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London, England, 1863-03-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 21.

Arran the sarcastic ejaculations and epigram-
matic taunts which greeted every mention in the
French Senate of English sympathy for Poland ;
after the sneering allusion in M. Liz's report
to " a neighbouring country ;" it is somewhat dis-
appointing to the friends of Poland on either side
of the Channel to record the conclusion of a debate
which should have vindicated the disinterested policy
of France, and covered with contempt -the in- '
effectual protests of the British Parliament. No-
thing is more amusing than the pretension of
French criticism to decide without appeal the
reputation of an opera-singer whom every other
public in Europe has applauded. The favourable
verdict of a Parisian audience (to whom HANDEL
and Murnitssous are probably unknown)* in the
vocabulary of our lively neighbours, the "censure-
" tion "of an artist's fame. So, according to the
semi-official journals of the Empire, the expression
of sympathy for Poland in the Senate wu to be
regarded by liberal Europe as the " consecration"
of the Polish camas. Well, the English public has
no sort of objection to this harmless vanity. It
an bear being " called names" by Imperial Sena•
tors, and is rather glad than otherwise to give a
body of gentlemen so devoted an opportunity of
displaying some sort of independence. All the
English public expects in return is that the
Senators shall by an imposing manifestation
_ _

" consecrate" the Claims of France to the confi-
dence of suffering nations, not emulate the "barren
"selfishness" of England. When the English Houses
of Parliament passed to the order of the day after
an unanimous expression of sympathy for Poland,
they committed the catuieto the care of &government
oonstitutionally responsible for its acts, and owning
a parliamentary jurisdiction. When the French
Senate pares to the Order of the Day from a
debate an Poland, it commits the cause of the
'petitioners to the fluctuating will of one irrespeu-
sable man, represented, it is true, by a hired
advocate of that one man's latest impressions or
caprices. There is an appreciable d;fference
in the result of the debates on Poland
in the British Parliament and in the
French Senate, and we are not at all per-
suaded that the difference is to the advantage of
the charmed hearers of M. BILLAIMT.

The net result of an the rhetorical sympathy of
the French Senate for Poland is the performance of
one more act of homage and devotion to their maker
—the EllPlllolt, and an unconditional 'surrender,

by a majority of 109 votes to 17, of the honour of
France to his keeping. Whether Poland will be
satisfied with this singular exhibition of moral
force we cannot affirm; at all events, the Mamas
was not in need of it, nor will it add one jot of
firmness or dignity to his counsels. M. BELLMILT,
in replying to M. Jutes FAVILI in the Corp:
Lilgialatif the other day, was as severe
upon the " sterile protests "of the Chambers
in LOMB PILILLPPZ'S time as when he
sat himself on the benches of the Ex-
treme Left, and denounced with fervid elo-
quence the pusillanimity of a government that
would not fight for Poland. Time's revenges
have made this same M. Bzurvir a brilliant
apologist of the Russian Farrasoa's unrequited
benevolence towards his Polish subjects, and
of the providential " solidarity " of two enlight-
ened despotisms. The friends of Poland will
find in M. Bittantr's sounding periods some com-
pliments to Polish bravery, and some regrets for
Polish sufferings ; but for one sentimental word
for Poland, thrown like a flower upon an open
grave, they will find pentanes after sentence of
fulsome panegyric addressed to that well-meaning and
congenial oppressor whose friendship is so precious
to the Second Empire. All the sonority of this
brazen mouthpiece of the private Cabinet of NAPO-
LaDNIII. is employed in celebrating the clemency
and goodness of ALL:Anna IL, and proclaiming
the advantage to Imperial France of his chosen

and peculiar. regard. And this when the nation
that spent its best blood in the service of France
is perishing in torments before the eyes of •
NAPOLZON !

M. Bru.surs of comae speaks to his brief ; and
while that martyred nation is fighting the last
battles of despair, his instructions are to recom-
mend the Poles to trust to the good intentions of
the Cz&u, and to remind Frenchmen that the
mutual interests of Fran** and R 411166 forbid the
indulgence of "popular impulses." After this in-
structive demonstration, let French Senators and

official journalists yelp at the selfishness. i i Eng-i
land. At any rate poor Louis Pititirra IL
avenged. No minister of ther.esestiltutioseg
monarchy ever sounded the depths of humiliation i
into which a BILLAULT plunges with enthusiasm.
We know not if the honour of France is consoled
by the eloquence of • Prince of the Blood whose
lot it is to act the part of an independent op-
position, and to personify on the steps of the
Thronethese "popular impulses," which the Talking
Minister is instructed to restrain and rebuke.
Prince NAPOLEON, we are persuaded, speaks as he
thinks and as he feels ; and it is a startling fact,
worthy of all acknowledgment, that as Prince of
the Blood he has not foreeworn the revolutionary
faith of the Republican representative of the people.
Still, with profound respect for his sincerity, we
cannot help regarding his position in the Senate
as • false one. To the world in general, this
distribution of parts between the PRINCE and
the Talking Minister looks a little thea-
trical. JAzrus, it is true, had two faces, but
only one temple ; and there is a French proverb
which tells us that " a door must be either open
"or shut." Between Prince NAPOLEON and M.
BILLAUL; the doors of the temple of the modern
JANus are always ajar. This is a state of things
which creates uneasiness and perpetuates mistrust.
And though M. Bax.Aume assures the Senate that
Europe has unbounded confidence in the policy of
his master, and that NAPOLEON and ALEXANDER IL
are united in heart by the mutual love of liberty,
it is impossible to forget that the vindication of the
Treaty rights of 1815, in concert with Austria,
was not always the " mission " of the Prince
whose utmost aspiration at the present time is that
Poland should be not "independent," but "free"
under Russian domination, even as at Villafranca
he desired that Italy should be not " independent,"
but " free," under the protection of France,
Austria, and the Pori:.

tic Court.

WINDSOR CASTLF, MAncs_2o.

The Queen, accompanied by the irinoess Louis
ofiHeese, drove out in an open caning' thin morning,

attended by
boisebaek.

Hon. D. de Roe, on

The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Conn-
t4lo of Morton, the Hoe. Yrs. Bruce, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Keppel, went to Bockinglison Palace.
The Princess Beatrice took a carriage airing.
The Dwaine of Brabant, attended by the Countess d'Yve,
went to Claremont, and returned in the afternoon.

Her Majesty held ► council this diorama, which was
attended by Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Duke
of Somerset, the Right Hoa. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley
of Alderley, sod the Right lion. Sir George Grey.
Mr. Helps, clerk of the council, attended.
The Earl Granville, the Duke of Somerset, and the Right
Hon. Sir George Grey bad audiences with the Queen.
The Count of Flanders is expected to arrive at the
Castle.

The Prince and Primula of Wales arrived at Buckingham
Palace at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Their Royal
Highnemes visited the Duchess of Cambridge and the Doke
of Cambridge at their respective residences.
Prince Christian of Denmark and Prince Frederick of
Herne Card met the Prince and Prince= of Wales at the
Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway jester
day, upon their arrival from Windsor.
The Prince and Princem of Wales paid a visit) to the
Printers Christian of Denmark, at the Palate Hotel, Buck-
ingham-gate.
Prince Christian, Prince Frederick, and Prince William
of Denmark, were present yesterday morning at a parade of
the Ist Battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards, under the
command of Colonel Francis Seymour, C.R, at the Wel-
lington Barracks. The Duke of Cambridge, Commanding-in-
Chief, attended the inspection.
Prince Christian of Denmark, with the Princemes Dagmar
and Thyni, and Prince Frederick, Prince William, and
Prince Waldemar of Denmark, visited the Prince and
Princess of Wales in the afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
Prince Frederick of MOM (74;11e1 and the Duke al Ho'.
stein Olocksburg, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel da tPlat,
visited the Duke of Cambridge at his residence, Gloucester-
hones. _ .

A. deputation had an interview with Viscount Palmerston
yesterday, in opposition to the attempt to open the Royal
Botanic Gerdes of Edinburgh on the Louis Day.

A deputation from the Champ klieloaary Society ca the
attain of Lagoa had an interview with the Duke of New-
castle at the Colonia-office yesterday.

THE PRINCESS OF WALES'S FIRST
RECEPTION.

By command of the Queen an evening party was given at
St. lento's Palace, last evening, in honour of the Prinoond
Prison' of Wales. The invitations were issued by the Lord
Cliambirlain of her Majesty's Household.
The company comprised the royal family, the Danish
royal family, and foreign princes now staying in this coun-
try, together with the whole of the foreign ministers, the
ministers of the crown, and the peat Oilcan of state, with
their wives anddaughters, • number of the ladies and gentle-
man of the royal household, ends large party of the nobility
sad gentry. - -
. _

Tie Mite-room, snte.rooms, corridors, and halls were
brilliantly illuminated for this reception. Thebanquet-room,
portrait pllery, guard chamber, corridamand hall, 'meth by
gas. The Thronercom,Drawing-room, Qneen Anne's-room,
the Royal Closet, and the Presence Chamber were lit by
numerous wax lights. The entire suite were tastefully
Escorated with choice and beautiful flowers, which were
siranged in all the MOONS.
The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty, under the com-
mand of the Exon in Waiting.
The Queen's private band &Headed in the Throne-room.
A Guard of Honour of the Foot Guards, with the band
of the rqricaant, mounted in the Colour Court.

The friar and Priori, of Walla, atteaded by the
Duras of Wellingtoo, Mistrals of the Robes to the Queen;
the ViSCOUllill• Jocelyn, Leidy in Waiting to her Majesty ;
the Countess of Morton. lady in Waiting to her Royal
Highness ; Lady Sarah Lindsay, Bedchamber WOMAN to
the Queen ; the HOC MN. William Grey, Bedeliamber,Wo-
ran to her Eoyal Higbee n ; Hon. Caroline Cavendish,
Br. Emily Cathcart, Maids of Honour to the Queen ; Lord
Harris, Chamberlain to her Royal Bighorn ; Lard de
Wry, Lord in Waiting to the Queen ; Load Alfred Har-
vey, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness ; Color! the
Mon. A. Liddell, Groom in Waiting to the Queen ; Mr. C.
L. Wood, Groom in Waiting to his Royal Highness; Lord
Oharlee Fitzroy, Equerry to the Qom ; and Lir-
HrianbColosel Koppel, Equerry inj Waiting to hi
Royal Highner, strived from Buokiegham Palace at
25 minutes before 10 o'clock, and were received by the Lord
Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Radar of the Horat
and by the Groom of the Stole to the Prince of War, who
conducted their Royal Highnesses to the royal closet.
The Cadres of Cambridge and the Primer limy were
attended by Lady G. Somerset and Colooel Home Pones.
The Dube of Cambridge was attended by Colonel Tyr.
whitt.

Prince and Primer Christian of Denmark were accom-
panied by the Princess Dagmar sod Prince Frederick, and
were attended by General and Madame d'Osholrin the
Countess Resentlow, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C.S.
Prince Louis of Hew was attended by Baron Wester.
wellor.

Prince Frederick of Hew Camel and the Duke of Hol-
stein Olucluburg were attended by Lieut.-Colonel du Plat
The Maharajah Duleep Singh wee 'attended by Colonel
°Upbeat.
The illustrious guests joined the Prince and Princess of
Wales in the royal deed.
The mend company upon their arrival were ushered to
the State Rooms. All the geatlemen appeared in uniform
or court dram, the members of Orden of Knighthood
wearing their respeetive insignia.
The PAM. and Prisms of Wales. aesempanisd by the
royal mid illnattione visitors, and attended by the ladies
in Waking and the principal elms of the Lad Beese-
bold, mimed the Throne-room, and pasesd to Quinn ltainem
mina, wham the corps diplomatist's, the &sleet tninklees,
end tie Other distinguished gum* bed the barer et
alumina their ocusarstalletisee to their royal kishainiss.
The Prime. of Wiles wee a domed white sum mare,