The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1882.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

POLAND.

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ADDRESS OF THE NEW ARCHBISHOP.
The following is the text of the address pro-
nounoed by the Archbishop of Warsaw on the day
of the purification of the cathedral :
Glory to God in the highest ; peace and good-will
amongst men. But does that peace mist amongst us
Assuredly not, for we have been deprived of the
March. Prayer is the essence of our life ; it is
the melee of our happiness ; for it is the
,teas et securing to us divine grace in our wants, temporal
awl eternal. The highest prayer—the prayer of prayers—
Malta in these words :—" Our Father, who art in heaven :
Hallowed be Thy name! Thy will be dose."
1 approach the mad delicate and difficult question of
which I have to treat. If some one forbad you to pray
to God, and to lay before Him the wants of your
heart, if any authority whatsoever prohibited your pray-
ing, I should say to yon, "Do not obey that authority,"
for before this duty towards God disappears all duty to-
wards men. If anyone forbad you to pray for your com-
ity, for that land which we all love, if any authority
whatsoever forbad you to pray for the happiness and
welfare of our country, again I should say to you, "Do not
listen to such authority, for that would be wrong." In
truth, if we were ever to cease to pray for our country, I
should pray God that be would remove me from this Lend,
and that the Polish women might be stricken with barren.
ness. But no one can prevent us from praying for our
country.

A question has, however, now arisen with regard to oar-
tain songs and hymns which the church has not authorised,
and which I require you to no longer sing. To give up 011f-
tain hymns is not to give up prayer. We can and we ought
all to present to Oa our dearest wants.
I am happy to open to-day the churches in which we can
again meet to pray ; but I conjure, I entreat you, for the
good of the country, to cease for a time from singing the
prohibited hymns. Those hymns were good, for they ex-
pressed to the authorities what were our wishes ; but aow
the authorities know our desires and what we demand.

Thus I come and desire you to share in a blessed hope.
The Sovereign wishes to satiety the wants of our country.
I have conversed with the Sovereign at length, and he has
told me that he wishes to deprive ns neither of our nation-
ality nor of our religion ; that he will fulfil his promisee and
give us all that we want ; but he makes it a condition that
the country shall be tranquil, and the prohibited hymns no
longer be sung. Therefore, my brethren, I conjure and
implore you, in the name of God, of peace, sod of the coon.
try, cease for a certain time from singing thous hymns.
Perhaps I shall be told that previous promises made
by the Sovereign have not been kept. To this I reply I
have the promise of the Sovereign that they will be
kept now. Let us adapt outside's to the situation, and not
draw upon ourselves the reproach of having prevented the
accomplishment of those promises which most bring about
the prosperity of our country, and the safety of so many of
our unhappy brethren. Confess it, these hymns, have they
not =lied you too far? Have they not brought misfortune
upon many of you? To continue them now would be an sot
of insurrection. I implore you, then—l entreat you—for
the welfare of the country, to discontinue the use of these
hymns. Imitate in this your Saviour, who died on the cross
for justice, and who was obedient unto death to the tem-
poral authority.
Jesus Christ recommended obedience to ►uthority when
he mid " All authority comes from God." Deserve well of
God, and He will bleu us. For remember th►t God holds
all in His hada, that evil is always punished upon the
earth. God ever humiliates the guilty, and even here they
do sot 'nape His just wrath. Let it not be us who deserve
the name of 6ulty.
I pray you and supplicate you, in the name of God,
in the man of the country's welfare, to discontinue
the singing and the manifestations. Believe that I desire
nothing but the good of our country. Have confidence in
me, end let him who so has confidence kneel and receive my
benediction.

Letters from the Polish frontiers of tho 24th
state that by au order dated that day, emanating
from the Lieutenant-General of Poland, it is an-
nounced that there are to be no more inquiries or
arrests for offences committed before the proclama-
tion of the state of siege. The same letters
say that the new archbishop meets with general
sympathy ; " the churches are much frequented
by all classes of society."
A letter from Cracow says :—" The Rabbi Meiaal
was sent on the 13th of this month into Prussia,
and is at this moment in the town of Katowitz.

The Polish nobility are sending to him deputations
to express their sympathy with the Polish patriots.
As be has been deprived of all his means, it is
sought to assist him by selling his photographic
portrait. Upwards of 20,000 .have already been
sold."

(=ma's szczawts.)
ITALY.
TURIN, Fre. 25, EVLWINCI.

In the Chamber of Deputies to-day Signor
Boggio put a question to the ministry concerning
the Provvedimento committees. lie wished to
know whether the government intends to accept
the assistance of these oommiftees, and, if not, why
it does not adopt measures against them.
Baron Ricasoli, in his reply, said :—" The con-
stitution secures the right of meeting. The govern-
ment ought to maintain strict legality, and having
investigated the object of these committees, has
found it to contain no danger to the country. The
government will take care that the laws shall not
be infringed.'
After an animated discussion the chamber, taking
note of the declaration of the minister, passed to
the order of the day.

BERNE, FEB. 25._

M. Pradier, a native of Switzerland, formerly
Neapolitan Vice-Consul at Rio de Janeiro, who
has refused to deliver up to the Italian government
the archive's deposited with him, maintains, iu reply
to the demand of the Federal Council, that he has
surrendered the documents in question to the
Spanish government.

THE PRIVATEER SUMTER.
MADRID, /Pm M.

The captain of the Sumter has been arrested at
Tangiers at the instance of the American Consul ►t
Gibraltar, and of the commander of the Tuscarora,
who went for that purpose to Tangiers.

A letter from Psu says :—" A few days ago the
Afonitertr annouoced the removal of Y. Pron from the de-
partment of the Buae►Pyreofea, and his appointment u
Prefect to the more important one of the Manche. X. I'roa
has been nearly five years Prefect of the Basses-Pyrnaies,
of which the chief town it Pau. During that tame Y. Prou

has given the greatest satisfaction to the British and Americas
residents and visitors in that town. To mark their seams
of his merits the British and American residents hevo just
held a meeting, under the presidency of Mr. Taylor, the
English vios-oonsul, to agree upon an address to M. Pros on
his departure from among them. Lords Fortescus, Morley,
and %Blase, the Hon. Colonel Spencer, Mr. Corbally, ILP.,
Mr. Edwards, M.P., Sir Duncan M'Gregor, Rear-Admiral
Rich, Mr. Musgrave Clay, United States vice-consul, and
many others, were present. The address was unanimously
voted, and signed by 114 heads of families, and others,
English and American."
The production of oil from the springs in Canada
and the United States continues on a scale far greater than
the means of transport. "At present," says the Timm,
" the refining trade as regards this product seems in a state
of only partial organisation, and the difficulties and cat of
conveyance delay its development. Every fresh account,
however,seems to indicate that the supply is virtually
able, and that the result will he the growth of a new lami-
nas, which, for rapidity and extent, will be much as has
rarely bees paralleled in the history of commercial changes.
Hitherto the arrivals in Europe have not been large ; but •
used his just discharged 5,000 barrels in the Victoria
Dock, and several additional cargoes are daily a:petted,
both here end et LiverpooL"