The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-03 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1352 50 .. 1353 75
Northern O9O .. 992 50
New ditto .. . .. •
Lyons and Mediterranean 1082 50 .. 1085 ---
Geneva
Southern 705 700 25
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian ..
Lore bard 540 542 50

POLAND.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
WARSAW, JAN. 24.

The Government does not appear in the least
disposed to relax its severity towards the clergy,
and itis reported that it has in view entirely to
suppress both the salaries of the priests and the
revenues derived from the different religious estab-
lishments. Certainly as far as the arrests and con-
demnations can go, there seems to be no end of
them. Offences, if they can be so called, committed
and overlooked long ago, are now being made
ground for a fresh exercise of the Muscovite tyranny.
Thus Abbe Pizalski has just been charged with stop-
ping some soldiers on the 15th of October last, with
no other weapons in his hands than those of a cross,
from forcibly breaking into the Cathedral, and
sent away for this crime to the citadel of Petro-
Paulowski, at St. Petersburg. These acts of a sys-
tematic persecution are repulsive even to the feel-
ings of the majority of the Russian nation, who
understand well that the true interest of the empire
requires the independence of Poland. The clandes-
tine journal of St. Petersburg, Wielkorus (Great
Russian), publishes article upon article to that effect,
and wherever the inhabitants can manifest their
opinion they are unanimous in regard to this feel-
ing. In proof of this fact I will only state that
when the Russians who were studying at the Uni-
versity of Heidelberg, and which is also frequented
by many Poles, had recently celebrated, by a sump-
tuous banquet, the arrival among them of the son
of Mr. Herzan, editor of Kolokol, a Russian paper
published in London, they invited the Poles to
join them, who eagerly accepted this mark of friendly
feeling. When they entered the banqueting room,
the band struck up, with the assistance of Russians,
the Polish national anthem, " Poland, thou are not
yet lost," and everything passed off gloriously.
When, at the end of the banquet, a Russian rose
and proposed a toast for the fusion of the two
nations into one great people, he was interrupted
by his own countrymen, who protested against
such an absorptien. 'Moreover, the chairman
begged pardon of the Poles for such words
which naturally were hurtful to their patrioth feel-
ings, and declared, in the name of the assembly,
that the first and most vital condition of a sincere
alliance between the two nations is, their separation
in two distinct States, and their thorough indepen-
dence ; a declaration which was received by all with
the most enthusiastic cheers. These are ominous
signs of a progressive change in Russia, which no
ukases, decrees, knout, or transportation to Siberia
can stop or alter, and must ultimately tend to raise
Russia in the estimation of civilised Europe.
The news of the rigours practised in other pro-
vineeS is no less favourable. Numerous arrests have

recently taken place at Kowno without any legal
motive, solely on a simple denunciation. Among
the persons imprisoned on that ground are Mr.
Zylinski, Marshal of the Nobility; the two brothers
Temoszewski, Mr. Korsun, and Mr. Owsiany, all
belonging to the class of wealthy landowners.
Fresh additions have been made to the Council of
State for the year 1862. Messrs. Melachowski and
Starzenski have been called upon to join that body
permanently. Among those nominated only for
one year are the Bishop of Lublin ; Pientkowski,
the Canon of the Chaptre of Warsaw ; Zwrolinski,
the administrator of the diocese of Kielce Majerczok,
Mr. Stowinski, a landowner, who, in the months of
February and March, 1861, had formed a part of
the civic delegation. The old councillors are almost
all confirmed in their functions for the year which
is to commence.

Nothing can be more plausible or business-like
than all these official announcements, tend it is a
policy of the Russian Government always to throw
dust in the eyes of the European public, whose
opinion they cannot help to respect. What would
have been said during the reign of Nicholas had an
official gazette in Warsaw noticed the accusations of
the foreign press against Russia; and yet the
Government organ at Warsaw, Dziennik,
Powszechny came out not long ago with a
lengthy justification of the conduct of the Czar's
Government, in reply to the French and English
papers, trying to disprove allegations based on facts
which, as you may imagine, have remained un-
shaken. The best justification for the Russian
Government would be to fulfil honestly the stipu-
lations of the treaty of Vienna, and thereby make
an apology for its sins and transgressions. I am
almost eprtain that the national feeling of the Poles,
which during the late trials has been invigorated,
and more than ever matured, would receive this
tardy justice in the spirit in which it ought to be
rendered, pending the realisation of the ultimate
wishes to get rid of foreign oppression, wishes that
fill the heart of every right thinking Pole.