The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-01 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

It has been announced by telegraph that a
tumultuous scene recently took place in the Cham-
ber of Deputies at Vienna, when several members
were called to order, and the whole proceedings
terminated by the departure of the Gallician and
Tchdque members ea mares. The incident, how-
ever, had no particular result, as the offeneed
deputies resumed their seats the next day, content
with having publicly marked their dissetisfaction
at the manner in which the Bohemian deputy, Dr.
Branner, had been treated. The Debate refers to
the circumstances of the scene in question, and
expresses the opinion that it was M. Hein, the
president of the chamber, who was moat to blame.
The sketch of our contemporary is too lively and
amusing not to be given :
We consider, it rya, that the president displayed • greet
want of experence in parliamentary usages when at the
risk of exciting • tempest, he teemed the trained Dr.
Branner. That deputy, at the commencement of his
speech or the bill on fiefs, said nothing that was not per-
fectly innocent, since in endeavouring to show the differ.
sues which exists between • Separatist and an Autonomist,
sod between an Automatist and a Federalist, be pro-
nounced in favour of Federalism against the system of auto-
monies a warmer and 'oeparatioe. It afterwards pleased
Dr. Brawler, who is well versed in Bohemian archaeology, to
tell • rather long story about the diamonds of the crown. Al-
though the recital did notpeusees the same dramatic interest
as the opera of that name, Dr. Brauer ought to have been
listeeed to with patience. But the president of the cham-
ber had the unfortunate idea of sneering hint just at the
time when, having long sines come lower down than the
deluge, be was paying " • pions tribute of respect to the
memory of his peat unhappy King Ottocar IL, 'who lived
in 1270, an epoch relatively recent, and who energetically
protested against the election of Rudolph of Hapsburg as
Emperor of Germany. "Speak on the bill on fiefs," said
the president. "Try to pass • good bill on the press,"
might have cried from his prison the unfortunate
M. Kaczkowski, the principal editor of the Glos.
But, no ! Dr. Branner, who is not • doctor for
nothinr, stuck to Ottocar ; sod thereupon, the
president deprived him altogether of the liberty
to speak, we know sot why. Decided partisans
of the liberty of disoursica, we believe that representatives
ought to be allowed to speak Seely on all they please, not
even excepting King Mow. We cannot, therstme, blame
the Takla' mad Galician deputies for having retired after
the declaim of the president, since they must have believed
that the liberty and irresponsibility of the whole chamber
were encroached on in the person of one of its members.
We, however, warmly congratulate them OD having the
day after returned to the Reichsnith. If they listen to our
councils they will occupy themselves less with Ottocar and
somewhat more with the Austria& law, which subjects
journals to the Remo of warnings without prejudice to the
@metre derv. They will leave the universities, whose bari-
um@ it is to make on the virtues and misfor-
tunes of Kinp whoreigoed in 1270, and they will them-
selves endeavour to be the parikunest of the empire.
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A communication from Vienna of the 28th ult.
sees:
dome astonishment is felt here at the efforts of certain
correspondents of foreign journals to establish the greater or
less probability, if not of I% new alliance, at least of a sensible
reconciliation, between the Imperial Courts of Austria and
Russia. In support of their assertions these journals repre-
sent the two powers as being placed in identical positiosz
one with regard to Hungary and the other to Poland
hence they conclude that the union of their military loress
would become necessary in order to put down the nook-
tionary movements which they expect to see break out si-
multaneously in these two countries. In addition to Russia
finding herself placed with regard to Poland in a very diffe-
rent position from Austria towards Hungary, where danger
is in a certain measure imminent, there is no pond of serious
comparison to be established between the destinies of a na-
tion of from 11 to 12 millions of inhabitants, who always re-
mained before 1848 in possession of its charter and of its
autonomy, and the fate of a nation reduced by the treaties
of Vienna to a population of from three or four millions.
However that may be, the reconciliation betimes the two
courts so much spoken of is generally doubted in official
circles.