The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-25 00:00:00

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA

NAILS.

The following telegram has been received at
Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :
MARSEILLES, APRIL 25.
The Valetta, with the above mails arrival here at
7 a.m. this day.
The mails leave for London by the 11.30 a.m.
train.

FRANCE.

THE FRENCH CHAMBERS.-DEBATE ON

THE BUDGET.
PARIS, APRIL 25.

The debate on the Budget of the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs took place yesterday in the Chamber
of Deputies.

In reply to a question from M. Emile 011ivier
relative to Poland, M. Billault said that " Great
reserve in speaking was accessary for all the in-
terests engaged in the question. The Government,"
he said, " will give no explanation which might
injure the success of negotiations."
M, Billault continued :

" We are all animated by a cordial feeling for the
sufferings of Poland, but are convinced that the
question is an European one, and that the sym-
pathies of all Europe must concur in settling it.
" The Government regrets that people allow
themselves to be so easily attracted to foolish and
unreasonable oscillations and suppositions, to-day
believing in a general conflagration, and to-morrow
completely forgetting the difficulties of the situa-
tion. Affairs wisely conducted do not run into
these extremes. The country should have full
confidence in the wisdom, prudence, and firmness
of him who, having such great interests in his
hand,,, well understands all his responsibility."
M. Billaut's speech was received with applause.
Le Constitutionnel to-day speaks of a grand re-
ception as having taken place, on the evening of
the 23d, at the Palace of the Tuileries.
Le Pays of this morning announces under the head
of its latest intelligence the arrrival just now at
Paris of the Chevalier de Saint Georges, the Impe-
rial French Minister to the Court of Brazil.

POLAND.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

The Czas publishes the following report of thc
banquet given by the Poles to Mr. J. P. Hennessy,
M.P., at Cracow, on the 19th inst.:—
" Yesterday, at five p.m., a grand dinner was
given in honour of the British member of Par
tiament and advocate of the Polish cause in
England, Mr. Pope Hennessy, who has been
staying here the last few days. Upwards of a
hundred town and country gentlemen were pre-
sent on this occasion. The first toast was pro-
posed in the English language by the deputy,
C. unt Leon Skorupka, in nearly the following
terms :

" As deputy for the town of Cracow, it is my
duty, as well as my right, to be the first in express-
ing toyou the gratitude with which Poland is pene-
trated towards you. Your noble defence of our
rights, so often and so eloquently undertaken in
the English Parliament, has implanted in the heart
of every Pole the name of Hennessy by the side of
that of the most faithful friend of our cause, Lord
Dudley Stuart. The object you have proposed to
yourself will not be a barren one; the sympathy so
universally awakened in the English nation is a
guarantee that to the definite triumph
of the Polish cause the powerful aid of the
English Government will not be wanting.
The numbers present do not represent the
numbers who would wish to do honour to ouch a
guest, and to give him a proof of their gratitude
Circumstances compel us to refrain from noisy greet-
ings, and all the larger rooms are occupied by the
wounded. Long live Mr. Hennessy, the defender
of Poland !'

" In returning thanks, Mr. Hennessy spoke as
follows :

" c Gentlemen, I regret that I am unable
to address you in your own language, bui
I do not hesitate to thank you in English,
'he language of a free country, always
friendly, and now wishing well to Poland.
I cannot refrain from expressing to you my cordial
gratitude for this great and unexpected honour. 1
thank you for the opportunity you give me of look-
ing at your present position in this ancient an
Famous city. You are at this moment a nation. In
1862, and for many yews before, the world hae
shown towards you a barren sympathy. In 1863
feelings gave place to realities, the world awoke to
the fact of your life, and Europe again hails Poland
in her family circle. Poland has to thank the Poles
for being now a nation, Three months ago the in-
surrection broke out; every day it gains strength
and extends over the country, and at this moreen,
the number of national soldiers fighting with Rus
sia, and the regions in which the struggle takes
place, are greater than ever. Let us add to this,
That the winter is over, that mutual confidence noak
exists between all shades of national party, and that
• he Russians propose measures of conciliation and
talk of concessions. Such are the results achieve()
by the Poles in Poland. And how great are tht
consequences of these victories which the Po es have
gained beyond the boundaries of Poland !
If, three months ago, the Poles and some of
their friends abroad alone did not doubt the vitality
of Poland, and the Governments and a large share
of European opinion thought it was crushed under
the dreadful oppression of Russia, the present events
have given such clear testimony of the truth, that
no one now doubts the existence of Poland. This
has been declared by both Houses of Parliament,
by several meetings called together by the Mayor
of London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Sheffield,
and by numerous petitions presented to Parlioment.
France, the old friend of Poland,and this time faith.
ful to her sentiments, Las raised her voice with en-
thusiasm in your cause; Spain, Portugal, Sweden,
and, lastly, Switzerland, that country which has so
long been accustomed to guard its freedom,
have pronounced themselves for Poland.
Finally, in Italy, the two existing Powers, Pius
iX. and Victor Emmanuel, unfortunately diylded

in their objects and interests, are yet united in
sympathy for Poland. All Europe is for Poland
aganst her is the Russian Government alone. But
just as much as the internal strength and external
position of Poland have increased, Russia's have
fallen and grown weak, so that it may confidently
be said that she was never so powerless. Your na-
tionality, gentlemen, on the other hand, was never
more flourishing, and no one now doubts that it will
gain a decisive victory. I have never been a man of
compromises or a believer in concessions. I am
now convinced, as I now stand before you and
speak with yon, that the time is not far distant
when Poland will recover her independence. And
then, gentlemen, as I now speak to you, I wil
say in Warsaw to the deputies of your own Parlia-
ment and the members of the Polish Government.'
(Loud cheers.)
" Mr. H.WoDziciii then presented to Mr. Hen-
nessy, as a memorial from the Poles, a goblet full
of old Polish coins, and in doing so said that as free
institutions in free countries qualify people to be
the defenders of every worthy and rightful cause,
there have always been found in the English Par-
liament, even in the most unquiet titres, when the
development of the national prosperity of the people
seemed not only the most important, but the only
occupation of statesmen, men defending the cause
of Poland with self sacrifice and perseverance. The
mantle has now fallen on the member of Parliament
whom they had the honour to receive among them.
He begged Mr. Hennessy, when he would again be
on the free and happy soil of his country, to express
the real feelings and inextinguishable hopes of the
Poles, and say how dear to them is the friendship
of free countries, assuring his countrymen that they
will never retreat from their national aspirations.
The cause of Poland is a cause without the solution
of which neither political order, nor the diminution
of the military burdens crushing nations, is possible.

" After some Polish verses in bunour of Mr
Hennessy had been read, with much applause, by
Mr. L. Siemienski, Mr. Hennessy proposed the
health of the wounded and the prosperity of the
Polish cause. After dinner he appeared at the
window, where he was vociferously cheered by the
people, who had assembled in large crowds in the
street, and who afterwards accompanied him bare-
headed to his residence."

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-APRIL 24

QUALIFICATION FOR OFFIL ES ABOLITION

BILL.
Moved, "That tha Bill be now read a second time"
(the Lord Wodehouse.) Objected to ; and an Amend-
ment moved, "To leave out 'now,' and insert 'this c 1,3,
six months"' (the Earl of D, rby.) On Question "That
'now' stand part of the Motion "—Content, 52; Not
Content, 69.

CONTENT.
LORD EARLS LORDS
Westbury (Lord Zetland Lytle', on
Chancel tor) VISCOUNT Lyveden
DUKES Sydney Manners
Newcastle LORDS. Meldrum (M. Hunt-

Somerset
Sutherland

Belper ley)
Brougham Methuen

MARQUIS Carew
Townshend Chesham

Monson
O verstone

EARLS Congleton Rivers
Abinwdon. Cran worth Setton (Earl Sefton)
Airlie De Tabley Skene (Earl Fife)
Caithness Ebury Sornerhill Marquis
Camperdown Foley (Teller) Clanricarde)
Cottenhayn Harris Stanley of Aldericy
Cowper Hunsdon (V. Falk • Sund ridge (Duke
De Grey land) Argyll)
Ducie Kintore (E. Kin- Taunton
Granville tore) Vaux of Harrow-
Grey Lismore (V. Lis- den
Russell more Vivian
Saint Germans Llanover Wodehouse (Teller)
Shaftesbury Londesborough
NOT CONTENT.
ARCHBISHOPS EARLS LORDS
Canterbury Mount-Edgcumbe Colchester
York Orkney Colville of Culross
DUKES Pomfret (Teller)
Marlborough Romney Cot. yers
Richmond Shrewsbury De•amere
MARQUISES Stanhope Denman
Norm =nby Stradbroke De Ros
Salisbury Vane Egerton
EARLS 'Wilton Fevershatn
_

B indon viscorYrd Glge (V. Gage)
Bantry Exmouth Griustead (E, En-
B-aucharnp Harding() niskillen)
Belmore Hawarden (Teller) Heytesbui y
Lfford Kingsdown
Carnarvon

(lovetrry • BISHOPS Leerinfield
Dartmouth Bath and Wells Love] and Holland
Derby Cashel, &a. (B Egmont)
Devon Exeter North wick
~.11enborough London Raglan
14',rne Rochester Rayleigh
Graham (D, Mon- Winchester Re4esdale
trose) LORDS Salton
Hard wicke Bernet 8 Silchester (E.Long•
Lonadale Castlemaine ford)
Lucan Chelmsford Sondes
Malruesbury Clifton (E, Darn- Tenterden
Mayo le-y) Wynford

The Murderous Attack upon a Policeman

This morning Police-constable Baker, of the E division,
was en ibled to attend before Mr. Corrie, at Bow-street Po-
lice-court, to give evidence against two prisoners namod
Sennett and Egan.

It will be remembered that on the 4th April, a burglary
was committed at No. 69, Gower-street, and that one of
the constables who endeavoured to capture the prisoners
was so savagely beat about the head that for some time his
life was despaired of. From that time he had been under
the care of the surgeons of University Hospital, and
although he had recovered sufficiently to attend, the in,
juries be had sustained were of such a nature as to utterly
Incapacitate him for duty for the rest of his life.
The evidence of to-day was as follows :

Mr. Robert Edmunds said—On the 4th of April he heard
a noise in the house between three and four, and shortly
after he heard the street door shut. He got up, and when
down stairs found everything apparently safe, and retired
to rest again; but about four o'clock he was again awoke
by the police, and from what they told him he went down
stairs and fo':nd some property belonging to a gentleman
named Riddell had been carried away. The property pro-
duced, a writing-desk, an album, Ike., belonged to the gen-
tleman.

Thomas Baker, No. 127 of the E division of police, said
on the 4th of April he was on duty in Store-street about
four o'clock, when he met Sennett, and knowing
him to be a suspected character, he watched him till
he saw him go down Gower-street, and eventually he
saw three men leave the door of the house 69. He
ran after them, and they went down Store street and
then down a mews there. After waiting a short tiufe Egan
came up a mews in Chenies .street. He told him he should
take him into custody, and that he should advise him to go
quietly. He did so as far as Gower-street, when he ob-
served him drop his hand down by his Bide, and then
stopping back the prisoner struck him a violent blow on
the cheek with a life preserver (produced, it was made of
about a foot and half of very thick cane, with a large
leaden head about the size of an egg). He then closed
with the prisoner, and a violent struggle ensued, when his
witness's) hat fell off, and then he received a blow on the
head which neatly stunned him. A second blow from the
6auie instrument followed with such force that he sunk to
he ground and Egan then ran away. While on the grouitd
he called oir. Stop thief 1" as loud as he could, when Egan
returned, and as he (witness) was rising up, said "I'll
Flo it for you now," and then he commenced beating him
lbout the head until he became perfectly helpless. Witness
never lost his senses, but he could not remember who took
him to the hospital. He recollected a brotherofficer running
after Egan when he left off l3i,ating him. He had not the
slightest doubt about Egan being the man that struck him.
The poor fellow was so exhausted after giving hie evidence
that he had to be led from the court.

Lowry, E 22, said he saw the prisoner Egan running
with a life preserver in his hand. He attempted to stop
him, when a struggle took place, and he received a blow oil
the back of the head with the instrument. Police-constable
12g assisted him to convey Egan to the station.

Wait, E 36, said he was informed that a desperate strug•
gle had taken place between a policeman and anoth3r man
in Gower-street. He went to the spot, and found a great
quantity of blood, and all the evidences of a fearful struggle,
at the corner of Chenies-street. He followed the blood spot
to the University Hospital, where he found constable
Baker.

Mr. Corrie said he should commit both prisoners on the
charge of burglary, but Egan he should also commit tor
wounding with intent to murder.
The evidence was then read over, and the prisoners were
fully committed for trial.

THE UNEMPLOYED POOR OF NOTTINGHAM.--01,
Friday a large number of the unemr loy el operatives of
Nottingham (upwards of 100), walking four abreast, headed
by a placard, " Willing to work, but not to starve," paraded
the principal streets of the town singing. On either side of
the street were collectors soliciting subscriptions, and also
entering shops for the same purpose. In this way a liberal
sum of money was collected. The behaviour of the men
was most orderly.

The steamer Sea Queen is stated to have sailed
yesterday morning from Ftilmouth for Matamoras.
Being unable to obtain any definite promise of protection,
her owners availed themselves of the suggestion of of the
Foreign-office, that they should decline to carry any mails
supposing this course to be adopted by subsequent vessels,
it will be almost impossible for our merchants to communi-
cate with Matamoras, except through French or other casual
Orein Ships.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 24.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
the Princess Helena, and attended by the Hon.
Mrs. Bruce, drove out yesterday afternoon.
Major. General Hon. A. N. Hood attended on
horseback.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales drove in the grounds.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
attended by Col. Clifton, arrived at the Castle.
Captain Tarleton, C. 8., also arrived.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, Lieut.
General Knollys, and Capt. Grey, went to London
today and returned in the evening.
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and
Princess Louise (attended by Lady Caroline Bar-
rington and Sir W. Haste), Prince Alfred (attended
by Major Cowell), and Prince Louis of Hesse (at-
tended by Captain Westerweller), also went to
London and returned in the evening.
The Countess of Desart has succeeded the Mar..
ch4oness of Ey as Lady in Waiting.
Major General Hon. A. N. Hood has succeeded
Mijur General Seymour as Equerry in Waiting to
the Queen.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at
Marlborough House at 12 o'clock yesterday. Their
Rnyal Highnesses Prince Alfred and Prince Louis
of Hesse visited the Prince and Princess of Wales
in the afternoon.

State Visit to the Royal Italian Opera.
We are authorised to state that their Royal
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales
will visit the Royal Italian Opera House, Covent-
garden, on Tuesday evening, the 28th inst.
This being the first appearance of their Royal
Highness in public, the Queen has been pleased to
command that a special festival performance shall
be given in honour of the marriage of the Prince
Ind Princess, on which occasion their Royal High-
nesses, with their attendants, will appear in full
dress.

The performances will consist of the opera of
" Alasaniello." The National Anthem and the
Danish National Hymn will be sung during the
evening.

The Ex-Royal Family of France.
The ex• Queen Marie Amelie, who, with the
Prince de Joinville, the Duke de Nemours, and
other members of the Orleans family, have been
staying at Starkey's Royal Victoria Hotel, at St.
Leonard's on-Sea, during the last fortnight, re-
turned to Claremont on Wednesday last, travelling
over the South• Eastern Railway to Guildford, and
thence over the South-Western line to the Esher
station. The ex-Queen was looking remarkably
well, considering her venerable age, and ali the
family have derived much benefit from their so-
journ on the south coast. While at Sr. Leonard's
an interesting event took place—the betrothal of
the Duke de Chartres, second son of the late Duke
d'Orleans, to the Princess Frangoise d'Orleans,
daughter of the Prince and Princess de Joinville.

Earl Russell's Demand on the Americ,an.
Government,

(From the Press.)
From the unfortunate display made by Earl
Russell in the House of Lords last night, in reply
to questions put to him by several Peers,it is almost
impossible to imagine that he has recently come to
the determination of acting with becoming spirit in
reference to one of the matters in dispute between
this country and the United States. Yet we have
reason to believe that, adopting the manly policy
with which the Trent difficulty was encountered?
lur Foreign Secretary has forwarded a kind of
ultimatum to the United States Government. Our
Minister at Washington has been instructed to
make certain demands, and in case of non-complt-
nce, to retire forthwith from his post. Although
unable to publish precise details, we understand
that immediate reparation, if not an ample apologYv
has been demanded. Whether any attempt hag
been made to induce the Emperor of the French to
co-operate with our Government in dealing with
the American difficulty we cannot say, though the
rumour circulated in Paris to the effect that
M. Mercier is about to be recalled seems to point to
some such conclusion.