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

HSTRESSPVG SUICIDE.

Mr. I.upert Clavite, one of the ceronera forterkisliire,
has held an inquiry at the National. School-room, Boyn
Maidenhead, in ti the painful circumstances at-
tending the death of Mr. Henry Scott Gresley, a
member of the bar, and son of the Bev. William Gresley,
the well known incumbe'it AA Saints', Boyn Hill. A
very respectable jury was empanelled, Mr. Durant, a
magistrate for the borough of Maidenhead, being chosen
foreman.
Several witnesses wore e:mmined, and it appeared from
their evidence that the dec;ased gentleman was only
married in the latter part of November last, and went on
a wedding tour, from which he returned about a fort-
night ago. Since his return he and Mrs. Gresley had
resided at tlie Rev. Mr. Gresley's, at Boyn Hill, and it
was observed that his manners were strange. So much
was this the case that the rev. gentleman requested
Dr. Playne, of Maidenhead, to examine- the deceased
with reference to his mental condition. Dr. Playne ac-
cordingly had an interview with deceased, and from what
Passed between them he came to the conclusion that it was
desirable that the deceased should be watched. On
Tuesday morning one of the female servants of the es-
tablishment met Mrs. Gresley emerging from the dressing-
room of the deceased in a dreadfully excited state,
imploring that a medical man be immediately sent for.
The servant hurried into the dressing-room, and to her
horror found Mr. Gresley lying on the bed with a fear-
ful wound in his throat, from which blood was flowing,
and there was also a quantity of blood on the floJr. A
razor lay upon the dressing-table, and it was too apparent
that with this instrument the unfortunate gentle-
man had committed the violence upon himself.
Medical aid was called in with all promptness, and in the
meantime every attention was paid to the deceamcd, who,
however, expired from the effects of the wound. The
whole facts were fully investigated, and the jury returned
a verdict that deceased destroyed himself while in a state
of temporary insanity. The deceased was known to a
large circle of country gentry, and the sad case ham
created a very painful excitement throughout the neigh-
bourhood.

It is rumoured that Mr. Gladstone, M,P., is
preparing, and has in a forward state for publication, a
work on Greece and Phoenicia.

As many of the other loyal bodies in the country
have done, the Freemasons of Ireland are about to present
a loyal address to the Queen, recording their abhorrence of
Fenia,nism and all treasonable projects.
Mn. FILDES, M.P., AT GRIMSBY. --411 a speech
reecn'y delivered to his constituents at Grimsby, Mr.
s a v;urted that Mr. Disraeli had only yielded the
R 'orm to the pressing demands of the people for an
e).' on on of the suffrage. The conversion of the Conser-
vatives to opinions diametrically opposed to those which
they had previously entertained was the strangest and
most complete political conversion in the record of history.
He considered that the people of Irelabui had always been
treated as a conquered race, and had had forced upon them
a Church to which nine-tenths of them did not belong.
Finally, Mr. Fildes expressed himself in favour of com-
pulsory education and vote by ballot.—Eastern Morning
`News.

A few days since a gardener, in trenching some
meadow land at Highgate, Middlesex, found a vase con-
taining nearly 7,000 silver coins, consisting of silver
pennies (London, York, Middlesex, Bristol, and Canter-
bury), groats and half-groats, halfpennies, &c. (Irish and
Scotch, Venetian anti foreign, Teutonic), and two gold
coins of Edward ii.i a:so an amber rosary. The coins
have been partially arranged by Mr. Vaux, of the British
Museum.

When Lord John Browne retires from the representa-
tion of Mayo, Mr. Valentine O'Connor Blake, who has
considerable landed property in the county, will offer
himself for election. Mr. Blake is an advanced Liberal.
A correspondent of the Freeman's Jottryial states that
the Bishop of Salisbury, Dr. Pusey, and Mr. Mackonochie
(of St. Alban's, Holborn) are the persons to whom the
I?,egider referred a week ago as about to join the
Church of Rome.

Mr. George Potter has again to correct the Times on a
point on which he has been misrepresented. The leading
journal stated that the action of trades unions in the
limitation of apprentices has been selected as the strongest
and most defensible point in the system of Unionism, and
that Mr. Potter had confidently undertaken to justify the
principle, and show good reasons for the policy of it, at the
forthcoming interview with Mr. Gladstone. He denies that
the limitation of apprentices had been chosen as one of the
questions to be defended by the deputation, although it is
selected as one of the subjects to come. under discussion;
and the statement that the writer had undertaken to
justify the limitation is, he says, equally incorrect.
The deputation wish it to be understood that what they
intend to do at the interview with Mr. Gladstone is to
sheW reasons why some trades limit apprentices, and, if
these reasons are not justifiable, to recommend the consider-
ation of the subject and the adoption of such alterations as
may be deemed necessary. Thereby they hope to shew
that they desire to eradicate from the unions everything
that is unjust or indefensible, and make them worthy of
intelligent artisans.

Mr. It. H. Allnatt has published an analySis of his notes
on the weather during :January. He speaks of the storms
which prevailed throughout England and part of Conti-
nental Europe, explaining that they were generally equa-
torial. The range of Fahrenheit's thermometer in the
).cst week of the year was from 5 to 12 deg. below the
teezing point. In the second week the mean was from
Bto 41.2 deg., a difference of 1f3•2 deg. From the 16th
) the 31st the nightly range was from 29 to 47 deg., a
ifference of 18 deg. Frost occurred nightly up to the
.;!th, and again on the 20th and 21st. The range of tly
barometer during the month, Mr. Allnatt says, was fron.
28.70 to 30.00 inches, the minimum registration being just
previous to the gale of the 22nd. The fall of snow was
about four inches, and it is remarked that on the sth, 6th,
and Bth the snow fell, thawed slightly, and then became
frozen over the top, so that in undisturbed places there
were three impervious layers of ice-bound snow. In the
most inclement portion of tl..e early part of January the
mortality fell considerably below the average.
Mr. Dudley Baxter writes to the Times to defend the
East London Mission Committee from the charge of re-
fusing to co-operate with the Central Executive. The
writer argues that there has been a miscarriage and a mis-
take. The Mission Committee were in favour of one
executive, but, being a religious body, they did not feel
bound to give up their funds, which were larger than those
of all the other committees put together, to a purely
secular organisation.

Mr. Saunderson, the secretary of the committee, denie
that the religious opinion of anyone in distress in the least
influences the amount of relief given by the association.
He also states that in order to prevent " duplicate relief "
the comm • retired from several districts where local
societies too: it upon them to administer to the distress.
To some of these, too, funds were voted. The committee
formed sewing classes, and paid for the work done. Ladies
and gentlemen were asked to come out and speak to those
who attended about the gospel of Christ. The amount of
relief given by the " Mission," Mr. Saunderson says,
amounted to from £l,OOO to £1,500 a week. He also
explains that wherever house-to-house visitation is insti-
tuted by other local p:-.3r4ong, "Mission" always leaves
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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
IVhippingham 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, ITAYMARKET.--Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the
Prince and Princess Tezk, honoured the above theatre
with their presence on Saturday evening.

THE LATE GENERAL COUNT LADISLAUS
ZAMOESKL

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. lle 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
Strathfioldsayo 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-oar%)
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.
Oa retiring from this sorvice,which 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 sorved on the
staff of King Charles Albert. The Count subsequently
proceeded to Hungary and served with Generals Rem 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 Palmerston's Government in his magnanimous con-
duct.

When, in 1851, 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 "Cossacks of the Sultan." Count Zsmoyski, 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, his 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 Polish exiles
from all parts of the world, together with several hundreds
of Polee who served in the Russian army at Bomarsund,
where they had boon 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

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 his 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 travele, if he thought he could gain a pro-
selyte of mark to the cause which he considered
sacred. lie even recounted with a certain satisfaction
the rebuffs which he sometimes sustained from the
hostile or the ignorant. "[t is right," ho 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 consti.utional monarchy.
He 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—
from 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 Puland, never tired of reminding us of the state to
which the apathy of Europe has brought it."
A leading member of tho Polish emigration, supporting
all its educutiot. al and benevolent institutions, establishing
a library 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 ho had striven to the utmost in the discharge of
his duty. His wife (of the distinguished family of Dzia-
lyuski 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 lisle 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
berm found of this strangely missing gentleman. Ruthours
which have been recently published are erronouns, and is
part unfounded. One story, to the effect that the dead
body of Mr. Spoke 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 in 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 nut that of the missing clergyman. 1110
Pimlico rumour cannot be accounted fur by any incident
'low= blight.

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