The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-17 00:00:00

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nth dent eel fatherland. He conceived that it
6• :kag of the peSplle ef this country wooonce distinctly
Ziiignod, it . wend aid the English cahoot to develop
gage "001'1'011y that sympathy whin he wee maned
Way ggs ger the gent game of Henry. (Hear, bear.)
The Rev. JAMES RICHMOND, of the eginesgal sheath
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awe, he waist set enema te Mend We is nesiendl es a
800.0.—(heer, heer)—agalimglissiesi. emmenwitit
▪ temi Amerisess, as Wasellka. As Americas mnspeesdel
wow Isea,thet Ise was maAaeriess frames; sessaddy,
kte tined wesilegiiik. The members beer was abeam
Est wittaungintterb. )2"—but h: oosi
••memo Ifs sowed.' within • more limited NEV.
igtir...! Ameriens this was mainly I %swain Of
lrw W liberty . sad beets& throughout the
irl. batted ta Oppression ; but with England it wee
• guesnoWOf seitspresereation. (Hut tsar.) The
slaikrvstiv• republic was to the belted for is
Aswan creed Is England. It was his prayer that England
weeM sliced ferward in her easjesty, and say—the wrong
la est be dom.
TM moll:nom was then pet and carried with se-
aming.
Mr. M'ENTEER, honorary seentaty, then read the fol-
hong address
ss Amman or TYE IMHABItAMTS OP TM! CIVIC OP Wesr-
to TUN Ittle0•11111:4 PIOPLg.
"Brave Men of Hungary, —F rem the seat of British
government. we, the inhabitants of the ancient city of West
Plaster, address you. As the citizens of • Ire* country, the
gam& of freedom against despo'ism must ever command
ger sympathies. Such • struggle, in its holiest Finn, heroic
Rectory now presents to us. In you the world beholds the
upset ale of • spited people fighting f r the rights of father.
Seed, and exhibiting • heroism only to be equalled by the
enuring promos and devoted loyalty manifested by you
precedieg your final resort to arms. Justice and moderation
clothe with dignity the surpassing bravery of the defender.
of your conetitutinal rights, and the Nun and cruelty of
yoar oppri wire call not more loudly for the execration of the
good th .n your devoted patriotism Comm sods the sympathy
end aid of all to whom liberty and humanity are dear, sad
iejustiesi and cruelty abhorrent.
'Toe llamas interest sit ichin to your position has
mule the notary et Hungary familiar to the British mind.
la the pages at that history we find that the rights you
gszugelo to preserve are the constitutional heritage of a thou-
sand yeses. Since the accession of the house of Lorraine
Hapsburo, fourteen kings of • faithless race have successively
sworn to r. sport and guard your national privileges ; and by
each in turn hue the sacred oath been violated ; and now, as
she crowning sin of this injured dynasiy, the present Awe-
tries minaret melts to wade through • nation's blood to'
In throne of Saint Stephen, and when defeated by Hun-
garian velour, calls to his aid the kindred assistance of Coe-
sad hides to desolate with fire sad sword the fair fl•lds of
a people who hevo repaid royal treason with fureiving
truth, and erred only In their loyalty by loving ' not wisely,
bat too well,'
" War should ever be the last rescurees of the oppressed,
but the history of our own country teaches that tyranny
may name • shape that makes armed resistants become •
virtue. That shape in its most hideous form, the Austria.
and Russian invaders of your country have aaumed. If the
revolution that won for us Englishmen our rights is truly
termed ' glorious,' then moot glorious is the struggle of
Bangui for aationality and freedom, and sanctified is the
blood of the heroes so devotedly ih. d in sacrifice at the altar
of their couotry. Would that an English current mingled
in the Hungazian stirs am is its victorious course to glory and
immortality.
" While with the Innis( hearts of your heroes you build
the foundigion of your country's freedom, the enlightened
of the earth must en that your contest is not alone for your
active land, but one fully identified with the interests of
animal humanity. As the frontier guard of European
Mviiisation, your gallant nation offers • natural bander to I
the eneroothenents of Russian barbarism, and while fighting
the battle of Hungarian liberty, you have the peril and tue
glory of acting as the vanguard of continental freedom.
Brave defenders deo great a tease right manfully have you
Willed your high mission. Your country bleed" from many
wounds. Humanity weeps at the spectacle, and reaps the I
reward of your hereto devotion.
" Accept, brave Hungarians, this expression of sympathy
hem English hearts, to which we add our prayers to des
God of freedom for • speedy 'elec.'s to your righteous eine;
of such ultimate sweets we doubt not, for we live is the
kith of the bard of our land, who sung
...For freedom's battle once begun,
Itcytatothed from bleeding sire to son,
Though bard oil, Is ever won.'
And never had freedom nobler amides to work out the poetic
prophecy than Hungary sow cans in the illustrious Kos-
suth, the valiant Beta, finny, Dembinski, Klapks, Vettor,
Dentinal', Ferczal,Aelich, and Riatard Guyon. That more
than British sympathy may strengthen the heroic bead, we
this dal petition lir beloved sovereign to susiond the Fo-
reign Enltstment cc', which prevents us sending immediate
succour to your rinks, and to acknowledge the independence
of the Hungariaa nation. In the cause of Hungary we re
cognise the nuns of justice, freedom, and civiliniou, sad
they who would shrink from you in your day of peril, are
unworthy of the blessings the triumph of such a cause con.
firs on men."
Lord D. STUART reeemid mach cheering to move the
fallowing resolution :
That this meeting looks with unmitigated abhorrence on
the joint efforts of the Amnion sad Bassin monarchs to
extinguish the freedom of • gallant statics in the blood of its
heave iohabitants. That the infamy of the invasion is only
equalled by the atrocious cruelties meshing the progiess 05
the invaders, and that the address just rend, expressive of
our admiration and sympathy he forwarded wilts 'breve men
et Hungary with the least puesib'e delay."
The Tendon on which the Hungarians felt compelled to
take take up arms was, whether the ministers were to be
nepoasible to the people or the sovereign. The Emperor of
Austria decided that they should be responsible to him, end
hence the remit. The Hungarians bad enjoyed a comfit's.
tin similar to our owe, sad like us had struggled to make is
letter ; but when they Introduced • sweeping reform
into it an attempt was made to deprive them
of it altogether. He empathised with the Hun-
garians because we were a protestant nation, and as
nth attached to religious and civil liberty. We sympathised
with them because we were a brave, and also because we
were a humane nation. We could not brook the scenes
which were enacted by the Austrian and Russian authorities.
By the last accounts remind, • noble Hungarian, blllnr
the offl!e of inspeetorsgeserrel, of the protestant faith,
had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the
Austrians, was interrogated, and giving an answer rather
independently he was forthwith publicly flogged. Another
reason for sympathy with Hungary was, that she had always
been distinguished for her love of tree trade. We knew that
the commercial advantage to this country arising from our
connexion with the Units d States ergs ten times greater
than it would be if that country bad not achieved its inde-
pendence. So in a few years, if Hungary were independent.
might we expect our trade with her to be like that of the
United States. If there were 20 millions of free-
men on the ether side of the Atlantic, them were
15 millions of freemen in Hungary. Now, Hun-
pry was a country having but few maafeetues,
but whose soil was is the highest degree rich and rodeos
live, and whose people would be most glad to exchange their
corn, maim, win., oil, tobacco, &c., for our manu
and their produce rot our iron, and cotton, and lia=
cutlery, and china, and silks, and stationery—an int
alike profitable and agreeable to both eountriZillisC
Heagarians, moreover, being willing to admit ever
Heeds as • moderate rate of duty, whereas that
imposed by Austria was altogether hostile. (Chien.)
This view of the matter was beginning to be understood by
the merchants and manufacturers of Raglan'', and in proof
of it he might be permitted re read • letter he had received
some mown ago. from the head of a most respectable
firm is Glasgow. He had been stigmatised as • mere send-
statwist in polities, bac the ground he was now speaking
Vim was of an eminently practical description. The letter
ma Was :
My. Llndividselly I read with pleasure the
ilea Ormond Ben's hose to your lordship, and teal
deeply to the issue of Hungarian independence, on the
treased of its bearing on tree freedom in religiose, paid•
ed, and commercial interests, all of which are at stake in
the nue of the struggle. Austrian dominion in Hungary
impale very high restrictive duties on articles of meassise-
tare. as imported into the latter country. Inmate these
on the item of pig, or cast-iron, rolled iron, sad sisettirse,es
an index to those imposed on other articles, and essamet
such priers as paid by the Hungarian governesest with'
what they an be furnished from Scotland, as an Was.
mint to open a connexion in commerce.
First, viz .—llungarian prices paid under Austrian tale:
let. Coo iron, 71. per ton, delivered in River Save.
Rolled iron, 221.
Sheet iron, aai. si
Second, viz. : —Hungarian prices, if admitting Seciteh
iron:
lot. Cast Iron, V. lOs. per ton, delivered in River Save.
Rolled iron, 101.
Sheet iron, 121. ss
These Agoras are very striking, and show clearly what an
advantageous opening for British commerce that hitherto
closed kingdom presents to us. My immediate business lays
In these very articles named, and in eider to facilitate the
formation of connexions in Hungary, your knowledge of
Mesons of influence there would be invaluable, as a medium
of meals, for future operations.
He had, in reply, given his correspondent the best informa-
tion in his power, but the party had been enable to carry
them into effect from the obstacles interposed by Austria,
though the Hungarians were willing enough to trade
with as on the most favourable terms. In our days
especially testimonials were very much in tuition : any one
who did anything deserving the approbation of his fellow
citizens had forthwith • testimonial presented to him, the re-
al, of a public subscription. He could not but think that
the Hungarians had deserved well of this country, and had
merited a subscription. (Cheers.) The working cleans in
the metropolis and in several provincial towns had already
seta amble example by subscribing • proportion of their bard
sander to this noble purpose ; only that morning he had
received a le'ter from some generous minded operatives of the
little togs Horsham, asking him whether they could for-
wards their subscriptions to the gallant Hungarians.
(Chem)
Mr. PROUT soconded the resolution. He was an old re-
former, and had long watched the progress of events, but he
never recollected such enthusiasm as that which had been
treated throughout England on behalf of the Hungarians.
Th. Hon. Mr. WHARTON moved the third resolution,
as taloa
"That jutiee and policy alike justify the British govern-
ment in at once acknowledging the independence of Hun-
Pry, sad tout a petition be pretested on annals isi the