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The'scene was. •tarliSsv^iS 4t :jo*S\sS'en irv pant 'by us* : from the \ «... • .^ w h 0 has> s usuaTfrom; ,,,».» ... v6 ., . v w.,3 west\ piei\ $£.'j93fe$ wltid'and s.urf ,-got his i.-'ni'.jw.'^tee.I ian.fi he 6'opft.found; him-' „___ ......idnj^fb^'flpVting/i'ce-V.ri^the'. surf, -which; ^W'?4hhrngta'ta;ftkffu;l ra't'e, tie Wad \been; 1 POETRY. -, about •'£•£ .boat ourW ]oji$er.yecMbjr •'(teotttagb ,ifem : £hb docfcCpri jjotli.. jStfe^wfien suddenly his boa't iyns '-seten-tpjupset J , ',^_ ,*\' ^it4»H , '*«re;thfPw'n.ihtp, , ;ths The y sue 1 -;! 1..;:^)\'\—-^f<lVd^ l »\8 ot - t i%. upon'riie-Bottojh. of the' boat,. '*'.•.•' jii^egale was-sp strong, tuukhe. surf ran.s'p., #gh., that i t seeded impossible for them„to*J»« i$' ' *ome1it, a'nd.tt (ir^fe^w-:-^\-^* 0 ^^^, IrS-**'.'. .. 'ft&~**y*'\' t!cnon ' T^ 6 \ \ not swept from the P? \\ \ 'Soahitfie-cold wasSointense they could not sur- 'yiVe long. At this critical moment. Captain Malcom Bransfin reached the dbqk oh the west side, and cfilii'ng upon three or four wlio stood by to join him, they sprung into a boat and .pushed direct- ly into the open harbor to rescue the sufferers. They were throwing u,p their arms and plead- ing for help, while hundreds who had gathered on tho docks could render them no assistance.— •In tlfe meanwhile Captain Branson's efforts to •reach them were defeated by the surf and his 'own boat was every moment in peril. Afte' Mrifggling nearly half an hour, they finally reached the light-house boat, and at the peril of tlieiCPwn lives took off the sufferers. Qapt. Branson's boat was nearly swamped a number of times ih attempting to land on the huge bluffs of ice. which have been formed in Grampus Bay, where the surf was rolling in at a fearful rate. Nothing but indomitable skill and coolness and courage, under Providence, .saved both parties from perishing within a few feet of the shore. Capt. Freeman and those in die boat with him were at once taken to the Eagle tavern, where they were soon relieved, mine of them being badly frozen. The conduct of Capt. Bronsonatid those in the boat with him, is. worthy of a more than a newspaper commen- dation. It wnsa heroic act, which but few could •f)r wduld perform.— Oswego Jour. For the Northern •$-. Y,.,JournaK | TO. - -r. DX A- 80NP??aLiK^ I.cnnbot tliink.but .Tvhnt 3ipu.fet|U;?nSy.knoYrj-' Hov? w^eiirity thoso Autumn daya go by j The wind-that drtvds th'e brown 'leaves to aad'fro, Softens its-wild iiotes.to-a-ijentle-iiilfli, .And,throqgH.,itiyyymdaw crceps^naontlio d.ay YOH tpld'mo,vy*hat tbe t'jioor yind wished to,say.\. yhQ.pIctares.on.tbe wall'.lopkjust the.snmej, 33veIi ( , 'T1^6.charlne^, , ' that you called your qneen; Her b'eanry smtlea o\lt'in tho fading ilahie, Ot; cpld'Nbvember sunsets, dr the gleam Of.bi'IgJit spring mornings, witha g^aee aarard, . A_s,lvhen.shc_ruled\hereastle:in the air.. Hero*lie'tho.Tery books', jiv'TvliIch. youread Atoudto me, Ilereta tho one.thut^tdBs . , About ^maiden;Aylthli§r^^hejiri.d^a.<l'- ' ^VithinhjrtoaomVbqiiHilgipA!? stowikge' mosL an unlimited pne, so far that.Iisaw.printed. •adYortisomehts.spread a$.e.very eorjier,ahdsigned by.ithp pub|ishoj;s-,,starting thatQueon Viotormis no 5a\yfu| Q.ueeii~thnt she ought to he sent to the'Towejj and idl'those' wlio rule ought to lie hanged. : Men 'litti^hed; and nbbb'dy cared about th'e.fo.oiish-.extoiVagamiyi ; And-yet, I 4are;Say,,and,I. hope .theigenarous people cf'.Gfeat,Bi:itaiivwiiljnot feej. offended at ' iriy'statin'g 1 thfe fact, teat 'there is no iJi-aetical ;freedom'of tiie >prees; ••. . •• • The freedom,- of the - P.resSi to- be a practical pl)0,. rfljijit bis iicpjhnjprt 'benefit to a]l.-^,else it. is n.6iregdpm, but a, priyijege; Hj'-js; wanting twp ingredierits—jfreedbte of printing an^.freedpm pf re'adihs. NpwithQ* 6 ^ n° ft'eedoni of Tcading tlierei.bdeaiise- tllore'ianopossthtlityiftir thepeps pie fit 'Jai'gp to do so; Because,the. civoulation ;pf, newspapers, the indi.spensaiblo moral fpod of hufnan intellect, is by a heavy taxation, checked. 'Tlii; Press is .a source of .p'ublic revemic/and by *»r^eaenTn^her't«'aVo..young. lover ho\y t6\die. And How Bhb'made hia sliroud; whchlii'e and health Were throhhing in the stronghold of his breast; And boiihd his failing courage With the yvcalth Of woinnn'slove,ttpon the scatlbldpressed Her hand upon his hrpw, breathing replies, To the last^questions of his dying eyes. And here, a romance of the knightly age, O'er which your fair head bent, hour after hour, With quaint devices shining on each page, Of FalrieB gravely sealed in a flower. Holding a word, or dancing round a leaf, That almost trembles with its weight of grief. Tho gilded syllables grow dark and gray, That toll about plumes wavingin the sun ; The ringing shields, and spcara all fade away, Like distant muaie, and the day is done, And now the night looks in; along tho floor Tbe shadows sottly atcal. There comes no inoro Kntrancing vision of your bright young face, Resides the cosy lire. Alas that I Should sit alono, and in the embers trace Old ruins, and grim tombs, whore once your eyo Drew the one picture fhatyouliked tho beat, Tho dying Phoenix in his glowing nost. Alas for me that I should try to liml, A pleasure msomc arrange fantastic dream j Or hope, that in the pauses of the wind, Your heart might answer mine, over the stream Of death returning, that you still might bo Unseen hy all, dear love, yet known to me. Dec. 10th, 1851. Sv)iile.i| waa the cufsed. Austrian dynasty which 'stood f6rth for liberty. «. ... .- -ft6w-.*fereis a;<}6grepof' effrontery,* temer- •Uy-of vYhich itWoWs astpnishmg Wpntome, AvJio.havin? seen the unexftpiplecltt'eacjiery pt the •Kous'e of Russia, became, «<« W 1 ? 1 * ol «- Ramanvmaxim \ m'C^ran,'' through, ray tem- pest tost life. We may bo misrew rented, ioorned,..ieered, charged with faults; w mar- tyrs, the blopd-Pi whp.m-etfios fwrSvenge, may bo lauo-hed at as fools; itnd even hoUora, com- manding-the' veneration of .history, maybe repre- sented.^ t)pni Quixotes of trgi-eomBdy;_all this {could, if .not boar,.at least cpnoejve. I have; seen: stwtnga -specimens Pf the aberua- fioris of the liuniah. mind; but fhntjih-tlie midst •of the '-most'moriilnful.'^ufftrlh^f'Hot won the i'.honor of an unfortunate nation shOuldibc sacred to sfinie nlon, whp;ienjoy-tho;benefiH of free insti- tutions and profess to t>P Reptiblicaa—that is too much.! i t is a sorrowful pagp in^rmalrind's history;, Napoleon Second. \We find in Blackwood, for November, a de- scription of the appearance and habits of Louis Napoleon, taken from the letter of the German Professor Stahr which is, at this time, interest- ing:— \I stood near enough to sec him well; and never did I behold a more unmeaning counte- nance. Ji.n unwholesome groy-brown is its pre- vailing tint. Of likeness to the great Emperor, there is scarcely a trace.\ \He is naturally good tempered and harm- less,\ nnd by no means without ability. But he is tainted with the moral corruption of all European societies, ltali»n, French, and Eng- lish. He has the pouarilurc of the drawing- foom education of all nations. Still ho is not ilevoid of sense, nor of a certain goodness of dis- ^iiostrttm. Ho.cnii weep.uiialll'ctcJIir weep, ovjcr n touching cn*>e nf wretchedness and misery, •nnd he willingly shows clemency, when asked even to political opponents. But no reliance can ibe placed in him. In a word, his character is ith'a,tof a woman. As a result of his wandering •and adventurous existence, ho appears to-day ns a German, to-morrow as a Frenchman, and • ithe day after tu-morrow ns an Englishman or Italian. He is wholly without fixed principles, and without moral stay. If any one represents •to him the immorality of an act, he will laugh and say, •' Bah! what is that to me?\ But the very next day shall find him as much op- pressed with moral scruples, as any German candidate. He has the physical courage of his unusual bodily strength— cotporis roborc slolidc fcrox —supported by a fatalist belief in his fixed star; and this belief, which has lately acquired increased strength by his extraordinary vicissi- tude of fortune, blinds him to his real position, iand renders him deaf to tho wnming voices of his few honest friends. In this respect his moth- er, who unceasingly stimulated his ambition, did him much harm. Personally he is mndost •and unassuming, but he is madly vain of his name, and of ids legitimate claims. That he has done and continues to do himself grievous harm, as it- is universally said, h y excesses of the most unrefined description, and by opium smok- ing, seCms unfortunately to lie only too true.— iFor the change 111 him since his youth has been altogether too great. Nevertheless, ho is much less the tool of others than might be supposed. lie has a way of half-closing his inexpressive light blue eyes, which he hns adopted to pre- vent persons from reading his thoughts. His ehief delusion is that the army is unconditional- ly devoted tp him. This is by no means the <;asc. Discoreries In Africa. KOSSUTH'S SPEECH At the Editorial Banquet in New York. GENTLEMEN:—Rising respectfully tp return my most warm thanks for the boner of the toast, and the high benefit of the sympathy manifested by this solemn demonstration, it is with a min- gled feelings of joy and fear that I address you, gentlemen! I address you with joy, because conscious of the immensity of the power which you wield, it is natural to feel some awe in addressing those in whose hands tho success or the failure, of our hopes, is placed; still I equally know that in your hands, gentlemen, the Independent Republican Press is a we.ipon, but a weapon todol'end truth and justice,not to offend; it is no screen to hide, no snuffers to extinguish the light, but a torch lit at the lire of immortality, a spark of which is glistening in every man's sonl, to prove its di- vine origin; a torch which you wield loftily and high to spread light with it to tha most lonely returns or 'imm.tntty. , And .11 I'm- c ,iw \f my i'0'intry U the entftn of justice and truth; as it has in no respect tp fear light, but rather wants nothing hut light to see secured to it the support and protection of every friend of freedom, of every noble-minded man, these are the reasons why 1 address you with joy, gentlemen. Tho more with joy, because, though it is sor- rowful to SOB that ill-wilh'd misrepresentations or secret Austrian intrigues, distorting plain, open history to a tissue of falsehoods ami lies, know howto find their way oven to a small, insignificant part of tho American press, still I am proud and happy tosee that the immense majorty of the American press not enly prove, inaecessihlo to these venomous intrigues, but conscious of the noble vocatipn ef an Independent press, and yield- ing to the generous inclinations of Freemen, of protecting truth and justice against the dark plots pf tyranny, has, without any interference from my part, come forth tp protect the sacred cause cf Hungary. The Independent Press pf this great Republic hasin this very case aUe proved to the world that even against the mischievous power of calumnies tho most efficient protection is the Freedom of the Press, and not preventive measures, condemn- ing human intellect to eternal minority. X nddress you, gentlemen, the more with joy, beeauso, though you have the invaluable benefit to address the whole university of the great,glo- rious and free people of the United States. That is a great word, gentlemen, and yet is lit- erally true. While eighty years age immortal Franklin's own press was almost the only one in the Celp- nies, now there are over three thousand newspa- pers in the United States, having a circulation of live million nf copies, and amounting in their yearly circulation to tho prodigious number of nearly four and a half hundred millions ; every grown man in the Union reads on the average two newspapers a week andone hundred and five copies a year; nearly eighteen copies fall,in the •proportion to the population, to every human be- ing in the Union, man, woman and child. I am told that the journals of New York State alone exceed in number those of all the rest of There appears to be about this time a revival vvf the adventurous spirit Which formerly led Murtgo Park and other travelers to seek to ex- plore the mysteries of the interior of Africa, so long a sealed book to tho civilized world.— Doubtless u few years will disclpse some re- atone exueeu m iunu»»' „..„„„.... .- markable facts in reference to the people who the world beyond your great Union, and the cir- inhabit that terra incognita. Tho establishment culation of the newspapers of this city alone ex- of a free colony of educated Africans on the \ \ '\'\\ , »rn™iit„if Liberian coast will have an influence upon the clearing up of the darkness which hangs over iho interior ; as we see that expeditions are from 4imc to time made among the tribes surrounding ithe colony. That people may be prepared for interesting disclosures hereafter, we quote from an article in the Westminster Review, written 'by one who claims to have lived several years on the western coast, from whence he made ex- cursions into tho country. A state of civiliza- tion exists among some of the tribes, according to his account, such as has not been suspected •hitherto by those who have judged only from isuch accounts as have been given of the tribes with whioh travelers have come in contact. TJicy cannot be regarded as savages, having •organized townships, fixed habitations, with regular defences about their cities, engaging in agriculture, and the manufacture of cotton cloths for clothing, v. hich they ornament with hand- some dyes of native production, and exhibit handicraft in their conversion of iron and pre- cious metals into articles of use and ornament. 'The merchants ehtrust their goods to the care <of.native traders, in various parts of the coun- try, stored in huts, without protection, yet pre- served in entire safety, acts of robbery being very rare. Native traders are held in high res- pect, especially if wealthy and in some eases whble tribes engage in the business initerant traders, no impediment being offered to them •even among nations whore astute of war exists. Thefuturo destiny of Africa is of much inter- est, and the attention not only of the people but of governments will be attracted toit more and more as thegrowing Republic of Liberia man- ifestsiabilit.y to support itself and comes right- fully to claim and receive the respect of other nations. We have referred to the movement of the colored men in New York as a good sign, and shall expect to secitmoreor less successful. Of hoW much benefit would it bo to tho whole races if Liberia should be able to enforce the recognition of a government of blacks upon those 'who now hold irt bondago three rmllions of their people ? ^IHow long would slavery and the slave trade exist after that had been effect- ed 1 —Rock X>efn. CUiatlOn 01 ait: niino rr .- j coeds those of the whole empire o Great Brit- ain. , But there is yet one particularly remarkable fact which I cannot forbear to mention gentle- men. I boldly declare that beyond the United States there exists scarcely a practical freedom of tho Press; at least in Europe, not except, perhaps, Norway, of whpsc eonditien in that respect I am not quite aware. Yen know, gentlemen, how the press is fettered throughout the European Conti- nent, even, for the present, in France itself, whoso great nation, by a strange fate, sees under a no- minally Republican but centralized Government, all tho glorious fruits of their great and victori- ous Revolutions witheriug between the blasting fingers of centralized administrative and legisla- tive omnipotence. You know tho Independent press of France is murdered by imprisonment of their editors and by fees; you know how tho present government of France feels unable to bear the free word of public opinion—so much that in the French Re- public the very legitimate shout of \ Vive laRe- •publique\ has almpstbeeome a crime. This ve- ry circumstance is sufficient to prove that in that glorious land where the warm and npblo heart of the French nation throbs with self-confidence and noble pride, a new revolution is an unavoidable necessity. It is a mournful view which the great French nation now presents, \but it is also an effi- cient warning against the propensities of central- ization, inconsistent with freedom, beepmeineon- sistent with self-government, and it is also a source of hopo for the European continent, be- cause we know that things in Franco cannot en- dure thus as they are; we know that to beeoma a true Republic is a necessity for France, and thus we know also, that whoever be tho man, who in the approaching crisis will be honoredby the con- fidence of theSVcnch nation, ho will, he must be faithful to that great principle of Fraternity to- wards the other nations, which being announced by the French Cpnstitution to the world, raised such encouraging, but bitterly disappointed ex- pectations throughEurope's ppprpssed continent But is chiefly, almost only Great Britain in Europe which boasts to have a free press, and to I be sure during my brief stay in England 1 joyful- [ ly saw that really there is.a froodom to print, aj- UJ1ILCU. uuaunjuiv u...j «..„ , . eases one-twentieth.the priceof English or French papers, and hence, again, is the immense differ- onuo id their circulation. In the United States several of the daily papers every morning reach from thirty to sixty thou- sand readers; wherons the London Times is considered to be a monstor power, because it has a circulation of from twenty-five to thirty thou- sand copies, of which, I was told during my stay •in England, that the good, generous sense of the people has abated some six thousand copies, in consequence of its foul hostility to the just and sacred cause of Hungary. Such being tho condition of your Press, gen- tlemen,it must of course be a high source pf jpy- fu| gratification to me, to have the honor to ad- dress you, gentlemen; because in addressing you I really address the whole people of the United States—not only a whole peoplo, but a whole in- telligent people, gentlemen. This is the highest praise which ram upon a people be bestowed, and yet it is no praise—it is the acknowledgement pf a real fact. The very immensity of tho circulation of your journals proves it to bo so—because this immense circu- lation is not only duo to that constitutional right of yours to speak and print freely your opinions; it is not only due the cheap price which makes your press a common benefit to all, and not a privilege to tho rich—but it is chiefly duo tho university of public instruction which enables every citizen to read. It is a glorious thing to know that in this nourishing young city alone, where streets of splendid buildings proudly stand where a few years ago the river spread its waves- or the plough'tillcd, nearly one hundred thou- sand children receive public education annually. Do you know gentlemen, where I consider tho mpstglorious-mptiuinents pf your country ?—if it be so as I have read it once—it is that fact, that whan in the steps of your wandering squat- ters your engineers go en to draw geometrical lines even in the Territories where'the sound of a human step never yet has mixed with the mur- murs by which virginal nature is adorning the land; in every place marked to become a town- ship, on every sixteenth square you place a mod- est wooden pole with the glorious mark—\POP- ULAR EDUCATION STICK.\ This is your proudest monument. However, be this really the case pr not, every case, in my opinon, it is not your geographical situation, not your material power, nor the bold, enterprising spirit of your people which I con- sider to bo tho, chief guarantee of your country's future.bul tho universality of education ;beeaiise nn-intoljiiron:. rmnpU, never cinconsent not to !>•> freC. il- I Hi'.' '..- .>t<nr. >/ ~ wlllt,,, l „ 1„ C^„. „„ a you are great and powerful enough to be so..good as you will. My humble prayers to benefit my country's cause, I must so address to tho public opinion of the whole intelligent people of the United States. You are tho mighty engineers of this sovereign power upon which rest my country's hopes—it must be, therefore highly gratifying to me In sou not isolated men but the powerful complex of tho groat word \PKESS granting me this important manifestation of generous sentiments and of sympathy. Still I\ address you with fear, gentlemen, bo- cause you are aware that since my arrival here, I had the great honor and valuable benefit to see my whole time agreeably occupied hy the recep- tion of the most noble manifestations of public sympathy, so much that it became entirely im- possible for me to be thus prepared to address you, gentlemen, in a language which I but very imperfectly speak, as the great importance, of this occasion would have required, nnd my high re- gards for yourselves, had pointed out as a duty to mc. However, I hope you will take this very cir- emnstanco for a motive of excuse. You will generously consider that whatever and whore wr 1 publicly speak, it is always chiefly spoken tp the Press; and, lowering your expectations to the humanity of my abilities, and to the level of the principal difficulties of my situation, you will feel inclined to some kind of idulgence for me, were it only out of brotherly generosity to one of your professional colleagues, as I profess to be one. Yes, gentlemen, it is a proud recollection of toy life that [ commenced my public career in the humble capacity of a journalist. And in that respect 1 may perhaps h e somewhat entitled tp your brotherly indulgence, as yon, in the happy conditipn which the institutions of your country insure to you, can not have even an idea of tho tortures of a journalist who has to write with fettered hands, and who is more than fettered by an Austrian arbitrary preventive Gensorsh.p. You have no idea what a tortnre it i s to sit down to your writing desk, the breast full of the necessity of the moment, the heart full of righ- teous feelings, the mind full of convictions and of principles—and all this wanned by the lively (ire of a patriot's heart—and to see. before yonreyes tho scissors of the. Censor ready to fall upon your head, likelhe sword of Damocles, lopping your ideas, maiming your arguments, murdering your thoughts; and his pencil before your eyes, ready to blot out, with a single draught, the work of your laborious days and of your sleepless nights; and to know that tho people will judge you not by what you have felt, thought and written, but by what the Censor wills; to know that the ground upon which you stand is not a ground known to you, because limited hy rules, but an unknown, slippery ground, the limits of which lie but within the arbitrary pleasure of your Cen- sor—doomed by profession to be stupid, and a coward, and a fool;—to know all this, and yet not to curse your destiny—not to deny that you know to road and to write, but to go on, day by day, in the torturing work of Sysiphtts. Oh! ft, is \the greatest sacrifice which an intelligent man can make to his fatherland and humanity! And this is the present condition of the Press, not in Hungary only, but in all countries cursed by Austrian Tide. Our past revolution gave free- dom to the Press, not pnly to my Fatherland but by indirect influence also to Vienna, Prague, Lotnberg; in a Word to the whole empire of Aus- tria'. This very circumstance must be sufficient to insure your sympathy to my country's cause; us, on tho contrary, tho very circumstance that tho victory of the Hapsburgain dynasty, achieved by treason and Russian arms, was a. watch- word to oppress the. Press in Hungary, in Aus- tria, in Italy, in Germany—nay throughout tho European continent. The contemplation that the freedom of the Press on the European conti- nent is inconsistent with the preponderance of Russia, and tho very existence of the Austrian dynasty, this sworn enemy of freedom and of every liberal thought—this very circumstance must bo sufficient to insure your generous sup- port, to sweep away those tyrants and to raise liberty where now foul oppression proudly rules. Gentlemen, a considerable time ago there ap- peared in certain New York papers a systematic compouudof themostfoul calumnies,, falsehood and misrepresentations about the Hungarian cause, going so far as, with unexampled effront- ery, to state that we struggled for oppression. pagQ -»•- •% - .^juwiarumU'-o? 1 course \expect ta-iciJnAtf*- -,<is.occasion\. Ant#rjn.ir into a spe/'al r*.utation up tins otitonjBliiqg compound o/ciluuiiiius. I will reserve it for my pen, ns soon as I can bavo a free day for it. It will \be very easy work, lie- cause all artificial compounds of taisroprusonta- tionsmust fall into dust before theVlispassionate, plain statement of facts, the greatest part of which, I thankfully have to acknowledge, are al- ready not unknown to you. Permit me rather to make some humble ro- mnrk upon the question pf \ nationalities\ which play such an important, and, I dare siy, such a mischievous part in the destinies pf Em-opo. I say mischievous, beeauso no word ewr .vis so much misrepresented or mistaken as the, word \ nationality;\ so that it would be ind ;ed a great benefit to humanity, couldIsticced t contribute something to tho rectification nf thi idea, the misrepresentation of which became the most mischievous instruments tbehandsofabsolutism against the spirit of liberty. Let me ask you, irentlemon, aroyou, tho peo- ple of the United Sates, a nation ormt] Have yon? You answer yes; ani yet you, the people of the. United States, aro not all of'ono blood, and speak not one. language. Millions of you speak English, others French, others Ger- man, others Italian, others Spanish, jthers Dan- ish, and even several Indian dialects—and yet you are a nation I ' And your Government, even the gtyeramont of your single States, nay, tho municpal govern- ments of your different cities, are net legislating and governing and administering in til nnd every language spoken in your Union,intte respective States and in the respective cities themselves— and yet you harm a National Government 1 Now, suppose that one of tho icople of the United States, struck by a curse liko that with which tho builders of Babul were once, struck, should at once riso and say— -tv fiiiun in which we live is a grievous oppr--i>«u to us, onr laws, our institutions, our ISM!- ami City Governments, our very freedom, is ,n oppression to us! What is Union to UH,< .,>.'' rights? what laws? whatfreedoml what .i-i.i.'v! what geography? what common emmu • r,. t > of inter- ests ? They are all nothing. 1. w•• _\<•—that is all. Let us divide this Union: ilh ,.!•• t • States; ilh ide tho very cities. Let us divine tim whole territory, by, and according to lmgiuge«, nnd then let the people of every language live distinct, and form each a separate State. Because every nation has a rkht to national life, and to us the larrruajc is tin lutl'mii—noth- ing else; and your Union, your ritjiiK your lavs, and your frvu'dum itself, though cimmou tu usH an oppression to ns, becauio lanynage is tlmonly basis upon which States must b-> founded. Every il,;»v<* nl«« :.j tyranny-\ ,l What -ttmijd yrrn -«»y-wt'*|tf^l^ -i-e.^rAntj What would become nf yrtfr s;iViTt Uniuit What of you r Constitution—tl-w irlorwus legacy of your greatest m.m—those ilmturtal stars on mankind's moral cumpy ? I What would W-cuino of yolir country INi-lf, whence the spirit nf freedom sarcitis its mighty wings and rising hopi? dean up tho future of hn- I inanity i What would ueeorce of this grand, mighty complex uf your Ilepiir/ic, should it ever be attacked in its consistency by thefiiriousliands of the fanaticism of language. Where now she wanders and walks turning tti • -i in_' temples nf human happiness, she soon mi M tr. '.it tipun the ruins of liberty, mourning mi e Hi-' fragility of human hopes. H-ippy art thou, free nation \f Atm-wn, that thou hast founded thy house u urn t! •••• mily solid Wis of a nation's liberty ! Ldi-rlv! A princi- ple steady liko the world, et.rn d like the truth, and universal for every I'liiu.i*\. f >r M.ery time, like Providence. Thou hast nu tyrants among thee to throw the apple of Eros in thy Union.— sign to destroy with the pretext of language the very existeuue of the nation formed by the com- pound of all those ingredients which I have men- tioned above, and with that common good sense which every nation possesses, met the tyraulc plot as if it answered, \ We want to be a nation, and if the tyrant takes language pnly for tho mark of our nationality, then we are all Hunga- rians,\ And mark well, gentlemen! 1 his happened not under my governorship, but Oven under the rule of Austrian martial law. The Cabinet ofVienna became furious; it thought of a new census, but prudent men told them that a now census would give the whole twelve millions as Magyars, and thus no now census was taken. So true is my assertion that it is not language alone which makes a nation, an assertion which of course your own great republic proves to the world. But on tho European eontinn'it there unhappi- ly grew up a school which hound the idea of lan- guage only to the idea of language, and joined political pretensions to it. There are soma who I\ auvois»'...*u<v.i-.hi3c»J!sc that existing countries must | cease, \and'tho'territories of tho world be anuw divided by languages and nations, separated by tongues. , YPU are awaro that this idea, if it wore not im- practicable, would \be but a eurso t p humanity— a deathblow to civilization and progress, and throw back mankind by centuries—it were an eternal source of strife and war, beeauso there is a holy, almost religious tie, by which man's heart to his home is bound, and no man would evor consent to abandon his native land only because his neighbors speak another language than he himself; and, by this reason, claims for him that sacred spot where the ashes of his fathers lie— where his own eradlo stood—whore ho dreamed the happy dreams of youth, and where nature itself bears a mark of his manhood's laborious toil. The idea were worse than the old migra- tion of nations was—despotism only would riso out of tho strife of mankind's fanatacism. Thou hast no tyrants among thou to raise the fury of hatred in thy national family—hatred uf na- tions, that curse ot humanity, -hat venomous in- strument nf Despotism. ' Wh it a glorious sight it is to see tho op- pressed of so different countries, different in language, history and habits, 'vamlering tn thy shores, and becoming members of thy great na- tion, regenerated by the pr'mcielc of common lib- erty. Would I could do the same! hut I can't, be- cause I love my nitive landinexju'essibly,bound- less, fervently. I love it more than life, more lima happiness; I love it more ii its gloomy suf- ferings than I would in its proudest, happiest days. \What makes a nation ? Is it the lanaunge on- ly ? Then there is no great, n\ powerful nation unearth.becau.se there is no iin,t..r.itely large country in the world, whose p.-piiiutinniscoiint- ,;l by millions, where you nmi:.! m,t lindseveral languages spoken. Nn ! it is not language mdy •, iiieh nr'kcs a na- tion. Community of interest-,. .mmnnitynf his- tory, communities of rights nndViities, lmt chiefly community of institutions of a p .pnhtimi, whicli, though perhaps different in tn./ne, nnd belong- ing tii different races, is Win I together by its daily intercourse in their town?, the centers of their homely commerce and hoftiely industry, the very mountain ranges, and system\ of rivers and streams; the soil, the dust of which is mingled with the ashes of those aneosfijrs who bled on the same field, for the same interest—the com- mon inheritance of rrlory and tf woe. the com- munity of laws, tie of institutions, tie of common freedom or common oppression—all this enters into the definition of a nation. That this is true—that this a instinctively felt by the common sense of the penple, nowhere is more apparently shown than at this very mo- ment in iny native land. Hungary was declared by Francis Joseph of Austria no more to exist as a Nation, no more as a State. It was and is put under martial law; strangers rule inaforeign tongue, where our fathers lived and our brothers bled. To be a Hungarian, became almost a crime in pur own native land. Nov, to justify before the World the extinction of Hungary, the partition of its territory, and again the centralization of the dissected limbs into the common body of servi- tude, the treacherous dynasty were anxious to show that the Hungarians were in a minority in their own -native land. They hoped that intimi- dation and terrorism would induce even the very Hungarians—Magyars, as we arc in our own lan- guage termed—to abnegate their language and birth. They ordered a census of nationalities tn be made.\ They performed it with thfe iron rule of martial law; they employed terrorism in the highest degree, so much that thousands of wo- men and men, who professed to be Magyars, pre- ferred not to know, nay, not to perhaps have heard any other language than the Magyar, not- withstan'ding ail their protestaliops, were put down to bo Sclaves, Serbs, Germans, or Wallaeh- ians, because their names had not quite a Hun- garian sound. An still what was the issue of this malignant plot 1 But of the twelve millions of inhabitants of Hungary proper, the Magyars turned out to be more than Oigh' Mlions, some two millions more than we know the case really is. The peo- ple instinctively felt that the tyrant had the do- .... __ fanatacism. And really it is very curious. Nobody of the advocates of this mischievous theory is willing to yield to it for himself—but others he desires tp yield to it. Every Frenchman becomes furious when his Alsace is claimed to Germany by the right of language, or the borders of his Pyrenees to Spain—but there nro some amongst the very men who fool revolted at this idea, who claim for Germany that it should yield up largo terri- tory because one part uf the inhabitants speak a different tongue, and would claim from Hunga- ry to divide its territory which God himself lias limited hy its range of monntains and tho sys- tem of streams, a s also by all the links of a com- munity of more than a thousand years, to cut off our right hand, Transylvania, and to give it up to the neighboring Wallachia—to cut out like Shylock one pound of our very breast—the Banat—nnd the rich country between the Dan- ube and Thoiss, to augment by it Turkish Ser- bia and so forth. It is the new* ambition of con- quest, but an easy conquest, not by arms but by language. So much I know, at least, that this absurd idea cannot, and will not, bo advocated by any man here in the United States, which did not open its hospitable shores to humanity, and greoltliu Hock- ing millions of emigrants with the right of a citi- zen innrderthat the Union nny be cut to piece-, and oven your single States dnided into new- framed, independent countries by and according to languages. 1 And do you know, gentlemen, whence this ab- surd theory sprung up on the European Conti- 1 nent '. It was the idea of Pimslavismus—that is j the idea that the mighty sloek of Sclavonic races j U called tu rule the world, as once the Roman did 1 It was a Russian plot—it was the infernal idea, , to make out of national feelings a tool to Russian ] X't-o-fnip* yw'a are not aware oC rlie historical origin of this plot. It wus utter tiio third divi- 1 sion of Volanti, this must immoral act of tyran- ny, that the chance uf fate brought the Prince. C^artonisky to the Court of Catharine of Russia. He subsequently became minister of Alexander the Czar. It was in this quality that, with tho noble aim to benefit his dnwn-trnddcn fatherland, he claimed from the young Czar tho restoration of Behind, suggesting for equivalent the idea of Russian preponderance over all nations of the old Sclavonic race. I believe his intention was sin- cere ; I believe he thought not to misconsider those natural borders, which, besides the affinity of language, God himself has between the na- tions drawn. But lie forgot that the spirit which he raises, ho will not lie able to master more, and that uncalled fanaticism will, with sundry fantastical shapes, force into his frame, hy whicli the frame itself must burst in pieces soon. Ho forgot that Russian preponderance cannot lie propitious to liberty; he forgot that it can even not be favorable to the development of Sdave nationality, because Sclavonic nations wouid by this idna be degraded into individuals of Rus sianism—all absorbed by Russia, that is by des potism. Russia got hold of the sensible idea very read- ily. May be that young Alexander had in tho first m'omi\ t noble inclinations; he was youi!?, and the warm hearts of youth is susceptible to noble instincts. It is not' common in history; such Francis Joseph's, of Austria—so young and yet such a Nero a s he is. But few years of power were sufficient to extinguish every spark of no- ble sentiment—if there was one in Alexander's young heart. Upon the. throro? of tho Roman- ow's is the man soon absorbed by tho Autocrat, The air of the traditional powers of St. Peters- burgh is not that nir where the plant of regener- ation can grow and the sensible idea become soon a weapon of honor, oppression and Russian. I preponderance—Russia availed herself of the idea of Panslavism to break Turkey down, and to make an obedietil satellite out of Austria.— I Turkey withstands yet, but Austria has fallen in ! the snare Russia sent out its ngenls, its moneys, ils ven- omous secret diplomacy thronjrh tho\ world, it spoke to the Selavo nations of the hatred against foreign dominion—of independence of religion connected with nationality under its own supre- macy ; but chiefly it spoke to them of Panslavism under the protectorate of the Czar. The millions of its own large empire, also all oppressed—all in servitude—all a tool to his ambition ; he flattered them with the idea to become the rulers of the world, in order that they might not think of liber- ty ; he know that man's breast cannot harbor two passions at once, He gave, them ambition, and exclnded the spirit of liberty. This ambition got hold of all the Sclave nations through Europe ; so becamePanslavismtho source of a movement, not of nationality, but of the. dominion of lan- guages. That word \ language\ replaced every othersentimeDt,andso it became the curso to the development of liberty. Only one part nf the Sclavonic races saw the matter clear, and withstood the current of this* infernal Russian plot. They were the Polish democrats—the only ones who understood that to fight for liberty is to fight for nationality.— Therefore they fought in our ranks, and were willing to flock in thousands of thousands to iad us in our struggle; hut I could not arm them, so I could not accept them. We ourselves, had a hundred fold more hands ready to fight than arms—and nobody was in the world to help us with arms. There is the same origin and real nature of the question of nationalities in Europe. Now let me see what was the condition of Hungary under these circumstances. Eight hundred and fifty years ago, when the first King of Hungary, St. Stephen, becoming Christian himself, converted the Hungarian, na- tion to Christianity, it was the Roman Catholic clergy of Germany whom he invited to assist him in his pious work. They did, but it wa3 natural that the pious assistance happened also to be ac- companied \by some worldly designs. Hungary offereda wide field to the ambition of foreigners. And they persuaded the king~to (idopt a curipus principle, which he laid dpwn in his political tes- tament. That is, that i t is not good, when the people of a country is but of onecxtractipn, and speaks but one tongue. There was Vet adopted another rule; thai in, to navise the language of the Chnrch—Latin—for the diplomatic language of the government, legislature, law, and all pub- lie .proceedings. So it became of course, that tho real maimers of the country that spoke Latin. The Hungarian, scarcely yet believing Christian, spoke not'the Latin of course. This is the origin of that fatality tliat Democ- racy did not develop for centuries in Hungary. The public, proceedings having been carried on in Latin, the laws given-in Latin, the peeple were excluded frum public life. Public instruction being carried on in Latin, the great mass of the people, being agrieulturers, did hot partake in it, and the few, who out of the ranks of the peoplo, partook in it became, by the very instruction, severed and alienated from the people's interests. This dead Latin language, introduced into tho public life, of a living nation, was the most mis- chievous barrier against liberty. Tho first blow to it was stricken by the Reformation. The Prot- estant Church, introducing the national langu.ige iivtu tho Divine services, became a medium to the development of the spirit of liberty. So were ' our ancient struggles for rcHgioUbltbeitv alwavo coiri»eet(!id--vT«itVv-tK«.^^. x ^; !wwsa .„( \j Q i- ltiea i ' rights. But still, Lntm public life weiit'on su ' far as to 1780. At that time, Joseph of Haps- bnrg, aiming a t centralization, replaced the Latin by the German tongue. Thia raised the national spirit of Hungary; and our forefathers seeing that the dead Latin languago excluded the peoplo from public con- cerns, cannot bo propitious to liberty, and anx- ious to oppose the design of the Viennese Cabi- net of Germanizing Hungary, and of melting it iuto the eommonabsolutism of the Austrian dy- nasty—I say anxious to oppose this design by a cheerful public life of the peoplo itself, begun in the year 1790 passed laws in the direction that by-and-by, step by stop, tho Latin language should bo replaced in the public proceedings of the Legislature and of the Government by ally- ing language, familiar tn the people itself. And Hungary \being Hungary, what was more natu- ral than that, being in the necessity to choose one languago, they choose the Hungarian language in and for Hungary, the more beeauso that w'as the. language spoken in Hungary, not only by a comparative majority of the people, but almost by an absolute majority; that is, those who spoke Hungarian were not only more than those who spoke whatever one of the other languages, but if not more, at least equal to, all those who spoke several other languages together. Be so kind as to mark well, gentlemen, no othor language was oppressed—tho Hungarian languago was upon nobody enforced—wherever another language was in use even in public life ; for instance, of whatever ehiuvh—whatever pop- ular school—whatever community—it was not replaced hy the Hungarian language. It was only the. dead Latin which by-and-by became eliminated from tho diplomatic public life, and replaced hy the living Hungarian in Hungary. In Hungary, gentlemen,be pleased to mark it, neverwasthis measure extended into the muni- cipal public, life of Croati 1, and Sclavonia, which though belonging for 800 years to Hungary, still wore not Hungary, but a distinct nation witn distinct numioipal public life. They themselves Creations and Slavonians repeatedly urged it in the common parliment to afford Ilium opportunity tn learn the Hungarian language, that having the right they might also enjoy the benefit of being employed to common governmental officers of Hungary. This op- portunity was afforded to tliein, hut nobody was forced to. make use of it if he desired not to do so; but with the domestic, social, religeous life, of whatever other peoplo in Hungary itself, the Hungarian language did never interfere, but re- placed onlv the Latin language, which no people 1 spoko, which to no living people belonged, and t>vhich, thei'fforo wascontray to liberty, because j it exefudi'il tho' Ji..'>>;., fro,;* ,i,iy nin}e in toe public life. Willing to give freedom to tho people, we eliminate! that Latin tongue, which was an obstacle to its future. We\ did what every other nation in the world did, clearing by- it tlio way to the people's common universal lib- erty, Your country is a happy pne even in that respect, being a young nation, you did not find in your way the*Latin tongue \when you estab- lished this repulie; so you did not want a law to eliminate it from your public life. You have a living diplomatic life, which is spoken in your Congress, in your Statu Legislature', anil by which your Government rules. That language is not the. native language of your whole people —scarcely of that of a mnjurity; and yet no man in the Union take it for an oppression that Legislature and Government is not carried mi in every possible language that is spoken in the United States; and yet are found in your com- mon law, inherited from England, some Latin expressions, the affidavits, eie.; and having found it in law, you felt the necessity to stimulate it by law, as you 1 cully did. And one thing I have to mention yet. This replacing of the Lntin language by the \Hungarhn was not a work of our revolution, it was done before step by step, by-and-by from 17!H.— When we carried in'lMS our democratic reforms, and t'uve political, social, ehil and full rel'i'/ious freedom to the whole people, without distinction of religion or tongue, considering th-it unhappy excitement of tho question of language*, pre- 1 vailing through Europe hi consequence of the I Russian plot, which developed, we extended our I cares to tho eipial protection uf every tongue I nnd nationally, affording to all crpnl ritilit to all I aid out of the public funds, for the moral, re- li<jcnus ami scientific devi-lopcmotit in churches - and in schools. Nay, our revolution extendi d 1 this reganl i-ven to the political development of I every tongue, sniH'tioniii!! the free use of every, ] tongue, the municipalities and rommvil eorpora- 1 tioiis, as well as in the administration of justice itself, The promulgation of the laws in every tongue, the rijrht to petition and to claim justice I in whatever tongue, the duty of the povernment I to answer accordingly, all lliis was granted, and thus far more done\ in that rspeet also, linn whatever other nation ever accorded to the claims of tongues; by far more than the United States ever did, though there is 110 country in the. world where so many different languages are spoken as here. It is, therefore, the most calumnious misrepre- sentation, to say that the Hungarians struggled for the dominion of their own race. No! we struggled for civil, political, social, and religious freedom, common to all, against Austrian des- potism. We struggled for the great principle of self-government against centralization; and, be- cause centralization is i:bsolulism. Yes, central- ization is absolutism; it is inconsistent with constitutional rights. Austriahns given the very proof of it. The House of Austria had neverthe slighesf, intention to grant constitutional life to the nations of Europe. I will prove it on another occasion. It hates Constitutions as hell hates the salvation of human souls. But the friends of the Hapsburgs sav it has granted a consti- tution—in March, 1849. Well, where is that con- stitution now ? It was not only never executed, but it was, three months ago, formally withdrawn. Even the word Ministry is blotted out from the dictionary of the Austrian Government. Swarzenburg is again House, Cpurt, and State Chancellpr, as Metternich was; only Melternieh ruled not with the iron rule of martial law over tho whole empire of Austria; Swarzenburg does, ilatternich encroached upon the constitutional rights of Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia and Slavonia. Swarzenburg has abolished them and, the young Nero, Francis Joseph, melted all na- tions together in a common bondage, where the promised equality of nationalities is carried ott most literally to be sure, because, they arc all equally oppressed, and all equally ruled by abso- lustica't principles in. the German language.— And why was that illusory constitution with- drawn '? than an iiripiasiBity. Itisjafl'absurdity, tit is an oppression augmented by deceit. I ; cannot exhitust this vast topic in one s\pfloc\!i, I BO I go to the end. I only State'clearly my own and my nation's ruling principle, Oven in respect I-to the claims of the nationalities of languages j and- that is, we will have republican institutions, founded on universal suffrage, and so theamijori- ty of thosovereigh people shall- -rule, in, every respect, in tha village, in the city, in the coiifi- tny,i|v the Congress and govornment,in all:n.nd •everything. What to the public concerns Of the village, of the city, of -the country, of the Con- gress belongs—self governmant everywher.c=4- tho p.eeple sovor.igp everywhere—and -universal suffrage and the fills of tho majority everywhere. That is eur principle, for which wo live and arte ready to dip. This is the causo for which I hum- bly req.uos.t the protecting aid pf the people of the United States, and chiefly your aid and pro- tection, gentlemen—you, the mighty engineers of the ptihlio opinion of your glorious hind ( Let me entreat you, gentlemen, to nucord thjs protection to tho cause of my down-trodden land; it is the cause of ppprassed humanity on tho European continent. It is tho curse of GsTr many, bleeding under the scourge of somo,thirt;y petty tyrants, all leaning upon that league of despots, the basis of which is Petersburg!!. _ U is the curse pf fair hut unfortunate Italy, which, in so many respects is dear to my heart. We have a common enemy: see we are brpt,hcrs in arms for freedom and independence. I know 1 how Italy stands, and I dare confidently deelnr I therein no hope for Italy, but in that great ] Republican party,at the head of which Mazzini I stand. It has nothing to do with commoujsticid I schemes or the French doctring of s-iciidUni,-^- I But it %yills Italy independent, free and Republi- I cm. Whither \ could Italy look for \freedom ' and independence, if not to that party which 1 Muzziiii leads? To the Kins of Naples, per- ' leips. Let mo bo silent about that execrated mm Or to the dvnasty of Sardinia and Pied- mont? It professes fo l e constitutional, and it captures thoseUSIM I-IntiEai'miispldiei'swho seek an asylum in Piedmont; it Captures aha 1 'Belrydrs them to Austria t o bb shot—and they are shot 1 , increasing the number of those S.742 martyrs whom Rndotsky murdered on theseafTold during three short years. Tho house of Savoy became the blood-hound of Austria to spill Hungarian blood. ,' Gentlemen, the generous sympathy of the pub- lic opinion of tho United Stales—God he bless- ed for it?—is strongly aroused to the, wrongs and sufferings of Hungary. My humble task in that respect is done. Kow 1 look for your generous aid to keep that generous sympathy alive, that it may not subside liko the'passing emotion of the heart. I look for your generous aid to urge tho form- ation of societies to coluct funds and to create 'A loan. I look for your generous aid t o urge the pub- lie opinion- of the sovereign people of the United States to pronounce in favor of tho hunVble propositions which I had the honor to express at Corporation banquet of the city of New York, until the resolutions of the pcuple succeed to impress the favurable decision to the policy of the United States. In the respect I beg leave one single remark to make, In speaking of the principle, of mon-ad- mission of any interference in my country's do- mestic eonc'Tiis, I took the liberty to express my humble wish to see Great Britain invited to unit'o in this protective policy. The reason is, because I take the present French government for one of the oppressors—ft has interfered, and continues to interfere with Rome, But the French nation I take for 0110 of the oppressed. The French na- tion will do the same ns Hungary, Italy and Ger- many. The alliance of the French nation is in- sured by its necessary principles, if tho republic becomes a reality. Tho decisive question is what the neutral powers will do—and these aro Great Britan and the United States, Let me hopo gentlemen, that however low I may have fallen in your expectations, by this my humble address, which, though sketched down, was still without eloquence, nor hy want of time elaborate. Still following the generous impulse uf your republican hearts and considering; pot Ihe'inmerit of my humble self, but merit of the cause which 1 ple'nd, you will accord rae that protective aid or the free, independent Press, Up- on which rest, for the greater part, the hopes of my nation, and those of oppressed humanity.— And if vou generously accord mo that protective aid, I will yet also «••• fulfilled, in my own coun- try's cause, tho.\P noble words whicli you Sir, £to the Chairman) from that height where the genius of poetry soars, Have told your people, which so ont— \Truth cruslieJ to enrtji RIIOII rise ngnin; The eternal yciT* of tiod aro hers j But ('.Tor, wuiunled, writhea in painj And dies untune - Let me add, Sir, with his worsliippors.\ When the distinguished speaker look his seat, the whole assembly rose again, and testified tllhir estimation of his effort, in nine rounds of enthu- siastic cheers, followed by nine additional*,— called forfrotn the lower end of the room—for \ Louis Kossuth.' M. Kossuth rose and gave, THE Fr.nss. Fearful Revenge of a Swiss Girl. A Swiss paper states that the bonutiful valley of Chamouni has just been the scene of a terri- ble tragedy, the circumstances of which are as . follows : I A beuutiful girl, named Adelaide Zwert. was I engaged to be married to a young Chamoise ' hunter, named Carl Bigncr, to whom she had I long been tenderly attached. The marriage day was fixed, but Curl found means to postpone it, and the year piMeil away—his promise hc- I ing still imtullilkil. His evident unwillingness j at length awakened suspicion in the mind of Atl- | cinide. She became jealous and distrustful, anil ! narrowly watched ull the movements of her ' lover, until proof was no longer wanting that ! her place in his heart was lillnl by another, and 1 that Carl only awniti-il a pluusible pretext to I break with her altogether. I The young girl vowtilri-senge—and frarfnlly I has she kept her vow. Having seen nimegun- , cotton ill the hands of a Joung druggist, by I whom she was pus-innatcly though vainly loved, 1 and whose, constancy and rlevminn merited a , heller recompense, she succi oiled in obtaining ! Minn- from him—without, of course giving him i the slightest hint of the use «.he intended il fori j It was in Dppearnr.cc exactly likeordinary wad- ! dins. Carl was a greut fmoker, and she had I often remarked that sparks from his pipe had I burned holes through a woolen scarf which he was accustomed to wear r.mi.d his neck during his hunting expeditions to the mountains. Adelaide knit a double .\carf inlo which she introduced a quantity of Gun-cotton, and this \ infernal machine\ of her construction she presented, with many demonstrations of tender- ness, to her faithless lover, having obtained ill exchange, by way of a souvenir, the old ecarf be had been accustomed to wear. Chance favored Carl for surnc time ; but one evening he did not return from the chose : next day passed, and he did not appear. His family alarmed at his unwonted absence,sought him in different directions on the mountains, where they at length found hirn a lifeless and disfigured corpse—burned in the most \hocking mehner I Numerous traces around indicated that dcuth had been slow in coming, ond tho unfortunate victim hod struggled long in his agony. Adelaide, on learning how fearfully shit was avenged, was seized with remorse and imraedi J ntely gave herself up to justice, making full confession of her crime. A Bit of Advice. Because it was a lie from the beginning; be- ginning it \vas an impossibility. Arid why Sot Because i t was found upon the prmcipj.es 6f centralization, and centralized thirteen different nations, which riow groan under Austrian fuls; and yet, to have a 'coristituioftal life', is fn6re \ Marry tbe lass that, has the cow,\ was the. advice of an old gentleman to a laddie who had consulted on a choice between a girl with a cow and one with a pretty face—\ 6 0 f ar as beauty is considered, there is not the difference of a ccw between any two girls in Christendom.\ This is not my notion, however, though there, is something in it. But marry the girl who will manage your domestic offuirs to advaptogo —who is prudent, sensible, economical—if you get a good disposition, on accomplished mind i with it, i t will he nil the better; ond beauty, }( united with all these, will complete the tout cn-i scmble. . . Do not marry for money merely; there is,' neither love nor reason in that. It may buy. many line things, but it will not buy Jiappineps; ond without that a man is a poor creature. Jtp-, ney is no .objection ; it may, indeed, be on jra-f, portant object—but every plber considera.tipn.- bends.fo the .point, of being matpbed as wellfls- paired, ivhen Love and Reason join hande. -4 -».-.--
