The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-06-30

KOssUTH AND THE WAR--NEUTRALITY OF
ENGLAND.-Louis Kossuth lately made one OF
his brilliant speeches at Manchester, England,
concerning the war in Italy. The following is
brief sketch of its main points
He cOunselled England to a strict neutrality
IN the present contest, not, however, from any
regard to the interests of England, but in the
conviction that the sympathies Of the British
rulers are with Austria. He distinctly charges
them on this score, maintaining that they have
never expressed word of friendliness or anx-
iety in regard to the fate of Italy, while they
had manifested the profoundest solictude for
Austria.
Kossuths position is, of course, that of a
Hungarian. He hopes to see the ferments and
agitations Of Italy extended to his native coun-
try; the House of Austria is to him the dragon
of history, fcetid and red with crime, against
which he has Numbered for years, and he is
averse to seeing it strengthened, even by a
moral approval. In this view, the burden of
his adjuratiOn to England is, : If you cannot
help Italy, for Heavens sake do not help Aus
tria, the oppressor Of Italy. Do not allow your
preudices against France, and the ruler of
France, to place you on the side of tyranny and
wrong
Kossuth draws an ingenious distinction be-
tween the French and the Austrian Govern
ments for in France the despotism is personal
and temporary, while the nation is essentially
free, radiatng the light of science and art to
ali the world but in Austria, the despotism is
absolute, part and parcel of the national life,
depressing and blighting whatever comes with
in its influences Admitting, however, that the
Governments are equally odious, that fact in
itself would be an argument against the inter
ference of England. If the taskmasters 90 to
war; says kossuth, let them tear each other to
pieces if they please He adds, at the same
time, that he knows nothing of the intentions OF
| Louis Napoleon although he believes that his
| interests were all on the side of the independ-
ence of the nations.
g At the close of his remarks, Kossuth init
mated that he might soon be called upon to 90 to
| Hungary, and the Vienna correspondent Of the
| London Times, we perceive, refers to the un-
| quiet state Of that country"
The Charleston Is. c. Mercury says that it
| objects to making the reopening of the slave
trade an issue in the politics of this country
because it would not be safe to revive the trade
in the present relationship of the South and the
| North because it is now impracticable and
| idle, and because it is mischievOus issue-an
issue regarding which there may well be diff
| ference of opinion, and which is no test of
soundness to Southern institutions. 1t says,
further, as practical living issue, on which
to turn the politics of the South, we regard the
reopening Of the slave trade as very irebrand
fraught with mischief and danger. And in this
point of view, we are, and have been from the
beginning, strongly opposed to its being used
WHAT A COUNTRY CLERGYMAY, WHO HAS TWO
EARS FOR Music, THINKS OF THE OPERA.-The
editor of the Gospel Banner, who is also an
esteemed clergyman in Maine, having recently
visited the opera at Boston, gives his impress
sions as follows
The music of the orchestra, and now and
then a strain of the singing, were fine, but the
performance, as whole, we thought bore
Whiskered men and painted woman tricked out
in plush and tinsel, growing and granting, and
shrieking, and squalling, sometimes in solo, and
then in duet, and anon the whole swarm, like SC
many cats, gesticulating, and menacing, and EN-
braeing, and frowning, and going through with
all sorts of antics, in gibberish that nobody
can understand-that is the Italian Opera as
we heard and saw it. To us-and we profess
not only to have an ear, but two ears, for music
aquiet seat on a messy rock, near some pond full
of frogs, would have been quite as edifying, and
nearly as musical"