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


PoLAND.-A letter of the llth, from Berlin saws ::
Every letter from the Polish frontier speaks of the
profound discomfort existing in that country as
also in Lithuania and Volhyna since all the hopes
built 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 questions
of reform, though far more favorable to tie cause
OF reform than the mobiles of Russia Not one Of the
amnested exies who have returned has been put
again in possession of his estates. All that has
been done was to declare, on the 18th of September
last, when the hereditary Grand Duke came of age,
that no further steps would be taken towards the
fresh conhscaton of estates, but even this procla-
nation is not respected by the governors On the
contrary, they take advantage of the amnesty to
make supplementary confiscations, that are merely
done for the sake of enricng the generals aud
officials, to whom the revenues of the estates are
paid.
| HuNGARY.-Itis 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 the 9th instant and
drew up address to the Emperor, in which
| they humbly prayed his Majesty to suspend his
patent, to do away with the impedments to the
meeting Of the 'Senioral and Distrctual Con.
vents" and to stop the proceedings which had
been instituted by the authorities against the mem
bers of the Evangelical Church ''for having fulfilled
their religious duties.'
| few days ago the editor of the Pesti Naplo 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 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 offence against the Press
Law, the editor 1.-THE responsible editor, probably
was sent to prison, where he will pass one calen-
dar month.
The following letter from Pesth has been receiv-
ed by the Times Paris correspondents:
"DEC. ST. 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 Hungary
that Count de Rechberg, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, has deemed it necessary to address a 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 a copy of this circular, but | am told
that its contents are to this effect The Austrian
Government thinks that the Hungarian Protestant:
have just reason to complain of oppression in.
| asmuch the Imperial patent regulating their
worship, which it issued some months ago, is il
its eyes, of reasonably liberal character Never
theless, as that patent is decidedly unpalatabe tt
the Protestants, the Government might, perhaps
have consented to modify il, or even replace it al
together, if that would have satisfied them; but
they insist on the pure and simple re-establishmen
of their self-goyernment and independence as they
existed previously to 1913.
'Now,to grant anything of the kind would be ar
abandonment of the Bach.Schwarzenberg policy O.
investing in the hands of the Central Govern
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 Rechberg
therefore, hopes that foreign governments will see
that the Hungarian Protestants are putting forth
utterly unreasonable pretensions, and that, conse
quently, 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
and that is, that the Austrian Government had
neither a 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 ot follows that, if the Hungarian
Protestants were to submit without murmur tc
| the tyranny to which men of the Bach and Schwar
zenburg and Rechberg class think they ought tC
be subjected, they would be veritable cravers-f
disgrace to their religion and their race
A letter from Vienna in the Prussidn Gazette
| says: "The government appears more and smort
resolved not to allow the agitation in Hungary
which has suddenly arisen to continue. 1t ha:
ordered the 5th corps d'arm,ee, which is now il
Italy, to proceed to Hungary, to be at the DISPOSE,
| ton of the Archduke Albert"
| The Augsburg Gazette, in an article upon Aus
ria, holds the following somewhat singular Ian
guage:
As the national feeling of the Hungarians is be
coming morbidy fanatcal, it is natural that people
in the Danuban city (Vienna) should think O
giving constitution to the other races q the EN-
pire. in order that fraction of its population
| should not become preponderant If we are wei
informed, there is at present in Austria-as well
| among the Germans among the Sclaves-such ;
very bad pessinistrche) feeling, that people do no
object to the Entertainments of the Magyars a.
they hope through them to obtain reasonable con
cessons from the State. Every patriot must hope
that the Imperial Government will give ga consti
tutional reform to the whole empire rather thar
an exceptional position to the Hungarians. Go
| ha 10
the whole empire, the patriotism of which can only
be reused by fitting representation, powder
and ball are paatives to which recourse cannot
be had except in extreme cases.
| The Preussischen Jahrbucher contains an article
on the policy of Austria previous to the outbreak
OF the war in Italy, which cannot fail to produce
disagreeable impression on the Emperor Napoleon
| as 1t goes far to prove that government is sc
nveteratey 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
| 'Napoeonites' out of the country, and to place
Henry V. on the throne of his fathers. When
| Count Rechberg was made Minister President in
| May last, ne 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-
perg MADE the important communication probably
expressed the establishment he felt by his looks for
the Austrian Minister added: sOui c'est ce Que nous
roulons. Nj plus, nj moins'"
The P'edmontese Gazette of the 9Th publishes a
royaid decree, enactlng that the young who have
emigrated 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 gratutousy to those
establishments and to pass their rxaminat;onS
"A church Is about to be erected by the Russian
Government near lnkermann, the funds for which
are supplied by the sale of the cannon balls which
have been picked up at lnkermann and Sebastopol
The Brussels Nord emphatically contradicts the
assertion that the Chinese Government had snm.
moned Russia to evacuate the territory washed by
| the Amoor.
The Government of Hesse CasseI, as mark Of
hostility to Prussia, has decided that its troops
shall wear uniforms of the Austrian model, inste ad
/ of as heretofore the Prussian.
Some thieves have again broken into the church
of the Nal donna della Grazia, Naples, and stripped
"Our Lady, of all her jewels. The church, too
was cleared of the silver candlestcks and other val
uables, The unfortunate Madonna is to have new