The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-25 00:00:00

We have just learned that the Crunch of the Asso-
ciation has assembled twice since the Diury-late
meeting to deliberiee on the best MCIII4 of carrying
into attic' the res.:loins sanctioned by the unani-
mous voice of 5,000 Englishmen on that occasion.
At the that of the.° meetings of council it was re-
solved that the title of the association should hence-
forth be "The National Pariamentary and Financial
R-foren Association." We lay li:tle stress on names
or titles ; but we think the council were right in thus
early and unequivocally declaring their acceptance of
the extended duties devolved upon them by the vote
et the Drury-lane meeting.
A resolution, passed at the meeting of council on
Wednesday last, is, however, of more importance.
The council resolved that a national conference shall
be convened in London at an early day, to consider in
what winner a national agitation can be most effec-
tively conducted; and that delegates shall be invited
to attend this conference from all the financial and
reform associations throughout the kingdom, and from
public meetings held to elect delegates in all the prin-
cipal towns.
There can be no doubt, in the present temper of
the pubiic mind, that this appeal will meet with a
general and sympathising response. Ere long the
metropolis will witness an assembly of the delegated
reformers from England, SLotlaud, and Ireland, met
to deliberate on the means by which parliamentary
reform, with a view to ob sin financial reform, may
be mos: readily obtained.
The most important objects to be attained by such
a conference are, on the one hand, the ascertain-
ment of the views in which the reformers dis-
persed over the wide surface of these islands coin-
cide ; on the other, to ohtin a guarantee that the ob-
jects upon which they aro agrezd shall be prosecuted
' with zeal, unanimity, and the discarding of minor
differences.

To this end it is incumbent upon the towns and asso-
ciations which shall send chi-gates to the conference
to study attentively the programme approved at the
Drury-lace meeting, and to instruct their delegates
to require any further elucidation regretting the ob-
jects of tie move neat, thit they may deem
nrcessary, and to suggest any mod.■ of action which
they may regard as peculiarly promising of good results.
When the conference have agreed up.in the great
objects of the movement, and the means by which it
is to be serried on, the utzost unanimity, the meet
perfect discipline and subordination will be re-
quired to ensure success. But this obedience ti
disci?line, this subordination, mast be the result of
conviction, and that can only be at'ained by the
utmost latitude of frank and free disiuvion at the

outset.
If, therefore, our voice coati have any influence
with the leaders of the movement we wouli adjure
them to tolerate, to invite the most unre,erved ex-
pression of local acd individual opinion in the first
meetings of the congress. Could it have any in-
fluence with the reformers of Great Britain at large
we would implore them after this free and unreserved
discussion to adhere to the resolutions of the con-
ference with the implicit obedience of soldiers or the
brethren ef a monastic order.

HUNGARY.

KOSSUTR'S CORRESPONDENCE MUTU

BEM.

Tne fo'lowing letters, found in the travelling enr,che
of Item, which was captured at tie battle of Schuss-
burg, and written by Kossuth to the commander of
the army in Transylvania, hare been given to the
world in the Oraterruchische Correspondents. They
appear to be only a small fraction of the documents
which fell into the hands of the Austrians on that oc-
casion, but they are replete with interest, and throw
much light not only on the war, but opon the charac-
ter of the man who has been its soul—Louts Kossuth :
The first of these letters was written by the gover-
nor to Bent on the day after he issued that eels-
brand proclamation of the 27th of June, calling upon
the peoplo to unite in a general crusade against the
invaders. Gilley, after the capture of Buds, had
taken command of the army in the north, and was
at this moment retreating before Paskiewitch through
Miskolcz to Waitzen and Kumoro. Kossuth contem-
plated this retreat without making a stand as a fatal
mistake, pregnant with rain to the Hungarian cause.
He mentions particularly in his proclamation the ad-
vantages for defence presented by Erlsn, and urges
the laadsturm to build barricades there. Anything
to stay the Russians from reaching Pesth before a
decisive blow could be dealt by Klapka
on the army of Haynau. He therefore de-
termined at once to abandon the deforms
of 'Transylvania to bring Bem with his whole corps
to Grosswaradein, and appoint Lim commander-in-
chief of the Hungarian army. This abandonment to
Paskiewitch of the whole rood from the Dukla to
Faith, without striking a blow, was the origin of dis-
agreement between Kossuth and Liiirgey, whom the
governor had not long before appointed minister of
war. Ile now sent Gorgey his conyi, appointed
Munroe minister of war, and Dembinski com-
niander-in-chief of the fo-ces, Beta not being able to
dis.ngags himself from Traneylvanis.
In all these letters of Ko: !nth are stamped the
qualities which distinguish the greatest men. He
sees instan ly the thing to be done, and sets about
the doing of it with an irre.ietible energy of will.
Ho works with the spirit of a man who sees at hand
distir.ctly the event, which others can only vaguely
surmise. "To save the country this run. tbe done ; a
this is not done we are lost." Such is his language.
Clear of eye, strong et will, indefatigable in work,
jest in purpose, of a loving tender heart. Nothing
about him stratned plain in speech and straightfor-
ward in dealing ; with an utterance lull of fervour
when he barer guesthe multitude, fall of ease and even
at times humorous and playful when he writes to a
fricod. His style is pregnant with genius. Each
transition brings a fresh mood, which clo'hes itself in
the most apt language. He stops to make an arith-
mtt:cal calculation of the impossibility of furnishing
Btm with the bank notes which he asks for, with all
the tzactneis that could be demanded from a senior
optime. Then he flashes out about Bero's suspension
of the constitution. Now be is fretted by the dirien-
ikons of the generals in the Banat, "when an must
be at one or we are lost:" "but if we can only achieve'
the concentration of our forces, we Will beat the Rue-
sian and Austrian corps, one after the other, and con-
quer the freedom of the world."
THE coviasoa Or THE LEND TO LIVITENANT YIELD
MARSHAL BEN.
Lieutenant-Field-Marshal.—The corps-4'lmi', of Giirgey
overmatched has retreated without battle to Miskolc:. Tss
generals, cLi.fir oat et fear of being crashed and diverted
by the enemy's cavalry. 18,000 strong, will not risk an en-
gagement ; their ielie fists is to unite with our main army,
sal they reflect not that thereby they bring the Russian
army about our can here, and leave us no time to deal a
decisive blow against the Austrians, 82 that we stall fall be.
tweet: two firer. I announce this to Lieut.-Field•Marshal,
in the firm conviction that we can only be saved by a tepid
cwicentration of all our forces (which will then be placed
under your command-in-chief). We shall have the Russians
in a week at Pestle_ • still worse, we skall have them in the
rear of our army. We will do what is possible. I await news
iron you most anxiously.
(Signed) KOSSVTH, Governor.
Pesth, June 28, 1849.
Pestb, June 28, 1849. at night.
Lieut. Field Marshal,—Your letter, dated Klausenbur;,
23r.1, has just reached me. The intelligence it contains eon
eerning the Russian invasion in Transylvania was already
known to me. The death of Colonel Ki-s, at Cranstan, has
pained me deeply. I regret to see that the Lieut. Field.
Marshal cannot come from Transylvania into the Boast.
Great is the danger there too as it is, in fact, everywhere.
, Now come our heaviest days. May God bless our endeo-
Tours, for truly we need it. In the Banat there is perrtual
squabbling among the commanders. And yet without order,
coherence, sal union we are lost. Far the Bum-Banat,
since the Lieut. Field-Marshal cannot come, we have
arranged thus. There aro three corps d'armele : I
The one formerly commanded by N any, now by Guym.
12. The Baca corps of Perczel, now commanded by Toth.
3. That which you, Lieut. Field Marshal, were to lead them'
in person, in compensation for the aozilialy soaps mil yea
to Veva, cemounder of the corps Banffy. Head eassmwedsr
of all the army corps and divisions assembled in the Beer
Banat, Lieut.-Gen. Vetter. Other contentions 1 have retasd;
but Col. Sanity appeals to your order to terve under no sae
but you (on the suprodtion that you are coming in person)
or Gen. Perczel. I have pint him the necessary instructions,.
l but I beg that yen will also have the goodness, Lieut. Field
I Marshal, on your part, to inform the military commanders
detached from your army that, so lo u they are separated
from that army, they must regard their commanding
tifiCer the parson who is so appointed by the govern-
ment. In the present instance this is 0
Yeller, sines you are prevented from coming yourself.
I must sincerely and openly declare my opinion, that if we
can coneentrite oar
sforces rapidly, rapidly mind, the maw ry
is saved ; if not, it i lost. My heart bleeds to say it, but I do
say it with the firmest conviction, that if this were done
quickly I would be ready to give op whee provinces, yes,
four-fifths of the whole Bad to see our forces concentrated
with rapidity. For so we shall bat the enemy, and the
enemy beaten• the provinces are our's spin; but the army
scattered the nation is mined, and the provinces avail us not
ajot. Therefore Hirers my wish, that you come with your