The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-07 00:00:00

M. KOSSUTH AT SHEFFIELD.

After the great assemblage at Sheffield, in Paradise-
square, on Monday afternoon, there was a second meet-
ing the same evening in the Music-hall, in furtherance
of the same object as the previous one—" to consider
the desirability of re-constituting Poland as an inde-
pendent nation." The audience on this occasion was by
no means large, and there were hardly as many hun-
dreds present as there had been thousauds at the ear-
lier meeting—a fact which may be easily accounted for,
inasmuch as the admission was by ticket, for which
various charges, according to the class, were made.
Mr. Alderman Solly took the chair. The chairman
having opened the proceedings, Mr. Alderman Mycock,
Mr. Scholfield, Mr. Beale. and other sympathisers with
the fallen nationalities of Poland and Hungary, ad-
dressed the meeting and proposed several resolutions,
which were unanimously carried, asserting the war
against Russia was a just war, inasmuch as the latter
power had shown iti aggressive character in the rob-
bery of Finland from Sweeden, the mutilation of Tur-
key, the oppression .of Hungary, and the destruction of
Poland. Another resolution condemned the policy of
the Western Powers in seeking the alliance of Austria
in the war, inasmuch as Austria was too intimately
mixed up with the evil doings of Russia in Hungary
and Poland. M. Kossuth also addressed the meeting
at some length. His arguments were of the same ten-
dencyand
Hungarians
as his previous speech, which was reported
in Me Sun of yesterday. He earnestly urged
ofEnglish and
enlisting
the
in their cause. He strongly denoun d
udpvoinsabtibliety
1 • ce the alliance
with-Austria, and argued that the onleffectual y guaran-
tee which the Western Powers could
give of their desire
aggressive to curb the encroaching and spirit
was the restoration of the extinct of
of Russia
nationalities fPoland
and Hungary. The meeting was
three sympathising cheer • then concluded, and
a given for M. Kossuth.

Tin LEST OP POWER. It must be manifest to every
intelligent reader that the possessions of Russia on the
north-west coast of the continent are held at this time
subject at any day to seizure and annexation by Great
Britain. The addition of those islands and
seacoast
lying north of 54 deg. 40 mm. to British Oregon would
make that colony so valuable to its owner as to render
its ultimate acquisition by the United States impos-
sible, except from the chance of external war or internal
revolution. But the Russian possessions in question
may undoubtedly be purchased by our Government at
this crisis for less than cost price, and their acquisition
would so far hem in the possessions of the Hudson's Bay
Company as o make their purchase at a reasonable sun • ,
a natural consequence. It may, therefore, be worth ,
while to admonish our Government that the position of
this republic as the first commercial nation of the world
—that our territories on the Pacific. and our prospeo•
tive trade, across that ocean, with the nations and
islands of Asia—suggest the policy of strengthening and'"
extending our commercial facilities, wherever the oppor.
tunity is offered, without disturbing our peaceful rela-
tions with other Powers, and especially wherever an
advantageous bargain of annexation may be made. In
this broad and general view, when Honduras, through
her Minister to Washington, shall lay before our Go-
vernment an offer comprehending the incorporation of
that State into our Union, quietly and peacefully,
without the extortion of a Gadsden treanyfe,satwuddeeo-ssuthironauyn.dd,
close in with the offer, for our constitution
~tmoa
in-
stitutions, our enterprise, and our
ntsticyoenothiguesoivues ainsldanedlassotifc
sizes, and
the cinonaltii
ln*areteni tt:uadffine and its
sufficiently
Hence, also, if the Ruall
ssin territories in
question can be purchased for a mere trifle at this time,
, it is our policy and. our duty to purchase them.—/YOO
I Toni; Herald.