The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-13
Hungary.
From the Times.

From ne Times
We distrust the report of a contemplated
attempt at revolution in Hungary. The tele
gram containing it is made to appear to come
from Vienna and that fact ought to put the
reader on his guard against placing too much
confidence in its truth. No authority is named,
no source from whence it emanated, by which
its truth or falsity might be measured. With the
present rigid censorship and control exercised
by the Austrian Government over the telegraph
and the press, in all matters even remotely con.
nected with the war and military intelligence, 1t
is not probable that such telegram should or
could have been freely sent from Vienna to Cork.
1t probably came from elsewhere, and from a
source where hostility to Austria prompted
the wish to be ''iather to the thought"
Moreover, the Hungarans are not set of
impracticables. They are as well informed
upon all occurrences OF Importance, and can
as well calculate the necessary means required
to accomplish an end, and the extent of the
probable obstacles to be overcome, as any other
sensible people. Francis Deak, the acknow-
ledged leader of the Liberal party, is man of
strong practical common sense. He possesses
less of that passionate eloqHence that distin-
guished Kossuth in his day, but he has in him
all those elements that make statesman great
and useful 70 bis people. In him at present the
hopes of all Hungarans are centered, and he
will not lead them into an enterprise that must
prove disastrous to their cause. They know that
Russia has concentrated a large army on the
Galcian frontier, and understand the object for
which this was done. They know that Russia
cannot permit the fires of revolution to be
relighted IN Hungary, for her own selfprotec-
tion demands that she should use every avail
able means to prevent the lnSuTrect1onary spirit
from spreading northward into Poland and upon
her own soil. The Russian Minister at Paris 70
said to have remarked that although Austria,
on a certain occasion (meaning, NO doubt, the
Crimean war), had astonished the world by her
ingratltude, Russia would now set an example
of generosity. And it is now known that in
answer to a demand by the Prussian Govern
ment for explanations as to the object of the
concentration of troops on the frontier OF Gall
cia, Prince Gortschakoff replied that although
The Czar would not interfere in the Austro-
Prussian conflict, yet should certain events take
place through the revolutionary element a
Russian amy would at once enter Hungary.
The bungaranS cannot be expected to be
ignorant OF this attitude OF their powerful neigh
Dor in the north, and hence we do not believe
that they at present contemplate such mad
designs as are attributed to them in the telegram
| referred to. 1t is only the complete prostratlon
| and consequent dismemberment OF the Austrian
| Empire that promises any chance to success
| full attempt at Hungarian independence. When
| that time shall Lave come, and the different
| provinces now united under Austria must gra-
Vitate in the direction in which the attraction OF
their nationality will propel them, in fact, when
| the time of general upheaval and reforming
of the present political divisions of Europe shall
have arrived, then Hungary for the Hunga-
risns" will not only be possible, but probable.
The concluding paragraph OF the telegram,
that 1.-THE Croatian districts on the Adriatc have
been declared in a state of SIEGE" we take to be
a measure of military necessity" An invasion
by the Italians is apprehended all along the
Adriatic coast line OF Austria and this region
as means of better defense has beeL out under
military law. Not the coast districts alone, but
the whole of Croatia and of Hungary would
| to-day be in "a state of SIEGE" the Diet dis
solved and all civil government abolished, we're
any serious spprehensions felt of an outbreak,
such as this telegram speaks of.
We hope and wish for a free, constitutional
independent Hungary, lust as feryently as we
hope and wish for free, united, independent
Italy,. But we cannot bring ourselves to believe
that the HungaIians could now succeed in Sc
curing this boon with the whole power of RusslS
ready 10 prevent them; nor can we believe tha
the Hungarlans are not sharp enough tC
perceive this. Were they to attempt such
move now, they might measurably cripple thu
Austrian OoWer OF resistance to Prussia; but, by
bringing Russia upon their necks, they would b.
| losers themselves.