The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-03 00:00:00

THE POLISH REFUGEES.

A deputation from nearly 200 Polish Refugees
almost all of them officers and gentlemen of respecta-
bility, consisting of General Dwernicki, Major Mier-
seiewski, and Count Dunin, waited on Lord Dudley
Coutts Stuart, lately, to present him with an ele-
gant gold ring, bearing the arms of Poland, and
the inscription " Wdzieczai Polacy w Anglii Lordowi
D. C. Stuart," together with the following address, as a
tribute of gratitude for his noble exertions on behalf of
their country :

" London, March 26, 1840.

" My Lord—lt is with a feeling of the most lively
satisfaction that we come to your Lordship for the pur-
pose of offering to you in the name of the Polish re-
fugees in England, whose list is subjoined, a token of
their sentiments for your person. In entrusting to us
this pleasant task, they have directed us to beg of you
to consider their humble gift as a testimony of the
warmest gratitude and esteem with which they are
animated for you. _ . _

" They feel, it their duty to express publicly their high
sense of the exertions made by your Lordship in be-
half of Poland, as well of your services to the Polish
refugees in England. Those exertions, which have
rendered your name illustrious in the eyes of every
noble-minded man, have not been limited to any par'
ticular time or place. Since the fall of our last revo-
lution your voice was ever heard, your assistance ever
ready, when any opportunity presented itself of acting
for the good of Poland, and promoting her restoration
to her ancient limits and independence. Almost every
motion in Parliament relating to our country, was either
made or most efficiently supported by your Lordship.
Most of the public meetings in which the Polish ques-
tion was agitated were convened under your auspices,
and saw you the foremost amongst her generous adt o•
cates. We can never be forgetful of our duties to-
wards all the illustrious persons whose names we ere
proud to number amongst those of the friends of Po-
land ; but at this moment it is to you that we ad-
dress ourselves as the principal mediator between us
and the British nation.
" It was also chiefly through your instrumentality
that the Polish Refugees in England have been pro-
vided with the means of subsistence, and you have
defended their honour when it was threatened by the
calumnies of Russian agents. Neglecting your own
affairs and ease, you have devoted, and still continue
to devote, the greatest portion of your time to the cause
you made your own. Our position, as it is well known
to you, is extremely painful ; we live entirely in the
fond hope of paying once more the debt we owe to
our country ; bnt that happy moment may still be de-
layed ; and whatever trials should in the meantime fall
to our lot, our gratitude cannot but increase for a friend
who has never failed us in adversity.
" These are the considerations which prompted the
Polish Refugees in England, whose names are subjoined,
to offer a ring bearing the national arms of Poland,
and they know your Lordship too well to entertain any
doubts that you will appreciate this token of their gra-
titude, not by the value of the object, but by the sin-
cerity of those feelings of which it is but a feeble ex-
pression. They are well aware that your services can-
not be too highly acknowledged ; they flatter them-
selves, however, that this manifestation w►ll not be in-
different to your noble heart, as it was called forth by a
just apprec=iation of your merits, and of your inflinching
attachment to the cause of Poland.
" We have the honour to be, &c.,
" Lieut.-Gen. DWERNICKI.
" Major MIERZEIEWSKI.
" Captain DU NIN."

(Signed)

In the early part of last week, while an old
farmer was ploughing in the parish of Kilbarchan, he heard the
cuckoo. The old man made a remark that he never but once
before heard it so early, and he well remembered that they had
a very early harvest that year.— Glasgow Chronicle.