The Sun. — 1863-02-27 (London, England)

PARIS, FEB. 26. At to-day's sitting of the Senate further petitions were laid upon the table in favour of Poland. The report of the Committee upon these petitions will not be made before next week.  The Pays of this evening says : " The Cabinet of Washington bas replied to the proposition of mediation made by France. Mr. Seward considers it impossible to open immediate negotiations for peace. According to the Cabinet of Washington a more practicable means would be for deputies from the dissentient States to come to Congress, where projects of arrangement could be discussed and, if adopted, submitted to the sanction of a National Convention.  The Opinion Nationale says that the agitation, or rather the indignation, is increasing in Prussia, and never did greater unanimity exist between the people and the Chambers. We have just seen the report of the commission charged by the Chamber of Deputies to examine into the propositione of Messrs. Hoverbeck and De Carlowitz, relative to the intervention of Prussia in the affairs of Poland. The commission has expressed its unanimous opinion that the conduct of the Government has perfectly justified the declaration made to the Chambers by Messrs. Hoverbeck and Do Carlovitz. The Constitutionnel says that the news just received from Poland, by Cracovia and Breslau, are all quite favourable to the cause of the insurgents. An encounter took place some days since between the Poles and the Russians in the environs of lintno. At the end of this combat the body of Russians, whose commander was killed, had to beat a retreat and retire to the Prussian frontier. In another encounter at Biala the insurgents again obtained the advantage. Therefore the insurrection does not appear to decrease, as was asserted by some of the Russian despatches 'some days back. The Pays asserts that all the news and despatches from Germany coincide in declaring that it is the universal opinion that the attitude of the Chamber of Representatives in Berlin, seconded by the manifestation of public opinion throughout Europe, will stop the Prussian Government in the dangerous course that it has entered upon. Ls Sleds observes that the treaty of 1856 was too hastily concluded, It was thought to save Sweden by the destruction of Bomarsund, and Turkey by that of Sebastopol. What should have been done to protect all at once was to re-establish Poland. So long as this essential balance to the European equilibrium is out of place there will be no durable peace. The Polish people, after a thousand protests, have now come back to that form of protest which alone has a chance of ' success. Those who do not recognise that her hour has come are wanting in political perception. We do not hesitate, says the Siecle, to affirm that Russia is committing suicide by pursuing an impossible object. Blinded by the vainglory of preserving a conquest acquired by an injustice that has provoked the censure of Europe, she will exhaust herself fruitlessly. Internal convulsions will agitate her in her turn, and as she has not the homogeneousness of the Polish people she will be in greater danger. The article concludes by saying that the petitions will be presented to the Senate, where certainly they will receive a different reception from that accorded to M. Jules Fevre by the Corps Legisiatif. Public opinion imperatively exacts a very different attitude! BOURSE, Feb. 26.—The market opened firm, and business ws done at an improvement on the closing rates of yesterday, but the advance was not long maintained, and quotations are now again at 69f. 55c. for the Threes for Account. Railway Share Market quiet. The atarket left off as follows : It per Cent 5....... 98 50 Bank Shares 3360 -Do. old —-I Credit F oneier 1455  per Cents - 69 55 Do. end month.... 69 60 New 3 per Cents .. Do. end month....__—  Piedmontese Fives. Italian Loan 69 55 Russian Austrian . . —  Credit M0bi1ier....1172 50 Do. end m0ntb....1170 BA IL'  Spanish Threes 52 75 Rome Debt .. 49 50  '