The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-06 00:00:00

FRAN CE.

BOURSE, Aug. s.—There has been but a very
limited amount of business doing, but the market
has been pretty firmly maintained at about the
closing prices of yesterday. Tnrees, for the Ac-
count, have alternated between 68fr. 90e. and 69fr.
Railway Shares heavy. The market closed as fol-
lows :

1 per Cents. 9S
Do end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 69
tiew 3 per Cents ..
Do, end month....
Credit Mobilier.... 847 50
Do. end month.... 850

Bank Shares 3200
Credit I. oncier 1195
Piedmontesc Fives 72 20
Italian Loan 72 35
Roman
Austrian
Spani,h Threes S(J
Home Debt ..

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'AI S.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lO2O .. 1020
Northern
New ditto - • • .
Lyons and Mediterranean 1107 50 .. 1106 25
Geneva 350 ..
Southern 827 50 .. 828 75
Western
Eastern .. „ 540 ..
Sardinian
Austrian
Low bard 615 .. 617 50

POLAND.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

WARSAW, JULY 29.

Two of the vexatious restrictions which the Go-
vernment has invented, apparently with no other
purpose than to goad the people into insurrection,
have at last been removed. The Saxon Garden has
been partly opened, and the inhabitants of Warsaw
are allowed to go about the streets at night without
a lantern. It is still forbidden, however, to go for
a walk outside the gates cf the town ; and no dimi-
nution is perceptible in the number of political
arrests. The Municipal Council has worthily com-
menced its more important labours, by appointing.
a commission, composed of the President of the
town and four of its members, to visit and report
upon the various prisons. One of these was visited
by the Commission on the 20th„ and the report,
which was the result of their investigation, was for-
warded through the Municipal Council to the Com-
mission for Home Affairs. This report has not
appeared in the Warsaw papers, the Government
having forbidden them to publish it. It has,
however, found its way to some persons who will
doubtless transmit it abroad. I have no time to
enter into all the details which disclose the horrible
state of the rooms, over-crowded with people of
both sexes, and even with children of four years of.
age, from whom the mothers would not be separated.
The want of accommodation, for there are no beds
in the rooms, the filth that prevails in them, the
poisonous air which the prisoners are condemned
to breathe, many of whom are without a shirt,
and covered with vermin, not being able to
provide themselves with the necessary ap-
parel—the scanty and miserable food
that is given them, consisting of a basin of
coarse sour soup and one pound of black bread, ren-
der the prisons of Warsaw equal to those of Naples
during the time of the Bourbons, and certainly
worse than the aasemates of Spiiberg and Kufstaia,
of which Austria is so proud. When one remem-
bers that the 14,833 persons which the report states
to have been confindd from the Ist of January last
to the 19th instant were so for trivial offences, suck
as not carrying a lantern, or travelling without a
passport, it is frightful to contemplate the wicked-
ness of the Russian Government, which exhausts
itself in so cruel and refined tyranny. Although
the authorities have not permitted the publication:
of this report, Muchannon, the Director of the
Police, is about to act on it, and has issued a de-
cree throwing the whole blame on the police em-
ployes, which, however, has deceived nobody, as it
is notorious that what was done, or rather left un-
done, in the prisons, was with the full knowledge
and sanction of all the members of the Government,,
from the Acting Viceroy downwards.

Every day brings us some new regulation or
decree tending to improve the wretched cone,ition
of the country, but, alas ! all is on paper only—
and a clever delusion is thus practised on the Euro-
pean public who easily imagine that good and
sound reforms have actually been int,2nded. Such
is not the case. Nothing has changed ; the police
and the military are still our masters, and woe to
him who dares to disobey them. Hence the arrests
never cease. The authorities are sadly vexed at the
deep mourning worn by the ladies—the absence of
any sort of amusement—the passive dissatisfaction
which reigns throughout the whole population.
And how can it be otherwise, in the midst of the
Russian terrorism. It is, indeed, ridiculous to pro-
mulgate such a new law, either as regards the
peasant's question—the admission of the Jews to
the enjoyment of civil rights in the development of
public instruction, when the first police agent or
soldier is invested with a power to destroy every
thing. How is it possible to attach credence to
those proclamations, when the first violators of
them such as Hatsfeld Chrulew and Kryzanowskay,
instead of being themselves imprisoned and tried,
are loaded with honours and fortunes, and even
some of them still retain their official position.
It is, I am told, decided to restore the custom.
frontier between the so-called kingdom of Poland
and Lithuania, Volhynia, and other ancient Polish
possess.ons, forming part of the Russian empire.
Such an act would be tantamount to a new partition
of Poland, and to a positive refusal of the intended
reforms to all parts of ancient Poland, which is the
only guarantee of upholding them in the kingdom.
Moreover, such a policy would be most pernicious
to Russia herself, as by granting autonomy to the
kingdom alone the other provinces would be in in-
cessant ferment and excitement, and in the end
cause the abolition of those reforms in the king-
dom. Unless the Emperor is merely deceiving the
Poles and Europe by trumpeting his "good inten-
tions," he must be sadly deficient in what the
English call " good sense" to act as he does both
here and in Russia.

VARIETIES.

(From Fun.)

What is the tourist's best motive for travelling ?—A
loco-motive.

What is the difference between a coat and a baby P—The
one I wear, the other I was.

FUN-EREAL JoKE.—A mausoleum ought to be called a
no more so-leum.

If M'Clellan is the "Young Napoleon," is not Stone-
wall Jackson the "Young Wellington"!

A GOOD EXAMPLE.—Her Majesty, in her capacity of
Duchess of Lancaster, has lately given £2,000 for the relief
of the distressed operatives in the cotton districts. Thus,
while other sovereigns in Europe strive to acquire power by
g the " Queen of Hearts."
" playing the knave," our gracious ruler wins the affections
of
shLmersuubTjLeyctsc boysTs,AplaYr
cTORY.—That able Federal finan-
cier, c i er , M
This
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is sadly in " ant of money to carry on the
war.
s curious when we recollect the very large
k o n the
bank (of the Chickahominy river) lately re.
ceived by y General M'Clellan. Perhaps, however, the
monkey's
allowance there obtained was not found available
for cash paymenpayments.c hec
PERPETUAL MOTION DISCOVERED AT LIST.—The
progress of FUN in public opinion.
ECCLESIASTICAL QUESTION.—Is a versicle the same 45
a tune-isle ?—We pause for a reply.
CAUTION TO YOUTH.--Avoid him who draws the long
bow, for of a surety such a ene is a n-arrow-minded man'
—Solon in the Strand.
What prevents the running river running away P--Why'
it's tide up.

A SEASONABLE RIDDLE.
Wire corn in August like a jaundiced fellow ?
Because the blade becomes uncommon yellow !

DEATH OF SIR E. P. COFFIN.—The death of Sir
Edward Pine Coffin, C. 8., for many years senior Commis"
"47 General in'her Majesty's service, is announced. lie
was born at Eastdown, Devonshire, in 1784, and entered
the commissariat service in 1805. He became Assistant
Commissary-General in 1809, Deputy Commissary-General
in 1814, and Commissary-General in 1840. During the
tamine of 1845.6 he had charge of the relief operations et
Limerick and on the west coast of Ireland. He was knighted
by patent at the termination of that service.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. —TnB directors of
this company have determined to recommend to the proprie-
tors, at the general meeting on the 23d inst., to declare e
dividend for the half-year ending the 30th of June last at
_
the rate of 10s. per cent. per annum on the original stook
of the company, giving for the half-year £2 ss. per cent. t:
the original stock, £3 per cent. to the B stock, and £1 100•
per cent, to the A stock,

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