The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-01 00:00:00

POLAND.

(PROM OUR o'?fN CORRESPONDENT.)
WARSAW, OCT. 21.
The more light is thrown upon the order issued
that the recruiting should almost exclusively
be limited to the town inhabitants, the more con-
vincing proofs exist of that measure being taken
without the knowledge of the Council of State.
This again shows that the members of that body
have no powers whatever to exercise, tut are so
many nominees, appointed for the purpose of en‘
dorsing any law or regulation that it may please
the Government to enact. Still some ni the mem-
bers, stung as it were with the insignificance t,f
their position, boldly raised their voices at the last
sitting of the Council of State by demanding some
rule whereby the Executive would be prevented
from acting as they did in the matter of recruiting.
General Lewinski and Archbishop Telinski both
asked for explanation why their motions to the
effect, as above stated, had not been inserted in the
minutes of the last Council ; and the Marquis
Wielopolski stated that the Grand Duke Constan-
tine had not yet decided upon the question at issue
—a mere subterfuge on the part of the Marquis,
since everything that passed at the meeting should,
in the regular course of business, have been
noted in the proceedings thereof. It is, therefore,
clear that the cruel edict of selecting people only
from towns to supply the first levy for the Russian
army had never been brought under the considera-
tion of the Council of State, and is only the work
of the Marquis Wielopolski and company, who are
bent on persecuting the intelligent part of the po-
pulation as the most obnoxious to carrying out the
Government's satanical schemes. .

The anniversary of the death of Kosicuski, which
occurred on the 15th inst., was kept as a day of
national mourning, Funeral services were per-
formed in all the churches, and the police this time
did not interfere, seeing it was useless, after so
many attempts and failures, to try and stifle the
national feeling. The deep mourning still con-
tinues throughout Poland in spite of the G
patriotic
sentiment, and to assert that the public mourning
denotes the dissatisfaction felt by them at t'le con-
cessions made by the Emperor to the peasants,
whereas it is notorious that whateyer mitig4tiou lase

With regard to a complaint inserted to-day of the
Bank of England, West-end branch, having refused
to give change for a note, and of a condition having
been exacted at the Bank of England itself that a
person desiring change should write his name and
address on the note, satisfactory explanations can
be given. If the West-end branch were to hold
itself liable to give gold for all the notes issued from
the parent establishment, a stock of that metal of
equal amount would have to be kept at both places.
Moreover, the public would lose the advantage now
derived from 'the facilities afforded for stopping
stolen or lost notes, which involve a system of regis-
tration and examination such as could not, without
great cost,inconvenienco,and delay,be put in practice
at more than the head institution. As tothe demand
that a person presenting a note should write his
name and address upon it, the Bank of England have
never asserted any legal right on the point. Looking
at the great protection which it affords against fraud
(and there are few persons in extensive business
who have not in the course of their experience had
illustrations of the advantage of it), they make the
request in the interests of the public at the cost of
some trouble to themselves. Of course, if any one
should stubbornly refuselto comply, the Bank have
no choice but to pay their note, but they would
naturally regard any such person with suspicion,
and there can be little doubt that if they were to
interpose some slight delay or to cause some
watchfulness to be exercised, in such a case neither
magistrates nor juries would be disposed to look.
with a favourable eye on any complaint by those
who should needlessly subject themselves to such
annoyance. With respect to the inconvenience
which has been inflicted by railway companies and
other establishments on the general public since the
notification of the theft of Bank-note paper two or
three months back there can be little doubt it has
been carried to a vexatious extent, and has been
used as a pretext by idle clerks and others to avoid
trouble. In establishments where large sums are
daily received in profitable transactions with the
public it is a duty to employ persons of sufficient
intelligence to know when to exercise especial vigi-
lance. Throughout the whole affair, although it
was desirable for the sake of justice that all persons
taking Bank notes should use every convenient pre-
caution, the fright and inconvenience which the
public have sustained have been almost ludicrous
compared with the actual danger, since the whole
amount of these notes brought in up to the present
time is believed to have scarcely exceeded £3oo(half
of which were circulated in America before the
notices of the robbery had been promulgated), while
the amount of gold withdrawn from the Bank in
consequence of the prevalent distrust is estimated at
not much short of half a million.— Times.

ACCIDENT TO AN EXCURSION TRAIN.—The last
of the bt;:jes of day excursions to London, for the Interna-
tional Exhibition, 47 the West Midland Railway, on Wed-
nesday last, met with a mw hap which caused considerable
delay and some anxiety among tii,? passengers. The train
left Worcester at 6 o'clock in the morning, and had reached
Charlbury, in Oxfordshire, when the engine became dis-
abled, and it was discovered that one of the wheeisi was
loose, and likely to part company with the body of the en-
gine. Accordingly the train was brought to a stand,. and,
after some delay, occasioned in the fetching of a fresh en-
gine, the passengers proceeded on their journey, but did
not reach Paddington until 1 o'clock instead of the adver-
tised hour, 10 a.m. Delay was also occasioned in the re •
turn trip, which occupied six hours instead of four.
in
CONFEDERATE VESSELS.—It was r =oared
Liverpool on Wednesday that a mysterious steamer had
just sailed from the Mersey " on a trial trip." It was re.
ported, and believed by many, that the vessel is a sister
ship to the notorious "`290," alias the Alabama. Although
zealous inquiry has been made, we cannot trace the rumour
to any reliable source.—Liverpool Mercury. [The vessel
alluded to is the Columbia, of the Galway line. She has
been rebuilt by Messrs. Laird, and made a successful trial
trip on Wednesday. The statements recently circulated
respecting the building of rams, Sze., on the Mersey for the
the vessels
Clyde
Confederate Government are false. Since the desatch
the Alabama, or " 290," no further contracts hapve been
oof
knownundertaken.
speed, The
and d Confederaterawing littleag en
water,tsaresuch purchasingas
i
vessels lona, Clydesdale, Giraffe, &e.]
THEthat h NEWFOUNDLAND
e ilnd oo w as destroyedliOG.ll, will be remem-
bered
by fire on Friday, the
24th ult,, off Formby, near Liverpool, and that five of the w
crew perished. On board there
dog, but it was generally believed as a large Newfoundland
eved by those rescued from
the wreck that the dog was
lhowever, for on ost, Such is not the case,
Saturday
fishermen rambling about the he was found by some
Although the poor animal shore at Hoylake, Cheshire.
the terrific gale of Friday, must have borne the full force of
tigopgliffearfully,yy, and swam an immense distance
sea, ho HMO PQAQ tLio WorP9o

companied by the principal organs in the building.
Beyond this simple performance—which, however,
may be made exceedingly effective if care is taken
—no ceremonial whatever will mark the last day of
the Exhibition of 1862.
We are glad to see that Mr. Story, the American
artist, has now given his consent to photographs
being taken of his two noble figures " the Cleo-
patra" and " the Sybil." Without these the photo-
graphic record of the sculpture of the Exhibition
would have been sadly incomplete. One may judge
of the popularity of these photographs of statues
from the fact that the copies of the " Reading Girl"
have had, and still have, such an enormous sale that
the profits realised on this picture alone would m.ore
than repay the £2,000 paid to the Commissioners
by the Stereoscopic Company for the right of pho-
tographing. Yet the orders for copies of " the
Cleopatra" and •` the Sybil" are.) larger than this
again. The subscription to Mr. Day's work on ;the
industrial and artistic masterpieces of the Exhibi-
tion is completed, and Mr. Day hasi now announced
his intention of receiving ten more subscriptions
for extra copies, the gross amount for which ten
(L 187) he will at once hand over to the Mansion-
, house Fund in aid of the distress in the cotton dis-
tricts. These ten subscriptions will be received any
time to-day in the process court of the building.

All those railway travellers who have in vain
endeavoured to master the mysteries of " Bradshaw," o
to acquire a familarity with the railway language, will
thank Mr. Leigh, of Golden-terrace, DE,'lston, for an
genious " Indicator," which he exhibits in Class 5 iu the
western annex. Mr. Leigh's indicator being hung up ha a
railway carriage is so contrived as to disclose the name of
each station a few moments before the latter is reached,
and thus to enable the passengers to aocertain the rate at
which they are approaching, what every railway passer tger
desires—namely, the end of his journey, Mr. Leigh,
having been overlooked by the jurors, has good-humoure.dly
given a medal to himself, of which the spectator will me
the joke when he has inspected and mtisfied himself as to
the usefulness of the invention.