The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-04 00:00:00

THE POPE AND THE POLES.

We have now the full text of the extraordinary
allocution delivered by the Pope in the last con-
siatory respecting the Russian cruelties in Poland.
The following is the language used by his Holiness :

The bleed of the weak and of the innocent ales for
vengeance Wore the throne of the Eternal *oast those
who shed it. And in our days do we net see also innocent
blood shed in • catholic country—in unhappy Poland—
where that same catholic religion, for which Saint
Fidelio gars his life, is so cruelly permeated ? I
should have wished not to speak of it before
the next ormastery, but I feu that by keeping
silence any longer I should draw upon myself the punish-
ment of heaven denounced by the prophets upon those who
leave Iniquity to be oommitted, Vu eniAi quie tanti. Con-
science compels me to 114111) my Tense against that powerful
sovereign, whose dates reach even to the pole. Linen !
Here is this powerful march. who dares also to all him-
self eitholic, being °abide oar holy church, and who for-
e& th• judgment of God which awaits him for his crimes.
This monareh pensenses with a ferocious enmity the
Polish nation, and he has undertaken the impious
balk of extirpating the catholic religion in
Poland, and of introducing schism by force. The priests of
that catholic religion are forcibly teas from their docks
ethers ere exiled ; others again are condemned to forced
labour or to infamous punishment. Happy are those who
lave been able to fly, and who now wader without ea
asylum in • foreign land. Churches are profaned ; others
are shut on accoun► of the absence of the prima Flatly,
this •rregsnt potentate has arrogated to himself a
power which even the Vicar of Christ does not
peemes. After having tens from his diocese, exiled,
and kept in activity for a year. our well-be-
loved son, the Archbishop of Warsaw, he bag dared to
deprive him of th►t charge which we had conferred upon
him. In casting opprobrium upon such acts we by no
mains give an encouragement to European revolution. We
well know how to make a difference between social
revolution and the legitimate rights of • nation which
Bangles for its independence and for the safety of religion.
In stigmatising the persecutors of the catholic religion we
WM a mead duty of our conscience. This is why I have
made you aware of the sad news received from that un-
happy country for which we ought to redouble our prayers.
We decks% in consequence, that we give our apostolic
benediction to all those who shall have prayed for Poland.
Let es all posy for her !

(armies TIIAGRAXIL)
THE WAR IN JIIT'LAND.

FLENSBURG. NAT 3.

General Gablenz has announced to his troops
that the fortifications of Fredericis will be blown
np. The municipality of the town of Horsens
having refused to pay the war contribution im-
posed upon the town by Marshal Wrangel, have
been taken to Rendsburg.

MARSHAL WRANGEL AND THE WAR
CONTRIBUTION IN JUTLAND.
OOPTISHAGEN, 14.44 3, 2.40 A.m.

Marshal Wrangel has designated the war con-
tribution imposed by him on the people of Jutland
as a first instalment. The amount of this requi-
sition is 96,000/., and not 72,000/., as was at first
announoed.

DEPARTURE OF PRINCE ALFRED FROM
BERLIN.

BERLIN, MAY 1.

Prince Alfred left Berlin at half-pas t 7 this
morning for Weimar, whence his royal highness
will proceed to Coburg and Darmstadt.

FRANC&