The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1851.

ties, and to endeavour, as Englishmen were seeking to do I I
even at the present day, to improve it. And this they en-
deavoured to effect by legal means. They even got their
government to sanction those reform., the importance of
which had been mentioned by his hon. and gallant friend,
the chairman, in his most able and eloquent speech. (Hear, II
hear.) Both Kossuth and Hungary would have been will-
big to continue under the sceptre of the house of Haps-
burgh, could they but have found a sovereign of that race
who would have taken the oath to constitution and would
have kept it. (Loud cheers.) But if they were driven to
resort at last to physical tome, it was because the govern-
ment forced them to do so. (Cheers.) lie felt compelled to
notice the conduct of a neighbouring state on the other
aide of Hungary, and which was to that country on the
south what Russia was to the north. The state to which
he was alluding did not prowess a power or an
army like Russia, and was not able, therefore, efficiently
to express its -empathies for Hungary, but it was known I
nevertheless to possess them. He believed that the Sultan
of Turkey—(loud cheers)—he was rejoiced to perceive the
manner in which the Sultan's name was received. It was
a name which deserved the meeting's applause ; for the
Sultan of Turkey had set a noble example to Christian
rulers. (Loud applause.) Ile (Lord D. Stuart) thought
that all honour ought to be paid him (the Seltan) by the
people of this country. In many places, in different parts
of the kingdom, addressee had been voted to him, and he
hoped that such would be the case in every city and
borough in the island. In one of the addresses which had
been sent to him (the noble lord) in order to be transmitted
through the ambassador to Constantinople, he hail read
with great pleasure these words. Those who addressed the
Sultan said to him, " Sire, your Majesty is the only one of i
the great sovereigns of Europe who doe, not profess the
principles of Christianity, but the only one who dose
follow its dictates." (Great cheering.) KOSSath was
now on the high seas, ploughing the wave towards this I
free soil. An American or a British flag floated over
him, but where would he have been without the Salton ?
There could be no doubt that his fate would have been that
of his colleague, Louis Batthyany. (Rear, hear) But fur
the Sultan, they would have had to deplore his ignomi-
nious death. They would have cherished his memory, but
they would have had to mourn over him, instead of to give
hen a warm welcome. (Cheers.) Ile would have been
numbered with those who had been vilely and ignomi-
niously put to death by the Austrian and Russian butchers.
(Load cheers.) The attempt to malign Kossuth would not
succeed. (Cheers.) The British people had too keen a dis-
cernment of right and wrong ; and when Kossuth came to
our shore. they would conic forward as one man, and, in
his person, the sacred principles of patriotism and
liberty. (Loud and long-continued cheering.)
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
Mr. PEAltei CS O'CONNOR, M.P., said he would not
address chilli longer than five minutes, for his blood su boiled
within him when he thought of Hungary, that he was afraid
lie should make a rebellious speech. (Laughter) 'f hey would
all remember that Cobleett called a certain Journal " the
bloody old 7imes"—(loud laughter and cheers)—and they
saw how it had treated Kossuth. When that infernal old
ruffian llaynau, who pulled the legs and arms off women,
and threw them over the ramparts ter the pigs to eat, when
he came to England, and when Barclay and Perkins' men
gave him the reception he would so long remember—and
they really ought to have put him into a brewing vat and
boiled him—(loud laughter and cheers)—the Tinws abused
them as it would abuse the meeting for taking the part of
Komuth. (Cheers.) list he (Mr. O'Connor) had been
tried eight times, and bad had eighteen months' solitary
confinement for making speeches, and therefore he would
only now propose three cheers for Kossuth.
These were accordingly given with great vigour, and
were followed by three as hearty groats for the Times.
Mr. T. SAUNDERS moved the second resolution, which
welcomed Kuasuth to England. Ile said that Louis Kos-
suth was no mere nuetrumnionger, hut was the advocate of
constitutional reform. (Cheers.) Whatever were the cle-
tickle:les of modern aristocracy, they should never forget
that they had nobly fought in their day ter the cause of
liberty. In fact, if people would only study the principles
of the old English constitution, we should hear much less
than we did of chartisin, socialism, red republicanism, cunt
monism, and the like. (Cries of " Oh.") Mr. Saunders
was prim...ming with a somewhat discursive speech, but the
meeting manifested so much impatience that he read the
following address, which was appended to his resolution :

--.'TO ltli EXCELLENtiLuCiaI YuliSrir it.

Sir,—Urged by profound sympathy for yourself and the
Hungarian people, and by a deep interest iu the support of
the fundamental principles of freedom, and the ancient
customs essential to the maintenance of liberty, which you,
sir, and Hungary have nobly struggled to uphold, we, citi-
zens of Westminster, in public meeting assembled, desire
to manifest our cordial congratulations fur the preservation
of your life, and for your deliverance from the foes of free-
dom and of all fr.semen. (Hear, hear.)
We hail with thankfulness to thal your presence on Eng-
lish ground. (Hear, hear.) Those institutions which you
and your countrymen have striven to defend, midst danger
and death, we happily enjoy. We trust that the spirit which
has preserved the ancient laws of national and local self-
government amongst the Britidi people, will be stimulated
and advanced by your example and genius. We desire
that the power of the people on both sides of the Atlantic
should be aroused for the maintenance and extension of

human liberty and free representative government, where-
ever nations are so enlightened by a sense of dignity, duty,
and self-dependence, such as Hungary has recently dis-
played. We feel that the privileges valiantly won and re-
solutely maintained by our forefathers, and which have de-
scended to us, should not be forgotten in the enjoyment of
prosperity and peace, but that our minds and hearts should
keep a vigilant watch over them, so that encroachments
should be repelled, and our children taught to feel the in-
estimable value of the birthright transmitted to them.
And, sir, while thus resolved to nurture freedom at home,
it i s our earnest hope :hat the British people may at all
I times be ready to employ their influence and resources in
preventing other nations, struggling to defend or obtain
similar rights, from being assailed by foreign despots. For
while we abhor bloodshed, and have no sympathy with
anarchy, or with those revolutions which merely effect a
change it the name of despotism—(hear, hear)—we feel
hound to manifest respect for all national efforts to improve
the administration of social affairs. Confident that the

time will tome when Hungary and the more enlightened
nations of the world, observant of your career, will :again
make strenuous exertions fur the recovery or attainment of
constitutional government, we doubt not that the people of
this country and the United States of America will
then stand forth with strong arms and firm resolves to
succour freedom and resist foreign interference. (Hear.)
We cannot allow this opportunity to pass without applaud-
ing the firm and resolute pamection afforded in defiance of
Austrian and Russian menace by the Sublime Porte to
yourself and the other noble patriots who took refuge
under Turkish hospitality—(hear, hear)—and permit us to
oiler a passing tribute of unfeigned sorrow for the many
glorious victims to your righteous cause who fell on the field
of battle, or under the Austrian executioner. (Hear, hear.)
We offer these sentiments to you, noble and excellent sir,
because we arc assured that they will encourage and re-
joice your heart, and lend renewed vigour to the efforts
which you can never cease; to make fur the common cause,
and for Hungary's weal." (Loud cheers.)
Ile was sure they ought to congratulate themselves on
having a foreign mini-ter who had stood forward so nobly
to support the Turks. (Loud cheers.) And if
Lord Palmerston had gone no further, it was solely their
own fault. The function of a government was to express
the wishes of the people, and stow could Lord Palmerston
have gone further when they did not make their wishes
plainly kuowu to him. (Cheers.) He hoped these meetings
would make the Tunes see that the fivepences of the people
would be more valuable to it than the uncoined gold of
Austria. (Loud laughter and cheers.)
Mr. 11. BIDGOOD seconded the resolution.
Mr. BEAL supported the resolution in a declamatory
speech, embracing the same topics which had been touched
upon by the preceding speakers.
The resolution and address were put and carried unani-
mously.
Mr. ROGERS proposed the third resolution, which was,
" That the following gentlemen be a committee to present
the address to his excellency, on kis arrival in this country,
at such time and place as shall be found practicable and
convenient: Messrs. Prone Bidgood, Wright, Swaine,
Malloch, Saunders, GeorgsWilson, Lewis, sen.,Geesin, Betts,
Roberts, Lewis, jun., and George Haggett, secretary."
Mr. Rogers stated that he never interfered in political
affairs; and that he had only been urged to come forward,
on this occasion, on reading the unmanly, libellous, and un-
English attack on Kossuth in the Times. He believed that
the Times had totally and completely mistaken the cha-
racter of the English people in respect to foreign affairs.
The reception which was preparing for Kossuth showed
this; and he was glad that the men of Westminster had
done their
.part. (Cheers )
Mr. DL NIGRO seconded the resolution, and intro-
duced to the meeting Colonel Gal, as the late Hungarian
Governor of Transylvania, and the last of the Hungarian
officers who had given up hope in the late war; and as
Colonel Gal, • tine soldier-like looking man, was
making his way amid great cheers from the body of the
room to the platform, Mr. Danford took the opportunity of
reminding the meeting that there were many Hungarians,
refugees, in Loiulon, and that Lord Dudley Stuart and Mr.
Nieholay would gladly receive, and properly bestow, any
funds contributed to their support.
Mr. NICHOLAY said he had been requested by Colonel I
Gal, who could speak very little English, to return them
his thanks for the honour they had done him. (Loud
cheers.) He wished him to say that the Hungarians had
always looked upon the English as their brethren, and now
they had found them to be really such. (Loud cheers.)The enthusiasm of the meeting here become so great,
that Colonel GAL came forward and said, in broken
English, that he hoped an opportunity would soon
arrive for them to take up arms once more
against despotism on the continent—(sociferous cheers)—
and he had the fullest conviction that the noble English
people would support them in their lofty purpose. (En-
thusiastic cheers.)
Mr. DUNFORD said the gallant colonel had been his
pupil for three months only, and that as he did not know
a single word of English previously, his progress was,
as the meeting would have perceived, very creditable.
(Cheers.)
A vote of thanks to the Sublime Porte having been
serried unanimously, and • vote of thanks having also
been given to the chairman (who briefly acknowledged
the compliment), the meeting broke up at four o'clock.

THE MEETING OP THE "CENTRAL COMMITTEE" lag
evening was very fully attended; Mr. C. 8. Nicholls pre-
sided. Mr. Pettit., the secretary, laid before the meeting a
number of Ictters which had been received from various
parts of the country, enclosing subscriptions and offering
suggestions. It was resolved that Mr. Dawson should
be added to the committer. The arrangements for