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

GENERAL KLAPKA AND LORD

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 commanded
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 tbo Austrian army in Lombardy. Avail-
ing themselves of this object, this committee have
lately issued a proclamation, addressed to those
Hungarians, end 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 affored to a refugee I cannot conceive."
Although I formerly disdained refuting certain mis-
representations made by M. von Manteuffel 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
HOIIIIPS of the British Parliament. Accordingly, I
declare—

1. For more than a twelvemonth I have not been

living in London, nor am I either one of the leaders, or
even a member, of any of the committees mentioned by
Lord Lyndhurst.
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 an advice calculated, under the present circum-
stances, to sacrifice and deliver those unfortunates to
ruin and still greater misery. I declare any procla-
mation of the kind, if there be any, as altogether
false, or trumped up, perhaps, by the agents of
the Austrian police. Lord Lyndhurst's remarks,
therefore, rest upon:mere 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 l 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 recap-
ion. I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
GEORGE KLAP KA.

Paris, April 4, 1851.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I respectfully beg your insertion of the follow-
ing explanation respecting an acrostic on the name of
PnELPs," which appeared in The Sun, of Monday,
March 31.
I am, myself, solely to blame for the wrong done to
Mr. E. L. Blanchard. On looking over the papers of
my son, after his decease, I found the lines in question
written in pencil, in my son's handwriting, and, as ho
was in the habit of writing such things, concluded, too
hastily, they were his composition. I, myself, covered
the pencil marks with pen and ink, and added my son's
name, which you will see by the original, enclosed, is in
a different hand from the rest.

Mr. E. L. Blanchard will, I trust, be satisfied with
this public apology, and I am sure all who know me
will believe I would not wilfully attempt such a misap-
propriation.

I am, Sir, your obedient Eervant,
FREDERICK WILTON,
Stage-manager, Britannia Saloon.
6, Wallbrook-place, East-road, Ifoxton, April 5, 1851.
[We are gratified to publish the above handsome
reparation of an evidently unintentional mistake : and
gladly should we recognize in all similar instances the
like gentlemanly good feeling.—En. Sun.]

THE FRIMLEY MURDERERS. The execution of
Harwood and Jones for the murder of the Rev. J. llollest
will take place at Horsemenger-late gaol, on Monday, the
21st inst. Smith, the approver, is also in Horsetnonger-
lane. A warrant has been received by Mr. Keene for his
detention until the next assizes. In consequence of the
statement of Mrs. Holiest that he was the man who fired at
her husband, the Government believe that Smith has de-
ceived them, and he is therefore to be indicted at the next
assizes for the burglary. Smith does not appear to like this
new state of affairs. He says it's a shame the bill has not
been acted up to, and that if he had " knowed" it he would
have kept quiet, and chanced it. Calcraft will be the ex-
ecutioner. It will take place at eight o'clock in the morning.

Dispatches were received on Saturday from the Go-
vernor of Gibraltar, at the Colonial-office.