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London, England, 1863-10-19 00:00:00

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At the usual monthly meeting of t
Council of Sheffield, held on Wednesday, ,
inst.—the Worshipful Mayor, John Brown,
presiding—it being the last meeting in the
rapidly expiring municipal year, 1863, at which
is 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.

PR1CE..........4d.
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to the Egmont; Dr. John Walsh, acting assistant-
surgeon, additional, to the Sutlej ; W. Melville, in
the Orestes ; William C. Wheatley, in the Fox ; R.
Winter, in the Pylades ; Thomas Brindley, in the
Edinburgh; and Herbert Beach, in the Shamrock,
promoted to the rank of engineers; William W.
Webber, to the Perseus; George T. Crook, in the
Chamelion ; and James Ireland, in the Rinaldo, pro-
moted to the rank of acting engineers ; G. Murray,
first class assistant-engineer, to the Black Prince ;
and Charles A Nognell, second class assistant engi-
neer, to the Black Prince.

Uponp the fulfilment
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Mr. Alerman SAIL:WM-RS rose to move the follow'owers agreed to the sovereignty of Rtt
signify to the _Env
ing resolution, No. 6 on the paper of notices :
" That an address from the Council be presented to her
am earnestly praying her lq.
the Treaty has freed Great Britain from the• •
Majesty, expressing
of Russia still persists in violating* the Treaty of Vienna,
ssia over a portion
ljesty to at once
theof dwehepichreg-rGeret fir et lt that the Emperor
ewatshenoPto' Poles so brutally treated as they
Britain and other
of Poland, 1
Most Excellent Majesty.
Russia. He did not, however, say that we• tioning such sovereignty."
ought
rfuoswer, but we ought Ls.lt to
Itw
Mayor, Aldermen, Aldermen, and Burgesses of
t Russiao e thatt n stand
set,a' ei
.contract
oin,violationtyrabety sa
fla::
are by
hold diplomatic relations with her. The adch.ess
which he had to propose for the adoption of th•e
the Borough of Sheffield, in Council assembled,
to go to war with
"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.
Council,,rrhe Petition , wasTo tha
the Queens
if 01 le follows
" That one of these conditions was a guarantee 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.
has been
"That the conduct of Russia towards Poland
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, httrably 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 ceasa.
" And your Majesty's petitioners, as in duty bound, will
ever pray, &c."
istahi edifraotro

Mr. ISAAC IRONSIDES 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 Rue-
sell at Blairgowrie.

Alter a few words from Mr. BOOTH, in support
of the motion, it was carried unanimously.

e 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
Ilehester, 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.

The Austrian Note on the German Question,

FRANFORT •ON-THE-AIAINE, Saturday.
The Europe of to-day publishes the following
circular note on the German question, addressed by
Count Rechberg to the representatives of Austria
abroad, dated Sept. 26:
"
TO M. --, MINISTER OF H. I. R. APOSTOLIC MAJESTY
AT THE COURT OF --.
,‘ The Baron de Werthern has remitted to me, to be for-
warded to his Majesty the Emperor, the reply simultane-
ously addressed by his Majesty the King of Prussia to the
Sovereigns who signed the collective note of the Ist inst.,
together with a despatch from the Ist inst., together with a
despatch from the Minister, President M. Von Bismarck,
the latter accompanied by a copy of the report addressed
to the King on the 15th of this month, by the Royal Minis-
try o
This
report is already known to you by the publicity
given to "
and I complete your inform ationupon the state
of affairs by forwarding you a copy of the Royal reply and
of M. Von Bismarck's despatch.

" I made no delay in despatching the above mentioned
documents to his Majesty the Emperor, at present at Ischl.
" The impression they will make upon his Majesty I
foresee but too clearly. It is with deep regret that the Em-
peror will learn the declarations of Prussia, and I cannot
doubt that this sentiment is shared by all the German Sove-
reigns and Governments now in possession of the reply of
Prussia.

" In fact this reply fully justifies the many apprehensions
entertained that Prussia will not serious associate herself
with the tendencies to reform exhibited by her confederates,
but that she will endeavour to obstruct the development of
the Federal constitution by proposing unacceptable condi-
tions.

" According to our convictions the three prejudicial car-
dinal points on the preliminary acceptance of which the
Royal Court of Prussia wishes to make even its resolution
to treat upon a reform of the Confederation depend, are not
only altogether incompatible with the maintenance of the
Federal principle in Germany, but it appears to us veil
significant that Prussia opposes the precise propositions of
her confederates with general pretensions whose vague fors
and deficiencies do not convey a clear and preeise idea• it
will be neither a gratifying nor consoling, but by no ineet
difficult task, to point out one by one the deficiencieeZ
well as the flagrant contradictions, in which the
Ministers have involved themselves in their repo
of the
15th inst. Governments
" I think, nevertheless, that the Ger_inall
be
ever extra.
en formally
ow
cannot withdraw from this task, after having
summoned by the Prussian GoNernmen‘ace a report, ad.
ordinary this proceeding may be, Wof ;ate, the subject of
dressed to the King by the Minister

ari his t have not
their deliberations,
"The only circumstance whichd lkinisters we are able to note with
the
satisfaction is, that the King
ja a direot a.rd
reproach eon..
in the face of the German express manner,
thought proper to reiterate,
So
ereigns'
riaireport, according to which the
tamed in a former miniate
I can have no other
. intention than to make
ray It impressions, and consequent'
dignity and power of Prussia were wounded by the Prank.
fort propositions.
entirely provisional appreciation ofthe Y to
" At present
resent moment.
expedient top draw up in a
known to you
express only an
opinion it
induced to take aut
ttaht steps
which the participators in the Frankfort work
eionrof theoll rruesf:li:
will feel
ii in nor opinion it would be es
f Federal friendship a radical ref
tons o
stiplations, and to transmit them to
by, weans of identical notes frontall the Cabinet of Berlin
in-
tereat©d in the Act of Reform, together the Governments in-
manifestation of a hope that Prussia with the urgent
her unacceptable preliminary will not insist upon
to treat on the basis of the conditions, but will consent
propositions accepted by the 24
German Governments.

"A declaration that it is impossible that these propo-
sitions can remain without practical results would be per-
fectly well placed in the same identical note.
"Moreover it would be expellent to invite some of the
Courts, which, while declining to accept the Act of Reform
en bloc, took part, nevertheless, iu the Congress of Princes
at Frankfort, notably the Courts of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
and Saxe-Weimar, to join in this step, in so far, at least, as
they consider it compatible with their views.
" In tke meantime these observations will serve, as arulel
in your communications, and it is needless to add that I
wait with the strongest interest your report on the
C manner
t
in which the Prussian reply is judged.—Receive, EIG
; _
~,
(Signed) " RECI"

OWN&
THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT'S SPEECHES have
been translated into German by Pr. Wrest), the translator
of " Adam Bede."