The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jan. 6.—Sales for realisation produced
at first a slight retrograde movement, but prices
have since again rallied, and are now firm at yes-
terday's closing price, 70f. 80c. Railway Share
Market quiet, and up to the present time prices
pretty well maintained. Prices again receded
before the close, and left off as follows :-
41 per Cents. 9B 65
Do. end month..., 98 70
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 70 60
New 3 per Cents ..
Do. end month....
Credit Mobilier....ll9o
Do. end m0nth....1181 25
RAIL'

Bank Shares 3430

Credit Fonder ....1450
Piedmontese Fives.

Italian Loan 73 25
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 54 -.-
florae Debt -
MAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleatul lO9O .. 1085
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1172 50 .. 1175
Geneva..
Southern 825 .. 825
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
TAIT. bard
North of Spain
Saragossa 665 .. 665
Ditto to Barcelona

POLAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
WARSAW, DEC. 30.
Another arbitrary regulation, emanating from
the Council of State, has been promulgated by the
official journal of the 24th inst., in virtue of which
the Administrative Council is empowered to nomi-
nate public functionaries, instead of the persons
elected by the Districts, to act as a delegation on
the part of the Government for the adjustment of
the relations between the landlords and the peasants.
Hitherto the law only granted this privilege to the
proprietors, who are chiefly interested in this long-
pending question, and who naturally—guided by a
sense of justice and patriotic devotion—are anxious
to bring the matter to a satiSfactory end for 'all'
parties ; but the authorities, ever eager to sow dis-
sensions, compelled most of the Districts to refuse
their co-operation. The Government jumped at
this opportunity, ana hence the fresh law investing
all the power in the official nominees, the pernicious
effects of which is contemplated by the public with
no small alarm, as it destroys the chance of the
peasant question being arranged, as it would have
been, to the mutual benefit of the parties concerned.
The new ukase of the Emperor, which presumes
to restore all the confiscated property, of what has
not been annexed to the Crown, to the exiles of
1830-31, if they return to Poland, has caused much
amusement here; because it is notorious that
every bit of the fortunes of the exiles had, by
order of Nicholas, been ferreted out, and either
made part of the State or distributed
among the Russian generals, and that, were
the authorities to search every house in Poland,
they would find nothing that belonged to her pro-
scribed sons. The joke was merely for the Euro-
pean public, to show the magnanimity of the Rus-
sian Government towards the Pole's, who are little
aware of the incessant tyranny and oppression they
are enduring. As to the return of the refugees to
Poland, though a" few and far between" cases of
this kind occurred, no one is allowed to go back
without, in a most humiliating strain, asking for
the pardon; and rarely this pardon is given,
because the Russian embassies in London and in
Paris, through whom the petitions must be pre-
sented, decline forwarding them to Warsaw. It
is to my knowledge that several emigrants, bowed
down under an advanced age, or attacked with an
incurable malady, such as paralysis, having solicited
permission to return home and lay their bones
on their native soil, the Czar's ambassador in Lon-
don would not forward the application for the con-
sideration of the Emperor. Such is the real worth
of this ukase, which I perceive has been justly
appreciated by the French press.
The state trial of the 66 political prisoners is
proceeding, and every day discloses the subterfuges,
the savage treatment of the accused in the Citadel,
in order to compel them to admit the charges which,
when once before the open court, and with the help
of the counsel, they immediately deny. To give all
the particulars of this trial, which may be classed
among the most remarkable that has taken place
in Europe, would be tedious ; but it is surprising
what moral courage and determination have been
exhibited by the accused, however humble the
sphere of life to which they belong, being mostly
artisans and young workmen, and the fervid
eloquence with which they were defended. All the
efforts of the Russian Attorney• General, M, Avo-
naska, have been unavailing to deny the statement
of one of thd prisoners named Budony that, while
under examination in the Citadel, he was both
threatened with corporeal punishment and offered a
bribe of money if he would confess what was pro-
posed to him, and at last the Attorney-General had
to confess himself having employed those means by
order of a higher authority. This gives a fair idea
of Russian justice, and consequently the result of
the trial may be easily guessed. Perhaps two or
three prisoners will be liberated, but the rest is
sure to be condemned.

In my former letters I described the mode in
which the conscription or rather proscription of the
population of this country for the Russian army
was to be effected. It has been represented in the
imperial ukase as a benevolent measure, tending to
have regard to the present political and social trans-
formation, and to spare all those Whose presence
the country required. However, when the veil
thrown over this blind had been remved, the true
object of the proscription was palpable, viz., to
get rid of the more intelligent part of the popula-
tion, particularly the workmen and the artisans
inhabiting the towns, and whom the Government