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

the procession, so far as they are completed, am
as follows:—The committee will meet Kossuth on his
arrival at the Waterloo-road station of the South Western
railway, and escort him in procession to his temporary resi-
dence while in the metropolis. The central committee will
immediately precede the carriage of Kossuth in the pro-
cession; they will bear white wands, and, in their midst
will be displayed the figs of Hungary, Turkey, America,
and the United Kingdom. The various trades unions and
other associated bodies who intend to join iu the procession
have been requested to inform the committee of the nature
of the mottoes or devices upon any banners which they in-
tend to carry, so that nothing indecorous or inappropriate
may be displayed or anything calculated to throw obloquy
on the demonstration. The trades have also been desired
to furnish wardens, in the proportion of one to every fifty
of their number, to assist the equestrian marshals to be
appointed by the central committee in preserving the order
of the procession. As soon as the time of the arrival of
' Kossuth is fixed the committee will enter into conimunica-
lion with the police commissioners with reference to the
steps which it may be necessary to adopt along the line of
route, so MS to prevent the possibility of sr.y inconvenience
or public disorder. The arrangements for the banquet
cannot be completed until Kossuth shall have accepted the
invitation of the committee, which will be conveyed to him
by deputation immediately on his arrival at Southampton.

ADDRESS TO KOSSEIII.—LEEDS, OCT. 20.—1 n
compliance with a numerously signed and respectable requi- '
sition, the Mayor of Leeds, George Goodman, Esq., has
convened a public meeting, to be held in the Court-house,
this evening, at seven o'clock, to consider the propriety of
presenting an address to Louis Kossuth, late governor of
Hungary. congratulating him upon his liberation from im-
prisonment, and welcoming loin to this country. On
Thursday next the Leeds Town Council also meet for the
purpose of adopting an address of congratulation to Kos-
suth, and giving him a welcome to this country.

KOSSUTII AND THE TRUST FUND.
TO THE EDITOR OP TILE EXPRESS.
Si ,-V, you permit me to remark, that by
trusting to a source against which you have so suc-
cessfully warned others, you have been led into
error, and that a morning contemporary front which
TOR have accepted certain facts now quotes the
.Exeress, in confirmation of its own falsehoods, to
which you had incautiously given credit.
The Tunes asserted that " judicial proceedings had
been instituted against Kossuth souse years ago for
misconduct in the performance of a trust in the
county of Zcmplin ;" that " he was not exonerated
from the charges ten brought against him ;" and
that " all traces of the procedure were carefully
destroyed during the period of his government."
Now, sir, the comparison you make of the trust in
question with " St. Cross and hundreds of our own
institutions" is substantially correct, as well as your
remark " that perversions of such funds to private
uses were unfortunately as common under the old
(unreformed) government of Hungary as under our
own constitutional r,,yite."
The trustees of such charities in Itunga, in fact,
either furnished security, or were supposed at least
to be possessed of private property, which afforded
such security for the sums they handled. Though
legally they had no right to apply to private uses
the income collected, even though exactly refunded
when required to be disbursed for the purposes for
which the charity was instituted, according to a pre-
valent abuse in many instances they thought no
more of temporarily appropriating them than the
banker, who, with the certainty of being able to
meet his client's cheque, makes payments of his own
with the monies deposited with him by a client.
By a further abuse it happened that the trustee's
private property being real, and not easily recover-
able or convertible, the charity had to wait the
trustee's convenience for repayment, and even this
was not held to be dishonourable, so that there was
property to meet the defalcation within a reason-
able period, or, indeed, even to meet the defalcation
at all. It was only the appropriation of trust
funds beyond the power of the trustee to redeem,
which in this state of things was punished, where it
could be brought to light, by the law, and stigma-
tised by opinion.
Now, Kossuth, rather on account of his character
and talents than pecuniary position, was entrusted
at an early age with the trusteeship of an orphan-
education fund in the comitat of Zymplin. His,
political adversaries, that is to say, the creatures of
the Austrian government, circulated upon one occa-
sion that lie had used the trust monies and that a
judicial investigation should be instituted. Perhaps
it was believed by those who made the accusation
that he really had used, and would not be able to
replace, those monies; at any rate, on a preliminary
inquiry, the fund was found intact, and hence no
judicial charge was ever made.
It is, therefore, false that Kossuth ever did appro-
priate trust monies; false that any such charge
" from which he was not exonerated" was made ;
false that any such judicial charge was ever brought
against him.
At a subsequent period, when Kossuth had risen
to eminence, the calumny was revived at l'esth
to serve a temporary purpose, just as the Times
published its slanders to destroy the public sym-
pathy before they could be answered, when the
extradition of the Hungarian refugees was pend-
ing, and just as it mewed them (at the mo-
ment when the illustrious exile was supposed to
have been landing in this country) to cool, before
they could have been confuted, the enthusiasm of his
reception. Inquiry, of course, set the matter at rest,
as it had done by so many other calumnies. It was
after that inquiry that certain Hungarian magnates
proposed to subscribe to purchase a considerable
estate for Kossuth, and that, as you have observed,
he was called by the Emperor to form part of a
cabinet with such men as Ilatliyanyi and Szechenyi.
The allegation that "all traces of the procedure in
this ease were carefully
.destroyed during his govern-
ment" is a bungling invention, which could only
have been fabricated at Vienna or in Printing-house-
square. Unlike our English records, written upon
separate rolls, the records in Hungary are impossible
to abstract without publicity and scandal. 1 hey are
entered in bound volumes, in the public keeping of
corporate bodies, who hold their possessions by
tenure of keeping these records, and subject on any
falsification of such documents to forfeiture of those

possessions.
Most Hungarians who have mixed in political life
have never heard of this calumny, or retain but
vague recollections of it. Some reply, "If he did
make use of the trust fund, no doubt he replaced it;"
a remark by which probably you have been led
astray. Others suggest, " Apply to his own county-
people." This is what I have done, and I subjoin a
letter which Count Vay, a member of ono of the
oldest and most respected families in the comitat of
Zemplin, tells me that ho has just forwarded to the
Times, and of which he has inclosed a copy, in
answer to my application for his testimony.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
THE AUTHOR OF REVELATIONS
OF RUSSIA.