everywhere they have signally failed. In Warwickshire,
Derbyshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire,
Staffordshire, the battles were fought by the opponents
with a determination that betrayed a last effort, but all
was unavailing, every paid-up allottee was declared
qualified, and their names now grace the registration
lists of those counties; and the council urge upon every
gentleman present the necessity of calling the attention
of the solicitors, secretaries, and committees of every
society, to see that each qualified man makes his claim.
The council feel happy in making known to you that
Ireland is likely to be blessed by the freehold land
movement. Already there are being organised in that
country institutions applying our principle to agricultural
purposes, and this, if properly carried out, cannot
but confer upon Ireland a benefit that shall be lasting
in its effects." The report was unanimously adopted.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

The tenth birth-day of the Prince of Wales, the 9th
instant, was celebrated at Windsor, with the usual
festivities.

The Queen and Prince Albert, with the royal family,
left Windsor, on the 22nd, for Osborne.

Earl Fitzwilliam has been elected a Knight of the
Garter.

Mr. Benjamin Hawes, late Under-Secretary for the
Colonies, has been appointed Under-Secretary at War,
in place of Mr. Sullivan, who retires. Mr. F. Peel is
appointed Under-Secretary for the Colonies.

Mr. Alison has been re-elected Lord Rector of the
University of Glasgow.

Lord John Russell has granted £500 to Lieutenant
Pim, from the Treasury, towards paying his expenses to
Siberia in search of Sir John Franklin. Captain Spencer
Robbins, a Foreign Service Messenger, has been
appointed by Lord Palmerston to accompany Lieutenant
Pim, R.N., as far as St. Petersburg, on his expedition.

Christopher Temple, Esq., has been appointed Chancellor
of the County Palatine of Durham, in room of
Sir Richard Kindersley, appointed a Vice-Chancellor.

Dr. Newman has been elected President of the Irish
Catholic University.

The Duke of Argyle has been elected Chancellor of
the University of St. Andrew's, in the room of Viscount
Melville.

The Duke of Northumberland has given orders for
the construction of a thousand new and comfortable
dwellings, for the labourers on His Grace's estates in
Northumberland.

Motions of votes of Thanks to the late Lord Mayor,
Sir John Musgrove, in the court of aldermen and court
of common council, have encountered considerable
hostility. In the court of aldermen, on the 18th, alderman
Wilson moved thanks to the late Lord Mayor,
generally, for the zeal, ability, and judgment with
which he had discharged his duties; and particularly
for the manner in which he had sustained the dignity of
the office on the late occasion of the Queen's visit to the
Corporation at Guildhall, and for the manner in which he
had maintained the civic hospitalities of the city. Much
discussion ensued; the Mayor's conduct in regard to the
Queen's visit, the visit of the Corporation to Paris, and
other matters; and ultimately it was agreed that the
motion should pass, after being stripped of the
particular praises added to the general tribute in the first
sentence. In the court of common council, the motion
of thanks was met by an amendment, proposed by Mr.
de Jersey, censuring the chief magistrate of the City
of London for sanctioning a desecration of the Sabbath,
by taking part in the fêtes of Versailles on that day.
Mr. de Jersey's motion, not being seconded, fell to the
ground, and the original vote of thanks was carried by
118 to 8.

The Address to M. Kossuth, voted by the Corporation
of London, was presented to him on the 30th of October,
in the Guildhall. It was his desire that his visit to the
city should be as private and quiet as possible; but, in
his way from his residence in Eaton Place, he was
enthusiastically cheered by vast multitudes of people, in the
streets and windows. On entering the Guildhall, he
was received by the Lord Mayor and Corporation, and
the address was read and presented with the usual
formalities. M. Kossuth made an eloquent reply. He
expressed his gratitude for the honour done him by the
Corporation, and the sympathy expressed by thousands
as he passed along the streets; he eulogised the
greatness, freedom, and social order of England, mainly
defended by her municipal institutions. With regard
to his own objects, he said he did not wish to engage
their sympathy for the purpose of armed intervention
in the cause of Hungary, but to excite them to express
an opinion that Hungarian freedom was worthy of their
approbation and ought to prevail. "I have often (he
said,) repeated the humble request, let your sympathies
and your wishes not remain barren. When I spoke
that, I intended not to ask England to take up arms for
the restoration of Hungary to its independence and
liberties. No, gentlemen, that is the affair of Hungary
itself; we will provide for our own freedom. All I wish
is, that the public opinion of England may establish it
to be a ruling principle of the politics of Europe to
acknowledge the right of every nation to dispose of its
own internal concerns, and not to give a charter to the
Czar to dispose of the fate of nations, and so not to allow
the interference of Russia in the domestic concerns
either of Hungary, or of whatever other nations on the
continent, because the principles of freedom are in
harmony, and I love—I am interested in—the freedom of
all other countries as well as of my own. These are the
words which I again and again will repeat here in
England, and there in the United States, from a most
honoured member of which I have had the honour to
hear principles, which once quite carried into effect,
would and will give liberty to the world. I have heard
it proclaimed from an honoured citizen of the United
States, the honoured object of the sympathy and
confidence of a great part of his countrymen, even a
candidate to become the chief magistrate of the United States
—I have heard him in answer to my appeal, declare that
he believes the younger brother of the English race
very heartily will give his hand to England to protect
oppressed nations, not admitting interference with their
domestic affairs." "Do not (he exclaimed in conclusion)
grant a charter to the Czar to dispose of humanity. Do
not grant a charter to the despots to drown liberty in
Europe's blood. Save the myriads who else would
bleed, and be the liberators of the world." M. Kossuth
was often interrupted by bursts of cheering, and as he
sat down the excited audience greeted him with shouts,
again and again renewed. After a few moments' pause,
he quitted the hall, and returned through the crowded
streets, amidst renewed demonstrations of popularity,
to Eaton Place.

An Address was presented to Kossuth, on the 31st
ult. by a deputation from the French "proscrits" now
in London. The address professed to be from " Republicans,
Revolutionists, and Socialists,"—men, "consequently
not attracted towards you by either the éclat of
your title or the renown of your name." It above all
felicitated Kossuth on his letter to the city of Marseilles.
In his reply, M. Kossuth acknowledged that he wished
he could have traversed France—"But Louis Napoleon
has contrived that the French Republic, which has
proscribed its founders, should no longer be an asylum,
nor even a place of refuge, for republicans of other
countries. My address to the city of Marseilles has
made known that in my heart I should not make
France responsible for the inhospitality of Louis
Bonaparte." He declared himself "convinced that there is
nothing possible henceforth in Europe but the republic
based on universal suffrage, with the principle of the
solidarity of peoples and the independence of nations."
He added—"If I have not manifested in England that
thought which I expressed at Marseilles, it is because I
do not wish to interfere in the affairs of a country
which gives me hospitality, and whose assistance I
desire for the future of Hungary; for which, I repeat,
I wish the republic based upon universal suffrage."

On the 3rd inst. there was an immense assemblage of
the working classes of the metropolis, in Copenhagen