The Sun. — 1860-01-12 (London, England)

APPEASING A GUILTY CONSCIENCE.—A Toting lady travelling ftom Doncaster to Halifax about eight years ago had the misfortune to have her pocket picked of a purse containing £4 12s. The young lady was not a little surprised a few days ago to receive the followin letter, enclosed in which was a £5 note :—" Madame, Igbelieve you lost a purse some years ago in a railway carriage. I believe that I found it, and was leaving the country at. the same time. Having since returned and inquired,l have found your then address. I therefore enclose you a £5 Bank of England note (and send it to the clergyman of the place where you then resided), which I think will pay the contents of the purse with interest. lam sorry I have kept it so long, but could not avoid it. ll—,"—.Alanchester Examiner.  " In my last letter I stated that the Government had forbidden any more demonstrations in honour Of the national poet Kazinczy. 1 ha% e since learnt that the reason why it did so was this :—At Szephalom, in Lower Hungary, the poet's birthplace, a grand ci.reinony was got up, and people for 50 miles around, including the leading magnates of the disti iet, assembled to take part in it. Almost all the persons present were in deep mourning, and their attitude was so resolute, their language so patriotic, that the local functionaries in dismay telegraphed to Vienna and to Pesth that an insurrection was about to begin. The affair, however, passed off as hall been intended, in the most orderly manner possible. But the Viennese people received such a terrible fright that the Archduke Albert, as Governor of Hungary, ordered that no more Kazinezy demonstrations should be tolerated. In spite of his prohibition, however, many of those which were projected will certainly take place. "The Commissions of men of confidence' which are now sitting in different places to examine the famous communal law of the Government are, from the refusal of men of independence and character to have anything to do with them, Composed exclusively of Government. functionaries. But if we may judge from what took place the other day at Kaschau, even these functionaries will be so influenced by the general feeling of the country that they will not obey implicitly Government dictation. Thus, at. Kaschau, the Commission of Confidence consisted of the Catholic bishop, the prefect, the aulic councillors, five mayors, and three independent gentlemen—ten creatures of the Government to three independents ! Yet this very commission, like that at Pesth, declared that it had no authority to examine the law, and that the National Diet alone could do so. . "The atrocious manner in which the Viennese Government exercises oppression in this country has received a new illustration. M. Zsedeny and two other of the Keesmark Protestants were lately, as the newspapers will have informed you, condemned to imprisonment flur having taken part in protestingagainst theim perial patent which destroys the liberty of Protestants. As if the condemnation were not iniquitous enough in itself, the scandalous addition has been made to it that for two days a week the prisoners shall be made to fast. In this country fasting can by law be imposed on none but thieves and murderers, and yet M. Zsedeny and his companions arc not only gentlemen in every meaning of the word, but the offence for which they, are condemned is one that carries with it no moral taint even in Austrian eyes. "As the newspapers and newspaper correspondents under the influence of the Austrian Government frequently do me the honour to attack my letters to you, and even at times to say that my statements are incorrect (an assertion, par parenthese, which to every :me who knows the Viennese Government is proof positive of their truth), perhaps you will allow me to give an,example, not only of my exactness, but of the fact tl-at I really have access to very excellent information. Smile days back, you may remember, all the Viennese journals, together with the Augsburg Gazette and the other foreign journals devoted to Austrian policy, declared that the great aristocrats had resolved to give up the pay and other emoluments of the military and civil appointments, in order to relieve the fearful financial embarrassments of the Go.. vernment ; but I stated to you, in contradiction to all these journals, that the said aristocrats contemplated doing nothing of the kind, and would do nothing of the kind, though earnestly solicited by that most unhappy of mortals the Minister of Finance. eli, the Wiener Zeitung, an official organ of Vienna, publishes a formal declaration to the effect that all those journals were wrong."  DR.