The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1863.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.

" The election of MM. Berryer and Thiers is due
solely to the concurrence of the advanced Demo-
cracy. There exists no really serious party to face
the Government except the Democratic masses.
" It is impossible to understand why an unim-
portant communal affair should require investiga-
tions lasting at least two years, owing to the inter-
vention of 11 different authorities."

The Emperor further expresses himself convinced
of "ihe urgency of this reform necessitating the re-
vision of numerous laws, dectees, ordinances, and
Ministerial instructions, His Majesty io trusts this
labour to the different sections of the Council of
State; " for if," continues the letter, " the Council
of State does not administer, it observes the acts of
the Administration."

The Emperor concludes by saying :
" As I attach great importance to this reform, I
rely upon the enlightened z.,q11 of the Council of
State to arrive very soon at a satisfactory solution."
The state of affairs in France, resulting from the
elections of the 31st of May, may be summarised
in two words—' The Empire and Democracy.' The
Empire must turn towards the Democracy and
adopt its promises of reforms and its programme of
progress and liberty. The Emperor alone can trans-
form these promises into reality. It will thus give
satisfaction to the honest and generous instincts of
Democracy, without exciting its passions. The
Empire will be Revolution without despotism."
The Patrie of this evening says :
" It is asserted that Monseigneur Cbigi is about
to proceed to Sc. Petersburg as Papal Nuncio."
A letter addressed by the Emperor to the Pre-
sident of the Council of State, has been published
to-day, in which his Majesty says :
" Our system of centralisation, despite its ad-
vantages, is attended by the serious inconvenience
of leading to an excess of administrative action.
BOURSE, June 27.—The market has been firm,
but wich3ut any improvement in prices—Threes,
for the Account, being unvaried at 68f, 40c. Little
or nothing doing in Railway Shares. The market
closed as follows :
It per Cents 97
Do. end
3 per Cents .. 68 50
Do. end month.... 68 45
Credit Mobilier..., 1190
no, end m0nth....1212 50
Bank Shares 3400

Credit k oucier 1335

Italian Loan 73 05
Do. end month —
New ditto
Do. end month....
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes.,,
Home Debt

ILA 11, WA YS,
Cash.
Orleans.... 997 50
Northern
New. ditto
- • ---
• •
Lyons and Mediterranean 1017 50 1022 50
Geneva 452 60 460
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
I.orrbard
North of Spain ..... 567 50 .. 561 25
Saragossa 717 50 .. 717 50
Ditto to Barcelona _

Account.

POLAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

CRACOW, JUNE 24.
The following is a translation of the protest of
the Archbishop of Warsaw against the execution
of the CApucin priestlionarski. It is known that

in consequence of this protest the archbishop was
sent to St. Petersburg, whence,
it is said, he will
be transported to Wologda::_
"12th June, 1863, No, 1,707. To the President
of the Government Commission for Public Educa-
tion and religion.
" To-day, between the hours of five and six in

the morning, the Rev.A.Konarski, chaplain of the
Society of the Capuciu Fathers, was hanged at the
citadel, in pursuance of a sentence of the military
authorities. His body was left hanging for three
hours, after which it was buried, no one knows
where, without any religious service whatever.

The indictment of M. Konarski says that in
1856 he remained for some time abroad with a
foreign passport, and that, by order of the Central
Committee, having proceeded to join the insurgents in
the kingdom of Poland, he performed the duties of
a clergyman, principally by confessing wounded
persons who were in danger of death. In the
above-named charges I see nothing that calls for
the severe punishment of death ; for it is a chap-
lain's duty, without regard to the person summon-
ing him, to give spiritual comfort to all on the verge
of death, whatever may be their political or social
position. The principle is universally recognised,
and the terrible civil war in North America affords
a fresh proof of the protection always given by
each side to the chaplains of the other, although one
of the parties is regarded by the other as in a state
of rebellion. Even this Government announced in

tt e public papers, at the beginning of the present
insurrection, that neither chaplains nor physicians
shall be punished for rendericg assistance to the
wounded.

" The execution of the sentence in question is,
moreover, in complete opposition to ecclesiastical
law. For there are numerous decisions of the
Catholic church and of the provincial Polish sy nods,
stating the tales in which a chaplain may be con-
demned to death, and clearly providing that a clergy-
man convicted of a capital offence shall not be exe-
cuted until a sentence of degradation shall have been
passed upon him, and his spiritual dignities taken
from him, by the spiritual authorities, in order that
the profession of a clergyman might be respected,
and because religion is the basis of all social order.
Any infraction of this law brings a great responsi-
bility both on those who perpetrate it and on those
who in any way assist them in doing so; and it also
causes mourning in the church within a certain
space around the place where the sentence was car-
ried out. Now, in the act in question the Eccle-
siastical Law, which has hitherto always been obeyed
i❑ cases of this kind, has been violated in every way.
For not only have the proceedings of the tribunal
which passed the sentence not been communicated
to me, but I have not even been informed what the
offence of the chaplain aforementioned was. This
circumstance is the more offensive that the dignity
of a clergyman has been held up to public shame,
the hanging of a priest on the gallows being a kind
of death which is regarded as the most shameful of
all.

" The present are no doubt exceptional times, but
jnstice,:the law of the nation, and law of God, can-
not allow of any exceptions. Although this protest
cannot prevent an accomplished fact, I have the
honour to request that you wilt communicate these
remarks to the higher authorities, with the view of
at least preventing such acts in future. Further,
order at least partly to compensate for the slight
offered to the clergy, I request that the body of the

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, JUNE 29.
M. Rouland has been nominated First Vice-
President of the Senate.
The Emperor arrived here at 11 last night.
PARIS, June 27.
M. Vaisse has received the Grand Cross of the
Legion of Honour.
The Prefects of the departments of Loiret and
Upper Saone have been dismissed.
A decree of the Emperor has been published to-
day appointing two Prefects, 15 sub-Prefeets, and
12 Councillors of Prefecture.
The Paris papers of to-day publish a message,
dated Constantinople, the 26th inst., asserting that
Sir Henry Bulwer had addressed, in the name of
his colleagues of the Diplomatic Body, a protest to
the Porte, referring to the indemnity duo by the
Turkish Government for the persons killed in Syria.
The same telegram states that 11 engagements of
a sanguinary character had successively taken place
in the Caucasus.
The Paris evening papers contain the following :
"It is asserted on good authority that France and
England have come to an understanding, and are
about to propose an armistice to the belligerents in
America. In case of a refusal on the part of the
North, France and England will recognize the
South."
The Emperor will come to Paris on Monday next
to preside at a Council of Ministers.
La France of this evening publishes an article
headed" France and the Democracy," which, after
pointing out what it terms " the impotence of the
old parties," says:—