The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-11 00:00:00

FRANCE AND PRUSSIA.

A letter from Berlin, dated the Bth inst., says :
" The French Commisioner, M. de Clercq, will
return in a few days to Paris to ask for new in-
structions, rendered necessary by the attitude
assumed by Bavaria in the question of the treaty of
commerce. Bavaria, namely. maintains that Prussia
is not authorised to conclude treaties in the name
of the Zollverein, and insists that a general Con-
ference of the States of the Zollverein should first
be held to grant the necessary permission to Prussia.
What Prussia will say to this has not transpired,
but Prussia is quite at liberty to conclude a treaty
with France o❑ her own account, allowing only
those Governments of the Zollverein to participate
in it who adhere to it unconditionally. It is not
improbable that this question may eventually lead
to a reform of the Zollverein as it now exists."

" The King of Prussia has left Berlin for Baden-
Baden, from which latter place he proceeds to
Ostend."

BOURSE, July 10.—The market is firm but with-
out any animation, the principal business doing
being in sales for cash by parties desirous of taking
part in the subscription for the Trentenary Trea-
sury Bonds. Threes, for the Account, are now at
67f 80c. Railways quiet, but firm.
The following were the last quotations :
ft per per Cents 97 35 Credit Fonder llO5
Do end month.... 97 35 I Belgian 4f lOO
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 85 I Roman
Bank Shares 285.5 I Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 666 25 Spanish Threes 4B
Do. Account 670 —tHome Debt .. 46a

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1378 75 .. 1380
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 975 977 50
Geneva 383 75 .. 383 75
Southern 570 571 25
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard

POLAND.
WARSAW, JULY

After long and many promises, both here and
abroad, of the Imperial condescension and favourable
disposition towards the Poles by the successor of one
who hated and persecuted us without mercy, instead
of an anticipated state of siege, we have received
the Czar's ukase, purporting to be the answer to
the address presented to him in February last, and
professing to justify before Europe the widely-
spread impression of the progressive liberality of
Alexander 11.

Never was the disappointment greater ; but, on
the other hand, it must be confessed, that we have
never deluded ourselves in this matter, and well
knew what to expect from the Czar.
The so-called reforms granted to the kingdom
of Poland do not in the least allay the excitement
of this powerful political movement, which, if it
does not show itself in a violent form, embraces all
the classes of the nation, and awaits a favourable
opportunity for an outburst.

If these recent reforms possessed, in reality, any
thing useful i❑ themselves, there would still come
the question as to their ever being carried into
effect. In no country does there exist a wider
breach between law and its execution than in
Russia. The Emperor Nicholas, after the insur-
rection of 1830-31, had, in the face of the treaty of
Vienna, abolished the constitution, and substituted
in its place an organic statute for Poland, which, as
you kn ow, has never been put in force. The formation
of the Council of State now promulgated, being only
a pale copy of this statute, is destined to the same
end. On reflection, it will be seen that these re-
forms are purely administrative—whereaas we ask
for the political ones ; that they do not furnish
any means to the nation for conveying its wishes
and wants to the Emperor, but they leave us in
the same sad position as before, so that we can only
make ourselves heard through the torrents of our
blood.

The municipal councils are to be elective, but
their actions and attributions are so closely circum-
scribed, that they entirely depend on the good will
of the I'mperial Commissary appointed to watch on
the proceedings of each by the recent ukase.
However small and insignificant these institu-
tions, we shall accept them were it only to show to
Europe our devotion to public order, and our aver-
sion to any violence or underhand conspiracy.
Some will, no doubt, accept their appointments of
members of the Council of State, particularly as
honorary members, that they may seize this new
opportunity of serving the country to the best of
their power, without in any way changing their
opinions or their natural feelings. But this sacri-
fice at the altar of the country must not be under•
stood as a declaration that we are satisfied with the
present state of things, or that the Polish nation
has given up its great object f'or the accomplish-
ment of which it relies no less on its own integrity
than on the rights guaranteed to it solemnly by the
great Powers of Europe.

DISPERSION OF THE BABItAMAM FLOCK.—Mr.
Jonas Webb's celebrated flock of Southdown sheep was
yesterday disposed of by auction, and France, Ame-
rica, Germany, and Russia competed with John Bull
for their future ownership. Many of the best of the
flock wilt in a few months find their way t) New York,
Buenos Ayfes, Melbourne, and New Zealand, as well as to
most European countries. In all 938 sheep were sold ; 99
2-yr-old and aged rams fetched £3,052 75., 110 shearling
rams realised X 9,710 Is , 199 shearlingewes madeV,ll3 198.,
105 2-yr-old ewes were sold for £Bl3 155.; and 455 older
ewes realised. £2,142. Among the purchasers were the
Dukes of Richmond, Bedford, Newcastle, and Devonshire,
the Dlaiquis of Bristol, the Earl of Winchilsea (who was
present), the Earls of Sandwich, Falmouth, Yarborough,
and among the yearling eves was a pen of five, purchased
and Radnor, ant Lords Braybrooke, Sondes, Walsingham,
Faversham, he. The prices reached were in some cases al-
together
unparalleled. Several of the rams fetched upwards
of 100 guineas each ; one was purchased by Mr. Hudson,
of Castle Acre, for the unprecedented sum of 260 guineas;
by T. Lennard for 170 guin=, or 34 guineas a piece.
The whole ot the Babraham stock above the age of lambs
was thus disposed of for the sum of £10,922, averaging £ll
ss. 3(1. a piece. The lambs of the year remain on hand, to
be disposed of next year, when Mr, Jonas Webb will finally
give up that connection with Southdown breeding which
has made his name so widely and so honourably knoitn.