New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-10
THE STATE OF EUROPE.

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Y,Sm Our Own Correspondent.
LONDON, Tuesday, Nov %, 1856.
The fall Of Hungarian independence and the Aus
Arian abolition of the old established constitution,
was followed by system of military oppression
vhich, at best, made room for a thoroughly Aus
tran administration. Still the spirit Of tie people
was not broken; the foreigners who got all the
government Offices in Hungary found their social
position 10 uncomfortable that they either tried to
exchange places with native Hungarans and to g.
back to the Austrian provinces, or they fully
adopted the language the manners and customs, and
even the feelings Of the country The arisstocracy,
kcepmg aloof from the Court of Vienna, launched
itself into railway and drainage enterprises, and
tried TO keep the national spirit alive and to main
tain their lead at least in literature, by patrOnzing
and by writing books in the Hungarian language.
Al the great families remained refractory in respect
to the Austrianizing and centralizing schemes of
The Government of Vienna. Now another and not
less important element has entered into the con
test against GENERALIZATION, viz: the Protestant
Church in Hungary. The Emperor, alter having
arranged the relation of the Roman Catholic Church
70 the State by the notorious Concordat, wished
10 quiet the anxiety of the Professionals and ordered
Q statute to be drawn up for the regulation of the
Protestant Churches. The Ministry, in the belief
that the Prussian system which gives great weight
% the clergymeD and concentrates the ecclesiastical
power in Central Board no minated by the Crown,
Msuld Just do for Hungary, prepared consttu-
zion for the Churches Of Hungary according to the
Prutsian model. But when the draft was comnu-
nicated to the Protestants, they unanimously re-
Jecttd it, claiming complete self government and
insisting upon the convocatiOn of COnventioo or,
as they cal it, of a Synod, which alone may alter
or confirm the laws and rules by which the Protest
ant Church was governed before lS49. They espe
cally and unanimously protested against the exclu
sion of the taymen from the administration of the
Church. even as regards the dOgmas and against any
saheme of centralizng the Church Government
In Board or permanent Council. 1t is peculiar
sign of the time that the result and even some Of
Abe details Of tho deliberations of the Protestants
have trsnsPhed in the Vienna official papers, an it
- surmised that political reasons and some jealousy
against any possible influence of Prussia upon the
Hungarian Protestants have made the original scheme
of organization somewhat distasteful in the highest
quarters, and that Count Thur the Minister for
Public Instruction, may probably soon be super
seeded by some less centralzing and more liberal
statesman. The Count, whose name is identified
with the Concordat, has already rendered his resig
nation; but it has, as yet, not been accepted.
In France, the Momiers (Evangelicals Of the
extreme hue) continue to defy the Imperial Govern.
ment, by persevering in their religious meetings
which are not authorized by the EmperOr-in spite
Of fines and persecution. They remind us of the
spirit The Purtans and Quakers of the seventeenth
sestury.
kormonism is on the decrease in England, since
. 1.-THE is exacted by their spiritual leaders, 'for
"the use of the Saints at Great Salt Lake." The
English, as matter-of.fact people, refuse to be
taxed for foreign countries. even though they are
deluded by such doctrines as the Saints" are
preaching among them.
The Russian Railway scheme and even the
Steam Navigation Company in the Back Sea and
Mediterranean, meet with such hostility in England
AAat their failure il all but certain. Fran,e has no
cspital to spare, and Germany has no courage
patronire an undertaking unpopular at London
and decried as unsafe. In spite Of the names 0
Perrere Hottinguer, Barring and Hope, the al
gantagee offered by Russia are not sufficiently at
tractiye bait for the western capitalists, and IN
nsgni6ccn. plan Of the Gar to have bis military
roads built by continental Europe and England
destinued to utterly fail.
large manufacturing house In the papor line a.
L'ge, in Belgium, makes use of the -four Of horse
fhesfnuts and of aeorns 10 making paper, as l see
hem short notice in the Vienna Ost Deatsehe
Post.
The affair Of the Eaglish sunboat, fred at b. the
Russians, has been amcably arranged by the re-
spechVe ambassadors at Cons,an;inop'e.
II is now officially denied that the English En-.
bssssdor accompanies the Emperor of Austris on
his visit to Italy That is to say Sir Hamilton Sew.
nour was invited by the Austrian Emperor and
ncceeted the invitations TO take par; in the Inpc
rial progress; but the affair was unpaatabls to |
England. ana accordingly the Enbassador got or.
lers to avoid an identification of England with the
Austrian policy in l.'Jy.
Rothschld's new co.>'trsct with the Bank of
rance to supply gold to ia amount of two hun
red and eighty millions of france WITHIN one year.
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