The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-14 00:00:00

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LATEST . LLIGENI _ *mama.
Mon oR ovirosenzzszonnans.)
SWEDEN. LISBON, JA.v. 9.
A new tillneewAration in favour of the indepen- The wive of the Sultan has allayed some serious
donee of Italy has been made in the Swedish Diet. four for her safety, which had begun to gain grouai.
At • sitting of the Chamber of Citizens, M. Loner- Tb e Due de Nemours , a relative of the royal family
Portugal, being on board, there was no cewmtion
Malt reed a letter from the National Italian to the telegrams which were aent in all dirernions to
ciety, giving thanks to the Swedish nation fee the inquire after the miming steamer. The Dec de
marks of sympathy which it has given to the Italian Nemours was received yesterday at the Arsenal by
Dom Fernando, and conveyed in one of the royal
cam; end the chamber resolved that the letter
carriages, attended by a guard of honour, to the
should be communicated to the Chamber otPements, Palace of Neosesidadee.
which had also manifested sympathy to Italy, and The contract which has teen concluded between
that an address in reply to it should be voted in an the Portuguese government and Mr. Valentine, C.E.,
sitting, on the part of an English company, for the cession of
the Southern Rail way, has been published in the of
newspaper . Thisoontract is yet sabject to the approval
of the Corte., but there is every probability that this
sanction may be counted upon as a matter of course,
the advantages to be afforded to Portugal by the
proposed line of railway, which opens up the traffic
of the Alemtejo, one of the richest provinces, are in-
calculable; and the names of the gentlemen who
propose to form the company are well known and of
the highest respectability.
The elections have now taken place. In Lisbon
and Oporto there is a large majority for the Opposi-
tion, but throughout the provinces the Ministerial
party claim nearly all the candidates who have been
returned. However, there is every likelihood that
many of the parties counted upon by the government
will be found todiffer totally upon many questions
of importance, and that the new Cortes will prove
as unmanageable as the last.
The weather has recently been very boisterous,
and some disasters have occurred along the coast.
The wind has now, however, abated, and the weather
is floe.

PRANCE.

PARIS, SATURDAY._

The Moniteur of to-day says:—" Yesterday the
Emperor presided at a 'meting of the Council of
Ministers and of the Privy Council.
" The Empress was also present."

SPAIN.

MADRID, ILL 13.
The sth corps d'armee embarked to-day at Alge-
ohm

Provisions and ammunition have been landed on
the African coast. The wounded have embarked
foe Spain. _

Since the departure of the last packet little busi-
ness has been clone in foreign exchanges, and paper
has remained over. The rates are :—London, 30days,
63i to 11; ditto, 90 days, 631 to t ; Paris, 633 ; Ham-
burg, 47i; Genoa, 629. In stocks business has been
flat, with little alteration in prices.

'MUIR' ON TEN 8211 TE OF
HUNGARY.

M. Kossuth has addressed to a number of

gentlemen at Glasgow, who had asked him whether,
in the present juncture of affairs, expressions of
favourable public opinion would be serviceable to
the Hungarian cause, a letter, of which the following
is an extract : . _

I would beg leave to state that expressions of public
opinion, to the effect that the people of Great Britain
do not main to allow of any acquiesonce in an intervention
of foreign fora against Hungary—l say such manlfestadons
of public opinion would go far towards reassuring the Hun-
garian nation, would UNTO their energies, and would leave
no doubt in their minds as to the ultimate Unit. Be this u
it may, there is, I dare say, much in the cause of Hungary
to recommend It to the approbation and sympathy of all
obsess end parties.
Those with whom religious sentiments are paramount
should not remain indifferent to the tyrannical encroach-
ments on the rights of the protestant church in Hungary
—rights sanctioned by law and by solemn European treaties.
It would be strange, indeed, if those who nobly nisei their
voice end entered their protest in the case of the boy
Mortara had no word of sympathy for the Hungarian pro-
testant, suffering persecution and prison for the sake of re-
ligion, and this, too, in a country than which none has better
deserved of Christendom.

Dien7i conservativeprinciples should remember that the
muse of Hungary la the most legitimate on earth, even in
the diplomatic sooeptenoe of the word; historical rights, sworn
compacts, diplomatic stipulations, and the sanctity of treaties,
unite In condemning the usurpation of Francis Joseph of
Austria, who has no title to appeal to in support of his rule
—neither inheritanos, nor election, nor even conquest. He
is no sovereign of Hungary, but a mere lawless intruder, set
up by foreign armed intervention, the very principle of
Which is now generally condemned both by the people
and government of Gmat Britain. Conservative men
ought to remember that not the Hungarian nation, but
Francis Joseph of Austria, is the wild, reeklees anar-
chist who trampled down the time-hallowed institutions
and historical tights of Hungary, for the sake of shallow
innovations sad foolhardy experiments which morality, jus-
tice. common sense, and experience, alike condemn.
The friends of freedom ebould remember that the cause of
Hungary is the cause of civil and religious liberty, of justice,
and of civilisation.

Statesmen of comprehensive mind should remember that,
whatsoever the power of the House of Austria may or may
not have been in former times, at present it is the great
nuisance of Europe, the source of ever-recarring trouble',
disturbances, and wars • a nuisance without the removal of
which no great pending European question can receive its
definitive solution, and a settled pesos and tranquillity In
Euro- •is utterly impossible. They should, besides, reflect
on the perspective that again to frustrate Hungary In her
aspirations to independence by any ill-advised combination of
antiquated policy would be likely to drive her into the arms
of Kurds.
And, lastly, there is one feature In the Haan move-
mast which strongly appeals to the sym • of every
sensible man. It ie the mature ripeness for ea mini-
, fasted in the unanimity of the movement, which le truly
glorious. The Austrian government exhausted every mew
to fan the flame of discord, and to keep alive mutual
jealousy, between the various races, yet we as them burjing
their animosities in the grave of the peat; we see them—ell
of them—united In heart and mind, united in will and act for
common right, for common liberty. Formerly there were
parties divided from one another by sharp landmarks of
plinciples and policy. There is but one party now, the
party of patriots, embracing the whole nation ; every dia.
unction, every difference has been merged into the love of
the common country. The progress is so great in this re-
gard that Mr. Zoxlenyi, one of the moat prominent members
of the former government party, is now in the seas
predicament in which I found myself In 1839. He
niters impri•onment, es I and Werselenyi suffered. Ito the
cease of liberty of the pram, Weeeeleeyi in the care=
of speech, Zsedenyi In the cane of liberty of oo
of us equally for adhering to right and law.
•

- .
The arietocesey goes with the people, and the people goes
with the aristocracy. To introduce divisions amongst them,
the government is re-offering to the ariAtocrtcy the privilege
M patrimonial jorlediciion. The aristocracy repudiates
They will bear of no privileges—no immunities. Rqual
freedom or equal oppression, equal weal, equal woe, is their
motto. The people, on the other hand, does not grudge to
the aristocracy its social pre-entinemoe—it trusts them and
honours them as an elder brother, the prop and lustre of the
national household. But if there is one class rather thaw
*nether to which I should bow with admiring veneration. it
le the Roman catholic clergy of Hungary, from the humble
village priest up to the mitred prince of the church.
They support almost to a man the national cause; many
of them (as the Roman catholic laymen in general) even en-
courage and support the proteetants in maintaining the rights
of their religion.
Jealous of their own liberty of conscience they defend the
liberty of conscience of their protestant brethren. Firmly
attached to their own creed, they honour the protestenta (or
their attachment to theirs.
Conoordate have Men devised to entrap them into making
their religion subservient to despotism, by holding out to
them the entiCelnellt that the church shall role over the
state. They indignantly repudiated the insidious suggestion
—they reject the idea to make religion a tool of policy. They
are priests in the church, bat are citizens without—pat:iota
everywhere.
It is a glorious sight. There is none on earth more
pylons. I close with renewing the opiolon, that expres-
sions of approbation sod sympathy would be highly con-
ducive to the good of my country.—l have the honour to re-
main, with particular regards, gentlemen, your obedient
humble servant, KOSSUTH.
MMUS. Wm. M'Adam, Means. James Moir,
J. W. liKeregor, Robert Rae,
W. G. Lengdon, Robb M`Tear,
Mr. John M'Adam.
12, Regent's-park-terrace, London, Jan., 1860.

The Paris oorrespondent of the TiMe! (icoond
edltioe) writes:—" I understand that permission has been
granted to the Rev. Mr. Gurney to perform divine mirk,.
on Sunday neat In the chapel which, as I informed
you, on Sunday last wee, in so mammary a MUM.
ordered to be closed. Though it is for Sunday next only that
permisaion is accorded for the English service, yet there is reason
tosuppose that it will be continued, and that the matter of the
evening service in French will be reserved for future delibe-
ration. The memorial addressed to the Emperor by the
incumbent prays that, if Frenchmen professing the doctrines
of the Anglican church aak fur th►t service to be continued
it shell be accorded. Very few indeed doubt that the
Emperor will be much more liberal than his Minister."
_ _

A private letter from Nice states that that town
is crowded with Romaine, attracted by the premises there of
tlaeßmprese-Mother of Russia and of the Grand Duchess Mary
of Leuchteuberg. The Queen Dowagerot Denmark, the Princes
01014=1)mgal:dot Schleswig- Rolatein,make frequett excur-
sions hate the neighbourhood. The Greed Duchess
Stephsale of Baden is seriowly Indisposed. The Amite of
Nice has doubled its circulation sinoe It has advocated the
annexation of Savoy with France.
News has reached Southampton rid New York,
that Dr. Batm, surgeon of the Royal KAI steamer &Mist,
had died of yellow fever. The Solent bad put into Aspinwall,
from Sea Juan del Nutto.