The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-05 00:00:00

HIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NAY 5, 1868.

AFTER THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
COVENT-GARDE X—EVANS' TO SUP.
After Covent-garden Opera ' EVANS' to 'SUP
After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP
After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP.
After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP.
After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP.
London Singing an.i Slipper Club, EVANS', Covent garden
Vocal Entertainment at Eight.

CONTRACTS FOR VEGETABLES.
Contract Department, A dmiralty, Somerset
House, 2d May, 1868.
IIIHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECrTING
X. the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
Ist June next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will be
ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to
CONTRACT for supplying all such quantities of
VEGETABLES
as may be demanded for the use of her Majesty's Ships and
Vessels at the following places. from the Ist July, 1868,
to the 31st March, 1871. both days included, viz.:
ENGLAND.
Newhaven
Neiley
Scilly
SCOTLAND.

Fleetwood
Fowey
Lymington

Torquay
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Aberdeen Ardrishaig
IRELAND.
Buncrana (Lough S witty)
tS` •
Separate Tenders must be made for each port, and at a
rate per 100 lbs. instead of at per cwt., and 120 attention
wil be paid to any off..rs not so made. Contractors in
el:timing payment for Vegetables supplied are to make
out their Invoices in pounds at per 100 pounds.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
.themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders.
Forms of Tender may be obtained, and particular atten-
tion is called to the Conditions of the Contracts, which
may be seen at the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victuallbw, Admiralty, Somerset House ; or by
applying to the Collector of Customs at Aberdeen, Fleet-
wood, Fowey, Newhaven, Scilly, or to the Postmaster at.
each of the other place
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the
printed form provided for the purpose ; but it will not be
necessary that the party tendering, or an agent appointed
by him, should attend at this office, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
Lim and his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be delivered to the Department of
the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset, House,
and signed by two responsible p"rsons, engaging to be-
come bound with the person tendering in the sum of
£lOO for each of the Contracts.
The Contractors to pay half the amount of the Stamps
on their Contracts and Bonds.
By order.
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

GREAT NOR,TH.ERN HOSPITAL,
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Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
This hospital has relieved 481,95-1 patients since it was
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OPERA,

AFTEIL HER MAJESTY'S
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The EUROPEAN Society is specially authorised by the Im
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New Premium Income in 1858, 1859, 1860 £76,000
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SALL-;.,0E-Ottr STOILWrAT THE ROYAL 'ARMY
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The Secretary of State for War reserves the right of re-
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THOJIA.S 110 WELL, Director of Contracts.
War-office, Pull-mall, S.W., April 28, 1868.

an
edg.rnestly appeal NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Richmond, Surrey. de
Under the patronage of 1.1.R.H. the Duke Of CAMBRIDGE, K.G.,
whereby a home has been- afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
Girls of all ages, classes, and
tl
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Committeeianugcdaot
imo
n.
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attain 15 years of age, to obtain
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W H. WAMICK, Secretary.
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town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
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jam
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The Austrian Consul-General at Warsaw, Count
Ludolf, has addressed a long report to Baron Beust on
the present state of the kingdom of Poland. He says
that, in addition to the ukase suppressing the name of
Poland, a series of decrees and regulations has been issued
for the more complete assimilation of the kingdom with
the empire. By these decrees the Catholic religion, which
is professed by four-fifths of the population of the king-
dom, is in future to be considered as " a foreign religion,
.whose existence is tolerated side by side with the State
religion, that of the Orthodox Russian Church ;" all
private schools, both for boys and girls, are to be closed
at the end of the present term, after which Russian
schools only are to be authorized; all officials of Polish
origin, without distinction of rank, are to be gradually re-
moved from their posts, and no petitions or letters of any
kind addressed to the Government departments are to be
answered unless they are written in the Russian language.
The - North Eastern Correspondence says that Count
Ludolf's report has produced so strong an impression on
the Emperor Francis Joseph that his Majesty has sum-
moned him to a personal interview at Posth.
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IHE ERNIANS.

The news supplied by the Fenian .Conspiracy
lately been more than. ordinarily sensational. First:,
in importance is the attempt on the life of the Duke
of EniNnuRGII. On the 12th March a man named
OTARREL, who pronounced himself to be a Fenian,
deliberately shot his Royal Highness io the back ;
the hall entered half an inch from thu spine, 801
turned along the ninth rib till it pass.;(l to she front,
lia!f-way round the body, where it was extracted
two days after. The Fenian took the opportunity
of the presence of the Prince at • •
publica pie-roc in
aid of a Sydney Charity to give effect to his design,
which it is said fell to him by lot in execution of an
order received front the Fenian circle in Eualand.
On the lBth March O'FARI:EL was arraigned before
th Supreme Court, found guilty on the 31st March
of wounding with intent to kill, and sentenced to
be hanged. The assassination of JOHN D'Ancv
M•GEE, plotted, it is said, by the Fenian circle
in New York, and carried into execution as is now
pretty well established by a man named WHELAN,
is the Fenian event of the 'Western world which
excites most attention. Here in England there has
been the trial of- the Fenian prisoners accused of
causing the Clerkenwell explosion ; but MICHAEL
BARRETT only, of the nine persons has been con-
victed-and sentenced to death. A vigorous effort
was made to prove an alibi hi his -favour.- Three
shoemakers from Glargow testified that on the 13th
December, the day of the explosion, BARRETT was
in that town, and therefore could not have been in
London. Mr. M'NULTY had not only brought to
him a pair of boots for repairs on the 13th, but had
called the next day, annoyed at not receiving his
boots, when the fortunate entrance of two shoe-
makers, each of whom set to work on a boot,
enabled BARRETT to get the jela completed.
The circumstance was all the more impressed
on his mind as BARP.ETI. took a paper and
read aloud the narrative of the explosion. Here was
a substantial alibi, but it failed in bringing home to the
judge, jury, or any one else, the impression of truth.
Before sentence of death was passed on BARRETT
he addressed to the court a very effective speech, in
which he reviewed the evidence, and touched with
withering scorn on the approver MULLANY :—"
Hie
indeed is a life that no one will envy, and every
one, even the most abandoned, will despise him.
The very parties who now smile upon him and have
recourse to him will spurn him. A thousand times
more welcome is death to a criminal convicted of
the highest crime than life and so-called liberty at
the sacrifice of everything that tends to elevate the
human being and renders him worthy the name of
man." He spoke of the love he bore his native
country, asserting that he would willingly and
gladly give his life if by that means he could
redress the wrongs of that persecuted land. Turn-
ing again, however, to the evidence of his com-
panion MULLANY, he declared—" If there was
one thing more than another required to com-
plete the degradation of Irishmen it is what
has happened in this Court. An Irishman's oath
will no longer be admitted in a court of justice
where the life of a fellow-creature is at stake. This
is, indeed, a crowning indignity and a crushing
humiliation." After expressing a fervent wish that
Irishmen will never cease to attempt to shake off
that yoke which has so long depraved and degraded
them, until the freedom of their country or the ex-
tinction of their race shall be complete, he thanked
his Lordship for his patient hearing, his counsel for
their able defence, and announced that he would
ascend the scaffold with firmness, preferring that to
life with the brand of Cain. He was consoled with
the reflection that the stain of murder does not rest
upon him. it is singular to remark the bearing as-
sumed by the Fenian prisoners in these trials. It
shows how invincible is habit and training ; and how
completely a man in ty be wed led nit only to error,
but to the approval of plain and unvarnished crime.
Sul loin has a more reckless al..' sh vking outrage
been committed than that of Clerkenwell. Seldom
has a more sensiile:s. causeless, and vicious assassina-
tion been attempted than that of the Captain of 013
Galatea. A street composed of frail tenements of
the poor was, through BARI:Eyes agency, when filled
with inmates, shattered into ruin on the chance of
releasing two prisoners—in Australia the Fenian
assassin shoots at a post-captain in the Navy, a
young man universally liked and respected, and who
has spent the most active part of his career at sea,
simply because this sailor happened to be the son
of the QUEEN. We can understand the murder of
Mr. 111.‘GEE; not only was he a leading statesman
of the dominion, but he was a very awkward
instance for the conspirators of change of senti-
ment coming from riper and more general
knowledge. As a boy he had drunk deeply of the
froth and effervescence of the cup which for the
most part makes up Irish patriotisaa, and he had -
found, when he began to analyse the ingredients,
that it was producing a momentary exhilaration
and—madness. He was too honest not to work on
such conviction ; he was too able and energetic not
to make his work tell ; and he was too true an
Irishman even for the Fenians to be able to sneer
away what he said as the words of a traitor, or of
the English oppressor. The demagogues in New
York, who earn a handsome living by the conge-
nial mode of conspiracy, could find in the removal
of Mr. M'GEE an object worth plotting for ; and it
appears that the only Fenian bullet that ever
reached the right mark was in the case of the Cana-
dian statesman. It must have been an extraordinary
circumstance, and to the servant folio wing his
master home, a lucky accident, that he was not
shot instead. Wherever Fenians have been brought
to the bar, Fenian informers have always appeared
in the witness-box. The tone assumed by the
condemned is uniformly the same, and we freely
confess, little as we like their acts, that there is
in their bearing a certain degree of nobility. Three
points have invariably been made—the degradation
and oppression of their country, the purity of
their patriotism, and their willingness to die, if
the gift of their lives can in auy way save
Ireland. They have assume 1 the tone of martyrs
sacrificed by bloodthirsty oppressors, and while
they have consigned the traitorous brethren who have
given evidence against them to a life of ignominy,
to be the outcasts of society, the object of the raised
finger of hatred and scorn, they have declared that
they would firmly meet their fate on the gallows,
forgiving all who had been instrumental in bringing
them to an untimely end. To listen, is to suppose
that you are in the presence of a WALLACE or a
TELL, and it shows to what extent false teaching
and error may delude. The first question is what
are the injuries of which these men complain ?
There is an inveterate belief abroad that the laws
framed for Ireland differ from the laws framed for
England, which is often naively shown; as, for
instance, when some English and Scotch were
brought before a French Prefect for lighting
in Paris. " Leonid understand," said the nrigis-
trate, Englishmen and Irishmen fighting, but not
English and Scotch, who live under the same laws,
and have therefore nothing to fight about." What
the Irish conspire for is to live under different lawp,
not the same, that being the object for which the
English strive. England has no other aim than to
obliterate every trace of difference between the
most Irish of the Irish and themselves. The oppres-
sion, of the Irish is the attempt to elevate them into
a perfect equality with the ether portions of the
empire. It may be that what suits the Anglo-
Saxon does not suit the Celt; but to call the mild
and equitable rule under which they live oppres
sion is a gross perversion of terms. Now what are the
crimes of which these patriots have been convicted ?
Generally murder in its worst form, and with it most
dangerous objects; to upset society, to disorganize
a leading kingdom of the world, and that affording
every opportunity for cbtaining by legal means
redress for any real grievance. These men use the
liberty which the laws of their country gives against
that country to stab it in the most vital place, and

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slander one of the freest of all Governments, even
at the foot of the scaffold. Such crimes as the
Clerkenwell explosion—the attempt on the life of
the Duke of EvisnuttGir--aud the murder of Mr.
M'GEE are hateful beyond expression ; yet we have
bad BARRETT'S speech, in which he claims the
dignity of a martyr, and we will probably have
'.V.HELAN and 01FAIsrtEL, if they can sneak, follow-
j,,g in the same strain. This we regret, for it tends
To neutralize the good their (1.-test:Oh crimes ac-
complish ; diverting the a.tention of th..; ignorant
from the real nature of these unprovoked
-nutsneres, which otherwise would snake the Fenian
cone piracy one of the most hateful organizations
that ever warred against society. No words,
hoe ever, can undo the deeds of an O'FARREL and
of a BARRETT ; the sense of fair play is too de ,ply
implanted in mankind to allow of any explanation
for the attempted murder of her MAJESTY'S son,
and the wholesale slaughter of the poor people of
Clerkenweli. The young Prince is the sufferer iu
common with these victims ; but the bullet, from the
fatal effects of which he so providentially escaped,
was a disastrous shot for Fenianism. Its work is
to bring forth strong feelings of loyalty even where
they lie most dormant. There are thousands who
regard with envy the Royal Family, as elevated
above the evils which afflict mankind—a delusion
. iaatantly dispelled,- by.. _the. incident which in.ak ea. a,
man at the outset of his career alm )st pay with his
life for being the son of a Queen. Although un-
aware of the, weary work which falls to the lot of
persons so nearly connected with royalty they can
appreciate fully the danger, and give their hearty
support to those exposed to assassination, because
thy are the Princes of their kingdom. News by
the Re ssia from Canada in a measure confirms the
report that to O'FAttREL fell the lot to assassinate
the Prime.; as it is asserted in Canada that evidence
has been discovered which proves that the murder of
Mr. M‘GEE was planned by 40 Feni ins, that lots
were cast as to who should execute the deed, and
that the lot fell to WItELAN. Anglo-American
Times.

POLISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

On Saturday last a meeting of the Polish Historical
Society, a branch of a similar institution founded in Paris
37 years ago, and presided over by Prince Lathslas Czar-
toryski, was held at Sussex Chambers, Duke-street, St.
James's, at which a deputation from Paris, headed by the
Prince, attended. Owing to this circumstance a number
of the friends of Poland in this country, among whom were
the following—The Marquis Townshend, the Earl of Har-
rowty, Lord Houghton, Lord Campbell, Sir IL Verney,
Bart., M.P., Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., Mr. Edmond
Beales, Mr. Edward Johnstone, Mr. W. Adams Smith,
Mr. W. L. Birkbeck, and the Rev. Dr. Worthington
honoured the meeting with their presence. Major Saul-
czewski, Vice-President, occupied the chair, and having
given a cursory sketch of the formation and the labours
of the Historical Society in Paris, which, in connection
with an extensive Polish library, have, by an in imperial
decree, been enrolled among the institutions of public
utility in France, congratulated his countryman on the
honour of the anniversary meeting being this year cele-
brated in London in the presence of their distinguished
President.

Prince L. Ceeerrottersxt then addressed the meeting as
follows: —Having been deputed by the Polish Historical
Society of Paris to represent it before you on the occasion
of our memoreble anniversary of the 3d of May, permit
me to recall the name of him whose place I have come to
take before you, to render homage to the memory of
General Count 1.. Zamoyski, au homage due to his noble
spirit, and well deserved by his great and numerous ser-
vices. It is the first occasion on which we meet., since he
has departed from us, in the country which has always
been among the foremost to advocate the cause of justice,
and which will assuredly do nothing to forfeit its old
reputation. It seems, unfortunately, impossible for us
gentlemen, to meet without speaking of new sorrows and
acts of injustice. By a simple ukase, the Russian Gov ra-
iment has just desGoyatie -laet trace of the stipultfitins
made in our favour of the Treaties of Vienna. Doubtless,
wo have never been enthusiastic supporters of these
treaties. They were conclud ci without Polish co-opera-
' tioni and steeliest Polish interests ; and tit!), were the first
t.) rs.cognise and saucion,. under the signature of all
Europe, the partition of Poland. We could not re:Ard
them as the only title-d seas of our rights, or the only
basis of our legitimate claims. Ton centuries of a glorious
existence, and the undeniable evidence of our constant
vitality, notwithstanding incessant attempts to destroy
us, are titles higher than any diplomatic arrangement.
And yet by these treaties of 1815, Europe guaranteed the
maintenance of the Polish name and nation, and the signa-
tary Suites pledged themselves, not only towards us, but
especially to one other, to the faithful execution of those
stipulations. We Pules loudly protest, without awaiting
the protests.of those whose right amid duty it is to do so,
against this flagrant violation of a solemn contract; this
insolent defiance by Russia of the- Powers, and this
supreme attack on our amiciout rights, being certain of a
hearing from all just and generous men, and trusting in
theluture. After this last blow which has been dealt to
Poland it would seem that our situation has never been
more sad or desperate. At home our country is covered
with ruins, our countrymen are dispersed or crushed by
the inexorable policy of our oppressors, and our institu-
tions perish and disappear. Abroad, bur enemies triumph
and our friends are discouraged. Well, gentletneu, not-
wi'dastanding this apparently disastrous state of affairs—
notwithstanding the painful trials through which we aro
passing—l declare (at the same time knowing that I re-
spond to the feeling of every Pole) that we do not
despair; that never have we had less cause to despair.
Ripened and instructed by the experience of misfortune,
even in the midst of our present dis tsters we can exclaim,
" The time is at hand !" ludecd, our cause, which will
not and cannot perish, while changing its character, is at
this moment acquiring a new importance. The alliance
of the three Powers which have partitioned peer country
an alliance cemented by crime, and desiguated as " Holy,"
by a strange irony of fate, and which encompassed u: by
a circle of iron— has been broken. It was shaken by the
constant policy of one Power, and has finally fallen to
pieces under the pressure of the late events in Germany.
Austria, understanding at last the mistakes of her past
policy, has renounced all solidarity with her old accom-
plices, and turns towards us. Henceforward we have
but two enemies -two oppressors—and we have become
accessible to our friends. Austria, reconciled to us and
the West., opens of her own initiative a breach in the
impregnable forte ess which conflued us, and already we
feel the beneficial influence of a freer atmosphere. While
Rusk. burns to destroy the very flitudations of our civi-
lisation and our national existence, and excites against us
the brutal passions and anti-social instincts of her igno-
rant and barbarous population—while Prussia, consolidat-
ing and extending her new paver, in the name of the
principle of nationalities, violates this strut prin,;Tple iu
Poland, and, notwithstanding her present greatness, does
not disdain to continue playing the servile and shameful
part of au ally of Russian oppression—A.ustria dets us
breathe freely in Galicia, and seams sincerely disysed to
grant a real autonomy to that province. Galicia has now
become our last and only refuge. Iu the whole of the
territory of ancient Poland it is the only province where
we can speak, write, and act as Poles, but these new
us now duties. Lit ill show
rights also impose upon
that we know how to use wisely the blessings of liberties
and national rights when they are restored to us frankly
and without aniere-perisee. Hitherto our oppressors have
not failed to represent U 3 as ungovernable. Some say that
we do not deserve liberty because we abuse it as soon as it
is given us, and others that, in desiring the restoration of
our country, we only wish for a re-establishment of obso-
lete privileges and abuses which were formerly common
to all the nations of Europa. But, need I add, that it is
not only the Governments that oppress us, and their
organs, which held this language. The German nation,
now so much favoared by success—so near the limit of
its desires, so prosperous and so satisfied, whose exis-
tence and interest we ueitine threaten nor think of
threatening—has not yet felt it iu its conscience to be
just towards us. Hippy herself, she knows not how to
respect our m'sfortunes. Whenever Poland is in questiou
the German bolls out hie baud to 1111 Russian. Their his-
toriens write volume after volume for the purpose of
proving the necessity of the partitions of our country, and
the impossibility of its restoration ; their speakers and
[publicists seldoM fail to :address us with insult and abuse.
Their press is the co:npleisaet echo of Russian calumnies,
which are accepted as doctrine by their professors, and are
taught iu the schools. This intelligent nation misuses its
people, without
intelligence to describe us as a bac,cward
political feeling, incapable of condemnedself-govertrn?ln)etr'
seems to take
by destiny to servitude an 1 death ;
an'if
atll hope. This
a particular pleasure in depriving
h we nAther wish nor
especially odious in a nationr to
constant injustice, without reasonhioGrusno)tive—au injustice 1
w s • it saddens us; but it
do any harm—
sneuld, also be just
times which are powerful and emits() should
above all,vsenr-lydponaintthuel to us:
themselves. Na-
thomeelves to an,.. petty
and generous, and not
and
the
sentiments
oefuttshowlrb power
on loweronly

ward.

c'PAPER
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v\z,
be prejudicial to their nati diit4.64, ore-
over, this hybrid alliance ' GTranAzith bar-
barous Russia can only pa, :est% feMermany
herself. Russia, grown larger and more powerful, will
rracesoon
turn against her
_neighbour, and already she shows, in her
theerniGem an provinces,
rs what o
n assystsh
system she
can
w dispensei will pursuew it
with
i ts towardsaid.
As for us, we have now in Galicia, both the opportunity
and the moans for a noble revenge. Let us prove by a
wise administration of our affairs that we are perfectly
capable of governing ourselves; let us show by our
conduct that we aro not without political feeling ;
let us establish harmony between all the classes
of society, elevate and instruct the masses, and labour
ardently to dovelope the material and moral resources of
the country; so shall wo triumph over the prejudices of
sincere men. As for those who, from dislike for us, at-
tempt our humiliation, our conduct will silence them. Nor
let us forgad that our national life is concentrated iu Ga-
licia, and that we ought to use the rights and liberties
which the Ano.rian Government restores to u: is order to
refresh and fortify the na!ional spirit, so as to prep ire it
foe a hi,zher awl better fate. That province is the centre
round which the other parts of Poland will group them-
selves. Far frown ooposing the interests of the Austrian-
monarehy, or exposing- it to danger, or even to weakness
we should, on the contrary, become an element of strength
to her. All here, gentlemen, we return to the ancient
trtlhiuu of our hietory,.and resume oar p)sition as the
advanced guard of west ,rn civilisatloa. Our cause is ttow
no 1) IJOr si,np!y it qnsstioa of pure sympathy an 1 setri-
ment, a question abstract right and justice, as people
have hitherto regarded it. It has boco ne a question .of
general interest for civilised Europe, a question of practi-
cal necessity and political utility. It has ceased to be a
sort of island in the midst of other questions—isolated, ex-
clusively Polish, and attached to no other. We aro no
longer alone in this world ; we have natural allies ; our
interests are band up with other interests which aro
threatened by the same enemies; we enter like a link into
a political system which must be defended and maintained.
It is beginning to be pretty generally understood, in con-
sequence of the events of 186 G, that the intimate union
which has subsisted for a century between Prussia and
-litg:s.l.7",lnorpoww, absorbing GernAny, and the
latter attracting the Slavonians, is a menace and a
danger for the rest of Europe. People aro beginning to
see that, in order to dissolve this fatal union, in order to
separate for ever these two powers, it is necessary to dis-
join them territorially, and place between them an inter-
mediate state—either a powerful empire which would re-
unite in a single group the nations between the Vistula
and the Adriatic, or two States firmly united to each other,
one on the Vistula, and the other on the Danube. But
the danger which comes from Russia is more immediate
than the distant consequences of the fatal union of that
Power ;with Prussia. The unexpected revelation of a
Russian propaganda among the Slavonians of Austria and
Turkey, the Pauslavist manifestations of the ethno-
graphical congress at Moscow, have suddenly exposed to
the West the aggressive designs of Russia. We have long
been aware of them, and anxiously followed their alarm-
ing progress. But people would not believe us ; we were
charged with exaggeratipn, and laughed at as a politica
Cassandras. Emboldened by success, Russia no longer
conceals her idea of a Slavonic centralised agglomeration,
uniting in a docile mass more than a hundred millions of
people under a single hand—that of an absolute despot,
A light has also fallen on the tendencies of the "young
Russian party," which urges the Government to expand
the empire abrcad, and on its hostility to all Western
civilisation. In presence of these threatening symp-
toms, it is beginning to be understood that the main-
tenance and consolidation of a powerful empire on the
Danube is a political necessity of the first importacce for
Europe, and for the civilisation of the West. It is not
surprising • that in these circumstances the Poles, recon-
ciled with Austria, and secured by her in the free develop-
ment of their natural life, should find it their duty and
wish to maintain that empire sincerely, and by all the
means in their power. In seeing them so useful to her
common interests, Europe will be necessarily led to con-
sider in the. restoration of their country the indispensable
complement of the preservation of Austria, and the most
efficacious guarantee against Russian invasion. In order
to accomplish this high and eminently European task the
Poles ought frankly to assist their natural allies ; they
ought to unite intimately with the nation on which hence-
forward must chiefly rest the fortunes of the great Eastern
Empire. Hungary, that illustrious and noble nation, has
been conquered and has suffered like ourselves, but it
has risen again greater than ever, and seems called to a
high position iu that part of Europa. She has had a past
as glorious as ours, and an historical mission similar to
ours. She has had to fight the same enemies and to de-
fend the same interests as ourselves, and her fate has
more than once been bound up with that of our country.

A natural and instinctive sympathy always attracted, and
sti.l attracts, one of these nations to the other. Though
different iu origin they are singularly alike in character,
in customs, in social organisation, and in their ancient in-
stitutions. Both have baen from time to time immemorial

tviinytted with an ardent love for liberty—that liberty
which Christianity has given us -a noble and just liberty,
that Crlili.;l4` ocit.4y and elevates the individual—that
liberty of which we may say that we are the representatives,
ancL in some sort, the incarnation ; for it is for her that
we fight and suffer.. United in the past, and mixing,
barely tw,nty years ago their hloo3 on the same battle-
tiolds, the Hungarians and the Poles aro now again

united by fir, s tMe interests, throatene 1 by the same dan-
g..ers, and env.,lopp tin the sun hostility of their common
adversaries. The it,issians and their frionds always unite
those two nartrs in their att tolci all invectives. It seems
that Provilence now calla upn thou two nations to re-

Rune their former mission, again to become the bulwarks
of Europe and western civilisation against Russia. It is
on this basis, a-A for this cause—that of a common means
of defence against Russia —that we should offer our alli-
ance to the llungarians, and come to an intimate under-
standing with them. But this union neither can nor ought
to be unconditional; on the contrary, it should be made
on precise and well-defined terms. We should frankly lay
down our conditions, for we cannot forget that we are
Slavonians, and that wo have duties to perform to the
peoples who are our brothers. The Russians do not cease
to disparage us as enemies of the Slavonians, as traitors
to thsir cause, as Judasas in the midst of the groat Slavo-
nic family, but we can affirm that we aro their true and
disinterested friends. We have the right to say so, for we
wish for their real prosperity, and we aro the implacable
adversaries of theirabsorption ; we alone among the Si•t-
vonians know what Russia is, aad what destiny awaits
those who trust in her promises. Like the siren of ancient

fable, she seduces then; by her honeyed words, and hid-
ing her snares, attracts only to destroy. Taking advan-
tap of their pilitical inexperience, their impitionce, and

their animosities, she urges them to that unhappy sys-
_ _ _

tern of political abstinence, of absolut•3 negation and of

extravagant d 3rnAnds, which impedes tho work of
the consolidation of Austria; flattering their ambition

and their solf-lovo, sho prorn!sl3 thorn a Cz 301 kingdom, a
Sorvi in king loin, a Balgtrian kinsd An, and cajoles thorn
with droami of a futura gr,3at los, which they aro to fiord

iu their uuion with t!►e nqrtUra Oolossu3. Sho wishes to

parsnad► th3m that they belong to a now and distinct

world, batter and greater than that of the West; that they
are together with herself, the representatives of a new

civilisation ; that under her direction they aro called upon
to regenerate Europe, which is now in her dotage. She
. .

tempts them by brilliant prospects of universal dominion,
which, she says, will be theirs if they will accept her as

their guide. Oar duty, as Poles, is to withdraw by all the

tneans at our cam•ua,nd the Slavoaians from the snares

which surround thain, to tear thaw fro n tho arms of Rai-

sla, pres:rve them for the civilisation of the West. We

should etvlaavour to reclueila them with the empire

who metnbors they are, an .1 to induce them to abandon

tho barren policy of abiteation. should undertake

tai i t Lek of mAiating between them and the linagarians,

and of reuniting them to the civilisation of the West. But
in order to do this, and to fulfil the duties imposed upon
11,3 by such an uudertiking, it h necessary that we should
raise on high the flag of provincial and national autonomy.
Without asking for political concessions, which might in-

jure the unity, integrity, or strength of the empire, we

should firmly insist, bath on our own b3half and on that
of the other Slavonians, on a frank and extensive admi-
nistrative autonomy, comprising all that is indispensable
for the freo dovdlopment of national life. What we

desire for ourselves in Galicia we loudly and resolutely
demand for the Czechs, Croats, and Set. vians. We
do not doubt that the Hungarians will find these condi-
tions perfectly natural and acc)ptable. We believe them
to be sincere in their promises to the Sl tvonians. They

do not possess the absorbing and denationalising spirit of
the Germans, that minuteness of mind which descends to
details, penetrates everywhere, and attaches itself to lan-
gtt education, and petty local matters in order to Ger-
manise and occupy everything. The Hungarians aro more
liberal and generous in their conduct ; they will know how
to give frankly and without arriere-pensie, and will not
think of withdrawing by degrees what they have given .
We can therefore 1101.1 out our bands to them without
scruple, and without fear of being wanting in our duty to
our Slavoniau brothers. We can and ought to join them,
in view of the struggle which may any day commence. In
this surugglo we shall have to Mend, not only the political
interests and the mateAal security of Europe, but its
soci.<l anil moral order; we shall have to defend. that
liberty which elevates the dignity of man against
tho levelling spirit of Russia. We are coLli lent of
victory, but if we fall, wa shall do s,) honourably and
gloriously; and then Itassia would no longer find nay
obstacles in her path. Austria destroyed, the victors woul.t
soon encamp on the shores of the Adriatic and at the foot
of the Alps. Here, gentleman, I must stop. Far be it

from mo to give another thought to such a disaster.

tha c ntrary, as I told you when I began, our faith and our

confideule are unshaken ; and if hitherto Gud has sent us

terrible trial; which have only braced and strengthened
us, it is because He has called us to a great and noble mis-
sion, upon the completion of which we shall find our re-

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memory of the late General Count Zlmoyski; and after a
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