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God's help shall come the freedom of Hungary. 

 We, Sons of St. George, whose native land is now 

 ruled by a descendant of Alfred and the Bruce, say 

 to your excellency, in all hope, that faith and endur- 

 ance and union will yet work out the salvation of 

 Hungary. 



" We pray that every blessing which earth can 

 afford you, health and happiness for you and yours, 

 may rest on you ; and that the approving voice of 

 this great and free people, their universal sympathy, 

 may sooth those sorrows which not even your great 

 heart can wholly withstand, and nerve your arm for 

 that glorious future in which we believe you will yet 

 take a part, which can be none other than brilliant 

 and successful." 



The satisfaction produced by the amalgamation 

 of the St. George's Society with the British Protec- 

 tive Emigrant Society was short lived, for on Oct. 

 loth, 1853, 3. motion was made for the appointment 

 of a committee to confer with the Protective Board 

 of the Emigrant Society, with a view of sundering 

 the connection of the two societies, and on January 

 loth of the following year a report was brought in 

 recommending the dissolution of the union, which 

 was accepted, and on its coming up for discussion at 

 the next meeting was formally adopted. A motion 

 to amend the Constitution so as to give power to the 

 Charitable Committee to act as an Emigrant Com- 



