The Express. — 1851-11-19 (London, England)

TILE ZDITOI OP TIM 111.11114.  Offices of the Society of the Friends of Italy, 10, Southampton-street, Strand, Nov. 18, 1851. Slit,—The Society of the Friends of Italy in authorised to communicate the following facts in contradiction to the charge brought against hi. Kossuth, of having proposed, iu the name of the Emperor of Austria. in the Hungarian Diet, a large levy of troops to be ear ployed slaughtering the Italians.-1 am, sir, your obistheta servant, DAVID MASSON, Secretary. The Hungarian constitution was based on the pragmatic sanction, according to which tha Emperor of Aus as King of Hungary, was bound to send troops to the aid sir that country, it tereatened by a foreign enemy ; whilst Hungiuy, on the other hand, was bound to furnish insa and Lumley to maintain the integrity of the House of Auatria, it any of its possessions were menaced by a foreign enemy. The cabinet of Vienna, having incited the rebellion el the Serbs, took the opportunity of the war with Sardinia, and the disasters of the Austrian arms in Italy, to unbars*, the Hungariu ministry, presided over by Count Louis Batthyany, and in which Kossuth held neat as finance minister. 11 was the opinion, and known to bo the opinion of Count Batthyany then, that Mau gary was not yst in • condition to resist Au. tria. Even at a subsequent period, when Jellachish invaded Hungary, Count Batthyany still believed mistimes impossible; and later, as is well known, when the army of indischgratz (afterwards defeated and driven out of Hungary by Kossuth) invaded that country, he became am victim of that opinion. Now, the Emperor of Austria, Id the month of June, 1848, required, as King of Hungary, that his Hungarian ministry should demand a levy of Me. 1 winch, in rut, was not intended to exercise an immediate influence on the affairs of Italy—as these affairs must have received some solution before the levy, if granted, could ever have been gut together. But it was supposed that if, on the one hand, Battnyany's ministry had unconstitutionally refused to make that demand, it might eouritutioually and without danger, have been dismissed; and that so Hungary, at a critical juncture (and, in fact, whilst the Austrian cabinet, as the event proved, was plotting with Jellachich) would have been left without a ministry. On the other hand, if Battlayany's ministry had made the proposition, it was thought that they would have forfeited all popularity in Hungary. From this seemingly inextricable dilemma, which was fully understood upon truth sides, that ministry was extricated in the tollowing manner by Kossuth, who, as finance sinister, had to make the proposition. Alter noticing : UMW of the crown, that a rebellion raged in the parts of Hungary, and that the King of Hungary was still engaged in a foreign war in Italy, he asked for a levy of 80,000 men, and then added that, atter having made this demand as utinister, as a Hungarian he recommended that the grant should be accompanied by the express snow lation that none of these men should, under any pretest, be employed beyond the Hungarian frontier till Vac Serbian war was over. In this manner the ems ment of Hungarian troops in Italy was practically stopped but the same evening a cabinet council was held, and Batthyany argued that it was impossible, constitutional, not to concede the principle that the King of Hungrily MA a right to uemand, and to obtain, Hungarian troops be die defence of Italy—supposing, fur instance, the Serbian rep bullion to have been quelled, which had afforded the lq;itlmate, but accidental and temporary, pretext .or refuels, them to Austria. 'lbis consideration was incontrovertible ; but it was agreed to meet the didiculty by discussing the question as a matter of pnaciple, and annexing the further stipulation to the eventual employment of the Hungarian troops in the defence of the Austrian possessions in Italy, after the Serbian or any other rebellion, that these troops should only be so employed, alter reasonable attempts at reconciliation had been made with the King of Sardinia, and on Use condition that the Italian provinces should receive • separate administratien and free constitution in all respects nendielt to that enjoyed by the Hungarians. Thus conditions were propeeed by Kossuth, and peeved in the diet on the Mow* day.  SUICIDE OF A FEMALE AT DULWlCH.—Yeaterday 1 , Mr. Cuter held an inquest at the Crown Tavern, Dulwich, on the body of a female unknown, who was found dead on I Saturday last, under the following circumstances:--Joseph Watson, a labourer, deported that, oa the day named, he was engaged gathering scorns in the " Five Fields," when his attention was drawn towards some articles of female attire which were floating on the surface of a pond. Oa , wing these with a stick, he discovered the body of the I deceased woman ; bat the hank being abiut tour feet high, , I he was tumble to bring it ashore until be had obtained farther assistance. On this being accomplished, there ap• to be some warmth ;that the presumption is, the a as female had not bog been in the water. On a subsequent examination by Mr. Ray, surgeon, it was ascertained that the deceased had been pregnant, and was within a short period of her confinement when her death took place. A small sum of money, a knit, and a key were found in her pocket; but there was no ideotilkation of the body till near the clots, of the inquiry, when it was stated to the emcee! that a female had bean down and reongnised deceased as ' Mary Out, lately in the service of a patleman residing at 19, Renley-voad, Islington. Mr. Carter Dien suggested that, as important evidence might now be procured, it would be j better to adjourn the inquest for that purpose. The jury r , took the same view, and the further inquiry was adjourned i . till Friday next.