Of all the strange affairs that are becoming commonplaces in
Europe, the state of the relations between the Imperial Govern- ment of Austria and Hungary is one of the strangest. The Em- peror, of course at the instance of his Ministers, has issued two manifestoes to the people of Hungary and to his armies ; calling upon the inhabitants of Hungary to cease their civil conflict; and appointing a noble to the chief command over all his forces in that kingdom. The motives for this naive proceeding are trans- parent : the Viennese Government hopes, by the simple act of giving a commander to the Hungarian and Croatian armies in common, to make them abandon their war. The advance of Jel- -lachich on Buda, in spite of these documents, shows that the de- vice is as powerless as might have been anticipated.
The Emperor had previously been suspected of secretly abet- ting the movement of the Croatians, as a set-off against the con- tumacious independence of the Magyars ; but it is probable that the movement is now viewed in connexion with the attempt made at Prague, and defeated in June last, to get up a union of Sclavonian tribes : although the revolt in Prague was suppressed, and the Sclavonian Diet was dispersed, the elements of that union are still extant, and retain all their former affinities ; and Jella- chick had come to be regarded as the great captain of the Scla- vonian cause. However useful his revolution against the revolu- tionary Magyars, his successes are probably too decided to be relished in Vienna. And it is no doubt remembered, that the Sclavonians at Prague showed a more hostile jealousy of Ger- mans than the Magyars of Pesth ever did. But it is evident that something stronger than paper will be required to arrest the progress of Jellachich.
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