The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1849.

Apart from the contributions which are still swel-
ling the amount of the Hungarian Testimonial, the
people of England, both in the provinces and the
metropolis, are striving by every means to express
their sympathy for Louts KOSSUTH and his compa
triots. Meetings have already been held in the city
of London, in Marylebone, in Westminster, and at
; others have been convened at Birming-
ham, at Cardiff, and at Edinburgh. By our impres-
sion of this evening, moreover, it will be observed
that a similar assemblage is to be held to- day at Chel-
sea, and another on Monday, the 13th inst., at Derby.
Considerable, however, as this progress in the good
cause is even now, and worthy as it is of our congratu-
lations, we cannot but view these proceedings as
merely the commencement of a long series of still
grander demonstrations, and as the beginning of a
movement such as must ultimately command the ac-
quiescence of the British Government in the resolu-
tions of the British multitude. Of this we are fully
satisfied. The result is inevitable, the more espe-
ci Ally as we have already secured so many able and
energetic champions in the House of Commons, and
still more particularly, seeing that our aspirations
are shared in by the greatest statesman in the Cabinet,
the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Foreign
Department. Remember the derision thrown
at first on the agitation for Parliamentary
Reform, and yet remember how, in spite of that
derision, the Bill of Earl GREY passed through both
Chambers of the Legislature I Remember the scorn
expressed for the advocates of Catholic Emancipation,
and yet remember how the Catholics of the United
Kingdom were emancipated through the indomitable
energies of the Irish Liberator, and through the
unconquerable perseverance of his few but devoted
fellow-labourers ! Remember the ridicule expressed
for the first disciples of ADAM SMITH and HUSSIS-
SON, and yet remember, too, how the question of
Free Trade was forced upon the attention of the
popular representatives by the annual motions of the
Hon. C. I'. VILLIERS, how the logical truth of the '
ndoctrines was emblazoned in the " Catechisms"
o
Colonel P. THOMPSON how the blessings, inevita-
bly flowing from the liberation of commerce, were
chaunted inprtho
project was of
Elsan.sEt
how the NE ELLIOT, and
realisedEß by the
self-sacrificing patriotism of
these schemes, at first scoutecltrilis:"Eßr PEEL All
absurdities, were
those demands, at
at last recognised as victories.
first derided by the administrators, were at last ac-
quiesced in by the Government. And set n of
them, no not one, ever commenced with su:aclelthae-
,
sudden and universal display of enthusiasm on
part of the Whole population as this one for the ac-
knowledgment of emancipated Hungary. In regard to
the question of English sympathy for the independ-
ence of the Hungarians, there was no neces-
KWS* y for argument. It was only necessary to
strike with a bold hand the chord that vi•
brated thrb h every generous heart in the British
isiA,
__Luis. I pus only necessary to breath the first
syllables o ,tenth, and the words would reverberate
iu every creyie of the land. It was only necessary
tolii4lat the first torch of fraternity, and the whole
kivtdom would be in a conflagratio4 of ardent and

sympathetic brotherhood. So it has been. That chord
has been touched, those syllables have been articu-
lated, that brand has been ignited. The response has
burst forth with spontaneous devotion from all parts
of the community. Lord PALMERSTON himself, the
foremost man of all Englishmen in the consideration
of every foreigner, has so spoken from the
floor of the House of Commons that his
language has carried dismay to the council
chambers of Vienna and St. Petersburgh. These
things borne in recollection, no one can have the
temerity, or rather we should say the absurdity, to
doubt that the movement in behalf of the Hungarians
will not prove ultimately successful.
Among the provincial meetings already men-
tioned, we must be permitted to particularise the
meeting held on Monday last at Edinburgh, and the
meeting to be held on Monday next at Derby. We
are solicitous to make one passing allusion to those
assemblages, for the purpose of commending to
the attention of other constituencies the earnest.
ness of the language uttered, and the amount of the
subscriptions collected at Edinburgh, and to express
our particular satisfaction, as an organ of the great
English people, at the unanimity displayed by the
intelligent inhabitants of Derby. What Edinburgh
has already done, will be done, we are satisfied, with
sympathetic generosity by the citizens of Derby.
While the provincial population is thus replying to
the ardour of the metropolitan, the latter is by no
means relaxing its energies after its first admirable
exertions. Indeed, we are sanguine that the
demonstrations already made in four dif-
ferent quarters of the capital will prove merely the
prelude to others of an equally enthusiastic cha-
racter elsewhere. An aggregate meeting should
be convened, for example, at Exeter Hall, as a build-
ing at once central in position and spacious in pro-
portions, for the purpose of enabling another section
of London to breathe forth its aspirations for the
freedom of the Hungarians.
Not only the voice of the orator and of the journalist,
but also that of the musician, has endeavoured to ex-
press the sentiments of the multitude upon this supreme
question of Hungarian independence. For it will be
observed, from one of the items contained
evening's list to the Testimonial, that upwardsin thoi this
81. have been
onf contributed
Magyar aas t. !I:u se proceeds
at
the of
fio
ha concert
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e t
given in aid
Literary Institution, Fitzroy-square, the use of the
apartment being given gratis to further the objects of
the occasion. We would here earnestly suggest to
other similar establishments the emulation of the pro-
ceedings at the John-street Institution, satisfied that
the members of such places would eagerly respond to
the demand made upon their sympathies. By the
multiplication of such means the sum total of
the subscription will be at length raised to an
amount worthy at once of England and of Hungary.
While the British multitude are endeavouring in
these different ways to proclaim to the Magyars the
fact that England is regarding their heroic struggle
with mingled admiration and solicitude, the Hun-
garians themselves are fulfilling their glorious desti-
nies in a manner which surpasses even our own most
sanguine expectations. By the combined aid of un-
surpassed valour and of consummate generalship the
army of liberation (insignificant in numerical strength
when contrasted with its antagonists) is thoroughly
worsting the united forces of the Imperialists.
BEM opposed to LUDERS in Transylvania—Gu Tort to
JELLACHICH in the south near Peterwardein—

—GEORGEY to PASKEWITCH in the north, near the
frontiers of Gallicia—Deasnussai to HAYNAU in the
centre—have all successively or simultaneously proved
triumphant. As will be seen from a statement
in our foreign intelligence of the position of the
several corps of the several armies, the Austrians
and Russians have been completely and irreme-
diably checkmated. This very day the accounts
received from all parts of Hungary are so astounding
as to have been scarcely credible, but that their
authenticity cannot be called in question, coming, as
they do, through the channels of the Austrians them-
selves. Raab has been taken by AULICH—so that the
Imperialists are now completely cut off from Vienna!
Cronstadt and Hermannstadt have both been taken by
BEM-so that his opponents were utterly routed,
being obliged to fly with a loss of 10,000 men in
killed and wounded! DEMBINSKI has completely
vanquished FREYTAG, and taken him prisoner. The
imperial army of the coalition is surrounded on all
sides, by BEM in one direction, by GEORG EY in another,
by Auucit in another, and by GUYON in another;
while the possibility of the concentration of the cir-
cumvented Russians and Austrians is effectually
prevented by the interposition of the Hun-

(garian head-quarters, presided over by the master-
spirit of this wonderful and ever-memorable
campaign—DZMBINSICI. Henceforth the name of
DEMBINSKI must rank with those of the
first captains immortalised in history. His
plans have proved in every respect effectual—so
that the legions of FRANCIS JOSEPH and NICHOLAS
are entirely cut off from communication with their
imperial masters. Besides which, in consequence of
the command of KOSSUTH, the wells have been choked
up, and the provisions carried away into the fast-
nesses of the mountains, so that the Austrian and
Russian soldiers are perishing from hunger and
thirst, and from the ravages of the diseases attendant

upon famine. Already the vengeance of the oui

raged Hungarians—unaided except by the blessing
of the GOD of Justice —is smiting down the
pride of two terrible and rampant despotisms. Such
are the achievements, such is the position, such are
the prospects of the heroic warriors of KOSSUTH, that

glorious race of freemen whom his thrilling voice
apostrophised, saying, " Arise, my mighty, my gi•
gantic people !" That cry has thrilled to the hearts
of fourteen millions, and Hungary has arisen in her
majestic unanimity to conquer her independence
under the banners of her great Tribune.

When we first commented on the Irish peat dist

lation project, as introduced to the notice of the House
of Conrnons by The O'GORMAN MAHON and by
Lord ASHLEY, we did it purely on public grounds;
we knew nothing of Mr. OWEN or his operations;
we hailed it as a discovery calculated to confer vast
advantages upon Ireland and the empire. The high
auspices under which it presented itself to our con-
sideration, the numerous experiments under the most
scientific men, by which its merits.had been accurately
. .

tested, the immense value of the products resulting

from those experiments, induced us, in the exercise of
our duty as public journalists, to give every aid in our
power to a project teeming with so many advantages
to the commercial, manufacturing, and agricul-
tural interests of both countries. Every new system
will have its opponents as well as its votaries.
The wildest theories, the most absurd systems, from
the pilgrims of Mecca to the Love-birds of Agapemone,
all have found followers and supporters. The soundest
projects for the benefit of mankind, from the days
of HARVEY to the present, have met with op-
position. The great scheme under our con-
sideration at present has not escaped the corn-
mon fate. One gentleman issues his caution against

it, because, somehow or other, there has been a failure

at Dartmoor, where an experiment had been at-
tempted on inferior peat (not Irish) with cumbrous
and expensive machinery. With this gentleman's
letter we dealt in a former number, and, we believe,
fully disposed of his objections. Indeed, the letter

tself bore internal evidence of the cause of the

failure, for which the writere himarsgelufmaepnptesarewdhuicnh
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Commons corroborative
by oLf 0 trhdoAstatements
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made by two practical chemists (besides Mr. Fret.),uc much of
Oxland and Mr. Prideaux, who discovered so m
various kinds of product as to induce a lavish expendi-
ture,
without attempting to bring any of their products
into a market Able state; they expended their capital in
. •
1 Cutting immense quantities of peat, in laying a railway
1 to the bogs, in large and expensive retorts and furnaces,
1 &c., which were afterwards found unfit, the shareholders
were disheartened, and the works ceased for want of
means before it was ever properly set to work."
Our readers will now agree with us that Mr.
SHAMAN'S puzzle as to the cause of failure of the
Dartmoor Peat Company has been satisfactorily
solved; we believe we strongly hinted the probability
of these causes having produced the effects consequent
on the ill-managed experiment at Dartmoor, and we
are much gratified to be borne out by the plain and