Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-04-25
FROM OUR EUROPEAN coRREsPo NDENT

you by the Havre packet which sailed on the 18th
instant. We have just learnt that the steamer
Unicorn will leave Liverpool for Halifax on the
10Th instant. The epistes may not reach yous SO
soon as the present communication, but you may
take them as historical and honest testimony of
the impressions in this meridian produced by some
of the proceedings Ii is not my object to ingratiate
or TO disfavor myself with any of your parties or
men you may tolerate opinions which are sincere
and consistent, and formed under circumstances fa-
vorable to clear and impartial Judgment though
they may happen to initiate against your own ideas
and politics. The burden of party song is rather
monotonous. A dissonant variety can afford some
relief and possess some interest. Here, we have
continued TO be all Polish; committees, subscrip-
tons, professions of old and young, chorus of jour
nails, metropolitan and provincial, assemblages in
the lobbes of the theatres and at the doors and in
the galleries of the Deputies, and, finally debates of
the Chamber. A grand delegation of our Polish
Menarchical Refugee Society of thousand men,
bers, virtually rendered the crown to Prince CAR
ToRIsKI, and you will see that the Polish Associa-
ton OF London, representing all the emigrants in
Great Britain and Ireland, have done the same.
These committees acknowledge his Highness as
their chief, and submit to his orders, guidance,
commands without any regard to the political opin-
ions which individually they may profess" The
Prince modesily referred to the will of the Nation
the reoccupation Of Cracow by the three great
Powers, and the surrender of various large bodies
Of the insurgents, the said Government is an errant
ghost. You are aware that large portion of the
Polish emigrants, every where, professed downright
republicansm the occasion that excited common
national enthusiasm has been seized to rally them
to the head OF the monarchical party and elective
King. Nearly two hundred of the members of the
French Chamber Of Deputies have subscribed in aid
alx.f~s 4
altogether. Mr.. THEIRS would not appear at all !:
the Peers have all kept aloof. No tactics will suffice
TO bring the national subscription to ten thousand
| dollars. hat prOdgi0us emotion ~ says La
Presse, ironically; /" what subsidy for the twenty
1 four millions Of oppressed and struggling patriots
i Fine relief for so many thousands OF victims
The columns OF our journals filed with names
4 OF subscribers, but the contributions are so small
i that the aggregate, instead OF evidencing deep
French sympathy, can be interpreted by Europe
into nothing else than proof of our indifference or
parsimony." This is true. Our bourgeois of Paris
get money, much money, from the Russians, Aus
TRANS, and Prussians they the eleemosynary
Poles with less favor than their opulent customers
4 every effort has been tried TO band the National
Guards subscribers but the manufacturers, shop
keepers, and mechanics, Of whom that body is main
ly composed, sympathize only far they are Of
French Radical politics. In regard to the provin-
number do or can read, have the least notion of
the Northern French, as the Poles are here styled.
q Besides, every one who observes and understands
party politics comprehends the game of domestic
u Revolutionary excitement. On Thursday last Mon
sieur DE LA RocHEJAcoUELN, Deputy, gave notice
that he would call on the Ministry next day for ex-
plantations touching the Polish affair. Mr.. GuHoT
promptly and gladly acceded 1t was just what he
desired. The name of the Deputy is identified with
all the instructions of La Vendee and with the
cause of extreme Legitimacy. Crowds were as
sembled the clagueurs in the theatres to hear
the interpolation and its results. The Deputy
managed his case ill, and observed by his few
/ supporters in the debate; they played unwittingly
/ into the hands of the Minister; they enabled him
to deliver a sensible, plausible discourse, which cut
the whole injudcious Opposition enterprise in the
very middle, and sent away the convocaton of fiery
auditors utterly Disconnected and disappointed en-
close Gaiignanis abstract quite imperfecD of his Gle
yer speech.
| The Opposition defeated themselves, in fact, by
adopting and emblazoning the ictions, distortions,
hypcrboles, enormous exaggcrations OF the newspa-
pers. Mr.. GuzoT could not merely deny incred-
bic and proof1ess charges, but bestow with a good
grace praise on the Austrian and Prussian Admins
traton of their Polish annexations He bore no
testimony to the Russian on account Of the court
piques that, however, has probably ms strong
claims. Inc N0rihern Governments are better IN
themselves than they thought and represented to
be; the sorry plight of the of their subjects,
new and DID, comes from that monarchical system
to which feuda arstocracy is integral; the people,
the rural population in particular, necessarily
stulted, debased half-barbarized: add to their pc
cular serviude and AFFECTION the want Of immediate
care on the side OF the feudal lords and dearh Of
| food and what excuses of ndiscrimnate submis-
sion or rebellion, reckless violence, and blind ac
complccship may you not expectl Mr.. GuIzoT
related from official that in the disturbed
provinces, the peasanry were ferociously hostile TO
the Nobesse and Liberals who summoned them 10
arms that Prince Metternich had sign6cd to him
his dread, not Of political commissions so much as
4 social massacre and devastation. In some instances
the gatherings of Doors first cut down with scyhes
their masters and other instigators, collected and
shouldered the swords and muskeis, and marched
to join some body garrison of insurgents. Mr.
lGuzor argued that, as the state Of France was
accepted by Europe, the old state Of Europe was
accepted by her; that her business lay in watching
and regulating the political condition Of her neigh
|, bors, Belgium, Switzerland, and Spain; no aid for
Poland, except what squared with her interests and
o the laws of nations. He asked what the French al
home would say if other nations undertook to help
!, the Arabs against the French in Algeria. A Depu-
ty exclaimed, the comparison is not happy - vet
. it was not quite so far amiss il Mr.. GuIzor meant
remind his crowded auditory that they were pur-
Al