The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-30 00:00:00

ANNIVERSARY OF THE POLISH

ILEVOLUTION.

Yesterday being tho 31st anniversary of the Polish Re-
volution of 1830-31, a funeral service was performed for
those who fell in that national struggle by the Rev. T.

Santry, which was attended by a large number of Polish

refugees resident in this metropolis. Afterwards a meet-
ing of the Polish Historical Society, whoso members are

exclusively Poles, was held at Sussex Chambers, Duke-
street, St. James's, under the presidency of Major

Gielgud.
The CHAIRMAN having expressed his regret at the una-

voidable absence of Colonel Szyrma, the-president, and.
Major Szulczewski, the vice-president, reviewed the recent
events and the manifestations of national spirit of

his country, which, said he, must have convinced
all Europe of the determination of the Poles
to regain their independence, and the rights
guaranteed to them, and urged them to draw example from
their countrymen, now savagely persecuted by the tyran-

nical Government of Russia, and to bear their sufferings as
exiles with fortitude and resignation.
General Count ZAMOYSKI then addressed his country-
men as follows :—Gentlemen,—On meeting you here,
with whom during so many years I have unceas-
ingly shared labours, sorrows, and hopes, I am natu-
rally led to begin by mentioning the irreparable loss we
have suffered since I last parted with you, in the person of
the great man to whom, in everything we ever undertook
for the service of our country, we all looked up invariably
as to our leader—l might almost say as to the ruler of oar
consciences as Poles—while, on the other hand, theuniver-
sal respect and veneration which his name inspired was to
every one of us a source of comfort, cheering, and pride.
The greater, however, the benefit we derived from his quali-
ties and long experience, the more prolonged his life and
his presence of mind unimpaired to his very last hour,—the
more we dreaded the day when we should be deprived of
his presence among us by the natural close of his
noble and useful life. But it seems as if Providence

had, is its mercy, resolved that our long sufferings
should now be changed into consolation. All the news
from Poland confirm that impression ; as though our coun-
trymen were never submitted to more difficult and irritating
trials, they now bear them with the calm expectation of a
proximate triumph, not by any further appeal to arms, but
by the daily increase of our own streng% and by the inca-
pacity of our enemies to master it. Thus, also, and by a
favour of the same Providence, which we cannot sufficiently
acknowledge, the very loss of our great leader and patriarch
has not become, to those who followed and supported him,
a cause of weakness and dispersion, but has made them feel
stronger, because stillimore united. The gravity of the situa-
tion might have suggested to them the necessity of drawing
closer to one another and tightening their bond of union
for the accomplishment of their duties to wards the coun-
try ; but invaluable assistance towards it resulted from the
words which Prince Czartoryski dictated on his death-bed.
That act of foresight and wisdom, as it was the last
of his public career, remains one of the most important
and beneficial. To all of us whom in that act he
called his friends and fellow-labourers, he has traced
the rule which we have to follow in our further la-
bours. He called upon his son to continue, as a true and
faithful servant of his country, the work to which ho him-
self had devoted his life in exile, because he considered that
he was placed in conditions best suited to the functions of
the chief representative of his country abroad, a function
which he properly described as the special duty of our emi-
gration. His friends and fellow-labourers he summoned to
give to his son the same devoted and disinterested support
which ho himself had received from them. You know, gen-
tlemen, by your own feelings and dispositions, that this last
will of Prince Czartoryski has found us all disposed to obey
it. But, as one more closely associated with the labours in
question, let me share with you the good news, that those
labours, during the few months intervening since the late
Prince's demise, have been followed by all who take part in
them with a degree of union and concert surpassing our
best hopes, and that if it be to me a true pleasure to bear
testimony to the activity, talent, and disinterestedness of my
companions, I am happy, at the same time, t o proclaim that
the Prince's son shows himself every day, by his great
modesty, his thoroughgoing devotion and natural tact, up
to the groat duties which he has to accomplish. Of the
news from Poland, I will allude only to the last. After a
succession of measures, showing that our enemies are com-
pletely at a loss as to how they could overcome a whole
people, on whom both fire and ateel and violence of every
description fails to produce the desired effect of terror and
submission, a recent act of insanity commands the levy of
10,000 recruits for the Russian army out of the towns of
the present kingdom of Poland. The aggregate population
of these towns is not one million of inhabitants ; thus,
taking ono-half to bo men of every age, and about one
fifth to be able-bodied, every ten of the last will have to
contribute ono recruit. Thus the valid and more enlight-
ened population of Poland is to be decimated and carefully
transported to the most distant parts of the vast empire
But have we to deplore it ? By no means. For many
years past the Russian regiments have been filled with
Poles, and all of them invariably acted the part of apostles
of freedom. They did so, because they showed themselves
more enlightened, more honest, than those with whom
they were forced to associate, and because their countenances
bore the stamp of deep sorrow. Who knows but we owe
to them the feeling now widely spreading among Russians,
especially among the young and the better-informed, that
it is hopeless to think of subjugating Poland ; that, besides
the impossibility of the enterprise, there is, for the Russian
people themselves, everlasting slavery in the pursuit. It
was once already the glory of Poland that a formidable
neighbour of hers, Lithuania, after long and bloody wars,
embraced Christianity, and henceforth became more than
a sister to her, since the bond of union between
.the two
nations is now triumphing over time, and all the efforts of
the common enemy to break it. Who knows but we may
yet see the Russian nation shake off both the trammels and the
criminal suggestions of despotism, and wish for nothing from
Poland, but that she should forget the past, and become a
friendly and useful neighbour I The present time is mani-
festly pregnant with great changes in the condition of the
world I Never did I feel more confident that our country
shall ere long have to contribute its share in the improve-
ment of that condition.
Mr. N. F. ZABA also spoke to the same effect, after which
the meeting separated, having passed a vote of thanks to
the Chairman.

The letters from Paris state that the Bourse has
been much agitated by the news from England, and that
the general feeling is strong against the conduct of tho
United States Government. The market was already
heavy, and hence the effect was severe. The cause of the
previous flatness consisted in statements that M. Fould
meets with great obstacles in carrying out his plan of eco
nomy by reducing the army by 100,000 men and putting a
stop to the heavy expense of the marine, but it is hoped
that with the support of the Emperor, he will yet fully suc-
ceed. It is said that the Government have been selling
largely Piedmontense stock, received from the Italian Go-
vernment for expenses in the Italian war, and also that they
have thrown on the market a large quantity of Government
bOybltihgeat
Cassieio d
Obligations, called
Consignations. " Trentenaires " which had been taken
onsignations. These sales were necessary
to procure resources to pay the dividends on the Three pet
Cents, duo next month. Specie increases in the Bank, and
'discounts out of doors can be obtained at 44 per cent.