Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1848-11-06
GENERAL NEWS.
Fran Boston .4dreriiSer.
THE EMPIRE OF AUSTRIt


THE EMPIRE OF AUSTRIA.
Y Our readers, doubt not have fDuad il imp 'ssble
from the vague and dsronnpc ed Of the
which reach BY every packet from the various parts
If the Austrian nnions and particularly from Hnnga
rv TO form Nv isnc idea If what is passing lhrle.-
We had intended at OUT ist leisure to crllec into
view the principal recent occurrences for the purp oi
giving something Of connected form the int lgencc
which reaches But even this would be l1llr Of
officially. In the time linI in the Pa
ris J0gr1td des de6ats, a journal full than any
Their which reaches lis in the authentic Information of
passing the European continent, the following
Interesting article Austrian Affairs, OF which we pre-
sent translation.
AUsrRtAN AFf,IRs.-We confess in all rcrry that
we do pretend to know the Spuon OF the enlgna al
situation in which the Empire of Austria is placed by
the which have TRANSFERRED during the last SIN
months in Europe aud within her own bosom. r p'-
whslni ling The care We have taken ~ study TN deWs
which every day brings fee every day. also roN
difficult it establish logical connection between
rlicury facts; discover the conducting traad in
;he midst If that mysterious obscurlty IN which the
German ScIavonan people seem 10 delight, and which
in Austria powerfully favored by the diversity OF
religions, graces, languages. manners. political laws
and gJvefnnonts which under the Imp rial scep
ire.
7 A. Vienna. & must he acknowledged the princiT le o
authnrity the power day To he covering itself
from tie terrible blow it received from the events Of
N 'rch, the agitation of Bohemia, the instruction of
Hungary, and the first of the Austrian in
LAZY The Weary # Prince Vndish Graez at Prague
,nd HE return Of Marshal Radezky 10 Milan, have con
bued much towards il. What contributes not less to
IT, is the more certain support given every day the gov
by tho NalionI Assembly cOnvoked a!V enna to
rive constitution to the empire.
|, is The most democratic assembly Austria has
known, rather Is the only democratic assembly she
has ever Chosen by virtue Of electoral laws which
are almost equivalent universal suffrage and that in
The midst of icerv feuda till the very of the cleo
ton the inisi part OF lis members lawyers, physcl
ans. merchants, citizens who had supp sed themselves
cnudeuned for their whole life to be excluded from
political poWer who in tie fist moment Of surprise We're
present. moved al the tumultuous al the
cuson Of which the Emperor fled Innspruck. bot who
afterwards recovered themselves, and seeiug cinnerce
The nances the social and political situation OF the
try growing every day without ling nod any
one, made haste to recall The sovereign who had called
them into polliic; life. III the number If these
must be counted very considerable fraction If pea
SAINTS, ancient sers who had perhaps dreamed Of
their affranc hisenenl, and who astonshed the popula
ton OF the capital not less than they were themselves
astonshed by them. These rude laboers ,ab tna
ted to the hardest life, and ignorant this IS especially
true as respect Of he de Duties Of Galcia
cfhe use Of beds and who must have found the man
# working Irrational workshops very strange, for
Vienna also has had its parody OF the organization of la
Dor. After the FIST moment of trouble, after having
given an altogether the attempt to undrrs and ally
hing which was going about them in city Of
Nj iCl lu the most part they did not know the anru
hey returned to he ancen! faith Of the Sciavon
aa ~:~an Of HE Austrian kingdoms, that filth which
shows the Emperor always struggling with the ser's
40 inst The udal nobility, aud labrng to emanclPate
eu Win sincerity which late events confirmed IN 50
striking thlnner.
n These sentiments Which have led many 10 return IL
ho Imperial p,v7r, are also those which animate the
CroatlAs,and have secured them all the Austrian pro
wars many wishes for their success, though this
co5 wUId Contribute much 10 Strengthen the auth ri
" fihe nnrror United by force Of arms 10 Hun
cary iowa IDS The end Of the twelfth century, the Croa
Anr reduced q seryiinde by their co"qncTJrs
i peasants u our country had been by the Franks.
az, - he Saxon peasants had been, at the period,
~ ii, Nor, kigms. Their personal liberty, their
individual property, ihcr private social stale were. res
paclc ny he cunquerors with generosity, rare at that
iiAc- and fl which he Magyar MOBILES may wei BE-
pr thei 5r"s, Int II is nevertheless irne that
Nv ,'r institution ii he country, by the laws which
tly 1"dC WI! the Concurrence OF their Kings The en-
qucrrs >ney ais, very well arrange IN such man
mr. themselves almost exclusive M
lo j. Of he pIwerun@ political advantages, by thr W.
ins al III aurls rs Oh he shoulders Of the oicis. ana
.oins hen " SPA rc " nfriority from which il
,ecrred If nothing caut elevate hem. II Is This con-
s,iiution, preserved through ares almost without mod
:lcation which The Hungarian nobility wish 10 pre-
serve entire agan> hnse Whn aiming at a
form with III ,heit hand, against the Empa
rnr.
Ad zen years Sire whon NJ. David Urquhart prna
ched hi crusade dgaits Russia. It was very much the
fashion 10 boast me Hungarian liberalism, The attach
of ina, people ia their Cus ntion the ress ance
they opposed 30 the invasiunS ui The Vienna chancery
and the stand ii nresehif against ihe desp0isn Of the
North. Applied exclusively 10 ihe Magyar Nobility
all This was rue UGH ID, VIA also true is that The
Of lis parliamentary orjiiiy was the preser-
vaion Of excessive privileges and the resistance Of all
, attempts at an,eJra1n Of the blrharous laws which
hamper Commerce and industry OF II kinds, which Will
not even allow the necessary 10 the adnIstra-
lion of the gov be r,sed IN The Kim don, and
forces the imperial government o1ian noney N ne
Archduchy OF Austria IT. Tally liqulda he annu
al deficit Of Hungary. Ani iarher is asa ira, that
the antpahy Of the Hungarian nobility of Russia ha'',
and has still prnc pal motive, The moral sup~rt
that the Scla vonans of Croatia. lly Tia and Tansyvd-
MIA. always find in their Northern brethren. Brave,
anlable. enthusiastic, mag ilceo in their manner Of
living magnificent, even. for great r2any Of Them
are loaded with debts which legal means free
them to pay, the Hungaa ns, deckrd ou with
nsl of liberalism, knew how interest the opinion
of Europe in their cause. The Magyar movement, as
is called, developed itself with great energy, and 20
resist H. u lis turn the Cabinet Of Vienna had other
resource than 10 throw itself witt zeal than ever
the side Of those who sigh after the reom ct the IA
NOUS Hungarian charter, aud who are ieriard wof-
king the Panslavonian propaganda of the Russians.
II Matters were IN this stale when the ReV"il'io" u
February tosk place. when the victorious rtvouio'o o.
March broke out at Vienna The Hungarlans thought
at ,nce their time was come and that the honr d Ma
gyism had sounded. But they had as we say, counted