The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-21 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

foe to Austria from every Mese. And yon may
see the anticipation by-and-by realised is other quarters
too. If Austria held not Italy he her grasp, weld an Italian
question be possible ? No, Arleta is not a Wrier ; her very
ammo me is the sword of Damocles suspended over the settled
condition of Europa; it is the cavern from which the Euro-
pean volcano is fed. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Let
Austria van'ett into the gulf of eternal perdition which is
yawning for hee—(cheers) ;—and we may yet hear perhaps
of local revolutions, but they will remain mere domestic
strain; European wire of ambition will become for,
ever impossible, and you will not see my longer
the lifesweet of Earope drained by the keeping op of
large standing armies, because the independents of every
nation will find a coneantee is the independence of all.
(Chen.) The truth Le vraarryy plain, my lord. The nations
agglomerated into the compound called Austria car.
tritely contain considerable elements of power• but it le •
very great mircenception to dodoes frees tide faitt the thra-
ll/0e that the Austrian empire is a powerful ingredient in
what la called the system of the balance of_nnithri (Rear.)
Tbs world has progressed. my lord. The seutiment of
nationality wbich fifty years ago the dynasties aroused hr
the protection of their thrones is strongly developed
everywhere. If it be strong in the German nation
It I. equally strong in the Italian, Hungarian, and fielavanio
nationalities—nay, even stronger, bemuse them ere subject
to foreign domination. Therefore the feestAthat the
nations which are yoked together under the military
rule of Austria detest that rale. Consequently, any war
waged against Aurelio, one or another of the, it may be
ell el them, will always he found ready to join any foreign
Ceranalost Aeretrb. Thom mikes, mumelpthed hose
moke ofEthitrk, made metaled, hem gems sdal lethemehe
of Earopeta independeaos, but coupled together bytes* and
violence in an unnatural compound which they detest, they
are not • barrier, but the vulnerable point of Europe's peace
end security. (Cheers.) I have thus endeavoured, my Lord
Mayor, to elucidate the four points which I beg the meeting
well to consider, became it is on the view which the English
nation shall take of these points, that the policy of England
wlll eventually depend. (Hear, hear.) There is one point
moo to which I desire to advert. It is said that if the
Italians, if the other nationalities whom Austria holds in
bondage, would act alone, England would not feel tempted
to intervene, but the French intervention allele the case.
(Hear, hear.) It is said that the Emperor of the French
cannot be actuated by any other than ambitious views—
(bear, bear)—that he mean@ conquest ; end this England
ebonite not allow ; nor should Rely, or the other oppreesed
nationalities, lend their hands for exchangiag one teak-master
for another. (Hear, bear.) These are grave coseidaratione,
indeed, and Mere le' my brief, plain smear to them.
It is easy to say that the oppreesed nationalities
should au alone. Unity of will and harmony of design are
not everything; scion moat be combined on a precuevehd
plea, and before that combination can be arrived at is coon-
tries where speech is stifled, and the press Is gagged the
disciplined army crushes the unorganised popular mimes,
and the hangman and the ecaffold do the rest. (Hear,hnearni
to Tire is the key the mystery that with a couple of Madre
thoueand eridien millions of brave liberty-loving people may
be held in bondage for ages. Rare are the inatames recorded
in history in which deliverance from oppression was soldeved
without foreign assistance. The United Star of America
hod the assistance of despotic Frames in otablisking their
Independepole. (Hem, hear.) Even England, hereto and
brave as she le, had the aid of 16,000 Dutch Grenadian and
a Dutch fleet of 600 sail ; it was with these that William of
Cringe come to the rescue other liberties. (Hear.) We Hun-
garians, achieved our independence without foreign eight-
ance, but it ea. by foreign intervention that we were enslaved.
What carious change has came on a sudden over the minds
of governments and of aristocrats that they raise a her and
cry against whet they call the intervention of the French In
Italy I Why, eny bed, for about forty years we have scarealy
heard of anything glee than foreign interventioa
liberty. There was intervention in Spain, at 1,14=1
Piedmont, In Sicily, at Rome, in lioldo-Waller la, is
Hungary, in Hash, In Baden, in Schlearig-Holatein,
everywhere there has been intervention egainst liberty, and
I do not know th ,t England has ever drawn her sword to
forbid it. Sometimes a tame remonstrance may have been
offered; but. in the cue of my own dear native land
imiland's government had not even one poor word of ober-
vsllon
to offer. (Hear, bear.) Well, hers at last is a case
he which a chance of emancipation from the yoke
el Austria is presenting itself by an intervention (if inter:
mention it be), and • hue and ay is raised ovum it, and
uthelples are invoked in favour of onnetha which were
never Invoked In favour of the ommee& (Hew, hear.) It
Is a discreditable hypocrisy. Let Austria ha replaced in the
=linto which the heroic arms of my nation had hurled
819, before foreign ,nterventke lifted her up from
Ile dust, and be mire neither Italy me we shall want any
seristanoe ; but If England permitted Austria to be save 4
and the rights of nationalities to be crushed, by brigs in-
tervention, let It not ha recorded that, when such interven-
tion might have tnrnel to the advantage of the oppressed
netionelitiee, then only was it oppugn.] for the diet time to
that England which was so much indebted herself to foreign
assistance for her deliverance from oppression. (Chang.)
Itheidee, in this case there is not exactly intervention, there
Is war between euabliebed coventmesta. That one or more
nationalities may take advantage of the opportunity IS, I
should think, not exactly a proper reams for England to
throw, Brennue-like, her sword into the scale in fee..ur of
Austria, a name synonymous with oppreesion' and with the
murder of nationalities. (Cheers.) What may be the
spatial motives which induced the present ruler of France to
engage in this Wit I do not pretend to know, bat I know
what cannot be in hie letterset, and therefore cannot be in
his intention,. It cannot be in his interest to ester on the
career of a conqueror, because diet would he positive ruin to
him, se it was the in of Napoleon I. Nay, though
that great captain was certainly an ambitions man,
yet I feel perfectly certain that if he were to rim this day from
hie grave, with all hie high-towering ambition, not even be
could enter now on the career of a conqueror. At certain
times cattalo things are Impossible ; and this is am of them.
Furthermore I know that it cannot be in his interest, nay
that it is positively against his intermit, to aim at the oppree-
am of nationalities. (Cheers.) It is the irreverent Mere-
gird of the sentiment of nationality which sent Napoleon I.
to die a fettered eagle on the scorching rocks of St.. Helena;
it is the name irrevtrent disregard of the sentiment of na-
tionality that will @hatter to atoms the tottering throne of
priedirets Austria. And verily it does strike me that Napo-
leon 111. I, not exactly the man to repeat the huh by
which Napoleon I. fell. By doing good to the
oppressed nationalities he may earn greet moral
advantage; by doing them harm he coati not earn scything
but ruin for himself. (Chews.) In forming my opinions I
take for a starting point interests, not men ; and knowing
the in mates where so much la at stake men arc not likely
to disregard their interest, I dare trust to the soundoess of
my cenclueinue. And after all there is tome guarantee in
the force of circumstances too. Suppose—l give it you as a
aupposiden—appose that the logical development of the
present war should offer to my own nation, not an Melte-
ment to heardone desultory riots—these I should sternly
deem her to avoid—but should offer her each a chesce
as would, with resaesable pm... Forces, place her indepen-
dence within the reach of her own determination,
would you advise her to reject the chance be-
cause, under the mysterioue disputation of Providence, it
would have came to her from a &mutter Why, the
would be • fool to reject it. (Cheers.) Hungary cannot be
bade • French department; she is both too strong and too
distant for that; her distance alone places her out of that
danger. (Hear, hear.) And even as to Italy. Hated as
Austria le by every Italian, the iron rod of Austria was strong
enough to prima Italy from organishig and arming the
petiole. Thanks to the assistance of Franca, they can do it
now. Let than be wise enough to take advantage of the
ovarian, and, having had Resistance in getting delivered from
the foe, if they should not awe how to secure their future in-
dependence from the friend, they would not &terve to be free.
(Loud cheers.) When the fats of nations ie trembling in
the scale, woe to the teen • he, loving himself more than his
fatherland, would allow himself to be guided in his julgs
meet by his personal sympathies and antipithies rather than
by what he owes to his enantry. I love my fatherland more
then myself—more than aeything on earth; and, inspired
by this love, I ask one boon—may one boon—from llingland,
and that is„ that 030 should not pupped Austria. Etiftleod
has not interfered fur liberty ; let her not interfere for the
worst of despotisms on earth—that of Austric (Greet
cheering.) The only boon I art is .t,lct neutrelity; and
this, tee, I should sot elk if I were not certain in
my conscience that England's interfenunt in the war
would bring Incalculable calamity oa this your free
and happy country, without any peals present Troth or
future computation. (Hear, hear.) I owe, and gladly
profem to owe, eternal gal etude to England. I should feel
it much like a miarortone befalling my own native laud
should England inconaiderately rush iota a calamitous course
by coupling her own tate to that of the Eons, of Amite's.
(Hear.) he Euclid' nation has mighty destinies in her
hands. Pb toe Whoa well in mind this, that no war can
be theught to have assumed European propeetione, online
Germany and Repels become parties to it. Now, my lord,
I am of opinion that, though the German nation be mum-
mealy excited, Germany will not dy Into the war to the ream
of Austria, netwa Pre.ria takes the lead—Cheer Marl—
thus abjuring the policy of Frederic& the Great, which raised
bar to the pakten ef a first-tste power. And I, for one,
considering the agitorle which the Cnsr of Ruda world be
likely to take in much a oute—l, for one, cannot think that
the Recent of Petunia will risk the dangerous bawd using
he shall be made sure of being supported by England. Thus
It evidently &prods on the resolution of Becloud whether or
not this war I. to meow gang Baroness proportions; be
• if Presets, from reliance upon England's seaport,
plunges into the war en the gds of Austria, it is mare OM
reasonable to anticipate that Franca he thee awe will be sap-
Ported by Russia. (Bear, Use.) Let, therefor*, her Ma-
jesty's goveremeet well leader over the toasequeweas
of a rash, isonasiderato step, and let them well
weigh the hareems responsibility of their perition.
The entire which the national interests of Enema more-
mead is very clear. Hug yourselves out of harm; develop
your own freedom ; Weems your prosperity ; goon moodily
on the mad of pewee& to your own advantage as well as to
that of humanity and of elviliatien; and allow me to express
a hope that it, under the sundial dieressetioa of ?melees.

a chance of national emancipation should arise front the pre-
sent complications for any of the nationalities whom Austria
holds in bondage, the good wishes and hearty prayers of this
free, generous na.ion will not be with the oppressor, bat will
be with the oppressed; that England will not be backward
la cheering the endeavour with her approbation, and in
encouraging it by her sympathy. (Great and lanrecatinued
applause)
Mr. Deputy DAL tte moved the following reeolielks :
" That in the opinion of this meeting it is of the highest
importance to the honorer and interests of ingland that she
should °beery° strict neutrality between the contending
powers now waging war on the continent, and avoid all
entangling alliances or nestles which may lead to
complications endangering that neutrality."
Professor XIBWIIIAN, seconded the reedation.
The Lord Mayor being about to !submit this meeintion to
a &how of hands, Mr. P. A. Tager rose to move an amend-
ment. In spite of remonstrances from hie lordship and Irmo
Mr. C. Gilpin., and of loud diaapprobstion from the meeting,
he persisted in his intention, and ultimately propored the
following amendment : " That this raeetings- while repu-
diating all idea of British intervention in the preeent Menges
between Prance and Austria, desires to express Its deaf con-
viction of the necessity of re-organising the independence of
Italy, as much in the interests of the peace of Swope au
of too long-delayed justice to the Regan people; and this
meeting declares its opinion that no settlement
ma properly be recognised by Jingland, which is
not hued upon the !nine,' ph of Italy ftw the Italians."
The amendment having been esoonded by a person in ea
obscure pert of the pletform,

Mr. &Lout contended put It wee maculated to Ware- the
tutee frit *Mk Nemeting vas ccamaani, end Mr. Ta7lor,
ft the manfined oatitsonka et tatorly every one priment, with-
drew ft.

Ihtinutolation was then par, and carried unanimously.
During the some which occurred the Lord Mayor retired,
in consequent* of his continued indisposi.ioa, and was atm-
meld in tho chair by Mr. White, late M.P. for Plymouth.
Oa the motion of Mr. NICHOLAY. seconded by the Rev.
Newman Hatt., it was resolved that a memorial, embody-
ing the resolution which had been passed, should be pre-
sented to Lord Derby, by a deputation, to consist of the Lord.
Mayor and other gentlemen.
The meeting terminated with a vote of 'hacks to the
Lord Mayor, and three cheers for Monsieur Kossuth.