Richmond Daily Times

From the Manchester (Eng.) Times, Aug. 6.

THE RELEASE OF KOSSUTH.

It will be observed, we are quite sure, with pleasure
by all parties and classes of Englishmen, that Lord
Palmerston has announced to the House of Commons
the intention of the Turkish Porte to release Kossuth
and the few remaining Hungarians from their confinement in Asia Minor. We have never doubted the sincerity of our foreign minister's frequent professions of
concern for the harsh treatment of the refugees, any
more than the disapproval he expressed during the conflict, of the conduct of Austria in violating the Hungarian constitution. Indeed, the published correspondence
of our diplomacy during the few months that followed
the end of the war, is enough to prove that valid efforts
were made by Lord Ponsonby at Vienna, and by Sir
C. Canning at Constantinople, to protect the fugitives
from being delivered up to the Czar and to Haynau;
which must have been the case had not the Sultan of
Turkey been backed in his refusal by the effectual support of Great Britain, and secondly of France. Notwithstanding a menacing intimation, which is put forth
in one of the Vienna journals, we do not apprehend that
the peace of the continent will risk any fresh disturbance by the liberation of these objects of tyrannical
suspicion. The Austrian government, which besides is
financially incapacitated from a warlike undertaking,
would surely not venture, on grounds so trivial, to attempt to punish Turkey for an act done at the urgent
request of this country; we should rather anticipate that
Austria might seek to dictate some conditions, such as
a pledge on the part of Kossuth to abstain from any
future action in the affairs of Hungary; and so endeavor
to find a pretext for a tardy and ungracious assent to
his freedom.