The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-23 00:00:00

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1830.

It gives us pleasure to learn that Mr. TENNYSON
has been appointed to the second seat at the
Board of Ordnance. The Honourable Gentle-
man is a staunch Reformer, as his late spirited
exertions at Stamford, and on the memorable
East Retford question, abundantly attest. He
has energy too, and strength of mind, and much
practical information, and is thus admirably quali-
fied both by nature and art to support a Govern-
ment, which though in full possession of the
confidence of the country, has yet a thou-
sand difficulties to contend against. We ap-
prehend more danger to Earl GREY'S Admi.
nistration from the mean malignity of its false
friends, than the bold hostility of its open enemies.
The adhesion, therefore, of such a man as Mr. TEN-
NYSON is peculiarly seasonable, and will gratify all
the friends of Reform and retrenchment.

We have received the Allgemeine Zeitung, which
is filled chiefly with rumours and speculations re-
specting, the Polish insurrection. There is little
fresh intelligence in the Journal : it merely con-
firms tbiteport that the King of PRUSSIA is adopt-
ing the most rigorous precautions to preserve his
share of the plunder of Poland from the epidemic of
revolt, and that the Emperor of RusstA is equally
on the alert. Of the line of proceedings intended to
be adopted by the METTEntuett Government of
Austria, we do not hear a word. Meanwhile the
Provisional Government of Warsaw continues to
act with as much discretion as determination. In
order, we presume, to gain time,und give a colouring
to their proceeding., which may justiry them in the

eyes of all Europe—though such a cause needs no
justification—they have issued a proclamarion, offer-
ing to return to " obedience and fidelity to the Em-
peror," on certain conditions—one of which is .the
union of the old Poli,h provinces, formally sepa-
rated from the kingdom and added to Ru-siu—whicli
they know will never be accepted. In the struggle

that hangs over them the Polish Government has
fearful odds to contend against, but we have little
doubt that in the long run their patriotic exertions
will be crowned with perfect success
VIENNA, DEC. 11.--Today joyful news has been
made public, that his Majesty the King of flungaly nd
Crown Prince of the Austrian States will marry her Royal
Highness the Princess Marianne of Sa,dinia, twin sister
of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Lucca.
Four per Cents., 79 ; Bank Shires, 1,003.

F►toat TOE POLISH FRONTIERS, DEC. 5.—A plan,
which has been long preparing, and has extensive ramifi-
cations, to restore ancient Poland, lias been suddenly car-
ried into execution. It is intended to effect what Napo-
leon, surrounded by the heady of the first families of thrice-
divided Poland, promised at Sololetp.ko, but i-nmedi itely
disappointed, through self-interested family views. At
present the otject appears to be the re-establishment of the
Constitution of 1791 ; hu► it is probably desired to return
to the state previous to the first petition of 1772. The
two Emperors, Alexander and Nicholas, have spared
nothing t► reconcile the kingdom of Poland as
it has existed since the Congress of Vienna, with

the Russian dominion ; but the means which the
Grand Duke Gmstantine employed to htitl. all secret dis-
content were, perhaps, not calculated to appease it by their
inexorable rigour, which even the influence of Princess
Lowiez could not moderate. A particular dislike was en-
tertained against all freedom of thotight, antdevery
citcu-
lutinn of ideas nut immediately countered with military
discipline. Distrust, kept up by spies of every descrip-
tion, generated distrust. 'I bus the most liberal assurances
made unreservedly by the Emperor Nicholas in the last
Diet, at 'Warsaw, could not extinguish the fire at hich
glitz-tittered under the ashes. All the piternil care which
the Emperor has so abundantly manifested in the Govern-
ment of Poland was forgotten. It it well known that not
a florin of the revenue of Poland went to Russia. All
was expended for the promotion of agriculture, the
mines, the breeding of sheep, for manufactures, for
the improvement of the finances, and for the esta-
blishment of better public schools. Only the Russian sys-
tem of Customs which was intended to include Pol.nd,
could not but be felt as very oppressive in a country where
the whole trade except the trade in beer awl brandy is in
the hands of the Jews. However, the most exemplary
order every where prevailed, and the extraordinary credit
which the Polish bonds lately enjoyed, was a better proof
of the solidity of the public credit than the most pompous
speeches in the Diet, awl yet a tempest suddenly breaks
out as from an unclouded sky, which threatens to con-
vulse the whole east of Europe. The Prussian State
Gazette has related the first explosion on tl.e evenin4 of
the 29th, only what could then be collected. With re-
spect to all that preceded, the repot ts are so contradictory,
that we must necessarily wait for further information.
Already on the 22d of November, the Grand Duke Con-
stantine had in his hands a list of the conspirators, but
this time be contented Iriotclf with laying it before the
Council of State, to which be left it. to arrest the persons
itnp'icated, and institute a legal ingurey•
The Grand Duke scarcely ventured to come any mote
to Warsaw, and there was reason to expect every hour
the breaking out of the plot, the first object of which was
the deliverance of the prisoners, in which the aid of all
the inhabitants of Warsaw, in concert with the national
troops of the IMe,• was depended upon. Ilere, too, the