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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1851
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LONDON IN SEPTEMBER
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The liberation of Kossuth , which , accident apart , ¦ will take place to-morrow , is an important event for Europe . England will have an opportunity of expressing her opinion upon European politics in a manner winch the Foreign-office cannot mistake nor the Northern and Gallic despots condemn . Every Englishman who values the principles for which his
fathers suffered , and fought , and bled , and who does not publicly assist in the expression of sympathy for the oppressed Peoples of Europe on the occasion , will be a traitor to his country and his race . We learn this morning that the people of Stafford set a noble example on Monday last ; and also , that a portion of the people of Sheffield , ever foremost in the good cause , met on the same day , and performed a similar act .
At the Stafford meeting the Mayor presided ; Mr . TJrquhart . M . P ., addressed the meeting . Mr . Pulszky made an eloquent and telling speech , and a few words were added by Mr . Paul Hajnik . Mr . Urquhart happily termed the overthrow of Hungarian liberty by Austrian fraud and Kussian force a * ' vast and overwhelming tragedy " ! It was so . In the address to Kossuth , unanimously adopted , he is called "A Martyr to the cause of Europe ; " an important phrase , and Kossuth ' s own . Mr . Urquhart explained his own position in these
words" No one who has paid attention to foreign matters can be ignorant that I for years , and alone , have been the unflinching supporter of Austria and her alliance . I have not changed my opinions , but Austria has undergone a transformation , instead of being , as she then was , the defender of the independence of Europe (! ?) , now she is the tool of Russia . " He described Kossuth , whom he had visitedin prison , as powerful in intellect , but simple in disposition , possessing in the highest degree the gift of eloquence , with a character so genuine and debonnaire , that he carried conviction to every mind of the purity of his objects , and thence his extraordinarypowerovermen . " He describes him , when convinced of Austrian treachery , as " sowing sentences and reaping men" ; and he testifies to the honesty and integrity of the Governor as well as to the nobleness of the man .
Mr . Pulszky's speech contained allegations against the English Government which deserve the deepest consideration , as they show the animus of the Foreignoffice : — " In 1818 , when the movements took place in Hungary , application was made to the JJritisli Government , and the reply was that they considered the movement then taking place in Hungary to be entirely of a domestic character , and no foreign power could interfere in them . Thai
letter made a lusting impression upon the 11 ungarians , and it had a fatal influence on their fate . That letter led Kossuth to believe that lirifjfland would not . allow the interference of liussia , and he was ho sure of it that he did not take measures to defend the passes to the north towards Gallicia . lvossuih felt certain that England could never permit tbo balance of power in Kurope to be destroyed by the subserviency of Hungary , and Russia to become paramount . Tikis belief , as he had said , exercised a fatal influence over their affairs . "
KoBsuth and the refugees entered I urkey , and their expulsion or extradition demanded by Austria and Russia . " The Kn ^ lish Government , when applied to , joined in 601 UC way the two treaties together , denied that either applied , and invented a distinction between expulsion and extradition ; but . at the same time said , that as the Sultan bad passed his word , it would be a shame for him to give them up ; and as Turkey had a duty of good neighbourhood to perform towards Austria , the Sultan wiih bound to provide fiome place in the interior where they should not . be able to correspond with the people of Hungary . (/ Iiuir , / tear . ) The Sultan was not to blame that Kossuth wan not . in England long ago , and England had no merit if lie was free now . " The meeting wan very enthusiastic , and an address to tin ; Sultan was unanimously carried .
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All the Poles who took refuge in Turkey after the Hungarian Ntrug ;; le . and were simple enough t : > trust to an amnesty of Nicholas , were , upon their arrival ill OdcKtm , either onlinted in the no- < alle < l disciplinary companies , composed of every kind of eulpritH , orient to the army of the < -iiucasus — no tliiit none of them put thoir foot upon their native soil . The Austrian (» ovenii » ent in paternally interesting itself in behalf of'he Galli < -iaii Israelite * , particularly favouring those who exchange their dress for the German one . Hut u Hpirit of renistaiice itf > iunnt thiw Germanizing Hy « tt ; m Iwin beta awakened amongst them , und lnu » tfiven birth to u new sect ,
having some affinity with the Hashidirns . This sect has drawn upon itself the attention of the paternal Government , and a judicial inquiry has been instituted against it in Lemberg . Meanwhile the number of Jews in Gallicia is enormously m ., creasing . They leave Russia by thousands , and go over to the promised land , where their emancipated brethren can breathe more freely . Amongst the emigrants are many boys of twelve years , who expatriate themselves chiefly to escape the Russian military press-gang ; for it is now the general practice in Russia to drive the young male Israelites by herds
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to the first pond or river , there to christen them by force , thus transforming them by wholesale into orthodox schismatics . They then distribute them amongst the Russian peasantry , where they are fed at the expense of their own parents until they reach the proper age for becoming soldiers . . If this system of recruitment be continued , we may venture to pr < - dict that in thirty years there will be not one Israelite left in Russia . The emigration of the Jews to Gallicia is so immense , that every night one to two hundred cross the frontier and at once become Christian subjects . Is this the result of Signor Montefiori ' s late visit to St . Petersburg on behalf of his
co-religionists ? .. .. Not less busy is the Russian Government in converting the Christian populations to the Greco-Russian creed . The mode of that conversion is very efficient , for it is executed by the strongest of missionary arguments by the knout . This , at least , is the persuasive argument , viz ., they employ with the United Greeks , some millions of whom they have already wrested from the holy fathers' protection . Only lately in Podolia alone , twenty-four Cathqjic churches have been taken from the Catholic
communities and given to the schismatics . In the town of Kamieniec Podolski , only one miserable church has been left to the Catholic worshippers .
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A lady who has played a part more or less justly celebrated in the political and choregraphical world , Madame Lola Montez , now Countess of Lansfeld , is on the point of quitting Paris . It may be remembered that a journal devoted to the cause of order and to the candidateship of M . L . N . Bonaparte , had in latter times offered a refuge to this lady's literary productions , for the purpose of attacking the Republic and of defending the eternal principles of morality and religion . It is then with deep astonishment that we read in another paper , in rOrdre , the following Hues which announce the approaching departure of the Countess of Lansfeld . The celebrated Countess of Lansfeld , pupil of M . Mabille , former maitre de ballet of the Opera , has just signed a definite engagement , and is about to reappear on tbe stage . She proposes , we are informed , to make a tour of some of our
provinces before embarking for the New World . But as a prelude to her resuming the kingdom of Terpsichore , Lola Montez had invited her friends to a lete at the Jardin Mobille , on Friday , the 12 th instant . She will rehearse all her parts , and " try on" all her costumes on the occasion . The Countess of Lansfeld will admit to this farewell soiree only a few intimate friends and about a hundred journalists , to whom she will with her own hand pour out the punch in copious streams , and offer the perfumed cigarettes of her native country ( says the Natio 7 ial ) . We are not informed whether or not the Court of Bavaria will be represented at this solemnity ; nor are we acquainted with the names of any of the journalists who will have the honour of being present ; but we cannot doubt , from the known political principles of the lady-host , that her guests will be all selected from the Party of Order and liclii / ion .
The Evt ' nement has been ai ; ain seized for an article by a son of Victor Hugo , entitled " Un Aveu , " in which M . L . N . Bonaparte is bandied with merciless severity . We have received tluec numbers of La Tribnna del l ' vchlo , new organ of Democratic Socialism at Madrid , where its appearance may be considered quite a phenomenon , and its continued existence , we fear , a problem , which the Brava-Murillo Ministry Avill solve . The first two numbers were seized , ' and a prosecution instituted ngainst the chief editor and the director , Joseph Melchior CurratalA , for the political programme published in their lirst impression , which was studiedly moderate in terms . The Spanish Government shares the wilful blindness of all reactionary powers , and prefers to grope in the dark of persecution rather than to face the broad light of free discussion . The courage and the ability of the writers of La Trilmna deserve the hearty sympathy of the Liberal preBH of all nations . Captain La flan yesterday investigated the cause of the accident at lloinsey . The jury have returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " againist John Bowers , the under guard of the train in which John Taylor ivaa killed near Nottingham . In the fatal colliery accident at A'mrdare 14 . persons were killed . The jury have returned the following verdict : " Accidental death , caused by the breaking of the iron rods which connected the cross and tin- bucket . Hut the jury cannot separate without cxpienning their disapproval of the present Hystem <> f letting workmen go down to their work in the name way as materials are got . up ; and they recommend that drills should be made in all similar woiIih ho as to enable the workmen to go to work without any danger . " A challenge ban been sent tip from the henchmen of North Yarmouth to sail one of their uplendid lartje yawln , named t . | i , » Reindeer , against the clipper schoom r-yaeht America . The Hum proposed in 100 guineas . A corre « p < n Unv . c is now going on with the owner of tho latter , relative to the proposed match .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
London In September
LONDON IN SEPTEMBER
Deserted as London is just now , strangers are amazed to find it so full . " Excited " it is about the one object of thought , the Exposition , the stranger is amazed to find London , veritable London , home-keeping , resident London , so quiet , so apathetic , so tame . The streets , where ' * one meets nobody , " are thronged ; and there is no end of wonderment and gazing : but then it is " couttry cousins" who gaze . Londoners never stare at anything , except a horse fallen down in the streets . And the country cousins are gazing at the crowd themselves are making . Also at the Chinaman
walking amongst them , so much at home as not to show the least air of concern : but then he is a resident—in- the Junk . The Persians also vary the metropolitan costume . Indians are a commonplace . Americans of all kinds abound . Beards are becoming a Cockney ornament . At the Exposition , in the afternoon , you shall see , on the southern side only , 120 omnibuses waiting to carry off some of the crowd ; indeed you may often see fifteen or twenty at a time in the Strand j of cabs you shall pass an unbroken string half a mile long . Every language salutes your ear .
But all this stir only deafens the Londoner to what is going on around him ; and he smiles the dull smile , not of contentment , but of optimism . He believes in nothing but the status quo , profit and loss , and the Exposition . He does not extend his belief to anything else—not even to the next period of " distress , " nor to the authors of the Exposition—causes of the very tiling he adores in his simple way . He does not believe in causeshe hates causes ; they are things only in the dreams
of metaphysicians , speculators , agitators , logicians , and other dangerous men . He believes in a First Cause , because it is respectable to do so ; but it is an affair that he leaves to the clergyman or the minister under whom he sits . Beyond that he looks not . Political causes—they are things discussed in " ultra" papers : he is moderate , practical , a plain man ; and he believes that nothing can upset the Ministry—unless something should do so . But let us see what Lord John ' Reform Bill may do—or
leave undone . In this mood he hoars everything as you hear voices when you are half asleep , —remote , strange , unconnected with you . Nothing concerns him . " What is it to me r " Three railway smashes , you remnrk , in four days , besides minor accidents ! " Ah ! " he replies placidly , " Mr . Glyn said so . Seven people killed . —probably . But the average mortality , as coinpared with the numbers that travel , is not considerable . " The disasters , you rejoin , are not accidents
—they are due to causes that might be prevented . " I dare say ; yes ; they are getting very bad . " is a wonder that people travel . " And yet everybody does travel . " True , that is remarks > ie The average of passenger traffic is considerable . And it increases in spite of accidents . " So it ( 1 ° !' ' that is an interesting statistical fact . " And nothing is done to prevent this murder . " Not murder , my dear fellow : ' accidental death ; ' the jury hohI m » . But they ought to do something . And yet in > don ' t . Perhaps * they can't . Or , if they did , it m'tf
be worse . The average is not high . , Crime increases " So it < loe « : Homebody outf ^ to move for a Parliamentary return- " ' f ^* l ?' etiwhat would you do when you got it . " An ! V * well I don ' t know . 1 don ' t nee . what i » to l )» <»» , PerhapH next Houston Lord John may— wn o ' clock ? " . . , NewH \ h received of Sir John I '" ruiiklin . ' „ ho there iH . There always i « about thw sWlH < ' jlt But if enough diligence had been used we inw have got thewe traces sooner . " Very true . j Government would not move . " Naturally ai of expense , you know . " Yes , but there has nt
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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of tire paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 13, 1851, page 870, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1900/page/10/
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