The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-27 00:00:00

RUSSIAN MANIFESTO RESPECTING

POLAND.

(From the St. Petirsburgh Journal, April 9.)
ST. PETERSBURGII, APRIL B.—We are authorised to
publish the following particulars relative to the actual state
of the kingdom of Poland.
Every body knows the high degree of prosperity to
which Poland had been raised by lb years assiduous care
and paternal solicitude on the part of the Russian Govern-
ment. It was in the midst of this brilliant career of im-
provement of every kind that a handful of licentious agi-
tators by the crime of the 17th (29th) of November, 1830,
destroyed in an instant the fruit of so many labours, and
plunged Poland still deeper into the abyss from which it
had but just escaped. The consequences of this catas-
trophe were felt in the extreme ramifications of society,
complete anarchy in the administration, contempt of the
rights of the nation, as well as of those of individuals,
the destruction of trade and manufactures, the dilapidation
of the public resources—such was the condition of the
kingdom of Poland when the Russian arms had restored
legitimate government. To those public disasters were
added famine, epidemics, pillage, and all the evils which
revolt and war bring in their train.
In this state of things the task imposed on the Govern-
ment was immense; for it was to be created—all to be
organized at once ; and, after having given a firm and de-
cisive impulse to the administration of the kingdom, it
was necessary to employ incessant and indefatigable vigi-
lance, that it might proceed without the least deviation
from the course which superior wisdom has pointed out.
The direction adopted to attain this desirable end, traced
by the manifestos and special instructions of his Majesty
the Emperor, was wholly conformable to the solicitude
which has never ceased to direct the acts of the Russian
Government towards Poland—a solicitude which, under
the present circumstances, was far from being expected
by a nation guilty of rebellion against its sovereign, and
of the sanguinary war which had been the fruit of it.
The hardened rebels, the first authors and principal sup-
priers of the revolt, were the only ones who, in this
restoration, experienced the rigour of the laws. All
those whom weakness and temporary delusion had led
astray were pardoned ; those who had remained faithful
were protected and favoured, the indigent were succoured,
the orphans and all unfortunate persons destitute of re-
sources, were taken care of and provided for. All those
measures indicated by the clemency of his Majesty have
been executed with complete success by his Highness the
Governor-General, Prince of Warsaw, Count Paskewitsch
of Erwin. The first object to which he turned his at-
tention after the pacification was to re-establish the legal
course of G wernment. The military regime continued
in force only 17 days. On the 24th of September, 1831,
the installation of the provisional Government took place,
and the separation of thi civil administration from the
military authority.
. . .

The commissioners of the Palatinates were then or-
ganized, as well as the several branches of the civil ad-
ministration. On the 6th of October all the judicial
authorities were consulted In this re-organization all
that existed before the rebellion was preserved. The use
of the Polish language, all civil rights, the forms of pro-
ceedings maintained, and the official bodies composed of
Poles.

To facilitate and secure the execution of the laws, the
re-establishment of public tranquillity, the inviolability of
persons and property, military chiefs were placed in the
palatinates, whose authority did not, however, extend to
the administration of justice, or to any thing that con-
cerned the rights or property of private persons.
The effervescence of people's minds, occasioned princi-
pally by the fear of just punishment, was calmed by the
imperial manifesto of the 2d of December, 1831, which
granted full and entire amnesty to the masses misled by
the authors of the revolt, who alone were excepted from
this measure of clemency. It was then necessary to put
an end to the acts of pillage committed by the dis-
banded soldiers of the revolutionary government; a ge-
neral census of them was taken ; a great part of them
were sent to their homes, and the rest incorporated with
the army.
I'o prevent the disasters with which want and famine
threatened the greater part of the population, to secure
their means of subsistence, and to alleviate their burdens
as far as possible, to assist the more needy. and to take
care of their orphans, such was the noble task which the
Government had to perform ; a series of measures wisely
calculated for this effect has obtained the most satisfactory
success.

Thus the exportation of corn was prohibited ; the im-
p artation of oats and barley allowed duty free ; the duties
n the exportation of horned cattle were reduced ; the
subsistence of the army provided for without having re-
c nirse to any requisition, and even its supplies drawn from
Russia and Galicia. Fifteen thousand horned cattle were
pu•chased in Russia, part of which were sold below their
value, in order to keep them at a moderate price, and
part given on credit for a long time to the farmers, who
ales received 31,000 chetwerts of oats to sow their fields,
a id all the remaining horses of the moveable magazines of
the army. Besides this, timber from the public forests
was given to the indigent to rebuild their houses ; the
r ght of feeding cattle in the forests was given gratis; the
ro rears of taxes reduced, or wholly remitted ; and a sum of
4:598,287 florins granted to relieve the most indigent. Toe
re-payment of all the requisitions of the Russian army
during the campaign was freed from the usual dilatory
forms, and the payments made up to this time amount to
1,200,000 florins. Lastly, the active solicitude of the
Government took every measure calculated to ensure the
prosperity of the inhabitants. The military commanders
were enjoined to take the greatest care that the peasants
should not suffer by any extortion, or be obliged to furnish
anything not authorizid by the laws, or agreed to by par.
ticular stipulations; and, that prompt justice should be
dune to all their complaints on this sulject, all requisitions
by the troops were rigorously prohibited, and the salutary
effect of this regulation is demonstrated by the good un-
derstanding that prevails between the population and our
soldiers, cantoned i❑ countries but lately the theatre of
oba•inate combats ; the latter every where ob'erve strict
discipline, and the most perfect order.
While the Government was incessantly engaged in
causing public prosperity every where to revive, it turned
its attention to a multitude of orphans of both sexes de-
prived of their parents by the events of the war, and
wholly forsaken. All these children have been placed at
the expense of the Crown in the public establishments of
education and instruction, according to their sex, age, and
condit on.

The deplorable state of the finances required strict vigi-
lam e, the most active cohtroul, and a firm and stable
organ zatit n. At the entrance of the Russian army into
Warsaw only 800,000 florins were found in the coffers of
the bank ; the inquiries made to recover the funds belong-
ing to the state have led to the discovery of considerable
capital belonging to that establishment which was in
(,reign countries. The collecting of the public revenue,
thanks to the measures adopted to organize that branch of
the administration, has been effected with such success that
ti .e Grvernment has been able to provide for every want,
greatly restricting many extraordinary sources to which the
budget of 1832 was obliged to have recourse. Lastly, the
amount of the public debt of the kingdom before the insur-
rection has been ascertained, in order to maintain
inviolable the engagements of the treasury. It is almost
superfluous to add, that the result of all these measures
has loon the restorati,in of public credit, one of the most
solid basis of the general welfare. Thus the traces of the
ravages of the insurrection are daily disappearing through-
out Poland ; its manufactures are reviv:ng with new
vigour, and a few years will suffice to make the country
again flourish, and to give it that degree of prosperity to
which the Government has incessantly endeavoured to
arise it.

PRICE,, OF STOCKS THIS
Rank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. ... 867;45G 6r£ I
3 per Cent Cons. 87% 6% 7'
3!4 per Cent. 93k;
Ditto Red.......94!,', 374 4 3 y %
Yew 3% per Cent. O5 4t4
3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 ... -
4 per Cent 1826 1041,4 134
Bank Long Ann. to expire
Jan. 5, ISO 161.1%N
Oct. 10, 1859 -
Jan. 5, 1860 -
Jan. 5, 1840 -
April 5, 1880 -
Jan. 5. 1870

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds
Belgian Bonds 37sa
Ditto Account 85,4 7M4
Brazilian Bonds 6O
Ditto Acc0unt......... 604 60
Buenos Ayres Bonds 23

THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds ......
Portuguese Bonds
Ditto Account
Regency Scrip dis.
Ditto Account 534% dis.
Prussian Bonds
Ditto Bonds, 1922
Russian Bonds, 182'2 lO2
Ditto Account
New Loan
Spanish Bonds, 1821 18%;
Ditto Account 183% Vi
Ditto Bonds, 1823 16%
Ditto Account
French Rentes, 5 p. c. —f —c.
Exchange —c
per cent. —f —c
Exchange —f —c
[Dutch, 21 p. c
I Ditto Account 454 'A 5 31
Ditto 5 p c 94% 4 J. 4

Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds ...
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds
Ditto Account

Ditto Bonds, 1824 1614

Ditto Accotint
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds

Ditto Bonds, 1„H25

Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 9.5%

Ditto Account
Ditto, t per cent 32
Ditto Account 113/
Neapolitan

Ditto Account 84'4
Fr2nch gerio 4l nn-

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £lOO
Bolanos Mining Company £l5O
Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pre.) £2O
Ditto National 173(
Ditto St. John Del Rey
Ditto Cocaes 5
British Iron Mining Company
Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 504{
English Mining Company 12'74
General Mining Association l2
Mexican Mining Co. £46
Real del Monte Mining C 0....,
Tlalpuxahua Mining Co 330
United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40
Ditto New Scrip 5
Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO
Protector I nsi 'ranee Comp.
Australian Co.
Canada Company
General Steam Navigation Co. l3
Provincial Bank of I reland 25

1371,;
23
4
19
914
27%
7

10%
XI 70

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COURSE OF EXCHA
Amsterdam C.F 12 21
Ditto, at sight Ol
Rotterdam e U 12 3
Antwerp 12 8
Hamburg M.S. 13 15
Altona l3 15
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 95
Ditto 2 U. 26 15
Bordeaux '26 20
Berlin
Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 154
Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0
Vienna, effective II 2 M. 10 10
Trieste do
Madrid 37
Cadiz 37%
Bilboa 37
Barcelona 37
Seville '37
Gibraltar 471,12