Kossuth seemed to be in his element on this occasion, as if he felt he was still working for Hungary. After his own speech, he rose for a moment to state that in Hungary there was no aristocracy of race, but simply of birth. it, and drank to the health of the good old | its existence as a dynasty to him, and the decity of Winchester in a draught of its good claration was followed by tremendous cheerale. And so they passed along, the people ing. He could not fail to move his hearers, every where accepting the pageant and the being greatly moved himself. When he spoke man as belonging to themselves alone. At of his dead friend Bathyany, he was moved the Mayor's banquet, attended by Lord Dud- to tears; and also when he spoke of Hunley Stuart and our consul, Mr. Croskey, among gary, assailed by Austria on one side and others, Kossuth made his great pronuncia- the Czar on the other, with not a single mento, set forth the cause and the catastrophe friend in Europe to help her! The Times of Hungary, and fully succeeded in overcom- reporter has made the most of these tears, for ing the prejudices and winning the favor of the purpose of depreciating the man who the great majority of the English people. shed them. Certainly the Hungarian nature Altogether, it was and is one of the most re- is different from the Anglo-Saxon; for all the markable, and promises to be one of the most Magyars were moved to tears on the recepeffective manifestoes of our time; and shows tion of Kossuth, and it must have looked odd emphatically that the war of Hungary is not to the colder Englishmen. at an end. Kossuth explained, in the first place, the condition of Hungary and its relation to the house of Hapsburg, showing that the Hungarians fought for their own nation and Constitution, not for any abstract revolutionary principle. Before this fatal war, the country contained half a million of nobles-the privileged class the rest of the people being the adscripti gleba, without any political rights. For a series of years the Austrian influence was corrupting the Government of Hungary, and preparing for a union which should absorb its nationality. Under these circumstances, the Hungarian patriots had long seen the necessity of opposing to Austria a more effective force than the half million of Magyar nobles could put forth, and the emancipation of the fourteen millions of the people was discussed. But the imperial Government always contrived to obstruct this project, and it was delayed up to 1848. Kossuth was one of the most ardent emancipationists, and in the beginning of the troubles of 1848, he proposed and carried the enfranchisement of the peasantry. Throughout his speech, he showed that he acted with the Parliament of Hungary. After the Emancipation Act, he went with the Arch-duke Palatine to Vienna, bearing for the sanction of the Emperor the new laws which the Hungarian Parliament had just passed. Vienna was at this time in revolt, and when Kossuth urged the claims of Hungary and also the rights of the imperial population, the Emperor sent for him, and promised that he would sign the Hungarian Constitution if Vienna could only be kept quiet. The city was kept quiet. "It was," said Kossuth, "one of those curious examples of the vicissitudes of human life in which myself, an humble son of Hungary, was in a position to hold the destinies of the house of Hapsburg in | these hands!" "Here," says the Times reporter, “M. Kossuth made a powerful impression by the energy of his manner, stretching out both his hands as he finished the sentence." He certainly swayed his audience a good deal by his impassioned mode. He took the Eternal to witness that the house of Hapsburg owed | Mr. Cobden spoke also, and dwelt on the heartless and unbrotherly conduct of the powers who witnessed, without protest, the murder of Hungary by the Czar. Mr. Cros key, the American consul, then spoke, and assured Kossuth of an ardent and honorable reception in the United States. He said the policy of this nation was non-interference; but that the time was nearly come when the United States would be forced to take a more active interest in European politics. This brought up Kossuth again. It seemed to inspire him with new ideas of English and American influences, and he went on as if he had not spoken before. To illustrate his meaning that the English monarchy and the American republic were good Governments, and could only show which was the best by the way in which they acted, he told the apologue of the Eastern Shah and his three sons. The old man had a precious ring, which could make its owner agreeable to gods and men, and not knowing to which of his boys to leave it, he got two others made like it, and left them one apiece, telling them that each must act as if he was the possessor of the true one. Thus, with an oriental ingenuity, did. Kossuth try to reconcile his partialities for the two great families of the same stock. He expressed the most fervent respect for the United States, and concluded by toasting the sovereign rights of the people and the cessation of all despotisms. We can perceive from all this how indispensable it was to Kossuth that he should g to England in the first instance. There wis another cause for his turning aside, and that was the placing his boys at an English schoo and leaving his daughter, Wilhelinina, with Richard Cobden, as he had promised to do. But these reasons, though all-sufficient, were not the chief. Kossuth feels, and it is now beginning to be understood, that it was chiefly | London, calling on Italy to prepare for another to the politic interference of England he owed great fight for her liberties. It was thought his safety from the power of Austria. But Kossuth would join in a general demonstration for the secret backing of England, the Porte of the kind. But his decision on the matter is would have either sent away or surrendered not yet known. He has been visited by Count the fugitive. Nothing but the influence of Alexander Tekeli, a relative of Prince Albert, England could make Turkey firin against the and several distinguished refugees of his own frowning aspects of Russia and Austria. The nation. Our minister, Mr. Lawrence, and Mr. policy of England at this moment is liberal. Walker, late of the treasury, called also upon Mr. Gladstone and Lord Palmerston have in- Kossuth. It was the intention of the latter dicated this on the part of the Ministry. The to set out for America, after a stay of ten days Neapolitan Prince Castelcicala sent, the other in England. But he cannot stay long from day, to Palmerston a refutation of Gladstone's Europe. His heart is in Hungarypamphlet, which exposed the horrors of the state prisons of Naples. Palmerston, in reply, said he did not believe the refutation, and did believe the original charges-a very direct, imdiplomatic sort of reply. All these things are favorable indications of the disposition of England. Lord Palmerston said he should be happy to see and shake hands with Kossuth, which simple piece of English courtesy will certainly have the full force of a European demonstration. As we have said, Kossuth is still carrying on the war. What it wants in intensity, it has in general diffusion. His very presence tends to awaken high and noble feelings. John Bull is seized with a fit of Orientalism and poetry in presence of this pilgrim-this Peter the Hermit of Hungarian nationality. The great conservative classes are conciliated, and consider him a very respectable sort of man-no red republican, after all; the ministry lean to the side of liberal sentiments; and the people, to be sure, are hoarse with hurraing. Kossuth has had a great triumph in England, and has been doing the work of liberty with a vast amount of energy and discretionadmirable discretion. It was a very trifling indiscretion, indeed, to denounce such a worthless and tottering adventurer as Louis Napoleon. Kossuth has declined to accept a public banquet in London, urging that he wishes to avoid any imputation of mixing himself up with any distinct class of men in England. The French socialists, and some of the English democrats also, are not quite pleased with Kossuth for this resolution, and for his professed respect for the Queen, for monarchy, and so forth. They blame him, as our friends the abolitionists blamed Father Mathew, when he refused to narrow his mission and go upon any platform. But England is not France, and Kossuth is too wise to have any thing to do there with politics which may suit the meridian of Marseilles very well. He expects much from England, who, perhaps, expects something from the Hungarian rebels in return, should the Czar come to blows with her sepoys, on account of the succession of the Khan of Herat in Persia. England was always famous for her far-seeing policy. Mazzini has published a revolutionary proclamation in "By Buda's wall and Danube's side;" The and we doubt not that, in some unexpressed understanding with the English Government, he will wait for some chance of war to arise in Eastern Europe or Western Asia. present state of Europe is very like that stillness which usually goes before the outbreak of a hurricane. GERMANY AND RUSS A. The THE Austrian press expresses a vehement indignation against England for the preparations made to welcome Kossuth, the traitor. Lord Palmerston it heartily abused, and the municipalities of London and Southampton placed under the ban of the Kaisar. Austrians cannot conceive that the English should do any thing independently of their Government. These imperial editors say, not without some show of meaning, England has Ireland, Canada, and Australia; and the United States have more than one 'Mississippi,'" meaning the ship, not the Father of Waters. It is determined that Hungary shall be, henceforward, an integral part of the Austrian empire. The Archduke Albrecht has been appointed Governor of Hungary, while to an Imperial Commission of three is delegated the duty of arranging the future political organization of the empire. A railway treaty between Austria, Tuscany, the Papal dominions, Modena, and Parma, has been published. The railroad will run on one side from Placenza through Parma and Modena, and on the other, from Mantua to Reggia; it will be called the Central Italian Railroad. The Austrian Government has a remonstrance to Lord Palmerston concerning Kossuth. The Germanic Diet have sent back Gladstone's pamphlet against the much-maligned King of Naples with a tart reply; and his Majesty the Czar has done the same. The amiable Borbone has very good friends in the north. There is a report that a conspiracy to displace and murder the Czar has been discovered among the nobility at St. Petersburg. There is a chance of an English and Russian collision 540 Our General Review. in the East. The Russians are moving south- | The impression seems to be the armaments. ITALY. It is reported that Pope Pius is unwell, and The Pope, finding that the English were ENGLAND. THE great Exposition of the Crystal Palace closed on the 15th of October. have been declared and distributed, and over a million of dollars have remained in the hands The prizes of the Royal Commissioners as the profits of the speculation, after the payment of all expenses. Some noise was made in England by the discovery, near Gloucester, of a small balloon, attached to which was a card, intimating that, on the 3d of September in this year, the "Erebus," one of Sir John Franklin's ships, was blocked in, in 1129 W. long, and 71° N. lat. The Secretary of the Admiralty denies that it could be a government balloon, such as Sir John took out with him in his expedition. America, struck on a reef of rockst IRELAND. only revolution which can benefit th education-running away and going to In Ireland, the people are laboring The emigration continues with acce dition-that produced by emigration an force; the most stationary people in E planted. Sir Joseph Yorke once said that are being pulled up by the roots and t improve Ireland, she should be put an the Atlantic, he would have been more phetically near the mark. The statistis Irish emigration, on both sides of the Atla Atlantic for a little time. If he had sai show tendencies which lead us to think census of that island will be soon dinis one half. In this, and in the system of e cation growing up in it, lies the hope of schools, that are multiplied in defense, te land's regeneration. In spite of the efforts the country. At the same time, a more inde the Papal party, the Queen's Colleges are st attended, while, at the same time, the Cathe pendent class of persons is becoming possese also to the great end of building up a m of the soil, and Englishmen and Scotchne boards and in the interior. Ireland from all these things will be, that? are moving in to take the places of the pot less than ten years a people will live in the fellows that we have got here, on our island who will make the English Gover ment respect them. They will make e formidable rebels than the Irish Catholies The results is who never possessed the unity and force to da any thing to help themselves. rebellions were essentially Protestant affair, The late ins as every one who knows Irish history is aware. The next movement of Ireland will be an educated and largely Protestant business, and it will be successful. It is progressing now, in fact; and the Irish Committee of this city cannot do better than send their money to help the Irish schools-the foyers of the true and safe revolution of the country. CALIFORNIA. LATEST accounts from California are peaceful and gratifying. A rich vein of auriferous quartz had been struck upon in the city of San Francisco itself, by some men employed in digging a well. The Committee of Vigilance has closed its labors, leaving a Special Committee to remain on the watch a little longer. In all probability, no further displays of "wild justice" will be needed in the city, which is stated to be almost free from crime, the criminals having been scattered in all directions. The city is putting on a solid brick aspect, and society is undergoing very satisfactory changes. Every steamer brings ladies and children, and the graces and amenities of life are beginning to flourish in the community. The people of South California wish for a division of the State, and have taken measures to obtain it. The capital has been removed from Vallejo to San José. and a line of railway between that city and San Francisco, fifty-one miles long, is projected, and will be commenced immediately. The accounts from the mines are only one better and more cheering than another. Quartz is worked in all directions with astonishing profits. A new vein of golden quartz has been discovered in Yuba county. Every where, the rocky surface of the country is being shattered, and yielding rich returns to the gold-seekers. Mining has now become a steady, settled business. Supplies of every thing seem to be cheap and plenty in San Francisco-about three times as dear as in the Atlantic cities. California potatoes are each as big as a man's head, and the finest in the world. All vegetables grow to a great size; and agriculture is nearly as profitable, in the neighborhoods of towns, as digging for gold. A Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance has been established at San Francisco. In all respects, that wonderful new State seems to be casting the slough of her first hasty condition, and emerging into civilization under the fairest auspices. HOME ITEMS. THE total arrivals of foreign immigrants into New-York since the beginning of this year, amount to about 252,000, contributed by almost every country in the world. The Des Moines River Grant has been finally confirmed to the State of Iowa. It is stated that the Austrian ambassador, Hulsemann, will demand his passports when the traitor Kossuth shall have received welcome from the Government and people of America. It is also stated that unless the United States shall salute the Spanish flag, reinstate the Spanish Consul at New-Orleans with all tokens of the amende honorable, and compensate him for any loss he may have suffered at the hands of the citizens, the demand his passports. All this is, of course, Spanish Minister at Washington will also absurd. Governor Ramsay, of Minnesota, has made Pembina. The valley of the Red River of the a favorable treaty with the Chippeways at North-a territory as large as Ireland-is acquired for ten thousand dollars a-year, payment of which shall cease at the end of twenty years. The Indians received thirty thousand dollars in hand, and then turned their vanishing faces still farther to the setting sun. the State of New-Mexico, in which two Some tumults took place at Santa Fé, in Americans were killed by the Mexicans, during an election. A great excitement was the result, and the conduct of Governor Calside of the Mexicans, was condemned in a houn, who was supposed to have leant to the meeting of the American citizens. If France and England will overhaul any AmeriIt is stated, on authority, that the ships of can vessels that they may in future suspect of they do, it will be only what Uncle Sam himan intention to carry invaders to Cuba. self would do, under existing treaties. it is understood that Mr. Webster will not hear of this "right of search." But in putting the Texan frontiers in a state of General Persifer Smith is actively engaged He has received orders from Washington to effective defense against Indian incursions. armed Texan expeditions from crossing the use every means in his power to prevent Rio Grande to aid the revolutionists in Northern Mexico. Of course, the chivalrous riflemen will not go in the General's way; and certainly, between them and the red men, that officer will have much hot and hasty work on his hands. Latest accounts say that the Snake Indians were troublesome at the Dalles States, in Oregon. They attack the immigrants wherever they can, and have killed several of them. The Indians say they will drive the white men out of the country. Rich quartz diggings had been discovered between Shasta and Scott's River. The various officers of the Coast Survey were busy at Cape Disappointment. A convention was held in the county of Lewis, to memorialize Congress to divide the territory in two, and organize a territorial Government for the part north of the Columbia river. Judge Nelson has decided that the law prohibiting blacks from going into Oregon is valid, and has sentenced a negro to be expelled in thirty days. Immigrants go rapidly into the State, and the apparition of a "Bloomer" or two has caused as much talk as the incursion of a score of "Snakes." Mr. Morse, who lately suffered in his interests by a verdict in favor of Mr. House, against him, has now had one in his favor against Mr. Bain. Judge Kane has decided that Mr. Morse's three patents-the Magnetic Telegraph, the Local Circuit, and the Chemical Patents have been infringed by Mr. Bain. Accounts from Chagres state that some dreadful fighting and loss of life have taken place there, between the black people and the Americans. The parties were boatmen, and the disagreement rose out of their professional rivalries. It is stated that the foreign boatmen were most in fault. The first affray began on the 12th of October, when some lives were lost on both sides, after severe firing. The Panama Star, of the 23d October, says that another violent collision had taken place, and that the natives used the cannon of the fort against the Americans. The former were composed of the people of the place, San Dominicans, Jamaicans, and Carthagenians. Latest accounts say that from twenty to thirty Americans were killed, and in all probability one hundred blacks. The Americans proposed to the Alcalde to attack the fort from which the blacks were firing, with the cannon of the place. He consented, and preparations were being made for the assault. The United States Consul, Mr. Glesson, had been shot at, but escaped uninjured. Letters from Belize (Honduras) state that the English have taken possession of several islands along the coast-Ruatan, Barbara, Bonnican, Utilla, Ambergies, and other islands to the north. Every thing indicates that England regards with much jealousy the progress of the Americans in Central America, and will do all in her power to maintain an influence in that quarter of the world, over and by which the great trade of all nations, between both hemispheres, will be presently flowing. In the cities of New-York and Boston, the California trade has within the last ten months declined by 546 vessels. The great fever fit of commerce is subsiding. The supplies of all the means, appliances and necessaries of life are very plenty at the Western seaboard, and henceforward the trade to that part of the world will be conducted with more steadiness and certainty. A fortnight ago, there were only eleven vessels loading for California at Boston and New-York; at the same time last year there were forty. It is confidently rumored that Mr. Webster will resign his office of Secretary of State in a few weeks after the executive departments shall have left the Congress to enter upon the regular business of the season. It is not improbable that Mr. Webster will become a candidate for the Presidency. A treaty has been concluded with the Indians of the southern boundary of the Oregon territory, for the purchase of a tract of land containing over two millions and a half of acres, all good farming lands, with large timber growths and many fine mill-streams. The Indians of this tract (which runs along the Pacific coast) seem to have little knowledge of the value of money. They are to receive $25,000 in annuities, composed of supplies of all kinds. Their first annuities will be nearly paid in comfortable_clothing, which they need very much, and express themselves glad to get. A peculiar demonstration of welcome awaits Lajos Kossuth, on his arrival amongst us. The ex-editor of the Pesti Hirlop will be entertained by the editorial fraternity of NewYork, who feel that their order has been made illustrious by the glory of the late President of the IIungarian Republic. The idea is very good, and will doubtless be carried out splendidly. P. S. The restoration of universal suffrage has been defeated in the French Assembly, by a vote of 375 to 348. The death of the poet, James Montgomery, is announced by the last steamer. He was eighty years of age. MEXICO AND MORE ANNEXATION. THE rebellion in Northern Mexico seems ominous of approaching changes in the condition of the Mexican republic. People are beginning to prophesy its disruption, and the annexation of more territory to the present area of our federation. The Mexican Government is bankrupt, and financial embarrassments are the usual forerunners of revolution in ill-governed States. Several thousand men, chiefly of the sharp-shooting, semi-nomade population of Texas, have gathered together to follow the fortunes of Col. Carvajal. Hə has hitherto beaten the Mexican troops, and latest accounts represent him as having taken the outworks of Matamoras by storm, with the loss of three killed and fifteen wounded. One hundred and fifty Mexicans are said to have fallen. Gen. Avalos, who was wounded, still held out at the head of the Government troops in a corner of the town. Their surrender was hourly expected. Should it take place, the capital will be in considerable danger. The Congress is in confusion, and |