The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-10 00:00:00

The Elections in Hungary.

PESTII, OCt. 5.
his Eminence the Prince Primate of Hungary has
addressed a letter to Count Forgach, the Oberge-
span administering the county of Gran, in which
he says :

" His Majesty, our most gracious lord, in whom
we have always placed our sole and inextinguish-
able hope and confidence, has, following the im-
pulses of his paternal inclination towards our nation,
given to us that boon we have so long implored—
the Diet, whose most important task consists in re-
establishing harmony between the constitutional
rights of our country and the irrefutable position of
the monarchy as a great power, and thus in
successfully carrying out the great work upon
which our future and existence depend. This
most gracious resolution of his Majesty was greeted
with loud joy and thankfulness in this country
and throughout the whole fatherland. It has
responded by its thanks to the royal trust which his
Majesty has again displayed towards his faithful
Hungarians, and with which he has once more con-
fided the fate of our country and of the entire
nation to our fidelity. It is our duty to understand
the heavy responsibility and grave trust thereby en-
tailed upon us in such a sense, and to direct all our
actions towards such an end, as that we may happily
attain that goal towards which we so long ardently
strive. But to solve this task, alike filled with
serious responsibility and great honour, it is above
all imperatively necessary that at the approaching
Diet the country should be represented by men not
animated by passion, but guided by pure and true
patriotism, by political prudence and fairness, by a
correct appreciation of necessity and circumstances,
by men who, penetrated with the seriousness of the
situation, and the feeling of duty and responsibility
the great task imposes upon them, will zealously
support the efforts of the Government to bring back
this country, after so many experiments, to the
satisfactory enjoyment of settled constitutional life
—by men who, lastly, will do everything in their
power to assist the goodwill and desire of his Ma-
jesty to restore our constitutional rights, and, on
the other hand, will clear away every obstacle by
which the royal confidence might be impeded. For
this reason, encouraged by the trust and attachment
the people of this country have always displayed
towards me, animated further by the purest desires
for the welfare of the fatherland by the patriotism
and fidelity 1 have taken every opportu-
nity to display, I implore the respected
electors of this county to choose men as
their representatives at the Diet, not guided
by deplorable and destructive lust of supremacy,
but inspired by the wish for the peaceful settle-
ment of our constitutional relations, by pure patriotic
devotion, and, above all, by the earnest desire for
reconciliation."

The Servians living in Buda-Pesth and vicinity
have formed themselves into an association bearing
the name of the Upper Hungarian Liberal Servians,
and issued, through their committee, the following
appeal to their Hungarian brethren :
" Dear and beloved Brethren,—We live in a time
of great meaning and importance. The provincial
Diets, as well as the long-desired extraordinary
Hungarian Parliament, have been convoked, and
we stand upon the threshold of decisive events.
Whoever has hitherto attentively followed the march
of the political, national, and social development of
the south-east of Europe will also be in a position
to estimate the wide scope of the occurrences which
may result from a successful session of the Hunga-
rian Parliament. The thunder of the guns which
shall first announce that the Crown of St. Stephen
again adorns the anointed head of a Hungarian
King will also reverberate far across the frontiers of
Hungary,and perhaps be the herald of a more pros-
perous future for our brethren sighing in the south
beneath the yoke. That green branch which the
people who have arrived at an agreement among
each other, and with the Crown, will embroider
upon the flag of the constitution, will also, it is to
be hoped, prove the sure forerunner of life giving
spring to oppressed Christianity in the south. At
such a time, and upon the threshold of such events,
no faithful son of the nation, no true friend of
humanity, can remain an inactive and idle spectator.
In the eventful period to which we look forward not
only is the Diet called to action, but all peoples of
Hungary and Austria are simple labourers. There-
fore it is necessary that all who are sincere in their
desire for the welfare and progress of Hungary and
Austria, nay, entire humanity, should co-operate
and act together hand in hand. Brethren, agree
with us that this glorious task by right, duty, and
national situation is incumbent upon none more
than us Magyars and Serbs. This being
so, we must above all care for the removal of all
obstacles, and the settlement of all conditions which
facilitate the success of the important and difficult
task of the Diet, for the firm and secure establish-
ment of our better future depends on its result. One
of the first among these conditions with regard to
the Servian question is notably that the leaders and
champions of the liberal Magyar and Servian party
should come to an understanding upon the more
important points at once and before the meeting of
the Diet. The most important duty, not only of
the leaders, but of all liberal members of the Mag-
yar and Servian nation, is to provide for the elec-
tion of fitting and devoted representatives of the
cause. For, in order that a constitutional agree-
ment with the Crown may be successfully brought
about, and lasting peace and confidence be esta-
blished among the nations, it is essential that con-
scientious and noble-minded men, devoted in equal
degree to the nation and the entire constitutional
fatherland, should be elected to the Diet. In this
respect it is therefore our first duty to provide, as
brethren living in love and unity, for the election
foefeilinngensw,
we, Servians
of confidence. Animated by these
Servians of Pesth, as citizens at the
centre of the newly-awakened constitutional life of
our dear fatherland, hastened, at the first tidings
of the convocation of the Diet, to speak our word
in the interest of a constitutional and national re-
conciliation, the more urgently as the time is short
and the matter presses. For this purpose we, Ser-
vians residing in this metropolis, at a meeting
held upon the 26th ult., resolved as follows :
'l. That we invite, with friendly greeting,
our Magyar brethren to accept the trust and sin-
cere friendship we herewith tender them. 2. As a
less favourable division of the electoral districts does
not satisfy the fair claims of the Serbs, and this especi-
allywith regard to the number of representatives which
otherwise corresponds to the amount of the popula-
tion, property, and intellectual status, we turn in the
common interest of mutual fairness and good under-
standing in confidence to our Magyar brethren, and
request them in paternal affection to have regard to
our candidates at the respective polling-places, who
will undoubtedly make every exertion to bring the
advocacy of their national claims into harmony with
the undivided general interest of a constitutional
and united Hungary. Lastly, we wish to inform our
Magyar brothers that we have established here in
Pesth a special standing committee for the promo-
tion and settlement of all subjects we are empowered
to treat by the laws of the country, and bound to
enter upon by the requirements of constitutionalism
and civilisation. Care will be taken to form similar
committees at other large places where Serbs reside,
and at Vansatz, the centre of Hungarian and Ser-
vian intelligence, a central committee, with which
all others may place themselves in connection, will
be established.' Long live our beloved constitutional
common Hungarian fatherland. May brotherly love
and union flourish !"

" The return of their Majesties to Paris," says
the Pays, "is definitively fixed for Thursday next.
Also, if we are well informed, the Council of Minis-
ters, which was to have taken place on Tuesday,
has been postponed to Saturday."
Prince Stirbey, formerly Hospodar of the Danu-
bian Principalities, is at present in Paris.
M. Haxthausen, Secretary of the Danish Lega-
tion, has been named Commissioner for Denmark
at the Paris Universal Exhibition.
The Council of State will resume its labours on
the 15th inst. The section of finance will at once
commence the examination of the Budget of 1867,
the elements of which have been prepared in the
different ministries.

WISIIp
(fin Tit ttrtribr.

Foreign Courts•

PARIS, Oct. 8.

It is thought that some modification will be made
in the arrangements for the journey of the Emperor
and Empress from Biarritz to Paris, and that -his
Majesty may make a short stay at Bordeaux, for
the purpose of visiting the exhibition there.
In all probability their Majesties will stop at Tours
on their return from the Pyrenees. Should the
Empress visit the colony at Mettray, as intended, it
will be during the interval between the stay at St.
Cloud and the departure for Compiegne.

The Duke of Rutland arrived a few days back at
Belvoir Castle from his seat, Longshawe Lodge, Derbyshire,
where his grace and friends have had excellent sport while
shooting.

The Earl and Countess of Dunraven have during
the last week been entertaining the Duchess of St. Albans
and Lady Diana Beauclerk, Viscount Crichton, Lord and
Lady Chelmsford and Hon. Miss Thesiger, Lord Claud
Hamilton, &c., at Adare Manor, Ireland.

The Baroness de Billing has left the Clarendon
Hotel for -Warwickshire.

Lord and Lady Crernorne have arrived at Dartry
House, Coote-hill, county Monaghan.
Lord and Lady Alfred Churchill have left Elve-
tham Park, Winchfield, on a visit to Mr. Bazley, M.P., and
Mrs. Bazley, at Eysnshain Hall, Witney.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived in town
yesterday from Falloden.
The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson arrived in town
yesterday from a cruise in his yacht.