The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-20 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Feb. 20.—Wind this day at noon—East;
moderate breeze and cloudy weather.
CLYDE, Feb. 19.—Wind S.—Sailed—Clutha, for Mel-
bourne.

PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 19.—Wind N.W., foggy.—Arrived
Majesty's ship It!,adamanthus, from Plymouth.
Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Speedy, t r Jersey; her Ma-
jesty's ship Megzera, for the Channel Islands.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday morning.
Sailed—Condor, steamer, for Bremen ' • Seine and Tamise,
screw steamer, for Paris ; Concordia, steamer, for Bou-
logne ; Cosmopolitan, for iiamburg.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed—Westward No, from London, for liurrachee.
Sailed—All the outward bound, except one.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton, Mar. 21
via Marseilles Mar. 15,
brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Mar. 6.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Mar. 3,
china, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Mar. 4.

- via Marseilles ...Feb. 27
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Feb. 26.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 4.
...

. . .
via Marseilles Feb. 27.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Feb. 25.
via Marseilles Feb. 20.
Portuga1....
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Feb. 25.
via Marseilles Feb. 20.
Newfoundland .. Mar. J.
Oporto and Vigo .. ..
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Feb. 26.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Feb. 20.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira and Teneriffe .......... Mar. 10.
Bahamas, via New Y0rk'...................Mar. 12,
. • •
..Feb. 28.
Mexico .................... I D
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, i Feb. 28.
California, and Britian Columbia,, .......... ._,. MIA

French Sympathy with the Poles.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)

A remarkable change is observable in the official
and semi-official press on the question of Poland,
The same journals that but a week ago had for the
insurgents only invective and disdain are all of a
sudden loud in their praise. The Jifoniteur,i for n
stance, has ceased to publish its " Correspondence
from Warsaw," compiled at the Russian Embassy
in Paris, and recommended by M. de Morny, and
prefers reproducing articles from German papers
which cry out against Prussian intervention and
denounce the cruelties of the Russians in Poland.
The Constitutionnel is discreet and mute ; the
Pattie, after ten days' silence, now tells us that the
" Polish question" is the most important and the
most . urgent of all European questions. The
Optnton Nationale has already issued its programme
for the Imperial Government to carry out if it care
to stand; and in this letter you will find the epi-
tome of an article by a public functionary claiming
Polish sympathies for the Napoleons, and charging
both branches of the House of Bourbon with guilty
connivance at the spoliation of Poland.
With all this it seems strange that the sale of en-
gravings and pictures relating to passing events in
Poland is prohibited. One paper is refused permis-
sion to give the portraits of the leaders of the insur-
rection, and another was near being confiscated for
a description of the palace of the Kings of Poland.
in Warsaw. A manifestation of some of the work-
ing classes was spoken of, but the democrats have
been requested to discourage and preveet it; and
a posthumous prosecution of a Polish journal pub-
lished in Paris and now defunct was contemplated.
It is evident that there are two opposing currents
in official regions. Two mighty personages coalesce
with the Russian Ambassador, abetted by two
journals rather notorious than celebrated for their
reactionary spirit. The other official departments
sympathise with, and to the best of their means sup-
port, the Poles. So far as one can know anything
of the feeling of the army, it is decidedly favourable
to the Polish movement and to French interven-
tion
; and the sort of agitation carried on in French
society by the Russians about the alleged cruelties
of the Poles has but small effect.

The Russian journal Le .Nord, published in Paris,
has for days past dwelt on the atrocities committed
by the Poles on the Russian soldiers who fell into
their hands. These are calumnies; and we have
seen that disarmed Russian detachments gained the
Prussian frontier, and suffered no ill treatment
from the insurgents. On the other hand, the mas-
sacres perpetrated at Tomaszow and Suchedniow
show in what fashion the Russians act. The Nord
has but few customers in Paris, but the Russians
circulate it in society, and read these terrible details
made up for the purpose. One Russian of high
rank, who was enlarging a day or two ago in a place
of public resort on the enormities of the Poles, re-
ceived from one of his hearers this reply, " The
stories you tell us seem very doubtful ; but even
were they true they would be quite natural after
all you have done in Poland."

tne Opinione Nationale, the Organ of the Palais
Royal, returns with renewed vigour to the subject
of Poland. It would not do so if it were distaste-
ful to the Emperor. These articles in a paper which
represents" Democratic Imperialism" may be thrown.
out as feelers. It is worth while to ascertain whe-
ther intervention would be popular, while, at the
same time, they do not compromise the Government,
and may be disavowed at any moment. It also gives
occasion to exalt the Bonapartes at the expense of
the Bourbons, if we may judge from the second
article in the Opinions Nationale of yesterday,
headed "The Bourbons, Napoleons, and Poland."
The Po.es, it is well known, had no great reason to
be satisfied with Napoleon, whom they served with
fidelity to the last, but who never realised the hopes
which he had excited of reconstituting their na-
tionality. He certainly said that had he reigned
during the first, the second, or even the third par-
tition, he would have armed all France to defend
them. But at Tilsit the provinces which before the
first dismemberment formed part of the kingdom of
Pvland, and were subsequently annexed to Prussia,
were detached from it, erected into a separate prin-
cipality—the Grand Duchy of Warsaw—and
bestowed on the King of Saxony, with the excep-
tion of Bialystok, containing 200,000 souls, which
was ceded to Russia. In order to humble Prussia
to the dust, Napoleon had roused to the utmost the
population of Prussian Poland; but he resolutely
refused to encourage the Russian provinces of
Lithuania to raise the standard of independence.
" I love the Poles," he said to Rapp, after receiving
one of their deputations
" Their ardour pleases me. I wish to render them inde-
pendent, the task is not easy Too many nations are inte-
rest.d in their spoils,—Austria, Russia, Prussia. It the
match is once lighted, there is no saying, where it would
stop. My first duty is towards France, and it is no part of
that duty to sacrifice its interests to Poland ; that would
lead us too far. We must leave its destinies in the hands
of the supreme disposer of all things—to Time, It will
possibly teach us hereafter what course we ought to pur-
sue."

The Opznione Nationale quotes various passages
from the addresses of the Emperor to the Pollan.
deputations. In November, 1806, he said :

" France has never recognised the various partitions of
Poland. Nevertheless I cannot proclaim your independence
until you have decided on defending your rights as a nation,
with arms in your hands, by all sorts of sacrifices, even that
of your lives. Instructed by your calamities, unite, and
prove to the world that one and the same spirit animates
the whole Polish nation."

Again on the 27th of the same month be said to
the Polisti senators, presented by Count Radzi-
nunsiti

" The misfortunes of Poland has been the result of its
intestine divisions. What has been destroyed by force can
only be repaired by force. Speeches and wishes are of no
avail. If the priests, the nobles, and the middle classes
make common cause and adopt the firm resolution to
triumph or to die, they will triumph, and may count on my
protection."

As a contrast to this encouraging language the
Opmione represents " a Bourbon, Louis Philippe
d'Orleans" (afterwards King of the French), writ-
ing in the same month of the same year to Count
d'Antraigues, who was setting out for St. Peters-
burg, a letter containing this passage :

The Emperor of Russia must not suffer peace with
Prussia; and if it be made, he mu t not recognise it. He
must put in movement all the forces of his vast empire in
order to prevent the resurrection of Poland, and he must do
it whether Prussia is cowardly enough to submit or coura-
geous enough to oppose it. Tho fate of Russia, as well as
of Prussia, depends on that of Poland."

Two years afterwards the same Prince, while a
refugee at the Court of Naples, wrote to Count
d'Antragues on the preparations of Austria for the
campaign of 1809 :
" T have seen an army of 120,000 men in Poland under
the command of the Archduke Ferdinand. Why, I asked
myself, do you send a single man to Poland ? It is against
Bonaparte that you should concentrate your forces. If you
do net beat him, your 120,000 will not beat the King of
Saxony. If you beat him, a detachment of 120 men will
suffice to annihilate the King of Saxony and the Duke of
Warsaw—and let there be no more about it."

On the sth January, 1810, the Duke of Vicenza,
Ambassador of France at the Court of Russia, signed
the draught of a convention, stipulating, first, that
the kingdom of Polandshon Id never be re-established;
second, that the name of Pole.nd and of Pole should
be proscribed in all public acts; third, that the
Duchy of Warsaw should never have an increase of
territory ; and, fourth, that the Convention should
be made public.
Napoleon refused to ratify this Convention, and
persisted in saying that the re-establishment of Fe"
land was desirable for all the Western Powers; and
1 as long as it was not re-established Europe would
be without a frontier in the direction of Asia. " file
severity of the weather," the Opinione adds, " tri:
umphed over the efforts of Polish patriotisme an
and
French valour. Napoleon, vanquished by b
ele-
ments, lost his throne, and the Bourbons returnedf
to France."
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land. can it be or should it be forgotten that
under the government of CzArtoryski, Poland, under the
revolutionary influence, would have been up, and but for
our judicious and salutary influence she would have united
herself to France to repel, to crush—it cannot be doubted
—Russia, notwithstanding her colossal strength, because
it is true that when a people, really a people, rise for liberty,
there is no power sufficient to subdue them. I hoped for
better from the information you might have given as to the
immense service we have rendered to Russia, to Austria,
and to Prussia, a service which appears from tie fact since
Poland has fallen, and not without some peril for use. Let
us think of that a little more, not to be under the necessity
of being incessantly reminded of it. Have you not the
two letters of Lafayette containing reproaches against our
Minister for having, by his advice and his promises, para-
lyzed Poland's means of defence ? Can the Cabinets
t.o
of
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uhrlgt.l,e, more of this at Vienna, and particularly
held last
greatevening event of the day—the Polish insurrection. It
is believed that the Moniteur will before long give
some indication of the views of the Emperor on this
grave subject.

The Swedish Diet has doelared itself in favour of
a common system of coins, weights, and measures for
Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.