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

FRANCE.

The Sleek says :—" The Russian Government,
in the midst of the difficulties by which it is sur-
rounded, persists in employing a part of its forces
in the impossible struggle it has undertaken with
Poland. The P atrie publishes heart-rending de-
tails on this subject. Eight priests, a Capucian
monk, and two children 14 years of age figure on
the list of persons sent into Siberia. The two last
named were attached to a chain of notorious thieves.
The families of the victims were not informed of their
condemnation and of their departure, and chance
alone, or some fortunate device of the prisoners
revealed the fact to their parents. Along the long
journey which takes them into exile the unfortunate
Poles have at least the consolation of receiving
marks of sympathy even from the Russians them-
selves. At Kasan, in the very cradle of the empire,
the people testified by their attitude when the string
of convicts passed the feeling of deep horror inspired
by the cruelty of the Government. Pity is stronger
than national hatred, perhaps the most implacable
of all hatreds. The Emperor Alexander 11. will. do
well to relied on those new feelings of the Russian
people.

BOURSE, Feb. I.—The operations of the settle-
ment have gone on satisfactorily, the market con-
tinues firm, and in the business done prices show
a slight improvement on the closing rates of the
previous day. For the end of the month, Threes
are now at 71f. 30c. Railway Share Market also
firm, and some of the lines rather higher.
The following are the last quotations :-
41 per per Cents ... 99 30 , Credit Foncier 1265
Do cad month.... 99 40 ; Belgian 41 lOl
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7l 35, Roman
Bank Shares 3000 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.. , . 746 25 Spanish Threes 4B 50
Do. Account 747 50 . Home Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1352 50 .. 1353 75
Northern
NOW ditto
.

Lyons and Mediterranean 1082 50 .. 1085 --
Geneva — -- • •
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 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 it is 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, JVielkorus (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 Eolokol, 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 absorption. Moreover, the chairman
begged pardon of the Poles for such words
which naturally were hurtful to their patrioti 3 feel-
ings, and declared, in the name of the assembly,
that the first and most vital condition of a sincere
alliance between the tvvo 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-
vinces is no less favourable. Numerous arrests have