The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-15 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

, MAY 11.
The Agricultural Exhibitions (Land wir (Lanthschaft.
liche Ausetellung)..cvhich began the day before
yesterday, far surpasses
anything of the kind that
in
1.1
has ever been seenpartku of the world. The
place of exhibition is the _ garten, a fine large
public garden in the suburbLeopoldstadt, and the
arrangements made in it are such that they
equally satisfy the exhibitors and the public.
The larger animals, are in separate stalls,
under spacious and lofty sheds, and sheep and
swine in pens and styes ; the larger machines,
such •as tocormobika, mowing, reaping, and trash.
ing machines, in the open air ; the smaller
agricultural tools in sheds, open only on one side ;
and the agricultural- produce in a large building,
which, when the Augarten was a'- fashionable
resort, served as a summer residence tor some

member of the Ireeesist cies On the whole,
the horned
see
.ith:r:,)r to what we. are
accustomed to eee 1.. but still there are
some animals of the Swiss, Tyrolese, and. Styrian
races, which are greatly admired Its tee numerous
connoisseurs who have come fis.in. .all parts of
Europe. There are some fat oxen., and heifers
of great size, and a Hungarian -ox, which was
bred on one of the estates of Baron Sine, is
a truly gigantic animal. Theishow of horses is:
very poor, and the foreign public is greatly disap-
pointed that there are no specimens of the true
Polish, Hungarian, and Transylvanian races. There
are some few half-bred horses, in which the eross
between the English and indigenous races has
succeeded, but it is evident that the Austrians
have not yet learned how to employ the foreign
blood to advantage. In general, the half-breeds
are either deficient in bone and substance, or
clumsy " chuck headed animals" which it is posi-
tively disagreeable to look at. The best cross ap-
pears to be between the English and Bohemian or
Moravian races, and the Worst that between the
English and Styrian. The Styrian draught horses
would afford great satisfaction to the London
brewers, and omnibus proprietors would not object
to the produce of stallions belonging to the impe-
rial studs and Austrian and Bohemian mares. The
sheep excite the admiration of all foreigners, and
the Austrian agriculturists have exhibited speci-
mens which have wool of a length, closeness, and
fineness of which few British agriculturists have
any idea. Almost all the swine are of the York-
shire, Suffolk, and Essex races, but there is one of
pure Austrian descent, which is a most remarkable
animal. It is two years and a half old, has been
fatted for more than a year, and weighs no less
than 7 1-5 cwt. Messrs. Clayton, Shuttleworth,
and Co., Messrs. Howard, of Bedford, and twenty-
one other English firms have sent various kinds of
machines and tools, and greatly annoyed they must
be to find that the Austrian manufacturers
had already imitated—somewhat coarsely and
clumsily, it is true—their newest inven-
tions. The ploughs and harrows of Messrs.
Howard are much admired by the Austrian
agriculturists ; and it is not surprising that such is
the case, for those exhibited by the Vienna makers
are very clumsy and unweildy machines. One agri-
cultural tool used in Austria that deserves to he in-
troduced into England is a peculiar kind of wooden
fork tipped with steel. It is here employed
for lifting barley, heavy kinds of clover, &o.
Baron 'Ward, who was formerly Minister of State
in Parma, and is now a kind of Austrian Mechi,
has invented a mowing Machine, of which he has
such a high opinion that he offers to hi t 1.,000f1.
that no one can bring anything into the field to
equal it. The productions of the Austrian woods
and forests excite general and well-deserVed admi-
ration There are specimens of oak timber seventy-
two French feet ha length, which were taken from
the virgin forests in Schtvonia and Croatia. As
soon as there is railway communication between
the forests in question and the port of Fiume,
British shipbuilders will do well to make the
nearer acquaintance of their proprietors. During
the last two days the Viennese have been so much
occupied with their exhibition and Mr. Murphy,
the giant, that they have hardly observed that the
Credit Bank shares, of which the majority of them
are holders, have risen from 226f1. to 249 A. This
evening their Majesties will leave Pesth for Vienna
Te-morrow morning, at ten o'clock, they will visit
the exhibition, and return in the evening to the
Hungarian capital.
The Vienna papers state that Sir Hamilton
Seymour has confidentially informed the Austrian
Minister for Foreign Affairs, "that the Turin Cabi-
net, being desirous to renew its diplomatic relations
with Austria, is prepared to give formal satisfac-
tion." Credible information has this morning been
given MC, that no such communication has been
mach: either by the British Minister or by his
French colleague. Neither the Austrian nor the
Prussian papers now speak of the Holstein Do
main question, but there is some reason for
believing that it will eventually be referred to the
Germajßund. The only news from the Danubian
Princiealities is, that there has been a change in the
Moldavian Cabinet which has given great satisfac-
tion to the Unionists. M. Katarabi, the Minister for
the Interior, has been dismissed by the i..,titnalrati ;
and M. Basilius Gnika, who is a violent Unionist,
has beeu appointed in his stead. Of Sir H L.
Bulwer and M. Basily nothing more, is known to
me than that they are still at Bucharest watching
each other's movements. Even the Austrians
now believe that the Divans ad hoc will pronounce
in favour of the Uoion, but they persist in saying
that the plan is totally impracticable.
A person who has just arrived from Pesth states
that there was some little enthusiatn after the pub-
lication of the amnesty, but that it soon subsided.
The fireworks let off on the Suspensioa Bridge on
the Bth cost some 4 000 to 5,000 florins ; but the
money can hardly be said to have been thrown
away, for the effect produced was " magical." As
the weather was fine and warm, the people remained
in the streets looking at the illumination until
midnight. At the ball on the 7th the Empress
danced two quadrilles, the one with the Archduke
William, and the other with Prince Nicholas
Esterhazy. The Emperor danced the first
quadrille with the Archduchess Hildegarde, the
wife of the Governor-General of Hungary. On the
Bth her Majesty visited the Foundling Hospiial,
established by the. Emperor Joseph II , and
seemed to be greatly pleased with what she saw
and heard while there. At the convent of the
" English Ladies" 100 of the senior girls received
the Empress, and forty-eight of the younger
ones, who were dressed in rich costumes, executed
Hungarian dances in her presence. After the
dancing was over, one of the girls played Bavarian
national airs on the " Zithet" (cit4ern), which is the
favourite instrument of her Majesty's father, and
then the girls: about 500 in number sang the
Bavarian national anthem. Persons who wore
present relate that the Empress was moved to
tears when she heard the " Landler," which she
and the Duke, her father, had so often played
together.

The Severinus Society is about to establish in
Vienna a " House of Refuge" for wandering Catholic
journeymen in opposition to the Houses of Refuge
belonging to the different guilds, which are branded
by the Jesuits as " sinks of vice and iniquity."
The Catholic " Journeymen Society," which already
consists of 5,000 members, will probably, sooner or
later, give Government some little trouble. Wheri
last the Novara and Carolina were heard of they
were off Corfu.

The Sunite Sheiks, who were seized by the Rus-
sians, and confined in the prison of Fort Kilziar,
were living in the Russian province of Shirvan.
On the 18th of March a Russian General, with a
military suite of forty persons, arrived at Tabriz,
in Persia:

The " Bears" made a desperate attempt to-day to
beat the " Bulls" out of the field ; but the latter
were resolute, and completely discomfitted their
assailants.