Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-02-27
The Austrian Empire TOttering.
Tho Thunderer Predicts Her Down
Gall.
fFrom the London Times.l
coMIXa RuIY 81 ZEE ENFIRE.


fFrOm the London Times.
coMIxG RUN or THE EMPIRE.
Tit be true that Jupiter is in the habit
of making men the author OF their own
ruin-driving those mad whom he wishes
i to destroy-it is to be feared that Jupiter
has some evil intentions respecting Francis
Joseph of Austria. All the historical
symptoms of a doomed dynasty are now
manifesting themselves in Vienna. No
i sovereign can afford to beat once Obstin-
ate and weak Magenta and Solferino
have inflicted an indelible disgrace upon
I the arms of Austria. The defeats have
4 made manifest to the world that, when
compared with France, Austria, ruled by
| her present Emperor, is about second
rate Power The'prostratiOn of Austrian
financial credit has made public the fact
that Austria is poor. Weak in arms and
poor in pocket as he is, Europe looks
anxiousIy to discover how this young Em-
peror, who has so difficult a part to
4 play, demeans himself in the crisis. His
tory has her great men, who have made
their fame ont of a-conjuncture such as
this.
1t is a moment when the general sense
of danger would have allowed single
mind to break down and to build up
Francis Joseph for u while promised to
turned his horse from that square tower
on the Solferino height, a great supersti-
tion mnst have been swept out of his head.
That force upon which he had been taught
to rely with implicit confidence, was bro
ken, and he could never again believe it TO
be invincible. Unhappily, the conviction
thus rudely pressed upon him could notbe
kept secret. 1t was shared by the whole
world. Italy knows it and Hungary knows
it. 1t is known to his interiors, and it is
loudly celebrated by them; it is known to
his equals, and while politely ignored, is
steadily acted upon. England, France and
Russia cannot but look upon Francis Jo-
seph as struggling man whose Kingdom
is in danger of passing away from him.
Under these circumstances, the young
/ emperor seems to combine in himself all
the weaknesses of our Charles /, and all
the stupid bigotry of our James IL. If
there he anything which could ride over
this crisis in the fortunes of Austria, it
would be the loyal and energetic assist
| ance of Hungary. This was once not
very difficult to obtain. The Hungarians
| boast themselves to be the most warlike
nation in Europe; they are addicted to
arms; they were, moreover, additionally
loyal to the house of Hapsburg, and quite
ready to expend all their enthusiasm in
the service of that exacting house. In
that nation Francis Joseph had great
| source of military power and the materials
for many armies. But his opportunity
rested upon two conditions. Hungary is
wnrIike, but she is attached to free insti-
| tutions; she is loyal, but she is TO great
extent Protestant. Francis Joseph Is
| despot and bigot The difficulty is pre-
ciseIy that which besct our James II. He,
| like Francis Joseph, had to govern a Pro-
testant and free people, whose institu-
lions had been assailcd and whose reli-
Eious fears had been reused, and he
ended by being sneered at by shrewd
priests as q simpleton who lost three
Kingdoms for mass. Here, in our
day, is an imperial pilgrim travelling in the
same path. Hungary is rs much attached
to her free institutions as our fathers were.
| Yet she has seen them all swept away, and
now lies writhing under tyranny so heavy
that it is even an otfense to ask to speak
her own language in her own Universities.
Hungary is also to great degree Profess
| tant, and her Professionalism is of the most
turbulent and Incorporating character.
| That Culvanism with which tolerance is
| crime is rife among the HungarianS, and
now finds itself the subject of persecution.
How has this young Emperor dealt with
this valuable but difficult portion of his
empire? He has in effect said to it, as was
|
father chastised you with whips, but
will chastise you with scorpions" In
| stead of restoring the institutions which
had been taken away, Francis Joseph has
made even petitions for such n restoration,
la crime. He has not only punished all
agitation for such an object but he has
/ prescribed all those who indicated any
| leaning toward a liberal policy for Hunga-
ry. Baron Huber was dismissed because
he was favorable to Hungary; the Archduke
Macmillan was exiled because he recon-
mended concessions to Hungary; and the
Archduke Stephen has refused to accept the
/ government of that country because he re-
coils from the oppression which his in
! structions would have compelled him to
inf1ict. So as to their religion. He has
prosecuted the Protestants till even the
Roman Catholic priests cry shame and
sympathy with their heretical country
men, postponing their bonds of faith to
ties of blood. The letters which we pub
fish to-day from Pesth and Vienna tell
that this insane young man is going on TO
ruin with increasing rapidity at every step.
A deputation from the Protestants of Hun
gary had been sent to Vienna to ask for
the restoration of the historical rights aud
the old State recognition of the EVAN
gelical Church of hungary to demand
the revocation of the Patent which pro-
scribes the Reformed religion, and TO at
tempt to induce the Emperor to convoke a
Protestant Synod. 1t appears that these
men, some of whom are of the highest
rank, have been refused an audience by the
Emperor, and have been rudely scoldcd
and sent away from Vienna by his minis
tiers. They are gone back again to Hum
gary, and as they recount the incidents of
their stay in Vienna, and repeat the coarse
words of insult addressed to them by NJ.
de Rechberg, they are arousing far and
wide that formidable relations zeal whirh
the persecution of the Seven Bishops Gre
ated in this country.
Thus instead Of Hungary hnincr thu