The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-07 00:00:00

We read in a letter from Berlin of the Ist inst.—

" Within the last few days the witnesses have arrived
who will be heard in the case of the Polish insurrection,
the trial of which will "commence to-morrow morning.
These witnesses are about eleven hundred in number,
and all have been brought to Berlin at the expense of the
Government, either by the railways or other public
conveyances. Immediately on their arrival in our
capital they went to the office expressly established, to
make known their names and their residence at Berlin,
and there they were repaid the cost of their maintenance
during the journey, such cost being daermined according
to their respective social positions. For the last
class of witnesses, composed of simple peasants,
workmen, day labourers, domestics, &c., the allow-
ance was fixed at 20 silver gros (2f. 40c.) per day,
The greatest part of the witnesses belong' to the rural
districts of the Grand Duchy of Posen, of Silesia, and of
Western Prussia. They never before left their villages,
tied only know how to speak their Polish, Silesian, and
other dialects. They find themselves entirely displaced
in our capital, in which they do not cease to excite the
curiosity of the public by their costume. 4, language, and
manners. The Government has caused new linen and
clothing to be given to all the indigent prisoners who
will figure in the trial, in order that they may present
themselves decently before justice. It has also caused
them to receive medical attention. During the whole
of their stay in the Pennsylvanian prison they have been
made to take baths every week, and the food iziven to
them has been both good and abundant. The wealthy pri-
soners have lived with princely luxury, and all have taken
measures to be dressed with the greatest elegance dur-
ing the trial, which will last three months at least. M.
Louis de Miroslawski, one of the chiefs of the insurrec-
tion, had the intention of defending himself, and to do
it in the French language ; but, on the advice of his
friends, he has abandoned this project, and has just
made choice of a young and clever advocate, Doctor
Meyer, of Berlin."
A letter from Stutgard states that the second and
and last portion" of the loan of eleven millions of
thalers (forty-four millions of francs), at four and-a
half per cent. interest, which the Chambers authorised
the Government of Wurtemberg to contract, and
which amounts to six millions of thalers, has been
negotiated with the houses of ROTHSCHILD, of Frank-
fort, and of FEDDERS, BENEDICT, and STAHL, Of
Stutgard, at the rate-of 98 per 100.

Madrid journals of the 31st ult. have arrived.

The QUEEN, accompanied by Generals SERRANO,
Ros DE OLANO, DOMINGUEZ, and other distinguished
persons, left La Granja on the 29th for Biofrio. Her
MAJESTY will return to La Granja shortly, when the
POPE'S Nuncio, Monsignor BRUNELLI, will be so-
lemnly presented. The Duke of GLUCKSEURG, the
French Ambassador, has left Madrid for La Granja.

An action took place in Catalonia on the 23dbe-
tween the QUEEN'S troops and the Carlist bands of
MARSHAL, HERRERO, and others. Several Carlist
were captured.
MADRID BOLSI, JULY 31.—The Three per Cents.
were dune at 26} for cash ; the Five per 0-tits. at
17A; the Debt without Interest at 54; and the Coupons
at -14}. .

We have received the Paris Papers of Thursday.
On Wednesday Baron CUARLES DUPIN laid on
tho table of the Chamhpr PPPTIA the report on the
Bill for granting an extraordinary supply for the ser-
vice of Algeria. A resume of this report is published
in the Journal des Debats, from which it appears
that the port and fortifications of Algiers have been
greatly improved by norks, which have tripled the
extent of Algiers, and have substituted for the an-
cient fortifications
.a continuous wall two miles long,
protected by bastions. The improvement of the port
of Algiers occupies a prominent part in the report.
In place of a small harbour, covering a superficies of
from ten to twelve acres, which was sufficient for the
Algerine corsairs, the jetty constructed by the French
engineers affords an anchorage ground extending
over fifty acres, _and Which, when completed,
will enclose 250 acres, sufficient for the purposes
of a considerable fleet. Oran and the great
port of Mers-el-Kebir are then described. Next are
mentioned the number of roads opened and bridges
constructed, tOge:her with the lighthouses and tele-
graphs erected. The report states that twelve years
since there were but 11,000 colonists in Algeria.
There are now •110,t'00. Of these 17,000 are armed
as militiamen. By these means, should the entire
regular army be engaged in campaign, Algiers can
protect itself by its national guard. The report ob-
serves, that during the first *years of the French oc-
cupation the colony resembled Rome before the rape
of the Sabine women. There were scarcely any Eu-
ropean women or children there. At present the
European population numbers twenty-five thousand
woman and forty-two thousand children. The re-
port • concludes by stating, that of the children of
the Algerine-population, 4,000 males and females, in
equal proportions, are educated .in schools established
by the French authorities. The Sisters of Charity
have, moreover, established a dispensary at Constan-
tine, where they distribute, gratis, medicines to the
indigent Arabs. They even dress the wounds of the
poor natives. Their reputation for benevolence has
extended to the confines of the desert, and the dis-
tressed Arabs come a long distance to implore their
aid. The Sisters of Charity afford relief, on an
average, to 100 a day, or more than 36,000 a year.
The report recommends that the supply demanded by
the Government be granted.
The Chamber of Peers voted the budget of expen-
diture on Wednesday by a majority of 105 to 13.
M. ryas, a Conservative, has .resigned the office
he held of Councillor and Secretary-General of the
department of •the Haute Loire, because " shameless
nepotism, corruption ; venality, rapine, are every-
where ; the public fortune is abandoned to shameless
waste, and the consideration and honour of the coun-
try are degraded-in the most deplorable manner."
The Presse says that every effort was made to pre-
vent M. TUJA from resigning his office.
Senor OLOZAGA and Mr. HENRY SOUTHERN, the
Secretary to the English Legation at Lisbon, passed
through Bayonne, en route for London, on the 2d
instant.

The Gernian Journal of Frankfort has the follow-
ing from Berlin, dated the 28th ult. :—" M. GuizoT
lately called the attention of the Prussian Minister for
Foreign Affairs to a Polish lady, who, in the in-
terest of the Polish propaganda, intended to pro-
ceed from Paris to Berlin to communicate with one
of the Poles about to be tried. The Minister for-
warded this informatiop to the tribunal, and it was
ascertained that M. GrJIzoT really keeps a vigilant
eye upon the Poles in Paris. The lady did arrive in
Berlin, and went to the prison to speak to the Pole in
question, but she was refused admittance, and there-
fore returned immediately to Paris."
The Constitutionnel, after quoting the above from
the German journal, remarks—
If this is a fact it will greatly increase the esteem
with which our Ministry is regarded, and which it
merits so well. The narrative of the Journal of
Frankfort is too precise to admit of any doubt of the
Cabinet having given this new proof of its title to
that consideration which no one refuses to it. But
what mziy not be quite so certain is, that it
was for a political object, and not for a humane
one, that the lady went to Berlin. No matter,
it afforded the Ml:lister an opportunity of exhibiting