The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-10 00:00:00

GENERAL KMET Y.

( From the Augsburg Gazette.)
PESTH, Oct. 31.—The last news from the seat of war in
Asia has excited intense interest here on account of the
share of our felow-countryman, General Kmety, in the
glorious victory which the Osmanli obtained over the Rus-
sians at Kara. General Kmety not merely commanded
in person at the most dangerous positions, and inspired
his troops by his own example with the most devoted
courage of the hero, but with his handful of cavalry pur-
sued the fugitive Russians, scattering death and terror
among them. Who would, 25 years ago, have thou4ht
thus of the harmless, blithe, and well-behaved youth then
studying at the Presburg Protestant Evangelical Ly-
ceum for the Christian ministry I Kmety was born at
Pokoragy a village charmingly situated on an emi-
nence about two miles or rather less from Rime-
Szombath, in the Gomorer county, where his father, a
Protestant clergyman, lived and officiated. Unfortu-
nately the latter died while Krnety was still a child be-
tween five and six years of age. His mother left the
parsonage and removed him to Nyiregyhaz, in the E•'zi-
bolseer county, where his grand-uncle, John Schulak,
was a minister, and in whose house both mother and son
found a modest but happy home. While the boy George
Krnety went to the elementary grammar school of that
place he evinced great abilities ; here, too, he delighted
his mother, uncle, and teacher by the industry with
which he strove to improve his talents, and hence it was
resolved to gratify the wish of the promising youth by
devoting him to a learned career. He came to Eperies,
where he studied zealously and successfully for some
years at the Protestant college of the district, and pro-
ceeded thence to Presburg for continuing his studies at
tt e Protestant Lyceum, which is acknowledged •to be
the best Protestant establishment of the kind in all
Hungary. Here he prepared himself for a German uni-
versity, and here he was to qualify himself fer taking
orders. George Kmety, as one of the hardest, but at the
same time least wealthy students, contended for a
scholarship. The committee at Peeth, who had to exa-
mine and decide, awarded him a stipend equal to 40
florins of conventional money, a large sum in those days
for a child of the muses, and a friend sent off the glad
tidings to Kmety, that hie petition had been complied
with. A singular circumstance, however, occasioned
this sum of 40 florins, intended for our George Krnety, to
be bestowed on another student of the same name, through
some error on the part of the notary or the committee
itself. This disappointment of hopes caused the young
man so much chagrin, that he went to Vienna and
turned soldier. His rapid advancement proved that here
also be did his duty, for by 1848 he had become a com-
missioned officer. The events of this and the following
year are well known. In the August of 1849, General
Kmety passed over into Turkey, with some other com-
panions in misfortune ; here he became a Mussulman ;
and we see that Ismail Pacha, like the generalissimo
Omer Pacha, does honour to the school in which he
learned the art of war. "The hero of the day" at Kars
is now in the prime of manhood, being in or near his
45th year.

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stated ty some of the London morning papers, that the
Tyne shipwrights have held meeting 4 at Shields with the
view of demanding an advance of wages t.) 84. a-day. No
~uch meetings have been held, and no such demand has
been contemplated. A considerable order has been re-
ceived by a large firm on the Tyne to have a number of
powerful gun-boats ready for the Government by the spring
of the year, and of course trade is brisk, but the Tyne
shipwright?, are among the most unlikely body of men to
consider their country's emergency their opportunity.
They are thorough Englishmen at heart.
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