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 teen some
diminution in the north of Scotland, whilst scarcely any change has
occurred at other stations. Temperature is nearly the same as yester-
day. During yesterday light and variable winds prevailed, and this
ni 'mg 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 Hobe ; but with
Baron Hanssmann thousands are but as a drop in the
ocean. A certain M. Leon Say has been publishing some
statistics which show how enormously expensive the beauti-
fying process, as applied to Paris, has been. First comes
the Rne Turbigo, with £2,700,000 against it ; then the Rue
eaumur, 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 Adile
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 who 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), he 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 is
not of their race. In Galicia Austria allows her Polish
subjects to " breathe freely," as Prince Czartoryski says.
The Morning Poet 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
fore evident that a barcier is required for that overpower-
ing mass of brute force which the Cabinet of St. Petersburg
' Russian civilisation :' and when the time does come,
Cs it must before long, when 411 these matters are
again brought into question, it will not he forgotten that
Poland, if once reconstituted as an independent kingdom,
would offer the best of all barriers that could be esta-
olimhed, if not the only one that has any chance of being
maintained. At present, deprived of their name, their
ianguage, their property, au.l 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 havebided
so long, and with such unwavering patience and determina-
tion, may be much nearer than anyof us atpresent 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 Sigisnaund 11. in Cracow, or
even in Warsaw. Yet, we fear that a whole sea of blood
lies between him and his throne. Russia will not let
Poland go without fighting harder even than she fought

at SebastmoL

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