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THE POLISH BALL AT GUILD

HALL ON THURSDAY.

On Saturday last a very numerous meeting of, the
committee for conducling this entertainment took place
at Guildhall; Mr. Deputy Pealoek, the chairman of
the committee, presided, and in addre•lsing the gentle-
men present at some length, was glad to announce that
• their prospects were of au encouraging character. He
found that the friends of a good cause were always true
friends, and never Ct ere they mot e so than on this occasion.
He then handed over Bev, ral done tons received that
morning for the object of the cliAlity, and seated that
the Lord Mayor had give n them most cordial support.
and promised to attend the ball with the Lady Mayoress
and a large party. Monsieur Do Beaumont, the French
Minister, after a warm expression of his feeling for the
exertions of the friends of Poland, had positively signi-
fied his intention of honouring the entertainment with
his presence, accompanied by the secretaries and the
attacas of his embassy. Many other distinguished
persons having already secured their tickets, will, as
usual, be the guests at the ball, and thus testify that an
appeal to Englishmen in a right cause is never made in
vain.—(Hear.)
Lord DUDLEY STUART then addressed the meeting.
He said—Gentlemen, the numerous attendance on the
present occasion augurs well for the success of our un-
dertaking. Of this I have no doubt, for as the day ap-
proaches assurances of support multiply. I received a
great many at the festival on the Lord Mayor's day, and
I feel confident that the ball will be as brilliant as ever.
I am the more rejoiced at seeing here so many members
of the committee since reading'the attack onus which was
placed before me on my entering the room. The Polish
ball at Guildhall must be of no small consequence when
not only the Morning Post declares war upon it, but even
the giant of the press, the Times, devotes a leader to the
'subject, and opens upon us its formidable battery. Thus
bombarded, we ipust defeqd ourselves as well as we can;
your prisenee here shows that you at least are not inti-
midated nor disheartened, and I believe we shall have
little difficulty in making such a defence as will be felt to
be satisfactory by all Rho will inquire into facts and take
a calm view of the matter. But few people have the in-
clination, even if they have the opportunity, to trouble
themselves with inquiries, and generally take upon trust
what they find in their favourite newspaper. It, there-
fore, becomes important to rectify the mis-statements of
the press. Now the article in the Times of this day
contains some statements which are absolutely untrue ;
and I am really surprised that a paper generally so well
informed should have fallen into such mistakes. Thus
it propagates the impression that the Poles are at liberty
to return to their own country. This notion it is which
indisposes people here to assist the Poles ; this idea it
was which prevailed when the reduction of the Parlia-
mentary grant was pressed in the House of Commons.
But it is not the fact. The Poles have it not in their
power to return home. The Times says in the article
from which I am reading," Prussian Poland is open to the
exiled patriots, even if its Russian neighbour be closed
against them." That is a mistake. Prussian Poland is
sot open to the Poles who are here ; Prussian
Poland is only open to Pules who are natives
of Prussian Poland ; and none of the exiled
patriots who belong to Russian Poland 'are allowed
to enter Prussia. Now all those belonging to Prussia,
with some very few exceptions, have returned home.
The same is to be said of those belonging to Austrian
Poland. The last time I addressed the committee I
mentioned the case of a Polish refugee who had not long
ego kept a shop in Piccadilly, and who, having this
summer (impelled by a sort of mad desire of revisiting
his native country) ventured into Russian Poland, was
immediately captured and hung. Since then I have seen
another refugee, a most respectable gentleman, and one
whom I have known for many years; he has just returned
here; and his case shows the difficulties refugees en-
counter who attempt to return home, even if they are
fortunate to escape an ignominious death. This gentle-
man did contrive to get into Prussia, but he bad not
been there long before he was claimed as a native of
Ruisian Poland by Russia, and given up by the Prus-
sian Government. He was taken with an escort to
Warsaw, where he was kept seven months in prison ;
after that he was transferred to another fortress, where
he remained a year. At the end of that time his family
had interest enough to get him released from confine-
ment, and he was allowed to go to Warsaw, where
he remained under the strict surveillance of 'the police.
He now endeavoured to do what we sr often hear it said
in reproachful tone what the Pole ought to do, viz., get
an honest living by his own exertions in his own country,
and being a mttn of letters, and finding that a professor's
chair was vacant in the university, he became a candi-
date for the place. He underwent an examination, was
declared competent, and received the appointment; but
the Government interfered, and prevented his holding it,
on the ground, distinctly expressed, of his having been a
refugee. He retired to his village, but having lately
become obnoxious to the police in consequence of
having in his possession some Prussian papers, having
got intelligence that he was about again to be arrested,
he,bad too lively a recollection of a Russian p: ison to
induce him to risk being immured in one again, and he
found means to make his escape. It is since I last ad-
dressed you that this gentleman came to see me,. and he
laid before me documents proving his statement. The
Times, however, thinks that at any rate the
Poles can go to France, and says France "will'
doubtless employ them in many .useful capacities."
But here again the Times is mistaken. Most heartily do
I wish the writer of that paper would persuade General
Cavaignac to give such employment to the Poles now
here. If he could do that there would be very soon
no more Polish refugees in England. But of what use
is it talking of being serviceable in France, as officers
and adjutants, when France will not admit them into her
territory. The short fact is, no Polish refugee is al-
lowed to go from England to France; if he attempts it
he is arrested as soon as he lands, and straightway sent
back here again. If the writer of the Times had had
as much trouble as I have in endeavouring to get special
permission as a matter of favour for Pules called to
France by urgent business, and in trying to help them
to get there by one contrivance or another, and had been
like me witness of the disappointment of those who
failed, or were sent back, he would not be inclined to cha.
racterise as moonshine the difficulties in the way
of these unfortunate men when they attempt
to leave this country. The Tins speaks as if
no refugees had ever seen so much assistance as the
Poles, and asks " to what other body of men we can point as
having been three-fourths kept by us during a period of
16 years?" A reference to the Parliamentary accounts
would show a long array of foreigners, French, Dutch,
Toulonnese, Corsican, American, Spanish, relieved by
the nation, all of them much more than sixteen years—
many of them ever since the beginning of the century—
and many, be it noted, still continuing to be relieved with
larger sums than are allotted to the Poles. Aye, but I
shall be told the Times speaks of balls and private cha-
rities. What, however, makes these things more neces-
sary for the Poles than for the others? The smallness
of the allowances granted to the Poles are considerably
less in amount than those granted to any other refugees.
When the grant was first agreed to Government ap-
pointed a Committee, consisting of Mr. Hume, Sir Robert
Inglis, and three others, of whom I was one, to fix the
amount. Lord Althorp, however, would not agree
to the full amount recommended, but reduced it by
some hundreds, saying, " you must get the re-
mainder from the benevolent.' Subsequently, when-
ever I made representations to Mr. Spring Rice, or other
Chancellors of the Exchequer, as to the insufficiency
of the grant, I used to be told " to get up a ball." These
are great reasons why'it has been necessary to make so
many exertions of this nature for the Poles. As to the
inquiry, why should we treat the Poles differently from
all other nations ? I think the Times in former days
has shown how much stronger and better the cause of
the Poles is than that of any other exiles; how they have
combatted, not merely like Spaniards, Portuguese, or
French to maintain or to act. bliali a I,outtar• torm of
government, but to rid the country from the odious and
intolerable yoke of the foreigner. But I will not enter
on the grand question. The Times lays to the charge of
the Poles the having been " the most zealous or perhaps
ruthless combatants at Paris, Berlin, Frankfort, and
Vienna." This I believe to be untrue with regard to
the three first-named cities. As to the last, I think the
public would do well to suspend its judgment until more
detailed accounts have been received. The Times,
however, admits the good conduct of the Poles here.
" In London alone" they have abstained from those
things which he so much reprobates on the continent.
But it is for the Poles in London alone that our ball is
given, and not for those a; Vienna, Paris, or any-
where else. Why, then, is the conduct of other Poles
brought forward to injure the interests of' Poles here? As
to the observations so frequently made about the claims
of our own poor, God forbid that we should
forget them; but is it meant that so long as there. is po-
verty in our own country we ought to deny all assistance
to the stranger? There is high authority for the con-
trary, and we are exhorted in church " never to turn our
face from any poor man." The iostnuation about
" morbid sentimentalism, which has neither scrip, nor
coat, nor kindly words for the misery which pines in an
English alley
who knowlleyoran uI Irish hovel,"whili napepedlyniotttomuuse,fodristtrheeyss
us—those
know we are always ready to assist, to the utmost of
our ability, our own pcor, although we can at the same
time feel for the Poles; and we are not by this time so
wholly unknown to the publics as to be afraid of such re-
marks, or to fear that in consequence of them we shall
be denied in our work of kindness and benevolence that
support which we have so long enjoyed.
Mr. CARR, the honorary secretary, informed the com-
mittee that the magnificence of the arrangements, now
almost completed, could not fail to be admired by every
one; and he was happy to add that he had already nu-
merous applications for tickets, which are mostly sold a
day or two before the ball.
The committee adjourned till Monday, when they will
sit at the Guildhall daily, for the dispatch of business.

[ADVERTISEMENT.] -- CONSUMPTION, &C. The
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Major Lynch, Miss Erwood,' Sir 11. N. W—__ Bart.,
Miss Haite, Mr. Morley. Captain Lindsey, R.N., &c., are
published in the Clinical Report of Cases by Dr. Cronin,
on the Use of " Anaspllsia," in the treatment of some of
the severest forms of disease of the stomach,' heart, and
lungs, and may be had- gratuitously. betWerii ten and
one, daily, at 14, Lowster-placo, Lemester-square.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING.
The Royal Mail Steamer Britannia; Captain Lang,
arrived this evening from New York, with the usual
mails from the United States, Canada, and Novia
Scotia; her dates from New York are to the 25th,
and Halifax to the 28th ult. During her voyage
from New York to Halifax she experienced a very
severe storm, which detained and did her some
damage, and she left Halifax on the night of the
29th ult.

The Europa, which left this port on the 14th,
reached New York the day the Britannia left, in
eleven days, the most extraordinary passage ever
known.

The political news by this arrival is not very im-
portant: the near approach of the State elections
seemed only to render General Taylor's success more
certain. Congress would be in session the first week
in November, though little will be done until
January.
The accounts from Mexico are rather unsatisfac-
tory, indicating, as they do, a disposition of renewed
turbulence to the rule of Herrera by the parties
who previously rendered themselves conspicuously
notorious in the same manner before. It is not
doubted, however, that Herrera will be able to vin-
dicate his authority, and to maintain the supremacy
of the laws.

In Central America the war for the extermination
of the whites has been renewed with savage fury;
nor does there appear a present prospect of its being
staved.

Reynolds, the Chartist leader, who attained some
celebrity by selling pikes and warlike instruments
very openly in Liverpool, arrived out at New York
in the barque Elizabeth from Bristol.
We regret to see the failure of the house of Hen-
shaw, Ward, and Co., of Boston, announced in these
papers. Their debts are said to amount to 130,000
dollars, and they were considered, almost up to the
day of their stoppage, to be a safe and wealthy house.
The unsettled state of the whole of Europe, and its
prolongation of the excitement far beyond the period
that had been expected, had a serious effect in de-
pressing trade in the United States. Businesss was
very dull, though the money market continued easy,
in despite of the heavy importations and the large ac-
cumulations in the sub-treasury of cash duties. One
effect cf the comparative dulness of commercial
affairs has been to increase United States stocks in
favour ; the Six per Cent. stocks have been sold at
105 to 105/, and United States Treasury Notes at
1031. In Foreign Exchange the quotations for GO
days' bills on London are 108 to 1081, and for some
of the most favourite bills 1081, although many good
bills have been sold under 108. For bills on France,
at three and ten days, the rates varied from 5 17i to
5 15.

The news per Niagara bad caused a further decline in
cotton, but the stock being light, and the demand fair,
and for various purposes, the market is now pretty steady
at sic. for ordinary, 6c. to 61c. for middling Orleans,
and 54c. to 6kc. for middling Uplands—fair 6ic. for Up-
lands, and 7e. for Orleans.
Freights to Liverpool 5.32 d. to 3-16 d., and to Havre
ic. per lb.
The grain crop, including Indian Corn and Buckwheat,
is now made and is superabundant.

During the past week or two there have been steady
shipments, which are still in progress, of Flour, Wheat,
and Indian Corn, to Great Britain.
The total export thither from the United States up to
the latest dates, is put down in Bili's Circular at—Flour,
153,583 bat rels ; Wheat, 343,796 bushels; Indian Corn,
2,161,144 bushels.

From this port alone the exports (included in the
abo"ve) from 2d to 16th inst., are stated at—Flour,
61,197 barrels ; Wheat, 86,748 bushels ; Indian Corn,
291,032 bushels, showing an increased activity within
the last period.
The Freights vary. For Flour in English vessels,
25.3 d. per barrel, in American vessels 2s. 6d. are paid.
For Indian Corn Bd. per bushel.

The price for the best Genese; Flour may be quoted
at 5 dolls. 50c. per barrel ; best Wheat 1 doll. 25c. per
bushel of 601bs ; and for Indian Corn the price is from
72c. to 74c. per bushel of 561bs.
We may look for four or five weeks more of open navi-
gation, which may add to our stocks, not now heavy.
CANADA.—The Inspector-General has furnished an
abstract of the gross revenue of the province, for the
years and quarters ending on the sth July, 1847 and
1842, and showing the increase and decrease. The total
revenue for the last year was 556,7481., being an increase
over the preceding year of 16,5191.; but on the last
quarter there is a decrease from the corresponding period
of the last year of 48,9801.-38,6721. being in the Cus-
toms, and 6,921/. on the public works. The quarter
ending .April 5 showed as increase over that of last
year' of 5,2031.; that ending Jan. 5, of 22,3461.; and
that ending Oct. 10, 1847, over that of the previous
year of 37,9511. The Customs for the half-year ending
on the sth of January last, gave 242,997/., being an in-
crease over the half year ending on the same day of 1847
of 29,147/.; and the public works for the first period
yielded 44,4724 being an increase of 8,310/. over the
latter period.

THE WRIT -a ERROR.
DUBLIN, SATURDAY.-It is asserted that the English
Attorney-General has given an opinion on a case laid
before him, to the effect that there is no ground for the
writs of error brought by the prisoners convicted at
;Mourne], and that the judgments cannot be disturbed.
ARRESTS AT CLONMEL. • '
Alarming, but it appears exaggerated, accounts were
published in Dublin yesterday afternoon, of renewed
insurrectionary movements in the neighbourhood of
Clonmel. It is. "certain that seventeen persons, some of
them armed, have been arrested, •Istit nothingat all cer-
tain as to their objects has been aseertsined, nor is there
any positive informition as to the number of persons
assembled on Wednesday night, whin -tbe irrests• were
made by a military and. police force, at a place cr.lle'd the
Wilderness, about a mile from ClonmeL

The following letter on the subject al rears in the
Evening Mail :
CLONNEL, Nov. 9 —Your readeri will have per-
ceived in the Clonmel Chronicle of Tuesday last, that
rumours were abroad, both here and in Cashel, of a me-
ditated rescue of Mr. William Smith O'Brien and his as-
sociates•from gaol. They were, howev,r, locked up& nas
ridiculous by the townspeople ; brt the authorilies did
not lose sight of their importance, and had a very sharp
eye on the town and neighbourhood. Last night, at
about nine o'clock, the greatest alarm was created by the
collecting togetherof the constabulary, many of a hem ere
in lodgings. They harried through the streets to the
police barracks, followed by crowds of people, anxious
to learn the particulars, and the cause of this new move.
" The police, numbering over one hundred, were soon
under arms inside the barracks, and it was rumoured
that they were going to escort • Mr. O'Brien and his fel-
low-oonvicts to Waterford ; but the true cause soon got
wind—that a body of the countrymen were marching on
the town. I remained at the barracks for some time after
the crowd had separated, endeavouring to ascertain full
particulars, and was at length assured that it was nothing
but the usual patrols that were going out; and to further
the belief of this statement, I L-aw a patrol of about 20
men issue from the barracks, under a head-constable, and
, proceed up the town. The force in the barracks still re-
mained under arms, and I was convinced that something
extraordinary was going to take place, sb I waited, and
at about twelve o'clock the entire constabulary force was
turned out, the 64th Regiment and Dragoons with them,
and marched off under the directions of W . Ryan, Etq.,
R.M., and Colonel Stretton of the 64th ; the constabu-
lary under the command of Captain Colclough, county
inspector, and Sub-inspectors Fosberry and Geruon.
They proceeded to a place called the Mile Tree, thence
to the Wilderness, a sort of wood, 12 miles from Clon-
mel, where they came in view of a body of men, num-
bering from 1,500 to 2,000, nearly all of whom were
armed with guns, pikes, pitchforks, &c. They were
drilling in a large field, divided into bodies, each under
a separate commander ; when they saw the military and
police they all separated and ran. The constabulary
pursued, and arrested 17 men, some of whom were
armed ; they are not of the very lowest cla,s, but com-
posed of tradesmen, many from this town. The en-
tire body, it is said, was under the leadership of a stu-
dent named O'Leary, preparing for the Romish
Church. A man named Miller, and another named
Webb, of this town, are amongst those arrested ; they
were brought into our gaol by the constabulary, ut about
three o'clock this morning. In the pursuit, one of the
fellows, in trying to escape, jumped off a high
projecting rock in the Wilderness, and was nearly killed.
" The military and police are all on the alert here now,
as it is clear that another season of insurrection and rob-
bery is again about to set in. There is 'nothing more
mad than for those rebels to think of succeeding in res-
cuing the convicted traitors. The gaol is well guarded,
and impregnable. It is generally believed that Thomas
Devin Reilly is at the head of this movement; though, of
course, there is no certain foundation for the belief.
Many of the fellows who met last night are said to be
from Mullinahone, and the other,acenes of the former
Quixotic rebellion."

The following are the names of the persons arrested;—
John O'Leary, student; Patrick Burke, farmer; Cor-
nelius Lonergan, labourer; Thomas Dunne, ditto; James
Fennessy, ditto; John Millen, publican; Morice Walsh,
corn dealer; James England, mason; James Cunning-
ham, ditto; Daniel Ryan, farmer; Edward Finnane,
painter; John Noonan, gardener; James Egan, shoe-
maker; John Egan, ditto; Thomas M'Nu!ty, James
Brennan, John Walsh.

The elonmel Chronicle, received this morning, has an
account in many respects similar to the above, but differ-
ing in some material points. For instance, O'Leary, the
supposed leader, is described, not as a " student pre-
paring for the Romish Church," but a student of the
University of Dublin, preparing for the Irish bar."
The following is the latest intelligence supplied by the
Clonmel Chronicle—

"FRIDAY MORNING.—Up to this44ime there has been
no new move on the part of the people—no attack, no
rescue, no arrest. It appears that the authorities have
very good and full information of the entire movement,
and they have adopted such measure as will prepare
them for any emergency that may arise. The gaol guard
has been strengthened—the military again under insur-
rectionary arrangement—the constabulary also told off;
and large patrols of military and police are again on
duty. Last night, two very large parties, each composed
of military and police, perambulated the outskirts of
the town, and it is intended to continue them for
some time to come. There have been different state-
ments made as to the actual number of men
seen on Wednesday night in the Wilderness—some say
there were only the seventeen persons now in gaol—
that they were drinking and smoking, and that they had
not the remotest idea of levying war against the Queen;
others say that they numbered from 400 men up to as
many as 1,500. Now we have mad, the most minute
inquiries, both in town from persons likely to know all
about it, and on the spot where the assemblage was, and
we believe that the number of men who were in and
about the Wilderness on the same business on Wednes-
day night amounted to 800 men, many of whom were
armed. The prisoners underwent a private examination
yesterday before William Ryan, Esq., R.M., and have
all been tully committed for trial, though for what par-
ticular offence or under what particular Act "of Parlia-
ment we have not been able to ascertain; but the belief
is under the Arms Act, for appearing at night in a pro-
claimed district in arms."
The Leinster Express of this day has another version
of the affair, which thus concludes:—

" It is difficult to learn what was the intention of the
people in thus assembling, whether to attack the gaol or
the barracks. The former is nightly under a c,,ptain's
guard, and the hitter bears a good resemblance at present
to a hornet's nest, being garrisoned by two troops of
the King's Dragoon Guards, a dumi-battery of artil-
-1( ry, and eight companies of the 54th Regiment. The
prevailing opinion, however, is, that their object was to
plunder the neighbouring farmers, &c."
The Cork Examiner, a Repeal journal, states that
the statements about the leadership of Devin Reilly, and
the " renewal of insurrectionary proceedings," are " all
palpable exaggerations."

THE IRISH SAVINGS' BANKS.
Yesterday Mr. Tidd Pratt, the English barrister, who
has been appointed by the Commissioners for the Re-
duction of the National Debt to inquire into all the facts
connected with the insolvency of those Irish savings'
banks which hava recently st( pped payment, opened his
court of inquiry at the office of St. Peter's parish, or
Cuffe-street Savings' Bank, for the purpose of taking
some preliminary steps in order to enable him to enter
into the investigation.
Mr. Pratt stated that he had directed a notice to be
served upon the managers and trustees of St. Peter's
savings' bank, requiring them to produce at that meeting
all the books and documents of the institution, which
could furnish him with information relative to the alleged
deficiency of 48,0001. The trustees, however, bad not
attended to furnish him with these books, and, therefore,
he would at once proceed to obtain such evidence as
would entitle him to apply to the Court of Queen's Beta.
for a mandamus to enforce their production.
A witness, named Sarah Newson, was accordingly
examined, in order to give snch formal
justify
of defalca-
tion, on the part of the bank as would the Court
in granting the mandamus which the Commissioner had
stated his intention of applying for. The witness bar-
ing been sworn, deposed that she had been a depositor
in the Cuffe-street savings' bank since the sth of Septem-
ber, 1831; and that upon the Ist of May last there balance remaining due to her of 55/. 15s. 11d. Oa a
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month with a view to receive the money, she was in-
formed that the bank had stopped payment.
The above evidence having been reduced*to writin i
the form of a deposition, the court was adjourned. g
ATTEMPT TO MURDER W. A. MOORE, ESQ.
The following remarkable statement appears in the
Anglo. Celt :
" CAVAN, Nov. 10.—On Tuesday last, William Armi-
tage Moore, Esq., Arnmore, called a meeting of Lord
Annesley's Drumlaae tenantry, at his cffice in Cavan,
to address them on the recent attempt made upon his
life. Shortly after twelve o'clock about two hundred
persons had assembled, when, our reporter being present,
Mr. Moore addressed them from the steps of the door,
the people gathering round him, in the following terms:
--I have called you together (said Mr. Moore) to speak
of the shamefuleud daring outrage which was committed
upon me OA Friday last. I appointed to go on that day
to your neighbourhood to receive rents. I did this to
save you trouble, and not to drag you from your business
into Cavan. When on my way, near Baker's-bridge,
two fellows attacked me, and thought to take away ray
life ; but through the merciful interposition of
God their design was frustrated. These fellow*
were your emissaries, paid by you, and actin,"
y
under your orders. You; imagined that by
mu :aerc'• ing me, and sending me into eternity with." all my
sins upon my head, that you would not have to pay
your rents. But you were mistaken. You did this after
my living ten years with you, and spending upwards of
10,0001. amongst you. I advanced you loans out of my
own pocket, of from 51. to 351, each—is not this true?—
(Several voices, It is, it is.') Was it for this you
sought to murder me? or was it for procuring an abate-
ment of 50 per cent, upon your two last years' rent? I
went amongst you in your distress, more like a pedlar
than any body else, distributing blankets and giving
clothes to your children—and was it for this you sought
to muder me? I purchased meal in large quantities when
it was dear, and gave it out. to you—the most-of it for
nothing, and some to those whom I thought able to pax
at half price, the greater Tart of-which money has never
been repaid to me—l ask you, was it for this you thought
to murder me? ;
" A great many voices cried- out;'s Shame, .shame
'lt is every word true.' You were•alWays a kind land-
lord to us,' &c, One voice louder than the rest exclaitne4,
By it is a shame ; and Mr. Moore tells nothinw• ---,
but the truth.'
" Mr. Moore continued—l went to Dublin and pur-
chased agricultural seeds, and gave them 014 j 1 powad.s.