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THE STJN :LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1861

THE LATE PRINCE A. CZA.RTORY

The following is the address of condolence presented by
the Literary Association of the friends of Poland to the
sons of the late illustrious patriot and the reply thereto :
To their Highnesses the Princes Witold and Ladislas

Czartoryski.
It is but a few weeks since that the interest which we
take in the affairs of Poland induced us to address your
honoured and lamented father in the language of sympathy,
with the hopes and indignation at the wrongs of the coun-
try with which his name and memory are so inseparably
and gloriously identified.
With feelings of similar, but, if possible, graver interest,
we now request you, Princes, to accept this testimony of
our sympathy for the loss which you and Poland and Eu-
rope have sustained in the death of a father, a patriot, and
a statesman, so distinguished, devoted, and pure as the late
Prince Adam Czartoryski,
It scarcely seems fitting, however, to use the language
of sorrow with reference to the departure from earth of one
so full of years and honour—one so ripe for the pa=sage
from mortality to immortality, and whose career, extended
beyond the usual span, closed amidst the affectionate re-
spect of the good and virtuous and brave of his own and
other lands; and if consolation or encouragement were
needed, the best, perhaps, that we could offer is, that sur-
rounding circumstances and events seem to encourage the
hope that you may live to see accomplished the object
which to the last moment animated his heart upon earth,
that of Poland's revival to national independence.
This is not the moment to intrude at length upon your at-
tention. We would but request you, Princes, to be assured
that we are prepared to reiterate the sentiments we so
lately expressed to your revered parent, and our deliberate
conviction that the progress of national freedom, and the
preservation of the blessings of peace in Europe, are inti-
mately connected with, if not entirely dependent upon, the
reparation of the unparelleled crime which despoiled your
country of her rights and possessions, and that sound poli-
tical wisdom, as well as the clearest morality and justice,
alike and urgently demand their restoration.
We would further request you to communicate this ex-
pression of our feelings and deep sympathy to her highness
the Princess Anna Czartoryski, whose devotion and vir-
tues adorned alike the prosperity and adversity of your
illustrious father, and begging you to assure her and you
of our high respect and regard. _ _

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We remain, on behalf of the Literary Association of the
Friends of Poland, your obedient servants,

_
(Signed) TOWNSHEND, President.
RAYNHAM, Vice-President.
EDMOND BEALES.
EDWARD JOHNSTONE.
W. ADAMS SMI CH.
W. L. BIRKBECK, Hon. Sec.

Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, Sussex.
chambers, Duke-street, St. James's, London, Aug., 1861.

To the Most Noble the Marquis Townshend, President,
and the Council of the Literary Association of the Friends

of Poland, London.
My Lords and Gentlemen,—l beg to acknowledge, with
feelings of gratitude, the very friendly address with which
the Council of your association has been pleased to honour
my brother and myself, and to offer you, in his and my
mother's name, our most hearty thanks.
However prolonged in years and in wonderful vigour of
mind, the life of my late beloved and revered father could
not come to its close without entailing upon his country a
loss which thd• friends of Poland cannot but feel, and
which it is not in the power of any one to compensate.
Yet, my father's last will and the encouragement I have
received from all who assisted him by their devotion and
experience, leave me no possible hesitation as to under-
taking, simply as a matter of duty and love for my country,
the task of continuing the work to which the life and every
means of my father were devoted.
In the performance of the duties which I and the Polish
emigration generally are called upon to accomplish, no one,
my lords and gentlemen, can give us more effective and
valuable assistance than yourselves, in the various stations
you occupy, and which afford you the means of influencing in
a high degree the public opinion of Great Britain and the
world in general, and thus ultimately the decisions of
your powerful Government. It is, therefore, to me a sub-
ject of the greatest gratification to witness your unflinching
and untiring determination faithfully to continue to serve
the cause of Poland, which is the cause of justice and of
the security of Europe. You will excuse my saying so,
from the truly wonderful attitude displayed in Poland by
all parts of the country, all classes, and all religious per-
suasions, notwithstanding the cruelties they are daily en-
during, and the open endeavours wickedly, but persever-
ingly, made by the present rulers of the country to sow dis-
sension between the inhabitants, and excite the blind pas-
sions of one class against another.
Far from being, as it was long and fatally believed, a
hopeless case, the deliverance of Poland and the restoration
of the Polish kingdom to its ancient and legitimate place
among nations will speedily, with your cordial support,
present itself to all minds, and, I hope more particularly
to the generous, and the farsighted of the British nation
as a c.imparatively practical and necessary measure.
I trust, my lords and gentlemen, that after so many
years of devotion to Poland, you now rejoice with us in
what can only be attributed to a dispensation of a merciful
Providence, I mean, in that great moral force which is
daily exhibited by the inhabitants of Poland, and which
leaves no doubt as to their ultimate success in the struggle
for independence.
I have the honour to be,
My lords and gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant
(Signed) L ADISLAS CZ A.RTORYSKI.
Paris, Bth October, 1861.

MISS NIGHTINGALE ON THE VOLUN-

TEES MOVEMENT.

On Thursday evening the Winslow and Bucking-
ham corps of Volunteers proceeded to Claydon-
house, the magnificent residence of Sir H. Verney,
M.P., who had invited them to partake of his hos-
pitality. After manceuvring, the party repaired
to dinner.

The CHAIRMAN proposed the usual loyal toasts
in very suitable terms, and the " Queen"—every
volunteer to his feet—and the National Anthem
was heartily sung in chorus.
The CHAIRMAN had then to propose " Success and
permanence to the Volunteer movement." (Cheers.)
In the course of his speech the chairman said be
would read them two letters from a lady with
whose fame they were all acquainted—it was Miss
Nightingale. (Loud cheers.) He had written to
inform her that he had invited the volunteers, an d
to express the pleasure he should feel in her pre-
sence, but she was ill, and unable to walk across her
room without assistance.
HAMPSTEAD, OCT, 8, 18G1.
"My dear Sir Harry,—l like to hear of your volunteers
wish I could be with you, but my heart is with you all.
At the beginning of this year we had 150,000 volunteers,
and already we hear from the best military authorities that
they are capable of manoeuvring and executing movements
with regular troops. To some who know the stuff of which
the Anglo-Saxon is made (no man knows him better than
I do) this is not surprising. These volunteers are of th
sane race with the handful of men who defended their
trenches at Sevastopol, as the Greeks held the position of
Thermopylae, and who, when dying of slow torture in hos-
pital, drew their blankets over their heads, and died with-
out a word, like the heroes of old. Thank God 1 our volun-
teers have not to undergo these slow agonies in the
defence of their country. But I for one (and I speak
notwithstanding an experience of the horrors of war
which no man has had), was not at all sorry to see
the spirit of war brought home to our people's lives in the
glorious rising of the volunteers. A country needs re-tem-
pering sometimes. England, from her grand mercantile and
commercial successes, has been called sordid. God knows
she is not I The simple courage, the enduring patience, the
good sense, the strength to suffer in silence—what nation
shows more of this in war than is shown by her commonest
soldier? I have seen men dying of dysentery, but scorning
to report themselves sick lest they should thereby throw
more labour on their comrades, go down to the trenches and
make the trenches their death-bed. There is nothing in his-
tory to compere with it. Other nations may do it for glory,
but we for duty, as the Duke of Wellington said. I say no
one has seen the horrors of war as I have, yet I was glad
to see the spirit of war arising in our volunteers. If both
French and English statesmen have recorded upon their
observation, that the most intelligent, the most well-
doing, the most respectable in the best sense of the word,
in any French village or district, are always those re-
turned from serving out their time on conscription ; and
if this is the case with those who have given a compul-
sory service for a Government which we English cannot
respect, what ought not the men to become who give
a free service for a free country, like our volunteers ?
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Christian i the man who gives his time, his strength, his
life, if need be, for something, not himself, whether ho call
it his Queen his country, or his colours, than in all the asce-
ticism, the fasts, the humiliations and confessions that have
ever been made ; and this spirit of giving one's life without
calling it a sacrifice is found nowhere so truly as in Eng-
land. This is a spirit which animates our armies and our
volunteers. But there must be more drill, more discipline,
or the sense of teaching how orders are to be obeyed, more
acting in concert, to make our volunteers perfect, and our
volunteers mean to be quite perfect. It is wonderful how
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night of all my life, two mouths ago, when my dear chief,
Sidney Herbert, lay dying, and I knew that with him died
much of the welfare of the British army—he was, too,
so proud, so justly proud of his volunteers—on that night
I lay listening to the bands of the volunteers as they came
marching in successively—it had been a review day—and
I said to myself, the nation can never go back which is
capable of such a movement as this—not the spurt of an
hour. These are m©n which have all something to give
up—all men whose time is valuable for money, which is
not their God, as other nations sometimes say of us.
One of the best appointments my dear chief made was
Col.lll'Mardo, the Inspector General of Volunteers. I knew
him in the Crimea, where he executed the most difficult
service, that of organising the Land Transport' with the
utmost success. No doubt the volunteers have felt con-
fidence in him. It was whispered to me in Sidney Her-
bert's time that Buckinghamshire had been behind hand
in her tribute of volunteers. Is that the case now ? I
hope not. But if so, it makes those who have volunteered
all the more worthy. If I might venture to do so, I
would gladly ask you to offer them from me a pair of
colours. Probably, however, they have them. If so I can
only offer them from the bottom of my heart the best
wishes of one who has fought the good fight' for the army
seven years this very month without the intermission of one
single waking hour.

" FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE."
"OCTOBER 9.

"I should have thought it a presumption to write to the
volunteers, if not desired by you. My point, if there was
one, was to tell them that ono who has seen more than
any man, what a horrible thing war is, yet feels more than
any man that the military spirit in a good cause, ' that of
one's country,' is the finest leaven which exists for the
national spirit. I have known, intimately, the Sardinian
soldier, the French soldier, ani the British soldier. The
Sardinian was much bettor appointed than we were. Tho
French were both more numerous and more accustomed
to war than we were, yet I have no hesitation in saying
that we had the better military spirit, the true volunteer
spirit to ' endure hardship' for our country's sake. I re-
member a sergeant who, on picket—the rest of the picket
al
killed and himself battered about the head—stumbled back
to camp, and on his way picked up a wounded man and
brought him in on his shoulders to the lines, when he fell
down insensible. When after many hours ho recovered his
his first words were to
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smthe
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.'Comrade indeed, yes,
that moment the general,
though badly wounded, appeared at the bedside. 'Oh
general, it's you is it I brought in ; I'm so glad. I didn't
know your honour, but —if I'd known it was you I'd
have saved you all the same I' This is the true soldier's
spirit. Lastly, I would impress on the volunteers the ne-
cessity of drill, practice, exercise, and brigade movements.
Garibaldi's volunteers did excellently in guerilla move-
ments ; they failed before a fourth- rate regular army.
We trust that our volunteers will never know what real
war is. But they must make themselves a reputation to
be feared by the enemy, in order not to see that enemy ever
at their own hearthstones._

" FLORENCE NIGUTINGALE."
The proceedings terminated in the most harmoni-
ous Manner.

Ml?. _ROEBUCK, M.P., ON THE VOLUN-
TEER MOVRMENT.

Last week a number of prizes were distributed
to the best marksmen in the Newport and Cowes
Rifle Volunteers, at Gatcombe-park, in the Isle of
Wight, about three miles from Newport, and the
seat of Mr. Kennard, the Conservative member for
Newport. Mr. Kennard to.± that opportunity to
invite the whole constituency of Newport to a
dejeuner. The park was thrown open to the public,
and all who came there were hospitably enter-
tained. About 1,000 persons were present. The
chief prize was given by Mr. Kennard, and pre-
sented by Mrs. Kennard, who said, on handing it
to a private in the volunteer corps named Read :
" I consider it a great honour to be deputed to pre-
sent this cup to you as a trophy of success ; the re-
sult, I am sure, of much self-denial and unwearied
perseverance. The eye has been trained and the arm
nerved by rigid exercise to take the unerring aim
that has won the goblet. War is a horrible neces-
sity. Long may we enjoy the blessings of peace.
But should an- armada again threaten our shores,
and even elude our channel fleet, then shall our
banner be unfurled in the name of the Lord, and
our noble army and brave volunteers fight side by
side in defence of our matchless Qiieen, our glorious
country, and our sacred homes. Woe be to humanity
when England ceases to be a first-rate power."
(Cheers.) Among those present at the dejeuner
were Mr. Roebuck, M.P, ; Mr. Malcolm, M.P.; Mr.
Clifford, M.P. ; the mayor and corporation of ew-
port, the borough and county magistrates, &c.
After the health of the Queen and royal family,
the army, navy, militia and volunteers, had been
duly toasted, the Rev. Mr. Wallace proposed the
toast of the House of Lords and Commons, coupling
with the latter the name of Mr. Roebuck, who, in
responding to the toast, said—Mr. Kennard, and
gentlemen, I am never called upon to return
thanks for the House of Commons without feeling
my total inefficiency to do justice to that toast.
When I recollect the country which we represent,
and when I recollect the assembly which represents
it, I feel my utter inefficiency to do honour to the
subject. Sir, I have seen to-day the spirit of Eng-
land manifesting irself in a way which has struck
dumb the persons abroad who wished injury to her.
(Hear, hear.) I asked myself the question, " Why
is it these men thus rise up, armed to the teeth, to
defend their country ?" My answer was, because
their country is well governed. I then asked myself
" Why is it well governed ?" and my answer was—
I dare say you will think it was a vain one, but you
sir, will understand me when I say it—it is through
the means of the House of Commons you are well
governed. (Cheers.) I know it is the fashion to
speak ill of the House of Commons. (No, no.) Oh
sir, I know the fashion, and it is the fashion to speak
ill of that house. Men write novels against it, men
compose poems against it, but when they go into
that house they feel their own nothingness, and
they take their places with the ciphers they so fully
represent. (Laughter and cheers.) Sir, I have said
that I cannot presume to represent he House of
Commons, but there is one feeling I have in common
with my brothers—and they are sitting at my side
—(laughter)—in which I am quite sure they will
coincide with every word I say, and that is in ad-
miration of the volunteer corps that have arisen
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
Those corps represent the feelings of England, and,
therefore, we have sympathy with them. We who
ere here—l know what I say—we represent the
feelings of England. (Cheers.) Why do I look with
complacency upon the appearance of the volunteers
of England ? It is this that makes me look so. Some
years ago I felt—l knew—that there was a feeling
abroad that England was defenceless ; that she
could be assailed : and that there were people ready
to assail her. But as if from the teeth of Cadmus there
has arisen this body of volunteers, and that feeling
that said it would dare to invade England has faded
away, and gone to the shoes of those who held it>
(Laughter,) They do not now talk of any invasion of
England. (Cheers.) We are, as your honourable
chairman has said, England defending itself. The
volunteers of this country have done that for us
which no army could do. And why ? Foreign
armies are compelled to appear, and an army is
supposed to be here what it is there. None of them
have any volunteers, and they knew that when you
rose up it was England speaking, and you were
confident against the world in arms. (Hear, hear.)
There is nothing that you now need fear, and I tell
you—and I am sure I hereby speak the feelings of
the House of Commons—that as we are volunteers
on your behalf, so you, the volunteers of England,
are ready to fight the battles of the people of Eng-
land on behalf of the people of England, and that
you do it with a spirit, and with a feeling, and with
a consciousness that belongs to you as Englishmen,
(Hear, hear.) Sir, the reverend and learned gentle-
man has been pleased to say that I was an eloquent
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present occasion by saying that I cannot adequately
speak on its behalf. (A Voice—Speak out.) It's
all very well to say speak out. if I had the thews
and sinews of a volunteer, then indeed I might
speak out; but, being what I am, all I can say is
that I thank you heartily on my own part, but I
dare not thank you on behalf of that great house
which I here most unworthily represent. But I
beg you to remember that when you aro fighting
for England, the greatest, the most important thing
that you ought to fight for is for a complete repre-
sentation of the people of England. (Cheers.) Sir,
lam not about to talk politics. (Hear, hear, and a
Voice—You were nearly there, though.) However,
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English-
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lieve that we exhibit to the worldpeople
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wisdom,
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justice,
and with honour. (Loud cheers,

EARL RUSSELL IN THE NORTH.

NEVvTASTLE-ON-TYNE, SATURDAY NIGHT.
The banquet to be given to Earl Russell in the
Town-hall in this town on Monday evening pro-
mises to be second in importance as a Whig de-
monstration to the great meetings held at the time
the late Earl Grey retired from public life. From
the number of tickets that have been taken, the

attendance will be very large indeed, and will in-
clude most of the more active members of the great
Whig party in the two northern counties. Earl

Russell passed through Newcastle yesterday
afternoon, arriving at the central station by the
express train from Scotland, and proceeded to Sun-
derland upon a short visit to the Hon. H. M. Vil-
liers, son of the late Bishop of Durham, and son-

n-law of the noble earl, curate of Bishopwear-

mouth, His lordship was received by, a large con-
course of gentlemen and ladies at the Monk Wear-

mouth station, and, on stepping from the train, was

loudly cheered. The corporation of Sunderland, at
a special meeting held yesterday, adopted an ad-
dress to his lordship ; and to-day the address would

be presented by the mayor and corporation to his

lordship.
Earl Russell will stay over Sunday with the
Right Hon. W. Hutt, M.P., at Gibside-park, and
this evening there will be a dinner-party, which will

be attended by a large number of loading families.
To-day, at noon, a town's meeting was held in
the Guildhall of this town, the mayor, Mr. Ingle-

dew, presiding, to consider the propriety of present-
ing an address to Earl Russell on Monday next.
Considering that it was a market day, there was a
tolerably good attendance. The mayor had called
the meeting in compliance with a requisition.
The MAYOR having opened the proceedings,

called upon the movers in the matter to proceed

with the business.

Mr. W. L. HARLE, in rising to move an address
,o Earl Russell, trusted that the perfect unanimity

of the meeting would be as satisfactory to his lord-
ship as he was confident it would be satisfactory to
the town at large. It had been his lot in the course

of his life to participate in the presentation of ad-
dresses to distinguished men in that hall, but he

believed on no occasion had a more eminent states-

man or a more honest man come before the public
of Newcastle than would on Monday in the person
of Lord Russell. (Hear.) He (the speaker) had
joined in that hall, when the late Earl Grey took
leave of public life, in the presentation to that dis-
tinguished statesman of an address of congratula-

tion on his retirement, or rather regret that he was
no longer able from age to serve his country.
(Hear, hear.) He participated in an address to
the late Earl Durham, to Mr. O'Connell, and to
the late Duke of Sussex ; but to none of those did
he go with greater pleasure than he should in
joining his fellow-townsmen assembled on Mon-

day afternoon. (Hear, hear.) Perhays Lord
Russell had, undertaken more positive labour
than any one of those whom he had mentioned. In
almost every department of the State Lord Russell
had been an effective, valuable, and honest servant.

In these days consistent men were difficult to find ;
but, no matter what the errors of others may have
been, Lord Russell has always been true to his
principles and consistent in his practice. (Cheers.)
He moved the following address :

" To THE RIGHT HON. EMIL RUSSELL.

"My Lord,—We, inhabitants of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, in public meeting assembled, offer to your
lordship our cordial congratulations on your visit
to this ancient town. We rejoice that you are en-

abled to partake of our hospitality ; and we avail
ourselves of this opportunity to express our admi-
ration of the consistency and talent that have cha-
racterised your lordship's services as a statesman in
the House of Commons.

" We cannot in this address review at length your
lordship's laborious public life, but we can refer
with sincere gratification to your exertions in aid
of the rights of conscience at a time popular will
found much more feeble expression than in our own
more enlightened era. Religious liberty and the
education of the people were supported by your
lordship's voice and vote when comparatively few
had formed clear and decided opinions on these im-
portant elements in our national welfare and happi-
ness.

" Your successful advocacy of reform in the re.
presentation of the people is one of the most stir.
ring chapters in the history of our country ; and in
this populous borough we can bear indisputable
testimony to the value of the changes you intro-
duced into our system of municipal government.
" As a commercial community we thank you for
your valuable support to the principles of free
trade. The appeals of the men of Lancashire in
favour of untaxed bread received an apt and pecu-
liar confirmation from your ewn letter from Edin-
burgh, advising the total repeal of the corn laws,
which afterwards, under the statute of Sir Robert
Peel, opened our ports and cheapened the food of
our toiling thousands. (Cheers.)
" Whether in the Cabinet or in Opposition, we
have always felt assured of the patriotic purity of
your motives. We may sometimes have differed with
your lordship's course and policy; but we have never
entertained a doubt of your desire to extend the
popular privileges by widening the basis of the
constitution and effectually increasing its stability
and value. (Applause.)
" We believe that we express almost the universal
opinion of the nation when we say that in your pre-
sent capacity of Foreign Minister your policy of
non-intervention is the most dignified, sound, and
secure that a British statesman could adopt—(cheers)
—and we rejoice that, consistent with the mainten-
ance of this principle, your lordship's sympathies
have always been manifested in favour of civil and
religious liberty throughout the world.
" Finally, we wish your lordship continued health
and length of days • and we are certain that in your
new sphere in the House of Peers you will always
remember the rights of the people. We do not de-
sire on this occasion to address your lordship in a
spirit of ordinary partisanship ; but we trust you
may continue to serve your country in the full pos•
session of your country's confidence and esteem.'
(Cheers.)
Mr. G. BRADLEY seconded the adoption of the
address, which, with one or two additions suggested
by Mr. J. B. Manson, was carried unanimously.
It was resolved that the address should be pre-
sented to Earl Russell on Monday afternoon at half
past 3, Dr. Headlam, a venerable Reformer, having
agreed to take the chair at a public meeting for the
purpose, to be held in the Music Hall.
SUNDERLAND, SATURDAY EVENING.
At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon Earl Russell ar-
rived in this town, from Minto-house, Scotland, on a
visit to his daughter, Lady Victoria, and his son-in•
law, the Rev. H. M. Villiers (son of the late Bishop
of Durham), curate of Bishopwearmouth. On his
lordship alighting at the Monkwearmouth Railway
station, he was loudly cheered by a crowd which
had collected in anticipation of his arrival.
His Lordship then drove to St. George's-square,
the residence of Mr. Villiers, whither he
had been preceded by a few days by Lady
Russell. Mr. Villiers has been officiating as curate
of Bishopwearmouth for the last eight or nine
months, and his wife, Lady Victoria Villiers, has
already gained the good will of all with whom she
has' been brought in contact.
On Friday the Town Council of Sunderland met
and adopted an address to Earl Russell, which was
presented to his lordship this afternoon in the large
hall of the Athen scum, which was crowded to excess.

Precisely at one o'clock the Countess Russe'

with Lady Victoria Villiers and the Rev. H. M.
Villiers, entered the hall, and were received with
loud cheers, which had not long subsided when
they were renewed on the appearance of Earl Rus-
sell, who, accompanied by the Mayor, magistrates,
and a number of other gentlemen, took his place on
the platform. On the cheering have subsided,
The MAYOR (Mr. S. Alcock), addressing Earl
Russell, said he had great pleasure in being em-
powered to convey to his lordship on behalf of the
inhabitants of Sunderland, on his lordship's arrival
among them, the address which he held in his hand.
That address had been prepared and passed by the
Municipal Corporation—one of those bodies which,
as his lordship well knew, was composed of men of
all shades of public opinion. Ho was sorry that