The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-01 00:00:00

STATE OF _HUNGARY.

The following letter is dated Pesth, Feb. 24 :
" The persecution of the newspaper press, which
is severe at Vienna, is absolutely intolerable in Hun-
gary. Within the last few days the Ness Ujsag
(National Gazette), of Pesth, the Bajai Kozlony
(Indicator), of Baja, and I know not how many other
journals, have received warnings, while all news-
papers, great and small, are in a state of abject
thraldom. In fact, to such a pitiable condition is
Hungarian journalism reduced that the editors of
the Pesth journals, in a meeting just held, have re-
solved to petition he Government out of considera-
tion for the proprietors of their journals, and for the
writers and workmen dependent on them, to re-
establish the censorship, or at least to issue a
series of clear, definitive regulations for their
guidance. Strange as ihis prayer may
appear in English eyes, it is not unnatural
in the circumstances in which Hungarian jour-
nalists are placed. These gentlemen are in truth
liable to be warned, to be fined or imprisoned, or
have their journals suppressed at the mere will and
pleasure of M. Prottmann, the Director of Police,
or any of his subordinate; and nothing, I assure
you, is more capricious, inexplicable, absurd mon-
strous than the will and pleasure of Prottmann
and Co. _ _

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a few nights back, gave rise to a strange
scene. Just as the guests were assembling for
the dance, the Austrian authorities appeared
and summoned them to disperse. On that
Count Csaky, a wealthy nobleman residing in
the neighbourhood of the town, invited the guests
to his mansion to have their dance there.
They went, but before dancing had lasted
half-an-hour a body of gendarmerie, accompa-
nied by more than half a battalion of infantry--
the firmer with drawn swords, the latter with
bayonets—marched to the place, and, after treating
the women with rudeness, carried off the greater
part of the men to prison.
"The subscriptions for the Academy Palace are
so numerous, that after constructing the edifice
there will be a surplus. The proposition has
already been made to employ the surplus in the
erection in one of the principal squares of Pesth
of a statue of Mathias Hunyad, the most popular
of Hungarian sovereigns. In such reverence is
this King held by all classes of the people,
that the phrase---' Ilfegkalt Ittatyas _Kiraly, ochs
van az igazsay' (King Mathias is dead, and justice
has fled from the land) has become colloquial.
It war, never, however, more used than now,
partly because the national movement in which
the Hungarians arc engaged makes them think
much of their old King, and partly because the
terrible oppression which the Austrians exercise
gives peculiar significance to the words, ' justice
has fled from the land.'

Some of the acts of the Austrian Government
are so absurd, as well as tyrannical, that they will
hardly be oredited in England. For some time ;
project has been on foot for exporting to Western
Europe, and especially England, the wines of Tokai,
Nsezmely, Ujhely, and other places in Hungary;
and naturally the projected reforms of Mr. Glad-
stone made the immediate establishment of the
company appear opportune. Application for per-
mission to form the company was accordingly mad,
at Vienna ; for in this unhappy land not even a
commercial association can be started without
authorisation. But permission has been refused.
The promoters of the company respectfully asked
why ? Because,' was the sapient answer, 'if the
English be allowed to drink Hungarian wines, they
lAitl sympathise more than they now do with the
Hungarians !

Accounts Were given in 1857 of eight bags con-
taining altogether 10,800 f. in crowns 04, 6 livres having
been found in a closet which had for years been bricked up
in an old house in. the Rue des Carmes, and of two playing
cards on which Was written " All this money belong e.tO
Mgr. Eleportep, Bishop of Glandeves, except the bag con-
taining 2,400 livres, which appertains to the house," being
found with them. The owner and occupiers of the house,
the workmen who in making the repairs had found the
money, the Government, and the heirs of the bishop, all put
in claims for the money, and took law proceedings to
substaniate them. The Civil Tribunal after investigating
the matter came to the conclusion that the money had been
deposited in the time of the great revolution by one Salmon
an official of the Ecclesiastical College de Laon ; that he
had deposited seven of the bags on behalf of the Bishop of
Glandeves, who in his visits to Paris was accustomed to
stop at the college; and that the eighth, described as be-
longing "to the house," had been the property of the col-
lege. It therefore ordered that the seven bags should go to
the heirs of the bishop, and that the eighth should in con-
sequence of the college having ceased to exist, go to the
Government. Yestei day the Administraton des Romaine•
representing the Government, appealed to the Imperial
Court against this decision, but the court confirmed it.