The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-25 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easy, gold VI premium. Exet ange—
Bankers' bills, 175; Stocks, quiet; New York
Central, 1161; Illinois, 91; Erie, 77.1.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION,

DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS, AND CAP

TURE OF A RUSSIAN PRINCE.
SKALMIESZYCE, MARCH 23.

News received here from Kalish announces that a
severe engagement took place the day before yester-
day, near Konin. The Russians sustained serious
losses, four of their officers and 60 privates being
killed.

Prince Wittgenstein was also wounded and taken
prisoner by the insurgents.

Reinforcements, under the command of General
Brunner, iwere sent to .the Russians to-day from
Kalisch.
BRESZOW, MARCH 24.

The insurgents, under the command of Czechow,
ski, were beaten and dispersed the day before yes.
terday in the vicinity of Lnzansk.

Bodies of insurgents are making their way to
Galicia.

Engagements have taken place during the lasi
two days at Krzeazkow and at Potok.
The insurgents have been beaten near the forest
of Panslow.

Three hundred insurgents are encamped on Rus.

shin territory.

POSEN, MARCH 24.

Two engagements have taken place in the palati-
nate of Kaliscb, rit Apatnova, in both of which the
Pules were completely victorious.

Eighty waggons filled with the Russian wounded
have been taken to Konin.

A further engagement has occurred at Makorowo,
the result of which has not yet transpired.
It is only known that the number of killed and
wounded on both sides is large. Two French lieute-
nants, MM. Deodat and Collier, are among the
wounded.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, MARCH 25.

Letters received here from Kiew state that on
account of information having been received that a
Polish Legion, consisting of two regiments, was on
its way through Bessarabia to Poland, General
Annenkopff has sent a considerable military force
to the frontier.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, MARCH 24.

To-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Mar-
quis de Loule saic., in reply to a question, that
Portugal had acceded to the proposal of England
to make joint representations to Russia in favour
of Poland.

The Chamber then unanimously passed a vote of
confidence in the Ministry.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MARCH 25

The Moniteur of this morning says:---"The
Prussian and Russian Ambassadors have communi-
cated to the Government precise information from
which it results that the news, lately published 135
all the journals, of the passage of a Russian column
on Prussian territory, is devoid of foundation.
MARCH 24 (Evening).
In to-day's sitting of the Senate a debate took
place upon the Bill granting extraordinary credits
to the Government.
The Marquis d'Audiffret demanded that the strict
regulations with respect to public accounts fixed b,)
the Senatus-consultum should be maintained.
M. Fould stated that the Senatus-consulturn suf-
ficed for all exigencies, and offered sufficient guaran-
tees to the country. He called to mind the circum-
stances under which the present financial system
acid been arranged. At that period the public mine
was disq,zieted by all kinds of apprehensions. People
spoke of the necessity of a new loan. Novel financial
regulations had been applied, and, notwithstanding

the requirements of a distant war, the first year of
the new system demonstrated its advar tapes. The
expenses not foreseen by the regular Budget had
been diminished, and the Budget for 1862 had been
regulated under comparatively favourable circum-
stances. According to the experience of the first
two months the Budget for 1863 would afford a
surplus of 70 millions.
M. Fould continued—

" The reserve of our finances is in process of for-
mation. In presence of this position of affairs, it is
sufficient to be prudent. The sound condition of
our exchequer will provide us with the means of
attaining a reduction of the public expenses by pure
force of economy.

" This will add a fresh glory to those vi ith which
the Emperor has already endowed France."
The Bill then passed by the Senate.
BOURSE, March 24.—Stock has been again
offered by persons desirous of realising previous
profits; Threes, for the Account, have not, how-
ever, declined materially, but aro with difficulty
maintained at 69f. 25c. The Railway Share Market
quiet, and some few of the lines have slightly re-
ceded. Stock again became in demand towards the
close, and prices improved. The market left off as
follows

4t per Cents. .. 06 25
Do. end month....

:3per Cents

DO. end month.... 69 45

New 3 per Cents ..
[)o. end month....

Credit Al obilier.... 1290
Do, end nt0nth....1290 -
RAIL'

i Bank Shares 3365 - -
• Credit k oncier 1497 50
Italian Loan 7O 95
Do. end month 7O 95
• Russian
• Austrian
• Spanith Threes 52 50
• Home Debt 49 75
WAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lll6 25 1117 50
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1215 .. 1220
Geneva ..
Southern 760 758 75
Western.
Eastern . 9., .. 635 536 25

Sardinian
Austrian
Lon, hs rd
North of Spain
Saragossa 727 50 .. 732 50
Ditto to Barcelona

NAPOLEON'S LETTER TO M. BILLAULT.

(From the Paris Correspondent of the Times.)

The Emperor's letter to M. Billault in the M oni-
our , assuring the Minister that his speech in the I
Senate on Poland was " in every point conformable
with his thoughts," and repudiating any other in-
terpretation of his sentiments, is meant to remove
the painful feeling that may have been caused by
the Prince's taant that M. Billault voted fo - General
Cavaignac, and not for Prince Louis Napoleon, as
President of the Republic. It is also meant to re-
move the general impression that the Prince's
speech, and not M. Billault's, was the truest inter-
pretation of his Majesty's secret policy. The pub-
lic did not come to that conclusion without some
show of reason, for it is remembered that after the
Italian campaign his Majesty declared, in s speech
from the throne, and to the great applause of the
auditory, that the support of France would not
bo wanting in every quarter where the weak
were oppressed by the powerful, where injus-
tice was to be put down, and where wrongs
were to be redressed. That Poland is, and has long
been, in that condition, not even M. de Laroche-
jaquelein would deny ; and that the great majority
of Frenchmen sympathise, not now for the first
time, with the Poles, naturally led the unreflecting
to believe that the former asisurances in the Imperial
harangues would now be carried out. If error ex-
isted on teat score, the public are not to blame. M.
Walewski, even after the speech from the Throne
immediately preceding the opening of the campaign
in Lombardy, did not believe in war,—at least he
took some pains to prove that he did not ; and every
one knows that if he expressed his real opinion, he,
though Minister of Foreign Affairs, could not have
been in the secrets of his Sovereign, and could not
have known what passed in the private conferences
with M. Cavour. The present letter may also
put a stop to such "manifestations" as those which
have taken place in favour of Poland under the
windows of the Senate while Prince Napoleon was
speaking and M. Billault replying. The Prince has
certainly gained in popularity among the students
and working classes by his speech. On Sa urday
afternoon large groups collected round the gates of
%ha Palais Royal, where an open carriage, with posti-
lions in the Imperial livery, was standing wailing for
the Prince. They remained there for more than at,
hour. No impediment was offered to their gather-
I ing, and no atttempt made to disperse them, though
the sergens do ville attached to the palace were on
the spot. On any other occasion groups of people
would not be allowed to block up the sideways.
Still it is probable that the letter to M. Billault
very faithfully expresses his Majesty's opinion. In
previous expeditions the Emperor was not alone.
Not to speak of Russia and the Crimean war, he
had in Italy the Piedmontese ; in China the English ;
in Cochin• China the Spaniards ; in Mexico, at first,
English and Spaniards; but it is not certain that if
war were now declared against. Russia to redress the
wrongs of Poland, he could count on Austria or
England. The moral intervention described by M.
►iillault is therefore all that will be exercised so far
as France is concerned, and that course has already
met with the full approbation of the Chambers,
though not of Prince Napoleon.
The affairs of Poland have taken away fora while
the thoughts of the public from the distress in the
manufacturing districts; yet there is reason to ba-
lieve it has not only not diminished, but rather
extended. From places where the workmen con
tinned to he employed up to the last appeals now
come for relief. A circular from the relief committee
of Mullhouse shows that the evil is spreading
throughout Alsace, and 15,000 working men swell
the list of those who have no wages to depend upon.
A lottery for their benefit has been started in
Paris by a number of benevolent ladies.

Review of Volunteers at Brighton on Easter

Monday.

We are authorised to announce that the Secre-
tary of State for War has approved of a review of
volunteers taking place at Brighton on Easter
Monday.

Applications from corps desirous of attending
must be transmitted on the form prescribed in
Volunteer Circular No. 27 of the 27th August, 1862,
for the sanction of the Secretary of State, and de-
livered at the War-office on or before the Ist
proximo, after which no further applications will
be received.

Officers commanding metropolitan corps should
state in their applications-
-Ist. The number of volunteers who will proceed
by rail to Brighton on Easter Monday.
2d. Tho number who will join their corps at
their rendezvous at Brighton.
3d. The number who will return by rail on the
evening of Easter Monday.
Under regulations which will be published by
he railway authorities, tickets will be issued by
them up to noon on Thursday, the 2d proximo, and
up to 8 p.m. the same day tickets unappropriated
by the corps may be returned to the secretary of
the railway.

THE ALABAMA.—Captain S. Cooper, master of
the ship John A. Park, of Halliwell, who arrived
yesterday by the ship Miss Nightingale, thus reports the
destruction of his vessel by the Contederate steamer Ala-
bama. lie sailed from New York for Montevideo on the
13th of February with a cargo of lumber. On the 2d inst.,
being in lat. 29 15 N., long. 38 20 W., at daylight the
second officer reported a steamer a-head, bark rigged, which
proved to be the Alabama. A boat came alongside with au
armed crew and boarded and took charge of the ship.
Captain Cooper was taken before Captain Semmes, who
Asked him if he knew to whom the cargo belonged ; and he
answered he could not say, but referred for information to
the bills of lading, which specified, by certificates of the
British Consul at New York, that the cargo was British
property. After examination of the papers, Captain Semmes
expressed his opinion that the cargo was not British pr o •
perry. Captain Cooper was then ordered on board his own
hip, and told to bring his clothes and those of his crew on
board the Alabama. 'When the work of transterring the
stores had been completed the crew of the Alabama set fire
to the ship. The English barqua the Miss Nightingale,
bound for Landon, was in sight, and Captain ut.chrane
aindly consented to take home to England Captain Cooper,
ais wife, and two young men. The remainder of the ship'
company, consisting of three mates, a carpenter and 16
-eamen, were lett on board the Alabama. The captain ana
cue two young men were compelled to sign a parole of
aonour not to serve against the Confederate States during
the war.

4. •Clonal hp, •
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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 24.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
the Princess Louis of Hesse, drove in the grounds
this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
arrived from Lliidon soon after two o'clock this
afternoon, attended by the Countess of Morton, the
Hon, Mrs. Bruce, and Lieut.•Coi. Keppel.
The Dowager Countess of Mount-E -;geumbe has
succeeded Lady Churchill as Lady in Waiting to
her Majesty.
The Lady Fanny Howard arrived at the Cantle
on Saturday and left to-day.