The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-03 00:00:00

OF ZYOLYOM.

" Gentlemen,—l have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of the address passed by you on the 9th,
of April last, in which you have deemed me worthy
of being the recipient of your thanks for having
raised my voice in the Parliament of England in
vindication of the rights and liberties of your noble
country, and in which you record your sense of
respect for the free English nation.
" The wrongs which Hungary has endured have
long roused deep sympathy in England. The me-
morials of that sympathy in past centuries are not
unknown to you. When the great struggle in
defence of your inherited laws and constitution took
place, in 1848 and 1849, England was roused into
anxious hopes for your success, and the moral
sense of our people was outraged at the spectacle
of the beaten armies of Austria being saved from
utter destruction and your liberties and constitution
crushed by the tyrannical intervention of the arms
of Russia, in defiance of the laws of nations and the
sound principles of European policy.
" Be assured that although certain venal portions
of the press of Europe may seek to blacken your
institutions, the true character and value of those
institutions is better understood in England than
is agreeable to the friends of despotism. The re-
markable resemblance of your institutions to those
of England is not unknown to Englishmen, and your
noble perseverance in maintaining the life of those
institutions commands the respect of my country-
men.

" Do not despair oibe deceived, I entreat of you,
by the halting and hesitation of officials entangled
in the meshes of diplomacy—some of these, I regret
to say, value the unity of a nominal Austrian en.-
pire over the sacred causes of liberty and national
independence • but the voice of public opinion, in
admiration of the firm and dignified attitude of
your Diet, has been so loud and so universally,
expressed, it sets them at defiance ; and rest as-
sured that the course which the English Govern-
ment shall take will be narrowly watched by the
Parliament and people of England—to whom that
Government is responsible.
"As to myself, in raising my voice whenever I
have been able in behalf of the rights of Hungary,
I have only fulfilled what the deep convictions of
my conscience assure me is the cause of right; and
I shall not cease, while I have the power, to raise
that voice in behalf of so sacred a cause.—l have
the honour to be, gentlemen, your very faithfu
and obliged servant,

"THOMAS SLINGSBY DUNCOMBE.
" May 28, 1861."

THE FLINTSEURE ELEC 110 N.

We are requested to publish the following letter
from the unsuccessful candidate to the Chancellor
of the Exchequer :

" 5, Carlton-terrace, June 1.

" Sir,—You have been pleased to distinguish my
address to the electors of Flintshire by making
mention of it in your place in Parliament. You
say that the mode of statement adopted in it was
suggested from head-quarters, and that in the most
authentic manner, as if I had undergone a regular
training through a course of the debates, I ran
through the old points of the surplus, the state of
the national finances, and the comforts of the labour-
ing classes.'

This may be censure, or it may be praise. I
prefer to take it in the latter sense, and thank you
for it.
" We have had an election within the last few
days,' you observed on the occasion I refer to. 1
might have had the honour of meeting you, for I
am told you were on the ground in the double cha-
racter of Minister and partisan—hujus bell, par-
ticeps, et socius, et adjutor.
" It is not long since we met on the same ground
as allies, when you were the poignant adversary—
imptger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer—of the same
great statesman whose ranks you now adorn ; and
when you recommended the policy you then sup-
ported by the tempting offer, the inestimable benefit
—of a cheap cup of tea.
"But, quantum mutatus ! had I met you on the
late occasion, I should have hardly known you
again. The times are rife with sulden and por-
tentous changes. I acknowledge you are equal to
them. Permit me to admire the versatility of your
genius, though I cannot do it justice. It is as hard
to describe Proteus as to bind him.

" I have the honour to subscribe myself, sir,
your obedient servant,
" H. R. HUGHES, of Kinmel.
" The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P."

THE WEATHER.

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