The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-13 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Presse of this evening says :
" The journey of Count Persigny to London is
exclusively a political one."
On this subject the Esprit Public adds :

" Count Persigny will submit to the English
Cabinet the private views of the Emperor, in order
to come to an arrangement for the mediation of
England and France in America."

Relative to the Roman question, the same paper
says :

"It is said that the Papal Government has
officially informed the French Government that it
will listen to no proposition modifying the con-
ditions of the temporal power of the Pope."
The Petrie of this evening states that the Prince
of "Wales has arrived in Paris, and asserts that his
Royal Highness will go to-morrow toFontainebleau
on a visit to the Emperor.
BOURSE, June 12.—The market opened with a
slight advance under the influence of a rise in the
English funds, but the improvement was not long
maintained, and Threes, for the Account, are again
68f 85c. The Railway Share Market shows firm-
ness, but with only a moderate amount of business
doing. The market olosed as follows:

41 per per Cents 97 10
Do end month
per Cents
Do. end month 6B 75
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 1,,0
Credit Mobilier 859
Do. end 853 75
RAIL'

Bank Shams 3165
Credit F oncier
Piedmontesc Fives 72 80
Italian Loan 72 65
Roman
Austrian

Spani,h Threes 52 50
Elome Debt

'AYS,

Orleans

Cash. Account.
1292 50 .. 1290

Northern
New ditto —
Lyons and Mediterranean 1110 .. 1112 50
Geneva,. 367 50 .. 372 50

Southern
Western . .

846 25 .. 845 -
548 75 .. 547 50

Eastern . 548 75 .. 546 25
Sardinian
Austrian
LOrrbiard

POLAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

WARSAW, JUNE 5.

The frequent telegrams from St. Peterburg seem
to augur for this country, if not a change for the
better, at least a certain state of transition. The
reported appointment of the Grand Dake Constan-
tine as Lieutenant of the Kingdom appears to be
confirmed by the arrival in the city of Count
Adlerberg for the purpose of making preparations
for the reception of the Grand Duke, brother of the
Emperor, who, in addition to the above dignity, is
to be the President of the Council or Ministers and
of the Council of State. To believe all the rumours,
the constitution granted by the Emperor Alexander
I. in 1815 is to be restored either partially or in its
whole integrity. The Marquis Wielopolski is to be
the right hand of the Grand Duke, acting also as
Vice-President of the Council of State and of that
of the Cabinet. Another satellite, in the person of
M. Walujen, a Russian, who at present fills the
ost of the Minister of the Interior at St.
Petersburg, will be added to assist the Grand
Duke, and at the same time to report confi.
dentially to the Emperor whatever may be
worthy of the Impetisl notice. These news, which
come from a credible source, cannot be doubted, and
that the country stands sadly in need of reform is
equally undeniable. The position of the Govern-
ment towards the country has become from day to
day more difficult, and it was early forseen that it
could last no longer. It has, in fact, exhausted
itself in its acts of tyranny to such an extent that
it shows its own weakness. Ever deceitful and of
bad faith, it has erected a bridge between them-
selves and the people which no one dares to cross.
And as is often the case in such a situation,
symptoms of discontent and insubordination showed
themselves even among the most confidential
servants of the Czar, and in the private office of the
Governor-Gtneral,—nay, acts of treachery were to
be recorded against some. 'Whoever could desert
the official .post, and throw off his shoulders the
solidarity of the system pursued by the Govern-
ment, which, as it grew weaker, offered no
guarantee for stability, did it. with. the 110110i3t

' eagerness. Driven to such a pass, deprived of those
on Ithom it most relied, the Government felt its
own danger and its inability to proceed any
further. The Poles, un6unted by the most cruet I
persecutions, are still Poles in heart and in spirit ;
all has failed to make Russians of them. It
is not, therefore, surprising that such a gloomy
picture has at last opened the eyes of the Emperor,
and that he should have selected his own brother,
and the only man capable of assisting him in his
herculean task undertaken in Russia, to try and
reconcile the Poles: Will he be able to do so; or
rather, is he possessed of the sincerity so necessary
for accomplishing his mission. It is puzzling to
answer. If he comes here with the usual notions
of former Governors, merely to rule at any cost or
sacrifice, he will miserably fail in the attempt. If
he be a man of honour, and bent upon doing some
good, he must for a time throw aside the Asiatic
pride and despotism, show that he comes as a friend,
a counsellor, a mediator, and not as a relative of a
tyrannical conqueror. The Poles, who never give
up one iota of their sanguine hopes RS to the ulti-
mate restoration of their country, will be disposed
to receive all the concessions which fairly belong to
them. The Grand Duke Consrantine has now a
fine field to display not only his own so much
talked-of liberal sentiments, but to render himself
popular. To effect this, he must be surrounded
not by the Muscovite hosts, but by natives who
enjoy the esteem and confidence of the
nation, With the aid of such men tran-
quillity and something like a healthy state
of the country may be anticipated. But, above
all, good faith and honesty in dealing with the
people Should form the first inauguration of a
new system of Government.
The first meeting of the Municipal Council of
Warsaw was held on the 25th ult., and attended
by all the members present in that city. Count
Andrea Zamoyski, Dr. Chalubiaski, Mr. Lewiaski,
and many others, evinced every desire to fulfil
the duties devolving upon them by the choice of
their fellow-countrymen. It must be remembered
that the spirit in which these elections were made
in September last was assigned as a reason for
declaring Poland in a state of siege, and of dispatch-
ing a great number of the members elected to the
confines of Russia, some of whom still remain
there, and could not, of course, take any part in
the meeting of the 25th. Tne president, M r.Woy de,
has opened the proceedings with a speech which,
though not disple,sing to the members, was not
offensive to the Government, since it has found its
place in all the official journals.
By an imperial ukase the Polish Bank in War-
saw is enjoined to take the Russian paper, which
should be exchanged four times a-year at St.
Petersburg for gold and silver. The sum thus ex-
changed is 600,000 roubles each time. The exchange
exposed the bank at Warsaw to the loss of 63,000
roubles. Such measures display the desperate
financial state of Russia, and expose the country to
the most ruinous losses.
A rumour was circulated that Russia was to be
divided into 14 military departments, and Poland
into four, with a view to an easier centralisation of
the troops in case of a sudden danger with which
the Czar is threatened.
The clandestine press at St. Petersburg has issued
a short but energetic address to the Russian sol-
diers, imploring them not to fight against the Poles,
should they be called on by the Czar to do so.

SERIOUS MINING ACCIDENT.—OVER ]JARWEN,
11 ♦.M.—This morning, at the new colliery of Messrs.
Potter and Co„ as the men were driving a shot in the rock
for blasting, the fuse was fired by a spark from the rock,
causing the shot to explode, whereby three men were
injured.
DEATH OF THE REV. JOHN BURNET.—We re-
gret to announce the death of the Rev. John Burnet, one of
the ministers in connection with English Nonconformity.
The rev, gentleman, who was born at Perth about the year
1788, entered in early life as a common soldier, and served
for some time in the ranks. Having obtained his discharge,
end devoted his mind to religious subjects, he became the
minister of an Independent congregation at Cork. He
afterwards removed to Camberwell, and presided over a
congregation that assembled in the Manor' Chapel, on the
west side of the Camberwell-road. A few years ago his
congregation having much increased, a handsome chapel
was built for him at -Camberwell green, and of this he re,
mained a minister until the time of his death. Mr, Burnet
was a man of strong common sense, and was always wel-
comed at public meetings, his style of speaking being highly
attractive and amusing, without buffoonery of any kind.
He was a sound, sterling, practical preacher, and drew
around him a highly intellectual congregation. In the
days of the anti-corn law and anti-slavery agitations he
was an active advocate on the Liberal side. It is said that
more than one bishop of the Church of England offered
him ordination; but he steadily refused to quit the ranks
of Nonconformists of which he was undoubtedly a bright
ornament.

DESERET.—On the 14th April the representatives
elected to the first Legislature of the State of Deseret as-
sembled in Senate and House of Representatives. The
official message of the Governor was delivered by Brigham
Young in person, in which, among other principles, he lays
down that the number of inhabitants of a territory should
be no criterion for its fitness to be admitted as a sovereign
state into the Union. The most important business that
this first Mormon legislature will transact, in its present
session, will be to elect two senators for the purpose of pro-
ceeding to Washington, presenting the constitution of
Deseret, and demanding admission as a sovereign state into
the Federal Union. One of these senators has been already
elected, and probably both are now on their way to Wash-
ington, for the purpose of carrying out the object men-
tioned.—San Francisco Mirror.

PRACTICAL JOKING IN NOTTINGHAM.—For a
considerable tire.) past Mr. Jonathan Burton, an extensive
lace manufacturer, and others moving in a very respect-
able sphere, have been conspicuous in the police-court,
charged with practical joking of a very violent character.
Hitherto thay have escaped with fines, and by compensat-
ing those who had been victims of their jokes. Yesterday
Mr. Burton and Mr. John Green Leeman, auctioneer,
were brought before the borough bench of magistrates at
the police-court, charged with assaulting a musician named
Thomas Chamberlain. It appeared in evidence that both
Burton and Leeman had previously to committing the
assault insulted Chamberlain, and afterwards Burton and a
man named Walker held Chamberlain while Leeman
struck him violently over the head. Mr. Cowley appeared
for Burton, and Mr. Browne for Leeman. The magistrates
having heard the evidence retired for a short time, and,
having returned into court, sentenced Leeman to two
months' imprisonment with hard labour, and Burton to
One month, also with hard labour. Upon hearing the sen-
tence, both the accused appeared staggered with the punish-
ment awarded, as a mere fine had been anticipated. Mr.
Cowley asked the bench to commit his client to the sessions,
but Mr. Alderman Cullen, on behalf of the magistrates, said
that the bench had adjudicated summarily and would abide
by their decision.
A NEW CHAPTER IN PHOTOGRAPHY.—Mr. Fox
Taint was the first in this country to patent a process by
means' of which a photograph could be transferred to a
metallic plate, and engrave thereon by chemical means, but
this process was not the one employed in producing the
plates from which the proofs described above were printed ;
these were engt aved by a much superior method, which is
also patented, but anybody who may desire to amuse him-
self by employing it in the production of engraving for his
own portfolio, and not for sale is quite at liberty to do so.
Tho proooas is ss fAlowa --A perfectly clean metal plate is
covered with a thin dry film by holding it over a spirit lamp,
and thus evaporating from its surface the vaporous portion of
a solution composed of a quarter of an ounce of gelatine in
eight or ten ounces of water, 1 o which an ounce of saturated
solution of bichromate of pot assa has been added. On the
plate thus prepared is laid the object it is desired to engrave,
whether this be a piece of lace, a leaf of a plant or flower,
an engraving, a pen-and-ink sketch of a loved countenance,
or what, in photographic parlance, is termed a glass posi-
tive. A pieca of glass is fastened firmly over the object so
placed, and it is then exposed to sunlight from one thoosleovei-s
ral minutes, according to circumstances.
carried into a room from which daylight is Tehx.celuwfeed ,0
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object is removed from the plate, when afaint rn
is perceptible on the film. On this film a thin
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only act on those parts of the plate which have been pro-
tected from the action of the light by
In the course of a minute or so the liquid over the design
begins to turn a dark brown, deepening gradually to a black,
and in a few m. ;iv it has done its work. The solution is
then wiped off with cotton wool, and a jug of water poured
over the plate washes off the remainder, and it is then rubbed
dry with a soft linen cloth, and subsequently cleaned with
whiting and water. It sometimes happens that the fainter
portion. of the design do not appear in the course of the
etching. and when this occurs it is necessary to pour a little
of the solution into a saucer, and add to it an equal quantity
of water. By dipping the brush into this, and touching the
obstinate portions or the design, this difficulty may usually
be overt ome, the addition of the water stimulating the action
of the Otz CO a Wok.