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London, England, 1850-02-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1850.

Another numerous and enthusiastic meeting has just
intimated, in language of remarkable eloquence and
earnestness, the continued sympathy of our fellow-
countrymen for the Hungarians. A detailed report
of the proceedings will be found duly chronicled
elsewhere in this evening's impression ; and we doubt
not but that our readers will peruse with interest the
particulars of the demonstration made on Wednesday
in favour of the exiled Magyars by the liberal inha-
bitants of Bangor. That the assembly was there ad-
dressed by the different speakers in the Welsh tongue,
and that more than one Cymrian ballad was de-
livered between those impassioned harangues—the
songs being replete with evidences of affection for
liberty, and the orations abounding with testimonies
of homage for patriotism—are circumstances which
only invest the occasion with new and striking attrac-
tions. Besides which, transpiring as this popular de-
monstration actually did, almost simultaneously with
the noble sentiments articulated by Lord PALMERSTON
in the British House of Commons—the event acquires
an additional, and in some respects even a remarkable
significance. It is another fact corroborative of the
assertion made by her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary,
that " the great mass of the people of this country"—
not a fanatical section of the multitude, but " the
great mass of the people of this country,"—are the
real sympathisers with the Hungarians !
A considerable time, alas t has elapsed since the
heroic followers of DEMBINSKI were bartered for
pieces of gold and silver by the hand of an infamous
soldier, the Iscariot of that glorious war of libera-
tion Many months have already passed over our
heads since the great army of Hungarian citizens,
like the legions of SENNACHERIB, were withered away
in sudden destruction, not by an Angel of the LORD,
but by the poisonous breath of a traitor, by the
blighting influence of treason, by the connivance of a
national assassin. Even now the more superficial
observers of European history are beginning to lose
a recollection of the campaign recently carried on
near the banks of the Theiss, and the Drave, and the
Danube. Nor can their forgetfulness be any cause of
astonishment, seeing that the green crops are already
germinating over the graves of the heroes who
perished in defence of their fatherland. Death, and
imprisonment, and exile, and confiscation, have in
many instances hushed the fame of those illustrious
children of misfortune whose names in the days of
their temporary success were carried round the world
on the four winds of heaven. The earlier blossoms
of spring are already budding over the boaes of
BATTNYANY. The footsteps of returning traffic have
already obliterated the traces of that noble blood
which was shed in the streets of Arad and in
the public squares of Presburg. Buda has
lost the marks of her bombardment, and
Comorn has removed from her suburbs the
ashes left by the camp fires of the besieging Aus-
trians. Under the reviving sway of a German vice-
royalty the population of Hungary has been trodden
down into its former state of vassalage. The beauti-
ful dream of emancipation has vanished. The hor-
rible nightmare of tyranny has returned. Thanks to
the incursion of the Cossacks of the AUTOCRAT, and
aided by the treachery of the detestable GEORGEY,
the descendant of RUDOLPH has been enabled to
bring under the yoke of his Cabinet the people who
had aspired for their deliverance. The old system has
supplanted the new, and that, moreover, during a
period sufficiently long to empower the minions of
the Austrian EMPEROR to resume their former atti-
tude of domination, as though nothing had inter-
rupted the routine of Absolute Government. Yet,
thanks to that genius of sympathy, whose ardour is
inextinguishable under any calamity—although the
hopes •of Hungary have been so long dissipated, al-
though her downfal has been followed by the satur-
nalia of an avenging despotism, although her most
renowned chieftains have been either driven into
banishment, or destroyed by the bullets of
the military executioner, or by the rope of the
public hangman—Yet, yet, in England, the voice of
admiration, and the hand of fellowship, and the heart
of affection, have resounded, extended, and throbbed
uninterruptedly for the fallen and abandoned Hunga-
rians Well might that assertion be uttered in the
British Parliament, that never before had the soul of
England been moved so profoundly as it has been
moved with sympathy towards the Magyars during
their majestic struggle for emancipation ! Well
might that truth be articulated in the British
House of Commons, seeing the prolongation of that

enthusiasm, and the reiterrated testimonies of its con-
tinuance. Often and often as we have had occasion
to record in the columns of our journal the expres-
sion of these sentiments of sympathy for the Hun-

garians, pronounced in the metropolis and the pro-
vinces, in the days of their success and of their mis-

fortune, we have never had to recount the particulars
of a demonstration so ardent in its tones of mingled
sorrow and indignation as that which has just tran-
spired in the Welsh seaport of Bangor. Time does
not appear to have chilled to any, even the slightest
perceptible extent, the warmth of the popular en-
thusiasm. The apparently total and permanent sub-
jugation of the great race of the Magyars by the
combined hordes of Austria and Russia, does not
seem to have diminished in the smallest degree the
admiration entertained by the people of this country
for the conquered, and the abhorrence simultaneously
felt for the conquerors. In this respect, indeed, the
meeting held at Bangor is an echo to the first
English demonstration made in favour of the Hun-
garians, namely, the one which took place several
months back in the large room of the London Tavern.

A worthy response, moreover, has it proved to that

earnest and unanimous assemblage, if we estimate its
importance either by the character of the resolutions or

by the eloquence of the orations, by the extent of the

attendance or by the energy of the acchtragtions. No

more lucid narrative, no more impassioned apostrophe,
no more brilliant declamation than what was comprised
in the speech delivered in the Welsh lauguage by the
Rev. JOHN PHILLIPS has at all been articulated by any
previous orator on the Hungarian Question. 'We
doubt not, therefore, that this splendid harangue will
be perused with that fullness of interest which is due
to a speech which must be regarded in some manner
as a masterpiece. The brief but earnest address of
Mr. LUKE is also deserving of particular attention, as
are those, in truth, of the different gentlemen who
had the responsibility of proposing or seconding the
resolutions. Altogether, the meeting at Bangor in
favour of the exiled Hungarians is an event of no
inconsiderable significance, accompanied as it has
been by the generous expressions of sympathy with
those heroic unfortunates. which the people of
logland will be ever proud to remember as having
been uttered in the House of Commons by the lips of
the illustrious statesman her MAJESTY'S principal
Foreign Secretary.

Lord •UNCAN has declared his intention of renew-
ing, at the earliest opportunity, his motion for a
repeal of the window-tax. Since that proposition
was negatived by the decision of the House of Com-
mons circumstances have transpired which it is
hardly possible to doubt' will materially affect the
next division upon that subject. The House of Com-
mons have exhibited their power and disposition
to interdict light and air from the dwell-
ings of the poor, by imposing a tax upon
windows, and thereby converting a necessity
into a luxury. Scarcely had Legislature thus exem-
plified what it could performs being legally em-
powered thereunto, than a sad experience has shown
what, with all its senatorial wisdom it can not do. It
can shut out, air and light from the garret. and
the cellar, and exclude ventilation from the crowded
court and the narrow alley ; but it cannot do this and
at the Dame time interdict the ingress of disease
and the rapid spread of contagion. Pure air
is one of the essential elements of life, hence its
enjoyment should be beyond the interference of law-
makers. It hardly seems necessary to dwell upon
the importance of the proposed repeal, so assured are
we that that repeal will very shortly be carried.
Taxation is, of course, a necessity in every consti-
tuted state ; and rightly carried out it conduces to
the furtherance of that prime object of all statesman-
ship, the greatest good of the greatest number.
By taxation each individual contributes his mite
for the benefit of the community, and, in return, re-
ceives from the community protection of life and
goods, and innumerable other blessings, which he,
himself, single-handed, would be quite unable to pro-
cure. Such is, on a first view, the good effect of taxa-
tion, but, like everything else, it may be wrested
into a curse instead of a blessing. It beComes
such when it presses with disproportioned weight
upon the shoulders of the heavy-laden. If in human
legislation any one wrong be more iniquitous than
another, it is, assuredly, committed by those who,
having the power of distributing imposts, take a no-
minal share for themselves, and lay the intolerable
burthen upon the weak, and consequently defenceless.
With all that national liberty of which we boast,
with all the philanthropy and benevolence of
which there is so much talk, our code of laws—good
as it in the main—is disfigured in many instances
with that " blot in the 'scutcheon," which no ocean
of philanthropic tears can wash out, and no moun-
tains of hospitals and churches can cover—injustice.
It is not our wish to decry any one of those benevo-
lent schemes which form a happy and hope-
ful sign of the times. On the contrary,
every project which is in any way calcu-
lated to alleviate the sufferings and promote the
welfare of the people—whether by facilitating their
transit to other lands, or by providing schools and
dwelling-houses for their moral and physical health in
this—always has commanded and always will command
our earnest and hearty support. Yet, although charity
be the greatest of virtues, she must yield precedence
to justice, for charity presupposes the existence of
justice. Heine, while we anxiously expect at the
,hands of the Parliament many popular boons this
session, those boons will be valueless unless they are
preceded or accompanied by the removal of all
obnoxious statutes. Among these is the often-
mooted subject of the window-tax. The
unequal working of this tax is most flagrant. The
tax is imposed upon everythieg bearing
the name of " window," hence it applies equally
to the most extensive and elaborate plate glass win-
dow of a ducal mansion and to the miserable orifice
which admits a partial light into the dismal cellar.
Here we have apparent equality with most unequal
consequences. The tax imposed upon the rich is to
them a trifle, and its only effect is the construction of
two large windows instead of three small ones, hence
one of the first things an English traveller remarks
abroad is the number of small windows in foreign
houses. With the majority of the people, however,
this tax is productive of continual discomfort and
frequent disease. The primary laws of health have
recently been again
and again expounded by sanitary
commissioners. One of the first of these is free ven-
tilation. Human beings, like the plants of the field,
cannot flourish without air and light. So unanimous
is public feeling upon this point that Lord DUNCAN'S
proposition cannot again meet with a denial.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
In the Assembly, on Friday, in answer to the in-
terpellations IsliCAiTnOisßteYr on thefor F
Foreign
nt
Affairsoeeu r -
rteernpceelslaitors
re ofe c
in Greece,
said, that when the Government week last bad re-
quested to have interpellations adjourned for a few
days, it had done so with the hope of being able to
communicate to the Assembly the result of the first
steps taken in the matter. The Assembly would per-
ceive, from the statement which he was about to
make, that the time that had intervened had no't been
lost. Having received, on the 31st of January, in-
telligence of what had taken place at Athens, the
Government had immediately directed the French
Charge d'Affaires at London to express to the English
Government the painful astonishment which it ex-
perienced at the news of these most unexpected events,
and to ask Lord PALMERSTON if the conduct of Mr.
Wm and Admiral PARKER had been in conformity
with instructions transmitted from his Lordship. On
the 4th of February the Government sent off M.
Ditourie DE LHUYs on an extraordinary mission
to the Court of St. James's, and on the 6th trans-
mitted to him a note from the PRESIDENT of
the Republic, offering his good offices to bring
to an amicable conclusion the differences which had
arisen between England and Greece. That offer was to
be presented yesterday, the 7th instant, and the an-
swer, there could be no doubt, would be of an affirma-
tive character. In addition, this morning a dispatch
had been received by the English Ambassador at
Paris, declaring that the arbitration of France had
been accepted, and that a dispatch had at once been
sent off to Mr. Wrss and Admiral PARKER not to
proceed further in the matter at present.—(Hear,
hear.) The Assembly would perceive that with the
part which the French Government had undertaken
in the matter, it had the obligation imposed on it not
to enter into any appreciation of the facts which had
taken place. 'rave motives evidently existed.to pre..
vent him replying to the interpellations of M. PISCA-
TORY further than he had now done. The Assembly,
he doubted not, would be satisfied with the explana-
tion which he had given.—(Hear, hear.)
M. DE LAGRENEE ascended the, tribune, but was
met with loud cries of " No, DO"--" The order of
the day." He expressed his satisfaction at the infor-
mation given by the Hon. Minister, and was proceed-
ing when such loud marks of disapprobation arose
that he was obliged to descend from the tribune.
The matter *hen terminated.
The Moniteur of Sunday publishes the decree of
the Assembly declaring void the thirty seats occupied
by the convicted of the High Court of Justice of
Versailles. The Presse maliciously suggests that if
M. PROUDIION, who is kept au secret at the Con-
ciergerie ever since the publication of his attack on
the PRESIDENT, were elected to fill one of them, it
might perhaps be embarrassing to the Government.
The elections are to take place on the 10th March.
M. DE LAMARTINE had an interview with the
PRESIDENT of the Itepublic on Saturday.
The report of the dangerous illness of Marshal
SOULT is officially contradicted.
An inquiry has been instituted by order of the
Government into the case of the young man named
CRANTEREAU, wounded on Monday by the police, and
also as to the truth of the statement of the National,
that the city police had been the voluntary cause of
the peril to which General LAMORICIERE was ex-
posed on Monday.
The steam-frigate Gomer, commanded by Captain
Paris, is ordered to take the convicts of June, 1848,
at Cherbourg, Brest, and Belle Isle, and convey them
to AlgeriA. Goluer, which has actually taken

number of them on board, leaves between the lith
and 20th for its destination.

The following announcement appears in the jour
nals of Saturday :

" On explanations being demanded by M RICIIARDET
from M. LEO DE LABORDE in consequence of the in-
cident that took place between then► at the sitting of
the Assembly on the Pith of February, the under-
signed, acting in the name of their two colleagues,
have decided as follows The friends of M.
RICHARDET having declared in his name that the
words made use of by him were nothing more than
an historical quotation, the friends of M. LEO LA..
BORDE, on their side, declare that an interruption
which he regrets, and the words which followed it,
were only applicable to such quotation, whatever
may have been its source, and not to the person of M.
RICHARDET.

"For Al. RICHABDET, I. MIOL, BURGARD, and
BRIJGNIAUD.

For M. LEO LABORDE, Generals DE Ga.tm-
MONT, DE SERVILE; and DE FIEVEREUR. And so
the matter ends."

Colonel EDGAR NEY has been definitively elected in
the Charente by 58,750 votes. His competitor, M.
BADAUD LARIVERE, obtained 24,000.
The French Five per Cents. on Friday reached
the highest price which has been seen since the revo-
lution of February, closing at 95f. 50c.

The Napoleon has the following on the attempt
made by the Orleanist Assemblee Aatiosale to sow
dissension between the PRESIDENT of the Republic
and General CRANGARNIER:

"To succeed in dividing these two men (the Presi-
dent of the Republic and General Changarnier) would
be a master stroke on the part of the anarchists, whether
they be red or whits. Such, in fact, is the constant ten-
dency of the Assemblie Nationale. To make the public
believe that Gen, Changarnier is each day becoming of less
value in the opinion of the President of the Republic—
to augment his personal importance even to the point
of making him a third power in the State—to insinuate
that his continuance in his command is only owing
to the fear be inspires—these are all audacious
lies, and consist in the propagation of false
alarms, the awakening of susceptibilities, the
sowing discord amongst the constituted elements
of order, and the attempting to weaken, at the
same time, the moral authority of the President,
and of the General-in-Chiai himselt But these in-
tigues will not succeed—the plot is too barefaced. The
President of the Republic will never descend to the
baseness of the manceuvres suggested to him, and, in
spite of them all, General Changarnier will continue in
his command as one of the most worthy, most loyal, and
most energetic supporters of order."
The Napoleon further states that the riot of Mon-
day night, of which the removal of the trees of liberty
was the pretext, was in virtue of orders received from
M. Louis BLANC. "The removal of these trees," it
observes—

" Was not a political affair, but simply one at public
convenience, and it is from that it was the occasion of some
groups who disturbed for a moment the tranquillity of the
capital. Had the Government believed that those trees
bad become a dangerous emblem, they would all have
been removed in one single night, and their removal
would not have caused the slightest disagreeable im-
pression. But the Government attached no such im-
portance ,to them; and the Pi efect of Police thought
he might without danger remove those that were de-
cayed as well as those whose removal was demanded
by the inhabitants and the mayors of arrondissements.
This work had been going on for some days
without difficulty, whe❑ the Central Commission ( f As-
sociations, placed under the direction of M. Louis Banc,
received the order to organize a demonstration, w ith the
object of showing that the fire of enteute was not yet
extinguished."

Tice same journal says :
" Certain periodicals lately observici, by way of an inti-
mation to the Government, • Charles X. and Louis Phi-
lippe had also a Mi❑istry and an army devoted to them, and
yet they fell.' It is true they had. But Charles X, and
Louis Philippe had not been elected by the nation, and
besides,had not, like the President of the Republic,
reolved to never abandon the army, but to meet death
in the midst of it, rather than resign himself again to
exile."

The rumour of a coup d'etat, says the Napoleon :
" Have induced the ropreeentatives of the Mountain
to consult on the organisation of the refusal of the
taxes in the •vent of their again deciding that the
constitution has been violated. The work has al-
ready begun in Alsace. M. Kuss, Professor
of the School of Medicine at Strasburg, has lately
made a tour in the cantons, with the double object
of the elections and the nonpayment of the taxes. Much
confidence is reposed in the co-operation of the old mem-
bers of the Scltdarite Republicaine. In Burgundy a
commencement of organisation has been already pre•
pared, and it is probable the example will be followed in
other localities; but these manceuvres are received with
indifference by the people."
The Napoleon positively denies there is any foun-
dation whatever for the rumours of a change in the
Ministry.

The.kive per Cents. were done in the Passage de
l'Opera at 97f., being a rise of 40c. as compared with
the closing price on Saturday.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FF.*. 9.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7k—Luxembourg, I%—Madrid
and Valentin, I—Northern of France, 14►,2—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 354—Paris and Strasbourg, 153—Rouen and
Havre, 9%.