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Nov. 1, 1851.] W* &««***? 1037
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WYSOCKI, THE LEADER OF THE POLES IN HUNG...
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PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP. The Court is s...
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The Duchess d'Angoulfime will be buried ...
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The American Union chronicles a marriage...
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ANTI-STATE CHURCH MOVEMENT. The Anti-Sta...
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CHANCERY REFORM
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RAMHIIAY ON VENTILATION. Mr. llamshay, J...
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Letter From Lady Franklin. The Following...
early operations next spring . I intended writing much more tb you about your own two gallant ships , and their whiter of almost unparalleled anxiety ; but , as I wish to addSs a few lines to Judge Kane I believe I must forhear , and refer you to my note to him , which I shall inclose and leave open . Captain Penny has studded the northern part of Wellington Channel with your names , and the names of our brave and generous allies in your ships I am greatly pressed for time , having more writing than I can possibly get through . " Believe me , my dear Mr . Grinnell , ever most truly and respectfully yours , Jane Fkanklin . "
Nov. 1, 1851.] W* &««***? 1037
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Wysocki, The Leader Of The Poles In Hung...
WYSOCKI , THE LEADER OF THE POLES IN HUNGARY . Upon the ship which deposited Kossuth on the hospitable shores of England , more than one nationality was represented , and Poland numbered also some few of those of her most beloved sons , who , seeing no battlefield open to them on her subjugated soil , had flocked round the standard of Hungary , in order to fight against the common enemy of both nations . General Joseph Wysocki , the gallant commander of the Polish Legion in the Hungarian service , with three of his fellow-countrymen , Colonel Przyjemski , Captain Lusakowski , and Lieutenant Kossak , his young and faithful Adjutant , all of them companions to the last of Kossuth ' s captivity in Asia Minor , have landed at Southampton on the same day as himself , and some few details concerning them will assuredly not be unwelcome to the British public , whose sympathies have so heartily greeted , so generously supported at their landing at Liverpool—the men and officers of that very Legion of which General Wysocki was the first organizer
and chief . After a few months of awakened hopes and deceitful liberty , Galicia lay prostrate again under the feet of the bombarder of Cracow ; and those who had been ^ allowed to arm themselves in defence of their rights which were those of their country , as well as the numerous youth who had flocked thither from the neighbouring provinces , expecting to join there the nucleus of a national army , were obliged to forego their hopes and to surrender their arms and themselves to the mercies of merciless and faithless Austria . They fled then to Hungary , which had raised the banner of Liberty ; and the National Committee , then still existing at Lemberg , sent a deputation of three known patriots to Kossuth , one of whom was
Joseph Wysocki , a Polish officer and refugee of 1831 , a former member of the Central Committee of the Polish Democratic Society , who had availed himself of his long exile to study military science , at the School of Artillery and Military Engineering at Metz , where he acquired that skill and knowledge which soon enabled him to distinguish himself among the best leaders of , the Hungarian army . His and his colleagues' instructions were , to offer to Hungary the fraternal alliance of the Polish nation , and to obtain from the Hungarian Government an authorization to form a legion of 20 , 000 Poles , who were to serve the cause of Hungarian independence , until it being conquered , they could fight for that of their own country . The number
of Polish volunteers was every day increasing , and Wysocki spent all his energies in obtaining the permission of arming them . What reasons hindered the Government from according ifc ^ is not our object to enumerate . The fact was , that a permission was granted at last to organize a body of nty more than two thousand men . The first battalion , from throe to four hundred men strong , was sent as soon as formed to the siege of Arad , of which , on the first night of its arrival , it stormed the walls . The assault was repulsed ; but the Polish Legion and its commander conquered the esteem of the whole beleaguering army . A letter of Kossuth to Lieutenant-Colonel Wysocki , now in the hands of the General , shows
in what high esteem since then the Government held the Legion . Little by little it increased b y the adjunction of several detachments formed in different places , and fought constantly in all the battles against the Austrians , from the River Theiss to Coraorn , in the rescue of which fortress they took an active part . The Hungarian leaders did always full justice to their discipline and gallantry , and when they left Buda-Pesth for Miskotez , where all the disseminated Polish detachments had received orders to meet , in order to form a single body , the whole Hungarian division occupying Buda reconducted them out of town with unfurled colours and a playing band .
After the Russians had entered Hungary , Wysocki was invested with the command of Upper Hungary , and thereby of the ninth and tenth armies . The Polish Legion belonged to the former , under the command of General Dezhofi , and since partook of all the hardships to which the Hungarians were incessantl y subjected on fheir retreut to Temeavar , where the Legion performed > ts lawt , but not least , feat << f arms . What since then wa « the fate of Hungary is but too well known . After the treason of Gorgei to the Russians , the Polish Legion "retired on the Turkish territory .
Ihere the I ' olish Legion did not forget that they were iJeinocratH , nnd their leader a late member of the Polish ¦ Democratic Central Committee . Their duty was therefore « vi ( U > nt ; it was not less theirs than it wan that of their rotheru and political coreligionists , whether in Europe or >« America , in France , in England , as well hh in the United States , and everywhere . In Hpite , therefore , of the m"igucH of the Polish aristocracy , and of Russian and Austrian agents , who endeavoured vainly to ruine against jnem the suspicions of the Turkish Government , the Jegioiiists formed themselves into a flection of the Polish i > * 'i « : ocratic Hociety , and entered into correspondence "Wjth itH Cenirnl Committee in London . Those . Poles , "" " « landed at Southampton and Liverpool were tho «« t remain of that Legion .
Personal News And Gossip. The Court Is S...
PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . The Court is still at Windsor , where there has been a giving away of honours , orders , and stars . Bloomerism , as will be seen elsewhere , has endeavoured to shine , but in vain , in the West . More successful by far was the Lecture of Mrs . T . C . Foster , at the Whittington Club on Monday . Lord Carlisle has officially intimated that he will hear the charges against Mr . Bamshay , the notorious editorimprisoning judge of the Liverpool County-court , on the 5 th of November at the Court-house , Preston . Mr . Benjamin Hawes has resigned the office he held of under Secretary of State for the Colonies and has been appointed under Secretary at War . Mr . Frederick Peel succeeds Mr . Hawes in the Colonial office .
Mr . Charles Lushington presided at a meeting at the Lecture-hall , Vauxhall-bridge-road , for the purpose of promoting the principles of popular progress and secular education through the medium of the Westminster and Pimlico People ' s Institute . A resolution to that effect was agreed to . " Paul Cullen " has sent in a kind of adhesion to the Tenant-right League , and subscription of one pound .
The Duchess D'Angoulfime Will Be Buried ...
The Duchess d'Angoulfime will be buried in the Franciscan Convent at Gorz , where lie the remains of her husband and Charles X . Professor Pellegrini , one of the members of the Provisional Government of Parma in 1848 , and who has since occupied a chair of philosophy at Turin , died on the 18 th instant . An unprecedented occurrence ( says a Jamaica paper ) has taken place at St . Jago de la Vega . His Excellency the Govrenor , Sir Charles Edward Grey , K . G . C ., has been assessed for taxes to the amount of £ 85 , and haying refused to pay the sum , and after repeated applications for payment by the collecting constable , bis carriage was levied upon , and advertised m the Jamaica Gazette , by
authority , for public sale to the highest and best bidder . The sale has not yet taken place ; but , unless his excellency " paid up , " it would inevitably occur . The following piquant paragraph appeared in a morning contemporary , on the 29 th instant : — " Berlin , October 25 . —The King is expected at Potsdam to-day . The result o £ the hunting excursion was fifteen fallow deer , seven stags with antlers , 129 wild boars—of which the King of Prussia killed forty , and the King of Saxony an equal number . One of the huntsmen was gored by a wounded stag . M . Bodelschwingh , Minister of Finance , has returned to Berlin . The Chambers will not be convoked before the 30 th of November . The proposed reduction in the navigation dues upon the Elbe has been rejected . "
The American Union Chronicles A Marriage...
The American Union chronicles a marriage between Apollonia Jagellon , the " Heroine of Hungary , ^ and Major Tothman , the moat " heroic of the Poles " ! Extraordinary stories sometimes get into the papers , and here is one of them . It is said to have been cut from a Carthagena , South America , paper . It is related by a traveller who lately visited Carthagena : — " I saw a lady this morning—for such I will call her , who is a perfect man and a perfect woman . She is partially deranged . She is rather tall in stature . Her features are neither masculine nor feminine . She walks and sits like a man . She shaves every other day—her beard being white does not show very plain . Her age is thirty-five . Her affection is that of a woman , tender-hearted and sympathetic . Her courage and resolution is that of a
man , while her voice partakes of each . She charges the Almighty of doing wrong in giving her such a mysterious formation . She told me she was born in London—was a cousin to Queen Victoria . Under the advice of Queen Victoria , she dressed in men ' s clothes , and left the country at eighteen years of age . She possessed wealth —went to France—studied anatomy ; from thence went to New York and practised medicine—married a wife—was the father of two children ; two years after , lost her wife and property , and again assumed the female dressmarried a man of some wealth—was mother of three children—parted from her husband and became a wanderer over the earth . She closed her narrative , while her tears flowed freely , by saying that she ' felt like Cain driven from tho face of all men ! ' "—American Union .
Anti-State Church Movement. The Anti-Sta...
ANTI-STATE CHURCH MOVEMENT . The Anti-State Church Association held its first winter soir 6 e at the London Tavern on Monday . The large company assembled were nddresaed by the notabilities of the Association , and great hopes were expressed of a speedy realization of their objects . Tho efforts of the State Church to free herself from the state were recognized as signs of the general feeling agahiMt lawestublished Churches . The Reverend Mr . Burnett joked
about the quarrels between Dr . Summer and Dr . Philpotts ; but the Reverend Mr . Price , of Gravenend , saw something serious in the movement for convocation , and diocen ;* u synods . The Reverend Mr . Rose , brought and bred up in the Church of England , spoke earnestly for separation , for freedom , for independence of the temporal powers . Mr . Edward Miall t » aw in the tendencies of the hour a decided approach towards the breaking up and abolition of the , Church altogether . The following is the report : —
" LiulicH and Gentlemen , —The Executive Committee feel that in enforcing thcun and kindred dutieu there never was a period when the fulfilment of them was ho likely to be followed by a rich harvest of reward . The events occurring in the ecclesiastical world continue to operate as powerful auxiliaries in the contest in which we are engaged . The botom of the Church Knt : il > linhnient in KitKland still heaves with excitement uitd discontent . No palliations , no urtinces , no compromises , no entreaties , have diijpolled the fears or baniuhed the dissatisfaction winch , for the last three years , hure filled
the breasts of many of the most earnest and most pious sons of the Church . How , indeed , could it be otherwise ? where , m addition to the humiliating acknowledgment not to be evaded , that not one link has yet been struck off from the chain which holds that Church in bondage to the state , and that there is no prospect of any measure for quelling strife and banishing tieachery , there has lately been made to the wide world a revelation of cupiditv and of dishonesty on the part of ecclesiastical dignitaries such as could exist in no religious community in which the canker of worldliness had not already made fatal inroads .
" Thousands of our countrymen have been lea by such incidents as these to examine for the first time , the nature and the pretensions of an institution which has been strongly built on the prejudices rather than . on the reason of mankind , and these prejudices being thus rudely disturbed , the process of enlightenment will proceed with accelerated rapidity , until the common sense , the virtue , and the religion of the community will be arranged in resistless hostility against it . Help , then , fellow-labourers , now that increased help is twice needed , and will be doubly efficacious ; and while , as circumstances render probable , your energies and your sympathies will during the approaching season be enlisted in agitating for an extension of political rights , bear in mind that religious liberty never can be complete until toleration has given place to equality by the total separation of the Church from the State . "
Chancery Reform
CHANCERY REFORM
A public meeting , convened by the Council of the Chancery Reform Association , was held on Wednesday evening in the Lecture-hall , Woolwich , to consider the evils of the practice of the Court of Chancery , and the necessity of abolishing its equity jurisdiction . Lord Erskine presided . He did not think that much had actually been done in the work of reform . What had been done showed that the Government had been operated upon by the force of public opinion , and gave the greatest encouragement to those who felt the importance of getting wholly rid of the monstrous evils connected with the administration of equity by the Court of Chancery . The Government was far behind the public on this question .
M . Meryweather Turner , Esq ., moved the first resolution as follows , supporting it by a very lucid and powerful speech on the delay , cost , and vexation necessarily incident to a suit in Chancery : — " That though this meeting has no disposition to depreciate the value of the reforms recently effected in the practice of the courts of law and equity , and in giving an extended jurisdiction to the county courts , it is , nevertheless , deeply impressed with a conviction of the utter inadequacy of our jurisprudence and judicature to meet the wants of the community ; and it is especially impressed with a sense of the hardship and ruin entailed upon thousands of her Majesty ' s subjects by the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery , and its cumbrous , dilatory , and
costly forms of procedure . " Lieutenant Walter , R . M ., seconded the resolution , which was then put and carried unanimously . Mr . W . Carpenter , the honorary secretary , moved the second resolution , in a very able speech , in which he took a review of all the reforms and . pretended reforms in the Chancery practice that had taken place within the last few years , insisting that a great fuss had been made in effecting almost nothing , the frightful system being still one of the most grinding instruments of oppression the world had ever seen . The Times , he said , had stated only a few days since , that in spite of the erection of the new appellate court , the reform of the Court of Chancery was a thing remaining to be effected . No one could doubt that ; and he was fully satisfied , from a careful and laborious review of the history of that court for 40 () year 8 last past , the practice was quite incapable of
improvement . It was essentially vicious in principle , and nothing short of what had been done in America , would satisfy the justice of the case ; that is , the abolition of the equity jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery , and the adoption of one uniform system of jurisprudence , administered upon intelligible principles , and at a small cost . { Hear . ) Mr . Carpenter concluded a very eloquent speech by moving the following resolution : — " That the distinction between law and equity , and the separate and supreme jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery , have no foundation in reason , and are productive only of uncertainty , vexation , delay , and expense ; and this meeting highly approves of the course taken by the council of the Chancery Reform Association , in demanding the abolition of this arbitrary and vicious distinction , and the adoption of one uniform system of jurisprudence , and the exerciBe by the same tribunal of all the powers heretofore divided between the courts of common law and
the courts of equity . " The resolution having been seconded , was put and unanimously adopted . On the motion of Mr . Owens , a vote of thanks was then given to the noble Chairman , after which the meeting separated .
Ramhiiay On Ventilation. Mr. Llamshay, J...
RAMHIIAY ON VENTILATION . Mr . llamshay , Judge of the Liverpool County Court , took hiH seat as unual on Monday , and committed several solemn vagaries . Take one instance . ili « Honour observed that the windows were shut . " Whose duty , " he united "is it to open these windows ?" Mr . Htatham : The duty of the keeper of the court . The Judge : I gave an order of a general nature , that the windows were to be opened , and I am not to waste my time and the time of the court by these interruptions . I do maintain that my order * shall be punctually carried out . I shall mark by line all improper conduct , whatever it may be . I nlmll in every instance inflict a line , und a very severe one . I shall teach those parties who do not comply with the reasonable orders oi this court , by such lines as will force attention to their duties . Hero
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 1, 1851, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01111851/page/9/
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