The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-12 00:00:00

BRITANNIA.

DIN EVraNG, THEWiiIiiPWANTOM.—THE GREAT
Guixsr EFFECT from THE SPIRITS OP THE DEPARTED.
ProfesAor Pepper's adaptation of Mr. Dircks's
Woodman awl Ranclall.—Atut THE SOLDIER'S PROGRESS.

NIGH WATIR AT LONDON BEIDOIL
Tai! DAT Morning. Oh. SAm . . Mariam lb.
To•NoabOw—Mandog. Ih .Afkraoca. lb. Cm

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, Ar7OUST 12.

Iv heroism and martyrdom were sufficient title-
deeds to national existence, Poland would not now
be fighting for the right to live. Tried in the
furnace of affliction, sharpened by despair, and
strengthened by endurance, the constancy of that
noble people seems to acquire a finer and firmer
temper from day to day, wearing out the weight of
an immense army by desultory contests over an ever
expanding area of revolt, and carrying their re-
solve unshaken through loss and slaughter. Borne
down at one point by overwhelming force, the in-
surgents rise in another, like a mountain torrent
that, fed by subterranean streams, swells unseen
into an abounding river. While the diplo-
macy of the Great Powers is fumbling at its
eternal Penelope'a web, and playing at " points"
which have the double merit of being equally un•
acceptable and impracticable on both sides,
satisfying neither combatant, and settling
nothing, General MOURA V lEFF is supplying
the fullest and completest interpretation of Prince
GORTCHAKOFF'B polite despatches by a succession
of edicts, of which the deliberate and calculating
ferocity would search in vain for a parallel in all the
records of barbarous warfare. The Scourge's of
Mankind, who have in old times laid waste the
finest portions of the earth, swept nations into
outer darkness, and put whole peoples to death, were
humane and merciful conquerors compared with
this practical modern commentator upon the good
intentions of a Russian EMPEROR, who
confiscates the estates of all Polish
patriots who will not present themselves
to be hanged, and murders the resident pro-
prietors as " suspects " in batches, on the testi-
mony of loyal informers, who are paid in kind.
The attention of civilized Europe will do well to
fix itself upon General MOURATI Weft methods
of pacifying Poland and preparing it for an
amnesty. The day on which the latest collective
but not joint, and similar but not iden-
tical Notes are communicated by the res-
pective ambassadors to the V 10E .0 HANCELLOR of
the Empire, and the reception accorded to each,
with the rejoinders to follow, is an interesting topic
for the serious conversation of Foreign-office
clerks in their vacation rambles. But for the great
public of France and England, who know nothing
of diplomacy but its impotent results, the question is
becomingone of merehumanity,likethe "Customs:"
of Dahomey. No one beyond official circles and pro-
bably no one within them, can ever have imagined
that any help for Poland was to come from the
joint or collective or separate action of France,
Austria, and England—three Powers between
whom there is nothing in common save the
conviction that nothing can be done, and the
desire to appear to be doing something for Poland.
The ;radical incompatibilities of the three
Powers the moment they quit the safe ground
of generalities are only too obvious. One of
them alone, and that is England, can be
perfectly disinterested in the desire of peace,
as it is only England that could go to
war on such a question without a motive of ambi-
tion or a fear of loss. England means peace, be •
cause she knows that no good for Polish or any
nationality can come out of • French war ; and
because she knows that the Poles themselves
or at least the moat intelligent of their leaders
desire no armed intervention of the Powers.
What Poland demands of free England, and what
free England should be the first to demand on
behalf of Poland of the Powers that signed the
Treaty of Vienna, is a formal and emphatic repu-
diation of the Treaty rights which the Russian
Government has so flagrantly broken ; so that not
a shadow of factitious "law" may continue to
mask the hideous wrong which the gibbet, the cord,
the bayonet, and the axe are maintaining in
Poland. What Poland has a ri3bt to look for from
England is the most solemn national expression
of disapproval of the proceedings of General
MOVRAP lEF F. The form which such an expression
of disapproval, or such an act of sympathy, should
take would be nothing more or lees than the re-
cognition by the British Government of the Poles
as belligerents. Let the other Powers join with
England in this recognition, and the consequence
would not be a diplomatic settlement of the Polish
question, but something more immediate and
urgent :—a restraint upon the infamous practice
of executing prisoners of war.

(MOM LAST NIGHT'S OAZ6TTZ.)

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ORDER OF THE BATH.—WAR-OFFICE, AVOUST 7.
—The Quren has been grazionsly pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Captain his Serene Highness the Prince
of Leiniugen, R.N., to be an ordioary member of the civil
division of the second chi's, or Knights Commanders of the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

NEW KNICHTtI.—WHITEHALL, Arauer 10.—The
Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be wised
under the great seal, granting the dignity of a knight of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto James
Cone, of Kinellan, in the ooanty of Ediaburgb, Doctor of
Medicine, one of the Commissioners of the General Board
of Lunacy for Scotland. The Queen has also been pleased
to direct letters patent to be word under the great seal,
granting the dignity of a knight of the said United King-
dom' unto Goldsworthy Gamey, Eng., of Buds, in the
county of Cornwall.

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WHITEHALL. AUGUST 10.—The Queen ba,a been
pleased to appoint Robert Montgomery. Lord Belhaven,
K.T.. to be lieutenant and sheriff principal of the shire of
Lanark, in the room of William Alexander Anthony Archi-
bald. Duke of Hamiltoe, deceased.
Foarttmr-orrice, Avatar B.—The Queen has been
plumed to approve of Mr. W. Brooke as consul at Maul-
main for his Majesty the King of the Belgian. The Queen
has also been pleased to approve of Mr. W. R. G. Mellen
u consul at Port Louis, Mauritius, for the United States of
America. The Queen hu also been pleased to approve of
Mr. James Co. as vice-consul at Dumber for the republic of
Haiti.

Downino-s-ranwr, Auougr 10.—The Queen ban
been pleased to appoint Richard Westou Mare, Esq., to bee
member of the Executive Council of the Island of Antigua ;
James Clement Choppin and John Reify, &gra, to be
members of the Legislative Council of the Mand of St.
Vincent; James Clement Choppio and Charles Douglas
Stewart, Esqrs.. to be members of the Executive Council of
the Island of St. Vincent ; Robert Saunders, Esq., to be
as member of the Executive Council of the [shod of Mont-
serrat ; A. R. Mclntyre, J. C. Greet, and N. Irvine,
Eaqra., to be members of the Legislative Council of her
Majesty's Ports and Settlement/1 so the Gold Coast ; and
Brandford Griffith, Esq., to be Auditor-General
for the bland of Window.