The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-08 00:00:00

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part, L. 2., 'New York; Ocean Qaeon llan:er; Xarita.
Her Majesty's ship Calyoo, which sailed fr.-nn Valpa•
raiso, 23th May, for ltio Janeiro and England, had
2,850,000 dollars in gold 'lnd Aver on freight.
FoWEY, AUG. 6.—Sld. Good Intent, Quebec.
SCILLY, AuG. 6.—Wind S.—Sld. Minalto, Rio

Janeiro.
PORT TALBOT, AUG. s.—Arrd. Jane, Charleston.
MARYPORT, AUG. s.—Sld. Congress, Quebec.
HULL, AUG. s.—Sld. Elizabeth Ilolderness, Richi-
bucto; Mearns, Quebec.
MILFORD, AUG. 7.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Gth, Pem-
brokeshire Lass, Davies, Cronstadt.
FLEETWOOD, AUG. 7.—Sld. Perseverance, Quebec.
CARDIGAN, AUG. 2.—Arrd. Zenith, Young, Quebec for
Sunderland. Sid. sth, Triton, Quebec.
OFF FALMOUTH, AUG 6.—Rachel, La Foley, Accra.
PILL, AUG. 7.—Wind S.S.E.—SId. William Miles,
Quebec.
SCILLY, AUG. 6.—Part of a box, marked "L. & C 0.,"
the heads of two small kegs, marked " J. Hall and Sun,"
and the head of another, marked " 251bs. F. F. E. C. 1).,
P. and W., London, H. F. 54," two dead horses, end a
piece of paper, marked " Pattnt Belmont Sperm,"
" Price's Patent Candle Company, manuractured ex-
presaly for tropical climates, shipped by Richardson and
Roebuck, purveyors to her Britannic Majesty, Manches-
ter," supposed to have come from th.? vessel lost near this
port in the night of the 29th ult., have been picked up
here.

SICUPATFIIt with the HUNGARIANS•
MEETING AT EDINBURGH.
A public meeting oF the citizens of Edinburgh was
held in the Music Hall on Monday, for the purpose
of " expressing sympathy with the Hungarian nation
in their glorious struggle for constitutional freedom."
The Hall was filled, the larger portion of the audi-
ence being composed of the working classes, with a
sprinkling of females. On the platform were—Mr.
Cowan, M.l'., the Lord Provost, Count Krazinski ;
the Rev. Drs. Alexander, Brown, and Hetherington ;
Mr. Makgill Crichton, of Rankeillour ; Millie Stott ;
Councillors Gray and Rldpath ; Mr. James Mon-
crieff, Advocate ; Mr. A. Dunlop, Advocate ; Mr.
Duncan, S.S.C.; Mr. J. F. Macfarlan; Mr. William
M'Crie • Mr. George Lees, A.M., &c.
On the motion of Mr. M'Crie, the Lord Provost
was called upon to preside.
The LORD PROVOST, on taking the chair, said
they were met that day in the sacred cause of liberty;
and he was delighted to see so large a meeting of his
fellow-citizens assembled at a time when, as a friend
near him had remarked, Edinburgh might be said to
be out of town. At one time he entertained some
doubts about the propriety of a meeting of this kind,
lest it might have been found to do evil rather than
good, but after the speech of Lord Palmerston in the
House of Commons—(App/athe)—and the effect
which that speech had already produced, all doubts
had been removed from his mind ; and remembering,
as they must all do, that this was not the first tone
that Britain had interfered in the cause of Hungary,
he thought they would be far behind their predeces-
sors were they not on this occasion to take some
notice of their struggles for liberty, and to express
towards them their cordial sympathy and good- will.—
(Cheers.) He felt assured that no one worthy of the
British name could stand tamely by and see a combined
despotism attempting to blot out the very name of a
noble, brave, and religious people from among the
nations of Europe.—(Renewed applause.) He was
sure every other nation in Europe would be induced
to follow the example so nobly set them by Britain in
lifting up their voices against so grievous and un-
worthy a tyranny as the combined forces of Russia
and Austria were exerting against the people of
Hungary.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HaianisoN stated that he had received letters of
apology for absence from Lord Dudley Stuart, the
Rev. Dr. Candlish, the Rev. Mr. Goold, the Provost
of Leith, Bailie Tullis, and others. He also announced
a donation of 51. from Mr. John Grant.
Mr. COWAN, M.P., then rose to move the first
resolution. Referring to the largeness and enthusiasm
of the meeting, he said there was no place more
likely than the capital of Scotland to respond heartily
to the call made on them to sympathise with the
persecuted and cruelly treated subjects of Hungary.
Their forefathers, in former days, had nobly vindi-
cated their national existeuce in the face of fearful
odds. He need only refer in proof to the names—now
household words,—of Bruce and Wallace, who, five
hundred years ago, in the face of English power and
English tyranny, maintained successfully the national
existence of the kingdom of Scotland.—(Cheers.)
He was sure the hearts of the descendants of these
men, and the inhabitants of the country for which
they had fought and bled, would be filled with indig-
nation when they read the accounts which were
received day after day through the newspapers, garbled
as they were, of the injuries perpetrated on the noble
Ilungarians by those cowardly tyrants, Russia and
Austria (Hear, hear) for he hardly knew
whether the •execrable cowardice of these
mighty tyrants did not exceed the outrages
and barbarities which they were enforcing against
that brave and noble people. He trusted
such a shout would be raised by the united
voice of Europe and of Christendom as would speedily
put a stop to such tyrannous proceedings.—(Ap-
plause.) He was glad to think that the object of this
meeting was a moral one—that it was proposed to
effect the end they had in view by the influence of
mind upon mind throughout the nations of the earth ;
and he was happy to think that that honest and
singularly able man, Richard Cobden—(Cheers)—
whom he was proud to call his friend, had struck the
right chord when on a recent occasion he stated that
unless the sinews of war were forthcoming from the
western nations of Europe, Russia had little means
of her own to carry on this contest. And were they
in this country, with the recollection of the burden
of debt entailed upon them by past wars, or the
capitalists of other countries, likely to embark their
money for an object which was likely to prove
so utterly worthless, and its accomplishment ac-
companied by the desolation of t' e country
which was invaded by the ruthless tyrant ?
He trusted, therefore, that by strong expres-
sions of opinion from meetings such as the pre-
sent, in every part of this country and of other coun-
tries, representing as they did the opinions of the
independent class of the community, even the Em-
peror of Russia would find it impossible to carry on
this accursed contest, which must not only secure for
him the detestation of this country, but the execra-
tions of succeeding generations.—(Applause.) After
expressing his satisfaction at the peaceful tendency of
the recent foreign policy of the Government, the Hon.
Member concluded by proposing the following
resolution :—" That this meeting heartily sympathise
with the Hungarian nation in the noble and deter-
mined efforts which they are now making to maintain
their constitutional independence, and to secure the
permanent enjoyment of ciril and religious liberty ;
which efforts, the meeting ardently hopes, may soon,
by the blessing of God, be crowned with a glorious
success."
The Rev. Dr. ALELINDER seconded the resolution.
They were called together, he said, to maintain a
great principle in that science which had been justly
denominated the ethics of nations—they were called
to maintain the faith of treaties and the sanctity of
oaths—they were called to lift up their protest, in the
spirit and accordant with the deepest conviction of
this nineteenth century, that might was not right,
and that the attempt to wrest by brute force from a
free people their chartered and cherished independence
was an outrage upon humanity, and an offence in the
sight of God.—(Cheers.) They were met to offer
their sympathy to a free people struggling for that
which was the dearest possession both of individuals
and of nations, and, as far as they had the power, to
aid them in bringing their struggle to a glorious and
successful conclusion.—(Renewed applause.) It was
of great importance that they should have distinctly
before them the cause as it exactly stood which had
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attempting to settle a quarrel between them by
an appeal to arms, nor of taking part with any body
that had broken loose from former restraint, and
was seeking to act apart from legitimate authority ;
but they were met to look at the case of a free people
—of a people who had always, in historical memory,
been a free people—who were seeking nothing but
what they had always been accustomed to possess,
but from whom a great power was seeking to wrest
their ancient independence, and for this purpose had
called in the aid of another, perhaps a greater, cer-
tainly a more despotic power, in order that they
might trample underfoot the treaties which many
centuries had sanctioned, and might bring under
bondage and slavery a people that had always called
themselves free. From the time that the crown of
St. Stephen passed into the possession of the House
of Hapsburg, at every demise of the Crown, and
every successive coronation, the independence and
freedom of Hungary had always been secured in
the most solemn and impressive manner. It was
therefore in the face of everything that
went to establish the freedom of the people,
that Austria and Russia were now waging war
on the plains of Hungary, and they had therefore
before them a case so clear and simple, that he
could conceive of no man hesitating to give an ex-
pression of his sympathy towards the struggling
party, resisting that aggression on his rights. if
it was asked what right had they to interfere at
all in the matter, he would say at once, if they
had no right before, Russia had given them an un-
questionable right.—(Loud cheers.) If the repre-
sentative of unmitigated despotism might interfere to
fasten pinions on freedom, the representative of the
liberty of the world might interfere and say, He
shall not.—(Loud applause.) And he (Dr. Alex-
ander), appealed here, not to conventional arrange-
ments,_ nor to political interests—he would not raise
up what he was sometimes inclined to suspect was
little more than a sort of phantom, the balance of
power. He would go to higher and more impressive
considerations. He would appeal to that law which
was above all laws—that law of which the great
Roman orator and philosopher had said that "neither
by the vote of the Senate, nor by the will of
the people, can we be absolved from its obligation"—
that law which found a response in the bosom of every
intelligent man—the great law of moral rectitude—
(Hear, hear)—and, appealing to that law, he main-
tained that Hungary was entitled to be free, and that
England was entitled to send her voice across the
waters, and say to the despots—" She shall be free."
—(Loud cheers.) There might be some in that
assembly who were conscientiously opposed to war
of every kind, but he could not suppose that even
they would refrain from cordially wishing success to
the Hungarian arms, for this plain reason, that the
appeal had already been made, and the struggle must
come to a close by the victory of one or other of the
parties ; and even if they should think the Hungarians
had done wrong in appealing to arms, they still must
wish, since one party must conquer, that they should
conquer who had right on their side.—(Hear, hear.)
But he would venture to go a little further for him-
self. He was there to offer his meed of cordial
applause to the Hungarians for the course they
had pursued, and for the bravery and courage they
had manifested. He believed there was such a thing
as just and necessary war, and that when war was so
it was honourable and might be commended. He saw
nothing in religion or in morals which forbade a man
to defend the sacredness of his own hearth and home,