26 DECEMBER 1863, Page 1

The cloud has all the week been settling down upon

Poland. In the French Senate speech after speech has been delivered in favour of non-intervention, and M. Dupin in particular has an- nounced that while he " sympathiz% " with the Poles, as with all people in misfortune, he believes war impossible. Napoleon, after the conquest of Germany, failed with half a million of men to con- quer Russia, and a great war for Poland would produce the much dreaded German unity. The Opposition in the Chamber of Depu- ties tried to restrict the new loan to 4,000,000/., lest it should be employed to make war, and the Emperor, in reply to the formal address of the Senate, stated that, like his uncle, he thought every war in Europe "a civil war."