The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1849.

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wall tell you what it is. It has au
it keeps upon paper, without a eomu. ;
it has a natty without sailors; and • military chest without •
feel:deg. (Cheers.) How long is it since we heard the Ra-
ider • intruded to invade Hungary ? Four months; duvet ir
=ash time the hordes ef armed men that were threatened
' might haws crushed the country, had Russia the power It
beasts, for they have been in earnest. What progress losive
Ese Russians and Austrians made ? I don't shut my eyes to
the mail that awaits them when they get these, both from
ettthe gallant Hgtns„ and from the difficulties a
letry. (Haar, bier.) Every one knows the difficut-
Ike they would hare to encounter; for instance, the dittl-
solty of carrying supplies. (Hoar, hear.) What stopped
than was the want Ur a commissariat and the want of money
te bring it ; want of honesty on the part of fides who have
En administer it ; the badness of the roads, and the chance
a being attacked by a hostile and indiguant people. (Ilea,
bear.) All this I trace to the undoubted poverty of the
Rani= government. (Cheers.) Tbey hays been four or five
years in halt finishing a railway from Moscow to Peters-
Wish. (Laughter.) The country was as level as
thh table ; and they were obliged to go to a
beaker to get the money quarterly to carry on the under-
hiking. (Laughter.)
Mr. OSBORNE, M.P., next addressed the meeting.
After expressing his gaeral concurrence in the speech t,l
Mr. Alexander, he raid there was
no doubt that, abstracted 4
speaking, peace wee the natural state of mankind (hear,
beer)—but he would ask the audience whether, living as
they Oil in a constiutional state of society, them might not
be wove evils accruing to humanity and cifilisetion than the
mlamities of war; whether the destruction of all liberty and
eivilisetion was not • thing more to be reprobated than the
appearance of a nation in arms, struggling for its just rights?
(Cheers.) Though he cordially supported the primal= of
arbitration, he would distinguieh between war under-
taken for conquest, and defensive wars under-
taken for the preservation of the rights and
liberties of madded. (Cheers.) If in former times the
great English people had quietly sat down before the inroads
made on their liberties, where would the have been at this
moment? Should he or his hon. friend be standing before
them this day advocating the sacred rights of a people fight-
big for its liberties against despotism ? (Cheers.) There-
fore he tock the liberty to say he did in his conscience believe
that a detensive war was a righteous and holy principle—
(cheere)—and he could fancy no sight more agreeable to the
spirit of justice than • great nation struggling for its liberties
against an overwhelming and dcepoeic power. (Cheers.)
It was his flan belief, that Rums, to prosecute her
impious and despotic purposes, would make no scru
ple of robbing the bank. (Cheers.) Let the meet-
mg remember that the whole theory of Russian war
was to make the war suort itself, es was said by
Napoleon. Therefore, thoughpp he acknowledged that there
was a nucleus of truth in what had been said by his
hon. friend (Mr. Cobden), he would be sorry if any man
in the meeting should feel that the Russian empire was to
be thoroughly despised. (Loud cheers.) Their claims-, a
mercantile man of groat wealth and fame, would not have
taken the chair unless he thought the constitutional struggle
in Hungary was one against despotic power. Having
adverted to the history of Hungary, he asked what
were the reforms pupated by Kneuth in 1848? The
i Lower Chamber, of which be was • member, and which
was similar to tke House of Commons, abolished all claw
privileges, abolished the right of the people to give • certain
number of days' labour to the state and to the magnates, re-
duced the amount of taxation, extended the suffrage, and
equalised all creeds. (Cheers) And what was the eon's-
Anent* of all this ? He united all the numerous races
which constituted the inhabitants of Hungary, so that even
the Jews, who formed a large portion of the population, had
shed their bloods in the cause. (Cheers.) Only the last
meads ea Austrian tyrant hung a gentleman of that persua-
des el lab. (Hear, hear.) Now this Louis Kossuth was
isommeed as an infamous man. (Laughter.) He
might, perhaps, be so if it were infamous to
struggle against despotism, to enfranchise the people,
and to someste equal rights to persona of all creeds;
beg_ their took a different view of the matter,
and biped that, Ike another Hercules, Louie Kossuth
would strangle on the one side the serpent of Austria, and
would give on the other • deadly blow to the Russian bear.
eCheers.) That highly imsginative man, Jellachich, hadl
ndeavoured to put down this holy and sacred cause by
driving back the peasantry, but some of them, armed with
scythes, brickbats, and stones had resisted the attack, and
had spilt even their heart's blood in the cause. (Cheers.)
Only the other day a minister of religion was taken by the
Rumen invaders and whipped and hung, for advocating the
rights of the Hungarians. The Reverend Mr. Vimer, who
was will known in the city from his connexion with the
Religious Tract Society was now expelled from the country
of his birth, ands price was set upon his head by the Austrian
Government. The monster, Haynau, had perpetrated deeds
which outstripped all the horrors which had been committed by
the Huns and all the other barbarians that had spread over
Eurupe.Why,thisßussienterant had laid his hands upon the
female sex—even ladies at his Instance bad been tried, con-
demeed, and scourged. While Russia might extend its des-
potism to Constantinople, and tyrannise in the south, they
should not be too sure that war would not be brought to
their own fire aides. (Cheers.) Instead of reading the
bulletins of war at their own fire sides it might have reached
their very shores. (Hear, hear.) Ile conrluded with moving
the following resolution :
" That this meeting view with detestation and horror the
barbarous modes in which the war now raging in Hungary
is prosecuted by the Austrian authorities and generals, and
consider their conduct to merit the indignant reprobation of
domes„
Lord NUGENT, in rising to second the evolution, said
, it was with pride and pleasure that he testified his hearty
egetearence in the evolution, and in every word of the speech
el his hon. friend who had preceded him. The noble lord
deneomeed the conduct of the Tittles in opposing the cause of
Hungary, and more tire:idly in publishing a letter from an
anonymous person, a self-styled Hungarian, who impeached
the character of Louis Kossuth, end who had perverted facts
and truth. Kossuth, who had been above the greatest
temptations, and who bad, in the midst of war, cultivated
the arts of pacer, of education, and of financial credit, kept
up internal peace in the rage and fury of foreign war. But
two honoured names—Count Teleki and M. Pulaity--had
defended that great patriot ; and since, the anony-
mous slanderer had slunk into the silence a breaded *lax-
deur, where he would leave him.
After • few words from Mr. REYNOLDS, the two realm-
Coss were put to the meeting, and carried amidst loud ap-
plause.
Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR moved :
That this meeting regard the military intervention of
Bussia in the affair Huary b, as wholly unjustifiable in
lesson and in tser,inasmuchas eekl:s re-opening and pro
Moping • saneuinary contest which hid been Brady vir-
tadly decided—it is • gro.s vielation of the law of nations—
the indefeasible rights of Hungary—and perilous to the
peer*, the freedom, and tee general welfare of Europe."
Mr. M. MILNES, M.P., seconded the revolution. What-
ever &Mecum of *pinion might exist, they all agreed, and
bed met there that day to sympathise with freedom and the
straggles of mankind. In the ease of Hungary, a leading
element in the law of nations had been violated, and the in-
einseddling of other nationswas always fraught with danger.
Austria had been marked out by the congress of Vienna, as •
great military power in the centre of Europe. to present a bar
against the ugrestion of Russia and ether natio= She was
greeted an independent power ; and Austria, as subsidiary to
iterssia, had no business there. The hon. gentleman can-
eluded by an el-quent appeal to the charities and sympathie a
tithe meeting on behalf of the Hungarian °Metre and sol-
diers stow at Folkt stone, to enable them to return to their
eenatry to avid in fiebting the battle of their independence.
The Hungerian cause was a just and righteous and
ose which England was not only justified but bound to sup.
port. (Cheers.)
The revolution was then put and carried unanimously.
Lord D. STUART said he quite agreed with his hon.
friend (Mr. C Aden) who said that every people had • right
to estableh its own form of government. If the Hungarians
were struggling in facia of a government of which we
could not approve, still we must sympatbies with them we en
they drew their swords against foreign agnession. (Hear )
There were two reasons for expressing, their sympathy
with Hungry; first, because of all countries in the world it
e u die most remarkable fen its attacbmeht to religious
liberty ; and, seondly, because it bad carried out the le ince
ples of free trade. (Cheers.) He did not find fault with the
old tories in the House of Lorde, who had grown grey In
opposing the liberties of the people, standing up in defence of
Austria ; nor was he surprised that a noble lend should come
down to the House of Commons to defend his uncle Lord
Aberdeen, and denounce that great and good man now at the
head of Runway as the infamous Rounds. (Shame.) But
he did denounce those who were once professed liberals for-
saking their principles and siding the cause of despotism.
(Loud =errs) He was rejoiced to see the tanner in which
the name of General Beat had been received. The noble lord
concluded by proposing
" That the immediate recognition of the Government, de
facto, of the kingdom of Heater! by this country, is no less
demanded by considerations of justice and policy, and the
commercial interests
effusion o humanofthetwo states, thanklo waitahevirtmiof.
ratttininggthaestfoserfp to
fearful atrocities which mark the progress of the
Anetro-Ruesian Armies."
Mr. J. CASSELL seconded the resolution, and in doing
so expressed a'hope that the meeting would contribute to the
fund raising for the Hungarian Wirers at Folkestone.
The resolution was carried by acclamation.
Mr. F. MOWATT, M.P., reeved that a petition be pre- i
anted to the houses of parliament founded on the preceding
resolutions, and express= a hope that, after the decided ex-
pension of opinion given by the large and important
meeting then assembled, her Majesty's ministers would no
logger hesitate, but,
honourranc with the prayer of the
petition he had the to move, and with the resolutions
that had been so enthusiastically_ carried, would at once
the independence of Hungary and its govern-
ment de facto. (Loud cheering.)
Mr. 0. HARNEY spoke in support of the resolution,
and announced tat a large meeting of the working class
would be held on Tuesday evening in furtherance of the
cause.
The petition was unanimously adopted, and, after a vote
of thanks to the chairman and • collection in aid of the Hun-
garian soldiers now in England, the proceedings terminated
amidst loud cheers for the success of the Hungarian nation.

LADY HOWARD DE WALDEN and funny returned
to Broads on Sanday last, by the Antwerp Company',
steamer Antwerpen, Caffein Janine.
AMID/NT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN
RAILWAI.—An accident ooesrred on %hie line of railway
veeterday morning, between Coventry and Birmingham.
The ant down train ran into a millibar of carrier", which
appear to hare been left on the line. Some of the passengers
wen braised, and the arrival of the train in Birmingham
was delayed about three-quartets of an hoar.