The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-08 00:00:00

KOSSUTH ON NAPLES.

M. Kossuth delivered a lecture a few nights ago in
Queen-street hall, Edinburgh, at the request of the Young
Men's Christian Institute, the subject being—" Compli-
cation with the Neapolitan Government—Diplomatic
Revelations of England's former interventions in Southern
Italy—Practical applications to the present case." Bailie
Brown Douglas presided. The hall was filled in every
part.
M. Kossuth was received with loud and repeated cheers.
He said—lt would be his task now to lay before the meet-
ing some observations regarding the interference of Eng-
land and France in Neapolitan affairs. The question was
everywhere repeated, " What meant these cavillings and
bickerings about Naples? " One day it was a naval
demonstration, another day it was a new congress that
was talked of. He had learned from history to fear the
very name of congress. 'f In any demonstration or congress
which might take place, Britain would he acting in con
sort with Louis Napoleon, who had risen on the ruins o;
liberty to a despot's throne. Of the relative position of
Britain in this alliance he would say nothing ; butf
while Mr. Roebuck had said, " England must go where,
ever her big brother chooses to lead the way," the
leading Minister of Austria, Baron de Bruck, remarked
only a few weeks ago, when speaking of general European
politics, " Of England it is unnecessary to speak, as she
is no longer a first-rate Power, but with France, Austria
is in very good accord." He trusted, however, that the
British lion would show itself a lion still; but, when we
saw the British Government and Louis Napoleon acting
together in affairs of European policy, the matter must be
considered from a Bonapartist rather than an English
point of view, in order to a correct estimate of the pur-
poses and aims of their concerted action. The inter-
ference in Neapolitan affairs might, therefore, be intended
in the first place to prevent the French people from pon-
dering too closely on their own domestic concerns. Bona-
parte was well aware that Italy was a volcano ready at
any moment to explode. To prevent the explosion at any
hazard, was the real object of his solicitude. This was
quite natural ; and taking it at a starting 'point, they
might judge infallibly of the acts and designs of Bona-
parte. The popular movement was likely to take effect
in Naples and Sicily, but not because the Government of
Naples was the most wicked and tyrannical—for certainly
the Austrian court martial did not yield the palm of arbi-
trary cruelty to the Neapolitan judges; besides, the Neapo-
litan Government was at least Italian, and native, and there-
fore less hateful than the Austrian, which was.foreign and
alien. But it was not the tyranny of the King of Naples
that made Louis Napoleon fear that the volcano might
explode there soonest; his reason for fear was that the
Neapolitan Government was weakest in means of resist
ante to the popular movement—it had only, in fact, some
foreign merconaries to rely upon, and therefore Louis
Napoleon wished to prevent revolution ; but he sought to
appear in the character of a " protector ' of humanity,
because the word had such a fine sound, and the world
liked to be imposed upon. (Laughter.) M. Kossuth then
referred to the it:thence exerted by Britain in Neapolitan
and Italian affairs, and cited several instances of the per_
fly of the British Government. He then came to the in-
terference of France and Britain in Italian affairs in 1845.
Sicily had been abandoned to the Bourboes. Lord Pal•
merston had himself stated in Parliament that the English
Government had acted all along a most friendly part—he
dial not say to the people—hut to the King of Naples. But
it was time, he said, to come to the present interference.
What was the object of this interference? As gathered
from official documents, the object was to preserve
the peace of Europe, which was endangered by the
misrule of the Neapolitan despot. And why was
this ? Because a spark from Naples would set all
Italy—perhaps Spain, France, Garmany, Poland —in a
blaze, which would run like wildfire over Continental
Europe. What was the cause ? Because the nations
were oppressed, and robbed of their birthright—fteedom.
(Cheers.) They wanted to preserve peace. Peace was a
sacred word. He longed for peace. His heart yearned
for the time when the nationalities of Europe—restored to
their birthright of freedom—should unite into a hallelujah
of concord and amity, when they should "beat their
swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning
hooks,"—
" When man to man, the world o'er,

Shell brithers be, and a' that—"
But oppression was not peace ; security to the slaveholder
was a curse to the slave; and tranquillity to tyaants was
desolation to a hopeless vmrld. (Loud cheers.) It was
natural that Napoleon should tremble at a spark from
Italy upon the gunpowder of oppressed nations ; but what
reason was there that free Britain should lend her shoulder
to prop up the tottering thrones of European despotism ?
(Cheers.) The security of Queen Victoria rested on the
affections of her people, and not on such securities as
upheld the Bombas, the Hapsburgs, and the Bonapartes.
(Loud cheers.) M. Kossuth concluded by addressing
some observations to the Institute, by whose request he
had appeared on that platform. He called upon its
members to unite in its endeavours to apply the spirit of
Christianity to every relation in life, whether in the
capacity of patriots or of citizens—by such means the
tottering structures of despotism would be overthrown,
and new glory be added to the many glories of the British
people. (Protracted applause.)

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GREAT FIRE AT SHEFFIELD.—On Wednesday morning
the Portobello hair seating works, Sheffield, were the scene
of a formidable conflagration, which nothing short of the
greatest efforts on the part of the fire brigade, the police,
and other well-disposed persons, prevented from risirg into
a still greater calami'y The buildings affected by the fire
belong to Messrs. Samuel Laycock and Sats, and are
occupied by them principally in the manufacture of hair
seating and other hair cloth fabrics. The edifice occupies a
quadrangular area of about 40 yards by 15 yards, and ie, or
rather was, foar storeys hip, a greater portion of the
structure having been built within the last few years. Not
the least ill effect of the fire will be experienced by the
workpeople, the prime:pal of whom are women and girls,
numbering from 250 to 300. We fear that the loss of their
usual employment will have imposed upon them the reverse
of a " merry Christmas." The firemen remained, working
the engines, till 12 o'clock on Wednesday.
(jHOLEIta IN leetta.---The legend which ascribes to the
eating of human flesh the origin of one of the most loath
some of diseases. scarce offers a more horrible picture to the
imagination than is presented by a letter in the a ylon
Braminer of October. We have already allu:ed to the
ravages made by cholera in India during the early part of
this year. The latest accounts inform us that this scourge
has also devastated the beautiful islands of Mauritius and
Bourbon. These islands are largely supplied with pork
from Patna, a province of Hindos'an, that has itself been
overrun by the cholera. Both there and at Calcutta the
bodies of the natives are consigned to the Ganges, instead of
being interred. "Let any person," says the writer in the
Ceylon paper, " at day-break start from Government House,
Calcutta ' • and whether his walk be to the banks of the river,
or to the banks of the canals which on three sides surround
the city, he will see pigs feeding on the dead bodies of the
natives that have hem thrown there during the eight ;
during the clay the river police clear away and sink all that
remains of the bodies. Bad as is the metropolis of India, it
is nothing compared to Patna. , . , Hundreds upon hundreds
of human corpses are there strewed along the strand ; and
fattening, Glioule-like, upon these, are droves upon droves of
swine. These seine are slaughter:el, cut up and salted into
hams, bacon, and pickled pork, and then despatched to
Calcutta ....The great market for this poisonous swine
produce is the Mauritius and Bourbon," where it is foisted
on the inhabitants as the produce of Europe. Moreover, as
these swine are sold in Calcutta at three or four shillings
each carcase, it is stated that the inferior class of homeward-
hound vessels are proyisioned with them, and thus this
human-fed pork is introduced into Europe and America.
To the conclusion of the writer, that this is a probable cause
of the spread of cholera, we do not assenP. But we would
call attention to the revolting scenes described by him ; for
it is in a British possession, and under the control of British
rule, that these enormities are allowed to continue.—Lancet,

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