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M. KOSSUTH AND TilE TIMES.

The following letter has been addressed by M.
Kossuth to the editor of The Times :-

"Sir,—ln your columns of to-day two of your corres-
pondents come forward to comment on and to oppose
the opinions I expressed in my speech at the Polish

anniversary.
"I have not the intention to enter into polemics in
corroboration of my own views. I advanced opinions
which, upon mature reflection, I, in conscience, took
and take it to be just, correct, and well-f minded, and
leave it to public opinion to weigh my arguments and
the arguments of my opponents, and then to jadge as
they think to be right.
" All I desire is to rectify an historical fact, the mis-
representation of which is calculated unjustly to injure
the honour of my nation.
"Your Anglo-Parisian' correspondent ventures on
the reproach that the Hungarian nation did not assist
the Poles in 1830, but remained a quiescent spectator of

their heroic struggle.
"That is utterly false. Quite the reverse is the fact.
The behaviour of the Hungarian nation in that emer-
gency fills a bright page in our history, and' well deserves
the appreciation of all just men.
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" Hungary had been at that time undisturbed in, her
tranquillity, and unshaken by heartrevolting Royal per-
jury in her royal allegiance to the house of Austria. She
'was, in a word, not in a revolutionary condition, like as
she is now, and will continue to be as long as she is not
delivered of the Hapsburgs, who are no more the rulers
of Hungary by law,, or.by a national compact, re-con-
firmed by a coronation oath, but simply by the right of
Russian bayonets. Then the Hapsburgs were our legi-
timate Kings, often violating our laws, but still reigning
under the prestige of legitimacy. We had painful griev-
ances ; still we had a national existence ; had our con-
stitution, had the' invaluable institutions of our country
assemblies and municipalities, and had also our Parlia-
ment, all in full operation, to protect our national exist-
ence and to redress our grievances. There was no im-

Her .ajesty's ship Monarch has gone round to De.
vonport to embark troops for the Crimea.
The Leopard, 18, paddle, Capt. Gifford, hauled out in-
to the stream at Portsmouth yesterday, to complete for
foreign service. She is expected to leave this day (Satur-
day)Th.
e Hecla, 6, paddle, has hauled off to her berthing
hulk, Dryad,' at Portsmouth,'and is completing for sea as
fast as possible. Our own impression is that she does
not go further than Gibraltar, until the vessels necessary
for the reinforcements to the Crimea shall have passed
through the Gut.
The Salamander, 6, paddle, has been brdught down
from Portsmouth harbour to be docked, and ascertain
her capabilities for service.
The Sealark, 8, went into Portsmouth harbour yes-
terday from her usual weekly Channel cruise.
Yesterday the Dinapore transport, No. 144, left the
Downs, laden with stores, for the Crimea.
The Baalbec steamer, with stores and a ship letter
mail, sailed on Thursday front Liverpool, for Constan-
tinople.

perious necessity for, therefore no adequate cause to
justify, a revolutionary rising; consequently neither an
occasion nor a possibility for a revolution. A revolution
ig never possible except when it is an absolute necessity.
"Such has been the condition of Hungary, then ; and
between us and that Poland (Russian Poland) which
rose in 1830 there was Gallicia, which was unable to take
part in the Polish insurrection, guarded as Gallicia was
by a numerous Austrian army, and the house of Aus-
tria, then our legitimate sovereign, yet with whom we
were at peace,. had its armies drawn up on the frontieri
of Gallicia and Poland in the attitude of armed neutrality.
"Now, in such a position and under such circum-
stances, what was it the Hungarian nation did in regard
to Poland ?

"The first news about the rising at Warsaw shook the
Hungarian nation like an electric shock. Innumerable
committees were instantly formed all over the land,—not
for expressing verbal sympathy, but for affording every
possible assistance to the Polish patriots. Every
warlike implement that could have been hunted up
in the kingdom, and clothing, and provisions, wine,
brandy, medicaments, surgery apparatus, money, col-
lected all over the land ;—we reeked prosecution and
braved the resentment of our Government, and did
with the utmost energy for the Polish patriots all your
nation is just ding for your own braves. Tne ladies of
Hungary were day and night at work to make charpie
(:int, I believe, is the word for it) ; the palaces of the rich
and the huts of the poor hal been converted into store-
houses filled with materials in aid of struggling Poland,
and large convoys were seen day and night winding up
the roads in the Carpathian Mountains, in defiance of
Austrian police, Austrian military cordons, and Aus-
trian vigilance. Nay, more, hundreds and hundreds of
the noble-hearted youth of Hungary, braving the danger
oF being' captured and shot in crossing the double mili-
tary cordon on both the, frontiers (several have been
actually captured and shot), left their homes and their
fortunes and went to join the ranks of the struggling
Polish patriots. Our comitats (counties), the assemblies
of which have not to be confounded with your public
meeting, they having been the most effective and the
most essential official organs of the nation's constitutional
rights—our comitats, I say, 52 as they were in number,
almost without exception were at once assembled extra-
ordinarily, and forwarded the expression of the national
will in representations to the Emperor-King, urging on
him to declare in favour of Poland, to give up Gallicia
(which the Hapsburgs pretended to hold by right inherent
to the kingly crown of Hungary), and to redress the in-
justice of Poland's partition by assisting the restoration
of the independence of the Polish nation ; and, in order
to show.the earnestness of Hungary in this determina-
tion, the comitats assured the King solemnly and officialy
that the nation stood prepared to undergo whatever
sacrifices to assist him in that noble task, and informed
him that the representatives of the nation in Parliament
shall be instructed net to shrink from granting every
supply in men and money which may be required for
enabling the King to carry the aim of restoring Poland.
The Hungarian Parliament soon afterwards met, and
took up the clue of the provincial manifestations ; the
halls of our National Assembly resounded with the
noblest and boldest declarations of the national determi-
nation to undergo even the risk of a bloody and sumptuous
war in support of Poland ; the House of Representatives
framed representations to the Sovereign according'y,
and up to 1848 not once had the Hungarian Parliament
met without persistently resuming its efforts in favour
of Poland.

" And when Poland succumbed, when the Govern

ment we were subject to issued orders for not admitting
the Polish refugees to cross the frontiers of Hungary,
we smuggled tkem, at the risk of our lives, to our
homes ; we gave them not much of thundering cheers
(that's not io our national character, being rather a
silent people), but we took them to our firesides, placed
them at our right, and held them as members of our
own family for years and yearg, without even asking for
their names or inquiring whether they were aristocrats
or democrats.

" That is, sir, what Hungary did ; and then up starts
in your paper an anonymous pen, perverting truth, fal-
sifying history, and insulting a noble, generous, unfortu-
nate nation, by saying that Hungary remained a quies-
cent spectator of the heroic struggle of Poland
" In regard to myself, I never asked your favour or
even appealed to your sense of justice, nor ever
will ; but, when I see an attempt made to insult the
honour of my nation, I hope to be justified in the esti-
mation of all good men for requesting you to give room
to this rectification of facts, which I give, not from tra-
ditional reports, but from personal experience.
"With this I will leave your readers to judge whether,
with these facts for antecedents,—whether now, after
the Hapsburgs have torn to pieces the national compact
between themselves act! Hungary ; after they have
driven Hungary to a revolution, too much envenomed
by treachery, perjury, murder, blood, and the gallows to
allow of any reconciliation for all eternity—a revolution
only suspended de facto by Russian bayonets, but not
subdued—after we have seen the armies of the Czar
come down upon us to crush our national existence,
with no pretext at all to excuse that font encroach-
ment on the laws of nations, with not even 'so much
of a pretext as he is putting forth for his aggression on
Turkey—l leave it to your readers to judge whether
I was justified in saying that Hungary will stand by
reviving Poland, because our enemies are the same and
our cause is identical.'
"One more tribute to truth, if you pease. Your
correspondent is t-,ruilty of a deliberate anachronism in
taunting me that I would advise to attack, with
12.000 Frdnch, Poland, garrisoned by 300,000 Ru.-
plans. The fact is that Poland is now garrisoned by
300,000 men precisely because six months ago it has
rot been attacked by landing a Polish expedition,
backed by the 12,000 French who made the prOMtl•
nade to the Baltic. Poland had then not a garrison
of 300,000 men, hut some 60.000 only, chiefly raw
recruits and invalids, which force could not have
been much increased at that time, with St. Peters-
durg and Finland in danger from your Baltic fleet,
and from the possibility of Sweden joining you upon
the condition of Poland being called to arms, and on the
other hand, with the Russian army on the Danube
beaten, and the Anglo-French-Turkish force '220,000
strong, pushing up Bessarabia after the beaten Russians.
Now there are 300,000 men in Poland ; but that is an
argument in favour of my views as expressed first at
Sheffield, 'rune the sth, and last at St. Martin's-hall.
That is precisely the fact which justifies my saying that
Poland will be your Sybilline books ; that three of them
are already lost ; and that you will be brought to pay
for the last three the full price at which you could have
purchased all the nine some months ago.—l have the
honour to be, Sir, your humble servant,
L. KOSSUTH.
21, Alpha..road, Regent's-park, Dec. 6.

DREADFUL MURDER IN TOTTRNIIAM-00IIRT-110AD.—
Between the hours of eight and nine o'clock last evening
a Mr. Moore, ginger-beer manufacturer, Warren-street,
Tottenham-court-road, was shot (lead, and Mr. Collard,
sore@ time since a policeman of the E division, was mor-
tally wounded by a man whose dress is respectable, but
who refuses to give his name. and is at present unknown.
He is, however, .now firmly secured in the E division
Police-station, Cl:..rk's-buildings, Georget,
Giles's. As far as the reporter could ascertain at the
police-station and at the University Hospital, where
Collard now lies after having had a ball extracted from
his body, the murderer appears to be about thirty years
of age, of about five feet six inches in height, of a swarthy
complexion, and seemingly a Frenchman. He refuses
to answer any questions put to him. On his person
at
the time of his arrest were found a
e of pistols .
Mr. and
twenty rounds of ball cartridge. Superintendent
Faxall, after receiving information from Mr.
to see
Mr. Inspector
Clements, proceeded to the University
w dying. Mr.
sinty H
poorl Collard, who is said to be
Moore, the dead man, is in his own house,° within a few
1 yards of where he was shot, in Warren-street, and near
the residence of Collard,
greengrocer, who was a g
went to the rescue, as he thought
hearing the report of the m derer's shot, and stopped
the murderer, as
he was runnin
consequence of the complete sil
these fearful acts the cause
ocer, and
, of Mr. Moore, after
ur
g away after firing. In
ence of the perpetrator of
of them is unknown.

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TO THE ELECTORS of the BOROUGH of
MIRYLEBONE.

GENTLEMEN.
I must in the first place con iole with you on the premature de-
cease of your late lamented representative, whose self-sacrificing
liberality and philanthropy have identified the name of Dudley
Stuart with hatred of oppression and sympathy with distress.
Having been unexpectedly honoured with an invitation from a
meeting of electors to make a statement of my political opinions,
with a view to being proposed as acandidate for your borough, I lost
no time in doing se. And lam happy to find that the answer I have
since given to a deputation, in further explanation of my sentiments,
both upon political matters in general, and upon the all-important
question of the war, has led to my receiving from many quarters
assurances of influential support if I should allow myself to be put in
nomination.
Under these circumstances, I have determined ' to solicit the
honour of your suffrages.
The public questions are few, indeed, on which, in the course of
fifteen years, I have not pronounced an opinion, whether by my voes.
my speeches, or by writings. I shall, however, be happy to answer,
to to the best of my ability, any further inquiries you may think fit to
put to me.
But I can give no pledge beyond that of my Past public life. If
I cannot be returned as an independent representative, I will not be
returned at all. I never have sat, and I never will sit, on any other
terms; and I would submit to you that he who could be capable of
sacrificing his convictions for the sake of your votes, would be, on
any convenient occasion, equally capable of sacrificing your interests
to his own. •
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If you do me the great honour of app me as the tried
friend of civil, religious, and commercial freedom—as the pro-
moter of good local self-government, and of that efficiency in local
administration which is the only true economy—as the supporter
of extended franchise send general education—and as the advocate
of the present Just and flecessary war—a war undertaken, in concert
with our brave French neighbours, for the purpose of checking the
encroachments of despotism, and of ultimately, with God's bless-
ing, conquering for Europe a safe and honour.ble peace; if, above
all, yon feel with me that we ought to strain every nerve to succour
effectively and at once our struggling forces in the Crimea, the
wasted survivors of that gallant army so lately embarked from our
shores with the pride of health, of equipment, and of numbers ; if
you agree with me that we are bound to reinforce and refit, without
stint, that sadly diminished band of heroes, whose noble prowess and
ill-requited humanity, whose devoted obedience and uncomplaining
endurance make us proud of the name of Englishmen, but whose
losses, privations, and sufferings it makes oar hearts bleed in the
midst of our exultation to think upon ;
If, on these terms and with these sentiments, you place me in the
proud position of your Representative, I shall endeavour to merit
your approbation, and testify my gratitude by a diligent attention to
my public duties and a sedulous promotion of your local interests.

I hare the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servait,
pare, Dec. 7, 1814. EBRINGTON.

MARYLEBONE ELECTlON.—Viscount
ERRINGTON'S CENTRAL COMMITTEE,

Sir JOHN EASTHOPE, Chairman,
SIT DAILY at the Portland Hotel, Great Portland-street.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE,
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.

LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON.

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The Programme for THIS EVENING (Saturday, Dec. 9), will
include the New Songs, " Say yes," and " Minnie," sang by Madame
Anna Thillon ; Overture to " Tannhauser ;" Grand Selection from
" Les Huguenots; Le Comte Ory Quadrille ; the Andante Poco
Adagio from Bristow's Symphony in D minor; the American Qua-
drille ; Scherzo in G minor, from Mendelssohn's midsummer Night's
Dream ; solos—trombone, Signor Cioftl ; Violin, Signor Monasterio ;
and Clarionet, It. Wattle ; Valse from Lucia di Lammermoor;
Chance Galop ; and the new DESCRIPTIVE QUADRILLE, THE
ALLIED ARMIES, Jullien, assisted isy the Bemis of ber Majesty's
Grenadier Guards, 2d Life Guards, and Cdkistream Guards.

Patcra or ADMlSSlOL—Promenade, boxes, and galleries, ls. ;
dress circle, 2s. Gd. ; private boxes 11. Is. and upwards.

M. JULLIEN'S GRAND BAL MASQUE will take place en
MONDAY, next, Dec. 11, and terminate the season.

N. B. All persons having claims en the theatre on account of the
concerts are requested to deliver their accounts immediately, and to
apply on Thursday next, Dec. 14, at two o'clock, for payment.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.

Under the management of Mr. Buckstone.

THIS EVENING, Die. 9,

Will bo performed the Comedy of PRESENTED Al' COURT.
Principal characters by Messrs. BuAstone, W. Farrell, and /Lowe ;
Misses Reynolds, E. Chaplin, Grantham, and Lavine.

After which, the Ballet of THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA, la
Which Senora Perea :Sena wi,l appear.
To which will be added THE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
To be followed by MORE BLUNDERS THAN ONE.
To conclule with the FLOWER OF TIIE PORT.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-OPREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CUARLZB KIAL
THIS EVENING. Dzo. 9,

Will be perfumed FROM VILLAGE TO COURT. Principal
characters by Messrs. Harley, Fisher, aad Cathcart; Misses Mur-
ray and Heath.
After which will be presented a new Melo-dramatic Spectacle, in
three acts, entitled SCIIAMYL, the Warrior Prophet.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
T9n! DAY —Morning 32 min.after 4 Evening 51 min.aft. 4
To- fonnow - Morning 10 min.after 5 1 Evening
31 mia.aft. 5

TUB WRA.'nimi,.—Bun Orruss, Dec. 9.
TEIIIIMONINTEN, IN THE SHADS.
52—highest since noon yesterday.
46—lowest this morning and during the night.
45—this day, at noon.

BA.Ro3frrEa. 29.51.
Wtsp, W.—Fresh, with fine clear weather.

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