The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-23 00:00:00

THE POLISH ADDRESS TO THE

E PEROR.

The following address to the Emperor of the French
was presented by the Literary Association of the Friends
of Poland :

"Sire—Amidst the universal voice of congratulation
which has hailed the auspicious visit of your Imperial
Majesty and your august Consort to our beloved Sove-
reign, we should not have sought to address these
words of welcome to your Imperial Majesty if we had
not believed that, in the principles which we have sought
to maintain and laboured to disseminate, there resides
the power of rendering perpetual that strict alliance
and cordial amity which happily subsist between the
two great Western Powers.
" Your Imperial Majesty has already declared, in
words which mark a new epoch of European history,
' that the time of conquests is irrevocably past, and that
it is not by extending the limits of Ks territory that a
nation can henceforth become honoured and powerful ;
it is by placing itself at the head of generous ideas, by
making everywhere to prevail the empire of right and
justice.'
" Such are the words which your Imperial Majesty
has inscribed on the united standards of France and
England. They are words of, hope for the oppressed,
and •f repose for the world. It is not, sire, our design
to urge their immediate application to a nation which,
as the statasmc-n of all countries and of ail poli-ical creeds
have affirmed, has been the victim of injustice the most
fisisi ant and perfidy the most foul. We await, however,
with confidence the hour when Europe, awakening to
the fearful retribution by which such crimes, when un-
redressed, are inevitably visited, will seek to avert the
punishment by repairing Vie wrong which she has per-
petrated or permitted. To save from impending ruin a
nation which, though separated by its faith from the
European family, yet possesses noble qua ities that
command our admiration and sympathy, is a righteous
work that hallows the alliance by which it has been ef-
fected ; but to raise from the dust a people professing
the same religion with ourselves, once the generous
champions of Western civilisation, and still possessing
all chivalrous traditions which lie at 45 basis, this would
be an achievement that would bind together the powers
that shall unite in its accomplishment by a link that
centuries, would have no power to sever. This would
be not only to inaugurate but to establish the em-
pire of right and justice on a firm and enduring basis.
—We haue the honour to be, sire, with profound respect,
your Imperial Majesty's most humble and most obedient
servants, the Council of the Literary Association of the
Friends of Poland. On behalf of the Council,

" BREADALBANE, Vice-President.
" W. LLOYD BIRKBECK, Hon. Sec.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the

Duchesq of Gloucester on Satur.lay, at Gloucester House.
The Princess de Castelcicala, née Thadea de Zeltner,
died suddenly, on the 6th inst. The death of the Prin-
cess has caused universal regret at Naples, on account
of her amiable character.

Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, and their youthful
family, are at Conholt Park, near Andover, where they
have resided since they quitted Brighton. We regret
to learn the eyesight of his lordship is cocsidered irre-
trievq,bly lost.
Lnrd Stanley of Al:lerley and family have arrived in
Dover-street from Italy.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield and Lady
Evelyn Stanhope have arrived in t iwn from Bretby Park.
Lord Stanhope is suffer ng much from the accident he
met with on Friday while escorting the Emperor and
Empress of the French to the City.
The Duko of Wellington's mansion, Apsley House,
which has been undergoing re-embellishment and repair,
at immense coat, the edifice having been also partly re-
furnished in splendid style, is now nearly complete in its
improvements, and it is expected it will be occupied by
the noble Master of the Horse and the duchess during
the present season.

RUSSIA.--Letters from St, Petersburg of the 12th
inst, state that the entire country round Kovno had be-
come inundated, and that all the goods there were under
water—a circumstance which will' add to the losses in-
curred from the heavy charges for the overland trans-
mission of produce.

Mr. C. Mathews (says the Weekly Chronicle) has ac-
cepted an engagement as actor and stage-manager with
Mr. Smith at Drury-lane. Thither also go Mr. Robert
Roxby, as acting-manager ; Mr. Beverley, as scenic
artist ; and Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Oliver, and
Miss Martindale. Mr. Frank Matthews is engaged with
Mr. Kean at the Princess's.

Lord Stanhope is going on as favourably as could be
expected after his serious accident on Thursday las, in
St. Paul's Churchyard while on duty with his regiment.
Soon after the accident a telegraphie message was for-
war ,ed to the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at
Brethy-park, and on Friday the noble earl and countess
and Lady Evelyn Stanhope came to town. Dr.Fergnson,
the surgeon of the regiment, and the medical gentlemen
called in direct,y after the accident, are in attendance on
h:s lordship, and sanguine hopes are entertained of his
early recovery. The fracture was ably reduced before
his lordship's removal to the Regent's-park Barracks.
The Queen, the Duke of Cambridge, and a host of the
nobility sent or made inquiries yesterday after the con-
dition of the young nobleman.

CORK ELECTION.---Mr. Deasy, Queen's counsel, has
ftrths seat in Cork county, lately occupied
by Mr. Burke Roche, now BAron rermoy.
°mem' ni,tructions nave been received at Southlrnp-
ton to fit up the General Screw Company's steamer
In-liana, for conveying cavalry to the Crimea.
ARRIVALS OF SPECIE.—The specie arrivals of the last
week amounted to Wicut 500,0001., including 122,0001.,
of silver. The shipmehtsi were under 200,0001.
ELECTRTC TELEGRAPH. —We are Enabled to state that J

the electric Cables are actually litid from Balaklava to
Varna, and will be ready for use to-morrow, the 24th.
By this arrangement, i,telligence from the allied head-
quarters in the Crimea may be received in London
within a few hours —Morning Post.
TUE BOY FORGER.—The boy Lucas, who obtained

grocer, at Devonport, has been committed for trial.
oi‘nira. blolkner'sEdlirkatftt,,
g THE DENBIGHSHIRE MILITIA.—A great number of
tPheins:i'g't-iaatTri (36(4'
the men belonging to the Denbighshire Royal Rifles
through
uf ro,ohm f
ns fgt.
have claimed their bounty and di.icharge, but in conse-
qui nee of an address from Major Wynn. which waq read
them in Welsh, inviting them to re-enlist, with an
offar of an additional bounty of 11., the majority t
re-
turned to the regiment, and their conduct has been un-
exceptionable.
The Emperor and Empress of the French honoured
Mr. C. F. Hancock, of Bruton-street (the jeweller), with
an interview on Saturday morning, previous to their
departure, and expressed to hint their satisfaction at tho
mauler in which their commands had been executed.
The Emperor has also been gra,._iiously phased to honour
Mr. Hancock with a further extensive order.
Colonel Cadogan, who bas been appointed British
Commissioner to the Sardinian head-quarters in the
East, passed through Turin, on Sunday, on his way to
Constantinople.
M. Timers has sent to his printers the manuscript of
the four last volumes of his great work, L'llistoire da
Conszdat et de l'
Two other vessels ,have just been launched at Brest
and Cherbourg, that, at the former port, being a lar4e
steam-transport, the Marne, of 1,200 tons, and that at
the latter, the floating battery the Devastation.
The Opinione of Turin says :—" We understand that
the Chamber of Deputies which had adjourned to the
23d April, will be further relieved from business to the
Ist May, on account of the great length of time which
the Senate is devoting to the Convent Suppression Bill."
The Parma Gazette states that as Colonel Count Anvisi
was, on the evening of the 14th, passing along one of
the streets of that city a man fired a musket at him, but
fortunately without doing him any injury. The man
got clear off.

- The Lord Mayor of Dublin, and a deputation from
the corpora'ion, have had the honour of forwarding,
through the French ambassador, an address from that
body to his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French.
The deputation was assured that it would prove highly
gratifying to the Emperor, and that his Majesty would
return an early reply.
The Hon. Artillery Company, of which his Royal
Highness the Prince Albert is Captain-General and
Colonel, did duty at the Crystal Palace, under the com-
mand of Major Barnard, on Friday last, when the Em-
peror and Empress of the French, the Queen, and Prince
Albert honoured the Exhibition with a visit. The regi-
ment mustered nearly 300 strong, and presented a most
soldier-like appearance. Eighty men under Captain
Robinson (Lieutenant Lewis carrying the Queen's
colours) were told off as the Guard of Honour. The
steadiness of the regiment, and the precision with which
the ground was taken up under the direction of the
Adjutant, Captain. W. H. Snell, were time more notice.
able as the corps is composed entirely of volunteers.
The men were under arms ten hours, having mustered
at half-past eight in the morning, and been dismissed at
half pa-t six p.m.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gen-
tlemen ha ring undergone the necessary examinations for
the diploma, were admitted members of the college at the
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 20th instant ;
Messrs. Orlando Haviland, Bridgewater, Somerset; John
Hutton Stapleton, Trowbridge, Wiltshire ; William Wil-
loughby Coleßurton, Jamaica, West Indies ; John Owen,
Trellys, near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire ; Francis Work-
man, Reading, Berkshire ; Eiward Thomas Tylecote,
Haywood, Staffordshire ; Uriah Perrin Brodribb, War-
minster, Wiltshire ; Isahell Hawker Sinner, Plymouth ;
Heckatall Smith, St. Mary's, Cray ; Samuel Tregelles
Fox, Falmouth ; William Sellers, Bury, Lancashire ;
and William Wilberforce Watson, Scarborough. At the
same meeting of the court Mr. Richard Croker Russell
passed his examination for naval surgeon ; this gentleman
had previously been admitted a member of the college,
h's diploma bearing date August 15, 1842.
THE CITY POLICE FORCE.—Mr. D. W. Harvey, Com-
missioner of the City Police, has addressed the followingio
"
letter to the superintendent of the force : City
office, Old Jewry, 20th of April, 1855.
have to request you will forthwith co Dear' sir, I
m
the
officers and constables of the City police-i:.ercee
communicate to
Emperor and
that upon
the occasion of my presentation tot_ Mayor, the
his Empress of the French by the Lo
Impe-
rial Majesty was pleased to
express to me, in the most
gracious and flattering terms,
his admiration of the dis-
cipline of our force, and the
order was preserved on th efficient manner in which
eoccaosdiolnat tghreavtiifi.-ietdotfothaedidr
Imperial Mu e
ajesties to the city,ll and
of Cambridge also ex-
pressed
his approbationthat his Royal Highness the
of our arrangements, as did Sir
George Grey,
her Majesty's principal Secretary of State
for the Home
Department. I embrace this occasion to
Acknowledge your valuable services, and to express my
hanks to the entire force for the exemplary manner ill
w hi hthey.distliarged their arduous duties on this im-
ortPant occasion. I am, dear sir, yours faithfully,
EvAnr.--To NIL Superintendent liotigeon,
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