The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-20 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day,

LONDON, Feb. 20.—Wind this day at noon—East
moderate breeze and cloudy weather.
CLYDE, Feb. 19.—Wind S.—Sailed—Clutha, for Mel.
bourne.

PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 19.—Wind N.W., foggy.—Arrived
—Her Majesty's ship R ,adamanthus, from Plymouth.
Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Speedy, for Jersey; her Ma-
jesty's ship Megzera, for the Channel Islands.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning:.
Sailed—Condor, steamer, for Bremen ; Seine and Talmo,
screw steamer, for Paris ; Concordia, steamer, for Bou-
logne ; Cosmopolitan, for Hamburg.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passad—Westward no, from London, for Kurrachee.
Sailed—All the outward bound, except ono.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DLE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Mar. 21.
via Marseilles ... Mar. 15.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Mar. 6.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Mar. 3.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southamptun.Mar. 4.
via Marseilles ...Feb, `‘7.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 4.
via Marseilles Feb. 27.
India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Feb. 25.
via Marseilles Feb. 20.
Portuga1....
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Feb. 25.
via Marseilles Feb. 20.
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Feb. 26.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Feb. 20.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Mar. 10.
Bahamas, via New York .... Mar. 12.
Mexico..
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Per.u:.lFFeebb. 28.26.
California) and British Columbia, ........ ~, Jo atis-s

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 Suehedniow
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 the 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."
The Opinione .Nationale, the Organ of the Palais
Royal, returns with renewed vigour to the subject
of Poland. It would not do so if it were distaste-
ful to the Emperor. These articles in a paper which
represents" Democratic Imperialism" may be thrown
out as feelers. It is worth while to ascertain whe-
ther intervention would be popular, while, at the
same time, they do not compromise the Government,
and may be disavowed at any moment. It also gives
occasion to exalt the Bonapartes at the expense of
the Bourbons, if we may judge from the second,
article in the Opinione Nationale of yesterday,
headed " The Bourbons, Napoleons, and Poland."
The Poi'es, it is well known, had no great reason to
be satisfied with Napoleon, whom they served with
fidelity to the last, but who never realised the hopes
which he had excited of reconstituting their na-
tionality. He certainly said that had he reigned.
during the first, the second, or even the third par-
tition, he would have armed all France to defend
them. But at Tilsit the provinces which before the
first dismemberment formed part of the kingdom of
Poland, and were subsequently annexed to Prussia,
were detached from it, erected into a separate prin-
cipality—the Grand Duchy of Warsaw—and
bestowed on the King of Saxony, with the excep-
tion of Bialystok, containing 200,000 fouls, which
was ceded to Russia. In order to humble Prussia
to the dust, Napoleun had roused to the utmost the
population of Prussian Poland ; but he resolutely
refused to encourage the Russian provinces of
Lithuania to raise the standard of independence.
" I love the Poles," he said to Rapp, after receiving
one of their deputations :
" Their ardour pleases me. I wish to render them inde-
pendent, the task is not easy. Too many nations are inte-
rested in their spoils,--Austria, Russia, Prussia. It' the
match is once lighted, there is no saying where it would
stop. My first duty is towards France, and it is no part of
that duty to sacrifice its interests to Poland ; that would
lead us too far. We must leave its destinies in the hands
of the supreme disposer of all things—to Time, It will
possibly teach us hereafter what course we ought to pur-
sue."

The Optnione Nationale quotes various passages
from the addresses of the Emperor to the Polista
deputationF. In November, 1806, he said :
" France has never recognised the various partitions of
Poland. Nevertheless I cannot proclaim your independence
until you have decided on defending your rights as a nation,
with arms in your hands, by all sorts of sacrifices, even that
of your lives. Instructed by your calamities, unite, and
prove to the world that one and the same spirit animates
the whole Polish nation."
Again on the 27th of the same month he said to
the Polish senators, presented by Count Radzi-
nunski
" The misfortunes of Poland has been the result of its
intestine divisions. What has been destroyed by force can
only be repaired by force. Speeches and wishes are of no
avail. If the priests, the nobles, and the middle classes
make common cause and adopt the firm resolution to
triumph or to die, they will triumph, and may count on my
protection."

As a contrast to this encouraging language the
Optnione represents "a Bourbon, Louis Philippe
d'Orleans" (afterwards King of the French), writ-
ing in the same month of the same year to Count
d'Antraigues, who was setting out for St. Peters-
burg, a letter containing this passage :
" The Emperor of Russia must not suffer peace with
Prussia ' • and if it be made, he mu t not recognise it. Ho
must put in movement all the forces of his vast empire in
order to prevent the resurrection of Poland, and he must do
it whether Prussia is cowardly enough to submit or coura-
geous enough to oppose it. The fate of Russia, as well as
of Prussia, depends on that of Poland."
Two years afterwards the same Prince, while a
refugee at the Court of Naples, wrote to Count
d'Antragues on the preparations of Austria for the
campaign of 1809 :
" I have seen an army of 120,000 men in Poland under
the command of the Archduke Ferdinand. Why, I asked
myself, do you send a single man to Poland ? It is against
Bonaparte that you should concentrate your forces. If you
do not beat him' your 120,000 will not beat the King of
Saxony. If you beat him, a detachment of 120 men will
suffice to annihilate the King of Saxony and the Duke of
Warsaw—and let there be no more about it."
On the sth January, 1810, the Duke of Vicenza,
Ambassador of France at the Court of Russia, signed
the draught of a convention, stipulating, first, that
the kingdom of Poland should never be re-established;
second, that the name of Poland and of Pole should
be proscribed in all public acts; third, that the
Duchy of Warsaw should never have an increase of
territory; and, fourth, that the Convention should
be made public.
Napoleon refused to ratify this Convention, and
persisted in saying that the re-establishment of Po-
land was desirable for all the Western Powers; and
as long as it was not re-established Europe would
be without a frontier in the direction of Asia. " rho
severity of the weather," the Opinione adds, " tri-
umphed over the efforts of Polish patriotism and
French valour. Napoleon, vanquished by the ele-
ments, lost his throne, and the Bourbons returned
to France."
from King Louis
The following passage, in a letter
ambassador to
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revolutionary influence, would have been up, and but for
our judicious and salutary influence she would have united
herself to France to repel, to crush—it cannot be doubtcd.
—Russia, notwithstanding her colossal strength, because
it is true that when a people, really a people, rise for liberty,
there is no power sufficient to subdue them. I hoped for
better from the information you might have given as to the
immense service we have rendered to Russia, to Austria,
and to Prussia, a service which appears from the fact since
Poland has fallen, and not without some peril for use. Let
us think of that a little more, not to be under the necessity
of being incessantly reminded of it. Have you not the
two letters of Lafayette containing reproaches against our
Minister for having, by his advice and his promises, para-
zed Poland's means of def. nee ? Can the Cabinets of
Vienna and St. Petersburg want more, and can all the
danger be unknown which existed for Russia in the plan:
and system of defence adopted by the Poles under Purstnas
Adam ? And can it be forgotten what they :3 to
the sole and powerful mover of the measuresnai
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The Swedibli Diet has thlelared itself in favour of
a common system of coins, weights, and measures for
Sweden, Norway, and Denmark,