The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, AUG. 12.
The Semaphore of Marseilles has received a first
warning for having published false news calculated
to lead public opinion astray, by its announcement
of an exchange of letters between the Emperor of
the French and the Emperor of Russia, which, as
it is officially stated, has never taken place.
BOURSE, Aug. 11.—The market has been rather
firmer, and the business done, though I.mited in
amount, shows a slight improvement. Threes, for
the Account, are now at 671. 30c. The Railway
Share Market has been also more animated, and
previous prices have been well maintained. The
market continued to improve to the close, and le-
off as follows :--
it per Cents. 96 40
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 45
Credit I‘l obilier 1075
on. end month 1072 50
Bank Shares 3365
Credit I' oncier 1245

Italian Loan 72
Do. end month —
New ditto
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes.,
Home Debt

RA ILWAYB.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
.... 1015 --- .. 1015
Northern
Mediterranean
ditto '— .. --
Lyons and Medit
102"5 .. 1020
Geneva . • 488 75 .. 490
Southern
690 .. 692 50
Western . .......
523 75 .. 525
Eastern
Sardinian
406 25 .. 406 25
Austrian
Lorphmrd
North of Spain
Saragossa 686 25 .. 682 50
Ditto to Barcelona ... •

POLAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
CRACOW, Aug. 8.
One of the most effective arms used by the Rus-
sian Government to provoke the Poles into acts
of desperation, and at the same time to deceive
Europe as to the real facts, is the official pleas.
I have now before me the last numbers of two
official papers of Warsaw and Wilna. the D:iennik
Powezechny and the Kuryer jVilenski. The former
of these publishes a number of loyal addresses to
the Czar, purporting to proceed from various dis-
tricts of the empire. To say nothieg of the unneces-
sary provocation involved in the publication ot
such addresses in a Polish paper, they ate couched
in such fulsome terms that they bear the marks of
fabrication on the face of them. Thus one, stated
to be signed by ". the ;andowners, zajsangs, and
clergy of the Calmouck people" declares that they
are " quite happy under the wise rule of the Rus-
sian law," and that " the Polish rebellion lies on
their hearts like a stone ;" but that " all this is but
a trial, which will End in placing Russia higher
than all the nations in the world," and that " they
(the Calmoucks) are ready to sacrifice everything
for the prosperity of Russia and the peace of the
Czar, which is dearer to them than anything on
earth." In another, the inhabitants, of all trades
and professions, of the town of Barnaul, in the Go-
vernment of Tomsk, are made to say that "they
live at a distance of 4,000 versts from St. Peters-
' burg, at the foot of tne frozen Altar Mountains,"
that "their love for the Czar is boundless," and
that "should the hostility of foreigners compel the
Czar to have recourse to arms, they are ready to
make all sacrifices."
But it is in the TVilna Courier that the provo-
cation assumed an aspect of brutal insult, Which
must be bitterly galling to the Poles. The hosti-
lity of the inhabitants of this city to the Russians
is well known, Scarcely one of them but has
suffered, directly or indirectly, by the terrible per-
,ecutions of the tyrant Mouravieff. Wilna is the
headquarters of the.Lithaanian insurr-ctioa, all the
women wear mourning, and the whole city has now

for many mon
Apparently this was not to the taste of
fhs presented an aspect of sorrow and
he gave orders for the celebration
of the Empress's birthday on the 3d by a grand
fete
inatiens, oh which Occasion the
htthee ffila
theatre
was to be opened for the
first
time
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jets,tion .asTghievefonl lionwtihneg
yesterday, on the 22d July (August 3), t being
the glorious anniversary of the birth of her Mr,jesty
he Empress Maria AleKandrowna, his excellency
General 111uuravieff 11. deigned to receive
. .
(he congratulations of the clergy, the civil and mili.
,ary emplo3 e•, tie nobles, the merchants, and the
representatives of the townsmen. After this Alex-
ander, Bishop of Kowno, officiated at the holy
iiturgy, and his eminence Joseph, Metropolitan of
Lithuania, said the prayers of thanksgiving, in pre-
sence of the President of the country, all the gene-
rals, military and civil emplo3 e,, all the nobles, the
merchants, and large crowds of people. After prayers
for the long life of nor Imperial Majesty and her
family, a salvo of 101 guns was fired from the cita-
del. When the ecclesiastical parade, at which were
present the troops, was over, and his excellency
congratulated the soldiers, these all answered with
a long and cordial hurrah. The adjoining squares
and streets, which were filed with people, re-
sounded with the shouts with which they responded
to the hurrahs of the valiant soldiers. . a
the evening all parts of the town were illuminated,

d crowds passed through the streets, r(joicing at
the unusual sight. The churches were illuminated
with great artistic taste.

"In the theatre the performances commenced with
the national hymn, t God save the Emptror,' which
the enthusiastic audience encored; when it was
finished the roof of the building long re-ecnoed with
unanimous hurrahs. AU who were present wers
in holiday attire, The threarre was full. All the

places were taken, The toilettes of the ladies were
remarkable for their elegance,
After this, is it to be wondered at that the mourn-
ing population of \Vilna uses all its energies to

overthrow the Government that insults it with such

cynical falsehoods?

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THE
FIRST FRENCH NEWSPAPER was started in
Paris in 1631, during the reign of Louis XIII., by
a physician named Tneophraste Renaudot. Since then the
number of political journals which have appeared in France
would defy calculation. A statistical writer 11-43 recently
stated that, on the 25th of July, 1863, there were no less
than 609 newspapers, then being published in Paris alone.
HOLID tY EN GLISIIM EN.— Bu-olle,B is giving
place to recreation ; etw:p irips are being takri,
now from day to day by Londoners to Paris, up the Rhine
and down the Alps; to N,,rway, with its fiords and lakelets;
to Switzerland, with its glaciers and mountain passes; to
Scotland, with its glens and she-p-walks ; to Ireland, with
its green scenery aml lovely suns.ts; to Ramsgate sands or
Margate cliffs; parties to the dinner p at Richmond, or the
tea and shrimps and Margate I —City Press.
FANCIED ENEMIES ON THE PRESS.—A Satur-
day Reviewer comments very reasonably, as fol-
lows, on the prevalence, or at any rate the frequency
her
of
certain kind of hatred, arising out of sudden misconception,
imagined blights, fancied insults, and hypo.h,,tical wrotage.
may
yat beoffensive
lA novelist may come to the irresistible conclusion that such
mand n suchwhoaw.jroouternatlhisatt, and
horridn o other,article mustnpnn
hi
s certainlyor be the
uit e
remarksu aboutrethat such c
himhp
in a leading article. One of the most curious
pet
writer,ncvel. O
andr
noa politician
other,
made m
h,parts of a
journalist's experience who happens to be hind the
scenes is to observe how many persons feel b-
quite sure,
first, that particular articles are written by pariicular men ;
and, next, that such and such passages
aimed at them. It is needless to add how, almost univer-
sally, they are at fault.