The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-08 00:00:00

What the objects of that Society arc, it would,
therefore,
be Do difficult mutter tO. infer, from the known principles of its JI
suppor• tem Illat the necessity of having recourse tO 4113- oroc.ps!
declaration
of tr.terence is rendered unneeess.7 'o3, the dc
,
embodied in the advP: fi-sement, that, '° it shall be ono of the
fundsOlental laws, that no (petition be dltll3stlti ni, tiny, of
the meetings, witic.4, sAisti /tiff lo any matter to he brought
fo.-rea:ll, 0% ptutting, in either of the foust-s y Partia-
merit." The meaning of this resoliitiiin is obvious: '' The
English Agricultural Soeiety" is projetted, with the view
of gagging the farmers, and of lessening their opposition to
the intended retical of the Corn-laws—a measure, which
leading men of all parties are now conspiring to promote.
IN 11l tie farmers of England never shake off their apathy?
Vr'ill they tamely see thoir capital confiscated ? Will they
Itamely end their days, as labourers on the highways, or as
inmates of the Whig bastiles ?—Morning herald.

We feel it our duty again to direct the reader's attention
to the advertisements which daily appear in the Morning
Adve, tiscr, announcing the destitution of the Polish refu-
gees. We trust the appe kl to British charity will not be
made in vain. The sympathies of the country have been
roused (and justly roused) by the sufferings which the
black population of the Antilles have endured, and arc en-
during, at the hands of their white tyrants. But are there
no sufferings of our enslaved white brethren in Europe to
rouse an equal sympathy ? It was well said by one of the
speakers at the late meeting of the " Association of the
Friends of Poland," " that the Poles had an equal elaitn;"
and he added the painful tact, that "the refugees would gladly
share their miserable food and shelter with the negro."
" He wished," said Mr. Beale, " that the philanthropists
of this country would recollect that there were white slaves
in Europe, whose condition was worse than that of their dark
brethren beyond the Atlantic. He wished that his fair coun-
trywomen would spare to the unhappy Poles—the brave, the
high-minded, the neglected defenders of their country, and
of Europe—some of that sympathy which glowed upon their
lovely checks—which swelled in their bosoms and glistened
in their eyes, when they heard of the sufferings of the negro.
But there were many Poles who would gladly share with the
negro that sordid selfishness of the tyrant which induced him
to give to the victim of his cruelty at least food and shelter.
He deprecated the short-sighted and selfish policy of these
who said that the wrongs of other nations had nothing to do
with us ; that we should wait until murder, rapine, and tor-
ture were carried by the oppressor of Poland to our own shores."
Nothing can be more true than that the blow which
prostrated Poland wounded English freedom through her
sides. The Poles were fighting an English battle when
they took up arms against Russia. They were the ad-
vanced posts of the great European contest for Reform.
They were fighting the great battle of liberty and national
independence in every quarter of the world. Every day
proves that we deserted, not our character only, but our
own narrowest political interests, when in an evil hour we
deserted the cause of humanity, of philanthropy, and of the
fraternal sympathy which binds together all the friends of
liberty on the blood-imbrued soil of Poland. Everyday shows
the impolicy of that desertion, by exhibiting the hostility,
covert or overt, of Russia to British interests. Our desertion
of Poland did not soothe that hostility, but has rather given
it a more envenomed strength to add to its daily augmented
catalogue of insults and aggressions. We may see the fatal
results of our desertion in the conduct which Russia is now
pursuiug in Turkey, in Circassia, and within the frontiers
of British'lndia, under the mask of her Persian alliance.
Would she have dared to make these advances if Poland
—free, united, and independent—had existed in her rear
No ! Poland would have constituted a bulwark against
her continual aggressions on the natural allies of England,
and a rampart against her long cherished designs of Indian
conquest. If this be true, as must be admitted, there is
one obvious mode of partially redeeming the error, and
that is by preserving, as intact as possible, the fugitive relics
of polish independence, and enabling England one day to
say to hor insidious enemy—" Here is the Polish na-
tion—where her children exist there she exists. The
nation exists not on the soil of Poland, but under the a3gis
of England, and it is ready at any time to battle with you
again for the great cause of national independence, and of
those free institutions of which England is the represen-
tative. You, Russia, have broken tilt treaty of Vienna, and
by so doing you have replaced this country, with regard to
Poland, in the free and unfettered condition in which both
were before the treaty was signed." No incorporation with
Russia! No union with Russia! Such might be England's
language under such a contingency; We declare Poland's
separate independence. We announce her indefeasible
right of freedom, and we now send back her children, whom
we have preserved from your destructive persecution, to

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reclaim and to remaintain that right in the bosom of their
mother country. The Polish refugees are a certain card
in store for the future, which England cannot afford to
throw away.—Morning Advertiser.