The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-22 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, MAY 18.
The correctness of some of my recent statements
respecting Hungary has been questioned here, and
men in office have given me to understand that my
Pesth friends took undue advantage of my want
of experience in Hungarian matters. The day
before yesterday the positive assurance was given
me that there Was no truth in the assertion of
the Hungarians that the tax on real property was
excessive, and it was hinted that it might be well
if the public were informed that sneh was the case.
Instead of accepting the proffered advice, the
Information acquired at Pesth relative to the
heavy taxation of house property was forwarded
to England, and the subjoined summary of as
official article which appeared in the Oesterrei-
chische Correspondenz of last night will prove to
you that my Hungarian friends did not take
undue advantage of my inexperience. " His
Majesty," says the ministerial organ, ' has ordained
that there shall be a suitable (angenessen) reduction
of the land tax (Grundsteur). The additional
contribution' is to he reduced four kreutzer per
florin during the year 1857 The collectors have
received instructions to levy no more than the
reduced tax during the next half year, and to make
an allowance of four kreutzers per florin on the
1 tad tax raised during the half year beginning
November 1, 1856, and ending April 30, 1857."
The reduc, ion, which is about 6 2-3 per cent ,
wilt not fail to give extreme swisfaction to the
Hungarians, who consider the tax on real property
" disproportionate." Another boon which some of
the Hungarians are likely to receive at. the hands of
their Sovereign is the remission of the remaining
inst, lments of the National Goan The districts
beyond the Theiss, and particularly those around
Grosswardein, subscribed very largely to the
National Loan, and the consequence of their libe—
rality has been that they have suffered a loss of
some 18 or 20 per cent. The Imperial decree re-
lative to the restoration of confiscated property to
the persons included in the recent amnesty has
not yet been published, avid the cause of the delay
is, that the Bookkeeping Department has not yet
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jokno• iy thatnieted the different accounts. It is not very
proprietors any arrears will be paid to the
estates
propertye as the Statew which
s profited
marvellously little the
b
in its hands since the has
year 1849. Doubtless the
persons were have had the management of the
estates have "made a good thing of it," and if
their accounts are ever published it will probably
appear that the receipts and
the expenses
were about equal. According to authentic in—
formation which was given me this morning, the
total number of political offenders liberated 'since
the publication of the amnesty is 220. Most of the
prisoners were in the Bohemian fortresses In a
letter written by a merchant residing in Pesth is
the following passage :--‘` The Emperor has done
much for the Hungarian nation since be has been
in Pesth, but it is more grateful to him for the
change which he made some months ago in the
odious passport system than for anything else.
According to a telegraphic despatch from Pesth,
the Archiuchess Gisella is convalescent, but her
elder sister is suffering much from dysentery. The
1111120888 Sophia, who is cutting her double teeth,