The Press.
London, England, 1853-12-10 00:00:00

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►it I: rea.turs are i rihably aware BUlrilligke•
11,01•••• be Sal, ftnd that 41).4111104w% are already
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screen which separates the court from the passen-
gers iu Piccadilly gives no promise of the beauty it
conceals. While large sums are demanded every
year for the increase of our National Museum, and
while a picture gallery is admitted by ell to be an
imperious necessity, the opportunity of purchasing a
palace unrivalled in beauty, and adapted equally by
size, space, and situation for the purpose, is offered,
and will be, we fear to the lasting regret of all per-
sons of taste, rejected.
The palace, independent of its architectural merits,
pi spa•ious and handsome, while the garden to its
rear would permit future additions upon any scale
that might be required. The Casino utta•hed to the
larger building would affi,rd convenient residence for
the officers of the establishment; and the colonnade,
while offering a matchless embellishment to the
national seat of art, would oppose a barrier to the
close approach of those idlers whom it is desirable to
keep away from the immediate precincts of a public
building.

•• Burlington house, our readers are aware, was built
by Cotix CAMPBELL at the beginning of the last cen-
tury, tinder the active superintendence of the second
Lord Itritmoros, to whom the merit of the design
must be attributed. " Who plants," says Peer, "like
" Bathurst, and who builds like Boyle ?" lie who
built the beautiful villa nt Chiswick, now belonging
to the Duke of InwoNsitinc, and whose taste and
knowledge in architecture were universally acknow.
lodged by his contemporaries. No other design of
'AurnEts. approaches the fancy, elegance, and classic
simplicity of this.
We wish that nt this moment our own influence
were greater; but if the most beautiful ',Awe—not
in Loudon shine, but in any country north of the
Alps—is to bo desoro 441, the mischief shall not be
consummaksl, at least without our rucording our
protest.

SECURITY At f.IINST RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.
Lout► CAwrurt.t.'s " Railway Accident Act" is begin-
ing to work well. The M.N.ttis family were offered
5,000/. by the Southern and IVestern Railway Com•
patty as compensation for the calamitous death of
their relative. The case, however, was brought be-
f►►re a jury, who awarded only 3,5n0i., thus showing
that the company hail really made a handsome offer.
In another instance, where a young lady lost a limb,
the company settled um annuity of 110/. a year on
her, and thus evinced a liberal sense of its responsi-
bility. Though in this direction the imptovement is
ol►v' , we question, however, whether this is the
only security that can be obtained fur the public
safety.

IT is feared in Prussia that many failures will
take !Jaye among the manufacturers of cloth, who
have been deprived of their usual markets in the
Danubian provinces. They have solicited the assist-
ance Or the ( iovcrnrat•nl, which the hitter finds it im-
possible to grant.
Tim Paris Pres 4.. publishes a correspondence lie-
tween M. Alexandre DlllllO4 and the directors of the
Theatre Francais. M. I►umas had written a piece
for that theatre, which the Uovernment refused to
sanction, and it was laid aside. At a few• days' notice
he wrote another. which has also been prohibited.
In announcing this the director says, •• 1 do not ad-
vise you to mite a third." M. I►umas replies that he
will write a third. anal that it shall be ready fur the
manager to read on the 1-stli.
A CoNvEsTiox has been agreed to between France
and the timid Ihu•hyof tbldenburg for the reciprocal
guarantee of all works of literature and art.
IN BONE the last Sunday Of November was en-
livened first by a balloon ascent, which attracted
a vast crowd. null aftorwards by a 14e1111011 preached
Lt- Cardinal Wiseman in the Church of St. Andrea
I•'rati, near the Propaganda. Among other
tellies, MS eminence eon;,n•atulated the Homan Ca-
tholics on the schisms among the various dissenting
bodies in England, and especially on the ditference
of opinion in the Church of England on the subject
of baptismal regeneratioom which he
be-
tokened the speedy dissolution of that establishment,
adding that more converts had been made to the
Roman Catholic Church in England during the last
ten years than in :WO previously. lle then enlcu•ged
on its immutability, and the delight he experienced
on returning to Rome after am absence of ten years,
during which (inie the whole world hail been shaken
by revolutions, but without any effect or alteration
being produced in the holy see. The unfortunate
aeronaut who had previously ascended was found
frozen to death in his balloon, which had fallen in
the neighbourlicoi of 31ount Seracte, about twenty-
live miles distant from Home : lie was an old man,
and a native of Bologna.

THE PRESS.

THE POLES AND THE EASTERN
QUESTION.

LAST week was celebrated in Paris the anniversary• of
the Polish revolution of 1830. The section of re-
fugees from that country who had selected France
for their asylum did not follow the example set them
by their compatriots in England. Instead of a pub-
lic meeting, at which " sympathisers " from various
nations took the opportunity of ventilating their own
peculiar dogmas and hopes, and linked the cause of
Poland with diff..zent developinents of socialistic or de-
mocratic systems, the Poles in Paris piously attended
divine service at the Eglise de PAssetnption, whence
they adjourned to the 116 tel Lembert, where the
recognised chief of their body, Prince Czartoryski,
read them a congratulatory and exhortatory address.
We give the most interesting paragraphs. The
prince observed

" A variety of great calamities and sufferings has caused
an interruption to our meetings. To-day, on the miniver-
Nary of so many reminiscences and regrets, 1 have thought
it my duty ugam to address a 1.4-11/ words to you.
" Ihe important events which are happening in the
East inculcate again the truth of the nmxim that ' mis-
fortune should be met with iserseverance. and that we
should never despair sit the success of a just and sacred
cause. %t ho, indeed, aould a twelvemonth, or eV4-11 three
months, ago have foreseen thatwhich is now actually taking
place on the banks of the Danube and in Asia? Those
events have not been brought about by the efforts of mor-
tals. Vainly did the Porte do her best to pacify her
mighty adv.-Nary. Vainly slid Europe endeavour—in vain
does she still attempt—to fool the means of satisfying
that adversary, awl of lending him a helping hand to extri-
cate him from the embarrassing position in which he has
placed himself. Is there, among the 'sowers which can
imam war, any one power which desires war? Certainly
nut. Nations and t iovernments—alive to the blessings of
pewee, and in Ilse enjoyment of the wealth procured by
J -ree and industry—recoil with a just horror front
war; and yet, in spite of all their cares, aid in spite of all
their wills, the war has broken tout, mud it appears that it
will and t spread.
"The time is rife with signs which show us that the
ruling of the world lielongs not no human hands, but only
to Providence, and that fret idenee alone leads us to those
ends which defy our subtlest calculations, lint in which it
is easyto understand that criwe cafe never expect im-
punity, and that, sooner or later, it meets with its punish-
ment. This conviction gives hope to the oppressed when
they are furthest from hope; it comforts them and con-
firms them in their confidence that the good time will
ret turn. _ _ _

._"The great convulsions which before this held out
sollle hopes to us have pwosed away like shadows and
clouds. They have left us more miserable and MO►e
abandoned than ever. Among these convulsions many of
our countrymen were, by disorganised Governments,
driven into frantic insurrections; and in 011 c part of our
country they Ilia to undergo the most cruel sufferings.
The bulk of the nation, however, dill not take part in those
convulsions, and this proof of prudent reserve has never
been justly appreciated lay other nations.
" Europe soon resumed the appearance of order, disci.
pline, and peace. without their true foundations, and the
eonseometwe was that misunderstandings arose and war
broke out. between the great !sowers. lids war wits not
caused by internal disorders : on the contrary, those this.
sorders had strengthened the alliences of the Governments,
but those alliances, those bonds, were altogether ephemeo
sal and destined soon to break. .

" Von, my dear countrymon, have borne your misfor-
tunes with dikmity. The blows which struck you again
tool again el Mid not Shakr your perseverance, and I nin
therOGWO. W4(011611141 to WO you, at the rumour of such
important events, here assembled to ask what fresh duties
those events impost) upon you. May we, chastened by
so many trial-, mold the faults and etTurs which were so
ti►tal to and which would be equally fatal to any other
soeiety. _ _ .

" It is a mistake to btliere that Poland desires rcvolu•
t • . Pt,land desires justice, and vertainly no one can be
astonished that she does desire it, She dots not hurl her
mnitslive at her worst enemies :in her dearest hopes
she never thinks of desiring their ruin. She wishes that
all countries, within their own limits, should enjoy power
and prosperity, but she prays to (foul that lie may grant to
her also her part of the general peace and prosperity.
:She would prove to the world, and especially to the nations
which oppress her, that it is better to immure in her a
friendly. peaceable, :owl useful neighbour, than a province
frantic w ith despair, whieli it is impossible to keep down,
unless you crush it with soldiers, anti uproot systematically
all the foundations of social older, and even all religious
feelings.
" Political straits, like those which may porhaps decide
our destiny. eminot be conatteted clawr by assemblies or
by elections and votes. Surrounded by numbem of enc•
mies, beset with obstacles, and set ea upon by ever-changing
circumstances, we need the tat st perfect discretion and
tact. at one time to accelerate, at 'mother to slacken, our
progress. The moat perfect unity is necessary in time di.
reetion of affairs. The patriotism of eery one will consist
in being prepared, without impatience, to come to mom
apopeal whirl volume fail to be /114 r, and not to divide our
flares by isolated attempts which clash with one another,
and which most surely world destror the fruits of long
labotthi and of hopes which may hold out a promise of
fresh efforts. These are necessary virtues, which have
been too frequently neglected, and to the level of which it
behoves us to rise. Let ns avoid confusion and its fearful
consequences. These are the sacrifices to which God, in
Ills mem: hill grant thy aid of the arm. lioyeriv

SATURDAY,

ment which of all is most interested in our success is
fully alive to the necessity of unity among us. Hence it
has long honoured me with its confidence. Hence, also,
gentlemen, have I a particular and urgent motive fur de.
mantling your confidence and support. The post I occupy
is one of those which cannot be deserted, for I know that
there I am useful—that no other man can at this time
supply my place—and that I alone can direct the affairs
of the nation w•itk a hope of success, and in preserving
the country as much as possible from the blows la hicli
threaten it."