The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-16 00:00:00

PRANCE.

The Opinone Nationale makes the following
observations on the debate in the House of Lords
on the Polish question. Lord Grey's language is
first remarked o❑ :—" The noble lord condemns tt,e
atrocities committed by the Russians. We have
underlined that word, the better to show that the
British aristocracy, that powerful head of the old
European Conservative party, takes absolutely the
sane view as we do, and like ourselves brands with
infamy the acts of savage brutality which are now
being accomplished in Poland with the authori-
sation of the Emperor Alexander. Let us add
that Lord Grey, in spite of his indigna-
tion, does not call on the English Government to
exact an exemplary vengeance for those nameless
bat birities. Su.di flights are only permitted
to Democrats like ourselves. Lord Grey, on the
contrary, begs the Ministers of Queen Victoria not
to draw the sword from the scabbard. The Rus-
sians, he admits, act like wild beasts, outrage
humanity, dishonour civilisation, and only seek
victory in a monstrous butchery ; but the noble lord
does not consider it a case for obligatory interven-
tion. That high and powerful lord, that territorial
seigneur, is not the less a great philanthropist ; but
the love which he possesses for his fellow-creatures

is not a gross, material, and vulgtr feeling; it is a
beautiful platonic love, and a pure affection. There
is also the reply of
Earl Russell to Lord Grey.
The minister declared on two occasions that the
Government neither will nor can assist the Poles
by arms; he said that, if anything was ob-
tained from Russia, it must be only by the

force of reason. But he took care to add
that the Polish question is not one of those in which
England would act alone; that he could not say
what would be the reply of Russia, nor what mea-
sures the English Government would take after
having fece'ived it, and that, besides, Lord Grey's
point of view was not that of every body in Eng-
land, where many persons were of opinion that an
armed intervention ought to tyke place. Earl Rus-
sell is perfectly right ;
the English people are not,
any more than the French, disposed to allow the
Poles to be slaughtered, and there are in the House
of Lords men who profess the seine views and feel-
ings; such is Lord Harrcwby, who advised Queen
Victoria to declare that Russia has lost all her
rights of Sovereignty not only over Poland, but
over Lithuunia,VolhYnia,Podolia, and the Ukraine."
A Paris letter, in the lndependance Beige, having
asserted that the Emperor Nspoleon had completely
renounced all idea of war with Russia, the Pays
'ekes the matter up rasher warmly, and affirms 1
that no such language is justifie-1. It says :—" There
was not, ary more than there is at present, any idea
of war or noti( n of cot flict. The Emperor
has not had to renounce, nor has he renounced,
any part of the policy which he first adopted
in the Polish question, and of which the Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs, without ever depart.
ing from it, has pursued the application with
conduct,a s much
be considered as ame-
liorated by reason of the almost certain adhesion of
shill
situation may
5.
Russia to the propositions ot' the three Powers. But
there is absolutely nothing changed either in the
feelings or intentions of the Emperor's Government.
It desired the maintenance of peace,when M. Drouyn
de Lhuys addressed his despatches of the 10th April
and 17th June successively to St. Petersburg, as
sincerely as at present. But it is not less decided
now to pursue the object which it had proposed to
itself by the sending or :.hose despatches."
BOURSE, July 15._-The market is more animated
than for some days past, and prices show an upward
tendency. Threes opened at 68t. 60c., and are now
at 68t. 65c. Mebilier hive also improved, and have
been 1,185 f. and 1,187 f. 50e. Railway Shares are
firm. The market continued firth to the end, and
closed as follows:
. 97 25 Italian Loan
it per Cents
Do e
lie. end month.... ---- , ' end month.... 72
--
3 per Cents ...... 68 79 .e,,v diet) ....... . 72 50
ue. end month.... 68 6) 1-,)o, end launch.... _
Credit Mobilier.... 1183 75 Russian .... 93 _
Austrian ...
.
',U. end month.... 1180
Bank Shares ...... 305 Spani,h Threes., 53 50
Credit konmer .... 1325 Hoene Dtbt ....::

13.6 IL WAYS.
Cash.
t),:te)irwetatheitr.tri:)
.................................... 196_920 A1:900c...923e00: 1 IE:S.
can
(IS.:e.nn.qtu°li.vsea: ... ....... 14607637: 5;60 46 76 85
_7 5
Western b3.!, 50
..'astern
. 500 500
Sardinian .........••••• 415 417 50
Austrian ..........
Lorrb.mi .
North of Spain ..... 547 50 .546 95
Saragossa 697 50 .. 697 50
Ditto to Barcelona

POLAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
CRACOW, Ju y 12,
_ . .

Another Polish town has fallen a victim to the
barbarity of the Russian troops. Janow, which a
week ago a as one of themost flourishing of the towns
of the palatinate of Olkukz, is now in ashes, and
five houses and a church alone remain to show the
place where it once stood. Its destruction by the
Russians was, as usual, an act of vengeance on in-
nocent townsmen, because they had sustained a
c'efeat. The town had, a few weeks ago, been occu-
pied by several companies of infantry and a sotnia
of Cossacks, who had been sent, together with an-
other detachment which proceeded to Lelow, in
pursuit of Chmielinski, who, with his band, occupied
a strong position in the woods of Polok Zloty.
Chmicliuski, hearing of their arrival, determined to
attack them at J unow before they 11.4 d time to con-
centrate their forces, and, with this view, left the
main body of his band and marched to the village
of Ponih, tcling abJut 120 riff: nen tcith him. At
Ponik, which is about 500 paces from Janow, they
surprised some, Cossacks and infantry soldiers of the
Wilebsk Regiment, who were bathing in a pond.
The Russians, after losing about a dozen mt,n, fled
with great precipitation to Janow, closely pursued
by the Poles. Meanwhile, the Russian troops at
Janow, hearing the firing, had assembled in order
in the marketplace, and presented a formidable
front to the handful of Poles that were rushing into
the town. A desperate hand-to-hand struggle
eneued—a major, a captain, and several other offi-
cers and soldiers, fell on the side of the Russians,
and tile alerket-place remained in possession of the
p„jeti. rwurned to his camp in
the woo(k, taking, Nvi„th hint a largo quantity of
ammunition and
then that the earsiege and destruction
beoan. Scarcely were the Poles Well out of sight,