Mr. Smith O'Brien has published a letter to a countryman
in Paris, full of the extraordinary mixture of accurate fact and prepos- terous deduction which Irishmen think patriotism. He has been residing in Hungary, and bears strong testimony to the justice of its claims, the unity of all races and creeds in the kingdom, and the high education and polish of the Hungarian magnates. He believes that if the Austrian Government persists in its course it will lo;e Hun- gary, confirms the stories of military occupation, points to the in- cessant provocations to outbreak, and then declares that Ireland is in exactly the same condition as Hungary ! He hopes for Hungarian freedom, because it will serve as a precedent for Ireland, and calls upon his countrymen "to reciprocate the sentiment with which he was greeted at a sylvan entertainment given in a forest within sight of the Carpathian mountains, Vivat Hibernia! Vivat Hungaria!' "
