The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-05

FOREIGN MISCELLANY

PoLAND.-A letter of the 18th, from Berlin. saws
Every letter from the Polish frontier speaks of the
profound dlscontent existing in that country, as
also In Lithuania and FOlhynia since all the homes
bullt upon the accession of the Emperor Alexander
were overthrow. Hardly political concession
made to Russia has been extended to Poland: the
Polish press is mute; the polish nobility is not al
lowed to meet and form any organization like the
Russian; and its opinion is not asked on ouestions
of reform, though far more favorable to the cause
OF reform than the mobiles of Russia Not one of the
amnested exiles who have returned has been mt
again IN possession of his estates. All that has
been done was TO declare, on the 9TH of Septemler
last, when the hereditary Grand Duke came of are
mat no further steps would be taken towards the
fresh confscaton of estates, but even this proca-
nation is not respected by the governors On the
contrary, they take advantage of the amnesty to
make supplementary considerations, that are merely
done for the sake of enricug the generals aud bigh
officials, to whom the revenues of tbe as+otos -
paid. "
HUNGARY.-Iti is perfectly well known in Hun.
gary that Government intends to punish all those
persons who may protest against the Imperial pa
tent OF September l, but still the Lutheran commu-
nifty at Pesth assembled on the 9th instant ond
drew up address to the Emperor, in which
they humby prayed his Majesty to suspend his
patent, to do away with the impediments TO the
meeting Of the "Senioral and Districtual Con.
vents and to stop the proceedings which had
been instituted by the authorities against the mem
6ers OF the Evangelical Church 'or having fulfilled
their religious duties.'
a few days ago the editor of the Pesti NapIo was
summoned to the police, and asked by the director
who had given him the detailed account of the
meeting of the Protestants at Kasmark At first
the editor gave an evasive answer, but when ex-
amined a second time he boldly declared that he
would not betray the confidence placed in him.
As this refusal was an offence against the Press
Law, the editor (the responsible editor probably
was sent to prison, where he will pass one calen-
dar month.
The following letter from Pesth has been receiy-
ed by the Times Paris correspondent:
"DEC. 81 am able to inform you that the Vi
ennese Cabinet is so seriously alarmed at what the
Times and other English journals have said respect-
ing the oppression of the Protestants in Hung arv
that Count de Rechberg, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, has deemed it necessary to address circu-
lar to the Austrian diplomatic agents at foreign
courts, directing them to give explanations on the
subject to the different governments. | have not
yet obtained copy of this circular, but am told
that its contents are to this effect The Austrian
Government thinks that the Hungarian Protestants
have no just reason to complain of oppression in
asmuch as the Imperial patent regulating their
worship, which 1t Issued some months ago. is, in
its eyes, OF reasonably liberal character Never
theless, as that patent is decidedly unpalatable to
the Protestants, the Government might, perhaps
have consented to modify it, or even replace it al
together, If that would have satisfied them; but
they insist the pure and simple re-establishment
of their selfgoyernment and independence as thew
existed previousl y to lS4S.
"Now,to grant anything of the kind would be an
abandonment of the Bach Schwarzenberg policy of
investing in the hands of the Central iGororn.
ment the sole and uncontrolled regulation of pub
lie matters-a policy which has been practiced for
years, and which the Government cannot and will
not abandon or modify. Count de Rechberp.
therefore, hopes that foreign governments will see
that the Hungarian Protestants are putting forth
utterly unreasonable pretensions, and that conse-
quenty, no attention will be paid to what newspa-
pers may say about their grievances | will only
say one word in answer to the Austrian circular
| o11fh hat thatt
neither moral nor legal right to deprive the Hun
garian Protestant Church of liberties and immuni
ties which it had enjoyed for centuries, and which
are absolutely necessary for the defence of the faith
in all its purity, and for the maintenance of discip-
line. This being SOFT follows that,if the Hungarian
Protestants were to submit without murmur to
the tyranny to which men of the Bach and Schwar-
zenburg and Rechberg class think they ought to
be subjected, they would be veritable cravers-a
disgrace to their religion and their race
A letter from Vienna, in the Prussian Gazette
says: "The government appears more and Emore
resolved not to allow the agitation in Hungary
which has suddenly arisen to continue 1t has
ordered the 9Th corps darmee, which is now in
Italy, to proceed to Hungary to be at the disnosi
ton of the Archduke Albert
The Augsburg Gazette, in an article upon Aus
ria, holds the following somewhat ingular lam
guage:
As the national feeling of the Hungarians is be-
coming morbidly fanatica, it is natural that people
in the Danubian city (Vienna) should think of
giving constitution to the other races OF the en-
plre. in order that fraction of its population
should not become preponderant If we are we'll
informed, there is at present in Austria-as well
among the Germans as among the Sclaves-such a
very bad pessinittche) feeling, that people do not
object to the encroachments of the Magyars. as
they hope through them to obtain reasonable con-
cessions from the State. Every patriot must hope
that the Imperial Government will give ga consti-
tutiOnal reform to the whole empire rather than
an exceptional position to the Hungarians Co.
70 M nat no ah1 IN AZ e
the whole empire, the patriotism of which can ONLY
be reused by fitting representation, as powder
and ball are paatives to which recourse cannot
be had except in extreme cases.
The Preusstschea .Juhrbucher contains an articla
on the policy of Austria previous to the outbreak
OF the war in Italy, which cannot fail to produce
dlsagreeable impression on the Emperor Napoleon
as it goes far to prove that no government is go
inveteratey hostile to him as that of Austria. The
Prussian publicist says-"Austria wanted to carry
the war across the Rhine into France to drive the
'Napoleonites' out of the country, and to place
Henry V. on the throne of his fathers. when
Count Rechberg made Minister President in
May last, he openly and officially declared that the
real object of thewar was the overthrow of Napo-
leon Ill. and the restoration of Henry V. One of
the highly placed statesmen to whom Count Reoh-
berg made the important communication probably
expressed the establishment he felt by his looks for
the Austrian Minister added 'Oui, cest ce que nous
roulons. Nj plus, nj n,oins.'"
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 9th publishes a
royaldecree, enacting that the young men who have
from Venice and the Italian Tyrol, and
who would be DESTROYS of continuing their studies
in the Sandman universities SHALL if unable to sup
port the expense, be admitted grautously to those
ESTABLISHMENTS and to pass their examinations.
"A church is about to be erected by the Russian |
Government near lnkermann, the funds for which |
are suppied by the sale of the cannon balls which
have been picked up at Inkermann and SebastonoI |
The Brussels Nord emphatically contradicts the |
assertion that the Chinese Government had suns
moned Russia to evacuate the territory washed by |
he AMOR
The Government of Hesse Casse as mark of
hostility to Prussia, has decided that its troops
shall uniforms of the Austrian model inste ad
of as heretofore the Prussian
Some thieves have again broken into the church |
If the Ma 1onna della Graza, Naples, and stripped
Our Lady" of all her jewels The church, too,
vas cleared of the silver candlasticks and other val