The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1851.

Hungary, which bears a double cross on her banners, has
never endured that the court of Rome should in-
terfere with the liberty of the Hungarian peo-
ple." So anxious were the Hungarians in former times
to secure their independence. And when the Emperor
of Russia had succeeded in crushing Hungary, one of
the first things that he did was to give the of
Rome full power to feed on Hungary—(hear, hear) ; and
with this ho united the destruction of the autonomy of
the protestant church. (Hear, hear.) Now, gentlemen,
these are the thing+ which have caned so great an agita-
tion in this land. Jesuitism was established by the satel•
lite of the House of Austria; and even in that respect I
sin entitled to say that the principle of every evil La
Europe is the despotic and encroaching spirit of Runes,
upon which leans every man who will do that which
is wrung to the many. You know, gentlemen,
that that is the power which England meets at
the Bosphorus, at the Nile, and all over Europe. This
identity of the interests of England with the interests of
' the freedom of Europe makes me hope that the generous
sympathy which we meet with here will not remain an
empty sound—(hear, hear) —that it will not remain with-
out some practical results to my poor country and to hu-
manity. (Much cheering.) There it my confidence, tor
hope. (Rear, how.) No party in England, 1 believe, will
deny that the armed interference of Russia in Hungarem
'Tins has increased beyond measure the preponder-
aunt of Russia on the European centinent. (Hear,
hear.) Russia having violated the independence of
nations, and taken upon herself to dispose of their
domestic councils, it can scarcely be denied that so long as
Hungary is net restored to its liberty and helependence,
the preponderance of Russia in Europe will not only not
retire, not only not subside, but will increase. (Hear, bear.)
And what I request in tee name of my poor country, and
in the interest of all the oppressed nations in Europe. isnot
that Eugiatod may draw its sword for the restoration of
Hungary! Gentlemen all, I humhly request, w sh, and
hope, is that England may nut abandon that right
which in Europe is due to her (hear, hear)
that England miy not give a charter to the Czar
to dispose of the destiny of Europe. (near, bear.)
Public opinion in Eugland can make it a living principle in
acknowledging the natural right of every nation to dispose
of itself—not to allow the CAA(' to interfere with the do-
magic concerue of whatever nation in Europe. (Hear,
bear.) People of the mighty Albion, that is all—there is
nothing else that oppressed 1'1'111.1414y expects, entreats, and
Lows for. As to the rest, leave it to the station+ of
Europe. (Cheers.) Austria—but no, not Austria—l love,
I esteem the people of Austria as my own brethren.
(Cheers.) I feel their sufferings as hearty as the sufferings
of my own people ; I have wishes and hopes fur
the people of Austria as fervent as for my own
people. (Cheers. 1 have a right to say this. My life is
an open book. (Cheers.) It is history which will pro-
noun, C its judgment upon me, and Heither Austrian hire-
lings, nor party spirit, nor blind passion, nor those hose ;lad
absurd C3II.IIIIIIiCS which, in my position, could not fail to
he launched at nie though I ant almost surprised to see
those calumnies find their way into certain places, in which
I should not have expected to see them. (Hear, hear.) It
may be that relying on the fact, that my people is a moral
people—a people which never, never can he charged
with having given it+ confidence or its love to a
man who was lout an honest man—it may he that, re-
lying upon the testimony of my people, I shall not consider
these cllumniea. It may be that I. shall entreat the protec-
Hull of the low of England. (Loud elite rs.) I will consider
the matter so soon as my duties to my fatherland shall
leave nie a single in 1111 l ent to sacrifice to myself. Still I
must say that I sincerity regret to see that these calumnies
have spread in England, nut for my uwn self, because I
believe they can but enhance the generous affection of gene-
rous men, it baring natural to generous men to feel
indignation at such calumnies; but 1 regret this, because it
is no pleasing prospect fur our humanity to see our fellow-
i creatures delighting in such matters. /tut still it is history
which will pronounce its verdict on my public life.
(" Hear, Lear," and cheers.) Humble as I am, I have had
a public life, and perhaps I may nave one yet. (Loud
cheers.) In respect to Austria, I hail a right to say what
I did, because I can declare that the people of Austria have
never had, and have not now, a more faithful frit nd than
myself. It is, therefore, not in respect to the people of
Austria, but in relation to the house of Hapsburg, that I
was going to say • few words. And all 1 ant willing to
say is this, that the boo-c of Ilepsburg, because of its
perjury, because it has violated eve:), right of every one of
its mittens is doomed to destruction. (Cheers.) There is
a God in heaven, and there must be justice on earth.
(Cheers) The house of Hapsburg haring forfeited even
the possibility of the love of its nations, has no
more basis fur its existence. (Hear, hour.) Bayonets
are no basis, because the soldier always belongs to the
people. The soldier also thinks. There is a great example
of this in the past struggles of Hung icy, and there will be,
if God grants it, another. Every citizen of Ilungary was and
may be—he will le--a soldier, and every soldier is a true citi-
zen. From soldiers belouging to England I have heard the
most generous SCllliinotts; this was the case at Gibraltar; and
therefore 1 say that bayonets alone are no basis for the ex-
' istence of despotic lower. On what basis, then, rests
Austria? On nothing else than her being an obedient sa-
' tellite. ("Hear. hear," and cheers.) But while the
house of Austria cannot have a future, Hungaryy has
a future. (Loud cheers.) It ha; a future because it de-
serves to live; it his a future because it has vitality;
it has a future because its independence is necessary
to the liberty of Europe. (Great cheering.) Gentlemen,
to me every oceasioin is in the highest degree valuable when
my feeble words--not the flower of eloquence, you sec I
desigaeilly employ no eloquence, but rely 011 plain and
;amok statement SS the means ;of convincing a logical un-
derstanding —to Inc every moment is valuable which en-
ables me to discourse to you of the affairs of my poor native
land; but I suffer here [putting his hand to his chest) and
am not capable of speaking very lung without suffering some
evil consequences; and, therefore, I beg leave to ask
you to charge your glasses. It is to the future of my coun-
try, for which I hope that I devote the activity of my lite,
that activity which is regained by my liberation (ruin the
bondage of Rut:vela This liberatioe is doe, in the first
place, to the noble Stntiments of the Sultan, who, from the
legi g, in spite of all the menacing threat, of Russia
and Austria, preserved and protected my life and the life of
my associates. For a time yielding to the pressure cf cir-
cumstances, he surrounded his hospitality with the mope:tr-
am of detention; and at last, raising himself by his own
noble inspirations, and by his reelect for the rights
of huinauit)•, he restored me in the most dignified
manner to liberty. (Cheers.) If I were to live a thou-
sand years, I could never forget any wrong dune to my
people—to my country; but as to my own self, it is part of
my nature that I du not like to look to the past for griefs,
but only for instruction for the future ; and partly on this
account, partly, because I 1141/0 the knowledge of the eon•
yi,etion that the people of Turkey has a vitality yet, he.
cause I have the conviction that tie future of the Turkish
empire, is in no contradiction whatever to any political
interest in Europe, but rather in very ;strong and intimate
connection with the interests of come nations, especially
with the interests of England, and the interests of Hungary ;
it is by these considerations that I am led to declare that
'turkey will ever find in Inc a faithful friend. But while
acknowledging the conduct of the Sultan, I must also re-
turn my most heartfelt thanks for the magnanimous inter-
ference of the governments of Great Britain and the United
States in so high and generous a manner, supported by the
public opinion of the people of both countries, and even
sanctioned by the Congress of the United States. It is,
therefore, in somewhat broken strains, owing to the state of
my chest. but with the deepest feelings of a grateful heart,
that I propose the toast, ' England, Turkey, and the
United States." (Loud cheering.)
Col. T. B. LAWRENCE responded to the toast, and
after a few remarks, said in conclusion, let me
assure your illustrious guest of the warm and fer-
vent welcome he will meet with in the United
States, front Maine to Texas, from the Atlantic to
the Mississippi. But, sir, I will not detain you longer, but
offer the following sentiment: " May the star of freedom
iu Hungary, though now dim, yet culminate and shine in
the zenith; and may the Hungariens as a people be yet re-
united in the land of their fathers." (Hear, hear.)
Lord D. STUART said ha had not words to express the
feelings under which he rose on the present occasion, but
those were feelings common to every one who wished well
,to freedom over the world. (Hess, hear.) The toast
to which, in common with the hon. gentleman who had
jut sat down, he was called upon to respond, was one of
sleep importance, hut yet he felt proud of the occasion on
which he was culled upon to respond to it. The toast was,
England, the United States, and Turkey ;" and what
a noble thing it was to see two free countries of
the Saxon race, and one in the east which if
not free deserved to be so, joining in a deed which
would render them all famous in future history. To think
of their having been brought together in such noose alliance,
not by their material interests, but for the advocacy of a
great principle, the principle of the independence of na-
tions. (Cheers.) But be was wrong, it was for the material
interests of a nation to advocate and maintain sound prin-
ciples.
(Hear, hear.) Their distinguished guest who had
that day. delighted them had shown them that free trade
was intimately bound up with the interests of liberty.
Their illustrious friend gave all honour to the Sultan
of Turkey fur his magnanimity in raving him from a
lingering death in a dungeon, or by the hands of
an Austrian or Russian assassin. He gave all honour to the
Sultan of Turkey, but it should be remembered that with- - - - - -
out the remonstrance of our foreign minister speaking the AMERICAN SELF-PRIMING Gium.—A self-priming
will of a noble people the Sultan would hardly have yen- musket, invented by Dr. Maynard of Philadelphia,
Lured to act in defiance of two of the most powerful promises to effect as great a revolution in priming fire-
empires in the world It was England and the arms, as " Colt's resolver," in loading and firing. The
United States which, by uniting together, had procured fulminating powder, instead of being inserted into copper
the liberty of the Hungarians, and he trusted caps, is made up in small flattened pellets, and inclosed
that they would always act together in causes equally between two strips of paper pasted together; each deton-
holy. (Hear, hear.) W hen bespoke of these three nations, sting pellet being separated front the other by about the
and the hopes he entertained of their union, there were eighth of an inch. These detonators in their'paper sheaths
other nations as well as Hungary to which the alliance resemble in form an elongated flattened seed-pod, a quarter
might be an advantage. There was one in which he had of an inch broad. The strip is coiled up and placed in a
long taken a deep interest—he meant Poland— small circular chamber in front of the lock, where it is kept
(cheers)—to which such alliance would be an augury rosily for use. One end of the strip passes between a spring,
of hope. (Hear, hear.) The cause of Hungary and and as the lock is put on full cock, the spring is partially
Polandnre intimately connected. (M. Kossuth," They are. ') released, and one of the detonating pods is protruded on to
Ile trusted that the sympathy now so generally expressed the nipple of the gun. When the trigger is pulled, and
fur the cause of Hungary would not be lost on our own the lock descends, a sharp edge cuts off the pod from the
government, but that, in any future crisis of Hungary the continuous strip the instant before explosion, so as to in-
government woual demonstrate that they had not seen iodate the detonating priming' in the chamber from the fire.
these things in vain, anti by their actions prove them- patent Journal.
selves the true exponents of the will of the British nation. THE ORLEANS FAMILT--Seveml packages have
The Rev. Mr. WYLD proposed "The constitutional go- recently arrived in this country from France belonging to
vernments of England and the United States." He said he her Majesty Merle Amclie, the ex-Queen of the French,
appeared there us a minister of religion, and on that ground the whole being restored property belongiug to the es-
he would take his stand. His religion taught him to wet- Queen, and which have been forwarded to this country by
come all that were oppressul, and to show sympathy far order of the government of the French Republic. The re-
those who suffered fur a righteous cause. (Cheers.) The ' stored property beloreing to the exiles at Clnremont have
misfortune of Hungary was that she was not sufficiently by special permission been forwarded direct to their desti-
known at the time of her recent struggle. (Hear, bear.) ' nation one:rival in this country.

But the day was put when England could feel indifferent.
The tout having been cordially drunk,
The lion. Mr. WALKER, U.S., responded. He said
he rejoiced in the privilege of speaking in the town of
Southampton, endeared, u it was, to Americans by its
reception of Kossuth. As an American he felt no mist.-
yable jealousy that Kossuth hail first landed on British
aril, nor would slay such jealousy be entertained by his
countrymen. That was due to a country which
had exerted itself so much for his liberation.
As to the welcome which awaited Kossuth in Ame-
rica, he believed it would be a welcome from every
heart and every lip ; welcome would beam from every eye.
(Cheers) They would take him to their hearts, and gave
him such a welcome as had never before been
extended to any one except their illustrious benefactor
Lafayette. (Cheers.) His reception would he even more'
tender. This illustrious 111:111 came to them as an exile ;
he came to them as a man who, for the present, had been
struck down in the cause of liberty. Like Lafayette he hail
been in Austrian dungeons, and like Lafayette he had
suffered for liberty. Every party would strive to do honour
to a man who had done more, they believed, for the cause
of liberty than any other mall of the present century. Ile
would conclude by proposiur the following sentiment—
" Louis Kossuth, without wealth or office, but more feared
by the despots of the world than an army with banners."
The sentiment was enthusiastically responded to.
Mr. GILPIN I,W to propose "Municipal Institutions,
the bulwarks of national Independence."
The feast was 11,111111ded to by
Mr. FALVEY, who sou,tlit for en argument in favour
of municipal institutions, in the admirable and patriotic
conduct of the Mayor of Southampton.
Mr. PULSZK I propos,' the "Mayor and Corporation of
Southampton ." upon which
H. KOSSU fII rime sand said that the Mayor was li eked
to his heart through the kindness IF: had shown hint, and
would dwell in the hearts of his children's children.

The MAYOR, on ri,iint to return th inks, said that, in
welcoming Kossuth, he had merely done his duty, and that
he had been amply rewarded for what he had done iu the
pleasure that he had enjoyed that evening.
Mr. WILCOX then proposed the following toast, "A
closer union between Ow nations that have inherited the
traditions and practices of free institutions."
M. PCLB7.IiI r,rponded to the toast. Ile declared that
liberty was n aural, and the orieinal blessing of mankind;
slid that devotisin was an innovation. England and
America were now united by a community of interests
let the two nations he united by a community of princi-
ples. He prophccicd the rapid progress of liberty in
Europe.

Mr. FAY NF (the nigh Sheriff of Southampton) proposod
The Corporation of London and the municipal institutions
of Ragland " in a humorous speech.
Mr. Alderman WIRE, of Loudon, said that municipal
institutions were, in the I inguige of the markets, looking
up. They had in forinsr times resisted the incursions of
the nobles on the liberty of the subject, and had been the
nurseries of freedom. Ile looked upon Louis Kossuth as
the hero of municipalities. That illustrious man had
nut planned revolts:ion, but had striven against it;
he denounced the victors in the Ilung:irian struggle, whii
had out won by bravery, but by treachery. Ile thanked
the Mayor and corporation for inviting hits, to South-
ampton, thus enabling him to enjoy the high gratification
of :disking by the hand and looking on the countenance of
the illustrious Kossuth. _ _ _

Captain MANGLES proposed "The Press." Ile said
that lie hail come all the way from Loudon to be
present that evening. lie culogi.id the prow Inc the en-
terprise with which it was conducted.
A GENTLEMAN front the luead pruk; replied to the toast.
I'. L. lIARMAN, proposed the borough magis-
trate .

()LODGE LAISIILEV, one of the magistrates, replied.
The MAYOIt then proposed the health of the town
clerk, and that gentleman returned thanks.
Mr. Alderman TALK proposed "Thu Ladies," which
was duly responded to.
After one o'clock Kossuth took an affectionate leave of
the mayor; and, 4A:onm:titled by the American Consul,
Lord Dudley Stuart, and a number of distinguished Itun
garians, proceeded to the railway station, and telt South-
ampton immediately fur London by the mail train. Nut-
withstanding the lateness of the hour, and the torrents of
rain that were pouring down when he left the hanquetting-
hall, a crowd of persons were in the street to cheer him.

BlitutstatAm.—M. Kossuth having intimated his
purpose, not to accept invitations to visit particular localities,
unless the same proceed from corporations or other govern-
ing authorities, a requi.ition, signed by the necessary num
her of aldermen and town councillors, was last evening
presented to the Mayor of Birmingham, requesting his
worship to call a meeting of the council to consider the
propriety of inviting Kossuth to n public banquet during
his present stay in Eu•tlund. Mr. Charles Mite, Brace-
hrblge, and other gentlemen of influence in the district,
have intimated their desire to bo present.

ANOTHER CONTRAST.
THE " TIMES" OF 1819 v. TILE "TIMES" OF 18.11.

TO THE EDITOR OP TIIR DAILY NEWS.

Sttt,—The Tames of this morning has the follow-
ing :
It is a favourite fi4ure of speech with the Magyar party
to talk of their constitution of 800 years' standing. • •
It is a morcdrous absurdity to talk of a emcditutional
monarchy of 800 years' standing, when the country was
practically governed for the greater part of three centuries
by Turkish despotism.

It may be an absurdity, but if so, it 113 one the
Times —and this very writer in the Times—taught its
readers two years ogo, for ou the sth of May, 1849,
it spoke thus:

It is impossible to contest the justice of the Hungarian
cause. A nation in arini for constitutional independence
which date.' from tbe 12th century is nut to bo confounded
with a mob of rebels.

Again, on the 31st of May, it described the Magyar
insurrection as a great national movement, and being
then in a liberal mood, insisted that a negotiation
may be opened to restore Hungary her constitutional
rights. Yours, &c.,
THOMAS STOUT,
Who has paid the Rent of his Attic, and is not
a Lompositor seeking \Work on the Thins.
9, Ball's-pond, Islington, Tuesday.

MEETING OF REFORMERS AT MAN-

CHESTER.

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.

To-day a meeting of reformers took place here,
and amongst those present were Messrs. Bright, Ilene),
and Kershaw. It was resolved, that the Premier having
announced his intention to introduce a new reform measure
during the coming session, the meeting, in compliance with
the urgent requests from many parts of the country, resolves
to convene a meeting of friend. of reform, chiefly (ruin
Lancashire and Yorkshire, to confer on steps to give due
expression to pubic opinion, and thus secure such a mea-
sure as may be satisfactory to the country.
The proposed conference is to be held in the beginning
of December.

NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.

MEETING AT BEDFORD.

On Monday evening, an influential and crowded
meeting was held in the magnificent Assembly-rooms, Bed-
ford, to receive a deputation from the above association.
The deputation consisted of T. J. Searle, E-q., and E.
Clarke, Esq., members of the council. John Houghton,
.. who contested our county at the late election, end
Lattimore, Esq., were specially invited by the libe-
rals of the town to take part in the proceedings. At eight
o'clock the chair was taken by 0 P. Lams. Esq., a bo-
rough and county magistrate, whose name has been long
associated with the liberal party in this locality. More
than a thousand persons assembled, principally of the
working and middle classes.
The CH/ARYAN having briefly addressed the meet-
ing—
S. N. GESAINO, Esq. (solicitor), moved "That the pre-
sent state of the representation is such as to render it the
duty of every one aspiring to the progress of humanity to
ICH for an effectual reform in the Commons House of
Parliament."

Mr. JAMES COOMRY seconded the proposition, and E.
CLARICE. Esq., who apologised for the absence of Sir
Joshua Walmsley and Mr. Fox, of Oldham, spoke at consi-
derable length in support of it.
C. H. LATTIMORE, Esq in a speech, during the deli-
very of which he was loudly cheer,d, supported the resolu-
tion, and was followed by Mr. Houghton.
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which was car-
ried amidst enthusia.stic plaudits.
Above 20 new members enrolled their names.