The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-29 00:00:00

hereto% that new elections should take place, and that be would ever maintain the constitution. Only one of these prosaism was kept, namely, the calling of the new parliament, which sat just as long as the events of Europe were doubtful. No one ever be lieved that the revolt of May would be revived, and a monster trial grow old of it. It would appar, however, that the government thought it an admir able opportunity to imprinter amid dear theseentry of the members of the led fit. This I *eke to be the political aim aft them WA. Th e neee h ee el the accused is 321 (p. de" Chem, 16 Motergien,and creoprises one cabinet minister, we minimise eleelpo. kebab several deputies, perakehish in the few nobles and other persons of &deaths and pro perty. Of these only 46 are brought to trial ; the rest are in exile, or " liable to be called Imes." Why so many who were actually taken with SEM in their hand are not incorporated in the trial, k a Neapoli tan mystery, to say the least of it. The general anew esti= runs thus :—" (If conspiring and threatening the internal security of the states, with a view of de stroying or changing the form of government, and exciting the subjects and inhabitants of the kingdom to arm themselves against the Royal authority, as well as, in fact, fur having actually excited civil Mt between the inhabitants of the same treason consummated in the capital, 16, 1648." (Coma, p. .59.) Those who are not present will be tried, says the act of accusation, precisely as if they were in siert, so that many exiles will probably find it impost Is to return, as there can be little doubt about the im tentions of the government. The printed act of accusation contains a variety oi, documents. The first is the programme of the first constitutional ministry (approved by the King). The ke° Bahasa is promised, and the royal banner is to wear the Italian tri-colour! Then follows a pro clamation of the supreme magistracy of the king dom, calling on the people to demand the constitu tion of Pito. This paper declares the King will not observe his royal oath, but will destroy , the consti tution, as the Bourbons have ever done. That the then ministry must be changed. To arms! and lung life to the Pope ! finishes this paper. The next proclania demands ono chamber and no peers. 'flan follow the thanks of the depu ties to the people and National Guard, dated May 15, I`i4t4. Further on (p. 133) is found the protest of the chambers &runlet the violence used by the royal troops, and a declaration that they will meet again on the first opportunity. The royal amnesty fol lowed, but that is not printed. The prisoners have naturally protested against their being tried for an act which, supposing they were accomplices, was forgiven by the King. The court having been called on, in the preliminary acta on which the accusations are founded, to ~l,nw cause why the royal amnesty does not stand good says (p. 130), that as a commission was appointed to inquire into the criminal acts of May 13, the royal decree does not stand good. And that the solemn words in fact of the King were simply es momentary precautions ("prsirm aormers iak ntaneu. 4 ) No one, 1 presume, will be surprised at this decision of a Neapolitan court, illegality is the rule, not the excep tion ; and as for royal promises and royal oaths, they are not only broken, but we have, as ail the world knows, an authorised catechism to teach perjury to the youth of the country. Leopadi, late Neapolitan minister at Turin, and Scialoja, a cabinet minister (two of the prisoners now under trial), both put in a plea of incoinpe teney, as by law, old as well as now, ministers cannot be tried by the ordinary courts of law. The act of secteuttion," I need not say, puts aside the difficulty which is illegality No. 1. Illegality No. 2, is the non-recognition of the royal amnesty. Illegality No. 3, is trial by a court which does not admit of appeal. Illegality No. 4, is the seizure of documents necessary to the prisoners' trials. Ille gality No. 5, is the intimidation of lawyers to pre vent their pleading fur the prisoners. Illegality No. 6, is the packing of judges. The proceed:age of the criminal court are, if pos sible, more illegal than when l'oerio was tried. Yesterday the president would not allow the pri soners to speak; refused to register the fact in the minutes of trial, and finally, on more than one occasion, objected to witnesses being called. It is very clear the whole of the prisoners will be con demned. Neapolitan Fives, 1011 ; Sicilian Fives, 88 ; E:- change on London, 342. INDIA AND CHINA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) BOMBAY, Dec. 8. A new riot has taken place among the :Vassal mans at Bombay, but tranquillity is now restored. The forces of Sir C. Campbell met with no oppo- sition. The same is the case with the Bohat forces. The troops stationed at Mooltan had received orders to be ready for immediate service. It is reported that the reigning dynasty had abicated the throne of Chins, bet this rumour is considered rather premature. Dr. Harding has been installed Bishop at Bombay. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. MAI)aiD, DEC. 22.—Three per Cents., 381 ; after Bola, 381. Four per Cents., Five per Cent.., 18 15-16 ; after Boise, 17. Coupons, 81 ; after Bolas, N. Passives, 6 6-18 ; after Boles, 5 9-16. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 981 c. Exchange on London, 60.70. VIKNNA, 14:e. 27.—Five per Cent. Aietalliques 951 • Four-and-a-Half per Cent. ditto, 841. Bank Shares, 12.58. Exchange on London, 12.00. Beaux, DEC. 24.—Voluntary Loan, 1011. New Loan Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1011. National Debt, 881. Commercial Marine Society's Premium, 120. Bank Shares, 991. FORGERY ON THE YORKSHIRE BANKING COY rant.—Two parties, who give their names Thomas Jackson and William Jones, have been apprehended at Bradford, for tittering forged 61. none of the Doncaster branch of the Yorkshire Banking Company. The two ' yeomen were brought up for examination at Bradford, be. the Mayor end John Rand, Esq., on Friday last. They bad been taken into custody et the m atinee of Mr. Jacoby manager fur Messrs. B. Maser and Bens, tailors and clothiers, at Bradford. It muss that they bad gone into the shop just as it wee cleans, to purchase two tractility rugs, for payment of which they ten dered a 51. forged non. Mr. Jacobs supposed that all was net right, and while a mmemager wee seat out to precast chew end to have the seta traamated by another party. the shep4eee wee closed upon the strangers, and • marnanienden mat to the police, who presently walked the. efts pal. At the examinatice on Friday Mr. John Waedimes, geowilialer, and lbw ether ponies produced Wes which they bad taken of the primmer, on the previous *ff. of wig& Mr. William Crew waSel•T et the breech beak at Deneaster, prottesserd to be forgeries. Mr. Cooper said they were a very goad imitating of the genuine metro. The numbers upon them are higher thee any bawd by the bra et Deseseeee. The this part of the letter " Y" i AO west Yorkshirs is else Rea thicker in the thew is the genuine notes, and the weed " wog the slip et the popes. After exerlaatlea MS the .isarrs mess ssumitlsi ;Ir i Vat the ant Twiddle mina. We moduthlnd Set sheet meaty of the iletzethe have ban pad is ltheleard mad six err dfght lolama nod WAthahLod-dathlctit—On thdazday ledeest wee b o d ytakr. J abs 1N Oita Tevert i ll ivis trat. *lka view ef ti of Jas. Naiad; nod Mk • who arthed ia threartheet, M'gredreweak sad whir is sap peeediebave earwthesd NiefriebemW~es-lirklip. hap pened that the lessened wee of ea aritabie term and when is altereadea with his ampthithe km Wthersdep three weeks he Weer weeds it a pandethear agar licedetreet, whoa be tricked, "Fl do it arm" He tea eat of the hear, sod we thew ether nen slim Ver. diet, "loud therami." Accwgxy a BOARD =a Dynes Brum, Nan MID main Kt. Daher Wl es impost et the ahwah. Chrewrisithstreth /Mgr% seveding dr ef Mr. Thema. Banes, aged Mips Its redid preetitiewar at Deaths. Oa thediatehey= deceased went ea board the Death* etheser, bobs al the Val f io a state of intoxication. Aka the thud had been about eight bean heat the part a asks we r e Used la the vsginagaso. wtha apes the englater going there be as dreased the ambiserf. The engine was wattled, apes w hich danced was taken out, being titbellt way sigus of life. lids body was nearly cut in two. tirdiet, " Found deed." BLOCKADE OP PORTS IN CENTRAL AosILICA.— A letter received at Lloyd's, states that the ship MUM let, Onathosei. reastor. led bra &Waal at Vslisisies by the British admiral. in 4110101111111111111 Of the silo IJaiso, in Central Atherka, w• soda rat AMERICA. KOSSUTH IN NEW YORK. benefit sy country's cases, I most se address is tbq Gabbs of the while intenigentiese of **United et: Yen en the Web,- enbintees power upon which rest sty ormArfe beis;s- - n i t i t= li t, Hombre, WA* ' , stiffing be me to see, not isolated men, but the powerful complete of t he great word " Peso," greatiog ma this important mmaifeetstase of generous sentiments sod sYsiPalby ; dal I abloom gee with bar, geotlentes, beesses you are aware that than toy anima tare, I bad the peat honour and valuable bough to see my whole time agreeably occupied by the reception of the most noble meamifestations at yobbo sympathy, m ads that it become entirely impassible Ist me to be thee peugneed to address yes, gentlemen, is • Lognego whisk I bat very imper fectly speak, es the great ispeetsnee of this occasion would have required, and my bigh regards for yourselves had painted oat as a duty to me. However, I hope you will Mks this very circumstance for a motive of excuse. You will generously consider that whenever and wherever I publicly speak, it is always chiefly spoken to the press; sad lowering your expectations to the humility of my sod to the level of the principal difficulties gazeseiluaden• you will feel inclined to some kind ter me, were it only out of brotherly siserosity fee Me of your professional colleagues, as I be ea& Yes, gentlemen, it is a proud recollec- Wes; to lit. that I commenced my public career in the Wel& gegatilW of • journalist. And in that respect I stay s peslogps, be somewhat entitled to your brotherly in d as yes, hs the happy condition which the institu tion el goer country insure to you, can have not even an idea et the tortures of a journalist who has to write with fettered hands, and who is more than fettered by an Austrian arbitrary preventive censorship. You have no idea what a torture it is to sit down to your writing desk, the breast full of the necessity of the moment, the heart full of righteous feelings, the mind full of convictions and of principles—and all this warmed by the lively fire of a paes heart—and to see before your eyes the scissors nf the mama ready to fall upon your head, like the sword of Ilaneelee, lopping your ideas, maiming your arguments, mumliering your thoughts ; and his pencil before your eyes, N to blot out, with a single draught, the work of your labeerleas re and of your sleepless nights; and to know that the will judge you, not by what you have felt, written, but by what the censor wills; to know L IP ID ground upon which you stand is not a ground known to you, because limited by rules, hut an unknown slippery ground, the limits of which lie but within the arbi entry pleasure of your censor—doomed by profession to be stupid, and a coward, and a tool ;—to know all this, sad yet not to curse your destiny —not to deny that you mam ill read and to write, but to goon, day by day, in the MP taring work of Sysiphue . Oh! it is the greatest memilles which an intelligent man can make to fatherland and Iwo amity! And this is the present condition of the prom, mot in Hungary only, but in all countries cursed by Aui trim rule. Our past revolution gave freedom to the press, set only to my fatherland, but by indirect influent, else to Vienna, Prague, Lemberg; in a word, to the whole empire of Austria. This very circumstance must be suff tient to ensure your sympathy to my country's cause ; se en the contrary, the very circumstance that the victory aE the Hapeburgian dynasty, achieved by treason and Russian arm., was a watchword to oppress the press in Hungary, in Austria, in Italy, in Germany—nay, throughout the Euro. peen continent. The contemplation that the freedom of the press on the Eutopean continent is inconsistent with the preponderance of Russia, and the very existence of the Austrian dynasty, this sworn enemy of freedom and of every liberal thought —your generous support will sweep away those tyrants, and raise liberty where now foul I oppression proudly rules. Gentlemen, a considerable time ego there appeared in certain New York papers, s systema tic compound of the most foul calumnies, falsehoods, and misrepresentations about the Hungarian cause, going so far as, with unexampled effrontery, to state that we struggled for oppression, while it was the cursed Austrian dynasty which stood forth for liberty. Now, there is is degree of effrontery, the temerity of which becomes astonishing, even to me, who has seen the unexampled treachery of the Homes of Haps'oirg,and became familiar with the old Homan maxim rs , ladmirari," through my . tempest-tossed life. We may , be misrepresented, scorned, jeered, charged with faults ; our martyrs, the blood of whom cries for revenge, may be laughed at as fools ; and even heroes, commanding the vene ration of history, may be represented as Don Quixottes tragi-comedy all this I could, if not bear, at hut con ceive. I have seen strange specimens of the aberrations of the human mind ; but that, in the midst of the most won. derful sufferings, not even the honour of an unfortunate nation should be sacred to some men, who enjoy the benefit of free institutions, and profess to be republicans—that is too much. It is a sorrowful page in mankind'. history. You cannot, of course, expect to see me, on this occasion, entering into a special refutation of this astonishing com pound of calumnies. I will receive it for my lien, (.0 soon as I can have a free day for it. It will be very easy work; because all articifial compounds of misrepresentations must fall into dust before the dispassionate, plain statement of facts, the greater part of which, I thankfully have to se• knowledge, are already not unknown to you. Permit me to make some humble remark upon the question of " na tionalities," which plays such an important, and, I dare my, such a mischievous part in the destinies of Europe. I say mischievous, because no word was ever so much misre presented or mistaken as the word " nationality; " so that it would be, indeed, a great benefit to humanity could I succeed to contribute something to the rectification of this idea, the misrepresentation of which became the most mis chievous instrument in the hands of absolutism against the spirit of liberty. Let me ask you, gentlemen, are you, the people of the United States, • nation or not ? Have you a national government or not ? Have you ? You answer yes ; and yet you, the people of the United States, are not of one blood, and speak not one language. Millions of you speak English, others French, others German, others Ita lian, oilers Sionish, others Danish, and even several Indian dialects—and yet you are a nation. And your govern. ment, even the government of your single states, nay, the municipal governments of your different cities, are not legialatino, and gov.mning, and ac:ministering in all and every language spoken in your Union, in the respective states, and in the respective cities themselves—and yet you have a national government. Now suppose that one part of the people of the Unia.d States, struck by a cunt like that with which the builders of Babel were once struck, should at once rise and say—" The Union in which we live is :an oppression to us. Our laws, our instituti , ,ns, our stars and city governments, our vc-y freedom is an oppres sion te us. What is union to us ? what righ.s ? what laws ? what freedom ? what history what geography ? what community of interests ? They are all nothing. Language —that is all. Let us divide the Union ; divide the states; divide the very cities. Let us divide the whole territory, by and seeorthog to languages, and then let the people of every language Lee distinct, and form each a separate state. Became every nation has a right to a national life, and to us tbe language is the nation—nothing elm; and your Vales, your nghts, your laws and your freedom itself, though common to us, is an oppression to us, because lan. is the only basis upon which states must be founded. .Everything else is tyranny. What would you say of such reuestiog ? What would ' become of your great Union ? What of your constitution—this glorious legacy of your greatest man—those immortal stars on mankind's moral canopy? What would become of your country itself, whence the spirit of freedom spreads its rising wane, and rising hope clears up the future of humanity? What would become of this grand, mighty complex of your republic, should it ever be attacked in its consistency by the furious hands of the fanaticism of language? Where now she wanders and walks among the rising temples of human hap piness, she soon would tread upon the ruins of liberty, mourning over the fragility of human hopes. Happy art thou, free nation of America, that thou hast founded thy house upon the only solid basis of a nation's liberty. Liberty! A principle steady like the world, eternal like the truth, and uniform] for every climate, for every time, like Pint. dente. Thou hast no tyrants among thee to throw the apple of Eros in thy Union. Thou hast no tyrants assay thee to raise the fury of hatred in thy national family... botrat of salaams, that eerie of humanity, that femme' imilenmentoftilepelbes. : coun s tberious eight b to see lbe grimed ef so ilemea Mom, Tiabits, wandering to es, b ? e s= members of thy great nation, tille of common liberty. Would I weld do lbo ems bee iimet, because I love my native land, oaggoeffl r. beamlbes, fervently. I love it more them life, arm 7r Ireek••• ; I love it more in its gloomy soffiviar am I mould in its proudest, happiest days. Whet mhos a man ? Is it the language only ? Then b as peat, no powerful nation on earth, because there b r elederately large country in the world, whose papabilles le ousted by millions, where you would not find severalbmpopes spoken. No; it is not language only which maim * amlbs. Community of interests, communili bkiray. emesebies of rights and duties, but c I osommilsolt lestitutions of a population , . which, t imehip anogin in tongue, and belonging to different mesh it be together by its daily intercourse in their = 7 6,11 rogues of their homely commerce and homely the very mountain ranges, and system of rivers lad streams, the soil, the dust of which is mingled with the oar of those ancestors who bled on the same field, for the ern interest—the common inheritance of glory and of Imo, the community of laws, tie of institutions, " tie of efinemon freedom or common oppression—el this enters bee the definition of a nation. That this trenwasst this is instinctively felt by the commas seam of the people, nowhere is more ap shows them at this very moment in my oat= Inorginy wee declared by Francis Joseph of MD 1111111 is exist as a nation, no more as a stalt a ,, l" k wee end is pot endow martial law ' • strangers rule, is • foreign whew ame fbtks r s lived and our bralhem bled. To be a bt,em• almost a crime in ear own maw , to justify before the world Ur extistmlß Illt= o te partition of its territory, and again le of the dissected limbs late the tomms body et servitude, the as WWI treacherous= wt, to show that the Hungarians are in • la their ere motive lead. They hoped that intimidation sod bessehm wail Weft even the very Hungesh lideffige. as we ire le ear own language termed—to ober elle — Ode browse end birth. They ordered a inns of 1111111111•11111■11111le mile. They performed it with dm iron ris of mold law; they employed terrorism in Me Menet epee. immesh that thousands of women and men who tube Mayan preferred not to know, nay, not to board any other language than the Magyar, all their protestations, were pat down to be Illoome, Germans, or Wallachiaas, because their ' NEM bed eel quits a Hungarian sound. And aid what wee `bur of this malignant plot? But of the twelve Milne of biehitants of Hungary proper, the Magyars tilendonlllllllllllll than eight millions, some two million men than w bare the ease really is. Ttte people instinct ively felt that the Vent had the design to destroy with the pretext of !weep the very existence of the nation formed by the compeund of all those ingredients which I have mentioned above, and with that common good sense The Royal Mail steam-ship America arrived at Liverpool this morning, with four days' later intelli- 1 genre from North America. She mauled from New York the 17th inst., four days after the Humboldt, and brings over 1,121,579 dollars in specie, and 33 passengers. Tlr., steam-ship Niagara had arrived at Halifax, on her way to Boston. The welcome to Kossuth had passed the House of Representatives by a large majority. The New York Evening Erprew lays The President will send the resoliation . of Congress to Kossuth, accompanied by a letter written in the spirit of the resolution itself. The Guest will be permitted to ad dress Congress, if he desires to do so, and it is intended to appoint a committee of each House to receive and introduce Kossuth, on his visiting the capitol. It is also contemplated to give him a dinner—the expense to be defrayed out of the tickets. In the Bcstate, on the IGth, a committee of three was ordered to wait on Kossuth, on his arrival in Washing ton, and invite him to the chamber of that august body. The New York Herald of the lith says: ' We are informed that a special messenger was despatched from Washington, last night, by the President, to invite Kossuth to the national capital under the joint resolution of welcome passed by the two houses. The failure of tho house of Hill, Maclean, and Co. (cotton trade), New Orleans, is announced. The parliamentary elections in Canadawere favour able to the government. Business in New York and other cities was mode rately good. The supply of government stocks and securities was small, and prices for money in fair supply. The movements of Kossuth occupied the whole of public attention, and to report all, or nearly all, the proceedings and the speeches elicited thereby would occupy the whole of our columns. We give the most important and lengthy which had been deliver ell since the departure of the last mail. On Monday, Dec. 1.5, M. Kossuth thus replied to the toast of his health at a dinner given him by the per: flx:evLEXEN,—Rising respectfully to return my most warm thanks for the honour of the toast, and the high benefit of the sympathy manifested by this solemn demon atration, it is with mingled feelings of joy and fear that I address you, gentlemen. I address you with joy, because, conscious of the immensity of the power which you wield, it is natural to feel same awe in addressing those in whose hands the success or the failure of our hopes is placed. Still, I equally know that in your hands, gentlemen, the independent republican press is a weapon, but a weapon to defend truth and justice, and not to offend. It is no screen to bide, no snuffer{ to extinguish the light, but a torch lit at thef tire of immortality, a spark of which is glistening in every man's soul, to prove its divine origin ; a torch which you wield loftily and high, to spread light with it to the moat lonely regions of humanity. And, as the cause of my country is the cause of justice rod truth—as it has in no respect to fear light, but rather wants nothing but light to see secured to it the support and protection of every friend of freedom, of every noble-minded man, these are the reasons why I address you with joy, gentlemen. The more with joy, because, though it is sorrowful to see that ill-willed misrepre sentations or; secret Austrian intrigues, distorting plain, open history to a tissue of falsehoods and lies, know how to tind their way even to a small, insignificant part of the American press, still I sin proud and happy to see that the immense majority of the American preen net only proved inaccessible to these venemous intrigues, but, con scious of the noble vocation of an independent press, and yielding to the generous inclination of freemen, of protect ing truth and justice against the dark plots of tyranny, has, without any iutcrference from my part, come forth to pro tect the sacred cruet of Hungary. The independent press of this great republic has in this very'sase also proved to the world that even against the mischeyous power of calumnies the most efficient protection is the freedom of the press, sod not preventive measures, condemning human intellect to eternal minority. I address you, gentlemen, the more with joy, because through you I have the invalu able benefit to address the whole university of the great, glorious, and free people of the United States. That is a great word, gen tlemen, arid yet is literally true. While 80 years ago un m9rtal Franklin's own press was almost the only one ia the colonies, now there are over 3,000 newspapers in the UMW States, having a circulation of five millions of copies. mal amounting in their yearly circulation to the prodigfiene Reuther of nearly four-and-a-half hundred millions; every grown man in the Union reads on the average two era papers a-week, and 'one hundred and live slogan ee year ; nearly eighteen copies fall in the proportion to the population, to every human being in the Union, may woman, and child. I am told that the journals of New York state alone exceed in number those of all the red of the world beyond your great Union, and the circt lotion of the newspapers of this city alone nearly exceeds those of the whole empire of Great Britain. But there is yet one particularly remarkable fact which I cannot for bear to mention, gentlemen. I boldly declare that beyond the United Sates there exists scarcely a practical freedom of the press—at least in Europe, not except, perhaps, Nor way, of whore condition in that respect I am out quite aware. You know, gentlemen, how the press is fettered throughout the European continent, even, for the present. fa France itself, whose great nation, by a strange fats, sees, under a nominally republican, but centralised govern ment, all the glorious fruits of their great and victorious revelations wasting between the blasting fingers of cen tralised administrative and legislative omnipotence. You know how the independent press of France is murdered by imprisonment of their editors, and by fees; you know how the present government of France feels unable to bear the force of public opinion—so much that in the French republic the very legitimate shout of " Vise la Republique" has almost become a crime. This very circumstance is sufficient to prove that in that glori ous land where the warm and noble heart of the French nation throbs with self-confidence and noble pride, a new revolution is au unavoidable necessity. It is ' a muurniul view which the greet French nation now presents, but it is also an efficient warning against the propensities of centra lisation inconsistent with freedom, because inconsistent with seltgovernoseut, and it is also a source of hope for the European continent. because we know that things in France cannot endure thus as they are; we know that to become a true republic is a neces sity for Fraser, and this we know also that whoever be the man, who in the approaching crisis will be honored by the confidence of the French nation, be will, he must be faithful to that grand principle of fraternity towards the other nations, which being announced by the French constitution to the world, raised such encouraging, but bit.crly disappointed expectations through Europe's op presed continent. But it is chiefly, almost only, Great Britain in Europe which boasts to have a free press; and to be sure during my brief stay in England I joyfully saw that really there is a freedom to print—almost an un limited one, so far that I saw printed advertisements spread at every corner, mil signed by the publishers, stating that Queen Viets;ria is so lawful queen—that she sight to be seat to the Toss and all those who rule 0111111 t to be We* Met imbed, and nobody cared sheet the Mil estratessey. And yet I dare wig, end I Irk_ the generous people of Great Britain mei set Ad Woad at ray stating the fact, that Owe is Me yeestisel freedom of the press. The *miss if the gees to be • practical one, must he a sessess bowl* to all—eles it is no f reedom, km • privilege. It is wasting two ingredients—free des if status and (remiss of reading. Now, there is fiewilen of them, leseseee there is no emibility Ass Ihe yogi, et te de Se. Deisese the m ods*l lg. itiglirregOr fde indlegmeahle meal food et bees 11118111111. is, by a heavy amities &asked. 'lie }sus Vsense of public revenue, amt, by the M- K tamp and paper duties, made almost how swab le tie puss. BUM it is that the mimeses is the Umbel SSW we only sae-teeth, sod la sore are ▪ Onsellelh et the price of EadW or Fresh germ, end hems, ends is the 'MOMS, sla their ebealm des Is Me II Stabs several o a f the idtpl odi gnes = no. seeeming reselling Das thirty to hay elms the Lends lines la esneideeed te im • smensest a T ;isa bere it hes • dessistisa of des Misty • te theremil espis Mulish I was deriteg wry sty is that lie geed, gemstone mere tha people has abated SOW sin thenenmi espies is sesespemee of its foul hostility to the jot end sewed smear Rwegerry. dusk beaag the sedities se yetis piss geadases it mat if ow= Is• high eases of "seal seedbeds tome to have the beast M .d um yen, gendseass ; basso I. addreming yea I only adds. the whole goggle of the United litatee—not only a slide people, het a while Wei dist lapis, gindentes The Is the highest psis shish Mb • people be isselered, and yet it is no peeler is the sinserbdgesst M • real ibet. The very imseimity et the elessisliss if year Pees* grave it to be se— became tli isseenee etreskeiss b met only due te that esellitslimmel right of yews to speak and plot freely year eplaisse—it is not only due es the prim whisk may s : press a senses heselit to all, mad met • te the rieb—lst It is due le the i... 1 et puha, lestruction, r i t= sake every aides se end. It ie • glorious adz: know that la this deentelig pang MS dollar Wens of 'Anal bedding' weft Sand, whew a frow sere ego tie the weal is mess sr the plough tilled, needy se imbed idensed Adam reeds gain sta nds. estaslly. De yea knew, gestasen, where I consi der the most &lAMBS mosomeate of year country ? If it he so as I have red it ears—it h that fag, that when in the step of your wandering erresteers, your anglaise' go ea to draw gmemstriall lira, even to terries*, *bum das ammil of a ImmisaaarEar is sorer yet has eased with th e measure by which eaten adatiai die Lord ; In every Owe to become a on every mu ' teenth square. lo'a Sam sodes isu r ill 4, with the glo rious mark, " Popular Education Pluck. " This is your proudest moonasent. However, be this really the ems or not, in every SW, in my opinion, it is not your geogra phical sitsatios, not enur material power, not the bold, enterprisMg spirit of your people, which I consider to be the chief guarantee of your country's future, but the univenality of education ; becalm an intelligent people ' never can cesseut not to be free. You will be al. ways willing to be free, and you are great and powerful ~ugh to be so good al your will. My humble prayers to THE EXPRF" MOND4 ricEIIING, DECEMBER -29 k 451. which every nation_peresses. met the tyranale as if it answered We Inuit le be a nation, and if the tyrant takes language only fier the mark of our nationality, then we are all Miamians." And mark well, gentlemen, this happened not under my goveenership, bet even whim the rile of Austrian martial law. The cabinet of Tierra beams rubes; it thought of s stew mesas, het peeked MI I d = that a new emir wield gl re the while twelve as Magyars, and thus no sew newt we. Zhzle tree is my asseetien that it is not langengedene mass a matins, on ammtien which, of comoo.ffift asf gesel i =s proves is Use world. Beg ea As there enleppeygrew up a erlbdsilsh Meri the idea eta nation tie idea of Issaesee, sal jabbed political pretensions to it. There see seem w ad vocate the theory that existing countries must Nose, sad RM terrAceies of the world be anew divided by loa =ned nations segregated by tongues. Yon ere mean is idea, if it were not impracticable, would be bat a curse to humanity —a deathblow to civilisation and progress, and throw mankind back by centuries—it were an eternal source of strife to war, because there is a he 4, almost religions tie, by which man's heart to his hem la bound, and no man ever would consent to attendee his native land only because his neighbours speak nears langege than he himself; and, by this reason, claims fee kin diet sacred spot where the ashes of his his fathers de—mbere his own cradle stood—where he dreamed the happy dreams of youth, and where nature itself bears a of his manhood's laborious toil. The idea were worse than the old migration of nations was—despot int only would rise out of the strife. Mankind's fana tiekm is really very curious. Nobody of the advocates if this mischievous theory is willing to yield to it for himself—but othen he desires to yield to it. Every henchman become furious when his Alsace is claimed le Germany by the right of language —or the borders of his Pyrenees to Spain—but there are some amongst the very men who feel revolted at this idea, who claim for Germany that it should yield up large territory because one part of the inhabitants speak a different tongue, and would claim from Hungary to divide its territory, which God himself has limited by its range of mountains and the system of streams, as also by all the links of a community of more than a :thousand years, to cut off Transylvania, mid to give it up to the neighbouring Wallachia, to cot out, like Shyloek, one pound of our very breast—the Banat —and the rich country between the Danube and Theiss— to augment by it Turkish Serbia, and s4forth. It is the new ambition of conquest, but an easy congest, not by arms bat by language. So much I know, at least, that thisabeard idea cannot, and will not, be advocated by any man here in the United States, which did not open its hospitable shores to humanity, and greet the flocking millions of emigrants with the right of a citizen, in order that the union may be cut to pieces, and even your single states divided into new framed, i neependent countries by and according to languages. And do you know, gentlemen, whence this absurd theory sprung up on the European continent? It was the idea of Panslavisznes—that is the idea that the mighty stock of Scla vonic races is called to rule the world, as once the Roman did. It west Russian plot—it was the infernal idea to make out of national feelings a tool to Russian preponderance over the world. Perhaps you are not aware of the historical origin of this plot. It was after the third division of Poland, this most immoral act of tyranny, that the chance of fate brought the l'rince Caartorisky to the court of Catharine of Russia. lie subsequently became minister of Alexander, the Czar. It was in this quality that, with the noble aim to benefit his down-trodden fatherland, he claimed from the young Czar the restoration of Poland, suggesting for equi valent the idea of Russian preponderance over all notions of the old Sclavonic race. I believe his intention was sincere. I believe he thought not to misconaidcr those natural borders, which, besides the affinity of language, God him self between the nations has drawn. But he forgot that the spirits which he raises, he will not be able to master more, and that uncalled fanaticism with sundry fantastical shapes force into his frame, by which the frame itself must burst in pieces soon. He forgot that Russian preponderance cannot be propitious to liberty; he forgot that it can even not be favourable to the devc lopmeot of the &lave nationality, b. cause Sclavonic nations would by this idea be degraded into individuals of Russianism—all absorbed by Russia, that is absorbed by despotism. Russia got hold of the sensible idea very readily. May be that young Alexander had in the first moment noble inclinations; he was young, and the warm heart of youth is susceptible to noble sentiments. It is not common in history to ate such Francis Josephs, of Austria—so young and yet such a Nero as he is. But few years of power were sufficient to extinguish every spark of noble sentiment, if there was one in Alexander's young heart. I; pon the throne of the Romancer's is the man soon absorbed by the autocrat. The air of the traditional policies of St. Petersburgh is not that air where the plant of regeneration can grow, and the sensible idea become soon a weapon of honour, oppression, and Russian preponderance. Russia availed herself of the idea of Paielavism to break Turkey down, and to make an absolute satellite out of Austria. Turkey withstands yet, but Austria has fallen in the snare. Russia sent out its agents, its money, its venomous secret diplomacy through the world; it spoke to the Selave nations of the ' hatred against foreign dominion of independence of religiou connected with nationality under its own supre macy ; but chiefly it spoke to them of Panslavion under the protectorate of the Czar. The millions of its own large empire also, all oppressed—all in servitude—all a tool to his own ambition. He flattered them with the idea to become the rulers of the world, in order that they might not think of liberty. He knew that man's breast cannot harbour two passions at once. Ile have them ambition, and excluded the spirit of liberty. This ambition got hold of all the &lave nations through Europe. So became Pans lavistu the source of a movement, not of nationality, but of the dominion of languages. That word "language" re placed every other sentiment, and so it became the curse to the developement of liberty. Only one part of the Sclavonic races saw the matter clear, and withstood the cur rent of this infernal Russian plot. They were the Polish democrats—the only ones who understood that to fight for liberty is to fight for nationality. Therefore they fought in our ranks, and were willing to flock in thousands of thousands to aid us in our struggle; but I could not arm them, so I could not accept them. We ' ourselves, we had a hundredfold more hands ready to fight than arms—and nobody was in the world to help us with arms. There is the same origin and real nature of the question of mathematics in Europe. Now, let me see what was the condition of Hungary under these circumstances. WO years ago, when the first King of Hungary, St. Ste phen, becoming Christian himself, converted the Hungarian Ration to Christianity, ft was the Roman Catholic clergy of Germany whom he invited to assist him in his pious work. They did; but it was natural that the pious assietance hap eke be accompanied by some worldly designs. ganger} ngary to offered a wide field to the ambition of foreigners. And they persuaded the king to adopt a curious principle, which he laid down in his political testament. That is, that it is not good, when the people of a country is but of one extraction, and speaks one tongue. There was yet adopted another rule ,• that is, to advise the language of tl.e church—Latin — for the diplomatic language of the ,govern meet, legislature law, and all public proceedings. So it be came, of course, that the real manners of the country that spoke Leto. The Hungarian, scarcely yet believing Christian, spoke not the Latin, of course. This is the ori gin of that fatality that democracy did not develope for centuries in Hungary. The public proceedings having been carrel en in Latin, the laws given in Latin, the people were excluded from the public life. Public in ' striation being carried on in Latin, the great mass of the people, being agriculturers, did not partake in it; and the few who out of the ranks of the people, partook in it, became, by the very instruction, severed and alienated from the people's interests. This dead Latin lan guage, introduced ,into the public life of a living nation, was the most mischievous barrier against liberty. the first blow to it was stricken by the revolution. The protestant church, introducing the national language into the Divine services, become a medium in the develop anent of the spirit of liberty. So wen our ancient struggles for religious liberty always connected with the maintenance of political rights. But still, Latin public life went on so far as to 1780. At that time, Joseph of Hapsburg, aim tag at centralisation, replaced the Latin by the German tongue. This raised the national spirit of Hungary ; and our forefathers, seeing that the dead Latin language ex eluded the people from the public concerns, cannot be pro pitious to liberty, and anxious to oppose the design of the Viennese cabinet of Germanising Hungary, and so melting it into the commits abeolusism of the Austrian dynasty—l say, anxious to oppose this design by a cheerful pablio life of the people itself, begun in the year 1790, passed laws in the direction that, by and by, step by step, the Latin language should be replaced in the public proceedings of the legislature, and of the govern ment, by a living language, familiar to the people itself. And Hungary being Hungary, what was more ne tted than that, being in the necessity to choose one lan. swage, they choose the Hungarian language in and for Heigary, the more because that was the language spoken in Hungary, not only by a comparative majority of the people, but almost by an absolute majority ; that is, thou who spoke Hungarian, were not only more t han those who spoke whatever one of the other lan guages, but, if not more, at least equal to all those who spoke several other languages together. Be so kind to mark well, gentlemen, no other language was op pressed—the Hungarian language was upon nobody en forted—wherever another language was in use, even in public life; for instance, of whatever church, whatever popular school, whatever community, it was not replaced by the Hungarian lei= It was only the dead Latin, which by-and-bye e eliminated from the diplo mates public life, and replaced by the living Hunga rian in Hungary. In Hangary, gentlemen, be pleased to mark it, never was this measure extended into the muni cipal public life of Croatia and Sclavonia, which, though bel not tonnng Hungary,far e b ig u h t t a b dis und t ad t ynaeantionto, with distinc t s e t:U . 7 6 re_ sepal public life. They themselves, Croatians and Sche ventage, repeatedly urged it in the common parliament to afford them opportunity to learn the Hungarian lan guage, that having the right they might also enjoy the benefit of being employed to common governmental offices of Hungary. This opportunity was afforded to them, but nobody was forted to make use of it if he desired not to do so; but with their own municipal and public life, as also with the domestic social religious life, of whatever other people in Hungary itself, the Hungarian Innguage did never interfere, but replaced only the Latin language, which no people spoke, which to no living people belonged, and which. therefore, was con trary to liberty, because it excluded the people from any share in the public life. Willing to give freedom to the Pelee, we eliminated that Latin tongue, which was an obstaele to its future. We did what every other nation Is the world did, clearing by it the way to the people's samason universal liberty. Your country is a happy one Mu In that respect ; being a young nation, you slid not dad in your way the Latin tongue when you established this republic; so you did not want a law to eliminate it from your public life. You hate a living diplomatic IL* which is spoken in your Congress, in your slate left tures, and by which your government rules. language is not the native language of your whole pee pie—scarcely of Met of a majority; and yet no man is the Union takes it for an oppression that legislature and government is sot earned on in every possible lan4uage that is spoken in the United States, and yet are found in your common law, inherited from England, some Latin expressions, the affidavit', Ate.; and having found it in law you felt the necessity to stimulate it by law, as you really did. And one thing I have to mention yet. This re placing of the Latin language by the Iluagarian was not a work of our revolution, it was done before, step by step, by-sod-bye from 1791. Whin we carried, in 1818, our de mocratic reforms, and gay, political, social, civil, and full religious freedom to the whole people, without distinction of religion or toogae, considering that unhappy excitement of the question of la n guages prevailing through Europe fa consequence of the Russian plot, which I developed, we extended our cares to the equal protection of every t and nationality, affording to all equal ri g ht t o a ll a id = l if i the pubic funds,for the moral, religious, and scientifie elevir lopsinent in churches and in schools. Nay, our revolution extended this regard even to the political devclopement of every tongue, sanctioning the free use of every tongue, in the municipalities and communal corpora tions, as well as in the administration of justice itself. The promulgation of the laws in every tongue—the right to petition and to claim justice in whatever tongue the duty of the government to answer accordingly all this was granted, and thus far more done in that respect, also, than whatever other nation ever accorded to the claims of tongues; by far more than the United States ever did, though there is no country in the world where so many dif ferent languages are spoken as here. It is, therefore, the most calumnious misrepresentation to say that the Hunga rians struggled for the dominion of their own race. No; we struggled fir civil, political, social, and religious free dom, common to all, against Austrian despotism. We struggled for the great principle of self-government, against centralisation; and because centralisation. abso _ lutism—yes, centralisation is absolutism ; r it Isiucon sistent with constitutional rights. Austria has given the very proof of it. The house of Austria had never the slightest intention to grant constitutional life to the na tions of Europe. I will prove it on another occasion. It hates constitutions as hell bates the salvation of human souls. But the friends of the Hapsburgs say it has granted a constitution—ia March, 1819. Well, where is that con stitution now ? It was not only never executed, but it was three months ago formally withdrawn. Even the word ministry is blotted out from the dictionary of the Austrian government. Swarxenburgh is auin House, Court, and State Chancellor, as Metternich Nees ; only Metternich ruled, not with the iron rule of martial law over the whole empire of Austria. Swarzenburgh does. Metternich en croached upon the constitutional rights of Hungary, 'lran asCifanhieaa t fi t r e oa ro ti and tdhe Se y l o a h v h o g nia isie ro S , ltcz a c i n i lu rip Joseph, melted all nations together iu a common bondage, where the promised equality of nationalities is carried out most literally, to be sure, because they are all equally op prefaed, and are a ll equally ruled, by absoltist Frio cinles, in the German language. And why was that illusory constitution withdrawn ? Because it was a lie from , the beginning; because it was an impossibility. And why so ? Because it was founded upon the principle of centrali sation, and centralised thirteen different nations, which now groan under Austrian rale ; and yet, t. have a consti tutional life, is more than an impossibility. It is an ab suidity—it is an oppression, augmented by deceit. I can not exhaust this vast topic in one speech, so Igo to the end. I only state;elearly my own and my nation's ruling princi ple, even in rfspect to the claims of the nationalities of lan guages; and that it is—we shall have republican institutions, Wooded on universal suffrage, and so the majority of the so vereign people shall rule in every respec in vihage, in the city, an thecountry, in the congress, and govenirnen—in all and everything. What to the public concerns of the village, of the city, of the country, of tho Congress belongs—self government everywhere—the people sovereign every where and universal Maine and the rule of the majority every where. This is our principle, for which we live and are ready to die. That is the cause fur which I humbly re quest the protecting aid of the people of the United States, and chiefly your aid and protection, gentleman —you, the mighty engineers of the public opinion of your glorious land ! Let me entreat you, gentlemen, to accord this protection to the cause of my down-trodden land ; it is the curse of oppressed humanity on the European continent. I know how Italy stands, and I dare confi dently declare there is no hope for Italy but in that great republican party, at the head of which Martini stands. It has nothing te do with commnnistical scheme; or the French doctrines of socialism. But it wills Italy inde penden, free, and republican. Gentlemen, tke gene rous sympathy of the public opinion of the United States—God be blessed for it!—is strongly roused to the wrongs and ;aufferings of Hungary. My humble task in that respect is done. Now I look for your generous aid to keep that generous sympathy alive, that it may not subside like the passing emotion of the h, art. I look for your ge nerous aid to urge the formation of societies, to collect funds, and to create a loan. I look for your generous aid to urge the public opinion of the sovereign people of the United States, to pronounce in favour of the humble propositions which I had the honour to exprc as at. the corporation banquet of the city of New York, until the resolutions of the people succeed to impress the favourable impression to the people of the United States. In that respect I beg leave one single remark to make. In speak ing ef the principle of nen-admission of any interkrenec in any countty's domestic concerns, I took the liberty to express my humble wish to see Great Britain invited within this protective policy. The reason is because I take toe present French gove.ument the one of the oppressors— it has interfered and continues to interfere in Rome. But the French nation I take for one of the oppressed. The French nation will do the same as Hungary, holy, and Gcrinany. The alliance of the French nation if insured by its necessary principles if the republic becomes a reality. The decisive question is what the neutral powers will do— and these nee Great Britain and the United States. Conspicuous among the other receptions reported is one made at Castle Garden, on the 16th, by the first division of the New York State Militia, under General Sandford. COMMERCIAL. The market for WetdStulF;;;brisk, and prices had advanced slightly, in consequence of the closing of the ricer and canol navigation. Western Canal flour, 4 dols. 371 c. to 4 dols. 50c., very firm. Gen nesee prime, wheat, 1 dol. Bc. to 1 dol. 10c. per &Abs. Indian corn, round yellow, 64c. to 66c. per bushel. Indian meal, 3 dols. 25c. to 3 dole. 371 per barrel. In cotton there had been a fair amount of business doing at New York, and former quotations were steadily maintained. Sales at New York for the week, 42,000 bales. Prices firm, but unchanged. Freights continue unchanged. Provisions are inactive. Pork, mess, 15 to 151; prime, 141. Exchange on London, no; to noi ; Paris, 5.13; hamburg, 361 to 361 ; Bremen, 781 to 781. SUDDEN DEATH OF A BARRISTER.—An in quest was held on Saturday by Mr. Higgs, at the Essex Head, Essex-street, Strand, as to the death of Joseph Douglas, Esq., a barrister, residing at 4, Garden -court, Temple. There had been a great difficulty in this case to know which coroner was to hold the inquest. Mr. Payne had been applied to and also Mr. Bedford, but they refused to interfere, as they considered the Temple was out of their jurisdiction, and Mr. Wakley was referred to as it might be in the county of Middlesex. At last Mr. Baker, the beadle, applied to Mr. Higgs, as it was considered the part was in the duchy, and he accordingly appointed the in quest. The deceased was a member of the western circuit, and had for many years been the revising barrister at Dor set. On Wednesday evening he was seen to enter hie chambers, and the next morning he was found by his clerk lying on the floor in a pool of blood. He was then warm, and Mr. Hutchinson, of 86, Chancery-lane, was sent for, who found a lung incised wound in the left temple, four inches long, and denuding the skull to the bone. There bad been great hceinorrhage, and he was quite dead. It seemed by other testimony that he had been pulling off his boot*, when he upset the table, and he was thrown against a key in his bookcase, which had caused the injury. He had been heard tumbling about all night. for the purpose, no doubt, of finding the deer and getting assistance. The jury returned the following special verdict :—" That the deceased, Joseph Douglas, died from loss of blood from a wound on the upper part of the left temporal artery, pro duced by having accidentally fallen against a key then in the lower part of a bookcase." InhCOVERY OF A BODY IN VICTORIA-STREET.—On Saturday morning, as Policeman Hurlatone was on duty in Victoria-street, Clerkenwell, he was informed that there was a man in one of the vaults for the new house* intended to be erected there. He went to the spot, and discovered a person who was respectably dressed on the ground, and who, on being moved, showed no signs of life. On mak ing an examination, a silver hunting watch, with chain at tached, was in his pocket. There were also a few shillings. He had on a black frock coat, a blue waistcoat with yel low flowers, black trousers and the usual underdress. In his shirt front was a brooch the shape of an arrow. The body was taken to the Holborn Union Workhouse, Gray's inn-lane. New STEAM NAVIGATION Acr.—On Wednesday next the New Steam Navigation Act, passed in August last, will come into fcree, when the other acts on the same subject (9 & 10 Vict., cap. 101, and 11 & 12 Vict., grip. 81), will be repealed. The laws relating to steam navigation are now consolidated so that they are to be found—which is an advantage—in one statute. The act, alter stating that the naval department of the Board of Trade is to mist • in its execution, trees of the sutvey of steam-vessels and the number of passengers they are allowed to carry ' • of the build of iron steamers, of safety valves, of boats, &e., in seagoing vessels, of lights and provisions against accident Irons collision, of the inspection of steam-vessels, and of , legal proceedings, with some miecellineous matters. On all these subjects there are various provision' to render steam I navigation safe. The Board at 1 rade is to fix the number I of passengers in all steamers, and after the 31st of March steam-vessels are required to carry safety valves out of the control of the engineer, which valves are to be deemed a necessary part of the machinery, upon which the surveyor general of is the to passenger. report.T hisregulation is for the additional safety int Court. WINDSOR, Dee. 27. The following had the honour ofjoining the royal table lest evening, at the Castle: Her Royal Highnese the Dacheu of Kent, the lady in mating to her Royal High ness; the Baroness de Bpeth ; and the Rev. F. end the Hon. Mr.. Anson. _ The Queen end Prince Alberkwent to town this morning at 11 o'clock by a special train of the Great Western Rail way, attended by the Marchioness of Ely (lady in waiting), Lieut.-General Wemyss (equerry in waiting to the Queen), Col. Bourerie (equerry in waiting to the Prince), and Lieut.-Colonel Biddislnh (master of the household). The Royal party returned to the Castle at 10 minuet be fore 2 o'clock. The Prince of Wales, tho Princess Royal, and younger members of the Royal family, took their usual exercise. DICBMBEII, 28. The Queen and Prince Albert attended an early service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The lion. and Rev. G. Wellesley performed the service, and ad ministered the Sacrament to her Majesty mid his Royal Highness. The Queen and Prince took their usual morning walk. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and Royal children, walked in the Home Park. There was uo addition to the Royal dinner party yester day. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived at Buckingham Palace about twelve o'clock on Saturday, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, Lieutenant-General Weinyss, Colonel Bouverie, and the Master of the Household. lice Majesty and Ins Itsyal Highness went to Gloucester house, Picca dilly, to pay a visit to the Duchess of Gloucester. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the royal suite, afterwards returned to Windsor Castle. A deputation from the Conference held at Birmingham on the 10th December, on the subject of Reformatory and Preventive Schools, had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday at the Home.office. The deputation consisted of Mr. David Power (Recorder of Ipswich), Rev. T. Carter (Chaplain of Liverpool Borough Gtol), Mr. J. Adnhcail (Manchester), Mr. J. Hubback (Liverpool), Mr. W. Locke (Hun. Secretary to the Ragged School Union, London), Rev. J. Field (Chaplain to the Borough Gaol, Reading), and the Rev. Sydney Turner (lied Hill). The Belgian minister transacted business at the office of the Board of Trade en Saturday. His excellency also trans acted business at the Foreign-office. Earl Granville attended at the Foreign-office on Satur day. APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. T. Phinn is appointed Re corder of Ucronport, in the room of Mr. J. Greenwood, Q.C.—Mr. J. Johnes, Judge of the County Court in Circuit 31, is appointed Recorder of Carmarthen.—The lion. Henry Stanley, PrecisWtiter at the Foreign-office, is ap pointed a Paid Attaehe to the Embassy at Constantinople. —The Ilea. William Stewart, now Unpaid Attache to tho Embassy at Paris, is appointed Second Paid Attarhe at that Embassy, in the room of Mr. Paget.—The Hem. Julian Fane, now unpaid Attache to the Legation at Vienna, is appointed Second Paid Attache to thut Legation.-08- OUR FOREIGN POLICY. The Globc of Saturday night gives the most pro minent place in its columns to the lellowing apparently official notification : " It would be a great mistake to suppose that In:cause there has been a change in the Foreign-office there will bo a change an the foreign policy of this country. Still greater a mistake would it be to suppose that foreign powers have influenced the change of men that has happened, or would cause the change of measures that is conjec ' tured. Most extravagant of all is the supposition that England would abet the claims of the elder or younger brunch of tho House of Bourbon against the existing government of France, recognised as it is by the great MUSS of the French nation. The policy of the govern ment has been English; it wall continue to be so. It has been directed to the maintenance of peace; it will continuo to be so. When foreign countries have successfully esta blished constitutional government they have received the moral support of linglaud ; they will receive in future the same sympathy and the same moral yuppie:. But if other nations choose to live under a different form of govern ment; placing more power in the executive, or giving greater control over the executive, this country will always respect national institutions. A policy so simple and so just ought not to excite enmity or require concealment. It is consistent with a respect for the rights and a desire for tho prosperity of all nations." LORD PAIMEISTON.—TITE BOROI7CIT Or MARY LEIIUNE AND Tilt CITY OF WANTNINSTEIL—We are re quested tostate that not only is the borough of Marylebono about to take the initiative in the shape of a demmstration in favour of Lord Palmerston, but that the cinema of West minster, of the liberal party, indignant at the unfair treat ment which they conceive the late foreign secretary Lis re ceived, are about to get up a requisition to the noble vis count to stand for that ancient city at the next election. With regard to the borough of Maryleinme, communica tions are about to be forwarded to Lord Dudley Stuart and Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., asking their advice Al to the best mode of proceeding, and requesting their attendance when the demonstration takes place. The fueling seems very general in favour of Lord Palmerston.—Obserc-r. THE RAWMARSII COLLIF:RY .Exti.oolON.—A sub scription has been commenced by the lice. Mr. Mahon, in cumbent of Itawmar , h, in aid of the widows stud orphans of the men who perished by the explosion on Saturday weL , k, when htty lives were lte4. Char:esworth, the lessees of the colliery, have given 2.501., and Mr. J. C. O. Charlcsworth, 501. There is perhaps no district of similar extent in any portion of the kingdom which has been tho scene of such frequent disasters, and involving so great a sacrifice of life, as the tract of country comprised within a circuit of live miles around Itawmarsh. To go back only ten years, we find that during this comparatively short period five accidents have occurred, by which an aggregate of 220 lives has been sacrificed. In November, 1811, 15 men and boys were killed by en explosion in Mount Osborne coal-pit, Barnsley. In January 1847, six lives were lost, by on accident in the barley Main colliery, Worebro' Dale. In the following March, seventy-Cues men working in the Oaks pit, near Barnsley, met with almost instant death from an explosion of tire damp, tho force of which was so terrific that stones were proected out oT the shaft, which is 2 43 3 yards deep, to a heig ht of about forty yards into tho air. In January, 1849, another explosion occurred at Worsbro' Dale, and within two miles of the former one, by which 75 lives were lost. And lastly, the explosion at Warren vale, by which 50 human beings have perished. Almost the whole of these calamities have arisen from tiro damp explosions. ANOTHER RAILWAY COLLISION.—On Saturday, between 12 and one o'clock at mid-day, as the mail train which leaves Birmingham at 6 a.m., arrived near Liver pool, on the London and North-Western line, when be tween /Layton and Roby stations, the express train, due about the same time, came in contact with it, and several passengers by the former train received severe injuries. The mail train, nevertheless, wee allowed to proceed on to Liverpool, those who were injured bleeding profusely all the way; and what adds to the discredit of the officials is the fact that on arrival at the Lime-street terminus, the wounded parties were wholly untwisted, and, but tor the courtesy and attention of their fellow namengers, fatal re sults must have ensued. In one carriage, six persons were very seriously, and three dangerously wounded. One of them, Miss Rogers, of Iluyton, was conveyed to the house of Dr. Bainbrigg, to Islington.sguare, where it was found that she had sustained great injury in the head, the skull being in one place laid complete ly bare. The wounds were promptly dressed, but the young lady was too much in jured to permit of her return home, and was conveyed to the house of a friend in Liverpool, where she is progress ing favourably. A gentleman, who was a passenger by the mail train (the passengers in which received the greatest amount of injury) stated to our reporter that at the spot where the occurrence took place, trains can be seen far more than half a mile distance on the line. Although happily no fatal results have ensued from this collision the gross negligence displayed is nut the less to be condemned. RAILWAY COLLISION AND LOSS OF LIFE, At.nwten. FIODAY.—An inquiry before the county coroner and a jury bus been resumed to-day, concerning an alarm ing collision on the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Rail way, which ended in loss of life, and a serious destruction of property, besides injury to several persona who were pas sengers in one of the trains. In the course of Monday afternoon a monster cattle train, driven by two powerful engines, left Tweedmouth for Newcastle. The break van, as usual, was at the rear of the train. On approaching Christian-bank station, some four or five miles from here, when there is a slight curvature in the line, the engines became impeded in their progress. A passenger train from Berwick being then due at that particular part of the line the guard left the van, and went some distance back on the permanent way with his rod signal lamp, dark having act in, in order to stop the train. Tho evening is described to have been foggy, and on the passenger train coming up neither the driver nor the stoker observed, it is said, the stop light, but went on, and with mock violence ran into the cattle train. The shock was very severe. Tho train was almost shivered to pieces, and tho poor fellow in the service of tho Electric Telegraph Company was killed on the spot. The drover had a marvellous escape ; he was found under the train, and with the exception of being stunned by a blow, he was scarcely hurt. The passengers were thrown into much confusion and alarm, and several sustained contused faces. CONVEYANCE OF TIIE INDIAN MAIL.—ThC Staati Courant announces that a convention has been concluded between the Netherlands and Austria for the transport of the Indian Mail via Trieste. PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM.—At the meeting of the Marylebone vestry on Saturday, 11. Lewis. EN., in the chair, • deputation, consisting of Mr. Belton, Mr. M'Dowall, and Mr. Peufold, pre sented the following resolution which had been unani mously agreed to at a public meeting held on the 18th inst., at the Literary Institution, Carlisle-street, Portman market—That the reprecutative vestry of St. Marylebone be resoectfully requested to order the use of a room at the Court-house, for the ordinary meetings of the Marylebons Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association. Signed —J. A. Nie'tolay, chairman. ' After some discussion, a re solution to the effect that the request b• complied with, arm tarried y a Large majority. I 1