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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 202, 16 February 1877, Page 13

The correspondent of a contemporary in a tele°rain dated Berlin, Tuesday, says :— With regard to Prince Czartoryski's denial of any agitation amongst the Poles to improve the present occasion in favor of unfortunate Poland, I may be permitted to quota some remarks from the Polish papers While the ' Gazeta Toruntka/ published at Thorn, is quite satisfied with the Prince's statements, and professes that the time to act has not yet arrived the 'Gazeta Narodova,' at Lemberg, demands that the Polish question shall be mooted at Constantinople, that the Powers shall ask for the same rights for the Poles under Russian dominion which Russia claims for the South Sclavs. Ix there were any pleading for the rights of the Poles the aspect of affairs would be totally changed, because 200,000 Poles now serving unwillingly in the Russian army would, in the event of war, go over to Russia's enemies, and consequently bring about a disorganisation of the Russian army composed as it is of so many heterogeneous elements. Iho • Gazta Narodova ' concludes thus :— " The holy duty now devolves upon us to remember the Polish business." At the same time a pamphlet has been published at Lemberg pleading for the rights of the Poles, and bearing as its title, " We also stand upon our guard."