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Whatever map be the merits of Kossuth'a policy or
the vices of his privath life, his influence over his
countrymen is very great. The fact is attested by
his whole career. The power of Rienzi, the rise
of Cromwell, the elevation of Bonaparte, is not more
extraordinary than this village attorney becoming
the governor of feudal, aristocratic., and imperial
Hungary, and, in that character, deposing the
house of Hapsburg, and sustaining for some time
an unequal contest with Austria and Russia. De-
feated in the end by jealousy and treachery, the bulk
of the people remained true to him and his cause. No
other person in the late convulsions, nor even in the
first French Revolution, attained a like elevation or
possessed similar influence. The steps of Bona-
parte's throne were laid for him by the destruction of
all previous authority, and he only climbed up the
giddy height by years of military toil and numerous
victories. To find any resemblance to Kossuth in
the present day, we must go to the European or
Asiatic provinces of Turkey, where a fanatic Der-
vish or a manaic Mollah sometimes kindles enthusiasm
amongst the rude inhabitants, and makes the Sultan
tremble in Constantinople for his sovereignty. Though
removed from Hungary, the influence of Kossuth
over the minds of his countrymen depending on his
personal qualities, is not destroyed, if it be weakened,
if it be not even strengthened by his exile; and, com-
pared to that great fact, his policy and his private
character are trifling matters not worthy of much con-
sideration.

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What he may have done, or what he may have neg-
lected, is like the deeds and negligence of others ; it
is the man himself who is the marvel. His orations
have been compared to the Phillipics, but the elo-
quence of Demosthenes, directed to a few fellow-citi-
zens, continued for some time, and having for its
burden a single subject, was feeble in its conse-
quences compared to the eloquence of Kossuth. By
his tongue and his pen he has made himself the
wonder of the age. 'What we stated last week of his
facility in adapting his language and his sentiment to
his audiences is confirmed by his proceedings since.
On Monday he addressed a large body of the working
classes in Copenhagen-fields, and to say he was as fa-
miliar with their ideas and appealed as skilfully to their
hopes, their fears, and their prejudices as Mr. Feargus
O'Connor or the late Mr. Hunt, would be doing him
an injustice. He appealed much more skilfully; he
carried the crowd with him ; and his speech will be
admired when read by the most intelligent of the
working classes, while the most flashy and most popu-
lar orations of these leaders were read with ennui or
disgust by those who applauded the orator. Take,
for example, his remarks on commencing his address
on Monday :
" Gentlemen,—l most warmly thank you for your gene-
rous sentiments of active and operative sympathy with
the freedom and independence of my native land, so
closely connected—as you have rightly judged—with the
freedom and independence of other nations on the Euro-
pean Continent. It is to me highly gratifying to know
that a large party of the present meeting belongs to the
working classes. It is gratifying to me because, if to
belong to the working classes implies a man whose live-
lihood depends on his own honest and industrious labour,
then none amongst you has more right to call himself a
working man than I so to call myself. I inherited no-
thing from my dear father, and I have lived my whole
life by my own honest and industrious labour. This,
my condition, I consider to have been my first claim to
my people's confidence, because, well they know that
being in that condition I must intimately know the
wants, the sufferings, and the necessities of the people.
And so assuredly it w as. It is, therefore, that I so
practically devoted my life to procure and secure po-
litical and social freedom to my people, not to a race, not
to a class, but to the whole people. Besides, I devoted
all my life for many years by the practical means of as-
sociations to extend the benefit of public instruction to
the working classes, and to forward the material welfare
of the-agriculturists, of the manufacturers, and of the
trading men. Amongst all the enterprises to that effect,
at that time of my life, when I was yet in no public
office, but a private man, there is none to which I look
back with more satisfaction and pride than to the asso-
ciation for the encouragement of manufacturing industry
—to its free schools—to its exhibitions, to its press, and
to its affiliations. Besides conferring immense material
benefits, it proved also politically beneficial, by bringing
in closer contact and more friendly relations the diffe-
rent classes of my dear native land, by interesting the
working classes in the public political concerns of our
nation, and by so developing a strongly united public
opinion to support me in my chief aim, which was con-
serving the municipal and constitutional institutions of
my country—to substitute fur the privileges of single
classes the political emancipation of the whole people,
and substituting freedom to class privileges—to impart
to the people the faculty of making the constitution a
common benefit to all for all—in a word, to transform
the closed hall of class privileges into an open temple of
the people's liberty."
All that is precisely what the most intelligent of
our working classes are saying every day of their
lives. It is the same with his well expressed opinion
as to the homage to be paid to the multitude :
"I said at Southampton that in these demonstra-
tions of the operative classes I recognise that natural
instinct of the people, before which every individual
greatness must bow down with respect. The same ac-
knowledgment I have to make on this occasion, only on
a larger scale, and in a higer degree."
How flattering, too, ' is what follows, and not the
less flattering because many amongst ourselves think
attention to foreign affairs not very desirable in the
working classes. They, however, we know, entertain
a different opinion :
" Allow me, firstly, to congratulate you on the atten-
tion which you have hereby proved that you devote to
public matters, to the glory as well as to the interests of
your country, and to the freedom and interests of hu-
manity. May this public spirit never decrease, may
every Englishman for ever feel that it is the basis of all
constitutional organization, be it under a republican or a
monarchical form, that it is the public opinion of the
people which must give direction to the policy of the
country, and that it is therefore not only the right, but
also the duty of every honest citis'n to contribute to
the development and expression of that public opinion,
of which the legislative, as well as the authorities are,
and must be, faithful representatives. Allow me, se-
condly,
to congratulate you on the just and happy in-
stinct
with which, bestowing your attention on public
concerns, you have seized the very point which really is
the most important amongst all in which the mind and
the heart of Englishmen can be interested. That point is
the freedom of the European continent."
Having so cleverly appealed to opinions supposed
to be more elevated and disinterested than ordinary,
h
motives, see how skilfully he afterwards applied him-
self to what are described as more vulgar considera-

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NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, Nov. 11.—The supply
at market to-day comprised 712 head of cattle and 4,067
sheep and lambs, being 18 fewer cattle than last week
and 6 more than corresponding week last year, and 243
fewer sheep than last week, and 1,122 less than the same
period last year. Tho demand for cattle was improved,
and ail disposed of at full rates of currency. Sheep not
a brisk sale, and higher prices were obtained and all
sold. Beef 4s to 5s 6d; pork 4s 6d to 5s 9d per stone of
141bs. Sheep, sid to 6d per lb.
NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, Nov. 11.—There was
a small supply of wheat at to-day's market, and fine qua-
lities brought fully is per quarter more money than on
Saturday. Malting barley continued firm, and 21s was
freely obthined for good heavy tutalities. Flour the turn
dearer. Other articles unchanged.
EDINBURGH MEAL IIARKET, Nov 11.—There were in
the meal market to-day 6 sacks oatmeal, each weighing
2801b3. imperial, which sold thus :-4 at 1/ 10s od ;
and 2 at 119 s Od; average price of the whole 119 s Bcl 0-12ths.
I sack flour, which sold at 275. 4 sacks pot-barley, whereof
3 sold at 235.
EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, Nov. 11.—
Oat straw, from 8s Od to lOs Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ;
wheat ditto, 7s 6d to 9s Od; barley ditto, 5s 6d to 7s Od.
Hay, from 8d to 10d per stone.
DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, Nov. 10.—There were
112 bags of oatmeal and 5 of barleymeal at this day's
market ; sales dull. Oatmeal the same on the top, second
price 3d per boll down ; barleymeal also the same on the top ;
no pot-barley in market.
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third.
imperial
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ditto . ... 28s_ Od 26s 9d 253 6d
Barleymeal, p ... 20s Od
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18s 6cl —s Od
Peasetneal ... ...
... ••• Od —s Od —s Od
Flour
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tions :
" You live by honest labour. You have your manu-
factured products to dispose of, for which you want
large free markets and free trade. Now, it is as obvious
as that two and two make four, that without Europe
becoming free, England can have no free trade with
Europe. I will show you by facts that the amouat of
trade with absolutist Russia and Austria is 7d. per head,
whereas the amount of the trade of England with a free
country—with the Republic of the United States of Ame-
rica, is 73.2 per head. What a difference? Absolutism
gives to your trade and industry a market of 7d. per
head, freedom gives a market of 7s. per head. Is not
the freedom of Europe, then, a question of vital interest
to you? Let us look to consequences. Suppose the
price of the bread which one of you consumes be three
or four pounds; upon this price you have, by the repeal
of the corn-laws, probably not gained more than from fif-
teen shillings to a pound. Certainly a great benefit. But
suppose the 120 millions who inhabit Russia, Austria,
Italy, and Hungary, to become free, and being free, to
consume as much of your manufactures as the United
States (though in part highly manufacturing themselves)
consume per head, that would give a market of at least
60 millions sterling to England, which weak! prove a
benefit of two or three pounds a year per head to you."
These are only specimens. Every address: is full
of similar appeals founded on some great principle,
and in general at once popular, true, and good.
Since last week his address to the people of the
United States has been published, and a paper more
calculated to interest the Americans in his favour,
and make them support his cause, it is impossible to
write. We can only afford room for one specimen,
but it appeals most forcibly to the vanity of our
cousins. After giving a succinct history of the Hun-
garianof theslt,ar
Free
rHe Hungarians,
citizensnh oaprei ai nno sf
midnight
du
n. lgrii
hco
tas slgulf.
from
hoo
mms
yi
odwu:
struggle, dwelling on the exertions and virtues
history,a
er— drew
ou ra sefornofim.
confi-
dence and resolution in the doubtful days of severe trial.
Accept, in the name of my countrymen, this declaration
as a tribute of gratitude. And you, excellent people,
who were worthy to be chosen by the Almighty as an
example to show the world how to deserve freedom, how
to win it, and how to use it—you will allow that the
Hungarians, though weaker and less fortunate than you,
through the decaying influences of the old Europeanseoe-,
eiety, are not unworthy to be your imitators, and that
you would be pleased to see the stars of your glorious flag
emblazon the double cross of the Hungarian coat-of-
arms. When desp )tism hurled defiance at us, and began
the bloody war, your inspiring example upheaved the na-
tion as one man, and legions, with all the means of war,
appeared to rise from nothing, as the tender grass shoots
up after spring showers."
When he replied to the address of the Society of
Friends of Italy, on IVednesday, knowing that they
are generally composed of persons who demand in-
terference by arms in the cause of liberty, and iden-
tify Mazzini with that cause, he went further than
usual in advocating interference :
When I hear men speak of the moral force of pub-
lic opiaieD, I must frankly confess my belief tlaiit i; is

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very rarely that public opinion is previously restricted
and clearly confined within certain limits—when men
say that although such be our public opinion, we will not
avail ourselves of those media of action which circum-
stances may render necessary—then I believe that in
that condition of things it is very possible that public
opinion will not be of any weight. Public opinion, to
have an effect on the freedom of the world, must be ready
to say, Now we will go to war if our opinion ho mis-
led.' Such pronunciation would be a difficult thing to
obtain in England, where there are numerous classes
who would be terrified at the name of war; still, if you
merely declare that you sympathise with the cause of
freedom, but will never in any caso take up arms for it,
such public opinion merely gives a charter to despotism.
I will not say that there is not one or another party
which does not concur with him and his aims—l will not
say that the whole Italian nation is included in his in-
dividuality; but this I know, that a very large party—
the only party that has a future in Italy—is returned in
his person (NI. Mazzini)."
Such opinions were admirably well adapted to that
particular auditory.
it is not merely, then, that M. Kossuth writes and
speaks clearly a foreign language; that has been
done by many others. We have had within the year
to speak of Signor Mariotti's work on Italy, written
in English with remarkable elegance and power. Sub-
sequently we noticed the scientific work of Mr.
Adorno, a Mexican gentleman, not long resident in
England, written by him in English that a native
might envy. It is not an uncommon thing for Ger-
mans, after a residence in England, or some acquaint-
ance with our countrymen, to write English ex-
tremely well. Mr. Beckford wrote " Vathec in
French with all the ease and charm of a Parisian.
Goldoni, an Italian, after some- years' residence in
Pari., wrote a comedy in French which acquired
great celebrity, and long kept possession of the French
stage in company with the comedies of Moliere. To com-
pose Latin and Greek is common to school-boys and
professors at Oxford. Whatever there may be sur-
prising in any or all these achievements is equalled by
the knowledge possessed by Kossuth, the Hungarian,
of the English language, and bis facility of using it.
He never before was in England, he cannot have seen
and familiarly communicated with many Englishmen.
He has worked, as he says, for his own living. He
has been busily and continually engaged for many
years as a reporter, as an editor of a paper, as a
statesman, with the highest and most important
affairs, and his mastery over our language is itself
almost a miracle. But when to this we add an elo-
quence that, in speaking to Englishmen, is as influen-
tial as the orations of Brougham or the sermons of
Chalmers ; which affects the hearts and rouses the
passions of the multitude more, perhaps, than they
ever did ; which stirs the blood of Englishmen, and
kindles their political enthusiasm like the speeches of
Chatham ; Kossuth's power appears to us superior to
anything of the kind before heard of i❑ the history
of mankind. The man is a psychological pheno-
menon, such as has very rarely, if ever, before been
known amongst men.
Other foreigners have of late years crowded into
the country, some of them making as great or greater
pretensions than Kossuth, but not one of them has
ever very successfully addressed in English an Eng-
lish audience At the dinner which followed the
meeting on Monday M. Louis Blanc had to speak to
his health : he has now been three years amongst us,
associating with literary men, while he is devoted to
literature; he replied in French. Signor Mazzini
has appeared more than once in public ; he is highly
esteemed by many persons, but his orations are not
remembered. HerriKinkel has been here. M. Ledru
Rollin is still here : the former lectured on German
literature, but neither of them, nor any foreigner ex-
cept Kossuth, has spoken at any length in English,
much less acquired a reputation as an English orator
equal to that of our most renowned speakers. He
stands alone amongst crowds of political refugees in
the wonderful mastery he has obtained over a
foreign language, and in the wonderful
knowledge he has acquired of the sentiments
adapted to different classes and descriptions of men.
The only circumstance that we remember at all akin
to his power is the preaching of Peter the Hermit,
who must have addressed the different Christian
nations in their own tongue when he roused Saxon
and Norman, Frank and German, Lombard and
Dane, and kindling in all the various people of
Europe a wonderful religious enthusiasm, impelled
them on Asia, and induced millions of men willingly
to lay down their lives for their faith.
A question of some importance is, bow did Kossuth
acquire this power ? Is be himself conscious of pos-
sessing it ? The address to the people of the United
States, composed in the very beginning of 1850 or
the latter end of 1849, was written in Magyar, and
was translated in the United States. It is to be in-
ferred, therefore, that Kossuth at that period was not
sufficiently master of the English language to write in
it, much less to trust himself to speak in it. He
could not have acquired the power by art and industry
before that period, nor could he have had any know-
ledge of its existence within him till he reached our
shores. It was impossible that he should have had
from experience any consciousness of the influence he
was destined to exercise when he came hither. He
came as an exile, he has spoken, and he finds himself
at home.

KOSSUTH AND THE POLISH AND BUN-
GARIAN BALL.
Yesterday a meeting of the Polish and Hungarian
committee took place in the Guildhall, for the pur-
pose of completing the arrangements for the ball and
concert to be given for the benefit of the Polish and
Hung orlon refugees.
Mr. Deputy Holt in the chair. There were pre-
sent the following members of the committee :—Mr.
Singer, Mr. Deputy Britten, Mr. Bayless, Mr. Gold-
smith, Mr. Davidson, Mr. R. Read, Mr. Lister, Mr.
Fox-, Mr. Davis, Mr. E. Woodthorpe, Mr. Brooke,
Mr. Perkins, Mr. Eyke, Mr. Birkbeck, Mr. Young,
Mr. M•Donnell, Lieutenant S ulczewski, Mr.
Bishop, Mr. Rose, Mr. Vile, Mr. Septimus Read,
Mr. Sandford, M.P., and Mr. George Walter.
Some conversation took place amongst the mem-
bers on the subject of the following letter, which ap•
peared in the Times newspaper of that morning :
"KOSSUTH AND THE ITALIANS.
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

" Sir,—Can you or any of your readers inform me
whether there is any foundation for the following
story, which I find in to-day's Dover Telegraph. part
of the letter of that paper's London correspondent?—
" O❑ Tuesday a meeting of the Polish committee
was held, to arrange the programme of the grand ball
at the Guildhall. The bill of the ball was to be de-
cided upon, and the 'proof' showed an announce-
ment of the presence of Kossuth, the Great Hun-
garian Patriot.' Immediately there arose a Liberal
Member of Parliament, a fast friend of every people
in a state of insurrection against despotism. Pulling
from his pocket a portentous packet, the Hon. Mem-
ber moved that the word patriot should be erased.
Much clamour being raised, be read from the
Hungarian Diet a resolution, moved by Kossuth,
" That a contingent of 48,000 men be granted to
support the honour of the Austrian arms in Italy."
Certain Poles and Hungarians deplored the schism,
but admitted the fact. Lord Dudley Stuart had
heard of the proposed objection and stayed away.
Vehement oratory and gesticulation ensued, but the
M.P. repeating in substance the words that I used
last week—namely, that a man was not a patriot be-
cause, having manifested a willingness to be the in-
strument of tyranny, he had happened to become its
victim, persisted in his opposition, and the matter
was adjourned 'for future consideration.

If the enthusiasm for the man have become less
boisterous than at first, it seems to be spreading
wider. It is calmer but more earnest. Judgment
has come to the help of impulse, and hasty ignorant,
blind devotion has changed to intelligent and lasting
admiration. There are many signs of change in those
who were ready " to scoff," but are now content " to
pray." Three weeks'ago he knew nothing of Eng-
land, and he was unknown and unsupported. Now
he is familiar with many persons and things, and mil-
lions of men, not long ago strangers to his name, are
now ready to peril their lives for his cause. They
would do as much for Kossu.h as for their own Go-
vernment and country.
Such an extraordinary phenomenon cannot be
without its meaning. All the remarkable men
who have appeared in the world have been signs
of much more than themselves—of a diseased con-
dition of society, or the heralds of great coming
changes. Kossuth is obviosly one of what
Mr. Carlyle calls the Heroes of mankind, and
those who have for some time been looking out for a
man may find, perhaps, in him the person sought.
Asia is the land of prophets, the birth place of re-
ligious creeds. Every prevalent form of religion that
influences all the generations of men, Buddhism as well
as Christianity, Mahomedanism as well a Brahruinism,
had its origin in Asia. The influence of Asiatic
thoughts and Asiatic eloquence has for many ages
been conspicuous in human affairs. It would not,
therefore, be singular for the child of an Asiatic race,
endowed with an Asiatic mind, and the eloquence,
which is one of the attributes of Asia, to be the pro-
phet of a new political creed. Can it be that he is
intended to be the common voice and the centre of
union for that democracy of whose sentiments he
appears so apt an interpreter, now apparently ripe
for united action ? Hitherto it has not found a
leader, but has been generally deceived, betrayed,
and deserted by all the demagogues in whom it has
put its trust.
Whatever may be the real mission of such a man
—the sign of a great disease or a great improvement
—and whatever may be its results, the peculiar adap-
tation of his sentiments to others and his vast influ-
ence are facts which must not be overlooked. It is
of infinite importance also that his influence should be
rightly directed. We shall have lived and studied in-
deed in vain, and statesmen and public writers will
boast very erroneously of their knowledge and
wisdom, if they are unable to make such a phenome-
non
become
the instrumentthe
sourceeof
disorder, disturbance, and f good, and if they allow it to
con-
vulsion. What he has hitherto done seems unimpor-
tant in comparison to what, if he live, he may do.
That his influence should be guided lay wise councils
is now a matter of some consequence to the civilized
world, as well as to M. Kossuth. If, with a universal
diffusion of calicoes and cutlery, of tea and coffee,
there is also to be a universal diffusion of similar
moral qualities and similar political creeds—if the
union of mankind by trade is to 'be followed by
their union through similar political sentiments
and forms of government—if a closeimoral as well as
a material connexion be in the couise and order of
nature—and if M. Kossuth be an instrument for pro-
moting that end—it must be the duty of all men to
bring it about peacefully, and with is much respect
as possible for the prejudices and privileges, for the
dignities and rights of those whose superiority, the
offspring of a past, will be incompatible with the
future condition of society.
M. Kossuth's address has found ready acceptance
in the United States. The journals, which there are
an expression of the people's feelings and opinieos,
have praised it much. Both in America, teeming
with refugees from all parts of Europe, and here
amongst ourselves, and on the continent, the inter-
ference of the greatiemerican democracy in the political
affairs of Europe is spoken of and invoked. Over that
democracy AI. Kossuth is obviously destined to exer-
cise great power. We may imagine what his in-
fluence will be there from his address, and from
what it has been here. Over Europe, too, that
democracy, influenced by him, will, in its turn, ex-
ercise increasing influence. It has already had great
effect. No art caietonceal the magnificent growth of
the United States in power, nor disguise its cause
from the Buffering people of .Europa. The old etate-

" If one word of this be true, what shall we say to
the Italian exiles' who are addressing this excellent
patriot who voted 48,000 men to cut their throats ?
What shall we say of the man who accepts these
compliments ?
"Dover, Nov. 8. " QUERE."
As the meeting alluded to in the letter had been
called merely for the purpose of adopting resolutions
relating to matters of no public interest, and no inti-
mation whatever was given to our reporter whose duty
it is to attend to the proceedings of the Guildhall that
any movement with regard to Kossuth was in con-
templation, there appeared no account of what took
place upon the occasion.
The CHAIRMAN said the attack upon Kossuth, re-
ferral to in the letter, was a complete surprise upon
him and the other members of the committee who
were present on Tuesday week, and he considered that
he was bound to state that the gentleman who brought
forward the accusation, which was so suddenly and
unceremoniously made, was Mr. Chisholm Anstey,
the Member for Youghal. _ _

Mr. YOUNG thoughi it would be wise in the com-
mittee to discuss the necessary preparations for the
ball and concert, and not meddle with any political
disagreements arising from the conduct of any indi•
vidual whom they might expect as a guest. They
were justified in hoping that the presence of Kossuth
would be instrumental to a crowded and most profit-
able ball, and they were interested in his appearance
just so far as it would be likely to be advantageous to
the charity.
Several gentlemen were of opinion that it would be
advisable in such members of the committee as had
been present when Mr. Anstey introduced the subject
in which he reprobated the conduct of Kossuth to
draw up, from their recollection of what had oc-
curred, a note of the transaction which had given rise
t,) the comments made by the correspondent of the
Dover paper.
Mr. SINGER then drew up the following statement,
to the fairness of which the members who witnessed
the scene bore immediate testimony :7

"At a meeting of the committee, after some preli•
minary business, Mr. Chisholm Anstey sught per-
mission of the chairman (if it was the proper time) to
ask some questions which might affect his continuance
on the committee. This being granted, he said he
wished to ascertain whether it was the intention of
the committee to allow the name of Kossuth to appear
on the general bill of the Polish and Hungarian ball
committee in as prominent a manner as in those
already circulated, for although his name might be
of little consequence, yet to preserve his own con-
sktency of character, he could not allow it to be
associated in such a manner with one who
had himself shown such inconsistency. The fact
to which he alluded was, that ‘;Kossuth,had moved in
the Hungarian Diet that a corps be formed to cut the
throats of the Italian Independents.' A member of
the committee inquired whether Mr. Anstey had
made inquiry into the truth of the statement, to which
he replied that the circumstance was published in a
volume he held, and also in a paper he had with him.
The committee declining to entertain such an accusa-
tion upon the slight testimony produced, Mr. Ansley
left the room, and it was moved and resolved that Mr.
Anstey's name be erased from the committee. On
the above occasion no Hungarians or Poles' were
present, except only the secretary of the Polish As-
sociation, M. Szulczewski, who abstained from offer-
ing any remarks. Lord Dudley Stuart was not then
present, although be afterwards arrived, having been
detained from unavoidable circumstances from attend-
ing the commencement of the business of the commit-
tee on that day, nor had his Lordship the least inti-
mation of the subject being introduced by the Hon.
Member."

Mr. CARR, the secretary to the committee, referred
to the minute of the proceedings on the day Mr. An-
stey appeared to make his objection. In that minute
it was merely stated that Mr. Anstey addressed the
committee ou the subject of Kossuth ; no intimation
was given of the intended resumption of the subject.
The names of the members present were stated to- be
Mr. Deputy Holt, the chairman • Mr. Bayless, Mr.
Goldsmith, Mr. Singer, Mr. Deputy Britten, Mr.
Davidson, Mr. R. Read, Mr. Lister, Mr. Fox, Mr. E.
Woodthorpe, Mr. Juhn Bennet, Mr. Vile, Mr.
Thompson, Mr. Davis, Mr. Brooke, Mr. Perkins, Mr.
Eyke, Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. D. Nicoll, and Mr. Sand-
ford, M.P. _ _ _

Air. BROOKE said he recollected well having made
an observation expressive of his doubt of the con-
sistency of Mr. Anstey, in the vicissitudes of that
gentleman's Parliamentary career; and he also recol-
lected the motion for striking the Hon. Member's
name off the list, in which proposition there was per-
fect acquiescence.
Mr. SINGER. hero stated that he had written a
letter to Kossuth, representing the substance of the
communication in the Times newspaper with respect
to the grant of the contingent of 48,000 men for the
support of the Austrian arms in Italy, and requesting
to be informed whether that information was true. To
that letter he had received an answer, signed by
Kossuth's secretary, stating that Kossuth directed him
to write that he had never moved in the Hungarian
.Diet such a resolution as was so unjustly imputed
to him.

- The above is the substance of the correspondence
between Mr. Singer and Kossuth. We are prevented
!tom giving the words by the course pursiied by Mr.
tr:,;-oldsmith, one of the members of the Polish and
L'.ungarian Committee, who immediately availing
Li albeit' of his power as a member, possessed himself
of the documents, and sent them, as he said, to the
Gi, ibe newspaper, declaring most positively that they
should appear in the second edition of that journal.
oul. reporter made every possible effort to get copies,
t without effect. He, however, received the fol-
low:ng note from Mr. Goldsmith
Goldsmith is exceedingly annoyed to find on
hi 3 arri, -al at the office that the subeditor had left
at id locke(2 up the two letters which were intended
for this eve,ning's Glohe, Mr. G. directed a short
)Aragroph to be lu2erted,"

[PRICE SD.

merit, of a great abundance of land being the source Mr. M'DOa NELL said be regretted that he was not
of the wonderful prosperity, is put down alike by i present when the ilebter of Mr. Singer and the answer
the acknowledged fact, that labour produces all of KoEsst'a were, r4ad, as he considered that the
wealth, wins it from the sea and the deep caverns of publication of the contents might not be altogether
the earth, as well as from its fertile, illumined, and fair towards the' latter. It was probable that Kossuth
gladsome surface—and by the fact that in the slowly- might have been under the obligation, in thecl
improving or retrograding countries of Europe, land, situation which he held, not only to agree to official
, but ia
to
in relation to people, is more abundant than in the move, the resolution for the grant of the contingent in
inhabited portions of the States. To prevent the in- support of the Austrian arms. That would be doing
fluence of the American democracy over the popula- no more than was to be expected from "lungar y-
tion of Europe—to check the admiration of the when on friendly terms with Austria, and had furit;
principles of its Government, which has already led authority the general practice of nations towards each
to imitation in the most renowned nation of Europe, other ; and Kossuth might be altogether free from
and which is daily growing in strength and influence censure under the circumstances.
es its vast resources and rapid improvements become Mr. ROSE was also of opinion that a good deal of
known—is now impossible. Those Governments on caution ought to be used in publishing matter of such
the Continent, therefore, will be wise which recognise a nature. The committee might find that there were
these facts in time, and take measures, like the Presi- sources of intelligence as to the affairs of Austria and
dent of the French Republic, to make the multitude Hungary which were less questionable than they had
the supporters of order, by showing a deference to at their command. He thought, too, that an answer
their wishes, and admitting them to a share of politi- might be given upon a subject, the full knowledge of
cal power. which was not communicated in the statement of the
case;m and he
imputations.heedid notli
like to
He
expose
apprehendedlios
eut h to
thatin ju
the
injuries
and
Times possessed means of correct information, and be
cautioned the committee against leaving themselves
open to uneccessary charges.
The committee then proceeded to the consideration
of the ball and concert details, and received intelli-
gence of a most extensive sale of tickets.

DEATH OF 111A1THIAS AT7'WOOD, ESQ.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Mr. M. Attwood departed this life on Tuesday
morning, at his residence on Dulwich-bill, in the
72d year of his age. This lamented gentleman was
a Member of the House of Commons for 30 years,
having represented more than one borough; and for
several years he sat as the elected of Whitehaven, in
Cumberland, but retired from Parliamentary strife
and the active life of a politician so late as the last
general election. In politics, Mr. M. Attwood was a
staunch Conservative, and will long be remembered
for his able speeches on the currency question. Earl
Grey and Mr. Atwood were the only members to be
found to raise their voice in the Commons against that
iniquitous Act, the Bill of 1819. As a citizen, he may
be said to have left behind him lasting monuments of
the fertility of his brain, and his ready and great
adaptability to monetary and commercial affairs. So
varied were his capacities, it may be said that he was
fully equal to any task imposed upon him. He
founded the National Provincial Bank of Ireland, and
was at one period of his life chairman, we believe, of no
less than seven city companies. With the aid of a
few friends he permanently established the General
Steam Navigation Company, of which he was the
chairman, till he resigned that post to his son, Mr.
Wolverly Attwood, the ex-member for Greenwich.
By Mr. Attwood's death vacancies occur in the di-
rection of the Irish bank before mentioned, in the
Pelican and Phoenix Assurance Companies, and in the
Imperial and Continental Gas Association.
Mr. Attwood was in the court of the Merchant
Tailors' Company, had served his year of office as
governor, and at all times took a lively interest in
the charitabls affairs of the corporation.
The great feature on the life of him so recently
taken from us, was, however, the part he took in en-
deavouring to reform the basis of the circulation, and
to make the national currency more suited to the re-
quirements of the age. Though gone, his writings
and speeches are left for the guidance of present or
future reformers. In 1810, and again in 1811, Mr.
Attwood wrote short pamphlets against the return to
cash payments, and with a prophetic eye depict() I the
results that afterwards followed the law of 1819.
Mr. Cobbett had denounced the Suspension
Act, and was a staunch disciple of the bul-
lionist creed ; but when in 1811 he read from
the pe❑ of Mr. Attwood a full description of what
might be expected to follow in the wake of a return
to cash payments, he saw directly that he would be
a ruined man, for he had been investing his money
in farms, and the alteration of the currency, by
doubling the real value of money, and thus doubling
all debts and mortgages, was sure, in the end, to fall
with full force on his pecuniary resources. Notwith-
standing Mr. Attwood's warning, the House of Com-
mons, according to Mr. Mushet, went on, in real ig-
norance of the ancient standard, to re-enact the old
laws, and instead of inflicting, as we supposed, only
a depreciation of 5 per cent., it was afterwards ad-
mitted that the rise in the value of money and corre-
sponding decrease in value of property was full 50
per cent. Mr. Ricardo lived to confess his error ; but
there was one worthy person who took part with Mr.
Attwood to avert the ruinous consequences then
threatened, and that was the first Sir R. Peel. When
Mr. Peel was about to introduce his famous Bill of
1819, Mr. Attwood called a meeting of the
merchants, bankers, and traders of the City
to petition Parliament against the revolutionary
change. The evening previous to the gathering at the
North and South American Coffee-house, Sir R.
Peel called at Gracechurch- street, and sent his card
to Mr. Attwood ; the latter gentleman thought at the
time that he called to scold hitn for opposing his son,
but he was soon undeceived by Sir Robert telling
him that he had exerted all his influence over Mr.
Peel to induce him to abandon the Bill, but without
effect, and that he (Sir Robert) should attend the
meeting and throw in his interest against the then
embryo Act. Sir Robert Peel not only attended the
meeting, but presented the petition, which contained
the name of every London banker, with the exception
of one, and was most numerously and influentially
signed. Sir Robert Peel was alive to the stigma that
would attach to his family name, and though, as he
confessed, it would double his fortune, he did not
wish to prevent the rise of others by the same means
as employed by himself to found a house with an
honourable reputation.
Mr. M. Attw•ood was fully prepared for his latter
end, and as his life was free from moral stain, he
yielded his soul to his Maker in tranquillity, and de-
parted in peace, hoping and trusting to meet with a
reward in another world for his long and useful
labours in this.—Herald.

RAILWAY IN

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN,

The works at the Kilburn station on this line are
proceeding with activity. This new station is situated
on the north side of the main line between the Edg-
ware road and another road which crosses the line
some distance to the cast of the latter road. The
station has been roofed in, and is in a forward state.
Preparations are being made for constructing the new
siding to the station, and for this purpose the bridge
crossing the main line to the east of the station has
been extended by an additional arch so as to admit the
siding to pass under it to the station. The bridge
has also been widened to accommodate the additional
traffic which it is expected will pass over it on the
completion of the works. It is believed that the
station will be ready for traffic i❑ the early part of
next month, and that it will afford great accommo-
dation to the inhabitants of the district.