The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-13 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Letterl Van Vienna, of the 7th, state that the re-
ductions in the Austrian army, announced with so
much circumstance in the German press, and so
eagerly repeated in the Paris Monikur, are (as we
we showed on their or:ginal publication), alto-
gether illusory. Secret orders are given which
compensate every apparent reduction intended
for the while eye. Austria is at this moment
moving down troops both into Italy and into Croatia,
and Dalmatia. In the latter kingdom that power
never had so large an army as at present. On the
military borders, where every man carries arms,
regiments of the line, mainly German, are stationed,
obvious far less to guard the frontier which is not
menaced than to keep in check the Sclavish ten-
dencies which are there manifested, and to which
many who wear the imperial uniform are no
strangers. Great dissatisfaction is felt at the
recent order which makes the border militia
general instead of local, thus giving the commander
power to remove corps from their homes to a dis-
tact field. The court of Vienna is at this moment
distrustful of all parties, of Russia, which it believes
nourishes Sclavia tendencies in the south Austrian
provinces, no less than of England, which it suspects
of bringing the Turkish fleet into the Adriatic. The
religious question, that is to say, the increasing ants-
goniam of the Roman catholic and Greek churches,
is another obstacle to the entente cordials of Russia
and Austria; but whatever may hereafter grow out
of these differences, it is not to be supposed that in
all affairs of western politico the young Emperor and
the Czar will not act in concert.
Letters from Hungary complain of the insecurity
of the country caused by the numerous bands of men
compelled by their outlawed condition—having taken
a national part in the late civil war—to live in the
forests and mountains, and lead a Robin
Hood kind of life at the expense of
their neighbours. Gnats martial and execu-
tions are powerless against this evil ; the
gendarmes are harassed to despair, and never en-
counter the outlaws without having to enter on a
combat of life and death. The Austrians imagine
that the object of these poor men is to get together
money for a new insurrection, and never seem to
think that an honest amnesty, such as would permit
the men to quit their wild way of life, might restore
them to quiet homes. On the last day of the old year
one of these men was hanged at Perth. Previous to
the execution he was taken about in a procession for
two hours, during which he sang patriotic songs
and displayed a supreme contempt for death. At
the foot of the gallows an officer read a prolix state-
ment of his crimes and sentence. The name of Kos-
suth occurred in this document, and had no sooner
escaped the lips of the officer than the prisoner took
off his hat and reverently inclined his head. As the
fatal rope was slipped over his head, he gathered up
his strength and. cried, " Magyars, keep up your
pluck; we'll give it them yet," and died.
The Oldenburg government issued to the general
staff on the 3rd an order of the day releasing the
soldiers from their oath to the constitution. Ac-
cording to the revised constitution the soldiery will
only have to swear to be faithful to the sovereign.
Two of the German translations of M. Montalem-
bert's " Catholic Interests in the Nineteenth Cen-
tury" have just been seized at Munich. The rock of
offence is found in a passage relating to Bavaria. A
third translation executed by Professor Schmitz,
from which the obnoxious sentences were eliminated
is sold in Munich without difficulty.