The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-27 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM.

A meeting of the Hungarian committee was held
on Saturday night ; it was announced that the signa-
tures of a very large number of persons had been ob-
tained to the invitation to be given to Kossuth to pay
a visit to this town. The list of signatures embraces
persons of all ranks, and (excepting the ultra-Tories)
without any distinction of party or sect. It is un-
derstood that the illustrious Magyar has intimated his
willingness to visit Birmingham if it was the general
wish that be should do so, and that he will be enthu-
siastically received in the most democratic town in
England there cannot be a doubt. A gentleman,
who has taken a deep interest in the Hungarian
cause, will be dispatched to Winchester for the pur-
' pose of carrying the invitation to Kossuth himself.

The following is the reply which Kossuth has sent
to the chairman of the meeting at Glasgow who voted
the great Magyar an address, and which address was
presented to Kossuth by the Mayor of Southampton.
The address has already appeared in our columns :
" Winchester, Oct. 25.

" Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge with many
thanks the receipt of an address lately adopted by a
public meeting of the citizens of Glasgow, of which you
were chairman. I beg you to accept personally, and to
convey to your fellow-citizens, the expression of my
warm appreciation both of the personal kindness you
express and of the distinguished public spirit which cha-
racterises your address. It is with peculiar satisfaction
that I notice the stress more than once emphatically laid
by you upon the martyrdom which liberty has suffered
through the incursion of the hordes of Russia into
a land which has succeeded through many ages
in maintaining her free institutions against those
who have attacked them. It is too true, indeed,
that it is to the interference of Russia that Hun-
gary owes the condition in which she now finds
herself; but I hail your allusion to the `Voice in
the west,' as an earnest that no intervention of
any foreign power, so unjustifiable and dangerous to
the dearest interests of all free states, will on any future
occasion be permitted by your nation—a nation so deeply
interested in the maintenance of free institutions. You
allude to my own efforts in the past, and to the future,
which lies before my country. In what I have done, I
have striven to fulfil the duties which devolved upon me,
so far as my powers enabled me to do. For the future,
I look to it with hope, with a sure confidence. My
countrymen have learned the value of the institutions
which they have inherited through centuries, and which
have been extended within late years to every class and
race within the bounds of Hungary. The institutions
which all have thus learned to value, and the whole body
of my countrymen is ready to re-assert, and the time
will not be long, I trust, before the hour for that re-as-
sertion shall come.

" I have the honour to be, Sir, with every sentimen
of consideration, your obedient servant,
" L. KossuTH."

The following is the reply which Kossuth has sent
to the chairman of the meeting at Stafford which
voted an address to the Hungarian leader, and which
address was presented to Kossuth by the Mayor of
Southampton. This address has also appeared in our
columns :

" Winchester, Oct, 25.

" Sir,—l take the earliest opportunity of acknow-
ledging, through you, the address which the inhabitants
of the town and neighbourhood of Stafford have done
me the honour of presenting to me, adopted at a public
meeting held in that town on the Bth September, and
signed by yourself as chairman. It i 3 with feeling of (I
hope) a generous pride that I acknowledge the truth of
the testimony you bear to the achievements of my coun-
trymen in the late struggle—a struggle in which we
were successful until the intervention of one of the great
powers of Europe took place in a manner alike unex-
pected by us, and dangerous as a precedent to all those
nations which cherish free institutions, and are prepared
to rely on their own efforts to maintain them. I feel
also that it is a trust which it is of the highest import-
ance should be recognised, that in succumbing as our
country has done to the intervention of Russia, we have
fallen ' martyrs to the cause of Europe.' No free nation
can do otherwise than have it forced upon its
attention by the events that have now become a
part of history, that if the institutions which it
enjoys are to be maintained against danger of
attack, it must actively pronounce itself against
the recurrence of such interventions as that to which
Hungary has fallen for the time a victim. We strug-
gled for no vague ideas, we were unwillingly forced to
Lake up arms to defend for ourselves and for our children,
against aggression and annihilation, those institutions
and those liberties which our fathers have inherited and
maintained and handed over to us through many cen-
turies, and the advantages of which we had already suc-
ceeded in extending in a peaceful and legal manner to
the whole body of our countrymen, a circumstance which,
33 it has already attached all classes in Hungary to the
cause for which we struggled, fills me with hope that
those to whom such institutions have thus becomo
justly endeared, will yet hail the day of their country's
restoration to freedom and independence.
"I have the honour to be, Sir, with every sentiment
of consideration, your obedient servant,
"L. KOSSUTH."

A cheap excursion train is to start from Norman-
ton, in Yorkshire, to-morrow, and to proceed all the
way to Southampton, picking up passengers at the
various stations, to join in the demonstration in
favour of Kossuth when he attends the Southampton
banquet.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, OCT. 25.

The Royal dinner circle at the Castle yesterday
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
M. and Madame Van de Weyer, the Count and
Countess Lavradio, Lord and Lady John Russell, the
Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baro-
ness de Speth, and Sir George Couper.
The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner.
The Queen's private band afterwards attended and
played the following pieces :
Overture, " Pastorale".. Kallewoda.
Fanta4a, Mr. Richardson
Aria Anna, "Die lustigen Welber von
Windsor
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Home
Park and the Slopes this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out on
horseback this forenoon, attended by Colonel F. H
Seymour.
Monsieur and Madame Van de Weyer, the Count
and Countess Lavradio, and Lord and Lady John
Russell left the Castle to-day.
His Royal Highness Prince Frederick of the
Netherlands arrived to day at the Castle, and partook
of luncheon with the Queen. The Prince took leave
of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
his Royal Highness embarking in the Batavia steamer
to-morrow (Sunday) for Rotterdam.
The following had the honour of dining with the
Queen this evening :—the Right Hon. Henry La-
buuchere, the Rev. the Provost of Eton, and the Rev.
Mr. Birch.

The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
attended during dinner, and performed the following
selection :
Overture
Selection, "Marie Stuart"
Waltz

Selection

Galop
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in
the Castle, and played the following selection :
Overture, "Le Cheval de Bronze" Auber.
Terzetto, " Fidelio" ... ...
Selection, " Freischutz" ... . . .
Ch war, " L'Enfant Prodigue"
Finale, Ist Act, "II Don Giovanni"
SUNDAY, OCT. 26.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert walked in the Slopes this morning.
The Royal children walked in the Home Park.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales,
the Princess Royal, the ladies and gentlemen of the
Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine
service this morning in the private chapel of the
Castle.

The Duchess of Kent also attended the service.
The lion. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated.

Mr. John Lefevre had an interview with the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. The Right
Hon. T. Kennedy had also an interview with the
Right lion. Baronet on Saturday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Lord John Russell returned on Saturday to Pem-
broke-lodge, Richmond-park, from Windsor Castle.

THE NEW CHANCERY ARRANGEMENTS.--TO the
astonishment of ail the lawyers,. it is stated that Lord
acting upon lvs construction of the 11th section of the new
Act, proposes to hear the
'appeals from Lord Cranworth'a
and Vice-Chancellor Bruce s courts himself alone, and has
arranged that the two assessors, or Lords Justices—namely
Lord Cranworth and Vice-Chancellor K.
Bruce—shall sit,
like the two kings of Brentford, in the court lately occupied
by the Vice-Chancellor of England, to dispose of the appeals
from Lord Langdale, and (if any) the late Vice-Chancellor
will sit in the
of England. We are als ) told that during the audience of
these doable lists of appeals (by which Lord Truro proposes
to divide his labours, instead of availing himself of the Act
fur helping him
said that the
uPon Mr.
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etires after u
is about to resi4L Ll ' • "nn-hall It is
to two assessors),
.Vice Chancellor Parker
eof tlr. Right refreshment-room. at Lincoln's-inn-hall. n.s-i .
James
choice of the new Mastership will either fall
or Mr. Walker. —Herald.
C. HANGES.—We hear that Mr. Hawes
the Colonies, urionhil office of Under-Secretary of State for
1 twa
hr yo
ra W. ar, glace
is succeeded • upwards f 6
Peel. appointment to that of Deputy Secre-
rdat Hon Lawrence Sullivan,
eded is the e_, °. 40 years' 'service. Mr. Hawes
v•onial Department by Mr. Frederick