The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-13 00:00:00

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MONTALEMBERT ON POLAND.

froellroewmianrgkaibslae npeaasralayg
verbatimes
on the Polish Question by the Count de Montalem-
theThmeo in hattrnanosbllaet ipaperonof
bert, upon which paper we took occasion to com-
ment at some length in The Sun of Thursday,. the
2d instant, immediately after the appearance at the
Count's expostulation with all Christendom
When in the night along some storm -beaten coast, a gun
which tells of a ship in danger bursts upon the startled ear,
in what Christian country do the inhabitants of the coast,
deaf to the cry of the sufferers, to the appeal of their fellow-
creatures, their brothers, remain at home to sleep in peace,
or keep awake only to hug themselves in the pleasant sense
of security which land and the fireside affords ? When in
the street or on the high road a cry of distress is heard
from some passer-by who is attacked or murdered, what are
we to think of those honest folk who, instead of running to
the victim's aid, only think of shutting themselves up in
their houses, and peep from behind the half-closed shutters
to see from afar how the crime is perpetrated ? Yet this is
what has been taking place in France, in Europe, during
the last 18 months, with this difference that, instead of a
ship, it is a whole nation that is being engulphed In a sea
of blood, and that it is not in the night, not in the midst of
a tempest, nor in the depths of a forest, that the catastrophe
is happening, but in a dead calm. It is not a lonely tra-
veller, nor a caravan of travellers—but a nation, a great
Christian nation, which is hemmed in, seized, garotted,
despoiled, outraged. and assassinated before our eyes.
Eighteen months ago this nation, which a century of un •
heard of wrongs and skilftilly planned oppression could nei-
ther subdue nor exhaust, fell into the pit which her execu-
tioners had dug for her. One mighty cry she uttered:to remind
the world that she had been buried alive, and did not wish
to die. Then disarmed, alone, desperate,with the boldness of
despair, she engaged in the struggle which still continues.
The victim has exhausted every appeal for human aid. She
has invoked one by one, with the most solemn adjurations,
civilieatlon, humanity, the law of nations, modern right,
modern ideas, liberty, progress, honour, gratitude, pity,
public conscience. She has obtained nothing ; no response
has been made to this heart-rending appeal. Modern civi-
lisation so proud of its progress, of its universal empire, of
its marvellous inventions, its popular wonders, has remained
dumb and powerless before the monstrous spectacle exhi-
bited at its very door of the dispossession, mutilation, and
butchery of a nation effected, on a system of deliberate
hatred in the middle of the 19th century. Civilisation has
owned itself conquered by barbarism. Even in that country
where liberty flourishes the best, she has done nothing,
has availed nothing, has attempted nothing to save a people,
one of the first among modern races, whose liberty dates
as far back as that of any, and who asks of God and man
but the simplest, the most elementary kind tif liberty,
liberty to live. Modern. eight, so continually invoked In
some countries, so strangely interpreted and so audaciously
applied in others; this right w.hich, if we are to believe its
noisiest advocates, authorises a people to get rid of Kings
whom it dislikes, without a cause, as in Greece, or for chi-
merical reasons, as in Naples—this new-fangled right
allows an empire more than half Asiatic to deny and to
violate with impunity every ancient right in the case of an
European and Christian people, which has fallen a prey
to the spoiler after one thousand years of national indepen-
dence. Humanity proves as helpless as liberty I Neither
philanthropy nor the increased gentleness of our manners
(which:we may so fairly boast of) and of our penal laws,
nor that sentimental compassion which is daily called forth
by publicity, and expended on real or imaginary mis-
fortunes, has been of any avail against what seemed too
horrible to be aught but a nightmare, yet has proved
a fearful reality—a vampire sucking the life -blood of a
weeping victim. Public conscience, too, pity, and gratitude
have been forgetful and silent. In vain did Poland display
before our eyes the remembrance of her services and of her
claims, the sight of her wounds and her pangj, she who has

been for so many ages the blood.•stained bulwark of Europe,
the indefatigable ally of France. Nothing has been of any
use. Nothing has been able to overcome the inattention,
the shameful unconcern, the sluggish indifference, and ob-
stinate improvidence of contemporary Europe, She does
nos even wish to hear more of the worn-out, interdicted
subject, she wished to forget it, to drive it from her thoughts,
to avert from it her eyes, which are weary in the pursuit of
gain and pleasure. The question is cut short, the Times
has recalled its correspondents ; the curtain has drOpped•
Let us change the subject.
The most compassionate, the most generous do as Agar
did, who withdrew weeping that she might not witness the
agony of her son dying with thirst in the desert. "Et abiic
quantum protest arcus jecere ;
dseixdiittqeuneime: rNegonionvoidepsebrc:muolrientern
poem m." But In I from the midst of this frigid silence, of this uni-
versal indifference, one voice, and one alone, is lifted up in
answer to the cry of Poland in her agony. It is the voice
of religion, a voice plaintive, in:lig
spoken, who is in the eyes of all,
whether friends or foes,
/sant, immortal, He has
whether believers or unbelievers, the highest peesonification
of religion in the world. The Vicar of Jesus Christ, the
Son, who died for men upon the Cross, has spoken in behalf
of the sacrified nation. An
has burst in waves hurrying
aeal which is eloquence itself
end breaking one upon another,
'V
from the depth of that noble heart, the heart of Pius IX.,
the man and the Pontiff, whcse indignation and piety have
overflowed together. His is no bed of roses who makes it
his business to plead for the Catholic cause at the present
day. He must be resigned to sadness of every kind, he must
expect not only outrages and contempt from without, but
wretchedness and darkness from within " foris pugnas intus
timores." We are all called urnth great and small, to
,
both
endure the disappointments,talk.
es, the defections, the
depression, the melancholy discorafiteres which are equally
the lot of the most humble soldier and of the most august
representative of truth. But on the other hand, when ever
and anon truth and justice blaze forth, as lightning does
in the darkness of night, borrowing the supernatural
strength and authority of religion, what joy beyond com-
pare is kindled in the soul of the true believer, into what
transports of gratitude de Christians break forth! New
Italy, or, to speak more correctly, Piedmont, aggrandised
by proceedings which bear too close an analogy to those of
the spoilers of Poland, barely tries to feign or to affect a
cold and wordy sympathy for the great victim of that spirit
of usurpation of conquest of which the Piedmontese king-
dom has become the most guilty personification in Europe.
At heart, and in truth, all its sympathies are on the side of
Russia, who quickly recognised in the Italy of Victor
Emmanuel the ally and imitator of her wicked and plunder-
ing policy, and they who are best informed upon the sub-
ject see in the Roman question the point of unity between
St. Petersburg and Turin, The self .styled Liberal Govern-
ment which has stolen the secular patrimony of the Pope,
which day by day is throwing bishops and cardinals into
prison, which is suppressing religious order in order to con-
fiscate their patrimonies and to profane their sanctuaries,
cannot possibly assist or love, or even understand Poland :
Garibaldi, who has just displayed at London a certain sym-
pathy with the Polish cause, was acting much more in cha-
racter and according to his nature, when he wrote in his
address to the Poles on the 28th December, 1863—" Cease
to give to your heroic struggle a religious character ; it is
depriving you of sympathy, and provoking a fierce reac-
tion against you." It is the weakest, the worst armed of
European Sovereigns who alone has done his duty, who
alone has fulfilled the expectations of generous erohuisa
most hettr
feeble
among m
alistoenng Sovereigns
edtothev
is theoiceofj head
o
e and of
four religion, the father of pity This
our souls I It is he who is affording us at this moment the
sublime and comforting sight of a protest by the weak
against the mighty, by justice against iniquity, by truth
against falsehood. By thus pleading for Poland Pius IX.
has, without perhaps intending or thinking of it, laid before
the world the strongest argument in favour of the temporal
power of the Papacy. Never has it been more clearly proved
that sovereignty is necessary for its perfect independence.
In what other way I should like to know can his authority
be rendered free and supreme as it must be before us, as it
must be in the interest of that justice and truth of which he
is our impersonifieation ? Can you imagine a Pope a,subject
or a paid vassal of the King of Italy; can you imagine him
making use of this spirited and generous language in pre-
sence of a master who is the ally or the accomplice of the
oppressor who is to be denounced, of the traitor who is to be
unveilled. * * I believe 1 may laitly say, sincerely and
calmly, that on the 24th of last April Pope Pius IX. wrote
one of the most beautiful pages in the glorious history of the
Vicar of Jesus Christ. As a Catholic and as a man I humbly
think him for having paid this beeves to our faith and to
his own divine authority. I thank him tor having shown a
heart full of courage and of pity—of what, in other words,
the kings, and to speak plainly the men of our time, are
most wanting in. They are not malicious, or at least not so
bad as they are sometimes represented to be; but they have
neither couragetsgainst the odious triumphs of evil, nor pity
for their victims. Pius IX. follows the glorious footsteps of
that great man, Pope Clement X 111., who in the 18:h cen-
tury was the only potentate in Europe who protested against
the despoilers of Poland, while Voltaire, we cannot too often
repeat it, encouraged and flattered there with all the refine,
ments of a base adulation, and all the paroxysms of impla-
cable rage against the Catholic nation, which it was their
object to blot out from the land of the living. Pope Pius
IX. renews. besides, and confirms the noble attitude of
Gregory X VI., the first among the sovereigns of the
19th century who knew how to make head against the
Emperor Nicholas, and the only one who reminded him,
P IX, is, in fact, only by his Allocution in 1842, and in a memorable interview of
his duty towards the Poles.—_pins
per-
severing in the course on which he entered long ago, the
glorious stages of. which he has already marked out in his
Allocution of the-6th of March, 1863, relating to the pre-
conisation of Poliah Bishops ;
in his letter of the 22d of
April, 1863, to Alexander the 2d; and, lastly, in his pre-
cepts relating to the procession of the 31st of August, in
behalf of unhappy Poland. History will, to the latest ge-
nerations, recur with emotion to these noble efforts of the
greatest moral power under the sun. No sophistry, no
falsehood, no ingratitude will succeed in obliterating from
the memory of man this striking contract between !the in-
trepid ad enduring
sYmPathy of the Popes for an op-
pressed
tt
le indifference
nation,
and
the desertion, the shameful or the hos •
e which
she
has
ap
enoapt national atahl a
thPower, or invaded a neighbouring
met with at the hands of the
philosophers of the 18th century, and the politicians of
as
the 19th. * * * Poland has never subverted a le-
gitimate
country. She stands, perhaps, alone in the history of the
ere ld as
nor
never made an attempt against
the person of a king. At the very time when France was
allowing the greet revolution of 1789 to end in the Reign
of Terror, Poland by virtue of its constiution of tte 3d of
May, 1791, was anticipating, or was actually attaining by
the establishment of a hereditary and iparliamentary mo-
narchy, the results which had been arrived at by the pain-
e
ful experience of the most enlightened nations. It is not
the creation or recognition of a new nationality in Poland,
but it is one of the oldest and most indelible nationalities
of Europe that is in question, one that has never ceased to
exist de facto or de jure, and that demands the restoration
of her confiscated independence with invincible deter-
mination. As for religion I On this subject the Pope,
who is the head and the supreme judge of the religious
of Catholic Christendom, is at once the most
interests
and irrefutable witness. It is known that he has
competent
received from the most authentic sources a mass of particle
lars which are of most grave and serious import, showing
that a plan for decatholicisieg Poland has been followed for
Hence this cry from the inmost depths of
a length of time.
and -
his soul, which has moved astounded Europe. But,
he is
apart from these details, which doubtless reserving for
publication, the whole world is informed, and no one can
any longer pretend of
ignorancethe daily assaults made
upon the national religion of the Poles; of how their
profaned ; their nao • violated
churches are closed or p monasteries
or confiscated ; their priests carried off or hung ; their,
bishops imprisoned, exiled,
and even
deprived of their
spiritual functions by the Autocrat •
of
how millions of
Lithuanian peasants
base been driven R
by violence into
Ythianian peasants
schism, as was the case with millions of
word, all the sacrileges and all
f 0
under Catherine II.; in a
the persecutions which have been announced on unexcep-
tionable evidence of the
highest character as coming hence
forward upon Europe and upon -
history. While reading the
generous wor
ds which flowed spontaneously from Pius IX.,
one is naturally led to call to mind the famous harangue of
his predecessor, Urban 11, at the Council of Clermont,
when, injuries
of the inflicted upon the
by the bare recite
Land, h
ekindled in the hearts of
Christians in the Holy
the French who heard him a flame which was destined to
spread over West
the whole of the West, and to be the origin of
the first crusade. The soul of the Papacy remains even
then the same! But what a contrast between the Europe
of that time and the Europe of this What a fall, what
a
disg:iace for the civilization of the present day, for Europe
end each country in particular. lam in•
deed more anxio
in general, .
foor 8 than I can express not to be confounded
with the systematic u. e
ietractors of modern society, which I
e-4tues as well as many wretched
believe to possess many capable of improvement and
faults, and to be essentiate,
ossible to overlook the fact
transfcrmation. But it is it p.
~:seel'ned, that the human
h
heart has become greatly c
that its moral sense has
greatly a.
an that there is much
less of that nice feeling of honour,. and of that solidarity
among nations which in former times woe. t to make up,
Christendom. into the
A whole generation, perhaps two, will go down hay-
grave
beneath the blows of the pitiless victor, without e
ing caught a glimpse of l
the day of deliverance. Alma... '
another is springing up which again will be succeeded
by
others who will consummate the same sacrifices, undergo
the same penalties, and astonish the 'world by the same pro-
digies of valour and endurance, The inspired promise of
the Prophet-King kindles in them a solemn hope • God will
od of
not always leave the patrimony of the just under the r

A.dv ices from the West India and Pacific station, received
by the present mail, report the arrival at Port Royal, Ja-
maica, on the 11th May, of her Majesty's ship Duncan,
bearing the flag of Admiral Sir James Hope, and
her departure on the 23d for Havanna, The Royalist also
arrived at Port Royal on the 11th ult. Some cases of small-
pox had occurred on board both vessels, but none in either
instance had proved fatal, and all were reparted as improv-
ing. Those on board the Duncan were removed to the
Naval Hospital shortly after their arrival, but no commu-
nication was permitted between the hospital and the
Royalist. On the 14th ult. a naval court martial assembled
on board the Royalist for the trial on the charge of insubor-
dination of Mr Roberts, Mr Filmer, and Mr Hobson, three
young officers of that vessel. The members of court martial
were Capt. Lambert, President, Capt. Kitson, Corn. J.
D'Arcy, Corn. J. Shears. Capt. Pollard prosecuted. The
charge of insubordination having been substantiated, Mr
Roberts and Mr Hobson were sentenced to two years' im-
prisonment each, and 90 days in each year to solitary con-
finement, and Mr Filmer to one year's imprisonment, and
all three to be dismissed the service with disgrace. They
remained in the Gfeneral Penitentiary at Kingston, awaiting
the sailing of the vessel which is to convey them home,
where they will undergo their respective sentences. The
Cygnet was also at Jamaica. The Pylades and Greyhound
were at Barbadoes on the 21st ult. The Chameleon, Capt.
Jones, left Vancouver's Island in the latter part of April
for the Mexican coast, and was to proceed thence to Pa-
nama to relieve the Devastation, Capt. Pike. The Tribune,
Capt. Lord Gifford, which left Panama on the 25th of
February, and sailed the whole way, arrived at Esquimalt
about the middle of April. The flagship Sutlej, which
sailed from Callao in Jan., was expected there daily, after
a cruise round the Polynesian Islands.

The Edinburgh, 60, 200 horse power, Capt. C. F. Schom-
berg, late Coastguard ship at Queensferry, Leith, has re-
turned her guns, shot, shell, and other War Department
stores into the Ordnance stores at Chatham, and is now
being dismantled preparatory to being placed in the Medway
Steam Reserve. This fine vessel will, it is understood, be
sold out of the navy, as although she is perfectly sound,
she is not altogether adapted for the, present requirements
of the service. The Edinburgh is relieved at Leith by the
Trafalgar, 70, 500 horse power.
The following appointments were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. Wee. H. Heaton to the Implacable
—.Lieut. J. M. Morris to the St. George—E. C. St. John,
midshipman, to the Warrior—W. H. Henderson, midship-
man, to the Prince Consort—R. F. Ward, midshipman, to
the Hector—H. J. J. Phillimore, midshipman, to the Black
Prince—and F. F. Liardot, midshipman, to the Defence.
The following ships are under orders to return to England
with all convenient despatch—viz., the Immortalite, 35 guns,
Capt. George Hancock, from the West Indies—the Forte,
39 guns, fi'gship of Rear-Admiral Warren, Captain Art hur
Meller,h, from the south-east coast of America—the Nar-
cissus, 35 guns, flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Bald \%iu W.
Walker, K.C.8,, Captain F. L. Barnard—the Hornet, 17
guns, Captain J. Dayulan—aud the Ariel, 7 guns, Com-
mander W. C. Chapman, from the East India and Cape of
Good Hope station—the Philomel, 5 guns, Commander L
Wildman, from the west coast of Africa—the Bacchante,
39 guns, Captain D. M'L. Mackenzie, from the Pacific—
the Tartar, 20 guns, Captain John M. Hayes—the En.
counter, 14 guns, Captain Roderick Dew, C.B.—the
Ringdove, 4 guns, Commander R. A. 0. Brown—and the
Vulcan, 6 guns, Captain A. C. Strode, from the China sta-
tion—and, lastly, the Harrier, of 17 guns, Commander
Edward Ray, from Australia.
Some dismounted men of the 16th Lancers are expected
at Colchester to-morrow, and will take possession of the
new cavalry barracks ; the remainder of the regiment will
arrive on Saturday. The head-quarters of the regiment
will be stationed at Colchester, and detachments of two
troops each will be sent to Ipswich and Norwich until the
completion of the new Colchester barracks. In accordance
with instructions received from the War-office a board of
officers under the presidency of Col. Farren, C. 8., 4th depot
battalion, has assembled at Colchester camp to select a site
for the erection of quarters for married soldiers. As a large
number of men who enlisted at the commencement of the
Crimean war for 10 years' service have been recently dis-
charged, recruiting has been commenced at the camp at
Colchester as well as at other stations.

Ministerial Shuffling about Denmark,

(From the Saturday Review.)

The English Government has been greatly
weakened by its share in the Danish transactions,
and perhaps the country has, for the time, lost credit
and popularity in Europe. Hereafter, when
the history of the negotiations is dispas-
sionately reviewed, the charges against English
policy will reduce themselves to a certain number
of errors of taste or style in the language of the
Foreign Minister's despatches, and in one or two
of Lord Palmerston's speeches. The Danes would
have refused compliance with the German demands
even if they had received no encouragement from
England; and, on the other hand, the con-
cessions waich they are supposed to have
made under English influence were dictated by
the plainest considerations of prudence. As they
would have been wiser if they had evacuated
Schleswig without fighting, it is idle to complain
that they were prevented from defending Holstein.
Although the season which is most favourable for
naval operations may be wasting away during the
suspension of hostilities, the re-establishment of the
blockade of certain ports and the capture of a few
German merchantmen would be expensive advan-
tages. It Austria and Prussia find themselves un-
able to resist the Danes at sea, they will merely
tighten their pressure on the land which they
occupy or overrun. Sooner or later compensation
will be exacted for every maritime capture and for
every commercial loss which may result from the
closing of German ports. The weaker belligerent
derives no real profit from any isolated advantage
which he may obtain, for the war must at some
time be terminated by a pacification in which the
conqueror will dictate the
the adviser
The first
recom-
mends is .
mends early submission is always exposed to misin-
terpretation and odium. No great sagacity is re-
quired to foresee that, if a three months' war
released Austria and Prussia from their obligations
under the treaty, the expenditure of a few more
millions of dollars, and of some thousands of lives,
would be urged as a reason for extorting an addi-
tional equivalent in territory. The Danes complain
with justice that the hostile occupation of Sehies
wig enables the enemy to influence the feelings or
the language of the population, but the rupture of
the armistice will have no tendency to expel the
Prussians from the peninsula, and it will enable
them once more to impose contributions on the un-
fortunate inhabitants of Jutland,

If the conference breaks up without accomplish-
ing its purpose, both Germany and Denmark will
perhaps find a certain satisfaction in the formid-
able onslaught to which the English Government
will be exposed. Lord Russell may, in a certain
sense, fairly claim the negative merit which he
once attributed to Lord Palmerston, of not being
the Minister or the favourite of any foreign coup.
try. In the present dispute he has bitterly offended
thb whole German nation, and he has disappointed
the sa.'
a dazes members of the House of
guine confidence of the Danes. There are,
perhaps, .
eers,
Commons? ausd
a somewhat larger number of P