AUSTRIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 597, 24 July 1858, Page 3

AUSTRIA.

(From the ' Times ' Correspondent, dated Vienna, April 13.)

The diplomatic career of Lord A. Loft us in Austria has commenced under auspicious circumstances. When he first arrived here he was kindly received by Count Buol; and, when he presented his letters of credence to the Emperor on Sunday, his Majesty expressed himself

to the effect that he hoped the amicable r. lotions at present subsisting between England and Austria might be maintained and improved. A person conneated with the Court' yester- >ay evening related, in ray presence, that the Emperor displayed great cordiality towards Sitf Hamilton Seymour when the latter had 1 is farewell audience, His Majesty conversed with him for some time, and, when he was about to quit the room, his hands were taken by the monarch and heartily shaken. This evening Sir Hamilton leaves for London, and probably takes with him the good wishes of almost all those persons to whom he was known. Although good natured and affable, he was always jealous both of his own personal dignity and of that of those persons who were under his pro* tection. •• Indeed," says a person who cannot but be well informed on the subject, "he was such a stickler about the rights and. privileges of Englishmen that he often severely tried the patience of Count Buol. If he had reason to believe that any one of his countrymen had been wronged by the Austrian authorities he would get into a towering passion, and it is whispered that on one occasion he went so far as to declare that if the gendarmerie again interfered with peaceable and unofending Eng-lishmen-he would demand his passports and quit the country. I could not learn on what occasion Sir Hamilton was so very wroth, but it was probably about a year and a half ago, when an English gentleman was arrested by two gendarmes while walking in the country without a passport. In a letter received from me about a week or ten days since it was observed that the Cardinal .Archbishop of Vienna " was no longer in such, high favor at Court," and the cause of the decrease of his influence will now be given, in as plain language as I,can venture to employ. M. destroy, the director of the theatre in the Leopaldstadt applied for permission to legitimate his children not born in wedlock, and to give them his name. On the recommendation of the Minister of Justice, His Majesty, with whom Nestroy is a special. favorite, was pleased to.grant the favor demanded. When the Archbishop became aware of what had taken place, iie took advantage of the "privilege which he, as a cardinal, had to enter the presence of the Emperor without previously applying for an audience. What passed between monarch and his subject is not known tome, but soon after the latter reached his home he received a notice, that in future he had to demand an audience whenever he wished to have access to ihe Emperor. Though no guarantee can be given for the correctness of" the foregoing story, it must be ' understood that it was communicated to me by persons who are very likely indeed to know the. truth of the matter. . During Lent the teacher of religion in: oue : of the "Gymnasia" in this city preached a sermon for the express behoof o£ young people between ten aud sixteen years of-age. Instead of telling them to put-their trust and confidence in the .Almighty, .Javfi..;.theiE. : neighbours as themselves, the reverend gentleman got upon points of doctrine, and wound up his discourse by the assertion that Jews, Mahommedans, and heathens afe better men than Protestants, because they have " some traces of a worship of the Virgin." To the best of my knowledge Jews and Malomedans knoiir as little as Protestants about a " Marien-cultus," and the only heathen that have ever attempted to emulate the Roman Catholics are the Balonda negroes, who recieved Dr. Livingstone with the exclamation " Ave-rie!." (Aye Marie).

Caixao.—Tlie following notive of a movement of great importance to shipowners and masters trading with Callao, is taken from the ' Callao and Chineha Island. Shipping List:'—" There has been a proposition made to the municipal authorities of Callao to abolish all the existing sailor boarding-houses that are at present in existence, and. in their stead to establish one large house, and call it a Sailors' Home. The proposers of this scheme wish to have the exclusive right to and over the said establishment for ten years, and for which they guarantee, with ' ample security,' to pay the sum of 120,000 dollars to the municipal authorities, the said money to be paid by instalments at the rate of 1000 dollars per month. The above scheme does not embrace natives, or men serving in any Peruvian ships. From observation for the last three months we find that there has not exceeded in any one month more than 30 (in one of the months only 10) legally discharged seamen : that is to say, seamen shipped at other ports in foreign ships to be discharged at Callao, with the consent of any of the following mentioned consuls, viz.:—American, British, Belgian, Chilian, Danish, French, Hamburg, and Norwegian. Desertions, however, from ships are outrageous and alarming, taking place daily and hourly; in some instances, where the captains and owners have been determined to retain, if posiible, their crews on board, to complete their original contracts, they, the masters and officers, have done so at the peril of their lives, as the following case out of a great number will show: —1. One master had been very ill during the passage from Australia to this port. Upon arrival he was in a very delicate state of health, and was in the act of going to his consigness at ten o'clock in the morning, when a great double-fisted fellow struck him between the eyes, and felled him to the ground. This was because the master upon his arrival had requested Mr. Doublefist to quit his ship, as he' believed he came on board for no good purpose. 2. The master, a very old gentleman, when passing along the Commercial-street at mid-day was beaten on the head until insensible by six powerful fellows armed with bludgeons. This was because he had given orders on board his ship for his officers to throw stones, and fire from muskets blank cartridges, at any boats that -would persist in coming alongside his ship after gunfire of an evening. 3. Another master ' in the forenoon,' was taken hold of, and thrown from the mole into the sea, to the great- danger

».of his life,because he objected ito-allow his men 'to desert from his boat. We could repeat many ■more instances, but believe the above are fully sufficient for our present purposes. ■ ©n the -other siSe of this -question we will only stats one instance, believing that the details, are sickening enough-—A few nights ago, between 10 and 1-1 o'clock, two men were shot in the 3iead with ball, for trying to steal sailors from & ship. The -ball struck one of them on -the fore part of the head, entered .the skin, traversed the. top part of the skull, and came out at the back part. The other one was struck by the ball on the cheek, knocked out several teeth from the upper an 3 loweojaws, passing under and cutting the tongue, taking two more teeth of the lower jaw from'the opposite side to its entrance, and finally passing downthefellow'sthroat. Doubtless the proceedings in all those cases have been very wrong, and we think that foreign owners should endeavour to do something to put a stop to these goings on, for the remedy is entirely in -their own hands —-thus.-desire all mastersimmea<liately upon arrival to discharge their crews. The first benefit to be derived from such a proceeding ■would be that seamen could then be procured for 12 or 15 "dollars per month,; and then, if the had an Inefficient seamen on board, he "■could. easily replace him bj' anew one ; but now =he is deterred from making the experiment in ! consequence of the exhorbitant rate of wages rthat his ship would be compelled to pay. To that :any good can be done by applying -to the authorities here is all folly, as the proposition now lying before the municipal authorities clearly proves, because if residents here supposed it possible that the authorities would ■protect foreign owners of vessels, they would snever offer the sum of 120.000 dollars for the -control of this particular business,"

WonLBLT Wealth.—There is a burden of >care- in getting riches, fear in keeping them, rtemptation in u-ing them, guilt in abusing them, .-^sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account .sat-last to be given up concerning them.