The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

TriE OBSERVER.

doubt I of King's
profession
but tbs.

e College, London, his destination being the
Amon of an engineer, not that of a soldier. It is
.ot th• other day that he was here, in all the pride of
youthful strength and energy and hope, after a school
and eollege career of time well spent in the Cultivation
of powers much above the ayerage.
' When, this year, the King of Italy summoned
Garibaldi to his aid, Gabor Pulezky, with p generous
chivalry, determined to loin Garibaldi's standard, for
Garibaldi Is his father's personal friend. His friends
hem dimauded him from this course; but be was not
to be ttuized from his determination. And, no doubt,
every his... against Austria is • blow for ,Hungary.
• Unhappily. ..every unprincipled schemer,' whether
Frengh or Hamadan, has seen in the genuine hatriotism
of , the 1-I,ungariane a tool which his cunning graft could
turn to bis own advantage. It is within my personal
knowledge that the Emperor Louis Napolecia gave the
most sokepon pledges to Kossuth, in 1859, Oink he would
not cease that war till the oppression of Hngary by
AUstria wim,shattered. iKomath believed him; and
all men Jr.now thg upshot. ,No man can marvel that the
son of Planck' Pulszky should be anxious to aim a blow
at Austria by the side of such • friend of his father
and of national freedom as Giribieldi.
He joined the ranks of the hero of Caprera. He
was employed in services that were specially dangerous
to health, and thence he caught the seeds of fatal
fever. l'he "seven days war" being ended, he went
to his father's house in Florence. The news of the
illness of his mother and his Meter came; and the son
and the brother, who had seen neither for so long a
time, hurried away, while ill able to bear the journey,
in hopes that haply he might reach his mother and his
sister while still living. He reached Pesth—bat only
to find mother and mister both lying dead. He
immediately felt prostrate hinmelf npon the couch,
from which he thee no more till he wm borne thence to
be laid by the 'side of his mother and sister in one
common grave.
Francis Puiszky had already lost ors son—a most
Promising lad—who wee born while his mother was
forced to be a wanderer in 1849, through the forests of
Hungary, in order that even her life might be safe
from the Austrian soldiery; her husband having been
sent, in the lam days of 1848, as special envoy from the
Government of Hungary to that of England. He Me
now lost his wife, his eldest daughter in all the bloom
of maidenhead, and his second son just coming up to
man's estate. The one sad consolation is, that them
lie buried on the soil of Hungary, and not on foreign
soil.

IMlnky himself was solemnly executed, in effigy, in
1849, by the generous Austrian Government —a fact
which will hardly be credited, bk,t which in
tholes' true. Happily, he was then himself in England,
and we could afford to laugh together at the impotent
malignity of a dynasty and a Government that have
always hated freedom. I myself have the honour to be
prescribed, both in person and in my writings, throusl2-
out the Austrian dominions, the institution of which
Mr. Roebuck admires so much. For, as Pulsiky once
truly said to me, "the haters of freedom everywhere
are much more afraid of us, who can wield the pen,
than they are of them who can only wield the sword."
Die hopes for the restoration of the historical liberties
of Hungary are not dead, no long as, after eighteen
years of exile and heavy affliction, one of her sons can
write, as is written to me in a letter very lately re-
ceived (the foreign idiom does not obscure the sense),
that--" My poor oppressed country may be very near
just now to come to terms with its oppressor. But I
am one of those who will put up, if they must, with
one hundred more visitations than they had to undergo
until now, hut never will suffer to be called a subject
of Francis Joseph of Austria."
September, 1866. THIAMIN SMITH.