The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jan. 6.—Sales for realisation produced
at first a slight retrograde movement, but prices
have since again rallied, and are now firm at yes-
terday's closing price, 70f. 80c. Railway Share
Market quiet, and up to the present time prices
pretty well maintained. Prices again receded
before the close, and left off as follows :

it per Cents .. 98 65 Bank Shares 3430
Do, end month.... 98 70 Credit Foncier 1450
3 per Cents
~ 70 35 Piedmontese Fives.
Do. end month 70 60 Italian Loan 73 25
New 3 per Cents .. Russian .. 95 25
Do, end month.... Austrian
Credit. Mobilier..., 1190 Spanish Threes 54
Do, end m0nth....1181 25 Home Debt -
RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lO9O .. 1085
Northern
New ditto
• • ''..... ''"
Lyons and Mediterranean 11.72 50 .. 1175
Geneva ..
South6rn 825 825
. .
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 665 .. 665
Ditto to Barcelona

POLAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
WARSAW, DEC. 30.
Another arbitrary regulation, emanating from
the Council of State, has been promulgated by the
official journal of the 24th inst., in virtue of which
the Administrative Council is empowered to nomi-
nate public functionaries, instead of the persons
elected by the Districts, to act as a delegation on
the part of the Government for the adjustment of
the relations between the landlords and the peasants.
Hitherto the law only granted this privilege to the
proprietors, who are chiefly interested in this long-
pending question, and who naturally—guided by a
sense of justice and patriotic devotion—are anxious
to bring the matter to a satisfactory end for all
parties; but the authorities, ever eager to sow dis-
sensions, compelled most of the Districts to refuse
their co-operation. The Government jumped at
this opportunity, and hence the fresh law investing
all the power in the official nominees, the pernicious
effects of which is contemplated by the public with
no small alarm, as it destroys the chance of the
peasant question being arranged, as it would have
been, to the murual benefit of the parties concerned.
The new ukase of the Emperor, which presumes
to restore all the confiscated property, of what has
not been annexed to the Crown, to the exiles of
1830.31, if they return to Poland, has caused much
amusement here; because it is notorious that
every bit of the fortunes of the exiles had, by
order of Nicholas, been ferreted out, and either
made part of the State or distributed
among the Russian generais, and that, were
the authorities to search every house in Poland,
they would find nothing that belonged to her pro-
scribed sons. The joke was merely for the Euro-
pean public, to show the magnanimity of the Rus-
sian Government towards the Poles, who are little
aware of the incessant tyranny and oppression they
are enduring. As to the return of the refugees to
Poland, though a" few and far between" cases of
this kind occurred, no one is allowed to go back
without, in a most humiliating strain, asking for
the pardon; and rarely this pardon is given,
because the Russian embassies in London and i❑
Paris, through whom the petitions must be pre-
sented, decline forwarding them to Warsaw. It
is to my knowledge that several emigrants, bowed
down under an advanced age, or attacked with an
incurable malady, such as paralysis, having solicited
Permission to return home and lay their bones
on their native soil, the Czar's ambassador in Lon-
don would not forward the application for the con-
sideration of the Emperor. Such is the real worth
of this ukase, which I perceive has been justly
appreciated by the French press.

The state trial of the 66 political prisoners is
proceeding, and every day discloses the subterfuges,
the savage treatment of the accused in the Citadel,
in order to compel them to admit the charges which,
when once before the open court, and with the help
of the counsel, they immediately deny. To give all
the particulars of this trial, which may be classed
among the most remarkable that has taken place
in Europe, would be tedious ; but it is surprising
what moral courage and determination have been
exhibited by the accused, however humble the
sphere of life to which they belong, being mostly
artisans and young workmen, and the fervid
eloquence with which they were defended. All the
efforts of the Russian Attorney-General, M, Ave-
naska, have been unavailing to deny the statement
of ono of the prisoners named Budony that, while
under examination in the Citadel, he was both
threatened with corporeal punishment and offered a
bribe of money if he would confess what was pro-
posed to him, and at last the Attorney-General had
to confess himself having employed those means by
order of a higher authority. This gives a fair idea
Jf Russian justice, and consequently the result of
the trial may be easily guessed. Perhaps two or
three prisoners will be liberated, but the rest is
sure to be condemned.
In my former letters I described the mode in
which the c3nscription or rather proscription of the

population of this country for the Russian army
was to be effected. It has been represented in the
imperial ukase as a benevolent measure, tending to
have regard to the present political and social trans-
formation, and to spare all those whose presence
the country required. However, when the veil
thrown over this blind had been removed, the true
object of the proscription was palpable, viz., to'
get rid of the more intelligent part of the popula-
tion, particularly
the workmen and the artisans
inhabiting the towpsi glad
whom the Government

found the most, troublesome during the lest events
in Poland. That such is the case it has been
proved, since a long and most eiaboraie eireuia,
from the Director of the Department for Home
Affairs to the Civil Governors of the kingdom on
the subject has been forwarded, marked " strictly
confidential." The document, the authenticity of
which is beyond doubt, being very profuse and dry,
I am obliged to contract it, and reduce it to the
following extracts :
"Considering that the persons whose business it will be
to select persons for the military conscription from the no-
minal lists drawn up with this object should possess the
necessary information, not only respecting the social position
and occupation of those included in such lists, but also of
their political conduct, inasmuc h:as one of the chief principles
of this conscription is to be to get rid of those people who
aid by their conduct in disturbing public order, these func-
tions are to be performed :
"In towns : by the civil governor, the councillor of the
military police department, the military governor or his
assistant, and the president of the town.
"In districts : by the chief of the district, his assistant
for the recruiting business, and the local commandant of the
gendarmes, with the power of calling in cases of necessity
on the presidents or magistrates of towns to give the neces-
sary information. The Council of Administration also brings
to notice that it will be the duty of every recruiting district
to provide a certain fixed number of recruits, who should
be especially chosen from among people having no permanent
occupation, without work, and at the same time unfavour-
ably noted as to their conduct during the late disturbances
irrespective of the circumstances of some particular town or
district having, relatively to other towns or districts,a greater
or smaller portion of recruits. The following are to be
erased from the list of persons exempt from military duty
by the 9th art. of the law of 1859."
Here follows a list of 29 professions, &c., whose members
are, by the existing laws, exempt from military duty, but
whom the arbitrary will of the Government declares eligible
for the conscription.

To guard against " arbitrariness" and " partiality" (I) in
the case of the persons with regard to whom the law is to be
thus violated, the chiefs of districts are next directed to for-
ward lists of their names, with the reasons for their selec-
tion to the civil governor. It is obvious that these reasons
will be easily found and approved of where persons obnoxious
to the Government are in question.
Then come directions for the formation of a " reserve"
list, with the view of supplying recruits in the event of the
numbers selected not being sufficient.
The military "are to give every possible assistance to
the civil authorities, with the view to the proper conduct
of the conscription, and observe that the fulfilment of this
conscription, in present circumstances, will require the use
of extraordinary means, and the exercise of energy and
provision."

After some administrative arrangements, "the closest se-
crecy" is ordered in the preparation of the lists, &c. Then
follow other arrangements for giving the civil power the
assistance of the military, after which the attention of
governors is called to the " necessity of selecting the majority
of the recruits from the town populations."
"Finally," so ends the despatch, "you will warn the
employes concerned, that the business relating to the con-
scription should be carried on with t'ae greatest quickness,
energy, and firmness of conduct, and that all instances of
neglect or failure in this matter will entail severe responsi-
bilities on their authors."

Instructions, such as those contained in the above
document, need no comment, they speak for them-
selves, and disclose the machinations employed, and
the wickedness of the Russian Government in all its
glory.

Some time since the Governor of Wolhynia
ordered lithographed copies of an address to the
Emperor from the peasants to be signed by them.
The address purposed to explain that the peasants
are from a different origin than the landowners,
and soliciting the Emperor's particular solicitude.
The peasants not knowing how to read or write,
passed the address from one hand to another with-
out any concern for it.

The Russian ministerial journal, the Northern
Bee, makes of this address, which, by the bye, has
never been sent by the peasants, a state document,
showing the great love for the Czar and hatred to
the Polish nobles. In publishing this, the Northern
Bee had the modesty to mention the real and bona
fide addresses of the nobility of the kingdom, of
Padolia and of Minsk, which all reached the Em-
peror, and for which many Polish nobles are now
imprisoned in St. Petersburg, awaiting their trial
before the Russian Senate. Such is the impartiality
and respectability of the Russian official journal.