The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-21 00:00:00

CHICHESTER ELECTION—This Day.

Mr. John Abel Smith was returned for this
borough to-day without opposition.

LISBURN ELECTION—This Day.

STATE OF THE POLL.
TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Barbour

. 136
. 128
. -8

Verner.

Majority .

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

CITY BETTING-I'ms DAY.
LINCOLN HANDICAP.
Bto 1 agst Lopcatcher (offered)
Bto 1 agst Hubert (offered)
10 to 1 agst Libellous (offered)
12 to 1 agst Douche (offered)

LITEE.POOL STEEPLECHASE.
7to 1 agst Satellite (offered—takefi to 1)
12 to 1 agst JeaLusy

16 to 1 agst Master Bagot

CITY AND SUBURBAN.
20 to lon the field (offered)
60 to 1 agst Beachy Head (offered)
Very little doing.

French Sympathy with the Poles.

(From the limes' Correspondent•)

A remarkable change is observable in the official
and semi-official press on the question of Poland.
The same journals that but a week ago had for the
insurgents only invective and disdain are all of a
sudden loud in their praise. The Moniteur, for in-
stance, has ceased to publish its " Correspondence
from Warsaw," compiled at the Russian Embassy
in Paris, and recommended by M. de Morny, and
prefers reproducing articles from German papers
which cry out against Prussian intervention and
denounce the cruelties of the Russians in Poland.
The Constitutionnel is discreet and mute ; the
Patrie, after ten days' silence, now tells us that the
" Polish question" is the most important and the
most urgent of all European questions. The
Opinion Nationale has already issued its programme
for the Imperial Government to carry out if it care
to stand; and in this letter you will find the epi-
tome of an article by a public functionary claiming
Polish sympathies for the Napoleons, and charging
both branches of the House of Bourbon with guilty
connivance at the spoliation of Poland.
With all this it seems strange that the sale of en-
gravings and pictures relating to
passing events in
Poland is prohibited. One paper is retused permis-
sion to give the portraits of the leaders of the insur-
rection, and another
was near being confiscated for
a description of the palace of the Kings of Poland
in Warsaw. A manifestation of some of the work-
ing classes was spoken ot, but the democrats have
been requested to discourage and prevent it; and
a posthumous prosecution of a Polish journal pub-
-1 lished in Paris and now defunct was contemplated.
It is evident that there are two opposing currents
in official regions. Two mighty personages coalesce
with the Russian Ambassador, abetted by two
I journals rather notorious than celebrated for their
1 reactionary spirit. The other official departments
sympathise with, and to the best of their means sup-
port, the Poles. So far as one can know anything
of the feeling of the army, it is decidedly favourable
to the Polish movement and to French interven-
tion ; and the sort of agitation carried on in French
1 society by the Russians about the alleged cruelties
of the Poles has but small efff ct.
The Russian journal Le Nord, published in Paris,
has for days past dwelt on the atrocities committed
by the Poles on the Russian soldiers who fell into
their hands. These are calumnies; and we have
seen that disarmed Russian detachments gained the
Prussian frontier, and suffered no ill treatment
from the insurgents. On the other hand, the mas-
sacres perpetrated at Tomaszow and Suchedniow
show in what fashion the Russians act. The Nord
has but few customers in Paris,
but the Russians
circulate it in society, and read these terrible details
made up for the purpose. One Russian of high
rank, who was enlarging
a day or two ago in a place
of public resort on t-4-,e enormities of the Poles, re-
ceived from one of his hearers this reply, " The
stories you tell us seem very doubtful; but even
were they true they would be quite natural after
• all you have done in Poland."