The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-01-29

| Mr. +. Pulzsky, the ex ,ellent Hungarian cor
respondent OF tho New York Tribune furnish
es the most satisfactory account hitherto pub
lished in this country, of the working, present
and probable, of the recent conscription order
issued by the Austrian government. Mr. Pulz-
sky writes from Pesth, under date of Jan. 3.
as follows: 9last al tt -H
1t seems indeed that the Vienna Govern
ment will at last succeed in running the Aus
TRAN monarchy, task which was too difii-
cult either for kOssuth or iOr Bismarck, but
which, after all, may be achieved by that ia
tai tendency OF unsettling everything without
laying the foundations OF better future.
On New Years eve the Vienna Gazette con-
tanned an order in Council introducing gener-
al conscriplion without exception. Each
young man, on attaining his twentieth year,
must enter the army, serve three years in the
line, three years In the first, and six wears in
the second reserve. Students and educated
young men may volunteer ior one year and be
present tor two more at the Fan exercises.
which are to last for tive weeks; or they may
for six years be drilled always i've weeks a
year; but In case OF war, everybody must face
the enemy. You can imagine what contu-
sion that New Years welcome caused Though
out the empire-the new outy OF soldering
knocking az every door. The University at
Pesth viii probably be shut, since all the un-
der-graduates must interrupt their studies, as
they prefer one years volunteering and the
prospect oil becoming officers, TO tie tedious
duty OF being tor six years under the caprices
OF an Austrian oihcer. The Viennese soon
discovered that there was hole in the word
ing OF the law, and that it is possible Tor few
days, as yet, to get an exemption BY paving
1000 Horns. hundreds and hundreds OF ia
tners rushed to the exemption office, which is
to cease its operations alter i've days, and paid
the tax, sometimes Tor babies, and the tirst
day receipts amounted to nearly I,OUOOOO
fiorins. This was certainly a God send for
the Minister OF Finance; but it will soon be
absorbed by the increase OF the army budget.
suddenly expanding, since the number OF sol
diers is 70 be doubled by the recent law, intro
duced without the consent either OF the Hun
garian OF OF the Austrian Parliament. Ii a
complete change OF the army organization
may be introduced without any regard to COLI
stitutional forms, it is indeed difhcult to see
why there should be any Parliament in Aus
tria.
1t may be said that the present system is
about the same as the Prussiali, and that
against a rival OF such Importance as Prussia
no other meansSRuld avail but to copy the
Prussian System. Still, we ought to remember
that Prussia Is homogeneous empire, and
that the .Landwehr system was introduced
during the enthusiasm OF all Germany against
the first Napoleon, while it was developed
during fifty years OF peace. Little by hItle
every PrussiaI became accustomed to miiila-
ry drill and service, while in Austria there is
no enthusiasm, and there is every prospect Ot
war. Hungary, not yet reconstructed, is
now to be armed. Even the educated classes
are to be drawn into CONSUMPTION. Whyp
This is two-edsed sword, under the present
circumstances, and may become most dan
gerous; in fact, it is Government which organ
ICES and arms a revolutionary force. And
Gallicia? Will Russia not protest against the
military organization OF the people most hos
tile to her? Is Austria strong enough to
check the Poles ii they are once armed?-
And the Roumanians, Ruthenians, Seryians
and Sclavonians, once armed and organized.
! will they not rise against the Hungarans and
Germans? And the population OF Vienna
and OF the German provinces, now already
gravitating toward Germany, will they be viii
ling to pay large taxes in order that their sons
be taken away from business tor three Years
Has Government sufficient foresight and ener-
gyt meet all the effects of discomfort? am
sorry to say, but cannot help believing, that
this is the beginning of the end
Baron Beust has been at Pesth to make the
acquaintance of the leading men OF the Hum
garian Dict. He paid visits to and met
Counts Apponyi and Szecsen, Baron Scanzey,
Count Andrassy. Baron Eotvos, Messrs. Lon
way and Somssich, and principally that wise
old man eloquent Deak but it does not seem
that he could have felt happy among them
He saw that they were not SO easily to be tri-
fled with as the Austrian members, and gave
up allhopes of coming to terms with thcm
without pressure. The pressure is to be ex-
ercised by the Austrian Parliament, which is
to be called together on the 25th OF February,
but which, instead of coercing the Hungari-
ans, will probably throw out the present Min
listers. fs E..f..r
Some Hungarian exiles have got permis-
sion to return to their country, among them
Bishop Michael Horvath, the historian, bnt
no general amnesty is given or will be given.
The system of half measures is still para
mount at Vienna, and it is exactly that sys-
TEN which ruins empires. Without the rule OF
complete liberty, nobody can save the Austri-
an Monarchy. We thought Beust under
stood that truism, but it seems he, too, is
caught in the meshes OF the traditional policy
of Austria. aH ;