The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

THE BOURSE, July 21.—The market opened this
morning below the closing prices of yesterday, but
a rally soon took place, and Threes, for the Account,
are at 67f. 95c_ Mobilier have slightly improved,
and are now at 1,120 f. The market closed as fol-
lows :

11 per Cents .. 96 90
Do. end month.... 97 20

Italian Loan 7l 50
Do. end month 7l 45
New ditto
Do. end month 7l 85
Russian ..

3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 85
Credit 11Iobilier 1110
1)o. end month 1112 60
Bank Shares 3412 60
Credit 1 oncier

Austrian
Spanish Threes~,
Rome Debt .. —

RA IL WAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lOl2 50 .. 1010
Northern
New. ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1020 .. 1020
Geneva 490 491 25
Southern 655 .. 652 50
Western
eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa ..
Ditto to Barcelona

POLAND.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

CRACOW, JULY 18.

Great dissatisfaction prevails among the peasants
of Voihynia. It appears that when the insurrection
first broke out they had been informed by the Rus-
sian agents appointed by the Government for the
purpose of gaining them over to its side, that the
Czar had determined to give them the land on which
they worked, and to place them under the Govern-
ment of a new independent kingdom of Poland,
whose King was to be the Grand Duke Constantine,
and that it was in order to prevent the execution
of these benevolent intentions of the Czar that the
Polish landowners had risen in rebellion. These
falsehoods wore easily circulated and believed in a
country which is almost completely shut out from
all communication with the rest of Europe, and
among a class which has been purposely kept by
the Russian Government in a state of bratal ignor-
ance. After having thus paved the way, the agents
disclosed their real aims. They offered the peasants
arms and pay, and exhorted tt em to put down these
disturbers of the public peace and enemies of their
prosperity and wellbeing. You know the result.
A sort of militia was raised among the very lowest
classes of the population, who gave abundant evi-
dence of their low state of civilisation by the com-
mission of shocking atrocities upon the landowners
and insurgents. At length these poor benighted
people are beginning to perceive that they have
been deceived. Finding that they are still under
the Czar, that no attempt is made by the Govern-
ment to give them the land on which they reside,
and that the insurgents are fighting for the very
same objects as themselves, many of them have re-
turned to their villages, and the rest have addressed
a petition to the Military Governor-General of the
province, asking for the fulfilment of the promises
made to them when they were enlisted to fight
against the insurgents. The result of this petition
has been the following circular addressed by the

Governor-General, Prince Drucki Sokoiinski, to
the local authorities of the province :

" The peasants of the Government of Volhynia
frequently address petitions to me, saying that as
they are compelled unceasingly, by day and by
night, to pursue rebellious Polish bands, and take
all possible means to assist in pursuing and exter-
minating them, they are not at present in a position
strictly to fulfil their duties towards their landlords,
and they therefore beg to be clearly informed as to
their relations with regard to their landlords,whether
they still owe any corvees to them, or have been
liberated therefrom.

" Considering, that the duty now imposed on the
peasants, the prevention, both by day and by
night, of the assemblage of suspected persons, may
render them incapable of properly fulfilling the
duties required from them by law, I have the honour
to request that you will call upon the nobles of the
Government of Volhynia, in return for the protec-
tion of their estates by the peasants, not to exact
the fulfilment by them of their duties before th4o
disturbances in the country are put down, and, in
view of present circumstances, not to prevent the
peasants from liberating themselves from their cor-
v ees in the usual manner—by payment. The nobles
should also observe that a peaceful arrangement
with the peasants is likely to be more beneficial to
them than measures of compulsion, which, moreover,
would be improper, for the peasants, being occupied
in protecting quiet inhabitants, loving the throne
and their country, and risking their own lives
against the criminal acts of the rebels, have a right
to expect consideration from the landlords and the
Government.

(Signed)

"Prince DRUCKI SOKOLTNSKI,
The Governor."

The cynical assurance of this decree, which speaks
of a horde of half-drunken peasants, pillaging and
murdering every noble they can find, as defenders
of the peace of the country, and protectors of the
nobles, is evident on the face of it. As for the
liberation of the peasants from the corvee, any pea-
sant may be so liberated, in the most complete
manner, by the national Government ; but it is too
much to expect of a Polish nobleman to grant even
a partial benefit to his peasants, when they destroy
his estate, threate❑ his life, and hunt to death the
soldiers of the only Government which enjoys the
confidence of the Polish people,