The Sun. — 1855-03-22 (London, England)

ADDRESS OF THE POLSHI CENTRAL DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE TO THE FRIENDS OF POLAND IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.  36, REGENT-SQUARE, G 1 A.T'S-INN-110AD, LONDON-.  GEN TLEMEN, Mr. Phiun's motion concerning the restoration of Po!and is, on Thursday next, March 22d, to be trought before Parliament. Whilst there is not the slightest doubt that the Gevenni-mill, who have a'ready furnished Lord John Russell, England's Envoy to the Vienna Conference, with instructions relative to that question, will answer it with an assertion of untimeliness, and require to be allowed to wait for the result of Lord John Russell's miss:on, we should net he cxcmnble in the eyes of our country-whose virtual represtntalives among you during her enslavement we are—if we did not lay before you the necessary consequences of such postponement, amounting to a complete defeat of the object in view. The object of the Vienna Conference is the conclusion; if possible, of a peace based on an interpretation of the four points, on Lord John Russell's statement that tho integrity of the Russian empire will be respected ; and, therefore, of a peace without the restoration of Poland.. The object of Mr. Phinn's motion—the object of so many petitions since the middle of 1854—your object, and the sense of the country is, that no peace shall be concluded without a material guarantee for the future against the encroachments of Russia—that is to say, without the re-establishment of a strong and independent Poland. Your object, therefore, is in open contradictionwith that of the Conference; and if the latter is allowed to prevail yours falls to the ground, and the chains of Poland. are rivetted again for an unlimited time, with the sanction and help of Great Britain. This is the effect which any dilatory answer of tin Government to Mr. Phinn's motion will produce ; as it will give the Conference time to conclude a peace, murderous to Poland, fatal to English power, supremacy, security, and best interests Against such an effect, which only the most strenuous and united efforts of all the friends of Poland in Parliament on the present occasion can avert, we do not invoke the blood of our martyrs, the sufferings of our prisoners, the miseries of 25 years of exile, the groans of 23 millions of inhabitants, the moral and intellectual debasemut of several generations to come, as arguments in our favour—they are merely incentives for us—our justification in appealing to you, who are too well ac. quainted with them to require their long enumeration ; but we appeal to your sense of jusCce, to the interests of liberty on the continent, to the moral axiom that evert an insular nation cannot prosper by favouring opprcE• sion, and suffering wrong inflicted on others. What we want is, not only to be suffered to exist again as a nation, and to work at our own welfare and. prosperity—we want to be allowed to interfere as a nation in the present struggle, to throw our own weight into the balance of your victory—to secure your triumph—to put a speedy and glorious end to the war ; and therefore it is we want to avert for the moment a, shameful and iniquitous peace, concluded, not under the influence of the victories of Alma, lialaklava, and Inkerman, but under that of crow-swarms hovering over the deserted cainp before Sebastopol. In Poland only can the Crimean disasters be re. venged ; and to revenge them Poland offers her scythes ; but, overwhelmed with Muscovite troops, she is spellbound, until she hears the war-cry of England and France, and sees her oppressors diverted from their task of gaolers and hangmen. Let Parliament speak oat to the Government the word of Poland's salvation ; let the Government revert to a legitimate and salutary war policy, and Poland is up and joins your armies, with such weapons as she can muster, and both are triumphant, and free to work at their own and the world's progress.  We reckon, gentlemen, upon your energetiC support; of Mr. Phinn's motion.—We have the honour to be, with high consideration, Gentlemen, your most respectful, &c., the Members of the Polish Central Democratic Committee, ST.