The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-22 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

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(►MOW OCIII OWN COIll

PERTH, n•acs 16.
It is a well-known axiom that centralization
soot lead to oppreseieu below, and to corruption
shove, and still people are always taken aback
elieu they have to taste these baneful fruits of •
sy,tem. Thus we Nee now men's minds un-
e Wed, and a general uneasiness spreading farand
side through all classes of society at Vienna,
at heariug that gigantic frauds have been discovered
le the army adauuistration, and that men of the
highest ran* and station are implicated in them.
je.t as in the latter days of Louis Philippe, when
the ex-Maiden Testa and Cubieres were brought
to trial for having received bribes, and the
Duke cd Praslin for wife-murder, France began
to doubt the honesty of all the public men
connected with the Citizen King, thus the suicide
of several oaken and officials disclose, the rotten-
. 4 Almeria IVithin one and the YON week
e. hear of the execution of Captain Dori, at
t 'US of the suicide by hanging of Lieutenant-
ileiieral Baron Eynatten ; by poison of M. Not
T. 41 Nordberg, chief of the police ; by shooting of
General Pointmer and Colonel Marx. Within the
wee week M. Richter, the manager of the Credit
14..hilier, at a salary of 4,000!. a year ; M. Briim-
hoe, a hanker of Trieste ; and M. Perugio, a rich
merchant, were arrested on suspicion of having
defrauded the Treasury of millions, together
with the above-mentioned persons wbo bad
executed themselves. And all these men stood in
as intimate relation with the court or the highest
withoritiea, and therefore suspicion is rife that even
more powerful persons are involved in these trans-
actions. When Baron Bruck, the Minister of
Finance, issued during the Italian war spurious
bonds of the so-called voluntary loan to the extent
one hundred and sixteen millions, sad all the
Exchanges of Europe unanimously found his
guilty of fraud, Francis Joseph treated the matter
s. a good joke, and did not withdraw his confidence
free the cunning minister who had suesenied fs
smdliog such an amount by false pretences out of
the pocket. of cautious Dutchmen • but be is
sow mortified to bee that his generals and polies
Alone, bankers and iuurchanta, practise stmi car
tricks against his own Treasury. He is said
to be in an angry mood, and resolved to have
all the thieves around him severely punished.
De ought to know that centralization has its natural
pace in corruptioand that this price must be
pod somehow. The late Csar Nicholas knew this
fact well enough, and accepted it for better andl
for worse ; he once openly told Count Adler,-
berg, "There is but one public man in my empire
who does not steal." The Count, in the belief that
a remplimeut wan intended to him, replied, " May
is I ask your Majesty who this man I' and Nicholas
said, with hie well-known stern look, " I myself.'
In Hungary the petty annoyances still continue.
The guests of Count Theodore Csaky, who, when
the police had, at Lent time, forbidden a ball as
tieing a political tendency, entertained the guests
coming to the festival at his castle, were all brought
before the judge, when the ladies were fined, and
the gentlemen imprisoned for three days. M.
Anastase Tomory, a wealthy "nehmen at Pesth,
having invited the Hungarian authors and tuwiciaos
reeling is the capital tohis country seat to a dinner
Forty, the police forbade him to see his friends in
lois own hones. Such insolence maddens people
to fury • and it was, therefore, quite natural
that the 16th of March, the anniversary et
the Pesth revolution, should have been selected by
the students for a grand demonstration in honour
14 the martyrs of liberty. With crape on their hats
some three hundred young men went to the Roman
catholic church, where they had ordered a mass to
be said for those who had fallen in 1849, but they
found the glees shut against them. They proceeded
to the different cemeteries where the martyrs of
1849 are buried, but everywhere a detachment of
police stopped their pewees,. At the Kama,
Cemetery at last two of the young men were at-
re4,l ; the others, together with the crowd which had
Ithall while aisembloti , attempted a rescue. The pollee
detachment fired on the cooed and wounded three per
414, hut were at once overpowered ; two companies
o,f,e4iliers and some cavalry appeared at this tuo-
meet, and cleared the streets. We hear that many
rr,its have taken place this night among the
itedente We cannot but lament such collisions •
though they can lead to no serious result, still
thry show the drift of the public mind. Much more
iloperteut is the fact that the Calvinist notabilities
hew assembled iu a conference at Debrecain, and
revolved to hold on the 90th of April district
imetiiip at Debreczin and at Misholes„ disregard-
me the prohibitions of the ministry. These re-
11,nous defiance meetings have a deeper significance
than the demonstrations of the students at Pesth.
The subscriptions for the Hungarian Academy,
free, the Id of January to the lit of March,
amount to 37,0001., and show that even under the
pressure of heavy taxation—the direct taxes alone
absorbing 33 per cent, of the income of landed
estates--the Hungarian* find it their duty to up-
hold an institution which repreeeats nationality
and science. Co/tedious are now made for the
relief of the Croats suffering from famine, which
tend to obliterate even the last remembrance of
these national dieseneions which characterised the
year 1848 and 1849. All the different races and
creeds in H are now completely united.
What the liberality of the legislature in 1848 was
unable to achieve, the common Austrian oppression,
which his extinguished even party distinctions, has
scomiplished. Hatred of Austria is now the only
feeling pervading the country.