The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-04 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

POLAND.

CRACOW, MAY 1.

Rumours of reforms are again current in War-
saw, but granted under present circumstances, and
without any guarantee for their maintenance, re-
forms would only awaken distrust.
It is now asserted that the Marquis Wielopolski
will remain at Warsaw.

The priests who were arrested for taking part
in the procession of St. Mark have been set at
liberty, and the Government of Warsaw, namely,
the chief of the police and General Berg, are cen-
sured for making those arresta notwithstanding the
orderly behaviour of the procession. St. Peters-
burg, it seems, will not have any violence done to
the customs of the Roman Catholic Church.

The public are now permitted to go out with
lanterns until 11 instead of it) p.m., as hitherto.
Count Keller and the Marquis Wielopolski are
reconciled in compliance with orders from St.
Petersburg. The son of the Marquis remains in
the service of the State. Gen. Berg will neither
leave Warsaw nor receive more troops. All this
seems to indicate an approaching change in the
policy of the Russian Government towards Poland.
The representations made to Russia by Austria,
respecting the free exercise of the Roman Catholic
religion, certainly do not appear to have been with-
out effect. Archbishop Felinski, who, regardless
of the police prohibition, celebrated mass in person
in the Cathedral, and allowed the procession of St.
Mark to take place, has not only remained unmo-
lested ; but the proceedings of the police on the
occasion of the procession have met with an unplea-
sant disavowal, from the fact of the priests dis-
obeying the prohibition of the police, also remaining
unpunished.
Reliable intelligence has been received of several
conflicts that have taken place between the Russians

and the insurgents.
Czachowski, after his successful engagement on
29th ult., near Bzin, fought on the 22d near
Nieklau, to the left of the Kielee-Radomer cause-
way.

On the same day an engagement took place
near Gielinow, in which a Russian detachment
from Szydlowice was put to flight. Czachowski
has been appointed Commander-in-Chief in the
district of Sandomir.

Sinister, but at present entirely unconfirmed, re-
ports of increasing inhumanity on the part of the
Russians have been received from Warsaw and the
Polish frontiers.

The position of the Russians in the south of the
kingdom becomes every day more serious and
more difficult. Scarcely have they concentrated on
one point a larger force of troops to destroy a
stronger detachment of insurgents, than there ap-
pears at the place which they have just quitted, a
band daring enough to attack them in the rear.

The following telegrams has been received al
Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Orienta
Steam Navigation Company May 4 :
THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
The Vectis reached Marseilles at 5 s.m. this day.
The mails leave for London by the 11.30 a.m. train.

The letters will be delivered on Tuesday evening,

The Delta, with the heavy portion of the above
mails, left Malta at noon on the Ist inst.; she may be
expected at Southampton on the 10th.
OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUS

TRALIAN MAILS of 20th and 26th APRIL.
The Poonah arrived at Malta on the 30th April,
and continued her voyage to Alexandria the same
day. All well.
The Massilia left Malta for Alexandria at noon
on the 2d inst.
OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL of 27th APRIL.

The new steamship Carnatic arrived at Gibraltar
at 4 p.m. on the Ist inst., 97 hours from Southamp-
ton. She continued her voyage at 8 p.m.

FRANCE.
PARIS, MAY 4.

BOURSE, May 2.—The market has been more
bouyant, and the business done shows an advance.
Threes, for the end of the month, being now at 69f.
70c. The Railway Share Market has been rather
weak, and of the lines are slightly lower. The
market closed as follows :

11 per Cents 97 25 Italian Loan 72
Do. end month.... Do. end month 7l 85
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 69 60 Do. end month 73 25
Credit M0bi1ier....1407 50 Russian
Do. end m0nth....1402 50 Austrian
Bank Shares 3375 Spanish Threes....
Credit .E oncier 1490 Home Debt -
RA ILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans lOl5 .. 1010
Northern ....
New ditto . 1015 ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1145 .. 1150
Geneva 460 .. 455
Southern 762 50 .. 765
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard - 598 75 .. 601 25
North of Spain
Saragossa 752 50 .. 750
Ditto to Barcelona

BRUTAL MURDER NEAR HERNE BAY.

HERNE BAY, May 3.—Last evening a brutal
murder was perpetrated at a little village called
Maypole, situate in the parish of Herne, a short
distance from Herne Bay. The murdered man,
named Richard Steed, was a carrier between this
place and Canterbury, and a dealer in stock. It
appears that early in the evening he was drinking
at a public-house in Herne with a number of
navvies and a man Alfred Eldridge, who has re-
cently been discharged from St. Augustine's Gaol,
where he had been confined for stealing timber.
The murdered man (who was of a very quar-
relsome dispositi3n while under the influence of
drink) quarrelled with some of the parties in the
public-house, and left for the purpose of going
home. He was accompanied by Eldridge. He was
not seen afterwards until between 7 and 8 o'clock,
when he was found, almost in a lifeless state, in a
middle road leading from Herne to Maypole, where
he resided. He was frightfully disfigured, his face
being completely battered in, and his head forced
into the ground as if by a severe kick. Though in
this state life was not quite extinct, the poor fellow
still breathing. He was removed to his home as
quickly as possible and medical assistance sent for,
but it was of no avail, as he immediately ex-
pired. The county constabulary were apprised
of the transaction, and Superintendent Walker,
from circumstances that came to his knowledge,
subsequently apprehended Alfred Eldridge on
suspicion of being concerned in the murder,
and conveyed him to the lock-up at Canter-
bury. The accused is a laboarer, and 33 years of
age. He protests his innocence of the crime of
which he is suspected. He admits, however, that
he left the public-house in company with the de-
ceased, but states that he parted with him some
200 or 300 yards from where the body was found.
No little excitement has been caused in the neigh-
bourhood by this affair, which certainly evidences a
degree of brutality but seldom witnessed happily
in this part of the country. The county coroner,
Mr. T. T. Delasaux, has been apprised of the death
of the deceased, and has issued his warrant for an
inquisition on the body. The prisoner will be
brought before the county justices on Monday, by
which time it is expected the police will be in pos-
session of important particulars relative to the
murder.