The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 185

Unfortunately the Government is prevented from
participating in many a popular demonstration of
sympathy in the cause of nationalities, and in the in-
terests of individuals, by a sense of its serious and
sublime responsibilities. Upon it devolves the great
duty of preserving peace throughout Christendom.
Whatever may be thought by the more impulsive and
less reflective portion of the community, it is unde-
niable that beyond the gratification of a wish to benefit
any one particular division of the family of man, is the
supreme and overwhelming solicitude inspired in the
hearts of statesmen entrusted with the labours of ad-
ministration to maintain tranquillity, as far as that is
practicable, far and wide upon the whole surface of the
habitable globe. Occasions arise, of course, in which
the injuries inflicted by some one or other among the
powers of the earth render a warlike interposition
imperative upon its more conscientious and chivalric
contemporaries. But in the vast majority of instances
no consideration but that of a glaring and conspicu-
ous necessity can justify the rulers of a Power like
England in plunging the nation, by a precipitate
movement, into 'the perils and calamities of war with
the European Continent. It should be remembered,
indeed, that so repressive in its character is the Mi-
nisterial appreciation of the responsibilities referred
to, that only one thing can effectually release the
Cabinet from the bonds by which it is through their
influence restricted to a pacific policy—and what
that is we may see clearly indicated in the noble
and magnanimous sentiments expressed but yester-
day by the distinguished statesman, her MAJESTY'S
Principal Secretary for the Foreign Department.
Everyone who has participated in the slightest de-
gree in the generous movement among the masses of
our fellow-countrymen in behalf of Louis KOSSUTH
and the Hungarians must regard the speech delivered
on that occasion by Lord PALMERSTON with feelings
of the most unaffected satisfaction. In every obser-
vation which then fell from the lips of the Noble
Lord may be recognised very decisive testimonies
that in their admiration of his conduct as chief admi-
nistrator of Foreign Affairs in the ranks of the Bri-
tish Government, the people of England have,
in their recent excitement about Hungary, been to

the full justified by the vigour of his policy, by the
vigour of that valiant and yet temperate policy,
the prominent feature of which is its pa-
triotism. Viscount PALMERSTON tells the mul-
titude in words of eloquence, trumpet-tongued
from their very simplicity, that upon them, upon the

citizens of the empire, over whose destinies he and his
colleagues have been selected to preside, upon the in-
telligent and industrial masses of the entire population
should in reality devolve those terrible and otherwise
unconquerable responsibilities which necessarily tend
to force, under ordinary circumstances, a pacific
policy upon the Government. The Noble Lord does
more than this—he goes so far even as to tax the com-
munity with what has too generally been apparent on its
part, an apathetic indifference in all matters connected
with the foreign relations of the ,United Kingdom.
He acknowledges, no doubt, and that explicitly enough,
the moral power of the British Government through-
out Christendom, but he maintains at the same time
that that power is rendered altogether nugatory unless
the Ministry can be sustained in its course of pro-
ceeding by the popular sympathies and their conse-
quent encouragement. Speaking more plainly as to
the meaning of Lord PALMERSTON, it may
be said by us, in all truth, that the
remarks which dropped from his mouth yes-
terday in reference to this most important
subject were not merely words of justification as to
the recent agitation throughout the country in regard
to KOSSUTH, but words of loud and earnest recom-
mendation of still further and still greater movements
in behalf of all oppressed or outraged nationalities,
and, we may reasonably presume, under the circum-
stances, particularly and especially in behalf of the
heroic and down-trodden Hungarians.
After the magnanimous reply vouchsafed yesterday
by Lord PALMEESTON to the deputations from Fins-
bury and, Islington—deputations bearing to the
Noble Lord congratulatory addresses, such as may
be regarded as among the fruits of the late Kossuam
demonstrations—who shall presume henceforth to
speak of that magnificent movement as it has been so
frequently spoken of, namely, as one altogether per-
nicious in its tendency and factious in its character ?

Let it not be forgotten from this time forth that the

popular agitation about KOSSUTH has received not
merely the sanctiou of Lord PALMERSTON, but
through that the decisive approbation and
encouragement of her MAJESTY'S Government. In-
somuch is this really the case, that we find
in the language employed in the present instance by
the Foreign Secretary expressions condemnatory of
the disregard evinced but too often by the masses
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in reference to the foreign relations of England, and
a plain-spoken appeal to the people on his part, as one
of their most illustrious statesmen, to come forward
henceforth in aid of the Ministry upon all occasions

like the present, when their support as a nation is
absolutely essential to the presiding Government.
We are grateful to Viscount PALMERSTON for having
given utterance to a speech like this—a speech
honourable to him as an experienced and enlightened
administrator, and one, moreover, which nobly accords
in every particular with his many splendid and magna-
nimous antecedents.

It is gratifying to know that if Lord PALMERSTON
has been prevented by the peculiarity of his official
position; from personally coming forward to welcome
the great guest still amongst us, he has seized the
very earliest opportunity of speaking in such terms as
cannot but prove eminently agreeable to that illus-

trious personage. Happily, also, those remarks of
the Foreign Secretary will be convejed to Louis
KOSSUTH before his departure from this island for the
shores of the American continent. They will con-
stitute, we doubt not, perhaps not the least gratifying
among his many delightful recollections. Together
with the words of Lord PALMERSTON, the Governor of

Hungary will bear away in his memory likewise the
words of the people of England, words of homage, of
respect, of sympathy, and of admiration, coming to
him through the medium of public addresses from the
various places here enumerated :—Ashton- under-
Lyne, Barnsley, Bath, Bedford, Bingley, Birming-
ham, Boston, ' Bradford, Bridgewater, Brighton,
Bristol, Burnley, Burslem (Potteries), Bury,
Canterbury, Cambridge, Clerkenwell, Cork, Co-
ventry, Croydon, Cupar-Fife, Derby, Deal,
Dover, Dundee, Dunfermline, Finsbury, Glas-
gow, Halifax, Huddersfield, Ilkeston, Islington, Kid-
derminster, Lambeth, Leeds, Leicester, St. Leonard's
(Shoreditch), Liverpool, Llanidloes, London, Man-
chester, Marylebone, Northampton, Nottingham,
Oldham, Paisley, Pancras, Preston, Rochdale, Shef-
field, Southampton, Southwark, Stafford, Stockport,
Sunderland, Tunbridge, Taunton, Wakefield, War-
wick, West Hackney, Westminster, Wick, Wool-
wich, Worcester, and Wrexham. To-morrow the
recipient of those most interesting documents will start
for the United States. It needs no one now to give
him the assurance that be is followed in his voyage
across the Atlantic by the " ('sod-speed"" loud, and
s-o-
-lemn, and impassioned from the waving hands, and
the uplifted voices, and the full-throbbing hearts of
the great English People.

A select party of fiscal and financial reformers
assembled together on Thursday last, at the Albion
Hall, Hammersmith, to celebrate the repeal of the
window-tax during the past session. The Noble Lord
the, Member for Bath, who had been selected to lead
the movement against the infamous impost, filled the
chair on the festive occasion, and, while receiving the
cordial felicitations of the company on the important
victory that had been achieved under his able guid-
ance, he pointed out the obstacles and impediments
that bad been encountered during the seven years'
contest ; the gradual increase of strength on the j

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