The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-02 00:00:00

the 27th ; on the Ist inst, at 4 deg. 40 min. p.m.
passed and exchanged colours with the Belgravia,
14 miles S.W. of Portland, bound up channel,
apparently crippled on the main topmast.
The French frigate Perdrix, the Italian frigate
Vittore Emmanuele, and the usual Egyptian fleet,
were at Alexandria; at Malta were her Majesty's
ships St. George, Shannon, Marlborough, Cosines,
and Magicienne ; and at Gibraltar the Virago, Tri-
dent, Procris, and Edgar.
The steam ship Poonah, with the outward mails
of the 20th arrived at Gibraltar en the 26th, at 5
p.m., and left the same evening for Malta and
Alexander.

The British schooner Roe, from Leith, with coals
for Rosas, lost maintopmast and sails in a heavy
squall off Cape de Gatt. On the morning of the
20th the Spanish steamer Cervantes picked her up
in a dismasted state on the coast of Marbella, and
took her safely into Malaga the same day.

The latest accounts received from Dar-el-Baida
report a cessation of the hostilities that have so
long been waged amongst the tribes in the vici-
nity. After some negotiation an arrangement was
come to, and it was expected that the Medioona
tribe would decamp from the neighbourhood of
Dar-el-Baida. The reconciliation of the belligerents
was a source of great rejoicing to the inhabitants of
the town, and corn and water, of which there had
been great scarcity, were again brought in in abun-
dance.

The arrival out at Gibraltar of British ships since
last advices, included the steamer Cairo, six days
from Liverpool; steamerßritannia, seven days from
London ; barque Princess Royal, 26 days from Glas-
gow ; brig John Wesley, 24 days from Shields;
steamer Cella, eight days from Cardiff; steamer
Don Pedro, 10 days from Glasgow ; steam tug
Cesar, 13 days from London ; steamer Morocco, 4-2
days from Liverpool ; brigantine White Star, 25
days from Newcastle; schooner Sea Nymph, 20
days from Liverpool; brig Mina, 21 days from
Newcastle; and steamer Orontes, six days from
Liverpool.
Gibraltar Exchanges on the 26th were quoted on
London, 90 days date, 601 to 501; Paris sf. 30c. ;
Marseilles, sf. 31c. to 32c. ; Genoa, sf. 32c. ; Ma-
drid, eight days' sight, I prem. ; Cadiz, 1 dis.;
Seville, Z- dis.; Malaga, par; Barcelona, to I
prem ; Almeira, I dis. ; Valencia, a prem. ; Ali-
cant,l die. Premium on five franc pieces P.C.
The freights unaltered.

THE BRAZILS.
(PER MAGDALENA.)
* BUENOS AYRES, MARCH 28.
Exchange, 761. Ounces, 426. Wet salted ox
hides, 40. Dry American, 35 to 37 (? 37), large
transactions. Wcol quiet, prices 3 to 4 lower.
Tallow 14 firm, and in demand. Lumber 34 declin-
ing. Flour unchanged. Refined sugar 161. The
money market is easier (? easier).
* The transmission of this telegram from Lisbon has oc-
cupied nearly three days.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, MAY 2.

The members of the Moderate Liberal party of
the Chamber of Deputies discussed in a private
sitting yesterday the proposition of the party of
progress to send an address to the King upon the
foreign policy of the Government. The members
rejected this proposition on the ground that a
debate thereon might lead to a conflict between the
Chambers and the Government.

No address will, therefore, be forwarded by the
Chamber to the King for the present,

POLAND.

9gtOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
CRACOW, APRIL 28.

The long-sought aid of the peasants has at length
been gained by the Polish insurgents. Commenc-
ing with the district of Kalisz, the flame has spread
among the peasant class with such rapidity, that
very few of the 150 insurgent bands which are now
scouring the Kingdom in all directions, but are
composed more or less of peasants. In the Polish
province of Lithuania, the peasantry have, from the
beginning, taken an important part in the insurrec-
tion. As the masses are now rising, the want of
arms is making itself seriously felt. So long as the
millions who are willing to fight are unsupplied
with weapons, Russia has still a chance ; but she
can have none against a nation in arms. If some
hundred thousand swords and rifles, with the neces-
sary ammunition, could be got into the country,
they would be far more effectual in recovering
Poland, and restoring peace to Europe, than de-
spatches or even foreign armies and fleets.
The Russian army in Poland, which constitutes
all the force that Russia can at present spare, is
slowly but regularly diminishing. A loss of twenty
or thirty men in a single encounter is not of much
consequence ; but when such encounters take place,
in nine or ten parts of an extensive country every
day, the gap created by them in the army becomes
formidable. The insurgents, on the other hand,
being almost always on the defensive, and in a
good position, and moreover almost invariably
successful, lose very much less men, and their
losses in this respect are easily supplied in a
country where for every insurgent that falls there
are ten men eager to fill his place. The conse-
quences of this gradual diminution of the force
of Russia in Poland are already showing them-
selves. Pressing demands for more troops are con-
stantly pouring into Warsaw from the military
commandants in various parts of Poland. Gen.
Wittgenstein has given up the command at Konin,
his troops being rendered helpless by the swarms
of insurgents surrounding them ; and in Lithuania
the coast is so feebly guarded that 300 insurgents
not only landed with arms and ammunition from
three Swedish ships at Polonga, but beat back
with ease a body of troops sent to attack them.
Altogether the situation for Russia is a perilous one.
With the Circassians keeping her troops in the Cau-
casus fully employed in the East—her Polish army
gradually disappearing under the persistent attacks
oif.rotrahe
Seeingguerillas in the West—and discontent surging
up even in her Muscovite dominions—her power
need no longer frighten those who only refrained
Poland
d aloneea justice done to Poland because they
thought it
impracticab'e. With sufficient arms,
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brought
herself;
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theby
recovery of Poland means nothing less that, the
ultimate extinction of Russia as a European empire.
The European Russians, who are nearly all Ruthe-
will actually prefer the free government of I