The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-31 00:00:00

hated legions of the boy-monarch of Austria, who would
unite them to himself against their will, and who, to his
eternal disgrace, had called in the barbarous Cossacks
to help him to do that which he could not do for himself.
The Hungarians were contending for nothing but what
they were entitled to.—(Cheers.) They were contend-
ing for an independent Diet and Parliament, and to make
their own laws for the poor as well as the rich of their
own country, without any interference on the part of
Austria—(Cheers)—and it was not until the late Em-
peror had deliberately violated laws that he and his pre-
decessors had sanctioned—it was not until he attempted
to destroy every vestige of Hungarian nationality, that
the Hungarians took up arms.—(Cheers.) The Emperor
of Russia might just as well have attempted to invade
this country when the Reform Bill passed, and poured
his hordes of Cossacks into this island as he was now
pouring them into Hungary (Cheers)—giving the
villages of Hungary to the fire and sword, and deluging
the plains of that fertile and heroic land with Magyar
blood.—(Cheers.) But it was said that the
Hungarian cause was a dangerous course, because
there was a number of fereigners in the Hungarian
ranks—that there was a number of Poles, and therefore
to aid the Hungarians was a dangerous experiment.
But the cause of Hungary was the cause of Poland, for
it was because the Emperor of Russia had been allowed
for a time to tyrannize over the Poles, that he thought
he was at liberty to contend against every country where
the Poles found a home. Restore to the Poles their
just rights, and then no country in the world would be
troubled with them. But the cause of Hungary was not
only the cause of Poland; it was the cause of every
civilized nation on the face of the earth. It was the
cause of this country.—(Cheers.) They had got free
trade in this country; but if other countries did not
respond to their system, they would find little benefit
from it. The present depressed state of Poland was a
dead weight on this country, and to reduce Hungary to
the same state matters would be made worse. Bet give
these countries their independence, let their rivers be
crowded with commerce, end their fields floating with
golden grain, then would this country reap the advan-
tage.—(Cheer,.) The true policycountry of this was,
that wherever they saw a nation
struggling for freedom,
that nation was their friend; and wherever
theysaw a
nation oppressed, that oppressor was the enemy- of this
country. 111 therefore concluded by praying for the
success of the Hungarians, and destruction to their
oppressors.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put from the chair, and unani-
mously agreed to.
Mr. NICHOLAY then came forward to propose that
an humble address be presented to the Hungarian na-
tion, expressive of their admiration of their gallant con-
duct in asserting their rights, and their sanguine hope of
their ultimate success.—(Loud cheers.) He was sure
the Noble Lord in the chair would feel proud in pre-
senting such an address to the two Hungarian nobles at
present in this ccnntry, as representing the people of
Hungary. He alluded to Count Teleki and M.
Pulski.—(Great cheering, together with a distinct round
of cheers for these nobles.) Mr. Nicholay concluded by
stating the pride and pleasure he felt in moving the re-
solution, and at the glorious manner in which the meet•
ing had been conducted and brought to a conclusion.
Mr. ROBERTSON, the successor of Colonel Thompson
as the editor of the Westminster Review, then came for-
ward to second the resolution, and was received with
much cheering. He had a view :of the business before
them to communicate which no one had hitherto ex-
pressed or alluded to. He had been reading, that morn-
ing, three Russian documents, which he thought very
few gentlemen at that meeting could have the :opportu-
nity of perusing, and those documents fully ex-
plained the reason why Russia had allied with
Austria, and had now her armies in II ungary.
—(Loud Cheers.) The Czar Peter, it seemed, had
left a will, addressed to all his successors, in which he
declared that the Russian people were destined, foreor-
dained by Heaven to the conquest of Europe.—(Great
cheering.) This document was an historical fact.—
(Cheers.) There was another document which was also
an historical fact, and that document embodied the
policy, or was rather a memoir of the policy, adopted by
the Russian Cabinet, a copy of which fell into the hands
of Count Teleki. In 1848 the idea of the Czar Peter
was the idea of the Czar Nicholas, and it was in further:
ance of this idea that he issued his memorable proclama-
tion. Before advancing into Europe he appealed
to the God of Battles—(Hisses and cheers.)—and he
declared that Russia would fulfil her mission.—(Hear,
hear) He began with Hungary.—(Shame.) Would
he have dared to begin with Hungary if all the
despots of the continent were not in league with him?—
(Cries of " No," and cheers) Would he have dared
to enter Hungary if he had not succeeded in placing his
creature in the Presidency of the French Republic?—
(Tremendous cheering.) Could any one deny that the
policy of France, since the accession to power of Louis
Napoleon? bad been a Cossack policy?—(Cheers and
hisses.) If any one doubted that let him look to Rome.
A republican General has gone there picking up the
sceptre of the Pope from a pool of Republican
blood, and offering it to the acceptance of his
Holiness.—(Cheers.) The Hungarians were now in the
breach for this country.—(Great cheering.) The Rus-
sians boasted that they would a second time water their
horses in the River Seine.—(Cries of " Never, never.")
They might depend upon it, while they had got a Cossack
President over the Republic, it would only be a sequence
that might be expected. Perfidy might subdue for a
moment the noble people of the whole continent, but
that perfidy would soon have its termination.—(Cheers.)
It was their hearts, their rights, their liberty, and
everything that was dear to them, that they were de-
fending that night in the name of Hungary.—(Cheers.)
He would urge the propriety of inserting in the address
a declaration that they recognised the truth, that if
the popular liberties of the continent must live, the
Russian idea must dic.—(Cheers.) It was a life and
death struggle between the ' principle of divine right,
incarnate Hussar, and the principle of the rights of
man incarnate in the people.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Ro-
bertson concluded by a most eloquent appeal on behalf
of the cause, which he said was that of "God and

liberty," and begged of the meeting to realise the serious
duties of that hour. lie eithdrew amidst vociferous
applause.
The resolution was then put and carried.
Mr. HUGGINS then moved a vote of thanks to the
Liberal press for their exertions in this cause, and their
noble advocacy of Hungarian independence.
This motion was seconded by Mr. WADMAN, and it
was carried unanimously, amidst several cries from the
meeting of The Sun.
A vote of thanks NI as then passed to the Noble Lord,
for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting separated.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TINIES.—The military operations in Hungary are
known to us chiefly by the reports of the adverse party,
for little or no reliance can be placed on the loose intel-
ligence of the German newspapers, and none on the
Hungarian bulletins that reach this country. But when
official statements, proceeding from the Russian or
Austrian generals, are found to disclose a state of things
which they can have no interest or desire to acknow-
ledge, such accounts rosy safely be followed. We are
now, therefore, the more disposed to believe them, be-
cause it is evident that the plan of the campaign, as it
was begun by the Imperial armies, has been dislocated
by the skill and vigour of the Hungarian commanders,
and that down to the latest dates the fortune of the war
was in favour of the latter. It will be remembered that
we left General Georgey pressed on all sides by ves'y
considerable forces on both sides of the Danube..
Driven back from the hotly contested lines of Raab
and Acs, he had found a temporary shelter under
the guns of Comorn, and he still hell the left bank
of the Danube as far as Waiizn, and consequently the
valley of the Gran. But Generals \Vohlgcmuth and
Paniutin assailed him on the west; the northern dis-
tricts were crowded with the divisions of Rudiger,
Grcbbc', and Sass; General Haynau had cross, d the
Danube and marched with the main body of the Aus-
trians on Pesth, which indeed had been already entered
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bulletin that out of this trap Georgey has found means
to escape, without any serious loss of men or guns. On
the 15th ho attacked the Russian outpost at Waitzen,
which was feebly defended by some Mussulman troops,
who retired. But the attempt in this direction
was probably a feint, for though he subse-
quently repulsed the division of Sass, which fiist
came against him, he seems not to have advanced
eastward, but to have taken up a position before
Waitzen. On the following day reinforcements arrived
from the Russian head-quarters at Pesth, and a sharp
cannonade ensued. Paskiewitsch himself came up, pro-
bably anticipating a general action on the 17th. At
early dawn the Russians attacked and defeated what
remained of the enemy; but it was observed that the
Magyar force consisted chiefly of cavalry; and, in fact,
Georgey had withdrawn in the night with the main
body of his army, and was marching rapidly to the
north. In the south of Hungary the last operations are
most distinctly known, and there the petit is entirely on
the side of Jellachich, whose situetion is one of extreme
danger. In forming the plan of the campaign, it had
been presumed that Jellachich wculd succeed in taking
Poterwardein, and would then march north, defeating
Perczel, until ho met the Russians between Pesth and
Szegedin. He made the attempt, and failed. Poterwar-
dein held out. Twice he advanced up the north bank of
the Theiss, once to O'Beese, and once to Hegyes, and was
repulsed. Subsequently he seems to have been more sig-
nally defeated. On the 12th of July the camp of
Jel
lachich was about a league from the Francis Canal, inOn
strong position between Verbass and St.
the 13th a courier arrived with the decorations
arms
by
his
bestowed on the Bann and his comrades
d distribution
of
Ons the
eblution was celle-
Iti'ohn°sratnently
following ay
Sovereign, and the ceremony
cele-
brated with extreme enthusiasm.
have been fought and the Imperial
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severe actions must
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small
• buck to Titel, aposition near the
Jel-
lachich driven
confluence of the Theiss. an
army severely handled;.
of fugitives were escaping into Syrinia. Th.. garrison
of Peterwardein had been relieved, and the siege raised.
It is by no means improbable that Bein may Do • bundrive
his adversaries across the Tfrontier urkish -into Bosnia,
or Turkish Croatia, and the theatre of
war may even be
transported into the donzni •
lions of the Porte. To the
Ottoman Empire the direct intervention
of Russia in
Hungary might be said to establish a cause of war.
From tradition, from
policy, and from instinct, there
can be little doubt that the
sympathies of the Porte in
this war are with the
Hungarians, and the Porte might
become,of
as , old by far their most efficient
ally.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—EMOMIKI.TION OF THE
QUEEN FOR IRELLND.—Four steam-frigates came into
• ur roadstead leis afternoon with her M ije,-3ty'b yacht
, le' and Aibert: they t.re to secotnpartv the rt.;) al
yacht to Ireland. The vessas of the Royal Yacht Squa-
dron and other yacht clubs are hourly arriving, and a
splendid sight is expected at the embarkation on Wed-
nesday.