31] ENGLISH OPINION ON RUSSIAN INTERVENTION. 571

Man in Manchester, which might have been better spared IR...
for & fitter occasion. What we want is a sounder public Zr. 47.
®Pinion upon the question of national rights and the sove-Telgnty
 of peoples. If we could make up our own minds, as
2 Community, that the Russian intervention in Hungary was
% violation of the independence of a nation, we should not
*equire fo threaton war to make our opinion influential
But what were the facts, and what are now the facts ? As
the time when the Czar moved his army across the Carpathians,
 not only were we not agreed as a people in condemning
 the act, but the Times, Guardian, and all the Tory
Papers, took a view of the intervention favourable to Russia.
fven Lord Palmerston, in the House, spoke apologetically
of it, And even now the Times leans to the same side. The
Whole of the Tory party and the aristocracy are holding
Blof from the Kossuth demonstration. It is clear that we
Want an enlightened and reformed opinion upon the subject
of non.intervention. Kossuth has done much to change
the tone, pnd I think if 1849 had now to be gone through
82ain, there would be such a demonstration of opinion as
Would scare Nicholas from his prey. But there is still very
uch to be done, and I can imagine nothing more calculated
to retard the progress of sound public opinion than to invite
the People to embark in a fresh war 1a favour of Bungurian
liberty,»