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London, England, 1846-05-18 00:00:00

grity,and perseverance in forwalding the interests of the
shareholders.

On this being seconded, a short discussion ensued, in
the progress of which the Chairman, in answer to a
shareholder, intimated that the directors had taken up
4,000 shares, and paid on them. The motion was then
put and agreed to, amidst considerable applause.
A considerable number of additional assents were
given in and recorded, after the numbers announced by
the Chairman, but the total was not intimated when
the meeting closed.

DINNER TO LORD ii 171)LEY
•
STUART.
A dinner was given to Lord Dudley Stuart, at Willis's
Rooms, on Saturday evening, by the admirers of his
exertions on behalf of the exiled Poles and in the cause
of Poland; and also for the purpose of presenting to his
Lordship a piece of tap,stry worked by the ladies of
that country. Nearly 200 were present. Lord Morpeth,
M.P., presided. The guest of the evening sat on his
right, and Earl Fortescue on his left. Amongst the
assemblage we observed the Marquis of Lorn, Lord
Wharncliffe, Lord James Stuart, Lord Sandon, M.P.,
Lord Worsley, M.P., Lord Ebrington, .M.P., Lord
Cranstoun, Count Zamoyski, Lord Charles Fitzroy,
Lord Oranniore, Hon. W. Couper, Hon. R. Boyle, Hon.
Stewart Worthy, Hon. E. L. Moseley, W. Hutt, Esq.,
M.P., Col. Ferguson, M.P., M. J. O'Connell, Esq., M.P.,
G. Craig, E-q.. M.P., Captain Townshend, M.P., Col.
Fox, Esq., M.P., ;T. H. Langston, Esq., M.P., H. Tuff-
nell, Esq., M.P., D. Barclay, EA., M.P., W. 1). Christie,
Esq., M.P., F. H. Vivian, Esq., M.P., Sir W. Stirling,
General Caulfield, W. Wilbraham, Esq., Charles
Dickens, Esq., J. F. Stuart, Esq., Dr. Worthington,
the High Bailiffs.of Southwark and Westminster, Rev.
E. Cooksly, &c. &c.

Among the ladies in the gallery were the Marchioness
of Lorn and Lady Caroline Gower, Lady Mary Howard,
Countess Dowager of Morley, Lady Frances Sandon,
and Hon. Miss Ryder, Lady Charles Fitzroy and Miss
Fitzroy, Lady James Stuart and Miss Stuart, Countess
Fortescue and Miss Geale, Hon. Mrs. Seymour Bathurst,
Lady Caroline Darner, and Lady Louisa Darner, Hon.
Mrs. Singleton, Lady George Stuart, and Miss Towns-
hend Hon. Mrs. Abbott, Mrs. John Abel Smith, Mrs.
J. 11. Vivian and Miss Vivian, Mrs. Gibson Craig, Mrs.
Thomson Hankey and Miss Hankey, Hon. Mrs. Wynd-
ham and Miss Wyndham, Countess Grabowski.
The usual loyal and national toasts having been dis-
posed of, and warmly rest:sanded to,
Count VALERIAN KRASINSHI, in rising to present the
tapestry, said—My Lord, it, is with a feeling of the
highest gratification that we come to deliver to you the
message with which we have been entrusted by our
countrywomen. The long and unwearied exertions
which you have been making in behalf of our injured
country, and your faithful adherence, through good and
bad report, to her cause, have rendered your name an
object of veneration and gratitude to all true Poles, of
every condition, creed, age, and sex, and before a grate-
fal posterity will award the just and well deserved meed
of praise to your merits, you may, even now, according
to the expression of a great poet, i‘ read your history in
a nation's eyes." Yes, it is not only the history of
Poland which wilt have to record the services rendered
by you to that country, but I think that it is a subject
upon which the future historians of Great Britain will
dwell with satisfaction, because it is a fact, perhaps,
without its parallel in the annals of the world, that the
citizens of one country should embrace the cause of a
foreign and distant nation, with whom they previously
had- but little contact, from no other motives except
that injustice had been. done to that nation. Such is,
however, precisely the case of you, my Lord, and of the
high-minded individuals who, regardless of the religious
and political differences by which they may be divided,
have all united in the name of right, justice, and
humanity, in order to vindicate by their joint efforts the
cause of injured Poland. It may be therefore affirmed,
without any presumption, that as long as the principles
of right, justice, and humanity shall remain sacred to
mankind, their vindication in the case of Poland,
by British citizens, will constitute not the least
bright page in the history of this great and
free country. However melancholy and depressed
is now the condition of Poland, the spirit and the
hopes of her children remain unabated. It is,
'indeed, an extraordinary and novel feature in history,
that the severe reverses with which all the efforts that
had been made by our nation to recover her indepen-
dence have hitherto been attended, have, instead of
damping her hopes and spirit, only served to increase
the intensity of these feelings. It is, therefore, our
firm belief, that the unconquerable feeling of nationality,
which may be said to prosper by storm and to grow
under oppression, and which has hitherto been the
cause of so much suffering to our nation, would not be
implanted into our hearts by the hand of an all-wise
Providence, which does nothing in vain, without some
.;rest and good objecr. We therefore humbly hope that
the severe trials to which the Almighty has, in His in-
scrutable ways, subjected our snation, through the in-
tensity of the feeling to which I have alluded, were ne-
cessary, in order to prepare us to'resume, free from the
errors of our ancestors, but preserving their virtues,
that station which we have occupied for centuries
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gratitude to her friends is no less strong; and although
our best friends could give to our country only their
sympathies, the moral support which our cause derives
from this sympathy of the noble hearts amongst other
nations, is no less valued by us, than would be any
material assistance they eetild afford to the same
cause. This feeling of gratitude is particularly
manifested by the women of Poland, who never fail to
take a prominent part in all that is national. It becomes
not us to expatiate on the merits of our own country-
women, but it may be said without any exaggeration,
that,they have behaved, under all the trying circumstances
to which our country has been so frequently subject, in a
msnner worthy even of the daughters of Albion, so pre-
eminent in all that most adorns their sex. It is now in
the name of these countrywomen of ours, that we are
offering to you, may Lord, a testimonial of national gra-
titude. It is a piece of tapestry, worked by Polish la-
dies, and representing the arms of the ancient provinces
of our country, grouped round those of Poland and Li-
thuania, with an inscription in our national language,
which signifies in English, " The sisters of the exiles
to their protector." These now dissevered and discon-
solate parts of a once mighty kingdom, which are repre-
sented by this testimonial, are still looked to as their
ideal fatherland by those whose hearts cannot rest until
they have brought back their ideal to the world of
reality ; and this we hope will be accomplished, by the
help pf God, at no distant date. Then our country will
testify her gratitude to her friends in adversity, in a
manner worthy of the cause they have embraced.
The fabric consists of dark blue cloth, and beautifully
embroidered. It is about twelve feet long, and ten feet
broad. At the top are these words :—" Siostry I'VY9-
nancow ich Opiekunowi" (the sisters of the exiles to their
protector.) In the centre are the arms of the kingdom
quartered with those of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania,
surmounted by the Vhite Eagle and Crown of Poland,
and wreathed with the civc oak and the military laurel.
The Order of the White Eagle is suspended from the
arms. The twenty-seven ancient provinces, of Poland
and Lithuania are each represented by their respective
escutcheons.

The CHAIRMAN said, the interest in the transaction of
which they had just been attentive and sympathising
spectators would form a proper prelude to the toast which
they would expect him to give, in order to comple and
crown the whole.—(Cheers.) That audience must now
be properly wound up to receive the name, and to drink
the health of Lord Dudley Stuart.—(Haar.) Next to
the touching token of regard which had just been con-
ferred upon him, and which must possess a double source
of interest to him, in being both natural and feminine
—(Cheers)-Lworked by the fair daughters of the land
which he had made half his own—(Loud applause)—
worked by them with all the assiduity without any of
the misgivings of Penelope.—(Hear.) And the next
striking tribute to his deserts was the
attendance of such an assetribly.—Hear, hear.) But
beyond those two toasts he begged the company to bear
with him for a few short moments, and his lordship,
who, perforce, must listen to the brief estimate which be
should venture to submit of the reasons which had
brought• them there that night.—(Cheers.) He consi-
dered it as a necessary part of his functions to tell him,
even in his own presence, what he thought of him, and
us that was the reason which had induced him to come
there, he hoped he should- not prove altogether an un-
faithful, though, he feared, an imperfect interpreter of
the reasons which had induced them all to come too.—
(Cheers.) One thing they might depend upon—that he.
would not say one w ,rd more than he fully thought the
occasion warranted. The exertions of their noble guest,
then, would not have been misplaced in the days of classic
heroism, if he had stood on the prow of argoses; or, in
later days of chivalry, if he had entered the lists as a
lie said this because be thought
cast n some sort of harmony with that
shoord sensitively'
knight of Palestine.
his mind was i
classic and chivalrous age, and in the mode in which
strain
they were embodied ; but his noble friend had carried
'his high talents into that work of benevolence.—(Cheers.)
His charity, indeed, like that of all the truly
tuned
cha-
ritable, wassw so
anden e e
as to •ei, er
of suffering—to the misery of any one country;
but though it found a range abroad, it did not forget its
daily work at home.—Hear, hear.) But the field in
which his exertions had been most signalised, and in re-
nonlfiyneltyo
ference. to which mainly they had met there that night,
was Poland.—(Loud cheers.) In his place in Parliament,
—he (Lord Morpeth) wished he had it still—in the
audience rooms of Ministers, in the public assemblies of
his countrymen, in the course of private intimacy, he
had discreetly, resolutely, and untiringly advocated the
cause of the Poles—(Cheers)—which was the cause of
the brave, the gifted, and the unfortunate—(Heae, hear)
—the cause of exiles without a home.—of a people with-
out a country.—(Loud cheers.) Nay, more, his Noble
Friend, in prosecuting this great work, had shown a
courage which he (Lord Morpeth) believed in his con-
science would not be shown in very many cases, except
by men prepared to stand unmoved before a volley of
the enemies' artillery, or to walk unmoved to the scaffold
or the stake.—(Hear, bear.) He had shown this courage,
and had pursued this great work without heeding failure
or being set down as a bore—not minding it being said
by persons less warmly impressed with the real sacred-
ness of the object which he had in view, " Here comes
Dudley Stuart with his eternal Poles." But over
and above all this—even the jeers of the frivolous and
the obstructions of the interested, and the fears of the
timid, and the scruples of the mean—(Hear)—his Noble
Friend had persevered and prevailed, and still lived to
persevere and prevail while there was suffering to feel
for—while there was work to do—while Poland had a
tear in her eye and the glow of her former glories in her
bosom.—(Cheers.) Therefore, in whatever degree they '
wished Poland might obtain sympathy in her perilous
and dark hour—in whatever degree they wished Eng.
land while she was great also to be generoils, he was.ture
they would give bumpers, cheers, and ileart.3 the
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