Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-06-29
Hungary.

There are grounds for reck oning the pop
ulatlon Of Hungary and its dependencies at
IA millions. The Magyars are 5 :; the Sal
IONS as many or perhaps more; the Ger
mans 100000. The Germans of Tran
mostly descended from colony settled Z
centuries ago. In Hungary considerable
part of the population are known by the
| designation UaiiqkS. These are partly Of
of RoaIan blood, partly Of that of the nations
that inhabited those countries before the
Roman conquest. There are Italians, AR
menians, Jews, Gypsies, &c. The Gyp.
sizes, $4,000 in number, have preserved
| their original language, which has much
IN common with Hmdoston, pretty entire.
Oh the Slavons there are Z tribes, with a
great variety Of speech. ltsometimes hap
pens that, 10 hold converse with man Of
adillerent tribe a Slavoa of Hungary adj
dress him in Magyar, which is spoken BY
mulludes not oil the Magyar race.
The Magyar language is described as q
very fine one and there now exists in it a
very respectable literature, The progress
in every way made by the nation, particular
| Iy since the peace Of 1914, IS very remark
| able. /! contains great number % talen-
teIand amply informed men. They have
dismissed both preudices and divisions.
| They are liberals almost to man, and at the
came time none Of their inovations go too
far. They are decidedly for low duties and
| free trade, the refusal of which was one of
| Of their quayrels with Austria, whose con-
| duct towards Hungary century after. cen,
fury, has been tissue of ingratitude and
pertidy. Valued, however, and sometimes
feared, IN military point Of view, the
nation was able TO hold some OF its privileges
and one nparicular, the value of which YOU
feel in New Yorkland, the election of local
lunctlonaries by the people. Hence they
never became the same cowed race with the
Austrians, but remained ouispoken and bold.
'Hhey had been loud and urgent for further
reform many years before the revolution Of
February end it was settled that Diet to
sanction specific measures, should meet to-
wards the end of 1877. Such measures
actually passed il in March 1918, and the
Court gave its assent in April, bnt with a
fixed intention to upset the whole by force
Of arms. The game Of faIeshood was play
ed TO the last. On the 9th of September.
I848, the very day that Jcllachich crossed
theDrane atthe head Of Austrian and Croatian
troops, 10 march upon Pest, tie Palanea or
Nlceroy, "a near relative of the EMPEROR
assured the Diet of the Kings Emperor's)
unalerable intention to maintain the laws
Of april and the integrity of Hungary. 1t
would be endless to cnumerato the various
perGdics. The Court hoped JelIachich,
would carry every thing before him, but
body of troops were collected, and these,
with the levy in-mass, defeated him Goth
September. The Court now ordered regi.
ments, stationed at Vienna, to reinforce Jel-
lachicE, the Indignation OF which led to the
second Vienna revolution, 9th and 7th Oct.
1913, which 10000 troops under Winds
chgratz and JelLachIch, Suppressed 3Ist Oct.
and LIST Nov. The event had been different
had the Vienna Diet accepted in time the
offer Of the Hungarian one, to send them sue
cor in troops. The former played its cards
very badly. In the vain hope Of gaining
fair terms from !heir enemy. the Court to
whom they kept sending Populations, cool
ed and dispirited their friends. When ell
was undone, Benz. who had no sphere for
his talents and yigor, escaped from Vienna,
borne in coffin. lie was born in 1905,
in Austrian Poland. Demninaski is d Pole.
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