Polish News. No. 19. on April 24, 1856. Paris [Manuscript letter. F. T. Blizinski, Wł. Zamoyski and the Polish Division of the Sultan's Cossacks].

Polish News. No. 19. on April 24, 1856. Paris [Manuscript letter. F. T. Blizinski, Wł. Zamoyski and the Polish Division of the Sultan's Cossacks].

At the top of the first page a handwritten note pasted on: "[...] To be communicated to Dear Countrymen Mr. Wierzbołowicz, Mr. Niebytowski, Mr. Kolotek, Mr. Stasicki and Mr. Hurynowicz. A reminder and a request to the Honourable Countrymen, that each of them deign to read the aforementioned letter to his successor...]. On April 29, 1856 Signed: Blizinski.
Probably Feliks Tadeusz Blizinski (1792-1876), captain of the 2nd class of the army of the Kingdom of Poland (1830), insurgent of the November Uprising, after the uprising lived in exile in France.

Printed 4 pp. (pp. 73-76), and manuscript 1 p. Dimensions of the newspaper pages 32 x 25 cm. Dimensions of notes 10 x 20 cm.

"Polish News" - was one of the most famous emigrant periodicals, published in Paris in 1854-1861.

The editor of the magazine was Feliks Wrotnowski (1807-1871) - publicist, cartographer, participant in the Lithuanian expedition of D. A. Chłapowski (1831). After the fall of the uprising, he settled in Paris, editor of the "National Journal" (together with W. Plater), later of the "Polish News", a Towiańczyk. In 1854-1860, director of the Polish Library in Paris.

In the issue, among others, the Polish Division of the Sultan's Cossacks, Daily Orders of April 1, 2 and 8, 1856, signed in print by Wl. Zamoyski, commander of the Polish Division of the Sultan's Cossacks; Correspondence with Skutari; Letter to Jenerał Hrabi Zamoyski; Manifesto of the Emperor of Rossia of March 18, 1856; Information about the death and biography of Kajetan Koźmian.

Sultan Cossacks Division - the nucleus of a Polish military formation, formed under the auspices of the Lambert Hotel in the fall of 1855 during the Crimean War. The commander of the unit was General Wladyslaw Zamoyski, who was promoted to the English rank of major general. [wikipedia.co.uk]