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
closog prices of yesterday. Threes, for the Ac-
count, have alternated. between 68fr. 90c. and 69fr.
Railway Shares heavy> The market closed as fol-
lows :
ett per Cents. .. 98
Do end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 69
New 3 per Cents ..
Do end month....
Credit Mobilier.... 847 50
Do. end month.... 850

1;;,lnk Shares 3200
Cre:lit F oncier 1195
Piecknontest Fives 72 20
Italian Loan 72 35
Roman
Austrian

Spanish Threes 54
Ilome Debt

BAIL'

'AYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lO2O .. 1020
Northern ....
New. ditto - -- • • --
Lyons and Mediterranean 1107 50 .. 1106 25,
Geneva 350 ..
Southern 827 60 .. 828 75
Western

Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 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 dimio
notion is perceptible in the number of political
arrests. The Municipal Council has worthily corn--
menced its more important labours, by appointinf
a commission, composed of the President of th e
town and four of its members, to visit and repot 't
upon the various prisons. One of these was vis,ite d
by the Commission on the 20th, and the reptar t,
which was the result of their investigation, was for-
warded through the Municipal Council to the Ce rn, •
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 o f
both sexes, and even with children of four years o fL
age, from whom the mothers would not be separates t.
The want of accommodation, for there are no bed 0
in the rooms, the filth that prevails in them, th 0
poisonous air which the prisoners are condemne'
to breathe, many of whom are without a shir f,
and covered with vermin, not being able t
provide themselves with the necessary at r
parel—the scanty and miserable for J
that is given them, consisting of a basin t
coarse sour soup and one pound of black bread, rent. •
der the prisons of Warsaw equal to those of Naples
during the time of the Bourbons, and certainly
worse than the casemates of Spitberg and Kafstaia,
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, suet%
as not carrying a lantern, or travelling without II
passport, it is frightful to contemplate the wickei V
ness of the Russian Government, which exhaus ItS
itself in so cruel and. refined tyranny. Althoui ;h
the authorities have not permitted the publicati c-0
of this report, Muchannon, the Director of t ba
Police, is about to act on it, and has issued a d
tree throwing the whole blame on the police et. sv•
ployes, which, however, has deceived nobody, as I t
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 condition
of tne country, but, alas ! all is on paper only
a clever delusion is thus practised on the Euro.
peen public who easily imagine that good and
sound reforms have actually been intended. Suck
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 o
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 p ro-
tnulgate such a new law, either as regards t.h e
peasant's question—the admission of the Jews tc
the enjoyment of civil rights in the development of
public in3truction, 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 Cbrulew and Kryzanowskals
instead of nein:4 themselves imprisoned and tried,
are loaded with honours and fortunes, and eve's='
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 proviines 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.