The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-19 00:00:00

4.

National League for the Independ
of Poland.

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presiding—it being the last meeting in t. _.
.a. rapidly expiring municipal year, 1863, at wh,'Mt S
i 3 customary to discuss the general business placed
upon the notice paper, the next meeting being
usually too fully occupied in the consideration of
electoral questions, there was a full attendance of
members.
Mr. Alerman SAUNDERS rose to more the folloW•
ing resolution, No. 6 on the paper of notices :
" That an address from the Council be presented to her
Majesty, expressing the deep regret felt that the Emperor
of Russia still persists in violating the Treaty of Vienni,
upon the fulfilment of which Great Britain and other
Powers agreed to the sovereignty of Russia over a portion
of Poland, and earnestly praying her Majesty to at once
signify to the Emperor of Russia that such violation of
the Treaty has freed Great Britain from the contract sanc •
tioning such sovereignty."
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Russia. He did not, however, say that we ought
to go to war with that Power, but we ought not to
hold diplomatic relations with her. The address
which he had to propose for the adoption of the
Council was as follows :......
o To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
" The Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of
the Borough of Sheffield, in Council assembled,
"Humbly showeth,—That, at the Congress of Vienna,
1815, the Duchy of Warsaw was made into the Kingdom
of Poland by Great Britain and the. other Powers that were
parties
thereto, and given to Russia on certain conditions.
" That one of these conditions was a guaranton by Eng-
land to pay the Russian Dutch Loan, and the instalments
have been since yearly voted by Parliament.
" That your Majesty's petitioners. regret to learn, from
the correspondence presented to Parliament by command of
your Majesty, that the Emperor of Russia has flagrantly
and persistently violated the conditions of the treaty.
" That the conduct of Russia towards Poland has been
of the most cruel and unjustifiable character, by which con-
duct Russia has forfeited all right to the privileges granted
by such treaty.
" Your Majesty's petitioners, therefore, humbly pray
that your Majesty will signify to the Emperor of Russia
that by his systematic violation of the Treaty of Vienna,
and his arbitrary conduct towards Poland, he has freed
your Majesty from that treaty; and that your Majesty,
therefore, withdraws your sanction to his continued do-
minion over Poland, so far as that treaty is concerned;
and further, that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to
command that all payments on account of the Russian
Dutch Loan shall cease.
" And your Majesty's petitioners, as in duty bound, will
ever pray, &c."
Mr. ISAAC IRONSIDEtI seconded the address in a
speech of some length, minutely entering into the
subject of the Treaty of Vienna, so grossly violated
by Russia, and into the grievance of the Russo-
Dutch Loan. It was, however, unnecessary for him
to enter at greater length into the question, as
more than one-half of the members of the council
had become members of the Polish League. He had
more hope for Poland now than ever he had before
in his life, especially since the speech of Lord Rus.
sell at Blairgowrie.
Atter a few words from Mr. BOOTH, in support
of the motion, it was carried unanimously.

We are enabled to state, in confirmation of Mr.
Ironsides' statement, that the following gentlemen,
members of the Sheffield Town Council, have joined
the National League for the independence of Poland :
—The Worshipful Mayor, John Brown, Esq., and
the following Aldermen--William Fisher, Esq.,
J.P. ; Robt. Jackson, Esq., J.P. ; Edward Mycock,
Esq.; William Anthony Matthews, Esq. ; John
Buckett, Esq., and Francis Hoole, Esq., and 20
Town Councillors—Messrs. Ironsides, Hutchinson,
Brittain, Round, Grundy, Cooper, Foudan, Lomas,
Woodcock, Neill, Moore, Skelton, Ward, Gledhill,
Mosley, Wortley, Robertson, Hawkesley, Fowett,
and Jones, and W. M. Winter, of the Sheffield
Town Clerk's office. And further—That the Most
Noble the Marquis Townshend, since his elevation
to the Upper House, has expressed his intention to
continue as the treasurer, and that the Earl of
Ilchester, Sir Henry A. Hoare, Bart. ; Henry
Brinsley Sheridan, Esq., the Hon. Member for
Dudley, have become Vice-presidents of the League,
and Lord Campbell, and other gentlemen of dis-
tinction have recently joined it, and also that the
working classes are amongst its most earnest and
strenuous supporters. Amongst others, a very large
number of the workmen engaged at the Kates
Grove Ironworks, Reading, have enrolled themselves
as members of the League.