The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-24 00:00:00

THE POPULA7IO2V OF POLAND.

The Official Gazette gives a table of statistics showing
that in the kingdom of Poland there are now 452 towns,
with populations respectively -varying from less than 500
to more than 10,000 inhabitants, the average or mean
being 2,285 per town, and a town to five Polish square

A second table, showing the population of Warsaw, the
capital of the kingdom, at the end of each of the interven-
ing years between 1815 and 1861, gives a striking example
of the different influences of liberal and autocratic institu-
tions on the increase of population.
At the end of 1816 there were 81,220 inhabitants in War-
saw; 1819, 98,492; 1829, 139,655; 1832, 124,868; 1839,
139,205 ; 1817, 166,997 ; 1856, 156,072. Thus in the three
years which followed the Congress of Vienna, which had
given Poland a sort of normal independence with some-
thing in the form of liberal institutions, the increase in the
population, being 17,272, was at the rate of 21.26 per cent.,
and tho total increase during the existence of liberty in the
kingdom, or in 13 years, was 58,435 souls, or 72 per cent.
After the struggle for real independence in 1830, the popu-
tion fell in 1832 from 139,65.5 to 124,868, showing a falling
off of nearly 15,000, and it took ten years to bring the popu-
lation in 1839 to 463 souls less than it was in 1829. From
1839 to 1847 there was a steady progressive increase, the
figures representing the population rising from 139,205 to
166,997. Then again the part Russia took in the Hunga-
rian war, and the Crimean war she carried on ag%inst Eng-
land and France the , had their tolling effect on population
of Warsaw, which we se: brought down, between 1847
and 1856, from 166,977 to 156,072, showing
a differencel2,ooo sols
(minus) of 11,925, or in round numbers of souls,
The population of Warsaw at the end of 1860 was 162,805
inhabitants, or nearly 4,000 less than it was 13 years
before.

The Courrier des Alps, published at Chambery,
states that a telegraphic despatch from the Minister of War
directs the 12th Foot-Chasseurs quartered in that town to
hold themselves in reaiincss to depart for Mexico in a brief
delay.

The Nazione of Florence relates the following :
"M. Battero, a bass singer of the Argentine Theatre at
Itome, thought proper during one of the performances to
play the music of Garibaldi's hymn on the piano. The
air was hailed with deafening applause, which led to
remonstrance on the part of the police. M. Biolchini, the
raaßager, received a formal order to give the mueician. a
severe reprimand."

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Leasing Closing Business
Railways. Paid. Co. s Price. Done.
Bedford and Bletchley all Ln.&N.W
Birkenhead.
Buckingh vrisiire lOO Do
Chester &11 llyhead.. 100 Do 531 541
Do. 51per cent 100 Do 124 126
Do. 5 , 100 Do.
Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103
Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.U.&E.O 84 G 6
E. Lincolnsh. gBpr e. 100 Gt. North. 135 138
E.Union,HarwichShs all E,Counts. 4 41
Do. Woodbridge.... 100 • • • •
Gls.Barr.&Neils.Dret. 100 CaleCion .. ..
Do. new
Gloster &Dean Forest all Gt. West. .. ..
Hull and Selby all Yk.N. Mid 111 113
Do. halves
Do. quarters
Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.& N.W 201 204
Lon. and Chat. Ext. B
6 per cent
Do. Bromley, 6 per c all Da ... ... .. ..
London & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 62 64
Do. Preferen ,3
Lon.,Tilb.& S. ,thend 100 Peto &Co B2 84
Lowestoft frua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk
Do a pier cent lOO Do.
liinc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LN W& M 31 4/
Mid. Bradford Prefer-
ence stock
Newmarkt, BuryEx 1 5. 5.6. E Counts, par I p
gua. 5 per cent...
Nortlinat Eastn. sp. c. all Do.
Do. 6 per cent..... all Do • •
Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do.
N. Eastn—llartlepool 1( 0 N. E. Ber .. ..
North Western
Preston and Wyre. i all L&N.W
&L. I I 44 46
Do. 1 shares A. all Do. ••• • .. .. ..
Roystn.Hitch.&Shep. 100 Gt. North. 134 137
Shrewsby & Hereford 100 T Brassey 120 122
Do. Do.
South Staffordshire
Wilts and Somerset 1 100 Gt. West. 90 92
Wimbledn t Croydon` all L.&Brgtn 81 91