The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-03 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 2.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Christian.
Her Majesty, Prince and Princess Christian,
Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Princess
Henriette attended Divine Service this morning at
Whippingham Church.

The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were in
attendance.

We are authorised to state that the Queen will
hold a Court at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, March 3,
to receive the Corps Diplomatique, Her Majesty's Ministers
and other official personages, with the ladies of their fami-
lies, who will receive notifications of her Majesty's gra-
cious intention through the Lord Chamberlain. The
Queen will also hold three Drawing Rooms at Buck-
ingham Palace —viz., on Thursday, March 12 ; Wed-
nesday, April 1 ; and Tuesday, May 12, to which ladies
will be admitted under the same regulations as were
formerly in force at St. James's Palace. The
Queen will be present at each Drawing Room as long as
her Majesty's strength will permit, • one of the Princesses
representing the Queen during the remainder of the time.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will, as usual,
hold Levees, on her Majesty's behalf, during the season at
St. James's Palace.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYKARKET.—Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the
Prince and Princess Teak, honoured the above theatre
with their presence on Saturday evening.

THE LATE GENERAL COUNT LADISLA US

ZAMOYSKL

One of the most high-minded and chivalrous of the Poles
who fought in the War of Independence of 1830-1, has
just died in exile at Paris. He was descended from the
great Chancellor John Zamoyski ; and therefore belonged
to one of the very few Polish families in the possession of
strictly entailed estates or majorats conferred, like
Strathfieldsaye and Blenheim, for eminent services to the
Crown.

At an early age he entered the Polish army, then com-
manded by the Grand Duke Constantine, brother of the
late Emperor Nicholas, and was appointed aide-de-camp
to the Grand Duke. When the Polish insurrection of
1830-1 broke out, young Ladislaus, by his tact and in-
fluence with the Grand Duke, obtained for himself and
the Polish troops a release from the oath of allegiance to
the Emperor. His military career during that memorable
struggle, was marked by superior capacity ; he was ap-
pointed Chief of the Staff to a separate and considerable
corps, and was distinguished by many gallant
deeds upon the field of battle, where he was severely
wounded. The catastrophe which terminated the war
made him, with thousands of his countrymen, an exile.
Still full of a soldier's aspirations he assisted, with the
sanction of the French Government, at the siege of the
citadel of Antwerp, and on the consolidation of the Belgian
monarchy took service in the Belgian army, and was con-
stantly an object of King Leopold's special attention.
On retiring from this service,vrhich offered him no active
career, he returned to France, and accompanied the late
Duke of Orleans in his travels through Algiers. The con-
tinued intercourse and intimacy produced by the journey
impressed the Duke with the highest opinion of the
Count's abilities.

In the Italian campaign Count Zamoyski served on the
staff of King Charles Albert. The Count subsequently
proceeded to Hungary and served with Generals Bem and
Dembinski, and on the termination of the war retired with
the Hungarian leaders into Turkey ; the Russian Govern-
ment, in menacing terms, demanded his extradition, and
urged the point with such persistence as showed that it
regarded Ladislaus Zamoyski as no ordinary opponent.
The Sultan refused, as we all remember, to violate the
laws of hospitality, and received the prompt support of
Lord Palmorston's Government in his magnanimous con-
duct.

When, in 1854, England and France declared war against
Russia, a corps of Polish refugees was formed in Turkey
by the advice of Prince Czartoryski, under the name of
the "CJossacks of the Sultan." Count Zamoyski, at that
time Major-General in the Turkish army, having, with the
permission of the Sultan, proposed to the. British Govern-
ment to raise a body composed of his countrymen several
thousand strong to act as an auxiliary to the Turkish
Contingent, Lis offer was accepted. A new and distinct
corps, called the " Division of the Cossacks of the Sultan,"
of which part of the other force formed the nucleus, in-
creased by the voluntary enlistment of Palish exiles
from all parts of the world, together with several hundreds
of Pole: who served in the Russian army at Bomarsund,
where they had been captured by the British, was orga-
nised, and passed into the English service, the command
being entrusted to the Count, with the rank of General of
Division.

The sudden close of this war prevented the effect which
the appearance of this force was calculated to produce on
the great number of Poles in the garrison of Sebastopol
from being tested by actual experience ; but the conduct
of the Poles, under General Zamoyski, while serving with
the British troops, was in every way such as to elicit a
warm eulogium from the Government on the disband-
ment of the corps.

Count Zamoyski, though by profession a soldier, was by
circumstances a diplomatist. Under the direction of his
venerable uncle, Prince Adam Czartoryski, who possessed,
perhaps, a more intimate knowledge of European affairs
than any other statesman of the day, Count Zamoyski inter-
ceded on behalf of his country at all the Courts of the West.
He was so perfect a master of the English language that he
could address a public meeting with effect ; he was equally
conversant with almost all other modern languages ; and
he added to the charm of manner, belonging in an espe-
cial degree to the great nobility of Poland, an earnestness
in advocating Lis views, which seldom failed to carry con-
viction with it. Although liable to attacks of intense
bodily pain, arising probably from too much mental exer-
tion, he shrank from no amount of labour in correspon-
dence or in travels, if he thought he could gain a pro-
selyte of mark to the cause which he considered
sacred. He even recounted with a certain satisfaction
the rebuffs which he sometimes sustained from the
hostile or the ignorant. "It is right," he would
say, " that when our country suffers such humiliations,
they should fall also on us individually."
As regards forms of government, Count Zamoyski was
an uncompromising advocate of constitutional monarchy.
Ile had as little toleration for democracy as for despotism,
and adopted the Constitution of 3d May, 1791, establishing
hereditary monarchs, as the starting point of Polish de-
velopment.
In religion Count Ladislaus Zamoyski was most sin-
cerely and devotedly attached to the faith of his fore-
fathers. With him, as with the majority of his country-
men, that religion, no doubt, sank deeper into the heart
from being an object of persecution to their oppressors—
f rom being identified, in their case, with the cause of
national freedom.

In appearance Count Zamoyski was almost as remark-
able as in character. In stature he was far beyond the
ordinary height ; his pale countenance bore witness to
much mental and bodily suffering, but also to a resolution
which no suffering, mental or bodily, could overcome. On
one occasion, when entering the room at a reception at
Lady Palmerston's, Lord Palmerston, stretching out his
hand to General Zamoyski, observed—" Here comes the
ghost of Poland, never tired of reminding us of the state to
which the apathy of Europe has brought it."
A leading member of the Polish emigration, supporting
all its educational and benevolent institutions, establishing
librarya of great extent and usefulness, generously re-
lieving individual distress, he readily employed his private
resources for any purpose that could promise benefit to his
countrymen. A. more noble or self-denying character it
would be impossible to find, and yet, like other great men,
he did not escape the abuse of the ignorant and malignant;
he bore it, however, without complaint, and with a serenity
of mind that disarmed almost all the opponents who ap-
proached him.

The close of his life was worthy of its course. He was
supported through great sufferings and distressing weak-
ness by his strong religious convictions, and the conscious-
ness that he had striven to the utmost in the discharge of
his duty. His wifo (of the distinguished family of Dzia-
lynski of the Grand Duchy of Posen), who had been his
companion in Turkey, and able assistant in his laborious
occupations, his children, and many near relatives, were
with him at the last. His body has been placed, tempo-
rarily, in the church of St. Louisan l'lsle at Paris, to be
transferred ultimately to the Polish cemetery at Mont-
morency, where the most eminent among the exiles lie
buried.

The numerous friends of Count Zamoyski in this coun-
try may regret him principally on account of the amiability
and simplicity, of his character in private life. His loss will
be deplored by the most intelligent among his country-
men, and by the leading statesmen of Turkey, as that of
the most active and able opponent of their common
enemy.

THE REV. MR. SPEKE.—No further trace has yet
been found of this strangely missing gentleman. Rumours
which have been recently publiShed are erroneous, and in
part unfounded. One story, to the effect that the dead
body of Mr. Speke had been discovered at a house in Pim-
lico, is entirely baseless. A corpse found in the small river
which runs near Ongar, in Essex, was in appearance so
near the description iu the bills offering a reward for the
discovery of Mr. Spoke that a telegram was sent to Scot-
land-yard, and an inspector of detective police was imme-
diately despatched to the place indicated. It turned out
that the body was not that of the missing clergyman. The
Pimlico rumour cannot be accounted fur by any incident
however slight.