Further News from the Magyars

Hungary. 25 February 1849 (2nd Supplement)
Hungary.
No. 231, 25 February 1849.
2nd Supplement
Neue Rheinische Zeitung.

* No fresh direct news from the seat of war. The *Allgemeine Oder-Zeitung* is continuing its “Communications of a Hungarian”; for lack of space we must hold them over until the next number.

How Görgei is proceeding in Kaschau, and what fear he is instilling in the Austrians, is proved by a letter from Pesth, dated 10 February:
It has just been reported that General Görgei has occupied the town of Kaschau. His first measure was to dismiss the entire magistracy, all 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 Jäger, 2 divisions of chevau-légers, 4 battalions of infantry and 2 cavalry batteries) together with all the necessary ammunition, powder and field equipment wagons marched out from here and took the direction of its march by way of Waitzen.

Furthermore, reports are again arriving from Transylvania from various quarters of the entrance of the Russians, while the official dispatches are still keeping silent about it. Thus reports have arrived from Bucharest, dated the 9th, which announce the entry of the Russians, carried out at the request of the citizens of Hermannstadt and Kronstadt, and add that in their advance the Russians at once encountered a Szekler detachment and gave them a sound beating. But the courier of Field Marshal-Lieutenant Puchner, who has just arrived from Hermannstadt, dated the 8th, who reports the annihilation of Bem’s army near Salzburg, says nothing of the entry of the Russians, and Puchner’s own official dispatch is silent on the matter.

In Presburg, J. Csenkly from Hetye in Hungary has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for concealment of arms.

In Croatia, the conflict between the national South Slavs and the Imperial and Royal authorities is becoming ever more violent. Thus a correspondent writes from Agram, 15 February, to the *Constitutionelles Blatt aus Böhmen*:
“The bitterness against the ministry is growing here from day to day; reports also arrive almost hourly which prove only too clearly that the government is in little earnest about fulfilling the promises made to the Croats, indeed, that it is rather working with all zeal at the re-establishment of 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 a Magyar order from the Ofen Building Directorate again arrived here, instructing the directing engineer in Croatia to apply henceforth to the Hungarian central authorities, since all hindrances which had hitherto interrupted the old (pre-March) official intercourse had been completely cleared away. This Magyar official instruction, which threw everything into agitation, was now followed by another German, imperial decree from the Vienna Ministry of Commerce, by means of which the directing engineer, Vauthier-Rauchefort, one of the most zealous Magyar partisans, against whom the complaint has been repeatedly raised that he is in secret communication with Kossuth, is summoned to the ministerial department of public works and appointed there as ministerial councillor.”

As a consequence of this, the Ban’s Council in Agram is now issuing an official prohibition to all authorities not to put into execution any decrees arriving from “Magyar insolence”, but rather to send such unlawful 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, it is declared in this decree that in the three united kingdoms there not only exists no Magyar office, but its influence in official matters is also never to be tolerated.

At the same time, the refusal of recruits is increasing in Bohemia. Today we learn:
The majority of the communities in the Prachin district of Bohemia are refusing to furnish recruits, because they have been led to believe that the decree for this originated from the ministry and not from the Diet. It is to be feared that the restless behaviour of the peasants in this area will soon spread over the whole country. In short, despite all efforts, the old Austria is daily falling apart more and more. A revolutionary thrust from Italy or France, and it is done for.