Star.
London, England, 1831-09-06 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

The German Tribune, a constitutional journal published
at Munich, contains the following In Hungary the
agitation of the public has become great. The higher and
lower nobility have entered with great warmth into the cause
of the Poles, and are anxious, above all things, for their
nationality and independence. They recollect with pride
and grief, that Hungary itself was independent previous
to Ine, when she fell under the Austrian domina-
tion. They know that the consequences were, at home,
a conspiracy; at one time hypocritical, and, at another, at.
tended wi sanguinary violence against the nationality,
the constitution, the habits, and even the language of the
Hungarians; and abroad, the loss of their finest provinces,
which were torn from them by the Turks. Amongst the
people, on the contrary (who, being without any rights,
have become mere machines) nothing but superstition has
existed since the introduction of the terrible scourge of the
cholera. 'On this occasion the Austrian Government has
been taught a lesson ; and now knows by experience, that
it is better to afford the mass of the people enlightened in-
struction, than suffer them to grovel In ignorance. Not
only have the measures against the cholera been rendered
in many places abortive by the resistance of a blind popu-
lation, but on the banks of the Theism, and at the north-
west extremity of Hungary, the most frightful prejudices
have got full possession of the minds of the lower clean.—
They imagine that the nobles and great landholders wish.
to exterminate them, and that the physicians poison the air

and the water; that hence it tomes that so many of the
poor and so few of the rich die, and that the latter make
use of witchcraft to preserve themselves and destroy their
serfs. The consequence is, that in the counties of ?Amp-
En, Ssibott, Torontal, and Unghvar, and even in some
parts of Zips, the peasants are waging a savage war, to
which upwards of fifty nobles, and even women, have fallen
victims. A greai many of the castles and seats of the
nobility have been set on fire and destroyed. Letters from
Prests, Presburg, and Vienna, cite amongst the many vic-
tims the well.krown names of Chaky, Szinnay, Almasy,
Boronkay, and others. Cordons of troops are stationed ;
but the fires are no sooner extinguished at one point. than
they burst forth at another with increased violence. The
strength of the monachy is completely exhausted by these
calamities. The government cannot at this moment third
of war in any shape, and therefore all that may be said on
this subject should be treated as the mere inventions of
alarmists. Sleep has fled from moat of the castles and
towns of Hungary, from constant apprehension of being
murdered or burnt by the peasantry. The end must be,
that the nobles will place themselves at the bead of the
few followers they have left, and commence a war of ex.
termination. The probability is that they would succeed,
but the contrary is not impossible ; but in either case what
would be the advantage to the nation ? There will be great
difficulty in retarding the hour of regeneration ; the en-
lightened part of the Magnates are pupated for it. Civili-
zation has at length expanded itself beyond the ignoble
minority in which it has been circumscribed during the op-
pression of rges. The dream of Ezekiel is about to be
realised, and the scattered members of the nation gathered
together and restored to animation. The march of time is
irresistible, and will not be impeded by that scrni-barbarity
in which it is endeavoured to overwhelm the material and
Intellectual powers of Hungary ; even the capture of Warsaw
will not arrest its course. We are astonished that the jour.
nallists of France and England should be so ill-In-
formed of the real state of things, and do not endeavour to
give Europe better intelligence upon a subject in which she
is so deeply Interested, and which is so little understood."

THE EVENING STAR.