The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-15 00:00:00

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POLAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
WARSAW, MAY 7.

To give you an idea of the treatment to which the
Polish clergy are subjected, in spite of the protection
extended to them by the Archbishop Felinaki, I will
state that the Rev. Mr. Mikoszewski, having on
the 2d instant intoned in the Church of St. Alex-
ander a chant usually sung, but resembling much
to the well-known hymn, ''Beze cos Polske," he was
on the same day arrested and taken before the chief
of the police, General Pilsudzkoj—by whom he
was severely reprimanded and even threatened with
a promenade to Russia, should he persist in singing
this church music so obnoxious to the Russian Go-
vernment. Supposing that the priest had over-
stepped certain regulations, still it would have been
for the ecclesiastical authorities to interfere and not
for the police. But the Russians do not know, and
do not possess, any other save a military rule.
Even the Archbishop Felinski, to whom in ap-
pearance every respect is paid due to his dignity,
has already become an object of distrust on the
part of the Government. The union which exists
between all the classes, and above all, between the
population and the clergy forms the great strength
of the nation. The devotion of the clergy to the
interests of the country is reciprocated by the affec-
tion and the attachment of the people. Such a
union is very unpleasant to the Government, who,
Failing in clootrojit.g It, haR cutnimenced to
throw all sorts of insinuations against the arch-
bishop as the abiding example of Polish patriotism,
with a view to render him unpopular among his
countrymen. Of course persons well educated can-
not be deceived by this trial of the Russian Govern-
ment, but the thoughtless youth and some unedu-
cated people may easily be misled. The Archbishop
has, therefore, thought it advisable to offer a public
explanation, but his letter, by order of the authori-
ties, was not allowed to be published in Warsaw,
and no doubt will appear in some Polish papers at
Posen or Cracow. Those who at one time appeared
to have seen in the person of the new Archbishop
only a Russian tool can now convince themselves
of his true and pure Polish character.
Of those arrested on the 10th of April, and
again on the 3d inst., many have been dispatched
to penal regiments in Russia ; others are imprisoned
in the Citadel awaiting their sentence. The stu-
dents and young people form the greater part of
these prisoners.

On the sth inst., General Krzyzanowski, who
fills the functions of Governor-General, and the
Chief of the Police, General Pilsudski, had desired
the scholastic authorities to dismiss forty students
against whom nothing could be alleged by their
principals. Of course, such a request was flatly
refused by the above authorities, Enraged at this
refusal, General Krzyzanowski ordered the two
directors of the Educational Board, Messrs. Lysz-
kowski and Paliski, to be removed from their posts.
To modify this most unjust proceeding, the two
directors received, instead of their dismissal, an
unlimited leave of absence.

We hear here, by way of consolation, that the
educated classes in Russia begin to understand that
liberty cannot come out of the despotism practised
in Warsaw, and grow weary of the iron rule
exercised in Poland. It is affirmed by these Rus-
sians that the daily imprisonments, the transporta-
tions, and the unheard-of vexations to which the

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Poles are doomed for the purpose of making them
renounce their nationality, only increases the in-
tensity of their patriotic feelings and widens the
abyss which now separates the Polish nation from
the Russian Government. If to this be added the
dissatisfaction among the Russians themselves, the
conspiracy, which is widely spread eN en among the
military—the state of bankruptcy to which Russia
is hastening—the position of the Czar and his
camarilla is not to be envied.
News of the Russian loan to be effected in Lon-
don by Messrs. Rothschild has taken many by sur-
prise here. This financial operation will enable the
Emperor to pay the arrears due to himself and the
public functionaries, so numerous in Russia—to the
Guards, who for more than nine months received
no pay—and to provide the members of the
Imperial family with money for their summer
visits to Germany and England. Not one farthing
of this loan will be applied towards the settlement
of the serf question.

ITALIAN ADDRESS TO LORD PAL"

.fERSTON.

The Turin journal, the Italia, publishes the text
of the address which the lta:ian Association of
Emancipation has sent to Lord Palmerston. It is
as follows :

Trescorra, May 5.

My Lord,—We have heard with joy and grati-
tude thc, rvuttla full of tueuulng Wlllell you, express.
ing the sentiments of the great British nation, have
uttered in the House of Commons in defence of the
unity of Italy and the principle of non-intervention.
You have recognised the fact of the Napoleonic oc-
cupation of Rome to be a flagrant violation of the
at
the
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principle oiffo
fnE oningt iainynt,de raovnne
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threatens
tvleetnrisess
the unity
Europe.
to make this principle respected, the Italians will
suffice alone to obtain the entire deliverance of their
country. Receive, my lord, our respectful saluta-
tions,

(Signed) The Central Council of the Italian
Association of Emancipation, the
President, G. Garibaldi, and the
other members of the Council.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY.

The Inman steamer City of New York arrived
off the harbour this morning, with New York dates
to the 3d.

The capture of New Orleans is confirmed. The,
following correspondence between the Mayor of
New Orleans and Commodore Farragut, and taken
from the Richmond Enquirer, has been telegraphed,
to the War Department :

" United States Flagship Hartferd, off New
Orleans, April 26, 1862.
" Upon my arrival before your city I had the honour to
send to your Honour Captain Bailey, United States Navy,
second in command of the expedition, to demand of you the
surrender of New Orleans to me, as the representative of
the Government of the United States. Captain Bailey re-
ported the result of a interview with yourself and the mili-
tary authorities.

" It must occur to your Honour that it is not within the
province of a naval officer to assume the duties of a military
commandant. I came here to reduce New Orleans to obe-
dience to the laws of, and to vindicate the offended majesty
of, the Government of the United States. The rights of
persons and property shall be secured. I therefore demand
of you, as its representative, the unqualified surrender of
the city, and that the emblem of the sovereignty of the
United States be hoisted over the City-hall, Mint, and
Custom-house by meridian this day, and all flags and other
emblems of sovereignty other than this of the United States
be removed from all the public buildings by that hour.
" I particularly request that you shall exercise your au-
thority to quell disturbances, restore order, and call upon
all the good people of Nen Orleans to return at once to their
vocations; and I particularly demand that no person shall
be molested in person or property for sentiments of loyalty
to their Government.

" I shall speedily and severely punish any person or per-
sons who shall commit such outrages as were witnessed
yesterday, by armed men firing upon helpless women and
children for giving expression to their pleasure at witnessing
the ' old flag.'

" I am, very respectfully,
" D. G. FARRAGUT,, 'Flag Officer,
" Western Gulf Squadron."
3 To his Excellency the Mayor of tb.a City of New Orleans.
" Mayor's Office, City of New Orleans,
City Hall, April 26, 1862.
_

" pursuance of a reso',ution which we thought
proper to take, out of regard for the lives of the women and
children, who still crowd the metropolis, Gen. Lovell has
evacuated it with his troops, and restored back to me the
administration of its government and the custody of its
honour. I have, in council with the city fathers, considered
the demand you made of me yesterday of an unconditional
surrender of the city, coupled with a requisition to hoist the
flag of the United States on the public edifices, and haul
down the flag that still floats upon the breeze from the
dome of this hall.

"It becomes my duty to transmit to you an answer
which, as the universal sentiment of my constituents, no
less than the prompting of my own heart, dictates me on
this sad and solemn occasion. The city is without the
means of defence, and is utterly destitute of the force and
material that might enable it to resist an overpowering
armament displayed in sight of it.

" I am no military man, and possess no authority beyond.
executing the municipal laws of the city of New Orleans.
It would be presumptuous in me to attempt to lead an army
to the field if I had one at command, and I know still less
how to surrender an undefended place, held, as this is, at
the mercy of your guns and your mortars.
" To surrender such a place were an idle and unmeaning
ceremony. The city is yours by the power of brutal force,
not by my choice or the consent of its inhabitants. It is for
you to determine what will be the fate that awaits those here.
As to hoisting any flag not of our own adoption and allegi-
ance, let me say to you that the man lives not in our midst
whose hand and heart would not be paralysed at the mere
thought of such an act; nor could I find in my entire con-
stituency so desperate and wretched a renegade as would.
dare to profane with his hand the sacred emblem of our
aspirations.
" Sir, you have manifested sentiments which would be-
come one engaged a better cause than that to which you
have devoted your sword, and i C1045t, hot that they sprung
from a noble though deluded nature, and >l k'dC7 how to ap-
preciate the emotions which inspired them. You have a gal-
lant people to administrate during your occupancy of this
city--a people sensitive to all that can in the least affect
their dignity and self-respect. Pray, sir, do not fail to regard
their susceptibilities. The obligations which I shall assume
in their name shall be religiously complied with. You may
trust to their honour, though you might not count on their
submission to unmerited wrong.
" In conclusion, I beg you to understand that the 'people
of New Orleans, while unable to resist your force,, do not
allow themselves to be insulted by the interference of such
as have rendered themselves odious and contemptible by
their dastardly desertion of our cause in the mighty struggle
in which we are engaged, or such as might remind them
too forcibly that they are the conquered and you the con-
querors. Poace and order may be preserved without resort
to measures which I could not at this moment prevent.
Your occupying the city does not transfer allegiance from
the Government of their choice to one which they have de-
liberately repudiated, and that they yield the obedience
which the conqueror is entitled to extort from the con-
quered.—Yours respectfully,
"JOHN F. MONROE, Mayor.
" Flag-officer D. G. Farragut, United States
Flag-ship Hartford."

AUSTRALIA.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING.

The ship Norfolk, Atwood, from Melbourne, for
London, arrived off this port this morning, with
360 passengers on board, 20 of whom landed here,
together with the mails.

MARKETS---THIS DAY.

MARK-LANE.

IMTERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. -- Wheat, 58s 8d ;
barley, 37s 3d ; oats, 22s 4d ; rye, 35s lld ; beans, 40s 3d ;
and peas, 40s sd.

THE Six WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 58s 3d ;
barley, 36s 9d ; oats, 21s 9d ; rye, 36s 10d ; beans, 398 Id ;
peas, 39s 11d.

ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 68,549;
barley, 12,681; oats, 10,580 ; rye, 59 ; beans, 4,338 ; peas,
332 quarters.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET

There was only a moderate supply of beasts on offer in
to-day's market, and all breeds sold readily at an advance
in the quotations realised on Monday of 2d per 81bs. The
best Scots and crosses realised 4s 6d per 81bs. The condi-
tion of the stock was prime. Sheep—the show of which
was tolerably good, both as to number and quality—moved
off slowly; prices, however, were supported, We have to
report a dull sale for lambs, at a reduction in value of 4d per
81bs. The quotations ranged from 6s 4d to 7s 8d per Blbs.
The veal trade was in a sluggish state, at barely Monday's
currency. Pigs were firm in price, but mulch cows were
very dull.