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however, from an English point of view, this is not the
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cl.ief consideration.
Let us, for the Fake of argument, suppose Col. Tur
to fall xvithin the category of deserters, the fact for Eng-
lishmen to consider is--Ist. Whether Coronim can claim
the right of seizing deserters not belonging to his own -
army of occupation, wherever he happens to find them.
2dly. Whether Eng!-,e7 >rfeiting the position
of an index ,ildent pee, .. dto submit to this
pretended right in the pti:.,i. of tier own officers ?
This is the question with England. Now, what man
in his senses would dare to deny that the right of seizing
deserters is necessarily limited to cue's own territory I
Hit were otherwise, I do not see what could hinder the
Austrian Minister in London to kidnap by his valetaill
any Hungarian refugee who happens to walk near Chan
dos-street. Perhaps it may come yet to this. From
the path England is treading, conjunctures bid fair to
come to this point. Austrian Ministers dared so much
at Constantinople while I was a prisoner of European
diplomacy at Kutahya; the fact was not unknown to
the Minister of England ; I myself have brought it for- ,
wally under his cognisance, but have not heard of any
steps taken in consequence of it by the English Govern•
ment for the vindication of international law. " Cone
siderations for Austria" prevailed then, as they prevail
now. And you have but to allow expediency to inter-
fere with right, and you will not be able to telt how far
the logic of the first indulgence will force you to yield.
At all events, it is indisputable that the right of
seizure is a territorial tight, restricted to one's own ter-
ritory. Wallachia is no Austrian territory. Though
by the most fatal of errors (I would not exaggerate were
I to call it a crime), England had connived to play over
Wallachia into the keeping of Austria, she is not a sove-
reign there, and apart from the authority of providing
for the security, order, and maintenance of the army of
occupation, she can claim absolutely no power—no juris-
diction there, beyond the terms conceded to her by the
fatal convention of June 14, 1854 ; and lamentable as
the act of that convention may be, there is not a word,
either in its letter or its spirit, that could, I will not say
Justify, but in any way extenuate, the criminalarroganoe
of the perpetrated insult.
If Austria is allowed to do thus much, why, I see no.
thing to prevent her from seizing Omer Pacha himself,
he happening to fall unquestionably more under the
qualification of an Austrian deserter than Colonel Tor, •
on account of the concomitant political circumstances, .
at I trust the illustrious warrior is pourtif the act
hat he has left the service of Austria, and boldly vindie —.-
cated his personal liberty of choosing for his adopted
home a foreign country to which he has become a shining
star of glory and world-wide fame.
As to the second question, the right era-resting, under . .
the pretext of desertion, a ritish officer, stripping him
of his English uniform, and throwing him in prison,
while he is on special service, in a country where Eng-
land has at least just as much right, nay, unquestionably
a better right, than false Austria has to station troops, to
purchase and store military implements, and to undertake
military movements wlw.ever, without having to ask the
permission of Francis Joseph or of his myrmidon. Why,
the act is so monstrously insulting, that if England, be-
sides the personal reparation due to Colonel Tur (if he
be yet alive), would cent: nt herself w ith anythir g less
for satisfaction than the immediate Evaluation of the
Principalities by Austria, history would not fail to pass
the judgment that England did not deserve the name,
and shall have forfeited the position of an independent
nation. ,
Matters take, indeed, a very sad turn. For months
the press of England resounded with the atrocities per-
netrated by the Austrians in the Danubian Principali- -
ties, reconquered from Russia by the heroism of the
Turks—independent members of Parliament proclaimed
it a shame and a disgrace to see the name of an Eng-
lish minister appended to trausactions referring to Moldo-
Wallachia—Austria enabled the Czar to prolong the de-
fence of the. Crimea to the second year, by shielding him
from attack on the Danube—fear of Austria, and consi-
derations for Austria, sent the allies to a bloody field of
barren victories, and caused them to throw in a bottom-
less gulf hundreds of millions, and hundred thousands of
lives, a third of which sacrifice would have been sufficient
to break the power of Russia for ever, and to make
Europe free ; Austria baffled the aim of the war. ; all
this mr t a blind eye and a deaf ear with the rulers of
•
England. One thing there yet remained to fill the cup
of humiliation—that England should be insulted by
Austria in Wallachia, the mournful theatre of so many
atrocities, of such amount of disgrace ! That one thing
has been done likewise. England is insult,A. An officer
on duty is stripped of his uniform, -and sent to an Aus-
trian dungeon, for having, obedient to his orders, gone
on duty to Wallachia.
Will England bear this likewise ? Well, she will do
as she listeth, and reap as she is sowing. Foreign dic-
tates have much power in England for a time, and are
likely to have more yet by and bye. Such choice, such
Fite. But one word I would venture to say. If the
English Government has not either the will or the power
to assert the inviolability of the English uniform from
insult, England should not invite foreigners to enter her
service. What with her is a matter of national dignit y
towards the foreigners in her service is a question of
honour and morality. KOSSUTH.

'AMPED 5D-

Inominated to fill that office who had disputed the
legality of the last church rate, and against whom
the churchwardens had not deemed it wise to take
proceedings for its enforcement.- Their course was
now clear. They refused to accept the nomination
of these gentlemen. Their votes were tendered as
parishioners ; they rejected the votes.
The pending mandamus has been applied for in
order to test the validity of this summary proceed-
ing. Let the case be fully realised. The position
of the churchwardens is, as wo have pretty well
shown, undoubtedly one of difficulty. But that
difficulty is of their own seeking. The law binds
them to take the opinion of the vestry on the re-
pairs which may be necessary, the amount of
money it should cost to pay for them, and the
manner in which the money is to be raised ; and,
having obtained their directions, to carry them out
in the best way they can. So far their course is
easy. It is only when, in addition to these duties,
they mix themselves up with a special party who
are determined not to raise the money except in
one way, that they find themselves in difficulty.
But the case of the parishioner is altogether dif-
ferent. He refuses to pay the rate, as it appears
by the report in this case, because he has good
grounds for believing it to be illegal. As the law
stands he cannot test its legality by any of the
modes open to him in other cases. He cannot
"quash" the rate. He cannot take the initiative
against it in the Ecclesiastical Courts. The only
thing he can do is to refuse to pay,-and then to
support his refusal in the manner we have hinted
at. So that the question at issue is simply this—
Can a churchwarden, to whom the law has -en-
trusted the sole initiation, and armed with sufficient
powers (if he is in the right) for enforcing his de-
mands, refuse to exercise those powers, and thus
disable a recusant ratepayer from testing the va-
lidity of his acts, and at the same time disfranchise
that ratepayei for non-compliance with his de-
mands ? This, we take it, is practically the ques-
tion which the judges will have to decide when the
motion comes on to make the mandamus absolute.

To the settlement of the church-rate controversy
their decision will be of no consequence whatever.
If it be held that non-payment of a presumably bad
church rate (and we suppose a church rate refused
and not proceeded on will hardly be presumed a
good one), if this legally disqualifies the recusant, we
would not give much for the seat of any borough
member who shirks the divisions on Sir W. Clay's
bill next session. The first clause of that measure
—" From and after the passing of this act no
church rate shall be made or levied in any parish
in England or Wales"—will be the only corollary
to such a decision. If, on the other hand, the
mandamus is made absolute, the manner in which
vestry contests are now being everywhere con-
ducted places us very much at our ease upon even
the question of time. A dissolution is the only
chance for another year of church rates.
But we heartily thank the churchwardens of St.
Clement Danes for having raised this question.
Lord John Russell once said something about the
church rates in connection with the Monarchy,
which we believe nobody now exactly understands.
But by the course which these gentlemen have
taken they have contrived to present us with a
practical illustration upon how slender a thread
may hang our rights as mere citizens, irrespectively
of denominational distinctions, which no one who
meets with it can fail to apply.

KOSSUTB ON THE ARREST OF COL. TUR.

(Prom the Atlas.)
England is really falling low in the estimation of the
despotic powers of Europe. Even Austria—only think,
Austria! dares to offer England a monstrous insult,
coupled with a flagrant ♦iolation of international law.
Col. Tur, late of Hungary, now holding a commission
in the service of England, while on special duty by
order of his commander, has been arrested by the Aus-
trians at Bucharest, stripped ignominiously of his Eng-
lish uniform, and, in spite of the energetic remonstrances
of Consul Colquhoun, hurried off a prisoner to Transyl-
vania, for the time being an Austrian province by the
grace of Russian bayonets and English contrivance.
Such is the monstrous fact.

SALE OP COPYRIGHTS.—Yesterday Mr. E. Hodgson,
the auctioneer, offered to public auction, at his rooms,
192, Fleet•street, a considerable ',umber of copyrights of
works, the property of Messrs. W. S. Orr ard Co., the
publishers, among which were the following, which sold
at the prices affixed to each :—Dr Wordsworth's Greece
—Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical ; the copyright,
steel plates, and woodcuts-6102, Kenny Meadow's
Illustrated Shakespere ; the copyright, stereotype, and
steel plates, and woodcuts, 7601._,The Land we Live

General Coronini, formerly preceptor of Francis
Joseph of Austria (a fit instructor for such a pupil), rested
his insolent daring on the ground that Col. Tur is a de-
serter from the Austrian army, and that he has the right
to seize and shoot " his deserters wherever he finds
th am."

I have to offer some remarks both as to the deserter
and the pretended right. _ _

in Italy, at the time of the struggle for indepen-
dence in 1848-49. This was not a war between two
Governments ; it was the rising of a nation for the revin-
dication of its imprescriptiblo right from foreign usurpa-
tion. The joining of Carlo-Alberto of Piedmont in the
wpr did not change the character of it. When (to the
misfortune of Italy) he declared his participation,. Aus-
tria was already defeated both at Venice and in Lom-
bardy. Zichy had signed a capitulation at Venice, and
Radetzky at Milan ; the whole regiment of Albrecht and
a battalion of Cecepieri at Cremona, a large portion of
the regiment of Haugwitz at Brescia, in all upwalds of
8,000 officer, and men of the Austrian army, faithful to
national duty, took their stand with Italy against
Austria.

~tereotype, and steel plates and woodcuts 3501. Richard-
son's Rural Hand-bock,, comprising Bees, Flax, Cows,
Doggy, Fowls, Horses, Pigs, Sheep, Pests of the Farm,
Manure, Drainage, ower-garden, and Rural Arclntec-
Lure, 13 vole.; the copyright, 4701. Cuvier's Animal
Kingdom, by Mudie and others ; the copyright, stereo-
type, and eteelplst's-3001. Dr. Forbes's Physician's
Holiday ; the copyright, 191. 53. Currall's Johnson's
Diction ary, the copyright and stereotype plates, 361.
Catherine Douglas ; the copyrights and woodcuts, 211.
Amy Wilton ; the 0 Tyright and woodcuts, 231. Ellett
Seymour, the copyrights and woodeuta, 271. Helen
Bury ; the copyright and woodcuts, 171. 17s. Rachel
Cohen ; the copyright and woodcuts, 141.
VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE
CIVIL SERVICE.—The Colonial Office—Mr. Wm. Fred.
Higgins has been appointed private secretary to Mr.
Labouchere, pro tem. The Queen's Household- The
office of Surgeon Extraordinary to her Majesty is vacant
by the death of Mr. Thomas Copeland. Customs—Mr.
W. Bindley has been appointed a clerk in the London
Docks ; Mr. Samuel Fl9well has been appointed an extra
clerk in the London Docks ; Mr. James Keane has been
appointed a clerk in the tea department ; Mr. George
Saunders has been appointed a clerk in the London
Docks. Ireland—The office of clerk of the Crown for
the county of Lowth is vacant by the death of Mr. John
Maher ; the office of librarian to the Queen's College,
Galway, is vacant by the death of Mr. J. Hardiman,
the Irish Antiquarian ; Mr. J. Macdonald Royse, late
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Convict Prisons in Ireland. Coloniab—East Indies—
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been appointed deputy commissioner of the second class
at Baitool ; Mr. Win. Edwards has been appointed ma-
gistrate and collector of Budaon, during the absence of
Mr. R. H. S. Campbell ; Mr. A. Littledale has been ap-
pointed an additional judge of Beha and Patna.—Oivil
Service Gazette.

Will you call deserters those 8,0001 If you do, then
you must brand with the name of deserters the memory
of many a hero likewise, who shed his blood for your
own freedom, when Cromwell rose a glorious star on
England's canopy.

In the course of events the Hapsburgs, the joint ser-
pent head of whom we could have crushed at Vienna
with a tread of our heel, but whom with foolish magna-
nimity we spared—the Hapsburgs, in reward of our
generosity, by one of those foul crimes as only Haps-
burgs know how to commit. assailed Hungary. The
nation thus treacherously assailed charged me and my
colleagues to provide for the defence of the country. We
called the nation to arms, and with the authority of our
people's sovereign will (the only legitimate, the only
" divine " source of authority) we ordered every Hun-
garian soldier stationed in foreign countries either to
hasten home, to defend their native land against the
treacherous aggression by Austria, or, should to any of
them circumstances render the fulfilment of this duty
impossible, to join there, where they happen to be, those
who are up in arms against the aggressor of our country,
and fight there where they happen to be agains the
common enemy, under the penalty of being considered
traitors to their fatherland.

Many a gallant patriot answered our first appeal.
History has recorded deeds, bordering on the ancient
fables of miraculous heroism—deeds of brave patriots
who, sword in hand, cut their way across hostile armies
and foreign lands, and either died in the attempt or ar-
rived home with the words, " Here we are, obedient to
our country's call."

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Colonel (then lieutenant) Tur was less fortunately cir-
cumstanced. The then position of Italy explains
the impossibility of his making his way home ; but
as a good citizen he did what he could in obedience
to his nation's sovereign command ; he drew his
sword against the aggressor of his country where he
found himself, and sided with the Italian nation against
our common enemy. Soldier is a noble name ;it means
defender of one's own country. His natural oath is,
that he will bravely combat every enemy of his country
wherever he be ordered to do so, by sea or by land.
Tur was faithful to this duty, as old with every citizen
as his life, and lasting while his life lasts. Honour,
ani glory to him for it. Will you call him a "deserter?:
Then you had to give the like name to those thousand
of Hungarian heroes who, faithful to patriotic duty,
the
ex-
changed the yellow black of treacherous Austrialoar
the
national tricolour, and shared in the glory
faithless tyrant to the footstool of your ene7nizh.titrhGooldB:zree.rs
there to mendicate aid against the j
vealed in the victory of right. They,
ldadeserve the igno.
gallant Tur amongst the number, wouhe
y not answered
usir of them, and
igno-
minious title of " deserters "
their country's call, had they.
parricidal bands for the enemy.
remained bled- in the ranks of
Austria, and raised their parrioio
But if, such as they were,
are
1, deserter " will be a title
t be called "deserters,"
then, from this day, the name
the mark of ignominy,
of honour, like as the cro,
oncehonour.
ha, become an emblem oftf
the Austrian service for the
M. Tur did not desert the
the command of the
Piedmontese serviced;esbe
i of Hungary by siding with the
national government
the enemy of his own country.
Italian patriotsag
convincingi proof of this principle of his action
He gave a Tatwaen the battle or freedom was unluckily
by the fact t
over in Lombardy, he did not accept Piedmontese ser-
vice, but offered his arm to the cause of popular liberty
in Baden, where he did good service, and was pro.
moted to a colonelcy. After the catastrophe in Baden,
having honourably provided for the Passage to America
of his comrades who served under hiw, he went to exile,
a homeless wanderer like myself, until in an evil hour.
he claimed and was granted the honour of a commission
in the service of England, which, it would appear,
stands in so little estimation with Austria, that it does
not protect him from being stripped of his uniform
and carried off to prison when on duty by command on
the territory of England's ally.
So much for the " deserter ;" to which I might add,
that Francis Joseph, in one of his manifestoes, had
pledged a general amnesty for Lombardy and Venice,
and that I should be greatly mistaken if the same pledge
were not reiterated in the treaty of peace between Aus-
tria and Piedmont. But this does not matter, inasmuch
as it would appear from other unfulfilled stipulations,
that England, though one of the mediators in that treaty,
is not very much in the habit of insisting on e.imilin
a_,
r
stipulations, whenever "considerations for Austria
terfere with the claims of humanity,.
I thought it due to the personal
honour
in particular, and to the principle in g
of Col. Tur
general, to expatiate
the -retended desertion;
on these remarks with regard to p