The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-30 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

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RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 30.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg reprints the pro-
clamation which the Czas attributed to the Empe-
ror of Russia, ordering the peasants to massacre
all Roman Catholics, and adds—" This is what a
newspaper prints which pretends to be a serious
publication."

MEXICO.

PARIS, MAY 30.

Official despatches received here announce that
the siege of Peubla continues with vigour. General
Forey writes on the 19th April that blocks of
houses fall successively into the hands of the French
after regular attacks.
The Mexicans who endeavoured to interrupt the
French convoys had been completely routed in
different engagements. The health of the army
was very good.

AUSTRALIA.

PENZANCE, MAY 30.

The Agincourt, Captain Symons, 115 days from
Melbourne, has arrived off Scilly, with £lOO,OOO
in gold. She landed five passengers.

THE BRAZILS.
OPENING OF THE BRAZILIAN CHAMBERS,

(By telegragh from Lisbon.)
RIO DE JANEIRO, MAY 8.

The opening of the Brazilian Chambers took
place on May 3d. The Emperor, in his speech
on the occasion, said that the solution of the
difficulty with England depended upon the King
of the Belgians.
The Chambers, in the address,which they unani-
mously adopted in reply to the Emperor's speech,
said—" All the Brazilians are ready to make the

sacrifices necessary to maintain the honour o:

Brazil."

The conflict in Peru has been arranged.
Cholera continues.
Coffee has risen 200 rein.

Exchange on London has been negotiated for the
Oneida, to the amount of £300,000 at 271 to 277.
On Paris, bills have been drawn for 1,000,000

francs.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAY 30.

Count Persigny has addressed a circular to the
Prefects of the Departments in which he says :

"For the first time since the formation of the
Empire, parties inimical to the institutions which
the French nation has given itself, dare to attack
these institutions in face of universal suffrage.
" Not being able to deny the great things effected
by the Emperor, they attack the finance which has
served to accomplish them. The country will not
be duped by such man ceuvres."
BOURSE, May 29.—The market continues with a
downward tendency, although the decline has not
been very material. Threes; for the Account, are
now at 69f. 30c. The Railway Share Market is
also heavy, with a further decline on many of the
lines. The market recovered towards the close,
and left cif as follows :
ft per Cents. .. 97

Do: end month.... 97 -7

Itdian Loan 72 0
Do. end month —
New ditto
Do, end month 73 50
Russian

3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 45

Credit M0bi1ier....1415
1)o. end m0nth....1423 75

Bank Shares 3475

Austrian .. —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt

Credit F oncier ....1455

RAIL'

'AYS.

Cash. Acconnt.
Orleans lOOO .. 1002 50
Northern

New ditto —
Lyons and ModitarnuLean lon 50 1042 50
Geneva 435 436 25

Southern 760 761 25
Western
klasteni „ ..... 510 .. 512 50
Sardinian ..
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossi, 717 50 720 --
Ditto to Barcelona

POLAND.

The Breslau Gazette publishes the following

letter from Warsaw, dated the 24th :—" The insur-
rectional movement has manifested itself simultane-
ously through the whole extent of the southern pro-
vinces, and every district has supplied a contingent
more or less numerous, with the exception of the
territory lying to the west of Podolia and two cir-
cles of the Ukraine. The principal corps of insur-
gents have established their camp on the marshy
banks of the Slucz and the Teterow. Others are
stationed in the environs of Poryck, Luch, Owrucz,
and Zytomir in Volhynia, near Vinnica, in Podolia,
round Berdytschew, and Machnowka, in the
Ukraine. The war-cry of the Ruthenium, ' Slasva
Bohn!' (Glory to God!) before which the Russians
fled in 1831, has been raised in the Steppes of the
Ukraine, and the impenetrable savannahs of Polesia.
The flags of the insurgents bear the white eagle of
Poland, and by its side is the Archangel Michael of
Ruthenia, sheltering under his wings the brave sol-
diers of independence."
The Augsburg Gazette of the 25th says :—" The
statement that the officers of the Russian army pass
over to the insurgents, applies only to those of
Polish origin ; the Russian officers remain faithful
to their colours. About a fortnight since, Siera-
kowski, an officer of the staffin the Imperial Guard,
left St. Petersburg, and before his departure he was
invited to dine with the general officers. No one
would ever have suspected him of an intention to
join the insurgents, but he did. The colonel of the
regiment of Oloneck, a Po'e by birth, also went
over to the Polish camp, and a few days later, at the
Lead of a Polish detachment, he met some of his
old companies, and was summoned to surrender if he
did not wish to be massacred. He refused, and soon
afterwards fell, pierced with ten bayonet wounds.
Three other young officers of Polish origin have met
with a similar fate, and a fourth, who was taken
prisoner, has been condemned to be shot."

From the Da9bladet of Wednesday (just re-
ceived) we perceive that M. Mourier, one of the
Conservative representatives, had won loud applause
from his fellow members at Copenhagen by the de-
livery of a patriotic speech, in the course of the late
debates on Lord RUSSELL'S despatch,—M. Mourier
remarking at the close of this speech that any con-
cession made in regard to Slesvig would be
nothing less than treason to the most sacred in-
terests of Denmark.

SCHILLER AND GOETHE—AND CONTEMPORARY
EVENTS.—WhiIst the storm raged convulsively in
France, and the flood rolled its waves more wildly every
year over Germany, the eyes and hearts of all men of in-
tellect were fixed on a little Principality in the middle of
Germany, where, amidst the deepest tranquillity, the great
poet of the nation, by the wonderful creations of his mind
in prose and verse, dispelled all dark forebodings. King
and Queen were guillotined, and " Reineke Fuchs" made
into a poem; there came, together with Robespierre and
the reign of terror, letters on the aesthetic training of men ;
with the battles of Lodi and Arcole, "Wilhelm Meister,"
" Horen," and " Xenien ;" with the French acquisition of
Belgium,'' Hermann and Dorothea ; " with the conquest of
Switzerland and the States of the Pope, " Wallenstein ;"
with the French seizure of the left bank of the Rhine, the
" Bastard of Orleans ;" with the occupation of Hanover by
Napoleon, the " Bride of Messina ;" with Napoleon Em-
peror, "William Tell." The ten years in which Schiller
and Goethe lived in close friendship—the ten great years of
German poetry, on which the German will look back in
distant centuries with emotion and sentimental tenderness
—are the same years in which a loud cry of woe was
heard through the air; in which the demons of destruction
drew together from all sides, with clothes dipped in blood,
and scorpion scourges in their hands, in order to make an
endo years have since passed, yet the period in which our
of the unnatural life of a nation without a State. Only
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fathers
in which,
up is as strange to us in many respects as the
period which, according to tradition, Archimedes cal-
culated
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geometrical problems, whilst the Romans were
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