Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-01-23
THE sERvIAN INSTRUCTION.

The last steamer informs us of an instruction in
Southeastern Hungary, among the Servans, tribe
OF Savonlc origin who there nhab The is this:
This tribe from time immemoral have been under
the government OF the Hungarian Diet far as they
nave been under civil government at ALL Oflae years
stirred up by the nstigations OF the Austrian Cabinet
which aimed to use them against the Magyars on the
one hand, and by Russian agents charming them in be-
half OF the Gar, who, the leading parsonage of the
Greek Church, has strong presumptive claim their
affection, on the other, they have asserted their own
nationality and aspired to distinct political existence.
In the late war they among the most useful sup
porers OF the Imperial cause they were the earliest
to take the field in its behalf They are a half savage
race, but trained to war through the organization OF
the Military Frontiers, Gordon originally instituted
to protect Austria against the Turks and still kept
up, not only as check upon smuggling, but cheap and
reliable nursery OF armies For their services aga inst
the Magyars, it understood that they were to be
separated from Hungary, and accordingly in last No
vember an imperial decree was issued establishing the
Servan Vayvo deschaf or province to be administered
by Vayvode or Governor named by the crown, with
its own diet and other local institutions In this pro-
vince were included the most fertile parts of lower
Hungary and It's limits were made extremely liberal
But they not liberal enough take in the whole
race and county known as Syrma lying between the
Danube and the Sare and containing 1873 900 inhab.
tants and two frontier regiments, was among the dis
trics left out This not done from anv DESIGN te
provoke them to revolt, but because being comnrehen
ded In the frontier organization, was not thought ne
eessary that they should be putn the new province
Du hese olaVons seem to have thought otherwise anC
taking lire at this exclusion have rebeled against the
Empire, and have drawn together with themselves those
OF their brethren from both sides of the Turkish frontier
who are ready for any fight in which their ma
uoIial feeling be engaged. 1t is said that they
nave l20OOO men under arms This is not unlikely no,
Is there any reason why they should not receive large
additions to their forces The Croats have long beer
rlpenng for rebellion against the same constitution; OF
because it leaves any OF them out, but because it alb
rogates or transforms their old established institution
There would be nothing surprising in seeing the
whole body OF Jellachichs people rising in omen resjs
lance to the Emperor he has made them sustain though
with so doubtful an efficiency, against the Macy airs
his instruction may become critical not only from
these circumstances but from the TACT that all Hungary
remains In state of intense evaporation toward the
government which could be reused to new war on the
sghtest OCCASION and because the ntrgues among the
Servians, and especially among those in Turkey which
RUSSIA has long pursued energecaly as notorousIy
are still continued. Indeed noted Russian Consu
ngures prominently in the present business. Moreover
II Is PLAN that an insurrecton in Hungary in purel,
Slavorc interest would be regarded with very dferen
eyes BY Nicholas from the Magyar war for The establish
ment OF an independent Republic
These Servlans, who were not worth much as sol
ders against the Magyars, will be found no contemptib
antagonists by the Imperial troops Altogether, Their
chance Tor an interesting complication In that quar-
Ter which will do its part toward the rapidly approachn
bankruptcy and ruin OF the Austrian Empire and tina
false social fabric OF which one of the chief pillars
Europe-N. Y. Tribune