Hungary. February 25, 1849 (2nd Supplement)

Hungary.
No. 231, February 25, 1849.
2nd Supplement
Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
* No direct news from the theatre of war. The Allgemeine Oder-Zeitung continues the “Communications of a Hungarian”; for lack of space we must postpone them until the next issue. The way Görgei is acting in Kaschau and the fear he is instilling in the Austrians are shown by a letter from Pesth, dated February 10:
The news has just spread that General Görgei has occupied the town of Kaschau. His first measure was to dismiss the entire magistracy, all the imperial thirtieth and salt office officials, and an enormous contribution was imposed upon the citizenry. Early this morning a fully equipped brigade (1 battalion of Jägers, 2 divisions of chevauxlegers, 4 battalions of infantry and 2 cavalry batteries) together with all the necessary ammunition, powder and field requisites wagons left here and took the direction of its march via Waitzen.
Furthermore, from Transylvania we again hear from various quarters of the entry of the Russians, while the official reports continue to maintain silence on the matter. Thus reports have arrived from Bucharest dated the 9th, which announce the entry of the Russians, effected at the request of the citizens of Hermannstadt and Kronstadt, and add that the Russians, on advancing, immediately encountered a Székler detachment and gave them a sound thrashing. However, the courier of Feldmarschall-Lieutenant Puchner, just arrived from Hermannstadt on the 8th, who reports the destruction of Bem’s army near Salzburg, says nothing of the Russian entry, and even Puchner’s official report is silent on this point.

In Pressburg, J. Csenkly from Hetye in Hungary has been sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment for concealing weapons.

In Croatia the conflict of the national South Slavs with the imperial-royal authorities is growing increasingly violent. Thus the Constitutionelles Blatt aus Böhmen writes from Agram, February 15:
“The indignation against the ministry is growing here from day to day; reports also arrive almost hourly which show only too clearly that the government is not at all serious about fulfilling the promises made to the Croats, and that, on the contrary, it is busily working with all zeal to restore the old Magyar system of oppression. The agitation of minds caused by the recently mentioned Magyar official letter of Count Almassy had not yet subsided when another Magyar order from the Ofen Building Directorate arrived here, instructing the directing engineer in Croatia to apply henceforth again to the Hungarian central authorities, since all obstacles which had hitherto interrupted the old (pre-March) official communication have been completely removed. This Magyar official order, which brought everything into a state of excitement, was now followed by another German decree of the Vienna Ministry of Trade, by which the directing engineer, Vauthier-Rauchefort, one of the most zealous Magyar partisans, against whom repeated complaints have been lodged that he is in secret communication with Kossuth, is called to the ministerial department of public works and appointed there as a ministerial councillor.”

As a result of this, the Ban’s Council in Agram now issues an official prohibition to all authorities, not to put into effect the ordinances arriving with “Magyar impudence”, but rather to send such illegal communications to the Ban’s Council, which will know how to use them as proof of the violation of its authority. At the same time, this decree declares that in the three united kingdoms there not only exists no Magyar office, but that its influence in official matters is never to be tolerated.

At the same time, the refusal to provide recruits is increasing in Bohemia. Today we learn:
Most of the communes of the Prachin district in Bohemia are refusing the levying of recruits, because they have been led to believe that the ordinance for this was issued by the ministry and not by the Reichstag. There is reason to fear that the restless behaviour of the peasants in this region may soon spread throughout the entire country. In short, despite all efforts, old Austria is falling apart more and more from day to day. A revolutionary thrust from Italy or France, and it is over.