The latest arrivals from America go far to establish the
entire failure of Kossuth in the main object of his mission to that country. The ci-devant Governor of Hungary flattered himself that he could obtain from the United States a public re- cognition of his novel doctrine of international law respecting in- tervention to enforce nonintervention. But the Americans, not- withstanding the protestations of some of their orators both at home and in this country, shrink from such an abandonment of the principles and policy of Franklin and Washington. Kossuth has
ad his speeches cheered at crowded meetings of the kind with which Englishmen are tolerably familiar, which are principally made up of persons in quest of a pleasurable momentary excite- ment; but even in those assemblies protests were entered against entanglement in the political relations of the Old World. The 'Presi- dent, and the Congress of Washington, received with a formal ci- vility the guest they had invited in a moment of unreflecting enthusiasm ; but it was in a guarded manner, as if they felt rather awkward at having so committed themselves.
The ci-devant Governor nevertheless persevered in the indul- gence of his cacoethes loquendi. He continued to address long speeches and to receive the cheers of friendly audiences and was preparing to extend his progress to the regions of the "far West." Every day, however, added to the number of those who frankly avowed that they thought him little better than a trouble-peace of the Republic ; and some of his own expressions betray a con- sciousness of the light in which his visit began to be re
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