The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

rounded.

FRANCE.

Russia, therefore, makes use of all means for
calling out an opportunity for crushing by a blow
the national resistance, and to weaken the strength
of the nation. The terrible ukases, ordering a dis-
proportionate forced levy from among the more
enlightened classes, the manner of effecting this
barbarous measure, and the dread of the awful fate
which awaits the proscribed, are the last trials to
which patience and the resignation of the Poles are
subjected to. This moment is arrived, the eranka
began in Warsaw, and as it is said also in some
provincial towns. Some 2,50) young men have
been dragged out of their dwellings by soldiers and
policemen breaking in, in the middle of the night.
It was an agonising night, which can only
be imagined by the idea of a town taken
by storm and delivered up for pillage.
Nothing can describe the mournful aspect of
Warsaw. All the shops are closed, and large
numbers of handcuffed recruits, or parents of those
who have not been found and were taken awe) as
hostages, are driven by drunken i.nd savage soldiery,
like cattle, into the Russian police dens, surrounded
by crowds of mothers and wives following these
moving hecatombs. The greatest uneasiness pre-
vails here that this violent measure might give
occasion for some individual resistance, which, of
course, would be represented by the Russians as an
insurrectional attempt.
A certain number of young men left Warsaw,
following the advice of thht mythic committee
which for the last few months is said to be acting
secretly in the midst of Russian police and spies,
and have taken refuge in the forests of Kaguiros
and the marshes near Serock. Flying 'columns are
concentrating around them, in order to prevent
their escaping out of the country. Probably this
will be represented to the world by the Russians as
a❑ open insurrection, and taken advantage of for
boasting afterwards that a most formidabte move-
ment bed been heroically crushed, threatening
society, religion, and civilisation.
I beg to caution you against she telegrams which
may be sent over to England just at this moment
from Russia and Prussia, and against the great
alarm likely to be evinced by the Russian Govern-
ment, possessing an army of 270,000 men among a
disarmed population, and no less than 54,000 meu
in Warsaw alone.
It may happen that in some part of the vast
Polish territory some resistance may be ffered ; but
be certain that it would be neither a popular rising,
nor the result of any preconcerted plan, but merely
despair and rage excited to the highest degree.
Still, should an armed resistance occur in some
place or other, Russia will try to make good use of
it, and it remains with the public opinion in Europe
to detect its infernal policy.

Le Pays thinks that the efforts now making in
Italy to effect a reconciliation between the two great
interests which France protects 'are less hopeless
than hasty spirits choose to believe.
BOURSE, Feb. 2.—Market firm at previous quota-
tions, Threes for the present settlement being at
69t. 80c. Railway Share Market quiet, but prices
pretty well maintained. The market improved to-
wards the close, and left off as follows :

per Cents. . . 98 75
Do end month 98 80
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 95
New 3 per Cents -
Do, end month —
Credit Mobilier 1185
rm. end month 1178 75
RA IL'

Bank Shares 3395
Credit koncier 1492
Piedmontese Fives
Italian Loan 7O 45
Russian .. — --
Austrian
Spaniela Threes 52 75
dome Debt

'AYS.

Cash. Account,.
Orleans
Northern

'Sew ditto -- - - - . ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1165 .. 1165
Geneva ..
Southern
Western
Eastern .... ..... ..,
Sardinian —
__ _ •s •—•—.•

Austrian

I ATP bard

507 50

585 -

586 25

North of Spain
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona -

POLAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

NOrf
,

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 2.
The Queen took a drive in the grounds this
morning.
Lord Alfred Paget and Lieutenant-Colonel Du
Plat have arrived at Osborne, in succession to
Major-General the Hon. A. Hood and Colonel the
Hon. A. Hardinge.

WARSAW, Jan. 24.

We have now arrived at the culminating point of
the terrible drama enacted in this country by its
oppressors. The solemn protest of the nation against
its annihilation, expressed by unanimous, though
pacific, manifestations of national spirit, brought
gloriously the Polish cause before the tribunal of
public opinion in Europe—undone the tissue of
falsehoods, misrepresentations, and calumnies of
many years' work, and torn down the mask of
Liberalism spurned by the present self-ruler of
Russia. A nation possessing such an historical
past as Poland, and standing so far in advance in
civilisation and progress before the Muscovites,
could not be subdued and absorbed but by brutal
force. But semi-barbarous Russia is not only con-
tented with becoming, by conquest and duplicity,
one of the great Powers of Europe, but she lays
claim now to equal the other nations in enlighten-
ment and progress. This mask assumed by Russia
has been torn asunder by the indomitable spirit,
but passive countenance of the Poles; and the
savage, cruel, Asiatic intruder stands before the
eyes of deluded Europe.
From the beginning of this peaceful struggle
the Muscovite Government had two objects in view :
to break down by brutal force and artifice the pas-
sive resistants of the Poles, and to deceive Europe
on the real character of the movement and the
i means for repressing it resorted to. Notwithstand-
ing, however, the false representations of the
Russian press in Europe, the mendacious tele-
grams fabricated in Russia and Prussia, and the
1 pompous announcements of concessions and graces
I (as reforms bear this name in Russia) granted to
Poland, the real position cannot be concealed.
Thence arose for the Muscovite Government the
its
doings of finding a cause, if not an excuse, for
doings in Poland.
For a long time the people, particularly in the
towns, have been irritated and provoked to the
highest degree in order to force them into some
desperate resistance which could be represented
as a revolutionary outbreak. The country was
virtually made a prey to a lot of adventurers,
for whom neither their own honour nor that of
Russia was of any consideration. Conspiracies
have been announced as existing or dis-
covered which, in fact, never existed, excep,•that
magnificent one, consisting of a whole nation moved
by the same thought and spirit. All means were
resorted to, in order to provoke an outbreak, as
nothing could better serve Russia than to have an
opportunity to crush it, and thus have an occasion
for exercising its revengefulness, Fortunately the
Poles have Withstood all these provocations, and
by their dignified and contemptible attitude of pas-
sive endurance, left to the Muscovites the whole re-
sponsibility of the situation.
The Russian Government is not fit for introduc-
ducing any thing without violence, despotism, and
artifice, as it has no real moral basis to lean upon.
Such an attitude as that assumed by the Poles put
them into a position perhaps more untenable than

that of the oppressed themselves. On the other Prince Frederick Louis, the son of George 11. It is also
hand, the events is the East force Russia to make worthy of remark that close by the new, bright em-
herself ready for any emergency which might occur, blazon which bears the shield of "the rose and
and k 8 long as Poland stands with her arms crossed
expectancy of
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of
time,this fair State" is one all darkened
but which still tells, in old Norman
waiting for the day of justice and redemption, aFrench, howe agreat ancestor of his present bride was in-
Russia can scarcely think at undertaking a war, stalled in that very seat just 250 years ago.
nay, even of interfering powerfully with the affairs With these old storied carvings there is, of course, no
of Europe. meddling. Each seat, properly subdivided, would accom-

modate—we had almost said three ladies, but certainly two,
even dressed in the widest amplitude of the present fashion.
Besides, the Knights of the Garter have a right to their
stalls on all occasions, and pre-eminently so when the Chief
of the Order—the Sovereign—is present at any ceremonial
in the chapel. The stalls of the knights, therefore, are to be
left untouched, in all their ancient, angular, hard-backed
integrity, and all can take their seats on this occasion, from
the last and newest knight—Earl Fitzwilliam, whose bright
banner has just been hung— up to the senior of the order—
the Marquis of Exeter, whose once rich flag is now gray
with dust and age. On the space now occupied by the
communion rails a raised dais is to be erected and covered
with the richest carpeting. On this the ceremony will be
performed. On the left side of the altar, between the ter-
mination of the knights' stalls and the private entrance to
the Chapel from the Castle, a small block of seats will be
erected for 35 visitors, and on the raised dais the immediate
members of the English and Danish Royal families will be
seated—her Majesty, with the Royal family and illustrious
foreign guests to the number of 14, on the right, with the
remainder of the chosen guests and members of the Royal
bride's family to the number of 12, on the left. Behind
the station for our Royal family will be a raised block of
seats, rising tier over tier, to accommodate the diplomatic
body, who, with their ladies and first attaches, will be pre-
sent to the number of 100. Outside the west door of the
Chapel, on the green between it and the horse-shoe cloisters,
a large temporary building has been begun. This structure)
though of wood and purely temporary, will be decorated in
the inside in the most exquisite style. This will contain a
fine central hall 60 feet long by 40 broad, and 26 feet high, in
which the procession, to pass up the nave of the chapel,
will be marshalled and arranged by the Deputy Chamber-
lain as the members comprising it arrive from the Castle.
Built out from this hall, and entirely enclosing it on every
side, will be a series of smaller rooms, 20 feet long by 20
broad. On the north aide will be one for the bridesmaids,
one for the bride, and one for the Royal Princesses. No-
thieg has yet been arranged as to the adornment of these
saloons, but it is almost needless to say that they are in-
tended to be as rich and beautiful as taste and money can
make them. On the opposite side of the hall ire to be simi-
lar apartments for the bridegroom's attendants, the bride-
groom, and one for the Duke of Cambridge and Royal
visitors. The outer hall which gives ingress to this tempo-
rary palace will be 12 feet wide by 70 feet long, and there
will be a handsome covered way for the carriages in which
the procession will arrive to set down their occupants at
this entrance. Visitors to witness the procession up the
nave of the Chapel will also, we believe, arrive here, and be
conducted to their seats in the nave. The more select few
who will be honoured with invitations for the Chapel itself
will probably have a separate entrance allotted to them.
The ambassadors and their suites will assemble in the Wel-
sey Chapel, and thence be conducted by the chief Master of
the Ceremonies to their places on the right of the altar.
The bridal procession will pass in State carriages from the
private apartments of the Castle to the ca riage entrance
we have spoken of as giving admission to the temporary
building outside the west door. Here, while the proces-
sion is formed and arranged, the bride and bridesmaids and
the Lridegroom and his attendants will remain in the re-
ception rooms set apart for them. Her Majesty will enter
the chapel by the private way, and on her arrival the pro-
cession will move forward up the temporary hall through
the nave to the altar. As customary, the bridegroom's
procession will move first, so that on the arrival of the
bride's cortege at the altar the marriage may be at once pro-
ceeded with. At present the workmen are busy under the
superintendence of Mr. Gilbert Scott in restoring, or rather
completing, the exquisite interior of the Wolsey Chapel.
The groined roof of this fine old structure was only exe-
cuted in plaster and composition. This has been entirely
removed, and the plaster work replaced in carved stone—
the spaces between the rich tracery of the stone work being
filled in with tiles, to be covered as soon as possible with the
brilliant gas mosaics of Signor Salviati, which attracted
attention in the Exhibition last year. The now cheer-
less-looking windows are also to be filled in with stained
glass. When complete this will be one of the most
beautiful little shrines in the kingdom. It is intended, we
believe, as a memorial chapel to the late Prince Consort,
and the expense of its restoration, which will amount to
between £25,000 and £30,000, is entirely defrayed by the
royal children. It seems scarcely possible, however, that the
whole of the interior can be completed in time for the mar-
riage festivity. The eastern end of St. George's Chapel is
also muffled up in canvass, where the workmen are busy
removing that monument of George bad taste—the
window designed by Sir Benjamin West. This is to be re-
placed by her Majesty with
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dow to the late Prince. It will need hard work and late
The Mayor of Gravesend received from Viscount
Sydney, Lord Chamberlain, the following reply to
a communication addressed to his lordship by the corpora-
tion respecting the arrangements to be carried out for the
reception of the Princess Alexandra on her disembarkation
at the port from the royal yacht :—" Sir,—l have to ac-
knowledge the receipt of a letter addressed to me by the
Town-clerk of Gravesend, on the part of the municipal
authorities of the borough, relative to the disembarkation of
her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Danmark,
which will take place at that port on her arrival in this
country. I have the honour to inform you, in reply, that
as soon as the period of arrival of her oyal highness is de-
cided upon, I will take an eat ly opportunity of communi-
cating with the authorities of the borough, with a view to
promoting the suitable reception of the princess in the
town of Gravesend. I rejoice to hear that the Terrace Pier
will be available fur the disembarkation, which, in the event
of tb e tide serving, will be a great convenience in the arrange-
ments.—Your obedient servant, " SYDNEY."