The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-22 00:00:00

board, under a salute of guns from the fortress, for
England on the 11th.
The following British ships had arrived out at
Gibraltar :—Steamer Fairy Queen, from Ramsgate,
in 10 days ; her Majesty's steam sloop ship Supply,
five days from Plymouth ; steamer _Fern, four days
eight hours from Southampton; brigantine Mary
Sproat, 14 days from Swansea ; schooner Starling,
19 days from London; schooner Nancy, 20 days
from Liverpool ; steamer Cadiz, seven days from
London; steamer Cairo, 71 days from Liverpoot ;
brigantine Maria Teresa, 30 days from Liverpool;
brig Cistus, 22 days from Liverpool ; brig Sally, 25
days from Cardiff; steamer Capiolani, 10 days
from Newhaven ; brig Charlotte, 15 days from
Cardiff; schooner Margaret Jane, 19 days from
Cardiff; and steamer Mavrocordo, 81 days from
Liverpool.
Gibraltar exchanges were quoted on the 16th—
London, 90 days' date, 501 to 50Z-, ; Paris, sf. 320. ;
Marseilles, sf. 33c. ; Genoa, sf. 33c; Madrid,
eight days' sight, par; Cadiz, 'par ; Malaga, pm. ;
Seville, 1 dis. ; Alicante, dis. ; Valencia, par ;
Barcelona, pm. ; Spanish pillared dollars, Ferdi-
nand, 3 per cent. premium, no demand ; Carolus, 13
ditto, in demand.
Freights to London, and outports in the United
Kingdom, Brazil and River Plate, Gulf of Mexico
and Havannah, 12 dols. per ton and 10 per cent.

THE NEW AUSTRIAN CHAR TER.

VIENNA, SUNDAY, OCT. 21.

The official Wiener Zeitung publishes a manifesto
of the Emperor introducing a charter (diploma),
founded upon the basis of the Pragmatic Sanction,
to be binding on all heirs to the throne, to be drawn
up for all the provinces, and to be enrolled among
the federal laws.
The charter announces that henceforth the legis-
lative power will only be exercised with the co-
operation of the provincial Diets as well as of the
Reichsrah, The number of members of the latter
is to be increased to 100 by councillors elected by
the Provincial Diets. The members are to be dis-
tributed among the provinces in proportion to their
extent, their population, and the amount of their
taxation.

The Ministers of Justice, Religion, and the In-
terior, as iuniversal central authorities, are sup

pressed.
The Court of Chancery is restored in Hungary,
and one for Transylvania has been established.
The Chancellor of the Hungarian Court is to be a
member of the Ministry. The affairs of the other
provinces are to be represented in the Imperial
councils by a Minister of State.
A special Ministry is to be appointed for Public
Instruction.

The judicial affairs of all provinces not Hunga-
rian are to be represented in the Ministerial coun-
cils by the President of the Court of Cassation.
The interests of national economy and commerce
are to be represented in the Ministry by a Minister
of justice.

The financial functions of the Reichsrath are to
be considerably increased. The contracting of new
and the conversion of existing loans, the mortgage
and sale of the landee property .of the State are to
be subject to the approval of the Reichsrath.
The customs, coinage, all monetary matters,
credits, the regulations for the issue of banknotes,
postal, railway and telegraph affairs, are only to be
treated by Government with the co-operation of
the Reichsrath. Our legislative questions are to be
referred to the competency of the different Provin-
cial Diets.
The treatment of general questions relating to
all non-Hungarian provinces is reserved for a con-
ference of the Councillors of the Empire (i.e., mem-
bers of the Reichsrath) representing :those Pro-

vinces.
As regards the representation of non-Hungarian
provinces, detailed instructions are to be given to
the Ministers of State on the basis of local self-go-
vernment and the representation of all classes and
interests in the Provincial Diets. _ _

The early presentation of provincial regulations,
drawn up according to these principles, and the
convocation as soon as possible of the Provincial
Diets is ordered.
The constitutional institutions of Hungary are
to be re-established. The Hungarian language is
to be introduced as the official language in judicial,
political, and administrative proceedings. The Uni-
versity of Pesth is to be re-opened.
The abolition of the personal services due to land-
lords and of the privileges of the nobles as to
exemption from payment of taxes is confirmed.
The representation of all classes of the country
in the Legislature and the Administration is to be
established as a principle.
The convocation of the Hungarian Diet is to take
place with the least possible delay, on which occa-
sion the inauguration of the charter and the coro-
nation of the Emperor as King of Hungary is to
take place.
The administration of justice is to be carried on in
the prescribed manner, and on the basis of the civil
and penal codes until they are legally changed.
The Royal Curia in Pesth and the Stadtholder-
ship in Buda ara to be re-established.
As regards the claims of Hungary and the Ser-
vian subjects of Austria for public rights, an Impe-
rial Commissioner is to be appointed to receive com-
munications from the most influential persons re-
presenting the different classes. The decision of
the Emperor is reserved until the presentation of
the Commissioner's report.
Similar constitutional institutions are to be
granted to Transylvania. The relations of Hun-
gary with Croatia are to be settled by a joint repre-
sentation of those provinces.
The official Wiener Zeitung also publishes de-
crees to the following effect :
"Counts Thun, Nadasdy, and Thiery quit the

Ministry.
General Degenfold is provisionally appointed
Minister of War ; Count Szecsen is appointed Mi-
nister, without portfolio; Baron Mecsery, Minister
of Police, Chief of the Sections ; M. Lasser, Minister
and ad intervn Chief of the Ministry of Justice.
" Baron Nicholais Vay is appointed First Chan-
cellor of the Hungarian Court of Chancery, and
the Councillor of the Empire, M. Szagyenye,
Second Chancellor.
General Benedek is appointed Commander-in-
Chief of the army in Italy, and General Count
Mensolorf Commander of the Servian Voivedina."
VIENNA, OCT. 21.
General Benedek and the Archduke Albert Wil-
liam have been sent to Italy.

(Fl'ol4 the Correspondent of the Vines.)

VIENNA, OCT. 17,

Several Hungarians of note were with Count
Rechberg from 9 o'clock in the evening of Monday
until 5 o'clock in the morning of Tuesday, and
during that prolonged sitting matters of high im-
portance to the empire at large, and to Hungary in
particular, were discussed and definitively settled.
On Saturday, the 20th inst., several official docu-
ments will be published in the Wiener Zeitung,
and among others an Imperial manifesto contain-
ing the outline of a a " general law," which
must be understood to mean a law that is to be
valid throughout the empire ; in other words, a
Charter. If the information which has to-play
been acquired on the subject be correct—and I
feel convinced that it is so--the Hungarian
nation will have every reason to be satisfied with
the result of the negotiations which have recently
been going on between some of its notables and the
Imperial Government. The kingdom of Hungary
will have its ancient frontiers if the inhabitants of
the Temeschvar Banat, Servian Vojvodina, Croatia,
and Slavonia should express a wish to that effect.
An Imperial Commissary, who will doubtless be a
man of high character for integrity-, will imme-
diately be sent to the Banat and Vojvodina, where
he will convoke an assembly of notables, whose
business will be to give expression to the wishes of
their fellow. countrymen. A Croato-Sclavonic Diet
will also be convened, and desired to let the Go-
vernment know whether Croatia and Slavonia wish
to form an integral part of the kingdom of Hun-
• Transylvania
gary, or to be a separate province.
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