The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-25 00:00:00

POLAND.

A Warsaw letter gives the text of a proclamation
addressed by the Polish population to the catholic
clergy, with a view to exhort them not to abandon
the cause of the people, to which they have always
been attached, but to redouble their patriotic efforts
in the cause of religion and their country. In con-
nection with this appeal to the clergy of Warsaw,:
a proclamation is about to be addressed to the re-.
presentatives of all the provinces of Old Poland, to
convoke thew at Herudlo, where the first assembly.
of Poles, Lithuanians, and Ruthenians took place
four hundred years ago. The deputations are di-
rected to meet at Herodlo ou the 10th of October
next, and the principalities, provinces, and palati-
nates of the whole kingdom are to be represented.
The document which, it appears, has produced a
great sensation, is thus worded :

Brother of Ruthenia, Lithuania. and Poland--Yes ; we
wish by a grand and imposing solemnity to celebrate the
anniversary of the day when, in present* of Sigisniund Au-
gustus 11., the Diet of Lublin ratified the definite union of
Poland and Lithuania. The act accomplished by that Diet
was, however, in some unaware, only a formality and a con.
irritation of the voluntary fusion of two nations into one
power under the sceptre of Ladislaus Jagellon, King of
haul. By a fact unexampled in history, a reciprocal
sympathy and a similar love of liberty had' accomplished
a task usually reserved for victory and conquest. To
pass over such a fact in silence, not to point out its sig-
nificance and the relation which it bears to existing cw-
ennistances, and not to unanimously proclaim a remem-
brance so dear to our hearts in a patriotic ceremony,
would be to renounce our national existence in the face
of Europe, to act contrary to our conscience, to re-
pudiate our past, mud to throw our future to the winds. It
ts with beans filled with this idea that we :ink the three
united nations to listen to our voice as their ancestors
formerly did to the voice of those who invited them to
assemble at lienallo, and we hope that our nppeal will
cause a sympathetic echo to vibrate in all hearts which
beat with the love of country and of liberty. The
auniventary of the union of the two nations will be
celebrated at Ilerodlo, in the palatinate of Lublin, on the
10th October. That day corresponds to the 2nd October of
the Julian style, the date fixed by the national chronicles.
In orier to give to this solemnity all the grandeur
and the significance which it merits, we invite, in the
first place, the venerable catholic clergy of the united
rite nod of the Latin rite to ardently and openly
loud their cooperation. Let the bishops, depittatioos of
the chapters, and the ecclesiastical aasociations of
ancient Poland assemble there, bearing in mind the suf-
ferings nod the hopes which they share with us, and the in-
terest of the church so closely united to that of Poland.
We invite all literary and scientific societies, universities,
editors of Polish and Ruthenianournais, industrial asso-
ciation* corporations of Polish Jews—in a word, corporate
bodies Of all kinds, to take part in this solemn fete of
flerodlo. It is only thus that the Polish nation, unable
otherwise to affirm its existence, can secure universal appro-
bation fur this ceremony. In rder to noire our national
traditions in all hearts, and thus give to our meeting an
historical and political chancier, we request the inhabitants
of all the principalities, palatinates, and ertn.... of Ancient
Poland, to send deputations to represent them at Bernal..
These deputations must be at that place In nine ..'chick in
the morning of the 10th October, where places will be duly
assigned to them.

Here follows a list of all the principalitie, pala-
tinates, and districts which are to take part in the
solemnity.

PROPOSED EXCHANOE FOR 111 RN I NI:HA is.—A
meeting was held at Birmingham yesterday, the Mayor in
the chair, to receive a report from a committee some time
since appointed to consider the meat practicable mode of car-
rying out a resolution fur the establishment of a Merchants'
and Manufacturers Exchange. The proposal made by the
council of the Midland Institute for connecting the exchange
with that institution wee regarded ea the most eligible ; and
the report of the committee in that respect w:is adopted.
t was further resolved to comnience the exchange with one
hundred member., and very nearly that number of names
were received at the meeting.