The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY

273 baskets 2 sacks fr.ma Havre; 264 baske is from
Calais; 267 baskets from Antwerp; and 20 baskets from
Dunkirk. These have sold freely, at from 6/ 10z. to 71
per ton. The general quality of the Foreign Potatoes
Lai much improved.
zOnGITGIL 11W? ICELTLIE.T.T.
Although it is evident that the fine rains of the past
week have been beneficial to the growing bine, the plan-
tation accounts are far from satisfactory. Really fine
Hops command a steady sale, at further advanced prices.
In other kinds very little business is doing. The duty
is called 50,000/. to 65,0001. Sussex pockets, 3/ lOs to
4/ 12s; Weald of Kent ditto, 3/ 14s to 4/ 10; Mid and
East Kent ditto, 414 s to 71 7 e per cwt.
WOOL.
Notwithstanding the large quantities of Wool brought
to the hammer during the pas:, week, the advance noticed
in the quotations in our last report, viz., ld per lb upon
all good and fine qualities, has been well supported.
Large supplies have been purchased for shipment to
France and Belgium, and, up to the present time, about
28,000 bales have actually changed hands. There is a
slight improvement to notice in the demand for English
Wools by private contract, and, in some instances,
rather more money has been obtained by holders. The
imports into London last week amounted to 1,501 bales,
from Sydney; 382 ditto, from Odessa; 570 ditto, from
Algoa Bay; 900 ditto, from Ilamburgh; 650 ditto, from
Launceston; 1,241 ditto, from South America; 58 ditto,
from Mogadore; 55 ditto, from Marseilles; and 3 ditto,
from Ostend.

TLIZL OW.
Our market is tolerably firm; but we have no further
advances to notice in the quotations. To-day, P.Y.C.
on the spot is selling at 39s 3d to 393 6d, and for for-
ward delivery 40s per cwt. Town Tallow, 37s 6d to 37s
9:1 per owt, net cash ; Rough Fat, 2s 11d per 81bs.
Shipments from St. Petersburgh have as yet been swill.

1846. 1847

1848.

Stock this day • • .. ••
.182,901d1
Price of Y. C. •• .. i to 40s Od
1,333
8,995

8,513 7,253
41s 6d 48s 3d
to 41s 9d to Os Od
844 537
4,261 I 5,713
145 726
2,151 4,857
423 Od 50s 6d

1849.

5,956 I 24,152
43s 3d to 39s 3d
43s fid ito39s 6d
1,016 1,150
9,624 7,566
843 575

Delivery last week: • •
Ditto from June 1— • •
Arrivals last week •
Ditto from June 1 ...

5,534

8,049 I 6,245

'rice of Town . • • ... 142 s Od

46s 6d 40s Od

TESTIMONIAL
TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.

" THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY
OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll-
BERTY."—Kossuih's Protest against Russian Interven-

Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:—
Messrs. Coutts and Co.
Messrs. Drummond.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ;
or to The Sun Office, under cover to " The Editor;" or
to any one of the members of the committee recently
formed to carry out the Testimonial.

We, the undersigned, having formed ourselves into a
Provisional Committee to afford relief and support to the
distressed Hungarian soldiers now at Folkstone, and to
collect subscriptions to enable them to return to their own
country, earnestly invite the contributions and co-opera-
tion of all parties who, either from sympathy with the
Hungarian cause, or on the broad grounds of humanity
and benevolence, may be disposed to concur in the object
of the committee.
The Right llon.Lord Nugent, M.P., Chairman
Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, M.P.
Charles Lushington, Esq., M.P.
Francis Mowatt, Esq., M.P.
William Scholefield, Esq., M.P.
William Ewart, Esq., M.P.
Colonel Henry Salwey, M.P.
Matthew Wilson, Esq., jun., M.P.
James Heywood, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Pigou, Esq.
The Right Hon. Thomas M. Gibson, M.P.
Brodie M. Willcox, Esq., M.P.
W. Mackinnon, Esq., M.P.
Torrens M'Cullagh, Esq., M.P.
R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., M.P.
The Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P.
The Hon. F. Henry Berkeley, M.P.
T. S. Duncombe, Esq., M.P.
James Clay, Esq., M.P.
George Moffatt, Esq., M.P.
M. Bass, E3q.,
William Williams, Esq.
James Garth Marshall, Esq., M.P.
John Ellis, Esq., M.P.
William Pinney, Esq., M P.
Ralph Bernal Osborne, Esq., M.P.

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Subscriptions already received ... .. •
A Few Friends, &c., Olympic Inn, Stevenson-
square, Manchester.. ... .••
From a Few Friends of the Reform News Room,

1 0

Lancaster ...
John Phillips ...
From a Few Friends, &c., by Mr. James Thompson
Leicester ... 1 9
Subscriptions from Carmarthen, South Wales, by

2 0
0 10

Henry Cottrell ... ... ..•
A Glasgow Surgeon's Mite ...
Subscription received in behalf of the Hungarian
Refugees at a meeting held at Glanville's Hotel,
North-street, St. John, Westminster, on Saturday
evening, July 21, 1849 .. ...
J. 0. Kinnear................
A Few Friends who desire the Sovereignty of the

1 11
0 2

2 18
0 1
0 1

Mr. Kerr ~. ..„ 0 3
Mr. M'Donnell 0 10
A Friend in the Hungarian Cause ... 0 1
A Few Friends, White Horse-yard... ... 0 9
G. N., a Few Friends of Liberty 0 4
Nineteen Workmen, Enemies of Despotism and
Oppression

... 0 14

Total

£325 2

SOUTH AMERICA.
latinndSouth
LIVERPOOL, TU o m variouso
iports
oc
America we have received to-day
mer-
cantile accounts; the former of whicheapre in oneal ainstanc
of a highly interesting and even important character.
By the arrival of the brigantine Sappho, Captain
Easton, from the River Plate, we have advises from the
city of Buenos Ayres to the 22d of May inclusive; and
it may be mentioned that dispatches received by this
vessel, addressed to the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, lead to the hope, if not to the certainty, that at
length the difficulties will be overcome which have for
so many years disturbed our diplomacy and commerce
in the Rio de la Plata. Mr. Southern, we find, had been
received at Buenos Ay es by President Rosas; and
whilst, on the ono band, the intercourse of the diplomatic
Envoys with the Argentine Government appeared to be
conducted on the most harmonious footing, the Argen-
tine Government, on the other hand, courteously con-
sented to withdraw the decree formerly issued, cutting
off from communications with the shore the ships of
England and France. We learn, moreover, that on
the 19th of May a steamer was dispatched to Monte
Video, notifying to Mr. Hood the pacific aspect of
affairs; and we are informed that when the Sappho left
that gentleman was momentarily expected at Buenos
Ayres. The extract from the recognised organ of the;
Argentine President, in that city, which is appended ,
will confirm, as it will be observed, the impression that
a pacific solution of affairs was nut far distant.
A private letter from Buenos Ayres states thatldis-
patches from President Oribe had been received on tl to
13th of May, by the French war steamer Grondetir.
Replies were dispatched on the same day by the sae ae
steamer.

From Buenos Ayres the mercantile advices state ttsa
exchange on England was quoted at 68s. per ounce, and
on France 87f. The rate per current dollar was 2 11-
16ths. The highest price of doubloons during the, weak
had been 310; the lowest, 300. Freights to Great Bt
tain were as follows, viz :-Dry hides 41. per 2,240111;
salted ditto, 458.; tallow, boxes, 453.; pipes, 475. 6cl ;
wool, in bales, 305.; hair, 355.
From Rio de Janeiro we have letters to the 26th of
May inclusive ; but the political contents are wholly
uninteresting to the European reader. We learn, her v-
ever, the total loss of the United States mercantlo
steamer Santa Cruz, within one day's sail of the city of
Rio. The steamer, laden with a large cargo, was bout id
to San Francisco, and, after touching at Rio, sailed
thence on the 21st of May. On the next day, when
only nine leagues from Maxambaia, she foundered, and
so quickly sank that the crew had scarcely time to
launch the boats ere she disappeared. No lives were
lost, however ; and the boats reached Mangaritaba on
the same evening in perfect safety.
The Rio mercantile letters state that the market for
coffee was dull, and quote exchange at 254 d. to 251 d.
From Pernambuco we have also late advices- purely
mercantile, however, in their information-extending to
the 14th ult. inclusive. They were received by the In ig
Norval, arrived in the Mersey this morning.
They state that owing to the favourable weather thut
prevailed during the few days preceding the Norvars
departure the supplies of sugar from the country hs d
increased, but were mostly in rather damp condition.
Sales, however, were readily made at the followin g
prices:-White and brown, in cases, 19s. 6d. to 19s. 1,
for the former, and 14s. Bd. to 15s. Id. for the latter;
seconds and thirds, in bags, 225. Id. to 235. Bd.; com-
mon, 20s. 10d. to 21s. 3d.; low, lss. to 18s. 5d.; and
Muscovados, 14s. 9d. to 15s. 2d. per cwt., free on board,
including 5 per cent. commission. Cotton commanded
4d. 5-16ths per lb ; the receipts had been of small
amount. Dry salted hides were quoted at 2id. per lb.
Exchange continued firm at 24d. to 241 d. In freights
three small first-class English vessels had been taken at
355. to 375. 6d. for sugar, in bags, to the Channel. Cot-
ton to Liverpool was scarce; :?,d. per lb. and 5 per cent.
were the last rates given, with 255. for sugar ballast in
bags. Several foreign vessels were in port unable to
obtain employment.
.n

LvcEum TuEATuc.—The favourite comedian Mr.
Frank Matthews will take his benefit this evening
(Monday).

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPi AKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve
o'clock.
CONSIDERATION OF LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were
considered and agreed to:—
Dalin, Ashbourne, Slane, and Drogheda Roads Act

Continuation and Amendment.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and Wilsontown,
Morningside, and Coltness Railway Amalgamation.
THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and
passed :
Hoghton's Divorce.
Marylebone and Finchley Turnpike Roads.
SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time, and or-
dered to be committed:—
Ron. C. C. Cavendish's (Burlington House) Estate.
W. 11. F. Cavendish's Estate.

Cripps's Divorce.
Gt.( nville's Estate.

Sir Robert Piggot's Eitate.

Trenchard's Estate.
Lord JOHN HAY presented a petition from Windsor
in favour of the Protection to Woolen Bill.
Lord EBRINGTON presented a petition from Ply-
mouth in favour of the Bankruptcy Bill.

GAMBIA.
Sir E. BUXTON pursuant to notice asked the Under-
Secretary of State for the Colonies whether a sanguinary
attack that had lately been made on two native towns
by the British authorities at Gambia had been made
with the sanctiou of the authorities at home; and

whether he had any objection to lay on the table of the
House the correspondence that had taken place between
the Governor of Gambia and Earl Grey with respect to

this exhibition?
Mr. HAWES said that the Government had no other
information upon the subject thun that which was con-
tained in the dispatch of the Governor. Whatever had
been done had been done on the responsibility of the
Governor of Gambia alone. He was not prepared at
present to lay the dispatch from the Governor on the
table of the House until there had been time to consider
it, and the steps to be taken in consequence.
CLERGY RELIEF BILL.
Upon the motion that the Clergy Relief Bill, as
amended, be considered,
Mr. MULLINGS moved, after clause 3, to add the
following clause:—" And be it enacted, that immediately
upon the transmission of such: certificate letters of
orders and statement, such person shall forfeit all right,
title, and interest in the preferment held by him, and to
the possession of the parsonage house, buildings, lands,
tithes, and other hercditaments belonging to or held
with and as appurtenant to the same, and to the receipt
and benefit of the rents, issues, profits, and proceeds
thereof, subject, nevertheless, and without prejudice to
the claims of sequestration creditors as hereinafter
provided."
On the clause being ordered to be brought up,
Mr. GOULBURN said that he could not by any
means assent to the introduction of a clause like this.
The Bill, as it now stood, provided that if any one had
been ordained to holy orders whose principles were
altered could, upon a declaration that his faith was
changed, obtain a power to retire altogether from the
Church. By this clause, if a clergyman had contracted
debts, however muqs he desired to escape from preach-
ing doctrines whit were contrary to his belief, he
would still be compelled to remain in his living simply
for the sake of securing the creditor. This he thought
was a monstrous stretch of an Act of Parliament, and
-calculated to create a greater evil than that which it was
intended to remedy. For that reason he could not as-
sent to the existence of such a clause, and must say that
it ought not to stand part of the Bill.
The clause was then brought up, and read a second

time, when
Mr. MULLINGS enlained the legal effect of the clause,
and showed that, though it would cot affect the spiritual
position of any clergyman whose living was under se-
questration, yet it would have the advantage of carry-
ing all the temporalities of a living into the hands of
the ordinary diocesan, and thus the creditor would be
secured.
Mr. BOUVERIE said that the clause would be of no
avail, inasmuch as it would in no way affect the fortune
of a clergyman who obtained a second living.
Mr. SPOONER said that the clause would certainly
avail, for if the sequestration were obtained under a
judgment, and the clergyman obtained another living,
the power of that sequestration would follow the debtor.
Mr. MULLINGS then stated that he had no personal
object to serve, and would withdraw the motion.
The clause was then withdrawn.
At the suggestion of Dr. NICHOLL words were
ordered to be put in for amending the form of the de-
claration.
After severel verbal alterations suggested by Mr.
Goulburn, Dr. Nicholl, and other Members, an altera-
tion was proposed giving power to secede from the
Church after a certain short notice, on which
Mr. GOULBURN said that the Church had very
wisely instituted regulations by which every man was
prevented from entering upon its sacred functions with-
out due deliberation. Those functions were so holy, of
so high and elevated a character, that there ought to be
every bar placed before either the admission to and the
abandoment of them. They would not admit of a
clergyman sitting in that House, because they believed
that a seat in that assembly would be inconsistent with
the performance of his clerical duties, and yet they were
ready to grant a power by which the most serious ob-
ligations might be set aside with the same ease that he
would any lay profession. This was likely to occasion
great mischief, and he should therefore move for the
omission of the words by which so great a facility was

conferred.
Mr. STAFFORD said that as he was favourable to
the principle of the Bill he was anxious that it should
pass without mutilation. He did not know whether his
Right Hon. Friend was aware of the fact, but it never-
theless was so, that the clause as it now stood had
been unanimously assented to by the Committee. There
was no difference whatever upon the subject among its
members, and as the observations which had been made
in moving this amendment equally applied, or perhaps
more forcibly applied, to the whole Bill than to the
clause as it stood, he should oppose it.
Mr. SPOONER said that he was as favourable to the
principle of the Bill as his Hon. Friend who had just
sat down, and being so he was anxious to carry it out as
usefully as possible. There ought not to be any such
facility for throwing off those functions which clergymen
had so solemnly sasumed, and if the amendment was
pressed he should certainly vote along with him.
After a few words from Mr. HOPE, indicating a de-
sire, that in making a provision for the secession of minis-
ters of the Church, the mode and orders of the Church
itself should be observed as closely as possible,
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House of Commons was that their ministerial duties
were incompatible with the discharge of legislative
functions. In that regulation the clery had very gene-
-tally and almost unanimously concurred, and as that was
an object which was one of honourable ambition to most
:men, he thought that that was an ample proof of the
little likelihood that the privilege would be abused,
Mr. GOULBURN said that the last thing which he
desired was to cast any imputation upon the clergy. He
then withdrew his amendment.
Mr. HAG GE T said that it was perfectly impossible
for this Bill to pass through the House this session, and
ho, therefore, would make another appeal to the Hon.
Member to delay any further proceedings on the Bill at
present. If such a Bill was to he passed, it ought to be
introduced by the Government, who alone had the power
to pass an opposed Bill through the House in one ses-
sion. The time would come, and perhaps shortly, when
the Church would be efficiently heard in the regulation
of ecclesiastical affairs.—(Hear.)
Mr. BOUVERIE said that it was not his fault that
the Bill had not been earlier brought before the House,
and he certainly should persevere.
The amendments as altered were then passed, and the
Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
SUNDAY TRADING (METROPOLIS) BILL.
On the motion that this Bill be read a second time,
Mr. Hindley, Sir W. Hall, Lord Robert Grosvenor,
and several other Members, presented petitions from
Finsbury, Islington, Marylebone, and several other por-
tions of the metropolis, in favour of the Bill. One of
these especially Mr. Hindley wished to draw attention to.
It was numerously signed by the shopmen of Lambeth,
and stated that they had time neither for recreation or
improvement, or for attending upon Divine worship.
(LEFT SITTING.)

THE CITY ELECTION.—On Saturday a very large
meeting of the friends of the Lord Mayor assembled at
the Mansion-house for the purpose of making arrange-
ments for securing the return of his Lordship to Par-
liament for the City. Several of the most influential
men reported in the committee that they had found in
the various districts which they visited for the purpose
of sounding the public opinion on the subject of the
election, that in every instance they had been assured of
the most steady support of the movement in favour of
his Lordship, and that whatever certain parties, who are
always on the look out for election profits in one way or
other, may do in bringing forward the name of a sup-
posed candidate, no man will venture upon so desperate
a speculation as a contest for the vacant seat. One of the
strongest evidences of the feeling of the constituency
appeared in the meeting alluded to, from the fact that
men who are connected with all parties came forward to
tender their services. The " long-shore men" are, as a
matter of course, entertaining the hope of a contest, from
which they may derive benefit from their votes, which
their agents are always in readiness to barter. It is
unnecessary to observe that the members of the corpora-
tion are most resolutely engaged in forwarding the Lord
Mayor's object of sitting for the City of vf hich he is the
very popular Chief Magistrate.
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fessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
CASE or CAPTAIN DOUGLAS.—We tire informed
that the sentence on Captain G. Douglas, late of the
16th Begitnent, is about to undergo revision.—Guernsey
Star.

INDEPENDENCE OF HUNGARY

MEETING AT THE LONDON TAVERN.
(THIS DAY.)
A public meeting was held at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street, this day, " for the purpose of express-
ing sympathy with the noble, maligned, and betrayed
people—the Hungarians," whose cause has been so often
advocated in this journal.

Long before the chair was taken the large room in
which the meeting was held, and the gallery at the
foot of it, were occupied by a numerous and respectable
audience.

The chair was taken, at one o'clock, by Mr. Alderman
Salomons, amidst loud cheers.

Amongst the gentlemen on the platform we noticed
Lord Nugent, M.P., Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P., Richard
Cobden, Esq., M.P., Sir D. Norreys, M.P., R. M. Mllnes,
Esq., M.P., R. Taylor, Esq., R. Williams, Esq,
Murdo Young, Esq , and W. Charles M. Kent, Esq , of
The Sun, Bernal Osborne, Esq., M.P., Sir Joshua
Walmsley, M.P., F. Mowatt, Esq., M.P., W. Scholefield,
Esq., M.P., J. A. Smith, Etq , M Y., Bm, &C.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said he
appeared before them to day under a sense of the deepest
responsibility—a responsibility, however, very much les-
sened since the debate in Parliament of Saturday last.
—(Cheers,) That debate would carry to the country'
and disseminate in every part of the empire, facts which
probably would have been discredited, had they appeared
upon less authority than eminent Members of Parlia-
ment, and our Minister of Foreign Affairs. This meeting
to-day was not called for the purpose of upsetting thrones,
of disseminating violent doctrines to excite people
against their rulers; but, on the contrary, to speak for
an independent nation that had been attempted to be
put down by the misrule and illegality of another
nation connected with her,-and on the part of a foreign
invader.—(Loud cheers.) He would not hare taken the
responsibility of appearing as chairman this day were
this question merely a matter between the subjects of
a Government and its legitimate rulers even under op-
pression. He thought it became the freemen in a free
state to sympathise with freemen—(Cheers)—and by a
peaceful demonstration such as that to give a spur to
public opinion—(Cheers)—and he deeply regretted that
a journal which had ever been looked upon as the bude
light of public opinion in this country—(Groans)—had not
on the present occasion taken that lead in regard to this
question which he had fondly anticipated; but ho saw
this day, in commenting on this meeting, symptoms of
coming round to this cause—(Cheers)—and he found
in that very journal a condemnation of the opinions that
it had all along held.—(Laughter.) He found in the
Times a letter from a correspondent, writing from Vienna,
in this straia—
" The Austrian empire, as such, is even more rotten
at the core than you have been led to imagine, not-
withstanding that you gave an admirable delineation of
its present and prospective state before the occurrence
of the revolution. What is more, such has been the
faithlessness with which the Government have abro-
gated the promises so recently and solemnly made, and
so pedantic and offensive is the tyranny of the bureau-
cracy in general, that, little as you may be
prepared for such an intimation, I must in-
form you that the Moderate and Constitutional
party throughout Austria would view the dissolution
of that empire, and its reorganization on new and
more improved principles, with undisguised pleasure.
The success of the Hungarians is viewed by the vast ma-
jority of the nation as the only possible means of rescuing
them from the thraldom in which they are now held; and
so far from being considered, as a psuedo -Hungarian
correspondent would have you believe, a republican move-
ment, it is viewed almost universally as the reverse. A
gentleman of the Moderate party who is on excellent
terms with the Court, and holds a very eminent position at
Vienna, frankly assured me that all he blamed the Hunga-
rians for was the false and vacillating position they assumed
in their own Parliament at the outset of the struggle."
He thought it right to state this to them in case there
might be any one in the meeting who hesitated or
doubted that he was right in asking the meeting to come
forward to-day, and declare their opinion in favour of
Hungarian independence.—(Cheers.) What was the
value of opinion? He thought the state of Europe was
the best answer to that. It was their duty,
therefore, seeing a nation like the Hungarians
struggling for their independence, and striving
to prevent their liberties being put doa n by Russian
and Austrian bayonets—(Cheers)—that they should
come there to-day as freemen,:and Englishmen, and as
men of high feeling and morality and religion, and pro-
test against that wholesale slaughter that they saw
going on in Europe ; the burnings, and firings, and
4oggings,—aye, the flogging of females, too—(Groans,
and loud cries of " Shame, shame,") and that
- they should loudly enter their protest, and
put the pressure on our Government to interfere
iii such a manner as to put a stop to such outrages on
religion, philanthropy, and humanity. (Cheers.)
there was another view of this question, and a very low
view, but yet one which in this great metropolis ought
hot to be struck out. They bad decreed in this country,
by the voice of the Imperial Parliament, the freedom of
commerce and of navigation ; our interest lay on the
freedom of states throughout the world. The freedom
of Europe was to us a matter of great concern.—
tCheers.) They might have a partition of Hungary as
they had a partition of Poland. He would not detain
them longer, but simply read two letters that he had re-
ceived from noblemen, whose presence bad been ex
plated at the meeting to-day. (The Chairman here read
a; letter from Lord Beaumont, apologising for his inabi-,
li:ty to attend the meeting, but sympathising with its object,
He also read a letter of apology from Lord Sligo
whose Parliamentary duties prevented his attendance,
and stated that he had received similar letters from a
number of other Members of Parliament.) He did not
know that he need say anything further, be.
cause there were many gentlemen present more
competent than he was to give the history
of the Hungarian struggle, and to suggest the best
course for the meeting to pursue. He would, therefore,
give way at once to them, and first of all call upon Mr.
G. W. Alexander,—(Cheers.)
1 Mr. .ALEXANDER then came forward, and was re-
ceived with loud cheers. He regretted that the task
of moving the first resolution had fallen upon
so humble an individual as himself, but perhaps the cir-
cumstance of his belonging to the Peace Society might
h4ve been a motive for placing him in his present posi-
tibn—(Cheers)—and it was as a friend of peace that he
appeared upon that platform.--(Cheers.) He felt, as the
friend of peace, that they were called upon to give ex-
pression to their feelings in reference to the unjust and
cruel war which was now waging between Austria and
Russia on the one hand, and the Hungarians on the
other.—(Loud cheers.) When public opinion exercised
so important an influence on passing events
it was surely of no mean importance that a great city
like London should express its opinion upon those cir-
cumstances to which the attention of the meeting
would be called to-day. When he looked to the history
of the last fifty years, especially to that long war which
waged during a considerable part of that period, and
which lately the Prime Minister of this country de-
clared to be wholly unnecessary—(Loud cheers)—
when he looked at that he was more than ever
convinced that it was the duty of the people of
a free country to express their opinions with
reference to the desolating scourge— war—and especially
when it was waged in a most unjustifiable and iniquitous
manner.—(Hear.) Allusion hat been made to the tone
of the remarks contained in the leading journal of this
city. He confessed that those remarks consti-
tuted another reason for his taking a part
in that mmeeting.—(Hear, hear.) He had read them
with disgust and indignation.—(Cheers.) That paper,
ho was sorry to say, appeared to him to have become
the bosom and sworn ally of despotism.—(Loud
cheers, and waving of theta and handkerchiefs by nearly
every one in the meeting, followed by loud hisses.)
There was on the part of that journal, and of one or two
others which might be named, very great consideration
for our ancient ally Austria, but ho was sorry
to say that he saw in them comparatively little
sympathy for the wrongs which were endured
by the Hungarians--(Cheers)—there was little sympathy
for cities laid waste by Imperial forces, and by hordes of
Cossacks.—(Cheers.) But while he deplored, on the
one hand, the conduct of some of the leading journals,
on the other he had great satisfaction in seeing that the
cause was taken up by other important and influential
metropolitan newspapers.—(Cheers.) There was besides
a judicious defence of the rights of the Hugarians in the last
number of Blackwood's Magazine, and also an able ar-
ticle, which, though not so extended, is couched in a
similar spirit in the Edinburgh Review.—(Cheers.) The
resolution which he proposed was to the following

effect:—
" That this meeting, without compromising individual
opinions on the subject of, war, regard with sincere
admiration, respect, and sympathy, the noble determina-
tion of the Hungarian nation to maintain intact their
just rights and the constitutional independence they
have inherited from their fathers, against the tyrannical
encroachments of Austrian despotism."
—(Cheers.) He admired the earnestness with which the
Hungarians sought to maintain their just rights, although
he regretted that they had referred them to the arbitra-
tion of the sword.—(Cheers.) He hoped that this
meeting would induce the representatives of London to
do their duty with respect to the Hungarian cause.—
(Loud cheers.) He was glad already to see that
Lord John Russell did not now qualify
the Hungarian insurrection in the same language that
he previously did. Ho hoped that he would be induced
to use the influence of his high position to persuade Aus-
tria to make peace with Hungary upon just corditiorr.
Mr. Alexander concluded by moving the resolution, and
sat down amidst loud cheers.
Mr. COBDEN, M.P., then advanced to the front of the
platform to second the resolution, and was received with
loud and prolonged cheering. When silence was re-
stored he spoke to the following Effect :—Mr. Chairman
and Gentlemen,--I think after this demonstration to-day
. no paper will have the audacity to say that the inhebi