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      Xossuth. The Following Is The Letter Add...

      ta ° thev went oT bolrl Americaa frigate * Sr -J & S Win * ia the Dardanelles On the 9 th SET'S' six o ^ ' clock in the evening , they went on instant , at » i * frjeate , and in half an hour she b ° "La anchor for ^ Dardanelles . The Turkish St guarded them until they steppedI Into . -S S / ruid iff & « s . i ^ S ^^ rhe 31 st of Augusfto the 7 th instant . On the day of her departure the whole crew gathered on deck , and the commander , after having refreshed their memories by reading over the martial laws , explained to them the object of the voyage , and the importance attached to the to tneir

      persons entrusted care ; nnany , ue renmreu «*«« to swear by oath that they would defend them to the last drop of their blood . The frigate then fired twenty-one cuns which were responded by the Turkish battery , and left for the Dardanelles , where the prisoners were to arrive on the 10 th instant . Turkey has rendered to the Hungarian cause two signal services : —1 . The reception and the non-delivery of the emigrants over to Austria . 2 . The liberation of Kossuth in spite of the greatest efforts made by Russia and Austria to prevent such a result . The Republican Government of the United States , by strongly insisting upon Kossuth ' liberation , took for the first time , so to a part in a European cause .

      say , The English ship which was announced to appear m the Dardanelles , in order to take on board those who might wish to sail to England , has not , for reasons yet unknown , arrived at all . . Two Poles , Shpachek and Lusakowski , have volunt - > ered to accompany Kossuth to America . Yesterday a pilot-boat was sent out from Southampton to meet the Jupiter steamer , which was daily expected , and which might possibly bring Kossuth , in order that a signal might be hoisted on board of her , so that the authorities may be made aware of his arrival , if he does come in the Jupiter . It has been determined that the illustrious exile shall

      remain about five or six hours in Southampton previous to his departure for the mayor ' s seat near " Winchester , in order that time may be given for a special train to arrive from London with friends , and for the numerous addresses to be presented to him . After landing , he will be conducted in a carriage and four to the Koyal York Hotel , from whence he will proceed to the Guildhall to receive the corporation address . The Mayor continued to receive an immense number of . communications from all parts of the country respecting Kossuth , and also an immense number of letters and despatches addressed to his care for the great Magyar himself . Amongst the letters addressed to the latter is a registered letter , containing apparently a Bank note . Ihis

      letter appears to have been posted in England in August last . It is addressed to " laid wig Kossuth , Kutayah , " and there ia writing on it signifying that the party to whom the letter was addressed has left Kutayah , and also the words , «« Try Southampton . " Kossuth will be the guest of the mayor until the day of the banquet . On the night of the banquet the great Hungarian will sleep at the American consulate . The day after a balcony will be erected outside the consulate , when a magnificent flag , which was made for the distinguished chief by Magyars of New York and sent to him during the heroic struggle in Hungary for freedom , but which was detained at some custom-house in this country and rescued by accident , will be displayed . From this balcony Kossuth will most probably address the populace . The consulate faces an open apace which will hold

      30 , 000 persons . Intelligence has reached Southampton that no Hungarian refugee will be allowed to leave France to viait England during the stay of Kosauth in this country , and then return to France .

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      A Reflex Of The "Agricultural Mind." For...

      A REFLEX OF THE " AGRICULTURAL MIND . " For some weeks past the agricultural mind has made a good display of itself . With wonderful simplicity it has been unfolded ; and from time to time we have quoted remarkable speeches made at agricultural dinners and cattle shows . Wo have another batch before us . They clearly show that Protection , as a thing to be hoped for or worked for , is abandoned ; and they further show that great uncertainty prevails as to what it will be best to do to Hupply the gap in the breeches pocket , said to be left bv the withdrawal of the sliding-scale . that it i for

      Norfolk is satisfied " » impossible farmora to live at present prices ; " but hopeless of getting back artificial prices . The Cumberland fiu morn were positively annoyed at the Penrith gathering , becauBO ono of their number ventured to hope for a return of the " invigorating rays of prosperity . " Those " rays , " alas , never would rolurn . Mr . George Carr Glyn met the men of Westmoreland on the 27 th , at Kendal , and introduced a liurd , nuinly speech , by this pithy exordium received " with " loud checra . " " My business / ' said he , " is to deal with facts , and now that Protection is departed , it is our duty to meet the times . " Ilia way of meeting the times woo by looking ut the brightest

      side of things , abandoning " old-fashioned ways , " cheapening the cost of production , " and " extending markets , " judiciously introducing machinery , not pulling long faces , nor talking of being rumed . Of course he got no answer ; Mr . Ellison only observing , that he 4 id not want high duties ; hut with this exception [ duties o f some kind , we presume , on corn ] , he was as much a Free-trader as any man . Whereupon , " loud laughter and cheers . " , Mr . Kobert Palmer met some friends at Wokmgham , on the 26 th . He seemed alarmed at what he had said at Maidenhead . The Times had misrepre-____ . _

      sented him . He meant to say that he had no hope of the restoration of Protection , " at the present time" ! and even here the Chairman , Mr . Henry Clive , ventured to remark , that the labourers were most " prosperous , " and that the tenant farmers " could not be in such a bad condition as they represented , because he never saw any of the farms given up . " Perhaps Surrey bears away the bell for out-speaking . Mr . Freshfield presided over the S urrey dinner , at Epsom , on the 30 th . There was a goodly gathering of notables . Mr . Felix Ladbroke broke the ice and the rules , and the torrent once allowed to flow , rattled along pretty fast .

      * 'I think when we have got the county members we ought to hear what they have got to say on these topics . ( Very great cheering and cries of " Bravo . ' ) What we want to know are our future prospects . { Cheers . ) We have got in the harvest , and in my own name , and in that of gentlemen present , we would desire to be very thankful to Almighty God for the abundant harvest with which we are blessed—( cheers )—but , after saying that , I regret to add that there are still very gloomy prospects over us . ( Sear , hear . ) Mr . Alcock , the Liberal and Free-trade member for one division of the county , was the first to speak . Of course , he could not make a speech and say nothing of ' guano , " its dearness , and the monopoly which the Peruvian Government have of it . Put when that was ended , he turned full upon Protection .

      •* If I were , however , to venture an opinion on the subject of Protection , I would say , as to this 5 s . duty which I have heard mentioned , that if I did not object to it , as I do , on principle—if I was not prepared to vote against it on that ground , I would not condescend to accept this dirty , trumpery , pitiful duty of 5 s . I tell you ( said the hon . member , at each epithet striking his left hand very violently with his right ) , it is a dirty , pitiful , trumpery , absurd piece of nonsense . ( A laugh . ) I would take a farm of 500 acres , farmed in the highest style , and what is this paltry sum of £ 50 , that any one should be trying to humbug me by persuading me to accept it . ( A laugh . ) All they would get would be 2 s . 6 d . per quarter upon 100 acres . And what is that ?

      " Why it is £ 50 ! And what man is there with 400 acres of land , and £ 4000 of capital , who would be so base , and shabby , and pitiful , as to accept of £ 50 a year to break through the magnificent principle of free-trade . ( Cries of " Oh , oh , " " Chair , chair , and laughter . ) I don ' t believe—I say , I don ' t believe—( interruption and cries of" Order " )—I don ' t believe there ' s a man in the room who has 400 , or 500 , or GOO acres , or less , who would condescend to accept this paltry , trumpery sum , of a 5 s . duty— £ 50 a-year upon one of the largest farms in the whole county . ' Mr . Alcock continued to speak with great vehemence of tone and action , pointing out how , if the landed interest were ruined , he would be ruined .

      " I depend upon land solely , totally , and without any equivocation whatever ; and do you think I will , with my eyea open , allow that interest to be carried away and lost to me and to yourselves , if 1 can help it ? I have desired to show you this , that I am in earnest about it . [ It is scarcely possible to convey an idea of the vehemence of the honourable member ' s manner throughout . ] I'll vote against the slightest duty whatever , and I'll not support any fixed duty of any kind for one single moment ; and this I'll tell you also , if the single vote depended upon me , I would chuck you and your Protection over , [ the excitement of the honourable member here reached its height , and though there was some interruption here , there was more laughter , rather , perhaps , at the manner than the matter of the honourable member , and the Saxon simplicity with which this declaration was made . ]

      Mr . Henry Drummond next opened liis lips , but the spectacle of Mr . Alcock ' s boyish earnestness seems to have cooled him down . lie would not reject a five shillings fixed duty ; not he . If he did not have it—it was because he could not got it . They would never get it while political power wus diatributcd as it wan . " Every country is bounded by nature as to ita productiveness , and it is infatuation on the part of any Government which docs not give protection to that which is the

      peculiar creature of its own soil in preference to any oth « rfloil . ( Very great cheering . ) Can you doubt that when a fail me of the wheat harvest does arise—production having been reduced here b y large importationsthat you will have this , und then the country will recover its Menses ? The country is prosperous . Ho it ho . The labourers are happy . Grunted ; but only remember the time is coming when they may have nothing to cut ( Cheera . ) We ahull not have corn enough for our oidinary consumption , still less for an extra year of demand . That ' s my opinion .

      Mr . Ireshfiold declured that ho would accept a duty of live shillings or anything ho could got ; and that Yfkonovw tUo quoatiou of justice to UKriculturo ia

      , be given for anything and everything that appeared calculated to support the interests of agriculture . Mr . Page said that " If they had to compete with all the world with their hands tied up , to attempt to persuade a party of ruined , starving farmers , that there was any hope for them if that system continued , was a mere mockery . ( Loud cheers . )" In some localities the darkness that overspreads the agricultural mind is fearful . A Mr . Turnell , one o the judges at Wellingborough , delivered himself as follows : —• ** ..

      " It was impossible for them , at present prices , to stay in England . Nothing , however , stirred the Free-trade citizens . Born in London , they never came out to see the real aspect of affairs , and so long as they got money they didn 't care how or from whom . It was perfectly notorious that of late years farmers had not met their expenses out of profits but out of capital . That was an unnatural state of things , and if something were not done it must soon cease . What was the farmer ' s position ? On the one hand he was taxed up to the eyes ; on the other hand the foreigner brought his stuff in free and could not

      monopolized the market . The farmer grow his barley and use it as he pleased without paying a very , heavy per centage . ( Hear , hear . ) The was no Free trade in that . ( Hear . ) He trusted that the gentlemen who heard him , and who were , no doubt , acquainted with men of power in high places , would tell them the real state of the case . Farmers were fast sickening of this state of things . As a result they could not , and they would not , pay the taxes . ( Hear , hear . ) If taxes were wanted they must be fetched . If the Goveanment wouldn ' t help them they must try and help themselves . '*

      Mr . Sharman " would advise agriculturists to unite to oppose the malt tax , the house tax , and the income tax . ( Hear , hear . )" " Let them but unite , and they would soon attain their desires , and protection , too , in some way or other , must follow . ( Cheers . ) He hoped they might live to see better times , for it was a sorrowful thing to toil hard for a continuous loss . ( Hear , hear . ) His only hope lay in the fact that agricultural depression was beginning to react upon the tradesmen . There was scarcely one who did not feel a difference ; and his sorrow , his sympathy , and assistance would follow as a" matter of course . "

      The Earl of Wilton , at Radcliffe , in Lancashire , said that he " had not the slightest doubt , that if the landlord , the tenant , the manufacturer , and the agriculturist all pulLed together , a great amount of additional produce might yet be raised from the soil . ( Cheers . )" At Ledbury , Herefordshire , Mr . W . James thought that there was no hope from growing wheat . 11 They were led to understand that the Legislature

      could do nothing for them ; so all they had to do was to keep down their local taxation—( hear )—to endeavour to persuade the landlords to put down their game preserves , and make the tenants the gamekeepers — ( renewed cries of' Hear , hear / ' )—to cut down timber where the tenant had to pay rent for the land it grew upon —( loud cries of i Hear , hear 1 . ' )—and to get their rent reduced ono half . ( Vehement cheering . ) If that would not do , then agriculture must be in a hopeless state . ( Laughter . )"

      Lastly , Mr . Disraeli has again spoken—cleverly , of course—to the farmers of { South Bucks . He says , Protection to one class is out of the question—it must be to all or none ; and that their chief grievance is , that they are suffering under a weight of taxation , the removal of which is the only practical thing to be done . " ltemuneratioii of price is of much more consequence , " exclaims a listener . "Yes , " replies Mr . Disraeli ; " but one of the sources of ; remuneration of price in the reduction of the cost of production . " " That won ' t do it , " again shouts tlio listener . " Yes , it will , " cries Mr . Disraeli ; ?* for it

      you lessen the taxes , you lessen , the coat of . produce tion . " Then he adverted to his famous theory of tho land being the raw material of the agriculturist ; told them , that if they listened to the advice of any other than the member for Buckinghamshire , then addressing them , their grievances would be unredreased ; made merry with the men of Manchester , with railway ( speculators , and tradesmen who could not keep accounts ; and having put his hearers iu good humour with themselves , ho returned to tho old subjected , und advocated some removal of tho burdens of taxation from the agricultural back , on to the back of somebody else . The whole speech seemed to be a product of the necessity for any ing something , and the conviction that , at present , it would be a deal more convenient to say nothing .

      Oxfo1ci) And Itlil-'Ohm. Oxford And Oxfo...

      OXFO 1 CI ) AND Itlil- 'OHM . Oxford and Oxfordshire untcrtuincri thitir representatives on Thursday week , in the Towiiluili <> t the fumous old city . Tho dinner would have no importance for us were it not thut her . Majesty s Solicitor-General happen * to bo one of ( lie members for Oxford . tfir W . Patf" Wood , in his Hpeeeh adverted to the topic of tho new Jt « l » rm Kill , and aniil that ho had refund ono of tho new Chancery iiHlgoBhipH ; becuiiHO he felt , that hh a measure ot reform was about to be proposed , his proper place was in tho JIouho of Commons : — " Ho know no » ' <> ro of tn : it mtuHurc tuau niB co ' - lougue ; and if lie did , ha would ptobubly be uuuWc to

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11101851/page/3/