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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 4, 4 January 1878, Page 4

The Polish Society of the White Eagle has cent the following address to his Imperial Majesty the Sui tan : — *' We, the orphans of Poland, most respectively beg you graciously to receive our most humble and hearty expressions of Bympnthy and goodwill in the righteous struggle which your Majesty and your faithful subjects are now so gallantly engaged in to protect your territory, institutions, and national faith from the rapacity and intolerance ofthe Muscovite. We who now address your Majesty are representatives of a nation which for one hundred and fivo yeara has beeu a victim of Russian oppression, viudictiveness, and treachery. No instance of similar national wickedness, ao unjust, so utterly' unjustifiable, has ever before stained the history of the world. For over a century, murder, rapine, robbery, and every violation of every law, divine and huaiau, has marked Russian oppressiou in Poland. Not only has the nationality of our unhappy country been blotted out from the map of Europe, in defiance of the protest of Turkey and several other European Power?, but to the calamity ao fatal to the peace and national equilibrium of thia continent, have been auded personal oiuelties towards pur unhappy countrymen, exceeding ia fiendish brutality aud refinement of torlure, which are without parallel in the

blood-stained annals of the most savage nations in either ancient or modern times. We Poles are firmly convinced that the Almighty has destined the Ottoman nation to be the worthy instrument of effectually curbing the intolerable curse of Russian domination and iufluence ; and, being well assured of the sympathy which has so frequently bean officially demonstrated by your Majesty's illustrious predecessors in the cause and automony of our unhappy Poland, do most respectively and earnestly offer your Majesty our hearlfelt prayers and; hopes that the gallant Turkish nation may be signally triumphant in defeating the unholy and ungodly designs of that wicked and criminal Government, of the nation which is now invading it. In the results of this struggle we take the most lively interest, because we feel assured that your Majesty's triumph over the Russians will, humanly and politically speaking, tend more to the restoration of Polish nationality, liberty and independence, than any other event, of which we have cognisance."