The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-14
More of Revolutions.

The telegraph has announced the arrival OF the
| steamer Washington, with news of more changes
and revolutions in Europe. Things Were drawing
to crisis in Ireland, and if the imposing show of
| shps-of-war in the larbor, and of English regi-
ments in the city of Dublin, did not entirely pre-
vent the demonstration which was to have taken
place on st. Patrick s Day. it is than probable
| that they had much they could do to suppress
| it. But while waiting fer news of the Irish move
ment we are suddenly appraised of revolution on
the Continent, which puts an entirely new face upon
affairs. With tantalizing brevity notified
that 60 Hungary has declared its independence -
and in the same breath, that the Emperor of Austria
concedinge every thing that the people of Vienna
demanded. The latter fact may be regarded as
necessary consequence of the former. But the Hun
garian revolution will serve vastly to complicate
matters, even in the present hour of political entan
| clements. Hungary always has preserved more or
less of nationality. The Emperor of Austria was
| but the King of Hungary-the country was 60
verned by its own laws and customs, and its inter-
| nal affairs Were regulated by the Hungarian Diet.
| The power of the Emperor extended only the adj
mnistration of the finances and the appointment
of officers to execute the laws. This power it is
true. has not always been exercised to the entire
! satisfaction of the Hungarian nobility, and it APP
pears that they have selected the present avo-
rable time to rid themselves of it altogether.
Let not our readers imagine, however, that any
assertion of Hungarian independence. is again to
the Hungarian people Its benefits accrue only to
the most wealthy. proud and powerful nobility in
Europe, who, while they assert the widest indie
pendence of the feuda ages for themselves, retain
the people in state of feudal subsection but little
in advance of what was the common lot of all the
serfs of Europe, in the beginning of the 18th CEN
fury. They have of late years. it is true, consented
to yield some of their paramount privileges, and in
some slight degree to alleviate the burdens of the
masses, but it has only been to perfect
ly their power, and to prevent a union between the
people and the crown, which might have produced
their overthrow. Hungarian independence, there
fore. cannot be regarded as any great gain to popu
lar rights; indeed, we inclined to believe that
the masses of the people would have been better off
if their native country had been totally subill-
gated-that is, if the Magyar and Sclavonan
mobiles had been entirely overthrown. One advan-
tage, at least the masses would have gained--tley
would have had one set of masters the less. But
while the people of Hungary are not likely to have
any great cause for joy from this revolution, the
other portions Of the empire will reap solid advan-
of AustriaMith its loss the strength of the empire
has departed, at the very moment when all its
strength is most required. The separation of Hun
gary cuts off the province of Pennsylvania and the
Polish province of Gallicia, from the rest of the
Austrian dominions; the former of these presents a
tempting bait for Russian appropriation, and the
latter is ripe for thorough national and social
revolution. To preserve either both these will,
under the circumstances, be likely to demand more
men and means than the Government has at it's
command. The independence of the Austrlo- Italian
States may then, and probably will be, consum-
mated and the German subjects of the Empire.
whom we look upon as nearly fitted for republican
institutions will be able to claim with success such
improvement of their political and social system as
may be desirable.
1t would seem that the Germans are aware Of
their vantage ground, and that the Emperor is no
less aware of his weakness. The telegraph an
nounces that there are disturbances in Vienna,
and that all that the people ask is gran&d!' Good
The work goes bravey on