Fields, to present an Address to Kossuth. The people
assembled in Russell Square; in consequence of an
invitation from the " Central Demonstration
Committee," and walked in procession to Copenhagen
Fields, where they were met by M. Kossuth, with a
party of his friends. He addressed the multitude from
a balcony of Copenhagen House, in a long and eloquent
speech, which could be heard only by a small portion of
the assembly, but is fully reported in the journals of the
day. It is estimated that 25,000 persons were present.
The utmost enthusiasm, and at the same time perfect
order, prevailed. In the evening the committee with a
number of their friends dined at the Highbury Barn
Tavern, but Kossuth was not present. The company
consisted chiefly of the working classes. Mr. Thornton
Hunt, the chairman of the committee, presided, and
there were present, Mr. Feargus O'Connor, M.P., M.
Louis Blanc, Mr. G. W. M. Reynolds, Mr. Bronterre
O'Brien, Mr. G. F. Holyoake, Mr. Ruffey, Mr. Waller,
Mr. Nicholls, Mr. Pettie (the secretary), and several
other members of the committee.

A deputation from the Society of the Friends of
Italy, headed by Mr. F. A. Taylor, presented an Address
to Kossuth on the 5th. In his reply Kossuth pronounced
a warm eulogy on Mazzini, and expressed his
sympathy with the cause of Italian freedom.

In pursuance of previous arrangements, Kossuth
visited Birmingham and Manchester on the 10th and
11th. On his journey from London thousands of people
assembled at Wolverton, Coventry, and other places
on the road, who hailed him as he passed, with
great enthusiasm. He was received at Birmingham by
Mr. Geach, Mr. Scholefield, and Mr. Muntz, the members
of Parliament, and by a committee appointed for
that purpose. A procession of the trades of Birmingham
was formed to accompany him in his progress through
the town. In its nucleus it consisted of chosen "fifties"
from the various trades, bearing the banner of their
association; but the "fifty" was in every instance
swelled to hundreds of thousands, all the manufacturing
districts, from far away into the Potteries, and even
Sheffield, having sent their large quotas of deputed men.
At the head of the cortège were men bearing the flags of
England, Hungary, America, Turkey, Italy, and
Poland; and the old standard of the Political Union, so
famous in the years of the Reform agitation. Kossuth's
carriage was surrounded by a body-guard of 150
gentlemen on horseback; and neor it marched a body
of Hungarians bearing the Hungarian standard, and
another band of one hundred Frenchmen. A little
before Kossuth entered the principal part of the town,
his carriage was stopped, and the entire procession
marched past him, that all might gain a sight of him.
All the exertions of his body-guard were necessary to
restrain the enthusiasm of the people. The procession
necessarily moved slowly, and was many times stopped
in consequence of the enormous pressure on every side.
As it approached the Bull Ring, the mass of people was
such that it was fearful to look upon: it was one vast sea
of human heads as far as the eye could reach; every
nook, every gullet, every alley, and every lane, every
window, and every parapet, presented their hundreds of
the population. From the corner of the Coventry Road
to the Bull Ring occupied nearly one hour, so slow was
the progress made. As the cortège turned out of New
Street the effect was very fine: there were impromptu
scaffoldings, bearing hundreds of people; omnibuses at
anchor crowded even to the tire of the wheels; from
Deritend to the Town Hall there was scarcely a window
without a banner, and from the hands of thousands of
ladies streamed ribands of the Hungarian tricolor.
Triumphal arches overspread the streets. The numbers
present are variously estimated, from a hundred thousand
to half–a–million; the medium number may perhaps be
taken. The procession reached the "Five Ways" at
four o'clock, and soon afterwards Mr. Geach expressed
the gratitude of M. Kossuth; explained that the state
of his chest forbade any attempt to address them in the
open air; and gave the signal of dispersion. The
carriages then drove off, amid the deafening shouts of
the multitude.

On the following day, Kossuth's reception at
Manchester, though less regularly organised, was equally
enthusiastic and imposing. Several Hungarians were
among those who waited his arrival at the station.
They embraced him in a most impassioned manner; and
a lady among them, after kissing his hand repeatedly
with fervour, presented to him her child for his notice;
M. Kossuth kissed the child, and returned it to the
proud mother. Mr. Henry and Mr. Kershaw, members
of Parliament, were at the head of a numerous
deputation from the committee of reception. From the
railway station the cortége took the way to Piccadilly
and Market Street; but the crowds of people were so
immense, that it was difficult, with all the aid the police
could give, to make way through them. The numbers
who filled the streets, windows, and balconies, were
even greater than those assembled at Birmingham.
But the most remarkable proof of the public sympathy
in Manchester was given in the number of applications
for tickets to be present in the Free Trade Hall, to hear
Kossuth speak: the committee consisted of a thousand
of the first names in the locality, and the applications
they received for tickets, from persons of all shades in
politics, exceeded one hundred thousand. Of these the
hall, though it is the largest building of the kind in the
world, would not contain more than about seven thousand
In hopes of a glimpse, or an occasinnal tone, vast
numbers thronged all the avenues to the building, and
waited patiently to the end of the meeting.

An Address from the people of Manchester was
presented by Mr. Bright; and addresses were then
presented by delegates from Ashton, Liverpool, Bury,
Burnley, Denton, Halifax, Heywood, Rochdale, the
Staffordshire Potteries, Stockport and Wrexham; Kossuth
replied at considerable length and with his usual
eloquence; and the meeting separated, after having
voted thanks to the Sultan of Turkey, and the government
and people of the United States for their practical
sympathy with Kossuth.

On the 12th, Kossuth returned to Birmingham, and a
Grand Banquet was given to him in the Town Hall.
The tickets of admission were a sovereign each, and
nearly a thousand persons sat down to dinner. Kossuth's
health was given by Mr. Scholefield; and his speech
in acknowledgment of the toast was one of the most
powerful of his oratorical efforts. Speeches were made
by M. Pulszky, Mr. George Dawson, Mr. Muntz and
others; and the enthusiastic tone of the meeting was
sustained till it broke up at midnight.

Addresses from the metropolitan boroughs of Westminster,
Southwark, Marylebone, Lambeth, and Finsbury,
were presented to Kossuth on the 13th at a
meeting held for that purpose at the Hanover-square
Rooms. An address was also presented from "the
Ladies' Association." In making his acknowledgments,
Kossuth gave this last address the precedence. "You
must allow me," he said, "to answer the ladies first,
because politeness and the warm sentiments they have
expressed require me to do so. Ladies, you have a
glorious lot assigned to you by destiny—for the Author
of Nature has decreed that every man, whomsoever he
may be, whatever his condition, whatever his fate,
should bear throughout his life the seal which the
angelic hand of a mother has impressed upon him. The
ladies of a country mirror its character. They are our
refuge from the cares of life; and when we fall into
adversity, where do we withdraw for consolation, but
to you and to your sympathies? I speak as I found
them. And if the struggle for a noble cause is
unhappily surrounded with difficulties unforeseen, where
is the source from which man draws new strength?
Your approbation, ladies, your smile. God bless you,
ladies, for having given me this approbation. Here, I
swear before you and the Almighty God that you have
added strength to my strength, and that I will go on in
my work to the last moment of my life, truly, honestly,
and energetically."—This being his last opportunity of
addressing the people of England, he desired to make
a final declaration of his principles. "There is not one
of them," he said, "which is not connected with the
victory or the downfall of the principle of the liberty in
the world. When the public opinion of England proceeds
to put in action those levers of the omnipotency of
public spirit which were moved to secure progress and
reform, when you are dealing with any internal