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London, England, 1851-10-11 00:00:00

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LONDOA; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11.

ly foreigner% have been surprised at the hundreds
of thousands of English who have flocked to the
Gnat Exhibition, and found themselves together
without the expression of any political opinion or
social discontent, they may be startled to observe
the population of our great provincial centres of
trade and manufacture welcome the QUEEN with
exuberant loyalty, whilst the corporations and people
of London and Southampton are eagerly crowding
or preparing to pay the tribute of sympathy and es-
teem to Kossuth. For the present time,
at toast-cannot reconcile the two things, loyalty
and liberalism, which in an Englishman go hand in
hand, nor conceive how respect, and even lave, fora
monarch, may be compatible with an ardent zeal for
human progress and popular development.
It is not necessary to consult a foreigner as to his
opinions on the subject ; we find them ready written
in the Times, which, on all questions of exclusively
foreign policy, thinks and speaks as foreigners do.
At home it may echo the views of my Lord GREY,
my Lord CLARENDON, or Lord ABF.RDEEN ; but
abroad it is the echo of sentiments of SellWAßZEN-
ittiti, of MANTEUFFEL, or of M. B %nom& Accord-
ingly it highly disapproves of all tributes of respect
for k ; and because this HastebEN of Hungary
was driven by the treachery and tyranny of the
Austrian government to defy it, nod stand in arms
against it, as Itturozs did, he is scouted as the
democrat and the radical; nay, the records of his
private life are overhauled by those police spies who
furnish the Times with information, in order that it
may daub the dagger of its public attack by a little
of the poison of private slander.
All these calumnious attacks were too fully an-
assertd when they were first brought forward to
need exposure again.. The universal respect, and
almost adoration of his countrymen, the pride and
eu;:erness with which the aristocratic Hungarians
received him u thc:r colleague sufficiently test the
value attached to such slanders by the highest and
104:4 informed clam in Hungary. 'We therefore con-
fine our remarks to his political character.
Nothing can he more sophistical or unjust than to
measure Kosserit by the same scale with which one
measures the intensity of political opinion in France
o in England. To find any comparison in England
applicable to Hungary, so must go back two centu-
ries. Went a monarch of Englund to make
ismaitutional concessions one day to his hubject4,
and prepare an army the next to enable him
to withdraw them, we should be glad to know what
difearence there would be between constitutionalist

and democrat anionc,-4 us. 'them were many men
during the great English and French re‘olutions,
whose grand principle was a monarchic constitution;
but neither nor LOUN could be true to any
constitution. Their words could not be trusted.
The falsity of the monarchs in consequence turned
every constitutionalist into a republican. It was
unavoidable. Regard the French of the proacnt
day, republicans also without either dminiig or
intending it. The blunders and bad faith of
their mouartlei have precipitated them into it.
It is the billy of monarchs that makes republicans, as
it is the folly of republicans that makes a people
nionarthist again. ithe accusution brought against
Kll4,l'l'll, tlwrefore, of being democratic, is mere
tuaddle. We see in him the uncompromising foe of
absolutism, the rival of ILiiirmv, out the copy of
'lllisms.woon or FRUMT.
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At the name time we may he permitted to regret
that litisst-rn was brought to Marseilles, that he was
induced to ask a favour of the French government, or
to express any opinion on its conduct or its polities.
IC we find it difficult to place ourselves in a fit yogi-
tum to judge of the affairs of Hungary, a Itungarian
tau scantly be a competent judge of the »tide of par-
ties in Western Europe. In Hungary, politics are
still to he found in a state of sentiment. In the
west, with tlur exception of some spots in Ireland,
pdities no longer survive in that form, but have ad-
rani'sd to something far more practical and sub-
stantial. We have no poetry in our views of pub.
lie lilt:airs ; and one of liosserleN addresses, though
admirably adapted to the Hungarian ear, could nut
hut appear rhapsodical to ours.
In iiiklition to the difference between the Magyar
and the Anglo-Saxon mind. it is evident that a
walled prison in the centre of Asia Minor is not a
favourable situation for the study of European poli-
tics. What numbers of the Journal Ilya I.o.ials
or of the Times reached the illustrious cap•
tire we know nut, but we will be bound
to say they were rare 'and intermittent. We
ourselves, in this centre of enlightenment, read
the French papers even• morning, and arc aided
in our comprehension of *them by correspondents of
various parties and talents; and yet the view is like
looking into a kaleidoscope•. pretty and part.icoloured,
but without an atom of knowledge or certainty to be
derived from it. Kosseiii touched the shores of
a republic. He was simple enough to address the
people as republicans. And for this he is straight
set down as a democrat and a provoker of rebellion.
A man must be (Eprus as well as Dares to deal
at present with French politics in the French
language; and ll:mown' we take to be neither.
We should in fact nut be surprised if the illustrious
Magyar made at first similar mistakes here, or if on
his drat landing he treated his Most Worshipful the
AIA TOR to some Oriental trope, far too inflated to
enter the ear of city magistrates. But what of that ?
We do not expect from the Magyar any of
those nice distinctions between democrat and

entliditUtiolltlita that Mr. Gist TONE might lay
down, or the Times, in alternate numbers, illus-
trate. Neither are we likely to find in Kos-
aunt one of those civilised Orientals who have
walked our hostetea4s and frequented our schools.
Ile is a man of conviction, and of that strong
local character that must betray itself. He will
hero be welcomed and addressed by men of many
shades of opinion. The moderate whig will compli-
ment him, as well as the stronger democrat. Nor
at the first blush is the Magvar likely to dis-
tinguish betwixt them. It would be most unfair
then to run away with his first words as the tory
prints arc must ready to do, in order to represent
the defender of Hungary as the future perturb'',
tor of Europe. We trust that KOSSUTII has friends
to preserve him as much as possible from these but
too natural mistakes. lie enjoys at present the first
European reputation for practical liberalism. In order
to keep which and extend it amidst a public so
sensible and so practical as ours, he must give proofs
of sagacity as well as of zeal.

• The prosecution brought by Austrian malevolence
against Kumuth was the malversation in his younger days
of an orphan or education fund, something like St. Cross,
SSW like hundreds of oar own institutions. Perversious of
auch funds to private use were unfortunately as common
ander the old government of Hungary as under our own
cou.tdutional repose. And Kossuth did what every Hun-
garian doea, but quickly redeemed the fault by voluntary
Paribetion.

Ora imaginative writers have dealt largely in the
adventures of a gentleman in quest of one thing or
another. We had long ago " Caleb. in search of a
wife," and at a more recent date a " gentleman in
search of a religion." Why do not some of our
living authors take up " gentlemen in search of a
grievance?" The annals of the protectionist party
would supply them with ample materials.
Thu more intelligent among them are indeed '
growing tired of the pursuit. They begin to regard
it as something akin to the search for the philoso-
pher's stone, or the elixir r,t,r ; and though they I
will not confess they despair, betray manifest reluc-
tance to hunt on any longer. Thus Mr. HENLEY
lately told his constituents, that he bad been indus-
triously toiling to collect such statistics as would
show that the labourers arc worse off under free
trade than they were under protection, but had not
succeeded in Boding them.
the revenue returns for the year and quarter
ended the 10th of the present mouth, and the returns
of the Beard of Trade for the first eight months of II
1601, erill not mil'. the hopes of our grievance
losiscs.

The revenue returns show that the national in-
come, notwithstanding the continued reduction of
taxation, keeps steadily at the high point it has
maintained of late years. There is an increase of
77,0721. on the year, and a decrease of 1,1971. on the
quarter: both are nominal; bat in the present mood
of the more rabid protectionists—galled as they are
by the listlessness and hopeless inactivity of their',
leaders—it would not surprise us to hear them in,
(erring the decadence of the country, and raising a
melancholy howl, on the strength ot the enormous
deficit of 1,1971. on the quarter.
Of the increased returns from Crown lands and
the decrease under the head miscellaneous nothing
need be said; they are inconsiderable, mere results
of that oscillation that is always in progress. In
like manner the increase in the receipts from the
property. tax may be set off against the decline in
the receipts from other taxes. rho falling off' in the
stamp duties is as near as may be one-third of what
the Chancellor of the Exchequer anticipated.
It is to the Customs and Excise that we must look
as the true index of the condition of the national
resources. In the former there is an increase
of 54,4671. on the year, and 83,1901. on the
quarter : in the latter of 343,01ti1. on the veer and
36,5111. on the quarter. In the Customs the reduc-
tions in the coffee, timber, and sugar duties hare
this year come into play ; and the Excise continued
to collect a portion of the duty on bricks, now abo-
lished, in the October quarter of last year. More
conclusive evidence of the stability of the national
resources or the efficacy of a free-trade policy to
make the most of them for revenue purposes with
the least amount of pressure to the taxpayer it is
needless to look for.

The remarkable increase in the Post-office receipts
speaks volumes for the increased facilities afforded
' to communication in matters of business, and to the
nerd that our expanding commerce has of them.
The retains of trade and navigation for the first
eight months of 1851 amply corroborate the in-
ferences suggested by the revenue returns. They
show a steady increase in all the leading articles of
manufacture for exportation. The declared value of
the cotton manufactures entered by the yard (exclu-
sive of lace and patent net) exported in the first
eight months of 1849 was 12,546,7921.•, for the
same months of lax, it was 13,437,3691. ; in the
present year it has risen to 15,112.7281. The linen
returns tell the same tale :-2,039,362!. for the first
eight months of 1849; 2,331,698!. for the same period
of 1850; and 2,317,527/, for the first eight months of
the present year. The exports of woollen manufac-
tures fur this year aro stationary as compared with
those of I KA), but in both years therein an excess over
those of 1819. Silk exports, which were greater in
1850 than in 18W, have this year contiuued to in-
crease. The exports of glass and leather manufac-
tures and earthenware also continue steadily to in-
creaec.

The shipping retnrns deserve the especial attention
of Mr. LIEDRGE FREDERICK YOCKG. It appears
from the table which we subjoin that the ships be-
' longing to the United Kingdom and its dependencies
which cleared outwards from this country during the
first eight months of 1831 exceeded, both in number
and aggregate tonnage, those which cleared out in
the same period of 1850; and that the number and
tonnage of those which cleared out in 1850 was also
in excess of 1849. A less number (with less of aggre-
gate tonnage) of this clam were entered inwards in
1850 than in 1849; but in 1851 the entrances sur-
passed in aggregate tonnage those of 1819, and
nearly equalled them in number. Matters standing
thus the prospects of our shipping interest cannot be
very desperate; and the aspect of atliiirs in Spain
promises further improvement.

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ENTERED INWARDS.
rirat 8 months of Ships. Tonnage.
ISI 9
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1100
1851
CLEAUED OCTWAILthi
1949
1850
1851

But what is of even yet more importance than the
prosperous condition of manufacturers, traders, and
shilsowners—all of them highly important classes—
is the talc that theso returns tell of the general
prosperity of consumers, that is of all classes. The
consumption of coffee and cocoa boa been greater in
the first eight months of 18:il than in the first eight
months of 1+450 ; the consumption of sugnr has been
greater in 1851 than in IS-19, and only a shade less than
in 1850; the consumption of tea has been much
greater in 1851 than either in 1850 or 1819. The
consumption of tobacco, too, has slightly increased.
And, above all, the steadily increasing amount of
cattle and sheep, of eggs mid cheese, and of cured
provisions brought into our market, shows that sub-
stantial edibles, as well as " slops" and luxuries, are
consumed to a much greater amount—that is by
much greater numbers—than they were a few
years ago.
In the face of these facts it is difficult to imagine
to what subterfuge protectionists can have recourse.
There is, indeed, a story of a sick man whose doctors
attempted to persuade him he was in no danger, ad-
dressing a friend who called upon him, "here I am
dying of a hundred gond symptoms," and perhaps
they may try to press this apologue into their ser-
vice. lint figures cannot be suspected of flattery,
though doctors may.