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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1862.

What Lord MACAULAY finely but terribly called
the greatest crime of Modern Europe" was again
discussed last evening in the House of Lords. If
the young Earl of CARNARVON, the exAincur
Secretary of State for the Colonies "ader Sir Btu.-
WER LYTTON'S brief but mem.':xable administration
of that imperial department, seriously cares to do
SQ---he may even :yet, with a certain grace and dig-
nity, assume to himself the hitherto neglected and
stainle:da robe left behind him, for the shoulders of
some still unrecognised, successor, by the late Lord
DUDLEY COUTTS STTIART ! The political robe worn
by that chiValrous and philanthropic nobleman
daring so many years as the arch-champion and
volunteer-advocate, at any rate here in England. of
Poland and the Poles. Since -Lord DUDLEY
STUART'S lamented and premature demise but little,
comparatively speaking, has been said, in either
House of Parliament, as to the condition of the
Polish nationality. Occasionally, of course, cir-
eutmitances have directed the attention of thought-
ful. Englishmen, now in the Lords, now in the Com-

mons, to the prostrate condition of that abused
people, and to the frightful continuance by Austria,
by Prussia, and by Russia, bat especially, and with a
horrible persistency, by Russia, of the intermittent
but never-dying persecution of the Polish multi-
tude. There were momentary hopes that a happier
future was about to dawn upon that race, at any
rate in Russian Poland, at the time when the
young Czar ALEXANDER 11. ascended the throne
of the Muscovite Autocracy, when left vacant by
the abrupt demise of his father, the Emperor
NICHOLAS. The recollection of the illusions which
had been awakened among the Poles at the turn
of the present century, on the advent to power,
upon the sudden death of PAUL, of the then
Youthful Emperor ALEXANDER I.,was not in any way
sufficient to dissipate the agreeable hallucinations,
revived when history again began to repeat herself,
according to her wont. Time alone would do that.
Experik ace alone could awaken the all-believing
Poles wad
their sympathisers from those agreeable
but de:lnsi
vs daydreams. That time has, alas! al-
ready -long since
arrived. That bitter experience has
unhappily again
been tasted, or rather drained
miserably to the very dregs. The situation has in
effect—in Russian /..„,
'nano. at least—become such
t bat the Earl of CAuNaxii
could say with ter.
rible truth yesterday in
tt.°N
the House of Lords, that
Warsaw was in a state of sic
go, Poland was sub-
ject to martial law, the action t
he ordinary tri-
bunals was suspended, the intercourse
of private life
was restricted by severe regulations, th _
persona
could not meet and con verse in the street, four could
not dine together in a cam without Permission, the
Arricilltural Association, which was in fact the
only
ns.tional institution in Poland, had been dissolved,
a:id extreme irritation exi.4.Ed throughout the
country." It becomes once therefore a matter of
scandal to all Europe, to consider whether it might
not be possible, by diplomatic interference, to miti-
gate in some measure the horrors of this new and
appalling persecution of our Polish fellow-creatures.

Putting out of the question all ideas of historic
gratitude to a race whose fame lies, in the annals

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