The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-04 00:00:00

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LONDON TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1851

Demonstrations have followed and are following
each other in rapid succession to the exiled Libera-
tor of the Hungarians. Among the most significant
of these, in many respects, was the one which yes-
terday collected together 30,000 persons—for the
most part members of the working-classes—in the
Copenhagen-fields, for the purpose of according a
public welcome to Kosstrru, as the representative,
or we might call him the very incarnation of the
spirit of liberty among the nations of the continent.
For many reasons it might have been desirable if a
little more regard bad been paid by his admirers
to the feelings of the distinguished man now residing
in the metropolis; but, apart from the importunity
shown by them to offer him personally some expres-
sion of their homage—an importunity under the cir-
cumstances of his ill-health rather inconsiderate, to say
the least of it—the respectful and enthusiastic bearing
of the crowd towards him yesterday could not possibly
be otherwise than a source to him of the sincerest
gratification. Everything, it will be seen by a glance
at the report, went off to universal satisfaction in
the proceedings of the open-air meeting, and the
result cannot but be an additional assurance to
the Absolutist Powers of Europe that the feel-
ing of the people of England in regard to the
interests of Hungary is very deep-seated indeed, a
feeling cherished among all classes throughout the
community, and one the intensity of which necessi-
tates its articulation upon all available opportunities.
Associated as the occurrence of yesterday must ne-
cessarily be with the other evidences of enthusiasm
displayed towards the same illustrious personage, it
will present to the mind of the observer a proof that
we have never once:exaggerated the sentiments with
which our fellow-countrymen look towards the fair but
ravaged lands of the Sclavonic population. Hitherto it
has been erroneously imagined that no interest whatever
has been felt in regard to foreign politics, except by

the habitual readers of the blue book department of
periodical literature. Recent occurrences have suf.
ficently well shown the fallacy of any such frivolous
conjecture. Thanks to the agency of the newspaper
press—christened long since by its eulogists, or
perhaps we may without egotism be permitted to say
by its appreciators, the " Fourth Estate"—the public
at large have been rendered familiar with every de-
tail connected with the development of political
opinion abroad—extraordinary information upon
these matters having very frequently been published
in the columns of one or other of the metropolitan
journals before the receipt of any such intelligence in
the Foreign •office at Downing-street. It is most
probably from this circumstance, aided as it undoubt-
edly has been by the growing curiosity of the people
in reference to these matters, that the interest shown
by Englishmen in foreign politics has during a con-
siderable period past been anything but restricted to
the members of the Imperial Legislature. Instance
this-the excitement cawed throughout the whole
of the chequered circle of society on the arrival in
this country of any startling news, or of any
important personage connected with the progress of
general emancipation in Christendom—KossuTa's
reception being a manifestation of the fact here re-
ferred to more convincing than a thousand arguments,
Already we have more than once taken occasion to
commend in the strongest terms the admirable taste
shown by the recipient of these honours in responding
to the welcome of the English multitude. Nowhere
has this propriety of expression on his part been more