The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-29 00:00:00

POLAND.

The Earl of DERBY said the noble lord who had just
taken his seat (Lord Stratheden) had a motion on the paper
with respect to Poland, the frequent postponement of which
had occasioned considerable inconvenience, It stood
now for Monday next, and he should like to know whether
ho intended to proceed with it on that day, or whether it
was again to be postponed.

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LordSTRATHEDEN said he was only anxious that
the subject which stood for discussion in another place
should be considered there before it was taken up by their
lordships.
THE SEIZURE OF THE STEAM RAMS.
The Earl of DERBY rose to call attention to the pub-
lished correspondence between her Majesty's Government
and Mr. Laird as to the steam rams. His lordship, it would be
recollected, some time ago, asked the noble earl, the Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs, for certain copies of correspondence
relative to this subject, but that was refused on public
grounds. Shortly afterwards a motion was made for the
production of the papers in the other house, which were
produced. In reviewing the circumstances under which the
correspondence had arisen, he characterised the conduct of
the Messrs. Laird as everything that was commendable,
seeing that they had withheld nothing from her
Majesty's Government, while the conduct of the
Government, on the other hand, he considered
highly censurable, seeing it had been most unfair.
ungenerous, and he feared illegal. The noble earl
the Sear etary for Foreign Affairs first received
information from the American Consul at Liverpool
respecting the rams on the 7th of August.
From that time to the Ist Sept. the noble earl seemed to
have been weighing the facts to see if he could find any
evidence to justify the detention of the rams. Pressing
letters had in the meantime been sent by the representatives
of the American Government, and on Sept. 3 the noble earl
was informed: that one of the rams was almost ready to
proceed to sea. He seemed to have made up his mind that
the rams should be stopped, and they were seized on the
6th of September, and no information to that effect was
furnished to Messrs. Laird until the 9th. He thought
those gentlemen had been badly treated in the matter, be-
cause they had done everything in the most open and un-
disguised manner. Before that time, however, a message
it appeared had been sot to the United States,
previously informing the \Government: that the gams
had been stopped, After this a correspondence ensued
between the Messrs. Laird and the Government, relative to
the persons for whom the two ironclads were being con-
structed, in the course of which the Messrs. Laird said it
was unusual to furnish the names of parties tor whom ships
were being built; but, notwithstanding that, they at once
informed the Government that M. Brave, of Paris,
was the person for whom the vessels were constructed,
and accordingly a Government agent was at once de-
spatched to that gentleman in Paris, when he, with-
out the slightest reserve, showed that person everything
connected with the iron-clad, and he returned to London
and reported to the Government that ho had concluded his
inquiry, and that all the matters connected with the owner-
ship of the tw., vessels was satisfactory.
[LEI T SPEA KINCI:j

HOUSE OF COMMONS---This Evening,
The SrEAR.En took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were road a third time and passed :
Iledon and Petrington Road, Newport and (Monmouth-
shire) Turnpike Trust, and North Eastern Railway (Addi-
tional Powers).
AG RICULTURA.L STATISTICS.

Mr. CAIRD gave notice that he would call the often
tion of the house to the subject of agricultural statistics.
TIER MAJESTY'S DOCKYARDS.
Sir J. ELPHINSTONE gave notice that on an early
day ho would call attention to the expediency of the
orders lately issued as to the manageruent and control of
her Majesty's dockyards.
UNCLAIMED WRECKS.
_ . _

Mr. ROGERS asked the President) of the Board of
Trade, by what authority the proceeds of unclaimed wreck,
to which the right of private owners bad bean acknowledged
by the Crown, have been retained by the receivers since
such acknowledgment of claire.
Mr. M. GIBSON said that thip matter was in dispute,
and so long as that was the case, the Board of Trade could
only give the work to the parties legally entitled to re-
ceive it.

THE CONFERENCE.
In reply to Mr. DISRAELI,
Sir G. G RE Y said it was not correct that the Conference
would not reassemble, They had adjourned, but not site

die, but he was unable to say the day when they would
meet again. (Hear, hear, and laughter.)

SALMON FISHERIES.

On the motion for going into c nimittec of supp
te ly-,
Mr P. WINDHAM asked the Secretary of Sta for the
Home Depratreent if it was the intention of her Majesty's
Government to bring in a bill this session to amend the
Salmon Eishoties Act (1861) ? Ile contended that means
should be adopted for the preservation of salmon, and that
a tax for this purpose should be imposed, or that a fund
should be raised by proprietors, instead of leaving the mat-
ter to voluntary contributions.

Mr. T. J. BARING agreed with the hon, member, but
the matter was one of intricacy. However, it was under the
consideration of Government, but he could not, promise that
any bill relative to it would be introduced this /session.
CASE OF MR, WILLIAM DEWICKE,
Mr. H. BERKELEY moved that this house, upon
Monday next, resolve itself into a committee to consider an
address to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty would be
graciously pleased to direct adequate compensation to be
made to Win. Bewicke, Threepwood Hall, Northumberland,
for the pain, degradation, anguish of mind, and consequent
ill-health' he has suffered, in being confined for 12 months
in a prison as a felon, on a charge since proved to be false;
for the confiscationof his gcods,chattels, family pictures, plate,
and library, thus inflicting upon him an irreparable injury;
also for the heavy pecuniary loss he had Buffeted in prose-
cuting and bringing to justice the persons who had con-
spired against him, such having been the only means by
which eventually he was enabled to establish his inno-
cence ; and that this houso is prepared to assure
her Majesty that it will make good the same.
The hon. member detailed the principal facts of the case,
with which the public are already familiar. Mr. Bewicke
went into prison a strong robust man, and came out broken.
in spirit and constitution. He complained of the terms of
the order by which Mr Bewicke was liberated, stating that
he was pardoned. If the term pardon must be retained in
such orders it should be that the judge and jury should ba
pardoned for the blunder they had committed. He denounced
in the strongest manner the treatment which Mr. Bewicke
had received, and said that his legal expenses amounted to
between £2,000 and £3,000, while he lost by the forced sale
of his furniture no less than £BO per cent. A mosaic table,
which Mr Bewicke procured from Italy, and for which he
paid £lOO, was sold for £l7, and a valuable library contain-
ing the works of Racine and Moll ere was sold for the price
of waste paper. He concluded by an earnest appeal to the
House to redress the grievances of which Mr. Bewicke so
justly complained. (Cheers.)
Sir G. GREY said that he must object to the motion,
notwithstanding that it excited his sympathy, and he
asked the house seriously to consider the question raised
by this motion, which involved a most important principle.
Mr. Bewicke had defended an action against him, and the
Sheriff of Northumberland had to enforce the costs of it.
He employed his officers, and he (Sir G. Grey) would make
inquiries into the statement of the character of these men.
He :defended, the oonduot of the magistrates and the
judge and jury, who had no other course than to convict Mr.
Bewicke on evidence which had been adduced on the trial.
When a petition was presented to him on behalf of Mr.
Bewicke, he adopted the usual coarse and referred it to
the judge who heard the case, and who repeated the
statement he made at the trial as to his entire
concurrence in the verdict of the jury. With regard to the
sale of the furniture, every attempt was made by
the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital to induce
Mr. Bewick's family to adopt means to prevent the removal
of his furniture, but without success, and they had no
other course to pursue but to put up the furniture to pub-
lic sale. He regretted that Mr. Bewicke should have de-
fended himself instead of employing counsel, who would
have sifted the evidence, and perhaps exposed the character
of the witnesses, on whose evidence he was convicted. If
they were to affirm the principle of this motion they world
go to the extant of deciding that in every case there
should be compensation where there had been
an erroneous conviction. This was a subject
that required great consideration, and was too important to
be settled by the circumstances of a particular case. With
regard to compensation that was another matter, and P. 4
Mr. Bewicke said property worth £1,500 was sold for £4OO,
ho would not obj:ct to an inquiry into the subject. (Hear,
hear.)

Lord J. MANNERS Fupported the motion, and con-
demned the line of argument adopted by the Home Secre-
tary. _ _ _

After a few words from Mr. INGHAM and Mr. LIDDELL,
The ATIOUNEY-GENERAL rose to address the
house, and was

(i tn. sPF.AK I NG .)

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

The Gazate of this evening contains a number of pro-
motions and alterations of rank amongst the officers of the
Staff and of her Majesty's Indian forces.

BANKRUPTS.
That portion of the Gazette containing the bankrupts had
not arrived when we went to preset'.

Course of the Exchauge.—This Day.

ilmsterdam ... Short. 11 17 11 17i
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 19t 12 01
Antwerp .. 25 571 25 62t
Brussels — 25 574 25 624
Ilamburgh — 13 9 13 91
Paris .. Short. 25 20 25 25
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine - 1194 119!
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo ..
Messina
Lisbon
0p0rt0.... •

4t. 4S
25 621 25 70
25 65 26 70
25 65 25 70
25 67f 25 72
25 65 25 70:1
25 65 25 70
51k 52
51k 62

Funeral of the Polish Exile, Lieutenant-
Colonel Nowosielski.
Amongst the comparatively few Polish exiles
now in this country there was none probably who
shared more in the affections of his compatriots in
arms than Lieutenant-Colonel Nowosielski, or was
more beloved by all who knew him. His remains
were interred on Tuesday afternoon at Highgate
Cemetery, and his grave was attended by numbers
of his countrymen of all ranks, anxious to pay this
last sad tribute of respect to his memory. The
mourners were Colonel Oborshi, Captain Kosmian,
Messieurs De Wylde, Prusinowski, Ostrowski,
Raczynski, Mr. John Robert Taylor, honorary
secretary to the National League for the Indepen-
dence of Poland ; and Mr. John Richardson, Com.
mon Councilman. Also, we observed the follow-
ing friends of the deceased:—General Count Za-
moyski, Major Skulimowaki, Messieurs. M. Wall..
gerbil', and Charles Ruprecht, Delegates of the Nall
tional Government of Poland. Major Szulczewski,
Major
,Gialgiud, Captain Bobczynski, A Zabicki,
kc. The national Polish flag, draped in black crape
preceded the funeral cortege. The service was
performed according to the Church of Eng.
land ritual, when, amidst the most profound
silence, A. Zebicki delivered a most impressive
oration in the Polish language, expatiating on the
virtues of the deceased, and impassionedly depicted
the great loss the Poles had sustained in the death o
their departed brother. This was followed by an
eloquent address from Mr. Richardson, which he
concluded by reciting the following very beauti-
ful lines composed by Mrs. Richardson for the
occasion :
'Tis past—thy time of strife and pain,
Thy life's luag agony,
And thnu art gone where pain shall cease,
And tears are wiped away,
At rest—in peace ; we leave thee here
Beneath our English skies,
No longer Exile in the land
Where thy brave soul shall rise,
Son of that Noble Land for whom
Thou wouldet have died to save,
Her tyrants cannot reach thee hero
Within thy quiet grave.
Free tears are shed above thee now;
This shall thy requiem be—
" The Patriot spirit cannot die,
And Poland shall be free."
After another address by a Polish exile, in the
Polish language, Mr. J. R. Taylor advanced in
front of the grave, and drew the attention of those
present to the uncertainty of human life, and the
joy they should all feel that their departed
brother had well performed his mission to this
world, and that other Polish patriots would soon
rise up to take his place. He expressed his deep
sorrow that Mr. Edmond Beaks, the President of
the National League for the independence of Poland,
was not present to take part in the proceedings, and
read the following passage from a letter,
apologising
for his absence, written by him to Captain Bebez
yuski :—" I received the news of Lieut.-Colonel
Nowosielski's death with u-afeigned sorrow. I hon-
oured him whilst living as one of the noblest minds
and purest hearts amongst
your patriot band of
Polish emigrants, v; hoes devotian under the most
cruel perst cution a, and the most severe
trials to their own country and the rights
of other nations has bound me with loving loyalty
to their cause and to Poland for many, many years.
I shall ever cherish his memory with a pious affec-
tion. Pray, express this for me, if necessary—my
heart, if not my
person, is with you. May Almighty
Golf in his all ruling and all directing providence
iu Christ Jesus our Saviour, yet realise all the de-
sires and wishes of our departed friend for the re-
establishment of Poland, the peace of Europe, and
the welfare of mankind." Mr. Taylor conelu6'ed by
emphatically expressing his belief that the Almih'hty
was with them, and that Poland must and would be
,'roe. The cortege then left the cemetery, &ill the
proceedings terminated.