The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-22 00:00:00

GERMANY.

A telegraphic dispatch, dated Vienna, Dec.lB, an.
nouncesl the following changes in thu corps thoo.
matique
"Baron Vrints-Treuenfeld,hitherto Austrian envoy
at the court of Denmark, has been nominated envoy
at the Belgian court ; he will be replay d at Co-
penhagen by Count Hartig, hitherto Austrian envoy at
the court of the two Hesse& Lieut. Field-Nlarsbal
Baron Langenau will go from Hanover to Stockholm
as Austrian envoy to the court of Sweden. Counsellor
of Legation Baron Koller, formerly char trapir,4
at the court of St. James's, has been appointed Aus-
trian envoy at the court of Hanover. Count loge:-
helm goes as envoy to the courts of the Ilesses; and
Baron Philippsburg front Karlsruhe to London."
The treaty of commerce between Prussia and the
government of the Netherlands has been forwar.hd
to the different Zollverein states fur their appi.,%al,
with a request that their answer may be returAd
by the 2.3 th of December, that them may be no
delay in ratifying the treaty. Its contents are I:,a
yet known, but it is announced that not only the
Wishes of the Zoll congress of Wiesbaden have
been fully complied with, but that Prussia has
tained concessions even more favourable than that
congress looked forward to.
In its sitting of the ldth the Second Chamber of
Hanover adopted, against the opposition of the
ministry, a resolution inviting the government to
lay before the chamber all the documents conneetkd
with the late appeal of the equestrian order to the
Diet. . . .

A Munich letter states that the Bavarian chambers
had rejected the motion of a deputy calling tOr an
amnesty for persons in confinement for political
offmces. Upon this the King. of his own accord,
pardoned the non-commissioned otliwts and private,
who had taken cart in the insurrection in Ithenizli
Bavaria, to the number of If $.
The Archduke Albert, civil and military governor
of Hungary, left Vienna, on the lath, to return to
Pcsth.

_
The Post Gazette publishes a resami'i of the ti
berations of the Germanic Diet, in its sitting of

7th, upon the subject of a commercial con-renti.
between tEe states of Germany. It concludes I
the following resolution :
The Diet invites the high governments to make knoll
to the diet within the spitm of a mouth their views on t!
adoption of the project of a convention between the ‘t
of the confederation for advancing commerce and in.bwr
as it was elaborated and revibed ut Dresden, and •

quently revisedineonoluonrocue uponity with the re iec.s-verh
the exports, and to pronounce in h•r
poilitive that the said conveittionia the
ay subject
at once

AMERICA.

KOSSUTH IN NEW YORK.

A telegraphic summary of thu following appcare
in our impression of Saturday :
On Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock, the Britis.
and North American royal mail steam-ship,
Judkins commander, arrived at Liverpool from 110
ton and Halifax, with (10 passengers, 80,000/. sterlin
in freight, and the usual mails from the Unit,
States, Canada' Newtnundland, &c., in charm:
Lieut. Raymond, lt.N., Admiralty agent. The .1-i
left Boston on the 10th at noon, and Halifax on d.

11th at ten at night; we hare New York letters al
papers to the 9th instant, but are without the
telegraphic despatch, via Halifax. On the
the Asia passed the steamer Niagara on her way in
Boston. _ .

The United States steam-ship Pacific from Lit,
pool on the 26th ult., arrived out at New Y.O .‘
the 7th inst., at 1 o'clock in the morning. ller u.
had the effect of causing an advance in cotton Ludt
New York and New Orleans.

When the Asia left Halifax, her Nlajesty's survi v•
ing steam-vessel Columbine was the only man-of-war
at that port, where the company's propellers, Osprey
and Levantine, were in readiness to convey the Nia-
gara's mails to Newfoundland and Bermuda.
The principal topic, among all ranks and elassis,
was Kossutli, his sayings and movements. The ad-
dresses, deputations, and ovations, were continued to
the total interruption of business of every kind.
Kossuth left Staten Island on Saturday, Dec. 711,
and entered the city of New York, welcomed by a
" demonstration," pi which the New York 11.41
speaks in the following terms :
The reception of Kossuth by the city of New York, on
Saturday, wits a spectacle of the must imposing character—
The scene on the Bay, on Castle Garden, on the battery, in
the park, and fur three miles along broadwuy—the
and the arches, and the grand precession, the thunder iff
the cannon and the shouting, the whole moving panorama
of the day, was something fur the recollection of a life the,.
At two o'clock there were not less probably than tea
hundred and fifty thousand people in arid near Broadsay.
The moral effect of this pageant will be felt throughout ties
vast republic, throughout the continent, and throughout
Christendom. It is the first grand response of the peoplo,
the sovereign people, the free, independent. geueruu, and
powerful people of the United States' to the principle, of
republicanism, of which Kossuth is the exponent and the
champion. There appeared to be a general knowledge
is
the multitude that the mural effect of this reception ••••
destined to tell upon the popular mind across the Atlantic;
and that Austria, Russia, and even France, would levl the.
weight of the rebuke against them of " the young giant
America." The movement, thus begun, will doubtli.•
be
followed up, and it is possible that the influence of Atlkri•
can enthusiasm may rebound with startling a fleet upon the
slumbering elements of revolutions in Europe.
Kossuth steamed from quarantine to Castle Gar-
den, where ho landed at 12 o'clock amid enthusiastic
acclamations from an immense assemblage. An
address of welcome was presented to him by the
mayor, to which the illustrious Magyar attempted to
reply, but in consequence of the noise and confusion
by which the proceedings were interrupted, he was
unable to obtain a hearing, and abandoned his inten-
tion of speaking after uttering a few incomplete SOP
tenees. The cause of this disorderly conduct, which
was confined to a small portion of the meeting, lead
not been accurately ascertained. The disturbance
was attributed by some persons to the enornseui,
pressure, and by others to the Roman catholic seetioa
of the crowd.
Upon arriving at his hotel Kossuth, however. dic-
tated the speech the greater portion of which he, was
unable to deliver, nod supplied it to the Fors,
whence we extract the main portions as follows:
lam yet half-sick, gentlemen ; tossed and twisted 310,3
by a fortnight's gale on the Atlantic's restless waves:
say giddy brains are still turning round as in a whirlpool•
sad this gigantic continent seems yet to tremble beinath
-y wavering steps. Let me, before I go to work. WS
nose hours of rest upon this soil of freedom, your !awl,
home. Freedom and home, what heavenly music
those two words! Alas, I have no home, rind the Irv,
don of my people is down-trodden. Young Giant of f
America, do not tell me that thy shores ens an abYt
to the oppressed, and a home to the homeless exile. A
asylum it is, but all the blessings of your glorious country
can they drown into oblivion the longing of the heart, as
the fond desires, for our native land ? sly beloved nits
land! thy very sufferings make thee but dearer w
heart; thy bleeding image dwells with inc when I auk"
as it rests with me in the short moments of my restl,,,
sleep. It has accompanied me over the waves. It 'so
accompany me when I go back to fight over again t,
battle of thy freedom once more. 1 have no idea b_
thee; I have no feeling but thee. Even here, with
prodigious view of greatness, freedom, sod happiness vol,'
spreads before my astonished eyes, my thoughts art wand'
ing towards home ; and when I look over these thossatt
of thousands before me, the happy inheritance of vend
freedom for which your fathers fought and bled—and "l,
I turn to you, citizens. to bow before the enjoy! of
United States, and to thank the people of New York t
their generous share in my liberation, and for tile unpari,
leled honour of this reception, I see, out of the very IT,
of this great assemblage, rise the bleeding image of,
gory, lonising to you with anxiety whether there be ia t
lustre of your eyes a ray of hope for her ; whether there
in the thunder of your hurrahs a trumpet call of resort.
lion. If there were no such ray of hope is your eyes,
no such trumpet call in your cheers, then woe to her" es
oppressed nations. They will stand alone the hour
need. Less fortunate than you were, they will inc.!i
brother's hand to help them in the approaching
struggle against the leagued despots of the world
woe also to me. I will feel no joy even here, alio
days of my stay here will turn out to be lost for
fatherland—lost at the very time when every inconot

whether he should go to Washington et all. The
action of the United States senate in reference to his
visit there made his situation far from agreeable,
and himself undetermined in his intentions; and Mr.
Fillmore was politely informed that circumstances
, would govern his future action in regard to visiting
Washington, and probably his visit to other places
I also.

▪ sa the decision of Europe's destiny. Citizens,
...a as I am wanting some hours of rest—much as 1 have
arsl to become familiar With the ground 1 will have to
a upon before 1 enter on business matter. publicly, I
mph it fir a duty of honour not to let escape even this
Arm moment of your generous welcome without stating
Amply and openly to you what sort of • man I am and
;bat sae the espectatoms end the hopes—what are the MO-
time which brought me now to your
_glorious shores. (ien-
theses,
have to thank the people, Congress, and govern-
meet, the t'aiteel States for my liberation from catitisity.
Haman tongue has no words to express the bliss which I
Lit when I —the dowietroilden Hungary's wandering chief
....aaw the glorious flag of the stripes and stars fluttering
user my head—when 1 hest bowed before it with deep re-
cpmc—ehen I eaw around me the gsllani officers anu tho
crew of the Mississippi trigate—the most of them the
worthird Terteentildlltef ot true American prineles,
American greatness, American generosity—and to think
that it was sot • mere chance which east the star-
es/Wed Wither around me, but that it was your protecting
wig _t., know that the United States of America con-
mann of their glorious telling as well as of their power de-
clared by this unparalleled set to be resolved to become the
protectors of human rights—to see a powerful vessel of
America, ceasing to far Asia to break the chains by which
the mightieet despots of Europe fettered the activity of an
(Oki' Magyar, whose very name disturbed the proud se-
curity of their sleep—to feel restored by such a protection,
and us erred a way, to fnelom, and by freeeorn to activity,
you
may well aware of what I have felt, and still feel, at
the nosiembrance ot this proud moment of my life. Others
spoke you acted, sod I was free! You acted, and at this
art of yours tyrants trembled ; humanity shouted out with
joy: the elowietroddea people of Magyars—the down trod-
tm, but not beiken, raised his head with resolution and
wits hope and the baillesery of your stars was greeted by
Europe's oppressed nations us the morning star of rising
Eb, rty. Now, gentlemen, you roust be aware how booed-
e. the gratitude must be which I feel for you. You have
rewired me to life—beelike restored to activity ; and should
my life, by the blessings of the Almighty, still prom. useful
to my fatherland and to humanity, it will be your
merit-rat will be your work. Mar you and your glori-
es. coantry be blessed for it. Europe is tat the very
esV of ‘eich immense events, that however fervent my gra-
nts& br to you, I would wit have felt authorised to cross
the Atlantic, at this very time, only for the purpose to ex-
kihit to you my warm thank*. Humble as I am,
Gal, the Almighty, has sete eyed me to represent the cause
if humanity before you. My warrant to this capacity is
written in the sympathy and cone lem of 'ill who are op.
premed, anal of all who, as your elder brother, the people
of Britain, sympathies with the oppressed—my warrant to
this capacity is written in the hopes and expectations you
base entitled the world to entertain, by liberating no out
of my moon, and by restoring me to activity. Bat it has
pleased the Almighty to make out of my humble self yet
another opportunity for a thing which miy prove •
beppy turning point in the des • •a of the world. I bring
yen a Motherly greeting trues the people of Great Britain.
1 speak not in an official character, imparted by diplo-
macy, who•e secrecy is the curs: of the world; but I
am the harbinger of the public spirit of the people,
which has the right to import a direction to its govern-
ment, awl which I witnessed, pronouncing itself in the
met dee:ball manner, openly—that the people of England,
united to youwith enlighteued brotherly love, as it is united
in blood -conscious of your strength as it is conscious of its
own. h., for ever abandoned every sentiment of irritation
and rivalry, and desires the brotherly alliance of the United
litotes to secure to every nation the sovereign right to die-
pew of itself, and to protect the sovereign right ot nations
mama the encroaching arrogance of despots, and leagued
to you aaainst the league of de spits, to stand together with
you, gush:ether to the approaching baptism of European
liberty. Now, gentlemenZl have Mated my position. lam
• Mramhtforward man. lum a republican. I have avowed
It openly in the monarehical—but free England ; and I am
happy to state that I have nothing lost by this avowal there
I hope I will nut lose here, iu republican America, ov that
hankie so, which must be one of the chief qualities of every
republic en. So I beg leave frankly and openly to state
the folioning points:—First, that I take at to be
the duty of honour and principle not to meddle with
whatever party question of your own domestic affairs.
I claim fur ma, country the right to dispose of
its, if, so I am resolved, and must be resolved to resiket the
same principle here and everywhere. May others delight
in the part of knights-errant fur theories. It is not my
ease. 1 am the man of the great principle of the sovereignty
of every people to dispose of its own domestic concerns; and
I moat a lemnly deny to every foreigner, as to every foreign
power, the right to oppose the sovereign faculty. Secondly,
I profess, highly and openly, my admiration for the glo-
rious principle of union, on which stands the mighty
pyramid ot your greatness, and upon the basis of which you
have grown, in the short period ot 7:1 yearn, to a prodigious
giant, the lie ing wonder of the world. And, thirell y,I beg leave
frankly to state that my aim is so restore my fatherland to
the full enjoyment of that act of the declaration of inds
pendi nee, which, being the only rightful existing public
law of my nation, can nothing have been lost of its right-
fuluesa by the violent invasion of foreign Russian arms, and
which, therefore, is fully entitled to be recognised by the
people of the United States, whose very existence is founded
upon a similar declaration of independence. Thus, having
expounded my aim, I beg leave to state that I came not to
your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest. I came oat
with the intention to gather triumphs of personal distinction,
or to be the object of popular shows ; but 1 c erne •
humble petitioner in ray country's name os its freely
chosen constitutional chief. In a word, I have In
other claims than those which tho oppressed prin-
ciple of freedom has to the aid of victorious liberty. Then I
would humbly ask are these claims sufficient to ensute your
generous protectors, not to myself, but to the cause of my
native land—nut to my native land only, but to the prin-
ciple of freedom in Europe's continent, of which the inde-
pendence of Hungary is the indispensable key-stone? if you
consider these claims not sufficient to your active
and operative sympathy, then let me know at
once that the hopes have failed with which Europe's
oppressed nations have looked to your great, mighty, and
glorious republic—let me know at once the failure of our
Lot es, that I may hasten back and tell Europe's oppressed
nations Let us tight, forsaken and single-handed, the '
battle Of Leonidas; let us trust to God, to our right, and to
our good sword; there is no other help for the oppressed
'ashens on earth." But if your generous republican
hearts are animated by the high principle of freedom end
of the solidarity in the destinies of humanity—if you have
the will, as, to be sure you have the power, to support the
Cause of freedom 'Rama the sacriligious league of des-
potion, then give me wore days of calm reflection to be-
come acquaiated with the ground upon which I stand—let
me take the kind utak:: of some active friends on the moat
practical coarse I have to adopt—let me see if there be any
preparatory ate pa taken in favour of that cause which I have
the honour to represent ; and then let roe have a new
opportunity to expound before you my humble requests
in a practical way. 1 confidently hope, Mr. Mayor, the
corporation and citizens of the empire city will grant me
the second opportunity. If this be your generous will,
then let me take this for a boon of happier days ; and let
me Oil, with a sigh of thanksgiving to the Almighty God,
that it is your glorious country which Providence has se,
kited to be the pillow of freedom, as it is already the asylum
to oppressed humanity. I am told that I will have the high
honour to review pour patriotic militia. Oh, Ood! how my
heart throbs at the idea to see this gallant army enlisted on
the side of freedom against despotism; the world would be
free, anti you the saviours of humanity. And why not ?
Thew gallant men take part in the mighty demonstration
of the day, proving that 1 was right when I said that now-
adays even the bayonets think. Citizens of New York, it
is under your protection that I place the sacred cause of
Leedom and independence of Hungary.
At one o'clock the procession entered New York.
It consisted of twelve regiments of militia, and can
containing the Governor and Lieutenant-
Governor of the state of New York, senators and
representatives in Congress, heads of departments at
the state. senators and members of Assembly of the
State, officers of the army and navy of the United
States, joint special committee of the Common Craw
al, the Board of Aldermen, Recorder, City Is*,
and District Attorney, and members of the bee.
In the streets through which the preemies paned
various devices of welcome were disOaral. aid Ohs
enthusiasm of the crowds by which they VIM filled
was unbosnded. Koisuth was subsequently preset
at a review in the Park, and in the course of the
afternoon briefly addressed large assembla
_front
the balcony of'hie hotel. On Sunday and MA=
Kossuth did not appear in public; but several
Mg, were held,to make arrangements for dinners
which it is proposed to invite him to, and for the
presentation of addresses.
Kossuth made a very important reply to the Phi-
ladelphia deputation on Satnnlay, which that
depu-
tation attempted to report, but either through blunder
or design, omitted the important point rely to
the Senate, which will be found below au
rodmtim. It is as follows:
I must confess that I have received here in New Task
loch a manfestation of the sympathy of the people an gives
no hope and eonse.ation. still I regard myself invites to
this by an act of Congress initiated in the waste.
Nowehad I known that in the same plane where I was be-
viteal, the same body would now decline to bid me a wit-
mow, I would have thought that I was not a welemmi
Foist ; so much the more as the President of the Mahal
Rate. has formally invited the Congress in his nameitge 10
consider what stem are to be taken to receive the ma tar
whom he has sent a frigate to Atria, complying with the
will of the 'same body in which now a resehies et so
further political tendency—the imple resolution to bid
▪ welcome—was withdrawn, on account of an
oPposition. Under such 4:immunises I would LivelNl
Wished to intrude.
In this passage Koesuth places the Senate in a
'try awkward fix ; and to have omitted it from hie
reply was like omitting the part of the Prince at
bearaark from tho play of is Hamlet."
The President's son and private secretary, Nr• P.
Llininre, waited upon Kossuth at the Irving Hose,
at half-past 12. Being introduced, Mr. Filhaele
mad,,ht bad called to pay his respects to the Gomm
urnangsry, now the guest of the city of New Yadr..l
"" fuller, the President, would be pleased to me
and welcome him nt the seat of government, and ds•
sired to know when it was his intention to be in
Washington. Kossuth replied that his movements
were uncertain, and it was somewhat doubtful

Lola llontes remains in New York, and is at a
private residence, preferring it to a hotel. Her late
agent in France, M. Roux, is also in town. On
learning of the departure of the fair danseuse with
her new agent by the Humboldt, he set out for Li-
verpool, and took pa_ssage by the America in search
of the fugitive. He arrived hero on Saturday. She
had a suit with M. Roux in Paris.
By the arrival of the steam-ship, Ohio, at New
York,on Sunday, we are in receipt ofsome very impor-
tant intelligence from Nicaragua. Our correspond-
ent at San Juan de Nicaragua informs us that on the
19th of November, General Munoz, his officers, and
27 Americans, were captured by General Chamello,
and committed to prison. He further states that
i before the date of tub letter the whole party were
probably shot.

The following is from our New Yort corre-
spondent:

NEW YORK, nee. 8.
By the recent arrivals at this port from the isth-
mus, we have some intelligence of interest from
South America by the way of Panama. A letter,
dated Nov. 24, says that the royal steam-packet
Bolivia had arrived there from Valparaiso, with
750,000 dollars and 25 passengers. The Milian
papers to the 25th of October are received by this
' steamer. The following is a digest of the news :
The rebel army, 13,000 strong, commanded by Carrera
and Artea..ta, were met by the government troops, 8.10
strong, at Petorea, about 40 leagues from Santiago, on the
14th inst. They fought for three hours by the Petorea
clock, and the result was the total defeat of the former, with
a loss of 70 killed and 200 wounded, and 400 prisoners, in-
cluding 36 officers. Carrera and Artcaga have not been
taken. The government army. under Colonel Vidaurre,
loot 15 killed and 15 wounded. In Ecuador, the presidency
of General Urhina has been unanimously acceptable, and it
is prohable that peace will be maintained for some time.
Peru is in perfect tranquillity. Bolivia is also in peace,
although Congress has not fulfilled the promises with which
it began its meetings.
By the steamer Ohio, arrived the day before yes-
terday from San Juan rim Ilavannah, we hove three
days' later intelligence. The principal. topic of dis-
cussion is the firing on the American steamer Pro-
metheus by the British brig of tear Express.
The reception of Kossuth has been magnificent. A
gentleman who was present at his various entertain-
ments in England says those will bear no comparison
with the public honours he has received in New
York. The call on the ni:iitia and the societies hers
was in fact made on the morning of the day on which
he was to be received. Had a few days notice been
given, the show would have been far more imposing.
At least 250,000 people were in the streets ; and
while the procession was moving up Broadway,
more than three miles in length, he was saluted with
continual cheering.
Justice compels me to say that there is for some
cause or other a strong under-current against Kos-
suth. It is imputed to his manners, his reserve,
to the influence of the ltomish priests. For myself,
I have seen nothing more on }kis part than the dis-
creet reserve of a prudent man who wishes to
. understand where he is before he gives his confidence
to the bystanders.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1851.

'Ube Court.

WINDSOR, Dec. 20.
Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales,
the Princess Royal, and younger mcmben of the Royal
Family, left Osborne thin forenoon at 24 minutes before 11,
and arrived at the Castle at 2 o'clock. The royal party
were attended by the Marchioness of Ely (Lady in Wait-
ing), the Hon. Miss Stanley and the lion. Miss Byng
(Maids of Honour), Major-General Wemyss, Colonel &ni-
verie, and Lieut.-Col. Iliddulob.
A guard of honour fro o the Grenadier Guards, with the
band of tho regiment, received her Majesty at the railway
station._

The Queen and Prince Albert, and the royal children,
walked in the Home Park this afternoon.

The Drehernof Kent, the lady in Waiting to her royal
highness, and the Baronets de Speth, dined with her Ma-
jesty this evening.

Dn. 21,

The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the slopes this
morning.
Her Majesty, l'rince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, the ladies and gentlemen of the court and
the domestic household, attended divine service this morn-
Mg in the private chapel of the Castle. The lion. and
Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. The Duchess of Kent
also attended the service.

Despatches were rectived on Saturday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Hong Koos, Ceylon, South
Australia, and New Zealand.

APFOISTMENTS.—Mr. Greenwood, Q.C., Recorder
of Devonport, is appointed Assistant Solicitor to the Trea-
sury, in the room of J. M. Revell Reynolds, promoted to the
chief place in that department. Mr. Augustus Paget, now
second paid Attaché to the Embassy at Paris, is promoted to
the post of First paid Attachi, of that Embassy, in the room
of Mr. Edwardes, appointed Secretary of Legation at Frank-
fort. Mr. Townsend, who has been for some time employed
as a Supernumerary Clerk in the Foreign-office, is appointed
to the Clerkship rendered vacant in that office by the retire.
ment of Mr. John Bidwell, after 50 years' service. The
lion. Hussey C. Vivian is appointed to the Clerkship in the
Foreign-office, site Mr. Blackburn, retired on account of
bad health. Mr. John Brown is appointed a MeneJer of the
Council 01 Grenada.—Obserrer.

PRINCE ALBERT has condescended to become a
patron of the Royal Polytechnic Institution.

canal be toe strongly deprecated. The safety of the mine
ought not to be urged for such a dangerous practice.
'On Sunday evening the whole bodies had been recovered.
This total number of SIIIITIIIOIII 11 Is, .12 killed snaking a
total of 70. Sylvester, the underground steward, is amongst
the killed."

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, DEC. 20.

The schism in the Catholic Defence Association is
for the present the all-absorbing topic here • and
people are impatient to see whether it is to lead: to
the absolute dissolution of that body, or whether the
breach may yet be patched up by the retirement of
the " English" secretary and the substitution of an
official "racy of the soil." Some of the most
ardent friends of tenant right would be glad
enough of the opportunity to get rid of the
new agitating society, and to have the field
thus left open for their own operations. The
Nation treats the election of Mr. Wilberforce as " the
symptom of a rooted disease—the sign of a current
that leads straight over the fulls of ' ignoble folly
and national degradation.'" "There has been an
English invasion of Ireland of late," says that organ
of Young Irelandism, "steadily advancing from
point to point. Englishmen have been raised to
positions of influence and authority which in the
individual cases seemed commendable, but in the
aggregate are not at all encouraging to the growth
or existence of that noble nationality which has
hitherto been the life and inspiration of the catholic
cause. An Englishman will be the president of the
catholic university. . . Englishmen will officiate in
the sanctuary, aid circulate in society, carrying with
them the prejudice of their foreign birth and of their
Oxford politics. We say advis,dly that there is seri-
ous risk that the young Irish priests and students
may be made ashamed of that love of Ireland which
is the halt of their Jives." Mr. It. Keating, one of
the representatives of the county of Waterford, in a
letter to Mr. Keogh, M.P., expresses his unqualified
concurrence in the protest of the seven Irish mem-
tiers, while the Roman catholic primate, Dr. Cullen,
espouses the cause of Mr. Wilberforce in a letter ad-
dressed to the honorary secretaries of the association.
The report of the committee appointed at a meet-
ing held at the Mansion-house on the 21st of August
last, to consider the question of promoting direct
steam communication between America and an Irish
port, has at length published its report in the shape
of a pamphlet of a hundred pages. After con-
sidering the cast in all its bearings, the committee
state that—

They do not feel themselves warranted in following up
the resolution adopted by the public meeting, recommend-
ing the formation of a joint-stock company, with a capital of
half a million, tor the establishment of a transatlantic
packet station on our coast. The committee express it as
their opinion " that to originate a share list at present for
the purpose proposed by the public meeting, without
naming a port, would not be a prudent course to adopt ; an..
even if empowered to name a port it miaht only receive a
local and not a national support for that purpose, in the
present state of public opinion." The committee further
state that they "arc of opinion that a steamer of the largest
size should be constructed, to he employed for a sufficient
Period in a series of voyages between those ports of Ireland
and America wicich present the most obviims advantages for
pack( t communication ;" and they suzgest that a company
.hould be ut once formed for this purpose, with a capital of
150,000 i.
Nothing has been heard lately of the probability of
Mr. Wagstaff carrying out his project or otherwise ;
but it is not thought very likely that his ship, which
was to have sailed from New York on the lath inst.,
has yet commenced her voyage.
The Warder states as a certain fact that the com-
pany which has executed the submarine telegraph
between England and France has actually submitted
to government a proposal by which they guarantee
the completion, within a very limited period, of a
similar telegraph between Kingstown and Holyhead.
The sole condition they require, says the Warder, is
that government will pay them for the exclusive
use of two wires, which they propose placing at their
disposal, a yearly sum of 1,000/. •

APPALLING OCCURRENCE AT HUDDERSFIELD.-
Yesterday morning, a little before three o'clock, the neigh-
bourhood of the King's Mill, near Huddersfield, was
roused by as alarm of fire given by a working man named
David Berry, who, with his wife and four children, occupied
the hack house in a row of housei a little above the New
Bridge. He had been awakened from sleep by a sutfoca-
ting sensation, a strong smell of burning, and au intolerable
heat, that arose from the room below. The house WAS
composed of two rooms little more than three yards square,
viz., a house and chamber, the roof of the chamber being
underdrawn close to the slates, and sloping with
the roof towards the outer walls. On Thursday,
the wife of Berry bad been washing a few clothes
for her own family, and some also for a person she had been
engaged by, and at night, before *going to bed, she had
arranged this clotting on a " winterliedge," or " clothes...
horse," in trout of the lire. She had aim placed n portion
over the door of the oven, and across the back of a chair. It
is supposed that some portion of the clothing had caught
fire and ignited the rest, as nearly the whole of the clothing
so placed was when seen quite consumed, and the flames
and heat had reached every inch of womiiintbe lower room.
The units side of the chamber fluor, and the joists on
which it rests appcarcd to have been on fire. The
chairs, tables, and stools were all charred, as
though they had been surrounded for a short time with
au intense beat. The chamber door appears to have been
closed, for although its outside is considerably charred, the
inside seems to be very little the worse ; and in the chamber.
but from a hole that lead been knocked through the

...... roof,
the broken window, the wet door, aold the -strong smell
which always trims from partly consumed wood, no one
would form an idea that death had ensued iu it from fire.
On awakening, Berry's first impulse seems to have been to
rush down stairs to see what was the cause of the heat and
smell, and on opening the chamber door, and perceiving
dosage of things, he ran out, and gave the alarm to the
=rsa, who as soon as possible went to his
ce. Some smashed in the window, others
mounted to the roof and tors olf the slates, and
ethers rushed inside to save those who were in the
chamber. Berry's wife and a child about 11 years old were
got out alive, but dreadfully scalded from the steam that
had ascended to the chamber and much injured by the
smoke and noxious gases generated by combustion. Three
children who were sleeping on a bed on the door when
found were quite dead, and parts of their bodies presented
marks similar to those produced by scalding. They were,
as soon as possible, conveyed to the Star Inn, Bridge-end,
where they await the result of the eoraser's inquiry, and

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