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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23.

FROM ono day to another, Louts Kossuitt may
be expected to touch our shors, the land that he so
ardently longed to tread, as the sacred soil of liberty
and constitutional government. We trust that pre-
parations have been made, in the event of his landing,
to give him an honourable reception. One of the
most pleasing coincidences of modern times is the
complete identity. of feeling in the United States
of America and in Great Britain on the subject
of the Hungarian struggle. The same homage
is paid, the same enthusiasm kindled, in those
two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race,
to the noblest stand made for liberty in modern times
against tyrannic powers and overwhelming force.
That identity of feeling is a hopeful promise that,
if the events of Europe should ever take such a
course as to present a formidable absolutist league
threatening the freedom of England and of the west,
this country may find in the generous breasts and
strong arms of its American brethren that dis-
interested and efficient alliance and support. which
for centuries we have vainly sought in Europe.
The most striking feature in Kossetti's political
life is the smallness of the means employed by him,
and his wonderful success. lie had but his pen and
tongue in the midst of a country of which by no
means the whole population sympathised with his
ideas of Magyar independence. Like O'Coseem.,
be found the oppression of his country heavy, and
when none entertained hope but himself, he under-
took the task, devoted himself with the resolve
never to flinch from it. O'CONNELL, however,
had a fair field to manmuvrc in. Whilst the Aus-
trians were able to gag KORAI:TEI.3 tongue in
public, and prohibit the press from spreading the
productions of his pen, O'CONNELL had all the
aids of publicity, and all the advantages of nano-
elation. The Irish patriot was emboldened by the
degree of freedom, and the rights already granted
to his country, to assume the offensive, and to conquer
the rest. Kossevii contented himself fur the most
part with remaining on the defensive, and could
he have upheld the constitutional monarchy, would
have decided not to advance or to transgress the
bounds of • not very liberal law and constitution.
But the Austrian cabinet under MerreeNten was
not content with leaving Hungary as it was. Its
constant effort was to sap the independence of Hun-
gary, nullify its representative system, and centralise
its administration. SCHWARZENBERG himself has
done nothing more audacious than was attempted by
the old Austrian government, when it sought to re-
place the local authority of the Hungarian runtilia
by a prefect such as the French Emperor or the
Human Czar might appoint.
Against this Kossterit struggled with the invete-
raey
and pertinacity of otosse.t.t.. And when
Austria insight to manage the esenidetts, or electoral
districts, by preventing the debates of the Diet from
being published, and at the same time preventing
the press from appearing, Kossrvit actually under-
took to inform each comaal of what was passing by
means of his pen, and without the public inter-
vention of the picas.
It has been the aim of Austria, and of the scribes
whom it has inspired to represent Kossrrit Ma leader
of mere democracy, as a republican of the French
toehold. Never was there a more unfounded charge.
The struggle in Hungary was for constitutional govern-
ment against absolutism; for a constitution with a
King of the House of Hseseuuo, if possible; bat
prepared to reject even the hereditary House of
IlsreereG, if it resolved to abolish the liberties and
the Diet of Hungary. Constitutionalists are surely
free to become republicans in countries where
monarchy insists on being absolutism.
When the House of HAPSBURG, however, or the
ministers who represented it, resolved to have the
restoration of the monarchy not with a constitution, as
they might have done. and in the support of which they
might have made ample use of Kossuru and of Hun-
gary- .• hen they resolved on a recovery of absolute
power by military violetice,then indeed Kossi rut did
not shrink from meeting the arms of the Austrian em-
pire by the levy of the Magyar. What hardihood it
required to take that step, what eloquence to pew
capitate the national mind into the st
skill to orguniso military resistance, as :ICirtfinan-
Mal means of supporting it, passes the bounds of an
article to show. Suffice it, that the armies of Aus-
tria, led by a veteran general, were first baffled and
then defeated, and driven buck to the gates of Vienna

in a single campaign.
The intervention of Itussin,with an army of 180,000
men. in support of the recruited forces of Austria,
reversed the chances of war in the second campaign.
And yet, even at the head of 180,000 men, the CZAR
had recourse to bribery and intrigue, literally buying
the general to when kos•rrit had confided thechief
army of Hungary into most manifest acts of treachery
and. surrender. It is no shame to have succumbed
under such fearful odds, and under the united abao-
lutimn of Europe. Nor can the succumbing be even
said to be final, in the face of the grand experiment,
so manfully proved, that Hungary was more than a
match for Austria, and in single-handed tight had
beaten and disgraced the Austrian armies.
Never in any country did a champion of freedom
display greater talents, greater consistency, greater
courage and perseverance, than Louts Kossern.
Never did any work greater wonders; never, in sink-
ing under the meet powerful league that ever
was formed of tyranny, did man leave such
elements of resistance behind him, ready to rise up
for the old cause at the first conjuncture. With their
conquest the Austrians have been able to do nothing.
They cannot govern Hungary, cannot pacify it.
Tho richest province in the Austrian em-
pire, it does not now pay the expense
of keeping it. So stubbornly inimical to
Austria remains the population, that they
.have even
ceased to consume tobacco and other ciciscable ar-
ticles, lest they should contribute revenue to their
oppressors. No wonder that the court of Vienna
trembles at the liberation, and at the very name, of
Kosourn.

Another cause of enhancement to the reputation o
KOSIUTII is, that in an age of revolution he stands un-
rivalled for all the quahties that distinguish man in
that trying period. Germany has gone through •
political crisis, which stirred its population from
their depths. 'let Germany has not produced •
statesman, or • soldier, or even a democrat of mark.
She is as barren of indtvidurtlicameity or eminence as
France. feet, if we the continent of
Europe, we cannot descry one single star in its
firmament save the solitary one of KOSBL'III.

Pocrriciaxs must be practical men, who mix in
the world's bustle and trustees', otherwise they soon
become mere dreamers. Even men who hare once '
Man an active part in politics, quickly lose the tact
Ed aptitude vegetate for public life, if from any
am they_ _beer drifted out of the current of public
Wan ffbalved senators, liked retired !swears, soon
pow meaty, and electors or clients who rely on the
gill= of either are very apt to be led astray. A
har ups since our columns afforded several striking
illeelmatkos of difference between the practical poll-
thin was trims his hopes and wishes by the test of
rod 1114 the tome of the public mind, .a the temper
dabs Mused Commons, and the fanc.ful politician
was, from a little world of his own, peers forth to take
part in the business of public life. We refer to the re-
ply of Sir Euw %RD BVLWER LYTTON 10 a protectionist
requisition to him to become a candidate for the re-
presentation of Hertfordshire at the general election,
and the several speeches of Mr. VERNON }1 tRCOIIa
and Mr. HENLIT, two of the members for Oxford
county, and Sir .I.inr.4 Oaluny, at the East Camber.
laud and Banbury Agricultural meetings. Sir ED-
WARD. never a very practical man, has for some years
past been oat of parliament, and much occupied in
the realms of fiction, and now he responds to an in-
vitation to contest Ilertfordshire on protectionist'
principles, in language which has been obsolete fur
six or seven years. tie says :—" I never consented
tomes that experiment (free-trade in corn), which
meshes and rahs all the rimeoureee of an immense