RUSSIA AND POLAND.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 316, 9 August 1848, Page 4

RUSSIA AND POLAND.

At Warsaw the censorship prohibited the mere mention of events of which France is the theatre. The Warsaw Courrier, of the 2nd instant, says, " Count Mole is charged with the formation of anew cabinet." March 3rd : " The Chamber of Peers was occupied, on the 22nd and 23rd February, with different petitions." 4th and sth of March : Not a word of France, At Posen the news produced a sensation impossible to describe. Nevertheless, an insurrection was not considered imminent, the people being determined to wait calmly the development of events.

Proceedings against English Workmen at Havre. — Our advices from Havre, of the 15th instant, sta.e that the mob had again menaced the flax and other mills in that neighbourhood with conflagration unless all the British work people wvre dismissed. At Lisieux and Malaunay great disorders have been committed, and even the proprietors had been ill-t.-eated from the strong feeling entertained by the lower classes against the English workmen, and whatever may be the disposition of the Provisional Government it does not appear to have the means of securing property or life in any popular commotion. The workmen are at least 2500 in number : many of them had invested their little savings in the Caisse d'Epargne, at Paris, and the recent decree of the Provisional Government, which renders it impossible to withdraw any deposits exceeding 100 francs, and capitalises all other deposits with an interest of five per cent., reduces many of the depositors to beggary, at the time that some hoped to return home and live upon the fruits of their industry. They are likely to have fellow sufferers in the French woikmen, who far from profiting by the rum of the English, must inevitably share it, as the total want of confidence produced by the state of the money market threatens even the most flourishing manufactories in Normandy with destruction. The suspension of payments is universal, no goods can find a sale, and the manufacturers are, of course, unable to pay wages, or to meet their acceptances. As to negociating hills of exchange, it is impossible. Several large ships ftoni America, with cargoes of cotton, nee, &c, have not unloaded, but on their arrival have been at once despatched to Liverpool. It appears that the managers of the flax mill at Boulogne gave notice to the English Consul a few days ago, that all the British workmen employed on their premises would be discharged at the end of the week. The number of these poor people, including their children, is not less than six or seven hundred, and they are so poor as not to have the means of defraying their transport to England. The South Eastern Railway Company, on becoming acquainted with these circumstances, humanely offered to briug any English labourers over in the boats o( the Company, and afterwards to London, on receiving the certificate of the British Consiil at Boulogne, without any charge to the individuals, leaving it to the Government to make the Company any remuneration they thought fit : and it is understood that the proposal has been accepted on the understanding that the expenses are to be borne by Government. — Liverpool Albion.

Manchester, March 21. — However great may have been the depression of trade here during the last few weeks, there has been I nothing hitherto so gloomy as the market of this day. Both goods and yarns, especially , the latter, were offered at prices lower than were ever before known ; bnt, even at the lowest rates named, it was impossible to transact business to any extent worth naming. In fact, during the present disturbed condition of France and Germany, the failures of banking firms, previously considered beyond the reach of doubt, and the consequent distrust of all kinds of bills of exchange, there is almost as little of ability as of inclination to do business. Many of the agents, we have reason to believe, have orders on hand ; ,and it is pretty well known that the goods are actually wanted ; but neither agents nor principals are at all willing to operate during the present unsettled state of political affairs. Under these circumstances the sales necessarily fall considerably below the amount of production, and, from what we have heard on ! the Exchange to-day, there seems but too much reason to believe that a very decided diminution in the hours of labour in some cases, and an entire stoppage of machinery in ethers, will be immediately resorted to. The weekly returns from Manchester exhibit rather unfavourable results.