The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

no time in transmitting that advice, and that it was backed up by the significant step of sending British (Loud men-of-war to the mouth of the nd 11 of eace find cheers.) Can the most ardent tr fault with this conduct —will any Quakerl)—(Shouts of " Yes " and slight confusion) -1 don't mention the name of Quaker in any other way 'hen with the utmost possib le respect. I know that among the. Quakers are t o be found some of the best friends of liberty.—(Loud cheers.) I do not call upon them to swerve from their principles, but I ask if any man can find fault with the curse taken by our Government ?--(Shouts of " No, And what has been the consequence ? Not a shot has been fired ; not a tax has been imposed ; it was enough for the British Gover nment to say, We w not have these men given up ;" it was enough that the British flag should fly, not at Constantinople, but somew here in the neighbourhood.—(Laughter.) The Emperor of Russia, whose will is law, who rules over sixty millions of me n, who is imperious, over bearing, intolerant —who told the Sultan that if a single refugee escaped him he should consider that a sufficient cause of war—no sooner did he learn these things than he displayed his snagnanimity and gene rosity—(Laughter)—and found out that although he certainly bad made the demand for their extradition, yet if the Sultan preferred removing them from his immediate territory, that was all he could possibly desire.—(Laughter and cheers) This is what has happened with regard to the refugees claimed by Russia ; but it is necessary to understand that among the companions of the brave Kossuth there are Hun garians and Italians, the subjects of Austria, as well as Poles, the subjects of Russia. T he Em p eror of Austria desired to have the pleasure of hanging the llungariane and Italians. The Emperor of Russia has formally given up his demand, so that by this time the Polish generals and soldiers are probably at liberty; but the Hungarians and Italians are in a different position, and news has not yet been received as to their fate. I. know that a report is in circulation to the effect that the Sultan has agreed to keep these men close prisoners for life—l know that some foreign ambassadors have been busy in spreading this rumour, and have alleged that the arrangement has been made with the consent and ap probation of our own Government —but Ido not believe it. I know that official informatio I st ha ill s co me from Vienna confirming this story, but do not believe it.—(Cheers.) You know that through the Hungarian war official information from Vienna often proved to be false, fur the system pursued by the base Austrian Government has been to circulate the most unfounded calumnies with regard both to nations and individuals. You remember that in the case of Count Louis Batthyany, not satisfied with putting him to death, they attempted in their vile prints to malign his character by charging him with having planned the death of Latour. Nothing of the kind was proved—it was not even al leged before his execution, and there was not the slightest foundation for it in truth. I believe the story about the incarceration of Kos sut'n and his companions will prove equally false, and I will tell you why. In addition to Austrian official reports not being worthy of credence, I ask whether it is likely, when a powerful Government like that of Russia has been refused its demand, that Austria, weak, crippled, and humiliated—the mere creature and tool of Russia—should meet with better success ? (Cheers.) No; Ido not believe it. When the next news comes we shall find that the Sultan has snapped his fingers at the demands of Austria, and resolutely persevered in the course which he has begun. But if we should find that he has swerved from his purpose and listened to the demands of Austria, backed up as they will probably be by Russia, to prevent Kossuth from coming here and exciting the sympathy of every free-born British bosom--if he should prevent the Hungarian patriots from coming to this or any other country—then words cannot be tod strong to condemn the infamy of the proceeding, — (Cheers.) But why should the Sultan imprison them for life ? They have been guilty of no offence against Turkey ; they took up arms to defend their own li berties, and their success would have been of immense advantage to her—then how outrageous it would be for the Turkish Government, in compliance with Aus trian demands, to immure these men in prison ? Not only would it be monstrous injustice, but an act of the greatest perfidy, for they were solemnly promised hospitality and protection. The Sultan was originally guided by a noble impulse, in spite of all difficulties and dangers, and now that those difficulties have been diminished and these dangers removed, it is not rea sonable to suppose that he will depart from his purpose.—(Cheers.) I trust, therefore, the Austrians will not have the horrible pleasure either of wreaking their vengeance on the illustrious Kossuth, confining him within the walls of a Turkish fortress, or of pre venting him from stepping on the free shores of this country. God knows they ought to be satisfied with the vengeance they have had already ; the cruelties which they have perpetrated are enough to make one's blood run cold, and to stamp their perpetrators with an everlasting mark of infamy.—(Cheers.) Austria has for Lan g ages possessed an unenviable notoriety ; she has always been foremost in suppress ing liberty, persecuting religion, and supporting intolerance—always cruel, treacherous, and mean. Twenty-five years ago Lord Holland, a statesman of the old school, said if ever anything mean or trea cherous was to be dune in Europe, Austria was sure to do it. He was called to task by Lord Liverpool, who entreated his noble friend to consider what he had said ; he would not retract, but repeated the expres sion. —(Cheers.) Aye, and that was before the bloody massacre of Gallicia, when the Emperor of Austria offered re w ards to the peasants for the heads of their landlords, and when blood money was paid for the heads of unfortunate Polish noblemen; it was before the late horrible assassinations, the murders in cold blood of prisoners taken on the field of battle, the putting to death, after mock trials, such men as Batthyany, Perenyi, Csanyi,!and other men of high character who had not done anythingworthy of death, the execution of Catholic priests and Protestant clergymen, and the public scourging of women. [A person here interrupted the proceedings, which occasioned some confusion.] Lord D. STUART proceeded—lf any gentleman differs with me in opinion, I dare say he will be afforded an opportunity of answering me before the meeting separates. I shall be very glad of an answer if it can be given, for I sometimes have asked a ques tion and Lot been able to obtain an answer. I was going on to say that Austria has all the cruelty without the savage nobleness of Russia; it appears to combine meanness with ferocity, more like a hyena than anything else.—(Cheers.) Is this too strong an expression for those who shoot men in cold blood and scourge women ?—(Shouts of " No, no.") You have heard of two young actresses who were beaten with whips at Milan, and I will tell you of a Protestant Bishop who was put in prison by the Austrian Government fur no other reason than his supposed attachment to Liberal principles. He was an old man, fell blind in prison, and died there. He had a daughter eighteen years ago. The Emperor came to Raab, the town where the young lady lived. She was at the window when the pro cession went by, and on seeing the man who was the cause of her father's death, very naturally turned her back and withdrew. What girl would not have done the same ? Some Austrian officers observed the act, rushed into the house, and dragged her to the Town Hall, and there she was publicly Bogged. — (Loud shouts of " Shame.") That's :how the Austrians treat those whom they have subdued, not by their own arms!—(Cheers.) General Klapka, who defended Comorn, is in London now, and I have seen and conversed with him. He is a fine gallant fellow, and a simple and unaffected sol dier. He told me that he could have held out at Comorn, which is one of the strongest fortresses in Europe, for a number of months ; he had plenty of provisions, and the best possible spirit reigned among his troops, both officers and men. Why, then, did he capitulate " I did so," he said, " because I thought the measure might in some degree conciliate the Austrians, and induce them to stay their bloody hands. I saw General Ilaynau, and entreated him to be less cruel to my unfortunate countrymen ; he promised me there should be no more executions, and I then surrendered on the stipulation that every man In the garrison should receive a full and complete amnesty. Now here," said he, "is an announce ment, that one of my officers has been hanged."— (Shame.) That's the way the Austrians keep their word and observe terms of capitulation !—(Cheers.) Klapka advised him to leave the country, but he stayed to arrange his property, and within a fort night was siezed and hung. Prince Lichtenstein is an officer in the Austrian army, held up as a - pattern of what a soldier ought to be; they call him " the soul of chivalry." He had a friend who had espoused the cause of the patriots ; they had been boys 'together and comrades in the army, and the prince sent to his friend to say that if he would try to march where he was quartered so that he might surrender to him rather than any other Austrian officer, he would undertake to protect him and save his lif e. He accordingly made a long march for the purpose, an d was at first received with kindness, because Comore, had not then surrendered; but after a time General Haynau ordered that he should be hanged, and all that the chivalrous prince did was to obtain that the sentence of hanging should be chan g ed to that of being shot, and he was shot.—(Shouts of " Shame !") The Noble Lord then adverted to the Austrian loan, and the proceedings at a meeting in London on this sub ject, and showed that the truth of the prophecies then made had been proved, for the loan was now at 2 die. Ile bad stated at that meeting that the loan was illegal, because it had not been sanctioned by the Diet ; this was contradicted by the Vienna cor respondent of the Times, but to his reply to the effect that the money authorised by the Diet to be raised had been previously obtained and expended, no answer hed been given, although twenty-five days have elapsed since its publication. His Lord ship continued :—Although I have expressed nay opinion pretty freely of the Government of Austria, and it is not a flattering one, I doubt not that Russia is at the bottom of it all, because if you scan closely its acts, you will find that she is constantly endea vouring to aggrandize herself ; to extend her territory, and acquire more power, chiefly by exciting alwaysdistur ances in neighbouring states; and, above all, i ready to interfere whenever she sees that the peop e of any country are about to establish sound and wholesome liberal institutions. That was the reason for the ;original partition of Poland—the great crime of modern history. The Poles were determined to reform their old system art G in the same way as the Liberal party iu Hungary, under the illustrious Kossuth, had laboured to establish, and succeeded in establishing, such a Constitu tion as any nation might be proud of; and it was for this reason that Russia interfered to put them down. In 1829 she interfered in Turkey, because she saw the Turks were introducing reforms; and last year a similar interference took place on her part in the Danubian provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia. The Noble Lord stated that he directed the attention of Lord Palmerston, at the time, to the fact of Russia having marched 60,000 men into those provinces, and said that in his conscience he believed if the Government had then protested energetically against this daring violation of the laws of nations, the Emperor of Russia would not have been able to assist Austria against Hungary as he had dote, and instead of now mourning over the fate of Hungary, we should have rejoiced in seeing her established . a free and independ ent country, like Great Britain (Cheers.) He urged that interest, no less than duty ty and generosity , sho uld induce us to support Turk is protecting the Hungarian refugees, for whilst the exports to Turkey were larger than to any other country in Europe, and had gone on increasing from half a million in 1836, to above athroreeley miiflliaotnaslitsinat. present, those to Russia had sc . , c a r a e d ase a d h d a u l r f in in g u t i h io at n_ pe th rio o d Turkey being exceed one . 'ex a p a ci a rts tha to not -articles of merchandise, which employ the greatest amount of labour, and the exports to Russia those which employ the least. " I think, therefore," observed his Lordship, " there is every reason why we should call upon our Government to be up and doing, actively alive to what is passing in Turkey, and to exhort the Sultan not to yield to the base and infamous demands of Russia, at the same time being ready, in case of need, to support and defend him with something else than words. — (Cheers.) In saying this, I must repeat that lam a friend of peace. Ido not wish to see war prevail throughout Europe, bnt whilst desiring to see peace preserved, I also wish td see justice done, treaties observed, and faith kept; ant: when I see a power determined to trampled on justice, to violate treaties, and break faith, then, however paini,l 4 0V be the alternative, I say it is our duty to take a "f i n res f lution, and to be ready, if need be, to repel foe' 1 force.—(Cheers.) But I do not expect any 'sus . ' necessity to ensue; I have little doubt of the magna nimity of the Sultan and of the power of England, when once the will is expressed ; and I therefore anticipate that the illustrious Kossuth and his brave companions will very speedily be at liberty. Perhaps even now they are ploughing the seas on their way to our shores, and I trust we shall soon see them among us. I know you will give the brave Kossuth the reception which he deserves.— (Cheers.) If we cannot restore to him his country, at least we will console him whilst he treads the thorny path of exile. He shall have a home here—shan't he.—(Repeated bursts of cheering and crits of .' Yes. ") Aye, Britons shall provide a home for that illustrious man, and will not forget even the meanest of his followers ; for among those of low degree or least gifted by fortune, there may be as noble and patriotic hearts as that which beats even in the bosom of Kossuth, and those poor men d ol :htless fettles great a pang and made as great a sacritis'e when they perilled their home, their families, and all ti; et was dear to them for the sake of what they deemed to be their duty, as the most exalted leader in the Hungarian camp.—(Cheers.) There fore, I say our .sympathy is for them all—for him first who led them, but also for those who followed his standard. We know that they fought for the liber ties for which our forefethers bled, and in conse quence of which they have banded down to us our country such as it is, and our hearts such as those which beat within us—the heassts of men determined to be free, and who love their Constitution with no blind or unreasoning attachment, but who, whilst preserving all that is good in it, would reform and remove its abuses. Yes, and the history of the Hun garian struggle is like that of ours, their Constitution like ours, and their determination to amend it so far as it has faults, exactly similar to ours. They are only sal v i e k ug in this, that whilst we were fortuate they \ been the reverse. But here, after being pre served from the fangs of the base and bloody-minded Austrians by the magnanimity of our noble ally the Sultan, they shall find a home—here they shall be comforted, cared for, and cherished ; and here; please God, they shall rest until the time comes (and a trust it will not be long) when the sun of liberty shall a."iso on their own native land.—(The Noble Lord resume i his seat amidst the most deafening and oft-repeated cheers.) . A native Hungarian (whose name we did not ascertain) was called upon and loudly applauded. He spoke in broken English, but quite intelligibly to those who were near him. As a Magyar he thanked them for their sympathy towards his unfortunate and oppressed country—the more especially valuable for those national characteristics which distinguish us above all other nations of the earth. Little did he think when they last assembled that they would then have had to mourn over the fate of Hungary; but the designs of Providence are hid from mortal men, and, as the great Kossuth had said, it was not the iron of the stranger that had dug its grave, but treachery.— (Shouts of " Hear, hear.") He did not say by whom, for his name was already execrated by them all. After quoting other passages from Kossuth's letter, he observed that he would have said more on this sad subject if he had possessed a greater com mand of the language; but he trusted they would accept the feeling of his heart if his language failed to express his most grateful and sincere thanks.—(Cheers.) The motion was then put from the chair, and carrid (with one dissentient) amidst the loudest acclamations. Mr. C. Lassie, on presenting himself, was wel comed with enthusiastic cheers. He addressed the meeting in an elaborate and eloquent speech. of which our limits, unfortunately, prevent us from giving more than a mere abstract. At the outset he said it was unnecessary for him to state how perfectly he sympa thised with the able, eloquent, and spirited address, which he had heard delivered to them on the subject of Hungary. He deplored its subjugation, denounced the intervention of Russian oppression, heard with indignation of the atrocities of the working slaughter man Haynau, the imperial butcher of Austria, and, with more of anger than pity, of the indignities offered to women. He rejoiced to bear of the safety of Kossuth, and he trusted the Sultan would not, by pusillanimity, do anything to tarnish the glory of his first refusal of the demand of Russia for his extradi tion, but that in the course of a short period he would enable us to give that great man a hearty welcome to our shores.—(Cheers.) So much for Hungary ; let them now turn to Italy. Hungary might be regarded as one of the outposts and ramparts of European civi lization, but Italy was its very centre, and they could not safely regard the individual who rules more or less over the destinies of the Roman people with any degree of con tempt. As a political potentate he might be of small consequence, but as a spiritual ruler he is of enormous consequence, and placed by his aide other rulers of the world sink into entire insignificance.— (Shouts of "No, no," and faint hisses, followed by tremendous cheering.) He is the spiritual ruler— (Filmes, with shouts of " Turn him out," on which I Mr. Larkin said " Don't interfere with the person hissing, he has as much right to hiss as you have to applaud")—of twenty millions of men.—(Cheers.) His authority is not confined to the ecclesiastical states ; it goes over the Alps, it is not stopped by any river, the ocean stream does not stand in its way, in the north and south, the east and west, in every portion of the world there are people who submit to his authority, and in a thousand instances render him a humiliating submission. However accustomed, therefore, they might be to listen to No. Popery addresses, it did not become them to treat such enormous power with con tempt. Napoleon knew a great deal better, for he said the amity of the Pope was worth an army of two hundred thousand men, and it was their duty to see whether this power could not be brought from an alliance with kings and emperors, to an alliance with the people.—(Applause.) They had lately seen a coalition of despots, and Hungary had been its first victim. The ambition and gigantic projects of Russia filled with more or less alarm the minds of all politicians ; and it must be remembered that the Emperor of Russia is not only a great politi cal, but a religious ruler; he is, in his person, the - pro tectorate of the Greek Church, with its multitudinous hosts of believers, and be would be glad to increase the thedid not Ro man power and authority of the ancient Greek patriarch beli e pontiff. ve t patriarch ate, so as to fairly eclipse the waning magnificen ce of ld magnificence regret d au this, for he ha t external sh su splen dour had anything to d o w ith intellectual and spiritual power ; and it would be well for the cause of religion if the Pope, instead of being th the servant of the pe o ple—h eally would o then (rise into monarchs, was s omething infinitely greater than he is nv splendid slave and tiaraed vassal of the despotso now, the , of Pope Europe.—(Cheers.) The was nothing ni than a bishop of the Church, the word merely signify ing papa or father. It was originally the designation of every bishop, and we have now the "Right Rev. Fathers in God" in the House of Lords. They were THE SUN', LONDON, all fathers, but a sad flsecing set they had been to the Church.--(Laughter.) There were now in the Pope two offices—a bishop of the Church, and king or ruler hite b Roman people ; and whatever reverence mig be owing to him in the former character, he did not thick much would be shown to him in the latter. He regerded the two as inconsistent —as a sacerdotal at tempt to cover with a species of sanctity and holiness the most worldly and secular ambition which ever existed, an attempt to make a compact between Belial and Satan, and to reconcile the service of God and Mammon. So extraordinarily successful had this attempt been that it had not only corrupted the whole Catholic, but the whole Protestant church. A bishop now was a man with a mitre and silk apron, who lives in a palace, has large domains, has political power united with his other authority, and outvies in Parlia ment the temporal nobility of the land. The bishops were fond of saying the Pope is anti- Christ ; he thought it was not very difficult to find in this description a number of horned and tailed anti- Christs too.—(Laughter.) The Pope undoubtedly aspired a little highe r ; instead of a esiastics a m all ecclitre lie wore tiara ; he was the mo st haughty of ; his court surpasses in pride and arrogance an ever heard of in Eastern despotism, and the creatures of which bend in ad ulation and adoration of which e ) an Eastern slave himself would be ashamed.— (Applaus Having ascertained what a Catholic Po be we i pe a dPr ro to t es t a nt Bishop are, it would from the New T es t a ment, a copy of which he held passagesap os t l e . know (This i s M s I ° ,l r a rn . n e d t , Larkin hi a d described,occontrasting, n the trits tl c q g a u , r o a a t e s i t n e h g r e soe p fv r e o ar c al e ll eded, the poverty of the Apostles with the riches of the bishops, tv,hiethstihmepslipciietlyid, veosuerarnidtyl,uxand abstinenceuriesoftw ofthe other. puroinnge this comparison he was assailed with cries of 0 Question," but the Chairman deciding that he was in order, he proceeded.) He wished to know if the Church at the present moment, Catholic or Protes tant, was apostolic. Look at its state and condition. This country is partitioned out into vast dioceses, presided over by arrogant and pompous bishops, and subdivided into parishes with rich livings, the whole aspect being one revolting scene of simony and extor tion. Nothing could have been devised by the greatest enemy to Christianity to put the Church in more direct opposition and c ontradiction to the Gospel. If they went from this country and fixed their mind on the arrogant priest and prelate who did reign at Rome, instead of a Peter with a Ingle garment, barefooted, without scrip, gold, silver, or even brass, they would behold "his successor" seat ed on the seven hills, living in a palace, faring sumptuously, with a crown on his head and a sceptre in his band. — (Chee rs. ) If they asked an Oxford casuist, in the guise of a Jesuit, to account for this, he would tell them that it was all on the theory of development—that apostolic is h um ility had developed into ep isco p al pride, apostol poverty into episcopal riches , the simplicity of the apostles into the clothing of purple and fine linen of pdoavpeasrtTleinintotobsishpooppes with h t, t 042 o n o eQ d ej o n i . b a i s y h e o a p r s : a ll"t e u f l o i e e te • ~ - a r on his head, the humble minister of the bar a"" -.4 the sovereign pontiff of the Christian gospel to. '- was the theory of development with a world. The. 'ors.) What did it mean but that vengeance.—(Chs, ~tic preeepts as the witches in they should read *posts , . Lord'e prayer—back their incantations read tn: wards; or that they should prom.. , 14 „the bible obd solete, and of no more use in the Los. "'" tie! wor ld than an old almanack.—(Cheers ) I t was bee.. believed that heaven and earth should pass away be. fore the words of Christ, that he had held forth the words of truth to condemn the bishops in their mag nificence and to rebuke them in their pride. He then proceeded to show that for the first three hundred years the bishops of Rome lived in comparative ob scurity, and that after the days of Constantine cor ruption crept into the Church — Here he was interrupted by a person in the body of the meeting, who submitted that Mr. Larkin was departing from the question. They had met to sympathise with the Hungarians and Romans. — (Cheers and hisses.) The CHAIRMAN said that in a few sentences Mr. Larkin would probably make it bear on the question. Mr. LARKIN continued—lt was eight centuries from the foundation of Christianity before the bishops of Rome became owners of farms and possessors of treasure. Then for the first time had they crowns placed on their heads, and as the Jews, when they looked on Christ in his ordinary and plebeian character, were shocked at his simplic it y , so the Romans looked with astonishment at seeing the vicar of Christ converted in a monarch and prince. Thus, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries they rose from episcopal opulence to regal di g nit y and im perial splendour, and yet, whilst lords of lords and kings of kings, they used to style themselves servants of the servants of God, and issued their imperious mandates under the 'ring of the fisherman.—(Loud cheers.) it was curious to o bserve the artifice ' with which they preserved their power, represent ing the Papal states as more holy than others, and as the patrimony of St. Peter, although all the possessions which the apostle had was a small fishing smack—(Laughter) all this was done to give an appearance of truth to the greatest fraud and fic tion ever perpetrated, for if St. Peter ever had a .'rown it was that of martyrdom given to him by his m urderers, and if there ever was any purple in his vestsnents they were empurpled by his own blood (Cheesai) But they were told that the world had derived a great deal of good from the possession of power on Ow part of the clergy. He asked them to read history, and see the intrigues, conspiracies, murders and vi,. es which had invaded the chair of St. Peter.—(Hisses and cheers.) He adduced instances, as he alleged, proving the truth of this description, and adverting to the Condition of things lately, they had witnessed a Pope, the vicar of Jesus Christ, the high priest of the great gospel of Christ, appealing to the kings of Europe for an armed intervention to carry him back to the throne of Rome by force. — (Cheers.) An army of 30,000 men had come to his succour, and if ever he returned to Rome he would have to march over the dead bodies of his countrymen, his pontifical vestments stained with blood and having the guilt of parricide upon his head—the guilt of being the murderer of his own children. — (Cheers.) And for what ? For a throne and a crown—he, the successor of the apostles and the vicar of Jesus Christ, of Christ who when Peter, seeing his Master insulted, drew his sword and smote off the high priest's ear, said " Put up thy sword into its sheath; he that uses the sword shall perish by the sword." What had Christianity to do with the sword ? The sword is the emblem of material and physical force ; Christianity is the embodiment of spiritual and intellectual strength, and needs no sword for its protection.—(Cheers.) In going back to Rome the Pope seemed determined to refuse to give his subjects liberty ; he would return as a despot, and in this course he was supported by M. Montalembert, the great defender of the Pope on the continent and in the National Assembly of France, who urged the Pope not to grant any liberty, contending that Rome must be sacrificed for the benefit of other nations of the world, and that liberty and the popedom are in consistent with each other. Mr. Larkin cited the arguments of Montalembert on this point, and pro ceeded to answer them at some length, the conclusion at which he arrived being this, that- if the Pope con tinues to act in an absolute and despotic manner, his temporal power is at an end. He believed that Red Republicanism prevented many on the continent from taking that part in this question which they otherwise would do. This was one of the evils of Chartism in our our own country ; their menaces and violence, their appeals to the torch and the sword, had scared many good-minded men from all liberal opinions. But although the advance of civilisation and liberal ideas had not been so great as it ought to have been, yet he felt that they were entrenched in a tower of strength which was impreg nable to a coalition of all the despots of the world.— heard that he (Cheers.) And thus, in spite of the cruelties of Austria—yes, the gallows of Pesth, the shrieks of e th w e a d s ea c t o h nd o e f in ß oe a d tth t y o an d y ie , who, o, a wh do en he g womenflogged, and a malefactor, with the spirit of an ancient Roman him t f h o e r n th sh t e o d d , i l e ik t e h t e ha n t o o b f le A r d be etth wo o u f ld a tore his neck to pie ces , an d th us compelled his mur sdoelrdeirser—tothleeaidal call for vengeance policyheaven.—(Applause.)geancefrom oftheFo pe,mr.Larkin Pur suing alluded to the excuse that despotism was ne cessary to the Pope's independence. The Popes were independent when they were subjects, and not since they have become princes. The present Pope is the guest of the King of Naples, depends on the alms and bounty of Christian nations, instead of on the arm of God ; and if he ever returns to Rome, must be supported by French or Swiss bayonets, or perhaps by a colony of Irishmen.—(Roars of laughter and applause). A precious spectacle would then be presented of red-hot Repealers defending an eccle siastical despot.—(Hear, hear.) But then it was said, the Pope must have a crown on his head to enable him to rebuke princes. A pretty fellow to do this in deed, whilst in a state of such servitude and depend ence, that he could scarcely dare to call his paltry soul his own. After some strong remarks on this subject, Mr. Larkin concluded by urging that religion re quired no protection from any person—least of all from Louis Napoleon, and contending that he, for objects of dynastic policy and from j ealous y of Aus tria, had sought to give Papal despotism an appear ance of holiness and sanctity which it neither deserves nor possesses. (The speaker resumed his seat amidst great cheering.) Lord DUDLEY STUART again rose, and said that whilst he felt the greatest possible interest in every thing that concerns the liberty of the people in every part of the globe, he considered the struggle which had been carried on in the classic land of Italy was invested with that interest in a peculiar degree. It had long been a dream of those who loved that inte resting country, that one day the iron rule of the Austrians should cease in the plains of Lombardy, and that from one eud of the Peninsula to the other no Italian should submit to any rule but that of an Italian prince or an Italian go vernment chosen by the people.—(Cheer s. ) Mr. Larkin, in his long and eloquent speech, so fall of information and learning, that he wished they could have it to study and ponder over—(Cheers) —had urged many and strong arguments why the spiritual power of the Pope ought to be separated from his temporal power. He cou ld not follow him in those arguments; probably he should agree in the conclusion to which he had come, but he did not think it was for them to settle that question. Let those who choose to acknowledge his spiritual suprem ac y do so; he, as a Protestant, did not ; but he fou nd no fault with the reli gious opinions of other men.—(Cheers) With re gardthowever, to his temporal authority, and whether he should rule over the three millions of men in what he calls his dominions, that was a question to ise settled by the people of Rome.—(Cheers.) He knew of no other rule in any country but that the people should decide the form of government under which they lived, and be therefore regarded the iuterference of France with the republic of Rome as foul tyranny, against which every friend of liberty-ought to protest. —(Renewed cheers.) He prcclaimed all his sympa• thies to .be with the Romans, and he trusted that those who had answered with acclamations when he called upon them to receive with open arms Kossuth and his companions,would not forget the brave Italians who had also struggled ; and w hilst the y hailed with joy Keesuth and Mazzini, would also succour those who with them had girded Pa thPir Awordo and stretched forth their right hands in defence of the cause of their country and freedom.—(Loud cheering.) The memorial on being put from the chair was adopted, with two or three dissentients. Votes of thanks were then given, on the motion of lNir. Crawshay, to Lord Dudley Stuart, and at the re quest of his Lordship to Sir John Fife, 40 the meting closed shortly after twelve o'clocli with rap• turous bursts of cheering for Lord Dudley Stuart, :he Chairman, Kossuth, the Sultan, &c. &c, The following letters were received in answer to invitations to attend the meeting_— ilio3l TAR. ORD, M.P. Whitfield Hell, Nov, 15, Dear Sir,—As I really wish my contribution to be applied to the relief of distress, I have not the least objection to its being entrusted for that purpose to Lord Dudley Stu.rt. According to your proposal I enclose a cheque for Si., and am, dear Sir, yours faithfully, Geo. Crawshay, Esq. • W. ORD. P.S.—May I trouble you to acknowledge the safe re ceipt of the enclosed ? raolkt-Mlt. IIEADLAM, M P. 30, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Nov. 17. My dear Sir,—l have just received ycur letter, and have only a few minutes before the post goes out, to send you this line, expressing my sympathy with your exertions, and my regret that I cannot attend at the meeting on Monday. From the commencement of the war in Hungary, I have strongly felt that, whatever may be the merits or demerits of individuals engaged in it, there has been in• volved in the struggle the cause of true liberty and pro gress on the one side, as against oppression and despotic principles on the other. As a general rule, it is undoubtedly desirable that we should not interfere with, or pass judgment upon, foreign nations ; but when we recollect that, in this case, the efforts of the Hungarians have not been over come by those who claim sovereignty over them, but by the military force of a foreign nation, of most des potic character, I do think the free people of this country ought to express their sympathy with those though they have failed, fought most bravely to eine, - themselves such liberties as we ourselves obtain for . « yetfor the issue of the contest, it enjoy. In our re • think that the expression of is some consolation, to . , ned the lot that would opinion in this country has JO vered. Such expres otherwise have fallen upon t he con Ilion of opinion are most valuable to ourse e lves, the liberty we enjoy, and fur which our ancestors stru to gg the led successfully. It may b e truly said, with respect quality of mercy on such occasions as these, "It is twice blessed—it blesseth him that gives and him that takes." Yours, in haste, T. E. HEADLAM. BROM MR. HUTT, M.P. Gibside, 17th November, 1849. My dear have great pleasure in co•operating with you in the cause you have so generously be friended. I enclose my schscription. My time on Monday will not be at my own command. I would certainly endeavour to second your efforts at the pub lic meeting en that day.—Believe me, Sir,ours very truly, WM. HUTT. George Crawshay, Esq. IRON DR. HEADLAM. Northumberland-street, 19th Nov., 1849. My dear Sir,—l am sorry I cannot attend the meet ing this evening in favour of the Hungarian officers, said to be detained in Turkey; but I shall gladly join you in any protest against the arbitrary acts of oppres sion and cruelty of the Emperors of Russia and Austria, and in protection of the brave warriors who so nobly defended the constitutional rights of their country. I remain, my dear Sir, yours faithfully, George Crawahay, Esq. T. E. lIEADLA3I. FROM MR. R. B. SANDERSON. West Jesmond, Nov. 19, 1849. My dear Sir,—l am extremely sorry that lam under a medical prohibition to attend evening meetings at pre sent; but I will communicate ynnr message to my son, and to Mr. Palmer, one or both of whom will probably appear at the place and time appointed. Yours sincerely, James Potts, Esq. R. B. SANDERSON. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MONDAY. The Queen and Prince walked early this morning in Osborne Park and grounds. The younger members of the Royal Family walked and rode as usual. There was no addition yesterday to the royal dinner party. - - A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council had a meeting yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Lords pre sent were—the Right - Hon. Henry Labouchere (Pre sident of the Board of Trade), Earl Grey (Secretary of State for the Colonies), Earl Granville (Vice -Pre. sident of the Board of Trade), Lord Campbell (Chan cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), and Sir Edward Ryan. Lord Ashley had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing-street. Hon. John Elliot had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home •office. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday, from his seat, Broadlands, Hants. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday evening, from his seat, Hichleton Hall, near Doncaster. Sir John Rohl-louse has arrived in town. The Earl of Carlisle arrived in to wn last evening from Castle Howard, Yorkshire. Dispatches were received yesterday evening at the C olonial- office from the Governors of Ceylon, South Australia, the Mauritius, and the Cape of Good Hope. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar. The Earl and Countess Grey received at dinner, at their residence in Belgrave-square, on Saturday, the Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey, Mr. Macaulay, Mr. and Mrs. W. Russell, .Mr. Cox, and Mr. Higgins. HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER. (From the Court Circular.) " The Priory, Nov. 26. "The Queen Dowager passed an uncomfortable night, without much , sleep, and her Majesty is not any better this morning. " DAVID DAVIES, M.D." Her Royal Highness:the Duchess of Kent paid a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at the Priory, yesterday morning. SMITHFIELD MARKET.--A Royal Commission, to consist of the following members, has been appointed to ii,quire into the live and dead meat markets of London: —Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis, M.P. (chairman), Hon. Fre , d,-rick Byng, Sir Harry Verney, Bart., M.P., Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., Mr. William Miles, M.P., Professor Richard Owen, Mr. John Wood (Common Councilman of Aldersgate Without). ST. ANDELW'S-DAY.—The anniversary of the patron saint of Scotland, Saint Andrew, occu rs on Friday next, the 30th instant, and will be celebrated by a dinner and a ball at the London Tavern. Admiral Sir Charles Napier is to preside , and a gre at number of in fluential , and patriotic Scotchmen, as well as Englishmen, have offered their services as stewards on the occasion. The festival will present much grea ter attractions than any former one of the kind, especially to the fair sex, owing to it having been determined by the managers to give a ball after the dinner. LITURATURE.—The coming literary season pro mises to be one of peculiar interest—the production of many works having been hitherto postponed, in conse quence of the public attention having been so much absorbed by political occurrences. Among numerous other works preparing for publication by Mr. Colburn alone, are a Life of Tusso, by the Rev. R. Milman—The Lived of the Princesses of England, ley lire. Everett Green, Editor of the "Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies"—London Literary Society in the Days of Samuel Johnson, from the Papers of the,late Henry Roscoe—A new and revised edition of Evelyn's Diary and Corre spondence, uniform with Pepy's Diary—A new and improved edition of Mr. Disraeli': if an rae e d Reigni of Chcrles 1., with a P re f ac e by . Disli, Min 2 vols., uniform with the Curiosities of Literature—A new novel by the author of "Emilia Wyndham"—'The Petrel, a Tale of the Sea, by a Naval Officer—A new work by Miss Bremer, translated from the Unpublished Swedish Manuscript by Mary Howitt—Leonard Normandale; or, The Three Brothers, by the lion. C. Stuart Savile, &c. A RP.GINIENT Or GEESE.--0 I Friday night last the inhabitants of Kentish-town were surprised by the quacking of an immense concourse of geese, which, on inquiry, was found to proceed from a field by the road side, in which were assembled no less than 2,500 geese just arrived from Ireland, en ro ute to Sussex, to be fatted ' for the forthcoming Christmas. TIA4ISDA EVENING, NOVEIItIER 1849. NEW STORY OF SCOTTISII LIFE. NoW ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., PASSAGES IN LIFE OF MRS. MARG. RE T .11% AITL AN D, OF kTiNNY ,E. Written by Ilerself. " This work has given us much plc !sure. The writer appears to have taken for a model Galt's ' Annals of the Parish,' As regards purity o! mind, generosity of heart. and great observation of charac ter, Mrs. Margaret Maitland might cla'm cousiutidp with the Rev. Mi ah Balwhidder." —Ath !mourn. " This work is full of great power, abounding in natural feeling, and altogether as interesting as any novel recently published in this country. The moral it inculcates will be held precious by all."—Ola. server. Henry Coltharn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRR ROYAL, HAY MARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brampton. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Comedy, entitled TfIE SERIOUS FA MILY. Characters by ➢fessrs. Webster, J. Wallack, BuekstoV., ; Mis W. Clifford. Miss Reynolds, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To be followed by an original Farce called THE GUAraDIAN ANGEL. Mr. Dulcimer, Mr. Keeley; Moggy Snaggs, Mr: 7B. Keeley. .tfter winch the comic drama of THE JACOBITE. To conclude with WHO'S MY HUSBAND? Due notice will be given of the appearance of }lr. and Mrs. KEAN. The Box-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. ♦rcher. TIIEAtICE ROYAL. ADELPHI. trnie• the direction oi Madame THIS EVENII.TG, Will be performed a new d9111e41,/ Drama, called THE WILLOW COVSR. To be followed by an entirely now Extravaganza, entitled DO. MESTIC ECONOMY. John Grumly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grumley. \lrs, F. Matthews. To eoneluie with a new slippery sketch called MRS. BUNBURY'S SPOONS. Mr. llL;hbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks, lir. Wright; Job Smith., Mr. 0. Smith: Mrs. Bunbury, Mrs. F, Matthews; Mrs. Hishbury (Amos, Miss Brooks. AOTAL 141(CYATM TIIEA.TRE, the sfanagetnoat ' a i ad ard c v a t r u, Sole Ti- Jr.l Cluniev IJ.thews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed lIETHINK:i I SEMX VATHEIt, To be followed by DELICATE GROUND. After which a new Faroe, entitled DROP TEIE CURTAIN. To conclude with RAISING TUE WIND. tioze4, be. ; Upper Boxee, 4s. ; Pit, 211. ; Gallery, Is., No 11 l'-price t. any pert of the house. All applications for Private Boxes mast be made to Yr. Alleroft, lb, New Bond-street. PRINCESS'S THEA.TL:R. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lesiiee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Opera, entitled CHARLES Till SE COND. After which the Extravagtuaa of THE FIRST NIGHT. T• conclude with a new comic drama, entitled TIM LIFE GUARDSMAN. rL.ET's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. 'Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Immense hit t Moncrieff's New Pedestrian and Equestrian Extra vaganza• of Mr. Briggs in the " Pleasur. s of Housekeeping and Horsekeeping,' having been received with rears of laughter and shouts of approbation, will be repeated every evening until further notice.—Mr. Batty has engaged the following eminent Gymnastie and Equestrian artistes, Mr. Milner and his two sons, Messrs. Crowhurst, A. Powell, A.. Bridges, Mons. Valentine, and those ce lehrattd Provincial Clowns, Messrs. Jackson and Wheal*, who will appear. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with the Grand national and magnificent Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, In which Mr. Edward Gomersal will appear in his original character of Napoleon. After which Batty's SCENE% OF THE ARENA.. To conclude with the new Extravaganza of Mr. BRIGGS ; or the PLEASURES OF HOUSEKEEPING AND HORSEKEEFINO, In which the whole Company and Stud of this Establishment, a ion train of moveables, comprising Omnibus, Barouche, 6e-Cart, and other vehicles, will appear. Box-office open from Eleven till For r. , tarry. Vanaxer, Mr. W. West. Mr. BATTY'S Benefit is fixed for Monday. Dee. 3. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. me DAT irning, 80 min. a ft er 11 t Evening, 51 min. attar 11 0-Moscow—yoming, 0 min. after 0 I Evening, 17 min. after 12 THE WEATHEEL—SIIN OFFICE, Nor. 27. rHERMONETBN, Lowest, 25; Highest, 35; Noon, 30. BAROMETER, 30.18. WIND N.N.E.—fine, frosty weather. '..,. . '.. „1.. .... 7 , '.... ..%":.1...11.. ::-.--7„,...:,: i ...,.--> .../t, 11111 '''':tr;';''l*' '•. i A • ? • - 4 . 41,41 U.: .r .":, 5.,.." —,• 7. 2 . (' -- ; VA .`,4,_ . .. A‘, ' %," 4 71 !))/ ..,.._. q l / 4 ' ONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, IM9, Another numerous and enthusiastic meeting, holden on the 19th instant, at Newcastle, has attested yet more distinctly the sympathy with which Englishmen regard the struggle of continental nations for liberty, but more especially the heroic, though ineffectual, efforts made by the Hungarians to procure their _political emancipation, and to vindicate their outraged independence. An accurate report of the speeches delivered upon this occasion will be found in another portion of this evening's impression. It will there be observed how earnest are the feelings of our fellow countrymen in reference to the cause advocated by KOSSUTH and his compatriots. If anything had been required to testify the unselfish character of this sympathy from England towards Hungary, it would have been sufficiently perceptible in the circumstance of its surviving the discomfiture of the Magyars. Now that that unfortunate race has been conquered by the combination of brute force and treachery, the commiseration of Great Britain is clearly proved to be disinterested; for in sympathising with Hungary, subjugated by the treason of GEORGEY and the Austro Russian Coalition, we are holding out the hand of fellowship to a nation weakened to the extent of national paralysis. In defiance of the supremacy of the AUTOCRAT over Eastern Europe, in spite of the stern resumption of dominion by the KAISER, we find our hearts still yearning to the fallen and abandoned, the victim of an evil destiny —the last tremendous sacrifice offered up by the hands of a traitor on the ensanguined altar of despotism. Almost simultaneously with the publication of the particulars of this interesting demonstration at New castle, there has appeared in our own columns, and in those of our Contemporaries, the farewell speech addressed to the companions of his exile, at Widdin, by the lips of LOUIS KOSSUTH, once the glorious Libera tor and puissant Governor of Hungary. From that oration it will be observed, that even those patriots who have suffered the most terribly from the recent catas trophe on the banks of the Danube still remain san guine of the ultimate triumph of a cause which, for the time being, only appears to be vanquished. It will be recognized, from the tone and len guage of the great leader of the Hungarians, that he considers the freedom of himself and his brethren to be only for a time eclipsed, and not as for ever extinguished. A similar confidence in the ulterior suc cess of the Magyars is visible throughout the impas sioned harangue delivered by Lord DUDLEY STUART to the men of Newcastle and Gateshead. Nor can these inspiring anticipations be any subject of sur prise to those who have connedthe history of mankind aright. Even a superficial acquaintance with the records both of ancient and modern times is enough to assure us that tyranny cannot long tighten the reins of government over the necks of ten or twelve millions of men once nourished by the invigo rating aliments of liberty. By so much the heavier as bath been the blow stricken at those freemen, by so much the more terrible will be the pressure of their subse quent vengeance. Revolution is the recoil against Despotism—and that recoil is only the more inevitable in proportion to the weight of the stroke aimed against Freedom. Of this KOSSUTH, of this England, are alike satisfied in reference to the future condition of the Hungarians. Whether the time of the popular reaction will be sooner or later than is anticipated at the present moment, is wholly de pendent, under Divine PROVIDENCE, upon the turn of the affairs now transpiring at Constantinople. De layedbe for months, or even for years , but oe it i may in the end it assuredly will, and then woe be to such men as GEORGEY if they stand within the reach of an avenging people ! It were better for him if his brain had been pierced by bullets at the storming of Buda—if his breast had been pene trated by the lance of a Cossack in the valleys—or if his body had been devoured by vultures on the mountains. When KOSSUTH breathed his farewell words of encouragement to his companions at Widdin, it was on the occasion of the removal of the whole band of Hungarian emigrants from that fortress to Shumla—a spot whence on any emer gency they can readily, after an advance move ment, cross the Danube at Rustshuk. Aware of the generous line of conduct pursued by the young CALIPH SULTAN towards the unfortunate claimants of his hospitality, it is anything but a matter of surprise to us that a large hearted man such as the illustrious Governor of the Hungarians should allude to the proceedings of that chivalrous potentate in the language of gratitude and admiration. Ap pointed the military chieftain as well as the political leader of the band of exiled Magyars, the great KOSSUTH addressed to his followers those lofty words of hope, which are the sweetest boons of encourage ment to the victims of misfortune. While reminding them that provision had been nobly made for their more immediate necessities, by the transmission to his hands of 241,000 piastres, as a Bairam's present to the emigrants, KOSSUTH intimated to the copartners of his banishment, that their absence from the land of their net .v Lty would only be of temporary duration—the day ,)f retribution upon their adversa ries depending in some measure upon the will of FUAD EFFENDI,ttyen acting as Plenipotentiary Ex traordina'ry 0 St, Pete:s . burgh. Although we cans unhappily, ens tertain but feeble hopes of any such rapid realis atir: a of the golden dreams of patriotism, and althone, we cannot conceal from ourselves the 000 \letiur that those words were uttered by KOSSUTH ',simply as a m eans of affording some wholesome solace to ir.en in a state of profound dejection, there cr.l be no question but that matters are assuming a very serious and somewhat com plicated aspect when we find the representative of the Turkish SOVEREIGN speaking in terms of digni. fled and resolute remonstrance to the Russian Au - roca.AT, while a British fleet almost immediately I afterwards makes its appearance at ,the mouth of the Dardanelles. While such important events are transpiring simultaneously on the Baltic and the Mediterranean, there is surely ample ground for conjecture, and hence the sanguine expectations of the most renowned among the heroic emigrants from Hungary is to a very considerable extent justified. Knowing that occurrences such as those already mentioned are taking place on the European continent, the readers of the excellent speeches addressed to the inhabitants of Newcastle on the oc casion of the recent demor.stration will not fail to recognize that that assemblage assumes a character of real and engrossing interest. The meeting was not, as might have been otherwise argued by the more surly among the class of political curmudgeons, a meeting convened to express sympathy for exiled destitution or patriotic pauperism.; No ! :thanks he to the nobler sentiments of humanity, the little band of emigrants recently removed ; ,from Widdin to Shumla are, by contemporaryZoccur rences, invested with an importance in some measure commensurate with the grandeur accruing to them from their own bravery, civism, and self-sacrifice. Hence it is a subject worthy of observation and re tnembrance that the sympathies of England, so far from having in any degree diminished, have become enhanced and extended towards the upholders of the cause of the Magyars, the aspirants for the liberation of Hungary : and this we conceive was sufficiently apparent in the earnestness of the speeches delivered amidst acclamations at the recent meeting of the beral inhabitants of Newcastle. !rho cause of sanitary relorna is steadily progress ing, and thanks to the exertions of Mr. SiatoN, there is every probability that a really efficient Health Bill for the city of London will be introduced into Par- liament early in the next session, and be carried through without any very great opposition or delay. As was observed by Mr. Deputy PEACOCL, when speak ing of Mr. SIMON'S invaluable report at the City Court of Sewers on Tuesday— "lf a tithe of what was proposed in this report had been inserted in the Bill of last year, and pressed fur, the Bill would not have been passed. But a very dif ferent feeling now prevailed respecting sanitary matters .--(Hear)—and very likely the City might he able to get some further powers to enable them to carry out what might be practicable in the suggestions of this report." If the City Commission of Sewers does not possess sufficient powers to carry out the recommendations of that report, lot them lose no time in applying to Parliament for further powers, and having obtained those powers, let them forthwith proceed to exercise them, and to abate all the nuisances and to introduce all the improvements necessary to preserve the health of the inhabitants of the districts committed to their charge, or let them at once set their house in order. The public has beeu roused from its apathy by the visitation of the cholera, and the public has determined that drainage shall be rendered efficient, that the Thames shall be preserved from pollution, that in. tramural interments shall cease, that intramura slaughter-houses shall he abolished, that the dwellings of the poor shall be cleansed and ventilated; and the public cares not one jot or tittle at whose hands it receives these benefits, and will not be diverted by the cuckoo cry of centralization from insisting that these things shall be done by the general. Government if the local municipal bodies show themselves unable or unwilling to meet the emergency; as Mr. Deputy HARrtisolf warned them on Tuesday— " They ought nut to deceive themselves. The public required something to be done, and if the Corporation did not take a stop in advance in this direction, no doubt some other parties would be empowered to do so." The tone of the discussion which we have alluded to as having taken place on Tuesday, and which resulted in the reference . of Mr. SIMON'S report to a commit tee, was one on which we can congratulate all the advocates for sanitary reform. It is true the patrons of filth still ventured to urge some objections to the introduction of measures of cleanliness, but those ob. jections were urged " with bated breath and whis pering humbleness." Even Mr. 11. L. TAYLOR, who has hitherto been the great champion of the dirty interest, apologised for rather than defended the existence of Smithfield Market ; while Mr. Ilicxs contented himself with saying that if all slaughter houses within the City were abolished the City would frequently be left without animal food, a risk we should be very well content to run, so that we could thereby secure the abolition of intramural slaughter-houses. There were no laudations of the peculiar salubrity of Smithfield, neither were there any long arguments to prove that the slaughtering Of cattle in densely po pulated localities greatly improves the health of the inhabitants. It is clear that the conservators of filth feel that theirs is a lost case, and they now defend their rotten cause much after the same lugubrious and despairing fashion as the conservators of Toryism defended their rotten boroughs during the discussion of the Reform Bill. The suggestion of Mr. ELLIOT , with regard ,to Smithfied Market, is one well worthy of consideration, and would, if carried out, render the boast of Mr. DIXON, that Smithfield is one of the most salubrious spots in London, a reality instead of the self-evident absurdity which it is at present. Mr. ELLIOT Said— " Let them abolish that disgusting and immoral place Smithfield Market. Let them build a row of houses round the present site and call it 'the Working Mau's square,' Let them draught so many men into their new houses; and then in vacant spaces, from which the horrid courts and alleys that now existed had been cleared away, let them build another batch of properly lighted and ventilated houses. They had a space to Vgin with—Smithfield Market ; and they might go on till they had built a sufficient number of comfortable houses for the working men now employed in the City, whose numbers, though large, were yet small as com pared with the number employed in the suburbs." And taking skilful advantage of an assertion made by Mr. Alderman LAWRENCE, he added, " Mr. Alderman Lawrence had stated that there had been no cholera in the gaols. We should not have done our duty to the workman in the City till we had freed him from influences so pestiferous that we guarded the thief and the felon from them."—(Elear, hear.) What is the Christian name of Mr. Deputy LOTT ? It should be THOMAS, for man more hard of belief than Mr. Deputy LOTT never was born into this mortal world. VOLTAIRE himself was a credulous, superstitious, easily satisfied person, in comparison with ou r sceptical friend of t he Cit y Commission of Sewers. Listen to the words of the oracle, on the subject of intramural interments : " But the plan had been adopted of burying bodies within the city; and on his conscience he did not believe a single death had occurred in consequence." The worthy Deputy is certainly a perfectly unique LOTT, and possesses a singular conscience ; but even he does not venture to suggest a continuance of in tramural interments, and is forced to admit that the opinions of the present day are in favour of the in terment of the dead without the city. In order to keep the sewers free from accumulation, Mr. Deputy PEWTEESS suggested that water should be constantly running through them into the Thames, to which Mr. Alderman LAWRENCE objected that, in that case, they would have to drink the filth as it carne--a valid objection under existing circumstances, but one which would cease to be of any force if Some means were devised of deputrefying the sewage, and precipitating from it all solid matters, held either in solution or suspension, before it reached the mouth of the sewer through which, in that case, the deputrefied supernatant water would alone flow. When some such plan shall be adopted, then the suggestion of Mr. Deputy Pew- TRESS may be acted on with advantage, but not until then. We protest against the adoption of any plan which shall still further pollute the Thames. On reviewing the whole of this important discussion, we cannot but congratulate the public on the immense progress which the cause of sanitary reform has made among the municipal authorities of the city of London —a progress for which we are mainly, if not alto- gef bcr, indebted to the indefatigable exertions of Mr SLIoN, whose eloquent and convincing report will, to quote the words of Mr. Deputy HARRISON, " here aft,r be looked upon as an index to point out the course which their proceedings cught to take." TUE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. On Sunday M. PIERRE BONAPARTE fought a duel with M. Di LILVALETTE the responsible edit or o f th e Assemblee .Nationale, who had taken upon himself-the responsibility of a letter which had appeared in the columns of that journal, and which reflected in an insulting manner on the character of M. PIERRB BONAPARTE. The duel took place at St. Germains. The parties exchanged shots at twenty paces without effect, and the affair terminated by the interference of tht. seconds. The Moniteur publishes the law passed by the Le gislative Assembly extending the treaty concluded letween the Minister of Finance and the Bank of France on the 30th of June, 1848, for a loan of 150,000,000 f. The members of the Bonapartist club of the Beaux Acts have declared their object to be to am ist in securing harmony between the National Asseniloly Ind the PRESIDENT of the Republic on the ground of the Constitution. The proprietors of the Assemblee Nationale htEve, it is said, agreed, for a sum of 30,000 francs, that all articles on foreign politics which appear in that journal shall before publication be submitted to the approval of the Russian Embassy. M. FRANCISQ,IIR Bouvar, member of the Peace Congress, has given notice of a motion in the Assem bly for the reduction by one-half of the contingent o' 80,000 men demanded by the Government for 1850. A letter from Toulon of the 21st inst. states t hat orders had been dispatched to the Admiral command ing the French fleet at Orulac to return to Frauce. The fleet is consequently expected at Toulon by the end of the present month. The ITlOniteur Algcrien of the 20th publishes the following account from Zlatcha, contained in a letter from General HERBILLON, dated the 10th instant : " Colonel Canrobert arrived at Zaatcha on the IS th, without having hail any engagement. He had made a razzia on the flocks of the revolted tribes, which had enabled him to furnish the camp with a supply cf pro visions which was much wanted. The farce of Colonel Canrobert was immediately employed in assisting to in thr:place, which would:be completed by the 11th, on the arrival of reinforcements coming from Constantiee. More than one hundred men of the colonel's force had fallen victims to the cholera on their march from Animate to Zaatcha. The remainder of the troops under Gen. Herbillon were, up to the above date, exempt from. the disease. The siege works were advancing rapidly. The fire of the artillery made great ravages in the place, and the decisive moment for a general attack was fast approaching. The negotiations which had been opened with the nomade tribes had been purposely delayed by them, and General Herbillon, at length becoming tired of the delays, had driven out the emissaries from his camp, and was making preparations for attacking a number of Arab cavalry and infantry, which had assembled at a short distance from his camp, before making a general assault on Zaatcha. The attack on the place would probably be made on the 12th or 13th. The Arabs in Zaatcha appeared determined to sell their lives dearly; they were about 1,200 or 1,500 in number, entrenched in narrow streets, strongly barricaded, the houses all pierced with loopholes. General Herbillon was taking every precaution to lessen the effusion of the blood of his men in the attack on the town, which would take place by two or three moderate-sized breaches. The inhabit ants of Bon Cada had opened their gates to Colonel Daumas, had removed all the barricades, and given hostages for their future good conduct. The cholera had made great ravages in his column, having swept off more than 140 of his men. The cholera has generally de creased on the coast, but continues to rage very severely among the Arabs further in the interior." Yams, MONDAY, 5 P.M.—The Bourse was agitated to-day. After various fluctuations, however, the Five per Ct nts. closed at 89f. 90c., being a rise of 30 centime* as compared with the opening price. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 26. East Indian, 3 3 / 4 —Great Indian Peninsula, 54—Ditto, % Namur and Liege, 6 Northern of France, 2 3 / 4 die. Orleans and Bordeaux, 2X—Rouen and Havre, 9%-- Sznbre and Meuse, 1%. GERM A N Y AND rum NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. The rumour that the Austrians had protested against the assembling of the Diet, and had threat ened Prussia with war in case she should persevere is summoning the Central Diet to meet, is confirmad• The answer of Prussia was the publication, in the official Moniteur, of a decree for the convocation o f the Diet at Erferth, on the 31st January, and the sending a dispatch to Count BenitriaDOßFF, the Prus sian Minister at Vienna, with orders to read it to Prince SCHWARZENBURG, in which Prussia maintains I,er right to assemble the Diet; and with regard to the threat of an armed Austrian intervention, Prussia replies that she awaits it. The bully SCLIWARZSg . BURG will now be obliged to eat his leek w ith most Pistol-like humility, for the idea of Austria going to war with Prussia is absurd. Within six months of the commencement of war, Austria would cease t° exist; Franconia and the Palatinate would become pa rt , of the Prussian dominions, and Hungaryand Italy wou ld be free; it would be well for the interests of freedota that Prince SCUWARZENBERG should put his threats into execution. HANOVER. HANOVER, NOT. 21.—1 n the sitting of the Se' cond Chamber this day the project of law was passed for the establishment of courts for trial by jury. M. VON SCRLACTBR proposed, as an a mend:: ment, that the Government be empowered to p u blis° the project as it now stands, and to consider it 0 legal ad interim. In reference to the form of oath t" be administered to the jury, according to the formu l a hid down by the fundamental law, the MinistersV° l( Duairia and STRUNI said that the Government in' tended to lay before the Chambers a special law o n tb' form of oath. The Chambers must therefore prepared to apply the form of oath prescribed for o' laws to that under deliberation. The project for an extraordinary war tax vras resa for the first time, amidst the opposition of M. Lati a l and several members of the Left. The project, as vie' as the document respecting the wants of the strait were ordered to be submitted to the Finance CO' mittee. The project of law presented by Government 0! the extended organization of the popular scholastl" system was referred to the Committee. In the sitting of the First Chamber, held this dot; the discussion was continued on the decision i n tl , Second Chamber on an amnesty for political offeec% On the names being called over the decision of Second Chamber was rejected by 36 against 2 0. Hanover Gazette. DENMARK. Count MOLTKE has been dispatched by the L ut e of Denmark to Vi enna . P russ i a w ill no t ce de to t,P h interim Central Power th e nego ti a tio n s of pence W lt Denmark. TURKEY. The Presse of Vienna publishes a letter from C ori e : stantinople of the 10th, which says that in cons • (pence of the intervention of France and theEng lapa new dispute has broken out between Russia and te Porte. The Porte demands not only the itrunott eva cuation of the Danubian provinces by Rusais, v-01 also the suppression, after a certain limited period• - i 0 the peculiar privileges granted to Russian subjects those provinces. , wt The Lloyd has letters from Semlin of the the inst., stating that the Russian C a binet has asked 'ill Porte to resign the annual tribute of 52,000 da c ha which Servia has begin compelled to pay to SULTAN, to confine the domiciles of the Turil, o o Servia to fortified places, and to restrain thein",, r ti sitttling in open towns. It is stated that the i•v i oll has consented to these conditions, under which it ot be allowed to continue in the nominal sovereignty ° Servia. RUSSIA. tot' Advices from St. Petersburgh of the 16th ie s t.,•. s o c o that the division of the Russian army under Pr the DoLooßuxl succeeded in storming and sacki e g S te Circassian fortress of Tahoek. The Circassitif i s t he stated to have lost as many as 3,000 men, wh' s loss of the Russians is quoted at 40. CABIN/IT COUNCIL...—(THIS DAT. )—The blio stiq assembled in Council this afternoon, at two o'cl°':,o o ' the Foreign. office : there were present the bl 2 , ll ,jole' Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, the Earl of Li . ,-.)00 1 the Earl of Minto, Viscount Palmerston, the hp C' cellor of the Exchequer, Lord Campbell, Sir 4°," llobhouse, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Grey, St t vie re Grey, and Sir Francis T. Baring. The in deliberation when we went to press. Th e 4 Premier will leave town after the Couucl Pembroke Lodge. to o t; W I THDRAWAL OF SIR W. PARSER'S SCt rj*- yOr" FROM THE DARDANELLES.—Orders have bee n u o rt" ,att to Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, vitteet G.C.8., to retire from the Dardanelles with the under his command, and to proceed to Malta', raufi. Peevish contradiction about trifles is infinitl ero 0 v. xatious them a generous opposition where lea' importance are involved.—Eliza Cook's Journal. d c o til ° At a meeting of the British American L 512,... yof, puny yesterday, a proposal for assist in g thy o f 0: 4 rence at,d Atlantic Railway Company by we a° on ye was broug su ht _ o f ber.tures to the extent of 25,0 00 / c"nsideration and discussed, but before thedo proceeding a ballot was demanded. ~L