The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

INTERVIEW WITH KOSSUTH
BY A LEEDS GENTLEMAN.
(From the Le Mercury.)
A private letter, dated Bhosa, December, 18re0,
has just been received by a gentleman connected evith
the Leeds Mercury, from which we are favoured with
some extracts. The writer is an intelligent profes-
sional gentleman, a native of Leeds, who for the last
few years has resided in Asiatic Turkey, and who,
it appears, Las had an interview with Kossuth, the
Hungarian patriot, who, with his companions, is now
an exile at Kutaya. The extracts will be read with
interest. The writer says :
" You know, of course, that Amer Bey is now in
America as the representative of the Sultan ; the fitat
occurrence of the kind in the history of Turkey. To
me it is a particularly interesting fact. I believe he
is accompanied by .Mr. Brown, the American dragoma
to the American Embassy, on his return to New
York a few months ego. I know Mr. Brown well,
and in him the Tux hiss representative to the United
States will find a valuable friend. The American
missionaries here (for the East is the special field of
American missions) anticipate groat results to their
own country from this new embassy to Anmiriza.
The United States have done nobly in granting
10,000 dollars to ray the expenses of the Sultan's
representative. It will enable him to see the grand
achievements of the Franks.
" A few days ago the Protestants obtained a firman
from the Sultan, for ever establishing them in their
privilege to build churches like other Christians, as
the Armenians and Greeks. This was obtained through
the intervention of Sir Stratford Canning, who after
the Sultan had granted the request, called the chief
men of the Armenian Protestants to his own house, at
Tberepier, when he addressed them in the Turkish
language, and so affected were they that they all shed
tears. The Turks like the Protestants better than
other religious sects because of their hatred to images,
relics, and other fooleries of the Roman Catholics.
Our friends in Leeds will rejoice in this spread of
civil and religious liberty. How singular it is that
the Crescent of Mahommedanism should be a pro-
tection to the Cross, as it is the case in thousands of
instances at the present time, where the Sultan ex-
tends the aid of his sovereignty over Christians
driven by persecution from their own land.
" A friend of mine has just returned from Coniah,
the ancient Iconium (see Acts of Apostles) visited by
the Apostles. It is eighteen days' journey from
here, at the rate of thirty miles a day. The people
are little removed from barbarians, and at this day
they live in houses built of mud, with flat roofs. In
winter the streets are impassable, consequently men,
beasts, and cattle all walk upon thel roofs, from one
house to another, instead of in the streets, which are
filled with snow, thrown every morning from the
house tops. Coniah has about 60,000 inhabitants. A
revolution in religious opinions is needed to work a
change ; they are nominally Christians, but a sad
specimen of Christianity, as they live by fraud and
deceit.
" I have not been to Kutaya to see Kossuth (the
Hungarian patriot). I saw him in Broosa. Oh, the
spirit of patriotism that circulates in his soul ! It
would almost enchant you to hear him talk in Eng-
lish. What then must be the effect of listening to
his eloquence in his own native language ? My inter-
view with him was delightful. I don't wonder at the
enthusiasm with which he is regarded by his country-
men. I believe he is yet destined to accomplish
great things for his country. You will per-
haps scarcely believe it, but be seldom sees a
newspaper, end is ignorant of many of the trans-
actions now going on in Europe, because the
post is very irregular to Kutaya. I should like to
send him two or three numbers of the Mercury,
which I occasionally receive. Many travellers in
passing to Kutaya call at our house, and thus
we have a certain opportunity of forwarding let-
ters, papers, or parcels, as Franks, American or Eng-
lish, are not searched. A friend, an American, from
Kutaya, called a week or two ago. He says Kossuth is
much dissatisfied with his situation.' He spent two or
three days with him. They (the exiles) live in a
kind of barracks. I believe the Turks do all
they can to make him and his associates comfortable,
but you can have no conception of the grand diffe-
rence between English comforts and those of this
country. Here there are no household comforts but
those of your own creation. Without fur coats you
cannot in winter keep yourselves warm, for the
houses are made to let in and not to keep out the
cold ; and the winters here are intensely cold. Kos-
suth, you know, is under the care of Suliman Bey,
who is a remarkably nice fellow. I had the pleasure
of visiting him here at the palace. He reminded me,
in his looks and manners, of George Goodman, Esq.
(of Leeds); he is like him, too, in form. He ie,
believe, one of the best men Kossuth could have
been placed under, for kindness and urbanity. It
will be pleasing to Kossuth's friends in England to
know that the Hungarian patriot is in the hands of
so kind a keeper as Suliman Bey.
"Nearly all letters to the exiles are opened, ex-
cept such as we hive sent through Englishmen or
Americans visiting Kutaya. Mr. Longworth, an
Englishman, has married the daughter of the British
Consul, and next month (Jsnuery) comes to Eng-
land to publish the history of the Hungarian strug-
gle from Kossuth's lip,."

FATAL ACCIDENT TO A SOLICITOE.—On Monday,
at Abingdon, an inquest was held to inquire into the death
of Mr. 'Thomas Frankum, solicitor, and for many years clerk
to the magistrates in that town. It seemed that on Friday,
the 20th ult., the deceased, with a Mr. Nicholl, went in a

dog cart to Lechlade, Gloucestershire, accompanied on the
way by Mr. E. Harris, draper, and his servant, who were in
another vehicle. When the business which took the parties
to Lechlade was concluded they dined and drank mode-
rately, and returned from there about seven o'clock in the
evening. On their way home they stopped at Farringdon
and Pusey Furze, at both of which places they had refresh-
ments. It was about ten o'clock when they left Pusey
Furze, and when between that place and Kingston Bag-
puize Mr. Nicboll's horse swerved from the road and went
up a by lane, when Mr. Harris passed him, and the former
on getting into the road again whipped his horse, and
passed the other vehicle at a gallop, and then his horse
slackened his pace, and Mr. Harris again passed him, and
they kept in that position at the rate of about twelve miles
an hour, until on coming to a part of the road where some
heaps of stone were placed at the side for repairs, the
vehicle of Mr. Nichol' came in contact with them, and
threw both him and Mr. Frankum out violently, and it was
subsequently found that the thigh of the deceased was frac-
tured by the fall. The coroner ordered a post-mortem ex-
amination to be made, and the medical evidence showed

that death ensued directly from congestion of the brain.
The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR OF " WILD SPORTS OF
THE WEST."—We regret to announce the death of a writer
whose genial and sportive pen has delighted thousands.
Maxwell, the lush novelist, and author ot innumerable
humorous sketches in the periodical literature of the day,
expired on the 29th of December, at Musselburg, near the
Scottish capital. His generally vigorous health had of late
broken down, and he crept into the retirement of this se-
questered village to die. He had been in early life a captain
is the British army, and was, of course, the delight ot the
mess-room, and a general favourite in social circles.
He
subsequently entered the Church, and was some years pre-
bendary of Balla, a wild Connaught church living, without
any congregation or cure of souls attached to it; though it
afforded what he was admirably capable of dealing with,
piety of game. Of a warm-hearted, kind, and manly tem-
perament, he made friends of all who came within the range
of his wit, or the circle of his acquaintance. He was the
founder of that school which counts the " Harry Lorrequers"
and others among its humble disciples; but " The Story of
my Life" and " Wild Sports of the West" will not be easily
surpassed in the peculiar qualities of that gay, off-hand, and
rollicking style ot penmanship, of which he was the origi-
nator.

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THE LATE PRETENDED POPISH MIRACLE AT
LYoNs. The Gazette de Lyon contains the following :—" We
learn that the Commission appointed by the Archbishop of
Avignon, to examine into the facts affirmed with regard to
the picture in the chapel of St. Salmi:lin-les-Apt, has decided
unanimously that there are no grounds for proceeding any
further in the matter, as the facts have nothing of a super-
le intrigue,
airmacinsoloruabs
natural character in them. A letter which we nave just re-
ceived, and which emanates from a person as remarkable fur
his intelligence as for his perfect good faith, announces to 113
nthoimn in the re-
Teisonclusion proves how neces-
tphoartteacilpahre
the work of a person of whom some . very sad information
has been given to us.
sary it is on all questions of this kind to wait for the deci-
genewnhikshonhlaysthar reesaureltdofm*
deci-
sion of the ecclesiastical authorities, who are alone compe-
tent, and, for our part, we cannot too much applaud our-
selves for having followed the dictates of prudence in our
reserve On this subject."
CITY DIsPENsARY.—The half-yearly meeting of
the friends and patrons of this charity took place yesterday,
at the Hospit4l, 76, Queen-street, City; Nathaniel Ainger,
Esq., in the chair. It appeared from the report that this
dispensary, which was founded in the year 1789, for the re-
lict of the sick and diseased poor, in all requiring
cases me-
dical and surgical care, had since its opening cured and re-
lieved upwards of 306,759 patients. Upwards of 88,000
visits had been paid to the patients, at their own houses.
The committee thought that the great improvement in the
sanitary condition of the metropolis was to be ascribed to the
facility afforded by dispensaries of checking incipient sick-
ness. The receipts for the past year had amounted to 558/.
ls. 2d.; and the expenses to 5381.105. ; leaving a balance of
191. 11s. 2d. The report was adopted, some formal business
transacted, and a committee appointed for the ensuing year•
after which a vote of thanks to the chairman passed, and the
meeting separated.
CELEBRATION OF THE EARL OF STAMFORD'S
BIRTIIDAY.—On Tuesday, his Lordship's birthday, the Eat*
of Stamford and Warrington, gave a ball and supper to his
tenantry, at the Cat and Partridge Inn, Enville.
TUE GREAT (ExPECTED) SEASON of 1851.
Every one is expecting to make a fortune in the Great Ex-
hibition Season of 1851. Beds are, by entieiPatiou. going
up in the environs of London, and silage Lroker, in Broker's-
alley, is selling so many bedsteads that he is making a for-
tune at lull gallop with four-poste,rs. Somebody has even
proposed to make the bed of the Serpentine available, and
perhaps it wont I not be a bad idea to throw a Macintosh
cover across the whole surirtee, and thus turn it into one of
those water beds which are soinetimes so strenuously recom-
mended by" the facult .v.' The plan would have the double
leffect of hiding an offensive object and promoting the conveni-
Once of the puolie; while the Serpentine itself is well adapted
for the purpose of repose, as when anything is said about
dousing the river the authorities seem determined to go to
sleep upon it.—Punch.
SraINO FLOWERS.—During the past week, prim-
roses have been offered for sale in great quantities, wall-
flowers and polyanthuses may also be seen blossoming. in
gardens in the neighbourhood. The appearance of thtat
heralds of sunnier days indicates the uhusuel zoildnell or Lin
Preaeut fietiem—iSena Advertiser.