The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-03

ocean,"
From the Republic.
English and French Intervention in behalf of
the HungarianS.
We copy below an article from the
New York Erpress, in which the opin-
ion is expressed that the late movement of
England and France in favor of the Hun
garian refugees in Turkey was feint,
intended to a2pease the popular feeling at
home. We do not endorse this opinion
fully, although we are constrained to ad-
nit there is some reason for it, especially
as the French Government was supposed
to give hesitating assent to the move
ment of the combined fleets, and never
promulgated its ulterior policy with re-
spect to the Hungarians and the Porte:
The London Chronicle, remarking on
the fact that kossuth is still prisoner in
Turkey, follows up with the language
which we here quote:
"One day brings US the intelligence that
Russia has conceded the question of the
Sultan's right to protect them; another,
that she insists on the perpetual consign-
ment TO military prison. One day we
are assured that the Gear will consent to
nothing but this; the next, that he will
have them driven out of the Sultan's terri
tories. Now we are told that the Porte
will listen to no terms but such as are con-
sistent with the highest honor; another,
that he is treating his unhappy captives
with severity and indgnity that are de-
spicable. This mail brings us word that
the Divan is rejoicing in the assurances of
nnIn nd rntn a,,I &c
active aid; the next, that Prince Demidof'
has arrived in Constantinople, and is SOW
ing jealousies between the ambassadors of
England and France. Meantime-and
all this time-one thing only remains
| certain, that Kossuth and his braue COM
rades continue prisoners. The people
of England should look to this. 1t is plain
that the re is something wrong at the bot
tom. With the prompt declaration of
hospitality and protection Oh the part of
the Sultan, with the prompt assurances of
the sympathy and support of England and
France, there should, as natural result
have been as prompt a Liberation of the
prisoners.
"Kossuth ought, ere this, if there were
no domination on the part of the Gear, no
cringlng fear or treachery on the part of
the Sultan, to have been in London, in
the midst of free, a sympathiziug, and
admiring people,
No doubt of it! Public sentiment has
been ''hushed up" pretty effectually by
the imposing display of a combined French
and English fleet in the Dardanelles. We
undertook to show while ago, when the
press was exhausting its enconiums upon
these two Powers, for what was believed
| to be real and not stimulated sympathy
| eor the Hungarian prisoners, that neither
Lord Palmerston nor Louis Napoleon
cared fig for kossuth, so that the popu-
lar feeling in London and Paris was soolh :
ed little, and Russia, by some means or
other, kept out of the Mediterranean. And
if we are not mistaken, the sequel demon
strates that our showing was correct. Sir
Stratford Canning, and half dozen
French seventy .fours, have kept the Rus
| sian bear from pouncing upon the Turk,
and cutting his way through the Golden
Horn into the Mediterranean. This we
always looked upon as the real object the
French and English Governments had in
| view when they sent off their fleets to the
! Dardanelles. No demand was made for
kossuth, nor any stipulations entered into
for his release, or the safety of his life
| even. The threatened war was blown
over, and all being quiet again, we pre-
sumo it has been mutually decided that,
after all. it is wisest to keep Kossuth
where he is. Were he to go TO England
or America, his restless spirit and fiery
| eloquence might reanimate the sinking
spirits of those who would follow them
into exile, to some issue perhaps prejudi-
cial to those whose sworn enemy he is. II
this is not the motive of his imprisonment
what is it! As the Chronicle remarks
"rhere is something wrong at the bottom
There is treachery and collusion in this
matter, we suspect, in quarter where the
world. perhaps, is least disposed to look
| for it.
We arc not TO be understood 10 say