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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, 31ARCH 5.

HAD Lord ADERDEEN, or Lord CLARENDON, or Sir
STK tTFORD C tNNINO obtained the portfolio of the
Foreign Secretaryship in the struggle of the minis-
terial crisis, we have no doubt thew first attention
would have been directed to the liberation of Kossynt
and his companions; for most certainly a minister
could not accomplish an act more grateful to the
English people, or one snore calculated to win him
large popularity. That this could be achieved by a
British minister who zealously bent his energies to
it cannot well be doubted. The Porte engaged tokeep
these captives in security merely for a year, or until
such time as Austria and Germany should have
assumed a settled state. The year has elapsed. If
Austria ever will he settled, it is now in that con-
dition ; not a murmur heard throughout the vast
empire, nut a vestige or a hope of constitutional go-
vernment left, and the army, at length feeling a
pride in their colours, in consequence of their having
triumphed over the King of Puessia, and achieved
what CIIARLE4 V. uud Plume 11. failed to do—
trodden down the protestant freedom of the north-
western states—and thus bestowed all the solidity
upon the Austrian government that it can ever hope
to acquire.
In this state of things the Turkish lirovernment
cannot have a shadow of reason for keeping the un-
fortunate Hungarian captives immured at Kutayiah.
And not only does the Turkish government thus
idly and cowardly- prolong the term of their impri-
sonment, but it daily restricts the few indulgent:les
which they at first enjoyed, and subjects them to
greater and greater seventies. That the object and
the aim of the Austrian government is to kill Kos-
SUTII and his companions by the assassin or by
poison, seems to admit of little doubt. The mere
fact of their having tongs:Bill the Turkish govenunent
to take into its pay, and appoint toot vial functions,
the very ruffian who was known to have engaged in
a conspiracy to assassinate Ku:4,4mi, proves that there
is no crime at which the Austrian agents in Turkey
will stop, and nu baseness to which the Turkish
government will not lend itself. Our last accounts
from Kutayiah represented the illustrious prisoners as
struggling against the determination of their jailers
' to take their servants from them, so that they (the
jailers) might have exclusively the care of providing
r and preparing food fur the captives. As the only
object of such u change can be fur the sake of ad-
: nunistering poison, we feel certain that, if the
' British government dues not exert itself, the sun
has seen the last of poor Kossuzu and his friends.
The aim in liberating these men is certainly not to
, enable them to form fresh plots against Austria. The
benevolent men in this country, who have welcomed
and taken care of the Hunguriuns, have sufficiently
' shown their object in the fart that almost all the
exiles have been sent to America. If the Turks

plead, for the civet and lengthened imprisonment
which they inflict, the fear of inclining the displea-
sure of Russia, this should be met by informing
them that their persistence in such cowardly cruelty
will for ever alienate from them the respect and sym-
pathy of Englishmen. The Turkish empire
will, we have no doubt, he in straits some
of these days, and be menaced by that power
which it does so much to conciliate. If, when
threatened, the Turks should think of recurring to
the aid or syinpathies of Englishmen, we in this
country will remember the treatment of Kosstrn,
and will only say the Turks &set-% e the fate of vic-
tims to Russia, incalable as they were of a generous
sentiment or an independent policy. REseuinl'Asmt
at least ought to understand the nature of public
feeling in this country. And be should lie told
frankly that he is fast alienating and outraging it by
his base treatment of the noble Hungarians, whom
he allows to be caged for destruction at Kutayiah.
A Blue Book has just appeared, which contains the
official documents relating to the great struggle in
Hungary.' It affords ample proof that the govern-
ment, whilst preserving all the deference of an ally
for Austria, was still ready and anxious to mediate
or interpose with advice, in order to bring about an
accord between Austrians and Hungarians on fair
and constitutional conditions. In these views the
Secretary for Foreign Affairs was but ill seconded
by hiscuvoy. From first to last of the despatches, Lord
, Possoxisv saw nothing save through the eyes of
METTERNICH first and Seim itigEsitcaG afterwards.
• At the commencement, indeed, Mr. BLACKWELL

kept him well informed. But, from the moment the
war commenced, it is evident that Lord PONSONBY
knew as much about its fortunes or its movements,
as he did about the stones in the Ilimmalava moun-
tains. It is quite ludicrous to look through the blue
book for account or explanation of the total defeat of
WINDISCUGRATZ, and the loss of the campaign by
him. And if Lord Pvt.ttEitsrox had no other
II means of information at this epoch than Lord PON-
SONBY and the Vienna embassy afforded him,
he must have been left utterly in the dark, and mis-
informed us to events which it was most impor-
hint fur the British minister to know. Lord Pos-
BONDI' was within a few leagues of the scat of war,
yet he represented the Austtians as completely vic-
torious when they had been defeated and beaten in
every direction.
There was an outcry in the official salaries'
committee against the large embassies, against the
money they swallowed up, and the little return
they made fur it. Truly, if Lord POICKINIIT'S des-
patches had been then published, showing the
value he gave for his thousands a year, that value
being nothing more than to convert himself into the
mere clerk or valet of Prince ....-SoIIWABZENBERG, the
committee must have voted the total suppression of
so infamous a sinecure as Lord PON6ONIIV'S ambas-

sadorship.
Lord l'oxsoNny has been succeeded at Vienna by
a nobleman who has all his servility without his
talent. There is, however, tome excuse now for such
an appointment ; since it may be au object to have an
empty and reactionist lord to represent England at
the absolutist court of Vienna. In the days of consti-
tutionalism and insurrection there was, however, no
such necessity. Sir Sra.erronD CANNING, in the
Vienna embassy, would at least have kept the go-
vernment well informed, and that is what neither
Lord PONsONBT nor Lord WESTMORELAND would
condescend to do.
The late ministerial crisis gave hopes, which are
still alive, that the drones of the administration
would be got rid of. That the spirit of inquiry
and reform will be directed to every office of the
state may now fairly be hoped. hitherto attention
has been 'directed to economy ; hut there is something
that is still more important, and that is efficiency ;
for efficiency is, after all, the true economy. Some
parliamentary mode of insisting upon this will lowly
be found, unless minister, take the bcsom into their

• The correspondence respecting the ranger.; in Turkey
up to last .print h. u. •lso bun raci%ed, but there has been
ao boas to go through it.