The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1851

KOSSUTH.

tors, in which Mem* reception
experienced by Mayes% mei MingsM by the people of '
London.
M. KOSSUTH said—There Ise great difference indeed
between the reception of Ilaynau and myself. Let me, I
without a sentiment of pride, make the remark, that there
is also a mighty diff'rence between the man who is but the
tool of a despotic master and a freeman who is honoured by
the confidence of his people, and who, by this confidence,
has the honour to be, in some eon, the representative of
those principles ; and therefore, of course, I believe I
and Haynau can never be placed in comparison. Our posi-
tions are quite different. However opinions may
differ so to the demonstration against Haynan, the
sentiment out of which it sprung was a noole instinct, a
disgust and hatred of oppression, and a love of human
rights and freedom This is the first time I have made
allusion to this alibied; and with regard to yoar address, I
may say, gentlenseklhat I shall hold it as an encourage-
ment to go en in a *ay that hen been honoured with your
sympathy.
A deputation with an address from the inhabitants of
Islington was then introduced, and after the address had
been read—
M.KOSSUTH said: Having the honour to receive addresses
from parts of this great metropolis—parishes you call them in
your adopted terms—you will perhaps excuse me for making
this single remark. It is in history constantly a fact we are
continually meeting that almost every era has its own direc-
tion • and it is as true of humanity as of a family, that what-
everilirection rises up, even in the farthest or most remote
part, the whole community partakes of it. So we see in the
time of the era of the Crusaders, when the whole of Europe
took the principle of feudality. We are now, as I believe,
arrived at an era when, by the protection of Divine Pr wi-
demo, in these days the ruling direction of the public opi-
nion of mankind is freedom ; and as every such direction
produces an universal effect, I believe that this will re's)
produce an universal effect, and among the results of this
direction of opinion will be the establishment of that which
is so dear to me—l mean municipal self-government, which
I think is the only sure safeguard of freedom. 1 hope,
gentlemen, that soon those large communities like yours,
which are now called parishes, will not be so called; and
that they will be not only electoral bodies, but also free
municipalities.
The Islington deputation was introduced by Mr. Wyld,
M.P.
A deputation from the town of Woolwich, consisting of
Messrs. Richard ltuegg, chairman ; Charles Horn, Samuel
Pearson, Thomas Hand, and Richard "larder, secretary,
then presented an address, which was agreed to at a public
meeting, many of those present and who supported the ad-
dress, being employed under the Crown.
Mt. 0110/I.OE C. It. DERINU presented an address
from the mayor, aldermen, and common council of the city
of Canterbury.
Lord DUDLEY STUART said he would take that op-
portunity of presenting some addresses which had been
entrusted to hint for presentation. One was front the in-
habitants of Newcastle-upon• Tyne, agreed to at a public I
meeting of which Sir John Fife was chairman. rue
noble lord also presented addresses from Taunton,
agreed to at a public meeting ; from NottiiigMm, agreed to
at a public meeting; from Paisley, aerosol to at a public
meeting of inhabitant., and siemed by the Provost; and
from North and South Shields, from the Polish and Hun-
garian committees.
Addresses were also presented from Dover and from
Huddersfield; and. a gentleman named Richards re-
quested permissioi, on behalf of his lady, who accom-
panied him, to present three copies of the Bible for the
children of M. Kossuth, a gift which he suitably acknow-
ledged on their behalf.
Madame Kossuth and her children, Madame Pulvilty,
and several other ladies and gentlemen, were present in
the droning-room where the deputations were received
during the greater port of the day, and the illustrions exile
and his family were of course the objects of much interest
to the numerous visitors. The deputations generally sought
the honour of shaking hands with M. Kossuth before they
retired, and many of them gave vent to enthusiastic expres-
sion, of admiration, mingled with fervent aspirations for
the success of the cause of Hungary.

KOSSUTH% VISIT TO BIRMINGHAM.
Our Birmingham correspondent says :—No event
since the days of the political unison has caused anything
like such a demonstration as is to take place today ; in-
deed, in point of character and significance, the affair of
to-day will quite equal in importance anything that took
place in '3l and '32 : to receive M. Keasuth all parties have
united without any shade or distinction of class or political
principle. In the evening a large party is invited to meet
him at dinner at the residence of Mr. Leach, M.P. Special
trains are advertised to run to Birmingham on Monday
from the Potteries and all parte of the district. lt
iv calculated that at least 60,000 persons will join,
the procession. The banquet takes place in the Music-ball,
and, as a proof of the interest excited, it may be stated, that
although nearly 600 can be accommodated at dinner, when
the ticket-office opened on Saturday it was besieged by a
great crowd of persons, and in less than two hours nearly
all the tickets bad been disposed of. So with the spectators ;
two galleries were set apart for ladies, at five shillings each ;
these were eagerly bought up inlets than an hour ; and the
great gallery, which accommodates about a thousand, and
to which the working men are to be admitted at one shil-
ling each, is four.d to be large enough for about one-tenth
of the number of applicants. Such is the welcome that
awaits Koseuth in Birmingham; such is the public appre-
ciation of his noble struggles to preserve the ancient con-
stitution of his country, and the liberties of the brave
people—his countrymen.
The following letter was received from M. Kossuth on
Friday night :
80, Eaton Place, Nov. 6, 18.51.
To the Five Thousand Men of Birmingham, whose names,
given in one day, testify the heartiness and earnestness of
their sympathies :
Gentlemen,—Let me beg you to accept the very warm
expression of my gratitude for the remarkable example
which the address 1 have had the honour to receive from
you affords, of the eppreciation iu England of the cause for
which my country has suffered, and for which I am now in
exile. While I thank you for recalling to my mind the
grateful fact that in Birmingham the find public meeting
was held in behalf of Ilungary, I rejoice to feel assured,
I from the extraordinary promptitude and numerousness
with which your address has b..en signed, that the feel-
ings which have animated you were no result of
mere temporary excitement, but have been the
offspriaz of deep-sested conviction and enduring mo-
tive. )ie assured that such testimonies as your address af-
fords to the sentiments of Engli,tnen are highly prized by me
and by my countrymen. We have striven in a cause which
we know to be a just and holy one. For a time that cause
has been forced to yield to the overwhelming consequences
of a foreign intervention, alike unjustifiable in itself and
dangerous to the liberties of the whole of Europe. But my
countrymen know the value of the iustitutious they hare
inherited. By a steady course of peacable and lawful
means the enjoyment of the benefits of those institutions
had been, before the latter struggle, opened to them all. My
countrymen, therefore, in common with myself, wait with
confidence for the hour—we believe not far distant—when
the liberties and laws of our country- shall assert themselves
azain, and when we shall be knit, as a people. in the bonds
' of closest amity, and with mutual benefit to the country in
which your fathers have so long maintained their liberties,
' and which their enterprise and your own have raised to
' each a height of wealth and greatness.
' I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient ser-
f vent, (Signed) L. Kosse TIC.

M. Kossuth was to scare London this morning, at 9 o'clock,
fur Birmingham, which be will rench about 12 o'clock. lle
will proceed at once to the residence of Charles Geach,
M.P., where he will remain for the night, and proceed on
Tuesday by an early train for Manchester, where, in the
course of the day, a great meeting will be held in the Free-
tradell. Ile will be the guest of Mr. Iknry, member
for South Lancashire, on Tuesday night, and will return
to Birmingham on Wednesday, where he will be cuter-
, tallied at a public dinner in the Town-hall. 31. Komuth will
come back to town on Thursday,and be present at the Polish
Ball in the Guildhall, and then proceed risk Southampton to
the United States. We arc happy to say that his health is
much improved, but that he is Unbidden by his medical
attendant to use much exertion in speaking, and to avoid
addressing huge assemblages.

At a meeting of the liberal members of the South-
ampton Town Council held last week it was resolved to
re-elect again this day Richard Andrews, who has been for
two successive years Mayor of that town, to the distin-
guished office of chief magistrate. This unprecedented
honour will be conferred upon him to mark the gratitude
of the Town Council for the services the Mayor has ren-
dered the town, but more particularly for the zeal and hos-
pitality with which he welcomed Kossuth to this
country. The Mayor of Southampton, after his re-
election, !proceeds to 'Manchester to witness the triumph of
Kossuth in the great capital of manufacturing industry.
The Mayor will give Kossuth a public breakfast on
the morning of his departure for America, and wid accom-
pany him down Southampton Water, and through the

PRESENTATION OF ADDRESSES.
On Saturday, the temporary residence of M.
Kossuth, in Eaton-place, was literally besieged during the
greater part of the day by deputatious from various metro-
politan districts and from important provincial towns,
anxious to present their addresses of sympathy and encou-
ragement to the illustrious Hungarian patriot. The whole
neighbourhood was crowded with carriages and cabs, and a
crowd collected about the door, in the hope of catching a
glimpse at the object of all this homage. The wonderful
talent and readiness of M. Koesuth in adapting his replies
to the paculiarities of each deputation, and the singularly
happy *ay in which he seized upon and alluded to every little
incident, were the themes of general admiration. The first
addresses were from ClerkenwcU, prevented by a
deputation, and from Bridgewater, presented by Mr.
Reuben I'ayne, a member of the Society of Friends.
Then came addresses from St. Pancras and St. Lsonard's,
Shorediteh. (Mr. W. A. Blows stated that this last deputa-
tion represented a population of 120,000.)
There, presented and replied to,
Mr. W. J. Fox, M.P., and a deputation from the council
of the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association,
were then introduced, and Mr. Fox, having presented the
address, said their president, Sir Joshua Wnlinsley, was
detained in France by severe illness, or he would have ac-
companied the deputation. Tae association was one which,
pursuing in that country the extension of the privileges and
liherties of the people, must necessarily feel itself in sym-
pathy with every movement in other countries; fur when-
ever the cause of general freedom gained advance on
the continent, they felt it more easy to make progress,
and whenever it Buffered disaster abroad, they felt their
condition less promising. In professing the deepest sym-
pathy for the late struggle in Hungary, and the most mourn-
'lhd regret to what for the present was its disastrous clove, in
expressing their strong feelings of sympathy for the courage,
the energy, and the wisdom with which his excellency had
sonductell that struggle ; in expressing their emotions for I
what he hail since undergone, their pleasure at his present
liberation, and their earnest, and ho thought lie might say
confident hopes, that ultimately the great objects he had
contemplated far his country would be realised ; iii ex-
pressing this they claimed nothing peculiar to themselves.
It was a feeling that all true honest English hearts felt
throughout the length and the breadth of the land. There
win only one feeling throughout the country with re-
ference to that struggle and with reference to the future.
They (the association) represented a considerable mul-
titude of all classes of society, of various modes of think-
ing in polities, from various localities and parts of the coun-
try, all combined for the promotion of the cause of reform
end protßadnd in the name of that large arid influential
be betty lease to present the address.
X. Tit replied—Gentlemen, receiving this pic-
ots, testimonial of the sympathy of the Reform Association
lice the cause of which you honour me in taking me for the
humble representative, I feel that I am surrounded by men
who profess the principles which were in all my past life the
guiding star of my endeavours, and I, of course, must feel
at home in your presence, and, feeling at home, I should
not be perhaps embarrassed to answer, were I not in the
situation to answer one of the most eloquent men of Eng-
land—a man whew eloquence is known and appreciated by
the whole world, ea displayed in the cause of freedom and
the development et institutions. I must beg, therefore,
your kind for my not being able to answer
you as your eMelle Weald deserve. I can only. say, you,
gentleram me is a beigy condition ; because it is my deep
conviction Sri as bums institution, no human thing,
can be snoliessd wink Perfection is only. in God ;
INS h SIM 5W9111.9. Therefore not even in England
Sea O&M be Oka W swam in England your institutions
we glee palbse—denS yea have nothing more to do.
/kg= k a ISM Otadition where already she
be betiendens sad associations connected with
Ski Malik awl development of public spirit, without
White belllinliews are nothing. They give full seen
Orhet mbriaver is to be done will not only be
ikere, kg Is peacefully done. I am entirely con-
e•• tbst tba realisation of the idea of cheap govern-
sant a lastre scale is scarcely possible so long as the
alletdatistic principle, the restraining the freedom and
halapendence of the iatiess, forces upon them the unhappy
led vastly circumsteolneelhelding large stac= MAW i
11111 ssaildant that Ow neeeesity of keeping amiss as
:Slimient• webbed by sbe contentment of the world, whisk
imparible without freedom. Therefor*, I
believe there are flake strong, and very gross and power-
hal of unity between me and your association in sapped ed
that cause for which we have struggled, for which we WS
act, and, se 1 hope in God, by our own pcnoveranee led
courage we will yet see triumph. I again thank yes. felb•
SLEW% he yam address.
Tim am die presentation from a number of British
halm et a hinge German Bible, elegantly bound in crimson
storesse ikn& M. Kmauth's initials at the. back. Its
scooping-1W geseest. IL Kossuth addressed Mr. Reed, who I
was spcirsima es tbeeseadon, as follows: I thank you. I take
it for no merit Inhey life that I am a religious man,not for any
merit of mine, but because it is a necessity to every honest
and thinking man, and becalme it is the most rich !tad
*Mini of those sentiments, and those feeling!
WIWI *happiness in this world and bliss in the worid
119111111114 1 doll value it because I take religion to be the
neM ddlelnllis of that consolation which I have wanted so
Ida ibex life. Being a religious man, and because roll-
OS well an enemy to superstition, intolerance, aad
leeeeea
as on the other hand the friend of freedom, I
sonless that it is from this great book that I hays
the principle of loving my neighbour as myself, and
smug& and courage to act in the great cause which has
always been the guide of my life. Judge from this how I
prise this sift to me presented on the part of some ladies, I
and of which a copy was also presented by an honourable
working man to my wife at Winchester.&Thie, sir, will
remain as the choicest gift I have received.
Mr. EDMUND HALEWOOD and a deputation of the
working builders of Pimlico were then introduced, awl pre-
sented an address of sympathy with the Hungarian cause
and its distinguished representative.
This deputation was introduced by Lord Dudley C.
Stuart.
Addresses were afterwards presented from two discussion
societies, meeting in different parts of London.
An address was then presented from the young Polish
refugee?, to which M. Kossuth briefly replied in French,
expressing his confident hope in the future nationality and
independence of Poland as well as of Ilungary.
Mr. EBENEZER SAUNDERS, jun., then presented
an signed by 190 young peen,ost 9i QOM elk-

CITY IMPROVEMENTS AND GREAT CE.N
TRAL RAILWAY TERMINUS.

On Saturday evening, upon the return of the Lord
Mayor, after having been sworn into office, a deputation,
con,isting of Sir James Duke, Alderman Hooper,Alderman
ilumphery, Alderman Wire, Deputy Harrison, Mr.Water-
low, Mr. Dakin, and other members of the Common Coun-
cil, waited upon his lordship, to present a requisition to him
to call an early Court of Common Council, to consider the
propriety of taking into their consideration a most import-
ant improvement of the Metropolis, particularly in the City
of London.
Deputy HARRISON, who headed the requisitionists, said
the document had bemixigned in six days by upwards of IN
members of the court, including • majority of each of the
three classes, aldermen, deputies, and other commoners. It
was a requisition' quite unprecedented in the number of sig-
natures, and it ch•monstrated the strong conviction of the
court of the magnitude and importance of the object Mr.
Pearson had in contemplation, and their sense of the neces-
sit of having it fully examined.
T'he LORD MAYOR said ho should at all times deem it
his duty to concede to the wishes of the Common Council
in convening courts upon all subjects affecting the welfare
of the City which they might think it necessary to discuss.
Ile wished it to be distinctly understood that he should not
require a requisition so numerously signed to induce him
to call a court; but when a requisition came recommended
by so large a body of the members, and by the presence of
so numerous and influential a deputation, he should at once
say that, without inquiring into the object of the court, he
would grant it on any day that might be most convenient.
(Hear, hear.) If it were desired to be convened during the
next week, the court must be held within the Egyptian
Hall at the Mansion-house, as the arrangements of the
Guildhall would not admit of the court being held in the
usual plate.
Alderman MALL'S said it was important that no time
shculd be lost; and his lordship gave immediate orders to
the town clerk to issue a summons convening a court for
Thursday next, the Pith inst.
Mr. CHARLES Pk:ARSON then, addressing his lord-
ship, requested the use of the Egyptian-ball on the previous
day, to enable him to exhibit his model, and explain his
project to such the members of the court and their fami-
lies and friends as had not had an opportunity of attending
his soir6es in Park-street, where he had expounded his
views and objects. It was impossible to convey an ade-
quate exposition of his plan except by visual examination
and oral explanation; and he felt that his official position,
as City solicitor, would render it embarrassing for him to
give the requisite explanations before the court, although,
as individual members and part of the public, they might
allow him, at a previous meeting, a freedom of expression
which, at a Court of Common Council, he should deem it
improper to employ.
The LORD MAYOR said ho should afford Mr. Pearson
the use of the Egyptian-hall with much pleasure, and, at
the request of Alderman Challis, his lordship consented to
preside on the occasion.
Wednesday next, at 12 o'clock, was then filed for the
previous meeting.
The following is a copy of the requisition:

"TO THE RIOHT HONOURABLE THE LORD BATOR.
" We the undersigned, members of the court of Common
Council, request your lordship will convene a court on en
early day to consider Mr. Charles Pearson's comprehensive
plan fur improving the metropolis, particularly the
City of London, by widening the intended new street
from Farringdon-street to Clerkenwell, by raising it
on • level with the high ground of the adja-
cent streets, and eiteutling it to King's-cruse ; by
constructing a trunk railroad in a well-lighted and venti-
lated subway under the surface of the street, connecting the
northern railroads and northern suburbs of the metropolis
with termini in Farringdoo-street and the new street; by
lifting Holborn Valley 17 feet nearly on a level with Hol-
born-hill end ; and by removing the wholesale
meat and vegetable markets, and the railway carriers' re-
ceiving houses from their present confined and inconvenient
situations to spacious sites in the new street; by which
means (as Mr. Pearson asserts) the overcrowded street of
the City will be relieved of a large portion of the railway
waggons and the omnibuses from the northern railroads and
the northern suburbs of the metropolis that now throng the
City, and impede its ordinary traffic. We likewise request
your lordship will insert on the summons convening the
meeting notices of the specific motions it may be intended
to propose for the consideration of the court.—November,

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT ELSWICIL—On the
afternoon of Monday last a fatal accident occurred, in the
boiler works of Messrs. Waterston, Brothers, at Elswick,
by which Mr. George Waterston, one of the partners in the
works, was almost instantaneously killed, and one of the
workmen severely scalded. From the evidence adduced at
the inquest, it appeared that recently. the firm had been en-
gaged in making the necessary repairs in an old boiler be-
longing to the ltising Sun steam-boat, and that having com-
pleted those repairs, and considering the boiler quite safe
and fit for use, about a quarter to ono o'clock on'
Monday, the deceased, with his brother, Mr. James
Waterston, filled the portion of the boiler above the
tube with water, placed fire in the tube below that,
sad proceeded, as • means of testing the boiler,
to raise the steam to a certain height. While this was
going on the deceased was on the boiler at the fore part o
it, engaged in observing and chalking the rivets of the
boiler where the steam in some places slightly escaped. Mr.
James Waterston, brother of the deceased, in the meantime
had gone to another part of the works for a piece of chalk,
when, bearing the noise of the explosion, he rushed towards
the place where he had left his brother, found him lying
about two yards from that place, and saw him instantly
afterwards breathe his last. On an observation of the
boiler the inside tube was found fallen down, the force of
steam having evidently caused the fatality. Verdict,
" Agtidantal death."—Ntioosetle Chronick.