The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-28 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

GENERAL KLAPKA AND GENERAL

GARIBALDL

General Klapka has addressed the following
letter to Garibaldi, dated Geneva, August 16, 1861:
General, —I have bet reed the eloquent appeal which you
bare addressed to the Roumaina, exhorting them to concord
and unity with the Hungarians. I trust in Cod that this
wise advice may be followed, and that dissident parties may
feel that the time is come when all should unite u one
body. This is the only way to baffle the intaigneo which
are 90 skilfully woven by the reactionary party in Europe.
In truth, it is no longer bayonets, prisons, or scaffolds that
we have to fear, but rather that deplorable discord
which the agent. of reaction so well know how
to keep alive in the midst of populations who should
understand one soother—those caltunnies with which they
are unceasingly covering every liberal and national move.
meet—that infernal art which they employ to mislead and
omrapt the political aspirations and sentiments of the
maws. In Italy, religion and legitimacy are the levers
with which they work upon ignorant minds and feeble cha-
racters : in Hoeg:try they work upon national differences and
susceptibilities by reviving the buried hatred of races. The
peat national movement of Italy, which is the admiration
of all the world, is represented by them as opposed
to the catholic religion, and subversive of social order.
They distort the liberal and emancipating character of the
movement in Hungary, sod vilify it by representing it as
incompatible with the freedom and development of the
other Danubian nationalities. Deceptive voims are heard
anew at Vienna. They suddenly remember there that it is
their duty to protect the &lava and Roumaies against the
would-be pretensions of the Ifsalrars. They wish that all
should participate in the beadle of the new improvised &natl.
tulles's. But these concessions mad* in a moment of weak-
ness deceive no one. The expssrenoe of past years has taught
people to set them down at their proper value. Hungarians,
betel., Ramming, Serbs—all recollect that yoke of iron
„wild,: after 1848, marked the triumph of reaction.
do pot forget the sufferings sad burdens which they
heath endure. The principle of equality for all nation-
alitiesso loudly proclaimed at Vienna in the constitution of
the 4th of March, 11149, was in fact applied in all its rigour.
All were equally deprived of their rights and liberties ; all
reduced to the same misery ; all alike insulted in what men
esteem meet sacred ; all, in fine, had to shed their blood in
order to defend in Italy a mum the triumph of which would
have only aggravated sad perpetuated their own slavery.
' We must almost despair of the future destiny of iss.
time, if, after such recent experience, the, plots of the rem-
au party are still to succeed. Happily these fears will not
realised. I have • Arm conviction that the sentiments
of fraternity will gain the ascendant over the accursed
tiveiries of the pest Just as in Switzerland, the classic
soil of liberty, French, Germans, and Italians, animated
by the same love of country, and protected by the same
institutions, live and prosper ; so, let us hope, the day is
approaching, when, in Hungary and Croatia, Sclaree,
Roumania, and Hungarians will five as brothers, enjoying
the same liberties, and ready to combine their forces to
defend themselves against all on. The principal
bonds which unite different tions of Switzerland in
one body are the necessity of defence against the
foreigner phical situation and identity of interests.
The bonds already exist among the &lave, Roumain,
and Hungarian populations, aid it is only by knitting them
closer that each of them will be able to attain its freedom
and complete development; whereas on the contrary, by
remaining disunited and without the protection of mutual
support, they will soca fall an easy prey to the powerful
neighbours in the midst of whom they are placed. The
flungatias Did, ocievineed of and penetrated by these truths,
have Ma prised, ea the ere et thsiraeperstioe, as one of
thefandsmeMal el thelkeganan constitution that
" all the in Hungary, especially the Mayen,
Morse Germans, Serbs, Ruthenes, &a., are
considered as nationalities fully equal in rights, who, by
means of individual liberty and the right of meeting, may
realise without any restriction their national aspirations
within the limit of the unity of the country." Is not this
the beet answer that Hungary can give to her adverearies
These principles apply to Hungary Proper. As to Croatia,
the patriot. of both countries ere actively engaged is rip
kaittiag the federal pact in such a meaner as to eddy the
asst expreacies and requirements of all. The Diet and all
ungarian patriots are, and ever will be, ready to enter
into every equitable compromise, in order to satisfy the
non-Magyar populations—cohabitants of Hungary; but
they will never go so far as to break the ter-
ritexid integrity of the country. In order that
Hungary may accomplish Its destiny amongst nations,
all its territory, that is to m, its natural frontiers and the
whole of its forme, are • seeeseary to it. I
am convinced that except es these conditions, there is
safety for none. To mutilate Hungary is to close the future
and to ohoke all hopes of freedom, not only in Hungary,
bet in all the Daoulda states, for which a strong Hungary
is the first condition. Receive, General, with my thaniskes
of them all my friends and easspelnots, for having ri
year powerful voice in the interest of reconciliation sod
concord. Your heartfelt appeal will, lam sure, reach all
to whom it has bees addressed. It will be heard and under-
stood oa the Danube, as it has teen in Italy. The day of
reemicalinseat is near—en that day Hungary will be froli—
cs that day the independeme of Italy will be completed
and Sc, ever secured. Ropostios the expressies al my deep
anksowiedgmente, I am, 0111919991, year very devoted
G. 11tarc.a.

INCREASE OF OFFICERS IN THE
FRENCH NAVY.
PARIS,
The Moniteur of to-day oontairui a report from
the Minister of Marine to the Emperor, on the
insufficiency of the number of officers in the impe-
rial navy. The minister proposes to the Emperor
to increase the number of officers within the
current year by 19 captains of men-of-war' 20
captains of frigates, 50 lieutenants, and 25 mid-
shipmen. The minister adds that this increase will
not be sufficient, and declares his conviction that a
similar increase will have to be made next year.
The Emperor approves the proposition of the
minister.

PARIS, AUGUST 27.
The Patrie has news from Madagascar to the
115th July, announcing that the Queen continued
seriously ill, and that great agitation prevailed in
the island. '

ITALY.

TURIN, Amon 28.

The Opinion of to-day again circulates the
report that General Della Rovers will take the
portfolio of war, and that General Brignone will
replace him in the lieutenancy of Sicily.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA,Attecor 27.
In to-day's sitting of the Upper House of the
Reichorath, Count Leo Than and M. Plash' blamed
the address, in reply to the communication of the
government, for the disregard it shows to the de-
mands of Hungary. The majority of the members,
.hrovever, pronounced themselves in favour of the
unity of the empire.