The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 12.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Hammonia, from New Yolk on the 31st ult.,
has arrived at Cowes. She brings 105 passengers,
56,200 dols. for England, 40,000 dols. for France,
and 400 dols. for Hamburg.
The Hammonia spoke the steamer Teutonia on
the 9th inst., bound for New York.
Her news has been anticipated.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 12.

The Journce ds St. Petersboury publishes an
imperial rescript to the Grand Duke Constantine.

The Grand Duke being convinced, by the con-
tinual increase of the insurrection in Poland, of the
incompatibility between the condition of affairs in
that country and the feelings of good-will for its
pacification which induced the Emperor to entrust
him with carrying into operation the institutions
which had bee: decreed, the Emperor consents to
relieve the Grand Duke of his functions as Lieute-
nant and Comm&nder-in-Chief in Poland, and trusts
that after the re-establishment of order he will
resume his task.

VILNA, Nov. 7.
The Wilnaer Courier of to-day says :—" The
Abbe Antony Gargas, vicar in the parish church in
the district of Telche (Government of Kowno),
brought before court-martial, has been found guilty
of having taken part in the operations of insurrec-
tionary bands, clf having fought arms in hand
against the troops, of having administered the oath
to insurgents, and published revolutionary mani-
festoes in the villages. He has therefore been con-
demned to death This sentence having been ap-
proved by General :Mouravieff, Abbe Gargas was
shot on the 19th ult. in the town of Telche."
The same paper contains a circular of the Gover-
nor General of Wilna, addressed to the Governors
of Kowno, Grodno, Minsk, Witepsk, and Mohilew,
which says :—" Considering the necessity of
having a complete account of absentee land-
owners, as well as of their sons or relations
residing Upon their estates, I desire your
Excellencies, Ist—To send in to me a list of all
landowners of Polish origin in foreign countries
who do not return at the expiration of the term
fixed by their passports, that I may at once pro-
ceed to confiscate their domains; 2d—To designate
those among the landowners, their eons or relatives,
who, after having received permission from the
military commandants to absent themselves from
their estates, have not returned thither by the ap-
pointed day, as well as those whose residence at the
present moment is not known to the local authori-
ties, being careful to specify the names of individuals
known to be among the bands; 3d—To send in to
me detailed information of all the nobles, Catholic
clergy, employes, and administrators of State lands
of Polish origin. And all this with the least pos •
sible delay.—General of Infantry, MOURA-
VIEFF II."

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 8.
The mercantile class here is in despair, because
the Bank upon the one hand almost entirely refuses
discount, upon the other pursues the well-known
practice in the 158416 of specie, which amounts to a
dental. It is said now that the first business houses
are agreed upon sending it to the Finance Minister,
Baron Stieglitz, the Governor of the Bank. The
petitioners will hardly encounter better fortune
than the merchants who visited Poltowa fair, and
discovered, to their alarm, that the branch establish-
ments, customary during the fair, had not been
opened. Telegrams were at once despatched to the
Finance Minister, who sent for Baron Steiglitz.
Half an hour later a privy councillor at the
Ministry received orders to telegraph to Poltawa
to ascertain if the affair was quite correct, and the
Bank had acted rightly. Here also the Baron is
reported to have said—" A crisis was impending,
and the Bank considers it its duty to hasten its
outbreak." This would be a bold judgment, even
Were it in every respect correct. But the truth is,
that the Bank is deficient in funds. It cannot make
use of its bullion for discount operations, and noes
are the less available as their emission has ceased,
and the Bank cannot get rid of its 4 per cent.
metallics, when money is as high as 10 to 12 per
cent.

WARSAW, Nov. 8.
The impatience with which the public has
awaited the Emperor Napoleon's speech may very
easily be conceived. It was believed that the Rus-
sian Censor, Pawlis zezew, who is also in virtue of
his office chief editor of the official D. Ziennik, Pews
Zcitung, would have no hesitation in permitting its
publication, and the editors of the various local
papers hastened to get the speech into type. Greatly
to the general disgust, however, M. Pawliszezew
prohibited the Warsaw papers from publishing the
document, but issued it himself in the Government
journal.

The IY Ziennik of the day before yesterday pub-
lishes a proclamation stating that the issuing of
passports has. been transferred from the department
of the Interior to the charge of Gen. Trepow, chief
of the gendarmerie in the kingdom. From 1831
until two years ago the management of the pass-
ports Was in the hands of the military Governor, of
whose office the present gendarmerie chief is only
a successor, and Polish subjects have now, there
fore, to go through a long series of tedious formali-
ties before they can obtain a passport good for from
eight to fourteen days for Warsaw, and for four
weeks for the provinces.
Yesterday's D. Ziennik contains the Russian ver-
sion of Komorowski's and Rochebrun's inroad from
Gallicia into Volhynia upon the 2d inst. The offi-
cial paper states that the insurgents suffered great
losses—numbers not given—and transported dead
and wounded across the frontier. Eleven insur-
gents are reported captured, with 30 horses and
7,000 cartridges. The insurgents are said to have
been pressed back into Gallicia, where 400 were
disarmed by the Austrians.