The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-05 00:00:00

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1831.

THE QUARTER'S RE VENUE.

The various items composing the Quarter's Re-
venue will not be made up till a late hour this even-
ing, so that it is impossible to speak correctly as to
the amount of increase or decrease. The prevailing
opinion at the Treasury is, that there will be an in-
crease on the Quarter. One fact is encouraging,
that in the Customs there ii a very decided and ma-
terial improvement.

The correspondence between Prince METTER-
NICH and the Swisi Diet, which will be found in
our front column, evinces a curious display of
Jesuitism on the one side, and candour on the other.

The French Papers contain much miscellaneous
intelligence, bat none that requires any particular
comment. The Austrian invason of Bologna was,

it appear'', made with 22,000 men, who met with
not the slightest resistance. The national troops
had quitted the city on the entrance of the invaders;
they were 20,000 strong, and intended to concen-
trate for the struggle at Ancona. Another corps of
6,000 Austrians had, it was reported, marched into
Tuscany. At Paris, party spirit continues to run
very high in consequence of the late peremptory
dismissals by M. CASIMIR PERIER ; and at Brussels,
and indeed generally throughout Belgium, the in-
trigues of the injudicious partisans of the Prince of
ORANGE have most miserably failed.

The Altgemeine Zeitung gives a highly gratifying
account of the distress to which the Russian bar-
barians in Poland are reduced. They are embarrassed
at all points, in want of provision, in want of
confidence; cannonaded by the Poles, attacked on
every side by an enthusiastic peasantry, and harassed
by the inundations of the Vistula. We deeply
regret that the EMPEROR is not among them. He
would present a tine mark for a Polish
FROM THE POLISH FRONTIERS, MARCH 21.—0 n the
16th of March the Vistula, after the breaking up of the
ice, suddenly overflowed its banks, and its waters have
spread over the low ground for many leagues in extent.
Though this event was to be positively foreseen, and pre-
cautions were adopted as far as possible, it has cost many
lives, and done great (amaze. The military operations
on the tight bank are wholly interrupted by it, and the
corps of General Geismar which was before Pran was •
obliged to abandon its position in haste, and was harrassed
in its retreat by part of the garrison of Praga, the Pales
having posted themselves along the causeway leading to
Bryose, from which they cannonaded the Russians on their
retreat, who were besides much embarrassed by the waters.
The loss which the Russians suffered cannot be accurately
stated, but it is thought to be considerable. All the troops
eantoned on the right bank of the Vistula are now ex-
posed to the greatest danger, if they are not speedily re-
moved further from the banks of the river into the
interior of the country, because the right hauls of the
Vistula is considerably lower than the left. There is
scarcely any river which causes greater ravages by its
((verflowing than the Vistula, as its waters run very ra-
pidly, but retire very slowly. There are instances of the
parts of the country exnosed to inurdations remaining
under water for several months, which of course is a
great obstruction to all intercourse, and to military ope-
rations, and a source of many diseases. The nature of
the present winter makes it peculiarly destructive to our
army acting in Poland, which suffers at once by the wea-
ther, the had, almost impassable roads, fatiguing
marches, and want of provisions. It is therefore doubtful
whether the Russians can undertake any important opera-