The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-07 00:00:00

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On one point I want to answer what I think a fallacy,
thrown in the way of the -working elasses. An Hon.
Member who is a great advocate for applying money to
the reduction of the national debt, advanced, in perfect
sincerity and conviction there can be no doubt, that the
working classes were not interested in the taxes being
paid by the rich instead of by themselves, because what
was taken from the rich was so much taken front what
they could expend upon the working classes. Now in
this I oeserve the mistake, of not perceiving that
though not expended on the working classes by the rich
from whom it is taken, it is expended on them by the
Government that takes it. Put the else for instance
which the West Riding ought perfectly to understand,
that 0,0001. is taken from the rich, and expended on
soldiers' clothing. Is there any consequence in the ag-
gregate, but that tenter-hooks at Leeds and Halifax
blush scarlet, instead of displaying the cooler variety of
sad colours? And when Hon. Gentlemen tax the
country to the amount of what would fit out thirty sail
of the line, to spend upon a baby-house which has not
room for the members of the House of Commons when
it is done, is there any doubt of the money being spent
upon the working cleeses, though not in the same places
as if it had been lett with the owners.? In confirma-
tion of which, you shall sometimes hear men advo-
cating taxation on the ground that it raises money to
be spent upon the working classes. The evil then is not
litre at all, but in the fact that the taxed get nothing
for their money, which they would have done if allowed
to speed it their own way. I therefore beg the working
classes not to ask to pay the testes themselves, upon the
strength of this argument.
The Resolution for raising the Supply, passed without
a division; though the Protectionists threaten that on
black Monday they will do what they will do, on bring-
ing up the Report. I think their chance is over. There
wants nothing but sticking to them in the House of
COllllllOll5 till next General Election,—doing in short
everything which has not been done hitherto,—to make
it perfectly safe to trust to the decision of the country on
the wretched fallacy of what they call Protection to
British Industry, by which they moan robbing Bradtord
to give the amount to themselves, and robbing the com-
munity for love besides. _ _ .

In conclusion, I will beseech you to remember, that the
condition of this life is, that those who will not keep a
thing when they have got it, shall have it taken from
them. For the Hike of those poor souls who are marked
to perish if in spite of warning, in spite of entreaty, the
citadel of Free Trade is given up by a determined, reso
lute, cold-blooded opening of the doors to the enemy and
forcing him to come in, I would implore of you to bestir
yourselves in time if there is anything in j our
power to do, and not leave the cause we have
toiled for, the cause we have won, the cause in NV hich
you and yours are as deeply concerned as human history
can show, the cause by which all other reforms are hang-
ing., to be sacrificed to any man's visions of better things
that are to come for any body, by throwing the whole
again into the lottery of war.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, 7th April, 1851.

GENERAL KLAPKA AND LORD

;c on the Consolidated Fund, at the Quartet

LYNDHURST.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—ln Lord Lyndhurst's speech, delivered in the
House of Lords on the 27th of March, there is a passage
running as follows:
" But this is not all. I have a case still more striking
to bring under the consideration and attention of Go-
vernment. There is another central committee in this
city—where the branches meet I know not—who style
themselves the Central Committee of Hungarian Re-
fugees. One of the leading members of this committee
is a person named Klapka, an officer who served in the
insurrectionary war in Hungary, and who commended
the fortress of Comorn at the close of that war. Your
Lordships are aware that a large body of Hungarians
were driven from Austria into Italy, and were incorpo-
rated into the Austrian army in Lombardy. Avail-
ing themselves of this object, this committee have
• lately issued a proclamation, addressed to those
Hungarians, and couched in language of a most
inflammatory character, and containing topics also
of a most inflammatory and exciting description, calling
upon them to desert their ranks, pointing out to them
how they could do this most effectually and most de-
structively to Austria, instructing them how to act in
the event of a war, what signals would be made, and
what co-operation they would 'receive. This proclama-
tion is signed by the individual to whom I have referred,
General Klapka; and a more flagrant violation of the
protection afforded to a refugee I cannot conceive."
Although I formerly disdai❑ed refuting certain mic-
representations made by M. von Manteuifel in one of
the Prussian Chambers, who was pleased to transpose
me to Schleswig-Holstein, yet I feel obliged emphati-
cally to contradict any untruth uttered in either of the
!Looses of the British Parliament. Accordingly, I
declare—

1. For more then a twelvemonth I have not been
tchoecar
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Lord.l 'vveinngalnasn
Lyndhurst.
2. fna °pry ao
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2. I never addressed a proclamation to the-Hungarian
soldiers in Italy calling upon them to desert their ranks.
Nobody who knows my character will think me cap-
able of au advice calculated, under the present circum-
stances, to sacrifice and deliver those unfortunates to
ruin and still greater mizery. I declare any procla-
mation of the kind, if there be any, as altogether
fake, or trumped up, perhaps, by the agents of
the Austrian police. Lord Lyndhurst's remarks,
therefore, rest upon:snore fictions, and it is only a wonder
that the Noble Lord should have forgotten his mission
and high situation, which ought to have preserved him
from becoming a tool for the intrigues of the Austrian
police. I leave to the English people to appreciate his
Lordship's disavowal of their own history and principles,
which some centuries ago laid the foundation of their
present greatness and glory. So much for the refuta-
tion of unprovoked calumny ! So far from being over-
awed by such and similar proceedings, and the despi-
cable snares of the Russo-Austrian police, I shall
never cease doing what I hold suitable to the interest
and deliverance of my oppressed and unhappy father-
land, as far as I can do so without violating the laws
of that country where I met with an hospitable recep-
tion. I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Paris, April 4, 1851. GEORGE KLA.P KA.

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