The Express. — 1860-03-22 (London, England)

HUNGARY.  ...-40.-.. (►MOW OCIII OWN COIll  PERTH, n•acs 16. It is a well-known axiom that centralization soot lead to oppreseieu below, and to corruption shove, and still people are always taken aback elieu they have to taste these baneful fruits of • sy,tem. Thus we Nee now men's minds une Wed, and a general uneasiness spreading farand side through all classes of society at Vienna, at heariug that gigantic frauds have been discovered le the army adauuistration, and that men of the highest ran* and station are implicated in them. je.t as in the latter days of Louis Philippe, when the ex-Maiden Testa and Cubieres were brought to trial for having received bribes, and the Duke cd Praslin for wife-murder, France began to doubt the honesty of all the public men connected with the Citizen King, thus the suicide of several oaken and officials disclose, the rotten. 4 Almeria IVithin one and the YON week e. hear of the execution of Captain Dori, at t 'US of the suicide by hanging of Lieutenantileiieral Baron Eynatten ; by poison of M. Not T. 41 Nordberg, chief of the police ; by shooting of General Pointmer and Colonel Marx. Within the wee week M. Richter, the manager of the Credit 14..hilier, at a salary of 4,000!. a year ; M. Briimhoe, a hanker of Trieste ; and M. Perugio, a rich merchant, were arrested on suspicion of having defrauded the Treasury of millions, together with the above-mentioned persons wbo bad executed themselves. And all these men stood in as intimate relation with the court or the highest withoritiea, and therefore suspicion is rife that even more powerful persons are involved in these transactions. When Baron Bruck, the Minister of Finance, issued during the Italian war spurious bonds of the so-called voluntary loan to the extent one hundred and sixteen millions, sad all the Exchanges of Europe unanimously found his guilty of fraud, Francis Joseph treated the matter s. a good joke, and did not withdraw his confidence free the cunning minister who had suesenied fs smdliog such an amount by false pretences out of the pocket. of cautious Dutchmen • but be is sow mortified to bee that his generals and polies Alone, bankers and iuurchanta, practise stmi car tricks against his own Treasury. He is said to be in an angry mood, and resolved to have all the thieves around him severely punished. De ought to know that centralization has its natural pace in corruptioand that this price must be pod somehow. The late Csar Nicholas knew this fact well enough, and accepted it for better andl for worse ; he once openly told Count Adler,berg, "There is but one public man in my empire who does not steal." The Count, in the belief that a remplimeut wan intended to him, replied, " May is I ask your Majesty who this man I' and Nicholas said, with hie well-known stern look, " I myself.' In Hungary the petty annoyances still continue. The guests of Count Theodore Csaky, who, when the police had, at Lent time, forbidden a ball as tieing a political tendency, entertained the guests coming to the festival at his castle, were all brought before the judge, when the ladies were fined, and the gentlemen imprisoned for three days. M. Anastase Tomory, a wealthy "nehmen at Pesth, having invited the Hungarian authors and tuwiciaos reeling is the capital tohis country seat to a dinner Forty, the police forbade him to see his friends in lois own hones. Such insolence maddens people to fury • and it was, therefore, quite natural that the 16th of March, the anniversary et the Pesth revolution, should have been selected by the students for a grand demonstration in honour 14 the martyrs of liberty. With crape on their hats some three hundred young men went to the Roman catholic church, where they had ordered a mass to be said for those who had fallen in 1849, but they found the glees shut against them. They proceeded to the different cemeteries where the martyrs of 1849 are buried, but everywhere a detachment of police stopped their pewees,. At the Kama, Cemetery at last two of the young men were atre4,l ; the others, together with the crowd which had Ithall while aisembloti , attempted a rescue. The pollee detachment fired on the cooed and wounded three per 414, hut were at once overpowered ; two companies o,f,e4iliers and some cavalry appeared at this tuomeet, and cleared the streets. We hear that many rr,its have taken place this night among the itedente We cannot but lament such collisions • though they can lead to no serious result, still thry show the drift of the public mind. Much more iloperteut is the fact that the Calvinist notabilities hew assembled iu a conference at Debrecain, and revolved to hold on the 90th of April district imetiiip at Debreczin and at Misholes„ disregardme the prohibitions of the ministry. These re11,nous defiance meetings have a deeper significance than the demonstrations of the students at Pesth. The subscriptions for the Hungarian Academy, free, the Id of January to the lit of March, amount to 37,0001., and show that even under the pressure of heavy taxation—the direct taxes alone absorbing 33 per cent, of the income of landed estates--the Hungarian* find it their duty to uphold an institution which repreeeats nationality and science. Co/tedious are now made for the relief of the Croats suffering from famine, which tend to obliterate even the last remembrance of these national dieseneions which characterised the year 1848 and 1849. All the different races and creeds in H are now completely united. What the liberality of the legislature in 1848 was unable to achieve, the common Austrian oppression, which his extinguished even party distinctions, has scomiplished. Hatred of Austria is now the only feeling pervading the country.