American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-05-20


to be served for three months after the above date need
only his quarters POSTAGE and send us gold dollar
and silver quarter in small leterpostage paid, of
course.
FOREIGN NEws.--We yesterday gave under
our telegraphic head the leading items of the
news brought by the steamer Franklin, which
arrived at New York yesterday morning, IN
twelve days from Southampton. The following
is all we deem it necessary to add Of the ac-
counts since received:
ssAt meeting of the Council of Chairmen
of the Metropolitan Commission, presided over
by their noble President, it was unanimously
resolved to invite the foreign Commissioners to
an entertainment. The invitation will be ex-
tended to the foreign Ambassadors and Minis
tiers, and the principal of the Royal Commission
and Executive. The banquet will be upon
scale of great splendor, and fully maintain the
national character for hospitality"
This win be very select banquet, and the
noble President and his noble guests will no
doubt enjoy it. banquet at the worlds indus
trial display, to which the scientific, laboring,
and industrious people are not to be invited,
should be very private it might be enjoyed all
the better for this; and the publication of any
account of it is only suggestive to the learned,
ingenious, and laboring portion Of humanity, of
things of which they had better not at present
be reminded.
:" 1t is stated in some Of the German journals
hostile to the Austrian movements, that fresh
symptoms of agitation are perceptible in Hun
gary. A letter from Vienna states that the
agitation is confined to the question of the to-
bacco monopoies, which encounters much oppo-
sition, but otherwise the suppressing of the late
revolt has produced a feeling of attachment to
the Austrian Government on the part of the
peasantry, as it has relieved them from the
tyranny and exactions of the Hungarian nobles
many Of whom had taken part in the insurrec-
ton only in the hope of emancipating them
selves from the control Of Austria, which was
beginning to espouse the cause Of the produc-
tive classes"
Our news from Europe comes to US through
the newspapers Of Europe; and certain of the
letters which follow its publication, mot all, for
many of them are mere patchwork from the
newspapers,) generally give the lie to all the
statements of political matters we receive. Now,
we do not believe there is word of truth in
the foregoing paragraph. Were the Austrian
Government the most kind and merciful, instead
OF the revengeful and bloody tyrant it has well
proven, it would be impossible that it could, SO
soon after the late sanguinary struggles, possess
the affection and confidence of the Hungarian
people. But when its great generals are known
to the world as butchers-when the civilized
world laughs at beholding the greatest of them
dashed and hooted to scorn and disdained by
party Of London laborers, who had heard of his
base and sanguinary vengeance and women
whipping-when freedom in Italy has had to
mourn their presence-when patriots have fled
from them for security to the mercies of an in
fdel people, and in their Punishment retain the
respect and sympathies of the friends of liberty
in every clime-it will not do to tell us that
"the suppressing of the late revolt has pro-
duced a feeling of attachment to the Austrian
Government on the part of the peasantry;" that
Austria "has relieved them from the tyranny
and exactions of the Hungarian mobiles - or that
Austria "was beginning to espouse the cause
of the productive classes" 1t is false, every
word of it, and the sources whence such polit-
cal information comes to us from Europe-the |
hired Journals that dare not espouse the cause
of human liberty, nor give utterance to the
truth-are unworthy being quoted when ques-
ton of the rights Of man is at issue.
1t is true, an American traveller and editor
has been found patriotic enough to visit the
imperial court at the expense of this nation,
and to return to us laden with reports of like
characters but we lament to state that it is
equally true, that in this land, now great and
glorious and happy, because it is free, there
are men who, for selfish ends, would barter the
freedom of their country, or for thirty pieces of
silver would have sold Saviour But the great
heart of the American people is true to liberty,
and, although their currents of information
from Europe must for a time flow through
impure channels, they will reject the falsehoods
of the interested, and keep for ever alive their
sympathy for the oppressed, and their willing
ness to give them aid and succor.