The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-14 00:00:00

KOSSUTII.

The preparations for the reception of the Hun-
garian patriot in London are going on as favourably as
could be desired, and, judging from the amount of subscrip-
tions received, and the degree of enthusiasm displayed,
there is every probability of the demonstration being of a
most effective character. At a meeting of gentlemen inte-
rested in the object last evening, Mr. THORNTON HUNT in
the chair, the committee of arrangement presented a report
embodying the following recommendations :—" That the
order of proceedings in marking the arrival of Kossuth be
as follows :—That an address be presented to Louis Kossuth ,•
that a procession be formed, to welcome him on his arrival
in London ; that Kossuth be invited to a banquet, to be
given to him in the most spacious place obtainable; that a
permanent committee be formed to collect a public contri-
bution of funds fur the cause of llun,rary, Lobe placed in the
hands of Louis Kossuth on his return from America to Eng-
land." These recommendations were unanimously adopted.
Mr. Puma (the secretary) reported that ho had, by
the instruction of the committee, attended a meeting of the
German Agitation Committee the preceding evening, one of
their members (lit. Strauss) having on their part expressed
a wish to be informed of the nature of the intended Kossuth

demonstration. The address winch it was intended to pre-
sent to Kossuth had been laid before them, nod approved
of; and Dr. Tausenau, ono of their members, a friend of
Kossuth, promised to give the deputation every facility in
his power for obtaining an introduction to Kossuth. They
were further informed that the object was to get up an
English demonstration ; but if foreigners chow to join in
the procession, they would not be prevented doing so. At
the tame time, no delegate from any foreign body would
be recognised, as much for their own sakes as to give the
demonstration due effect on the continent. Were foreigners
admitted to the committee it would only give an excuse for
foreign powers to say that it was merely a plot got up by
foreign refugees.
Mr. T. Huai, the chairman, stated that the committee
appointed to obtain the use of a suitable building for the
banquet were not yet prepared to report. They bad soma
idea of obtaining Drury•-lane Theatre. (Cheers.)
The CHAU/MAN read an extract from the Progresso
of Turin, a letter from a gentleman who had met Kossuth
after his liberation at Genoa, and to whom the Hungarian
hero had expressed himself as foFows : " Whether I go, In
the next week, to America, to France, or to England, or
to whatever other region, my friends may be certain that I
shall be guided in my selection by a lively sense of those
duties to which my life and energies are consecrated."
Mr. Lastix announced that the West-end Shoemaker'
Society had come to a vote placing at the diposal of their
committee whatever funds they might deem it necessary to
contribute to this demonstration. (Hear, hear.)
Some routine business was trunsicted, and the meeting
adjourned.

An addrus to Kossuth from the Portreeve of St. Clear
hu been sent to the Mayor of Southampton for presenta-
tion. _ _

A number of ladies and gentlemen have been seen
the streets of Southamption with rosettes in their bosoms and
coats, formed of the llungaxian patriotic coloured ribbons,
scarlet white and green.
The Countess I'ulski, the celebrated Ifungarian authoress,
has arrived at Southampton.
The Southampton corporation committee appointed to
conduct the mariagemeut of the banquet to Koosuth, met
yesterday, and settled the programme of the toasts to be
given at the banquet. The usual loyal toasts will be given,
due homage will bo paid to tha virtues and genius of the
tarot didinguislied guest at the banquet, the illwdrious
Magyar Kossuth . the duties of national hospitality to tho
politically oppressed of all nations will be enunciated; and
the constitutional governments of Great Britain and of the
United States will be recognised as alike opposed and inimi-
cal to npublican
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