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

FRANCE.

Le Pays thinks that the efforts now making in
Italy to efftct 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 :

tt per Cent 5....... 98 75
Do end month.... 98 80

Bank Shares 3395
Credit kw:icier 1492
Piedmontese Fives
Italian Loan 7O 45
Russian -
Austrian
• Spanish Threes 52 75
Elome Debt
WAYS.

i per Cents
Do. end month 69 95
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 1185
Do. end month 1178 75
RAIL

Cash. Account.
Orleans ICBB 75 .. 1086 25
Northern 1025 .. 1021 25
New. ditto — ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1165 .. 1165
Geneva 4OO .. 402 50

Southern BlO -- 811 25

Western

Eastern ....

Sardinian

Austrian
1 wnr bard
North of Spain
Saragossa.
Ditto to Barcelona

POLAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

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 resistance of the Poles, and to deceive Europe
on the real character of the movement and the
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
pompous announcements of concessions and graces
(as reforms bear this name in Russia) granted to
Poland, the real position cannot be concealed.
Thence arose for the Muscovite Government the
necessity of finding a cause, if not an excuse, for its
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, except 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 baths to lean upon.
Such an attitude as that assumed by the Poles put
them into a position perhaps more untenable than