AUSTRIA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 6, Issue 279, 30 January 1862, Page 3

AUSTRIA.

The Emperor hag reverted to bis former coercive measures in Hungary, and has placed the country in such a position tliat it is hard to see how war can be avoided, so soon as the Hungarians think the favourable moment for rising has come. Perhaps that time may not be distant. “ We are aware from private sources,” says ‘ Aris’s Birmingham Gazette,’ “ that there is a movement on foot in this country for assisting the Hungarians, and that it has active emissaries in this town. Secret correspondence is being carried on with the leaders of the Hungarian party, arms have been purchased in considerable quantities, and are understood to have safely reached their destination.” An autograph letter addressed by the Emperor to Count Fovgach, Aulic Chancellorfor Hungary, was published at Vienna'on the 7th -November. The following is a summary of its contents :—The disloyalty of the Hungarian municipalities, and the resistance, bordering on insurrection, to the measures taken by the Government for the maintenance of pub-

lie order, menace : that Order iri 4 filost d/Vngefous manner, without the 'authorities being able td safely adiiiiilistOr the penal law. Tlie public duty ahd the will of the JEmpei'or require that he should raise barriers against these excesses, and restore things to a state of order.. As the convocation of the Hungarian Diet in a constitutional manner appears impracticable until order is re-established, all the existing authoi’ities in the comitats districts and communes are abolished, and Count Forgach is ordered to select persons to replace them, and to take care that tlie administration of public affaii’S in Hungary suffers no interruption. All pei’sons charged with crimes against public order and safety shall he tried by militaiy tiibunals. In conclusion, the Emperor expresses an earnest wish that he may soon be enabled, by the re-establish-ment of public ordei’, to proceed to the solution of the pending differences, and in future to maintain entire the concessions he has gi'anted to Hungary. The Croatian Diet has, like the Hungai'ian, been dissolved by the Austrian Emperor, and Croatia is to be governed from Vienna. It was .the Qroatians who fought hardest for the Empire against the Hungarians in 1848—it is well that, when fighting is resumed, they will be found fighting shoulder to shoulder with those whom they then so insanely treated as enemies.