The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-22 00:00:00

AMERICA.
yeacedav afternoon, at haltpast two o'clock. the
I 0,.,1 States mail stn-am ship l'acitle, Captain Nye,
td in the Nlersey from New York. The Pacific
im
prised
fm New York at half past twelve o'clock on
ixt , loth instant, and brings 39 peasengers and
4o.ossi dollars in specie on freight.
On :he day of the departure of the Pacific., a tele-
tine communication waa received in New York
s. Phil idelphia, announcing the safe arrival on the
oval •
al iv at the latter place of the screw steamer
lis ot Pittsburg. after a psialage of 40 days from
0, Tol,
hie royal mail stenm ship Cambria arrived at
Boston to the Nth instant at 1 p.m.
Ibe principal and most interesting intelligence by
this arrival is the eotiversational banquet given to
N,..uth at Wmaiington. on Wednesday, the ith inst.,
at Mc National Motel. About MO persons were
unwit •
t The Ilan. W. 11. King, President of the
if, supported by Kossuth, and Speaker
• .qi IO• ri:glit. and the 1100. I hiniel Webster on
Sci end distinguished individuals occupied
srats near the chair.
fin brat tiviat sae "The President of the United
at." to which Mr. Webster responded. Ile said:
lam h, r.- taniaht, Me. President, with other heal. of
.T.artauut• 11, long to the ea, cutive administration of
Iram at. and oho are the enutidt ntial councillors
, l'usolcsit. I fiat• in their behalf so well us my own,
j•. 1. r the company our th inks for the manner in
• ::0 nt ha. lawn rev lied by the meeting here
to assure you. air. and all present, that in
g0..4 sobs tow.iras the guests of the
• d is Alt...b.:aria t.• the great principles of political
~applatis. 1, mid national indriatolcuce—(applau...)
so man win, p atal.rs in a higher dearce than the
of the United saes, In the 'Kuala feelings of
'his sot toonaunity. (Applause )
Mr. king. in giving the timid of the evening. said :
•,••• to which etsry it avnns. American would cots
aa-,a meat& lie. in Common vi Oh stem, while the
struggle was going on, rajoicril in her
arta mourned lor temporary defeat.. We honour...l those
• •s azalea, aril we, prepared to sai rilise all to obtain'
l`s eves Wc lol!oirral our illustrious guest in his !poure-
r-, rsi;e, were the tint to till on him to return, and were
the 1.4 that et re Toady to receive him with malt arms to
the la, lof lib. eta and of hospitality. The toast I give to
you a this u.presented in the p coin of our
isa mud amat, mina proved herselt worthy to be free
to the virtue and valour fit her son.. the law of nations, and
tic dictates of justitv, alike demand that she shall have fair
in her struaale for nubile. sidence." (Euthusiastic
sheerina
In n ply Kossuth made a long speech, which he
thus commenced :
A. on,• l'jnto. the Epirote, stood among the sanators
Nom., ale., with an earnest word of self-conscious
few. •!,...,tergo:1“1 the condition of the world, and arrested
mate} 41114* in their m welt. thus. lull of admiration and
annum.... I state' betore you. Legislatun• of the new
~paa that glorious hail of your people's collective
mak stn. The tapitol of old yet stands, hut the spirit has
from it and came tour to yours, purified by the
.‘t rty. The old stands, a mournful monument of
the traalay of human things—y oars an a sanctuary of
tad r.;hts. The beamed with the red !ware of cons
sma, now darkened by opprtasion's gloomy night—yours
a-t. with fr.. dons's bright ray. Ihe old absorbed the
moral hr it. own ta utralised glory --your. protects your own
scion i•atinst aloorption lien by itself. The old was awful
web im,trictrd power—yours is glorious with having
T•!11.1.41 it. At the view of the old, nations
▪ hi itcw .4 Yours, humanity hops. To the old, saisfor-
a,- ws. only cotrodusid with fettered hands to kneel at
trim:shod 101 Fo r,r's heel.—to yours, the triumph of
shteti.4l is drpt!..l to unfortunate oaths, invited the
I.a nit of a wo, and where king. and l'irsers never are
Or their pow. ra. might, and wealth, there the per-
% .ut.d chit ( of it down-troadca nation is welcomed as your
ere r. puhlic's Cu, st. pen ciariy b cume he is persecuted,
eat por. In the old, the terrible vevictis was the
fa,: sin yours, protection to the oppressed, malediction to
=sow s. and conslat.on to the vanquished in
sjast .lust while out of the old a conquered world
• riled. you its yours provide for the common cotthdera•
tar later et. of a tirntory larger than the conquered
w .s:3 of the il 1. Thum sat man boosting their will to be
tb sovereign of the world—here sit men whose glory is to
ict,t,,:•ll:, the law of nature anti of nature's Om!, and to
what their sovereign, the people, wills. Sir, there
o hat. ry in them parallels. History of past ages,
• hatory of future centuries, may be often
r • -n1 din tvw words. The small particulars to which the
yoaon of heist men cling• with fervent sal, as if the
atm.:a of nu-n could arrest the rotation of destiny's
tits I—there particulars die away. It is the issue which
history, and that issue is always logical. There is a
a • aity of coeseqsenees wherever the fleet oity of position
• ..••• • Priaeiples are the Alpha; they must finish with
1.1.: o. and they will. Thus history say be toll often is
k• • Ids. Before the heroic struggles of Greece first
0‘.:,.; your country's sympathy for the fate of freedom
'as ir ,`c--then so far 'distant, now so near—Chateaus
►reseed herpeneel to he in Athens, sail tic heard from a
s.: tut raised upon the I'mpylrenua ruin., • Turkish
ar.,o. in Arabic language, annolancing the lava• of hours
t. the Christian• of alincreastown. What immense history
lath. ..1 tart of • Turkish Imam crying out, "Pray,
sac, tin hat it running fast, and theludgment draws
bat SW, there is 110+1 history of future ages
tutus in the honour bestow. by you to my bumble self.
The first gm. roar of independent Hungary, driven from
lho none Leal by Russian tailrace, an exile on Turkish
Si, proteet.al by* Mahomsnedan Sultan against the bloods
th.nt •ftbri-tiat, tyrants' cast hack • prisoner to far Asia
lrt diphira from his Asiatic prison by America,
crai-ina the Atl into. charged with the hopes of Europe's
CT mations. pleading, a poor c rile, before the people
at rrpul•lic, Ins down-trodden country's wrongs,
• t its iitinsate connealas with the fate Of the European
ht. and with the boldness of • just cause, claiming
Pr priariphs of the Christian religion to be raised to a
• fit names. and to see not only the boldness of the poor
t. !--rair,n. hut to see him consoled by the sympathy of
fa ...--aa a acouraired by individuals, mmeiationa, meetings,
an! -Una, supported by operative aid, and arectial
toy t -flare« and by the government as the nation's guest,
t ...at of generosity with that honour which only
(4. run le fore him received—and that man received
it of gratitude—with honours such a. no potentate
ri.r aft anti this banquet here, WWI the toast
• eels I hair to thank for; oh, indeed, sir, there it • his.
t -r! of haw- ages in all these facts."

li.4o•lth then glanced at the fate of Ilangary,
vol a tribute to the greatness of the United States
%aped by union, and touched upon the principle
ut :I,m-intervention :

W. hare no fair play (be said); the Cossack already
re:.. by Louis Napoleon's usurpation, to the very borders
et th. Atlarthe ocean. One of your great statesmen—sow,
to my 'bee sorrow, bound to the sick bed of far advanced
51. -a: u' that I am deprived of the advice which his win.
cam e,teel hare imparted to me—your great statesman told
C. world do years ago that Paris was transferred to St.
T. I. reliant. What would he now say, when St. I'eterburg
o .reasferred to Paris, and Europe is but an appendix to
S.a..s" Alas' Europe can no more secure to Europe fair
p:sy Albion only remains ; but even Albion tuts • Nor.
rueful cleave over the waves. Still we will stand
an our place—sink or swim, live or die. Yon
kriow the word. It is your own. We will follow it.
It will he a bloody path to tread. Despots have eon.
pond against the world. Tenor spreads over Europe, and
anticipating per.. ution rules from Paris to Penh. There
I, 4 elootsy silent. , like the silence of nature before the
tenets of a hurricane. It is • sensible silence, only dis-
ter.ed by the thousand fold rattling of the muskets by
which N4p.1.4,0, mist.lers that people which gave him •
"ni. who n he was an exile, and by the groans of new mar-
ter. in !se ily, Milan, Vienna, and l'esth. The very rympa-
Dv which I met with in England, and was expected to meet
lei., throw• my sinter. into the dungeons of Austria.
W.ll, fears will he done. The heart may break, but duty
eel he done. We will stand in our place, though to se in
tiv,pe there be an fair play. But so much I hope, that no
;ist man on earth can charge me with unbecoming arro-
gant., when here, on this ,oil of freedom, I kneel down
led raise my prayer to Gutl—" Almighty Father of home-
Ley, will thy merciful arm not raise • power on earth to
preteet the law of nations, when there are so mane to
"Late it'" It i. • prayer, and nothing else. What
*'QM f.llllllill to the oppressed if they were not per-
mitt'd to pray' The rest is in the hand of (iod. Gentle-
s.% I know where I stand. No honour, no encouraging
r. al Maity, will make me ever forget where I stand, and
what is due from me to you. Here my duty is silently to
lout what you or your wisdom will be pleased to pro-
-30,,n,'" about that which public opinion knows to be my
toyer and my aim, and be it your will to pronounce, or he
s your will not to eke notice of it, I will understand your
will, and how before it with devotion, hopelne, PerbaPs.
Lot my bean full of admiration, love, end gratitude to your
aseereus peeph., to your glorious land. But one single word
earn hire, I may he permitted to gay, only such • word as
ft) erui• me from bring misunderstood. I came to the n0....aund..1
....aund..1 pi "pie of the United States to obtain its generous
tie wive sympathy for the impending struggle of 09Pflooed
fro • doin en th. European continent, and I freely interpreted
the hop. . mid wiehes which these oppressed nations enter-
tain; but as to your great republic, ae • state ea a power on
earth, I Mand before the statesmen, senators, and legislators
of that repuldie, only to ascertain from their wisdom and
oP-ri. nee what is their julleoni ot upon a question of nip
bon il law and international right. I hoped and now hope
th..,. they will, by the fentexling events on the other great
t '''tioent, Del induced to pronounce in time their vote
~alit that law and those rights, and I hoped and hope that
penottheing their vote it will be in favour of the
Le,aci principles of international justice, and consonant
'Mt their republicans institutions and their democratic
LI. That is all I know end Europe knows ; the immense
in '4l't 41 'meh • pronunciation from such • place. Hot
Levi r had I the impious wish to try to entangle this great
." Pohl', into dieleulties inconsistent with its own welfare,
iit. ..wit enurity, it. own interest. I rather repeatedly and
am. stly .hvien.d that • war on this account by your
Matey is utterly iailYlabilde, and a mere phantom. I rawly,
l ..1 on .1 that the United State, (remained masters of their
,"''.n.. and under every circumstance will act as they judge
-,steat with the supreme duties to themselves. But I
' . 411,1 il ty, that such a 'Declaring of just principles would
',.....re te the nation, of Europe (air play la au: struggk