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respects."—(Laughter.) Let the meeting then apply
that observation to Francis Joseph, the Emperor of I
Austria.—(Cheers.) Now, then, he appealed to their pre-
judice against Austria, and to their prejudice against Rus-
Isis, and to their prejudice in favour of Hungary, carrying
on, as she was now doing, a holy and just, and he
trustod in Divine Providence a successful struggle.
Mr. REYNOLDS here attempted to disturb the arrange-
ments of the meeting, and against the remonstrances of
the Chairman, insisted for some few minutes in inflicting
an inflammatory speech on the meeting.
The two resolutions were then put to the meeting,
and carried with loud applause.
Mr. RicarAlil IPAYLOR then came forward to
propose the newt resolution, and was warmly received.
He observed the spirit which had prevailed throuh-
out the meeting with the greatest pride and satis-
faction, inasmuch as for a long time past he had seen
great apathy in this country, which he believed was pro-
duced by the deceitful arts of the public press, with
regard not only to the question of Hungary, but also the
question of liberty throughout Europe, if not throughout
the world.—(Loud cheers.) There was one subject
which bore upon the subject before the meeting, and to
which no allusion had been made—he meant the
question of religious liberty, for they had already heard
that, among other cexcelieet institutions which had been
established in Hungery, was that of perfect religious
liberty and equality.—Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
Hungary was the only country in Southern Europe where
Itecormetion had been ablgto hold its ground.—(Cheers.)
—Some persons who were formerly their friends had
expressed an opinion favourable to Austria; but he
(Mr. Taylor) spoke the truth when he said that that
nation was nothing but an engine for priestly despotism.
The power of Austria, it was said, was maintained for
the defence of religious liberty; but so far from her
being a friend to religious toleration, she had excited
her influence during the last one hundred years in
exterminating the Protestants from the Tyrol and other
states.—(Hear, hear.) He did not think the Govern-
ment was so much to blame as some gentlemen imagined.
It was the people who were to blame for not having
urged the matter upon the ministry; but he had yet
confidence in good old English pluck ; he yet
believed that the English people were the friends of
liberty, and were quite ready to go to war in
its defence if it were necessary.—(Cheers.) They
gloried in the success of Bern, and took delight in his
strategems.—(Cheers.) The policy of the Times he
could not understand. It was despicably jesuitical.
It pretended to support the Ministry, and yet Lord
Palmerston was constantly made the objects of its
base attacks, not that his policy was bad,
bat because they wanted to detach him from the Govern-
ment. He was, in a word, disgusted with its perfidious
conduct. It had become the advocate of despotism and
the supporter of the house of Hapsburg, whose history
was one continued series of tyrannical incidents.
Austria was spoken of as our friendly ally,
but Austria itself was not a country—it was
a house who had maintained power by troops and
armies collected from barbarian races, and who had
always been engaged in a conspiracy against the liber-
ties of Europe.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He had
subdued and debased the finest Italian states, while
one of its representatives prostituted his own
daughter to Napoleon, to obtain possession of
Venice.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped, therefore, the
country would pay no attention to the nonsense of the one
portion of the press about our friendly ally, Austria. Let
them judge for themselves, rather than allow themselves
to be press-ridden.—(Hear, hear.) He concluded by
moving the following resolution :—" That this meeting
regard the military intervention of Russia in the affairs
of Hungary, as wholly unjustifiable in reason and in fact,
inasmuch as besides re-opening and prolonging a san-
guinary contest which had been already virtually de-
cided—it is a gross violation of the law of nations—the
indefeasible rights of Hungary—and perilous to the
peace, the freedom, and the general welfare of Europe."
Mr. CASSEL seconded the resolution, and observed
that the letter which had appeared in the Times de-
nouncing the Hungarian nation had been the chief cause
of this meeting being held. Hungarians might have
bled for the dastard feeling exhibited towards
her in a portion of the English press, but
this meeting, and others of a like character,
would convince them that whatever the Times might say
the sympathies of the English people were in their
favour.—(Cheers.) So much this meeting would ac-
complish, but there was something more it could do.
A number of unfortunate Hungarians had been
driven to seek shelter on our shores from
the tyranny of France and Austria, and they
were at present encamped at Folkstone. Lord
Nugent and others bad gut up a subscription for their
support, and he hoped they would coutribute to the
subscription which was being raised for equipping and
sending them back to their native homes to assist their
fellow-countrymen in their present struggle for free-
dom .—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then from the Chair, and carried
by acclamation.
Mr. M. MILNES seconded the motion. He said he
would not have presented himself to that inconveniently
crowded meeting after the eloquent speeches
they had heard, had not his name been announced in
connexion with the resolution. Whatever difference of
opinion might exist among them, they all agreed and had
met there this diy to sympathise with freedom, and
the struggles of mankind .—(Hear, hear.) He fully
agreed with the philosophic speech of Mr. Cobden, more
116(14,111 Lt ly that portion of it in which he contended that
all States had a right to manage their own affairs—even
ill if they thought proper ; tor it was a leading element
in tl e lea of nations, which had been violated in the
case of Hungary, that the intermeddling of other
nations was fraught with danger. Austti i was marked
out by the Congress of Vienna, in order that she might
constitute a great military power in the centre of
Europe, and present a bar against the aggression
of Russia or the other nations. She was
created an independent power, and Austria,
which was subsideary to Russia, had no business there.—
(Hear, hear.) Whilst he agreed nith a great portion
of what had been said by Lord John Russell and Lord
Palmerston on Saturday, he could not conceal from him-
self that they should have held that the relations entered
into at Vienna were being disturbed, and that neither
Eng'and nor France would permit it, whatever might
be said by the Times and other papers who wrote
as it did, because it believed its policy would be pleasing
to a certain class of the community.—(Cries of " No; it
is bought: it has sold itself.") But let them have a few
such meetings as this, and depend upon it the press,
which was but their shadow, would follow them.—(Hear.)
He could not conceive, in the la'e debate in the House
of Commons, why there had been an unwillingness to
allude to subjects which Mr. Canning would have stood
up to defend.—(Cheers.) He knew that they would
stand by Lord Palmerston, and would admire that states.
manship that enabled him to say, years ago, that the then
polit cal state of Europe was an unsafe and a crumbling
state. He asked them to give force to that propo-
sition. This was a question above all persons ;
and he asked them to hold that language that had
been held by the Liberal party in the House of Com-
mons, who had said that, as far as England was con-
cerned, though they adopted the princple of non-
interference, it should be known that it was her ardent
desire that other nations should enjoy that freedom
which she herself enjoyed.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gen-
Memel concluded by seconding the resolution ; and
concluded by an eloquent appeal to the charities and
sympathies of the meeting on behalf of the
Hungarian officers and soldiers now at Folke-
stone, t) enab'e them to return to their country to
assist in fighting the battle of their independence. The
Hungarian cause was a just and righteous cause, and
one which England was not only justified but bound to
Bur port.—(Cheers.)
'I be resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
Lord DUDLEY STUART said he had not many words
to offer to the meeting at that late period
of the day, and he did not think it would
be necessary for him to employ more than a few words
in obtaining their support to the resolution he was going
to move, which was—" 'That the English Government
do immediately recognise the independence of Hungery."
—(Loud cheers.) He knew how it would be; they did
not want a long speech, or a fine orator, but
only an honest and earnest man to come forward and
point to them the way that was right.—(Cheers.) They
did not want many words to ask them to sympathise
with Hungary; they did not want fine oratory to in-
duce them to declare that Englishmen would ever be
with a people fighting for their liberties. —(Loud
cheering.) He had always seen that ; he had never
failed to meet with a noble response whenever the sub-
ject of a nation struggling for their independence was
laid before the people of this country.—(Hear, hear.)
He had often spoken to them of Poland—(Cheers)--he
now spoke to them of Hungary, whose cause was like
that of Poland. He spoke to them of the Hungarians,
who, like the Poles, were struggling for all that was dear
to man, and had sworn to lay down their lives on the
altar of their country, and to resist to the death the evil
machinations of despotism.—(Cheers.) The hired agents
of Austria air d Hungary were never tired of going about
the world disseminating all sorts of -calumnies against
the friend of liberty—(Cheers)—and their agents were
to be fund everywhere, among the high as well as the
low, in the press, in public and in seeret places, and in
Cabinets.—(Cheers.) Therefore was it the more necessary
that the truth should be told, and that the base machina-
tions of those servants of despotism should be exposed.
He quite agreed with his Hon. Friend (Mr. Cobden) who
said that every people had a right to establish its own
form of government. It the Hungarians were strugglng
in favour of a Government of which we could not ap-
prove, still we must sympathise with them when they
drew their swords against foreign aggression.—
(Hear, hear.) It was said by the enemies
of Hungary that they had no sympathy with
the present movement, because the Hungarians were
strugeling to establish a Red Republic, and they also
put forward another reason—that the Government of
Hungary was carried on for the benefit
d of the aristocracy.
Now he there denied, having
iced the subject carefully,
the truth of both those a c u Rua t
.obeers.) What
and to defend
the Hungarians were striving tolui:eta
enjoyed for the
was their own Constitution, which they hand
last 800 years, and which was more like the Constitution
of this country than any other that had been established
They had their Kings, their Lords, and Coram
theso they were now struggling for—they did IXt'sde-
mand more, and they would not be satisfied with an
thing less.—(Cheers.) It was true that the franchise wya;
only extended to the ruere. Now they were very
different class to that which was known by the same
name in this country.--(Cheers.) It was so large that
it ought to be rather compared to the class of electors
which existed here previously to the passing of the
Reform Bill.—(Cheers.) But the Hungarians were not
.964-111#edk. with that body, they demanded some reform,
:._and they at last got substituted for that privilege of
birth, wOch entitled only about 100,000 to vote, a pro-
, petty ql cation such as we ourselves possessed. They
now had p householders and freeholders, as we had.
Thereyiet* vro reasons for expressing their sympathy
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with Hungary; first, because, of all countries in the world,
it was the most remarkable for its attachment to religious
liberty; and, secondly, because it had carried out the
principles of free trade.—(Cheers.)
He did not find fault with the old Tories in the House of
Lords who had grown grey in opposing the liberties of
the people, standing up in defence of Austria; nor was
be surprised that a Noble Lord should come down to the
House of Commons to defend his uncle Lord Aberdeen,
and denounce that great and good man now at the bead of
Hungary as the infamous Kossuth—(Shame)—but he
did denounce those who were once professed liberals for-
saking their principles and aiding the cause of despot-
ism.—(Load cheers.) He was rejoiced to see the man-
ner in which the name of General Bem had been re-
ceived.—(Cheers.) But a short time ago that gallant man
was a poor despised Polish refugee in this country, de-
pendent upon a small pittance supplied to him by the
Polish Association. He was suffering at the time from
an old wound, but his poverty not enabling him to
receive proper medical assistance at his own re-
sidence, he was compelled to seek relief in
the University Hospital, where the late Dr.
Liston succeeded in extracting a ball from his body
which he had received while defending Poland against
Russia, and he had lived to return to his native country
of Galacia, to lead on the Hungarians to freedom
and victory.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The Austrians
took delight in boasting of the coequests and
gallantry of their Generals in Italy. but when they
came to meet armies headed by Bern and Radetzky
they were so triumphantly vanquished that they were
forced to seek refuge in the territories of a neutral
country, and call in the aid of Russian barbarians.—
(Cheers.) Russia, no doubt, had immense numbers of
troops at her command; but let them remember that
from Xerxes down to Napoleon, the right of the few had
overcome the tyranny of the multitude, and, however
some people might despair, he for one had full confi-
dence in the ultimate success of the Hungarian cause.—
(Cheers.) The Noble Lord concluded by proposing the
following resolution:—
" That the immediate recognition of the Government,
de facto, of the kingdom of Hungary, by this country,
is no less demanded by considerations of justice and
policy, and the commercial interests of the two States,
than with a view of putting a stop to the effusion of
human blood, and of terminating the fearful atrocities
which mark the progress of the Austro-Russion armies.
Here there were calls for Mr. Roebuck, but that Hon.
Gentleman did not present himself. We understood he
was not then present.
Mr. Mow Arr made an appeal to the meeting in aid of
the fund in the course of collection.
A vote of thanks was then awarded to the chairman,
sad the meeting separated at half-past five o'clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
(THIS EVENING.)

Their Lordships aEssemObleFd at FiveLO o'clock.
Messengers from the Commons requested a conference
on the Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill.
The Earl of ROSSE presented several petitions from
the Irish clergy, praying for an increase in the number
of lush bishops.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Mr.
Remington Mills, complaining that although he i-esided
in the county of Surrey be had been chosen as sheriff of
London and Middlesex, and had been obliged to pay the
fine. He should move an amendment to except persons
in this situation in thf Corporations Bill.