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LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21.

Kotrerrn lass terminated his first visit to this
country. He came, an exile, to return thanks for
the sympathy shown by Englishmen in his cause and
fate, and for the successful efforts made to obtain his
release. It is difficult to say which was greatest,
the enthusiasm which welcoined him, or his elo-
quence which hen made the mast of that welcome.
Kamera began by a char and simple statement
of bow Hungary had been oppressed, of how
the attempt hail been made to betray. her, and
to confiscate her traditional liberties and Independ-
ence, arid how nothing wits left to him but to stand
forth, as he had done, in her armed defence. There
was no hearer or reader of this, Ku SSUTII.B first
harangue, delivered at Winchester, who was not won
by its force, its fairness, its self-proved and over-
whelming truth. With respect to the past, indeed,
there did not exist a doubt or a shade of difference
as to the righteousness of the cause, the nobleness and
courage with which it was defended, or that high
integrity in Kossem himself, to which CA,IMIR
BATIITANI has given his unimpeachable testimony.
Whatever calumnies were uttered against the past
life of Kosserit we may forbear to mention, nor
deign to refute, the public having done ample justice
by them in putting on its trial the journal which made
itself the channel of them, and which has been reduced '
this very week to make a most pitiable defence.
There are, however, another class of objectors to
Kosseril, who admit the fairness of his past efforts,
but whoentertain fears nod scruples of the witeloin,and
the respectability of his present hopesand future efforts
for the liberation of bus country. Some of these
seem to have expected that Komi:Yu was coin-
ing here to enjoy a merely personal triumph and
congratulation; that after his years of struggle
and their untoward end, he should consider
himself as vanquished, give over his inve-
teracy to the House of Austria, and either
sit down in acquiescence with the regime that
friciiwsrezesitiaat has imposed upon his country, or
at least refuse to expect, or to exert himself for,
any mode of liberation, save such as Providence
might send in a constitutional and peaceable shape.
Such friends and admirers ati these Loris Kos-
Krill has certainly disappointed. Wedded to one
idea, the right, the independence, the free-
dom of his country, he is not disposed to
Max one effort or compromise one principle. Lord
elseestreee said of HAMPDEN that lie was a man
who, when lie drew the sword, flung away the
scabbard. Kossevi is the fitment:ls of Hungary.
He fought long under the constitutional banner be-
fore courts of justice and within the precincts of par-
liament. But when an insidious court and a deceitful
King appealed to violence, 11.tmeor.s did the same.
And Its country, as well as the world, revere his
name.
To blame Kossevii for not despairing to see his
country free, to admire his past energy, yet turn
against his present efforts, were a queer compromise
between the rightful and the prudent. 'fro cavil
with him fur any future views that he may have
respecting the government of Hungary, were cap-
tious and premature. Do we nprociele the name
of Wasnisaacie for having, monarthiet as he was,
proclaimed and he..ded u republic ? Was Louis
the Sixo:ENTil a Jacobin fur having aided
him ? It does not behove England herself,
any more than KOSSUTIE, to be squeamish as
to the nature of their allies. Our dignity, our
European influence, our commerce, our liberal
existence and ideas, are at this moment me-
naced and insulted by Austria. She excludes with
insolence oar vessels from her ports; her prohibition
system she has extendisl by the sword over Italy,
annexing Tut an to her empire, and making
Naples her prefecture; in North (hi-many her
(Shirts to exclude our trade and nullify oar
influentc have been equally strenuous. If the
French cabinet is stirred against us by jea-
lousies about Egypt or Morocco, we infallibly
find Austnati suggestions at the bottom of all. In
fact, our arch-enemy in Europe is at this moment,
Austria, active, insolent, and intriguing. In such a
state of semi-hostility, are we to look closely to the
nature, and question the respectability, of the allies
that fortune motels us Are we to repudiate with,
over-sensibility that liberal party in Italy, which
burns to avenge itself and vindicate its rights?
Ik.mocratie revolution freed Prance first from
one branch of the Bourbons, then from the other, and
just at the moment when each was joining in an
European alliance against England. Are we to be
fools to regret their downfal, or to aid in their resto-
ration ? Italy freed, no matter under what form of
government, would welcome our trade, listen to our
counsels, and adopt our political tendencies and
ideas. Are we' to turn away from such a prospect
in order to embrace his Majesty of NATLES, and
adore his Holiness the POPE? And if we should be
the fools so to sacrifice our interests, are we to ex-
pect Kimsey', to be such ?
Tho Iluninuian patriot is now on his way to
America. Ile will there bo welcomed by republi-
cans-41y democrats, perhaps—by men who abhor
the old tly mimic rule of Europe, and who are
ready to make great sacrifices in behalf of one who
seeks to re• hoist the standard of popular freedom on
the Danube. Is Kosserit to turn cold from
these glorious offers? Is he, maiden-like, to hesitate,
to stipulate for the monarchy that crushed, or stickle
for the aristocracy that deserted, his country? As a
man of sense and frankness, and as a son of Hun-
gary, Kosserit will do none of these things. He
will accept the sympathy that is given, the succour
that is offered; and none but au Austrian could
seriously censure him on that account.

BISUOP WILBERFORCE talents which con-
fer great weight on what possesses talents
writes. Smooth
and graceful in expression, eloquent beyond most of
his contemporaries, gifted with mast musical voice
and a genial richness of style, of fascinating man-
ners, and compensating for the want of true tact by
a sometimes too transparent art, be is preeminently
fitted to influence large assemblies, and to become a
great clerical leader. As a churchman, he is ani-
mated by a spirit as truly prelatical as ever charac-
terised the most priestly of the eons of Rome ; as a
Christian, with no small alloy of the worldly pru-
dence and self-seeking which distinguish his order.
Nevertheless. ho deserves respect for a degree of I
piety for which he rarely gets credit. His gifts and
accomplishments, the skill and address with which
they have beau turned toaccount, and the success they
have achieved, have injured the Bishop's religious
reputation. Two elements are plainly discernible in
his nature. From his father and his father's school,
he gained an insight into the essence of vital
personal religion: from his own friends, NEWMAN,
PENES', KEBLE, and others of the Oxford school, he
caught the sacerdotal spirit, and the principles of a
system most congenial with his thirst far spiritual
power. He never possessed strength of character or
power of thinking (seal to the task of amalgamating
three heterogeneous ingredients into unity. For the
Bishop is the sport of alternating and discordant
impulses, and though most covetous of the renown of
high intellect, is a remarkably confused and feeble
reasoner.

These opposite qualities come out prominently in
the Charge which Dr. WILBERFORCE delivered the
other day at Aylesbury, on commencing the Trien-
• nial Visitation of his Diocese. There are many pee'
sages in it which do honour to his religious feeling,
as well as to his activity and earnestness in the dis-
charge of his office. It is satisfactory to learn that,
though busily employed as an coclesiseticel politi-
cian, the Bishop of ORFORD has found time to join,
'during three years, in the ordinary services of 99
churches ; and we must forgive the vanity of his ac-
curate remembrance for the sake of the duty so done.
His observations on the chaunting or reading of the
service are full of good sense, and may be well recom-
mended to the careful study of his colleague of London.
And an admirable contrast to the carelessness and
and irreligiousness of past years is exhibited by the
pressing on the clergy "the duty of strict conscien-