The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-09 00:00:00

THE POLISH TRIALS.

BERLIN, AUGUST 3.—On the 3d, at eight o'clock, the
court was thrown open. Sixty accused were present, all
of them belonging to the Polish nobility and ace-used of
being accomplices of Miroslawski. The President called
the name of Louis Miroslawski, upon which the latter
rose, his counsel, Dr. Meyer, stood by him. The act of
accusation against Miroslawski was then read to him in
the Polish tongue, and afterwards in German. The ac
cused, one of the chiefs in the late insurrection, is thirty-
three years of age, a Catholic, and was born at Nemours
in France. His father was lieutenant-colonel in the
Polish army, and aid-de-camp to Marshal Davoust. At
seven years of age he entered the army, served as a
lieutenant in a cavalry regiment during the revolution,
and emigrated to France, where he maintained himself
by literary pursuits. He subsequently became a mem-
ber of the Polish Democratic Association at Paris, and
in 1845 was sent to Posen to examine, in a military
point of view, the preparations for the insurrection. The
act of accusation gives the details of his proceedings up
to the 12th February, the day on which he was arrested.
During the reading of the act of accusation, tthe
accused remained perfectly calm, and not understanding
the German language, the questions put to him by the
president were translated by an interpreter. The inter-
preter having announced that the accused acknowledged
the act of accusation to be correct in the :main points,
the prisoner then demanded permission to plead his
cause in French. This was refused by the President,
who said that he must speak either in Polish or German. ,
Hereupon his counsel stated that the accused being a
Frenchman by birth, he had the right to defend himself
in the language of that country.
The President : This cannot be accorded.
The accused then presented a manuscript as his de-
fence. This was objected to on the ground that in oral
proceedings a written defence could not be admitted.
The president, however, said that the manuscript would
be received provided the pleading took place in the
German or Polish tonguo.
The accused then rose and spoke in the Polish lan-
guage, with all the energy and vivacity natural to his
countrymen, first in a powerful and energetic tone, and
then in one which gave tokens of the deepest emotion.
The Commissary—Although I do not understand the
Polish language, it strikes me that the accused has said
a great many things that do not appertain to the ques-
tion ; that his intention is to influence the feelings of
the public and his fellow accused. I therefore propose
that the essential points of his speech be alone trans-
lated, and that the Court decide whether he shall be
allowed to continue.

The President—Has the accused examined the gene
ral bearing of the accusation ?

The Interpreter replied that he had defended the re-
volution on much higher grounds.
The bench hereupon held a short consultation, and
decided that the proceedings were perfectly justified as
yet. _ _ _

M. Martins, an advocate, rose, and in the name of all
the accused, demanded that M. Miroslawski should be
allowed to repeat his speech, and that the interpreters
should translate it. He said that the proceedings were
null owing to the interruptions that had taken place,
and that it was quite requisite to know what the accused
had said.—(Loud cries of " Bravo," from the public.)
One of the interpreters was called upon to state what
had been said, which he did in general terms,
The advocate Firbach then rose for the prisoners, and
protested against the whole proceedings, on the ground
that mangled statements were invalid.—(Loud applause
in Court.)
The President called for silence, and declared that in
the interrogatory each word should be faithfully inter-
preted.
With this the prisoners' Counsel were satisfied, and
the proceedings continued, being confined chiefly to
questions on the prisoners' connexion with the demo-
cratic society.

MIDDLESEX ELECTION.
TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Slll,—As an elector for Middlesex, and feeling some
interest in the result of the present contest for that
county, I may be allowed to ask of Colonel Wood or his
Committee the reason for the so constant reiteration in
all shapes of their promise to pay " travelling expenses"
to all voters in their interest? We have had it in ad-
vertisements us an appeal to the " out-voters especially."
We have this day plarcarded over the metropolis,
" Those who wish their travelling expenses paid vote
for Colonel Wood." Does the Gallant Colonel or his
Committee suppose that the independent electors of
Middlesex are not proof to the temptation of a long ride?
Are they ready to sacrifice principle at the shrine of
" Carriage free from all parts of town or country?"
I am, Sir, yours most obediently,
AN INDEPENDENT ELECTOR.
Aug. 9, 1847.

INVERNESS.—(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)—The
Duke of Sutherland steamer arrived here this morning-
from London with her Majesty's servants, horses, lug-
gage, &c. There were upwards of 100 tourists.—There
is not the slightest appearance of the potato disease, and
there never was a finer crop.
DEATH OP LORD DUNSANDLE.—We deeply regret
to state that accounts from Dublin announce the demise
of this nobleman from the effects of an attack of the
prevailing typhus fever. The contagion during the pre-
...* scar has In Ireland alone made shocking havoc
among the higher and middle classes; two Peers and two
Members of Parliament having been carried off within a
very brief period. The deceased Peer was a member of
the Daly family, who have for many years exercised
considerable infictenee in the county of Galway, and was
brother to the Bishop of Cashel. He was raised to the
Peerage shortly before the retirement of Sir R. Peel, in
consideration of his political services. His son, the Hon.
Denis Daly, is son-in-law to Lord Heytesbury, late Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, and is on the staff off the present
Viceroy.
ILLNESS OF TUB DEPUTY CORONER FOR MiDDLE-
SEX.—As Mr. Mills, deputy coroner for the western dis-
trict of Middlesiex, was on Friday driving through Chan-
cery-lane in a cab he was suddenly seized with a para-
lytic affection of his left side. He was removed to his
residence, Francis-street, where he was attended by Mr.
Wakley, M.P. In the course of the evening he rallied,
and after some time his medical attendants pronounced
him out of danKer.
MR. T. S. louricomnE.—As we were the first to
state, in opposition to nearly the whole of our contem-
poraries, the fietal character of the malady that afflicted
O'Connell, so shall we now probably be the first to state
the serious illness of the brilliant Member for Finsbury,
and the too groat probability of another election for that
borough ere long. The disease of MeDuncombe is one
of the chest, and we have high anthority for saying that
it is of an alr‘rrning nature. Already Mr. Duncombe
has been seriously advised to think more of his condition
than his position, and already steps are being taken to
fill up any vacancy that may occur.—Sunday Times.
MEMORIAL Or THE LATE EARL OP LONSDALE.—
On Saturday last, a colossal statue of marble of the late
Earl of Lonsdale •was placed upon its pedestal between
the Court Houses in this city. Our readers are aware
that soon after tire death of that excellent nobleman, a
subscription was opened for the purpose of erecting a
testimonial of the high esteem in which be was held by
the inhabitants of this county. A fund sufficient for the
purpose having been obtained, the execution of this
statue was intrust ed to Mr. M. L. Watson, a native of
this neighbourhood, and one of the most eminent sculp-
tors of the day. The manner in which he has executed
the work justifies the confidence placed in his ability.
The statue represents the venerable Earl habited in the
robes and decorations of the Order of the Garter, which
is a costume admirably suited to give grace and dignity
to the figure. The attitude of the figure is good, and
the arrangement of the drapery is everything that could
be desired. The effect of the whole is excellent. We
need scarcely add that the erection of such a work of
art is honourable to those who have thus manifested
their veneration and affection for the late Earl, whilst
the artist, by the good taste and ability with which he
has executed the work, has increased his already well
established reputation.—Carlisle Patriot,

The failure of Messrs. Fraser, Neilson, and Co.,
West India merchants, was announced on Saturday
morning. The house was of old date, and its suspen-
sion is to be attributed, not to speculation, but to gra-
dual decline, in consequence of the depreciation in the
value of West India property and the general fall in
produce. The amount of liabilities has not been stated,
but it is not supposed to be very heavy ; whatever it
may be, however, it is expected that the winding up
will yield results as unfavourable as those which usually
attend the liquidation of worn-out firms. The Hon.
William Fraser, the senior partner, died, it will be re-
membered, a year or two back.—A further failure was
also reported in the corn trade, the party being an ex-
tensive miller, who is understood to have stopped in
1544 for 35,0001. The announcement, however, was
afterwards contradicted, but merely on theground that an
arrangement had been effected with the creditors.. The
affairs of Mr. Edward Robinson, a merchant inlikthee.
Mauritius trade, who died a few weeks arep,
wise announced to have proved in a conditionwtoerieender
suspension of payments necessary on the part of the
executors of the estate.
CONFLAGRATION IN THE HARROW-ROAD.--YeS-
terday, at noon, a terrific fire broke out upon the farm
premises belonging to Joseph Neeld, Esq. ,IM. P., known as
Oakington-house, Harrow-road, about eight iles from
London. The flames were first perceived in a rick of
new hay standing in the yard, surrounded by numerous
other stacks, barns, the farm house, and otberpro perty
property.
The cause could not be ascertained ; some persons
attri-
bute it to lightning, while others say it was occasioned
ioned
by being stacked too soon and overheating. T
mo-
ment the fire was perceived a number of persons hastened
to render assistance, but owing to the small space be-
tween the stacks, the flames speedily communicated right
and left, until the whole of the ricks in the yard, num-
bering six, were enveloped. Intelligence having been
dispatched to Willesden, engines arrived, and were set to
work from a pond. The flames however, continued to
extend, and a man was dispatched to London on horse-
back, for the brigade. Mr. Staples, of the London Fire
Establishment, immediately started with an engice,
and a strong muster of firemen,and were at work the
whole of the afternoon. At nine o'clock a number of the
firemen returned to town, but the fire had not been quite
extinguished. The loss will be very considerable, and
it is understood that the property was not insured.
TAPESTRY—THE ONLY LIBRARY OF OUR FORE-
' FATHERS.—In an age when few could read, says Mr.
Fairholt, and when nobles and warriors disdained that
accomplishment as effeminate, the chieftain and his co-
partners at the board might be, in some degree, in-
structed by a glance at the walls of his dining. hall ;
more especially when these stories were brought more
vividly to mind by the lays of the attendant minstrels.
It thus, in a non-reading age, filled an important office,
et the same time that its primary use, that of furnishing
and warming the ill-erected stone stronghold of the
chieftain was accomplished.-- The Builder.

MONUMENT TO MR. O'CONNELL.
Yesterday a numerous meeting of the citizens of
Dublin was held at the Royal Exchange, at which the
Lord Mayor presided, for the purpose of passing resolu-
tions and forming a committee, pledging the people of
Ireland to erect a monument to the memory of Mr.
O'Connell.
The LORD MAYOR, on taking the chair, said that the
meeting had been convened by him in compliance with
requisitions which he had received from a great number
of the principal cities and towns in Ireland, the inha-
bitants of which had proposed that measures should be
taken for the purpose of erecting a suitable monument
to the liberator of his country, Daniel O'Connell.
Mr. John Flanedy was appointed secretary.
The meeting was briefly addressed by Mr. Edmund
Smithwick, Doctor Gray, Messrs. J. D. Mullen, Alder-
man MeeLoughlin, A. J. Maley (barrister), and Sir
Percy Nugent, Bart. The several speakers' heat tily
supported the object for which the meeting was called.
Mr. MALEY, in seconding a resolution which had
been moved by Alderman M‘Loughlin, said that
when he saw the advertisement by which the meet-
ing had been convened, the first impression that
crossed his mind was,- that O'Connell did not want
this monument, because he had built up a monument
fur himself which could only be destroyed when civiliza-
tion should become extinguished.—(Cheers.) But
Ireland had a duty to perform not only to O'Connell
but to herself. She had been accused of ingratitude
to some of her most illustrious sons ; and, unfortu-
nately, in the present case, she would be exposed
to the charge of ingratitude, for she never could
be sufficiently grateful to O'Connell.—(Cheers.) The
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a step taken by O'Connell towards achieving
Catholic Emancipation, that did not consolidate
the force and strength of the British empire; and
he (Mr. Maley) had the testimony of two of the greatest
men of the present day—Sir Robert Peel and the Duke
of Wellington—to sustain his opinion on the subject.
They had struggled agai:st him until they found him
too powerful, and they then came forward and said that
he left them no alternative but to yield to his policy or
peril the existence of the British empire by a civil
war.—(Cheers.)
Sir PERCY NUGENT, in moving the next resolution,
said that he had heard of the meeting but only a few
minutes ago, being but a contingent visitor to the
city. He felt bound to express his admiration of the
agency of the great departed spirit, and particularly
called upon to bear this last testimony to his departed
shade.—(Cheers.) He had felt from his earliest day and
always acknowledged the greatness of O'Connell's
energy, and felt proud in having in his possession several
testimonials of that great man, approving of his conduct.
—(Cheers.) The resolution which he had the honour
of proposing referred to a meeting which would be held
at a future day, and the mode in which the object was
to be carried out, and by that means he had the gratifi-
cation of stating that the question would be more widely
extended, inasmuch as it would reach the heart of
everybody, and reanimate that feeling to which
through life he gave spirit and animation.—(Cheers.) He
called upon the aristocracy to co-operate in a testimonial
of respect to O'Connell, for it was they who had bene-
fited most by his exertions, and while others had been
placed on the high road to preferment, they had already
reaped the benefit of his labours.—(Cheers.)
The committee was then formed, and a subscription
list opened, shortly after which the meeting adjourned.
—Dublin Evening Post.

DEATH FROM FOUL AIR.—OH Saturday an in-
quest was held by Mr. Bedford, the Westminster Co-
roner, at the Crown public-house, Long.acre, on the
body of George Gross, aged 30 years, who died in a
lodging-house in Langley-court, under the following cir-
cumstances :—lt appeared from the evidence that, about
half-past four o'clock on Friday afternoon, the deceased,
who was a lodger in the above house, was seen to go to
the privy in the yard, and shortly afterwards he was
found lying on the ground outside the door, having ap-
parently fallen insensible outside of the closet. He was
raised by some men, and although a surgeon was imme-
diately sent for, life was extinct. The stench from the
water-closet was so overpowering, that the men who
raised the deceased were obliged to leave the spot. Mr.
Berry, surgeon, of James-street, Covent-garden, who
was called to see the deceased, said that the stench from
the closet was so horrible that he could not remain in it,
but had the body brought into the passage to examine it.
The odour was not confined to the house, but contami-
nated the whole neighbourhood. lie smelt it at a dis-
tance of sixty yards off, and found the neighbours at
the doors complaining of it. The emanation was quite
sufficient to cause death. He had no doubt that deceased
died from the sudden escape of foul air. The whole of
that part of the parish was in a dreadful state from the
want of proper drainage. It was quite sufficient to pro-
duce some endemic fever, and he should not be surprised
if it did. The inquest was ultimately adjourned, with
the view to further inquiry, and steps being taken to im-
prove the neighbourhood.

CUSTOM-.HOUSE PROSECUTION.—IMPORTANT TO
LIGHTERMEN.—A case was on Saturday brought before
the Commissioners of Cust ,ms of considerable import-
ance to persons engaged on the Thames. It appeared
that on Thursday, on a Rotterdam steamer arriving off
Erlth, three men, named Donohue, Wvles and Price
who were euipl.),l at, a Dattast engulf, discrveu watt
large packages thrown from the steamer into the river,
which proceeded, without altering its speed, towards
London. The men accordingly took a boat and soon
picked up the bales, which, upon examination, they found
to be leaf tobacco. It was then arranged between them,
that Donohue should attend to the engine, and that
Wyles and Price should bring the tobacco up to London,
and deliver it to the Custom-house authorities. The
following day Donohue, hearing nothing of the other
parties, had suspicions that all was not right, came up
to the Custom-house, to inquire whether the tobacco
had :been deposited there, and being answered in the
negative, it led to further investigation, and it was ulti-
mately ascertained that the tobacco had been brought
up by a barge to the Surrey Canal, where a portion of
it had been landed by Wyles and Price, with the view of
appropriating it to their own use. Messrs. C. A. Davis
and Charles Sabine, Custom-house officers, were soon on
the alert, and succeeded in taking them into custody.
The remainder of the tobacco was found in the cabin of
the barge, which has been placed under seizure. These
facts having been proved, the prisoners have been com-
mitted to Maidstone Gaol. It is rather a singular fact,
from information recently received, that the person who
was to have been ready to receive the tobacco on the
arrival of the vessel at Mill, was taken into custody by
Mr. Davis, only a few days previously, for being found
with a large quantity of smuggled tobacco in his pos.
session. His absence, therefore, has led to the event
above described.

STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon
as accident of a frightful nature occurred to a young
man in the employ of the Iron Steamboat Company.
It appears that the Clarendon steam-vessel, coming down
the river, had, in the endeavour to avoid one of the large
Greenwich steamers, come in contact with one of the
piers of London-bridge, and carried away one of her
paddle boxes. The unfortunate young man, who was on
board of the vessel, stepped to the side to ascertain the
extent of the damage done, and while he was leaning on
the remnant of the paddle-box and busily engaged in
removing the debris of broken wood, iron, 8.7. c., the Childe
Harold steam-vessel, which was moving stern foremost
caught his loins and jammed him against the woodwork.
The vessel then swung round, and the stern rails rolled
the unfortunate man round several times against the
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Hospital, where he now lies with little hope of his reco-
very. No blame whatever is to be attributed to the
persons on board of either of the vessels, as the sufferer
was loudly called to to get out of the way when it was
perceived that a collision was inevitable.
STRANGE ACCIDENT.—Mr. Body, of Liskeard
parish, whilst going home from the nomination, on Fri-
day last, with his son, both in a state of intoxication,
fell into the Liskeard and Leoc Canal, and was drowned.
The son called into a neighbouring house, leaving his
father asleep in the cart; and the horse being thirsty,
went to a little stream of water near the canal, and the
cart turned over in the canal with Mr. Wyly under. A
surgeon was immediately called, but found life extinct.--
Devonshire Independent.
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rails. The stoker was, however, the only person in the
train who was injured and it is hoped his injuries are
not very serious. The accident is stated to have arisen
from the jumping of the engine, which was an old one.—
Scarborough Gazette.
THE CARLISLE MURDERER.r-,c 4RLISLE, FRIDAY.
—J,,hn Thompson, who was yesterday convicted of
poisoning his wife, and ordered for execution, freely
confessed his crime this morning, though he loudly pro-
tested his innocence to the Judge, and after the removal
to the cell. He admits that the inferential evidence
against him was quite correct, and that he did adminster
the poison, in order to get rid ofonbuertwhlenommenhte, lainatla
solemnly pledged himself to love and cherish. He says
his mind is much relieved by this disburthenment,
there is now no doubt that he will die a penitent. His
execution is certain.
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A considerable quantity of mackerel were brought.
in on Thursday morning by our fishermen, and realiied
about 245. per hundred.—Brighton Paper.
A Vienna letter of the 30th ult., in the Nuremberg
Correspondent, states that the Austrian Government
has countermanded the order for the march of troops to
Italy.

The Augsburg Gazette states that serious distur-
bances have taken place arnonc, the peasants at Roetz, in
Lower Austria, and that a detachment of infantry has
been sent thither from Kreme.
Henry M'Mahon, a surgeon in the 87th Regiment,
has been taken into custody on a judge's warrant, for
forging a receipt for 27/. 14s. 2d. on Luke Horner, shoe-
maker, of Pill. He was removed in custody to the sta-
tion.—Monmouthshire