The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-01 00:00:00

MEETING AT LEEDS.

A meeting of sympathy with the Hungarians was held in
the Court•hutue at Leeds on Monday evening. In the
absence of the mayor, Mr. Alderman RICHARDSON WAS
called upon to preside. The chairman having stated the ob-
ject of the meeting, and esproreed a strong opinion in favour
of the Hungarian cause,
Mr. THOMAS Purer moved the first resolution.
" That this meeting admires, respects, and sympathises
with the Hungarian nation, in their noble endeavours to
maintain inviolate their jest rights, and the constitutional
independence they have inherited from their fathers, against
the tyrannical encroachments of Austrian deep AWE.'
The hon. gentleman observed, in the course of his speech,
that he wanted this country to maintain its present inflames
by nonintervention. But the tendency of the present uni-
versal application of the sword on the continent was what the
Daily News had pointed out—it was to give a military cha-
racter to the whole continent of Europe.
Mr. Councillor NswroN seconded the resolution, which
was carried un,nimously.
The following resolutions were also proposed and adopted:
o That this meeting views with abhorrence the atrocities
committed by the Austrian authorities in Hungary, and re-
garde the intervention of Russia as a violation of the law of
nations, and dung eons to the peace, the freedom, and the
general welfare of Europe.
" That this meeting entreat the houses of parliament to
take steps to secure the immediate recognition, de facto, of
Hungary; es, in their judgment, it is no less demanded by
considerations of justice and policy, and the commercial in-
terests of the two states, than with a view of putting a stop
to the effusion of human blood, and of the fearful atrocities
which mark the prosier of the Austro•Rnesian armies."
A petition to both houses of parliament was then adopted,
and also a memorial the Queen, praying her Majesty to inter-
fere on behalf of the Hungarians.
A resolution was proposed that Lord Beaumont should be
requested to present the petition to the Lords ; R. Cobden,
Esq. that to the Commons; and Lord Yslmenton the memo-
rial to her Majesty.
A committee was formed for the purpose of raising tub-
teriptiout for the Hungarians, in connection with the Lon-
don committee ; and after three cheers for the Hungarians
the meeting separated.

SELF-DESTRUCTION_ BY A MILITARY

OFFICER.

An inquiry was held on Saturday, at the Bee Hive
Inn, Cheltenham, to ascertain the eireutostanees which led
to the death of Captain Robert John Colville, assistant cam-
missary-general, and residing at Paragon-terrace, who was
found with his throat cut, in a closet on his own premises,
in the afternoon of Friday. The deceased had attained the
advanced age of 70, and was generally cheerful in his dispo-
sition, until about three weeks since, when a change be-
came evident in his manner ; he began to talk to himself,
and to manifest other symptoms of a deranged intellect. On
Friday Miss Johnson, a distant relation, who resided with
him, went to church, and during her absence he walked
about in different parts et the house ; but, on the return of
the lady, he was found in the water-closet, weltering in
blood, which issued from a wound inflicted in the throat.
He was not suite dead, but life departed in a shirt time
after. The following evidence was given:
The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased
destroyed himself while suffering from temporary insanity.
—Cheltenham Journal.

READING ELECTION.—Mr. Gardner has retired
from the contest. In his parting address, issued yesterday
morning, he states that Mr. Bowyer's second address put
forth, containing statements with respect to public quer-
tient which are at least intelligible, though by no means so
advanced as his own, enables him, unwilling as he 'is un-
necessarily to divide the liberal interest, to withdriw his
claims upon the constituency of Reading, and to decline a
contest which he should have hesitated to engage in if Mr.
Bowyer's first announcement had been equally explicit. Mr.
Griffiths has aho withdrawn. The only candidates now in
the field are, Mr. Stanford on the conservative interest, and
Mr. Bowyer and Sir John Rare on the liberal interest
Proclamation wu made
_yesterday morning by the mayor
and returning officer, and the nomination is fixed to take
place on Monday next, and the election on Tandy.