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

ADDRESS OF THE POLSIH CENTRAL DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE TO THE FRIENDS OF POLAND IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.  36, REGENT-SQUARE, GRA.T'S-INN-ROAD, LONDON. GENTLEMEN,— Mr. Phinn's motion concerning the restoration of Poland is, on Thursday next, March 228, to be trought before Parliament. Whilst there is not the slightest doubt that the Government, who have already 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 mission, we should net be excusable in the eyes of our country— whose virtual representatives 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 the 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 contradictio smith that of the Conference ; and the latter is allowed to prevail yours falls to the ground, and the chains cf Poland are rive tted again for an unlimited time, with the sanction and help of Great Britain. This is the effect which any dilatory answer of the 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, suptiemacy, 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 iuffering-s of our prisoners, the miseries of 25 years of exile, the trt an.s of 23 millions of inhabitants, the moral and ii teller;teal de. h:lstme; t of several generations to come, as ar.uments in our favour—they are merely incentives for us—our justification in appealing to year, who are too well acquainted with them to require their long enum !ration ; but we appeal to your sense of just ce, to the i interest; of liberty on the continent, to tbe moral axiom t hat even an insular nation cannot prosper by favouring roppression, and suffering wrong inflicted on others. What we want is, not only to be suffered ti' exit t again as a nation, and to work at our own welfa re and prosperity—we want to be allowed to interfei e as a nation in the present struggle, to throw our own weight into the balance of your victory—to secure ye ur 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, Balakiava, r i .land Inkerman, but under that of crow-swarms hover over the deserted camp 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 ii's spellbound, until she hears the wasscry of England and France, and sees her oppressors diverted from thteir task of gaolers and hangmen. Let Parliament speak out 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 tz:iun Thant, 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 litmocratic Committee, ST.