The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1861.

No doubt can no remain that the massacre of
,he Poles, at Warsaw, was preconcerted—pre-
arranged deliberately by a savage and ruthless
Governor, who refused to listen even to the re-
monstrances of the brave generals whom he ordered
to perform his bloody behests. It is difficult also,
now, not to father this atrocity upon the CZAR
himself, slow as we were to believe that the eman-
cipator of his own serfs could be the willing
murderer of unarmed Poles peacefully asking for
the most obvious rights. All the efforts
of Russia to denationalise the Poles have utterly
failed. The Poles, though speaking a language
very similar to the Russian, both languages being
mutually intelligible dialects of the Sclavonic, will
adhere to their own tongue ; schools have been
worked in vain against the national feeling;
and Russia still has no better means to extort sub-
mission than those of the last century and the
former part of the present one—the means by which
Austria secures obedience in Venetia.
A letter from Posen gives details of the massacre
which have the aspect of truth. It appears that
the Russian soldiers Who reside in Warsaw, 22,000
in number, soon acquire a friendly feeling towards
the Poles. GORTSCHAKOFF dared not, therefore,
order them at first to fire on the unarmed petitioners
who desired to send, through him, their petitions
to the CZAR. He temporized, he promised liberally,
till he had gathered together a large number
of strange Russian soldiers, and with these he
soon went to work. It is now certain that not only
did some of his higher °facers remonstrate, but
that one blew his brains out rather than obey
orders, and that three were afterwards shot by
order of court-martial for not killing unarmed 1,
men and women.

Europe has now to consider how it shall hence-
forth regard the Czar ALEXANDER IL Warsaw
seems to have proved again the truth of NAPO-
LEON'S saying, " That a Russian was but a Tartar
with a varnish of European civilisation—scratch a
Russian and you'll find the Tartar beneath."
A Tartar, indeed! could any monarch be found
in civilised Europe to plan the atrocity of the Bth
in Poland ? The Hapsburgs are perhaps the only
other rulers capable of such blood-chilling crimes.

T.LvJ, 3. i..-
massacre of the unarmed as the legitimate weapons
of royalty against liberty. The Russian Czar must,
we fear, be now remitted to the long list of Imperial
wretches who have been, not wolves, but tigers in
sheep's clothing—who have talked of mildness
while washing their hands in innocent and noble
blood.

Viscountess Palmerston had an assembly on
Saturd iy evening at Cambridge House.

The Earl and Countess of Derby entertained at
dinner on Saturday evening the Marquis of Hartington,
the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, the Earl Annesley,
Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Lord and Lady Skel-
mersdale, Sir Robert Peel, M.P., and Lady Emily Peel,
Colonel the lion. P. W. and Lady Emma Talbot, and
Lord Stanley.
Viscount Milton left town on Friday for Liver-
pool,on his way to America.

His Excellency the Italian Minister has suddenly
been summoned to Turin, on account of the alarming ill-
ness of his mother. His Excellency left town on Saturday

even ini.6%

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Exeter Hall offices will
be kept open until eight o'clock this evening for the issue
of tickets for the great festival performance of the Creation
on Wednesday next, the Ist of May.
A LMACK'S.—The first ball of the first subscription
of these fashionable r•eunion,s will take place at Willis's
Rooms on Thursday next, when several of the ladies
atronesses have arranged to be present with large parties
of friends. A brilliant ball is fully anticipated.
THE SWISS SINGERS.—" The Schweizer Sanger,'
as they designate themselves, are becoming very popular
at St. James's Halt; there is a freshness and spirit about
their singing that is truly charming, and the part songs of
Kucken, Roth, and. the national Swiss melodies, are given
with a richness of harmony, and striking effect in modula-
tion, that is 1-.ighly pleasing. Madame Decker's deep con-
tralto notes are quite a marvel in female vocalisation, and
Mdlle. K&Jer's soprano voice is not only excellent in quality,
but managed with so much ability as to elicit frequent
applause. Madlle. Claussen's lively and humorous songs
are particularly attractive, and her introduction of an Eng-
lish song., "The Captain," takes the fancy of the audience
greatin..being always encored, The entertainment is one
that. 49:Q merits a visit,

Europe could not note without emotion
that the sword of GARIBALDI had no sooner
stricken the chains of despotism off the Neapolitan
population than it was calmly sheathed, while
GARIBALDI himself escaped from the toils and
responsibilities of a supreme dictatorship to recruit
his health at Caprera, in his little Island Hermi-
tage. And what alone hurried him back even-
tually upon the public scene was—we are all
vividly conscious of this also—not any impulse
whatever of personal ambition, not any incentive
at all of individual vanity, but that strong, all-
mastering, fraternal sympathy that bound him in
life and death to his companions in arms,
officers and men, his heroic followers, the Gari-
baldians. On their behalf and in the interests of
the Italian peninsula, GARIBALDI tore himself
reluctantly from his retirement in Caprera, and
hastening to Turin, there, in the Legislative Cham-
ber, ascended the tribune, soldier though he is,
orator though he is not, essentially a man of acts
rather than a man of words either spoken or written,
ascended the tribune and there—speaking " the
truth, the whole truth, and (as he believed it)

nothing but the truth" right out, made a clean
breast of it in the presence and healing of his fellow
legislators, the assembled Italian representatives.
The Ministry were infuriated, the Chief Minister
of all (CATouR) was especially infuriated. The
Assembly was in a tumult. The President rang
his bell, put on his hat, suspended the sittings, and,
even when the business of the Legislature was
resumed, satisfied his conscience as Speaker of
the Italian House of Commons by energetically
reprimanding and calling to order—GARIBALDI !
Yet GARIBALDI still spoke plainly—retracted no-
thing—insisted upon the necessity of doing justice
to his followers, maintained the absolute need there
is, a need since admitted and recognized, for
calling out a new and yet grander Italian armament.
Since then the Soldier of Italy has conversed
with the SOVEREIGN. And the latter has to the
delight of—it would be difficult to say how
many—millions both in and out of the Italian
peninsula, brought CATO'UR and CIALDINI in turn
amicably face to face with GARIBALDI. The re-
conciliation of these men is better for the interests
of the popular cause in Italy than the calling out
of a supplementary 50,000 strong. It is so re-
garded in Italy. It is so looked upon far and wide
through Christendom. And now that the recon-
ciliation we are alluding to is glanced back at, how-
ever casually—it cannot but be felt that the one
man, whose dignity has been preserved throughout,
in point of fact, is the very one whose self-respect
was thought by some to have been so often
jeopardised in the course of these transactions.
GARIBALDI has carried his point—he has
yielded nothing. He hai been insisting simply
upon justice for his friends and companions. That
justice, thanks to his interposition in their favour,
will no longer be denied to them. He has been
pleading in behalf of the only reasonable course
lying open before those who wish well in earnest
to the cause for which GARIBALDI has been him-
self so long and so heroically fighting. And all
the while he still looks with horror to the remem-
brance of that execrable yielding up to France of
Nice and Savoy, with their live stock, in the shape
of two million Nizzards and Savoyard,.

LATEST NE WS.

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY.

The Royal mail steamship America, Captain
M'Cauley, with dates from Boston to the 17th, and
Halifax the 19th inst., arrived here at 1 a.m. to-
day. She brings 74 passengers and 13,800 dole. in
specie, for Havre.

The America landed the Irish and a portion of
the English mails, and proceeded at 1.20 a.m.,
all well.

NEW YORK, APRIL 16.
Major Anderson and his men left Charleston on
the loth, in the steamer Baltic, for New York.
Extensive preparations are being made for the
defence of Washington.

President Lincoln's call for troops has been en-
thusiastically responded to by the Northern States.
The New York Legislature has voted 30,000 men
and 3,000,000 dols.

Virginia advices state that it is anticipated that
the secession ordinance will soon be passed.
Kentucky has refused to supply troops to the
Washington Government.

Official advices have been received at Washing-
ton, stating that General Santana surrendered San
Domingo to Spain on the 18th March.
The Fulton has arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Exchange unsettled, 107 to 1071; Stocks falling.
Erie, 221; Illinois, C6l; New York Centrals, 73 ;
Missouri Sixes, heavy fall, quoted at 51; Virginia
Sixes, 571 ; cotton nominal; flour heavy.

oFened at 68f. 65c., are now at 68f. 75c. Railway
Shares also firm.

The following were the last quotations:-
41 per-par Cents ... 95 501 Credit Fonder 930
Do end month.... Belgian 4± —
3 per Cents
Do. end month GS 70 Roman
Bank Shares .. 2885 —; Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 682 50 Spanish Threes 4B 25
Do. Account 685 , Home Debt