The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-15 00:00:00

A w ell-informed person gives three reasons for
the bad feeling which prevaflo in Hungary.
1. The Concordat, and the introduction of the new
marriage laws as one of its consequences. 2. The
haughty and contemptuous behaviour of the Bohei-
mian and German employes; and the indignation
caused by the attemr.ts of the Government to set
aside the Hungarian language. Very recently Count
Leo Thun, the Minister for Public Instruction and
Ecclesiastical Affairs, issued orders that ott certain
subjects, the lectures delivered in the gymnasial
schools, and at the Universities, should be in Ger-
man, and that five years hence all the lectures are
to be in that language. The Hungarians are greatly
attached to their mother tongue, and deeply resent
the attempt which is made to suppress it.
The 6-'overnmental papers attribute the preval-
ence of murder and robbery in Hungary to the
want of education among the lower classes, but it
strike ; me that the measures taken by Count Thun
a*, not exactly those best calculated to remedy
the evil. About a fortnight ago you were informed
that the Emperor had given his. sanction to
several measures before he quitted Vienna, and it
is noW known that they concern Hungary. The
chiefs of the province of Transylvania, Crotia,
Slavonia, of the Temescher Banat, and of Dal-
matia, are no longer to bear the title of Civil
and Military Governor," but of " Governor."
In the civil administration the expression

" Civil and Military Governments" are no longer
to be employed, as in futUre there will be no sep G-
rate departments bearing such titles. The pro-
vincial administrations are to take cognizance of
311 civil matters, and the provincial military
" Commandos' of those which concern the army.
It is further ordained, that whenever the governor
of a province is absent froin his post his place, in
the administration shall be supplied by the Vice
President or by the senior Aulic Councillor (and
not by a general, as has hitherto been the case)
All the foregoing ordinances are steps towards a
normal state of things, and consequently disagree-
able to the military authorities, who justly attribute
the decrease of their power to the clergy. The
follower" of the humble and saintly Ignatius Loyola
can bear no equals, and the discomfited men of the
sword have already discovered that such is the
case. _

Baron Bourqueney and Baron Budberg are
working here in favour of the Danish government ;
and Count Kisseleff and Baron Brunow, aided and
abetted by Count Moltke and Baron Dirckinck-
Holmfeld, are doing the same in Paris. The Vienna
correspondent of the Hamburg Borsenhalle says
Baron Hubner has informed this government that
the Emperor Napoleon is favourable to the claims
of the Danish Crown to the domains of Holstein-

_Jauenburg, but the chances are that M. de
Bourqueney will be as unsuccessful here as the
Marquis de Moustier has been in Berlin. The
two great German Powers would lose caste in the
Confederation if they did not maintain the rights
and privileges of the Duchies.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, DEC 11.
The Neuchatel affair progresses very slowly ;
and, "like a wounded snake, drags its slow length
along." The last fact that you have chronicled in
connection with this matter is, that the Swiss
Federal Council unanimously resolved not to
accede to the demands of Prussia, backed as they
were by the representatives of all the German
Powers that have any representatives at Berne.
These demands were for the unconditional release
of the Royalists without trial, as a preliminary to
negociations, to be opened between the King of
Prussia and the Swiss Confederation. We may
assume for certain that the previous unanimous
resolution of the German Bund, to back the King of
Prussia's demands had been communicated to the
great Powers, parties to the London Protocol of
1852, with a request that they would also put
in a word for a recognition of those rights now
by Switzerland, which they had already recog-
nised in that formal protocol, but however they
may have fulfilled this political obligation, they
have met with no success in Berne, as we have seen
above. The facts that remain to be chronicled con-
nected with the matter are, that since the Swiss
Federal Council came to the resolution above men-
tioned, Her von Sydow, the representative of Prussia,
has received orders to withdraw to Sigmaringen,
where he occupies a post in connexion with the ad-
ministration of the Principality of Hohenzollern.
This withdrawal of the Prussian Representative
is, however, not a diplomatic recall, but serves only
to show to Switzerland that as long as the prison
era are not released Prussia cannot treat; the
personnel of the Prussian mission at Berne is
still there. About a week back the Repre-
sentatives of France and Russia, in confor-
mity with the example of those of Austria,
Bavaria, and Baden, made fresh representations
to the Federal Government of the danger and im-
policy of the course it had adopted, and renewed
their remonstrances for the liberation of the pri-
soners. The Federal Council refused again to
listen to these well meant representations of the
foreign Governments, and in so doing was backed
and encouraged by our diplomatic Representative
there.
The next step that this Government will take, is
as far as I can gather from various conversations,to
present a report to the German Bund, showing
what little effect its cumulative representations have
had in Berne, and this report, backed with similar
and corroborative reports from the Governments of
Austria, Bavaria, and Baden, will then probably be
referred to a committee to consider what further steps
the Band may find it expedient to take in the matter.
Either in conjunction with the resolution that may
be come to by the German Bund, or in its own sole
name, this Government will shortly present an
ultimatum to the Swiss Federal Government, and on
its rejection, which will in all probability take place,
the diplomatic relations between Prussia and Swit-
zeriand will be broken off. The affair will not be
broughtbefore the supplementary conferences about
to be opened at Paris at the beginning of next year ;
these conferences will be confined solely to the sets
Cement of the questions of Bolgrad and the Isle of
Serpents ; and, moreover, not only are two powers
to be represented there (Turkey and Sardinia), who
have- nothing at all to do with the Neuchatel affair,
but also the Swiss Confederation would have no
voice and representation there, which would be ne-
cessdry if the resolution of the Congress were to be
binding on it. Nor will the affair be brought before
anyother Conferences, or even any attempt made to
get up a Conference ad hoc of the great Powers. I
can take upon myself to affirm so much as this
as long as the present political conjunction lasts;
for however well disposed the governments of
France, Russia, and Austria, are to fulfil the
undertaking they gave in the London Protocol of
May 24, 1852, (to use their best efforts to bring the
Swiss Confederation to act up to the international
engagements, in virtue of which Neuchatel had
become a Swiss canton under the guarantee of
Europe), Lord Palmerston's government shows no
inclination to act up to the obligations which Lord
Malmesbury at that time entered into.
The reason why so great a stress is laid on the
liberation of the Royalist prisoners without trial,
and why no pardon of them subsequent to trial will
meet the exigencies of the case, is that the struggle
for the recognition of the sovereignty, as between
the Prince of Neuchatel and the Swiss Federal
Government, turns upon this point. If the Prince's
rights of sovereignty are still valid, as the European
Powers declared them to be in 1852, then these
Royalists are not amenable to punishment for
striving to bring those rights to recognition ; it,
on the contrary, the Swiss Federal Government
can succeed in trying them and condemning
them for rebellion, it establishes a strong
point in favour of its own sovereignty, in spite'of the
London Protocol and the final act of the Congress
of Vienna. The pardon which in all probability
will be extended to the prisonerseeable tot
the coK inndeg, for
mna-
tion will, of course, be agr
the sake of the men who have compromised them-
selves, but the circumstance of their having been
tried at all will serve only to bring matters to an
extremity, as between him and the Federal Govern-
ment.
I hear that a note has within the last few days
been despatched by this Cabinet to the various