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London, England, 1862-02-20 00:00:00

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THAMES EMBANKMEN2 AND RAIL-
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Yesterday the commissioners appointed by the
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this question met at the offices of the commission,
in Victoria-street, Major-General Jebb, in the ab-
sence of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, in the
chair. Present—Captain Galton, R.E., Commander
Burstal, Mr. J. Thwaites, chairman of the Metro-
politan Board of Works; Mr. M'Lean, C.E., and
Mr. Henry Kingscoto.
Mr. H. H. BIRD, C.E., of Robert-street, Adelphi,
described an elaborate plan for an embankment on
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to the shore, with sluices for flushing the docks, at
an estimated cost of £469,000. It was proposed
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the tide, increase the public facilities for transit, and
I accommodate the densely-populated districts of
I South London.

Mr. HARTLEY, merchant, of Earl-street, West-
minster, proposed embankments both on the northern
and southern sides, with a road and four lines of
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bankment and the shore, from London-bridge to
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checked. The embankment on the south would be
170 ft wide, with warehouses and residences, and on
the north boulevards and gardens. The cost of the
entire undertaking would be about five millions
sterling, and he proposed to employ 5,000 sappers
and miners in the construction of the work. As
compared with the Seine and other European
rivers, the Thames was a disgraoe to a civilised
country.

Mr. T. MORRIS, architect, proposed a causeway
70ft wide on piers 100 ft apart, between Nine,elms
and Banliside, Southwark, level with the bridges,
at an estimated cost of £500,000.

The Commissioners then adjourned.

1, You may depend upon me, wife ; I give you my
word," I had rather you would aoraethaeo keep it, sir,"

ADDRESS BY GFN. COUNT ZAMOYSKI

IN TR.ESTON.

On Monday evening, a public meeting was held in the
Exchange Rooms, for the purpose of hearing an address
by Count Zamoyski with reference to the present position
of Poland, and of considering the propriety of petitioning
for the discontinuance of the Russo-Dutch loan. There was
a large attendance. The Rev. Canon Parr presided. On
the platform were Colonel S. Parr, Mr. Haslam, Rev. G.
W. Clapham, Rev. W. Walker, Mr. Buxton, Count Michi-
dowski, Major Stewart Rolland, and Mr. N. Zaba.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the meeting, said he had
taken no part in the arrangements, and knew nothing more
about the meeting than what ho had learned from the
public prints, and he had no intention of taking part in it
until he had the pleasure, on the previous evening, of mak-
ing an acquaintance with the noble foreigner who sat on
his right. Finding that the Mayor was at Lancaster, as
foreman of the grand jury, he could not refrain from ten-
dering his poor services inhis place, in order that he might
hold out the right hand of friendship to a friend and an
exile, and to express his deep riad heartfelt sympathy for
the condition of a noble people. ; (Applause.) He remem-
bered from the reading of history in his boyish days, what
he could not but admire, the gallant and chivalrous spirit of
the Poles, who were like a rock and a barrier against bar-
barism in Europe. He could not but remember that they
spilt their blood for Christianity—(hear, hear)—and his
boyhood recollections were recalled and deepened when
he referred to Campbell's " Pleasures of Hope." He
had brought that work with
_him, and would, with their
permission, read a part therefrom, having reference
to the subject about which they were that night to hear
discussed. Having read the extract, he said that those
lines were composed on the occasion of the dismem-
berment of Poland. After, that, time passed on, and
the awakening consclente- of Europe moved a little in
the beginning of the present century to right the
wrong which had been done—to give to the scattered
people of Poland something like national right—and it was
agreed that such indulgences should be allowed to that
oppressed people. But that treaty had been violated, and
the suffering which the people had had to endure had, as
all knew who had read the accounts, been very deep. He
had felt his spirit stirred to compassion, to indignation, and
to a hope that the wrongs might be righted. Ho would not
occupy their time any longer, or attempt to depict any of
the wrongs, because they had one on the platform who had
suffered those wroags, one who was a noble by birth,
who was in spirit a patriot, and in character a gentleman.
(Applause.)
Count ZAMOYSKI was received with loud and continued
applause on rising. After it had subsided, he said that he
could not for a moment master his emotion from the words
he had just heard, and which had fallen from their worthy
chairman. He (the chairman) had told them that he had
undertaken, unexpectedly, the functions which he was then
performing, and the handsome manner in which he had
alluded to his country (Poland) had taken him by sur-
prise. He confessel that he could not have come forward
in promoting the interest of his country at a meeting of
Englishmen, if he had not during the whole of last year
received a great many invitations from various towns and
cities to speak on fie subject of Poland, invitations which
reached him abroad, in France, and as far as the Pyrenees,
whither he had gone to recruit his health. He felt it his
duty to answer such a flattering and consoling call, and
seeing that such a great interest was felt all over England,
as had been evinced by the invitations, he felt bound to
pay a visit to some of the towns in England, and advo-
acolettterry.froliaym:hneg come to England,
Mayor of Preston
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telling him that upon the requisition of above one hun-
dred inhabitants, he requested him to come and address
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Zamoyski)
)mfeelettinit his dutygonP eland in Preston, ho (Count
to
accept the invitation. The
Mayor had informed him at the time he sent the invita-
tion that, owing to public business, he would not be able to
attend the meeting. He felt that he ought not to be the
promoter of anything that was done for his country, and
consequently, ought not to appear except at the request of
any particular place. If he was to speak of the sufferings
of his country, he could not speak without allusion to mea-
suresand for doing so, felt
that
toeretcoef Eiventghleasnattion from the Mayor
h ofe the
wanted
first
e u
and the inhabitants of any particular town or city. In the
absence of any man ready to take the place of the absent
Mayor of the town, it was certainly a very fortunate sug-
gestion made to him that he should apply to one who was,
in a spiritual and moral point of view the head of the town;
the more so as the present condition of Poland had to be
considered with a religious view. He begged them to lift
themselves a little above the usual impressions when he
spoke to them of religion, for religion in this free country
had been, and was to that day, the subject of free discussion,
of some competition, of some rivalry, and sometimes aroused
feelings different from those of Christians. The different
creeds and modes of worshipping God had been, as it were,
melted down into one harmonious mass by long and common
suffering. He had before him a petition already signed by
nearly 1,000 inhabitants of Preston for the suspension of
the payment of the Russo-Dutch loan till Poland shall be
restored. He would make that petition the leading string
of his address. The first paragraph in the petition, he said,
alluded to the partitioning of Poland between three powers
in the year 1772. In that partition Russia was the greatest
actor. The third paragraph alluded to the two other powers,
Austria and Prussia, who had only joined in the partition
because unable to prevent Russia annexing the whole.
Poland had been governed by two houses of Parliament
throughout the space of 800 years, but had allowed, during
the last two centuries, her liberty to degenerate into a state
of internal anarchy. Austria and Prussia came to the
conclusion that since Poland was to be robbed, they might
be robbers in. common. Some time after, when Russia
decided on striking
the last blow at Poland, Austria de-
clined to have anything to do with it. Prussia entered
into an offensive and defensive alliance with Poland to
resist Russia, bat appealed to England and France for
assistance. What was their answer ? France was in the
midst of terror and revolution, and was therefore out of
the question. England would not listen. When Prussia
and Austria appealed to England, the answer was " Would
it interfere with England's trade ?" What was the feelings,
he would ask, that prompted a statesman to write such a
sentence. It was a great mistake to suppose that Eng-
land's trade would not be injured. The commerce between
England and Poland had been a very extensive one. The
I banks of the rivers of Poland had been covered with
' granaries and stores to carry exchange between England
, and Poland, and the moment Poland was no more an inde-
pendent state prohibition followed, and the granaries were
made ruinous in a few years, and all remembrance of that

exchange had passed in history. The fourth paragraph in
the petition alluded to the year 1815 and to the treaty,
Having made some allusion to the violations o f that treaty,
he said that there were in Poland 22,000,000 inhabitants.
One part of it was called the kingdom of Poland, with
5,000,000 inhabitants, and the Emperor of Russia was
allowed to keep that part under his sway, on the condition
that he would call himself the King of Poland, having a
distinct Polish army, with national colours and a consti-
tutional representative government, and that the kingdom
of Poland was to be bound to Russia by its constitution.
The Poles accepted the position that was made for them,
but the Governments who had signed and pledged their
faith to them broke every one of those arrangemente,:and
the result was the outbreak in 1830 and 1831. After allud-
ing to the events following that outbreak, the speaker said
that in 1854 France and England did all they could to in-
duce Austria to join them against Russia. But they would
not speak of Poland. Austria declared that she would join
only if the restoration of Poland was made the object of
the war. After alluding to the spirit and pluck always
evinced by the English people, he said that the Poles
were enduring sufferings, which ho would not at that late
hour make any allusion to, with great fortitude and almost
without a murmur, because they felt their enemies to be
powerless to extinguish their national spirit, and trusted
in the justice and mercy of Providence. The Count then
concluded a long and impressive address amid the applause
of his hearers.
The CHAIRMAN then read the following address to the
inhabitants of Warsaw which he had prepared, expressive
of the sympathy of the meeting felt towards the Poles in
this their time of oppression and suffering :
"The present meeting of the inhabitants of Preston, in
the county of Lancaster, desire to present to the inhabi-
tants of Warsaw and of Poland an expression of the grief
and indignation which they feel at the wrongs and woes
inflicted on them by their tyrannical oppressors. Enjoy-
ing the blessings of constitutional liberty themselves, they
are not insensible to the sufferings of those who are the
victims of an unrighteous and cruel despotism. They
admire the attitude of patient dignity in which those
sufferings are supported, and the undying spirit of pa-
triotism which near a century of subjugation has not
extinguished. They desire that the voice of England
should be raised and heard in remonstrance against the
violation of natural right and solemn compact by the arm
of power, and in approbation and encouragement to
those who appeal only to the favour of Heaven and the
justice of Europe for the redemption of their national in-
dependence,"
The adoption of the address was moved by Mr. lIAsLAm,
seconded by the Rev. G. W. CLAPHAM, and on being put
to the meeting was carried unanimously.
A vote of thanks was proposed to the Rev. Canon Parr
for presiding by Count ZAMOYSKI, which, having been
seconded by Ilr. N. ZABA, and acknowledged by the Chau.
P man, the meeting broke up.

Nearly 900,000 persons, 41 per cent. of our popu•
lation, are (says the Spectator) now receiving parish relief
a terrrblo background to all our pictures of English pro

sperity.