AUSTRIA.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 350, 1 March 1861, Page 3

AUSTRIA.

The Oest Deutsche Post of the 14th December, in a leading article, says:—"The accumulation of arms and ammunition in Moldavia and Wallachia, and the organisation of foreign legions in Italy, are to be attributed to an extensive scheme which partly aims at the separation of these provinces from the Porte and partly at a rising of several other nationalities. Not only a Hungarian but a Polish legion has been organised. In view of this state of things, Russia hus despatched a threatening declaration to Prince Couza, and has concentrated 12*000 men in Bessarabia."

The same journal also publishes accounts from Pesth, according to which some Hungarian and Polish soldiers fraternised while drinking spirits together in a coffee-house, and made a dembnstration in favor of their nationalities.. also tore the yellow and black stripes off their trousers. They were carried to prison by a military patrol.

The university of Pesth has been reopened, and to the great delight of the Hungarian population, the opening discourses wer.e given in sonorous Magyar. Not a f&w of the auditors actually wept on hearing once more their native tongue in the halls in which, for 11 long years, German—the language of the foreigner and the oppressor—has alone been spoken. Count Teleki, the well-known Hungarian patriot, so the official journal of Dresden informs us, has been arrested in that place, and given up to Austria. The count attempted to reach Hungary by means of an English passport.