25 a per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.5 per £1 sterling.
Standard gold at the English MiPtlirice is, therefore, about
1-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
GO days' sight is 15)4 to 160 per cent., and the premium on
gold is 45i to 451 per cent. At these rates there is scarcely
any profit on the importation of gold from the United
States.