The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-04 00:00:00

ing from Vienna, Dec. 22 :
"M. do Rothschild is expected hereto-morrow. The

Bourse is in a very excited state. Galicia is in a state
of anarchy. It is feared that the political fanaticism of
the masses will be transformed into one of a religious
character. All the pm sants .of one village left their
church in a body, because their cure spoke to them of
the Decalogue. Their exclamation was, 'We do not
went so many laws.'"

The Post-ampt Gazette publishes a letter from Thorn,
dated Dec. 29, which says
" The Government of Poland have just arrested six
Roman Catholic priests for having clandestinely intro-
duced from Prussia sundry publications, amongst which
was the Polish Garette of Posen. The Catholic clergy
find great difficulty in procuring passports from the
authorities. They are obliged, in the first place, to pro-
cure permission to travel from the superior ecclesiastical
authorities. It is said that the Government wish to pre-
vent them disseminating the doctrines of Christian
Catholicism.*

The Augsburg Gazette of the 27th ult. publishes
he following from its London correspondent :

" Lord Palmerston will submit to the British Parlia-
ment immediately upon its opening a series of authentic
documents concerning the marriage of the Queen of
Spain and the incorporation of Cracow. These docu-
ments will, it is said, prove beyond possibility of con-
tradiction, the important part taken by Louis Philippe
in the direction of the foreign affairs of his Cabinet, and
reveal the impossibility of a renewal of the entente cor-
diale."

The Journal de St. Petersburgh, of the 6th De-
cember, publishes, in the shape of a letter, addressed
from London to the Augsburg Gazette, the following
defence of the conduct of the three Powers in relation
to Poland in general, and Cracow in particular. It
may be considered as the semi-official manifesto of the
Russian Cabinet.

" Lord Palmerston has forwarded to the Northern
Powers a protest against the incorporation of Cracow,
which will produce as little effect as the abusive language
of the Ministerial newspapers of France. The Polish
emigrants existed as a political body, and continually in.
trigued. Applications were repeatedly made to those
two Powers, particularly to France; protests were ad-
dressed to them against the right of asylum, taken in so
wide an acceptation; the two Governments replied, that
it was all right, and no change was pos•
sible. What were the three interested Powers
to do, under those circumstances, for their
repose and security? They are accused of having
violated the treaties 1 If those treaties were in reality
violated, they would merely have done against revolu-
tion what the French have accomplished in favour of
revolution. Have they not violated the treaties in Bel-
gium and Spain ? It is true that subsequently a new
treaty was concluded as respects Belgium, but this was
a long time after the fact had taken place, and was main.
tained with the consent of France. At Cracow it shall
likewise be maintained, but in this last case no treaty
has been infringed ; the only Powers who concluded it
have alone changed it. As regards the possession of
Poland, respecting which so much is said, it is legiti-
mate, being guaranteed by a duration of sixty years and
numerous stipulations. If the English and French should
think otherwise, we will ask if the possessions of the
English in India, and those of France in Alsace and
Lorraine, were more legitimately acquired ? Sup-
posing that France declared to the Congress of
Vienna, and that her declaration had been inserted

in the protocol, that she intended, for instance, to erect
Colmar and its vicinity into a free state, what would
France do if there existed at Vienna a numerous party
of emigrants from Alsace and Lorraine, constituted into
a political body, holding regular meetings, publishing
journals, &c.? What would she do if a special military
school for Alsatians and Lorraines was established there;
if the Austrian Government publicly supported those
emigrants ; sent the pupils of that school for some years
to the Caucasus, in the absence of an Algeria, to acquire
warlike habits; and that, on their return, that Govern-
ment sent these men to Colmar, provided with resources of
all kinds, in order that they might excite from them a re-
volution in Alsace and Lorraine ? If France had ad-
dressed numerous reclamations to Austria, and been an-
swered that she could not prevent these machinations and
revolutionary projects ' • if, finally, an insurrection had
actually broken out at Colmar, and extended throughout
Alsace and Lorraine, and been suppressed by the rural
population of the German portion of those provinces—it
all that had occurred in France, we should be curious to
know if the French, after witnessing those intrigues
during 20 years, would have suffered the republic of
Colmar, founded by themselves and without foreign co-
operation, to exist. Would they have allowed their Go-
vernment to wait for the adhesion of all the Powers of
Europe whilst those intrigues were going on at Colmar
and in Austria? The mere imrartial and logical exami-
nation of the fact demonstrates the absurdity of all the
objections. Would all the obstreperous declamations of
Austria, Prussia, and Russia, induce France to re-
establish the Republic of Colmar? Well ! all the noise
now making in England and France will produce as little
influence over the decision of the three Powers. This

event, it is true, strongly shakes the position of Lord
Palmerston and M. Guizot, and places those two Minis-
ters in a great embarrassment. Added to that, the Eng-
liih_lose a yalualtole_dtesil 4fArrealeil goods,, which were
Austrian and Russian dominions. The English, it is
well known, are always dissatisfied when they expert
one bale less than usual; and Lord Palmerston, on the
other hand, finds himself under the painful necessity of
making advances to re-establish the cordial understand-
ing. Nevertheless, whatever esteem we may profess for
the character of M. Guizot, and however we may regret
to create embarrassments for Lord Palmerston, such con-
siderations have exercised but a very secondary influence
over the resclntions of the tkree Powers."

The Madrid mail had not arrived in Paris on
Tnursday.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.

The Journal des Debuts, in a temperately written
article, replies to the attacks of the Presse, and con-
tinues more strongly than ever its advocacy of the
English alliance, without however abandoning the
smallest portion of the position it has taken up on the
subject of the Spanish marriages. On that subject it

says—:
" We are content to calmly maintain the right of
France. But shall we now proceed to increase the irri-
tation which may still exist in England, and change a
quarrel of self-love into a subject of national division ?
No, a thousand times no 1 Let others assume that odious
task ; we shall rather endeavour to appease men's minds
in England, and to enlighten them. We shall not fear
appealing incessantly- to the reason and wisdom of the
English people. We shall seize on all occasions to set
forth the profound motives which command England and
France to remain united for the advantage of peace and
of humanity ; and we answer that, in doing so, we shall
give proof of true patriotism, true independence, and
true dignity."
The Presse, in an article on the short time ques-
tion,FßEßazD la, andudsthe agitation of Messrs. OASTLER and
expresses a desire that they may suc-
ceed. One of the reasons given by the-writer for this
desire is, that by their success England may lose some
commercial advantages. " But this consideration,"
adds the Presse with unnecessary candour, "affects us
but little."

Unpleasant rumours on the subject of the KING'S
health were again circulated in the political salons,
and it was even said that his MAJESTY would be
obliged to receive the complimentary visits of the
Ambassadors, &c., on New Year's-day seated.
The Courrier Francais says—

" We are informed that orders have been given for
embarking a quatity of warlike stores, in a corvette,
bound for La Plata. This indicates that the Govern-
ment does not consider the conclusion of a peace so near
at hand as has been said."
The weather continued to increase in severity in
Paris and its neighbourhood. At nine o'clock on
Thursday morning the thermometer (Fahrenheit)
marked 21 deg. ; at five o'clock, 27f. The rise in
the temperature was attributed to the approach of
snow.

The Paris Bourse was again flat on Thursday. It
was,stated that for the last three weeks the Bank of
France had been selling Government securities, and
it was repeated that new overtures had been made by
that establishment to the Bank of England to obtain
succour in the shape of bullion.
The Three per Cents, closed on the Paris Bourse, on
Thursday at 80f. 40c.. the Five per Cents., 1181. 30c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2571. 50e. •, Rouen, 916 f. 25%;
Havre, 677 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 645 f. ; Mignon, 8751. ;
Vierzon, 607 f. Na's
- ; Bordeaux 565 E; Boulogne, 442£ 50e. ;
;
Paris and Strasburg, 488/ 75c. Paris and Lyons, 510 f. ;
Lyons and Avignon, 485 f. Bordeaux and Cette, 451 f.
25c. ; Spanish Domestic Debt:32%.
LYONS, DEC. 29.--
and Marseilles, 8881. 75c.; Vierzon, 612 f. 50c. ; Northern,
652 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 512 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,2701.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
and Lyons Constituted, 8
Pad and Rouen, 9181. 75c. ; Avignon
LONDON STOCX EXCHANGE, JANUARY 1.
Boulogne and Amiens, 15s _East Indian, lA—Luxem-
bourg, lA Northern
of France Constituted, 135 A—Paris
14--Rouen and Havre, 26X.

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FATAL FALL THROUGH INTOXICATION. -On
Thursday night last,
Hear-yard, Clare-market, returned home to her lodgings
at a late hour,
very much intoxicated, and while
lodgers, on the landin
ascending the stairs she was heard to fall, by some of the
an elderly female, residing in
yesterday morning when one of the inmates was gong
out to work, who, on o—
pening his room door, discovered
g• but no notice was taken of it till
i
the deceased a lifeless corpse, she having broken her neck
by the fall.

A CONVERT TO TEETOTALISAL—At an inquest
held at Leamington last week, on the body of a man
w hose death, it appeared, was hastened by habits of in-
temperarce, the Coroner (G. C. Greenway, Esq. took
occasion to remark that such repeated instances of
death, attributable mainly to excesses of the kind, ought
to restrain men from "lilting their hands too frequently
to their mouths." lie had himself, at the age of sixty-
one yc ors, commenced water-drinking, and was now well
satisfiel with the refreshing qualities of that beverage
being much superior to those of champagne, hermitage, t
or any of the choice wines in which he once indulged,---
Covenky Herald.