The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-20 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The 13th Hussars are held in readiness to march
from Norwich and Ipswich to-day and to-Morrow,
en route to York and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The strength of the camp at Aldershot, now
materially reduced by the departures for Ireland,
will soon be augmented by the 66th Regiment from
I)evonport, the 48th from Shorncliffe, and the 81st
from Gosport. The 65th and 89th Regiments and
the 15th Hussars are also expected to be stationed
at the camp during the summer.
An inquest was held at Aldershot on Wednesday
on the body of Sergeant Robert Smart, 17th
Regiment. It appeared from depositions made by
the deceased just prior to his death, and also
from the statements of several witnesses, that on
the night of the Gth inst. several sergeants of the
17th Regiment were in the mess-room after
the prescribed hours. Two of them named Pil-
kington and Switzer respectively were " larking,"
and the deceased attempted to separate them,
when Switzer, who appeared angry at the inter-
ference, said, " I will just give you the same,"
and he kicked the deceased in the abdomen, not,
however, as the latter supposed, with the Intention of
inflicting any severe injury. The kick produced
hernia, and, according to the medical evidence, was
the cause of death. Sergeant Daniel Smart, brother
of the deceased, stated that while attending his
brother in hospital the latter sent him with a mes-
sage to Sergeant Switzer, telling him not to fret, as
they had been very good friends. The jury returned
a verdict of manslaughter against Sergeant Switzer,
who had been arrested. He was admitted to bail in
two sureties of £3OO each. The deceased was in-
terred on Thursday with the usual military honours.
He leaves a widow and two children.

Letters received from her Majesty's screw troop
steamship Adventure, dated Hongkong, Jan. 30,
state that she was expected to be paid out of com-
mission there, and the officers and crew sent to Eng-
land in the Orontes troopship, Capt. Hire.
The screw steam frigate Doris, 30, Capt. Vesey,
which left Plymouth Sound on Wednesday morning
for the West Indies, put back yesterday with her
machinery defective.

DEATH OF GENERAL YUSUF.—We have to an-
nounce the death at Cannes, of General Yusuf, com-
mander of the military division of Montpellier. The
deceased officer, who was a native of Algeria, first served
as a private in an Arab cavalry regiment, and obtained his
grades, followed by his naturalisation for distinguished
services, at the taking of Bougia especially and for his
devotedness to France. He was also the author of several
works on the affairs of the colony. He had only reached
his 60th year.

After the introductory paragraph the address
promises to submit to careful examination, simul-
taneously with the report to be drawn up upon
common relations, that portion of the Rescript re-
ferring to common relations, and to the revision of
certain parts of the laws of 1848. The arguments
next brought forward in support of the request for
practical application of continuity of right culmi-
nate as follows :--

" If the Executive possessed the right of not exe-
cuting the laws issued in the regular way by the
Legislature, of suspending their efficiency, of super-
seding them by decrees, and of keeping both law
and constitution in abeyance until changed by the
ordinary course of legislation, the Executive would
in that case practically exercise the right of the
Legislature, or the Legislature and Executive would
be de facto in the hands of one and the same power.
We believe that your Majesty does not intend to
uphold absolutism ; but such an union, even if only
temporary, of the legislative and executive autho-
rity, amounts to positive absolutism."
The address then refers to the examples of Leo-
pold 1., Leopold 11., and the Emperor Francis, who
restored thellungarian constitution unconditionally,
and passes to the portion of the Rcscript in which
- Emperor, raersing to Lis r,,lizions—sentiments,
says that the Estates will not fail to see in those
scruples the surest guarantee for the constitutional
existence of the country. The address says—
" We bow in admiring veneration before these holy
feelings, and were it our task to secure the rights and
the constitution of the nation for simply the exist-
ence of a single generation, we could be satisfied as
simple citizens with your Majesty's declaration. But
it is the duty of the Diet to secure such a guarantee
as may not be merely limited to the life of any one
mortal, but may be handed down from generation to
generation as a legal and unalterable basis for the
national rights."

Upon the passage of the Rescript referring to the
coronation oath the address says :

" By the fundamental laws of Hungary it is not
only the crowned King who is bound to observe the
laws and the constitution, but every ruler who as-
cends the throne by the law of hereditary succession
is also bound thereto before his coronation. His
[obligation is not based simply upon royal diplomas
and the coronation oath, but is bound up with the
right of hereditary succession. . . . Were this not
the case it would be requisite upon every demise of
the Crown to make a fresh agreement with the ruler,
and then constitutionalism and absolute Government
would alternately be the rule. . . . By the political
law of Hungary the crowned King alone can sanc-
tion laws, and therefore, so long as the coronation is
not effected, the laws hitherto existing are legally in
force ; intended alterations only acquire validity
after the coronation. Were your Majesty, therefore,
practically not to recognise existing laws, as new
laws can neither actually nor legally subsist before
the coronation, all basis for the diploma to be issued
prior to that ceremony would be cut away."
Referring to the statement of the Rescript, that
Articles 2,3, and 4 of the year 1848 were diametri-
cally opposed to royal rights, the address observes :
" We have already expressed our intention not to
infringe the legal right of our Sovereign, and we aro
convinced that it will always be a subject for grave
consideration in the issue of laws whether it would
be advisable to curtail one royal right. But in the
department of executive power the laws themselves
settle the royal rights, and it is impossible to bring
these latter into collision with the laws rho
sanction the laws is an indubitable royal right, and
the Sovereign makes use of this right when he ref uses
to sanction any law that would infringe a royal right,
but it can never be regarded as a right of royalty
to veto the execution of a law already sanctioned."

The address proceeds to show that responsible
government was a necessary consequence of the
equality of rights introduced in 1848, and that the
Parliamentary form of government was in no way
opposed in principle to the Cabinet system, nay,
that the compatibility of both had been practically
proved in 1848. It says that the objections of defec-
tiveness and provisional character raised to the laws
providing for the constitution of the counties should
only serve as an incentive to improve those laws by
means of the Legislature, but presented no valid
ground for not retaining them until they were im-
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parts of Hungary, on which ground the re-
quest to that effect, contained in the former address,
is repeated here. With reference to the amnesty,
the hope is expressed that " what our entreaties
were not able to obtain from your Majesty, the im-
pulse of your Majesty's paternal heart will carry
into effect at the earliest possible period."

The address closes in the following terms :--
"Again we entreat your Majesty to relieve us
and the entire country from the oppressive apprehen-
sion, that should the practical recognition of con-
tinuity of right not take place, all to which we now
agree after serious consideration, and possibly with
many sacrifices, should be built upon a foundation
capable of becoming at some future period insecure.
We place our confidence solely in your Majesty's
paternal heart. From your Majesty's sovereign
wisdom alone we hope such a guarantee for our con-
stitutional life as may restore to our hearts the be-