The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-10 00:00:00

TUE POLISH- COSSACKS.

(Front the Ezaminer.)
Recruiting is, we believe, going on rapidly for
this corps ; and, as the men who offer themselves
are generally tried soldiers, they are shipped at
once for the head-quarters, near the Danube, with-
out going through the expensive process of training
in this country. It seems not improbable that the
numerous desertions which are reported by the cor-
respondent of the Times as having recently occurred
at Sebastopol (after a long cessation) may have been
occasioned by the Poles in the Russian army hear-
ing that the Polish corps Was at length in course of
effective organisation. The subjoined letters have
been sent to us for publication :-
89, Grosvenor•square, Nov. 29,1855.
Sir,—The very kind letter which you have been
pleased to address to the chaplain of the 2d Regiment of
the Division of Cossacks of the Sultan, which I have re-
ceived orders to form under British authority, and which
will be composed of Poles, has been forwarded to me by
the editor of the Examiner, with a 51, note enclosed
therein. Permit me, sir, to thank you most heartily for
the attention you have bestowed on an undertaking
which, for as much as I know, was not intended to go
beyond the circle of my own countrymen, as the idea
was started at a meeting where Poles only were assem-
bled. Your donation, however, has imparted to the un-
dertaking a new character, from the manner in which it
has been bestowed, and the distinguished name attached
to it. Your example has been met with imitators, and
on that account it calls for more than ordinary grati-
tude on our part. Another gentleman, of true British
and generous feeling, the Rev. Edmund Mortlock, has
written me a letter, which I trust will be agreeable to
you to read.--(The letter in question, which enclo-ed a
donation of 251., appeared iu our last week's impression.)
My ever-to-be-lamented and most amiable friend, Lord
Dudley Stuart, has, during the last twenty years, by
untiring exertions, kept up the sympathy of the British
public towards alleviating the wants and sorrows of my
countrymen in exile.
" Let the British public now accept, in return for
their generous and benevolent assistance, our eagerness
to join the valiant sons of Great Britain in that mo-
mentous war, which I at least may be excused for think-
ing cannot, without Poland's co-operation, terminate to
the satisfaction of either the honour or the interests of
Great Britain and her Allies.—l am, Sir, with great
esteem and regard, your most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) L. ZAMOYSKI,
General Commanding the Division of
Cossacks of the Sultan.
To Walter Savage Lander, Esq.
I have to request that you will permit me to send a
copy of this letter to the newspapers.

Sts,—Althotigh you attribute to me merits to which I
am ill entitled, I must overcome my sense of demerit,
and must raise no objection to the publication of the
letter in question. It it can move the sympathy of oue
more British heart, neither my cares nor your noble
exertions will have been misapplied. With ardent
wishes for the prosperity of Poland, in which the world
is implicated, believe ate, Sir, your meat obedient
servant, WALTER SAVAGE LANDOE.
Bath, Dec. 1.