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regard for the enforcement of the faith of unties,
can induce them to make the least effort, diplomatic
or otherwise, to save the people of Poland from
the fate which the Autocrat of Russia prepares for
them, and which he has already, in a great degree,
accomplished. In this case we were bound by
treaty to interfere; for England is a patty to the
solemn compact of the five Powers, signed at Vienna
in 1815, erecting the then Duchy of Warsaw into
that which was lately the Kingdom of Poland, and
guaranteeing its independence. Nor was it less
the interest of this country than its duty to preserve
Poland as an independent nation, forming a barrier
against Russian ambition towards western Europe.
It was also its interest in another sense; for Poland
is an agricultural and not a manufacturing country;
she would have taken the goods of England, and
been one of our best customers, if our Govern.
ment had acted as it was bound to do by
treaty, and saved from the vengeance of the Rus-
sian tyrant one of the bravest people in the world.
But no, as Louis Philip could never expect to have
Poland as a province, as Belgium virtually is, it was
not part of the policy of Talleyrand to persuade
Palmerston to interfere; and so, while our Govern-
ment has been, in the Batavo-Belgic quarrel, disre-
putably active, it has been, as far as the fate of
Poland is concerned, disgracefully supine. The
mission of Lord Durham, for all that we can learn,
has produced nothing but a large bill of costs. It is
some consolation, however, to observe that, while
the "Liberal Governments" of England and France
choose to forget that that Poland whose indepen-
dence they guaranteed ever existed, the virtues,
the wrongs, the sufferings, of that noble nation are
remembered, not only by the people of free State=,
but by even the subjects of a despotic Sovereign.
What has occurred in the Hungarian Diet ought to
have a great moral effect in all parts of the civilized
world, and should still keep alive in the bosoms of
the Poles the hope that, notwithstanding the pre-
sent darkness of their fate, a day of retribution and
freedom may yet dawn upon their beloved and de-
solated country. How noble are the sentiments
expressed by the Hungarian Deputy, Potocry :
" Sovereigns," he said, "consider themselves as
members of one single family, and in case of the
death of one of them all wear a mourning dress :
how much more reasonable it would be that nations
should put on mourning when one of them is inno-
cently struck with political death ! Sovereigns wear
their mourning on their backs—nations wear it in
their hearts. Let Hungarians be allowed to act
freely, and they will show with what passionate
zeal they are animated in the sacred cause of Po-
land." The feeling that inspired those sentiments
will not die. They are the subjects of one of the
original despoilers of Poland who thus express
themselves. Such language, emanating from the
Hungarian Diet, will find an echo in every part of
civilized Europe.—illorning Herald.
If any legal restrictions exist which lessen the ab-
solute value of any particular species of property,
and which at the same time supply no increase to
to the income of the State to compensate for the
diminution they cause to the income of its subjects,
it is the duty of the Legislature, not upon a petition
presented, not upon a contract stipulated, not upon
a price paid, but at once and of its own motion to
remove those legal res•rictions. If, by the confining
of the Bishop's power to lease within a term of
twenryenne years, the Church is impoverished and
the State not enriched, the unprofitable and perni-
cious limitation ought to be abolished, simply be-
cause it is pet nicious and unprofitable. When the
Government apptopriates to the uses of the State the
profits of the change, the Government takes a bribe
tor doing that which the implied contract between
the rulers and the ruled obliges it to do. Let us
state a case for the opinion of 'he King's &die!,
tor-General. A 811 is pass rig through Par-
liament for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and
for the substitution of simple forms of assurance in
lieu thereof. Undoubtedly, any change which in-
crea.es the security or facilitates the tran.fer of real
property, adds something to its value. Hone, then,
i• an additional value in real property created by an
act of the Legislature. Is it equitable to bring
that additional value into the Treasury, by 'he im-
position of a tax on all real property to its full esti-
mated amount ? In truth, it is almost impossible
for the Legislature to pass any Act which shall not
create an additional value in some properly or an-
other. Railway Acts, Roadway Acts, all create addi-
tional value. And if it is in all such cases admitted
that the Legislature may take the increase, because
the Legislature creates it, surely it is impossible to
say to what point the partiality of our taxatiom may
be carried. Let us, however, test the accuracy of
Mr. Stanley's facts. He asserts the money which
the tenant is to pay for the perpetuity of his interest,
to be money paid for something which the Church
cannot sell, and the price of which the Church there-
fore cannot demand. We assert, on the contrary,
that it will be paid for advantages which the Church
now possesses ; and which, after the payment of
this money, the Church will possess no longer.
At present, the land let on Bishops' leases is the
ancient, indefeasible, indisputable property of the
Church. It is let for a term of years, the lease
being renewable on payment of a fine. If the
Church has a bad tenant, if the estate is neglected,
or the rent unpaid, the. Church has her certain re-
medy—she ejects her tenant, and re-enters upon the
estate. Upon the passing of Lord Althorp's Bill,
the tenant, if he shall think fit, will purchase the
perpetuity of his interest upon the payment of a
fixed corn rent. If the rent is not paid now, what
remedy has the Church ? Distress. Excellent! The
collection of the parson's tithe has been found so easy
and so economical that Lord Althorp is resolved
the Bishop shall recover his rent by the same cheap
and expeditious process! In short, the Church loses
the difference between the better title and the worse
title, between the sure remedy and 'the doubtful
remedy, between the prccess upon which she is
willing to rely and the process upon which the
bayonets which now bristle in Ireland teach her to
place no reliance. The Church is placed in a worse
position than that in which she before stood. A
sum of money is paid for the advantages which the
Church surrenders, and to that sum Mr. Stanley
argues that the State is entitled. Mr. Faithful has
given notice of a motion for appropriating to the re-
lief of the nation the greater part, if not the whole,
of the revenues of the Church. He travels faster
than the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but he tra-
vels in the same road.—. Morning Post.

KILKENNY, MARCH 11.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

I have but two facts to state to you to-day.
They are, however, of much importance at the pre-
sent moment. You may recollect (if you refer to
your report of Lord Grey's speech on introducing
his " Irish Disturbances Bill" you will find it) that
Lord Grey stated, on the authority of a letter, ad-
dressed to Sir William Gosset, from a person con-
nected with such matters, that jurors at the next
(this present) Assizes for Kilkenny would not at-
tend from intimidation; or, if they did, that they
would not convict. I was in the Court this day,
from 9 o'clock a.m. to 6 p.m. The whole panne!
was called, ever; the total pannel exceeds 400. Up-
wards of 250 jurors answered to their names; and
there was not a single case which came on for trial
on which a verdict of Guilty was not given in by
the Jurylll Those are the two points upon which
most doubt rested. Witnesses in, abundance at-
tended. There is no doubt whatever that the
jurors will do their duty.
The bills against Captain Burke, against whom
a verdict of wilful murder was given in by the
Coronet's Jury, and to whom I alluded yesterday—
or lather Judge Foster in his charge—have been
this day ignoredl
I have merely to say that the pacificator, Tom
Steele, who has been here these five weeks, has this
day doffed his pacificatory insignia (a green ribbon,
cap, &c.), and has c .riceived his func, ions at an end.

While the 11.1411)1in', ts estminster are
petitioning Parliateent for a better observance of the Sab-
bath, one of their Representatives anLounces that day as
the one on which he proposes giving a grand entertainment.