The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-09 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION OF KOSSUTH TO THE

HUNGARIANS.

The Allotrza contains the following proclamation
from Kossuth to the Hungarian soldiers :

Valiant Magyars,—Under the protection of the brave
and high-minded King of Italy, in the name
of God and of the country, we hoist once more the
standard of Hungarian freedom. Hither, ye valiant ! the
post of the Magyar is here. The Austrian is our
enemy, not the Italian. From the Austrian the
sons of our country have never h►d anything
but chains, shame, and misery. The Italians gave an
asylum to the exiled Hungarian, received him with hos-
pitality, succoured him, and held him in respect. A just God
will avenge it on the Magyar, if he rewards this by fighting
with the Austrian against Italian liberty. The Italian has
a right to Venice ; she belongs to him ; she is his daughter.
Italy belongs to the Italians, Hungary to the Hungarians.
Out with the Austrian from Italy ! out with him from
Hungary ! This is Nature's law ; this is justice. You
owe no obedience to the Austrian. By forced recruiting
you have been dragged to war contrary to the laws. You
owe him no fidelity. That perjured race was by a law
passed in the Hungarian parliament of 1849 for ever
excluded from the royal throne of Hungary, and
it was decreed that every Hungarian who
should thenceforth remain under the Austrian ban.
nen would be guilty of the crime of high treason
to the nation. That law has not been abolished, and
therefore your fidelity, your anus, and your oath are due
to your country. He is a deserter who remains under the
Austrian flag, for he deserts the sacred cause of his
country, he becomes the assassin of his own nation, which
Austria keeps under the yoke, despoils, oppresses with
continual taxation, and drags to the edge of extreme
wretchedness. Here or there you ought to do battle—do
battle then for your country and not for its
oppression. If you enrol yourselves under the
national standard the war will cost us little blood—if
on the other hand you continue under the flag of your
country's oppressor, you will have to pour out your blood
in streams, because precisely in proportion to your valour
will the struggle be prolonged. Away, then, from her hated
ranks. Hither, then, ye valiant ! There victory itself would
prove a curse ; here, in a glorious death, you will have the
blessing of a nation. The sacred standard of the nation
is raised here, and it awaits you. Hasten to it. Hither,
through me, Garibaldi calls you—he whose liberating
arm is with us to open a passage to the
country, and to enable the entire nation to rise
and burst its fetters. It cannot be that beneath the
Austrian uniform, which bears the badge of slavery, the
Magyar heart does not be►t. In the Magyar's hands even
the bayonet and the sword ought to think. Hither, then,
ye valiant, where flutters the tricolour flag.
Beneath it is glory, justice, and your true place.
I call you—l whom the nation once chose for its
leader to conquer independence. In the name of God and
of the nation I call you. In the sacred name of the
country I order and command you. Come hither because
you can proceed from here to liberate the country. Long
live the King of Italy ! Long live the halo-Hungarian
alliance! Lung live the nation !

Issued from the headquarters of the King of Italy,
June 24, 1866.

THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.-SPECIAL CORRE-

SPONDENCE.

The Timcs this morning contains a page of cone-
spondence from the Austrian headquarters, coming
down to the 30th ult.

The writer (understood to be Mr. W. H. Russell)
found himself almost in a battle-field on reaching
the railway station at Joseplustadt, and describes
the following