The Sun. — 1860-06-27 (London, England)

PINNEY, M.P., moved the re-election of the Marquis Townshend as president for the en. suing year. Prince W. CZARTORYNSKI said his father had entrusted him to express to that meeting, in the name of Poland, the admiration and gratitude felt by his countrymen for the exertions of that association in the cause of their emancipation. His country was now less than ever disposed to waste her energies. She was bent on multiplying her commercial enterprises and bringing all her latent resources ; on doing this legally, peaceably, and openly, under the eyes of her enemies. While they were doing this, Russia, was not desisting from her murderous and extermi nating policy. Her spat:tit was still what it was is times long past ; protection by laws, none ; schools, none; police agents innumerable. It was of Russia that. King Sigistnund Augustus of Po-Imd said to Queen Elizabeth of England, "The Czar of Muscovy is the foe not only of Poland, but of Christendom." In conclusion, Prince W. Czartorynski, having presented the noble chairman with a magnificently-bound volume descriptive of the great country of Poland, formally seconded the motion of the preceding speaker. This motion having also been carried, The CHAIRMAN, in brief and feeling terms, accepted the honour and confidence offered. him. He alluded, with emotion, to the noblemen who had preLided over that association before him, and said the cause they all had at heart would be for ever united with the name of Lord Dudley Stuart. The Earl of lixtrEsTEß moved, " That, inasmuch as the claims of subjugated nations to deliverance from oppression are now beginning to exact and compel a degree of attention from European Cabinets which they never obtained before, it is the duty of Poland and her friends, in this age of sudden and unexpected changes and opportunities, to be ever ready to avail themselves of every occasion of asserting her claim to national independence." He had, he said, from year to year preached the monotonous doctrine of patience ; and he found in the history of the past 12 months enough to confirm him in Oat doctrine. He did not, however, mean the patience of idleness and of ignorance, but that patience which could keep its own counsel and reserve its own strength for fitting occasions. Such was the patience identical with the sentiment of faith. In regard to that assertion embodied in the resolution he was entrusted to move, viz., that as Poland's claims were beginning to compel attention from the. Cabinets of Europe, he warned his friends against putting any faith in Prussian pretences of liberality. He would beg to notice one point touched on by his noble friend the Earl of Haring. ton. It was the emancipation of the Russian serfs. He agreed with his noble friend that justice ought to be done' to our enemies ; but he thought something more than justice was done the Emperor of Russia, in crediting him entirely with a step which had been forced upon him, and which was duo, in its origin, to Poland. General Count ZAMOYSKI seconded the motion. He really thought they had entered on an era of restoration—not the restoration of princes but of rights. The Polish nation at large, he begged to state with emphasis, had, after various abortive attempts at insurrection, come to the conclusion that by such lines of conduct they were only serving their enemies. This was indicated in the fact that they were constantly being tempted by police intriguers to commit deeds of violence. Snares had been set for them, but not a man in a whole province had been entrapped. Now, everybody who resisted such incitements must have exercised great self-control, and he begged the friends of Poland to consider this, and not to interpret silence and delay into a proof of abated earnestness. In the concluding part of his long address, Count Zamoyski alluded to the A gricultural Society of Warsaw as having done much political service. It was true th.at this society busied itself with the improvement of agriculture ; but this implied the improvement of agriculturists ; and who were these but the whole population ? Hence the hostility of the Russian Government to the society in question. Viscount