The Hungarians are about to celebrate (on the 10th inst.)
the centenary of the birth of Louis Kossuth, and the Ministry are rather perplexed. They honour Kossuth as a patriot and a hero, but they cannot forget that he proclaimed the deposition of the Hapsburgs, and died rejecting the reconciliation between Crown and people which his wiser countrymen accepted. He could not pardon the introduction of a Russian army. They will therefore abstain from the celebration. It would be wiser in them to pardon Kossuth's blunders as they would have pardoned the man. There was no proof that the Hapsburgs, whose temptation previously had been tyranny, would keep their pledges with the fidelity they have displayed, and Kossuth considered that his country had un- forgettable wrongs to avenge. The fact that they have all been condoned, and that the Magyars are loyal to their King- Emperor, is one of a hundred proofs that the withe which ties the Hapsburg States together is of almost indissoluble strength. No Revolutionist, not even Garibaldi, ever had such sympathy in England as Louis Kossuth, a fact due, we imagine, not only to his genius and his disinterestedness, but to a rooted persuasion that liberty under the Hapsburgs was impossible, an impression which has now disappeared. They understand how to rule a Federal Empire.
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