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Speeches af, Leeds, Bradford, Manchester, and others of the 1850.
Q0rthepy towus, saying over again with new illustrations Zn 48.
“hat he had been saying during the previous session about
Totrenchment, readjusted taxation, the necessity of lessened
UMaments, the impolicy of our colonial relations. People
listeneq, were keenly mnterested, and in the course of years
the geeq which Cobden was sowing germinated and bore
800d fruit, But there wore for the moment certain trans-Actions
 in Eastern Europe which stirred popular passion in
Englang to the depths, and prepared the way for those
fortunate events which five years later seemed to dash the
"hole fabric of Cobden’s hopes down to the ground.
The ungarian War of Independence was one of the most
®arkable incidents in the revolutionary outburst of 1848,
5 its suppression was one of the most important episodes
the absolutist reaction which so speedily followed. The
Crar of Russia came to the aid of the Emperor of Austria ;
iter brave resistance the Hungarian forces were forced
fo Surrender to the Russian goneral ; while Kossuth and
Others of the patriotic leaders crossed the frontier into the
Turkig, provinces, and placed themselves under the probection
 of the Ottoman Porte. The two northern powers
lomar deg that the refugees should be handed over by the
Tur kish government, and for some time Europe looked with
Wense oxcitement upon the diplomatic struggle. Cobden
hared to the full the vehement indignation with which his
“Untrymen had watched these evil transactions. At the
me time he did not fail to see the danger of this just
Sy Mpathy with a good cause turning into an irresistible ery
for 4rmed intervention on behalf of Hungarian Independence
nd its champions. It must be owned that Cobden’s position
Mas q very delicate one. It seems to the present writer to
be Impossible to state the principle of non-intervention in
"tional and statesmanlike terms, if it is under all circum-Mom