The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-09 00:00:00

COBDEN to Parliament—thereby considerably swell-
ing the already powerful group of the Opposition.
Possibly the increase thus accorded to the Liberals
may not, however, to the full realize our expecta-
tions. Yet, as a reserve force, will then come in the
returns—both from counties; and from boroughs—of
Ireland. Those returns we count upon as certain in
the vast majority of instances to be earnestly on the
side of Opposition. The Ministry have proceeded
in precisely the right direction to ensure on the part
of the Irish electors the energetic evidence of a
thorough hostility to the Derbyite candidates. Re-
ligious enthusiasm was so maladroitly called into
action against the Cabinet immediately before the
recent dissolution of the Legislature, that we await
with implicit confidence the return of very many
representatives of the Irish constituencies devoted,
heart and soul, voice and vote, to the chief among the
labours of the Opposition, that of endeavouring to
oust from office; as speedily as possible, the members
of the existing Administration. _

Taking, however, a retrospective instead of an an-
ticipatory glance at the elections, we recognise upon
almost every side the signs of the happiest encourage-
ment to the Reformers. Awaiting the return of other
Free-trade knights of shires besides Mr. COBDEN, and
satisfied, from a multitude of incontrovertible reasons,
that Ireland will, before many more days have
elapsed, have increased very appreciably the already
formidable ranks of the Opposition, we turn
to survey the triumphs even now achieved
by the Reformers in the return of so many
liberal representatives. If Liverpool has proved
traitor to the interests of reform—not so London.
Everywhere, saving in one solitary instance, we have
observed in the metropolitan boroughs the success of
either Whig or Radical candidates. Westminster,
for example has returned two Liberals to the House,
of Commons in SHELLEY and EvAns ; so has Fins-
bury in CHALLIS and DUNCOMBE ; so has Lambeth
in WILKINSON and WILLIAMS; so have the Tower
Hamlets in CLAY and BUTLER; so has Southwark in
MOLESWORTH and PELLATT ; 80 has Mary-
lebone in HALL and STUART. Unfortu-
nately Greenwich has selected as the col-
league of the Liberal CHAMBERS, the Derbyite
ROLT who will therefore, doubtless, be "made much
of " by the Ministerialists as the only metropolitan
supporter of the Government. The city of London,
however, has continued true to its character as a re-
forming constituency, by returning together RUSSELL,
DUKE, and ROTHSCHILD, heading their names not
with that of a Derbyite, but with that of —ASTER-
MAN---5 name respected as one of the moat honourable '
among the list of the Liberal Conservatives. Since
then two Liberals have been returned for Hull, two
for Lichfield, two for Leicester, two for Southampton,
two for Totnes, two for High Wycombe, and—
besides a variety of other places two (and
those two important men like BRIGHT and Gin-
sox) for the city of Manchester. At Aylesbury
the gain to the Opposition has been two in the
return of BETHELL and LAYARD ; at Berwick
the gain has been one in the return of STAPLE-
TON, at Beverley one, at Bewdley one, at Cirences-
ter one, at Gloucester one, at Guildford one, at Hali-
fax one, at Hertford one, at Kidderminster one,
at Maidstone one, at Reading one, one at Scar-
borough, one at Cardiff, and one also at
Totnes. Altogether, at a rough calculation, about
sixteen seats gained from the Tories to the side of
the Opposition ! Against these, it is true, that the
Derbyites can enumerate one gained at Bradford,
another at Devonport, another (as we have already
shown) at Greenwich, another at Horsham, another
at Lymington, another at Preston, two at Warwick,
and two at Liverpool. These estimates, however—
though of themselves sufficiently satisfactory—do not
by any means afford a correct idea of the preponder-
ance of advantage on the side of those Liberals,
Whigs, Radicals, and Peelites, who are leagued to-
gether in support of free trade, and in strenuous
antagonism to the quasi-Protectionist Government.
A. little longer, and the extent of this preponder-
ance will become yet more apparent. Of this, as
the consequence of the impending elections in the
aggregate, we rest satisfied, awaiting with implicit
confidence the completion of the new Reform Par-
liament.

Glowing accounts have been proclaimed by the Vien
nese journals of the enthusiastic and affectionate recap
tion which the Emperor JOSEPH FRANCIS experienced
from the people of Hungary during his recent parade
throughout that portion of the dominions of the House
of Hapsburg. Taking these court-newsman state-
ments cum gram) salis haul exiguo, we can, at all
events, clearly understand the anxiety of the Austrian
EMPEEOR to ingratiate himself as far as practicable
with the gallant and enthusiastic Hungarian peoples
Their magnificent country, if lost to the Imperial
dynasty, would prove a death-blow to
the greatness of the empire, and there is
little doubt that such a peril was within
no distant period imminent, not merely from the
genius and exertions of LOUIS KOSSUTH, but from the
covert intentions of the powerful ally of St. Peters-
has appeared in the Journal des
burgh. A letter
Debate from 31. SZ EMBER, KOSSUTH'S Minister of
the Interior in Hungary, in answer to certain pas-
'sages in the work lately published by the wretched
GORGET. SZEMERE, finding himself charged by this
person with having offered the crown of Hungary to
the CEA.; does not content himself with a formal
denial of the statement, but gives a plain narrative of
the actual occurrences on this point. He asserts that
GOEGEY was the first and only person in Hungary to
whom overtures were made by the Russian Com-
mander-in-Chief, and that it was he who first in Hun-
gary responded to these overtures by the offer of the
crown. In the correspondence of GORGET sent to the
Government, which had then retired to Szegedin,
there was,
it appears, a letter to Marshal FAME..
WlTcas which contained the following passage :
"In the interests and with the object of a pacifica-
tion possible
to be effected for the kingdom of Hun-
gary, I have communicated secretly to Captain
At:t might be done." 1"R";
my.ideas concerning the manner in which
To which passage of his letter
a
Goaner added in his own hand the following anno-
tation :—"
of the
Let it serve for the information and con-
sideration
alluded to
Government that the secret commu-
nicationiven to bay would consists
Russian prince to an herein, that Hungary
should put himself on this
preferAuste to accept for her king a
ierasanb,
subject
td
itnhactornmr
PASICEiWITCH
cation
Gvernmentwith the Hungarian —(Signed)—
ARTHUR
GORGEr." After had thus opened
the affair Count CASIMIR 8A,,,°14.QET
were sent to enter into negotiations •
commander, and it was in ~ ns with t
Eno character andheSitznusissErn
of diplomatic
envoys that they addressed. themselves to Marshal
PAWLZWITCH. "Eat," says the writer, "we never
made offer of the crown, although lit
M. GORGE?
pressed us to do so, saying that without
this offer all negotiation would V.
vain."
Thus Hungary was on the brink of being transferred
to Russian domination,pb est
,and
had not HA.TNAU'S rapid
march from
the battles of Szegedin and
TerhesWar intervened to prevent the accomplishment
of the intrigues conducted between GORGET and
PAsieuwiTal• GoRGET, it will be seen, pressed the
the transfer on the envoys, and were it
necessity of
not for the retrieval of the Austrians strength and
prestige, consequent on the victory of Temeswar, it is
very doubtful whether considerations of ambition
Would not have overborne all others in the mind of
the Russian AUTOCRAT, one of whose amiable weak-
calcUlating p
nesses is a hankering after annexation, and Austria
Motives of
would have found herself deprived of her right arm.
to o 1
draw closely, if possible, the
ties between the afruo* • policy must therefore induce
the young Eierennu -
exhibitions, of courtesy
countries, and strive by
clemency to draw the
Hungarians into a contented
allegiance,
and so dispel
any lurking hopes that might be cherished in the
breast of NICHOLAS and his
o
priating so rich and enviable a prize,
of appro.
Were there a similar apprehensios. •
Lombardy, there might be a like n with regard to
politic d
august and paternal condescension, hut, isplay of
all accounts, the state of that kingdom ia according to
nate as ever. Wholesale arrests are the as
"derun fortu-
tssati of the
day, bespeaking the deep d• •
sfaction of the
country with its oppressive Government
the consciousness of the latter of the imm • ine s and
nce
of its danger. The correspond - -entaa morning_Con-
r,tetpporary gives a list of 47 persons taken up at
PantUOontiiining iliillt -es - - of- el - 6--gY;- ratgled ,
pro.
prietort, and persons in the better classes of society.