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The following despatch from Lord Russell to
Ambassador of Great Britain in St. Petersburg, re-
specting the insurrection in Poland, was published
yesterday :
" EARL RUSSELL TO LORD NAPIER.
"Foreign-office, June 17, 1863.
"My Lord,—Her Majesty's Government have
considered with the deepest attention the despatch
of Prince Gortschakoff of the 26th of April, which
was placed in my hands by Baron Brunnow on the
2d of May.
" Her Majesty's Government are not desirous
any more than Prince Gortschakoff, of continuing a
barren discussion. I will, therefore, pass over all
the controversy regarding my previous despatch ; I
will not endeavour in the present communication to
fix the precise meaning of the article regarding
l'oland in the Treaty of Vienna, nor will I argue,
us Prince Gortschakcfi seeing to expect I shouid do,
l iigffiltuelnteadne•Emmopsetroimr
pworhtoanitias
that there is only one form under which good go-
vernment can be est'tblished. Still less will I call
in question the benevolent intentions of the en-
time Effected such marvellous changes in the legal
problem. already
in a short
condition of his Russian subjects.
Emperor
Majesty's Government are willing with the
d. of Russia to seek a practical solution of a
" Baron Brunnow, in presenting to me Prince
Gortschakoff's despatch, said, ' The Imperial Cabi-
net is ready to enter upon an exchange of ideas
upon the grounds and within
the limits of the
Treaties of 1815.'

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and ordinary nature of the proceedings, it would be
found in the fact that the police, laying aside for
the oecasion their ordinary functions, formed them-
selves into a band and performed some musical selec-

tions in a highly creditable manner. The proceed-
ings opened, according to precedent, with proceed.
ings carried on under the auspices of a Master of the
Revels, after which Lord Elcho, as President of the
assembly for Business Purposes, told the volunteers
that the Council had come there to be shot at with

might wish to level at
was full, than to.
tilreincibumledpon meeting, when
any complaints which they
them. It had bean thought better to convene their
rifler d I's a
ther li acml
oesne t
of hit htihl oe
competitors disappointed in their hopes of obtaining
the Queen's prize would have left. He invited them
to offer any suggestions to which they might attach
importance, feeling convinced that in future years
the movement, and consequently the meetings at
Wimbledon, would attain increasing magnitude.
The assembly cordially endorsed the compliments
which Lord Elcho felt it due to Colonel Luard and
Major Ruston to pass upon the camp administra-
tion, and did not supplement in any way the
complaint which his Lordship said was the only
one made to him on this subject—that of a gen-
tleman who had discovered three earwigs in his
hut. They further expressed their approval audibly
when the Commissariat arrangements were men-
tioned ; but a full burst of enthusiasm was elicited
when Lady Elcho was incidentally referred to as
"an enthusiastic Volunteer." The meeting, which
before sat comfortably watching the blaze, or listen-
ing to the remarks of Lord Elcho, found its feet
and its voice at exactly the same moment. A more
animated or prettier tableau than the semicircle
presented at that moment it would be difficult to
imagine. Had some of our theatrical managers seen
it they must have despaired of producing an effect so
gratifying and so wholly unexpected. Lord Elcho
explained the action of the Council in reference to
the disc system by stating that their object was to
have the bullet marks accurately pointed out, which
volunteers felt was not the case under the old flag

" Her Majesty's Government are thus invited by
the Government of Russia to an exchange of ideas
upon the basis of the Treaty of 1815, with a view to
the pacification and permanent tranquillity of
Poland.
"Before making any definite proposals, it is es-
sential to point out that there are two leading prin-
ciples upon which, as it appears to her 1114eaty,a
Government, any future Government of Poland
ought to rest. The first of these is the establish-
ment of confidence in the Government on the part of
the governed.
" The original views of the Emperor Alexander I.
are stated by Lord Castlereagh, who had had heard
from the Emperor's own lips in a long conversation,
the plan he contemplated.
" The plan of the Emperor is thus described by
Lord Castlereagh t—' To retain the whole of the
Duchy of Warsaw, with the exception of the small
portion to the westward of Kalisch, which he meant
to assign to Prussia, erecting the remainder, toge-
therwiththe
tPoelipsheope:
provincesi formerly dismem-
bered, into a kingdom under the dominion of Russia,
with a national Administration congenial to the
sentiments of the
" The whole force of this plan consists in the
latter words.
" Whether power is retained in the hands of one,
as in the old monarchy of France, or divided among
[ a select body of the aristocracy, as in the Re-
i public of Venice, or distributed among a Sovereign,
a House of Peers, and a Representative Assembly,
as in England—its virtue and strength must con-
L sist in its being a ' national Administration con-
I genial to the sentiments of the people.' _ _

system. They deeply regretted the accidents with
which the working of the disc system had been at-
tended ; but it was not introduced at Wimbledon
till it had been tried for three months successfully
at the butts of the London Scottish. He fully ad-
mitted that in what he had done Colonel Steele was

quite justified—in fact, that in his position he could
have done no less. But the volunteers, having been
thrown upon their own resources, came forward
'pobly, and enabled the Council to man the butts.
Subsequent experience had convinced the Council
that, although the system of marking which had
been in operation was perfectly safe, when properly
carried out, for long ranges and at private butts,
it was not equally reliable when masses of men
came forward to shoot often in such a nervous and
excited state that they saw three bull's-eyes instead
of one. The Council at the same time did not like
wholly to abandon the disc system, and therefore
Captain Drake—whose absence from that meeting
they lamented—was hard at work effecting arrange-
ments which would enable the disc-marking to be
maintained, at the same time providing for the
safety of the markers. This announcement
afforded the most unqualified satisfaction, for on
the part of the volunteers there seems to be a
great dislike to any system which does not
show the part of the target struck. A return
to the mere recording of miters, centres, and
bull's-eyes they regard as a retrograde move-
ment. The festive element, to the success of
which the efforts of Lieutenant Harris and others,
and the hospitable arrangements of the Victoria
Rifles greatly contributed, asserted itself for a time.
Afterwards the suggestions which had been invited
by the chairman began to flow in pretty freely upon
the Council. These were mainly to the effect that,
when the number of entries was unusually great,
additional prizes should be given ; that all the
purely Volunteer prizes, including the Queen's
prize, should be shot off on the opening days of the
meeting, if possible on the first or second day ; that
the prizes for small bores, universally regarded as
the weapons of the man of leisure, should be post-
poned till afterwards; that measures should be taken
for preventing overcrowding at the firing points ;
and that the competitors, wherever practicable,
should be squadded and told off to targets in every
case, as in the shooting for the Queen's prize. Lord
Elcho replied at some length to the different sug-
gestions which had been made. He left to Captain
Page the task of explaining the intricacies of the
arrangements at the firing points. He could call the
exertions of that officer—which were entirely unre-
munerative—nothing less than Herculean; only
that day he had worked at these details for eight
hours consecutively. The question of prizes to be
offered by the Association was simply a question of
money and he thought it a disgrace to the people of
England that a national institution, essential to the
progress and even to the stability of rifle-shooting,
should be dependent for its existence upon receipts
from chance entries, pool and sighting targets.
Somebody in the crowd ventured a suggestion that
the Association was " not popular," an assertion
which was met by an indignant storm of dissentient
voices, which stifled that question in a manner as
effectually ss that in which a previous attempt to
excite discussion on " the dismissal clause" of the
Volunteers' Bill had been got rid of. The meeting
felt that the Council was taking an open and manly
step in consulting their views end eliciting their
opinions, and they were not disposed to tolerate the
introduction of purely vexatious topics. An equally
conclusive and conciliatory speech on the part of
Capt. ap
whicht . Phaagde
beenfollowed
touchedw with hu
pon. regard to the great o details
that
The festivities were prolonged till a some
niadvancednight
only,
h hour,
specialr, ‘' tattoroe"qubeesito! abolished, for

necessarilykt
institutionshi
ne'
"Such
:g eTdihonme institutions
t.Emperortudhteieopnhe sna sdwgsAilloyll
one the
a,
tnhs
receiveddaeeyrcs 0 nI,
fil
A.
d,
ose speaking
cote
chat
ekhweipintagfhrt Ittowouf
frbetti future, ithee
an Administration as Alexander I. in-
-2 07
tt
hh. those.
Fulls eo ve
vi
in-
tended, such confidence, as Alexander 11. looked
for, unhappily do not exist in Poland.
" The next principle of order and stability must
be found in the supremacy of law over arbitrary
will. Where such supremacy exists, the subject or
citizen may enjoy his property or exercise his in-
dustry in peace. and the security he feels as an in-
dividual will be felt in its turn by the Government
under which he lives.
"Partial tumults, secret conspiracies, and the in-
terference of cosmopolite strangers, will not shake
the firm edifice of such a Government.
“ This element of stability is likewise wanting in
Poland. The religious liberty guaranteed by the
solemn declarations of the Empress Catherine, the
political freedom granted by the deliberate Charter
of the Emperor Alexander 1., have alike been abro-
gated by succeeding Governments, and have been
only partially revived by the present Emperor.
" It is no easy task to restore the confidence which
has been lost, and to regain the peace which is now
every where broken.
~Her Majesty's Government would deem them-
selves guilty of great presumption if they were to
express an assurance that vague declarations of good
intentions, or even the enactment of some wise laws,
would make such an impression on the minds of
the Polish people as to obtain peace and restore
obedience.
":In present circumstances it appears to her
Alajesty's Government that nothing less than the
following outline of measures should be adopted as
the bases of pacification :
" 1. Complete and general amnesty.
" 2. National
crepresentatithe charter of theon, with powers simila
15.,
r
t
"Poles to be named to public offices in such a
manner as to form a distinct nations]
Administra-
tion, having the confidence of the country.
hmibh er are
,1815.
fixed
by
f conscience ; repeal
4
and entire liberty
worship.
" 5. The Polish language recognised in the king-
dom as the official language, and used as such in
the administration of the law and in education.
,i 6. The establishment of a regular and legal
system of recruiting.
These six points might serve as the indications
of measures to be adopted, after calm and full deli-
of the restrictions imposed on Catholic
o

edniffiacrueltb,
encoaray, ingdaily
almost impossible, to
create the requisite confidence and calm while the
their hatreds more deadly, their determination to
more excited,
succeed or perish more fixed and immovable.
"Your lordship has sent me an extract from the
St. Petersburg Gazette of the 7th (19th) of May.
I could send your lordship, in return, extracts from
London news •
papers, giving accounts of atrocities,
men
equally horrible, committed byacting
on be-
half of Russian au
" It is not for her Majesty's Government to dis-
criminate between the real facts and the exaggera,
tions of hostile parties.
" Many of the allegations of each are probably
unfounded, but some must in all probability be true.
passionsber,antisont . i
, otf
is
m
How, then, are we to hope to conduct to any good
end a negotiation carried on between parties thus
exasperated ?
" In an ordinary war, the successes of fleets and
armies, Who fight with courage, but without hatred,
may be balanced in a negotiation carried on in the
midst of hostilities. An island more or leas to be
transferred, a boundary more or less to be extended,
might express the value of the last victory or con-
quest. But where the object is to attain civil peace,
and to induce men to live under those against whom
they have fought with rancour and desperation, the
case is different. The first thing to be done, there-
fore, in the opinion of her Majesty's Government,
is to establish a suspension of hostilities. This
might be done in the name of humanity by a pro-
clamation of the Emperor of Russia, without any
derogation of his dignity. The Poles, of coarse,
would not be entitled to the benefit of such an act,
unless they themselves refrained from hostilities of
every kind during the suspension.
restored, the
" Tranquillity thus for the moment
ha signed the
next thing is to consult the Po,werisny
,Sweden, and
Treaty of Vienna.
Prussia,
give their opinion as to
Portugal must be asked toil g2tria a
treaty IP which
the best mode of giving
they were con triietingr
ver•
_ment propose, there.
" Wat her Majesty sGo ri
propositions:—
consists
fore, in thi
ion:se
ofthree the six points enumerated
I, Ist. The adopt
as bases of negot
ension
of arms, to be
" 2d. A provisions soap
r of Russia.
by the Envero
proclaimed
conference
of the eight Powers who
" 3d. A
Treaty
awed the of Vienna.
read and •
0 Your excellency will give a copy or
his despatch to Prince Gortsciaakoff.-1. am, Sze.,
t
" RITRBELL."

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