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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1362.

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THAMES EMBANKMEN2 AND RAIL-
WAY, SOU7II SIDE•

Yesterday the commissioners appointed by the
Crown to inquireinto and report to Parliament on
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, RE., Commander
Burstal, Mr. J. Thwaites, chairman of the Metro-
politan Board of Works; Mr. M'Lean, C.E., and
Mr. Henry Kin gscote.
Mr. H. H. BIRD, C.E., of Robert-street, Adelpbi,
described an elaborate plan for an embankment on
the south side, from Nine-elms to Southwark-
bridge, solid, with' trifling exceptions, to be con-
structed in the form of a river wall, with floating
docks on the inner side, with access by openings in
the wall. A public road would run on the top of
the river wall from Lambeth Palace to Biackfriars-
bridge between 40 and 50 feet wide- There would
be approaches at various places from the new road
to the shore, with sluices foi flushing the docks, at
an estimated cost of £469,000. It was proposed
that a body of river police should regulate the docks.
The embankment would greatly improve the navi-
gation, protect Lambeth from the overflowing of
the tide, increase the public facilities for transit, and
accommodate the densely-populated districts of
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
railway, and on the south a canal between the em-
bankment and the shore, from London-bridge to
Battersea, into which the craft would pass through
locks, as at Teddington, the stream being dammed
up at Battersea, and the current of the river thereby
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 disgrace to a civilised
country.

Air. T. MORRIS, architect, proposed a causeway
70ft wide on piers 100 ft apart, between Nine- elms
and Bankside, Southwark, level with the Midges,
at an estimated cost of £500,000.
The Commissioners then adjourned.

" You may depend upon me, wife ; I give you my
word," f‘ I had rather you would oomotivau leep it, eirt"

ADDRESS BY GEN. COUNT Z4,110,1'8E1

IN PRESTON.

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 largo 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 he 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 tho Mayor was at Lancaster, as
foreman of the grand jury, he could not refrain from ten-
dering his poor services in his place, in order that he might
hold out the right hand of friendship to a friend and an
exile, and to express his deep and 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. Ho 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 wore composed on the occasion of the dismem-
berment of Poland. Atter that, time passed on, and
the awakening conscience 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 bo 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. He 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 wrongs, one who was a noble by b:rth,
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. Ho confessed 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 the subject of Poland, invitations which
reached him abroad, in Franca, 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, ho felt bound to
pay a visit to some of the towns in England, and advo-
cate Having come to England,
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sures of the Government of England, and for doing so, felt
that he wanted first to receive the sanction from the Mayor
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 ono 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
bo robbers in common. Some time after, when Russia
decided on striking the last blow at Poland, Austria de-
dined to have anything to do with it. Prussia entered
into an offensive and defensive alliance with Poland to
resist Russia, but appealed to England and France for
assistance. What was their answer P 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 Engt•
land's trade would not be injured. The commerce between
England and Poland had been a very extensive one. The
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 ptohibition followed, and the granaries were
made ruinous in a few years, and all remembrance of that
exchange had paved in history. The fourth paragraph in
the petition alluded to the year 1815 and to the treaty,
Having made some allusion to the violations of 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 tho position that was made for them,
_ _

but the Governments who had signed and pledged their
faith to them broke everyone of those arrangements,7and
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 tom arils 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
ihe redemption of their national in-
dependence,"
adoption of the address was moved by Mr. HASLAM,
c for tsuee:l3toeinnedede of
Europee
by the Rev. G. W. CLAritAm, 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 ZAmovsxi, which, having been
seconded by Mr. N. ZAnA, and acknowledged by the Chair-
man, the meeting broke up.

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

TILE A:I LA N TIC 8 TEA NAVIGATION

IN TILE FEAR 1861.

The Kew York Ilandels Zeitung publishes an
elaborate statement on this subject, from which the
subjoined intereriting particulars are abridged :
During the past year three of the steamers trad-
ing between North America and Europe were lost
—viz., 1. The United States, on her voyage from.
Glasgow to Quebec, which sailed on the 13th of
April, and was wrecked on the 25th on Bird Rock,
in the St. Lawrence river; one life lost. 2. The
Canadian, which sailed from Quebec on the Ist of
June for Liverpool, and was wrecked on an iceberg
on the 4th of that month near Belle Jsle, and went
down, with 25 passengers and 10 of the crew. 3.
The North Briton, which left Quebec for Liverpool
on the 2d of Nov., and was wrecked on the sth of
the same month, near Paroquet Island, without the
loss of a single life.
The following lines were at work during the
year

1. The Cunard steamers (Persia, Arabia, Asia,
Africa, Australasian, Europa, America, Niagara,
and Canada) have been running between New York
and Liverpool, and between Boston and Liverpool.
On the former line they made 26 voyages westward
and 27 eastward, and on the latter 26 voyages each
way.

2. The Liverpool, N©w York, and Philadelphia

(Inman's) line (Etna, City of Baltimore, City of
Washington, City of New York, Edinburgh, Kan-
garoo, Glasgow, Vigo, and City of Manchester),
which run every week between New York and
Liverpool, made 51 voyages westward, and 49 east-
ward.

3. The Canard screw steamers (Marathon, Kedar,
Jura, and Palestine) performed 4 westward and 6
eastward voyages between Liverpool an a New York.
4. The Liverpool, Quebec, and Portland line
(Canadian, North Briton, Bohemian, Anglo-Saxon,
North American, Nova Scotian, Palestine, Hiber-
nian, Norwegian, and Jura), run during the summer
months to Quebec, and during winter to Portland.
These steamers made 51 westward and 49 eastward
voyages.
5. The New York, Southampton, and Harre tine
(Arago and Fulton) made 12 eastward and 13 west-
ward voyages.

6. The Galway, Boston, and New York line, via
St. John's, Newfoundland (Prince Albert, Columbia,
Adriatic, and Parana, the latter chartered), made
six eastward and seven westward voyages.
7. The Glasgow, Quebec, Portland, and New
York steamers (United Kingdom, United States,
and John Bell) sailed 11 times westward and 12
eastward.

8. The Great Eastern made three voyages west-
ward and two eastward.

9. The steamer Saladin made one voyage east-
ward.

10. The Belgian steamer Congress made one
westward and one eastward voyage.
11. The Hamburg-American Company's steamers
(Saxonia, Borussia, Hammonia, Teutonia, and Bava-
ria), running between Hamburg, Southampton, and
New York, made altogether 21 voyages westward
and 20 eastward.

12. The North German Lloyd steamers (New
York, Bremen, and Hansa) made 12 westward and
12 eastward voyages.
The total number of passengers forwarded by the
different lines of steamers between Europe and
North America in the years 1860 and 1861 is as
follows :-1860,we5tward,49,796 ; eastward, 24,644 ;
total, 74,440. 1861, westward, 40,351; eastward,
28,956 ; total, 69,307 ; showing a decrease in 1861
of 5,133. It will be seen that the decreaselast
year was in the passengers going out to America,
the number being 9,445 less than 1860, while there
was an increase of 4,312 in the number travelling
eastward to Europe.

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT WESTERN.

The directors of this company have just issued
their report. It states that the agreement of the
30th of May, 1861, for the union and amalgama-

tion of the Great Western and West Midland Com-
panies, commencing from the Ist of July last, have
rendered some changes in the accounts for the half-
year necessary.

The accounts for the last half-year show (after
deducting all separate liabilities on the Great
Western account) a disposable balance of £133,983,
and the directors recommend a dividend at the rate
of 3 per cent. per annum on the Consolidated Great
Western Stock, carrying forward £10,424 to the
current half-year. The directors have charged the
sum of £4,500 as an estimated loss under the terms
of the original lease of the South Wales Railway,
which lease was specially excepted from being a
joint account, in the agreements with the West
Midland Company. The original lease expired by
agreement on the 31st of December last, up to
which date any differences in the accounts are to
be settled by arbitration. The South Wales re-
venues from that date will be placed in joint
account with the West Midland Company, subject
to the payment of rent and other terms fixed by
the heads of agreement, which have been approved
by special general meetings of the three companies.
The results hitherto obtained from the joint work-
ing of the Great Western and West Midland lines,
although productive already of considerable ad-
vantages to the public, can scarcely yet be taken
as an illustration of the ultimate or general
benefit hereafter which may be anticipated. The
directors express confidence in the future advantages
to be obtained, not only by the public, but by the
companies, as soon as the amalgamation shall have
been further and fully developed. Since the last
meeting in August it has been thought conducive
to the interests of the united companies to enter into
an agreement with the Metropolitan Railway
Company for working their line, when completed,
upon the percentage system, providing for that pur-
pose the needful stock in locomotive engines, car-
riages, &c., so that every advantage may be ob-
tained for the convenience of the public using con-
tinuously the Great Western, West Midland, and
Metropolitan Railways for access to the city. The
works of the latter railway have been progressing
most satisfactorily, and their engineer reports the
prospect of completion for opening in June next.
The works at Paddington for a junction with the
Metropolitan Railway on the property of this com-
pany have been long since constructed, and, with a
view to work the Metropolitan traffic continuously
into the Paddington Station, it has been thought
desirable to provide station buildings and works
within the Great Western premises, which will
be forthwith undertaken by this company, and for
which the Metropolitan Company have agreed to
pay interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum,
under the working agreement. The works of the
West London Extension Railway and of the

Victoria Station in Pimlico have been carried
on with considerable spirit, and it is be-
lieved that both will be ready for opening
early in the summer. The new junction with
the West London:Railway at Wormwood Scrubbs is
advancing satisfactorily, but considerable difficulty
and delay have arisen with respect to the construc-
tion of a station at Kensington. The joint commi-
ttee of the Great Western and West Midland Com-
panies have entered into agreement with the pro-
moters of a local line, called "The East Gloucester-
shire Railway," for subscribing to and working that
line from Cheltenham, which is intended to join the
Great Western Railway by a junction with the
Faringdon branch, and to join the West Midland
Railwpy by a junction with the Bourton-on-Water
branch, for bot!t which branches bills have already
passed. The co_mpauics jointly engage to subscribe
towards the share capital a ,um not exceeding
£350,000, and to work the line upon reasonable
terms when made. A guaranteed contract for mak-
s() as to
ing it has been arranged with Mr. Brasseb