The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1863.

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BRITON MEDICAL and GENERAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION, 429, Strand, London, W.C.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Tit tan EXTRAORDI-
NARY GENERAL MEETING of the Briton Medical and
General Life Association will be held at the Offices of the
Association, No. 429, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, on
WEDNESDAY, the 4th day of March, 18c3, at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon, for the purpose of authorising the creation and
issue of Additional Capital.
Dated this 18th day of February, 1863.
By order of the Board of Directors.
JOHN MESSENT, Secretary.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
The 22d Annual General Meeting of this Association was
held on Wednesday, the 4th February, 1863.
The Income for the year 1862 was £50,135 0 0
The Accumulated Fund .

The Report and Balance-sheet may be had on application
to the Agents, or at the Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street
E.C.
WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.

February 5, 1863.

ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.

London, 27th February, 1863.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the ANNUAL
GENERAL COURT, and also that an EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL COL RT, will be held at the Society's House,
No. 6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, on SATURDAY, the
21st day of March, at Two o'clock precisely, for the following
purposes:—

ORDINARY GENERAL COURT.
To receive the Auditors' Report of the Receipts and Dis-
bursements of the Society during the year 1862, and to
elect Auditors for the present year.
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL COURT.

To consider a proposed amendment of the Article 82* of the
Deed of Sc Alement, by which the Directors will be em-
powered to grant Assurances to the extent of £lO,OOO,
and, if approved of, to pass a Resolution to that effect.

. _
As the Resolutions of the Extraordinary General Court
wilt require confirmation, so Saturday, the 28th March, is ap-
pointed for that purpose, at Two o'clock precisely.
By order of the Board of Directors,
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary.

* Article 82.—That no Assurance shall be granted by the
Society, on the same Life or Lives, for more than the sum of
Five Thousand Pounds.

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HOSPITALS, ON PRIVY COUNCIL*ACT
SIGN, v. CHAPEL-WARDEN BOY EDW. VI.
IN RE SEISINCOTE 1775 LONOBORO' CRT.
NOTICE.—In the stoppage, on Friday, of the Protestant
church service—by the life Montague trustee (sworn in as
of Geo. ll.'s Indian Carib College II of Bermuda), being read
over, the assumed Lord-mayor, h-aldermen• governors—as
titular Roman Catholic O.S. Yriors of the late Palace*Pry-
Zone of King's nOly Trinity ; Fish'ry data,
So the following reasons, to St. Paul's, churchwarden
oath-deputy of Irish Catholic Union Act, 1791, the Rev.
E. HUDSON, and submitted to by Black-friars agent-presi-
dent Cope-land (on Julius 3's atanebrog Holstein Red -hat'd
bishop's boy Edw. 6 on £-Exchange P• Graham for Car V's
Elbe and Sound dues 1555, 'which God forpid—est, on Sles-
wig of May 's2—red-glove and turban of H. 4), cancelled,
by 5 Eliz. 1, in 1832 Dutch Loan act, abolishing all foreign
power repugnant to the same" as in Canon monks of St.
K Stephen's 2nd foundation Cl/401'y, Westminster, as the
Quorum Parliament should sit in the Tide-Octagon.
1. That the re-seisin of 'Denmark's nesse life-copyhold of
Rokesley, Mint-master's Bridewell Palace scite, as that of
the House of Parliament to 1553-5, and the Sleet Court
of the King's Custom-house fist—built by the stone of and •
ent London wall and Baynard's ‘Dane'end river castle—so
" Sir Montfichet's lay-tower (monks of Blackfriars
In Di' idewell's fleet chapel,) Parleyment briar's.'
Thus, on the London stone Rib River-trust, requiring
for Wotton validity, a re-set with Carib2,of the 13 Privy
Council'rs sign—so prevent Chapel-warden n-privi-lege, of
Blackfriar justices within the Verge-rod, attempted (H. 8,
v. Catherine also, on Sir T. Moore ' Speaker') by Mr. Civil
Jus. Cardinal Wolsey, and Deputy-justice Campeggio, last
Court Assumption, 21st June, 1529, on Sir Francis Bryan's
grant, 1547, in Brandon Estate, till 1825, 0:t set over their
Brazil'd Calvin-Swiss 1557 Caesar-bishops of Peru.
2. That the _Eau Ospital of Christchurch and Bridewell's
pry-zone of the C-L'arc-en-well fleet-court (late under the
Swan-hopping fishmonger's 1536-grant) super alt'm
mare' now under poor-law audit data 25th March and 29th
September broad R .4 declination of the Polar Star—could
not be admitted since the Lord-mayor Conservancy of the
river Thames had ceased, on Ed. 3's Mortimer x eir settle-
ment of the Crown-rota king as I, in England's meter.
3. That on withhold'ng the parish gown there can be no
church rate imposition—So prevent like violation of the
LVIII. canon induction truce, by the Rev. E. Walker, at
Cheltenham —thro' his assumed i.e., churchwarden-take of
keys, robe and rope, on 19th Feb., by seizing Cirencester's
Thames-7-font in the parish Church rood-acre—as the Prior
on Sir T. Chamberlayne, of Presbury, Evesham & Atkyns
Lanthony Severn rie-trust, was not absolved from duty, yet
who received Imp. Car. V.'s abdication deed, 1555,—(see
Sun of yesterday)—saving HIS special tie-on 25 Henry
Bth, and 8 Eliz. c 5, not Pope ' Gregory's New-style earth-
moving Calendar' 1582-86-97-1603-1721 by Montague Car-
teret, so far as May 1815 Canon's of Boniface 1219-58, are
not repugnant to the holy scripture of Sky pry-zone year
for Common law-replenish of River-bailiff food, by 1824
Act, in 5-6 W. 4, c. 63, the State-meter Act, for Leet Crt.
Jurats Ova Fishery-park in O.Style fiat-Earth plant.
Note.—J. Stuart Wortley, M.P.. is not a Montague, but
a Sidney Wortley-Newcomen, of illegitimate line, hang-on
to the H. c. h priors, 20th Feb. at litadley's hotel. So Bute's
Rothsay Sir C. Stuart (Hobart nil Edgcumbe Foster) yield-
up Brazils CHear, Imp. Pedro Ist, to Ackerley in 1825, as
Edw. coo-grandchild Anne Mortimer's offspring in
Crown-heir trust of the people, on Richard 2's,* death, of
Hen. 4th sister Eliza. Holland.—in A.p ^ : : • • .
(EH-king signed) CHARLES ' A CKERLEY, J. P.
Born, Montague Edgcumbe Atkyns *Chamberlayne, of
Ric. Ws I brother J. Holland's 3ty-voice, in 1-2 W. 4,
No. 54 in Evesham's Plant a•genestella O.S.—pollen-food
fish trust 14 J. I. exemplified 1774-1837--as of its late Ist
peeral Prior--all H. B's privy councillors being nullified
through trustees' daughters intermarriage, save this life-
one, as Geo. 3's Copenhagen-Letter page, May 1814, before
Hobart Vere Foster, as England's Denmark.
II PETER BASQUET, England's Carib Ind. Chief of 1842-3, as
Admiralty Red flag Chain-bearer, elect 22 yrs. no pay on
the Philip 2, State 1584 Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Confederate Heligoland Jesuit cruelty.
London-notice, February 21, 1863.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

HERALD. —The debate in the House of Commons
last night was a great demonstration elicited by a
great emergency. It will ring and resound
through Europe like the blast of the trumpet which
in the knightly lists of old proclaimed the advent of
the deliverer. The attitude of the House of Com-
mons with respect to Poland is one proof, among
many others, of the admirable way in which that
assembly reflects the feeling and reciprocates the
generous sympathies of the
people of England.
" One asylum of free discussion," said Sir James
M ickintosh, in his defence of Peltier—" one asylum

of free discussion as yet remains inviolate. There
is still one little spot in which a man may freely ex-
press his opinion on the most important concerns
of society." The oppressors of Poland may be great
and mighty—a
irresistible hordes; but if in vinv
people much wronged and long.
enduring may seem to be struggling vainly against
of such a contest
this country is to remain silenk.' where is our love
of freedom, what becomes of our boast that as far as

in us lies no tyranny shall ride unpunished, no out-
rage pass unreproved Fs The bare sympathy of
England is worth at this moment 100,000 men to

the Polish cause. But this an occasion which calls
for something more than words; and if the address
of Mr. Hennessy was withdrawn, which called
for " the interposition of Euglaod- in vindication
of her own public faith and siitemn engage.,
ments," it was because the mover and the House

were convinced that the worst way of going to
work would be to weaken the hands of the Govern-

merit by an implied censure, and that after the
speech of Lord Palmerston the best thing that could
be done for the Poles would be to entrust their
cause to the hands of her Majesty's Ministers.
Lord Palmerston spoke guardedly, but firmly,
deprecating the Prussian convention, which he
trusted would not be carried, but, characterising
the conscription in Poland as " a barbarous act,'
which of itself justified the Poles in taking up arms.
Under the treaty of Vienna we had a right to inter-
fere
; but we were not under any obligation to do
so. The members of the House of Commons might
rest assured that the Government shared in their
sentiments. We could not have expected a more
explicit declaration from toe noble Premier, who
has always professed himself the friend of oppressed
nations, and has now an opportunity of proving
his devotion to a cause which the people of England
has taken very deeply to heart. The leader of the
Opposition clenched the matter with his emphatic
approval of the sympathy expressed for Poland, his
desire that the Government should at once assert
the rights they possessed under treaty. With re-
gard, and Mr. Disraeli,
there tow were
ee
ncootntdwu cot
oopfinßiounsssia in
that house. The
insurrection, he said, combined in itself all the ele-
ments of a sacred cause, the love of country, the
memory of a glorious past, and, as he hoped and
believed, the inspiration of a triumphant future.
It is the people of England that speaks in the
House of Commons. The warning of England, if
listened to now in the moment that it is drunk with
fury, will he a boon for which the Government of
Russia will have cause to bless us ; if spurned and
disregarded it will be like the handwriting on
the wall, a presage of doom to the tyrant at his
midnight orgies; it will be sudden disturbance to
the plots of the statesman in his cabinet ; it will
paralyse the uplifted arm of the soldier in the field,
and undo the commander of armies like the news
of a lost battle.
TIMES.—The first animated debate of the session
bore witness last night to the interest which the
House of Commons feels in the fate of Poland. As
a general rule, unanimity is only found when some
formality is to be gone through, or some political
truism enunciated. It is only on matters that are
unimportant or obvious that so large an assembly
can be brought to speak with one voice. But in
the discussion of last night there was energy with•
out disagreement or contradiction. The feelings
that have been excited by the occurrences of the
last month found a vent, and forced each speaker to
express his sympathy with the cause of which Mr.
Hennessy was the advocate. In such a discussion
as this the actual formal result in the house is of
little importance. It is enough that the motion
gives an opportunity for men of all parties and every
variety of character to declare their opinions. On
this occasion it was enough that no ultra-Conserva-

Live, no representative of Czar. worship of a few
years since, was found to rise in this British Assem-
bly and make himself the apologist of the Russian
Government. This august Court, this powerful
empire, could not find a single friend in that free-
spoken and widely-differing body of men. Perhaps
the only thing that could have united the house on
a foreign question was the atrocity of the 21st of
January. W hen the sense of the house was
taken, the object was attained, and the motion
was very properly withdrawn in deference
to the advice of Lord Palmerston, who ad-
dressed the house in one of those vigorous
harangues which are eloquence without the preten-
sion of oratory. The Premier, meeting the chal-
lenge to declare his opinions which Mr. Hennessy
Ind thrown out, said that he would retract and un-
say nothing that he had uttered against the tyranny
of Russia at any period of his life. For the re-
covery of those rights he can but appeal to the good
sense and moderation of the Russian Emperor.
Perhaps with more sanguine expectations than most
of his countrymen, Lord Palmerston is disposed to
believe that Alexander may imitate the example of
his brother Sovereigns at Berlin and Vienna. Hav-
ing succeeded to an inheritance of violence and
wrong, the Czar may be as willing to rid himself of
it as he was to abolish serfdom. But these are only
good-natured speculations, or the politic utteracces
of a statesman who thinks that the opinions he
attributes to St. Petersburg may suggest corres-
ponding acts. As to what has happened, the
Head of her Majesty's Government _
house.
speaks as
plainly as any independent member of the
"This last act, called a conscription," says Lord
Palmerston, " accounts entirely for the outbreak
that has occurred in Poland. It was a most bar-
barous act—it was a most cruel piece of political
tyranny, under the semblance of a merely mili-
tary arrangement ; no wonder that the Poles
should have taken up arms to prevent the fur-
ther execution of a measure of that kind." It is
to be hoped that these words will have their effect
on the shameless tyranny
.which provoked them.
But while we are debating in England the tide of
events is moving deep and rapid in Poland. It is
now no longer doubtful that the Russians are hard
pressed throughout the whole country, and more
especially in those more billy districts which give
the best shelter to the revolution. The insurgents
capture towns, they force Russian detachments to
capitulate, they are commanded by a General-in-
Chief, the Provisional National Government issues
its orders, is implicitly obeyed, and the numbers of
the revolutionary armies daily increase. Indeed,
the state of things is full of peril for the Russian
Government—we might almost have said for the
Romanoff dynasty. Alexander may amuse himself
by " commanding the suppression of the insurrec-
tion within 10 days," but his officers know that the
chances of easy victory are for ever gone, and that
nothing but a great war, waged with the whole
strength of the Empire, and guided by the most
skilful and resolute Generals, can reduce Poland to
its former state. The numbers of the Russian
army are so much less than is generally supposed.
The enormous and ruthless conscriptions of the
Emperor Nicholas have been discontinued since the
Crimean war with the purpose of allowing the
population to recover itself ; and the want of
officers is even greater than that of men. The dis-
affection of the Polish officers has, no doubt, already
caused many mishaps, and it is probable that the
Poles are quite as well commanded as their anta-
gonists. It to this be added the disaffection of the
Russian nobles, who think that the Emperor is
studying how to break down their power, and the
sympathy which large districts even of Russia
Proper feel with the Polish patriots, it is easy to
conceive that this is no common rising, and that the
very existence of the Russian dynasty and polity
may be at stake.

RAILWAY COLLISION.

Last evening a collision occurred on the new Un-
derground or Metropolitan Railway between two
passenger trains going in opposite directions, and
on the same rails, which inflicted injuries on about
20 people travelling on the line, but fortunately
caused no loss of life. To make the cause of the
accident intelligible it should be stated that the
up-line forms a junction with the down-line about
20 or 30 yards fronr the platform of the Victoria-
street terminus, and by means of points. When an
up-train runs into the station the-points should be
so adjusted as to allow it on departing to run past
the junction on the down line.. That precaution
appears to have been neglected an this occasion, and
hence the collision. The 7 o'clock down train,
leaving the Victoria-street terminus last. evening,
had started on its journey, but was carried on to
the up line at the junction. An up-train, which
had left Paddington at 6 45 and was due at Vic-
toria-street a very few minutes after 7, was at that
moment running into the station, and the two came
into collision,cansing for the time considerable alarm
among the passengers. Fortunately both trains
were running at slackened speed, for the pace of an
up-train as it approaches the station is necessarily
lessened,and the driver of the down-train in this case
perceiving it had been diverted to the up-line and
dreading a collision, did all he could to stop his engine.
The little injury dons to the- opposing trains, con-
sisting only of two or three of the buffers being
slightly bent, shows that the collision could not
have been serious. Again, it did not occur in the
underground part of the line, but in the open air,
just after the up-train had emerged from the cut-
ting, and consequently the alarm was not so great
as it might otherwise have been. Mr. Brown, a
surgeon at Kensal-green, who happened to be tra-:
yelling in one of the trains, rendered assistance to
the injured passengers, and Dr. Mundy, of Snow-
hill, with his son, Mr. C. Mundy, arrived speedily
at the station. Mr. James, the engineer of the line,
and Mr. Tanner, the superintendent, were also soon
afterwards on the spot, and with Mr. Adye, the
station master, and others, rendered aid in the emer-
gency. Mr. James Best, of 42, Rosoman-street,
a collector to the Royal Hospital of Incurables, ap-
pears to have been the most seriously hurt of all.
He was taken to his house in a cab by Mr. Mundy,
jun., and it is apprehended he has received concus-
sion of the brain. Another man, name unknown,
sustained a compound fracture of the nose ; and Mrs.
Charlotte Shortland, of 32, Hampton-street, Somers-
town, was severely bruised in the face. Her hus-
band was with her, bat received no injury. Mr.
G. R. Wood, of 8, Bath-place, Haggerston, and Mr.
George C. Hallam, of 31, Friday-street, were also
hurt, but to what extent was not known at the sta-
tion. The guard of one of the trains had a severe
wound in the temple, and another, not so severe,
over one of his eyes. All the injured persons, most
of whom had contusions about the face, were able to
proceed to their homes. The rails were not in the
least displaced in the collision, and it did not ap-
pear that there was any consequent interruption of
the traffic. The trains ran as usual during the re-
mainder of the evening, and were as well filled as
they ordinarily are.