The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-17 00:00:00

TERnuny, and I.lorcls BLANDFORD and GROSvENOR
expressing publicly thviir opinion on the Sabbath
question. Sibbataritnism is certainly not taught
in the Church Catechism, and not a few. good
Churchmen—episcopal, clerical, and lay—are re-
ported to differ from the PRIIIATE.

SPORTING NOTES.

NOTHING NEW.

So many important demands were made upon the
columns of The Sun, by the extraordinary disclosures oa
Palmer's trial, that I departed from my expressed inten-
tion of placing my " motes" before the reader on Wed-
nesday last. I had, however, nothing to communicate,
unless, indeed, I bad described the chop-fallen counte-
nances of the "proud Salopian'," whose meeting, despite
the exertions of Mr. Frail, was an unmitigated failure.
On the Tuesday foul weather marred the sport, and on
Wednesday the Manchester gathering took off all the
principal turfites. The racing, at either place, was not
remarkably interesting, the double defeat of
Typee, on the banks of the Irwell, being
perhaps the most important " feature" of the week.
By the way, I see that both Stork and Lambourn were
placed in great peril on Wednesday. For the Manches-
ter Meeting they were located at Broughton. The stable
in which they stood caught fire, and they were with
difficulty rescued. Stork was much frightened, and
kicked and plunged so violently that he hurt himself.
The Manchester men may be well proud of their
meeting, for it has attained a wide-spread popularity,
and the legitimate means which are adopted to provide
sport will ever render it worthy the support and patron.
age of all classes of turfites. The executive department,
under the direction of Mr. Bake, is most efficient. I
understand that the list of attractions will be still
further strengthened by next year by an increase o
added money. Racing men, too, enjoyed their
ease at their inn to the top of their bent, for the charges
were moderate enough, and contrasted most agreeably
with the extortionate demands which they had just ex- 1
perienced at Chester.

The Bath Meeting will take place on Tuesday and
Wednesday next. During the two days some important
demonstrations will be made relative to the Derby. On
Monday I will discuss the promise of sport and throw
together some rough notions relative to the Great
Coming Event at Epsom. A FRESH MAN.
May 17.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING,

THE TIPPERARY BANK.
Yesterday the case of the English shareholders
was brought to a conclusion, but the Master re-
served his judgment. Their counsel confidently
expect that several of them—if not all—will have
their names expunged from the list of contributories.
Mr. O'Driscoll, on behalf of the Rev. Mr. Langston,
claimed to be beard.

Tne Master said he could not hear him, as his client
bad not made an affidavit. Unless he could swear that
he had been misled in the purchase of his shares he would
find it a difficult matter to get rid of his liability.
Mr. O'Driscoll said he was beard on Tuesday when he
opened an affidavit of Mr. Hynes (his client's solicitor.)
The Mae er said that if a person purchased in the
market what he considered to be valuable shares, how
coul•l anything that occurred afterwards liberate him
from the position in which he placed himself ? It would
be contrary to every principle ref,u'ating such matters to
hold that he c.m1.1 get out of that position. If Mr.
O'Driscolt's client wanted to make out a special case of
imposition or fraud he should do so in the proper legal
manner.

Mr. O'Driscoll said he would procure the affidavit
necessary to enable him to be beard.
The Master said that in a case of so great magnitude
and importance as this was he would give to every party
the fullest opportunity of putting forward his case, his
desire being to save expense to suitors.
Mr. M'Donough, Q C., replied on behalf of the official
manager, and pointed out that, under the 43d section of
the deed, power was given to the directors, in case of a
vacancy on the board occurring by death or otherwise,
to fill it up until the next annual meeting of the pro-
prietors. Messrs. Keating and John Sadleir accepted
office as directors by consenting to sign the certificates,
and, as between the parties before the Court, they could
not now be heard saying that they were not then direc-
tors. Before concluding the learned counsel read an affi-
davit of Mr. M`Dowell, the official manager, which
stated, amongst other things, that he had obtained pos-
session of the books, papers, and documents of the bank,
and had carefully examined the minute book, the stock
ledger, and the registry book ; that the minutes of the
proceeding did not show that any court of directors, ac-
cerdiag to the provisions of the deed was ever held kr
any porpse whatever ; that the provisions of 'the deed
respecting the approbation by a court of directors of any
issue of new shares ha l been habitually disregarded ;
that there did not apt ei,r to have been any rules or re-
gulations in the bye-laws made by the directors as to
the manlier in which the subscription for or transfer
of anyishares should be made and registered in the share
registry book of the company.
The proceedings were adjourned to this morning.
The Limerick Chronicle states that
"Me. Sadleir, a little before his destruction, had the
vanity to say that he should send four clerks in the
Tipperary Bank to grace the Senate, as members, on a
dissolution of Parliament."

THE WEATHER.
The weather has been highly favourable since Sunday
last, when the wind, which had been blowing sharply
from the east and north for upwards of 6 weeks, veertd
round to the south-west, and copious showers of rain
have been since fal'in;. It was a mast welcome change,
and the effect on ve4etation is at once remarkable and
c'eer.ng. This morning is sunny, but the day is likely
to be showery.

"A. FoULD."
BOURSE, May 16.—The following were the las
quotations :

Cash. fr. a. End of Month.
4i per Cents 94 25 —f. —a.
3 per Cents 75 25 75 50
New Loan 75 25
Bank Shares 4,000 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,920 A.ustrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes
Piedmontese (5)

RAILWAYS-708 CAI3II.

fr. C. fr. C
Orleans
Northern
Lyons.
Mediterranean 1,700 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva — Tests

ILLICIT DISTILLATION.
The Galway Watchman stat2s that ca Monday night
ChPmbers, Clancy, and Anderson made two extensive
seizures of illicit whisky. It was found concealed in a
house in Hill-street, Galway, belonging to a man named

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN.
The Rev. J. G. Maddison, formerly rec'or of West
Monkton, Somersetshire, died at Doe Castle, c runty
Donegal, on Sunday last in consequence of injuries ac-
cilentally received by him on the previous Friday. It
appears the r-v. gentleman had been fishing in the neigh-
b mrhood of his resident,, when his foot slipped from the
Vace on which ha stood, and that, in fading, the back
of his head came in contact with the r .ck, fracturing
his skull. He linger.•d till the 11th inst., when be ex-
pired. The deepest regret at his untimely demise is
universally prevalent, his generosity and amiability bay-
ing rendered him extremely popular. Mr. Maddison was
64 years of ago at the time of his death.

THE 5t1144, LONDON, SATUR i)A Y EVENING MAY 17, 1856.

,he_adininiAration of the Caisse des Depots et
islgnations, is to be formed exclusively of a
,t made by the Imperial Civil List, and from
urces belonging to the direction of the opera.
ill not therefore in any way interfere with the
,aces of the public treasury. On the other
d, the financial combinations of this institution,
the conditions attached to the obtaining of
ensi ,ns, have not been adopted until after very
mature examination, and after taking into account
the serious lessons of the past ; and I am confident
that the dotation of the fund, thus constituted, will
suffice to meet all the charges which may fall on it.
Your Majesty will, however, remark that the
artistes and employes who form part of the com-
pany of the Imperial Theatre of the Opera, may,
with regard to their retiring pension, date their
services from 1830, so that the injury resulting to
them by the suppression of the old pension fund
will he completely repaired. Lastly, it has ap-
peared proper not to include in the participation
of the benefit of pensions such artistes as may
enter the Opera with a salary exceeding 40,000 f.
a-year ; because they are then in the full exercise
of their talents, and generally only remain a few
years. As, therefore, they could not attain the
time of service necessary to establish a claim to a
pension, any stoppage made from their emoluments
would be a charge without any compensation, and
it is, moreover, easy for artistes who receive such
high salaries to secure to themselves by economy
an equivalent for a retiring pension. [f your Ma- _
jesty deigns to approve of the measures above in-
dicated, and in which more than six hundred
families are interested, I beg you to affix your
signature to the annexed decree, having for object
to sanction them, as well as the arrangements at-
tendant thereon.

LITERATURE.

The Russian Empire ; its People, Institutions, and
Resources. By Baron Von Haxthausen, author
of " Trans-Caucssia," &.t. Translated by R.
Farie, Esq. 2 Vols. Chapman and Hall.
This work presents some features of novelist in
the consideration of a subject that has been of late
so frequently discussed. It shows us the Russian
empire from a German point of view. Hitherto
the works which have appeared among us on this
topic have been the production of Englishmen, or
of those equally disposed to regard despotism and
slavery with aversion. It is usually advisable to
regard a question from both sides before forming
a decided and unchangeable opinion upon it ; and
it may, therefore, be useful for the attainment of
an unprejudiced decision on the Russian principles
of government to peruse the volumes before us,
and weigh the arguments advanced by its partisans.
It is in this light that we regard Baron Von Hax-
thausen, though he does not declare himself as such
at the outset ; neither are his comments those of
unqualified praise. On the contrary, he admits
many unfavourable statements, and even raises ob-
jections to anything that strikes him as injurious
to the advancement and civilisation of the
people. Nevertheless, it is easy to perceive to
which side his opinions incline, and long before the
reader arrives at the open panegyric upon the
Russian Government, in the second volume, he is
on his guard against the favourable conclusions
drawn from the descriptions. He is the less in-
clined to put faith in the political judgment and
foresight of the author from a chapter on the
Russian aggressions in the last century, and his ex-
pression of a firm conviction that scarcely any-
thing would induce Russia to go to war with
Turkey. The work, it must be premised, was
written before the much-disputed Turkish ques-
tion had been heard of. It originally appeared in
three volstmes, the first two being published in
1847, the last in 1852; but from the numerous re-
petitions, no doubt caused by the long intervals at
which-it was written, and from many details being
only of local interest, such as a minute
description of all the varieties in the agri-
cultural system, the translator has [thought it w!s-
visable to abridge it. He informs us in the trans-
lator's preface that the work is already known in
this country in the original German, and in a
French version which has since appeared. The
translation of the present volumes has been made
entirely from the German. In alluding to the
high reputation which Baron Haxthausen has at-
tained, he remarks that whatever opinion may be
formed of his views, the reader cannot fail to be
convinced of the earnest and impartial manner in
which he pursued his investigations. We have
before stated that his opinion of the Russian do-
minion is generally a favourable one, and the
translator is aware of this fact. He says, that
although the translation was commenced during
the -war, and was first prompted by the attention
recently drawn towards the state of Russia, it
would be a great mistake to suppose that the book
is indebted to its value for those accidental circum-
stances. Its perusal, he tells us, will be much
more useful when the temporary excitement has
ceased, and in looking forward to its publication
he has often regarded the termination of hostilities
as a favourable time for bringing it before the
public. It is much to be questioned, however,
whether the feeling against Russian des-
potism, and the suspicion with which her
aggressive movements are regarded by the peo-
ple of this country is extinguished with the
conclusion of the war. The aui hor, in his preface,
tells us that for many years he has devoted his at-
tention to the study of rural institutions, as he
calls them, or the relations of the State, the land •
owners and the peasants to one another. Some
twenty years ago he received a commission from
the Prussian Government to prosecute his re-
searches through all their provinces, and draw up
a detailed report on the state of the peasantry.
He spent several years in the prosecution of this
object, which led him to desire still further to ex-
tend his observations on the Slavonic races. For
this purpose he obtained the sanction of the Em-
peror, and started on his expedition in the spring
of 1843. He passed little more than a year iu
Russia, and therefore does not pretend to under-
stand the national life in all its bearings ; but, he
says, twenty years of travel have sharpened his ob-
servation for this kind of study, and he therefore
hopes not only to have communicated much that
was unknown, but also to have indicated a new
method of studying Russian life. Instead of con-
fining himself to the capital, his experience has been
chiefly among the peasantry, and with the excep-
tion of the Cossacks, of whose origin he gives a
brief account, lie says little of early Russian his-
tory. His book, therefore, though on a subject
that has been very frequently discussed of late, has
some features of originality. But the conclusion
arrived at by the reader is very much the same as
usual. Thus, in speaking of the affection of the
common people for the Czar, he affords proof of the
slavery to which they are reduced :
" The common Russian (illuzhilo entertains no slavish,
but simply a childlike, fear and veneration fair the Czar
he loves him with devoted tenderness. He becomes a
soldier reluctantly, but, once a soldier, he has no feeling
of vindictiveness for the coercion exercised upon him,
and serves the Czar with the utmost fidelity. The cele-
brated expression "Prikazerio" (It is ordered), has a
magical power over him. Whatt.ver the Emperor com-
mands must be done; the Russian cannot conceive the
impossibility of its execution ; the orders of the police
even are not worded Zapreshtcheno (It is forbidden), but
Ne prikazeno (It is not ordered). The profound venera-
tion felt for the Czar is also shown in the care of every
thing belonging ; the Russian has the deepest re•
spect for the Kaziomne, or property of the Czar. Ka-
ziomne does not die, does not burn in fire, or drown in
water, says a Russian proverb."
And in speaking of the horror with which enlist-
ment is regarded, and the violence exercised by
the authorities, he says—
" Formerly every levy of recruits was accompanied
by scenes of violence and despair. Men who believed
themselves thr,ateued fled into the woods, and peasant
and soldiers were sent with cudgels and ropes to catch
them. Bloody scenes often occurred. The recruits
were frequentlys better guarded than our convicts. They
rarely arrived (I speak of past times) without chains at
the depots. A great improvement has no doubt taken
place since the condition of the soldier has been awe-
liore,ted, and the period of active service diminished ;
and likewise since the increase which has taken place in
the military spirit of the nation. The severe injunctions,
however, against harbouring recruits prove how great is
even now the aversion to the now profession, and how
much the people sympathise with those who escape."
He informs us that " Russia exercises through the
Church a great and secret political influence over
all the Slavonic peoples belonging to the Eastern
Church, who regard the Russian as the mother
Church ; it practically stands at the head of East-
ern Christendom." On the subject of Russian
aggressions, he speaks with singular inconsistency,
as well as very little judgment. Either ho must
be strangely unacquainted with her acquisitions of
territory, or wilfully deceive himself as to her po-
licy. But although he indulges in indignant con-
tradictions of such assertions when made in dispa-
ragement of Russian honour, a little further on he
often forgets himself, and in summing up her grand
achievements reckons triumphantly the provinces
she has gained. Thus, he says—
" There is a widely-spread belief in Europe that Rus-
sia is an ambitious colossus, thirsting after conquest, and
aspiring to universal monarchy. Without referring to the
very problematical possibility of a universal monarchy
at all, or any peculiar qualification for it in this instance,
I believe still less in any view of this kind on the part
of Russia. I know Russia in its internal relations per-
haps better than most persons is Europe, even better
than the majority of Russians themselves, but I cannot
with truth say that I have seen anything to indicate any
tendency of this kind, either in the views of the Go-
vernment or in the ideas and wishes of the people."
Apparently forgetting that a few pages before he
has told us, in speaking of the southern coasts--
"Here Russia has performed wonders, when we con-
sider that 76 years ago she had not a single point on the
Black Sea. At present she possesses the half of all its
coasts frsm the mouth of the Danube to the mouth of the
Rion (Phasis), or to the frontier of Asia Minor, an ex-
tent of a thousand miles."
In speaking of the conquests of Russia he divides
them into three. Firstly, " those in which the
chief branch of the people, headed by their prince,
engaged to attain unity in nation and government."
Among these he reckons ICief, the Ukraine, White
Russia, Little. Russia, and part of Red Russia.
The second class of conquests are those which pro-
ceeded from an instinctive belief among the people
in the mission assigned them. These are the con-
quests of the coasts and of the Crimea. The third
consists, lie tells us plainly, of conquests in the in
terest of the State, such as the partition of Poland,
the subjection of Finland, the occupation of part
of America, the acceptance of the Crown of Geor-
gia, the conquests of Armenia and Daghestan,
and the Northern districts of Turkey. A
moderate list for a power which, he tells
us farther on, in the last twenty years has
not conquered a single village. It may easily be
perceived that under one of these convenient ex-
cuses most acts of aggression and breaking of
treaties may be ranked. In justice to the author
we must state that he does not defend this third
class. It is very curious to read his remarks upon
Russia and Turkey. He totally rejects the pro-
bability of a war. From the Peace of Adrianople
the Porte, he says, has had no more staunch friend.
" Were a war to break out from this cause, the whole
of Europe, with England at its head, wowd unite, and
with the latter Power it would be a war to the knife.
Even should Russia for a moment be successful, such a
conquest would always be precarious as long as Europe

exists. Ordinary prudence forbids her to risk so gresl
a venture, the advantages of which, if successful, wou,
be very problematical ; whde, on the other hand, the
preservation of Turkey gives Russia the most scion:
tageous position. The consanguinity and common reit'
gious faith of the majority of the suhjects of the two
countries strengthen the influence of the latter so much,
that in all great questions Turkey must invariably folio-
the direction of Russia. All existing treaties afford, '3
the development of her naval power and trade, the
greatest security and tho most important advantages;
the Porte also✓ is well aware that, as Russia has no
greater interest than her preservation, she possesses j°,
the latter a sure friend and protector, who will defend
her against fore; ;n enemies, and likewise against inter
nal dissolution. If Turkey should fall from this 111°,6
cause, an event which would raise the question Of the
partition of the dismembered provincPs, then indeed
Russia would de.mand her share of the booty.
" Conquest for its own sake alone—the simple lust of
conquest--has lost its attractions since the time of -I-1"‘
poison. No trace of this exists in the Russian peePl,e;
and the Government, at least for the last 25 years, bag
shown a moderation in this respect which Europe "i
not anticipate."

A little further on we meet the following re'
marks :

"Let us glance now at the political position of Rossi°
in relation to the rest of the world and first at her rela;
tions with Turkey, in which her most powerful mater
interests and spiritual sympathies are involved. Ile"
the entire former policy and position of Russia hi
been changed. To weaken Turkey was the effort
Peter the Great and his successors. Catherine
ll-
dreamed of destroying the Turkish empire, and re-est 6";
fishing the ancient Constantinopolitan throne ; she grit
the name of Constantine to her second grandson. 1",
present policy of the Russian Government, on the CO"„,
trary, does everything to support and strengthen Tar
key ; it is indeed superior to the natural and 1:101391a
sympathies of the Russians, who see in the Christian
subjects of Turkey their nearly-related oppressed hre.
thren and fellow-believers, and in the Pratriarchate of
Constantinople their Mother Church."

England's conquests, he exclaims, rarely meet the
censure of the world, while Russia's love of cog'
quest has been decried throughout Europe, as u.. 1
considers, most unjustly. He devotes severa:
pages to enforcing his views of her pacific World
tions. The effect, however, is slightly marred
when, in the next chapter on the army, he is•
tacking the incredulity of those who refuse to If
lieve in the immense military force of Russia, 9",
he says, there is an instinctive feeling of her power'
"No man of education or reading can avoid acknOl.
ledging that this state has, in the last century and
half, from being an insignificant country, constituted 0°
the Asiatic model, become a great European power-
on land indeed the most important of all—one which
forty years ago withstood the power of a man befoo
whom all the other countries, England alone excepted'
and she only protected by her wooden walls, sank I'3l
the dust; that, since then, in spite of all the rhetoric 0
the West, Turkey has been bumbled, Poland laid .
trate, and Hungary subdued by the arms of Russia.
poleon's declaration—whether he made it or not--wi"
r,g,rd to the future of Europe, sounds the more unplea'
eantly from the fact that a universal, almost oracular'
judgment is attributed to this man in these thiog6:
Thus is it to modern democracy or the Cossacks that
Europe is to fail! "

His assertions that the tyranny exercised over
the people is exaggerated, are scarcely more ire,:
pressive; at all events it is not very consistent
English ideas to hear that the houses are belt
two and two, that each man may keep guard over
his neighbour, or to know that one of the pun°
is stationed at the top of every street to keep order
and know who lives in every house. All these,
however, are minor things, but they betray great
principles, and, whatever the effect they produce
on the mind of our German author, we do Diet
think they will change the prevalent belief in the
tyranny exercised over the Russian people. It 1°
very curious to read a description of Sebastopol
and Balaklava, as they looked ten or twelve Year°
ago, and think of the scenes that they have sine'.
witnessed. The volumes, indeed, are full of ill:
teresting details, and from the ease of their stYl
and excellence of their language, do not reniiol
the reader that they are a translation. They vg,
no doubt be extensively read from the literarJ
celebrity of their author, and from the importaceet
of their subject. It is not likely they will wee
the views of the generality of readers in this colic'
try; it is not to tie desired that they should, but
they are written without bitterness or inconsideve."
tion. There is undoubtedly a vast amount of itl;
formation .to be obtained from them of a kind 11°
prevented by superficial travellers, and they Will
therefore, lay claim to be considered a valuable
work, though they leave the reader still convince,.
that the policy of Russia is aggressive, and the SO"
of the people an unacknowledged slavery.

Literary Gazette.—The appearance as well as the
value of this critical journal has of late been con-
siderably improved. The typographical arrange;
meats cannot readily be surpassed, while a decided;
impulse is given to antiquarian zeal by a page of
excellent illustrative engravings of valuable anti-
quities. Altogether the Literary Gazette seems to
have taken a new lease of popularity.

LAST WRITING OF ADAM. MICKISIVICZ

The death of Mickiewicz, the celebrated Polish poel's
has been a universal mourning amongst his compatriots.
Charged with a special mission in the East by the Frond'
, Government, who had before appointed him to the place
~f Librarian to the Arsenal, vacated by the death 0
Charles Nodier, he would have bad it in his power 0
have rendered great service to the Polish cause and to
the Government by whom be had been delegated;
Mickiewicz, by the elevation of his mind, by the number
and the variety of his works, had acquired an Europe.°
fame. He bad become the national poet of the Slaveoleu
race—that family of 72 millions of men, of which he WO
in a manner the living voice. Like Lord Byron, be
went and died in the East ; like him, surrounded 11
soldiers in the camp of war, he fell, in the midst of heaps
of arms, and the thrilling noise of a nation awaking to
new life. The letter we publish was written eight dale
before his death, and addressed to the young Prince
Ladislaus Czartory ski, his companion during the voyages
at the moment of the Prince's departure from Constac-
tinople. We give it as an historical and literary doetv
ment :
"Prince,—l have not had the heart to go and see
you, or to converse with you, since your return from the
camp at Burgas ; for a conversation without reciprocal
sincerity could be nothing but idle talking, if not some'
thing worse. Besides which, I should only have re-
pented myself in expressing truths you do not like to
hear, and always receive by enveloping yourself in your
diplomatic reserve. You 'have desired me to impart
our conversation to Prince Adam, your father ; the per•
social sentiments I entertain for him made it a duty for
me to declare to him all my thoughts. I have done ono
and concealed nothing from him of what I have said to
you ; adding to this my own observations on the con'
duct you have held since your arrival in the East. In
my opinion this conduct was a perpetual negation of the
hopes that our compatriots had conceived at the time of
your arrival. You have made your appearance here,
not as the representative of the Polsh cause, but as the
partisan of Mr. Ladislaus Zamoyski, your uncle—with
the mission of neutralising the patriotic projects of
Sadyk Pacha (Czaykowski), ancient chief of the Mussul'
man Cossacks. From the moment I perceived your de-
sign I endeavoured to demonstrate to you, in his tent
even in the camp of Burgas, the necessity of your having
a frank understanding with him, and you kept the same
silence as before.

"Seeing at every instant more clearly into your in.
;entions, I declared to you that it was evident for ins
that there was on the part of Mr. Zamoyski, and on yours,
a fixed plan to expel Sadyk Pacha from the position in
which he had already rendered us so many services, and
in which he might still be so eminently useful to Poland.
To all this you answered nothing.
" It was then no longer doubtful to me that you came
with instructions already made on the part of Mr. Za-
moyski, and with a weapon sharpened beforehand against
Sadyk Pacha. Had riu believed him useless, or even
hurtful to the future, in that case you ought to have pro•
flounced openly against him ; you ought to have sum-
moned him to cede the plan to a better and more worthy
man. It was permitted to you to discuss with him, to
combat him, but not to forge arms against him under
his own roof, at his own table ! Poles ! Prince ! act
differently. An Arab even, admitted to the hearth,
does not conspire against his host.
You came then to the East, where so many hope
may arise ; the eyes of so many Poles were turned to-
wards you! The theatre even on which you were
mounted raised you still higher ! Well, in this country
of promise the first trace you left of your passage was
to publishing that a woman conducted there by you had
rendered such and such services. Really, Prince, if the
question for you was a reform in the hospitals, it was
necessary, in the first place, to change the doctors, the
infirmaries, and to make use of the funds employed in
their maintenance ; but in no case was it proper to
exact subscriptions from officers who received no pal-
The means employed by you to cause other women to
be received into the Convent gratis appeared to me also,
to speak candidly, ridiculous, and scandalous even for
strangers. A camp of war has not for its sole destina-
tion te accomplishment of works of charity. The Gos'
pet says, "The poor ye have always with you" (St. John,
chap. xii., v. 8). What may not be always with us is
the occasion, perhaps unique, of raising the national
banner on a soil so near our own. This is the first
Polish camp we have had fur a long time. God only
knows how long we may have it, such as we have seen
it, even in the midst of its distress, full of life and hope.
" I ought to add that the taimy or rations of war re'
ceived here by Mr. Zamoyski, in his quality of generals
would suffice to maintain an entire hospital. The bean
ideal of this man was, it seems, to ,become an English
general. He has attained his wish, but his destiny els°,
reaches its term. What would be the future destiny 0'
our nation under such a chief ? For myself I canna
anticipate any that is desirable.
"In expressing to you, Prince, all my grief, I eel/
with consideration, &c.,

" ADAM MICKIEWICZ.
" Constantinople, Nov. 19, 1855."

The King of Naples is preparing a written jestific3
tion of his polioy, to be issued in the form of a letter to
the Austrian Government.

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