The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-12 00:00:00

REMARKS.

The atmospherical pressures at all stations are high, especially in
the south-west of Ireland. Since last evening there has been some
diminution in the north of Scotland, whilst scarcely any change has
occurred at other stations. Temperature is nearly the same asyester-
day. During yesterday light and variable winds prevailed, and this
niorning the wind is northerly at southern stations, but in our
western and northern districts it is moderate from W. to S.W. The
weather is dry, and the sky is generally overcast, but clear at some
stations.

The Parisians are beginning to think that the embellish-
ment of their city may cost too dear. Madame Rachel
charges £l,OOO for converting a hag into a Hebe ; but with
Baron Haussmann thousands are but as a drop in the
ocean. A certain M. Lon Say has been publishing some
statistics which shew how enormously expensive the beauti-
fying process, as applied to Paris, has been. First comes
the Rue Turbigo, with £2,700,000 against it ; then the Rue
Rdaumur, with £2,540,000; then the Boulevard Haussmann,
which (the Emperor of Paris is clearly an unselfish man) costs
only a little over £2,000,000, though bearing its maker's
name. The first of these streets is still unfinished, and
will cost three millions before it is completed. Building is
not the only occupation in which this active-minded lEdile
engages. He has a perfect mania for altering the names
of streets and the numbers of houses ; and a story is told
of a Parisian wbo left his house in the morning, and on
returning to it in the evening found that he no longer
lived at No. 76 this street, but No. 26 that. Naturally
enough, lie began to doubt his own identity when a house
substantial enough to outlive his descendants of the third
generation could be thus transformed in a few hours.

All the world is "going to the dogs." There is scarcely
a State but what is increasing its taxation and making
fresh loans. As the Morning Post says : " Everywhere
increased taxation and quasi-bankruptcy ! The borrowing
game is over ; excessive burdens begin in most continental
States, and yet with all this it is doubtful if many States
will be able to produce respectable and satisfactory
budgets in 1869. Since Napoleon 111. came to the throne
all the world has got into debt. The Crimean war is
fraught with yet untold evils, for from that period the
soldiering and fighting curse began to afflict Europe, and
is now bringing most countries to a state of bankruptcy."
Can anything be done to relieve the conscience of Europe
from the burden which must lie upon it so long as Russia
is allowed to work its wicked will in Poland ? It is not
absolutely necessary that the Poles should be trodden
under foot, even though governed by a sovereign who it
not of their race. In Galicia Austria allows her Polish
subjects to " breathe freely," as Prince Czartoryski says.
The Morning Post believes that Europe has shown a very
short sighted policy with regard to the Polish question.
Our contemporary asserts that " it is every day more and
nore evident that a barrier is required for that overpower-
ing mass of brute force which the Cabinet of St. Petersburg
Russian civilisation :' and when the time does come,
is it must before long, when all these matters are
;gain brought into question, it will not be forgotten that
Poland, if once reconstituted as an independent kingdom,
a-ould offer the best of all barriers that could be esta•
Dlished, if not the only one that has any chance of being
maintained. At present, deprived of their name, their
anguage, their property, and even of their religion, the
Poles are in a deplorable state indeed ; but brighter days
for them appear to be at hand, and the time they have bided
;o icng, and with such unwavering patience and determina-
tion, may be much nearer than any of us at present suspect."
If this is anything more than a mere journalist's flourish
it means, we suppose, that the Prince who is now on his
travels " without any political object," will, before long,
be reviving the glories of Sigismund 11. in Cracow, or
twen in Warsaw. Yet, we fear that a whole sea of blood
ties between him and his throne. Russia will not let
Poland go without fighting harder even than she fought
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at Sebastopol.