The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-19 00:00:00

• the war was still waged on the banks of the Thesis,
and over the illimitable steppes of Hungary, it 1!"'
but a struggle for ascendancy between Magyar
and Slave. Yet even then it threatened to prove
both long and bloody. Within the dominions of the
Hungarian Crown, the Slave population is to the
Magyar as two to one; and the spirit and in-
telligence by which the former is animated, not
less than its numerical importance, render it highly
improbable that it will ever
acquiesce in the humble
condition of a subject race, in no part, indeed, of
the vast tract (constituting no inconsiderable pro-
portion of the European Continent), throughout
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by
ardent Pansl'avists as the rightful territory of their
meditated Slavonian Empire, does the love of inde-
pendence or the ambitious longing for national great-
ness burn more strongly than among the Slovacks on
the north, and their Illyrian brethren on the south
of Hungary. Both parties had large military re.
sources. Though not born a soldier, like the
Magyar, who drinks in with his mother's milk the
spirit of a ferocious and half-savage chivalry, the
Croat is bred and trained in the strictest habits of
military discipline. A peasant by day and a sentinel
t l
safely
by night, he handles alternately the musket and
spade the first, perhaps, more deftly than
he a s
breathes,turireo, thmaht had Jellachich
his
cradle
grave, the atmosphere of a camp. We might
therefore last—and an
d
been beaten at Stuhlweissenburg, his defeat would
have been very far frcm putting an end to the war.
Now that the scene of action has been removed from
to his
Perth to Vienna, the struggle, without losing the
character we have assigned to it, has acquired another
colour, or rather a thousand colours, numerous as the
passions and interests which are alive and in dis-
cordant action at this, the heart of the empire. There
is the dislike which the German entertains towards
the Magyar, and the deeper jealousy which he nou-
rishes towards the aspiring Slave—the sympathy of
the Viennese democrat with the Hungarian champion
of independence, and his fear and hatred of the able
and determined chieftain who has marched, as the
soldier of the Emperor, to strengthen the throne of
Ferdinand, and to crush the riotous anarchy and mad
license which has just dyed the cause of revulution
with its deepest stain by the murder of Latour. All
these stimulating causes are now, it is needless to say,
exasperated to the utmost by the burning fever-glow
of excitement which the violent overthrow of the old
Government left behind it, and which the long
agony of lawlessness and disorder that has fol-
lowed has not suffered to subside. The troops
themselves, as events have shown, have not escaped
the contagion. It was, in fact, hardly possible that
the subtle poison should fail to corrode the springs of
the great military machine when once brought
within the reach of its influence ; and there is but too
much reason to apprehend that when the regiments
are brought into action the men will take one side or
another, according as the blood which flows in their
veins is Czech or Austrian, Magyar, Polish, Saxon,
or Croation. Hitherto, indeed, the military discipline
for which the Austrian army is honourably distin-
guished, aided perhaps by the counter-irritation
produced in the minds of the soldiery by the brutal
murder of the Minister at-War, may have prevented
the demoralizing influence from operating to a fatal
extent ; but with every day that passes, until the
struggle shall have terminated, or shall have assumed
the aspect of regular warfare, the spirit of disaffection
will certainly work its way more and more widely.
At such a crisis it is, perhaps, satisfactory that
the majority of the mem composing the
regiments likely to be brought into action,
are disposed, by the circumstances of their
birth, to side with that party whose
war-cry is the unity of the Empire and the majesty
of the Imperial Throne. Gallicia, and the chain of
provinces forming the military frontier, are the nur-
series of the Austrian army. Though the flower of
the cavalry is Hungarian, the bulk of the infantry
regiments is of Slave extraction. Our correspondent,
M. P. G., whose first letter we yesterday communi-
cated to our readers, has sketched, with a rapid and
masterly pencil, the characteristic features of the
various races which have hitherto lived side by side
under the shadow of the Imperial sceptre. The
picture is not calculated, perhaps, to encourage a
very sanguine hope of the reconstruction of the stately
edifice which seems at this moment to be crumbling
to the ground. We, for our part, do not despair of
seeing that reconstruction, happily effected, though,
peradventure, on a basis soinewhist different from that
which formed the foundation of the ancient Empire.
But, now that every savage passion has been un-
chained, and that the rival races have seen each
other's blood and their own flowing on a field of
battle, we fear that it may be long before the con-
flagration dies out, and longer still ere the fair and
spacious provinces of the Empire enjoy again that
tranquillity and good order which are indispensable
to the development of their ample capabilities and
inexhaustible resources.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, OCTOBER 18.---The Regius Professor of
Hebrew (Dr. Pusey) proposes to lecture on the Prophet
Isaiah, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fri-
days, in the present term, beginning on Monday, the 23d
inst., at two o'clock.
Three elementary Hebrew classes will also be formed.
These are intended to embrace a year's study of the
elements of the sacred language. The first is intended
for such as are just beginning the language ; the second
for those acquainted with the rudiments of grammar,
but unable to read fluently ; the third, for those who
require instruction in the higher parts of Hebrew gram-
mar.
Those who wish to attend the elementary lectures are
requested to call upon the Rev. W. Kay, M.A., Lincoln
College, on Saturday, the glad inst., between the hours
of two and four.
The Savilian Professor of Geometry (the Rev. Baden
Powell) proposes to commence a course of lectures at
hist., at twos house, in
o'clock. New College-lane, on Tuesday, the 24th
in
These lectures comprise elementary illustrations by
means of models, &c., of the conic sections, and other
curves and surfaces; the principles of algebraic geometry
and other differential. and integral calculus, with outlines
of the history of mathematics.
call
Th
on Professore gentlemen who wish to attend are requested to
two o'clock. Powell, on Monday, the 23d inst., at
The Professor of Moral Philosophy (the Rev. J. M.
Wilson) will Commence a course of lectures on the
Founders of the several Schools of Philosophy in Europe,
on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at nine o'clock;
And on Thursday, the 26th he will commence a lec-
ture on the Moral Philosophy of Plato, reading the
Philebus, and parts of the Republic.
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