text:  There is a very excellent and venerable proverb which expresses the imprudence of the practice of throwing stones when indulged in by the inhabitant of an abode composed of a vitreous substance not to mention a still more greybearded and not less wise saw specifying in terms rather forcible than dignified the impolicy of the pot alluding in an opprobrious manner to the blackness which characterizes the sitting part of its fellow-utensil the kettle; and the "wisdom of ages" might in the present instance be very reasonably adduced to moderate the excessive moral susceptibilities of the aforesaid writers and declaimers and to restrain the feeble flood of words--the dirty torrent of shallow declamation so incessantly poured forth against Russia on the subject of Poland