The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRI

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

MANIFESTO OF OF THE EMPEROR.

The following is the text of the imperial
manifesto which the Emperor of Austria has
just addressed to the comitats and municipal
bodies of Hungary :
When, twelve years ago, we resumed the government of
the monarchy ailisastrous civil war was raging lathe interior
of our empire; almog every state, society itself, was shaken
to its' foundations. The passion, the blindness, the
errors of many honest and well-intentioned men—the
terrorism of the evil disposed—a Kerries of diverse and
unhappy circumstances, led to a solution by the sword.
It was our will that this solution should not
form the permanent basis of our political institutions.
We did not wish to, and we could not abandon the interest.
of our monarchy, which bad bees defended and made secure
by s., many painful sacrificer; nevertheless., as to their
definitive organisation, we have had above all the desire to
re.establiali, as promptly and completely as possible, the
political institutions of this kingdom, rooted in the nation.
to which they are so dear ; and we found therein, at the
same time, for all our other peoples a guarantee for the pre-
paration and the establishment of the constitutional evyier.
It wee in order to accomplish this work, that we published
our diploma of the 20th of October. But peace, the coin.
promise itself, and reconciliation, demanded in return 1601110
good will and a sincere concurrence, without arriere peraa'r
and without passionate excitement.

We have well considered and recognised the scruples
which are opposed to the partial re-establishment of the
Hungarian constitution before the definitive regu-
lation of the whole political organisation. How-
ever, these scruples have not prevented us from
effecting this regeneration, especially in the domain of
municipal action ; and we were persuaded that confidence
begets confidence, and that a frank and loyal initiative
would ever find just appreciation, real agreement, and sin-
oere assistance amongst a noble people, politically mature.
Our expectation has not been completely realised.
We observed with calmness and indulgence the first
impulses of political life, and attributed them to the agi-
tated current of the time, suppressed passions, and the
effervescence of long•suppreoed political activity. Now,
however, that some cornitata profit by the election of
committees to admit ammiget them intlividuah who are the
breooncileable enemies of our monarchy and of our sove-
reign rights ; who, allying themselves to foreign enemies,
threaten the repose of our country by perfidious conspira-
cies and insolent appeals ; now that they seek to make use
of the divergence of views relative to the ap-
proaching settlement of the question of imposts,
in the sense of a refusal which dries up the natural
resources of the state, troubles men's minds,
and forced the situation in a direction which its hypo-
critical and frivolous advocates ought themselves to con-
sider iutoleralde ; now that it is sought to cast aside with
feverish impatience the temporary measures indispensable
to the mainteuance of private rights; that under the
preteat of maintaining public order, certain committees
reeestablish and arm the National Guard, which is a new
impinge to the people ; remove, in making the appoint-
musts of the functionaries of the comitats, our authorities,
and do not hesitate to forget their duty and exceed
their legal province, to confiscate to their profit as lode-
pendent bodies almost all the authority of the state; now,
we my, it is an imperative duty upon as to put a barrier to
these criminal encroachment., and not to suffer constitu-
tional liberty to be vs abused as to overturn public order by
revolution. The faith of our peoples in the sincerity of oar
intentions to bring buck the constitutional system, will be
upset if we tolerate much longer the anarchical ten-
deucies, the development of which has always caused the
ruin of legitimate liberty.
We hold ourselves unchangeably to our resolutions
of the 20th of October, ■nd we shall preserve
to our peoples the constitutional development which
we have guaranteed, and maintain all that we have
promised to our kingdom of Hungary. Bat our resolve
is not the less firm to oppose revolution withall our strength,
whether it present itself with au open front, or hide under
legal forms ; and oar efforts, we are convinced, will find
support in the true patriotism of all good citizens ; they
will not suffer otemeles, provoked by the egotism or pas-
dons of certain men, to close the path of peaceful arrange-
meets; they will exert themselves to prevent authority
from being reduced, in the accomplishment of its most
lamed dune►, to its material force, at is moment in which
the latter ought only to serve au; an aasistauce to moral
power.

In bringing our intentions and warnings to the knowledge
of all the cornitata of our kingdom of Hungary, we recall
the Article 3 of the year 1790, the provision■ of which, with
regent to our coronation, we expect shortly to fulfil, but
the other provisions of which establish equally the duties
at subjects up to the time of the coronation, and we strictly
ordain :

1. That everywhere, where they have the audacity to
cheese as member of the commissions of contitats men con-
densed as traitors to theircountry, and who, living &bread,
ally themselves to the extern►l enemies of the nvonarchy,
In order to weave criminal plots against us and the state
—those elections are null and void.

2. We decree, under severe penalties, that all attempts
having fur their object to arnst directly or indirectly the
levying of direct or indirect taxes, or arbitrarily decreeing
sew ones, be supprmool, that all decisions relative thereto
be immediately abrogated, and that the royal governtueut
be immediately informed of the execution of this order.
3. Aloe we declare, until the deliberations of the Diet,
and eventually until the provisional measures which we
shell demos, upon the proposition of our ja<ler
cerise,--
null sad of no effect all resolution. suppressing the
judicial authorities which we have maintained tem-
porarily by our diploma of October 23, or which fetter
their action, mad we severely enjoin upon the tribunals of the
reentry to maintain the laws and OrtliftlinCell existing in it,
and the definitive reform of which cannot be validly
effected in the interest of the country and of private in-
terest., but by the regular deliberations of the Diet ; and
not by arbitrary decrees, plunging all public rights into
hopeless chaos.
4. Considering that we hate reserved for the Diet of the
2nd of April the confirmation, modification, or the abrogation
011 the laws of 1847 end 184 x, and theirconfornmbility to our
resolutions, and that the actual re-establishment of the

alsevementioned laws connected with questions the arbi•
teary and precipitate solution of which would compromise
all the historical institutions and the interest, of Hue•
pry as well us those of other countries, which
we must watch over with equal solicitude ; con-
sidering, moreover, that the decision upon questions
which helms to the reestablishment of the said
laws is the object of a profound examination which is not
possible to private individuals or to comitairee conse-
quently interdict every attempt to apply those laws in
reality, and we order that any such attempt be opposed by
the most serious meeos.

If • resistance is manifested by the comitats to
these olden, the sittinp of the commissioes of
the oonutats will be suspended, or those assem-
blies will be dissolved, and the executiou of our pre-
wet commaDdi will be, if necessary, secured by the use
of material force.

All these revolutions are dictated by the imperial so-
licitude fur the geuend good of our peoples, and if our
paternal intentions are again imposed upon, or
threatened by a prolonged resistance, we shall recur
with regret to those rigorous 114111101111e$ which
it has been our desire to avoid. If in consequence the
meeting of the Diet, which we greatly desire, were delayed,
■od the solution, demanded not by the interest of Hungary
alone but by that of the whole monarchy, of the moat
urgent and important questions, and of the re<►tablish-
ment of the constitutional order of things, was again inde-
finitely postponed, with tranquil conscience we throw the
responsibility of the numerous disadvantages which would
result therefrom, upon those who prevent by design or
levity the work of peaceful arrangement.

Deeply penetrated by the gravity of these measures, we
fulfil the duty of protecting against new storms the country
which Goil and our hereditary right have confided to our
cue, mad relying upon the intelligence of true patriots,
upon our right, and upoo the blessing of He►ven, we wait
with 000fidence the moment in which the crown of our
glorious ancestors will consecrate the success of our efforts
for the satisfaction and the pacification of the country.
(Signed) Fa tact,. JOSEPH.
ruititersi.m.l) BAIWN NICPOLIA vAI.
Euw.teu Zegtasi
Vienna, Jan. 16, IMI.