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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING}, APRIL 30, 1863.

mirable discretion perceive the right moment when
opposition should be withdrawn and concession
substituted. There is more to be expected from his
good sense and keen appreciation of the claims of
others than from all the elaborate evolutions and
skilled sophistries of his Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer.

Last night there was laid before Parliament the
correspondence of the English Government with
the European powers relating to the Polish in-
surrection. One of the chief of these despatches
is that of Earl RUSSELL on the subject of Russia
fulfilling her treaty obligations. His lordship says
he feels that her Majesty's Government have a
peculiar right to make its opinions known to his
Imperial Majesty from Great Britain having been a
party, in common with many other European
nations, to the Treaty of Vienna. Farther on he
distinctly states the grievance of the case by de-
claring that by treaty the Grand Duchy of Warsaw
was erected into a kingdom of Poland " to be inse-
perably attached to the empire of Russia under
certain conditions specified in that article, and her
Majesty's Government are concerned to have to say
that although the anion of the kingdom to the
empire has been strictly maintained, the conditions
on which the union was distinctly made to depend
have not been fulfilled by the the Russian
Government." Again, afterwards, Earl RUSSELL
forcibly protests against the assertion of Prince
GORTSCHAKOFF, that the revolts have cancelled all
the engagements of Russia in the treaty of Vienna;
but, argues his Lordship, her Majesty's Govern-
ment cannot acquiesce in a doctrine " which they
deem so contrary to good faith, so destructive of
the obligation of treaties, and so fatal to all the
international ties which bind together the com-
munity of European States and Powers." His
Lordship could hardly have spoken more strongly,
and he still farther adds that, if the Emperor of
RUSSIA held Poland as part of his original domi-
nions, or had acquired it by the unassisted success
of his arms, he might have refused to listen to the
dictates of generosity and justice, and in conse-
quence of the revolt of a portion of the Poles, have
visited his displeasure upon them and their descen-
dants for ever, by depriving them of their privilege■
and confiscating their liberties. But the position of
Poland is entirely different, for Russia had made a
solemn stipulation with the European Powers, by
virtue of which treaty she held Poland, and no re-
volt of the Poles could annul the engagement or
obliterate the signatures, Finally, Lord RUSSELL
adverts to the issue of the struggle, and states that
whether quelled speedily or at a more prolonged
period, it cannot be done without great sacrifice;
and her Majesty's Government, therefore, would
submit to the Imperial Government that Russia
has duties to fulfil, as a member of the community
of European nations, besides the obligations that

treaties may impose.
This is all that can be desired, and it is most
errnestly to be trusted that it may have some weight
with the Imperial Government. Earl RUSSELL is
always great in his despatches ; they often exhibit
such force and decision that they appear worthy to
be models for statesmen to study. The misfortune
is, that it is by this time pretty well acknow-
ledged as a fact that no results ever ensue from
these admirable communications with Foreign
Powers. Lord RUSSELL'S remarks on the
amnesty are also most excellent, and he plainly
states his conviction that the terms pro-
posed to the Poles are not such as they are
likely to agree to, and are not uttered in the right
spirit of conciliation. Certainly these despatches
are worthy of proceeding from the Government of
Great Britain, and exhibit a force and display a
straightforwardness that are worthy of the occasion.
All that is wanting to complete the satisfaction
that is occasioned by their perusal is the fear that
they be deemed conclusive on both sides, that Lord
RUSSELL will think he has done enough, and that
the Emperor of RUSSIA will not expect that more
will be done to follow up this remonstrance.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE,

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

POLAND.

WARSAW, APRIL 25, EVENING.
A recent arbitrary act has excited public indig-
nation anew against the name of Wielopolski. Since
the time when Prince Gortschakoff replaced Pasz-
kiewicz as Viceroy nothing so flagrantly unjust in
administrative matters has been perpetrated here.
The cause of complaint is briefly thus :—For some
time past it has been intended to improve the health
of the city, unhappily notorious for an extraordi-
nary high rate of mortality, by amended water
supply and drainage. The town council lately in
office had been very zealous in the matter, and we
now learn from official quarters that Count Sigis-
nsund Wielopolski, the President of the town, has
of his own accord placed this undertaking, which
will entail upon the citizens an expense of two
million florins, in the hands of an Englishman, upon
terms which double the estimate of the engineers
engaged by the town council to prepare the scheme.
The financial management of the enterprise is en-
trusted to the banker, Laski, a very intimate friend
of the Wielopolski family, and report whispers that
the President himself is not without some interest
in the affair. Suspicions of this description find
general belief in a land of universal corruption when
officials venture on such arbitrary proceedings, and
tend to increase the stock of inflammable materials
already largely present among the populeion. Nor
does the Government aid in decreasing the elements
of danger by orders like that of yesterday, forbid-
ding religious processions in the streets.
These solemnities take place every year at the end
of April or the beginning of May. The clergy walk
in procession from one church to another, in order
corresponding with the rank in the hierarchy of the
patron saint to whom the church is dedicated. Until
recently they met with little public interest. In 1861,
however, when the discontented party, failing or
ganised and defined concentration, were glad to
avail themselves of ecclesiastical means of agitation,
the processions were made the vehicles of political
demonstrations by the people, who attended them
singing patriotic hymns in their progress through
the streets. Last year Archbishop Felinski, then
friendly to the Government, forbade the processions
on account of the state of siege. Whence the chief
ecclesiastical dignitary in the country has been in-
spired this year with precisely opposite sentiments
I am unable to divine; it is sufficient to chronicle
that upon this occasion, spite of the state of siege, the
archbishop insisted that the processions should take
place. It was in vain that the Minister of Public
Worship and the Chief of the Police negotiated
with the high dignitary even as late as yesterday.
No arguments they could adduce were able to move
him from his purpose. If the Government had a
better memory they would surely have remembered
in what an unpleasant predicament they were
placed by the temporary Archbishop Bialobrzeski
closing the churches, and that it was only through
the compliance of Rome they could obtain a suc-
cessor, who made his debut by reopening the sacred
edifices. To bring this extraordinarily delicate
subject once more into prominent notice at this cri-
tical period, and to go to loggerheads with the
clergy, worst of all with Archbishop Felinski, whom
they had hitherto used as a tool,was a step to which,
one would think, the Government could only have
been advised by their most virulent enemies.
The appointed processsion, from Liszno to the
Elector's-street, came off, therefore, to-day with due
formality and perfect quiet, the Governmental pro-
hibition being violated unpunished by the people.
But after the termination of the ceremony all the
clergy who had participated, among whom was
canon Wyszynski,who only returned a few months
ago from Siberia, were arrested, and carried off to
the citadel. The party of agitation is, of course,
overjoyed at this blunder of the Government, which
must lead to further collisions. But I grieve to
say that I perceive in the matter the commence-
ment of a rising in Warsaw, which the Govern- ,
went will have the dismal merit of having brought
about. Had they not issued the prohibition, the
present leaders of the revolution would not have
dreamt of using the processions for their own pur-
poses, as they have already seen, in the case of
Felinski himself, how perilous to freedom is an
alliance with the superior clergy. But through this
ill judged prohibition the processions are now
stamped as political demonstrations, from holding
which neither the people nor the clergy will allow
themselves to be restrained; and, therefore, I repeat
it is to be feared that melancholy eights will soon
be seen in Warsaw.

A story of an act of revolutionary vengeance is
current here. In the middle of last week a post-
chaise arrived at a small town not far from Wloc-
lawek. The occupant of the vehicle, a well-dressed
person, sought out a police official suspected of being
a Russian spy, and begged his assistance to follow
up the traces of two horses which he stated had
been stolen from him. The policeman obtained per-
mission from his superior to accompany the stranger.
The two got into the postchaise, and drove out of
the town, where their vehicle was seen to be fol-
lowed by another. To the side of the high road,
outside the town, is situated a small wood, into
which, by the wheel-tracks, both carriages must
have passed. Here the policeman was afterwards
discovered, hanged, with a sign upon the tree be-
side the corpse, designating the execution as en act
of political vengeance.
While Fate overtakes a spy, Fortune bestows her
favours upon the bold. One of the prizes in the
recent Prussian Lottery, amounting to 50,01:0
thalers, fell to the lot of a resident in Kempen.
When he received the news of his good fortune he
had joined one of the corps of insurgents, and had
the money forwarded to him in camp.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.
Messrs. T. and W. Smith's ship St. Lawrence,

1,200 tons, Capt, Joseph Tay nbee, has passed up
Channel. From Calcutta, Jan. 22, and Table Bay,
March 6. She brings a general Calcutta cargo,
with a large quantity of indigo and shell lac. Her
passengers are—From Calcutta—Col. A. K. Ather-
ley, 92d Highlanders, Mrs. Atherley, and 4 chil-
dren ; Mrs. Col. Maxwell and 3 children, Col. and
Mrs. J. W. Carter and 2 children, Col. and Mrs.
T. C. Blagrave, Mrs. Col. Cox and 5 children, Major
J. S. Dunbar (Bengal Stuff Corps), Capt. and Mrs.
Ramsay, Madras army, Capt. and Mrs. Baggs,
Capt. Miller, 52d N. 1., Capt. C. Bailey, 17th N. 1.,
Dr. C. M. Henderson, Dr. Reid, 2011 Hussars,
Lieuts G. Stainforth, 4th Sikh infantry, M. Rind,
107th Regiment, F. Brind, 44th NJ., Richards,
94th Regiment, B. Arbuckle, R.A., Mrs. Chevers
and 3 children, Mrs. simpson, Mrs. Taylor and
3 children, Mrs. Hannah and 4 children, Mrs.
Duncan and 4 children, Mrs. Wood and 3 children,
Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Mayes and child, Mrs. Ander-
son and 2 children, Miss Newton, Miss Maxwell,
Messrs. H. H. Brakspear and Chiappini. From
the Cape of Good Hope—Mrs. Fellowes and Mr.
Finlay. The St. Lawrence spoke Feb. 13, in 22
S. 67 E. the Dutch barque Hendiana ; Feb. 27, in
34 S. 25 E., the ship-Annott Lyle, from Bombay for
Liverpool, 44 days out; March 25, near the Equator,
in W„ French ship Montisquier, from Bordeaux,

for Monte Video, and H arvest Home, from London,
35 days out ; March 2'9, in 3 N. 24 W., the Eliza
Ann, from Colombo for London, 85 days out;
April 18, in 42 N. 28 W., boarded the Wooloo-
mooloo, from Sydney- for London, 93 days out,
April 26, in 49 N. 9 W., the ship Windsor Castle,
96 days, from Bombay for London ; and the barque
Highland Brigade, standing to the westward.
The above news only arrived in London at 11.30
a.m., to-day (Thursday), although despatched by
train from Plymouth yesterday afternoon.

PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING.

Brookfield-house, B instead, near Ryde, the
marine seat of Lord Burghley, has been destroyed
by fire, Furniture and effects saved. No lives
lost,

ANOTHER RUMOUR OF CARDINAL
ANTONELLI'S RESIGNATION.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
TURIN, APRIL 27, 3 35 P.M.
Yesterday a German priest left Civita Vecchia,
for Genoa, by the steamer Prince Napoleon. He
is supposed to be the bearer of despatches to Car-
dinal De Angelis announcing the resignation of
Cardinal Antonelli, and calling De Angelis to be
the head of the Pontifical Government:

Some time since we had occasion, it may be re-
membered, to give a formal and positive contradic-
tion to a precisely similar rumour. Cardinal Ante-
nelli was then quite as confidently stated to have
tendered his resignation—his eminence really
and truly, ae we then remarked in this jour-
nal, never having done anything of the
kind. Now that the rumour is again cropping up
in the form of the above very roundabout little
telegram, we may be permitted at least to
doubt its accuracy, until such time as it

may come to us from some more reliable
direction then Turin. It will be seen from the
wording of the telegram that the mysteriously-
anonymous "German priest" (why German ?) left
Civita Vecchia for Genoa, in order to summonC3rdi-
sal De Angelis at once to Rome, there to assume
Cardinal Antonelli's vacated (?) post at the head
of the Pontifical Government. A voyage across from
Civita Vecchia to Genoa, being rather a circuitous
route, by the bye, for any one to have selected, on
his way to Fermo, of which city in the
Marshes Cardinal De Angelis is Archbishop.
If in " durance" further to th© north like so many
other of the Italian dignitaries, Cardinal DE
ANGELIS is hardly likely to be the one selected
by the POPE to replace ANTONELLl—sup-
posing (which we don't) that ANTONELLI
has really resigned. Yet supposing this summons
actually to have been issued—what are those words
of SHAKESPEARE ? " You may call spirits (for
Spirits here read Angelis) from the vasty deep, but
will they come ?"

THE BRAZILS.

LISBON, APRIL 30.

The royal mail steamer MJgdalena, from the
Brazils, arrived here yesterday, and will leave for
Southampton at 7 a,m. to-day, with 123 passengers,
1,300 bags of coffee, 862 bales of tobacco, 30 bales
of cotton, and 216 packages of sundries.

MEXICO.

PARIS, APRIL 30.

The Government has received despatches from
General Forey confirming the investiture of Puebla
by the French forces.

The French headquarters are established on the
Cerro San Juan. The town is completely invested.
The convents have been fortified, and earthworks
are erected in the open country. The garrison of
the place is estimated to number 18,000.
The telegraph line between Puebla and Mexico
has been destroyed. The whole population round
Puebla is favourable to the French intervention.

The sanitary condition of the French troops is
excellent, and the army is full of ardour. The offi-
cial report says, in conclusion ;—" We have cut the
aqueduct and command all the roads."