New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-13
Constitutional Austria.

position of the present state OF things IN
Austriais translated by The Tribune, from,
Vienna letter in the last number OF The
Gren,boten. We commend it to the ad-
mirers of Austrian freedom in Boston,
Cambridge and elsewhere.
sour Austria, that sends her troops to the
Elder and lays down laws for Germany, has neither
repose nor calmness She irks and ails she lives
in incessant fear, spite of her half nillior~of mem
spite of the permanent state OF siege, and the
newly organized gems d'Grnes.
"Our condition is indeed ridiculous. Old coats
with new patches, crumbling ruins tricked out
with modern plaster figures, ragged beggars with
velvet trains were not half so comic as our vene'
rable old State with its revolutionary ministers,
its paper constitutionasm, it's democratic mill
tary dictatorship, and its worthless money. And
in all there is nothing genuine, less than nothing
Our Constitution has no force, our power no IN
ward vitality our currency no basis. Our organi
cation won't work. our colleges are the same old
baggage our Courts of Justice are stuck fast in the
mud. There is not true thing about as, not even
the Police which spends the time in useless CUES
sing abusing, and puzzles everybody, but protects
nothing, neither individuals against violence nor
the State against revolutions.
1--WE pay for our police as does no other coun
try on earth. The statistics OF the public ex'
penses for the three months of May, June and
July, 1850, show for this purpose an outlay two
and half millions of FORMS or ten millions
year. Then the gems darmes were far from COM
pletely organized, and in Hungary there was no
imperial police, but only that Of the communes.-
The expense is doubled already. Reckoning in
what each commune must pay to policemen and
officers, that establishment, which In old Aus
tria cost scarcely two and half millions year,
costs the new quasi Constitutional Austria from
25 to 30 millions Nor are the expenses OF ire
men, saving the drowning, and kindred public eS
Adjustments, included.
"And still the renorts OF murders rooberles
daring thefts and audscious swindhng oPera'ion'
are more and more abundant we ha'e ne'' ~
Vienna more policemen than many 1ermsn
Duchies have federal troops. Before nafcn 1879
the nolcemen carried batons After the revolu.
ton they laid them aside, and now carry carbines
instead which always hang loaded at their backs.
Beside all this complete division OF gems armes
are quartered here. Patrols march the streets
without cessation, and it is comica to see them
picking their road among men and carriages
through the crowded ways, without paying atten-
ton to anybody or any body paying attention to
them. In spite of this army Of police with which
there is an equal army Of secret agents, such q
succession of burgaries and thefts by night have
happened tina! the Merchants Company have been
compelled to set up private watch at their own
expense, which now keeps guard ell night long
before the closed shops.
1.-THE rules about passes were never more So
verely administered than now. Wo to the man
who is found without a pass, or without & pass
correct in every formality. He is incontinently
enrolled in the army. This fortune has happened
to men who have wives and children, and are
above forty years old. And still there were never
30 many vagabonds in Vienna as now, not even
in the time Of the revolution.
"The former 6tadthauptmann--so they call the
Chief Of Police here,-seemed to Dr. Bach the
Minister of the Interior,) entirely too mild. He
appointed In his place q certain DIR. Weiss Of
Starkenfels, son of the once omnipotent privy
councillor Of that name who was long a tool Of
the son was rapidly advanced, every official de-
string to please the father. He was appointed to
an important post in Bochnia, but his rough and
arbitrary conduct produced an insurection, and
he was recalled. He was sent to Med 10 Austria,
but had hardly been there fortnight before ris-
ing Of the peasantry was produced. Then he was
transferred to Transylvsnia, bu! it was soon found
expedient to bring him back. Dr. Bach. the Min.
lister of the Peoples Sovereignty, who puts the
majesty of the people beside the majesty of the
throne, made his native City present of this man.
"Hs entered on bis Office by prosecuting the
virtuous heroes Of the Exchange. He then had
the notion that the high premium of silver was
the work Of the stock obbers. After be had fol-
lowed this while, he set up hue and cry
against the literah. The correspondents OF the
foreign papers were hunted for, especially the
correspondent Of the Cologne Gazette. A spe-
cial bureau in the Police was set up for the su-
pervision Of journalists. Spies were sent out in
al directions. Some very loyal and peaceable
authors were unearthed. They were denounced,
had before the Police, examined, released, hauled
up and examined again. But as the correspond
ent in question il not in Vienna, they could not
catch him, and had to content themselves with
sending off all sorts Of foreign publicsts. ought
TO mention here that our Post. flee has carefully
respected the secresy Of letters. The Minister OF
Commerce has issued stringent orders on this
point.
"In this enc rgenoy the 6tadthsuptmann has In