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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-
presfaiting 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 Degenfeld 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 interznz 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
Menstiorf Commander of the Servian Voivedina."
VIENNA, OCT. 21.
General Benedek and the Archduke Albert Wil-
liam have been sent to Italy.

(From the Correspondent of the Times.)

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-day
been acquired on the subject be correct—and I
feel convinced that it is so--the linngariau
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 Voivodina, 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-
diatelv be sent to the Banat and Voivodina, where
he will convoke an assembly of notables, whose
business will be to give expression to the Fishes 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 ofvtheclec. ingTdroamnsoyfllH,aunnia-
gary, or to be a separate pin
will not form a part of the kingdom of Hungary,
as the Roumans and Saxons in the principality
strongly insist on the maintenance of the ancient

rights and privileges of their respective nation-
alities. Within six months from the period of
publication of the abovementioned Imperial mani-
festo the Hungarian Diet, which will be a so-called
" Coronation Diet," is to meet at Pesth. As the
middle and lower classes in Hungary have ac-
quired political rights which they had not for-

merly, new electoral laws will be necessary, but
the Government has resolved not to meddle in the

matter: The Cardinal Primate of Hungary and
the " Court Chancellor" will convoke a certain
number of notables of different ranks and classes,
and the Assembly will have to draw up an elec-
toral law, which shall be in accordance with the ne-
cessities of the times. As it is nowhere said that

the Hungarian Diet shall not have the right of
legislation, it must be supposed it will, as was for-
merly the case, have the privilege of preparing
draughts of laws, and of sending them to the Cen-
tral Government for acceptance. The so-called
" Burgerliches Gesetz-Buch" (civil and criminal
codes) is to remain in force in Hungary, A " Judex
Curve" (highest' judicial employe in the kingdom),
and a " larernicus" (the controller of the revenue)
will be appointed by Government, as also 52 " Ober-
gcspanne" (lord-lieutenants of counties), each. of
whom will receive from the State a salary of 5,000
florins per annum.
The Reichsrath will be considerably reinforced,
and probably by means of representatives of the
middle classes. It will, as heretofore, be a consulta-
tive body, but it will be allowed to exercise a direct
control over the finances. As the Hungarians hare
now regained their ancient rights, they will doubt-
less consent to send representatives to the Reichs-
rath, which is likely eventually to become a politi-
cal body of the very highest importance. The organic
laws for the German'and Slavonic provinces will be
given by means of Imperial autograph letters, which
will probably be addressed to the different Stadt-
holders. The bases of the provincial statutes,
which are almost sure to be received with a very ill
grace, will be equality between the different na-
tionalities and equal political rights. The inhabi-
tants of the German provinces and of Gallicia, who
have hitherto been his Majesty's most loyal sub-
jects, are likely to become very difficult to manage,
as they consider themselves entitled to exactly the
same rights and privileges as the Hungarians.
The change of system will naturally lead to a
change in some of the Ministerial departments. The
Ministry of the Interior will be done away with,
and a Ministry of State formed for all the provinces
of the empire excepting Hungary and Transylva-
nia. Count Coluchowski will be at the head of the
new Ministry of State, and have seat and voice in
the Cabinet, as he is determined to sacrifice his
principles rather than quit office. You may per-
haps recollect that he a short time ago was the
avowed opponent of the Hungarians, because they
claimed privileges " which could not be granted
without endangering the principle of the unity of
the empire." The Hungarian and Transylvanian
" Hof-Kanzleien" (Court Chanceries) will be re-
established, and their chiefs will have the title of
" Hofkanzler," with seat and voice in the Cabicet.
The Ministry of Justice will be abolished. The
First President of the Supreme Court of Justice will
be the highest judicial authority in the realm, and
have seat and voice in the Cabinet. The Ministry
for Ecelesiastical Affairs and Public Instruction
will also be abolished, as-mere matters of adminis-
tration will be cared for by the official organs of the
different confessions. A Government Commission
(probably a revival of the defunct " Studien-Hof
Commission") will have the superintendence of the
schools. The affairs of the Pesth and Cracow Uni-
versities will be regulated without delay, and the
former will soon cease to be an exclusively
Roman Catholic establishment. The Cracow
University will doubless regain its ancient pri-
vileges, which it ought never to have been de-
prived of, as they are guaranteed by a Euro-
pean treaty. Before closing my letter, which is
necessarily written against time, I must inform you
that oral proceedings will be introduced in all the
courts of justice, which are to be open to the public.
So many troops have recently been sent to and
fro in the empire, that the managers of the different
railroadcompanies have resolved to represent to the
Government that it is impossible, without lesing
money, to convey the soldiers, artillery, ammuni-
tion, and supplies at the present prices. Full ayear
ago your attention was directed to the advantageous
position occupied by the Austrians on the right
bank of the Po, and I now learn that they are in-
clined to make the most of it. When at Ravena
King Victor Emmanuel told the Syndicus that the
Austrians about six weeks ago allowed a famous
opportunity for doing mischief to escape them. His
Majesty, doubtless, alluded to the moment when
his troops were on their way to the Marches.

* The Emperor will be crowned as King of Hungary,

LITERATURE.

Gladys, the Reaper. By the author of " Simpli-
city and Fascination." Three Vols. Bentley.
This is a very delightful work, and one well cal-
culated to impress powerfully and to influence
rightly by its touching narrative and by its lofty
spirit. The heroine is one of those gentle and yet
resolute characters that more than any other can
create real and salutary changes in the lives of
others. Their consistency claims respect, their ten-
derness wins the affections, while their soft sympathy
penetrates to the hardest and coldest natures, and
their bright faith pierces the gloom of dark unbelief
with the glory of the day-spring from on high.
Mr. and Mrs. Protheroe might well have said that,
in receiving a stranger, they entertained an angel
unawares, for it is impossible to over-estimate the
services she was the means of rendering to the
family in which she found shelter when struck down
by sickness as she wandered a penniless orphan on
the highway of the world. There are many per-
sons met with in this tale, and some of them are
represented in a very striking manner. Howel
Jenkins is the very impersonation of a spendthrift
of the most dangerous class; he possessed the
attraction of handsome looks and a general fascina-
tion of manner that few could resist. He was en-
tirely destitute of principle, and, moreover, he
laboured under the overwhelming disadvantage of
having been neglected in his youth and kept in an
almost penniless state, his father being a miser, as
may be conjectured when this young man came sud-
denlyinto the possession of an enormous fortune he
grew reckless. It was this unhappy and misguided
man that Netta Protheroe, the beauty of the village,
chose for her husband in defiance of the commands,
prayers, and entreaties of her parents, her friends,
and well-wishers. On a beautiful autumn morn-
ing the young girl stole at daybreak from her
father's farm to meet her unworthy cousin. The
life led by this thoughtless couple is a sad epitome
of the existence of thousands, and ably illustrates
the downward path ever trodden by the gamester
and the reckless speculator. Rowel's giddy career
was over in a few years; led on from stand when to step
he consummated his crimes by forgery,
the day of detection arrived he fled the country
only to be brought back as a felon and sentenced
to transportation. Netta meanwhile had often re-
pented the journey she took that bright September
morning. Rowel loved her, which was the one
redeeming point in his otherwise
he lacked as iackened heart
and perverted disposition ;
but f he
hated her, for some time. She was flighty and he
was jealous; she was too silly and trifling to
match with his superior acquirements and ready
wit, hence he lost temper continually,
and the splendid establishment in Belgra-
via, where dwelt the two cousins, brought
wherelJenki in a farm,
amassed his thousands) con-
anything but a household that dwelt in
t
unity. The sturdy farmer, David Protheroe, would
holst no communication with his daughter, although
Mr. and Mrs. Howel Jenkins were settled in a
farm in fits own immediate vicinity. Once only
did poor Mrs. Protheroe see her daughter from the
period when she ran away till she was brought
home in poverty and misery to die. The occasion
of their meeting was at the birth of Netta's only
child. The Llanfawr bells were pealing merrily to
celebrate the birth of the daughter of the master
of " Plas Abertervey." " But whilst they were
ringing, the mother of the little daughter
1 was ap
parent y about to depart for that other country
where bells shall no longer " ring out the old and
ring in the new," welcome the babe, or speed the
spirit of the dead." In the absence of Howel, the
doctor took upon himself the responsibility of send
i-
ng for the mother of Netta. Painful as was the
meeting, it was satisfactory. Netta recovered to
linger on for some years of trial, and learned how
hard a fate she had brought upon herself. It is
truly said here, " Pause, then, and think all you
young women who may be meditating a similar
course even whilst reading this story, or
may be at issue with your parents, be-
cause their experience ohews them a picture

which your inexperience cannot show you, pause
and thing that Netta is no fictitious character, her

story no mere creation of the author's brain, but the
portrait and history of one out of hundreds of wil-

nil daughters brought to shame and grief, and
bringing all belonging to them to shame and grief
by a unblessed and unholy marriage." Frivolous
as was her character and faulty as were her actiaus
there is something touching in the description of
Netta's last days. The fearful trials she had un-
dergone had in a measure affec4ed her reason, and
when her brother Rowland found her she was in a
state most painful to behold, from the over-pressure
of mental disquietude on a brain never strong and
on feelings never properly kept in subjection. One
happy thing for her she never knew the extent of
her husband's crimes. She fancied that he had
only plunged recklessly into debt, and did not
know he was arraigned as a felon. She was laid
to rest in the simple churchyard in the village
where she should have dwelt in sweet simplicity
after her brief and gaudy course in foreign lands
and great cities. Meanwhile while her spirit
sought the rest of the weary, far other scenes
dawned on her husband, who was convicted and
condemned. Happily for him, his brother-in-
law Rowland, the clergyman, contrived to exert
some influence upon him, and when at last he left
him on board the convict ship he felt some hope,
some latent trust that even in the dark life of
of a convict some better days might be in store for
his wretched relative than when he was high in
position and rolling in wealth. Rowland is the
most superior of the characters here sketched.
Firm, upright, and consistent, he was still gene-
rous, kind, and sympathising. He was not one of
those really pious and well-intentioned individnals
who do more mischief than good by their bigoted
notions and overbearing dictation. No one will
ever attend to serious subjects because they are
threatened into them, and well would it be for the
cause of Christian charity and the welfare of all
churches and sects, if more ministers and teachers

like Rowland Protheroe abounded. He was placed
in a fitting sphere, in the centre of a large and
squalid population, among whom it would have
been cruel, as well as utterly useless, to be other
than sympathising. Owen, the other son of David
Protheroe, was a fine specimen of a sailor ; and, as
some one in the story observed, it did seem singu-
lar that two such brothers should have such a
foolish sister. Owen was hardly worthy of Gladys,
however, but he had the merit of thoroughly appre-
ciating her. David Protheroe is by no means a
perfect man. He exhibited many angry and sus-
picious traits of disposition, and it is not at all to
his credit to have persisted in refusing his consent
to his son's marriage with Gladys because he did
not prove her parents to have been of genteel birth.
Such a being as Gladys was a blessing to any house
she dwelt in, still more to the home she fixed herself
in. Miss Gwynne is a young lady who interests one
in spite of her many faults by her genuine good
nature, and her kind intentions. She did great
service to many, altnongh she marred the effect of
much that she accomplished through her hasty
temper and indomitable pride. She learned wisdom

in the great school of life. After her father's second
marriage she lost the position of heiress, and went
to reside with her governess, who had married Mr.
Jones, the fellow curate of Rowland. She was in.
the constant presence of suffering, sin, and sorrow,
such as she never dreamed of, much less beheld in.
her luxurious home in Wales, and amid her father's
prosperous tenants, whose means were limited but
sufficient for their wants. She could hardly return.
from a morning spent in watching over the death-
bed of starvation, surveying the fruits of sin, where
the children were trained in vice by their aban-
doned parents, to indulge in the reveries of pride
and vainglory that had filled the thoughts and
swelled the heart of the heiress in her father's
grand parks. She was at last united to Rowland,
whom she had refused as beneath her in her days
of pride, but whom she afterwards learned to con-
sider far above her in all that could make a fellow
creature honoured in this world, or fitted for the
next. Thus at the last a fair vista of peace
and prosperity seemed to open on the old farm of
Glenarvon. True, " a mournful memory of the dead
was with them in the glades," as they thought of the
beauty of their house laid low; but they had the
calm retrospect of her last quiet days with them,
which had soothed the bitterness of the anguish
that arose at the thought of her disgrace in having
been united to a felon, and which had softened the
grief at the reflection that she had run away from
their home. Also the teaching of Rowland had
assured them in language more potent than earthly
consolations, to refresh the weary spirit and heal
the broken heart, that theirs was the bright hope
to meet her again where their home could be no
more invaded by temptation, or assailed by sorrow.
This work contains much in its varied and exciting
pages to fascinate the interest while it awakens the
attention of the reader. We sea how human nature
is the same everywhere. It is character that is the
grand distinction between mortals, not where they
live nor how they were brought up. No fine lady
intent on airs and graces could have had a daughter
more resembling her than the country maiden.
Netta, whose mother, simple Mrs. Protheroe, was
as devoid of artifice as any one could be. Again,
Rowland was superior to many of higher rank
when he went to London ; his mind was in.
advance of his family and friends, and culture
developed the great resources within him
Howel, though brought up in an obscure village,
proved himself as apt a scholar in craft, deceit, and
cunning as if he had been born and bred in the
purlieus of any city—among the haunts of knavery
and vice. Some of the second-rate persons are
admirably pourtrayed in some cases, as, for instance,
the Simpsons, who so providentially came to the
rescue of Howel and his cousin at their runaway
marriage, and imparted an eclat to the affair that
made them consider themselves quite enrolled
among the elite members of ton. Lady Mary
Nugent, who married Mr. Gwynne, is a finished
specimen of a woman of the world. Her tact stood
her in good stead through life ; no one was more
sensible of this than her step-daughter, Winifred--
herself so lamentably deficient in that respect.
Lady Mary's daughter did not inherit her mother's
manner with her beauty, and it is well shown what
a difference arose in consequence. Lady Mary kept
every one alive and animated, even if they did not
care a straw for her or even disapproved of her.
Mrs. Vaughan, on the other hand, quite irritated
by her insipidity and nonchalance. Mrs. Jones,
the governess, is a very estimable person, and she is
one of those who in no way remarkable, yet
make themselves more missed in a house than
many much more gifted and attractive.
Mr. Jonathan Protheroe, the vicar of Llanfawr, is
quite a character in his way, with his extraordinary,
propensity to decipher old relics and descant on all
kinds of archaeological and medieaval knowledge.
On the whole, " Gladys, the Reaper," will be found
a most superior style of book, and all readers who
wish to behold real life exemplified will do well to
peruse its stirring and sparkling pages. It has
mingled in its varied scenes and described in its
glowing passages all the chief events that mark
the progress of human life, representing in those
accounts the several phases under 'which the same
events affect different persons. The last sentence
aptly epitomises the work—" The wedding wreath,
the christening robe, the shroud. Again the wreath
and the robe. Such has been our tale, and such is
life."

Devereux. Vol. 11. By Sir E. B. Lytton. Black-

wood and Sons.
The completion of " Devereux" by, the issue of
the twelfth volume of this beautiful Library Edi-
tion of Sir Bulwer Lytton's Novels, now being
published from month to month, volume after
volume, by the Messrs. Blackwood and Sons of
London and Edinburgh—places entire in the hands
of the subscribers the first of the six of Sir Edward's
Historical Romances. Subsequently, in due succes-
sion, will appear " The Last Days of Pompeii,"
after that " Rienzi," then " The Siege of Grenada,"
afterwards "The Last of the Barons," and, finally,
closing the second of the Four divisions of the
Library Edition, "The Last of the Saxon Kings,
Harold." In " Devereux," the completion of which
we have now lying before us, we have, as it were,
evidence of the second phase of this Protean genius
as a Romancist. His initial work as a Novelist—
when "Devereux" first appeared—had been before
the public but little more than a twelvemonth.
That initial work—(counting the suppressed volume
of "Falkland" as nothing)—had been the celebrated
history of Henry Pelham, the Gentleman. An ela-
borate jeu d'esprit, sparkling, effervescing, run-
ning over with wit and pleasantry—the
high animal spirits. In vivid
ecol'uutiritain of
contrast to which "Devereux" the next
made its seasonappearance—much, doubtless, to
the surprise of those who had scrutinised the refined
humour of the gay gentleman of fashion. For cer-
tainly no two works oould have been well more
dissimilar than " Pelham" and "Devereux"—the
latter, by the way, evidencing thus early in Bul-
wer's career as a novelist, the writer's astonishing
power of constructiveness in his plots, or in the en-
tanglement and complication of the incidents to be
recounted, and of the varied fortunes to be un-
ravelled. ln these respects, indeed, " Devereux,"
though Sir Edward's second production as a ro-
mance writer, may challenge comparison even with
those masterpieces of invention, " My Novel" and
What will he do with it." The elaborately con-
structed plot of " Devereux" manifesting quite as
remarkable powers in this particular as either of
those two ingeniously constructed fictions of Pisis-
tratus Caxton—writing, though Sir Edward
Lytton has done in the latter capacity, from the
fullness of his lengthened and varied literary
experience.