The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-24 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Goz.rtie, of the 18th inst., publishes a series
of regulations for the execution of the law of the lot
of August last, relative to the conversion of the debt.
The docu:nent tills four pages of the official journal.
The following are the clauses specially interesting to
the foreign creditors of Spain:

Art. 1. According to the law• of the Ist August, the debt
of the state is disided into lour classes, viz.:—The Three
per C,.nts Consolidated Jkbt, the Three per Cents. Dcferra d
Debt, and the Debts smeeptible of being redeemed of the
Ist on 12nd Class.

Chap. X.-Isaue.—Art. ;":0. The present Three per Cents.
Consolidated Perpetual I),lit, and that which, in virtue of
the existing legislation, must be is•uctl, may be exchanged,
at the option of the er..litor,,, for securities to bearer, and
..then to order, according to the 12th dame of the law of
the lot August.
Art. 41. The series and amount of securities which arc to
be issued conformably to the same law, arc the following :
Hume and Foreign Three per Cent. Deferred Debt.—
Securities of the series A, of 1,000 reds ; of the series 11, of
12,000 reels; of the series C, of 21,000 mats; of the series 1),
of 18,000 reels. _ _

Redeemable Debt of the First Clam.—Securities of the
series A, of 4,000 real. ; of the series B, of 10,000; of the
series C, of 40,000; of theacrics 1), of 80,000.
Ilume and Foreign Redrerimble Debt of the Second
Class—lltano Debt.—Securities of the series A, of .1,000
reals ; of the *tries 11, of 10,000; of the series C, ul 20,000;
of the series 1), of 50,000; of the series E, of 100,000.
Foreign Debt—The capital of the Foreign Redeemable
Debt Judi be represented in piastres, franca, and pounds
sterPng. at the exchanga agreed to fur the Three per Ccut.
Dtkrred Debt, viz.:—

Series.
A
B
E

riabtfel.
200
400
800
1,200
2,480
4,800

s.
.. 42 10 ..
.. 170 0
• Lti 0 ..
• .510 0 ..
• 1,020 0 ..

Francs.
1,080
2,160
4,230
6,480
12,960
25,920

. -
Art. 52. The new securities of the Three per Cent. Home
and Foreign Deterred Debt, regulated according to the
model approved of t) the government shall contain 48
coupons, corresponding with the 19 years during which that
debt it to preserve the denumiliation of deterred, and when
all those coupons thall be exhausted, it *hall be converted
into the Three per Cent. Conso.idated Perpetual Debt of
Spain.
Art. d 3. Negotiable inscriptions to order may be issued,
at the option of toe creditors, instead of securities to bearer
of the Home and Foreign Deferredi Debt, before and after
the tint issue, and the inscriptions may likewise be con-
verted into securities.

Art. Of. The issue of the inscriptions negotiable or to
order of the Home and Foreign Debt, shall take place in
Madrid, at the same time that they may be made payable
on another point.
Chap Xl.--Conversion.—Art. AS. The conversions now
affected, conformably to the legislation in vigour before the
publication of the law of the Ist August, shall be termi-
nated in the offices within 1.1 dap, according to the clauses
of said regulations.
Art. 59. The conversion of the entire Home Debt shall
take place at Madrid, and to that effect the parties inte-
rested shall deposit their respective claims in the special
office, established in the general department of the debt,
within the delay anal iu the form mentioned in the MUCCI
to be published fur that purpo-c.
Art. GO. The conversion of the Foreign Debt shall be
effected by the financial commissioners of Spain, in Lon-
don, Paris, and Amsterdam, under the orders of the gene-
ral direction, according to the form and within the delays
mentioned iu the present regulations. The parties inte-
rested maylikewise forward their claims to Madrid if they
desire to exchange them for equivalent securities of the
Home Debt.

Art. 61. The period of the convenion, and the form in
which it is to take place, 61,01 he announced in due course
in the official journals of and the provinces, and, u
respects the tin eign debt, in the principal journals of London
Pans, and Amsterdam.

Art. 62. In order to accelerate the operations, and to
place the parties iuterested in possession of their securities,
within the shortest possible delay, the presentation of the
documents to be converted will he acknowledged by three
certificate* (n la), one of w hich shall he delivered to the
party interested, with the number of his inscription and the
signature of the chief of the office charged with the conver-
sion, to serve as a guarantee.
Art. 63. The securities inscribed in the certificates of pre-
sentation, es well as the other documents and the receipts
of the interest of all classes, must bear the following super-
scription: "To the General Direction of the Public Debt,
for Conversion," with the date and the signature of the per-
son who delivers the certificates, and whose initials must
be affixed to the coupons.
Chap. Xlll.—Payment of the Interests and Domicile.—
Art. 83. The payment of the interests of the securities to
bearer of the Consolidated and Deferred Home Debt will
take place for the present at Madrid only.
Art. N. The payment or the interest of the inscriptions
to order will be paid at Madrid and in the capitals of the
provinces, as also, fur the priscut, in the cities of London
and Pori% according to the residence of the parties.
Art. Si. The demand for fixing the place of payment is
to be made to the Administration of the Debt with the same
formalities as those used in the conversion of the Debt.
I Art' 86. The place of payment being determined and the
'securities issued, notice shall be given respectively to the
Commissioners in Leaden and Paris, and to the governors
of provinces in which offices for registering the inscriptions
I shall be established.
I Att. 87. The payment of the interest on the inscriptions
I made payable to order will be made in London and Paris
by means of bills of exchange drawn on the offices of the
directors of the debt. The interest is to be paid in the pro-
vinces by the treasurers.
Art. 88. An account will he kept in the offices established
in London and l'aris, and in the provinces, of all the pay-
' meats made, and such payments are to be stamped on the
inscriptions.
Art. 89. The presidents of the commissions and the ac-
: countants in the provinces will make returns, the first of
the bills of exchange drawn by them to pay the inscrip-
tions, and the second of the payments amide by them, in
order that the amount may be entered on the books of the
commissioners of the debt.
The 14th chapter treats of the tale of the property in-
tended for the sinking (mid in articles 914,92nd, 93rd, 91th,
9Oth, 97th, and 98th. It is declared that the Directors
General of the Debt, to whom belong all that refers to the
sale of the property and rights of the State, will prepare the
sale of those properties, which is to take place both at Madrid
and at the chief town of each province, under the inspection
of the tribunals of the eaperior court, with all the formalities
established by the existing laws fur the sale of other descrip-
tions of national property. The public officer will declare
his opinion as to the legality of the operation, which shall be
referred to the apprabatim of the Junta. The rule, and re-
gulations from which the foregoing articles are extracted are

LISBON, Ocr. 19.
Since my last communication intelligence has been
constantly. reaching Lisbon from all parts of the
country declaring the extreme daring of civil
governors and other government authorities in using
every possible and open means to serve the cause of
theCahrals through the medium of the elections. This
has a tendency to bring new calamities on the coun-
try, for I am quite persuaded the people will never
succumb to a Cabralite yoke; and if the Duke of
Saldanha does not find a remedy in time for the
manifest perversion of authority by those who either
are Cabralites ur in their interest, he will find such
perplexity brought upon his government that he
will scarcely be able to extricate himself from the diffi-
culty. It is the especial office of the Minister of the
Interior to watch over and direct the conduct of the
authorities in question ' • even making them re-
sponsible for their subordinates. This minister,
however, at the eleventh hour, sends out of
his bureau a secret circular, not desiring
the civil governors to observe a strict impar-
tiality, but calling upon them to throw exalted
parties, whom he calls " factions," overboard, as they
are destroyers, persecutors and exclusive, and secure
a true representation. Here then the Minister of
the Interior has thrown down the glove at two
parties,the Cabralites and the Septembristas, lament-
ably forgetting that it is to the latter party the go-
vernment owes all its support and all its strength,
and which, if suddenly withdrawn, it could not stand
one hour; but he proposes to himself to counteract
the certain hostility of one party and the possible
hostility of the other by forming one of his
own, one which shall possess all the qualifications
of setting each at defiance and supplanting both.
This party may Weaned ujuste milieu, which Senhor
Rodrigo Magalhaes represents in his own person, and
which, beyond the precincts of his own brain, no-
where else exists in Portugal. This minister, ;hen,
has committed an error which may be more fatal to
the peace of the country than the threatened rising,
for which two different dates have already been given,
and we have yet to arrive at during the present
month. As the matter in question is paramount, I
must, however, inform your readers that when Sal-
danha with his lust colleagues could not go
on, because they were shaken by a slight
shock, that of the bare threat of a general officer
doubtfully supported, the ministry was re-formed
of Franzini, rigidly honourable ; Jervis, the repre-
sentative of the Septembristaa; Fontes l'ereira de
Mello; and Magalhaes. Franzini being too slow a
coach, resigned ; Ferran was brought in, and again
forced out, leaving Suldanha and the other three.
Magalhnes was the representative of intelligence,
ability, moderation, and skill; but Saldanha was the
life and soul, while the other three were but the
members of the body ; Rodrigo do Fonseca Magni-
haes, however, harbouring ambition which he
skilfully concealed, although his selfishness was
proverbial. His ambition, then, has been to
sit in the chair of the Count de Thomar,
conceiving that his Utopianism would be
able to support hint in it until he formed a
party—for it cannot be concealed that he was sus-
pected by all, and trusted by none; yet Saldanha
received him, because his moderation was a kind of
guarantee that no severe or exalted measures would
be adopted ; it is, however, not his, but Saldanha's
name that cements the fabric, and keeps the army in
such a tone that rebellion is checked. But Rodrigo,
without any consideration of how the elements of
discord are kept at bay, first began to try his power
in opposing the entrance of Ferrero into the cabinet;
although not successful, the cause of the exit of that
minister furnished him with fresh strength; and,there-
fore, when the re-entranee of Ferrao into the cabinet
was again debated, Rodrigo having gained over
Jervis and Fontes de Mello, and they having op-
posed it in the cabinet, he came in at their }teas
with his veto, to which Saldanha bowed. Thus the
question of Ferrite's entrance into the cabinet is finally
and negatively settled. This gentle but unerring
progress has inspired him, and by making Ferrao a
deadly enemy of the ministry, disgusting the Sep-
tenibristas, and, consequently, giving courage to the
Cabralites, he creates such a chaos that Saldanha
will not know to whom to look for sup-
port ; for each act of hostility to the Septem-
bristas is a positive support to the Cabralites. The
court, too, playing a doubtful if not decided game,
may conic to the aid of Rodrigo ; not for the purpose
of supporting him in the intrigue, but to make hint a
tool. This then is the prospect beheld at this
hour; to counteract which it almost seems necessary
that Saldatilia should lop off one of his members to
preserve the entire body from dissolution ; unless a
friendly voice should whisper into a certain ear,
" risk not a change of policy till the meeting of the
Cortes."

The following is the objectionable circular:

Sir,—l'erfectly certain that you are acquainted with the
political st.te of the country, and how much it behoves you
to be vigilant, that the factious, whatever colour they raise,
may not obtain predominance in the approaching electoral
conflict, I am convinced that you will exert every effort
within the compass of your duty, without compromising
the authority you exercise, with the most influential and
upright peraans in your locality, in order to secure a perfect
election. That will lie perfect in its effects which is not
the offspring of the spirit of ambition, and of the seta of
the exalted factions. Of thew, one pretends to carry us
far beyond the limits prescribed by the fundamental code
of the monarchy, destroying it, and establishing in its place
a visionary (impossible) system, the trial of which in other
' countries has been so fatal to the people ; the other, at-
tempt. under the appearance of a sacramental respect to
the same code, to rc•establish a government of deception
and tyranny, a perfect mockery of constitutional principles,
that same rule which has so often become odious to the
country, and armed citizens against citizens, placing in dan-
ger what must he most sacred to a faithful nation, loving
its monarch and its native institutions. To at oid these ex-
tremes ought to he the duty of all upright citizens, of all
worthy of the Portuguese name, and who prize as much
the independence us the liberty of the country, because
the country wilt lie in imminent danger of fulling into the
hands of one or the other of these destroying factions.
You know that only justice and respect to the law—equal
justice—tolerance, and conciliatory acts, can maintain in-
ternal peace ; but those factions are naturally exclusive
and persecutinz. And you also know that if the principles
of anarchy and the destruction of the institutions of the
fundamental law were to triumph, we should have given
them the pretexts they long for, under the colour of pro-
tection and aid, when we shall receive the taw of foreigners,
always hard, while shameful. In this case we shall have
one only bulwark against so many enemies—the constitu-
tional charter. Whatever alteration the Cortes may desire
to make in it, will only take place in the very few articles
which require modification. It belongs to the government
to propose it with indispensable temperance and delicacy.
to order that you thus proceed, and that the end may cor-
respond with the intention of the government, it is indis-
pensable that the great majority of the deputies of the
nation be prudent, sensible, liberal in the true sense
of the word, and have the necessary discernment
to appreciate our situation. I shall not prescribe
to you the means which you ought to adopt to
insure the end which is so much to be desired ; your pru-
dence will suggest them to you. But what I shall imme-
diately recommend to you is, a careful investigation of the
persons in your district, who are the most remarkable for
their sensibility, and conciliating in their disposition to
exercise the duty of deputies, noting those who will lave
the greatest probability of gaining the election, and point-
ing out the means to facilitate the election of each, or in-
dicate the obstacles that there may be to his triumph at
the poll (unto). The government will consider the latter
a most important service, which will greatly aid the lawful
exertions which you and the good and judicious citizens
must certainly employ in order to obtain the result which
we all desire.—l have the honour to be, &c.,
(Signed) RODRIGO OA FONSECA MAOALIIAENS.
Sept. 10, 1841.
To the Civil Governor of —.

With respect to the elections, the general opinion
seems to decide in favour of the Scptembristas, which
must drive the Minister of the Interior out of the
cabinet, unless the intrigue now in course be pre-
viously consummated : then the whole fabric tumbles
down, and will require the most skilful hand to re-
construct it.

The government has ordered pay for the month of
September, 1851, to twenty-seven departments, which
concludes that month's payment.
The agriculture of this country promises well
under the fostering and vigilant care of Ayres de Si
and his coadjutors. He is indefatigable in his en-
deavours to introduce the growth of tea and many
other articles indigenous to an Indian and African
climate and soil, as well as beet and other roots, the
natives of colder regions.
Ex., 5:11- to 1; discount of Lisbon Bank Notes, 2
per cent.

Despatches were receivod yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of South Australia. Despatches were
also received from the Governors of 110113 Kong, Ceylon,
Malta, and the Mauritius.

PARIS, O. 23.

For Fa Meoust.
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per (Mats ..... 133 911
MO 79
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PAILIe, Ocr. 23.—Versailles (left bank), 210; Paris
and atlas, 832 5.4 tens and Mown, 556 ..5; Manville' and
Avignon, 2112;; Strasbourg and Bale, 140 23 ; Canoe, 421 25; Bou-
logne and Amien., 256 2S; !),leans and lionlcaux, 381 25; 51nrtnetn.
456 23 ; Pariv and .trdabourg, a 5.,; Town! and Naiad% 237 20; lianas
and Havre, 207 SO.
MADRID, OCT. lA.—Three per Cents., 361; after
Bolsa, 361. Four per Cents., 147, ; after Bolsa,
Five per Cents., 131 ; after Bolsrt, 1111. Coupons, 8;
after Bolas, Ac. l'assives, 5 10-I6; after llolsa,
5 13-16. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 100. Exchange
on London, 50.73.

[By E!edric Teerraph.]
VIENNA, Ocr. 23.—Five per Cent. Mkalliques, 921.
Exchange on London, 12.14 ; on Paris, 1451.
BERLIN, Orr. 23. Voluntary Loan, 103;
National Debt, 841 ; Exchange on London, 6.221 ;
ditto Hamburg, 150;; ditto Petersburg, 105!;
ditto Vienna, h2l.
HAMBURG, OCT. 23.—Three per Cents. Inte-
rior, 33. Russian Four-and-a-Halt' per Cents., 961.
FRANKroter, Ocr. 23.—Five per Cent.
741. Three per Cent. Interior, —. Exchange on
London, 1191; on Vienna, 971.
ANTWERP, Ocr. 23.—Five per Cent. likalliques,
751. Five per Cent. Ardoins, 11. Three per
Cent. Inland, 35 ;. ltussian Four-and-a-Half per
I Cents., —. Exchange on London, 25.39.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 23.—Belgian Five per Cents., 97,Z.
Ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 94). Ditto, Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 50. Exchange on London,
25.39.

AMSTERDAM, OCT. 22.—Five per Cent. Maul-
liques, 711. Five per Cent. Ardoins, 11; ; Three
prr Cents. Interior, 3,1 1-16. Russian Four-and-a-
Half per Cents., 991. Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Inte-
grals, 571. Exchange on London, 11.90.

SPANISII ARMADA.—The following curious sta-
tistic has appeared in the Spanish paper purporting to coma
from Ferrol (perhaps front some archives there.) Return
of the Armada, called Invincible, with which Philip 11. of
Spain attempted to invade England :
Ships of the division of Portugal 12 431 guns
From Biscay
„ Guipuseoa
„ Castile
„ Andalusia
„ Let ante lO 324 „
rens 23 480 „
Galleysand small vessels

Total 132 3,232
It is much to be regrettel the flamber of men it not
given.

KOSSUTH IN ENGLAND.

(mow 001 OWN

The Indus arrived at Southampton from Gibraltar
at 2 o'clock yesterday morning, and brought intel-
ligence that konsuth had left Gibraltar on the 13th
instant, in the Peninsular packet Madrid, and that
the packet might be expected at Southampton yes-
terday. The utmost excitement prevailed at South-
ampton in consequence of this intelligence. A meet-
ing took place immediately of the Kossuth Town
Committee, and they reso ved upon the programme
of proceetlim, as to the reception. The Muyor having
been advised that Kossuth would arrive in the course
of the day, caused a notice to be issued to the mem-
bers of the town council to meet him in their robes
at the Town hull, to present the uddres.l voted to
the illustrious Kossuth.

11'Icen the Thames arrived at Southampton, about
raid.day yestei day, an immense crowd of per-
sons attended in the dock, in the hope of hearing
somethiug about the Madrid. Two or three other
steamers also came up the river in the course of the
day, and a crowd flocked to the water side and the
docks, thinking that each might be the Madrid.
l'recisele at two o'clock yesterday afternoon the
Madrid ;vas descried rounding the (.alshot Castle, at
the entrance of Southampton Water. The news flew
like wildfire through the town. The Mayor was
immediately made acquainted with the fact, and he
proceeded to the docks, and embarked on board the
quarantine boat with the Custom-house office's, and
the beat proceeded into the stream, to give the
Madrid pratique. The Mayor was dressed in plain
clothes, with a rosette of H Hungarian colours in his
coat. As the Madrid ran up Southampton Wafer a
fag was hoisted to show that she had some person
of distinrtion on hoard. All the yachts in the river
lowered their sails and flags in token of respect for
ll:south. As soon as pratique was granted, the
Mayor stepped on board, and was introduced to
Xcateuth by Captain Weeks, the commander of the
Madrid. All the suite of the Hungarian chieftain,
with the liassengers, stood round deeply affected
with the honour paid to the illustrious Magyar.
Madame Kossuth was then introduced to the Mayor,
but she was unable to speak, being so deeply
affected. Kossuth's children were then presented to
the Mayor—three in number, two boys and a girl,
Yore interesting children. The Mayor kissed each
of them. Kossuth himself was deeply affected during
this interview, and could scarcely utter a word. The
Mac °rand Kossuth then went l'elow nto the sa luon, and
there entered into conversation. The Mayor informed
Itieksuth of the reception he would meet with, of the
deep sympathy which thousands of people in this'.
country telt for him, and the gratitude and
pleasure which all would experience at his safe arri-
val in England.
It is worthy of mention, that Kossuth is much
like the prints of hint in the booksellers windows.
lle is about the middle height, with the hair from
the hack of his head combed towards the crown. He
has a moustache, and a bushy beard which comes
under the chin. When speaking, his earnestness

and benevolence are most striking. His looks betray
the possession of great intellect and a mild disposi-
tion. Misers isof'a light colour. Madame Kossuth
is a must interesting looking person, and does not
look as if adapted fur the sorrows she has undergone.
Nothing euuld exceed the deep interest she took in
all the tokens of respect shown to her husband.
ln talking with the Mayor in the saloon, Kossuth
prised the hand of the Mayor as the latter told
Lim of all the kind welcomes that awaited him, and
seemed to acquiesce in everything that the Mayor
proposed during Kossuth's stay in Southampton, as
to taking up his residence with his worship, mid as
to the bauquet and public meetings that were to he
got up in his honour. After a lung conversation in
the saloon, Kossuth and the Mayor took wine toge-
ther, and pledged health and'happiness to each other
in the most affectionate manner. By this time the
packet had arrived at the entrance of the dock, and
the Mayor escorted Kossuth on deck. Here an in-
describable seem met their eves. The Mayor and
Kossuth paraded the decks with thousands of people
all round the edge of the docks waiting to give the
liberated exile a magnificent reception. Cheers from
an immense multitude rent the air as the Madrid
passed through the mouth of the ducks. At the spot
axed for the berth of the ship, a stupendous crowd of
persons had assembled. Barriers were erected to
keep the people front the ship, but they were broken
down, and the masses pressed to the edge of the duck.
A large party of Hungarians were present, and
greeted Kossuth with maddened enthusiasm. The
moat endearing terms apparently that 'the Hunga-
rian language would admit of were shouted out to
Lim. It hilt in the duels, a number of persons came
on board to greet him—among them were the Count
and Countess l'ulski. The interview between the
count and countess and Kossuth and Madame Kos-
suth was of the most affecting kind. They could not
leak for several seconds; nll that surrounded them
turned aside to shed tears. Kossuth also embraced
Mr. Croskey, the American Consul, most affection-
ately.

It was some time before the illustrious strangers
could land, the mob was so great, anti so great was the
anxiety to embrace him. A hand of music was in
the ilekk to welcome him, and a splendid equipage
to convey hint through the town. rostilions and
horses were gaily decorated: two splendid Item- 11
garian lingo were affixed to the carriage, on the
panels of which were the Hungarian arms. The I
confusion in getting Kossuth, his family and friends '
into the carriage was tremendous; and the must
serious accidents were imminent. No pen can de- I
senile his reeeption. Thousands of people were 4
pressing round him to embrace him ; hunthyds of I
TATMAN were shedding tears. There never has been
seen such a scene in Southampton. At length the
procession begun to move on, the band of music
',Living lively airs, preceded by an array of standards
Ana Sags. and the equipage in se hick was Kossuth ;
mining slowly behind, on account of the crowd.
Kossuth was obliged to stand up to acknowledge the
Cheering and salutations of the crowds of persons
that lined the windows and every available
place where a glimpse of him could be
caught. Such curiosity was never before wit-
nessed in this place. Well and poor, gentle and
simple, strained every nerve, apparently to see the
twin who has filled half the world with his name,
whose sufferings and captivity have excited such
intense sympathy and whose conduct and talents
hare treated such admiration. After passing
through the town amidst a perfect sea of waving
hats and handkerthiets front every window,
balcony, and housetop, he strived at the Mayor's
residence. I should say that the procession
St. pied before the American consulate, where
Kossuth was greeted in the must affectionate
scam r. On arriving at the Mayor's, Kossuth and
In, family were literally taken out of the carriage
and earned in doors. 1k received an extraordinary
trieption from the Nlnsoes workmen as lie passca
in dunce—scores of deep-mouthed labouring men
cheered hint with thunder of applause. On arriving
in the .Nluyor's private apartments, all the Hunipi-
vim magnates and soldiers crowded round and em-
braird him with the deepest reverence. Numbers of
English gentlemen and ladies were introduced, who
all expressed in their countenances as if deeply
affected and overjoyed at his safe arrival, and at
basing the honour of being introduced to this extra-
onlinury man. One sea or heads covered the street
bereft the Nlnyor's premises, eagerly expecting Kos-
suth to come and address them. At length the
illustrious Magyar was escorted to the balcony.
Shouts rent the air, and the music struck up. When
silence was restored, the Nlagyar commenced address.
log the immense and eager crowd before hint. In
speaking, he hesitates occasionally to commence a
sentence, but he rarely halts in one. Ile may be
said to be an effective speaker; his ideas seemed! as if
they flowed from an F.nglishman.
Kossent said-1 beg you will excuse my bad Eng-
lish. Seven weeks back I was a prisoner iu hiutayah, to 1
Asia 31inor. Now I am a tree man. (Cheers.) I am
free man. because glorious England chose it, (('heers.)
That England chose it which the genius of mankind se-
leet-il for the resting monument of its greatness, and the
*Pint of freedom for his happy home. Cheered by your
ernpathy, which is the anchor of hope to oppressed hums-
teetY with the view of your freedom, your maths'., and
/out Misplaces; and with the consciousness of my unhappy
send in my breast, you mount excuse me for the emotion I
mod. the natural consequence of so striking a change and so
nest circumstances. So excuse me for not being able
10 thank you AO warml as I feel fur the generous ncepti on
v Inch you honour in my undesers lug person the cause of
as country. I only hope that Almighty may for ever bless you
tea your glorious land. Let me hope you will be willing to
throw a ray of hope and con•olation on my native land by
th:ssour generous reception. (Cheers.) May England be
ever great, glorious, and free—(cheers)—but let me hope,

by the blessing of Almighty God, and by our own steady
perseverance, and by your own generous aid, that England
—though she may ever remain the most glorious spot on
earth—will not remain for ever the only one when free-
dom dwells. (Loud cheers.) People of the generous town
of Southampton, in shaking hands with your mayor, my
best and truest friend—[here M. Kossuth turned round to
the mayor, and shook hands with his worship, amid loud
theer.)-1 hare the honour to think you, and to salute you
with the deepest respect—you, the inhabitants of the in-
dustrious, nuhte-minded, and prosperous city
of Southampton. (Renewed cheer.)
The presence on the lxileony of Madame Kossuth and
her children was demanded by the crowd, and they
were brought forward and cheered immensely. While
Kossuth was speaking, the most profound attention
was paid to him by the assembled masses. At half-
post four Kossuth attended ut the Town Hall, where
all the corporation met him in their robes of office.
The hall was filled with respectable persons, a
number of them ladies. The Aldermen and Com-
mon Councilmen appeared iii their robes. Among
tho strangers appeared Mr. Weld, Mr. Gilpin,
Mr. George Dawson, M. Pulssy, Mr. Heinik, &c.
A messenger came down from M: Kossuth to ask for
a short respite—he felt rather indisposed after the
vorage, but would appear at a quarter past five ,
o'clock ; and after 15 minutes' rest, punctual to ,
the moment, M. Kossuth entered, and was received
with the wannest acclamations. Ile was accompa-
nied by the Mayor, who took him by the hand, and
introduced hint to the members of the corporation
and others.

The Mayor then proceeded to address M. Kossuth
in an energetic speech, and was loudly applauded
throughout. lie pronoureed a very warmly-coloured
panegyric on the es•governor's acts, character, and
career, declared that England was determined to
emancipate the whole world, and hoped the acorn
planted in Hungary by Kossuth might rise up a
mighty oak, to protect the rights and liberties of the
people. 1k was satisfied the people of England
looked on Kossuth us a great and noble man, equal
to Sydney, to llamixlen, or to Washiugtor., and
when he was laid in his grave his name would be
handed down to posterity as their's had been.
The address, which has already appeared in our
columns, was then read by the town-clerk, Mr.
Deacon, and was received by M. Kossuth amid great
cheering. When it had subsided,

Kussveit said,—Mr. Mayor and gentlemen of the
municipality of the town and borough of Southampton,
excuse me, an unpretending stranger, for not being able in
your own Immo op to express the warmest sentiments of
thanks and ger.itude fur the honour of your generous all-
' come, and for those generous sentiments which you, Mr.
Mayor, were pleased to address to me. (Cheers.) I was
already, before my arrival, hound by lasting gratitude to
the town of Southampton for numerous tokens of the
most high-minded sympathy with the cause of my
dear native land, and of protection to its exiles ;
and, being unprepared f r the honour of this occasion,
you will excuse a few words I may say inspired by your
presence, and said to you without any preparation. (Cheers.)
It is indeed an honour to Ise welcomed by the people of
England in this noble town It is the highest gratification
to me that it was the ntunicip ility of the first town I had
the honour to meet which receives me in such a generous
manner. It is not on this day only, but from my early
youth, that this glorious country hod a mighty share in
my destiny. (Cheers.) I was used to look on England as
on the Book of Life, which had to teach me and the na-
bons of Europe how to live. (laud cheers.) Through
three centuries the house of Austria has exhausted against
Hungary the arts of open violence and of secret intrigue,
and it was our municipal instituti 09 which still, among
the most arduous circumstances, costumed to Hun-
gary some spirit of public life and some part of
constitutional liberty. (Loud cheers.) It was at the
time when this fatal sickness of political feeling
to centralise every power, and to tutor the people
into this notion of political wisdom—when this fatal sick-
ness, I say, spread over the Continent, and made its way
even to my own country, so that it became almost the
fashion, and almost a mark of intelligence, to bend towards
the doctrine of ceutralisatioa, that I, my humble self, with a
few friends who stood by me, struggled gainst this
storm—against these rushing waves coming over the
spirit of Europe, because I reganled, and I ever shall
regard, municipal public life as a public benefit, without
which there is no practical freedom whatever—(loud

cheer.)—and for the loss of which I think all ministerial
responsibilitit s and parliamentary privilege but a pitiful
equivalent. (('heers.) In this land is seen the thiest
fruits of this conquest of liberty—the glory outside, the
freedom within, unwithered by the blighting huger of cen-
tralisation. (Cheers.) When first I read the French constitu-
tion I foretold that great and glorious French nation should
yet have to po through many storm., because it did not
abandon its fatal 'principle: of centr.distion ; and because it
is only in municipal inetitutions freedom can be developed.
(Cheers.) That is my conviction. Sir, I hope England
will be for ever great, glorious, :and free ;" but when I
look to history. and see what is this land and the English
race, the only single one which is free in both hemispheres
of the world, unit when I look for the key of this freedom
I readily confess I believe that it is mot only those
municipal institution., which are not absorbed by the
propensity to centralisation, which so conserved that
freedom, though under different forms of govern.
ment,—here in England, under a monarchical form, in
America, under a republican form—that it was not
those institutions only, but the spit it of the people embo-
died in those institutions, wlich made these two great
offsprings of a mighty race, gnat, glorious, and free.
(Cheers.) Therefore, it is with the highest satisfaction I
receive this address (rum your hands and from the corpo-
ration of Southampton. As to my own humble self, con-
scious of no merit, and never aspiring to whatever reputa-
tion, but to that of a plain honied mall, faithful to the duty
of a true friend of freedom and of a patriot. I could not for.
bear to feel perplexed to see myself the object of such un-
deserved honours, were I not aware that this generous
manifestation is intended rather °molly to couute-
nonce that principle of freedom, of justice, of po-
pular rights, for which my nation so valiantly struggled,
and which you so happily enjoy. (Loud cheers.) It is a
glorious position the English race holds—almost the only
one that is free. It is the only one the freedom of which
has neither to fear the changes of time nor the ambi-
tion of man, provided it keeps to its institutions, pro-
vided that the public epirit of the people continues to safe-
guard that which is best fur the exigencies of the time,:and
that their manly resolution never fails to inert those elf-
geocies in time. (Cheers.) This watchfulness end resole.
lion being the chief guarantee of your country's greatness
and happiness, I take for the most consoling hope to op-
pressed humanity; for I have the must conviction that the
freedom and greatness of England are in intimate con-
nexion with the destinies and liberty of Europe. It
is not without reason that my native land and
all oppressed nations look up to you as to the
elder brother, to whom the Almighty has not in
vain imparted the spirit to guide the tide of human destiny.
There is one thing that is a prominent feature in your race,
—a result of uo small importance in our struggles,—that the
sentiments of this race arc spreading over the world, and
t►at it is not the least of the glories you call your own that
the people of England appear to be resolved to take the
kad in the new direction of the public opinion of the
world. out of which the highest blessings will flow. The
generous sympathy of the people of England fur my bleed-
ing, struggling, downtrodden, but no. broken, native land
—(loud cheers),—is one, but not the only one manifesta-
tion, by which England shows she is ready to accept this
glorious rile of the elder brother of humanity. (Cheers.)
This country, though it has not to fear any direct attack
on its own liberty, still knows that its welfare sad
prosperity, founded as they are on the continued develop-
ment of your genius and industry, cannot be entirely inde-
pendent of the condition of other nations. The people of
England know that in neither social nor political respects
can it be iuditferent whether Europe be free or groaning
under Russia and her satellites ; the people of England are
conscious of their glorious position—it knows that, while
it conserves its freedom, it cannot grant the privilege
to Russo-Austrian despots to dispose of the fate of
Europe, but must Dave its weight in the Wawa
of the destinies of Europe, or En' land would no Mgt
be an European power. (Loud cheers.) And it b
knowledge which is the source of hope and consolation 0111
my oppressed country, as well as to all the fellow-neeitemei
Europe, fur by the principle on which your freedom anti-
noes, and on which your happiness is founded, and by your
generous sentiments, we are assured that, let the people of
England once throw their weight into the balance of the
fate of Europe, then they will never assist despotism, hex
freedom—(cheers)—not injustice, but right—nit the ambi-
tion of a few families, but the moral welfare and dignity et
humanity. (Cheer,.) Such were my expectations of the
public spirit of Britannia, which you by this generous ad-
dress have raised to thelevel of conviction, by assuring me yen
have the belief and hope that those principles for which we'
have struggled have a future in my own native land. See-