The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-03 00:00:00

TILE CAP TU.

'AEU FORTS.' LAW INTE.

The following telegram has been received at the
Foreign-office :
" The following appears in the Moniteur:—
" 'MARSEILLES, Nov. 1.
44 4 THE GENERAL DE MONTAUBAN TO HIS EXCELLENCY

THE MINISTER OF WAR

" CAMP OF SINGH°, AUG. 24.

" 12th and 14th of August—Combats which
drove the Tartar army from its positions and gave
us their entrenched camps.
" ' Aug. 17—Bridge thrown across the Peiho,
under the fire of the enemy.

" 'Aug. 21—After a vehement resistance we carry
by assault the most important of the Taku forts.
200 French and 250 English hors de combat ; a
single officer killed. 1,000 Tartars killed, found in
the fort, among whom was the General-in-Chief.
All the other forts surrender successively. The
same evening a capitulation gives us the whole
country as far as Tien-tsin and 600 brass guns of
large calibre and proportions. The Ambassadors
proceed to Tien-tsin, where the Chinese Commis-
sioners attend them to open negotiations. The
allied army is placed in echelon along their route.
The generals and admirals all proceed there under
escort. The sanitary condition of the army is
good.' "

THE CZAR IN POLAND.

(From a Correspondent of the Daily News.)
WARSAW, OCT. 25.
In my last letter I gave you but few details on
what took place here since the three Sovereigns
met. I will now proceed to remedy my omissions.
The subject of universal conversation at Warsaw
during the day of the 20th was the future result of
an interview which would probably influence the
destinies of Europe, and the arrival of the Empe-
ror of Russia was looked forward to with anxiety.
At last a telegram arrived from Bialystok, an-
nouncing the hour in which he was to be expected,
and ordering a ballet to be given at the theatre
that evening. This order turned the thoughts of all
to that famous ukase which shortened the petticoats
of the ballet girls 4 inch during the last visit of
the Emperor to Warsaw. At Targowek, two versts
from Praga, a cottage was got ready to enable
the Emperor to change his dress before he made
his entry into Warsaw. But by the time the Em-
,peror had reached this place he found the cottage
in flames, and doubtless did not think the situation
very well chosen for a bonfire. He was obliged,
therefore, to remain in his travelling dress; he
passed through Warsaw with all speed, and imme-
diately proceeded to the principal theatre. The
ballet which had been ordered, and which was
entitled on the playbills " Robert and Bertrand ;
or, the Two Thieves," was being played. All of a
sudden a report was spread among the audience
that the Emperor was there, but no one perceived
him, as he was hidden in the last stage box on the
first tier.
Next day came the Emperor of Austria, and the
Emperor of Russia went to meet him at the station.
I will not enter into particulars, which are doubt-
less already known to you, of the very cold recep-
tion which greeted the two sovereigns as they
passed through the town, nor of the discontent ex-
pressed by the Russian nobles on seeing the ad-
vances made by their sovereign to his not much
loved neighbour. In the evening the two Emperors
were to go to the theatre again to see the ballet
which had charmed the Czar the preceding evening.
I may remark that in this ballet there is a dance
so well known at Paris that I need not name it,
and which is received with extraordinary favour
by the guests of our capital. But every one was
struck with an alteration in a playbill which was
so well and so long known. Doubtless on account
of the simultaneous presence at the theatre of the
two Emperors, the police, to show them an attention
as witty as it was delicate, ordered the piece to be
called, for that night only, " Robert and Bertrand,"
and suppressed the second half of the title, viz.,
" the Two Thieves." So much wit on the part of the
Russian police will seem incredible to you ; but the
wo playbills I send you will convince you of the

The Emperor of Austria lives at Lazenski, a
palace built by the late King of Poland. At the
entrance of this palace is a statue of the great
King of Poland, John Sobieski, on horseback,
which might perhaps have recalled to the mind of
the Austrian Emperor some thoughts of gratitude
for the saviour of his empire, or, at least, a bon
mot of the Emperor Nicholas, who, as he passed by
this statue a short time after the conference of
Olmutz, is reported to have said, " We have both
done the same foolish thing; we have saved Aus-
tria." The Emperor of Russia lives at Belvedere.
Between these two palaces is the Russian hospital
of Ujardew, which was formerly a barrack for the
guards of the Polish kings. The Emperor Nicholas
had a Russian church built there, which is the
favourite :lurch of the Czars when they are at
Warsaw. On Sunday night this church, which
Alexander intended to visit the following morning,
was burnt, like his cottage at Targowek.
The review had no better success ; the Emperor
was very dissatified, and ordered several officers to
be arrested. This punishment was very unjust.
He wished the troops to be exercised in the same
way as French troops, and you may imagine how
Russian soldiers must have succeeded in imitating
the agility and lightness of the Zouaves. As for
the population it was decidedly hostile. The police
lost their heads, and arrested at hazard the first
person that fell in their way. It is said that the
prisons, and even the citadel (of fatal memory),
overflow with prisoners. It is to be hoped that
the departure of our august visitors will be the
signal for restoring these innocent victims to
liberty. Yet, in spite of all this, the police did not
succeed in awakening the sympathies of the popu-
lation. An instance will prove this to you. As
soon as crowds were beginning to form on the road
through which the Emperors were about to pass,
and in particular near the entrance to the theatre,
tickets were distributed among them, bearing these
words—" Go away ; this is not the place for a good
Pole." The crowds dispersed immediately. A re-
port was spread in the town that Marshal M'Mahon,
the hero of Sebastopol and Magenta, was coming
to compliment the two sovereigns. The sensation
was tremendous. Everywhere preparations w
made to receive the illustrious soldier with an
ovation, and no human power could have suppressed
the enthusiasm produced in Poland by everything
hat reminds them of France.