The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-17 00:00:00

KOSSUTH.

Since the Polish and Hungarian Ball on Thursday
night, M. Kossuth has been invisible to the public. The
great fatigue and excitement he hurl undergone during the
preceding six or right days, including the shaking hands
with as many thousands, male and female, as could
by main strength or agility get within shaking dis-
tance, rendered some repose absolutely necessary. Satur-
day was chiefly occupied in giving audiences to Ilunga-
nans resident in this country, and in making ar-
rangements fur the distribution of the funds which have
been subscribed f.r their relief. 'lrhe arrangements with
respect to his children are completed, all of whom go to
school in England. The distinguished exile will sail for
America on Thursday, in the Humboldt, previous to which
he will receive the farewell hospitality of the Mayor of
Snuthanvon, on board a steamer which has been specially
engaged by that gentleman to enable • large party to
accompany Kossuth to Cowes Roads, and see him safely on
board the Ocean stea:ner. M. Kossuth will he accompanied
by Mel one Kossuth, M. and Madame Pulszky, and several
of the Hungarian exiles who accompanied him to k:ngland.

The author of " Revelations of Russia" has sent
us a letter in which he, amongst otter things, says One
of your cont mporaries has given an account of a motion
made at the committee of the Polish ball by a member of
the House of Commons, to the effect that the term
patriot " should be withdrawn as applied to Kossuth, on
the &tranvia that he had proposed in the Hungarian Diet a
levy of 40,000 men to be placed at the disposal of the Aus-
trian cabinet fur the purpose of slaughtering the Italians.
Mr. Chisholm Anstcy, in a letter to the same paper, dated
the 13th of November. acknowledges, or I should say
boasts, that the pareigripli in question has reference to him-
self. Of the imputation of want of patriotism in Kossuth
on such ground., even if they had been true, 1 shall only
remark, that it is perhaps nut inappropriate from the mem-
ber for an Irish borough, who might as appositely have
charged the ex-governor of Hungary with bigamy. But the
accusation dues not affect the consistency and liberality of
M. Kossuth ; and on this account 1 must beg leave to ob-
serve that, notwithstanding Mr. Anstey's pretended dont-
menu, the charge is out simply untrue, but precisely the re-
verse of the fact. Not only Kossuth never did propose, much
less carry, in the Diet, any levy of men to be sent to Italy,
but furthermore, when proposing as finance minister
of the King of Hungary that an armed force should be
raised, he purposely took practical measures to prevent
its being employee! against the Italians, by recommend-
ing the Diet to vote them upon certain conditions,
one of which was that no Hungarian regiment should
be sent out of the country under nay pretext what-
ever till the rebellion in Serbia was put down. There is
much more, stren;thening this case. which I have left un-
said, because the Society of the Friends of Italy has in its
porn ssiou authenticates! statements which !have no wish to
fungal!. It may suffice for me to observe that Mr.Anstcy's
lo.uv is ss full of bloodies as misstatements. Where, for
instance, did he find that a work which he cites, entitled
'Kossuth, his Career, Character, and Companions,' is con-
sidered of gnat authority amongst M. Kossuth', party?
Where did lie duel that the pamphlet in question was ever
regarded by thus conversant with Hungarian affairs in
any other light than as an indiscriminate compilation
of newspaper accounts, till Mr. Austey's quotation from
it suggested that it might have been put together by an
earn) P*

THE ELECTRIC

-We announced on

Friday the feat, which had been performed on the pre-
ceding day with the new submarine telegraph between the
French and Enghsh coasts. On the same day the curiosity
id towage', in Fleet-street and the Strand was attracted
by the laying down of new wires between the City and
Charing-cruse. They arc cased in putts ruche, like those
of the submarine telegraph, and laid in zinc tubes beneath
the outer edge of the pa. ement, from half a foot to a foot
below the surface. At the telegraphic congress held lately
at Vicuna, it was agreed by the deputies from various lines
that the same alphabet should be used through all the Ger-
inaa•Austriaa telegraphic union, and that the apparatus in
can at Vienna should be adopted. Vienna journals an-
nounce, also, that Dr. Steinheil, director of the
Austrian telegraphic lines, has discovered the means
of causing the electric fluid to travel any distance,
however crest, sail that as quickly, and as safely, as the
aborted distances. It has hitherto been found impossible
to cause the telegraph to transmit signals for a greater dis-
Mace dna a few hundred miles; se that Dr. Steinheil's
discovery is the most important recently made in connexion
with this marvellous invention. Being adapted to existing
lines, all lines may be united, and despatches can be for-
warded from one extremity to the other without any in-
terruption. One immense advantage of the discovery will
be to prevent delay from the crowding of despatches at any
particular station—es, if they cannot he forwarded by the
direct liar, tiny can be forwarded just as quickly by any
other line, even that which may be the most roundabout.
Thus, if the lines were established, a despatch might be
forwarded from London to Paris, rat Trieste or St. Peters
burg, as quickly as by Calais. Dr. Steinheil keeps secret
for the present the nature of his discovery.