The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-04 00:00:00

Deak and Kossuth.

PESTII, May 29.
Herr Doak has issued thn following reply to the
lengthy lett .1- of Kossuth, attacking his policy a►nd
the concession; mile by Hungary to the Austrian
Government, recently published by the Hungarian

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oh sar
I ITTrsh:e—editor of Pesti Noplo and Francis Pulszky
ask, intelligibly enough, whether I intend answer-
ing the public letter of Louis Kossuth, .addressed to
me and also co:nmnoiel,ted to the newspapers, and
expressing my o:,inion in detail as to its contents.
To tliis question I reply, simply awl with p;:r-
cinnote.sitiiiotenudbotoondao
friendlythis. fect
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thect, thatletter
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pri-
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hitherto course
pursued, both esteem and the memory of our for-
mert
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therefore only consider this letter as a
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newspaper article, with which Kossuth steps be-
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unfounded.
"But nevtucnaunodE
.mstindeedetr ad,sdege transmitteds:
rteshepr throw
career into the scale of my condemnation.
"I do not consider it necessary to defend my-
self and my policy against this accusation. M y
political career lies open to the world. My
principles, my views, and every one of my proposi-
tions are known to the public, for I have explained
them sincerely and without reserve where it was
my right and my duty to speak in my quality as
representative. I have defended the rightfully
existing laws against the one-sided proceedings of
absolute power, and when we had to discuss whether
it was necessary—in the interest of our country—
to alter any point of the existing laws in the regular
course of legislatien, and, should such be essential,
to consider what modifications would be most
fitting, then, also, I stated my conviction, and ad-
duced the reasons on which it was based. I have
also explained my individual opinion that in our
position I consider peaceful agreement more bene-
ficial than a policy which, while condemning us to
further waiting and sufferings with unsafe promises,
would make our future fate dependent solely upon
accidental circumstances, possibly upon revolution
and the collapse of the monarchy ; upon foreign
aid, in which assuredly our interests would not form
the main consideration; or on a new and foreign
alliance, the form, purpose, and utility of which
are not yet known. I have explained that the
mode of agreement, which I also propose, clods not
endanger our constitutional freedom, and is in
many respects of advantage to our country.
" These speeches of mine, not addressed. to men's
passions bat to calm consideration, have been made
publicly. • They will be found in the proceedings of
the Diet, and have been in their time published in
the columns of the newspapers. These speeches
contain my justification before the country. I do
not consider it either necessary or fitting, in addi-
tion still to seek to justify myself, or to retort accu-
sation for accusation, or to wage a newspaper war
with those who consider or affect to coos der the
proposal of agreement accepted by the majority of
the Diet as identical with the February Patent and
the Royal.Re,scripts addressed to the Diet of 1661.
" To step in defence orirrin—Sjority of
the Diet would be a crime against the honest men
who constitute that majority. Each of them is re-
sponsible before God, his own conscience, and, if
necessary, before the country, for what he has done
from conviction. The burden of responsibility rests
lightly upon the shoulders of him who is governed
neither by the command of power, by dishonest in-
terests, by vanity and thirst for the popularity of
the moment, but who seeks the welfare of his coun-
try and follows his own convictions. I also stand
up for my own opinion, my own vote. Does any
one dare to assert I have striven to thrust my opi-
nion upon other men, either by deception and en-
ticing promises, or by reproaches ? Have I called
upon anybody to join the party to which I belong ?
-Have I asked anybody to give his word and his hand
that he would hold to us, and would not separate
from us? Have I ever employed the means of
party-recruiting, customary in• many paces, but
(never sanctioned by me ? %Vas I not one of those
who dfsapproied the pressure of party discipline
upon important occasions and in questions of prin-
ciple? If, then, with all this, the opinion of the
1 majority and my opinion have coincide I, the natural
explanation is that my conviction was theirs also.
The majority does not, therefore, stand in need of
my defence. For these reasons I will not under-
take to refute the letter of Louis Kossuth through
the newspapers.

" FRANCIS PEAK."

lALEC'S BRIDE. By the author of " St. Olave's,"
"Jauita's Cross," &c. 3 vols..—" 'Alec's Bride' (says the
A thenmum) is a charming book, and it possesses the advan-
tage of being written in good English. In Mr. Fabian,
Mrs. Dexter, and Miss Lesbanks, the author gives us capi-
tal full-lengths of a money-marrying curate, a match-
making sister, and the faded but three-per-canted young
lady of their choice. Those who have any insight into the
society of the present day will not be slow to recognise the
accuracy and humour of the portraits."
Messrs. A. S. Barnes and C.). have followed the
example of the Messrs. Appleton by giving to the Pea-
body Educational Fund 30,000 volumes of school books,
many of them works of size and value, as well as a dis-
count of 25 per cent. from the wholesale cost of such books
as may b 3 further needed.
Major Edward C. Boynton, U.S.A.—author of
the "History of West Point and the U. S. Military Aca-
demy "—is about to publish a guide-book to West Point
and the surrounding region.

Mr. George S. Phillips, author of " Gypsies of
the Danes' Dyke," is about to publish, in Chicago, "Chi-
cago, her Ministers and Churches."
Mr. Randall lluut, formerly professor of law in
the University of Louisiana, has been made president of
that institution.

Mr. A. E. Kroeger, of St. Louis, has completed
! a translation of Fichte's " Science of Knowledge," the
Introduction cf which is given in "The Journal of Specu-
lative Philosophy."
MARK TWAIN'S LECTURE.--A gentleman known
to his family as Sam Clemens, and to the public as Mark
known from the PacifieSlope,hasinstalled himself in Twain, who recently landed in our midst comparatively un-
knownmetro-
politan favour by a brilliant and eloquent lecture on the Sand-
wich Islands, given at the Cooper Institute a week since to au
unusually large and appreciative audience. The subject,
although old and exhaustively treated by travellers of
every nation, derives fresh interest from the graphic de-
IscriPtion and humorous vagaries of the " Wild Iliimourist"
of the Pacific. Those who relished the quaint sayings of
Ai-teams Ward will hail the advent of a genius—eq, ally
original—to drive away dull care in these times of broil
prices and low spirits. Mark Twain goes to the Mediter-
ranean as special correspondent of the Aita California
outs
news piper, and general historian of the Duncan-Sheridan
expedition. Mark has also been guilty of a small
entitledboot;
o odds d s "Thet
the funniesting production Frog
:c
i too r ies."
"Phenix It •
' 18
by
out
Jumping
ans,"
and places its author in the col • -guard of American
humourists.

The university of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, has
an aggregate of 1,255 students, of whom 335 are in the
classical and scientific departments, 525 in the medical,
and 395 in the law. The university is well endowed by
the State, and tuition is substantially free, an admission
fee of $lO, and an annual-payment of the same amornt,
being the only charges made in any department to resi-
dents of Michigan. To those from other States the ad-
mission fee is $25, the annual payment $lO. An effort is
making, with a prospect of success, to open the university
I to girls. _

The paper mills at Marietta, Georgia, nearly de-
stroyed by Sherman, have been rebuilt, and aro in opera-
tion.

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