The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-06 00:00:00

Russia, we may hope, is in a somewhat disabled
condition. It is said, we hope falsely, that the
EMPEROR has, by telegraph, blamed the mildness
of GORTSCHAKOFF in his mode of treating the dis-
turbance. We know, however, that if the Poles
be unorganised, Russia has not money or soldiers
to spare just now. She has been obliged
to relax the conscription since the Crimean
war; on the verge of emancipating her serfs, she
can hardly accompany that measure with
with the unpopular one of a conscription ; and
being, therefore, short of money and of soldiers too,
she may find some little difficulty in adopting a
coercive policy towards the Poles. Such a policy
is also supposed to be alien to the natural temper
of the Czar. But Czars, especially of the blood of
ROMANOFF, are very much like the huge feline ani-
mals—they may seem tamed and good-tempered, but
all at once, and unexpectedly, the tiger proves him-
self a tiger in nature as well as in form, and some
unhappy victim pays the forfeit of his confidence.
We can never trust a Czar. The instinct for the
blood of liberty is too strong not to break out with
but little temptation. We can only hope that
circumstances will induce the present CZAR to re-
store peaceably, the rights which his ruthless and
savage father took away from Poland.

The incidents which have marked the close of the
memorable trial of the YELVERTON Marriage Case
are, in their way, as romantic and extraordinary and
as entirely unparalleled as the love story in which
that trial originated. The enthusiasm manifested
by all Dublin at the tidings of the now well-known
Verdict on Monday, produced a spectacle, in its way
and of its kind, wholly and absolutely unexampled.
The unharnessing of the horses in the Hon Mrs.
YELVERTON'S carriage; the dragging her in triumph
in that carriage from the Four Courts to the hotel
at which she is temporarily residing; the roars of
applause, that greeted her as she passed, from
every house, from garret to basement ; the pro-
cession of the citizens, walking arm in arm,
in a spontaneously improvised demonstration;
every particular in regard to this latest scene
in the drama is in perfect keeping with the whole
romantic history of the double marriage. About
the lady herself there are surely clustered many
of the attributes of POPE'S BELlNDA—insomuch
that, reading the accounts now coming to us of
the frantic enthusiasm manifested in her regard
by the men of Dublin, one is almost disposed to
echo Sergeant ARMSTRONG'S exclamations of Syren
and Enchantress ! The fascination she appears to
have excited indiscriminately upon all around her,
seems to be the very reflex of BELINDA'S, in the
epic of the drawing-room—

"If to her share some female errors fall,
Look in her face and you'll forget them all I"

And then, too, remembering that requirement
of hers, that whosoever aspired to obtain her as his
wife must first of all, as the essential preliminary
to the marriage ci..-remony, conform in some manner
at least to her creed—it is with her again, as with
POPE'S BELINDA

" On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
Which Jews might kiss and. Infidels adore."
And to crown all, and to complete all in
the romantic picture presented to view, first of all
by her Irish marriage, and secondly by its sequel,
the verdict of the Dublin jury on Monday evening
and the enthusiasm awakened by the news of that
verdict among the Dublin population—it is like
the realisation of the last stanza of one of the
most far-famed of MOORE'S " Irish Melodies "
" Rich and rare were the gems she wore !" For
here, at the close of the narrative of this remark-
able trial, at the termination of this scene of Irish
enthusiasm, it might literally be written—

" On she went, and her mournful smile
In safety lighted her through the Green Isle ;
And blest for ever is she who relied
On Din's honour and Erin's pride I "

The Right Hon. the Speaker will hold his first
levee (full dress) this evening., at half-past ten o'clock, at
his official residence.

The bar silver brought by the Mexican steamer
has been disposed of at 61d. per ounce, being the same rate
as that obtained for the last arrival. Business to some ex •
tent has, however, been effected in the interim at 61hd.
Nothing has as yet been done with the dollars.
The arrival at Malta on the 2d inst. is announced
of the Bombay mail of the 12th of February. Freights had
advanced Lis., and the exchange was 2s. lid., showing a
movement of one or two per cent. in favour of this country.
The letters may be expected in London to-morrow.
MAILS FOR SWEDEN.—The mail steam packets
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commenced their voyages between Hull and Gothenburg,
mails for conveyance by these packets will be made up in
London on the evening of Friday the Bth inst., and on the
evening of every subsequent Friday until further notice.
All letters and newspapers addressed to Gothenburg. and
Uddewalla will be forwarded by these packets, unless
directed to be otherwise sent; but letters and newspapers
for other parts of Sweden, intended to be transmitted by
these packets, must be specially addressed " By Swedish
Packet."

TIIE ATTEMPTED BURGLARY AT LORD ELCHO'S.

—At the Middlesex Sessions yesterday, Roberts and
Thomas, the two men charged with attempting burgla-
rously to enter the house of Lord Elcho, were sentenced,
Roberts to two years' and Thomas to three years' itnpri-
sonnieut.

by the troops. The people assembled to celebrate
a funeral service for their heroes who fell in the
fierce battle of Grochow, under the walls of War-
saw, for Polish liberty—they were pushed back by
the troops—they resented it and threw stones, which
our troops here generally bear with exemplary
patience from a provoked populace. Not so the
Russians. They fired, and, in doing so, shot six
highly respectable gentlemen, members of the
Agricultural Association, who were just leaving
their meeting. Next day blood was shed again,
four citizens being killed in a similar manner, and
for a similar reason. Under these circumstances
the people have been wonderfully quiet. The
soldiers were confined to their barracks
the people were permitted to inter the
corpses solemnly, after having borne them in pro-
cession through the streets, and especially displayed
them at the French Consulate. The French Consul
General is said to have addressed the people; in
what strain we are not told.

This last circumstance is significant. The Na-
tionalities, are looking from all quarters to France,
and Prince NAPOLEON tells them pretty plainly,
that they will not look in vain. There is this dif-
ference just now between England and France in
respect to the nations demanding their resuscitation,
or their liberties; the two nations feel alike; not
so their Governments. The English people are cer-
tainly not surpassed by the French in their goodwill
towards both Hungarian and Polish independence;
but the English Government will, if it can, aid in
keeping Hungary subjugated to Austria, and
Poland in the hands of Russia. The latter our
rulers would not, perhaps, care about so much, but
beloved Austria and Prussia have each their
smaller slice of Poland, and a grievous thing indeed
it would be, if the Prussian and Austrian Poles,
should prefer, like the Italians, to leave the nations
which have so long ruled them as conquerors, and
to become their own masters. The French Go-
vernment is at one with the English people
and with file French people, too, in thinking
that this would be a happy consummation.
The Bonapartists all now avow that the
Great NAPOLEON made a great mistake in not
setting up, when he had the opportunity, an inde-
pendent kingdom of Poland ; and the Third
NAPOLEON is naturally not unwilling to retrieve
the errors of the First.