The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-17 00:00:00

during the chief part of one whole century, holds

its own, unaided in any way externally, excepting

by the sympathy expressed by various remote

nationalities—holds its own, thus unaided, month

after month, against the legions cf a despotic rule
of 60,000,000—those legions armed to the
teeth and highly disciplined ! No wonder the

gallant Englishman who is travelling there, out in
the actual seat of war, observing the facts we are

here alluding to, with his.own eyes, no wonder, we
Bay, that we find him hesitating not to assert—"

am convinced now that not only the insurrection is

much more powerful than we seem to think, bu

that the Russian army is no more to be compared

to that of Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol, than
their army of 1854 to the half-savage and irresis-
tibly steady fanatics led by SUWAB.OFF." In saying

this, the writer frankly acknowledges that before
he had gone out there from England into the very
scenes of this deplorable conflict in Russian-

Poland, he had formed an entirety different opinion

of the state of things, than the one he has since been

compelled to arrive at, the one we have seen him

just now indicating in words so very emphatic
and so wholly unmistakeable in their drift.

Instead, he says, of finding Poland, as he had been
led to believe he should find it—namely, a Martyr

nation, or as he himself expresses it, " a sheepish
agglomeration of fanatics ready to be slaughtered
but unable to conquer"—he found it—what ? Let
his own words indicate what it was he really did
find it to be—" A powerful nation, confident in its
strength, and unshaken in its determination never
more to submit to the Muscovite rule !" ghat is
-what he found—that, we should rather say, is
what he Reds
for he writes from the midst
of the region
of this revelation to him—
his communication to the Post being dated
as recently a,
last Saturday, the 12th in-
stant, this "Old E.1.C.0." " hailing" onr eon-
temporary from Tarnow! So firm does he find
this determination, on
the part of the insurgent
poles to be, the determination, that is, never more
to submit to the Muscovite rule if they can help it,
that he writes now, on the
12th instant, from Tar-
now, "I cannot butfeelsuretht narseisatnordinoamißnuiosn.
that
in Poland is at an end, and that even all the efforts of
our diplomacy will never succeed
sian dominion in Poland, unless We
them by
arms to destroy all the Poles and then re-colonise
the country with Don Cossacks." In this opinion,
of course, he may be altogether misiaken. bet,
at
noticeable circumstanceany rate, it is a very
that such is the opinion of a dispassionate and
intelligent eye-witness, writing from :the midst of
the occurrences now transpiring in Russian Poland.
The conviction thus avowed by this travelling
Englishman, himself a man of military experience,
is, for all the world, a matter of as much

import and significance, as any argument
put forth in the fora of the most elabo-
rately concocted document prepared by the most
skilled and practised diplomatist, writing,
not from the seat of war, or we suppose we ought to
say more correctly, the seat :of the insurrec-
tion, but from the foreign offices of London and
Paris, of Vienna, or of St. Petersburg. And the
,-icvy taken thus —upon the spot and from the life--
by " An Old E.1.C.0.," comes to us, we cannot but
think, all the more impressively,
seeing that it
supposed to express the
appeare—not in any organ