The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-28 00:00:00

THE "TIKES" AND KOSSUTIL

(has the DailyNnes.):
A fortnight or three weeks ago the Times wound I
up a long series of misrepresentations and slanders
against the Hungarian cause and its chief by certain ,
circumstantial falsehoods, such as that KOMI:Tit had •
brought away large chests of treasure; that he had
eired Count ZICHT'S emerald spurs to the Pacha of
TDDIN, at a public reception ; and that he was living
I in adultery with a noble lady, a young countess, the
wife of one of the gallant defenders of Hungarian
independence.
These slanders, raked up from the reports of police
agents,or invented by the correspondent of the Than at
Vienna, were met by the declaration of a well-known
English gentleman and author, who was present with
the Hungarian emigration at Wtddin, who wi tuessed the
reception of KossuTH by the Yacht, and accompanied
his journey thence. This gentleman declared, in the
Daily News of the let of January, "that all these
assertions were utter, wilful, and malignant false-
hoods."
()f'awse no respectable journal, or no gentleman
at'ached to such journal, could rest under such a
charge. We have no doubt that instant communica-
tions were made to the correspondent or conceit tn-
,.:ents who furnished the fout lies to bring proof of
them, or at long some explanation of them. The
post takes some time bete/con London and Vienna,
between Vienna and Widdin •, and therefore it
was only on Friday lust that the Time. re-
turned to the subject, which it did by stating
" the melancholy but indisputable fact that its cur-
respondence from the disturbed parts of Europe had
proved entirely eorrect." The Times, therefore, after
coneiderstioa and examination adopts the foul, infa-
mous, and unmanly calumnies of its correspondents,
without attempting to auhatautiate one tact: Of this
we leave tot only the pubic to judge, but we leave
the redaction and correspondents of the Times to con-
, eider how far their character, as well as that of the

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journal, is implicated by this undo of uttering falss-
hoods without shame, and braving the consequence
without compunction.
Tne tone assumed by the Times in its pleading of
Friday must be temiliar to all, whom curiosity or
prof. ssion has rendered aLquainted with the Old
Bailey. Accused of the grossest calumny, of stabbing
recklessly at the characters of men in mi-fortune, and
women without defenders, it turns round in the dock,
I and charges the prosecutor with having " tradtced
and vilified" it. It has been attacked, it declares,
with " coarseness and injustice." The poor, dear,
scrupulous, courteous, considerate plexis in
the tone of " injured innocence." Kossut it is at-
tacked with lying effrontery, and accused of being
s thief. With circumstantial falsehood it is
pointed oat how and where he had disposed of
the stolen good., and the lady leaning on his
arm is cherged with adultery. When Kosst Ties
friend takes the fellow up, and puts him at the bar of
the public police court, he turns round and vows he
has been tr,srliteed, that be has had emus language ad-

dressed to him, and complains that he hassheewn some-
what rudely cullared. We are bound to ee.ty, that there is
no: a magistrate on the bench that wuuld not ia-
stantly answer that well-known and piteous r.ppeal
by an immediate sentence of such a culprit to the
tread-mill. _ _ _

Not th- least curious characteristic of that foul and
personal warfare, which we have ty pitied above, and
which has been resorted to by the Times, is that these
cruel and overwhelming slanders have not been di-
rected against democratic revoluticnists, or against
really dangerous men. They have been showeiel upon
lovers and respecters of not only cLnatitutional liberty.
but of aristocratic and monarchic incitation'.
M. LAMARTINE has 'written a history of the ever.ts
of 1848, in which he recounts how the chief repub-
licans came to him and prorated that he should aid in
continuing the monarchy. LAMARTINE refused, and
precipitated France into a republic. Yet LAMARTINE
has reoe:ved the homage of the Times ; MARRAST has
been the object of its praises. We have never Lnown
it to calumniate M. Louis BLeNc, nor pursue LEDUC
ROLLIN with inveteracy. None of the ultra-demo-
crats of Germany have been the object of the invete-
racy of the Ames. It his done justice to WALDECX,
nor has it tradwald the private character of
STROVE.
No—the especial victim of the calumnies and
inveterate hatred of the Times are those who Lught,
not for democracy or tese'ialism, but for their old,
hereditary, guaranteed, and uristecratia conatitutiots
—the patriots of Sicily and of lieu,,ary. Why
has the Times passed its rod lightly over the heads of
republican and democrat, in order to come down with
the full measure of its vengeance on the heads of
those who fought for moderate liberty, for constitu-
tional wisdom? Why deceit spars the ROBESPIERRES
and the DANTONS of the present day, in order to fla-
gellate and denounce the Lae.tverrEs and the Kos-
stuts ? Simply because my, Lord ABERDEEN has
taken the tyraunic courts of Vienna and of Naples
under his flattering protection, and fancies that Eu-
rope is to be saved from revolution, and its balance
of power preserved, by resuscitating all the moth-
eaten and periwigged absurdities of the last century,
be they Italian despotisms, or Frackfort diets.
If the Times thundered at demccratic freedom, and
tot,k its stand for constitutional liberty, we could un-
derstand it. If it upheld the Lecessity of aristocratic
institutions, especially in countries lately emenci-
eated, that, toe, would be intelligible. But for an
English journal of the present day to declare itself
the champion of such stupid, vengeful, and unmiti-
gated despots as the King of NAPLES, or of the
confiscations and floggings of the Austrian com-
manders, that is outrageous and insane, as well as
ignorant and malignant.
The Times talks of its judgment, and of its Eng-
lish sources. But what is the 'limes, in its German
and Italian intelligence, but the receptacle, the sink
of the offscourings of all the pelice offices in E trope
The Times prides itself up in its foresight.
Why, we remember the Times announcing, day
after day, that the Hungarians were crushed and
the Austrians victorious in the first campaign, when
at the very time the Ilungarians hod driven W IN DISCII-
GRATZ back to Presburg, and destroyed his army.
We recollect a solemn article of the Times sagely
opining that the Hungarians might make a suc-
cessful resistance, and speaking in favour acid respect
of ROSSUTII. We could point out, during this host
few months, successive articles of the Times, the first
of which declared the meeting of the Erfurt parlia-
ment impossible, the next admitting it inevitable,
and the third coming back to consider it doubtful.
We know no journal that dodges events with more
suppleness and less saeaoity than the Time*, or one
lees entitled to assume the countenance of absolute
wisdom.
But mistakes and errors are inevitable in a record,
written day by day. Intemperate judgments and
expressions, also, are but incidental to the hurry and
worry of diurnal writing. But a systematic per-
severance in slander, perpetuated in wanton malig-
nity, and persisted in even after conviction of false-
hood, this is what no English journal, however ac-
credited, thirst practise with impunity, or can defend
with success.

SUICIDE AT BLACKYRIAIM-BRlDOE.—Shortly after
12 o'clock yesterday a female, apparently abmt
yeah of age, whcs was very meanly attired, entered the
drat recess on the westarn-side of Illackfriers-bridge, and
before any puma could reach her, the wok off her bonnet
and cap, throwing them down on the stone work, end then
deliberately leaped into the river. An alarm was raised,
and two waterman rowed to the spot where she had fallen,
but the deceased
were used fee some time, but t►e deceased could not be
found. The bonnet and cap were taken to the police.
station in FleeFitroet, where they remain to be identified,