The Sun.
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rest." Many details of the geographical results of
the expedition are also given, which will greatly
interest the scientific. Captain Burton's style is
somewhat elaborate, and, like many another
writer, ho is most effective when most simple.
We would suggest to him to avoid the use of
eccentric and unfamiliar words, and long in-
volved sentences, which do injustice to the valuable
information he has to give. The coloured plates•
and woodcuts are numerous and carefully done „
a map of the locality is added, though this might
have been larger with advantage. The official cor-
respondence is given in the appendix, so that the
reader may form his own opinion of the disputes
referred to. The work forms a valuable addition
to our store of knowledge respecting these rude
and unfamiliar regions arid their wild and wayward
inhabitants, and we commend it to the attention of
all who wish to extend their sphere of geographical
and ethnological information.

LORD CIIELMSFORD'S BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

you afford me space just to allow the
Islington clergy, who have shown so much zeal for
the law of Moses, to know that I am willing to
meet any one of . them in London for a public dis-
cussion of " the Sabbath question." I undertake
to prove that, in their insisting upon the observance
by believing Gentiles of the Mosaic Sabbath, they
are, as St. Paul affirms, "teachers of the law, un-
derstanding neither what they say, nor whereof
they affirm."—l am, Sir, faithfully yours,
RICHARD lIIBBS,
Incumbent of the United Church of England
and Lreland Chapel, st. Vincent-street,
Edinburgh.
1, Great Stuart-street, Edinburgh,
June 20, 1860.

REVISION OF THE LITURGY-LORD CHELMS••

FORD'S BILL.

The secretary of the Lord's-Day Observance Society, the
Rev. Henry Bayley, as well as the Rev. Canon Miller,
has been recently invited by the Rev. Richard Hibbs, an
English clergyman at Edinburgh, to a public discussion of
" the Sabbath question" in London. To the former, who,
in reply, declined to meet his challenger, a rejoinder was
sent by the latter, of which the following is an excerpt :
" But, sir, there is one point touching this reading of the
Decalogue in our Liturgy which may have escaped you, as
I confess it did me for years. When in the Communion
Service you read—' God spake these words and said, I am
the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have none other gods but
me'—are you aware that you seriously mutilate the words
of Jehovah? In Exodus xx., from which we profess to
quote, the passage runs thus And God spake all these
words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought
thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.' Having dis-
covered, during the recent discussion of ' the Sabbath
question' in this city, the effect which this suppression
produces in some minds, I have formed, I trust, the unal-
terable resolution never again, whether in England or
Scotland, to read that portion of the Divine Word except
in its entirety. There is also found in this prayer-book
version the substitution of the word seventh' for Sab-
bath.' In my present ministrations I read the whole, as
found in our Bibles. Lot me hope, sir, that you, as a con-
scientious minister of the Word, will do the same, without
fear of the consequences. Better to suffer ourselves to be
' put out of tLe Church' than to diminish aught' from
that Word which liveth and abideth for ever.' I trust
we both consider all such pious frauds' as nothing less
than impious perversions of immutable truth."

POLAND.

(From the Polish Journal, Wiadomosci Poiskie.)

The following despatch has been addressed to Count
Andrew Zamoyski, president of the Polish .Agricultura 1
Society, in the kingdom of Poland :

The Chief Director and President of the Government Com-
mission on Internal and Religious Affairs, to the Presi-
dent of the Agricultural Society of Poland.
Warsaw, May 2-14, 1860.-
1 have had the honour to receive a despatch from the
Prince Viceroy of the kingdom of Poland, dated May 11--
23, 1860, to the following effect :
The Agricultural Society established in the kingdom of
Poland, having lately extended the scope of its operations,
had in some particulars departed from the regulations laid
down for its guidance and chiefly from the instructions
contained in Art. 15, 16, 27, 35, 40, and 41.
As under Art. 41 of the Regulations of the society, all
changes in such regulations are only to take effect from the
date of their approval by the Viceroy of the kingdom,
11.1. M. the Emperor and King, on being informed of the
state of things noticed above, has been pleased to order as
follows :

1. The Government having determined on the course to
be pursued in the direction of the operations of the society,
on the recommendation of a committee formed of its own
members, as also on the places and times of meeting, and
of the distribution of prizes by the society, considers the
formation of subdivisions of any kind for the admini-
stration and direction of operatives of the society
quite contrary to the spiilt of the Regulations, and
productive of endless inconsistencies. All commis-
sions, therefore, whether general or divisional, with
the single exception of those mentioned in Art. 36 of
the Regulations, as also every kind of committee except
that established by Art. 15 of the Regulations, shall cease
from this date. Members of the society who do not belong
to the committee mentioned in Art. 15 of the Regulations
may act in conjunction at the general meetings of the society
only. The committee of the society shall not, however, be
forbidden to appoint temporary commissions consisting of
two or three members for the purpose of inquiring into any
one fact that may deserve extraordinary notice, and relate
exclusively to agriculture, Such temporary commissions
must dissolve after i endering their report to the committee.
The examination of, and granting of qualifying certificates
to, articles for agricultural purposes and inventions sub-
mitted for the approval of the society, shall be conducted by
the committee in the first instance, and the results sub-
mitted to the society.
2. The society shall, under Art. 40 of the Regulations,
distribute medals and other prizes, during the yearly
public meeting in the month of June. The committee
shall send to medalists and prizemen, not present at the
general meeting, the rewards assigned to them, through
the medium of the administrative authorities,—viz., the
Civil Governors.

3. As all numerous meetings and distribution of
prizes can only take place with the concurrence of
the Government authorities, and not under the orders of
any society whatever, or its commissioners, there being no
law giving those such right, competitions relating to
a',aicultural matters, horse races, and all exhibitions of
agricultural implements, shall only be allowed to take
place by special authority from the administrative council.
His Highness the Prince desires me to make known,
without delay, to the agricultural society, his Imperial
Majesty's wishes cn these points, and to ensure their ful-
filment.

In complying with the orders of hialighness the Prince
Viceroy, I have the honour to request that you will be
good enough to take the necessary steps to fulfil the wish
of his Imperial Majesty as above expressed.
(Signed) MUCHAN 0 LT7
Member of the Privy Council,
(Signed) SADOWSKI,
Chief of the Department.
_ _

This document is so clear that it requires little explana-
tion from us. It will be sufficient to recal to the minds of
our re Iders the reasons which promoted the establishment
of an Agricultural Society in the kingdom of Poland, and
the means by which its operations were carried on, to show
the full meaning of the above despatch, and the importance
of the lesson it conveys.
When, three years ago, an agricultural reform was pro-
mised, it was at once clear that Poland, although highly
fitted for a change, could not undergo it without some pre-
paration. It was necessary that the nobles should first con-
sider together how to manage their estates so as to avoid
losing the rest of their revenues and property by the change
of circumstances; it was necessary that the peasants should
be exalted to thik of their own interests before the time
should come when they would have no one to think for
them; and further, it was necessary to secure friendly re-
lations among the rural populations, in order that agricul-
tural produce might not be lost amid changes and quarrels
between neighbours. In order to satisfy these pressing and
evident wants the Agricultural Society was established.
General sessions were established for the consultations of
landholders; exhibitions and competitions for prizes stimu-
lated the peasants to independence of thought and action ;
and to convince the poorer classes of the sympathy of the richer
prizes were given for industry, honesty, and general good
conduct. All this, we repeat, was simply a consequence of
the agricultural reforms and existing circumstances ; it was
in the true spirit of the society, and not only was in no re-
spect contrary to the regulations, but so to say, an inevitable
expansion of them. All this, M. Muchanou now over-
throws. And not satisfied with forbidding the members of
the society to conduct their most important operations, he
disturbs the organization of the society, abolishes the ordi •
nary committee of assistance, and places obstacles in the
way of co-operation of the members. With one stroke of
his pen he cuts off every thing that constituted the real
value of the society to the country, and leaves it only its
name L-for the admiration of foreigners.
We must confess that, accustomed as we have been of
yore by the Russian Government to all kinds of abuses,
M. Muchanou has this time succeeded in raising our asto-
nishment, and we think that were he asked his reason for
the dispatch above quoted, he would find it difficult to give
a satisfactory answer. He knows well that the acts of the
society were frank and open, and that they concealed no-
thing.; ho knows better than any one that its members
have in no respect infringed too instructions of Government,
and that in none of their meetings have they ever touched
on any question that might excite the slightest shade of
suspicion. To give the nobles a higher and more social occu -
patron, and wean them from the dissipation of their time and
their strength; to excite in the minds of the peasants
a liking for improved agriculture and a higher standard of
education; by these means to double the wealth and labour
of the country; such were the cbief aims of the society.
Unfortunately, in the eyas of Russians,
they were also its
chief crimes.
It has been forcibly said that no country should ride over
another country, because- the ruling power cannot itself be
ruled. A foreigner ruling over a vanquished nation only
takes the trouble to learn its feelings and aspirations in
order to wound and stifle them more effectually. The more
successfully he tortures the people, and the more curses and
dissatisfaction he hears about him, the more fully persuaded
he is of his power, and the greater his faith in his supe-
riority, Thus, for the first time for a long series of years, a
Polish province had the opportunity of promoting its mate-
rial well-being by means of its united strength ; and, forth-
with, all rushed to this field of enterprise, labouring quietly
and perseveringly, and laying aside or delaying all other
thoughts. But the sight was too much for the Russian
Government. Without aim or reason it again makes us feel
its stifling grasp, and reminds us that so long as it rules in
Poland, a peaceful, or even an ordinary normal condition
of life, must be for the Poles an impossibility. " Such,"
says the poet, "is the curse of crime. Crimes only spring
from its stock." •

IIAYMARKET THEATRE.--MISS AMY SEDGWICK.
—This accomplished and popular artiste closes her present
engagement with her benefit on Saturday evening next,
when she will make her appearance as the heroine of an
original comedy, entitled " Does he love me ?" The
crowded houses which have been uniformly attracted by
Miss Se 'gwick's performances amply bear testimony to the
estimation in which she is held by the public,