Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-02-09

| HUNGARY.-A private letter from Pesth, of
the 18th inst, in the London Times, contains
the following =" have just received news of
the great Protestant meeting which was held
the day before yesterday at Debreczin, and l
rejoice to say that it is of satisfactory charac-
ter. The meeting has passed off without
conflict and without bloOdshed. As the Pro
testants openly proclaimed that they intended
to make the assembly the most numerous and
important yet held in Hungary on the subject
of the imperial patent the Austrian govern
ment, either from serious alarm, or in the hope
of overawing them, hastily collected formld-
able body of troops in the immediate vicinity
of the town.
Nor were the friends of the Hungarian cause
without disquietude, owing to the fact that De
breczln and its neighborhood are cheny PEG
pied by thorough Magyars, whose hatred TO
Austrian domination is more bitter than that
of any other race, and whose hot blood was
very likely to boil at the sight OF Austrian
bayonets. But, as l have said, this great
meeting has passed off quietly. The Austrian
agents abstained from eXasperatlng the Mag
vars, and the Magyars, on their part, tnough
not without difficulty, retrained from falling
foul Of the Austrians.
The meeting was held in the great Protcs-
tant church of the town. and it was so nulner-
GUS that not only was the church crammed to
sutfocation, but a vast multitude assembled
outside Just as the proceedings were about
to commence, the Imperial Commissary OF the
district entered, and, representing that the
meeting was illegal, summoned the persons
present to dispense. The chairman answered
that he and his fellow PrOtesants had met to
protest against the Imperial patent of the LIST
September, which outraged their religion
that by the law Of Hungary they had an UNI
doubted right to assemble to make such pro
test; that that right they were fully determin
cd to exercises and that if force were employ
ed to prevent them, they would have recourse
to force.
The Conmissary, who seemed somewhat
cowed, then said that he would not use VIC
lence to break up the meeting, but said he
must draw up formal declaration that his |
summons to it to dispense had been disobeyed, |
and that the chairman and all who took a |
leading part in the proceedings must expect |
prosecution, He was told that he might |
draw up any declaration he pleased, and |
might afterwards institute any prosecution he |
pleased. On that he retired, and the meeting, |
to the business before it, adopted |
resolutions strongly condemning the Imperial !
patent.
For some time past the Hungarians in GER
tain towns have been treating the officers in
the Austrian army as the Italians treat them;
that is to say, are stunning their society, ex-
Guiding them from clubs, and even putting i'll
suits on them in the streets. AT Kecskemet |
and Debreczin, quite recently, they have been
shut out of the casinos, and been exposed to
much obloquy. In the latter town somo of
them, in spite Of their exclusion, went to the |
casino, and acted with considerable inSoence |
to several gentlemen they found there. The |
latter displayed angelic patience for a time, |
but at last their Magyar blood fired up, and |
they gave the Austrians a good Gaming.