yourself up with the affairs of our church.' Since Russia has restored the house of Hapsburg, for a brief time, the Jesuits have obtained full power to act.” "As to the practical result to which aggrieved humanity, and especially my poor country, said Kossuth, still looks forward with manly resolution, with unshaken courage and hope—I repeat what I have elsewhere already said, when I said, let not your sympathies remain barren; help to carry my nation's cause to a happy issue. You have the power. Help! when I spoke so, I intended not to ask England to take up arms for our liberties. No, gentlemen, that is the affair of Hungary; we will provide for cur own freedom. (Cheers.) All I wish is, that public opinion should establish, as the ruling principle in the politics of England, the acknowledgment of the right of nations to dispose of their own affairs-not to give a charter to the Czar to dispose of whole nations (vehement and prolonged cheering); and not to allow the interference of Russia in the domestic concerns either of Hungary, or of whatever nation on the continent, because the freedom of all nations and the property of all countries is as dear to me as my own. Yes, these words I again, and again, and again repeat-here, in England, afterwards in the United States; and I must add that, from one of the most honoured members of the States of America I had lately, the other day, the honour of hearing sentiments which, once carried into effect, will give liberty to the world. * I heard him state, in answer to this appeal, that he believed that younger brother of the English race would heartily give his support to England in protecting my people, by not admitting the interference of other nations. (Cheers.) I again and again repeat that word-I repeat it with the faith of a martyr in his principles-I repeat it with the faith which removes mountains. I shall concentrate all the fire of my sentiments, I shall concentrate all the blood of my heart, and all the energies of my mind, upon this cause. I shall repeat these words high and loud, deep and solemn, till the almighty echo of public opinion, in repeating them, become like the thunder sound, before which the giant of human oppression falls. (Loud cheers.) Sooner, indeed, this feeble frame may succumbsooner it may succumb to the longing of this heart to see my fatherland independent and free; which longing beats everlastingly in my bosom, as the captive lion beats against his iron cage; but even then, the grass which grows over my grave will cry out to England and America, "Do not forget, in your proud security, those nations who are oppressed-do not grant a charter to the Czar to dispose of humanity-do not grant a charter to despots to drown liberty in Europe's blood-save the millions who otherwise must, the millions who will bleed; and, by not granting that charter, be the liberators of the world." "If to belong to the working classes implies a man whose livelihood depends on his own honest and industrious labour, then none among you has more right to call himself a working man than I so to call myself. I inherited nothing from my dear father, and I have lived my whole life by my own honest and industrious labour. (Cheers.) This my condition, I consider to have been my first claim to my people's confidence, because well they knew, that being in that condition, I must intimately know the wants, the sufferings, and the necessities of the people. And so assuredly it was. It is therefore that I so practically devoted my life to procure and to secure political and social freedom to my people, not to a race, not to a class, but to the whole people; besides, I devoted all my life for many years, by the practical means of associations, to extend the benefit of public instruction to the working classes, and to forward the material welfare of the agriculturists, of the manufacturers, and of the trading men. (Cheers.) Among all the enterprises to that effect of that time of my life, when I was yet in no public office, but a private man, there is none to which I look back with more satisfaction and pride than to the association for the encouragement of manufacturing industry-to its free schools, to its exhibitions, to its press, and to its affiliations. Besides conferring immense material benefits, it proved also politically beneficial, by bringing in closer contact and more friendly relations the different classes of my dear native land, by interesting the work ing classes in the public political concerns of our nation, and by so developing a strongly united public opinion to support me in my chief aim, which was conserving the municipal and constitutional institutions of my country-to substitute for the privileges of single classes the political emancipation of the whole people, and substituting freedom for class privileges-to impart to the people the faculty of making the constitution a common benefit to all-for all: in a word, to transform the closed hall of class privileges into an open temple of the people's liberty. (Loud cheers.)" Kossuth is, in the Providence of God, a great man before the world. He is awakening sympathy in behalf of popular rights; forming a public sentiment against despotism; rallying the oppressed and sorrowing, and holding forth to them on high a glorious ensign of hope. His name is identified with Liberty and Protestantism. He is the representative of Hungary, as Hungary is of the downtrodden nations. All the despots of Europe fear and hate him— from the savage bear, who prowls from the Ural mountains, to the dastardly chanticleer of France, whose dunghill will yet fertilize the fields of freedom. The legions of anti-Christ are equally the foes of the man who has struggled against Jesuitism as well as absolutism. The Magyars understand the Austrian tie of despotic power and Popery. Their children, trained by Protestant schoolmasters, preached to by ministers of the Reformation, and living in the light of Hungarian patriotism, eschew the forms of Roman heresy. Kossuth avows himself a Protestant, not only by "education, but by conviction." The Declaration of Hungarian Independence was fitly made in a church of the Reformation, and the sittings of the House of Assembly held in the chapel of the Protestant College at Debreczin. Despots and Jesuits are the two wings of the mighty army which is fighting against freedom and religion. The great aim of Kossuth seems to be to promote an International League between Ergland and the United States, whose moral [and physical] power shall be felt in preserving the rights of nations. This is a great idea; but it is one foreign to our general policy. It may meet, however, with responses from many hearts. Hitherto we have had, with few exceptions, no special reasons to depart from the path of wisdom, marked out by Washington, which was adverse to the formation of "entangling alliances.' How long the Providence of God will protect us from the necessity of foreign war, is known only to Omniscience. That emergencies may arise to summon our nation to the battle field against foreign aggression, we are not disposed to deny. Perhaps the invasion of the Sandwich Islands by hypocritical and base France, might have justified the United States in saying, "Monsieur, allez chez vous." This is an unsettled point in the history of our affairs, which the Emigration Society of the State of California may probably help to adjust. We are not prepared, however, to admit at present the wisdom of the policy which the enthusiastic Magyar would have our country adopt. It would be fraught with many evils. The time is not yet for such a movement. Who would think of embarking United States troops for Hungary, or of enrolling Pennsylvania militia for the Danube, or Gulf of Finland? Whatever Providence may hereafter call upon our nation to do in His own good time, is among the arcana of the future. In the meanwhile, the United States will sympathize with, and welcome the Hungarian champion as the national guest. "Non omnia possumus omnes." Liberty and Protestantism will survive Louis Kossuth, and free Hungary will yet see the gospel preached "to every creature.' MAGYAR, ALL HAIL! We conclude by inserting the remarks on Kossuth made in a public address last spring in Philadelphia, by the Hon. James McDowell, a great, and eloquent, and good man, lately gone to his rest, one of Virginia's noblest statesmen.* "The most remarkable man of modern days-he who stands out far beyond and above all others of his fellow men, in the magnificent and sublime isolation of his virtues and his fate--has been indebted, as we all know, and know to the shame of Christendom, for the mere boon of life and refuge, to the knightly pride and generous valour of a Mussulman Prince. An illustrious martyr for our principles, which it was the holy ambition of his life to make the principles and the heritage of his own land, our people have followed him with throbbing heart through every step of his tragical career, rejoicing when he rejoiced, and weeping when he wept; and after his hopes had perished out, and he himself been hunted for vengeance by the despotism he would have crushed, they have longed to give him the home among themselves which Heaven had denied to him in Hungary. And now our Government, responding to this sentiment of sympathy and reverence, is interposing for his relief; it is seeking him in his exile with the highest and most distinctive demonstrations of national homage: seeking him as his friend and his host; seeking him with her banner in her hand, that she may escort him under her proudest insignia of love, and honour, and protection, and power, before the eyes and in the very presence of the whole world, to her own shores."t For these remarks, not before published, we are indebted to the Rev. Griffith Owen, in behalf of whose church in Southwark the address containing them was originally delivered. As these pages are going through the press, the arrival of Kossuth at New York is announced. Demonstrations, becoming it is hoped to republicans, will be made every where; and the great heart of the Anglo-Saxons in America will respond to the British fervour in behalf of Hungary. Bousehold Choughts. CHEERFUL FIRESIDE. NOTHING makes the fireside so cheerful as a blessed hope beyond it. Even when you sit most lovingly there-though the daily task is completely done, and the infant in the cradle is fast asleepthough this is Saturday night, and to-morrow is the day of restthough the embers are bright, and from its fat and poppling fountain in yon coal the jet of gas flames up like a silver scimitar; and though within your little chamber all is peace, and warmth, and snug repose-the roaring gusts and rattling drops remind you that it still is winter in the world. And when that withered leaf tapped and fluttered on the window, mother, why was it that your cheek grew pale, and something glistened in your eye? You thought it perhaps might come from the churchyard sycamore, and it sounded like a messenger from little Helen's grave. It said, "Father and mother, think of me." Yes, dreary were the homes of earth were it not for the home in heaven. But see to it that yourselves be the Saviour's followers, and then to you he says, "Let not your heart be troubled! In my Father's house are many mansions: I go to prepare a place for you." And when you come to love that Saviour rightly, you will love one another better, more truly, and more tenderly. And, trusting to meet again in that world where they neither marry nor are given in marriage, a purifying hope and a lofty affection will hallow your union on earth. And, if not inscribed above your mantel-shelf, there will at least be written in your deepest self the motto, sent to his bride by that illustrious scholar, Bengel "Jesus in heaven; The heart in heaven."-Happy Home. YOUNG MEN! TAKE CARE OF YOUR SABBATHS. LET nothing ever tempt you to become a Sabbath-breaker. I press this on your attention. Make conscience of giving all your Sabbaths to God. A spirit of disregard for this holy day is growing up amongst us with fearful rapidity, and not least among young men. Sunday travelling by railways and steamboats, Sunday visiting, Sunday excursions, are becoming every year more common than they were, and are doing infinite harm to souls. Young men, be very jealous on this point. Whether you live in town or country, take up a decided line: resolve not to profane your Sabbaths. Let not the plausible arguments of "needful relaxation for your body"-let not the example of all around you-let not the invitation of companions with whom you may be thrown-let none of these things move you to depart from this settled rule, that God's day shall be given to God. Once give over caring for the Sabbath, and in the end you will give over caring for your soul. The steps which lead to this conclusion are easy and regular. Begin with not honouring God's day, and you will soon not honour God's house-cease to honour God's house, and you will soon cease to honour God's book-cease to honour God's book, and by-and-by you will give God no honour at all. Let a man lay the foundation of having no Sabbath, and I am never surprised if he finishes with the topstone of no God. It is a remarkable saying of Judge Hale-"Of all the persons who were convicted of capital crimes while he was upon the bench, he found only a few who would not confess, on inquiry, that they began their career of wickedness by a neglect of the Sabbath." Young men, you may be thrown among companions who forget the honour of the Lord's day; but resolve, by God's help, that you will always remember it, to keep it holy. Honour it by a regular attendance at some place where the gospel is preached. Settle down under a faithful ministry, and once settled, let your place in church never be empty. Believe me, you will find a special blessing following you "If thou call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth," (Isa. lviii. 13, 14.) And one thing is very certain, your feelings about the Sabbath will always be a test and criterion of your fitness for heaven. Sabbaths are a foretaste and fragment of heaven. The man who finds them a burden, and not a privilege, may be sure that his heart stands in need of a mighty change.-Rev. J. C. Ryle. EMANCIPATION OF WOMAN. The English papers state that an address was recently presented to Madame Kossuth by a deputation from the "Society for the Emancipation of Woman" in London. In addition to an expression of sympathy, this address contained the wish that the wife of the honoured hero of the day would communicate to these ladies her sentiments respecting their efforts to achieve the freedom of her sex. From the tenor of her reply we may infer that Kossuth is blessed with a noble-hearted woman for a wife; one not likely to be beguiled into the feminine follies of the age. The admirable pertinence of this reply will be doubly appreciated when it is mentioned that Madame Kossuth was altogether unprepared for the address of these ladies. MADAME KOSSUTH replied:-"That she thanked them heartily for this proof their sympathy toward herself, and through her, more particularly toward her country; that, with respect to her own views on the emancipation of woman, she had in earlier years confined |