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of his debarkation, and subsequently in the metre-
polis. Addresses of sympathy and congratulation
will be presented to him from various parts of the
United Kingdom. Immediately intelligence is received
of his approach to Southampton, a party of the most
influential among his admirers will hasten down for
the purpose of participating in his public reception by
the inhabitants. All these evidences of enthusiasm,
let it be remembered, moreover, are the spontaneous
fruits of that profound admiration with which the
ex-Governor of Hungary is regarded by our gene-
rous-hearted population. They are not the pur-
chased testimonies of supposititious emotion, but the
natural outpourings of the hearts of the people,
affected by the remembrance of so many glorious
tokens of patriotism on the part, of KOSSUTH and his
heroic followers throughout the whole of their memor-
able war of liberation. No doubt it is easy enough
to " get up" a show of ardour for almost any indi-
vidual who has money enough to buy the acclamations
of those among the crowd who are open to bribery.
Banquets may be given of this spurious character.
Eveu addresses may be; manufactured, purporting to
express the opinions entertained by the community at
large, wherever funds can be scraped together suffi-
cient to liquidate the debts incurred by this rather
expensive method of rising to some degree of noto-
riety. But when we see, as in the present instance,
an exile without wealth, without any of what is com-
monly called personal influence, and without
any agents to prepare the way for his arrival
in a distant country, which he has never
before visited, welcomed with so much fervour and
unanimity, we may be permitted to accept this enthu-
siasm as in every respect genuine and spontaneous.
Nevertheless, while these things are visible on the
very face of the present movement, there are some
amongst us so bigetted in their hatred to patriotism,
and so infatuated by their servile homage for tyranny,
that they even dare to revile these generous emotions
on the part of the population as a mere pretence of
magnanimity, contrived for the purpose of extolling a
depraved and outcast revolutionist. It is in this noble
spirit of truthfulness that the apologists of the Austrian
Government have been endeavouring to depreciate
Louis KOSSUTH in. the estimation of the English
people, and if possible to turn into ridicule those who
are preparing a welcome such:as becomes a great nation
when receiving a great man. Not satisfied with in-
dulging in the most villanous and barefaced misrepre-
sentations of the Hungarian Government under the
Dictatorship of KOSSUTH, they have striven earnestly
to render him repulsive in the eyes of the unthinking
millions by every description of injurious
calumny and dastardly vituperation. They have
sneered, in the first instance as contemptible, at
the administrator who suddenly, without the
aid of spoliation, and simply by means of an admi-
rable system of currency, coupled with an t qually
admirable scheme of fiscal regulations, filled the coffers
of his country to overflo wing ; and when the cause
of the Hungarian nation seemed desperate, when its
power seemed dispersed, and its sword broken, and
its hopes of independence annihilated, and its fairest
provinces overrun by the mercenarLs of Vienna, re-
vived the expectations of his beloved country-
men, collected, as if by magic, an army
of 180,000 fighting men, placed it under
the command of efficient generals, seized the
principal fortified places, provided them with an
abundant supply of provisions and ammunition, and
then, by the force of his very noble and animated
eloquence, imparted an impetus to that vast body of
well-armed and well-disciplined patriots, which car-
ried them by a succession of triumphs to the very
walls of the imperial city, and shook to its very
foundations the terrible despotism of the House of
RUDOLPH. This, forsooth, is the administration
against whose capacity the quidnuncs of autocracy
and the gobemouches of absolutism are directing
their petty gibes and insults ! This is the
insignificant personage whose
_weakness was yet
sufficient to overcome the strength of the Austrian
Government, and to place the KAISER in a position of
such extremity as to compel him to call like a craven
for aid upon the Emperor of all the RUSSIAS !
Failing altogether in their flagrant attempt to per-
suade the English multitude that KOSSUTH is by no
means a personage of any importance, these unprin-
cipled traducers have dared to adventure upon a
course of yet more remarkable temerity.
They have assailed the personal character of
the exile. They have declared KOSSUTH to
be guilty of very enormous crimes. They have
asserted that his career has been as conspicuous for
its dishonesty as fur its profligacy. And this, as
inquiries afterwards demonstrate, without any ade-
quate reason—on the contrary, with only the grossest
violation of truth, by a wilful distortion of facts, and
by an intentional neglect of all the commonest
dictates of courtesy, veracity, and decency. Among
the charges levelled against KOSSUTH by these his
calumniators, the cruelest and vilest of all is that of
having made away with the funds of certain orphans
over whose property he exercised the powers of trustee.
Having summed up the whole ofthis atrocious calumny,
the enemies of KOSSUTH in England have declared, in
so many words, that " this immaculate patriot was
guilty of malversation." Happily, while there can be
found amongst us men capable of uttering these vil-
lanous aspersions, there are also present, in the
United Kingdom, men capable of affording distinct
disproof of their accuracy. It is in this manner that
the Count LADISLAUS VAT, of the Comitat of
Zemplin, has this day, through the columns of one
of our morning contemporaries, explicitly declared as
follows:—"I belong to the same country as M.
Kossuxu, and without entering into the de-
tails of this calumnious accusation, declare
that he was notoriously acquitted cf a gossip-
ing charge abandoned by those who made it, and
which, as an Hungarian, I indignantly rebut. The
facts are briefly these :—M. KOSSUTH, appointed at a
very, early age the trustee of an orphans' charity,
although then as much addicted to the turf as to the
bar, was seen on one occasion to play higher and
more unfortunately than usual. It was reported (at
Austrian instigation) that he had gambled with the
trust funds, an investigation was called for, but on
preliminary inquiry the fund was found intact, to
the confusion of his accusers." So much for this
infamous revival of a base and baseless calumny.
By the way, Lord DUDLEY STUART ought to feel
exceedingly complimented by the allusions made by
another assailant of KOSSUTH and his sympathisers
to the " pothouse popularity" preparing for the ex -
Governor of Hungary. The phrase is worthy of
the occasion, and redolent of that delicacy which has
been displayed throughout by the recreant
apologists of Absolutism. Finding themselves
worsted and powerless in regard to the
opinions entertained by the multitude, they
indulge themselves in the choicest display of the
lowest and most vulgar Billingsgate. Can this, we
ask, have any beneficial effect upon. the community ?
We think so. It will tend to infuse an additional
ardour into the welcome awarded to KOSSUTH, in-
creasing in his regard to a very remarkable extent the
warmth of the popular enthusiasm.

The meeting of the " Defence Association" is in
all human probability now taking place, not at the
Rotunda, but in the Lecture-room of the Mechanics'
Institute, Abbey-street, which has, doubtless for
sufficient reasons, been selected for the occasion.
Even while we are writing, some indignant orator,
lay or clerical, is pouring out floods of fervid and
impassioned eloquence, detailing the "horrible perse-
cution" to which his religion is subjected, because the
Protestant people of the United Kingdom are
not disposed to submit to the arrogant preten-
tious of a foreign ecclesiastic, or to recognise
his assumed authority to confer territorial titles
and local rank, not only without the assent but in
direct opposition to the wishes of the existing Go-
vernment. Those whose minds are so constituted as
to be enabled to afford implicit credence to a tithe of
what has been or will be this day put forward, will
depart to their respective domiciles with a thorough
conviction that no parallel instance of religious in-
tolerance could be adduced—that the persecution of
the early Christians, and their destruction by wild
beasts in the amphitheatres at Rome, were as nothing
compared to the more recent example of bigotry,
" the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill," which received the
all but unanimous sanction of the Imperial Le-
gislature and of the people of Great:Britain.
They will also give a very Irish interpretation to
the term " defence." One of their ablest advocates
(the Freeman's Journal), with a perfect knowledge

of what is to be brought forward, declares that the
association cannot confine its action to the special act
of persecution (! ! !) that called it into existence."
No, they are to rip up every question that can by any
possibility enter into the fertile imaginations of the
Ultramontanists, and struggle, not for equality—for
that to all intents and purposes they have at this
moment—but supremacy, clear, distinct, and une-
quivocal supremacy. The " defence" will, in fact,
be converted into an aggression of a very formidable
character, which cannot be suffered to prevail.
We deeply regret this determination, which will
give rise to religious animosities and civil dissension
of the most aggravated description. It will be exceed-
ingly unpleasant, es well as injurious, to the Protestant
population to enter upon the contest, but it will be
far more so to their opponents, who compel them to
enter upon their own defence. We have no wish to
see the re•enactment of penal or restrictive laws
against opinions of any description. Every man
should be free to worship his CREATOR in the manner
which in his soul and conscience he deems most
fitting. This, however, must be taken with a cer-
tain limitation. The maxim that each man is bound
" so to use his own freedom as not to injure ano-
ther's," applies to religion as well as to property,
and if a man cherishes notions contrary to public
policy, they cannot be permitted to be carried into
operation. A Thug may think it highly meritorious
to sacrifice a victim to the goddess of his idolatry. So
long as he is contented with the mere abstract opinion,
although it way be exceedingly repulsive to our own
peculiar views, there may be no necessity for interfe-
rence, but should he attempt to carry it into practical
operation, should he strangle, or try to strangle one
of his fellow-subjects, it could not be reeeived as
an admissible argument that it was done in
pursuance of his "religious convictions." A
" conviction" of a very different description would
attest the sense in which an English judge and jury
regarded a plea so preposterous. Although we do
not wish to make any invidious comparisons, or to
say a single word injurious to the feelings
of those whom we long supported while
they were really aggrieved, although we
would not speak of the doctrines of
Thuggee" and " Roman Catholicism" as by
any means analogous, we have brought forward
the above example to show the extent to which the
argument might be pushed, if once admitted. In all
good feeling, therefore, we warn our Irish and
English brethren—those who may be misled by the
title of a " defence" association—of the dangerous
character of the undertaking on which they are enter-
ing, and earnestly entreat them not to force on a
conflict the result of which must be fatal to their own
interests.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
COUNCIL MEDALS.

The subjoined protest was drawn up, signed, and
sent to the Royal Commissioners of the Exhibition by
six out of the ten members forming the Musical Jury
(Class 10 A), on learning that their award in favour of
Messrs. Broadwood had been annulled by the Council of
Chairmen:—

"To his Royal Highness th© Prince Albert, K.G.,
&c. eec. &e., President ; and to the Royal Commis-
sioners of the Great Exhibition of the Works of In-
dustry of All Nations, 1851.
" May it please your Royal Highness, my Lords, and
Gent lomen,
" The Jury, Class 10 A, consisting of the following
members :—Sir H. R. Bishop (chairman and reporter),
Sir George Smart, M. Thalberg, Mr. Cipriani Potter,
Mons. Berlioz, Le Chevalier Neukomm, Dr. Schaf-
hsfitl, Mr. W. Sterndale Bennett, Dr. Black, Dr.
Henry Wylde ; of whom all were present except
Dr. Black and Dr. Wylde, decided unanimously to
award the great medal to th© house of
Broadwood for its successful improvements in
pianofortes and pianoforte making. Dr. Black sub-
sequently declared in the jury-room his agreement
with the award of his colleagues. This decision of the
jury was confirmed in the meeting of the group. The
Council of Chairmen, however (as it has been generally
reported), rejected the award thus doubly confirmed,
and in seeking for the grounds of this rejection the
jurors of Class 10 A, who transmit these papers, are
compelled to state it as their opinion that undue weight
must have been attributed to misstatements made at
the meeting of the group, in the presence of many of
the chairmen, affecting Messrs. Broadwood's claim as
improvers of the pianoforte. The misstatements were,
upon remonstrance, withdrawn; but it is a lamentable
fact that the injurious effect of such statements, posi-
tively put forth, can seldom be completely effaced by
a retractation. Should such a decision of the Council of
Chairmen respecting Messrs. Broadwood be reported
to the Royal Commissioners, the jurors who transmit
this memorial beg most respectfully to be allowed
to point oat to his Royal Highness and the Royal
Commissioners that, in this case, a decision which
was arrived at after due deliberation by the Jury,
Class 10 A, specially qualified and selected in
consequence of technical knowledge of the ob-
jects to be submitted to its judgment, and which re-
ceived subsequent confirmation from the group of asso-
ciated juries, has been set aside by a body of gentlemen,
who, distinguished as they are for their general attain-
ments, may have no special and technical knowledge of
pianofortes and pianoforte making, nor have they in
their capacity of chairmen (except the chairman of Class
10 A, whose opinion and statements ought to have had
due weight), oven inspected or been called upon to be-
come acquainted with the instruments upon which the
award which they rejected was made. In spite of this
fact, the responsibility of the award will still probably,
in the eyes of the public, rest with the primary jury,
and the memorialising jurors, feeling that their profes-
sional and scientific reputation would be compromised
by a decision so contrary, in their opinion, to the merits
of the case, and which will, they are sure, astonish the
whole European musical world, earnestly entreat his
Royal Highness and the Royal Commissioners to take
the case into their consideration, and to apply to
it such remedy as may seem best fitted in their
judgment. With this statement is transmitted an ex-
tract from an official document, setting forth the special
mechanical improvements on which Messrs. Broadwood's
claims are founded. And the memorialising jurors con-
clude by expressing their conviction that the house of
Messrs. Broadwood has eminently fulfilled every single
condition contained in the' instructions to the juries,'
combining in their instruments ' novelty of invention
(of considerable importance and usefulness), perfection
of workmanship, beauty of_design, and superior quality
of tone.'

(Signed by)
" HENRY R. BISHOP, lint. (Chairman), the Pro-
fessor of Music in the University of Oxford.
" Dr. SCHAFHAUTL, Commissioner from Bavaria and
Juror, Member of tho Royal Academie,
and Professor and Head Librarian in the
University of Munich.
" Le Chevalier SIGISMOND NEUKOMM.
" WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT, Professor in the

Royal Academy of Music and Queen's
College, London.
" CIPRIANI POTTER, PrilloipaliOf tho Royal Academy
of Music.
" GEORGE T. S3IART, Knt., Organist and Composer
to her Majesty's Chapel Royal."

We understand the spacious auction rooms and
premises of Messrs. Robins, in Covent-garden, are prepared
for the reception of the various property of exhibitors at the
Crystal Palace, and that arrangements aro being made for
an extensive sale by auction, which cannot fail to prove in-
teresting to the public.
SOMERSETSHIRE CENTRAL RAILWAY.—A canvass
has been commenced by the promoters among the landowners
for the construction of this line to Glastonbury, with a har-
bour at Highbridge, to connect with the Bristol and Exeter
Railway.

EGYPTIAN RAILWAY.—About 10,000 tons of rails
have been contracted for to construct the proposed railway
between Alexandria and Cairo, at a coat of only U. per ton.
In former days the price per ton was between 101. and 121.
OrriclAL DISPATCHES.—The officers of the Cus-
toms at one of the outports having improperly opened, for
the purpose of examination, a packet addressed to a foreign
minister, purporting to contain dispatches brought to this
country from the continent, which they suspected contained
articles liable to duty, the Commissioners have notified to the
principal officers at the several ports throughout the king-
dom, that all packages addressed to foreign ministers in
charge of a messenger arriving at any of the outports, and
which he may claim as containing dispatches, be immedi-
ately delivered to him freee of examination ; but that if the
officers should have any reason to suspect that such packages
so delivered do not consist of dispatches, but customable or
prohibited articles, they are without delay to make a special
representation to the Board, stating the particulars and the
grounds of their suspicion, and the Commissionors have en-
joined the officers to a due and strict attention to this regu-
lation in all future cases of this nature.

Mr. Kindersley, Master in Chancery, and Mr.
James Parker, Q.C., will be the new Vice-Chancellors.
There never has been any intention of conferring a peerage
on Sir J. K. Bruce.

A further failure in the north was announced yes-
terday, the house being that of Messrs. Robert Anderson
and Sons, of Leith. They were connected with the Baltic
trade, and had a large business and good credit. The event
is understood to have been caused by the recent stoppage of
Messrs. Boyd and other Glasgow firms.

DANGEROUS ILLNESS OF LADY BUCKINGHAM-
SHIRE.—Lady Buckinghamshire is most dangerously ill. An
express arrived at Nocton yesterday, summoning the Earl
and Countess of Ripon to her Ladyship's residence. The
Noble Earl and Countess immedia:ely left Nocton, post
haste, for that purpose.—Lincoln Times.

DEATH OF LADY GRICELDA TFICELL.--1118 lady
died on the 13th instant, at Bagahot, aged 73. Her Lady-
ship was daughter of Charles, third Earl of Stanhope, by the
Lady Hester Pitt, eldest daughter of William, first Earl of
Chatham. In 1800 she married John Tekell, Esq. Her
Ladyship was, therefore, last surviving daughter of the ce-
lebrated Earl.

DUCHESS OF MANCHESTER. -Her Grace the
Duchess of Manchester was safely delivered of a daughter
on Tuesday, the 14th instant. Her Grace, who is quite
young, is the Noble Duke's second wife. His first Ductless,
who died in 1e46, Was daughter and heiress of General
Sparrow.