The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-22 00:00:00

TRANSYLVANIA.

Transylvania at the present time exhibits the extra-
ordinary aspect of a country without persons capable
or willing to fill all the offices required for the civil
edministration. In Transylvania particularly, ac-
cording to the Oat-Deutsche Post, the Wallacks being
totally incapable from ignorance, and the Magyars
refusing because they are unwilling to aid in destroy-
ing the constitution of their country, the Aastriens
have been obliged to bring in Germans from Gal-
-1 licia and the Bukovina, who are totally ignorant of
both the Magyar and Wallack languages. And these
men have the slight task imposed on them of intro-
ducing an entirely new code of laws, new forms of
judicature—in face, of revolutionising the institutions
of a whole nation. The consequence is that the
country is in a complete state of anarchy, and not one
of the many nations who compose it but are discon-
tented. From Hermannstadt we hear that
14,125 head of cattle have been attacked by
the murrain in Transylvania, and 7,051 have
dit d in consequence. The last blow is about to be
given to the unfortunate nobles of Transylvania.
With estates devastated, their whole capital lost in
paper money, and their cattle now destroyed by ei.-
ease, a rew and very heavy tax, amounting to at
least half the rent, is about to be laid on the land.

THE ',TIMES' °SORRESPONDENT AT

VIENNA.

.TO TEI SDITOII 01 THE DAILY NEWS.
6114-4 have lately returned from Vienna, and
therefore know what is going on there ; and you will
not wonder if I tell you that I have read with intense
astonishment and disgust the articles in the Times,
emanating from their "Own Correspondent" at that
place.
Rut when, in this day's paper, I find an as-
sertion made by that gentleman, in reference
to the national guard, that the majority of the
citizens of %%enva would object to wear again that
uniform of which they had so much reason to be
ashamed during the latter part of 1818, I must ask
fur a small space in your valuable journal to enter
my indignant protest against such an asser-
tion—a protest which will be echoed by thou-
sands of my countrymen. We have reason '
to be, not ashamed, but proud of that
uniform, which, when we wore, we proved that it
covered hearts worthy of that great and glorious
lib-rty for which we have hitherto struggled in
vain, bat which, depend upon it, in spite of the Times
and its scribes, we shall yet live to c3nquer and enjoy.
If that struggle has been sullied by a solitary
crime, such as the murder of Count Latour (which
no one will attempt to justify, even in an outbreak of
popular fury), upon which the Times never
ceases to vent its virtuous indignation—l
would request that exemplary journal to compare
that solitary crime with the wholesale butcheries,
woman-floggings, and official highway robberies, per-
petrated by the "paternal government" on a van-
quished people, and then say who has reason to be
ashamed ? _ . .

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I could easily show you, did I not fear to tres-
pass on your columns, how it is that state-
ments like these aro allowed to go forth
to the world, as representing the sentiments of the
denizens of Austria: there is no chance of amli
alteram partem—there is at at present no press in
Austria to represent the feelings of the people, who
are threatened with a sample of the " powder and
lead" jurisdicion, if they are found guilty of the
crime of subscribing to a liberal paper. But should
you think these lines worthy of insertion, I may in a
future letter draw you a little pi tare of the state of
things in Austria. which will do the Times et hoc
genus omnes heart good to read.
In one of your late numbers you made a very cle-
ver observation : that the correspondence of the
Times was such as the Austrian police would be glad
to pay for the insertion of. But I do not wish to leave
that exemplary official body under the imputation of
ever having had such a bright idea as that of promul-
gating their principles abroad. The "Own Corre-
spondent" of the Times at Vienna is a teacher of lan-
guages, who would do much better to stick to his
Lie dley Murray, and his qure taribta, than meddle
with politics, of which he knows about as much as a
Greenwich pensioner of tight-rope 'lancing. Tois is
the "authority " on which your contemporary prides
himself so greatly, and who has had the singular
magnanimity or effrontery (I am not sufficiently ac-
quainted with the English language to dscide
which is the proper term) to proclaim to the
world that he was ready to became personally
responsible to whoever was found bold enough to
take up the gauntlet for each and every ore of the
infamous calumnies he has thought proper to heap on
the unfortunate heroes who fought in the noble cause
of the " half-savage hordes" (as the Times apostro-
phises them to-day) of Hungary.
I am, yours. &c., AN AUSTRIAN.
London, Jan. 19, 1830.