The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-30 00:00:00

WEST KENT RAILWAY.

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Railways from Lewisham and Lee to Eltham, the Crays, and Dart-
ford, and Dartford Creek ; Junctions with Railways of South-
Eastern, and Darcnth Valley Railway Companies, and Facility
Clauses affecting those Companies, and the Westminster Termi-

nits Railway Company.
NOTICE IS HEREBY , gIVEN, -That
APPLICATION is tiltendia tube made to PARLIA.MEN
in the ensuing Session, for leave totring in a Bill to enable a Com-
pany' to betherebylneerpornted to make and maintain the Railways
hereinafter mentioned, or some of them, together with all necessary
and convenient stations, approaches, bridges, roads, communications
and other w irks, and to confer upon the Company so to be incorpo-
rated all necessary and proper powers for effecting the objects here-
tnaf er mentioned, or some of them, (that is to say) :-
Ist. A Railway commencing by a junction with the North Kent
Line of the South-Eastern Railway Company, near the point where
the parishes of Saint Paul Deptford, Lewisham, and Greenwich
unite, and terminating at a point in the parish of Eltham, near to
the turnpike-road from Eltham to Maidstone, and near the cross
roads at Pope-street, in the said parish of Eltham, in the county of
Kent.
and. A Railway commencing by a junction with the said firstly-
described intended Rahway, at or near the point at which the said
firstly-described intended Railway is intended to terminate at Pepe-
street, in the said parish of Eltham, and terminating in the parish
of Dartford, at a point en the south bank of the River 'Thames, at
or near the place where the Dartford Creek joins the said river, and
which said last-mentioned Railway is to be made in or to pass
through the parishes of Eltham, Crayford, Bexley, and Dartford,
and the hamlet of Nottingham, or some of them, all in the county
of Kent.
3d. A Railway commencing by a junction with the North Kent
line of the South Eastern Railway Company, at or near the west
side of the Dartford station of the said South Eastern North Kent
line of Railway, in the parish of Dartfaird, and terminating by a
junction with tha said secondly-described intended 'Railway, at or
near a point on the south side of the said North Kent line of
Railway, abOut ten chains front the point at which the said secondly-
described intended Railway is intended to cross the said North Kent
line in the parish of Dartford, in the county of Kent.
4th. A Railway commencing by a junction with the said secondly
described intended Railway, at a point about nineteen chains from
the proposed point of j unction of the said secondly-described intended
Railway, with the said South Eastern North Kent Railway at Dart-
fold, and terminating by a junction with the antharisedline of the
Darentit Valley Railway Company, at or near a point about twenty-
ene chains from the intended junction of the last-mentioned autho-
rised Railway, with the said South Eastern North Kent Railway, in
the said parish of Dartford, in the comity of Kent.
sth. A Railway commencing by ajunction with the said firstly-
described intended Railway, at its proposed point of 'termination at
Pope-street, in the parish of Eltham, and terminating at a point
abutting on the public road leading from the turnpike road to the
Parish Church at Footscray, at a distance of about 10 chains to the
southward of the said Parish Church of Footscray, in the county of
Kent.
Gth. A Railway commencing by a junction with the said fifthly-
described intended Railway, at its proposed point of termination at
Footscray, and terminating at a point abutting the public road where
the River Cray crosses the parish boundary between Saint Mary's
Cray and Orpington, In the parish of St. Mary's Cray, in the county
of Kent.
Which said intended railways and works will be made to pass
from. In, through, or into the several parishes, townships, extra-
parochial and other places following, or some of them (that is to say) :
the parishes of Lewisham, Deptford, Saint Paul Deptford, Green-
wich, Lee, Eltham, the hamlet of Nottingham, the parishes of Bex-
Icy, Crayford, and Dartford, Chiselhurst, Footscray, St. Mary's Cray,
St. Paul's Cray, North Cray, and Orpington, all in the county ofKent.
And it is Mended by the said bill to apply for and obtain powers
to Crofts,. divert, alter, or stop tip, whether temporarily or perma-
nently,' all such turnpike roads, parish roads, streets and other high-
Ways, streams, pipes, drains, sewers, canals, navigation, rivers,
bridges, telegraphs, railways, and tramroads, within the 'parishes,
townships, and extra-parochial and other places of resaid, or some
of them, as it may be necessary or desirable to cross, divert, alter, or
stop up, for the purposes of the said railways and works, or any of
them, or of tine said intended bill.
To purchase by compulsion, and also by agreement, lands, houses,
and hereditaments, for the purposes of such railways and works,
and of the said intended bill, and to vary or extinguish all rights
and privileges in any manlier connected with the lands, houses,
tenements, and hereditaments so purchased or taken, or which
might ie any manner impede or interfere with the carrying into
effect the several objects of the said intended bill.
To levy tolls, rates, and duties upon or in esaect of the intended
railways and works, to conifer exemption. from the payment of such
tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish other rights
Una privileges.
And it is also intended by the said bill to snake effectual and com-
pulsory provision for the speedy and convenient transmission of
traffic passing to, from, or over the intende 1 railways, or any part
thereof, from, to, or over the railways of the North Kent Line of the
South-Eastern Railway Company, the authorised and proposed lines
of the Westminster Terminus Railway Company, and the authorised
line of the Darenth Valley Railway, Company, and to render it
obligatory on those Companies to transmit such traffic in the most
conven eat manner and without avoidable delay, and to provide for
a compulsory arbitration in case of diffei enee as to the terms and
conditions upon which such facilities are to be afforded.
And Notice is hereby also given that duplicate plans and sections
of the prepotted railways and works, with a book of reference to such
plans, anti a published map with the lines of the proposed rai,ways
delineated thereon, and a copy of tints notice as published in the
" London Gazette," will, on or before the 30th day of November
instant, be deposited for public inspection 'with the Clerk of the
Peace for the county of Kent, at his office at Maidstone, in that
county ; and that, on or before the saat 30th day of November
instant, a copy of so much of the said plass, sections, and book of
reference as relates to each parish or extra paroch al place in or
through which the said railways and works, or any part of them,
are or is intended to be made, tosether with a copy of this notice as
pualithed in tine " London Gazette," wi'l be deposited for public
inspection be the case of each parish with the parish clerk thereof,
at his residence, and in the case of each extra-parochial place, with
the parish clerk of some parish immediately adjoining thereto, at
his residence; and printed copies of the •aid intended Bill will be
deposited at the Private Bill Office of tha Rouse of Commons on or
before the 31st day of December, 1854.
Dated this 11th day of November, 1854.
E. W. COBB, 17, Parliament-street.

I-IMPROVEMENT IN COMMUNICATION
JL BETWEEN ENGLAND AND IRELAND —( Additional ac-
commodation for Traffic: Powers to the London and North Western,
the Chester anti Holyhead, the Great Southern and Western, the
Midland Great Western of Ireland, the Dublin and Kingstown, the
Dublin and Drogheda, the Dublin and Belfast Junction, and the
Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Companies, and the City of Dublin
Steam Packet Company, and the Dublin and Liverpool Screw
Steam Packet Company to contribute and to provide Steam Boats,
and make arrangements and to raise Capital ; Amendment
of Acts).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLICATION is in-
tended to be made to Parliament in the next session for an Act for
providing additional accommodation for traffic on or in connection
with the existing quays on the river Liffey, in the city of Dublin,
and the quays and piers of Kingstown and Howth, in the county of
Dublin, and the quays and piers at Holyhead, by the purchase or
lease by agreement of lands, and the erection of isuildings, sheds,
and other conveniences adjoining to and in connection with Dublin
and Kingstown and Howth and Holyhead Harbour,, or any of them,
and the quays and piers thereof; and to empower all or any ot the
Compaeles following (that is to say): The London and North-
Western, the Chester and Holyhead, the Great Southern and
Western, the Midland Great Western Railway of Indaltd, the Dub-
lin and Kingstown, the Dublin and Drogheda, the Dublin and Bel-
fast Junction, and the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway
Companies, and the City ot Dublin Steam-packet Company,
and the Dublin and Liverpool Screw Steam-Packet Company,
to execute the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, and to col-
itruct, purchase, and hire, and work and use steam and other
vessels, and to raise and contribute funds towards all or any of such
purposes, and to enable the before-mentioned companies, or any of
them, to enter into arrangements and agreements with respect to all
or any of such purposes, and with respect to the managetnent and
direction of the steam or other vessels so to be provided, and the con-
duct of the traffic to be thereby conveyed, and to the division and
apportionment between and amongst the said companies, or any of
them, of the tolls, rates, and charges leviable in respect of
through traffic passing between England and Ireland, awn to
enable the said companies, or any of them, it need be, to ap-
point a board of management or a joint committee or com-
mittees, for effecting the objects of the sal i intended act, or any
•f them, and to enable the said companies, or any of them, and
the In h Board of Works, and the ether parties in whom is vested
the management of the Holyhead, Kingstown, and Howth Harbours,
and the quays on the River Liffey, in the city of Dublin, to enter
into any arrangements or agreements which may be necessary In re-
ference to the purposes of the said intended act, or any of them : And
the said intended act will also provide for the levying and recover-
ing of rates, tolls, and charges in respect of the use of the steam and
other vessels so proposed to he provided, and in respect of the use of
the proposed new buildings, sheds, and other conveniences at Dublin,
Kingstown, Howth, and Holyhead aforesaid, and for granting exemp-
tions from the payment thereof, and for varying or extinguishing all
existing rights and privileges in or with reference to the said quays
and piers which would Impede or interfere with the objects and pur-
poses of the said intended Act, or any of them, and to grant other
rights and privileges :
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to alter, amend, ex-
tend tied enlarge some of the powers and provisions of the several
Acts incorporating and relating to the following Companies or un-
dertakings, so far as those Acts will be affected by the grant or
application
And the same Companies or undertakings respectively of
provisions whereof notice is hereby given (that is to
relating to the City of Dublin Steam Packet Coin-
P.:°:tvilicleeri:a'Auclyss and Piers at Kingstown, at Howth, and at Holy-
tp lst
say)ei
head, the London and North Western, the Chester and Ho'yhead,
the Great Southern and Western, the Midland Great Western Rail-
way of Ireland, the Dublin and Kingstown, the Dublin and Drogheda,
the Dublin and lielfast Junction, and the Dundalk mid Enniskillen
And Notice is hereby also given, That printed copies of the said
intended act will, on V m bere the 311th day of December next, be
deposited N
in the Private Bill-office of the Rouse of Commons.
Dated this 13th day of ovember, 1854:
Railway Companies.

MATRIMONY v. THE MILITIA.—A. priest in a neigh-
bouring parish has fallen on a singular, and, as it would
seem, successful device for replenishing his pocket at
the expense of her Majesty's service. He has announced
from the altar that no married man will be taken in the
militia, while all bachelors are liable to be ballotted for,
or even impressed. Acting on this hint, backed by his
strongest recommendation todo so, the eligible bachelors
of his flock have very extensively entered into the matri-
monial state. As each marriage secures a handsome fee
to his reverence, his advice was not very disinterested.
—Connaught Watchman.
EDUCATION IN THE HIGHLANDS.—The annual meet-
inc, of the Association for the Religious Improvement of
the remote Highlands and Islands was held on Thursday
in the Royal Hotel, Edinburgh. Mr. Donald Mathe-
son, who occupied the. chair, explained that the object
the society had in view was to provide education for the
people in the remote districts of the Highlands, and
otherwise improve their social and moral condition. The
report, which was read by the Rev. Mr. M‘Lauchlan,
gave an account of the successful operation of the so-
ciety. At present the number of schools in connection
with the association was 17, attended by 1,300 children ' •
and.fresh applications were daily coming in from districts
where great educational destitution prevailed. Profes-
sor Miller, Dr. Candlish, and other gentlemen, addressed
the meeting in support of the association.

Sir JOSHUA WALIESILEY, the chairman, then addressed
the meeting as follows :—Gentlemen,..... My gratification in
taking part in your meeting at this important crisis is
clouded by the remembrance that death has deprived us of
the countenance of one who had always taken a leading
part towards the restoration of Poland, and who deservedly
enjoyed the confidence of his own countrymen. His life
was shortened by his exertions iu the cause, and in him
Poland has lost an earnest adve)9AtOe liberty one of her
best and truest champions, and ess4s et us a friend. Ever
prompt to relieve suffering hull:Anil-be whatever form it
appeared, his zeal was so telUp9lll4.4geatlelms as to dis-
arm even his political opponents. (aseerf.) • Mho spirits
of immortals can mingle with the saairs of mortals, his
will aid our efforts : his example is at least worthy of all
imitation. (Cheers.) Before entering on the business of
the evening it is necessary I should know your wishes as
to the manner in which you desire it to be conducted. A
programme has been furnished me by the committee with
the names of.the several speakers. It will avoid confusion
if this!programme be followed. I will, therefore, ask you
to agree to that course. Louis Kossuth will be the last
speaker on the list, and, if it be desirable, other business
may then follow. One of our greatest poets has said,
" Thrice is ho armed who has his quarrel just," and none,
at least none here, will question the justice of the objects
we are met to promote. If this be so, we can well afford
that the moderation of our language shall comport with
the dignity of those objects. (Hear, hear.) I believe the
time is at hand when tho friends of freedom may prove
their sincerity by showing that they seek net the interests
of a section, but the will of the whole people. Oar
efforts should be directed in unity and sincerity to give
Poland the opportunity of selecting her own future.
(Hear, hear,) It is not my province as chairman to
declaim against the perfidy which enslaved the Polish
people, uor upon the ingratitude which so basely be-.
trayed the Hungarian nation ; neither would I venture
to eulogise tho heroic efforts each has made to gain their
independence. Others will better portray the miseries of
the past—l will merely express the earnest hope for a
brighter future. (Hear, hear.) But I cannot forbear to
say that I feel shame and remorse that England, enjoying
the blessings of true liberty and constitutional govern-
ment, should have suffered without an effort the happiness
of millions of their fellowmen to be sacrificed to the in-
sane ambition and thirst of conquest of men whom wo de-
signate as Allies. (Hear, hoar.) I sin persuaded I speak
the sentiments of the great body of the English people
when I say they look upon these acts of tyranny with ab-
horrence, and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices
for the independence of both Poland and Hungary.
(Cheers.) lam no advocate for war, unless it be just and
necessary. I believe it is so now. I know that war must
increase our burdens, diminish our commerce, and restrict
our national industry; but I also knew that there are
higher aims and aspirations than any which can arise out
of mere monetary considerations. I believe that national
interests and national honour are involved in the struggle.
It is not simply a question between Russia and Turkey,
neither is it one to be settled by diplomacy, but between
aggression or non-aggroasion, between despotism and free-
dom. I cannot forget that Russia and her allies have
been the means of enslaving Italy, of subjugating Hun-
gary, of blotting Poland from the map of nations, and
would now make Turkey the means of introducing her
'barbarous hordes to western Europe. (Cries of " hear,
hear.") What her course would be were she mistress of
Constantinople will beat be gathered frcea the'uuscrupulous
policy she has hitherto pursued. (Hear.) Of our alliance
with Amatiia I will not hem tie./ sees A£ speakr I shall
be glad to find it does not end, in disaster and disgrace.
(Hear.) Apartfrom the justice of the objects to be attained,
I am fully persuaded that it is the interests of Franco and
England to make common cause for Polish independence.
I believe it to be the will and wish of the people of this
country. The sooner we direct our efforts to the real issue
the sooner shall we be able to check this game of aggres-
sion and tyranny, and insure a pormaneet and honourable
peabe. (Hear, and cheers.)
Mr. SHAEN, the secretary, then reed the address of the
Polish committee to the meeting. The document, which
was a lengthy ono, was listened to with some few signs of
impatience, the anxiety of the auditory being to hear M.
Kossuth as noon as possible, but the substance of it was a
recapitulation of the efforts of Poland to recover its liberty,
and an assurance that the Piles were now ready to rise
against Russia, if properly supported by France and
England. The address also pointed out the success
with which Russian power might be assailed in the Polish
territory.

Mr. P. A. TAYLOR moved the following resolution :
" That this meeting, believing it essential to the freedom
and peace of Europe that the encroachments of Russia
should be successfully resisted, approves of the present
war as a just and necessary one, and emphatically records
its conviction that that object can only be achieved by the
frank and unhesitating recognition by the Western Powers
of Polish nationality, without which the risk of disgrace
in the conduct of the war is imminent, and its termination
will be disastrous—immense treasure will have been
squandered in vain, the unequalled heroism of our coun-
trymen and our Allies wasted, and their lives sacrificed,
not as martyrs to freedom, but as victims of a vicious
diplomacy :" at the same time denouncing in eloquentterms
the conduct of Austria, which had enabled the Czar to
murder the British troops in the Crimea. Ile ridiculed
the military array of Austria, which he said consisted of
Italians, Hungarians, and Bohemians, all of whom would
be ready 'at a moment's notice to turn their guns against
their oppressors. He was reluctant as yet to believe that
our Government wilfully starved the war, but results
which must immediately take place would be the test of
their sincerity.
Professor NEWSIAN seconded the resolution, at the same
time pointing out the necessity of seeking alliances with
nationalities rather than with Governments. We were
now, he trusted, in firm alliance with Erases, and should,
as soon as possible, draw closer our alliance with Anierica,
else the Czar would be enabled to recruit his navy by pur-
chases in the dockyards of the States. If we had with us
the nationality of Poland, of Hungary, of Sweden, of
Germany, and of America,lhe war 'would become merely
the question of a day.
The resolution was put, upon which Mr. Earnest Jones
endeavoured to obtain a blowing; but upon a show of hands
it was decided that the ressolution had been sufficiently dis-
cussed. The resolution liras thou put and carried unani-
mously.

U. KOSSUTH now came, forward to the front of the plat-
form,, and his appearan oe was the signal for loud and
general cheering. After paying a graceful tribute to the
memory of Lord Dudley Stuart, 111. Kossuth said—All of
us hale present harmonise in the sentiments prompted by
the solemnity of the occasion ; all of us chains an equal
share in paying a tribute of veneration to the memory of
that noble effort of national virtue which we had assembled
to commemorate, and all of us &ate in good wishes
for the full and perfect,- restoration of Poland, such as
justice claims, her imperescriptible national rights de-
mand, her dreadful long :sufferings deserve, and the se-
curity of Europe requires. (Loud cheers.) But though
all of us claim an equal share in these sentiments, the
part we have to take in the proceedings is different.
Since the thundering roar of cannon from around Sebas.
topol continues to rouse :ian echo of moaning grief from
thousands of British h omestea.ds, is there one British
heart all along these isle as, the recesses of which had not
thbreiellnedawskitehd,thaenianlqvahieru2
sir—vewrheitthesrtitrhree,pi,eltiheye pre-
sideswpahliech spectre
of
assassinated overthi
Polandswarbaam-Ivasitsehoanvee ?
risen
before
your those
eglo-
riousdead, whom the v torld admires, and whom Great
Britain bewails, have fall ion a sanguinary tribute to dire
necessity ; or have they fallen but a wanton sacrifice, im-
molated on tho shrine 017 the errors of those who rule ?
Can the aged mother, pri sud in her maternal joy yesterday,
and childless to-day--ca, a the fatherless orphan, standing
like a broken reed—can the widow, cast upon public
charity (and 11,000 alre lady they are)—can the nation,
maimed by the loss of tl m bravest and best of her sous—
can they comfort themselves with repeating the words
Paulus Armidius spoke, when from the funeral of both
his sons ho rode up in_ triumph to the Capitol ? Can
they say, " I feel the 117.1 U of my homestead consoled by
the good fortune of o.e commonwealth ? " (Hear.) Is
there one man all along ithese isles, in the breast of whom
the question had not r iseis,whethor there be no better course
for carrying on the war? A course sure to succeed, and
richer in results, anclamt no dreadful in sacrifices ? Yes, that
question has been asked. by all, it stirred like the thrill of
conscience through the *breast of all, and whenever it has
and the words I have six ken on the subject to the British
nation must have haunts (.1. the very conscience of Britan•

nia. Dissimulation may feign indifference, and make a
show of such slighting opinions which it dislikes ; yet,
when sad reality bears out the truth of disregarded anticipa-
tions, their very resting-place of proud indifference, and of
careless neglect. (Loud cheers.) Under' these arcane-
stsnces, the Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of the Polish
Revolution of IS3O is not a mere Polish domestic com-
memoration, intended to rouse the spirits of the living by
recollections of a glorious past—it is a solemn warning of
self-preservation, addressed to the British State's wisdom;
it is a query, by which the genius of the future is about to
test the vitality of the British Empire. (Cheers.) Hence
the difference in the part wo have to act. Poland makes
the query—England has to answer. England, gentlemen,
and not this assembly. The transactions of this evening
will not be wound up by words spoken within these walls,
nor by the passing cheers some of them may have
met. This is no question which England might dis-
pose of by passing in silence over it. No answer
will be an answer likewise. And such will be
England's fnture as England's answer will be. As
to ourselves, representatives of other nationalities, we,
while waiting till the hour for our own battle strikes (and
while preparing for it, perhaps) we recline on our arms,
and watch, and witness, and warn. In keeping within the
limits of this sphere, I would address myself, first, to you
my brethren in misfortune, the Polish exiles, and then
,to England, sir, if you give me leave. (Hear, hear.) To
you, dear brethren in exile, I have a word of thanks to
speak, and an assurance to give,' and an advice to impart.
It is eighty-one years sine° Poland first has been qiusr-
tered by a nefarious ad of combined royalty, which the
Swiss Tacitus, Johannes Miller, well characterised by
_saying that " God permitted the e,c,t, to ..shess: forth the
morality of -kings." (Cheers.) Arid 'it is twenty-fonr
years since down-trodden. Poland made the greatest—not
the last—manifestation of her imperishable vitality, which
the cabinets of Europe ureic) either too narrow-minded
to understand, or too corrupt to appreciate. Eighty-
one years of still unretributed crime, and. twenty-four
years of misery in exile. It is a long time to suffer and
not despair. And all' this time along, you proscribed
patriots of Poland, you were suffering and' did not despair.
You stood up before God and the world a living " statue,"
with the unquenchable- life-flame of patriotism streaming
through its petrified limbs. You steed up a protest
of eternal right against the sway of impious might,
" Mene Tekel upharsin," written in letters of burning
blood on the walls of overweening despotism. Time,
misery, and sorrow thinned the ranks of, your scattered
Israel ; you have carried your dead to the grave, and those
who survived went on to suffer and to hope. Wherever
oppressed freedom reared a banner you rallied round—the
living statue changed to a fighting hero. Many of yours
fell, and when crime triumphed once more over virtue and
right you resumed the wandering exile's walking-stick,
and did not despair. Many amongst you who were young
when they last saw the sun rise over Poland's mountains
and plains have their hair whitened and their strength
broken with age—with anguish, and with misery; but
the patriotic heart kept the freshness of its youth. It is
young in love of Poland—young in aspirations for her free-
dom—young in hope, and youthfully fresh iu determina-
tion to break Poland's chains. (Loud cheers.) What a
rich source of noble deeds patriotism must be that gave
you strength so much to suffer, and never to despair. You
have given a noble example to all of us your younger
brethren in the family of exiles. When the battle of
Canna was lost, and Hannibal was measuring, by bushels
the rings of the felled Roman esquires, the senate of E01:110
voted thanks to the Consul Torentino Varro for "not
having despaired of the commonwealth." Proscribed pa-
triots of Poland, I thank you, and history will thank you,
that you have not despaired' of liberty. This Is the thanks
I had to give. The time draws nigh when the oppressed
nations will call their oppressors to a last account, and the
millions of free wen, in the fuluess,of their right and of
their self-conscious strength, pass judgment like arrogant
conquerors, privileged murderers, and perjured kings.
(Cheers.) In that supreme trial the oppressed nations
will stand one for all,qcad all for one. (Loud cheers.)
Faults, errors, and misfortunes of the past were not in
vain. It was a terrible ordeal school, but a school it was.
All of us have learnt something, and the best of what we
have learnt is, that the principle of national fraternity is
more than a philanthropic emotion—it is the only effective
guarantee of that freedom which we have to conquer, and
which we will oonquer. Let England and America, proud
in their present security—let all those whom it concerns—
mind my warning, while it is yet time to mind it. Those
who will not have contributed to the triumph of freedom,
while they had the power to contribute to it, shall have
forfeited their claim to a share in that mutual guarantee.
(Cheers.) If all the sitns do not deceive us, the men of
Poland may be the first called upon to batter a breach.
Many will stand by you, and others will fight the common
elaewbere ; hut though thattly. they bee nearest is
nearest, and close by is best. It is not in vain that na-
ture, and nature's God, made Hungary a neighbour to
Poland, and Poland a neighbour to Hungary. Our ene-
mies are the same, and our cause is identical. The much
I feel, the little I may know, and all I can, my heart, my
brain, my arm, shall be with Poland, Remember this.
Yet, though I may have learnt something, the pledge of
my own fraternal assistance is a small matter anyhow, and
oven that little may be lost too soon. We aro mortal men,
and I grow old, and am careworn. However, that is not
worth while speaking of. I may be nothing, but Hungary
is much; and it is the genius of Hungary which assures
you, through my lips, Hungary will stand by reviving
Poland. Remember my words. (Loud cheers.)

This is the assurance I had to give.

Last comes the advice.
The present complications of Europe —a necessary result
of the crimes and errors of the past--cannot be brought to
a definite end without Poland acting her part. Of two
things, one. Either an insufficient arrangement, leaving
the future unsettled, and the war sure to recur again, more
dangerous to some, more frightful to all who are parties to
it ; or the war carried on to a definite issue. This is the
only alternative. In the first case, Poland may lose time,
but will not have lost her cause. It is others shall have to
meet the imprudence of such an irresolution. And none
more so than England, be sure of it ; England, the great
nation which the T bites estimates to be " tottering on the
climax of its greatness." If this war is not carried to a happy
definitive issue, the next time itrecurs, I apprehend, it shall
be England's turn to present in her fate a second Poland in
history, may be even hero at hand, who knows ? But cer-
tainly in and about America and in India England's proud
standing presents many a vulnerable point. So far there
is a difference between Russia and the British empire,
not to the advantage of the latter. England has many
a vulnerable point, Russia has but one —Poland ! Woe
to those who, though at war with Russia, still disregard
that fact. (Cheers.) In tho second alternative, why it
is perfectly absurd to believe that matters can be carried
on without Poland. Those who mind this too late will be
brought to remember it with regret. Therefore, I say to
you, men of Poland, gird your loins, watch your opportu-
nity, slumber in your armour, but from this moment never
more sleep. Remember the French proverb, "Aide toi et
Dieu t'aidera" (Help thyself, and God will help thee).
(Loud cheers.) The moment is critical. It requires all
the wisdom, all the discretion, and all the resolution of
every Polish patriot. I have heard some whispering about
tricks discussed in the dark recesses of secret diplomacy.
Oh ! the fatal word ! that workshop of conspiracy against
mankind, fraught with more and deadlier crimes than
ever wore brought to light by tribunals and police-courts.
I warn the Polish nation to be on its guard. Cabinet
diplomacy may call on Poland out of dire necessity, but if
Poland, the nation, takes not in time a stand to revindi-
sate her personality, and to reassert the position of an
equal, who as well has assistance to give as to receive, not
merely an object, but a party to the transactions, you may
once more experience what you have already experienced
from the secret transactions of the Vienna Congress of
1815, where the name of your nation has been made use of
to secure concessions, which were net of your concern, and
the concession once secured, Poland thrown overboard and
sacrificed to expediency. You may see the trick performed
once more. Nobody in the world has the right to dispose of
Poland's destinies but Poland alone. I call on the Polish
nation to take in time such a stand, that on the one hand
nobody shall dare to usurp her rights, and on the otherhand
nobody shall dare to ignore her. I would say to the Polish
nation, be prepared to receive assistance whenever it may
come, but beware how thou puttest thy trust inkiugs. They
cannot like Poland, because they do not like liberty.
(Cheers.) This is my advice. Now to England, sir, if the
assembly "
.desires me to go on ; if not, I cart stop hero.
(Loud cries of Go on.") First, and before all, I desire
to pay tho modest tribute of my highest admiration to thlke
heroic army in the East, which, with so much glory, was
the path of honour, of danger; and of death—(loud cheers)
—nothing daunted by the reflection which could not have
escaped the mind of many of them, that the post of honour
to which they have been sent is certainly not the best
which might have been chosen to begin with a war against
Russia, and that a wiser pol'ey, by not fettering those
auxiliary elements whom circumstances imperatively ad-
vised to resort to, might have spared much of their heroic
blood, all in promising richer results. Sir, I can tell some-
thing about what heroism is. The unnamed demigods of
Hungary who fought the gigantic struggle of 1849 may
well claim a place of immortal renown in the ranks of the
bravest of the brave. And I who have witnesed this, I
say history must go back for centuries to find out a battle
like that at Inkerman, where 14,000 men resist victo-
riously the valorous attacks of 60,000 well-disciplined
troops, and where almost every man who fought on your
side laid low one of the enemy. The battle of Alma, do.
festive as it was in disposition, and therefore barren in re-
sults, has been glorious in execution, and covered with
a lustre of immortality the renown of the British and
French soldiers ; but the battle of Inkerinan, from
the first in rank to the last, was a prodigy of valour,
scarcely inferior to the miracle of Agincourt. (Cheers.)
The history of 1854, whatever be its records about the
State wisdom of those who rule, will hand down with im-
perishable renown to the admiration of posterity the im-
petuous military ardour of the French, and the stern, im-
movable courage of the Britons who fought in the Crimea.
However, they fight on a battle-field richer in glory than
in possible results, and richest in death. One more such
victory as that of Inkerman and the army is lost. It is a
sad consolation to know, that the tombs of those glorious
dead around Sebastopol can say, like those of Thermopykr,
" Wanderer, tell England thou halt seen us slain obedient
to our country's laws." The English public have been
told of late, that there never was a position of mere press-
ing necessity, demanding so imperiously a mild that can
forestall instead of waiting on events, and can avert evils
which it may be impossible to repair. (Applause.) That
is perfectly' )ust, though somewhat of an after-fact wis-
dom coma out too late. But if it be just, then there is no
good service to England in lulling public opinion to sleep
by advising it to let bygones be bygones. A forestalling
mind must look to the past for instruction. And the great
lesson of accomplished facts is, that England's policy, in
reference to the present war, has been wrong in its dime-

tion, and inefficient,:. ful, and disastrous in details.
Let us analyse the situ' tEt.Y-our gigantic armada in the
Baltic is nearly without altintel-to rest its head upon. To
do something effective there, the co-operation of Sweden
was a 'fleeter of prime necessity. . England did not get it,
because England's policy was wrong. I told England six
months ago that the co-operMion of Sweden is to be got
only by ceiling Poland to arms. And that was the answer
which three mouths lacer King Oscar gave to General Ba-
reguay d'Hilliern. You have taken Bomarsund, a small
matter forsooth, yet when the time comes that necessity
will force you to remember Poland, and shall have to thank
her fnr the advantage of getting Sweden over to your side.
Then Bomarsund would have proved an acceptable offer to
Sweden, but you blew it up, as if afraid of your own vic-
tory ; as if bout on the purpose not to have anything to
offer to Sweden. What a gigantic blunder. (Applause.)
England pretended to strike a blow at the commerce of
Russia by blockading her coast, and England just succeeded
in turning Russian commerce to Prussia. England has
bent her mind on bringing Austria over to herself; she
has sacrificed to this one aim everything : numerous mil-
lions spent in vain ; the life blood of the flower of Eng-
land spilt in vain ; principles, political reputation, the
liberal character of the war, and the very issue of the war
—everything. And has your Government gained Aus-
tria? ( No, no.) Has it gained that Austria to whom
it has sacrificed everything—that Austria of whom even
the Times is bound at last to acknowledge that " you are
fightieg her battle mere than your own?" (No, no.)
What a proud sneering there was in official quarters when
I months ago told the good people of England that they
believe they pay and bleed for freedom, when iu reality
they are made to fight for Austria. Now it comes out at
last. Truth will come out, like murder will. Well, has
your Government gained Austria ? (No.) Go and read the
well-founded lamentations in the organs—even the Mini-
sterial organs of publicity—about the treacherous attitude
and the overbearing insolence of that Austria which your
Government persisted in courting with so mach sub-
mission, and which in return facilitate§ the enterprises of
Russia, insults your allies; anti coturteriets 3rOtneethibins-
, tions. , (Cheers.) It is licit Wee that you have not gained
over Austria, but you have theTarks arrested in the midst
pf theif Victorious course ; and the fruit of their heroic
struggle, poor Wallachia, played over into the treacherous
hands of despotic Austria. There is the•Turicish army
paralysed' on the one hand, and there is on the: ther hand
the Czar left free to throw oyerpowerizignumbers upon the
flank and the rear of your gallant ranks in the Crimea.
There you have oho spirits of the Turkish army, high flow-
ing us they were by the victories at Siliitria and Giurgevo,
now depressed ; there you have the spirits of the Russian
army, depressed as they were, now restored. And oh, I
' could tellyou what it is to neglect the moment of spirited
excitement in a victorious army, and what it is to give
time to a sieraoralised enemy to resume its spirits and to
take breath. One such moment's neglect in a war,'and it is
1 not battlealeentletnen, not battles, but empires, that may
be lost by it. And at last, ' alas not least, there is'Sebas-
topol. Every British heart has watched the great bloody
drama there with intense anxiety. I am not wanted to tell
you the tale of your heart. I am not wanted to describe how
your brave suns have found there an entrenched camp with
au army, instead of a fortress with a garrison, as your Go-
vernment appeared to have anticipated, how new armies
are pouring upon your shattered ranks, as your Government
does not appear to have anticipated, or else it would be
more the,n an error to act as the Government did. • All lam
wanted to do is to quote from public report these words :
" The question is no longer whether we shall take Sebas-
topol or not. The siege of Sebastopol, though not raised,
may be regarded as at a stand-still. We are reduced, to the
defensive." Such is the situation. " The leaves have
turned; Russia is the besieger, you aro the besieged."
And at what price has been this situation purchased ?
Gentlemen, on the sth of July, ten weeks before England
embarked on that expedition, ill-advised as well as ill-pre-
pared, I, in a speech, the contests of which would have
been well for Great Britain to mind, spoke these words at
Glasgow :—" Not one out of five of your brave sons will see
Albino again." Of course I used the number figuratively,
as indicative of a great loss. Nov, it is a sad tale ; number
your deed, your wounded—and your disabled—more than
40,030 seen out of 30,000 are already lost. My sad antici-
pations are literally fulfilled ! And here at home —why,
here the number of widows and orphans applying for sup-
port to patriotic charity amounts to ]l,OOO. Such is the
position, gentlemen. Now, with that position thus ana-
lysed, I call on contemporary ago, and on history, to say
whether I was exaggerating or toe harsh in saying that
England'i policy has been wrong, that it has bees successful
nowhere, bit inefficient, unsuccessful, and disastrous every-
where. But you. are told, for all consolation, that "no
Truman foresight would have fully anticipated the extraor-
dinary position which you find yourselves in." Now, as to
this, I must say it is not true. Many a man must have anti-
cipated that position. I, for one, have foretold it fact by
fact, and word by word. And I certainly claim not the
slightest credit for perspicacity on that account. I wonder
how any thinking man could do otherwise than know all
this. Yet if such there were, they could have used the
modest light of my poor oil lanip. It is time the people of
Great Britain gave me tremendous cheers in return, and
went home to toil on, and then to sleep. It is as if I would
have been mendicating favours for myself, whereas it was
England'shonour, dignity, interest, and success that I held
up before their eyes. They went to toil and to sleep, and
the flower of your nation went to die ; and now ' after my
disregarded words have proved true, some of them (the
Scottish Press) say—" The words he spoke read like the
inspiration of a seer, or a picture drawn from history."
Others, the Times, say--" No human foresight could have
anticipated the extraordinary position in which England
finds herself." Extraordinary ! Why, what is there ex-
traordinary in the inexorable logic of concatenation be-
tween cause and effect ? Is it extraordinary that Sebas-
topol is found to be an intrenched camp with a numerous
army in it? Is it extraordinary that the Czar is pouring
whole fresh armies to its defence ? The Czar has been left
perfectly free, and with ample time afforded to do it; nay,
in fact, he has been invited to it 1.3, the Turco-Austrian
treaty, negotiated under England's auspices. (Hear.)
The extraordinary in the matter is not that he has sent
reinforcements to Sebastopol, but that he has not sent
double the number, and a month earlier. I take this to
be so extraordinary that I find only two explanations to
account for it. The first is, that to begin a war against
Russia with a landing expedition in the Crimea is an ides
so supremely absurd that the Czar, giving more credit, for
perspicacity to his enemies than they deserved, did not be-
lieve it until you actually landed off Eupatoria. (A laugh.)
Secondly, and chiefly, you are indebted to Poland for not
having to meet 100,000 Russians more at Sebastopol. If
England did disregard the fact that Poland is the vulne-
rable part of Russia, the Czar was prudent enough to
mind it. In the Crimea proud England and France at-
tack him ' • he is content with opposing 100,000 men to
them. On the Danube the flower of the Turkish army,
elated by victory, defies and menaces him ; he is content
to oppose them with 80,000 men. Bat to Poland, where
there is not ono man in arms, but where the unquenchable
fire of a heroic nation's hatred is smouldering, he sent
an army of 300,000 men, to be prepared for emergencies.
(Cheers.) Some may tell you that this is due chiefly
to a precaution against Austria. (Hear.) But it is
clear to demonstration that the Czar feels perfectly easy
about the submissive obedience of his pro-consid in
Vienna—(a laugh)—or else lie certainly would not have
left the very existence of his 80,000 men on the other
side of ;the Pruth at the mercy of his good friend the
Hapsburg. Yes, it is -the name of Poland you have to
thank for the fact that your whole army in the Crimea, all
heroes as they aro, have not yet fallen victims to over-
powering numbers. Bat the situation is sad enough such
as it is. To be sure there may have been some strategical
and tactical mistakes in the operations themselves such as
they ore. Sir, I have not the, pretension to say that my
past career could impart authority to any remarks about
military matters. I have not been brought up a soldier,
neither can I claim the honour of having had to act the
part of a soldier in our glorious war. My duties were high
and great, but somewhat of a different nature. They were
just what the duties of your Government are now, only
that mine were a great deal more difficult. We had to
fight two great powers alone ; you are three great powers
united to fight only one of them. And I had no ready
army, no rich treasury, no abundantly stored arsenals, and
no free communication with all the world. (Hear, hear.)
I had to create everything with nothing, out of nothing—
money and armies, and arms, and all military implements
—secluded as we were from all the world, and in the in-
terior with the deluded third part of our population armed
with the firebrand and with murder, in a condition worse
than the Vendee ever was in France, or Ireland some-
times to you. These were my duties ! and, besides, my
duty has been to designate the objects of military opera-
tions, and to direct the war in general, just as the duties
of your Government are. Yet, as soldier I was not at
that time, I could not draw the plan for a battle, or
direct it myself. But the fact is, had I been able to
add the skill of a soldier to my patriotic devotion, no
treason would have crept into our ranks, and Hun-
gary were now free—not all tho Czars of the world
could have defeated us. (Loud cheers.) And who can tell
whether I may not yet be called upon to servemy country?
Therefore, I thought the time of my exile may be best
employed in preparing for possible emergencies, by
learning what, unfortunately, I have not known before.
And modest as be my humble abilities, I certainly dare
say, if assiduous application and discretion, guided by ex-
perience, may master the mysteries of an art, I am a sol-
dier now, and feel competent to judge of military matters.
(Hears hear.) With this consciousness, I say there have
certainly been some very serious mistakes connected with
the operations in the Crimea. I consider it an unaccount-
able mistake to have engaged in the siege of Sebastopol,
without taking previously hold of the strait of Perekop in
the north, and taking command by sea of the bay of Kertch
in the east, so as to prevent, or at least retard, the rein-
forcements which it was easy to foresee that Russia would
send. And that neglect ouco committed, I certainly can-
not understand the logic of shifting the basis of operations
down to the southernmost corner of the peninsula, thus
leaving the whole of the land free to draw hence supplies
to Sebastopol, and leaving the Russians not only entirely
at liberty to send reinforcements to the Crimea, but
and unim-
peded, even to enter large
Sebastopol in small or numbers,
just as they please, without having is calledto
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opinion is, that, yours being what .
basis (the fleet), you could choose that poNinotwa,ltlhaelobnuglktlomf
coast which was the best to rest upon..
your Allied squadron is actually, not sooffuttleheol
&Steers triorpeorl.,
at Balaklava, but north of Sebastopol,
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at point where the
with a well-provided redoubt
only road from the interior splbits in two towards Se-
bastopol and Balaklava, you, y your position al-
ready, had restricted the communications of Sebao-
topol to that narrow convex where it is now your ba
fortune to be pent up. You would have cut off all
their supplies from the interior, and no reinforcements
could have entered Sebastopol without having first to fight
separately an open field battle, wherein, certainly, the
Russians are no match for your heroes there. Instead of
that, your army has been established so as to leave Sebaa-
topol perfectly free to communicate with the whole em-
pire of Russia. This is a strategical error, in my humble
opinion, not even justified by tactical consideraticeee.
By besieging the north instead of the south of Sebastopol,
you would have encountered more of permanent fortifica-
tions, which is no difficulty for engineers, but would have,
encountered lessof an entrenched camp with a less numereu a
garrison which makes your real difficulty ; and, at last,
once the north-side fortifications taken, you would at sauce

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siege, with the difference that while you were the besiegers
Russia had to stand the siege in a fortified place ; , you,
on the contrary, would have to stand it amid ruins, '
yawning, shattered, and cuouldering. Even as to the '
battle of Alma, glorious as it had been in personal gallantry
from the Commander-in-Chief down to the last in rank and
file, I cannot help thinking that it has been a wanton sa-
crifiee of valuable life, and very defective in plan. A
strong position should never be attacked when it can be car-
ried
by turning it. And this was evidently the case.
A march of two English miles, up the Alma, must
have forced the Russians either to retreat or to change
thslr front with theloss of all the advantages of the position.
Not the wings of the line of battle, but the position had to
be turned. And as to the battle itself, why the plan of
turning both the wings of a line of battle is certainly the
worst plan which could bo imagined. It is condemned by
theorsans welLisly all the history of modern warfare. ..
Also it did !not succeed on the right wing of the enemy
where it would have been of ileportaace ; the success on
the other wing was just so much as if the French had been
bent on the generosity of preserving the Russians from
being driven into the sea, in case the English flanking
movement succeeded. And then the battle was reduced
to a parallel attack in front, which will say so much as a
perfect absence of any lan at all. It was a bull-fight,
breasts against breasts, and horn against horn. Thu impe-
tuous bearing of the French soldier, and the stern courage
of the English soldier, hare carried the day. The French
have gloriously maintained their military renown, and the
English soldier deserved the more praise, as your shilling
and pound-fashioned military regulations give a very scanty
share in those impulses of noble ambition which the French
soldier draws front the conscience that he carries the
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and dead laid
low on that day could have been spared forsooth. How-
ever, all these and like mistakes enter only for secondary
considerations in estimating the situation such as it is.
The chief error (if not more) on the part of the Western
Powers is in the very idea of beginning a war against Rus-
sia by a systematic campaign in the Crimea. Not that I
am of the opinion that this war Should have been brought,
or should be brought to an end without wresting the
Crimea from the Czar, and destroying his Black Sea fleet ;
but,' am decidedly of the opinions that, if an attack oil"
Sebastopol has nol ottduld notebetvesed by &nava
toitp. cre sita,sm;' I,&asterfneilidisY Wrsgr"Atfli-"Btstrageotts -
slaughter at Sinop°, a spitematic expetition- to the Crites*
. ought' to have been one of the last Strokes, and by. no
means the first • in no case one which. I would have
undertaken to deal before I had, by successful victoria* in
Bessarabia and around Odessa, driven the Russians back
from the Black Sea, and perfectly isolated the Crimea from
the rest of the Russian empire. (Hear.) Then taking my
stand with the main body of my force in a convenient lo-
cality, somewhere above Odessa (which, remember, might
have been accomplished as circumstances were up to the
half' of Septeinber)—l certainly would have sent some
thirty thousand men to take Sebastopol, who, heroes as
they are, with a gallant, intelligent, and experienced chief
91 their head, as Lord Raglan is, would have done their
work up to this day under such circumstances, and would
have found Menschikoff cut off from every hope of relief,
fighting, at the best, but for military reputation, as General
Chasse did at Antwerp. But in the meanwhile, I would
have been perfectly content with knowing the Russian
fleet was utterly paralysed by the very presence of your
vastly superior squadron in the Black Sea. (An easy task
with that naval force and with a little vigilance.) I would
I have been rather glad to know that the necessity of keeps
ing Sebastopol well garrisoned would serve me like a divers
sion, by keeping so much smaller the main Russian army.
which I was engaged in defeating. But before beating the
Russians decisively in the field, in no case would I have
severed my disposable forces us you (lid, by separating from
the 120,000 Turks on the Danube—in no case would 1 have
invited Russia to bring down upon my divided forces
100,000 men, to a position the most advantageous to you,
as certainly Sebastopol is—in no case would I have afforded
to the 100,000 Russians the additional advattage of the
strength of those' fortifications, of the vast stores of their
almost unlimited armament, and of the guns of the ships
moored in the bay. I would have forced the Russians either
to fight without those advantages, or to go of and leave
those commodities without the 100,000 men; but in no
case would I have permitted them to combine both those
elements of strength. (Hear, hear.) Such are the facts. •
I will not say that you, will not take Sebastopol ; leaders
and men like thee() you have there may do prodigies,
though their position is certainly anything but sa- -
tisfactury. 'Whatever be the shadows which coming
events cast over my soul—not for anything would I throw
a damp upon the spirits of those brave men, when all -
their spirits are required. Lot us take for granted that
they succeed; let us anticipate the sight when the shat-
tered ruins of that glorious army will stand on the smoul-
dering ruins of Sebastopol. Well, and after ? If your
secret aim in this war has been solely the destruction of
the Russian fleet ; well, this will be achieved at the sacri-
fice of the flower of both your nations ; but this you never
can dare avow ; you never can avow that your only obt
in this war has been a rehearsal of Copenhagen and of Na.N
varin% from mere jealousy; and if you have higher, broader
views-, as have you must, then, supposing you have taken
Sebastopol, I ask you—well, and after? The Crimea
taken is no security for the future to Europe. It is
no barrier which defends, but an acquisition which re-
quires defence ; and what Europe expects to have for
issue from this war is a material barrier against Russian
preponderance ; a moral barrier of free nations against
despotism. (Hear, hear.) Oh, how different would be
your position now, if your Government had not sacrificed
your own safety to illiberal views, and your own succets
'to regards for the worst of despots and despotism. Sups
pose you had organised a brigade of Polish exiles. (Franc*,
even the France of Napoleon has a foreign legion. Why
not you, who are not over abundant in men, and who have
foughtamearly all your continental was. with Igor-n't u
money, but with foreign armies ; your own braves acting
the part which the Old Guard of Napoleon acted.) Sup-
pose you had organised a foreign legion of Polanders here,
and ordered Sir Charles Napier not to care about barren
Cronstadt, but to take Riga, and laud the Polish legion,
to call on Russian Poland to rise ; and to back them, lead
the 12,000 French, who were despatched to the Baltic
with such a pompous flourish of Imperial words, and who
did so wondrously little there. (A laugh and disapproba-
tion.) Suppose this dove ; and suppose, at the same time,
the Anglo-French army in the East, 100,000 strong, join-
ing the 12,000 Turks, elated by recent victory, pushing on
after the defeated Russians up Bessarabia—what would be
Russia now ? and how different would be your position ?
(Hear, hear.) But Austria—what with Austria ? I hear
the silent question of your heart's anxiety. Well, of two
things, one—either Austria would have let you do • and
then tho question requires no answer, as she would
played false against you, and in _this case you had but to
call on Hungary and Italy, and where would be Aus-
tria now ? England takes but too much the airs of
looking down upon us with the commisseration of
pride in politics, because I or Mazzini, or Ledru Rollin,
or these gentlemen here, or any of the proscribed
patriots of whatever land, we are but poor exiles.
England forgets that those elements to which these now
poor exiles belong may weigh tomorrow the destinies of
Europe and your own in the hollow of their hand. Why,
for a passing moment is Bonaparte not doing it? While a
few years back, you have seen him nothing more than an
exile, less entitled to reasonable hopes than the elements to
which we belong, though not less miserable than some of
us. You forget that revolution which we assemble to corn.

memorato, you forget how the very Kosziners (scythemen)
of slighted Poland have mown down the invincible
Cuirassiers of Russia like grass; you forget that we Hun-
garians, abandoned, almost betrayed by all the world, we
alone have stood our ground, not only against that Austria
which England so much fears or so much loves, but stood
our ground against Russia besides, which you are three
powers to fight. (Applause.) Prudence, justice, and
humanity, alike advise you to look to nations for your
Allies, and 10, England flatters dynasties, and relies on
alliances with passing men instead of looking to lasting.
nations. (Hear, hear.) Whatever be my opinions about
Napoleon and your alliance with him, I will respect your
feelings, and will not say anything to hurt them ; yet,
one consideration I would recommend England well
to weigh. Napoleon is a mortal man like whoever else.
Ho may die by many a malady: he may be dying at this
very moment. Who knows? At all events, Napoleon is
but a passing meteor; the French nation is a lasting
luminary. (Hear, hear.) You are allied to Napoleon.
Do you believe to have secured the alliance of the French
nation? No, you have not. And why not ? Because
your alliance purports to barter away the freedom
of Poland, Hungary, Italy, and Germany for the preca-
rious and disreputable friendship of the Hapsburgs and
the Brandenburgs. Such is your alliance with Napoleon.
Now, do you believe that the French nation, restored to
its sovereignty—as certainly restored it will Le ever
would sanction such an alliance? No, by all that there is
sacred to men, never, never ! (Cheers.) Mind these my
words. But the question is, what have you to do in the
situation you are placed ? You are told, for all answers,
that reinforcements shall be sent, and reinforcements will
do. I went the length of England and the Highlands of
Scotland, and seeing the scantiness of your rural popula-
tion, I wondered where England could find soldiers, onceu:
N
eeriou engaged in a great war. Your cities absorb
nation, and it is to-day true what HOrace wrote 2,000 Y
years ago ; it is not the cities but the J vihiuralet furnishesopulation,
rusti corunt numetclor militunt proles,
the stout arms for the war. Still toasedantdythanedmoasnt possible
a
of reinforcements is wise, and
necessity besides. But s?pposeityi:uhrevcerutiitmyeothurortoeintfraoruces:
menu to your heart's delight, and a
form them into soldiers, w_ilelaithcaataa
you must peuetrate to
tainly not. To have a d
the root of the evil. The radical
)al sEeivirecrye oafhilaldl ykonuarwdaiffithcuil-
ties is Austria. (Cheers
Either England fears Austria too much, or loves her
T ere is the evil. Don't fear Aus-
more than she ou .
trig ; throw her ongvhetr)boaA and you are safe ; if not, not.
g .Referring to what I was saying
(Rene wed cheering.)
about the ccoemsespe,narative barrenness of a success at Sebasto-
besides, sure to come at a later period,
I sue
I really believe even now it would he better for you
to shift the theatre of the war (provided it be not
too late). Men who, 14,000 strong, have beaten 60,000
Russians, can gain no more glory by the barren laurels
gathered on the ruins of Sebastopol than they have, and
can nothing lose in their reputation by being despatched to.
triumph on a bettor field richer; in results. And, oh ! what
could be done with men like these on the right spot ? To
engage in is wrong direction may he an error—to persist in
a wrong direction and sacrifice life (and such life !) may
look like a crime, the retribution of which may yet fall
heavily on your heads. Shift the theatre of the war, in•
sist peremptorily on Austria's evacuating the Prineipak-
ties, and on siding with or against you ; advise the Sultan
is grant independence to th Roumains and arra them.
Enlist the Polish emigration—not in Turkey, but here.
Mind where the weak point of Russia is, and strike there.
And wherever a government is playing false to you, sail
on the nations it oppresses. These are your radical reme-
dies ; but remember that while in matters of internal pro-
gress you may say—by and bye wo shall come to that. In
a war, everything depends on moments. Opportunity
lost is a campaign lost—may be, even snore. Poland is
your surest remedy even to-day, but how much surer and
easier would it have been six months ago. Ido not speak
from even patriotic egotism. This war—such as it is—and
may it be carried on, as arraiuged, in the worst possible
manner, is manifestly an indication of retributive justice,
slow, but sure, in its decrees. Much against the will
that t
come.
your Government, the freedom of Hungary
It were sad for myself not to see the day,rtbhutwta thhilaat
to
so ovnleyaka
question of individual happiness, not worth
of. if I die to.day.l die sure of the fact thlaspemaykdnesert
Hungary will be free. (Great .)?
foNrceeiathfeorr ytohna.t
from egotism. I speak as :-;_pgrldanactuffillPfcriieenndt
nor even Napoleon, can The
like as you can, let us send our
war there. lie
c""t
sayill do at. home. Re has many
last soldier; the police w

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_iltirfge Van:Ad—Paris France, Algiers, and watch to the
,7
,V• • north and to-jhe south.' You have not many men—he has
4t too much of exigencies. 'repeat my words of yore. Come
1„ i , ' whit mar—iivthis war, England stands more in need of
,-
~' - Poland, saape,a Hungary, than Poland and Hungary stand
i in ueed.9tEndand. With us. victory ; without us, de-
H.l 64,,, tw4 isC.disteputable, insufficient armistice. Yea re-
nibei,thel,ale about the nine sybilline books. Poland
'a-,,i4 ii-ill be,teur sybilline books. Three already are lost.
Widen to buy the remaining six, or else, like the
Roman king of old, you shall have to pay the fall price
of all the nine for the last three. Mine is the advice,
yours the is choice.
IL. Kossuth resumed his seat amid loud cheering, and
the chairman declared the busiaess of the meeting to have
terminated.

;7i

By order.

W. T. ADCOCK.

THICA.TRE ROYAL ILAYMA.RICET.
Under the management of Mr. Backstons.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 30,

LYCEUM THEATRE,

THIS EVENING, Nov. 30,

To conclude with the Farce entitled MY FELLOW CLERK.

TIIRATRE ROYAL ADELPRI.
Proprietor. Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 20,

.A.ATLEY'S ROY.\I. A NIPRIT'Ih:AT.t +.*

Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
Mlraculon3 attraction, and success without parallel !

OXFORD, WORCESTER, and WOLVER-
HAMPTON RAILWAY.—ACCELERATION of the 9 a.m.
DOWN EXPRESS to WCRCESTER, and Additional Third Class
Accommodation by the 1 p to. Down Train from the Euston 'station
to the Oxford, Worcester, t nd Wolverha opton districts.
Passengers are Booked t nd conveyed throughout.• without brea.k
of gauge or change of carriage, between Euston Station, London,
and Buttons on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rail-
way, by the following Trains:—
WEEK DAYS.—DOWN TRAINS.

. Onlinary Express Ordinary Express
Ist and 3d Sat and 23 is3t,d2c(ll., v. c. Istc 1.11.2 d
Class.
- -- --
A.M. A.M • P.M. P K.
\
Leave London •• .. ..1 6.15 9. 0 1. 0 6.15
P.M.
12.50 6. 0 9. 0
Amin) at Worcester • • 10.25
1 25 6.51 9.30
Kidderminster 11. 5
11.20 1.35 7.10 9.40
Stourbridge ••
11.40 1.55 7.35 10. 0
Dudley • • • . • •
WEEK. DAYS.-UP TRAINS.
Express Ordinary I Ordinary Express
Ist and 2d Ist and 3d ' Ist and 2d Ist and 2d
Class. Class. Class. Class.
-- --
A.M. A.M. A.M. P.M.
Leave Dudle7.• -•• • • 6.45 8.30 10.15 3.55
Btour3ridge.• .. 7. 0 8.50 10.35 4.15
Kidderminster.. 7.10 9.10 10.50 4.30
NOON.
Worcester .... 7.35 9.50 12. 0 5. 5
P.M. P.M.
Arrive at London •... 11.30 3.15 5.15 9.15

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE,
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
LAST NIGHT BUT EIGHT.
THE ALLIED ARMIES QUADRILLE.
The PROGRAMME for THIS EVENING, Thursday, Nov. 30.
will include the new Serenade and Song, " Sweet Love, arise." and
ullisagein Sung by MadanteAnna Thillon ; Mendelssohn's Overture
to Midsummer Night's Dream ; Semirasside Quadrille ; Finale from
Beethoven's Symphony in C Minor; Grand Operatic Selection from
Don Giovanni ; Valse from Lucia di Lammermoor; Solos. cornet-a-
Pistons, Herr Kcenig ; violin, Sig. Rabbi° ; and elatienet, M. Wullle ;
the American Quadrille; the Moldavian Schottische; the Charge
Galon. and the new DESCRIPTIVE QUADRILLE, THE ALLIED
ARMIES. Jullien, assisted by the Bands of her Majesty's Grenadier
Guards 2d Life Guards, and Coldstream Guards.

Pawns or ADirisstox.—Promenado, boxes, and galleries, Is.
dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; private boxes I/. Is. and 11. 111. Galleries,
M. .TULLIEN'S GRAND BAT. MASQUE will take place en,
MONDAY, Dec. 11, and terminate the season.

Will be performed the Comedy of PRESENTED AT COURT,
Principal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, W. Far ran, and Howe;
Misses Reynolds, E. Chaplin, Grantham, and Lavine.
To which will be ailed THE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
To be followed by MORE BLUNDERS THAN ONE.
To conclude with POPPING THE QUESTION.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Cnaar.ao LIMN.
THIS EVENING. Nov.' 30,
Will be performed THE COURIER OF LYONS. Characters
by Mr. -C. Kean, Messrs. J. Vining. Addison, Graham, D. Fisher,
Cathcart, and *Aker; Misses Desborough, Heath, Ternan, and K.
Terry.

Alter which will be presented a new Melo-dramatic Spectacle, in
three acts, entitled SC ['AMYL, the Warrior Prophet.

Will be performed THE GAME OF SPECULATION. Charac-
ters by Messrs. C. Mathews, R. Rosily, F. Matthews, and Baker ;
Mrs. Hughes, Misses Oliver and Wadham, and Mrs. Foote.
To be followed by a new Comic. Drama, entitled A COMICAL
COUNTESS.

'Will be performed MASKS AND FACES. Characters by Messrs
B. Webster, L. Murray, r. Bedford, &c.; Mesdames Celeste, Wool.
gar, &c.

After which, a new Farce called THE SLOW MIN.
Yellowed by KONA. FIDE TRAVELLERS.
To which will be aided a new Farce. entitled THE RAILWAY
MLLE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC TIIIIATR.E.
• Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
TIIIS EVENING, Nov. 30,
Will be presanted Till SPA. Principal characters
by Mews. A. Wigan, Emery, liobson, and 11. Cooper: Mies
Marlton, Sirs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Fithsllau, and MIAs Julia St. George.
To be followed by Till FIRS P NIIIIIT. Characters by Me.q...
Ained Wigan, Leslie, Harwood Cooper, and Gladstone; Miss Julia
St_ George. and Mess Emily ortits.a..

To cenclu.lo with tha Farce, called A BLIGIITED BEING, In
which:dr. Hobson will appur.

TUL. EVKNING,
The Magnificent and heart. stirring MILITARY SPECTACLE, In
2 acts, by .1. 11. ,voCquattaa, Esq., called TUE RATTLE OF TILE
ALMA I graphically realising that terrible conflict, and occupying
both the Stage arid the Ring, with 400 Auxiliaries ;
After which, the Celebrated SCEWES in the ARENA, Invented
and conducted by air. William Cooke.

To conclude with a Grand Entree called THE WILD INDIANS
ON THEIR FLEET HOItSES!

N.R.—An early attendance is respectfully suggested, In consequence
of the numbers who nightly throng the doors of the Theatre. ,

Box-of/ice open ftora Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting Manage:, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director,
Mr. Wm. Cooke, Jun.

MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tan Dar —Morning 40 min.after 10 I Evening 10 min.aft. 31
To hfoenow Morning 38 min.after 11 livening 0 agn.aft. 0

THI WEATHER.--Rua Orates, Nov. 30.
Tinntigoitigrim, rd THE RHAnz.
51—highest since noon yesterday.
39 °west this morning awl-during the night.
45—this day, at noon.
BAIWICITZIit, 29.55-4 rise of nearly half an inch since
yesterday.
WIND, S.W.—Light breeze, with fine sunshiny weather.

mid)

LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1854,