The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-12 00:00:00

POLAND.

A letter from Posen, of the 4th, states that General
DE COLOMB, Commander-in-Chief of the sth corps of
the army of Posen, has given permission to the
Poles who
.serve under him to quit the Prussian
service, but that they have not availed themselves
of it.

The Cologne Gazette has the ''following letter from
Czernichau :—" A regulation of the National Com-
mittee of Posen decrees the dismissal of German
functionaries, the suppression of the Prussian eagle,
and its replacement by the Polish eagle, and orders
the Polish standard to be hoisted on the highest tower.
So great an insult to Germany and to Prussia has
excited the greatest indignation, six-sevenths of the
inhabitants in some parts being Germans. The
peasants are arming themselves in numbers. It is
still worse in other parts,—masses of people are in
arms; the authority of Prussian officers is at an end;
communications between them broken off; couriers
are stopped, and their dispatches taken from them
under pain of death. Three hundred Poles have
already crossed the Russian frontier ; they say they
have been all taken."
General WILLISEN passed through Breslau on the
6th of April, en route to Posen ; he is to be entrusted
with the reorganization of the Grand Duchy. On his
arrival at Posen he will address a proclamation to the
population, and form a commission from amongst the
members of the Polish and German committees, in
order to set at rest the differences existing between
the two parties of the people.
The Gazelle Polska, organ of the Polish National
Committee, asserts that the Prussian Government has
consented to the organization of a national army of
the Grand Duchy of Posen, which will carry on its
standards the white Polish eagle side by side with the
black eagle of Prussia.
The National Committee of Poland, sitting at
Posen, has addressed the following appeal to the
people of Great Britain :

"Poland, sustained by the sympathy and tho most
vital interests of Germany, is already on foot to repel
the invasion meditated by Russia, to prove herself once
more the protectress of European liberty and civiliza-
tion, and to recover her independent existence on the
termination of this terrible conflict.

" While this conflict can be nothing less than a last
crusade against the enemies of the human race, Poland
calls on the people and the Governments of the west,
awaiting from them that faithful and vigilant support
which every army owes to those who march foremost
against the enemy. To us, that vanguard, money and
arms aro wanting.
" Will regenerated Europe, like despotic Europe, tran-
quilly look on while an unarmed nation is exterminated
before her eyes?
" Rejecting this dreadful suspicion, the National Com-
mittee, constituted at the Hotel de Ville of Posen, on
the 20th of March, address themselves especially to the
Government and people of England, seeking t; obtain
from them the material means for fulfilling this great
task which God and the unanimous voice of a heroic
people have imposed upon them.
(Signed)
LIBELT. " JAnocuowou.
" JAN PALAEZ MORAEZEWSKI.
PRIJSINOWSKI. ESSMANN.
" BERWINSKI. STEFANSKI.
" Posen, April 2, 1848."
APRIL 7.—Major General WILLisEN, the Royal
Commissioner of Posen, has issued a proclamation to
the inhabitants, stating that he is empowered to com-
mence the immediate reorganization of the province,
as promised by the KING ; that their desire for a
national Government and national judicial proceed-
ings in their own languAge was accorded ; and that
a man of Polish origin is to be placed at the head of
the Polish Administration.

RUSSIA.
The St. Petersburgh Journal, cf the 31st ult., con-

tains the following comment on the manifesto re- 1
cently issued by the EMPEROR
Nothing could be further from the idea of the Go-
vernment, but in presence cf the excitations directed
from abroad against ourselves, it was only natural that
the Emperor should make appeal to the national senti
ment. It is not in France alone that the Polish emigre-
ti i !support( el b3l;he author:ties, but in lltingaryland in
Prussia corporations, representative assemblies, es-en
semi-official journals, have re-echoed hostile cries against
Russia. It has been made a crime against Governments
overthrown or modified by emeutes, :that they enter
tained friendly relations with our Cabinet. As soon
as the French R-public was' proclaimed it was gra-
tuitously assumed that we entertained aggressive de-
signs Our alliance was haugh i'y repudiated, even before
inquiry was made whether it suited our views to sacri-
fice our blood for the sake of foreign interests. Sur.
prise is the only feeling excited in us by such
uncalled-for manifestations, for we have yet to learn,
hew in our time the rights or independence of Germany
have been infringed upon, or in any way molested by
Russia. The history of 1812 is there to show the world
from which side aggression came. It will tell whether
cur alliance profited. or injured the German people
Let the trcubled spirits be calm ; Russia has no more
the intention to meddle with Germany than with France,
in so far as internal changes of Government are con•
corned; she meditates no aggression; she desires peace,
she wants peace, fur the sake of the development of her
own internal prosperity. Let the people of the west.
run as much as they like after social happiness, make
what revolutions they please in its pursuit, and choose
what form of government they think proper. It' they
find amelioration even in the bosom of anarchy and
disorder, she will not envy their happiness. As for
hereself, it is to time and the enlightened solicitude of her
Sovereigns that she looks for progress. Stability is in
her eyes the most indispensable of wants, without which
no form of government can be of advantage, and the best
forms of government are not free from the miseries at-
tending human society; without stability there can be
neither political power abroad, nor credit, commerce,
industry, or national wealth at home. Russia will cling
to this precious stability; she will suffer no foreign
propaganda to stir up the fire of sedition, under the
pretext of reviving extinguished nationalities, and by
such means detaching any portion of her empire. If war
should some out of all these troubles and changes, Russia
will coolly meditate how far it may suit her to intervene
ie the quarrels of other states. Only she will not shut
out of view the territorial boundaries and the possessions
for thu maintenance of which she has given her
guarantee, and she is determined not to suffer that there
shall be any modification of political or territorial equi-
librium in such wi,e «s to do her prejudice. Until then
she will observe a strictly inoffensive but vigilant neu
trality. She will not attack unless attacked; she will
scrupulously respect the independence of her neigh-
bours, if her neighbours equally respect her own integrity
and independence."
The Berlin achnchten contains intelligence from
St. Petersburgh, dated March 28, which states that
the EMPEROR, in consequence of information received
during the course of the week from Berlin and Vi-
enna, has commanded the total cessation of all prepa-
tions for war. 25,000,000 of rubles had been appro-
priated for the outfit of the army, and a part of the
fleet had already received orders to cruise along the
coasts of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.