The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-12 00:00:00

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1861.

Further disturbances at Warsaw. Another col-
lision between the military and the populace.
These are again the intimations flashed to us by the
telegraph. Rumours of this deadly character
cannot recur so frequently with impunity to the
powers that be" in that part of Christendom.
They cannot be regarded by any amongst us with
indifference. It is impossible not to recognise in
these reiterated disturbances in the ancient capital
of Poland that there is assuredly "something rotten
in the state of "—not Denmark, but Russia. These
explosions, audible every now and then from that
—until very recently—apparently extinct volcano,
indicate plainly enough that underneath the
iron surface there are rife and struggling to
burst forth at the earliest opportunity the materials
of another Polish insurrection, of another, a grander
and a more destructive Polish Revolution. We
are not in any way surprised at this. It is only
what we have all along confidently anticipated. It
is only what we have earnestly hoped for, what we
are still earnestly praying for in regard to the land
of SOBIESKI and KOSCIUSKO. All ranks and classes
of society at Warsaw have dedicated themselves
long since to the one great project of
passive resistance. Whenever the strife breaks
out intermittently between the population
and the soldiery it is always noticeable
that the latter are the aggresors. When the tocsin
at length shall sound, as sound it will and must
inevitably before long, the responsibility of the
signal will devolve upon the aliens there in autho-
rity. Not—observe—upon the Poles themselves.
They are, up to this moment, altogether guiltless
in regard to the blood that has been already spilt.
They will yet continue to be so to the end, if only
the people there, in Russian Poland, as also in
Austrian Poland and in Prussian Poland, but
especially and peculiarly in that largest division of
Poland which is crushed down to the dust under
the heel of the Autocrat—if only we say the people
of Russian Poland remain true to their antecedents.

It is only very recently that they have received
an affecting legacy of advice bequeathed to them in
a solemn hour by the most illustrious and venerable
or the exiled princes of their fatherland, the late
Prince ADAM CZARTORYSKI. Through the clash of
-weapons, now audible at intervals in the streets of
"Warsaw, through
the cries of anguish resounding
from that fatal spot all over Christendom, the gentle
and most impressive words addressed to his com-
patriots by Prince .ADAM CZARTORYSKI will pene-
trate and sink deep into the hearts of the Warsaw
population, Towards theclose of the remarkable his:
tonic: document to which we are here referring, the
aged patriot but now so very lately deceased—
writing as recently as the 14th of last month at his
residence near Paris, at Montfermeil—said among
other things—" In all parts of Poland there are
nen who are united to me by the precious ties of
blood, of friendship, and of ancient and incessant
relations. It is not permitted to me to name them ;
and yet I should wish them to understand the pro-
found gratitude I feel for what they have done for
331 e, or rather with me for the country." And fur-
ther on, said Prince ADAM in the same place—" I
have often raised my voice to call upon my coun-
trymen to recollect their urgent duties, to point out
what was wanted, and_ the dangers to which the
cause was exposed. Those wants and those duties
tre now generally comprehended, and the men
who have acquired by so just a title the veneration
of the nation will know how in all circumstances
to maintain in their country an indispensable
unity, and impress a common direction on their
efforts." It is a little later on in this extraordinary
document, however, it is in its closing paragraph—
penned, recollect, only just prior to the demise of
that venerable and august nonogenarian, that
Trinee ADAM CZARTORYSKI penned, in fact, upon the
14th ultimo, from his.denthbed, words of signal sig-
nific4"e—words fraught for every Pole (whether
in exileor in his own oppressed and dismembered
country) words francht for every Pole with—we
may venture to call it—a prophetic encouragement.
Js it not the -F,l.
h
rib. IEL, poet THOMAS CAMPBELL, heo in his P/enstires of mpe
penned that doleful

line--

" And freedom shrieked when t
iKoscutsxo fell !"
---13 it not the English
poet itomAs CAMPBELL,
the President (remember this't of the Literary
Association of the Friends of g
two
olEtud
'"
very man who wrote that sad 1414 In
tiae Pit not the
easures
of HOPE—who wrote also in another poem
quite as famous in their way—lines udi;lii.4.7° lines
..azg noly

of4he most inspiring application lq the " Hopes"
and Fortunes of Poland— r
"The sunset of life has a mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before 1"
At the "sunset of the life" of Prince ADAM CZAR-
TORYSKI—what was the shadow cast forward like
an index finger pointing hopefully to the im-
mediate Future lying before the million sons
of Poland ? What ? It is this :—" With a pro-
found sentiment of humility and tenderness," says
Prince ADAM, " I thank GOD for having permitted
me to live in a period in which the future of
my nation commences to become clear after an
age of uncertainty. I have, during my long
existence, acquired the conviction that every time
that the hand of GOD is laid heavily upon us it
is not done to destroy us, but to render us
better. Let us hope, then, in His mercy ; let
us hope in the intercession of our Celestial
Queen; and that in all our actions we may have
in view rather an eternal triumph than that
which seems to promise us a temporary success."
And the document closes with this solemn prayer to
Heaven :—" Let Thy will be done, LORD GOD
ALMIGHTY !" And it is signed simply—" A.
CZARTORYSKI."

Let that document, thus terminating, be but read
by every Pole, whether in exile or in any part of
Poland, let it be but read by every Pole by the light
of the events now occurring at Warsaw, in that
ancient capital of the dismembered kingdom_
and it is impossible for even the least sanguine
patriot to note those words and those occurrences
without feeling his heart burn within his breast with
the confidence thus solemnly expressed by the
dying lips of Prince ADAM CZARTORYSKI.

One of our Tory contemporaries heads a long re-
port of three columns or more with the title " Im-
portant Charge to the Clergy." We have no idea
that more than a very few, indeed, of our readers
would think it important enough to read were we
to occupy our columns with it; perhaps most of
them will, however, like to know something about
it, when we inform them that the Charge was de-
livered by no less important an ecclesiastical per-
sonage than the prosecutor of the Rev. ROWLAND
WILLIAMS, one of the Seven Essayist, and one who
happens to be a vicar in his Lordship's Diocese.

The Bishop of SALissuRY has, therefore, undertaken
to vindicate the orthodoxy of his diocese by exhi-
biting upwards of 20 articles against him in the
Archbishop's Court. The " Clerk" who needs this
" correction" was present, as in duty bound, to hear
the Charge ; and we observe advertisements in some
of the papers for subscriptions to aid the humble
vicar in his defence against Episcopal might, on

the ground that it will be, in fact, a defence of Reli-
gious Liberty. The Bishop, of course, would charac-
terize it as a defence of irreligious license. The
trial, however, is to come on next term, and we
shall, therefore, follow the example of episcopal
reticence, in regard to everything directly relating
to it.

The Bishop reminded his auditors that he had

just completed his Episcopal apprenticeship,—he
having been made a bishop, reluctantly, of
course, like all his brethren, in 1854 ; yet,
as with every wise man, his sense of re-
sponsibility only increased with the flight of
years, and he had looked forward with more anxiety
to this visitation than to either of the two preced-
ing ones. He paid a well-deserved tribute to the
Christian memory of Lord HERBERT, and then

turned to Diocesan matters. It seems he had issued

letters of inquiry into the religious statistics of his
diocese ; nearly all of his clergy had filled them up
satisfactorily, but one recusant had. absolutely re-
fused to make the returns, and a few had furnished
them with deficient courtesy. He warned such dis-
obedient sons, that the Chancellor's opinion was
that the law would enforce compliance, but he did
not mean to resort to law. He next adverted to
education, first that of the clergy, next that of the
laity, in the schools open to his inspection. For the
clergy a wealthy but anonymous friend of the faith
had enabled him to commence a theological school
at Wells, and thereby to supplement the deficien-
cies of the teaching at Universities, where subscrip-
tion to articles of religion is duly enforced, but
not the study of them subscribe first and
study afterwards being the University theory. A
very proper one, since a venerated adage saith that
"learners must be believers ;" besides, PORSON
tells us that it would have taken hint fifty years'
reading to verify the articles he must sign to take
orders. Poor man, he lost his fellowship, not for
heterodoxy, but because he had got into bis head
the unclerical crotchet, that a Christian and a man
of honour ought not to sign, not only whit he dis-
believed, but what he had not understood, or seen
to be true! The bishop's young theologians, being
already believers, will doubtless make rapid pro-
gress in the SALISBURY interpretation of the
articles. Of the school-inspection of the young lay-
men and laywomen, we are told little more than
that it has been "a success."

who seek to
That excellent lay Churchman, Mr. HENRY
HOARE, received the highest commendation for his
endeavours to interest the laity in Church mat-
ters. " There could be no doubt (his lordship
said) that from one cause or another an interest in
the work of the Church was not felt by the laity."
Mr. HENRY HOARE proposes to give the laity
something to do. The absolutism of the parish
clergy in religious matters must not be interfered
with, so Mr. HoaRE proposes " the appointment of
lay consultees to confer with the rues deaconal chap-
ters on matters affectingthe welfare of the Church."
Many of his clergy had tried the plan, he tells us,
on the farmers and other inhabitants of the parish.
Our readers may remember that this same , Mr.
HoaRE le Very prominent, among those
fi no
rt et
hr es h
their t te'vloaiiutnytairny 'their church,
contributions
tnoto i
tbsys callingsupport,
p o r
t,
\
but by the
nated seats-;
well-known compulsory tax denomi-
a kind of contribution:` so remark-
ably effective in
ienerating personal interest in
other matters, such as highways,
lighting and clean-
ing streets, and relief of the poor. We have little
doubt that Mr. HOARE'S success in prolonging the
Church-rate conflict has not a little to do with his
brother laymen feeling
the same kind of interest in
~
" Church work," as they do in other work" for
which they pay rates.
The Right Rev. Father proceeded to instruct and
charge his clergy next on the six instances in which
they had been successful in preserving the Church
of England unchanged, or the laws affecting it un-
changed, notwithstanding the efforts of Lord EBURY,
Sir JOHN TRELAWNY, Sir MORTON PETO, Mr.
MONCKTON MILNES, Mr. DILLWYN, and Lord
SIIAFTESBURY. On one subject we could wish his
lordship to have shown a little better taste—de-
scanting in a perfectly ascetic and Popish style on
the marriage law question, and asserting what had
been refuted a hundred times, he descended to lan-
guage which, whether he knows it or not, is felt by
us humble lay-folk to indicate obscene conceptions
in the minds of those who use it. It is better for
priests to avoid such words as we prefer not to
quote. He may be sure that the vast majority of
petitioners on the subject, the Cabinet Ministers,
the Members of Parliament, the thousands of edu-
cated and refined British feinales, !lever hear clerics
adopting such revolting expressions, without an
impression that .they cannot proceed from a Very