The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, April 14.—The arrival of the English
funds with an advance of s per cent., tended to
give additional firmness to this market, but without
producing any material improvement in prices,
Threes, for the Account, remaining at from 70f 10c
to 70f 15c. The Railway Share Market has been
rather heavy. The following were the last quo-
tations :-
4t per per Cents... 98 10 Bank Shares 3110
Do. end month.... 95 20 Credit Foncier l5lO
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... i 0 40 Piedmontese Fives 6B
New 3 per Cents 69 45 Italian Loan 67 60
Do, end month.... 69 50 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 832 50 Spanish Threes 52
Do, end month.... 832 50 , Home Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1272 50 .. 1271 25
Northern .... 1045 .. 1046 25
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1137 60 .. 1135
Geneva 3Bl 26 .. 380 -
Southern BO2 50 .. 802 50
Western
Eastern • •
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 575 573 75

AUSTRIA.

A letter, dated from Munich, 10th April, says :

" The Reichsrath of Vienna is on the eve of
suspending its labours, and the Second Chamber
adjourns on the 9th for the Easter holidays. In
the interval the report of the Committee of the
Finances will be completed, printed, and diatri-
buted, so that the discussions on the budget may
commence immediately on its re-assembling on the
26th. Meantime the Deputies have put a last
hand to the law on the press, having obtained
some important concessions from the Government.
The preliminary conferences at the hotel of the
Ministry of State, to which many members of the
Centre and of the Left are invited, continue to
attract attention. In the meeting of the 3d of
April the question of Ministerial responsibility was
discussed with great animation. The discussion
lasted from 7 till 11 at night. The Ministers,
Schmerling and Lasser, spoke repeatedly, without
any final conclusion being adopted. In fact, although
evory one admits that the responsibility of the
Councillors of the Crown is inherent in the consti-
tutional mechanism, it is difficult to make a serious
application of it as long as the Council of the
Empire is not au complet, and remains reduced
to a restricted Council. A cabinet letter, emanating
from the Emperor Francis Joseph, institutes at
Vienna a special committee to study the question
of the navy. This committee, presided over by
Count Rechberg, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has
to give its opinion on the following points :
" 1. Does Austria require a navy ?
" 2. What ought to be the strength of such a
navy ?

" 3. Could any other means be found to repulse
an attack upon her coasts ?
" 4. Would a special system of coast fortifica-
tions suffice to protect them ?
" 5. What would be the expense of either one of
those measures ?"

The committee has already pronounced itself for
the necessity of an Austrian fleet equal to the
Italian fleet, and for the construction of iron-plated
vessels.

POLAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
WARSAW, APRIL 6.

For some days past a short printed paper has
been circulated, no one knows by whom, to remind
the Poles of the approaching anniversary, viz., the
Bth inst., on which day last year, it will be remem-
bered, the Russian troops here massacred a large
number of defenceless men, women, and children, to
the great horror and scandal of the civilised world.
The paper alluded to contained the following
notice :

" We call upon you, brethren, of every creed, that
you should celebrate the forthcoming Bth of this
month, as the first anniversary of the martyrdom
of our brothers, by a funeral service in as quiet a
manner as possible."

There is no doubt that this patriot's injunction
will be strictly performed, in spite of the exertions
of the police to prevent it.
If anything can prove more clearly the activity
of the national life among the Poles, it is the multi-
plication of the clandestine journals in this city and
throughout the kingdom. Hardly has one of the
editors, Alexander Zamoyski, been imprisoned and
unmercifully tortured, and his paper suppressed,
than a fresh journal, Prawdziwy Patryota (the
true patriot), made its appearance on the 27th of
last month. Its object is to give sound advice to
the Poles under the present most trying circum-
stances; to explain the tendency of the Muscovite
tyranny ; and to guide them in the perform-
ance of their respective duties both to wards
their country and the Government de facto
with becoming dignity. The rumour of the con-
vocation of the Municipal Council here and in other
parts of Poland having been spread, the journal in
question proves their labours, as long as the state
of siege lasts, to be entirely useless. For however
harmless and purely administrative the transactions
of such a body may be, the Russians will be sure to
give them a different colouring, and to turn them
to their own account. Should there, in the midst
of the deliberations of the Municipal Council, spring
up is useful public measure, it would at once be done
away with by the chief of the unlimited martial
authority, or pronounced as impossible to be carried
out in presence of the stringent regulations of the
state of siege, when its opponents would instantly
be transported to Siberia. Fully admitting certain
advantages that may result from the meetings of
the Municipal Councils, the true patriot" cannot
discover them at this intricate moment of Polish
affairs.

On the sth inst. the Official Gazette has published
the followin g decree :

1. To remodel the organisation of the insurance
societies, so as to give to the persons insured and
to the shareholders a greater share in the transac-
tions of those societies.

2. To revise the rules and regulations of the
saving banks, in order to give them a larger scope
of usefulness, under the direction and influence of
the district councils.

3. To hasten and to bring into full operation the
intended reorganisation of the Bank of Poland,
chiefly with a view to associate with it private
individuals and capital, and that its transactionb
should bear more upon the present state of the in-
dustry of the country, and grounded more on
the personal than the property credit ; and finally,
that its general character would be rather that of a
commercial institution, and free as far as practi-
cable from the extreme control and strictness so
indispensable in an exclusively Government office.
These certainly are very necessary and beneficial
schemes, could they ever be effected. But it is
notorious that their publication is only allowed to
convince the European public of the good inten-
tions of the Emperor Alexander 11., whilst their
execution is totally impracticable as long as the
state of siege remains the only law of the country.
more surprising and even amusing
Nothing can be
to us here than the constant eulogium passed by the

statesmen of France and England on the benevo-
1-nce and excellent disposition of the Czar, He
certainly is net a monster such as was his father
Nicholas, but with all deference to his other qualities,
such as being a p rfect gentleman and a most ac-
complished gallant among the ladies, he is not
equal to his position. For a monarch who under-
takes to govern 60,000,000 of beings with a paternal
care, it is a duty to call to his aid persons of un-
doubted integrity and power to convince him-
self now and then by personal inspection that
his orders are well executed, and that no
abuse is made in the authority with which
they are invested. Whereas, acts of barbarity
and atrocity are being constantly committed in
Poland, in the name and with the sanction of the
Emperor—acts which make humanity shudder, and
which must remain an indelible stigma on the cha-
racter and the reign of Alexander 11. In short he
is indifferent to what passes elsewhere, and only
mindful of the pleasure, amusements, and the
admiration of the fair sex of which he is a most
faithful votary. It is quite time that the veil should
be raised, and that the man should be seen in his
true colours, either for the better or for worse.
The Russian authorities here feel ashamed and
annoyed at the exposure made in the foreign
journals of the tortures inflicted upon Alexander
Zamoyski. That General Luders, Governor of
Poland, has never sanctioned such an act of atrocity
is currently admitted, and that he ordered a striot
inquiry into this officer is also true. But though
two commissions have been successively appointed,
and some respectable citizens formed part of it, no
conclusion has been arrived at, since neither of the
members, when brought in presence of Zamoyski,
can identify his person, not having known or
ever seen him before. What the Government ought
to do is to name persons who were acquainted with
Zamoyski before his imprisonment, and who would
have no difficulty in inspecting his body, so as to
form a correct opinion of the case in question.