The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-27 00:00:00

GERMANY.

A conference was held at Ilanover on the 22nd li
betwe:m MM. Jansen and Meyer on the part of Old-
enburg, M. hitch, of Prussia, and M. Kleuze, of Ha-
hover, to negotiate for the entrance of the Grand
Duchy into the New Zollvcrein.
The Prussian plenipotentiary to the Bund has
given notice that if any more garblri extracts from
the journals of the Diet arc published as official in
the FranAl,rt Gazette, Prussia will publish the pro-
ceedings in extent°.

BERLIN, Dec. 2t.
A report circulated in the newspapers, to the effect
that the Prussian government had protested against
the admission of Hesse Cassel to the Diet, as long as
M. Hessen')Hug remained minister in that state, has
not been contradicted by the Hessian journals. It
will be remembered, that M. H. was lately con-
demned by a Prussian court to three mouths' impri-
sonment on a charge of embezzlement.
At Vienna, a correspondent of the Weser Zeitung,
Dr. Ouster Freund has been condemned by court-
martial to three years' imprisonment.
A telegraphic despatch, of 13th inst., from Con-
stantinople announces that the French ambassador,
M. Lavalette, has received unequivocal orders to re-
main at his post, and to continue the negotiations
about the Holy Sepulchre.

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- UNITED STATES.
KOSSUTH IN NEW YORK.

Yesterday afternoon the Humboldt arrived off
Cowes, on her way to Havre, with the !nails for
England. She left New York on the l:ith inst,
and brings 600,000 dollars in specie, chick Ameri-
can gold.
In the sitting of the Senate of the 12th inst. Mr.
Cosi brought :up his motion relative to the firing
into the Prometheus by the British brig-of-war
Exprtse. His resolution was as follows:
Resolved,—That the President of the United States be
requested to communicate to the Senate, if not ie
with the public interest, any information he may hare re-
ceived respecting the tiring into the American ,team-.hip
Prometheus by a British vessel of war, in Noreriber
near Greytown, on the Mosquito coast, and at.. what luta-
sares have been taken by the executive to astert do the state
of the facts, and to vindicate the honour of the country.
The resolution was adopted.
The Koseuth resolution was then brought up.
New York was still busily occupied in doing
honour to Kossuth. On Tuesday, the oth inst.,
and the following day, tho illustrious Magyar
received a great number of visitors, depute-
lions, and addresses. Ile replied to addresses
from the state of 'Virginia, from Philadel-
phia, the Young Men's Democratic Com•eittce, the
New England Society, the New York btr, the resi-
dent Hungarians, the American and Fors ign Anti-
Slavery Society, from the citizens of Newbury, from
Brroklyn, from :Middletown, Connecticut, the
methodist clergymen of New York, Bro dyn, Wil-
' liamsbury, and vicinity, the Industrial Con.rress,lve.
The replies made by Kossuth to nearly ail of t'sto
' addresses were very brief. He excused him-
I self from speaking at great length, I.y plead.
fag serious indisposition, and stated that since
his arrival in America he had suffered mud. froth the
spitting of blood. On Wednesday, however. although
still suffering from illness, he spoke at coasiderable
length in reply to the Baltimore deputicion. His
speech consisted of a succinct explaniti..4 of the
true position of Hungary, the nature of t].e principle
for which she strug.tled, and the fatal , queues
of Russian interference to tho natioua: c.unac. lin
concluded as follows :
I want to ask you a question. Suppose Cin inhabitants
of Cuba rose to-morrow to change its goverameot ; and sup-
pose that Englund, France, Portugal, or whatever power,
tent out a fleet to aid Spain in preventing tle, C tbans from
chancing the form of government awl tlin.w,,ig off the
Spanish yoke; would America permit this in' creation?
(Loud cries of "No, no, no.") No, I am tooth'. nt she
would not, awl this is all I ask her to do in Ow case oi Hun-
gary. What is the difference between Cuba nod Hungary?
The one is six days distant—the other eighteen That
is all. There is no principle, therefore, in the e ist —it is
, but the difference of two or three days. (Applause.)
On Thursday the me tropolitan bannut t to Kossnth
I was given at the Irving House. It is described in
the New York papers as being a magniti• eat affair.
I There were about four hundred persons pr. sent. The
New York Herald says of Kos3utli's spetch at this
demonstration, that it is by far the it, (attest ho
lever made in the English language." It occupied
two hours and a half in the delivery. We give the
more important portions from a report which would
fill nearly six of our columns.

When I consider the sympathy of the people of the United
States for the cause of Ilungury so generally tarn., i 33
to be almost universal, and so resolutely proneune.sl as
men pronounce those feelings which are innoi ~.l t, S.
followed by noble and great deeds, I would 'e,: iin :Si
to take your generous and ter the restoration of ley sat'
land to its sovereign independence, already as era,
in principle, and for me nothing left to do but to
into a negotiation about the arrangement of the t'
were my confident hopes not checked by that ids i
interference in foreign, chiefly European affair+, es'
cording to the numerals testimonials of your Ma,'
guialied politicians, we are told to be cue of the
leading principles of the policy of the Unit,'
highly respect the source of this conviction, gaol. men
source is your religious attai Went to the (leach, s of to_,.
eat men who highly proved to all posterity tl. ir wisd m,
bequeathing to you the immortal work of that cenoim-
tou which, aided by the unparallsled benefit of nature,
raisest y uu, in the slier t period of 74 years' from th precarieur
position of an infant people to the prseligious strenst:i of
a glint nation. But, while I acknowledge the wisdom
of your attachments to the fundamental docrines of
the founders of your united republic, I beg lease,
with equal frankness, to state that, in my opinisn,
there can be scarcely anything more dauifferoua to
the progressive deveiopmcnt of whatever nation than
to take for a basis that which is none—to take fur a prin-
ciple that which is but the convenience of a passing situa-
tion—to take for substantial that which is but accidental—
or to take for a constitutional doctrine that which is but the
tuommtary exigency of administrative policy. Let ate
suptases gentlemen, that yonder doctrine of non-iiis r-
ference was really bequeathed to you by you Was:in:s-
tens (and it was not, I will prove it afterwards), and
let me even suppose that your Washingtens ininarted
such a meaning to yonder supposed (latrine, elirsh
were equivalent to the words of Cain, " Ain I my
brother's keeper ?" which supposition would be, of coerse,
a sacrilege ; but suppose all this—and I believe that I am
even under such suppositions—l may be entitled to a-::, is
the dress which well suited the child, still convert- of t , :he
full grown man—nay, to a giant, which you are ? Weed
it not be ridiculous to lay the giant int., the eh:Al
cradle, and to sing him to sleep by a lullaby 1 In those
times of the foundation of the United States.
were an infant people, and the lass. el
your comparatively then not large territory, suns
loose over your puerile limbs. In those times, yon l. of,
of course, nothing to do but to grow, to grow, and t, _resin.i
But now you are so far grown that there s nu fol-,io
power on earth from which you have anything to key lot
your own existence—for your own security. This ls ing
your present condition, you have entered into tit es aid
stadium of political existence ; the destination el esii;,:i is
not only to exist for yourself privately, but to cart e• a
member of the great human family of nations, haste; the
right to all claims which are duo from that family t es.mis
every one of its full-grown members, but also engasel to
every duty which that great family has the right ti clam
from everyone of its full-grown members. The eery
existence of your great country, the prim:ie.. s upon
which it is founded, its geographical pesition. its
present scale of civilisation, and all its meral
and material interests, would lead on your isopls, is):
only to maintain, but necessarily more awl niece a de-
velop your intercourse with the world. Then, of sure,
being in so many respects linked to the world, connceted
with the world, you can have neither the will n, r be in the
possibility to remain indifferent to that outward wesSl yeti
are, in so many respects, connected with. And it von, .11.
not remain indifferent, so you must feel resolved to rat
your own self-c insistent weight into that balance net week
es
the fate and condition of the world is weighed. In aw. 3,
the glorious Republic of the United States must feel 3.•
solved to be a power on earth—a power amongd the nation
or itself would be doomed to continual d, cay, :tad ,s4l
cease to be great, glorious, and free. You are a poen ron
earth. You must be a power on earth. So, of course, son
must also unhesitatingly accept all the natural curtsey toss.
of this situation. You cannot allow that whutever p.'sof
should dispose of the fate of that great family of mookiad,
of which yon are such pre-eminent member., or el.: yof
would resign your proud position and mien your
still prouder future, and be • power on earth DO
more. So, I hope I have sufficiently shown, that pl,ould
even that doctrine of non-interference have been ..ti.
blished by the founders of your republic, that which smug
have been very convenient to your infancy would not nig
be convenient to your manhood. It is a be utiful word of
Montesquieu, that republics are to be founded on virtue.
And you know that virtue, as sanctioned by our Chrht,as
religion, is but an effective exercise of a principle—rat that
great principle, " Thou shalt do to others as thou ilea-int
others to do to thee." So lam confident that it were 'Ale
cient to me to rely simply upon the question I have cow is
urge upon the virtuous feelings of your generous republi-
can hearts, and upon the consistency of your piims4'l'''
but still, I beg leave to mention, also, in material r esr3i
some essential differences between your present coudinas
and that of yore. Then your infant republic, co:m.o,ld
thirteen states, was restricted to the borders of the site
lantic—now your giant republic is spread to the (het d
Mexico and the Pacific, and your territory is a world. Yot
! right hand reaches Europe over the waves, while yea .."'
baud reaches, over the Pacific, the cast of Asia: and their,
in the midst of two great continents, there you stand, is :
proud immensity, a world yourself. Then you wire
small people of three millions and a half; now you eres
I mighty nation of twenty-four millions ; and more teen nine
• teen millions out of these twenty-four are ove r pa I. z •?'
null n4esgvt:uarsnyfac,iisolt,nerit
htegas
meow territory, the richest of the world, employ,' :n t,ll.
cultivation of the soil, that honourable occupation, a,l'is!
. generous sentimemsnomtsu
and the most faithful fosterer oral), those straisht, uiel,a,,,
proved to be the most inexhatisteile
every young, every great, every beautiful virtue net ne.
to man. Add to this coon !oration that this neatens. es%
most unwaveringhoicf Ipublictheewoalf c
of
constant
hanieu'llttli.,:i.uflf:rce:!tal
cultural interest, which, desiring large mark.:',
....
! affording at the same time a solid basil also to ;.:Z:
' manufacturing indu -try, and to year commerce, 4
i'd_
' land in such an immense proportion, makes such a e %,,,,
less difference between the infant republic of the t:b,
of Wushington and your present giant repunlis
~..,
Cough you very well may be attached to yestr, as,Tl‘.
constitutional principles, because the pnueipies 0. s_
berty are everlastiogly the same ; but in raped tD7
exigencies of your policy, it is impossible not to heel i
..,S'l
if you are to be regulated in your policy 1,5 161% is
then your country has other interests t:-day than _
had then; and it' ever you are to be regulated lay' 04
policy by the higher consideration of principles, th" no
are already strong enough to feel that the time ha` Co
do so. And I, standing here before you to plead the, c,,,3_
of oppreised humanity—l resolutely declare that : ''',4.l-
- never again come a time when the elevation :...toi'
poliey to the high level of principles ideutitie awe r..
could prove either more glorious to you, or mole boa

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