The Sun. — 1860-01-27 (London, England)

HUNGARY.  A letter dated Pesth, lan. 21, says :  " Though in reality sore afraid at the turn things have taken in Italy, the Austrian Government is making its newspaper organs, both at home and abroad, talk in Bobadil strain. The Emperor of Austria,' cries the Boraenhalle of Hamburg, one of the most zealous of these organs, will not go to war to restore the dethroned Sovereigns or to defend the Pope ; but if an attempt be made to take a single inch of Venetia his Majesty will fight. And a formidable man is the Emperor. He has only to make a sign with his hind and the most warlike nation in Europe will r se en masse, arms in hand, in his defence.' Of course, by the most warlike nation in Europe' Hungary is meant. Now it would not perhaps be polite to tell the Boersenhalle and its patrons at Vienna that it says what it knows to be contrary to truth. But it really is impossible to believe that the Hapsburgs and their advisers are so infatuated as to suppose for one moment that Hungary ' would rise in their defence' under any circumstances whatever. They must know that the 10 years' oppression she has endured have made the Hapsburgs and their creatures hateful in her sight, and that the fact that the deaths of many of her noblest sons, and the imprisoning and exiling of many more, are still unavenged, weighs on her conscience as the unavenged murder of his father did on the conscience of Hamlet. They must know that the Hungarians see clearly that the persecutions of the Protestants, and a hundred other events of recent occurrence—the dismissal of Baron Hubner because he was friendly to Hungary, the exiling of the Archduke Maximilian because he recommended concessions to Hungary, and the refusal of the Archduke Stephen to accept the Governorship of the country, in order not to have hand or part in the oppression which he sees the Viennese Government is bent on maintaining— the Hapsburgs, I say, must know that all these circumstances demonstrate to the Hungarians that there is no hope whatever of a reconciliation being ever effected between them and their rulers. And therefore it is childish for the Austrian newspapers to prate about the aid which the most warlike nation in Europe' will render to the Hapsburgs. It is worse than childish—it is insulting—for to aid the Hapsburgs is to aid tyranny all over Europe, and especially in Italy; and it would be infamous for a nation which is aspiring to be free to do that. Assist the Hapsburgs, indeed ! Why, in the Italian war the Hungarians were on the very point of rising in insurrection against them, and probably would have done so if the war had only lasted one short fortnight longer ! Yet the Hungarians were not then so exasperated against the Hapsburgs as they now are—all the nationalities, religions, and classes into which they are divided were not bound together in hatred of them as they are now. Heaven help the Hapsburgs if they trust in the Hungarians ! Depend upon it that the next time this family shall see Hungarian swords flash, and hear the clatter of Hungarian horses—they will be in sore dismay;  and, ten to one, will be flying like sheep attacked by the wolf.  " The high Catholic clergy lose no opportunity of showing how heartily they sympathise with the national movement in which their countrymen are engaged. The Bishop of Erlau, Mgr. Bartakovics, has, for example, just sent the magnificent sum of £l,OOO English to the fund for building a palace for the National Academy at Pesth, and his chapter has given a like sum. Nothing causes more anxiety to the Austrian Government than to see that the Roman Catholic clergy are every whit as national, and are as earnestly bent on regaining the national treaties, as the rest of their countrymen."