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

POLAND.

A letter from Posen, of the 4th, states that General
DE CoLomn, 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 WthusEN 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 Gazette 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 the 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 are 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-
niittee, constituted at the Hotel de Ville of Posen, on
the 20th of March, address themselves especially to the
Government and people of England, seeking to 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)

" JAROtuowsKi.
" JAN PALAEL " MoII.AEzEWsKL
" PRUSINOWSKI. " ESSMANN.
" BERRINSILL " STEFANSKL
" 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 Journakof the 31st ult., con-