The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-05 00:00:00

THE SIIN

has criticized his own conduct, while giving to the
world an epitome or synopsis of the memorable war
of independence. Addressing himself to a free people,
I the once-Liberator of the Hungarians avails himself
of the opportunity to explain the whole of the intricate
series of occurrences which led to the important
struggle between the Magyars and the Austrian Go-
vernment. His narrative of events commences, as
will be seen, with the earliest dawn of his hopes as
to the ulterior freedom of his compatriots, and closes
only with the treason which brought about their dis-
persal and his own melancholy expatriation. Laying
particular stress upon that grievous crime, KOSSUTH
thus alludes to the atrocious conduct of GOIIGEY
" The united Russo-Austrian forces," he says, " could
not have conquered my heroic countrymen, had they
not found a traitor to aid them in the man whom, be-
lieving in his honesty, and on account of his skill, I
, raised from obscurity. Enjoying my confidence, the
confidence of the nation and the army, I placed him
at the head of our forces, giving him the most glorious
part to perform ever granted to man. What an im-
mortality was within his reach, had be been honest !
But he betrayed his country. Cursed be his name
for ever. I will not open my bleeding wounds by
the sad remembrance of this event, and will merely
mention that the surrender of Villagos was the
crowning act of a long system of treachery secretly
practised—by not using the advantages which victo-
ries put in his hands—by not fulfilling my commands
under cunning pretences—by destroying national
feeling in the army—by weakening its confidence—
and by the destruction, through unnecessary expo-
sures and dangers of that portion of the army that
he could not corrupt, in his base designs to make
himself military dictator. GOD, in his inscrutable
wisdom, knows why the traitor was permitted to be
successful." Having recorded the reason of this terrible
discomfiture of the Hungarians, their illustrious
champion endeavours, with some energy, to draw an
encouraging picture of the future, a picture en-
couraging at once to the Magyars and to the Ame-
ricans, and through them to all the sympathizers
with Hungary throughout the length and breadth of
Christendom. Referring to the interest displayed
among the nations of the earth towards his beloved
country, he says that " the sympathy which she has
excited in both worlds, and the thundering curse
which the lips of millions have pronounced against
her destroyers, announce, like the roaring of the
wind before the storm, the coming retribution of
Heaven." Of the correctness of this predic-
tion no serious doubts can be entertained.
The enthusiasm of the reception given to
KOSSUTH by the people of England, and the
yet more ardent welcome which we doubt not will
be accorded to him by the citizens of the United
States, must inevitably force the same conviction
upon the quailing judgment of the Viennese Ad-
ministrators. Efforts no doubt will be made by
them to keep from the eyes of the subjugated races
the accounts furnished by the journals of the cor-
diality of the demonstrations made in the United King-
dom immediately upon the arrival in England of the
Governor of the Hungarians. Already, even, several
of the absolutist Governments on the continent have
endeavoured to superess these accounts, as may be
observed in the instance of Saxony, where various
newspapers have been seized for copying paragraphs
from our own columns and those cf our contempo-
raries. By a singular coincidence, however, while
these repressive efforts have been made in Germany,
details of the welcome given to KOSSUTH in England
have been published in the Nordische Biene, a
paper printed under the strictest Russian censorship
at St. Petersburgh. Whatever may be the endea-
vours made by the despots of Europe to keep their
subjects in ignorance of these occurrences, known
they must ultimately be, and the spread of that know-
ledge among the masses must inevitably lead in the
end to a new and irresistible outbreak of Demo-
cracy. Aided by the sympathies of England and the
United States, there can be no fear that the people
will not prove triumphant over every antagonist on
the occasion of that approaching revolution.

When will the Poor-law guardians learn a little
humanity ; or when will they enforce upon their su-
bordinates some respect, if not for human suffering
at least for human life ? It would almost appear as
if the chief qualification sought for in candidates for
the inferior offices was a rough and coarse brutality
that might discourage the less practised applicant, and
which, while it would prove utterly unavailing with
the sturdy paupers, might terrify some helpless widow
who had been deprived of her protector, or timid
female who had seen better days. However it
may be, it is certain that great discredit is but
too frequently cast upon persons who, in their
private capacities, would be utterly incapable of
sanctioning or conniving at the barbarity that
is perpetrated in their names. Magistrates re-
peatedly are compelled to censure the heartless
conduct brought under their cognizance, aye, and
persisted in until the authority of the office is re-
sorted to, and the malcontents are emphatically
cautioned of the possible consequences of an obstinate
and pertinacious disobedience. Then at leagth they
yield, and the directions are carried into execution,
albeit with a bad grace, by the crestfallen officials.
On Monday a case was brought under the notice of
Mr. HAMMILL, at,Worship-street Police-court, which
strongly illustrated the proceedings above alluded to.
A man was brought up charged with a violent and
aggravated assault upon his wife, and inflicting in-
juries that had placed the life of the unfortunate

woman in considerable danger. The miserable
creature came up from the Bethnal-green
Workhouse, accompanied by an aged pauper, who we
suppose might be considered as the accredited repre-
sentative of the parochial authorities. Although suf-
fering under fractured ribs and numerous severe con-

:usions all over her person, and manifestly enduring

great agony, she was taken from the infirmary of the
workhouse, and without any escort or assistance,

save of her ancient and decrepit companion, was
bundled into an omnibus to find her way, as she best
could, to render an account of her ill-treatment to
the worthy Magistrate. Well might the Learned
Gentleman express astonishment and dissatisfaction

at finding that the injured woman, whose attenuated
aspect and debilitated appearance sufficiently indi-
cated her deplorable condition, had been
subjected to the jolting of such a vehicle, and
that without proper care or attendance, an act

which might have cost her her life, had it not been
for the extraordinary kindness of a medical gentle-
man, Dr. CAMP, whose conduct was deserving
of the highest praise, and who, at his own expense,
removed her into a cab, and came with her to the
court.

But for the efficient aid thus casually obtained, and
which could not have been anticipated with any de-
gree of certainty, it is by no means improbable that
the sufferer might have fallen a victim to the gross
negligence, nay more, the positive cruelty, with which
she was treated ; that the crime with which the prisoner,
against whom herevidence was required, stood charged
might have grown into a capital felony, for which he
might possibly be liable to a painful and ignominious
death on the scaffold. If such untoward results had fol-

lowed, could those whose reckless indifference, combined
with paltry economy, had occasioned the deaths of

two of their fellow-creatures, be permitted to escape
with impunity ? The parties concerned, or whose
business it was to have been concerned, might have
found themselves in a very unpleasant predicament.
It might note
considered as a sufficient excuse to
tat,
say that the duly had
at
tb exalted functionary, with
been transferred to the gate-
keeper! and h
either a due appreciationthe
or a mistaken notion of
the estimation in which.s existence of an inmate of
by h
the workhouse was held superiors, had not
considered himself justified in e
"the shil-
ling" that would have been required the cab had
been obtained in the first instance, 0: in affordingpauper.
more efficient escort than that of the elderly
The worthy Magistrate felt that it waswomannecessary
to do something mcre for the unfortunate
than to send her back to the place where

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she had been so lamentably neglected. As soon
as her evidence had been completed, he ordered that

s should bh3 ate
a cab should be procured and that
once conveyed to St. Bartholomevi s Hospital,
3 to have
her injuries properly attended to. Sbe was at on
it ice ad-
mitted on his Worship's recommendation, and sto
be hoped that the very serious consequences which
might have occurred will be altogether averted,
through the humanity and benevolence of Dr. CAMP
and Mr. IttianiinL. We trust, however, that the
circumstances may not he forgotten ; but that those
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