The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-08 00:00:00

Court of Aldermen.

On Tuesday a Court of Aldermen was held in the
Chamber at Guildhall, for the despatch of business.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided, and
there were present Mr. Alderman Copeland, Mr.
Alderman Wilson, Mr. Alderman Hale, Mr. Alder-
man Sidney, Mr. Alderman Challis, Mr. Alderman
Gabriel, Mr. Alderman W. Lawrence, M.P., Mr.
Alderman C. J. Lawrence, Mr. Alderman Besley,
Mr. Alderman Stone, Mr. Alderman Waterlow, and
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Gibbons. The Deputy-
Recorder was also in attendance.

After the disposal of matters of a routine cha-
racter,
Mr. Alderman WATERLOW (in the absence of Mr.
Alderman Finnis) presented a petition from Mr.
Cazenove and certain other members of the Stock
Exchange, praying the Court to revise and recon-
sider the regulations and requirements now in force
respecting the admission of brokers, and that they
be admitted without giving any security for the due
execution of their office, or bond for the payment of
their annual rent of 15 to the Corporation.

A deputation from the petitioners, headed by Mr.
Cazenove, appeared at the bar, and a brief discus-
sion ensued upon the proposition of Mr. Alderman
Waterlow that the prayer of the petition be not
complied with.

Mr. Alderman COPELAND seconded the motion.

Sir B. W. CARDEN expressed a hope that the pe-
tition would be allowed to be laid on the table, and
that the matter be referred to the General Purposes
Committee, before which the highly respectable pe-
titioners could be heard. He should move that
proposition as an amendment.
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff GIBBONS seconded the
amendment, which, after a conversation, in which
Aldermen Stone, Sidney, Copeland, and others took
part, was negatived, and the original resolution was
carried ; upon which
Mr. Alderman IVATERLOW gave notice that at
the next court he should move the abolition of the
principle of sureties for the payment to the Cor-
poration of the £5 per annum as broker's rent.

TIIE STATE OF THE PRISONS.

The Sheriffs reported that there were in Newgate

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED sd.

72
tnrisoners, of whom two were in the infirmary ;
in the (L9btors' prison 85, in the infirmary 3 ; in the.
House of C2rreetion at Holloway 310, 'in the in-
firmary 9. The reports were accompanied by the
usual medical certitilmtes of the generally healthy
state of the prisons.

The remaining business having been disposed of,
the Court adjourned.

Royal Rescript to the Hungarian Diet.

• PESTII, March 3.
The following is the full text of the Prescript
issued by the Emperor of Austria to the Hungarian
Diet, in reply to the Addresses from both Houses.
A summary has been telegraphed :
"We, Francis Joseph 1., by God's grace, Em-
peror of Austria, apostolic Ring of Hungary, &c.,
&c., to the clerical and lay dignitaries, the Estates
and representatives of our faithful kingdom of
Hungary and the territories therewith connected,
assembled in our Royal free city of Pesth, in the
Diet :convoked by us upon the 10th December,
greeting,—
"Dear Lieges,—We graciously accept the assu-
rances of faithful attachment expressed in the de-
voted Addresses of the Estates and representatives
in Diet assembled upon the 26th February of this
present year, and we consider them, together with
the thankful recognition of our paternal intentions,
as a gratifying proof of their sincere confidence. In
requital of this confidence we also return with un-
reserved frankness our answer to thosewishes stated
in the Addresses with respect to which the import-
ance of existing relations urgently requires more
detailed explanation of our sovereign intentions.
" We have perceived with satisfaction that una-
nimity which prevailed with respect to the choice
of the Pragmatic Sanction as a starting point for
agreement. The idea of common interests and
common protection we see dwelt • upon in the ad-
dress of the Upper House formed almost two cen- '
tnries before the Pragmatic Sanction came into
existence the chief motive of permanent union be-
tween the kingdom of Hungary and the hereditary
territories of our sovereign House. We willingly
admit that by means of the more precise and more
lasting settlement of that community contained in
the aforesaid fundamental law our hereditary lands
have gained increased strength. But the insepar-
able union of all the kingdoms and countries of our
House also at the same time secured the territorial
extent and the national independence of Hungary,
and also became the most efficient barrier of her
safety from without. As therefore the beneficial
effect of this connexion was mutual, our efforts
must be directed towards permanently securing its
blessings, and for that purpose towards settling, in
accordance with the spirit of the times, the relations
arising out of community of interests and of pro-
tection, following out the principle of the Pragma-
tic Sanction.

" The countries of the Hungarian Crown form an
important part of our entire realm. The moral and
material strength, the prosperity, internal quiet, and
security of the realm depend upon similar elements
in the said countries, and these occupy a position of
active reciprocity towards each other. The extra-
ordinary expansion and perfection of the means of
intercourse which knit interests together with thou-
sands of threads, necessarily largely increase this
reciprocity, apart from the highly important conse-
quences of the abolition of customs duties. The
conditions that have been meantime developed the
more require precise regulation on account of the
deficiency in this respect of the laws last passed by
Hungary. These enactments remodelled internal
administration, but made either insufficient provi-
sion for the necessary connection with the other
kingdoms and countries, or no provision at all. But
now that the internal moment of the task and the
most important interests of all our peoples demand
that all points belonging together and intimately
connected should be settled unitedly, and at the
same time, our duty as a ruler, and care for the real
welfare of our subjects, forbid us to admit that, in
our intended restoration and realisation of Hun-
garian constitutional affairs, those matters should
be left pending and undecided uponwhose opportune
and reciprocal satisfactory settlement equally de-
pend the peaceful and prosperous connection of
the various countries belonging to our monarchy
and the development of their welfare, as well as the
security, reputation, and power of the empire. For
this reason we have first directed the attention of
the Diet to common affairs, and their method of
treatment, and the confidence we placed in the in-
sight of the representatives was not deceived, for
they admit 'that there are such common relations, and
that their efforts will be directed to bring to bear
such arrangements with regard to the establishment
and manner of treating them as may fulfil the ob-
ject without endangering their constitutional and
legal independence.'
" We have ourselves granted constitutional rights
to those countries of our realm which did not previ-
ously possess them. We are therefore far from de-
manding that Hungary should sacrifice her consti-
tutional and legal independence, but we do expect,
and have a right to expect, in reliance upon the in-
sight and clear view of the interests of the country,
that Hungary will not wish to make use of her con-
stitutional independence—whose necessary limits we
stated in the spirit of the Pragmatic Sanction in our
Speech from the Throne—for her own isolation,
which only leads to weakness, but as a means for the
promotion of her true and permanent interests.
The exercise of well-founded influence upon common
affairs affords on the one hand the surest
pledge for
the legal independence of the country, while upon
the other the beneficial effect of that influence will
unmistakably manifest itself with regard to the wel-
fare, security, and power of the realm.
" We shall, therefore, observe with satisfaction
the commencement of deliberations upon this head,
and we doubt not that, in the course of a detailed
examination of these questions, the necessity of a
severe revision and opportune modification of the
laws of 1848 will be made manifest.

" The solution of the question of common affairs
is not only satisfactorily achieved by their estab-
lishment, but necessarily also demands their united
treatment secure against every obstacle, together
with the foundation of co-operative action on the
part of the legislative and executive power. Exer-
cise of the branches of government bearing upon this
point, as ordered by Art. 3 of I§4B, without the
requisite organic connexion, excludes the possibility
of successful treatment of common affairs. The
modification of these laws is further,
our Speech from the Throne, necessary,
:re some clauses of Arts. 2,3, and 4 of 1848 right•
The diame-
trically opposed to our sovereign g
as w e statedbecause
laidr down in Art.
exe-
cution of the form of government of a viceroy
2. The
3 is conditional upon theni
named with royal poweorf
the monarchy established
principle of the unity appointmentenit oned in Art.
c Sanction, and the mission of our
nt thereupon, together with
byoffi cteheasPrruaglemr
those personal feelings
we cherish in our paternal
wards our kingdom of Hungary, and which
heart to actionseque
impel us to exercise this our constitutional right as
ruler in person—render it impossible for us ever to
consent to the appointment of such a viceroy, nor
arc we able to declare our consent to that clause of
Art. 4, by which the Diet cannot be dissolved before
the passing of the budget. We do not doubt that
the motives which raise the attachment of the coun-
try to its constitutional rights to so high a degree of
filial affection will also actuate it in matters con-
cerning the inviolability of the rights and authority
of the Crown which form the keystone of the Con-
stitution.

" We consider it further indispensable to direct
the attention of the Diet to those obstacles which
stand in the way of the immediate restoration of
the municipal system, because it has become impos-
sible, with reference to the re-modification of socirl
conditions that has since occurred, to carry out,

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merely calculated for the wants of that particular
period. Since the government of the early Kings,
the muncipal system, by long-continued exercise,
has struck deep root into the life of the nation. -The
laws of 1848, by changing the shape of the admini-
stration, without bringing it into harmony with the
this venerable institution, created a contradiction
in principle, whose removal can only be effected by
the most exact examination and mature judg-
ment. We expect therefore that the Diet will turn
its attention to this subject, and consider it as one
of its most pressing tasks to lay before us the result
of its labours.

" It is further matter of indispensable necessity
that Art. 22 of 1848, as to the National Guard, should
be suspended. This enactment has imposed a need-
less burden epon the people during the short period
of its existence, and diverted them from their peace-
ful occupation ; it has not fulfilled its object of up-
holding public security, but has rather led to results
of an opposite kind. It appears, moreover, desirable
that all, those enactments of the laws of 1848 which
have not hitherto been put into operation by us
should be carefully re- examined. These laws, passed
under the pressure of events which at that time
shook the world, bear the stamp of undue haste
upon them, as is manifested not merely upon theo-
retic examination, but also by experience, as, for
instance, in the case of the electoral law, which has
been twice applied.
" From this necessarily follows that we cannot,
in the consciousness of our duty as a ruler, consent
to the actual restoration of those laws, as claimed
upon the ground of continuity of right, until they
have been carefully re-examined, adapted to -the
demands of existing circumstances, and perfected
according to the teachings of experience. The
desire of our paternal heart is not 'for momentary
satisfaction, but for the establishment of lasting
and opportune institutions. Our mission as
a Sovereign, together with our duties to-
wards all our subjects, forbid us—prior to
settlement of the future . order of the various
branches of the public service—to lead existing order
into decay, to obstruct the wheels of the chariot of
State, to exchange our provisional condition with
another equally provisional, and thereby to unsettle
to remote distances the tranquillisation just com-
menced. The representatives of the country are
equally sensible of the difficulties of this transition,
and declare themselves in its regard, in place -of
insisting upon the demand of strict legality, ready
' to take circumstances into reasonable consideration.
It depends upon them to reduce the difficulties op-
posing our paternal efforts to restore their Consti-
tution, if they are disposed to apply an increased
measure of reasonableness to judging present cir-
cumstances.

" None were more impressed than ourselves with
the weight of these difficulties and obstacles which
opposed themselves, and not in one direction only,
to the work of agreement we commenced. Never-
theless, hailed and accompanied by the confiding
and enthusiastic manifestations of the country, we
have with self-denial and firm resolution entered
upon a course in which we confidently hope to meet
with the ready support of the Diet, and whereupon,
as we shall share the honour of success with the
country, so the burden of responsibility will affect
the country equally with ourselves.
Among the former extraordinary circumstances
we see the only possibility of a practical application
of continuity of right in the fact that the alteration
of the laws has alone to be effected upon the basis
of an agreement with the Diet, the execution of
which assumes the co-operation of the legal elements
of the Hungarian Legislature—an agreement justi-
fied by the testimony of history, whose annals re-
peatedly teach that a similar procedure-has been
adopted under like circumstances. This precedent
appears the more worthy of imitation the more vehe-
ment the convulsion whose lamentable consequences
it is the object of our common efforts to remove.
In this manner the agreement can be brought
about, difficulties can be smoothed way, and all
those relations can be settled which must be
arranged and regulated if we wish permanently to
close the sources of future complications.
" We also feel deeply the weight of the duties im-
pending upon us. We feel the political importance
of the royal unction, and the sanctity of the oath
with which the crowded Kingpromises theinviolable
maintenance of the Constitution. But it is precisely
because we do not regard the coronation merely as
a solemn ceremony that we cannot consent to the
restoration of legal arrangements whose inviolable
maintenance our religious feeling and the voice of
our conscience forbid us to ratify with our oath.
We are convinced that the Diet will recognise in
these our religious feelings the surest guarantee for
the constitutional position of the country. When
that solemn act shall, as it is to be hoped, at once
put an end to the vacillations of political life, we
will also, without hesitation, follow the dictates of
our paternal heart, which is always inclined to let
mercy prevail, and we shall then be able to exercise
in full measure the noblest of our kingly rights
without endangering public order.
" With regard to the request for the completion of
the Diet which refers to Dalmatia, Fiume, and those
districts whose convocation is ordered by Art. 5 of
1848, we consider it advisable to reserve its detailed
treatment to the time when, in consequence of our
Royal Rescript to the Croatian and Sclavonian Diet
of the 27th ult., the results of the deliberations of
the Diet shall be laid before us, inasmuch as these
questions are intimately connected with the happy
solution of the pending political relations of Croatia
and Slavonia.
" We have received with pleasure the assurance of
the Diet thatit will always take as its guide theprin-
ciples of justice and fairness with regard to all classes
of
population, without distinction of religion
a
and that in especial with regard to
nd thel a
nguage,
the non-Hungarian inhabitants of the country it is
minded to do everything in the way of legislation
that the universal welfare of the Fatherland and its
interests may require. While simultaneously up-
holding the territorial integrity of the country, we
shall reckon it among our most pleasing tasks to
further everything by which that result may be
achieved, whose realisation we, too, warmly desire,
for we hail the peaceful agreement of all the inha-
bitants of the country and the coincident concilia-
tion of all their interests with lively joy, and shall
always be prepared to advance these objeetsto
and
utmost of our power.
" It now depends upon the energetic
period activity
when such
wise care of the Diet to hasten that
us
propositions
dthtoe
nise our sovereign rights
iniwitttlei
of our eanlni. and the reasonable claims of the adja-
cent We shall reckon that moment to
coru tries
be the happiest of our life when we can feel tran-
quillising consciousness that by our royal sanction
of those propositions we have promoted the true
welfare of Hungary and of all our peoples, and have
laid the foundation-stone upon which the increased
prosperity, the strength and security, as well as
the might of our monarchy, may be permanently
raised.

"We remain well inclined to all our faithful
lieges in royal grace and favour.
" Given in the metropolis of our kingdom of
Hungary this 3d March, 1866.
(Signed) " FRANCIS JOSEPH.
(Countersigned) " GEORGE VON MAJLATH.
" JOHANN VON BARTHOS."

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lifeboat, with carriage and all other appurtenances, to be
called " The William Beckett, of Leeds," and have painted
as a motto on each side Soli Deo Gloria.
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