The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-30 00:00:00

"The Health of the Chairman," proposed b 3 Sir Charles
Eastlake ; "Sir Charles Eastlake and the Royal Academy,"
and a variety of other toasts, including " The Ladies," fol-
lowed.

The subscription list, read by Mr. Henry W. Phillips,
tho, hon. secretary, showed a total of £744, of which £4SO
had been received from artists.. Her Majesty sent her cus-
tomary donation of £lOO, £25 was contributed by Lady
Chantrey, and £lO by the chairman, and by Sir C. East-
lake and several other patrons of the society.
Mr. and Mrs. Henri Drayton, Miss Ransford, and Mr.
G. Tedder were the vocalists who lent their services on the
occasion.
THE POLISH INSURRECTION,

CRACOW, March 29.
The Czaa of to-day publishes a letter from Arch
bishop Felinski to th.. Emperor.

Felinski maintains that the only means of pacify-
ing Poland is to unite all the Russo-Polish pro•
vinces with the existing kingdom into a Polish
kingdom under the Russian Crown. Unless this is
done submission is impossible, and the country will
be devastated.
Langiewicz is still at Cracow.

The Provisional Government of Poland have
issued the following proclamation :
" Fellow Countrymen,—The Dictatorship of General
Langiewicz having ceased on the 19th of March, the chief
authority of the "ountry returns into the hands of the Pro-
visional National Government at Warsaw, who have never
15ft off their governmental duties, and are the only and sole
legally-constituted authority of the country . Fellow coun-
trymen I the return of power into the hands of men who
have called forth the rising, and perseveringly directed it,
ought to be a guarantee to you that the movement will con
tinue, and that it shall not end without victory. Yes, we
wilt fight unwearyingly, without being disheartened by ill
success or deterred by obstacles. We will not concentrate
the whole cause in one person, whose fall might occasion the
fall of the rising; and, strong in our possession of the con-
fidence of the nation, we will boldly stand forth against all
factions which might attempt to create, without our con-
sent, any new power or authority. Fellow countrymen I we
grasp again with faith and confidence the helm of the Na-
tional Government, and, practical in devising remedies in
cases of emergency, we are confident in being able to avert
the danger which threatens us in consequence of the fall of
the Dictatorship.
" Faithful to the cause the standard of which, upheld by
us, sets aside every misunderstanding of party, we invoke
the whole nation to obedience.
"To arms I In the face of the foe, in the face of our fall-
ing brethren, the place of every Pole is in the ranks.
" By authority of the Central Committee of the Provi-
sional National Government,
" The Commissioner Extraordinary,

" STEPHEN BOBROSKI."
A lady writes the following letter from Cracow :
Sir,—lt seems hard to tax too severely the generosity of
the British public, and yet when was an appeal made to it
in vain ? 1 feel convinced that, if any of your readers could
have witnessed the harrowing scenes which I and my sister
saw yesterday, they would have emptied their purses to
alleviate in some degree the misery which made our hearts
bleed. There are four temporary hospitals in Cracow—one
in the ball-room in the hotel in which we are staying, and
three others in other parts of the t wn. • Out of about 200
patients I only saw one man over 25 ; the rest boys of 15
and upwards, These youths are many of them from Po •
land, and all of them far from their homes. They are de-
pendent, therefore, entirely on the charity of the towns-
people, who are already overwhelmed by the claims of their
own relatives and friends. There is scarcely a house in
which some member of the family is not either sick or
wounded, while hundreds of men, women, and children
burnt otit ot Miechow, and their villages, have sought
refuge here. The consequence is that every hole and
corner in the town is occupied,and everybody's purse
is constantly drained. No less than 1,000 of Langie
wicz's followers have been obliged to leave Poland,
and arrived here yesterday and the day before in a
deplorable condition. Most of them, having joined
the camp without any provision for campaigning,
have been brought in as Austrian prisoners, foot-
sore, starving, and nearly naked. Tney have been
engaged for the last two days in escaping from
Austrian durance, the authorities being only too
glad to be relieved of the trouble of providing for
them. Large purchases have been made of boots
and clothing, and every one is anxious to contribute;
still the calls have recently been so heavy—first for
subscriptions to the movement, and next for the re-

lief of distress—that contributions from England
would be most thankfully received. It must not be
supposed that there is any repining or begging.
The young men in hospital are only yearning to be
well enough to return to the scenes of their late dis-
tress; and, though the town wears an aspect o
mourning, and the streets swarm with a population
clothed in the deepest black, the haggard, wor❑
faces of old and young, men and women, express
slily one sentiment—that of fierce and determined
resistance. The capture of Langiewicz has stimu-
lated rather than dampened ihe ardour of the people,
and every nerve is being strained to retrieve the
effect of the late Director's inconceivable act. If
the Austrian Government will only afford the faci-
lities it gave on an earlier stage of the movement,
there can be no doubt of the ultimate success of the
revolution, so thorough is the demoralization of the
Russian army; but if it renders the transmission
of arms and ammunition impossible, the pro

spects of the insurgents are gloomy enough. In the
meantime, in the name of common humanity let

even those who have no political sympathy with

Poland help to relieve an amount of suffering which,

were the cause less holy the,n it is, would be en-
titled to their compassion and consideration.

POLISH RELIEF FUND.

A number of English ladies recently formed an
association, under the patronage of the Duchess
of Sutherland and the Countess of Shaftesbury,
for the relief of the Pules wounded and reduced
to destitution by the present war. They have
issued an appeal for assistance, in which they
remind the British public of the various claims the
sufferers have to the sympathy of Englishmen, and
of the fact that funds are already being collected in
France and Italy. They express a hope that on
this occasion they will meet with the active Byrn-
pa

by extended to a similar appeal made on behalf
of the Italians in lsoo and 1861. The association,
through t 1264- acquaintance with trustworthy agents,
are able to promise that the money collected
will be promptly employed abroad, and that,

The Artists' General Benevolent Institution,

The 48th annual festival of this institution was held on
Saturday, at the Freemasons' Tavern, under the presidency
of the Earl of Carnarvon. About 200 persons sat down to
dinner, including, besides the noble chairman, Sir Charles
Eastlake, R A., Mr. DaN id Roberts, R.A., Mr. E. M.
Ward, R.A., Mr. W. I'. Frith, Mr. H. O'Neil, R.A., Mr.
T. Cresswick, R A., Mr. H. Wcekes, R.A., Mr. J. E.
Millais, R.A., Mr. Faed, A.R.A., Mr. Carl Haag, Dr.
O'Connor, Mr. Geo. Godwin, Mr. F. Leighton, Mr.
M'Callum, &c.
The society, whose object is to extend relief to distressed
meriterious artists, whether subscribers to its funds or not,
has, since its establishment in 1814, granted 2,066 Bona•
tions, in sums amounting in the aggregate to £25,212.
After the health of "The Queen," which was drunk with
the customary honours,
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing "Their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal
Family," said it was the province of art, and the duty of
every true lover of art, to do homage to beauty and grace,
and he knew it required very little persuasion on his part
to induce them to render full and eager homage, and to do
ample justice to that unrivalled smile, that gracious de-
meanour, and that charming manner which won the hearts
of the whole population of this great city on the 7th of
March. (Loud cheers.)
The toast was drunk amidst great applause.
The toast, "The Army, Navy, and Volunteers," was re-
sponded to by Mr. FRED. LEIGHTON, of the Artists' Volun-
teer Corps.

The CHAIRMAN, in giving the toast of the evening,
dwelt in forcible terms upon the vicissitudes and misfor-
tunes which often attended an artist's struggle for a living
and fame, and pointed out the usefulness of such a society
as this, which stepped in at the right moment to relieve
his distress, and did so not only with a liberal hand, but
with perfect secresy, and in a way which could not give
rise in his mind to any feeling of shame or humiliation.
During the past year no less than 66 applicants had been
relieved with the sum of £9b2, and out of these applications
15 were new cases. One admirable feature of the institu-
tion was the economy of its management, the working ex-
penses being only 7 per cent, on the annual expenditure--
a smaller sum than that paid by alm-st any other charitable
society in the metropolis. Another gratifying fact was that
they counted among their subscribers some who had, in a
period of temporary embarrassment, received themselves
aid from the funds of the institution, The society derives
£5OO a year from funded property, the rest of its income
being made up by subscriptions, by far the larger proportion
of which was contributed by artists. He concluded by
giving "The Prosperity of the Artists' General Benevolent
Institution," which was enthusiastically responded to and
followed by a song entitled " The Artist's Dream," sung
effectively by Mr. Henri Drayton, by whom it had been
written and composed.