The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-20 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1883.

POLAND.

OIRCI7W BYOOTHE POLISH NATIONAL

WARSAW, 007. 29.
The following eiroalar bee been addressed by the
Polish &Alma' Government to its agents abroad :
Br,—Pram tits limbo* of the must Wised some-
meat oar enemies base not eased to me all lb* efforts to
wawa paths °Maim with Mud to ill Data" And its
Madme n. Is order to deprive It of its teas cherecter— I
that of a war sedertakes for the achievement of natioesl
iadspendeass, mad strengthened by the mks of all movie-
nom aod tae eaudroone Miley of all alum of losisty—
attempts ban bees made to represent it as the week of
parties. Soassthass it was the clerical end andocesSie
party, sometimes Ike revolatiociary and &mug* party,
which was pat forward as the soul of the movement, and as
waking to mike me of it for in owe adveatege.
Magmei tae good lOW Of iraPirtia sod boast moo
seem to bare appreciated these false mations as they
dress sar modes do mot weary of repeating thus. The
mat ahead regents, fasts little knows, miegiy inter-
pseud, fp ems entirely "dated, ere aid by Sinn sea pre.
test 99 selesmies Se tisk hmissaftews. It is Ude ehetimit•
andlissimutiepssitsue adtieh Mesas as to must yea
Os *Wig des le thesaassartions, the peer of Wit
lismapiet• lasorreetsses—preets which you mimeos is
abasdance.

And first, if the wishes of the catholin world and the
mast able chief of our cherub am in our fasces, who can
think of making this a subject of reproach against us j
After the maim war waged by Ruda against the religious
feelings sod buffet& at the Polish people, could any one ex-
pect to am the sympathies of the catbolke on the side of
the appraiser t

The prayers atlas were ordered by the reps for Mead
hare best mianally received amen me wit► valuta*,
without any clistisetiot of religious opiate. The ministers
at all aim-catholic creeds hare jetted it them wit► joy sad
without suspicion, for if it is true that the labia sate sad
pissecutiot of our oppressors have sot bat she to weskit
the feeling of religion is the hearts of the Poles—if it is
taut that this people, brought up in suffusing, lads is a.
Halos its greatest stzsnoth—is is no WI so that our• ma-
hatma hare developed mots met of differeat areas sad
osaferious a feeling of mutual charity sad of toleration
which, though very far removed from inanimate, ia agar-
theism the bra pennies against all amain thodateles
mad sgaisistall amity.
_ • .

The National Government, by loudly proclaiming the
principle of freedom of cooacience„ has that retitled a feeling
which has bees mestantly manifested by the whole mottos,
including the clergy of all reliPoris. These valour minds-
trim have given eseb other the band et brotherhood over
the tombs of the victims of Muscovite herbal* ; they
breve with equal coat* the revenge of a power whisk
thrown into the same (Maga* with the catholic prim*
protestant mieirtere sad Jewish rabbis, while men °tall re.
Wow light together in the snake of our may, and swept
a pod of action and responsibility la oar national orpaist-
tion.
In the lastrudions we based lest May to our spats
abroad we completely espcsed our principles regardlog the
questions of Tasks, and we authorise you to give Sheila
such publicity a gyms may think proper. It will be snail*
for no to my Mist oqr Prissiides have not changed, sad they
give a cosvining mower to all areseatictle or istsisslsits
It tr only Jont to ashsowledge We the catholic dem bee
shown as lively sad so deep a feeling of its ditty to the
country as suety other clew of * pepalstion ; bet there is
nothing is that cireamatesee to *lily either the slanderous
inipstatises of our Ironies or the odious and barbarous re•
yews takes by the itamies sailmrktisa for the prayers
which were ordered ia Frame and M Roam.

As ?Aprils the alkyd aritheAutis Modesties eel the is-
attheolice, Wit is ask d thou lemeiths ► with the

adateniss of oar easuiles io non Nob =wife& To may
that the Polish bobdity mai it own istessits in the

movement it as false as it is unjust, for it is, oo the ana-
-1 teary, the rural population which ie called upon to
dolics greet material advantage' from it. The Rus-
sia agitate hay* theaseshis ethfassed that for the
lad • thirty yeas. it has bees Ramis which laths-
Posed all peesible obstacles to the sotiefeekcy solution of
the peasant qualities. It would, we think, be difficult to
find in history othiiplee of seek swam as those that
wore made by the Polish landowthes in favour of the pea.
seats so soon as they wets ensided to has themselves from
the hoods of Roads. The object pursued by the Polish
bitty is to liberate this powerful and solid portico of the
population from the oppreasios which seeks to make it its
tool by mesas of the degradation into chink it 'savorous,
to plunge and maintain it. I. this en aristocratic movement,
when one sees members of the most illustrious Polish fami-
lies standing to be killed es the field of battle like ammo@
soldiers, under the command of offiosrs and morals who
have sprung from the people I Can it be eselesively for
the advantage of the aristocracy that the intelligent
population of the towns has thrown itself lato the
struggle, and that sages and poets are seen fightiog
by the side of heroic &dams and. enlightened trades-
men! Finally, is it the feudal party which mood-
pates the soil of Poland, and proclaims as the fundamental
principle of the future Polish ethatitstion equality before
the law, sad the admission of all classes to cavil sod po.
litkal rights!
We are also reproached with befog revolutiouista. If by
revolution is meant the dortasetio• of religion, the neutron.
ea** of the rights of family end of property, it is to Russia
that this title belongs ; she deems' it daily by her casket
in Poland, and we willingly give it up to her. Bat if by
this word is meant the dehisce of all that is most sacred to
humanity—if the name of revolution is applicable to social
program, to the conquest of a wise freedom, we have no I
wish to deny these prisaiploo, for whose triumph we have
fought for nine months.

Our esomis wish to rain as by internal dinieosions : they
seek to stir up suspicions against us, both at home and
abroad. The snare is too arms for um to fall into it, and
their calumnies refute one another. They always return to
them, nevertheless, laths famous memorandum of Prince
Gortchakolf, a ehrlenge, as It were, to the 001111611100 of
bumaaity, we are represented as disputing with each other
for the right of plundering our country—a novel spires of
right, which Muscovite diplomacy alone could have invested,
as its army alone could have exercised it. This right of
plunder is in truth of Russian origin. It belong, to Russia,
sea we leave her to monopolies it.
Surely, V ever there was a situation capable of driving •
Dation to despair, it is that which has been made for as by
Russia, by an oppression unequalled is the reale of the
world. The Marian adminwtrstioe has exceeded all that
has yet been seen in the way of barbarity. They began by
breaking forcibly into religious asylums, they have pro-
faned the tombs, and sow they proceed by plunder, ms.
emerge, execuroos, and waivers' preoriptise. While con-
tinuing to repersot the present movement se the work of
• bottom, they give this assertion the most striking refuta-
tion by embracing the whole of Polish society in the same
prteecution.

Inaugurated at Warsaw by the murder of poor artisans
like Kaminski, Wagner, Alger, and others, all of whom
knew nothing of the deeds which were imputed to then,
this system developes keen by the plunder of houses
while their owners are absent, and by • Bert of regular
proscription, which every day separates from their homes
and their country hundreds of our best citizens. By found-
ing her government on plunder and proscription, does not
Russia herself pronounce a sentence of invalidation against
ber rule! She again obeys the inexorable necessity which
in the past ovitury impelled her to the partition of Poland,
sod which, is times more ancient, impelled her to destroy
the Solavonen republies of Novgorod and Pskow ; and it
is now the complete destruction of our country which is
the conclusion of this logic of Asiatic barbarism struggling
with einlisatios.

Notwitbstaading the norm laid in every potable form
for the conacieoce of the ciriliaid world, the Polish ques-
tion promote heel, with inch simplicity and such evident
imam, that had faith aloes am mileoderemad is. On the
'M. tick urn ry►t sad the prieciples of humanity defeaded
by the heroism A ear soldiers, sad reclaimed by the pew
veriag efforts of n whole people ie the midst of the most
severe trials ; ea the other, en insatiable asarpatloa appeal-
ing to the bliadestpassioas,and maintalaiag itself by the most
Arad Ann of streegth,in contempt of all Divine end host,