The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-14 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ITALY.

FLORENCE, June 13.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
the debate on the Public Works Budget was con-
cluded ; 800,000 lire were voted for the continua-
tion of the works on the Savone Railway.

MESSINA, June 14.

The Viceroy of Egypt, and MM. Outrey and
Lesseps, arrived here yesterday at 11 a.m., and left
at 2 p.m. for Toulon.

AMERICA.
(PER ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.).
NEw YORK, June 13, 6 p.m.

The New York journals publish intelligence from
Mexico announcing that Miramon has died of fever.
Castilla and Mejia have been shot.
The Royal mail steamship Persia arrived out to-

day.
Closing prices : Gold, 137 ; Sterling Exchange
on London, 110 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 110 ;
Illinois, 120 ; Erie, 601. Cotton : Middling Up-
land, 27c. Petroleum : refined, 24c. A better
feeling prevails in commercial circles.
NEW YORK, June 13.
The steamers Cimbria and Mississippi arrived
here to-day, and the Peruvian at Boston.

The Cornonation of the King of Hungary.

The lndependance Beige has the following remarks
upon the political bearing of this event :
"The coronation and the royal oath, which is the
principal incident of it, seal anew the bilateral pact
between the Sovereign and that nation. The con-
tinuity of rights, so dear to the Hungarians, which
the interregnum from 1848 to 1867 had suspended,
is re-established ; henceforth it is law alone which
will reign in Hungary. Moreover, by the fresh
sanction which the inaugural diploma has given to
the laws of 1848, the ancient aristocratic organisa-
tion is changed according to democratic principles,
and the former Governmental system, which had
the faults inherent in its origin, has become, by the
institution of a national and responsible Ministry,
a real Parliamentary system. It will no longer be
possible to modify that system unless by a violent
reaction or by revolutienary convulsions, which
nothing justifies us in fearing. Hungary, confident
in herself, will be able to advance along the path of
progress firmly ; the political wisdom and maturity
of which she has given such manifest proofs during
the last few years guarantee that she will not be
wanting in calmness and prudence. It must not
be forgotten, however, that the King of Hungary
is also Emperor of Austria, that Hungary forms
only half of a great monarchy, in the midst of
which she is to live and prosper. Between the two
political bodies which compose the empire there
exists an intimate relationship ; but though common
interests unite them, divergent interests may divide
them. The great task of the Imperial Government
is only about, therefore, to commence. May it
meet in the two great representative assemblies—
the Diet of Pesth and Vienna Reichsrath—with the
same intelligent co-operation which has enabled it
to reconcile them at this moment. Hungary will,
moreover, have to solicit the same co- operation
from Croatia. By the ancient constitutions now
restored Croatia undoubtedly belongs to St.
Stephen, and the Emperor, who has sworn to main-
tain the integrity of that crown, cannot yield to the
separatist tendencies of the Croats. The Sclaves
refuse to allow themselves to be " Magyarised,"—it
is their right ; but upon the Hungarian Govern-
ment and the Parliamentary majority of Pesth the
duty devolves of giving guarantees on this subject
to the Agram Diet. Now that the re-incorporation
of the three Selavonian kingdoms in the kingdom
of St. Stephen is legally and irrevocably effected,
it is to be hoped that the mistrusts of the one will
be appeased, as the exigencies of the others are con-
fined in the strict limits of the laws and the bilate-
ral conventions."

(From} the Spceiql Corruponlent of the Times.)

PESTLI, June 10.

The scene presented by the Banqueting-hall on
Sunday, the 9th of June, was very interesting. It
is an exceedingly lofty room, with colonnades and
galleries above, and is handsomely decorated and
finished. Tables to accommodate about 350 per-
sons were laid in the body of the hall, but the long
grand corridors at the side were also filled with
guests to the number of 700. The feast began at
3 o'clock, and the sight of the ball, filled with such
figures as we have been gazing upon for the last two
or three days, was very fine indeed ; but a military
critic of mess appointments might have objected to
the presence of black bottles in no ordinary pro-
fusion on the tables. About four o'clock all the
guests rose as one man to their feet as the echoes of
a tremendous " eljen" outside rolled through the
hall, and in a few seconds the same cry burst from
their lips at the sight of the King and Queen in the
doorway. His Majesty, who looked rather thin and
worn, as well he might from his fastings and his
ceremonies, and long observances, not to speak of
cares of State and other less public troubles, wore
the uniform of a Hungarian General. He has
unwittingly done what has made him popular to the
highest degree among a people who admire good
horsemanship. It was observed on the Coronation day
that the charger on which the King was mounted was
very restive at times. His Majesty is said to have re-
proached Count Grunne for furnishing him with such
a very rampant Bucephalus, and no doubt it was try-
ing enough to sit on a curvetting steed nearly
17 hands high, with the crown of St. Stephen, who
was a large-headed man, apparently, on his front,
and the robe of St. Stephen, which is not exactly a
summer-day's mantle, on his back for so many
hours. When the King dismounted to take the
oath in the Square before the Rath House of Pesth
the horse was very much excited, and it became
necessary for two grooms to lay hold of his head as
his Majesty mounted, which he did with difficulty.
Before he was well in his seat the cannon of the
Blocksberg opened with a salute. At the first re-
port the horse made a furious bound and rose high
in the air, dragging the grooms off their feet, and
lighting in a prodigious leap in the contre of the
throng far away. At the sight, when the horse
sprang up, a thrill went through the multitude.
What a catastrophe if the King were unhorsed !
What au omen if the sacred crown were to fall
from his brow just as he had taken the oath ! To
their surprise and delight, the King, without an
apparent struggle, sat firm and lightly in his
saddle, and bore the shock unmoved as the horse
came to the ground, then shouting to the strug-
gling grooms, who were dragged along, " A uflassen !"
("Let go") he wheeled round in the midst of
his affrighted courtiers, and ruled his charger
in its impetuous bounds, amid applause
which contended with the thunder of the guns, and
rode away in a hurricane of popular delight. His
skill as a horseman, and the air with which he drew
his sword and spurred his horse up the Kronungs-
hugel, and wheeled him round while he thrust his
defiant point at the four corners of the world, won
him golden opinions on the Franz Joseph Platz ;
and it was remembered how when Ferdinand was
crowned his Majesty could not induce his horse to
descend from the mound, although he had got him
up very easily, the reason being that for some time
previously the animal had been fed at the top by the
groom every morning, and was led down after-
wards. A stately bearing serves a monarch in good
stead even among the most unpoetical people, and
these things have done as much good to the King as
a stroke of State policy, combined with his forcible
and solemn manner of taking the oaths and making
all the declarations in the Coronation ceremony.
As he entered the hall, the Queen leant on his left
arm, her head encircled with a coronet of diamonds,
which was not needed to set off her exceeding love-
liness. As she passed along, her train borne by her
pages, she bent her head with a little retiring bow,