MR. PAGET'S HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA.. • •

THESE are very agreeable and instructive volumes. Mr. PAGET is, apparently, a gentleman, with the ease, the manner, and the per- fect intelligibility which always distinguish the class ; in addition to which, he has the accomplishments of foreign travel, and possesses much more solid information than usually falls to the share of gentle-. men writers. On the other hand, he has two less recommendatory characterics,—the interest which he excites is not long sustained at a spell ; and, however pleasant his narrative, it does not leave profitable results behind it in proportion to the length, unless when he expressly aims at imparting information. The key to the value of the work is to be found in the nature of the subject, anti the time and labour bestowed upon it. Hungary and Transylvania are both interesting in several points of view. Their natural features are various, beautiful, grand, or striking; their productions arc important ; the races which inhabit them are strange; and their customs, manners, and social condition very singular. To Englishmen there is a further attraction : the laws and constitution of Hungary are remarkably similar to our own—perhaps with no more difference than geographical and poli- tical causes have produced. They have an Upper House, a Lower House, and popular elections ; counties with subdivisions, and a local government not very essentially differing from the old English mode ; municipalities, more controlled by the Monarchs than ours were; a Magna Charts, extorted only seven years after our own ; and a peasantry in a transitions state from serfdom to freedom. What is as likely to create interest, England is the fashion in Hungary. They import our horses; they copy our modes ; they read our authors; they study our institutions and .our doings ; they are deeply interested in the character of our public men ; they peruse our debates, and even translate Mr. Ilumn into Latin ! They have also very many productions—iron, copper, sulphur, and other kindred minerals; hemp, hides, wool, and wines, all of which they would be glad to exchange for English manufactures; besides timber and corn if we could receive them. They are anxious, moreover, for an intimate connexion with Eng- land; which the steam navigation of the Danube, and the projected railroad between the Danube and the Rhine, will give the means of facilitating.

The volumes, as we have said, are not a hasty production. Mr. PAGEr appears to have resided in Hungary for some time, to -have travelled through the country in various directions at various sea- sons, visiting some places more than once. In the capital he mixed with the first society ; and he sojourned at the _country-houses of the magnates and gentry, sometimes as a friend, sometimes with no other recommendation than being an Englishman. He is also an indefatigable sight-seer ; whether landscape, buildings, curiosities, or the useful arts. Ile seems besides to have studied the people and their condition in conversation, by observation, and in • books ; from which last we suspect the more elaborate part of his information is drawn.

The topics of Transylvania and Hungary are very various, and so is the form in some sense. Though the work is a book of travels, it is not in the style of a common book of travels, which begins with the start and carries the readers on as regularly as the traveller went himself. Mr. Ruirr adopts a more artistical and independent arrangement. When remaining long at a place, he devotes a chapter to its description, his adventures, and the society lie met. His various tours only narrate the more striking and interesting parts : if he has described the intervening country before, or the country itself is of little interest, he says so in a sen- tence, and begins with the picturesque. Sometimes his descrip- tions are suspended for disquisition : to explain, for instance, the actual condition or the peasantry, the rights they have acquired, the laws by which they must be governed, anti the grievances under which they labour ; or to unfold the history and nature of the Hungarian constitution ; or to give an account of the various races inhabiting Hungary and Transylvania—namely, Magyars, or true Hungarians, Sclaves, Wallacks, and Szecklers, with Ger- mans and Saxons in addition. .1ml besides describing fully any no- velty worth description, he fry' lucidly turns aside from his narra- tive to relate a legend or to illustrate the present by the history of the past.

To attempt exhausting Mr. PAGET's volumes, or any part of them, would be a long task, from the number of subjects handled. Instead of it, let us cordially recommend them to all— whether to those who read for amusement and information, or to those who desire to turn their studies to account, and are anxious to learn where there is a chance of fresh customers and Markets new. At the same time, we will allow the author to exhibit samples of his wares in in pretty free sprinkling of extract.

HUNGARIAN DINNER•PAIITY.

As is the custom, the invitation was verbal, and the hour two o'clock. The drawing-room into which we were ushered was a spacious uncurpeted room, with a well-polished floor, on which, am sorry to say, I observed more titan one of the guests very unceremoniously expectorate. *Competed rooms, it may be remarkdt though bare to the eye, are pleasant enotigh, in warm cli- mates; indeed, its sense luideda, where 'English faShibus predii umite(I have seen small stools of wood introduced to protect the pretty feet of their mis- tresses from the heat of the calpet. It is not an uneommon thing for a seconds rate. French dandy to carry a little brosse tr moustaches about him, and coolly to arrange those medial appendageshithe street or at the café ; but I was a good deal surprised to see the exquisites of Presburg drawing well-proportioned hair-brashes from their pockets, and perfbrming those operations usually con- fitted in England to the dressing-room, in the presence of a party of ladies, and within the sacred precincts of the drawing-room. But these were trifles com- pared to the solecisms committed at the dinner-table. One of the guests occu-

pied a little spare tune between the courses in scraping his nails NVitil :L table- knife, talking at the same time to the lady next him, while his vis-a-vis was deliberately picking his teeth with a silver fork!

The dinner was most profuse ; and, as is usual here, the dishes were carried round to every one in turn, the tables being covered with the dessert. I can neither tell the number nor quality of all the courses, fur it was quite impos- sible to cat of the half of them ; and many even of those I did taste were now inc. Hungarian cookery is generally savoury, bat too grea,a• to be good. Some of the national dishes, however, are excellent ; but the stranger rarely finds them except in the peasant's cottage. The Hungarians. like ourselves, run after bad foreign fashions to the neglect of the good wholesome dishes of their forefathers.

We bad abundance of Champagne and Bordeaux, and, as a rarity, some Hungarian wines. I say as a rarity, bevause in many houses not a glass of any thing but foreign wine call be obtained. 1"i: fortunately, lItity.trian wines are not only good but cheap, and that is enough to prove they cannot Le fashionable. After dinner we adjouruod. to ;waive ; when pipes were lutroduced,

without a word of remonstrance from the 11,4 if they were the common conclusion of a dinner-party : at five o'clock we all kft. In more tiail,,,anaale houses, (this was one of a rich country gentleman,) the dinner is rather later ; the spitting confined, to a sand-dish, set in the corner for Omit nu-pose; the cookery more decidedly French or German ; the guests more stiff am! totreet, but perhaps on that account less agreeable ; and the smoking hauislr.d :net the drawing-rown to the sanctum of the host.

BOORS AT PRESBURG.

I have often thought that a glance et the booksellers" shops gives a more cornet idea of the state of education is country- than ;he most profound disquisitions on its sclmols and unbarsitios. If my noti9n is correct, Pres:- burg ought to rank pretty high in literary estimation; in a tour which we made one day through the warelaetirs of Five or six of the chief Isiolaelltrs. Ave were astonished at the number mot excellence of the heoLs they contained. They were not only rich in Hungarian and German works. lint contained almost every thing of any great merit no:dished in London and Barb.. A tiair

library, both of the French :tad Ens ,sic-.::sight easily he formed in Preshurg. Of the English standard lee found edititi:Is London.

Paris, and Leiloite but chiefly the Litton There appeared to be a wait of children's hooks, though Feig.eo, rib's • Mural Tab.*" mid -• The

Buy's own Book," were anumg the fov ..ve observed.

POWER OP LETTERS.

While we were waiting for fresh horse, i etore the little tt,,Tiorin d mfat "—for by this contemptuous epithet, ausw t., Jew's isoliouse.” rtileplion always. designated an inn kept by a Jew—at. a • ion tuNt olova, .me t

of Israel came up and asked us if we 1,curious only a

quarter of an hour from the village. As MI! him to the spot. he those questions, as to where we came :emu .., La: we were cluing. and whither

1VC tvere going, so common in mo-t execit our own, ,there they arc avoided, as though every one was :Wing eeething of ‘‘Ideb he is ashowed ii which lie desired to conceal. On heario,,:: that we were English, he a•dia.,1 v..ry earnestly if one Waiter Scott was yot :nol expressed the geat.st e iret whin he learnt his death. ti!orpris, •! at sari: a :s.u.thnent trot» such a man. ant suspecting some mistake, I inquired what he knew of Scott ; when he palled from his pocket a well-thumbed German translation of Ivanhoe—the very romance of persecuted Judnism—aud assort it me Lad read tiatt; s.1 ill:Zny others of his works with great plea-are, I it tea islea.. that I ever felt laore

strongly the universal power of geni•Is a I found the bald of Scotland worshipped by a poor Jew in the ma.r.-:i'us

It is IlSt011iShil■!, to an EllgliSh! ;:,11 11,11y 116rallt Mil well-

informed persons al his own country at : r..t i a aal politics of is great part of the Continent, to fool tit,' uames r the t, sr amhors or Logi:m.1 familiar as household words among ratd.i. hes,- t. cX1,,,lice the Lst euter part of that country is scarcely na arc. 1,, IL.: fact struck we with

more tierce even than in Germany, t%ensh the n,r Incr.:titre is there inuneasurally more aavaneed tam, is Fre tee ee tat the Hun- garians, with very little, literature of tIW,e own. :tad gonerally pos- e-sing a

knowledge several threign langtut:o. rot ,tat ettireiy Grown on the. resources of others for tl:eir mental too littt ;h..: eminently tat it provided

with the means of eejosing it. In t.:"..y eas: s I ha,e found the originals in

English, but in general they are read in exe,lient I tiiiau translatims. With

what cestatie pleasure have they told me of ulw ue,e light NVIlie!i litera- ture opened to them I with what admiratio a have they spoken ti the strong and viorous train of thought whieh per,:u1.-s our authors, of that scrupulous deceney width they observe, of that warm ion: of nature they express, and cf the universal respect ill Which relieloui is up' old by them : A great sass, of

this cxrcu,iou or English literature Ims jodicions seleinion and the cheap furot in whit It Galignaui and ts have published

the stall-lard English works; and however disulcantaeyous this tcatlie may have been to the pockets of British auilmrs, I am quite cure it has been a very

important meats in establishing and their own and their country's reputation.

FAME or ENGLISH stasaTons.

Many were the questions our host put to us aliont Enelatul. Bulwer's 4, England sad the English'' is known evi es where. wale Piirkler Muskau Imt

helped to spread an mapelintallIT with our nunmer.s. Fur polities. the Alm vii it:: itung is the authority. It is wonderful how Lagerly every one asks for information about our Parliament ; and I could not help thinking that it' some of the honourable members who (was:on:111y make such unelanehol,- exhiliitioos there, cimld guess how far nail ahead. that' would sometimes think to ice before they speak. Many seemed to think the

House of Commons must needs he the favour:in.. re-ort or one; and I have heard young men declare, that they would toil and sl..,ve a life long for the pleasure of once seeing and hearing the debates of that litil e. Nut a sing::: great name in either Chamber but wits familiar to oar host. flow did Lord 4.tvey look? %that wank' the Duke of AV ii:.at,‘a ? how could Peel hold with the Ultra Tories? was O'Connell an tritest rune? did Stanley really believe all he talked about Church plaqu, ty and Lord John Russell. a, der m4sz e' mord Keel Awn, der gait rtirwiirls These and a thousand others, were the inquiries we had to answer; and some of them, I must confess, puzzled us nut a little. towel, •(v&e the only preparations visible for theibIntiesfallotqoa uliparaonioxtrt: . modestly waited to see how the others would proceed :tinenf my fiseintlit ethos* double-headed eagle commenced. He 'poured outosglass-af water, of which's, he took a large draught ; and after using it as nuist.enen,:do in ;sealing. their s mouths, lie deliberately squirted it into his joined haudsaand ao applied it to his face I Several applications of the same kind, and .a little dry-ruhbing seals' a corner of the long shred, completed the washing of hands, face, and mouth. In mute astonishment, I watched all these three nasty individuals throutili their unclean ceremonies ere I fully comprehended that 'they'reag% thought they were washing themselves. As for the rest of their 'doingts liab;:lais has described them in the history of the great Gargantua-4‘ Apses's', pignnyt du pigne Alemaing, ccstoyt des quatre doigtz et he pollee: car sea prfia cepteurs disoyent que so} :Itiltrernent piguer, lauer, et nettoyer, estoyt perdre't temps en cc monde." Xnxious as I was to conform myself to the habits of the • country in which I teas, and unwilling as I might be to incur the accusationuf, English superciliousness, I need scarcely say that even my powers of endurance were exhausted.

THE STEPPES OE HUNGARY.

Oil the great road, or rather track, between Tukay and Debreczen, a village occurs almost every three or four hours; but in some parts, for a whole day,

no such welcome sight gladdens the eye of the weary traveller. The scene, however, is not without its interest • indeed, to use it presented so much that was strange, and new, and wonderful, Oast I felt a real delight in traversing its End never for a moment experienced the weariness of monotony. On starting from the village where we first changed horses after quitting Tokay, fiftydif=• ferent tracks seemed to direct to as many different points; though, as far as the eye could detect, the end of all must be the flat horizon before us. The track- ', hich our coachman tbllowed soon grew fainter and fainter ; and before a. quarter of an hour had elapsed, we could observe no sign by which he could, steer his course. The only inanimate ohjects which broke the miiformity of flue scene were an occasional shepherd's hut, the tall beam of a well, or a small tumulus, such as may be observed in different directions throughout the whole of the Puszta.

Of animated nature, however, there is no lack : the constant hum of insects, the 5crettmE of birds of prey, and the lowing of cattle, constant's- reminded us during the day that the Puszta is no desert-. Sometimes vast herds of cattle, contaiaing many hundred head, may be observed in the distance, looking so many realments of soldiers; fur, whether by accident or intention I know not, but they are commonly formed into a long loose line of three or four deep ; sad in this order they feed, marching slowly forwards. When the suns is pouring his hottest bans upon the plain, so that the sands seem to dane.e, ..vith the glowing heat, it is interesting to watch the poor sheep, and ta observe, the inanuer its which nature teaches them to supply the place of the shady wood. The whole flock ceases from feeding. and collects Into a close circle, where cads places his head its the shade formed by- the body of his neighbour; and ;bus they protect themselves from a thing,r which mialit otherwise b fatal. 1i,rds of horses, of one or two hundred each, are no uncommon feature in tae land.feape.

The quantity of large falcons which scour the Paszta may account for the al! timelier of 0:1,er birds we oliservi:d. I have sometimesseed a dozon of them at a time, wheeling round and round over our heads, and screaming out their harsh cries, till every living thing tremblingly sought shelter ill its most hidden retreat. Sometimes, too, a sulitare heron might be detected wading about in the salt marshes with which the Puszta abounds. Sometimes a Hoek of noisy plovers flew up before us; bttt of game or sasall birds we saw very few.

Li sandy districts the carless marmot is a constant source of amusement: ;-,:ttv little animal, which is about the sire and colour of a seatirrei, is ,.x....ediutgl•yr frequent here. Never more than a few yards from its hole, it is almost impossible to get a shot nt it ; for the moment it is alEatied it. runs to t I,o mouth of its burrow, where, if it observes the slightest nmeemsut on the part of the intruder, it drops down till he is out of shot. when it may again be seen ratming about as gay as ever. They are said to be good eating; and are often caught by the sheillerds by pouring water into their burrows. • The true Hungarians arc the :Magyars ; who appear to resemble the English in entertaining no small esteem for themselves and contempt for their neighbours. This is the picture of HUNGARIAN NATIO:NAL Fitton.

rae pride of' the 'Magyar, which is one of his strongest traits, leals him to look clown on ever,- other nation by whielt he is surrounded with soverci.-a con- Iempt. All foreiimrs are either 1-c,:hre III German), or Talp%o (Italiati); nut it ar dillicult to imagine the supercilious air with which the ll...r.yar peasant pronounces those two words. Ac tier hi, more immediate riequIssurs, it is. worse still: flit the most miserable Pcrasz I-mater pea,:aut) of lOchreezen would sv-am aliiance or inter:mine with the richest \VM.acli in the countre. 1 reinemb. c the Baroness IV— telling me, that ar: she was going

to Dvill'CLI.C116(11114: With vorspalin, she was accompanied Lr her foot- man. who happenea t., i.e a Wallael.; aud, ill speaking to he was overheard o-iog th.A. The peasant ma le no 0:ism-ca-

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Mgar

t iou it the time, but as they approached the town he pulled op.:t:I desired the ti',amen to get ;town ; a.ssciring the lady at the same time that lie nicant no ('.;-te•pet't to her, but that it was quite impossible that he, s ill iavar, should endure the disgrace of driving a Wallack into Debreczen. Eoircaties and threats were alike vain ; the peasant declared he would take out leis horses if the footman did not get down—which he accanlingly did. The Germans

are si :truly better treated :'it. was only the other day, when Count an Au-Irian officer of high raids., was on 'Aladanie It—, that her little son happenieg to let fall some plaything he had in his hand, the Coant applied his git-, to los eye, and politely otferett to fund it for him. 'flue child, however, tlasigh it could hardly speak, had already learned to hate ; and in its sparing vocaoulary it thand the words "Idito/,/ ::ehum4 ;" which it launched forth with all the bitternyss: it could antster, in answer to the talite offer of the estonished Count.

HUNGARIAN CH tuarranspres.

The Magyar pera: int has a strong feeling of self-respect, at times border• leg perhaps on foolish pride. It is very rarely lie will consent to exhibit hint- self as au actor ; and in (mason:mate the couture is tilled with German players, Bohemian riders, and glpsy musicians; fur, however much he may tiislike item-ing others, he leas nut the least objection that others Should an: a:42, him. ;;;I. title is united a seise of personal decency and a 1'as:idioms delicacy in ei rtain matters, scarcely to lie found amongst any other people. The Magyar has n passionate lore of country, limited to a conviction that no one happy and prosperous as himself. 'flue Swiss does mit teal a more do, med. attachment to his mountains than the Magyar to his plains. Csaplo- ,ies tells us that it young girl of Debreczen, who was taken for the first time into the mountaius of Lipton and Arva, regarded tlw villages with the utmost watonisinueot ; and oa seeina what to her eyes appeared the barrenness and poverty of the scenery, burst out in exclamation, •• What I do men live here too The " truth in wine" has long been proverbial, and it is nowhere better exemplified than in the Magyar. No sootier does the fear of ridicule finsake Trim than he is seized with an irresistible desire to weep over the miseries of his fatherland. With high and low, the reign of Corvmus, when Hungary was respected, abroad asad:tbe peasant protected at home, is the imaginary golden age _-_to which they all refer. Not a mother wails more bitterly over her lost child than the wine-softened Magyar over the fallen glories of the Runia. The language and the religion are two important points of nationality with the Magyar. He believes that he alone has the true faith—Calvinistic ; which he knows only by the:name of Jiluggars vallds ; and that his is the only lairs gaage understood in .heaven, and therefore the only one to be used in prayer. A poor peasant nurse—they are said to be the best nurses in the world—sitting by the bedside of the Countess' liLard her utter in the excess of pain the common German exclamation, "Aell Got! itch Got !"—,, Ah, my lady," observed the poor Magyar, '6 dod forgive me! but how can you expect God to listen to you, and give you ease, if you speak a language he does not under- stand ?"

The Upper House in Hungary is composed, as with us, of the magnates; the Lower is elected by the lesser nobility, or more properly speaking a gentry, many of them being very poor. The number of voters Mr. PAGET estimates at about U.5,000, being in the proportion of 1 in 75 of the entire population. Deputies from the clergy and citizens attend, but the latter do not vote; and the Diet resists the grant of that power as the members for bo- roughs are virtually nominated by the Crown. In theory, every noble has a right to be present at the debates : the members of the Lower House arc therefore strictly Deputies, who receive instruc- tions as to their conduct, and are called to account for violating them,—a plan which Mr. PAGET defends, in consideration of the arbitrary power of Austria, the censorship on the press, and the many \says which the Government has of corrupting Deputies. During his sojourn, one Hungarian ANDREW JOHNSTONE was handled more severely than his Scottish prototype.

" On our return to Pest, all the world was talkino.b of a great county meet- ing which had just taken place, in which the member, Mr. Pecsi, Cad been recalled by his constituents, and dismissed from his place for voting contrary to their instructions. The greatest efforts had been made by the Government party, t the head of which was the Fii Ivan, (Lord-Lieutenant) to defeat the lCilserals ; and finding themselves in a minority, they proposed to adjourn the new election to another clay: but, just at the critical moment. Count Karolyi Gyiirg,y sprung upon tb table, and calling out No time like the present!' was received with such a burst of acclamation as at once decided the question, and obliged the Tories to give up any further contest. The new Liberal Deputy, Mr. Fay, was required, before receiving his authority, to sugar in no way, r fry speech or silence,' to act contrary to the instructions of those who elected him ; and it seas determined that henceforward every Deputy from that county should take the same

HUNGARIAN ELECTIONS.

There are few scenes better calculated to bring out the striking peculiarities of national character than a popular election; anrl the elections of Hungary are no exceptions to the rule. It so happened that I never was present at a restrturat;,,p, as an election is called ; but if I may credit those who have, such a scene of feasting, fuddling, and gifting, was never equalled even in an Irish fair. feasting, little country town, crowded during three or four days by three or four thousand noblemen, armed and accompanied by their fol- lowers, for the most part glorious v. ith wine, their enthusiasm tired in the cause of a party or a name, and edged on by those little piquant animosities which near neighbours will indulge in, must present a scene of wild and stirring interest.

The restatirations, whether of the Deputies or municipal officers, are com- monly presided over by the Fill 'span lihnself. In the case of the nns:ricipa1 officers the King, in the person of his representative, has the right of eandida- tion, diet is, of naming three persons for every office, from among whom one must be chosen. In general, however, he nominates such as desire the honour, or who have a respectable party to support them,. so that this power is rarely used except to exclude an unworthy person. Elections are now commonly made by acclamation, though polling has been used ; Government having re- sumed what it calls the more necient, certainly the more barbarous mode, be- cause it was thought that in the confusion the FiS Ispan might more easily decide upon the candidate most pleasing to the powers that be. Never was scheme less successful. In the heat and enthusiasm of such a moment the influence of Government is lost ; and the Hungesians have taught their Lords-Lieutenant to act with impartiality, by tossin:s out of the windows some who had shown a disposition to be partial. Should the numbers appear doubtful, the losing party have within this last vear or two adopted the plan of demanding a pull, MAO: the Lords-Lieutenant have not dared to refuse.

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There s a good deal of similarity between these restaurations and the elec- tions of Members of Parliament in England in former times; and though we have been right in changing the form under the plea of convenience for one less democratic, because newspapers supply the place of popular discussions, and party-spirit is too active to prevent any possibility of indifference, the case is far otherwise in Hungary. The enthusiasm of a popular assembly is required not only to stimulate the slow and encourage the timid among the friends of liberty, but to borne by its power the hardihood of the agents of corruption.

It must be confessed that the excesses sometimes committed are rather startling : only the year before our visit, eight men were killed at a restaura- tion its the county of Ears : but they are certainly less than might be expected from an assembly of so many rude and often uneducated men of warm tem- perament, excited by wine ;Ind party animosity, especially when it is considered that then" is no police to restrain them, and that they me for the most part armed. I con easily believe that to the well.drilled, well-policed slave of an absolute. government, such a meeting must appear very alarming; but by an Englishman, who has gone through the scenes of a contested election, it will be readily understood.

The state of the peasantry, according to Mr. PAGET, is much misunderstood in England, and indeed in Europe ; part of which ignorance he attributes to the haste and misconceptions of such persons as \1r. Qua, who run rapidly through the country ignorant of its languages, and exposed to all the mistakes which must spring from such sources ; and in part to the prejudices or intentional misrepresentations of the Austrians, who paint the people ea bar- barians and travelling everywhere unsafe—both assertions being utterly untrue. So far front resembling the serfs of Poland or Rus- sia, the Hungarian peasantry enjoy personal freedom ; a species of eopyhold right to it portion of their lords' land under certain conditions, and the power (we assume) of possessing pro- perty. By a late law their lords are deprived of the right to administer corporal punishment ; but civil disputes are still in the first instance settled in the lord's court by judges elected by the peasantry themselves, with a right of appeal. The influence of former ages of slavery and of their present imperfect liberty still remains, we should Imagine,. to a consitinrable extent ; showing itself in .a bigoted resistance to change, and• the helplessness which servitude induces.; the condition of the peasants appearing to de- pend altogether upon the character and management of their lord. Nor arc they exempt from grievances. The tenure upon which they hold their lands is that of service, both pcsonally and with their cattle; which is frequently a great injury to them, nod of little utility to their masters, from the endeavours made to evade it, and the slothful manner in which they work. The very freedom of the Hungarian gentry is an injury to the peasants; for nearly all officers being elected, and pretty frequently, they have not only their own feelings of caste, but the fear of their constituents before their eyes, in dealing with disputes between peasant and lord. Various monopolies of a feudal nature also belong to the latter— as the sole right to sell wine in his village, which sometimes acts injuriously- upon his people, and upon such portion of the public at large as happen to travel thither. The great grievance, however, is the exemption of the nobles from taxation, the weight of which is thrown upon the people. Some other evils are enumerated by Mr. PAGET; but they seem to us owing to the administration of the Austrian government, rather than to any working of social circumstances, It should be observed that there is every prospect of a reform in these proved abuses. The conunutation of forced services for a money payment is so advantageous to both parties, that there is every prospect of its being shortly effected; and Count SZLCHENYI has broken down the barriers of exclusive taxation by persuading time nobility to pay toll ibr the new bridge over the Danube. Mr. PAGET 'S volumes are profusely illustrated by tine wood-cuts, from drawings by Mr. H•R;sG, W110131 the author engaged to accom- pany hint in his tours ; and a very excellent map is prefixed.