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uffer the President has invited Kossuth to be his guest, 1851.
"0d given orders for kis reception with military honours ? Ar. 47.
Assuredly, these Democrats are destined to turn the diplo-Matic
 world upside down.
“You are quite right in saying that Palmerston wants to
Rake political capital ont of Kossuth. His tools have suc-®eeded
 in getting a vote of thanks for him in Southampton,
Where the good folks have been in far too great a bustle to
think of what they are doing. But you will have observed
that Kossuth himself avoids saying anything in praise of
Palmerston,”
“Nov. 4. (To F. W. Cobden.)—1It seems Kossuth will not
80 to Yorkshire,and I do not see the necessity of my attending
the Manchester banquet. The Times has had a slap in the
face which it will not soon forget or forgive. It has been
fairly cowed by the universal execration it bas brought upon
self. Yet what an absurd position we are in. So com-Pletely
 dictated to and domineered over by one newspaper,
*hat it vequives a periodical revolt of the whole people to
keep the despot in tolerable order | If we had, as we might
have, a dozen daily morning papers, of all prices, ropresent-0g
 all opinions, and holding each other in check, there
Would be no necessity for these public meetings to protest
Against the misrepresentation of the press; which, so far as
L take a part in them, are nob the most safe or convenient,
for ons 34 always in danger of being identified with those
Who give vent in the excitement of the moment to very
sound and bellicose sentiments.”
“ November 7. (To Mr. Bright.)— As respects Sturge’s plan
of universal suffrage, although I am convinced we shall come
it some day, I do not think it weuld have so much support
from the electoral body as household suffrage. And we are
bo apt to forget that the mass of the people, however
®nthosiagtio in favour of universal suffrage, have nob the