The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-22 00:00:00

DISTURBANCES IN AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna, dated April 16, says :
Had not the civil and military authorities dis-
played great forbearance and tact, there would pro-
bably have been a serious riot here last night. In
the morning it was reported that the inhabitants
of some of the suburbs would come into the city
in the evening in order to perform a "charivari"
under the windows of Dr. Berger, the member of
the Diet who had behaved unhandsomely to Dr.
Schuselka, his colleague. At half-past 7 I walked
towards the house inhabited by Berger, which is
in the " Bogner Gaa'e," a narrow street at the back
of the War-uilice, and on my arrival found a couple
of nundred well-dressed persons assembled. The
few policemen present from time to time re-
quested the people to " move on," but did not
attempt to force them to do so. At 8 o'clock the
street was completely blocked up by the crowd,
but no discordant noises were heard. As the clock
struck the last-mentioned hour a small detachment
of mounted gendarmes appeared at the lower end
of the street, and as they advanced the people
slowly fell back towards the " Spangler-Gasse,"
" Graben," and " Kohlmarkt." Just as I was pass-
ing the back entrance to the War-office the gates
were shut, and an officer subsequently told me
that they were closed in order that the people
might not be irritated by the sight of the troops
which had entered the court-yard from the square
called " Hof." At half-past 8 o'clock some 8,000
or 10,000 persons were assembled in the " Bogner-
Gasse," " Kohlmarkt," " Graben," and St. Ste-
phen's-place, but very few of them either shouted,
groaned, whistled, or hissed. At nine o'clock
bodies of troops made their appearance, and with
.some difficulty succeeded in restoring the com-
munication between the "Burg" (Imperial palace)
and the St. Stephen's-place, which for a time
had been interrupted by the dense crowd. At
the corner of the St. Stephen's-place and the
Bisehofs-Gasse is the palace of the Cardinal-Arch-
bishop, and shortly after 9 o'clock a part of the-
crowd moved in that direction. It must be supposed
that the police had reocived special orders to keep
the people from insulting his Eminence, for as soon
asthP oPccalls were brought intoplay under his win-
nows a sudden rush was made at the mob by some
men in plain clothes, and in the twinkling of an eye
at an
18 or 20 of the principal performers were banded
over to the regular policemen. At midnight a com-
pany of soldiers was still standing in,,
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the the
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end before 11 o'clock. Not a single
wounded, but 56 individuals—not one of wpilhteotoaerdionbtwe'or-ega-r,nal,
inhabitant of Vienna—were arrested.
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respectable part of the population against mingling
with the mob, " as it maY be necessary to have
recourse to stringent measures, and it would be
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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1861.

If ever Poland has had a chance, it is now. Never
since what may be termed the threefold perpetra-
tion of her triple partition has the tocsin rung more
distinctly for the sons of her soil, summoning them
to arise and reassert their independence. It is an
extraordinary circumstance that the opportunity
should have occurred in consequence of an enor-
mous crime committed in the name of the CZAR,
immediately after that Prince bad accomplished a
work of pure beneficence, so wonderful as the eman-
cipation, by a single stroke from his pen, of twenty
millions of the human race. Wonderful, absolutely
marvellous, though the incongruity of those two
occurrences such has actually been the
case. Scarcely has ALEXANDER 11. emblazoned
his name in luminous characters upon the latest (yet
unfilled) page of the world's history, when he almost
blots out the luminous record with the blood of the
massacres wantonly perpetrated by his representa-
tive in the Imperial Russian (formerly the Royal
Polish), city of Warsaw. As GARIBALDI has power-
fully put it in his remarkable communication to
the great Muscovite exile lIERzEN—" It is not long
since the announcement of the emancipation of
the serfs in Russia was received in Europe with
admiration and gratitude. The Prince, initiator of
the great work, took his place by this act alone
beside the most illustrious benefactors of
humanity. And now—l say it with sorrow—the
work of beneficence has been stained by the blood
of an innocent population; and it.is the duty of
those who applauded the benefaction to raise their
voices against the consummation of this most de-
testable of crimes." Having said which, GARIBALDI,
addressing himself still to HERZEN, has written,
" Let your journal, justly appreciated throughout
the great Empire, convey aword of sympathy from
the Italian nation to unfortunate and heroic Poland
—a word of gratitude to the brave soldiers of the
Russian army, who, like PAPUFF, have broken their
swords rather than dye them in the blood of the people
—and a cry of reprobation from the sister nations
of Europe against the authors of this frightful mas-
sacre." Now, these words of GARIBALDI constitute
far more than simply a protest. They are to the
Polish nation we insist more than a cry of sym-
pathy, they are—a reminder ! GARIBALDI speaks,
recollect, in the name of Italy—in the name, that is
of a nation just sprung anew into existence, a
nation of from 22,000,000 to 24,000,000 ! And so
speaking in the name of some twenty-three million
Italians, GARIBALDI recalls to the recollection of
tho Poles in that mere fact of his so speaking, an
event replete to the Polish nation—(buried
alive though it still is under the deadening
despotism of the Triple alliance, the alliance
or Russia, Austria, and Prussia)—an incident
replete for the Polish nation, we save with the
most sublime eneauragement. If Italy has—
against such odds—yet contrived to conquer her
independence : Why not Poland ? Particularly,
Why not Poland, when Poland is midway between
Italy already emancipated and Hungary
ripe for
emancipation. Italy has certainly had GARIBALDI
to lead her on to her triumph. Hungary, more-
over, can direct her hopes confidingly to KOSSUTH
as her statesman, and to KLAPKA as her soldier,
But if Poland is without a KOSSUTH, is without
a GARIBALDI—has she not still her ZAMOYSRI
And at Paris has she not yet, as she has possessed
them for so protracted an interval, has not Poland
still to this moment at Paris, in that metropolis of
continental Europe, a venerable and powerful
advocate in the person of her beloved and revered
Prince ADAM CZARTORISKI ? Besides—prove to
the BONAPARTE now in power in that great capital,
as the ruler of 40,000,000 Frenchmen, as the
Captain of 600,000 French soldiers—prove to
him that his own selfish interests may
be subservod by his championship of the
Toles, and his puissant sword will as surely be at
their service now, as a couple of years ago it was at
the service of the Italians in the northern provinces
of the Roman Peninsula. Poland has but to play
the earas now
in her hands, cleverly and the game
is her own. The voice that calls her is as literally
as the voice that spoke through CHATEAUBRIAND'S
posthumous autobi'graPY—D'Outre Tombe! It is
her own voice—s Peaking from the grave in which
she has been lying buried
alive now during three
or four sucvcessivegeneratious.
Upon her national
escutcheon
ever since the date
of her third and final
tartition there has been
ot to speak it
and distinctlyproFanely—elearlY eg4.le, even so
that "those who run could read it"
,Recur
And the period of that political resurrection we
came of but deem now to be very imminent. The
to'Legram from Cracow tells us '5-The state of things
`at Warsaw remains unaltered." And, it adds,