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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1.

THE closing none ensued yesterday in the House
of Lords was eminently fitting and appropriate. The
legisiative season has been occupie d with attempts at
enacting a variety of tragic parts, and it has termi-
nated in a case of actual suicide. In proportion as
the accents of theatrical distress were ineffective, be-
cause they were feigned, so is the contrast afforded
by genuine madness and disaster strong, and its tone
startling and impressive. The audience that beard
without emotion the professional fury of Lord
BROUGHAM, and yawned when, for the seventh
time this session, Lord ABERDEEN tore hie
diplomatic hair—listened with unaffected wonder
to the old man's tale, told by Lord RODEN, and gee d
with silent astonishment at the Grand miner of the
Orangemen, as he stood before them recounting with
uccanscious earnestness the extraordinary transac-
tions in which be bed recently borne an almost in-
credible and hitherto oncredited part.
All party imputation., or personal attacks, or melo-
dramatic airs of hatred or resentment, fade into ne-
ttling, when compared with a deliberate case of fele
de se. Such was the case of Lord RODEN, and to
the sense of their necessary inferiority to his simple
eloqu-rice on the occasion in question we doubtless
owe the sigr Noma silence obee reed by all the other
members of his party. His lordship began the even-
ing's entertainment, and eas allowed to finish him-
aidL A brief and formal epilogue was spoken by
Lard LANSDOWNE when he had done ; but it rather
hinted than expresso d what the verdict of the audience
ouht to be ; and left every one to take his own moral
out of the singular performance.
Few people probably have forgotten that upon the
intelligence being received of the outrages perpe-
trated by armed bands of Oraagemen, at Castlewellan,
on the 12. h July, a motion for inquiry was made in
the House of Commons, and supported by several of
the ablest men on both sides of the Speaker's chair.
Hard words were unquestionably used in commenting
on the conduct of the magistracy on the occasion;
land terms of energetic denunciation were no doubt
employed with reference to the encouragement
afforded by Lord RODEN to the assemblage in arms of
these murderous associations, and the sanction given
by him t 3 ties turbulent and dangerous processions.
After a fortnight's deliberation, his lordship comes
forward in his place as a peer, and proposes to enter
into a fall and explicit defence of himself against all
who had assailed him. He recapitulates the princi-
cipal charges mede against him. He cites with indig-
nant scrupulosity the very words of his chief
accuser. And while with a disdainful charity he
repudiates all desire of recrimination, he solemnly
declares that the entire tale is false, and that he will
substitute in each particular the real and unvarnished
truth for the fable founded upon it.
Whereupon all ears were anxiously inclined to
bear the novel story; and confident were many that
strange discrepancies would appear in the authentic
narrative from that which the Mate public and the
impatient Commons had believed. But great did the
amszemeat grow when step by step the injured earl
proceeded to explain, not how he was absent from the
scene alleged to have taken place in his demesne at
Tollymore, but that he actually participated therein;
not that he was a silent or passive spectator, but an
enthusiastic orator there ; not that the affair was im-
provised or accidental, but pre-arranged ten days be-
fore; not that tt e aspect of the multitude whom he
feasted and harangued was deceptively peaceable. but
that ee saw hundreds of them armed, though certainly
not all! In mute astonishment the peers listened to a
confession uttered in the ace nts of pious and
triumphant vindication. He told them what the
deliberations were that led to the marching on the
"glorious anni‘ersary of the D•ty•ne": how he had
modestly declined at nrst the honour of reviewing this
standing army of civil war; but how, at length, he
had given the assurance that if the ledges chose to
assemble, his gates never would be clued against
them. With graphic particularity he detailed the
approach of the procession to his house, and the rea-
son why:he requested them to move on to another
part of the rounds;g how the noise might disturb
an invalid if they did not do so, and how a plat-
form for thou who wished to speak, and refresh-
ments for those who desired to drink, awaited them
at the spot assigned ; how docilely they obeyed,
and how affectionately he accompanied them.
Touching the liquor, his lordship pleaded much in
the style of the unhappy fair the blame of whose
frailty was to be proportioned to the size of its fruit.
His slanderers had spoken of barrels of strong beer, as
it he would administer stimulants to armed men. There
were certainly some barrels emptied on the occasion,
he would admit, but part had been intended for
another purpose, and he emphatically declared that
the beer " was small beer," and of course not strong.
Finally, Lord RODEN reads faithful report of his own
speech to " the brethren ;" and we imagine that few
in reading it will marvel at the manner in which it
appears to have been taken by those to whom it was
addressed. With the ordinary words of course
about loyalty and moderation, it nevertheless con-
tained abundant reminiscences of past conflict and in-
centives to continued alienation and antagonism of
creeds, to the one essential and inveterate spirit, in
short, on which the system of Orangeism is founded.
The armed multitude cheered and filed off before
their chief. He returned to his dwelling, and they
went on their way. Whither that way led we, un-
happily, too well know. Ere the sun had set houses
had been sacked or consigned to the flames, children
and women had been maimed or killed, and on the
green hill-side bleeding urines lay of men who, in
the morning, had been Joyous in the strength
of youth and health. Do we impute intentional com-
plicity to Lord RODEN in these horrible results of
that disastrous day ? God forbid ! We are certain
that no man of just or impartial mind can read his
defence of himself and dream of so accusing him. But
beyond the terms of that defence it is unnecessary to
go in order to perceive how singularly unfit are "an
like him to be entrusted with the grave responobthty
of preemie& the public peace. Lord RODEN sap he
saw before him a multitude numbering perhaps in all
two thousand, marching with banners and music in
party procession, and a certain portion of them beer-
tog arms. Yet it never for a moment struck him
that there was anything illegal or improper theism I
Argument or reasoning in such a case would be
absurd. Lord LANSDOWNE has clearly and without
contradiction pronounced the opinion which all com-
petent lawyers, and we may add all men of common
sense, entertain as to the gross illegality which never
occurred to Lord RODEN'S mind. One question only
remains, and it is this—what does Lord CLARENDON
intend to do, in order to redeem the character of the
government from the suspicion of indifference or
weakness in the matter?

Mammon the cause of the gallant Hungarians
depends altogether, for this campaign at least, upon
themselves, it must be gratifying and useful to find
Englishmen of all ranks start up, as in the great
Marylebone meeting of Monday, to express their
sympathies and their eagerness to serve so holy
a cause. We only regret that such a movement did
not take place months ago, and perhaps by its enthu-
siasm and unanimity have deterred Russia from the
decided step which it has taken of placing constita-
tionalism and national independence under its ban.
Lord DCDLEY STUART stated fully the nature of
the war, which was not that of socialism or even of
demo:racy, but a war for ancient rights, as impera-
tive as if our own constitution was invaded, and as if
we were called to fight for it. We were glad to see
Lord DUDLEY STUART is the chair. This was a kind
of identification, forced on Europe by the Russians
themselves, of the great causes, hitherto distinct, of
Poland and Hungary, both of which, if suppressed,
will form one running and virulent sore in the side

of the great despotic monarchies, extending from the
Baltic to the Black Sea, and baffling their every effort
to form anything like a stable and tranquil despotism.
The ether speakers were equally enthusiastic, (gamily
eloquent. But the great doubt parvaded all of what
to do.

We fear there is nothing left but:to bide the events
of the campaign. And there is every hope that
should GIOROEY sneered in crossing the Theme, and '
joining his forces to the Hungarian armies behind ,
that formidable Sae, that then the united military
powers of Russia and of Austria will fail of reducing
these gallant men for this campaign. It will then '
be for the lovers of Hungarian independence, and
the admirers of Hungarian resistance, to see whether
something might not be done to counteract that fear-
ful coalition of the two military despotisms.
The Daily News is justly proud of the tribute so
generously paid to it at this great meeting. Eager
to act as the organ and as the supporter of wise and
jest liberalism all over the world, it is not
without honor that we have observed the
league of despots show itself not only in a
junction of their legions on the Danube,
but in a coalition of almost all the old European
organs of the press against the cause of liberty and
independence. It is impossible that this can proceed
from chance, impossible that it can proceed from mere
conservative fear. There is something more in it.
It is a proof that our press has fallen under the
influence of Russian and Austrian diplomacy • and the
source,' established for furnishing the English people
with impartial information have been poisoned by
foreign interests, foreign br nality, foreign tyranny. We
are glad therefore to find a solemn protest against the
backsliding of our contemporaries uttered at a meeting
of a great metropolitan parish—the district, too, in
which wealth, birth, intellect, and trade, are univer-
sally
.combined and interwoven.
It is remarkable that this universal sympathy for
the Hungarians should pervade the English race. It
is as great in the United States as in our own pre-
views, and a numerous and effective legion was raised
the other day in New York, ere its enthusiastic leaders
considered the difficulties in the way of transporting it
to Hungary. It is lamentable to think that in such a
cause, at such a time, the French should be back-
ward ; that no sympathy or generous feeling what-
ever should be displayed by its public or its_ press; and
that, as Mr. ROBERTSON said at the Marylebone
meeting, the President of the French Republic was,
or might be reckoned as, a Cossack Prince.
This is no doubt unjust. But, in truth, all men
and parties in France are paralyzed by fear; and
whenever they descry any principle or silt/mint
that is • source of power, they fall down and wor-
ship it. There are a set of idols, quite as vain and fra-
gile as the popular idol of socialism, which the French
President, his statesmen, and his generals, are each
day kneeling to. One is an idol called Order, on the
altar of which they are sacrificing every liberty.
LOUIS NAPOLEON made the most absurd prostration
of himself and his dignity before this idol in Ham
prison, where he asked pardon of public opinion for
having once invaded the realm of LOUIS PHILIPPE.
Prince Louts NAPOLEON divides his time between
passing reviews, attending masses, and bolding coun-
cils. To worship, first the army, then the priesthood,
and lastly the body of mcnarchic futctionaries who
constitute the priests of Order,—this is the business of
hie life. To humble, and to kneel, and to act the hy-
pocrite before each ephemeral idol of the day, without
having one princip'e or sentiment of his own, is the
policy of the heir of the great NAPOLEON.
Of all the ludicrous farces which the French have
played in this way, the most ludicrous certainly is
that of General OUDINOT at Rome, or Cardinal
OretNor, as the Romany call him. A knowledge of
his proceedings we obtain from OUDINOT himself,
who suppressed every journal in Rome in order to
establish in their stead one of his owe. This journal
records Ovnirear's doings day by day. It seems
that one of the devices of the general has been to get
a successor to GICEBOACCIIIO, the great popular
favourite and statesman. OUDINOT has found this

succorer in a fellow whom be has styled HAN-
NIBAL THE LlrrLe. When Cardinal Ountrar had
gone through the ceremony of the great mass at
the Lateran on the 15th, HANNIBAL was appointed
to address him, and HANNIBAL did so in the name of
every Roman family who were eager to welcome the
French, and to restore the authority of Pope and
priesthood. HANNIBAL then protested in the meat
naive manner that be was not paid for what he was
then doing, but that it was the spontaneous produce
of his liberty and confidence.
Cardinal Ot: DINOT replied to HANNIBAL THE LITTLE
in terms which the J;,urnal de Borne duly records.
France. he slid, woo the. /ootroosoot of Providence in
restoring the Pupe, and proud he was to enact Erance
on that providential occasion. He did not make war
on the Humane, and be had spared them the horrors
of war, because the Romans boasted to be true
catholic', like the French, and the French and
Romans were members of the some family, sons of the
same father, and alike the children uf Gou !

This eloctiient apostrophe Cardinal OUDINOT wound
up by shouting Viva Dieu, which, in plain English,
means Long live God Almighty, a blasphemy and an
absurdity which he followed up by wishing the same
long life to religion and the Pope.
Are not the French ashamei of such servile, such
blasphemous, such beggarly buffoonery ? There
was, at leant, some originality in NSF°.
LEON'S repeating the Mahonutan symbol of faith
and exclaiming within view of the Pyramids,
that GOD was great and that Msnomrr was his
prophet, a profession of faith taker, literally by his
follower, General MENOCT, who turned Mahometan
altogether. But there is nothing even serious in the
mock piety of the miserable,farcesr, OUDINOT.
While the French have thus fallen so low—it is to
be hoped not irreparably so—we recur to English
meetings in favour of the Hurgarian cause with
pride.

The following comes via Germany :
SCHAFFHAUSEN, JULY 25.—The newspaper
here says, so late back as the 23rd even, that all
negotiations have failed respecting the liberation of
the Hessians in Biisingeo, and that oonriere have been
now sent to Carlsrube (more likely to Gen. V.
Peucker's or to the Prince of Prussia's head quarters)
and also to Bern.

BERME, JULY 23.—The federal council hu issued
a circular to all the federal cantons, respecting the
violation of territory by the company of Hessian
troops, which disarmed and occupied the village of
Butmigen, that is enclosed on three sides by the
canton of Schaffbauseo. This affair induces the-Fede-
ral Council (the diet) :-Ist, to augment to 8,000
men the division already stationed on the northern
frontier of Switzerland ; 2nd, to call out two more
divisions into the federal service, each of which is to
be 8,000 strong, and each to be composed of each
species of armed troops ; 3rd, to station on piquet
the whole remaining force of the federal contingent ;
4th, to summon the cantons Basic-town and Basle-
country, Aargau, Zurich, Schaffhausen, and Thurgau,
to station also their militia on piquet for the present';
3th, to empower the federal commissariat and the mili-
tary commander in case of need to summon more
troops to thefederal service; 6th, to convoke the fede-
ral assembly for the 6th of August. The chief com-
mand is temporarily conferred on Gen. Dufour, and
Colonel Zimmerli is named chief of the staff. Colonels
Omar, Abundi and Boutems are chosen as com-
manders of the divisions.

ALARMING COLLISION ON THE NORTH UNION
RAILWAT.—As a special engine, despatched from Lytham
with a carries' containing Dr. Robinson, of hiancherter,
was proceeding on Wednesday morning last. about half-past
four o'clock. on the North llnioa Railway, the flange of the
wheel, when about 200 yards beyond Leyland station, ran
along the line foe 40 or 50 yards, and all of a sudden the en-
gine by some accidental means unknown, sprang on the
other line directly in front of a powerful luggage engine that
wee conveying a train to Preston. At might be expected, a
fearful collision took place, several of the goods waggons
being smashed, and the two engines damaged to a con-
siderable extent. The ground for a number of yards
was ploughed and raked up, and the engine driver of
the express was thrown over a hedge into an adjoining
field, but escaped, as well as the driver of the goods
engine, unhurt. The carriage containing Dr. Robinson was
thrown on the bank, but that gentleman sustained no in-
jury, and reseeded onward by the mail train that soon
after arrived. After the occurrence a platelayer on the line
hastened to Preston and gave notice of the accident, upon
which all the porton, together with Mr. Pest, the surveyor
of the locomotive department, were sent down to the place
by the mail, to render all necessary assistance, and to transfer
the bags luggage, and passengers from one mail to another.
After the mail had gone the line was soon cleared, so that
none of the submuent trains during the day were impeded
on their route. The speed at which. the engine was running
when the accident took plate, was, we understand, about
thirty miles an hour.—Preston Guardian.