The Vienna correspondent of the Times evidently regards the outburst
of Pan-Germanism in Hungary as of great political importance. He says that several Germans within the kingdom have recently been punished for sedition, and the newspapers of Germany have consequently attacked Hungarian Judges and Magistrates in very gross language. One in particular bids the Magyars remember that they owe their civilisation. present as well as past, to German immi- grants. The correspondent hints that the Magyars attribute this violence to a sense among Germans that the Emperor is on their side, and believes that it is turning serious politicians away from the Triple Alliance and towards an alliance with France. It should be noted that the Pan-Germanic movement is as offensive to the Slays of Hungary as to the Magyars, and that it has by no means the support of the whole of the German settlers, German juries giving verdicts against the seditious orators, while even if they were unanimous the Germans include only one-eighth of the population. It is therefore not their German fellow-citizens whom the Hungarians fear, but the German Empire.
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