The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-02 00:00:00

TAE LATE POLISH

rION.

Yeriteeday evening s public meeting, under the
direction d the Palish Nat ieed Committee for Great Briton
•
Ind Ireland, was held at St. Martin's-ball, the Marquis
TOWasitisrp presliMg. in commemoration a the resins
&eels of the Poles for national independence, sad he
express sympathy with, and obtain relief for, the Peak
sufferers from the dipterous mat of the contest. &me
hundreds of person' assembled, the middle dosses being
largely represented. A Lags number of Pelee were ea the
platform. Lattice expressing MIPS at their liability to
Stead were reed ham M. Mamie, Mr. Sinadeld, ILP.,
Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P., and Mr. Coniughare, lass M.P.
for Brighten.
The CWAILIAI in opening the proceedings, expressed his
deep interest in the Polish onus, and hie repot that fik
ammedag was not presided ever by some pulite min,d .
greater Masan dab himself. He bad jinevionsly
as-
prered hi edsairatem of the bravery sad pariotigni
of the Polish insurgente ; and he oquid not hot lemept
,now that the English nation had sot maned more
madams to the canes. European Amiss might occur
'width would afford an epoireireita ; and although
be woad my nothtes to encourage the Pass to eater • ose a
hopeless effort, yet he must my that,patitnee under preemit
dasemstasess wee a crime, and he could not understand
,sesp ese's &dries that the Polish milks should Reign
Wig to despotism ead mane. (Chews.) A netioo like the
Engish, which had ganed its own freedom by repeated
Willem: ought sagely to sympathise with the suffering
Poke. and those wits did net &wish thasJeelisg mast be
dead to all mass of homer, humanity sad jeans. (Chime.)
Though them might be differgeoss a opinion on %Inquisition
ot stave redenoce to • there could be nom se to
the duty of affording ai to the seams from the nowt
inenneeliao, sod he hoped the meeting would take the re-
quisite Mee for that purpose. (Ohms.)
ZailciajfillaMeg to the Palish National Cam-
ittes, then road e loge thdrene from the °nominee to the
people of Great Britain and Ireland, setting forth the
claims at Poland and the Peke; is inmedanee with the
object for which the meeting was convened. In thin docu-
ment street was kid on the fact that the Poles bad been
deceived by Europese dill:gamy; and aid wee eamealy
solicited for " the mummies vision , of .se exterminating
policy who bad been compelled to fly from home and
country and seek a refuge abroad? 'lt 'was Observed that
" while the number of Palish exiles • wily arrived •In
Franosamoust to several dammed', *ltaly tot wo thousand,
in small Switzeciand to oat thoomod and a half, scarcely
twisty of theta have landed in Eeglendi Still," eddied the
oommittee, " we should not have interfered with this spon-
taneous distribution of the exiles, or have called upon you
to take any share in misting them, if we had not read in
the cep of the Central Franee-Poltele Committee, lately
pua . Paris, the sad avowal that to supply even
the first neoessaries of life to the numerous exiles
in that oountry far motels their means sad resources;
and if we were not reosivieg from the oommissiomes
at the animal government repeated requests to collect
funds for the maintenance of many itiffs and cripples.
who are unable to earn a livelihood by their own work ; and
finally, if the &anima government had net de de-
liverance of thousands of Poles out of eares.ociarli-
hoed twat their finding funds for their tray • exploder
into foreign gauntries." The British nation west urged
to take its share in the burden and duty of minting the Dew
Polka antipolice in this dim extremity by Inviting some of
them to its hospitable shores, espeeially altoes who awaited
their deliverance from the Austrian primes, and by oaten.
tug at ones sufficient funds to defray their travelling ex-
ponies from AustriaintoTasked. " Every hoar of hesi-
tation and &M y," it was observed, "will add nth. danger
of their belie delivered into the inmeiless and nveegeful
buds of Russia" The address me signed, " Fokeist L.
Obotald, Captain IL Bobeyeski, and A. ZabiekL
An address from the "Polish Alliance of All Religions
(heeds " was afterwards read, in width it wee shown that
persons of all :dialogs persuasions in Poland were united in
opposition to Reesia.
Mr. Blahs moved the following resolution :—" Tbat
the deliberate .destruction of the independence end
mationality of Poland, now Laing carried into effect by
Rama, in defining of the enlist of nations, the faith of
treaties, sad the repeated offal' sesuraness given to the
Western Powies,le a denier and insult to Europe, and ab-
horrent to all the pdadplaa of freedom. humanity, and
civilisation." It wag,' ha said, now eight years siace the
late Lord Lymihurst dneossieed in the Ilona of Lords the
meetly and input& of Russia ; and if such a denunciation
ware a dun thee, it was a still stronger one now, whet
Raids bad jest added so deeply to her criminality in regard
titillated. ((haws.) • Istomatima leer and solemn 'a-
ppease& bed bled trodden under fool by bran Ease, Gad
ameba to •the modern &arias of nominterventionso
aao we *wad to interfere with this stets of things. Be-
muse in the bad autumns English nation interfered with
vah m rlawalo ato Unwed= it was now toid that it
auglit vremir le is en for freedom. (Bear, hear.) The
abasioaamaat al Poland led to the invasion of Denmark, and
tie ease policy wee leading to the esteldiehmeat of ark-
power in Prussia and other pert, of Germany. Be
however, that there were still English heart, that
empathised with Poked, and that that meeting was cm.
maid to aid her ruffian Children. (Cheers.)
Mr. NMs secioaded the resolution, which wee amend
unanimously.
M. ficantommus, a Polish Jew, then bore testimony to
the fraternity of the Polish people towards the landing in
Poland.
Oo the motion of Mr. M. LIMOS, seconded by Mr. J.
A. Biala-sr, the following resolution was adopted:—
"That the sufferings of the patriots of Poised, Vigil= at
an insurrection into which they WWI yozpamaly toned by a
long aeries of the most intolstable tyranny and
and in which, as usual, their undaunted valour :I=
heroism succumbed only to enormonely superior force, en-
title them to our warmest and deepest sympathies; and
that a fund be raked, and anteariptions invited, for their
relief."
A subecriptiou list was opened at the meeting, and the
following donation' were announced :—The Marquis Town-
shmd, 10 FILMS ; Mr. G. Burney, 5 slaw ; Mr. J. A.
Nioholay, 11.
At the close of the proceedings a rote of thank' wee ac-
corded to the chairman.