The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-17 00:00:00

to the very motive which induced the mutilation of the do-
cument in the.lottrnal (Ins Debg!s—that is lest the French
Government should from mere shame be compelled to de-'.
frond explahations and vindicate its independence. I know
that whether he has arrived here or not,—and I have not
time to ascertain that fact—M. Darand felt indignant—and
that he still feels indignant at the lang.uace of the Emperor
NichOlas towards France, and I am
,the more inclined to be-
lieve that that language must have been offensive to the last
agree, because the said Durand, who then also resided
at Warsaw, was so Warerly attached or so notorious was
his friendship to Russia during the Polish insurrection, that
his life was frequently menaced by the insurgents—and
because I know that so tenacious was he, that, after the
revolution of July in France, he (then aLo the French
• Consul-General at Warsaw) waited on. the Grand Duke
Constantine to ascertain, whether i.e might. place the diet)
national (hit is, the tri-coloured) flag over the portal of his
.res'dence ? And yet this is the individual who now is, and
I am sure s truly represented to me, as violently indignant
at the insult offered to his country ! Deep must that in-
sult be which wounded -the feelings of a person so little
p7edisposed to take offence as was M. Durand.
Where is the endurance of this Government to end?
Behold the fruits of its peace-at-any price. system. Out-
raged as 1 believe her to have bet n by the Autocrat, in,
perhaps, an unguarded moment of rage, will she submit to
this insult? •feihaps I am precipitate and premature in
• asking these questions.- Perhaps. the Doctrinaire Ministry,
which has hitherto shrunk from collision with any formi-

dable foe, has plucked up courage, and will exact explana-.
tions and reparation from Russia. We shall see. In the
interim—that is, until the nature of the notice it will take
of this affront and merface become known—l shall refrain

from further observation ; but I hold myself at liberty to
forward to you, for I am promised it, a full and genuine copy
of the spe,eeh of his Imperial Majesty of all the Russias,
spoken at Warsaw on the 10th day of Octohcr (N.S.), in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

thirty-five.
HAvinc, disposed for the present of this pert of the sub-
ject, I shall return to the motives Which produced this ex-
traordinary discourse. That it was suggested by the disap-
pointment of the speculations which lid to the re-
views and the Toplitz conferences is,.l repeat, the belief of
persons very well qunlitie:l to judge, but, I shall not with-
hold from you the Illative assigned to it by others on whose
()pillion lam inclined more implicitly to rely. "It was,"
svy they, "delivered solely to grittily the lins:!,ian nation,
end so well was it adapted to the feelings of his people,
that there are-not in all Russia 100 men who will not ap-

prove'of every word he uttered, and who, in particular, will
say, such is the language :that ought to be held towards
Poland.' He knows his inn."
I latbly, in conversation with an intlividual long a fre-
quenter of the salons of the great, took occasion to di sap,
'prove of the act of Don Caros which gave the command
of his army to " Notre Dame des Douleurs." Ile sail I
was wrong in condemning that act. for it was only intended to
operate on the prejudices or the superstition of his soldiers.
" All clever men do thcse things," observed he, " when they
are capable of producing beneficial effects, that is of forward-
ing their views. It does not follow thence that they are
themselves the dupes of their own trickery. There was
Suvaroff for example. I was present one day when he re-
ceived a letter from the Empress Catharine. The moment
it was placed in his hands, he prostrated himself, rose, bowed
to the despatch, crossed himself; placed the letter on his
bead and on his knees, male tie circuit of the apartment,
and practised other and innumerable fooleries ere he broke
the seal. Think you that Suvaroff perpetrated all this mum-
mery from any real feeling of respect or veneration for his
Sovereign? No such matter. There were Russians pre-
sent, and he was only supporting a character."
The Russian character is still unchanged. Behold what
the Emperor Nicholas did after his delivery of the notable
discourse above referred to ! lie wrote from Warsaw to
the authorities of Kiev (or Kieff or Kiew) that on the 20th
at six o'clock in the evening, he would, if possible, be in
tlitir city, in order that he should reach the Church
.(which
he named) before th,,, clofe of the evening's service. The
Church his Majesty named is collect by the Russians the
Church of the Sepulchres, •and by the. Germans, in most
impious derision, the Church of The reascn for
the great reverence which the Russians. bear towards this
Church it that from some natural cause or other, the qua-

lity of its soil, or of the air that circulates through its
vaults, the bodies interred in them remain in perfect pre-
servation. Hence the Russians believe that the sins of all
those buried therein are forgiven them, or, indeed that they
every one become saints., The solicitude of the Emperor
to arrive there is thus accounted for ; but notwithstanding
all the efforts of his coachman -he did not reach until eight

o'clock in the evening, when all had retired. • He drove up,
nevertheless, to the gates of the Church, and remained
until they were opened, and entered with great apparent
humility. Immediately on entering the choir he threw
self cm his knees, and continued in prayer, or at least in
seeming prayer, two hours. This was not enough. His
first act, next morning, was to realm to the same Church
to resume his devotions, and actually prayed berore every
tomb in it.
These ceremonies over, his Majesty received Earl Dur-
ham. On the-following day he continued his journey south-
ward, and Lord Durhzm proceeded for St. Petersburgh.
It would appear from another, and an important•circum-
stance, that I am about to mention, that the French Go-
vernmmt is angry with Russia ; end, what is more, deter-
mined, perhaps, at length to evince a little spirit. In imi-
tation of the United States, Russia, you will recollect,
put forward a bullying claim on France some time since for
eighty millions of francs, alleged indemnities due to the
kingdom of Poland, for supplies and other matters fur-
nished to, or accruing .due by the French Government.
(One 't an was for 90,000 horses, done up in the Russian
camp; ign of 1812-13). You will recollect. also, that eigLt
montl.s ago Prince Lubecki arrived here, as the Cennis-
sioner of Russia, to conduct this claim. Since that period
he has had four long interviews with the Due de Broglie. The
last occurred before the knowledge of the Emperor's speech
at Warsaw hada-cached Paris. That which I am about to state
will show consequently that there was a previous predisposi-
tion to a misunderstanding, and to a show of courage by the
French Government- The Due de Broglie on that occa-
sion told the Prince that all the claims so put forward by
the Russian Government were, if-due, contracted not with
the -Russian Government, but with private individuals—
that Russia offered no guarantee to France that the money
(if' paid) would go to those really entitled to it—that very
many of the alleged creditors were actually at this moment
in France—[Among others- arc the claims of Polish officers
who had served in the army of Napoleon, for their horses
and other personal property, and for the arrears of their
pensions as members of the Legion of llonour]—exiled and
outlawed, and their property in Poland confiscated by im-
perial Russian ukases, which appear daily even in the 1110-
niteur-L-that consequently the French Government peremp-
torily refused to accede to the demand.
I has'e not time to refer to the honesty of this claim of
Russia, itself a debtor to Poland in a sum equally great.
A solemn pledge was„given by the Emperor Alexander in
1812, on the arrival of his army on the frontier of Poland,
that everything supplied to it should be paid for, and which
supplies amounted in Mae to four millions sterling, and one
shilling of which is not yet paid. Another time I shall re-
turn to the subject ; at present I shall necessarily tske leave
of it, with this simple remark, that although the appoint-
ment of M. de Barante as Ambassador of France to the
Court of Russia is in the Muniteur of this day, it is more
than doubtful that he will now proceed to St. Petersburg.

On Friday last Henry Davenport, Esq., of the
Staffordshire potteries, the second son of John Davenport,
Esq., M.P. for Stoke-upon-Trent, was killed by a fall from
his horse while hunting. He was a gentleman much re-
spected in Staffordshire.
No less than two hundred plans for the erection of
the new Houses of Parliathent have been submitted to the
Committee appointed to consider the subject. Some of
them, accompanied with the artists' names, have been re-
jected as informal on that account alone.
Yesterday, Mr. LabOuchere, one of the Commis-
sinners of the Post-office, and Mr. Steuart, M.P. for Had-
dington, one of the Lords of the Treasury, arrived in this
town in company with Mr. Wallace, our representative.
Shortly after their arrival, they proceeded, in company with
the Provost, to visit the public works and offices in the
town, with all of which they expressed them Aves highly
gratified. The large steam vessels in. particular elicited
from them the expression of marked approbation. About
mid-day they left for Paisley.--Grecnock Advertiser.
Government is about to regulate the mile-stones-on-
all the great turnpike roads, and to number them from the
General Post-office ; only two of the existing stones have
been found to be accurate in marking the distances ; many
miles so called arc between 50 and 500 yards either too
long or too shrift.
THE MERCHANT TAILORS' SILVER-NOBBED
STAFF.-4 somewhat serious loss attended' the Merchant
Tailors' Company while displa3ing their civic dignity on the
water on Lord Mayor's Day. The silver-headed staff, the
most pompous part cf the Merchant Tailors' insignia, was,
it is supposed by accident, precipitated from their barge into
the Thames, near Westminster-bridge. A;., however, no
party is convinced that such was its fate, there was room to
believe that it might have been, if not stolen, in the care of
• ;orne vigilant "'join Tug," who seeing it, .perchance, in
danger of a watery grave, was disposed to preserve-it from
this indignity. A heavy reward is now offe'ed for its re-
covery. The intrinsic value of the staff is estimated at
I sovereigns. From the time that has elapsed since its ab-
ductiOn, it is feared the first supposition—that of its.beirlg
at the bottom of the river—it correct.