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

seen into an abounding river, While the diplomacy
of the great Powers is fumbling at its eternal Pe'
nelope's web, and playing at " points" which have
the double merit of being unacceptable and im-
practicable on both sides, testifying neither comba-
tant, and settling nothing, General Mouravieff is
supplying the fulleA and completest interpretation
of Prince Gortschakoff's polite despatches by a suc-
cession of edicts, of which the deliberate and calca''
lating ferocity would search in vain for a parallel in
all the records of barbarous warfare. The
Scourgers of Mankind,iwbo have in old times laid
waste the finest portion::: of the earth,
swept nations
into outer darkness, and put whole peoples to
death, were humane and merciful conquerors com-
pared with this practical modern commentator upon
the good intention of a Russian Emperor, who con-
fiscates the estates of all Polish patriots who will
not, present themselves to be hanged, and murders
the resident, proprietors as " suspects" in batches,
on the testimony of loyal informers, who are paid
in kind. The attention of civilised Europe will do
well to fix itself upon General Mouravieff's method
of pacifying Poland and preparing it for an am"
nesty. The day on which the latest collective
but not joint, and similar but not identical notes
are communicated by the respective ambassadors
to the Vice-Chancellor 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 becoming one of mere humanity, like the
" customs" of Dahomey. No one beyond official
circles and probably 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 be-
tween 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 who could go
to war on such a question without a motive of ambi-
tion or a fear of loss. England means peace,
because she knows that no good for Polish or any
nationality can come out of a French war; and
because she knows that the Poles themselves or at
least the most 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 repudiation of the treaty rights
which the Russian Government had so flagrantlY:
bu ken ; so that not a shadow of factitious " law
may
tinue to mask the hideous wrong which the
r ceo:,
gibbet, the word, the bayonet, and the axe arernaia"
taining in PolaZl'd. What Poland has a right to
look for from England is the most solemn national
expression"of disapproval of the proceedings of Gee'
Moaravieff. The form which such an expression of
disapproval, or such an act of sympathy, should
take would be nothing more or less than the recog-
nition by the British Government of the Poles 00
belligerents, Let the other Powers join with Eng-
land in this recognition, and the consequence would
not be a diplomatic settlement of the Polish ques-
tion, but something more immediate and urgent--a
restraint upon the infamous of executing prisoners
of war.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY.
f
At our market to-day there was a good attendance of
country millers, and wheat experienced a moderate sale 6t
at a reduction of ld to 2d per cental on the week. DOWn
corn was in better request. Oats dull. Barley and bean'
at Friday's prices. Oatmeal very slow. American fic'llt
less saleable and Gd per brl down,

LEEDS—TUESDAY.'
To-day the demand for old wheat was slow, but net
was inquired for. Fine red qualities sold up to Ms Per
qr; white, 565.

MARKET HARBOROUGH—TUESDAY.
White wheat,:44s to 49s ; red, 42s to 46s per 36 storte;4
Malting barley at —a to —a per qr.; grinding, 30s to 364
per 30 at. Oats, old, 22s to 258; new, 19s to 22s per 4,
at. ; beans, 37s to 41s per qr.