came from Vienna. I will not answer for the words; but, whether he said them or not, they were true; and for that victory over revolution in Bohemia, he obtained later the highest command in a wider field, where he was far from obtaining the same successful results.

But one circumstance, during the Prague riots, will alone entitle Prince Windischgrätz to undying renown-his conduct on the evening of the 12th of June. Marie-Eléonore, Princess of Schwarzenberg, sister to the Prime Minister and the Cardinal, niece to that unfortunate Princess Schwarzenberg, who, in 1812, was burnt to death in Paris, whilst endeavouring to save her child, his wife, the mother of his six children, one a girl not yet fifteen,—was murdered in her bed-chamber, shot dead by a too well-aimed bullet, which struck her in the middle of the forehead. The words of her husband, upon this occasion, should be blazoned in letters of gold, for the admiration of succeeding centuries:

"Now," said he, in tones of heart-broken anguish, "the greatest moderation will be necessary, or I shall be supposed to act from feelings of revenge!"

This is the ruling apprehension of Prince Windischgrätz-to be thought capable of revenging him

self.

I could tell you, reader, of a highly-placed statesman and diplomatist, who, during the siege of Vienna, used to go often to Schönbrunn, to confer with the

Commander-in-Chief; and who, upon one occasion, when he had represented that, for the sake of the town, the operations ought to be conducted as rapidly as possible, saw this man, who is represented as so proud and heartless, weep, whilst confessing to him that the accomplishment of duty was almost too difficult. 66 For," said he, "I feel that severity is absolutely required from me, and I am tortured by the thought that what I do may be imputed to vengeance."

There may be, whilst speaking of Prince Windischgrätz, grave errors to register, and cruel mistakes to record; but not his worst enemy can deny that he is that which each succeeding day shows to be rarer in our age—an upright, loyal, Christian gentleman.

His worst political faults have come from his exalted idea of what a man gently born should be, and from the impossibility he found in believing others capable of what he well knew he was incapable himself.

CHAPTER XII.

HUNGARY-A SKETCH OF CHARACTER.

I ever two nations were unlike each other in every respect, in manners, customs, opinions, habits, feelings, those two nations are the Austrian and Hungarian. I have said the former have many remarkable points of resemblance with the English, but for the latter I can find no parallel upon earth save the Irish. A Magyar and an Irishman are twin brothers. Both believe they sprang direct from Brahma's eyebrow, whilst in the firm conviction of both, the other wretched grovellers of the globe are at best but the produce of his great toe, and both draw (with one only exception) the same virtues and the same faults from their Asiatic cradle.* I have

* See in the notes to Moore's "Fire Worshippers," the authorities quoted by him for believing that the Irish are of Gheber descent.

said with one exception. The Magyar race, unlike the Hibernian, is essentially, lamentably irreligious; or rather, there yet lingers about them, in this respect, a strange something, almost impossible to describe; a kind of unconscious, undefined idolatry; a "reminiscence," as Plato terms it, of a former state, when their deities were perhaps Ahriman and Ormuszd.*

It would require volumes, which I have no right to inflict upon you, my dear reader, to enter into all the various theories upon the origin of the Magyars, and the precise date of their immigration into the Pannonian lands; but it seems pretty well established, that they belong to that vast Tartaric family of the northeastern portion of the globe, to which, even at the present hour, they bear such strong marks of resemblance. Physiologically speaking, their relationship to these Oriental races stares you in the face, and between a genuine Magyar, an Affghan, and the

* Any one who has followed the Hungarian Press during the late events, will recal the frequent appeals to the "God of the Hungarians," the "Magyar God," as to something apart and particular to themselves; and any one who has seen a Hungarian at all excited upon any national question can bear witness to the constant invocations to the Magyar Isten as to some tutelary spirit.

By far the most remarkable work that has appeared upon the origin of the Magyars is the posthumous one that has just

wild follower of the Circassian Schamil, it is evident that there has existed, at some time or other, a very close and intimate connection. Many of his Oriental qualities the Magyar has preserved, but he has lost, by his contact with European civilization, the deep seriousness of the East, and is almost as full of inconsistency, and as incapable of severe intellectual application as a Pole. Some very learned men have even opined that there was gipsy blood in these strange, enigmatical Magyars, who resist so invincibly the efforts of modern cultivation. It is certain that they have points of contact with these wanderers of Egypt, with these restless children of the sun.* They are as given to horse and cattle "lifting" as a Tartar or a Highland Catteran; and, indeed, at the same time that their resemblance with the Irish on almost every point strikes you, you cannot avoid recognizing

been published of Endlicher's, entitled: "Rerum Hungaricum Monumenta Arpadiana." It is of most extraordinary interest and research.

*The Gipsies have a mind, too, to have some part in the "equal rights" promised to "all nations," and the following passage from the Allgemeine Zeitung is a proof. On the 3rd of May, of this year, its Vienna correspondent writes: "The Gipsies of Hungary, who are in number about 120,000, are petitioning also for 'equal national rights.' A deputation of Zigeuners has assembled in the frontier village of Neudörfel, and means to come here to present the petition in person to the Emperor !"